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Santa Maria City Council Remember See how local artists NEWS swears in new members [4] MUSIC the music [35] ARTS beautified 2018 [38] DECEMBER 27, 2018 - JANUARY 3, 2019 VOL. 19 NO. 43 ell, it’s over—2018 has come and gone. If it felt like a blur, it’s because it was, with so many important stories rising to the forefront. The year saw disaster Wand tragedy, generosity and community support, a decisive election season, and boundless creativity on the Central Coast. 2 As we catch our breath before diving head first into 2019, the STORIES TO TELL: The Sun’s annual Year Sun always takes a look back with our annual Year In Review In Review issue looks back on what made issue, which explores the news [8], opinions [12], music [35], 2018 an unforgettable year. art [38], and food [43] that defined 2018. Joe Payne, managing editor

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www.santamariasun.com • December 27 - January 3, 2019 • Sun • 3 BRIEFS PHOTOS BY JOE PAYNE Santa Maria City Council swears Political Watch in re-elected and new members, • Outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown gave a warning about honors retiring member pension costs during an interview with The Sacramento Bee on Dec. 21, saying the state could fall into “fi scal The Santa Maria City Council chambers were 4 oblivion” if it didn’t do more to address the cost of packed with supporters and city residents on retirement benefi ts for government employees. Brown’s Dec. 18 who were eager to see returning and new comments came weeks after his administration defended members of the council sworn in. the state’s right to adjust pension benefi ts in the California But before re-elected Councilmember Etta Supreme Court. After Brown took offi ce, he signed a law Waterfi eld and newly elected Gloria Soto were that took effect in 2013 that reduced potential retirement sworn in to represent their respective districts, earnings for government workers and required them to the council issued a proclamation honoring pay more to fund their pensions. The law also put a stop retiring Councilmember Jack Boysen for his to retirement plans that Brown called an “overreach.” Cal service to the city. Boysen, who plans to move Fire Local 2881, Cal Fire’s union, sued the state over the away from town with his wife, thanked the city law, saying it violated the California Rule, which prohibits staff, council members, and the community for governments from reducing retirement benefi ts without the honors. offering compensation. “In order to maintain the defi ned “It has truly been my pleasure to serve the benefi t, there has to be the power of management to citizens of Santa Maria for the past eight years,” make modifi cations,” Brown told the Bee. “If we do right, he said. “Congratulations to Gloria Soto, who people who have a pension and what they’ve earned will will fi ll this seat next. … You are joining a great never be changed. But you can’t say that fi ve minutes and caring council. Learn from them; I know I after you sign your employment application, for the next have.” ON THE DAIS: The Santa Maria City Council meeting on Dec. 18 saw the swearing in of re-elected member Etta Waterfi eld (left) to 30 or 35 years that not one benefi t can be changed. Boysen remarked on his time serving on the represent District 4 and newcomer Gloria Soto (right) to represent District 3. That’s a one-way ratchet to fi scal oblivion.” council and on other committees, and shared a list of parting items he hoped the council would giving me the opportunity to engage with voters care,” Phelan said. • Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) issued two stay focused on. Topics included more bike that would not have been possible in a citywide The mobile unit will provide services at eight statements on Dec. 20 regarding President Donald paths in the city, housing, the H-2A program, election. sites in Santa Maria on Sundays, Mondays, Trump’s acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker collaboration with local nonprofi ts, and “During the campaign, we heard people’s and Wednesdays, and at two locations in and nominee for the position, William Barr. First, Feinstein “keeping the downtown specifi c plan moving.” stories, struggles, and visions for Santa Maria; Guadalupe on Mondays and Thursdays—with responded to reports that Whitaker ignored the advice of “Most of all I’ve learned that public service we were able to communicate with constituents no appointment necessary. Phelan said the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) offi cials to recuse himself is more than making budgetary decisions and who haven’t been spoken to,” she added. reason for providing so many service locations from any matters involving Special Counsel Robert Mueller providing essential services,” Boysen said. “It’s “We listened to their concerns, which can’t is to ensure that uninsured families and migrant investigation into Russian election meddling in 2016 about charting a future and laying a foundation be addressed until they are heard. And most workers will have convenient access to health election and possible conspiracy with Trump’s campaign. that will enrich the lives of the community that importantly, we reminded people that their care. Feinstein also criticized Whitaker’s reported use of a team we serve for decades to come.” voices and their votes are powerful, and that Patients will be able to receive care in English, of advisors to argue he didn’t need to recuse. “An issue of Council members gave comments on Boysen’s they can make a difference.” Spanish, and Mixtec languages. this signifi cance should be addressed with a formal ethics service, with Mayor Alice Patino saying, “He Soto continued to say she hoped to work “Students will learn by doing with opinion—not by handpicked political advisors—and educated us, on the council,” on several issues with the rest of the council and city staff on observation and administering health advice of career attorneys should be followed,” Feinstein like homelessness in the city and best budgetary issues like housing, bringing living-wage jobs assessments, referrals, and co-leading a lot of stated. “Recusal is important to ensure confi dence in the practices. to Santa Maria, expanding programs for youth, these programs,” Phelan said. independence of an investigation. Whitaker’s repeated After Boysen stepped off the dais, it was and “bringing back Santa Maria-style barbecue According to Cal Poly, patients will also have statements against the special counsel’s investigation, at a time to swear in Waterfi eld to represent Santa down Broadway.” the option to participate in sponsored research minimum, create the appearance of a confl ict.” Then, after Maria’s District 4. Waterfi eld brought her Bible —Joe Payne aimed at improving maternal and child health a 20-page memo authored by Trump’s nominee, Barr, to the from home for the ceremony, she said, and her through Cal Poly’s Center for Health Research. DOJ arguing that Trump shouldn’t be recused became public, husband, Buck Waterfi eld, held the gold-leafed The customized mobile unit, a repurposed Feinstein issued another statement, characterizing the news tome as she repeated the oath from Santa Maria Cal Poly and SLO Noor RV, includes a fully furnished exam room and a as “troubling.” “The memo presents a thoroughly crafted Chief Deputy City Clerk Rhonda Garietz. counseling area. If a patient needs a service that legal argument against investigating the president,” she Waterfi eld returned to the dais and thanked partner to offer free health is not provided by the mobile clinic, patients stated, “with pointed conclusions that the president is above city residents during her opening remarks as a services in North County the law. The president is not above the law.” twice-elected member of the Council. NEWS continued page 7 “I am so grateful to the city of Santa Maria. Cal Poly and local nonprofi t SLO Noor • Sen. Kamala Harris (D-California) visited Afghanistan You have placed your trust in me, given me a Foundation are collaborating to provide in her capacity as a member of the Senate Select second opportunity to represent the entire city free women’s health and newborn care in Committee on Intelligence and the Homeland Security of Santa Maria,” Waterfi eld said. “This is a job I Santa Maria and Guadalupe. WeekendWeather and Governmental Affairs Committee in December, do not take lightly. … I will continue to do my Suzanne Phelan, who heads up Cal visiting American service members, diplomats, and best.” Poly’s Center for Health Research, said the national security professionals supporting the Afghan Waterfi eld also thanked her challenger, Rafael partnership came together easily. Dean government there. “During my time in Afghanistan, I was “Rafa” Gutierrez, during her opening remarks as Wendt, the dean of the Math and Science Microclimate Weather Forecast honored to meet with United States service members, well, saying “you had me running a good race, Department that oversees the center, is Dave Hovde including many from California, who make daily and I appreciate that.” She continued to thank also on the foundation’s board. She said KSBY Chief Meteorologist sacrifi ces on behalf of their country and who are away her campaign staff, husband, “incredible people that the center’s Women and Infants from home during this holiday season,” Harris stated, I’ve met here, and incredible mentors.” Mobile Health Unit (a clinic on wheels) Thursday Friday adding she received briefi ngs on the fi ght against ISIS When it came time to swear in Soto, the will give students onsite experience, and and Al Qaeda. “I remain eager to fi nd a political solution 28-year-old nonprofi t administrator invited her the ability to provide free health services to the ongoing confl ict in Afghanistan so we can bring 4-year-old niece, Lucy, to hold her hand while was something that the nonprofi t could U.S. service members and national security professionals she recited the oath. The council chambers get behind. home,” she added. thundered with applause and a standing “It’s a wonderful and educational opportunity that these students have ovation as Soto fi nished and signed the offi cial ➤ ➤ the chance to not only work alongside COASTAL High 65 Low 41 COASTAL High 65 Low 39 • Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham (R-Templeton) paperwork. INLAND ➤ High 61 Low 34 INLAND ➤ High 61 Low 32 honored Peacock Cellars in Arroyo Grande as the Soto ran against current Councilmember practitioners, nurses, and physician’s Assembly District 35 Small Business of the Month on Dec. Dr. Michael Moats for Boysen’s vacated seat in assistants, but also with various patient 20. Owners Logan and Jessica Nichols recently received District 3, overtaking Moats’ early election night populations all around the county,” Saturday Sunday the Patriot Award from the Department of Defense lead to win the district by nearly 400 votes with Phelan said. for their support of Welcome Home Military Heroes, a a progressive platform, grassroots campaign, She said that the Center for Health nonprofi t for veterans across the Central Coast. “The and a focus on a more open and receptive city Research learned that there is a lack of Nichols were able to use their Cal Poly education to stay government. access to women’s and prenatal health in the area, raise a family, and serve their community,” “This election was one for the history books,” care in North Santa Barbara County and Cunningham said. “Their work for veterans is truly Councilmember Soto said in her opening beyond. 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6 • Sun • December 27 - January 3, 2019 • www.santamariasun.com NEWS [email protected] 1-10-19 NEWS from page 4 not reachable via phone as of press time. PUBLICATION DATE will be referred to partners in a wide network of The signs do not appear to meet community organizations, according to the university. requirements for parking restrictions laid out Phelan said that the mobile unit was made in the city’s traffic regulations, which allow for possible through donations. Cal Poly and public parking on city streets for up to 72 hours. According to section 7-5.10 of the city’s traffic VOLUNTEERS the SLO Noor Foundation are talking about expanding the mobile services into San regulations, regarding the posting of no parking BOOK YOUR AD BY Luis Obispo County, but would need more zones, “the make, size, and height … shall 1-3-19 donations in order to do so. first have been approved by the city engineer.” —Karen Garcia The city engineer’s office was unavailable 7 for comment on whether anyone from the homeowner’s association had contacted the Neighborhood places signs to office regarding the signs. The city’s traffic regulations also state that deter apartment dwellers from parking on public streets is permissible up parking on public streets to 72 hours; beyond that time period police are authorized to remove the vehicle. A Santa SHOW OUR READERS HOW YOU CARE Make a A pair of signs placed in a residential Maria Police Department spokesperson for the IN THIS UNIQUE ISSUE ALL neighborhood aim to deter local apartment traffic bureau, which regulates city parking, was ABOUT VOLUNTEERING dwellers from parking on public streets, but it is not available for comment. difference. unclear if they are legally permitted. Representatives for Montiavo did not provide The signs first appeared on Dec. 20, on a comment by press time. two entrances to the Classics on Leigh Street —Rebecca Rose and Bello Road, a Bradley Square housing development on Bradley Road in Santa Maria. 1-24-19 The entrances are across the street from Sheriff’s Office arrests alleged the Montiavo at Bradley Square apartment PUBLICATION DATE complex. meth dealer in Santa Maria The signs appeared amid concern The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s about apartment residents parking in the Office arrested a Santa Maria man on Dec. neighborhood, despite language in the city 18 on suspicion of dealing and possessing HEALTH & municipal code that allows parking on public methamphetamine, and possessing a stolen gun streets. and stolen car. BEAUTY Don Gheno, a resident who spoke to the Sun The Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations BOOK YOUR AD BY on Dec. 21, said that while he was not involved Bureau searched a house in the 700 block of 1-17-19 in the process or aware of the signs, the West Harding Avenue, where they reportedly homeowners association was likely prompted to found 38-year-old Julio Cesar Aguilar-Lopez place the signs due to neighborhood concerns in possession of more than a kilogram of meth over parking issues. He said he was glad to see and other signs of drug trafficking, according to the signs. the Sheriff’s Office. The Special Investigations “Basically everybody from the apartments Bureau was assisted by the Sheriff’s Office’s K-9 Body. was parking right there,” Gheno said. “It was unit and personnel from the Bureau of Alcohol, people that didn’t live here. They need to have Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, according adequate parking for their tenants over there. to the release. PROMOTE YOUR BEAUTY, HEALTH, Mind. Not over here.” The operation was part of a “long-term LIFESTYLE, NUTRITION, AND WELLNESS Gheno said he was concerned about trash investigation” by the bureau, Sheriff’s Office OFFERING THIS ANNUAL ISSUE being left behind by those parking on streets in Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover told Business. the development as well. The entranceway on the Sun, which focuses on “specialized fields” Leigh Street was recently marked as a fire zone, of investigation like narcotics, organized which Gheno said may have prompted the HOA crime, human trafficking, and technology- to place the no parking signs. based crimes. The bureau also collaborates and “After they painted it red, they were supports other parts of the Sheriff’s Office and 2-14-19 parking … right in front of … other people’s other law enforcement agencies in the county, houses,” he said. “Instead of parking where Hoover explained. PUBLICATION DATE the red was, they were just coming on into the “We’re always pleased when we’re able to get neighborhood.” meth and firearms off the streets and out of The Classics at Bradley Square is managed by the hands of criminals,” she said. “This person Aurora Property Services in San Luis Obispo. had not only meth for sale, but a firearm and a WEDDINGS A representative for the company referred stolen vehicle.” the matter to the homeowners association’s Aguilar-Lopez was booked into the Santa BOOK YOUR AD BY president, Greg Webster. Citing inactivity in Barbara County Jail on Dec. 18, where 2-7-19 the HOA due to an illness, Webster said he was he’s currently being held on $300,000 bail, unaware of the issue and referred the Sun to according to the Sheriff’s Office. m another representative. That representative was —Joe Payne PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE BUSTED: The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigation Bureau served a search REACH OVER 100,000 READERS Time to warrant in Santa Maria that yielded INCLUDING BRIDES, GROOMS, PARTY more than a kilogram PLANNERS, CATERERS, AND MORE celebrate. of methamphetamine, drug trafficking paraphernalia, a stolen SUN CIRCULATION gun, and a stolen car on Dec. 18. Thirty- eight-year-old Julio 18,000 Cesar Aguilar-Lopez of Santa Maria was booked in the Santa Contact your 805.347.1968 Barbara County Jail sales rep today! with a $300,000 bail. [email protected]

www.santamariasun.com • December 27 - January 3, 2019 • Sun • 7 ‘One for the history books’ An unprecedented year of flood, fire, elections, and more made 2018 a year to remember BY SUN STAFF t doesn’t matter who you ask, 2018 was filled with the unexpected. for a midterm both locally and on the national stage. National and dwindling budgets, and gaps in vital services. Local schools Natural disasters swept homes and lives away in moments state races heated up as candidates traded barbed words at debates responded to death threats with lockdowns amid a national crisis Ias the Thomas Fire and Montecito debris flows punctuated and forums before the big night. Two Central Coast cities—Santa of gun violence. And a new cannabis industry grew in every the beginning of the year. And months later, as Santa Barbara Maria and Lompoc—both saw their first district-based elections, corner of the county as officials worked to license and enforce the 8 County’s first responders still worked to find the missing, they with surprising election-night upsets to show for them. myriad businesses setting up shop. sent more of their ranks to aid California counties ravaged “This election was one for the history books,” said Gloria Soto, Throughout the year locals came together to raise funds, by historic wildfires. The topics of emergency alerts, disaster the District 3 first-timer, during her opening remarks as a Santa volunteer time, and work to meet whatever unexpected challenge response, and preparation continue to ring through the halls of Maria City Council member. came around the corner. county, state, and the federal government. Beyond the politics, Central Coast cities worked to address Whether 2018 was what you expected, it was a significant year, It was also an election year that saw unprecedented voter turnout long-standing problems, like the lack of housing, homelessness, so take a look back in our annual Year in Review. ❍

FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE/MIKE ELIASON FILE PHOTO BY KASEY BUBNASH

DEVASTATION: While Santa Barbara County’s first responders were still fighting the last bits of the Thomas Fire, then California’s STABILITY RETURNED: Dozens of farmers, ranchers, and growers attended a listening session on Feb. 1 at the Santa Maria largest wildfire, a rain surge hit Montecito on Jan. 9. It drenched hillsides scorched by the fire, triggering massive flooding, Fairpark, where Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara), left, and Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minnesota), right, listened to what debris flows, and rock falls that tore through the mountainside community, destroying more than 100 homes and killing more locals hoped to see prioritized in the 2018 farm bill. There, residents affiliated with the agricultural industries in Santa Barbara than 20 people. Just days before the flood, Santa Barbara County Public Works Director Tom Fayram told the Sun that the county and San Luis Obispo counties discussed the importance of specialty crop research, crop insurance, disaster relief, and California’s was concerned about potential rainfall. “This isn’t rocket science: We know there’s going to be a problem if we have rainfall of farm labor shortage. After months of negotiations, failed drafts, and a prolonged stalemate, Congress finally passed a farm bill in any significance,” Fayram said on Jan. 4. “There’s no magic pill to make this go away.” A report released in November from the December, one that addressed nearly all the issues highlighted by local farmers. The U.S. House of Representatives approved the county’s Office of Emergency Management detailed how its emergency operations center handled the response to the debris flows $867 billion bill with a 386-47 vote on Dec. 11, a day after it passed the Senate 87-13. It was a massive vote of support from both and the fire, finding a need for a more refined public alert system, increased collaboration between local government partners, sides of the aisle, and will maintain and enhance funding for specialty crop research, marketing, and insurance. California cut- and to “increase the county’s capability to recover from a major disaster.” flower and hemp growers would be eligible for crop insurance for the first time, and there will be slight increases in automation and mechanization research funding, along with a boost in funding for food banks and farmers markets.

FILE PHOTO BY SPENCER COLE FILE PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM MAKING ROOM: This year, longtime real estate agent and developer Gary Crabtree was one of several Santa Maria residents who decided to take advantage of a new ordinance allowing for the construction of accessory dwelling units in Santa Maria. As of May, the city had issued 10 building permits for accessory dwelling units since the Santa Maria City Council reluctantly adopted an ordinance allowing for the use and construction of the units in residential neighborhoods at a meeting in December 2017. Roughly 20 other applications were still in the city’s review process at that time. The ordinance, which City Council members were essentially forced to pass after several state bills requiring local governing bodies to adopt similar regulations were signed into law in 2016, is part of a greater effort to increase the area’s housing supply. VIOLENCE IN EDUCATION: Jenna Santana, then a junior at Pioneer Valley High School, performed a stunning cover of “Rise Up,” Although city officials weren’t sure written by Andra Day, at a Pioneer Valley rally on March 14, when hundreds of local students walked out of class at 10 a.m. to exactly how each accessory dwelling honor those killed a month earlier in a Parkland, Florida, school shooting. The walkout—which lasted 17 minutes, a minute for unit would be used once built, city every life lost in the Parkland shooting—coincided with thousands of similar rallies at schools across the nation, and several and state officials say the units— within Santa Maria itself. Simultaneous walkouts at Ernest Righetti and St. Joseph high schools were postponed after students which could benefit both homeowners received threatening texts and were placed on lockdown that day. It was just one of dozens of instances in which students hurled violent threats at schools across the Central Coast in 2018, an ugly trend that spurred debates over gun policy reform and the and renters—may become part of importance of school resource officers and deputies, and ignited to a string of student-led protests and rallies against gun a greater solution to California’s violence throughout last school year. growing housing crisis.

8 • Sun • December 27 - January 3, 2019 • www.santamariasun.com FILE PHOTO BY SPENCER COLE HEIGHTENED STANDARDS: Current and former Santa Maria public high school students (pictured left to right) Anthony Vilchis, Katherine Alvarez, Samantha Basulto, and Hector Maldonado were just some of the students who fought to shine a spotlight on issues surrounding California’s university entrance requirements last school year. A-Gs are a specific set of coursework requirements California high school students must complete in order be accepted to schools within the UC and CSU systems. A-G courses are substantially different from those needed to simply graduate from high school, and require a higher final grade and are typically more challenging. It’s ultimately 9 a student’s responsibility to stay on track with the requirements, and while it can be easy to fall behind, catching back up is often no small task. More than three-quarters of public high school graduates in Santa Maria aren’t even eligible to apply to a four-year university. In 2017, only about 20 percent of Santa Maria Joint Union High School District grads met their A-G requirements, according to data compiled by the California Department of Education. That means only 360 of the district’s 1,778 grads were eligible to apply to CSUs and UCs last year. It’s an issue that many local high school students feel hasn’t been addressed, and several students called on the district to align its graduation requirements with the achievements needed to apply for college.

FILE PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM UNTOLD STORIES: The California Department of Education adopted a new framework for social studies curriculum that began in 2018, including changing the approach to the mission project local students complete in fourth grade. The new guidelines ask teachers to “focus on the daily experience of missions” rather than building sugar cube models. One teaching example is the Chumash rebellion of 1824, which the Sun explored in a cover story that came out in March, the anniversary of the rebellion’s end. In February of 1824, the Chumash living at missions Santa Ines, La Purisima (pictured), and Santa Barbara overthrew the Mexican military and Spanish friars there after an incident at Santa Ines. The Chumash abandoned Santa Barbara and Santa Ines, and held La Purisima for nearly a month before Mexican military was dispatched to quell the rebellion. After a bloody firefight that included muskets and cannons firing on and from the mission and multiple casualties on both sides, the Chumash surrendered. The month-long incident is well documented, explained Santa Barbara Natural History Museum Curator John A #METOO MOMENT: Allan Hancock College revisited its nondiscrimination and harassment policies on April 10, two months after Johnson, and provides a perfect example for scholars a longtime employee publicly described to the board of trustees her experience of being sexually harassed and retaliated against. looking to the complexities of mission life, which he The policies were reworked to include an updated list of characteristics that cannot be discriminated against, and established also employs as a history teacher at UCSB. “I end the updated guidelines for harassment and discrimination investigations. The changes came shortly after Mathematics, Engineering, mission period with discussion of the revolt,” Johnson Science Achievement Program (MESA) Coordinator Christine Reed described at a meeting on Feb. 13 her own experience told the Sun. “You have the missionaries blaming the with harassment on Hancock’s campus. “It was an act of intimidation,” Reed said at the meeting. “It was a threat. It was a soldiers, the soldiers blaming the Indians, and the misogynistic attack on my personal character, my sexual identity, and my integrity as a professional educator.” Reed declined to Indians blaming a particular Indian interpreter that go into further detail but called on Hancock’s board of trustees to adopt a “no tolerance” position at Hancock that would protect they say misinterpreted them. So they all had different employees and students from similar abusive situations. Still, Hancock officials said their revisions were not linked to Reed’s points of view on this.” comments in any way. Pictured: The Allan Hancock College Board of Trustees at its Dec. 11 meeting.

PHOTO COURTESY OF NASA FILE PHOTO BY SPENCER COLE IGNITING INSIGHT: Vandenberg Air Force Base launched its InSight mission to Mars on May 5, which arrived to the red planet on Nov. 26 with a successful touchdown. It was a milestone for Vandenberg and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), as it was the first interplanetary launch from the Western U.S. and the first time NASA scientists could measure seismic activity, or “marsquakes,” and the inner heat of the planet. The mission was also aided by cube HOW TO HANDLE H-2A: Nipomo-based farm labor contractor Carlos Castaneda (pictured) criticized city officials for their handling of community debates over the H-2A program on Nov. 15 at the last in a long line of city-hosted forums regarding the issue. Santa satellites tested and prepared by Maria staff and its City Council spent much of the year attempting to tackle the H-2A issue, culminating with the five community Cal Poly engineers and students, forums that revolved around painstaking explanations from the city, state, and Santa Barbara County on how the program works, which allow faster communication the processes involved, and possible solutions that don’t violate federal law. The H-2A program, which allows farmers to bring between NASA and the landers. The vetted nonimmigrant workers into the U.S. to provide much-needed agricultural labor for a limited time, was pushed to the forefront cube satellite support was a first in March, when several residents complained about the program’s growing presence in Santa Maria’s residential neighborhoods. as well, according to JPL Systems Complaints of overcrowding and displacement sparked a city investigation into the issue, and an urgency ordinance prohibiting Engineer Farah Alibay, who told property owners from housing more than six H-2A guest workers in units located in residential zoning districts was passed the Sun that the mission was unanimously by the Santa Maria City Council on March 20. The sudden vote, which city officials said was an effort to preserve “sort of a pioneer to see what they residential housing for long-term residents, garnered significant backlash from affiliates of the local agricultural industry, many of can achieve.” “Once we know the whom felt the decision seemed rushed and under researched. After the City Council voted on April 17 not to extend the ordinance, it capabilities, we can start dreaming expired on May 4. At the final forum in November, the city’s new plan was also met with opposition. even bigger,” she added. COVER continued page 10

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BURN NOTICE: The debate over how best to manage lands in order to prevent wildfires raged in 2018 on every level of government, with a clear political divide over the use of prescribed burns. In Santa Barbara County, the county Fire Department argued for strategic prescribed burns to help firefighters better control wildfires when they do flare up. “The extensive fire history in this county goes 10 back decades and decades. We know that large wildfires are a permanent fixture in our county,” Fire Battalion Chief Rob Hazard said at a county Board of Supervisors meeting. State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) saw two of her bills signed by Gov. Jerry Brown at the end of 2018 that push for changes in the way public and private lands are managed for fire, as well as development in the wildland-urban interface, and how residents are alerted about wildfire threats. Pictured: A U.S. Forest Service crewmember works a prescribed burn in April in the Los Padres National Forest.

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AND THE WINNERS ARE: The 2018 midterm elections saw an unprecedented turnout of Santa Barbara County voters, who decided everything from their representative in Congress to their city council person to how to tax cannabis businesses. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) (pictured, left) held his seat against returning challenger Justin Fareed, winning the vote by a healthy margin, which Democratic operatives said was part of the “blue wave” in response to President Donald Trump’s administration. But local races could be just as heated, especially in cities like Santa Maria and Lompoc, which saw their first district-based elections this year. In Santa Maria, progressive Latina/Latino candidates emerged to run for seats on the dais, with Rafael “Rafa” Gutierrez unsuccessfully challenging incumbent Etta Waterfield (pictured, center left), who won decisively in District 4. The young first-time candidate, 28-year-old nonprofit administrator Gloria Soto (pictured, center right), beat out Current Council member Dr. Michael Moats for the District 3 seat by nearly 400 votes. In Lompoc, the city’s residents re-elected the two incumbent City Council members, Dirk Starbuck and Victor Vega, to their respective districts. But citywide, voters chose Councilmember Jenelle Osborne (pictured, right) over Councilmember Jim Mosby to lead the city as mayor. Osborne is the first woman to serve as Lompoc’s mayor in 20 years.

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EVICTING THE HOMELESS: The Lompoc City Council approved the Lompoc Police Department’s request to evict scores of homeless individuals from the Santa Ynez Riverbed in 2018. After evictions began in August, a triage center was available for those displaced, which closed in October. A massive contracted cleanup effort started in the riverbed this year, beginning DEVELOPING VALLEY: The Sun staff explored the Santa Maria Valley’s newest large-scale development, Enos Ranch, which completed to clear out the tons of trash and hazardous materials. “There’s decades of debris down there,” Lompoc Police Chief Pat key projects in its first phase this year. While city officials tout the project as a boon to the local economy, a shopping destination, and a Walsh said, adding, “I think we should’ve never let the riverbed get this bad.” For people who called the riverbed home, new face for the city, it isn’t without its detractors. Critics pointed to the city’s deference to corporate retailers, an apparent slowing of like longtime Lompoc resident Anthony Gordon, it was a place he turned to out of desperation. “I didn’t want to come down downtown redevelopment, and developing the city into “Anytown, USA.” Also, traffic congestion around the development has caused city here,” he told the Sun. “People are dying down here. But it seems everywhere I go, there’s always somebody, somewhere, planners to return to their drawing boards, slating expensive projects to assuage the increased traffic. But despite the concerns, Santa saying I have to leave.” Later, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors declared a shelter crisis in the county to Marians and Central Coast residents are already filling the parking lots at Enos Ranch, spending their money, and waiting for the next step procure state funds to help pay for the cleanup and support efforts. The Lompoc City Council later followed the county and in the project. declared a crisis of its own. COVER continued page 11

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CANNABIS CONUNDRUM: It’s been a busy year for Santa Barbara County government and law enforcement agencies as legal cannabis hit the market in California. While growers navigated wads of red tape for proper licensing in order to operate in the county, agencies like the Sheriff’s Office began enforcement on cannabis cultivators that have flaunted the necessary permits and licenses. Enforcement operations began in rural areas, like Tepusquet Canyon near Santa Maria and Cebada Canyon near Lompoc, amid outcries from area residents that cannabis operations were congesting country roads, creating odors and pollution, and depleting their water tables. But not all pot CULTURE COUNTS: Sociologist and researcher Robin DiAngelo led a day-long racial justice workshop at the Radisson Hotel on Sept. 26, at a seminar hosted by production is tucked away in rural canyons. At the end of October, the Sheriff’s Office made history the Santa Maria Joint Union High School District in an effort to increase cultural proficiency among educators in the area. In a city where the majority of students with its largest illegal pot bust to date of more than 400,000 plants. The grow operation was in the are Latino and most teachers are white, it hasn’t always been easy to bridge cultural divides and close achievement gaps that exist between students of color and heart of Santa Maria farmland and “was set up like you would grow strawberries, really, the exact their white peers. Some Santa Maria educators think more frequent cultural proficiency trainings for educators could be, at least, part of the solution, but past same format,” Lt. Brian Olmstead told the Sun. It took the Sheriff’s Office two days and multiple efforts in both Santa Maria’s school districts have been fraught with tensions, fragile emotions, and forceful pushback. “You can’t have a conversation about high teams to eradicate the plants (pictured). And when not enforcing illegal operations, the county performing schools with a significantly changing demographic without having a conversation about race,” said Peter Flores, director of student services at the was collecting tax revenues from cannabis business owners, reporting around $1.8 million in taxes Santa Maria Joint Union High School District. “The problem is that when you have a conversation about race, people tend to get defensive.” collected from June 30 to Oct. 31, 2018. ORCUTT

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seats from the Republican Party. More Santa Barbara County voters cast ballots than in any Remember when? midterm, mirroring nationwide turnouts. ell, my feathers are more gray, there are Local Rep. Salud Carbajal swept his fewer of them, and the bags under perennial challenger Justin Fareed away Wmy eyes have gotten so big they’re after record voter turnout ensured the about to get banned in California. It was 24th District would stay blue this year. a busy year (see page 8), with so many During his victory speech on election important stories competing for our night, Carbajal was clear about attention on the local level alone, it’s hard 13 to believe it’s already over! the significance of the voters’ Our local news went worldwide at the mandate, saying Democrats beginning of the year after the tragic “finally have the tools … to Jan. 9 debris flows in Montecito, and investigate, to ask questions, and to the rest of the state has continued to make things more transparent.” make international headlines with more While Carbajal was protecting a safe massive and deadly wildfires. seat, local candidates rode the election- Central Coasters have lived with wildfires for day enthusiasm to some unlikely victories. generations, but nothing like what we’ve seen The Santa Maria City Council recently. The Thomas Fire—the approximate saw newcomer Gloria Soto overtake cause of the Monetico debris flows—wasn’t Councilmember Michael Moats in the newly completely contained until January. At the time, minted District 3. The significance of a young it was the largest fire in California history. That’s progressive Latina who works for Planned no longer the case after this year’s fire season, Parenthood sitting on Santa Maria’s council but local residents and government officials are isn’t lost on this bird, but neither is the re- still dealing with the repercussions, physical and election of Etta Waterfield, which shows the financial, from the Thomas Fire and the debris strong, conservative heart of the town. flows. And I have to admit, my often beady eyes Local and state officials scrambled throughout may have welled up a bit (for just a second!) 2018 to refine disaster response methods with when the current council welcomed Soto with new emergency alert systems, better technology, a standing ovation (see page 4) during her and legislation. Unfortunately, politics infected swearing in, Waterfield and Mayor Alice Patino much of the discourse over how best to manage included. A heartfelt reach across the aisle like wildfires in the state, with debate raging in Santa that shouldn’t feel like a splash of cold water, Barbara County Board of Supervisors meetings between fire officials and environmentalists but in today’s current political climate, it sure over the role of prescribed burns in managing did! I think President Trump could learn a the wildfire threat. That debate continued at thing or two from representatives like these. the state level, with President Donald Trump But if 2019 is anything like 2018, I wouldn’t count even weighing in via Twitter to blame forest on it. I don’t know about you, but I’m strapping in management in the state. for what’s coming next, here on the Central Coast Trump loomed large over this year’s news and in the highest halls of power, because you can cycle as the midterm elections got going, with bet it’s going to go by fast.  that much-talked-about Blue Wave swelling to see the Democratic Party take back the House The Canary will see you next year. Send your of Representatives by a record-breaking 40 thoughts to [email protected].

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FRESH START The 2019 New Year’s Day Hike takes place Jan. 1 from 10 a.m. to noon at Los Flores Ranch Park, located at 6271 Dominion Road, Santa Maria. Three docent-led hikes will be offered: a 2 mile, a 4.5 mile, and a 6 mile. Guests are asked to wear comfortable walking/hiking shoes and sunscreen. Dogs with leashes are welcome. Admission is free. More info: (805) 925-0951, Ext. 2260.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LOS FLORES RANCH PARK staff, making 2019 capsules and other art, enjoying ages 21 and over only. Dec. 31, 10 p.m. $30. SLO HOLIDAY EVENTS cookies and cider, and more. Dec. 31, 10 a.m.-1 Brew, 736 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo, 805-543- SPECIAL EVENTS p.m. $6. 805-928-8414. smvdiscoverymuseum. 1843, slobrew.com. SANTA YNEZ VALLEY SANTA YNEZ VALLEY org/. Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum, 705 S. SLOMA CURATED CRAFT BOUTIQUE Shop for GOOD LIFE NEW YEARS EVE Features live music McClelland St., Santa Maria. CHRISTMAS TREE BURN FIRE SAFETY handmade gifts. Featured artists are Alice Sennett, by Blues Bob and the Loopy Blues Band. Dec. 31 DEMONSTRATION Supervised by the Santa NYE AT 825 BLAST Featuring live music from Barry Lundgren, David Gurney, Dianna Draze, Elena 805-688-7111. The Good Life, 1672 Mission Dr., Barbara County Fire Department. 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San Luis Obispo Museum BURNING BOWL SERVICE A service to offer music by the Riptide Big Band, light refreshments, 3400 E. Highway 246, Santa Ynez, 800-248-6274, dancing, and more. Please RSVP. Funded by of Art, 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. up to the fire any attitudes or behaviors that have chumashcasino.com/entertainment. not served you in 2018. Dec. 30, 11 a.m. 805- Community Foundation of SLO County. Dec. 31, NORTH COAST SLO COUNTY NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY AT THE MAVERICK 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. 805-925-0951. Elwin Mussell 863-7976. Unity Chapel of Light Church, 1165 CAYUCOS POLAR BEAR DIP Pre-dip festivities A live music and DJ dance party featuring Pull The Senior Center, 510 Park Ave., Santa Maria. Stubblefield Rd., Orcutt, unitysantamaria.net/. start at 9:30 a.m. Jan. 1, noon slocal.com. Cayucos Trigger and others. Guests can enjoy party favors, SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY Pier, Ocean Front Ave., Cayucos. CHRISTMAS TREE CURBSIDE COLLECTION a midnight champagne toast, and more. Dec. 31, Discarded Christmas trees will be collected at no 8 p.m. Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa HOLIDAY HIKE The Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes FIRESIDE LOUNGE NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY charge from the curb on residents’ regularly scheduled Ynez, 805-686-4785, mavericksaloon.org. Center hosts this holiday hike. Dec. 29, 9-11 Ring in the new year with the Fireside Lounge trash collection day. Flocked trees not accepted. Dec. a.m. Free, suggested donation. 805-343-2455. at Cambria Pines Lodge. Features live music by 31-Jan. 5 Free. 805-925-0951. cityofsantamaria.org. LOMPOC/VANDENBERG dunescenter.org/event/holiday-hike-3/. Oso Flaco Shameless, free party favors, and two bars. Dec. Santa Maria, Citywide, Santa Maria. NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION A formal event Lake Natural Area, Oso Flaco Lake Rd., Nipomo. 31, 9 p.m.-midnight Free admission. 805-927- SAN LUIS OBISPO presented by Sophisticated Lady Productions. SIXTH ANNUAL AVILA BEACH POLAR BEAR 4200. 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Funding for this program hike options: easy/moderate (family-friendly) or CASINO ROYALE NEW YEAR’S EVE Features SANTA YNEZ VALLEY has been provided by the Harold J. Miossi Charitable moderate/advanced. Jan. 1, 10 a.m.-noon Free. blackjack, craps, roulette, beer, a full cocktail bar, NATURE ABSTRACTED WORKSHOP A three- Trust. For kids in preschool to grade 7. Jan. 4, santamaria.com. Los Flores Ranch Park, 6271 and more. For ages 21 and over only. Dec. 31, 8 hour workshop for adults (teens are also welcome). 10:30-11:30 a.m. and Jan. 5, 10:30-11:30 Dominion Rd., Santa Maria. p.m. $50. SLO Brew Rock, 855 Aerovista Pl., San Participants will start from a photograph of a place a.m. Free. 805-781-5775. San Luis Obispo Luis Obispo, 209-417-7748. in the natural world, which they have brought or Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo. NOON YEARS EVE Celebrate the coming new year by counting down NEW YEAR’S EVE MASQUERADE BALL This chosen. 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14 • Sun • December 27 - January 3, 2019 • www.santamariasun.com everybodycandance.webs.com. Everybody Can Dance, and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang. ARTS from page 14 WEST COAST SWING CLASS No partner or 628 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria, 805-937-6753. experience needed. Mondays, 7-9 p.m. Free. 805- NATURE REGENERATED Photographers were 937-1574. CentralCoastSwingDance.com. Old Town BASIC WATERCOLOR No experience required. INTRODUCTORY BALLET 2 Wednesdays, 6 encouraged to capture examples of nature’s ability Brew, 338 W. Tefft St, Nipomo. Tuesdays, 1-3 p.m. $8. Oasis Senior Center, 420 p.m. and Fridays everybodycandance.webs.com. to regenerate and thrive. This exhibit showcases Soares Ave., Orcutt, 805-937-9750. Everybody Can Dance, 628 S. McClelland St., Santa SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY winning entries in the Adult and Junior categories. Maria, 805-937-6753. ongoing Free. 805-686-8315. wildlingmuseum.org/ BEADING WORKSHOP Thursdays, noon OPEN STUDIO FOR HOMESCHOOLED photography-competition/. Wildling Museum of Art oasisorcutt.org. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares INTRODUCTORY BALLET 3 Wednesdays, 6 p.m. CHILDREN Includes drawing, painting, sewing, and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang. Ave., Orcutt, 805-937-9750. everybodycandance.webs.com. Everybody Can weaving, mixed media, printmaking, and 3-dimensional Dance, 628 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria, 805- building in a safe, non-competitive environment. PAVLOV GALLERY: FEATURED ARTISTS COUNTRY TWO STEP DANCE LESSONS From 937-6753. Fridays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. $20 per hour. 805-668-2125. LilA Showcasing new collections on a weekly basis. the basics to a variety of patterns. Dancers of all skill Creative Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. Suite Featured artists include Chris Pavlov, Iris MUSIC LESSONS Offering private and classroom levels welcome. Thursdays, 6:15-7 p.m. $8. 805-680- 101, Arroyo Grande, lila.community. Pavlov, Robert Hildebrand, Doug Picotte, lessons. ongoing 805-925-0464. Coelho Academy 5695. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt. and more. ongoing, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. of Music, 325 E. Betteravia Road, Santa Maria. PLAY EXPLORE CREATE 2 Includes CREATIVE ART TUESDAYS Meet other artists drawing, pastel, watercolor, tempera, 805-686-1080. pavlovgallery.com. and support and critique others’ works. Tuesdays, SALSA DANCE CLASS No partner or experience collage, printmaking, sewing, and Pavlov Art Gallery, 1608 Copenhagen 1-4 p.m. $1. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., needed. Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. Free. 805-937-1574. building. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Dr., Ste C, Solvang. Orcutt, 805-937-9750. CentralCoastSwingDance.com. Old Town Brew, 338 9-10:30 a.m. & 1:30-3 p.m. $20. RAY STRONG: FEATURED ARTIST 15 W. Tefft St, Nipomo. 805-668-2125. lila.community. LilA EVERYBODY CAN DANCE Ballet workout Sponsored by the Robert and Creative Community, 1147 East classes for teens and adults. Tuesdays, 6 p.m. SWING, BALLROOM, AND LATIN DANCE DEC. 27, 2018 Mercedes Eichholz Foundation. In CLASSES Hosted by the Kings of Swing. All skill Grand Ave. Suite 101, Arroyo Grande. — the Main Gallery (first floor). Through everybodycandance.webs.com. Everybody Can Dance, JAN. 3, 2019 March 20, 2019 Wildling Museum of Art 628 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria, 805-937-6753. levels welcome (adults). Couples and singles welcome. Pre-registration recommended. and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, INDIVIDUAL PAINTERS No instructor. Fridays, Thursdays, 7-8 p.m. $45. 805-928-7799. Adkins SPECIAL ART EVENTS 805-688-1082, wildlingmuseum.org. 9 a.m.-noon $1. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Dance Center, 1110 E. Clark Ave., Santa Maria. SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS LOMPOC/VANDENBERG Ave., Orcutt, 805-937-9750. UKULELE CLASS Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. Oasis FIRST FRIDAY ARTIST RECEPTIONS Valley Art FEATURED ARTIST: KATIE MARIE Marie’s INTRODUCTORY BALLET 1 Tuesdays, 5 p.m. Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt, 805-937-9750. Gallery features 12 artists each year. Enjoy art, artwork incorporates many elements of her love PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SANTA MARIA VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM wine, and food at these opening receptions. First of the ocean and surfing. Through Dec. 31 Free Friday of every month, 5-7 p.m. Free. 805-937- admission. Flying Goat Cellars, 1520 Chestnut 2278. valleygallery.org. Valley Art Gallery, 125 W. Court, Lompoc, 805-757-6649. Clark Ave., Orcutt. FEATURED ARTISTS: TOM AND JOELLEEN CHRONES Presented by the Lompoc Valley Art EXHIBITS Association. Through Dec. 31 Free admission. Cypress Gallery, 119 E Cypress Ave., Lompoc, 805- 705-5328, lompocvalleyartassociation.com. SANTA YNEZ VALLEY SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS FELICE WILLAT: FEATURED ARTIST Through Jan. 1, 2019 Gallery Los Olivos, 2920 Grand Ave., FEATURED ARTIST: IRINA MALKMUS This Los Olivos, 805-688-7517, gallerylosolivos.com. exhibit is one of a continuing series of shows to FOLDED ART: ORIGAMI ANIMALS Featuring spotlight local art and artists. ongoing 805-938- origami animals by artist Robert Salazar. In 9724. irinamalkmus.com. Ameriprise Financial, the Oak Gallery (second floor). Through March 2605 S Miller St., Suite 104, Santa Maria. 20, 2019 Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, LEE-VOLKER COX: FEATURED ARTIST Cox 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-1082, is the gallery’s featured artist for the month of wildlingmuseum.org. December. Through Dec. 29 Valley Art Gallery, 125 W. GLO ARTIST SHOW Jan. 1-Feb. 1 Gallery Los Clark Ave., Orcutt, 805-937-2278, valleygallery.org. Olivos, 2920 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 805-688-7517, SANTA BARBARA PRINTMAKERS JURIED gallerylosolivos.com. EXHIBITION ongoing smartscouncil.org. Betteravia NATURE ABSTRACTED This exhibit is on display Gallery, 511 E. Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria. in the Barbara Goodall Education Center (third VALLEY ART GALLERY SHOWCASE Features floor). In collaboration with the Santa Barbara works from a diverse group of local artists. based Abstract Art Collective. Features 29 works Through Dec. 31 Free admission. Santa Maria by 18 artists. Through Feb. 4, 2019 $5. Wildling Airport, 3249 Terminal Dr., Santa Maria. Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-1082, wildlingmuseum.org. SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY A WHOLE NEW YEAR NATURE IMAGINED This exhibit celebrates nature FROM ARTISTS, FOR ARTISTS, BY ARTISTS The Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum hosts its Noon Year’s Eve Celebration on Dec. through art by Cheryl Medow, Ellen Jewett, and Featuring fine art oils and pastels from Corynn 31 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Guests can enjoy cookies and apple cider while completing 2019 Hilary Brace. These artists used diverse materials Wolf, acrylics from Ryan Adams, and works from capsules and other crafts. Regular admission is $6. The museum is located at 705 S. and methods to create their works. Mondays, various mediums by Marc Wolf ongoing Free. 805- McClelland St., Santa Maria. More info: (805) 928-8414 or smdiscoverymuseum.org. Wednesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $5. 805-686- 8315. wildlingmuseum.org. Wildling Museum of Art ARTS continued page 16 award-Winning communitY Journalism Right heRe on the central coAst Free. eveRy thursdaY.

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773-6563. Puffers of Pismo, 781 Price St., Pismo Beach, puffersofpismo.com/. SHE SANG ME A GOOD LUCK SONG A statewide traveling exhibit featuring the California Indian photographs of Dugan Aguilar. ongoing 415- 525-1553. exhibitenvoy.org. DANA Adobe Cultural 吀䠀䄀一䬀 夀伀唀 吀伀 吀䠀䔀 Center, 671 S. Oakglen Ave., Nipomo, 805-929-5679. SAN LUIS OBISPO ㄀ ⬀ 氀漀挀愀氀 戀甀猀椀渀攀猀猀攀猀 36 VIEWS OF HOLLISTER PEAK In the 1830s, 䘀伀刀 䨀伀䤀一䤀一䜀 吀䠀䔀 䌀䠀䄀䴀䈀䔀刀 䤀一 ㈀ ㄀㠀℀ Hokusai pursued the essence of Japan’s iconic mountain in the print series Thirty-Six Views of 䌀攀渀䌀愀氀 吀䔀䬀 ∠ 䌀攀渀琀爀愀氀 倀愀礀洀攀渀琀猀 ⴀ 匀愀渀琀愀 䴀愀爀椀愀 䄀最攀渀挀礀 ∠ Mount Fuji. In tribute, Secret SLO gathers more 䰀愀爀爀礀 䌀漀漀渀攀礀 䌀漀渀猀甀氀琀椀渀最 ∠ 䠀椀氀搀愀 娀愀挀愀爀椀愀猀Ⰰ 䌀倀䄀Ⰰ 䴀倀䄀 ∠ than two dozen artists to pursue the essence 16 唀爀戀愀渀攀 䌀愀昀攀 ∠ 䐀甀渀欀椀渀✀ 䐀漀渀甀琀猀 ∠ 刀漀挀欀椀渀✀ 䨀甀洀瀀 ∠ 䴀攀爀爀礀 of San Luis Obispo’s Hollister Peak. Mondays, 䴀愀椀搀猀 ∠ 匀愀渀琀愀 䈀愀爀戀愀爀愀 吀攀愀挀栀攀爀猀 䘀攀搀攀爀愀氀 䌀爀攀搀椀琀 唀渀椀漀渀 ∠ 一愀甀最栀琀礀 伀愀欀 䈀爀攀眀椀渀最 䌀漀⸀ ∠ 儀甀愀氀椀琀礀 圀椀渀攀 䈀愀爀爀攀氀猀 ∠ 匀愀渀琀愀 Thursdays-Sundays, 1-7 p.m. through Dec. 31 Free. 䴀愀爀椀愀 倀爀漀瀀攀爀琀椀攀猀 ∠ 䴀愀猀漀渀 䘀爀愀欀攀猀Ⰰ 䌀䠀䄀䴀倀䤀伀一 刀攀愀氀 805-210-8687. secretslo.com/gallery/. Sauer- 䔀猀琀愀琀攀 ∠ 圀愀瘀攀 䈀甀猀椀渀攀猀猀 ∠ 堀ǻ渀椀琀礀 ∠ꀀ 䴀愀琀琀✀猀 䌀愀琀攀爀椀渀最 ∠ Adams Adobe, 964 Chorro St., San Luis Obispo. 䜀漀氀搀洀愀渀 䴀愀最搀愀氀椀渀 ☀ 䬀爀椀欀攀猀 ∠ 䔀砀挀氀甀猀椀瘀攀 圀椀爀攀氀攀猀猀 ∠ 吀ⴀ䴀漀戀椀氀攀 ∠ 䄀洀攀爀椀挀愀渀 嘀攀琀攀爀愀渀猀 唀渀椀琀攀搀 ∠ 倀愀礀挀栀攀砀 ∠ 䠀甀爀搀氀攀 ART AFTER DARK SLO Unites visual, literary, 䠀攀愀爀椀渀最 愀渀搀 䄀甀搀椀漀氀漀最礀 ∠ꀀ一漀戀氀攀 倀爀漀搀甀挀琀椀漀渀猀 ☀ 䴀愀爀欀攀琀椀渀最 ∠ and performing artists with the community and 吀愀氀氀攀礀 䘀愀爀洀猀 䘀爀攀猀栀 䠀愀爀瘀攀猀琀 ∠ 䄀渀搀爀攀Ⰰ 䴀漀爀爀椀猀 ☀ 䈀甀琀琀攀爀礀 ∠ꀀ participating venues. Visit site for full list of 匀氀攀攀瀀 一甀洀戀攀爀 ∠ꀀ 䘀漀甀爀 䌀漀爀渀攀爀猀 吀漀眀椀渀最 ∠ 䌀攀渀琀甀爀礀 ㈀㄀ programs and events. First Friday of every month, 䠀漀洀攀琀漀眀渀 刀攀愀氀琀礀 ⴀ 刀漀挀椀漀 䘀氀漀爀攀猀 䰀漀瀀攀稀 ∠ 䔀挀栀漀 䜀爀漀甀瀀 ∠ 6-9 p.m. 805-544-9251. artsobispo.org. SLO 䰀愀眀 伀伀挀攀 漀昀 䐀攀戀戀椀攀 䰀⸀ 䴀漀爀愀眀猀欀椀 ∠ 吀爀愀琀琀漀爀椀愀 唀氀椀瘀攀琀漀 ∠ County, Countywide, San Luis Obispo. 䨀䌀倀攀渀渀攀礀 ∠ 倀愀眀琀爀攀攀 ⴀ 䤀渀搀攀瀀攀渀搀攀渀琀 倀攀琀瀀爀漀 ∠ 刀甀爀愀氀 倀氀愀渀渀椀渀最 匀攀爀瘀椀挀攀猀 ∠ 刀漀挀欀椀渀 䈀漀搀礀 䌀愀爀攀 匀瀀愀 ∠ 䴀愀爀椀愀挀栀椀 CENTRAL COAST PRINTMAKERS: BANNER FIRED UP 䄀氀洀愀 搀攀 䨀愀氀椀猀挀漀 搀攀 匀攀爀愀ǻ渀 䴀攀渀搀漀稀愀 ∠ 倀栀漀琀漀 䌀攀氀氀 匀攀爀瘀椀挀攀 ∠ A collaborative exhibition featuring contemporary The annual Solvang Christmas Tree Burn takes place Jan. 4 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Mission 䴀愀爀挀栀椀 ☀ 䄀猀猀漀挀椀愀琀攀猀 ∠ 䘀漀砀攀渀 䌀愀渀礀漀渀 圀椀渀攀 吀爀愀椀氀 ∠ 嘀椀氀氀愀 搀攀氀 prints made by members of the Central Coast Santa Ines, located at 1760 Mission Drive, Solvang. The event features live entertainment, 匀漀氀 ∠ 嘀椀渀漀 攀琀 䄀洀椀挀椀猀 圀椀渀攀 䈀愀爀 ∠ 䌀漀琀琀愀最攀 䠀攀愀氀琀栀 ∠ Printmakers Group, a membership group of refreshments, and fire safety demonstrations from the Santa Barbara County Fire 一攀甀爀漀戀漀砀椀渀最 匀愀渀琀愀 䴀愀爀椀愀 ∠ 匀攀愀爀猀 ∠ 䌀攀渀琀爀愀氀 䌀漀愀猀琀 圀椀渀攀 SLOMA. Through Jan. 27, 2019 Free. 805-543- Department. More info: solvangusa.com. 匀攀爀瘀椀挀攀猀 ∠ 䌀攀渀琀爀愀氀 䌀漀愀猀琀 䬀椀渀搀 ∠ 䈀漀礀猀 ☀ 䜀椀爀氀猀 䌀氀甀戀猀 漀昀 匀愀渀琀愀 䴀愀爀椀愀 嘀愀氀氀攀礀 ∠ 䌀愀爀椀洀愀渀 匀攀爀瘀椀挀攀猀 ∠ 䰀愀 䌀愀猀愀 搀攀氀 8562. sloma.org. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 䌀攀氀甀氀愀爀 ∠ 匀愀渀琀愀 䴀愀爀椀愀 䌀漀甀渀琀爀礀 䌀氀甀戀 䜀漀氀昀 匀栀漀瀀 ∠ 䰀一䤀 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. SANTA MARIA TOASTMASTERS WEEKLY 䤀渀琀攀爀渀愀琀椀漀渀愀氀 ∠ 䔀砀琀爀攀洀攀 刀攀猀瀀漀渀猀攀 䤀渀琀攀爀渀愀琀椀漀渀愀氀 ∠ CLAY X 3 Featuring ceramic artists Ariane MEETING Toastmasters International is a 䌀栀椀挀欀ⴀ䘀椀氀ⴀ䄀 ∠ 娀漀漀洀 䤀洀愀最椀渀最 匀漀氀甀琀椀漀渀猀 ∠ 䄀䈀䌀 䌀氀攀愀渀椀渀最 ☀ CULTURE & Leiter, Maria Teresa Rode and Catherine Schmid- worldwide nonprofit educational organization that 䈀甀椀氀搀椀渀最 匀攀爀瘀椀挀攀猀 ∠ꀀ 䰀攀愀瘀椀琀琀 䌀漀愀猀琀愀氀 嘀愀氀氀攀礀 䤀渀猀甀爀愀渀挀攀 empowers individuals to become more effective Maybach. Their work reflects the deep roots of 匀攀爀瘀椀挀攀猀 ∠ꀀ圀椀爀攀氀攀猀猀 ㄀ ㄀ 䤀渀挀⸀⼀䄀甀琀栀漀爀椀稀攀搀 䌀爀椀挀欀攀琀 刀攀琀愀椀氀攀爀 ∠ communicators and leaders. Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. ceramic sculpture in modern and contemporary LIFESTYLE 匀洀漀漀琀栀 䌀爀椀洀椀渀愀氀 ∠ꀀ 吀栀攀 匀愀渀 䰀甀椀猀 伀戀椀猀瀀漀 吀爀椀戀甀渀攀 ∠ 805-264-6722. santamaria.toastmastersclubs. 䜀栀椀琀琀攀爀洀愀渀Ⰰ 䜀栀椀琀琀攀爀洀愀渀 ☀ 䘀攀氀搀 ∠ꀀ 䴀愀爀琀椀愀渀 刀愀渀挀栀 ☀ California art. Through Jan. 20, 2019 Free. 805- org/. Toyota of Santa Maria, 700 E Beteravia Rd., 嘀椀渀攀礀愀爀搀 ∠ꀀ䄀琀 圀漀爀欀 倀攀爀猀漀渀渀攀氀 匀攀爀瘀椀挀攀猀 ∠ꀀ匀愀椀最漀渀 䌀甀椀猀椀渀攀 ∠ꀀ 543-8562. sloma.org. 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TOURS FOR PADDLERS A special tour foster parent class presented by Calm. Tuesdays for visitors who come by ocean. Paddlers SIXTH ANNUAL LITTLE TREASURES All 805-965-2376. calm4kids.org. Church For Life, will need to clean sand from their feet and dry artwork is priced at $100 or less. Through Dec. 30 3130 Skyway Dr., Suite 501, Santa Maria. Free. 805-747-4200. artcentralartsupply.com/. Art themselves before the tour so not to damage the antique flooring. Saturdays, 10-10:45 a.m. $6.49. SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY Central, 1329 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. 805-540-5771. Point San Luis Lighthouse, 1 CALIFORNIA ELDERS FOR YOUTH A WILD SILKS: THREE PERSPECTIVES Featured Lighthouse Rd., Avila Beach. special program for teenagers where elders artists: Jeanne Miller, Dana Kimberly Hixson, and serve as mentors to listen to and talk to them. Martha Sparta. This exhibit showcases the work CLUBS & MEETINGS All elders are screened. 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Arianna, and the 1,999 other BGCSMV club members just like her, need your help this Holiday Season. Please join Club 66 to support the life changing services the club provides. When you do, you’ll know that you aren’t just making a donation, you’re changing a child’s life by putting them on the path to a great future!

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Meet Arianna. She’s 10 years old, bright and funny. She loves school, art, and unicorns. And I bet she reminds you of someone Founded in 1966, Boys & Girls Clubs of San- 26 you know. A niece, a neighbor, or your own daughter. Every day ta Maria Valley is looking for a minimum of after school, Arianna comes to Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Maria 66 members to commit a monthly recurring Valley. At the Club, she gets to play with her friends, participate in gift of $66, helping us raise over $52,000 fine arts classes, and get help with her homework. annually to keep 2,000 + children and teens off the streets and in our clubs. It's Arianna is thankful for the Club. Her Mom works during the day as the easiest and best way to offer reliable a housekeeper and waits tables at night. Arianna used to walk support to youth throughout Santa Maria home alone to an empty house. She’d watch TV or play video Valley. games until her Mom came home. She struggled in school, be- WHY BE A MEMBER? cause she didn’t have anyone to help her with her studies. At age 9, she was barely able to read. But all of that changed when she For a monthly recurring gift of $66 you will be joined the Club. providing:  Educational activities for children who would Thanks to you, and others like you, kids like Arianna have some- otherwise be left alone and unsupervised during where special to go when the school bell rings. At Boys & Girls non-school hours. Clubs of Santa Maria Valley, kids get homework help, computer access, a hot meal, and so much more. The Club provides a com-  Mentors for children who need a supportive munity of support and a home away from home. Arianna’s Mom and caring adult who will listen, encourage recently told us “The Club changed our lives forever. Arianna is them, and celebrate their successes. happy, succeeding in school, and given the opportunity to experi-  ence things she never could have before.” Daily meals and nutritious snacks for chil- dren and teens. When you support BGCSMV, you’re not just sending a child to an afterschool program. You’re helping to break the cycle of poverty in our community. You’re funding good grades, healthy meals, Become a founding member of Club 66 leadership development, career readiness, and so much more. Our programs are vital to the community and your investment helps today. Call 805-354-7421 or visit www.bgcsmv.org kids fulfill their full potential.

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First Tuesday Pastor Joseph and Amanda Anderson every Sunday of every month, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. 805-473-7161. for prayer, healing, and more. Sundays, 9:30-11 slolibrary.org. Arroyo Grande Library, 800 W. a.m. 805-888-7714. House of God Church, 946 Branch, Arroyo Grande. Rockaway Ave., Grover Beach. DINOSAUR DIG FOR REAL FOSSILS Come to INTUITIVE DEVELOPMENT 1st and 2nd Tuesdays the library to see authentic dinosaur bones and dig of the month. With Julie Jensen. Come explore your for real fossils. All ages. Jan. 5, 2-3 p.m. Free. 805- innate gifts that are receiving and giving intuitive 34 473-7161. slolibrary.org. Arroyo Grande Library, information. First Tuesday of every month, 6:30-8 800 W. Branch, Arroyo Grande. p.m. $25. 805-489-2423. Halcyon Store Post Office, 936 S. Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande. OCEANO DUNES VISITOR CENTER Enjoy exhibits of dune and lagoon plant and animal INTUITIVE DEVELOPMENT Explore your innate species. End your visit with a stroll behind the gifts of receiving and giving intuitive information center to the fresh-water lagoon. ongoing, 12-4 with Julie Jensen. First Tuesday of every month, p.m. Free. 805-474-2667. Oceano Dunes Visitor 6:30-8 p.m. $25. 805-489-2423. Halcyon Store Center, 555 Pier Ave, Oceano. Post Office, 936 S. Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande. PLAY EXPLORE CREATE 1 Enjoy various art MEDIUMSHIP DEVELOPMENT Learn the basics activities including drawing, painting, building of communicating with spirit in a safe environment sculptures, and more. Designed for ages 3 to 4. with Mike Smith. Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $15. All materials are included. Mondays, Wednesdays, 805-480-2432. Halcyon Store Post Office, 936 S. OUT WITH THE OLD 9-10:30 a.m. $20. 805-668-2125. LilA Creative Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande. The Unity Chapel of Light Church offers its Burning Bowl Service on Dec. 30 at 11 Community, 1147 East Grand Ave. Suite 101, REFUGE RECOVERY Refuge Recovery is a non- a.m. Guests are welcome to offer to the fire any attitudes or behaviors that didn’t serve Arroyo Grande, lila.community. theistic, Buddhist-inspired approach to treating them well in 2018. The church is located at 1165 Stubblefield Road, Orcutt. More info: SLO COUNTY PUGS ON THE BEACH Socially and recovering from addictions of all kinds. Open unitysantamaria.net. friendly dogs and their humans are invited to to people of all backgrounds and respectful of run (leash free) in the surf sand at Olde all recovery paths. Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m. Port Beach (Avila Dog Beach). Last Free; donations welcome. The Haven provided. Fridays, 10-11:30 a.m. through Jan. 25 SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS Free. 805-547-7025 x2214. Wilshire Community Sunday of every month, 2-3 p.m. Free. (classroom), 621 E Grand Ave, Arroyo ORCUTT FARMERS MARKET Presents local Grande, 805-202-3440. Services, 285 South St. Suite J, San Luis Obispo, aggbchamber.com. Olde Port Beach, farmers and small businesses. Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-1 wilshirecommunityservices.org. 6520 Avila Beach Dr., Avila Beach. SUNDAY FOR SPIRIT PSYCHIC p.m. Orcutt Farmers Market, Bradley Road, Orcutt. READINGS Features an assortment CASA INFO SESSION Learn about volunteer WINTER BREAK CAMP Marine SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY science activities include aquarium of psychic readers. Sundays, 1-5 opportunities at CASA of SLO County. Become an tours, animal feedings, squid p.m. Vaires. 805-489-2432. Halcyon advocate for an abused or neglected infant, toddler, ARROYO GRANDE FARMERS MARKET Includes DEC. 27, 2018 dissection, marine mammal lessons, — Store Post Office, 936 S. Halcyon Rd., child or teen, or a mentor for a young adult leaving produce, artists and musicians. Saturdays, 12-2:25 plankton lessons, and more. Jan. 2-5, JAN. 3, 2019 Arroyo Grande. foster care. Training provided. Please RSVP. Jan. 3, p.m. Arroyo Grande Farmers Market, Olohan Alley, 1-2 p.m. 805-541-6542. slocasa.org. CASA of San Arroyo Grande. 9 a.m. $40-$60. 805-595-7280. Central YOUTH SERVICES The City Church Luis Obispo County, 75 Higuera St., Suite 180, San Coast Aquarium, 50 San Juan St., Avila Beach, Central Coast holds youth services for junior Luis Obispo. NIPOMO FARMERS MARKET Includes a centralcoastaquarium.org. high school students. Mondays, 6:30 p.m. Free. large variety of locally grown produce. Open 805-929-8990. thecitycc.org. Faith Life Community FELINE NETWORK OF THE CENTRAL COAST year round Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. SPIRITUAL Church, 726 W Tefft St, Nipomo. Seeking volunteers to provide foster homes for nipomofarmersmarket.com/. Nipomo Farmers foster kittens or cats with special needs. The Feline Market, Via Concha Road, Nipomo. Network pays for food, litter, and any medications SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS VOLUNTEERS needed. Volunteers also needed to help with SAN LUIS OBISPO FREE WOMEN’S EXERCISE CLASS Open to all humanely trapping and transporting feral cats for FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market in SLO is the SAN LUIS OBISPO women regardless of denomination. Class includes spay/neuter. ongoing 805-549-9228. felinenetwork. largest Farmers Market in California. Thursdays, 6:10- stretching, aerobics, and floor exercises while ADOPT A GRANDPARENT Connect with older org. San Luis Obispo, Citywide, SLO. 9 p.m. Downtown SLO, Higuera St., San Luis Obispo. listening to uplifting, spiritual music. Free childcare adults that need a little extra help. Tasks include HOSPICE SLO COUNTY THRESHOLD SINGERS offered on site. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, SLO FARMERS MARKET Hosts over 60 vendors. baking, driving, errands, friendly visits, pet walking, SEEK NEW VOICES Sing for individuals 9-10 a.m. Free. 805-922-1919. cornerstonesm.org. Saturdays, 8-10:45 a.m. World Market Parking Lot, reading, games, and more. RSVP required. Please experiencing life-limiting or end-of life conditions. Cornerstone Church, 1026 E Sierra Madre Ave., 2650 Main St., San Luis Obispo. contact to set up an orientation. Fridays, 10-11 First Sunday of every month, 2-4 p.m. Free. 805- Santa Maria. a.m. and Mondays, 10-11 a.m. through Jan. 28 544-2266. hospiceslo.org/services/hospice-slo- Free. 805-547-7025 x 2214. Wilshire Community HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICES Join county-threshold-singers. Hospice SLO County, EVENTS Services, 285 South St. Suite J, San Luis Obispo, Hope Community Church for Sunday morning and 1304 Pacific St., San Luis Obispo. wilshirecommunityservices.org. Wednesday night services. Children care provided HOSPICE SLO COUNTY VOLUNTEER SAN LUIS OBISPO for infants and children under 4. Sundays, 10:30 CARDS FOR SENIORS Looking for volunteers TRAINING Preregistration required. In-Home THE BLACK GLASS CHALLENGE AT CROMA a.m. and Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. Free. 805-922- who would enjoy creating handmade cards for Volunteers assist individuals with a life-limiting VERA Test your blind tasting skills. Winners get 2043. hopesm.com. Hope Community Church, isolated older adults. All materials and tools illness and their families by providing caregiver their names listed on the front board and posted to FILE PHOTO respite, practical assistance, emotional support, social media. Fridays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. $12. 805-946- companionship, and comfort. Thursdays, 1-6 p.m. 1685. cromavera.com/events/. Croma Vera Wines, Free. 805-544-2266. hospiceslo.org/workshops. 3592 Broad St., Ste. 106, San Luis Obispo. Hospice SLO County, 1304 Pacific St., San Luis FRIDAY NIGHT PINT NIGHT Buy logo glass for Obispo. $8 and bring it in every Friday for $2 off refills. MEALS ON WHEELS Meals on Wheels, San Luis Wine offered at happy hour pricing. Fridays, 4-10 Obispo, needs noon time drivers. Must have own p.m. Free. 805-868-7133. 7sistersbrewing.com/ car to deliver prepared meals. Mondays-Fridays, events-page. 7Sisters Brewing Company, 181 Tank 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 805-235-8870. San Luis Obispo, Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo. Citywide, SLO. GEEKS WHO DRINK PUB QUIZ 8 rounds of SLO REP SEEKING VOLUNTEER BARTENDERS audio, visual, and live hosted trivia with prizes. Must be 21 or over. All volunteers receive Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. 805-868-7133. complimentary tickets. Email [email protected] 7SistersBrewing.com. 7Sisters Brewing Company, for more info. ongoing slorep.org. San Luis Obispo 181 Tank Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo. Repertory Theatre, 888 Morro St., San Luis Obispo, 805-786-2440. TASTE OF SLO: WALKING FOOD TOUR Visit five different destinations in downtown SLO per tour. All food and drinks are included. Mondays, Saturdays, 1-4 p.m. through Sept. 5 $85. 320-420-9853. FOOD & DRINK tasteofslowalkingfoodtour.com. Downtown SLO, Higuera St., San Luis Obispo. FARMERS MARKETS TRIVIA Hosted by Brain Stew Trivia. German food from Beda’s Biergarden available 6 to 8 p.m. LOMPOC/VANDENBERG Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. Bang The Drum Brewery, LOMPOC FARMERS MARKET Features fresh 950 Orcutt Road, San Luis Obispo, 242-8372, fruit and vegetables, flowers, entertainment, and bangthedrumbrewery.com/. activities for the whole family. Fridays, 2-6 p.m. WINE TASTING AT CROMA VERA Wines also Lompoc Farmers Market, Ocean Avenue and I FINAL COUNTDOWN available by the glass and bottle. Club members Street, Lompoc. The Maverick Saloon hosts its New Year’s Eve Party on Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. The event features enjoy special pricing and exclusive benefits. party favors, dancing, live music from Pull The Trigger, a midnight champagne toast, and VANDENBERG VILLAGE FARMERS MARKET Mondays, Thursdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. and more. Tickets are $10 and available at my805tix.com. The Maverick Saloon is located at Locally grown produce and food stuffs are available year Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 1-6 p.m. $12. 805-946- 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. More info: (805) 686-4785 or themavsaloon.com. round. Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Vandenberg Village 1685. cromavera.com/tastingroom/. Croma Vera Farmers’ Market, 120 Burton Mesa Blvd., Lompoc. Wines, 3592 Broad St., Ste. 106, San Luis Obispo. 

34 • Sun • December 27 - January 3, 2019 • www.santamariasun.com DJ/DANCE 37 | KARAOKE/OPEN MIC 37 LOCAL NOTES PHOTO COURTESY OF RON COLONE FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF SANTA MARIA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF CARLENE CARTER Creative 35 crescendo ‘OUTSIDE VOICE’: The organizers of the Tales Central Coast musicians performed from the Tavern concert series, siblings Ron and AMY ASTOUNDING: The Santa Maria Philharmonic Carole Ann Colone, started an all-day outdoor Orchestra welcomed 17-year-old violinist Amy Sze more songs at more venues music event this year—the Ya Ya Festival. The to perform Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto in D GOODBYE TO THE VALLEY: The Santa Ynez new event happened on Sept. 22 at the Solvang Major,” a monster of a piece in violin literature, on Valley said goodbye to a longtime resident and for more listeners in 2018 Festival Theater and featured some of the concert Sept. 29 this year. Sze grew up on the Central Coast country music legend Carlene Carter, daughter series’ favorite performers, including Steve Poltz studying music before moving to Santa Monica to of June Carter Cash by her husband before BY JOE PAYNE (pictured), Michael on Fire, and Dave Alvin. “Tales attend the prestigious Colburn School. The virtuosic Johnny Cash, earlier this year. Carter performed ometimes, getting through the year is only from the Tavern is such a quiet, intimate listening youth studied privately when she was much younger a special solo show to say her own goodbyes on as good as the soundtrack you have playing. concert,” Ron Colone said. “Ya Ya Festival is Tales with Philharmonic Orchestra member Grace Seng, March 24 at Standing Sun Wines in Buellton, SThankfully, the Central Coast is home to a from the Tavern trying out its outside voice.” so joining the ensemble as a paid soloist was a milestone for the rising star. “I feel really thankful demonstrating her masterful “Carter Scratch” variety of skilled and talented musicians who set the FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVE HILSTEIN guitar technique. Carter said she was moving tone for 2018. for all of those people who are mentoring me that back to her home state of Tennessee to be There were competitions, awards, new albums, now they are playing with me,” Sze said. “It’s kind of closer to her grandchildren, but said that Santa milestone performances, and more venues at which to enjoy live music. And weird, but it’s amazing to think of this happening.” Ynez would always have a place in her heart. there are more musicians with more songs filling those venues. The growing IMAGE COURTESY OF DULCIE TAYLOR “I’ve loved every minute of being in this valley,” music scene inspired the Sun to start an entire Music section this year, she told the Sun. showcasing the local and traveling talent that provided the soundtrack for 2018. FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF NBC’S THE VOICE Before you tune up the guitar for 2019, enjoy this incomplete selection of some notable musical events from 2018. ❍ FILE PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM SAYING GOODBYE: Family, friends, and fans of Nipomo musician Andrew Rubin gathered to celebrate his life in June, more than a month after he passed away from a drug overdose in April. A prolific improvisor and skilled composer, Rubin was known for his love for music and the guidance SWEET SOUNDS: Local singer/songwriter Dulcie he gave younger musicians as a teacher at Music Taylor released a new album this year, Better Part Motive in Nipomo and Arroyo Grande. “Andrew was of Me, which blends her soulful and smoky South gracious enough to share his immense talent with Carolina voice with ringing acoustic guitars and my daughter,” a mother wrote to his tribute page on clean electric leads. Pulling on a wide team of skilled the Lady Family Mortuary website. “We are forever local collaborators, Taylor continues to produce and indebted to him for teaching her guitar. We send our perform her unique country/folk-influenced music, PRYOR’S CONVICTIONS: Orcutt native Pryor heartfelt condolences to the family.” which is definitely easy to listen to. Baird blew aways locals and the judges on FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF CERTAIN SPARKS YOUTUBE CHANNEL NBC’s The Voice after his first audition landed him on the show. Baird competed for several weeks with his bluesy, soulful sound, but was eventually voted off the show in May. Baird chose to join judge Blake Shelton’s team once he entered the show because of Shelton’s similar musical background, Baird told the Sun during the height of competition. “I think Blake and I have kindred spirits. … We’ve grown up hunting and fishing and being outside and DID IT ALL FOR THE NEWTIE: The Sun and New Times hosted the 10th annual New Times enjoying the outdoors, an being a musician Music Awards on Nov. 2, welcoming singers/songwriters, bands, rappers, and composers that has played the honky-tonks, has played to receive the coveted bronze Newtie awards. Musicians from across the Central Coast the divey bars, has toured in a pickup truck, RAISING MONEY FOR MUSIC: Lompoc saw a new musical nonprofit form in 2018, the Certain Sparks Music submitted recordings in various categories, and competed live at the event for the Best and stayed in really bad hotel rooms.” Baird Foundation, spurred by Randall Sena, owner of Certain Sparks Music store and studio. Sena began the Live Performance award. The Cimo Brothers took the honors, and also won best song in returned to the Central Coast from Nashville for nonprofit to help pay for music lessons for locals who couldn’t otherwise afford them and started fundraising the Country/Folk/Americana genre. Pictured: Brass Mash, the horn ensemble that won several performances where he was met with with a concert on Feb. 9. The funds helped youth attend lessons and group camps, like the shop’s Build-A- second place in the Open category and performed at the celebration at the Fremont enthusiasm and support from local fans. Band summer camp (pictured), which allowed students to play together in a large group. Theater in Downtown San Luis Obispo. LIVE MUSIC continued page 36

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MUSIC from page 35 FILE PHOTO BY JOE PAYNE FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF RED LIGHT MANAGEMENT MOUNTAINSIDE BLUES: This music writer MASTER OF SLIDE: Presqu’ile made his first (long overdue) visit to Cold Winery continued to bring Spring Tavern off Highway 154 near the top world-class touring acts to Santa of the San Marcos Pass this year, where live Maria to perform at their outdoor music, tri-tip sandwiches, and cold beer are amphitheater. One such show the weekend tradition. One group that’s a featured Robert Randolph & The fixture at Cold Spring is the famed blues duo Family Band on May 12, which Tom Ball (pictured left) and Kenny Sultan featured Randolph’s ripping pedal (center) from Santa Barbara, who perform in steel guitar style front and center 36 front of the historic tavern on most Sundays while his cousins backed him up in from 1:15 to 4 p.m. with bandmates Jody the band. “Whenever you get to go Eulitz and Tom Lee. Ball and Sultan have to California, go all over and visit played together since the 1970s, and Cold the wineries, it’s always a great Spring has always been a favorite venue. musical crowd there,” he told the “It’s kind of like home,” Sultan told the Sun. Sun. “Great music fans, people that “They like us up there, they don’t want things are into different cultures of music, to change. They want people to come up with all different styles of music. So, it’s their kids and have it the way it was.” really a cool thing.”

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The Good SEAN WIGGINS LIVE Food Life, 1672 Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-7111. SOUL’D OUT LIVE Dec. 29, 9 p.m. Harry’s Night and drinks available for THE BOOGIE KNIGHTS AND THE Club And Beach Bar, 690 Cypress St., Pismo purchase. No outside food Beach, 805-773-1010, harryspismobeach.com. SPAZMATICS LIVE Performing during the or drinks allowed. Dec. 29, casino’s New Year’s Eve Dance Party. For ages 21 1-4 p.m. Free. Cold Spring SOUNDHOUSE LIVE Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. Harry’s and over. Dec. 31, 9 p.m. Free. Chumash Casino Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Night Club And Beach Bar, 690 Cypress St., Pismo Resort, 3400 E. Highway 246, Santa Ynez, 800- Beach, 805-773-1010, harryspismobeach.com. Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967- 248-6274, chumashcasino.com/entertainment. 0066, coldspringtavern.com/ STEPPIN’ OUT LIVE Dec. 28, 9 p.m. Harry’s CRAFTED: LIVE MUSIC SERIES Features artists entertainment.html. Night Club And Beach Bar, 690 Cypress St., Pismo from all genres of music. 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No outside More info: (800) 248-6274 or chumashcasino.com. ’60S ROCK AND SOUL NEW YEAR’S EVE Santa Ynez, 805-686-4785, food or drinks allowed. Dec. 28, 6-9 p.m. Free. BASH Featuring Unfinished Business, with special mavericksaloon.org. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa guest Roy Henry. Dec. 31, 6 p.m. 805-549-0800. Barbara, 805-967-0066, coldspringtavern.com/ TOM BALL AND KENNY SULTAN LIVE Enjoy SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS Embassy Suites, 333 Madonna Rd., San Luis Obispo. entertainment.html. a blend of guitar and harmonica blues, and rags, KEITH COX LIVE Soloist. Dec. 31, 7-10 p.m. and THE ENGLISH BEAT LIVE Dec. 31, 9 p.m. Varies. THE DYLAN ORTEGA BAND As part of KRAZy and good time music. Food and drinks available Jan. 4, 7-10 p.m. Blast 825, 241 S Broadway St., Ste. The Fremont Theater, 1035 Monterey St., San Luis Country Honky-Tonk Thursday. Thursdays, 7 p.m. for purchase. No outside food or drinks allowed. 101, Orcutt, 805-934-3777, rooneysirishpub.net. Obispo, 805-546-8600, fremontslo.com. Sundays, 1:15-4 p.m. Free. Cold Spring Tavern, Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, LIVE MUSIC AT CA’ DEL GREVINO Enjoy live AN EVENING WITH Y & T Dec. 28, 7 p.m. $25. 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967- 805-686-4785, mavericksaloon.org. music from a different band/musician each week. The Fremont Theater, 1035 Monterey St., San Luis 0066, coldspringtavern.com/entertainment.html. FIRST FRIDAY ‘80S NIGHT Featuring the Molly Wednesdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. 805-937-6400. Obispo, 805-546-8600, fremontslo.com. LOMPOC/VANDENBERG facebook.com/cadelgrevino. Ca’ Del Grevino Cafe Ringwald Project. First Friday of every month, THE JAZZ ALLEY REVIEW DEBUT CONCERT 8:30-11:30 p.m. $10 after 8 p.m. Maverick Saloon, and Wine Bar, 400 E. Clark Ave., suite A, Orcutt. SIP MUSIC CLUB Pairing music and local wine A new local band plays its eclectic mix of jazz, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 805-686-4785, with 4 seasonal releases each calendar year. Price LIVE MUSIC AT COSTA DE ORO Enjoy live including works from Horace Silver, Miles Davis, mavericksaloon.org. includes 3 VIP access tickets to each SipMusic music and complimentary appetizers every week. Thelonious Monk, Josef Zawinul, Dizzy Gillespie, Tom Thursdays, Fridays, 5-7 p.m. and Saturdays, 3-5 FLANNEL 101 LIVE A.K.A. Rachel’s Hair ‘90s event, and 1 album and 1 bottle of premium Kubis, and more. Jan. 4, 6-8 p.m. 805-904-8149. p.m. Free. Costa De Oro Winery, 1331 S. Nicholson thejazzalleyreview.com. 7Sisters Brewing Company, cover band. Dec. 28, 8 p.m. Maverick Saloon, wine every 3 months. ongoing $40. Lompoc Wine Ave., Santa Maria, 805-922-1468, cdowinery.com. 181 Tank Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 805-686-4785, Factory, 321 N. D St., Lompoc, 805-243-8398, mavericksaloon.org. lompocwinefactory.com. MICHAEL SHELTON LIVE Dec. 28, 7-10 p.m. and LIVE MUSIC AT MOTHER’S TAVERN HOODLUM FRIENDS LIVE PHOTO COURTESY OF COLD SPRING TAVERN Jan. 5, 7-10 p.m. Complimentary. Blast 825, 241 Fridays, 7:30-10:30 p.m. Free. 805-541-8733. This group performs a blend S Broadway St., Ste. 101, Orcutt, 805-934-3777, motherstavern.com. Mother’s Tavern, 725 Higuera of rock, folk rock, and surf rooneysirishpub.net. St, San Luis Obispo. instrumentals. Food and THE NOACH TANGERAS BAND LIVE Dec. MICHAEL NOWAK AND ORCHESTRA NOVO drinks available for purchase. 31, 10 p.m. and Jan. 5, 10 p.m. Blast 825, 241 PRESENT NEW YEARS EVE GALA 2018 No outside food or drinks S Broadway St., Ste. 101, Orcutt, 805-934-3777, Featuring jazz chanteuse Inga Swearingen, local allowed. Dec. 29, 5-8 p.m. rooneysirishpub.net. songwriter Damon Castillo, saxophonist Dave Free. Cold Spring Tavern, Becker, and pianist Terry Spiller. Opens with RANDY LEDUNE LIVE Dec. 29, 7-10 p.m. 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa “Cirque du Soleil” style aerial silk acrobatics from Complimentary. Blast 825, 241 S Broadway St., Ste. Barbara, 805-967-0066, Levity Academy. Dec. 31, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $25-$90. 101, Orcutt, 805-934-3777, rooneysirishpub.net. coldspringtavern.com/ 805-792-2711. orchestranovo.org/. Performing Arts entertainment.html. STEVE MEYERS LIVE Part of Moxie Cafe’s Center, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo. ongoing, complimentary live music series. Food THE JIMMI NELSON BAND OOKAY LIVE Dec. 30, 8 p.m. $24. The Fremont and drinks available for purchase. Dec. 27, 5:30- LIVE Dec. 29, 8 p.m. Maverick Theater, 1035 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805- 7:30 p.m. Free. Moxie Cafe, 1317 W. McCoy Ln., Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., 546-8600, fremontslo.com. Santa Ynez, 805-686-4785, Santa Maria, 805-361-2900, moxiecafe.com. PINT NITE AND THE JAZZ ALLEY REVIEW The mavericksaloon.org. TOM MUTCHLER LIVE Part of Moxie Cafe’s musical debut of The Jazz Alley Review, a three horn ongoing, complimentary live music series. Food LIVE MUSIC ON THE PATIO jazz band. Genres include contemporary jazz, rock, and drinks available for purchase. Dec. 29, 5:30- Local acts perform every and funk. Jan. 4, 6-8 p.m. Free. 805-868-7133. 7:30 p.m. Moxie Cafe, 1317 W. McCoy Ln., Santa Saturday. Saturdays, 5-8 7SistersBrewing.com. 7Sisters Brewing Company, Maria, 805-361-2900, moxiecafe.com. p.m. Maverick Saloon, 3687 DUDE, WHERE’S MY BAR? 181 Tank Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo. Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 805- Cold Spring Tavern presents the Low Down Dudes on Dec. 30 THE WAVEBREAKERS BAND LIVE Covering PINT NITE WITH MATT NICE AND THE DERLS 686-4785, mavericksaloon.org. popular music of the 1950s to 1980s. Tips appreciated. from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Admission to the concert is free. Food LIVE Matt Nice and the Derls perform orchestral Part of Moxie Cafe’s ongoing, complimentary live music LOW DOWN DUDES LIVE and drinks will be available for purchase. No outside food or psychedelia through violins, electric pianos, and series. Food and drinks available for purchase. Dec. 28, Food and drinks available for drinks are allowed. Cold Spring Tavern is located at 5995 blown out guitar amps. Dec. 28, 6-8 p.m. Free. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. 805-361-2900. moxiecafe.com/. purchase. No outside food or Stagecoach Road, Santa Barbara. More info: (805) 967-0066 or 805-868-7133. 7SistersBrewing.com. 7Sisters Moxie Cafe, 1317 W. McCoy Ln., Santa Maria. drinks allowed. Dec. 30, 4:30- coldspringtavern.com. LIVE MUSIC continued page 37 7:30 p.m. Free. Cold Spring SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY

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LIVE MUSIC from page 36 805-925-2405. ranchobowl.com/nightlife. Rancho Bowl, 128 E Donovan Rd., Santa Maria. Brewing Company, 181 Tank Farm Rd. Suite 110, San Luis Obispo. SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY YNANA ROSE LIVE Join Ynana Rose and friends DJ CAMOTE Thursdays, 5 p.m. Harry’s Night Club to celebrate the release of her new album Tea And Beach Bar, 690 Cypress St., Pismo Beach, Leaf Confessions. Genres include folk, honky-tonk 805-773-1010, harryspismobeach.com. country, gypsy jazz, and Americana. Jan. 4, 6:30- DJ DRUMZ AT MONGO’S Fridays Free. 805-489- 8:30 p.m. 805-541-0657. ynanarose.com. Boo Boo 3639. mongossaloon.com. Mongo’s Saloon, 359 W. Records, 978 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. Grand Ave., Grover Beach. 37 DJ/DANCE KARAOKE/OPEN MIC SANTA YNEZ VALLEY SANTA YNEZ VALLEY KRAZY COUNTRY HONKY-TONK THURSDAY KARAOKE AT SOLVANG BREW Thursdays Free. Thursdays, 6 p.m. Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto Solvang Brewing Company, 1547 Mission Dr., St., Santa Ynez, 805-686-4785, mavericksaloon.org. Solvang, 805-688-2337. LOMPOC/VANDENBERG OPEN MIC NIGHT AT SOLVANG BREW THIRSTY THURSDAYS WITH DJ VEGA Playing Wednesdays Free. Solvang Brewing Company, 1547 today’s and yesterday’s hits. No cover charge. Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-2337. Bring your dancing shoes. Thursdays, 9 p.m.-2:30 a.m. Free. 805-478-3980. DJ’s Saloon, 724 E SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS Ocean Ave., Lompoc. KARAOKE WITH DJ RICARDO Thursdays, SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS 9-11:30 p.m. spotoneventservices.com. Blast 825, 241 S Broadway St., Ste. 101, Orcutt, 805-934-3777. DJ ORLANDO Drinks available for purchase. Dec. 28, 10 p.m. Complimentary. Blast 825, 241 WEDNESDAY NIGHT KARAOKE Guests are S Broadway St., Ste. 101, Orcutt, 805-934-3777, welcome to take the stage and sing. Wednesdays, rooneysirishpub.net. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. 805-863-8292. Louie B’s, 213 E. Main St., Santa Maria. DJ SPARX Drinks available for purchase. Dec. 29, 10 p.m. Complimentary. Blast 825, 241 S SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY Broadway St., Ste. 101, Orcutt, 805-934-3777, FRONT ROW KARAOKE Thursdays, 9 p.m. rooneysirishpub.net. 773-1010. Harry’s Night Club And Beach Bar, 690 HULA DANCING Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. 805-598- Cypress St., Pismo Beach, harryspismobeach.com. 6772. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt. JAWZ KARAOKE Thursdays, 9 p.m. Harry’s Night LINE DANCING Mondays, 6:30-9 p.m. $5. 805-310- Club And Beach Bar, 690 Cypress St., Pismo 1827. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt. Beach, 805-773-1010, harryspismobeach.com. NIGHTLIFE AT RANCHO BOWL Enjoy DJ’s 6 KARAOKE WITH DJ SAM Sundays Mongo’s nights a week in the Rancho Bar and Lounge. For Saloon, 359 W. Grand Ave., Grover Beach, 805- ages 21-and-over. Tuesdays-Sundays, 9 p.m. Free. 489-3639. m

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www.santamariasun.com • December 27 - January 3, 2019 • Sun • 37 PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHAEL COLLINS PHOTOGRAPHY Shining stars Arts on the Central Coast 38 crossed new boundaries in 2018 BY REBECCA ROSE nother year has come and gone, and for the greater Santa Maria Valley and beyond, the arts proved it Astill has a strong foothold in the community. And it was a busy year for local artists. Everything from ballet to poetry to abstract art to photography and stage seemed to ascend to an ever-higher perch, thanks to exposure and a growing population, eager for more. ❍ FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF COAST

MAMMA MIA!: It was impossible to resist the Pacifi c Conservatory Theatre’s (PCPA) production of Mamma Mia! a play that revisited the original hit Broadway musical around the same time Meryl Streep and Cher hit the silver screen for the sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. What better way to say “Thank You For the Music” than with Allison Rich playing Tanya, Melinda Parrett LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! Art on the Central Coast wasn’t all about paintings or musicals. In 2018, groups of fi lmmakers as Donna Sheridan, and Kitty Balay as Rose, making up reunited girl group Donna and the Dynamos. Molly Dobbs as Sophie made began popping up throughout Lompoc, Santa Maria, Solvang, and other areas, looking for a less restrictive and more affordable a huge mark on the local theater scene with her singing skills, and the comedy stylings of Eric Stein, Tim Fullerton, and Michael environment than traditional locales such as Los Angeles. Filmmakers like Cindy Kilagawa left LA and returned to their hometown Tremblay nailed it as the men who may (or may not be) her father. This was exactly what we want from a PCPA musical: big roots to make independent features and shorts, including Coast, which was shot in Santa Maria. numbers and big songs performed with boisterous enthusiasm.

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LADIES FIRST: Women took center stage in 2018 in many ways, and in the 30 YEARS AND STILL GOING STRONG: The Elverhoj’s Museum of Art and local art world, the women who make up the Rose-Compass art collective— History’s 30-year retrospective pulled off the seemingly impossible. Guided Connie Connally, Holli Harmon, Libby Smith, Nicole Strasburg, Nina Warner, by the vision of Executive Director Esther Jacobsen Bates, the Elverhoj’s and Pamela Zwehl-Burke—were a big part of the scene. Their show, A retrospective managed to not only showcase its historical roots but highlight River’s Journey, at the Wildling Museum of Nature and Art delivered more RELAX, DON’T DO IT: Gallery Los Olivos kicked off the year in January with Tranquility, a the museum’s bold and innovative vision for local arts in the future. The work than just a spectacle of talented painters. It was a blistering look at an multimedia show that featured work by some of the gallery’s popular members. Artists, of a younger generation of local artists, such as Luis Ramirez (work pictured), environmental crisis in California, as the women each told the story of the photographers, and sculptors such as Paul Roark, Terri Taber, Carrie Givens, Deborah featured side by side with the masters who inspired them conveyed a strong Santa Ynez watershed, often pushed to its breaking point after fi res and Breedon, and more pushed beyond the traditional elements of the Los Olivos art gallery sense of unity in an arts community where non-traditional artists can development took its toll. It was art that told the powerful story, portrayed scene to showcase abstract and impressionist work, which raised the bar for the rest of sometimes feel left out. History may have passed us by, the exhibit reminded, by some of the region’s most important artists. the year’s shows. but art is still moving forward. ARTS continued page 39

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HE’S THE MAN: If there’s one person whose performance on stage this year made an indelible impression, it’s Craig Scott. Scott, (who popped up in the Santa Maria Civic Theatre’s 2017 production of Young Frankenstein) made a dramatic scene-stealing turn as Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond. The Lompoc Civic Theatre’s production of the classic play was captivating, but it was Scott who breathed new life into a familiar role, starring alongside Josephine Grande as his long- suffering but truly beloved wife, Ethel.

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THE FACE OF WAR: This is a PCPA show that still haunts Instrument repairs me to this day. Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s jarring retelling of Homer’s classic, The Illiad, through one woman. Gift certifi cates available Tarah Flanagan, with little more than a ladder, sand, and a for lessons and instruments broom, re-created the most brutal moments of the Trojan War GETTING SCHOOLED: Art students, including those at Allan in a devastating performance that asked questions about CHRISTMAS SUPER SALE Hancock College’s annual Student Art Show, proved they war, violence, misogyny, brotherhood, and the often unseen were ready for a bigger audience in 2018. Painters such as slivers of human compassion that give our brutal world hope. INSTRUMENT PRICES Linda Metaxas (work pictured) and photographers such as In the classic words of Lady Gaga, it was “talented, brilliant, SLASHED! Evan Ross showcased their impressive talents at the Ann incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the Foxworthy Gallery in work that was oftentimes understated, same, totally unique.” visionary, and highly introspective. 325 E. Betteravia Road Suite B-4, Santa Maria · (805) 925-0464 facebook.com/coelhomusic1 · [email protected] · coelhomusic.com ARTS continued page 40

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I’LL FLY AWAY: With so few venues for public art in Santa Maria, it’s hard to overstate the importance of the ongoing display at the Santa Maria Public Airport. Valley Art Gallery in Orcutt curates a unique and diverse show every two months, including new artists in the community as well as established favorites. It’s free and it’s fun; everyone should make it a part of their regular viewing routine.

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BOOK MARKED: One of the boldest and most innovative exhibits in 2018 was the stunning Reopening the Book, which ran at the ART FOR EVERYONE: There was one show that stood out among all others for its celebration of the power art has to truly impact Elverhoj Museum of Art and History from February to April. The exhibit showed what artists do best—take a common object or and change lives. The annual stART Art Show, featuring artists from Vocational Training Center (VTC) and hosted by CORE Winery idea and turn it on its head to tell a broader story about humanity and society at large. Dozens of pieces from an eclectic array of in Orcutt, featured some of the most captivating and fun art this year. The community turned out in droves, snapping up all of the artists including Mary Price, Jill Littlewood, William Davies King, Linda Eckstrom, and Bonnie Thompson Norman and many more artwork in an enthusiastic show of support. overflowed the Elverhoj gallery, in a kinetic celebration of art, books, and the people who love them.

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BLACK AND WHITE AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN: One of the most stunning and simple exhibits to grace the Central Coast FEED ME, SEYMOUR! The Santa Maria Civic Theatre continued to prove that it’s more than just the Little Theater That Could—it’s was courtesy of Harold Ramsden. The longtime Santa Maria-based photographer trained his patient eye on a number of subjects, a magnet for powerhouse talent, manned by a group of dedicated theater disciples who give each performance as though they are on including the natural world surrounding him. While many photographers and painters use landscape as their subject matter, Broadway. In 2017, I sang the praises of Hairspray, and this year they outdid themselves with Little Shop of Horrors, a production that Ramsden’s unique ability to tell a broader, often darker, story about his subjects set him apart in a sea of formidable competition. brought laughs and huge voices to classic numbers. They evolved a lot in 2018, and it’s exciting to watch where they go next.

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SUN SCREEN PHOTOS COURTESY OF WALT DISNEY PICTURES Michael and his sister, Jane, frantically search Film Reviews for a missing stock certificate while the bank Instant classic! president, William “Weatherall” Wilkins (Colin Editor’s note: Due to our early holiday deadline, none of Firth), pays Michael and Jane lip service about the theaters were able to supply current listings. Below ob Marshall (Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha, wanting to help them but is actually conniving are synopses and reviews of films currently released. Pirates of the Caribbean: One Stranger Tides, behind their backs to steal their family home. Theaters listed may be incorrect. Into the Woods) directs this sequel to the R Like the original, the film mixes live action 1964 classic about a magical nanny who helps 41 with animation. There are a lot of spectacular AQUAMAN two neglected children reconnect with their father. song and dance sequences, my favorite being What’s it rated? PG-13 This time around, Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) a big number with a troupe of lamplighters Where’s it showing? Hi-Way Drive-In, Movies Lompoc, returns to the Banks family children who are now riding bikes and dancing to “Trip a Little Light Parks Plaza adults. Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) lives with James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring, Furious 7) directs the story Fantastic,” one of 10 terrific original songs in of Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa), who becomes Aquaman when his three children—Anabel (Pixie Davies), John the film written by Marc Shaiman and Scott he discovers he’s heir to the underwater kingdom, Atlantis. (Nathanael Saleh), Georgie (Joel Dawson)— Wittman. Color me surprised and impressed! Can he rise to the role, lead his people, and save the world? Is and their housekeeper, Ellen (Julie Walters), Anna: I’m so incredibly happy that this film this a comic book movie? Yes and yes! (143 min.) in the same house on Cherry Tree Lane. With —Glen Starkey did its predecessor justice and brought its own STILL MAGIC: Emily Blunt stars as Mary Poppins, a magical encouragement by Michael’s sister, Jane (Emily flair to the big screen as well. Poppins is an nanny who comes to help the troubled Banks family. Mortimer), and the help of lamplighter, Jack iconic character, and I can’t help but picture BUMBLEBEE (Lin-Manuel Miranda), Mary helps the new set of Julie Andrews when I hear the name, but Emily into the hearts of the Banks children as well as What’s it rated? PG-13 Banks children find the joy in life. (130 min.) Blunt is just as charming and perfectly posed spinster Jane Banks. Meryl Streep pops up for a Where’s it showing? Movies Lompoc as the practically-perfect-in-every-way nanny. great cameo as Cousin Topsy, who teaches the kids Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) directs this new Equally iconic is Dick Van Dyke’s chimney installment into the Transformers franchise. It’s 1987, and a Glen: I’m happy to report that this sequel—54 to see life from more than one angle. I also loved broken and battle-weary Bumblebee (voiced by Dylan O’Brien) years after the original!—is sweep character Bert, taken the last-minute cameo by the original’s costar, is hiding in a junkyard when he’s discovered by Charlie (Hailee just as wonderful and magical over in Mary Poppins Returns Van Dyke, who might be 93-years-old but can still Steinfeld), a teen looking for her first car. Together, they’ll as the first one. Rob Marshall MARY POPPINS RETURNS by Miranda’s Jack, a sweet dance and sing and shoot twinkles out of his eyes. team up in this sci-fi action adventure. (113 min.) What’s it rated? PG and silly tagalong to all of The always-welcome Angela Lansbury also shows —Glen Starkey and company have truly done the original justice. The story, What’s it worth, Anna? Full price the adventures Poppins and up at the end as the Balloon Lady. This film is a What’s it worth, Glen? Full price the music, the acting, the the Banks children embark nostalgia-fest for parents and an introduction to a Where’s it showing? Movies Lompoc, on. The soundtrack is really DESTROYER cinematography, the special new world of wonder for kids. If I had some little Parks Plaza dynamic, from big and bold What’s it rated? R effects, and the direction are all ones, I’d take them straight to the theater to see to quiet and tender; the songs When’s it showing? Opening Dec. 25 superb! With his beloved wife this film and then straight to the record store to Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer’s Body) directs had me laughing then tearful dead and his finances in a shambles, Michael buy the soundtrack. Mary Poppins Returns is an NEW this crime drama about police detective Erin from one minute to the next. I was a bit nervous instant classic! Bell (Nicole Kidman), whose earlier undercover assignment Banks is adrift. The cupboard is nearly bare, about this one as the original Mary Poppins comes back to haunt her. (120 min.) and his house is being foreclosed on by the Anna: The cameos were a lot of fun. I always is near and dear to me. I watched it pretty appreciate a “kids” movie that pulls off being —Glen Starkey same bank he works for, which his father helped obsessively as a child (and, honestly, as a stoned genuinely enjoyable for adults too, and this found. If a family ever needed a magical nanny, teenager—those animation scenes are crazy!). one hits that sweet spot dead on. At no point this one does. The film focuses on the Banks HOLMES & WATSON I trusted Blunt to be spectacular in all she does, was I bored—the sensory feast for the eyes What’s it rated? R children learning important lessons about using and she doesn’t disappoint. Magic is in the and ears flew by and left me both satisfied and When’s it showing? Opening Dec. 25 their imaginations, accepting loss, and being air, and when Mary Poppins comes to call you wanting more. One of the animated scenes was Writer-director Etan Cohen (Get Hard) helms this brave. Meanwhile, in an effort to save his house, know things are going to work out just fine, NEW comedic crime adventure about Sir Arthur Conan particularly fun. The children and Poppins Doyle’s classic detective character, Sherlock Holmes (Will Ferrell), and once again it does. I’ll be venture into the world of a cracked bowl after and his sidekick, Doctor Watson (John C. Reilly). (132 min.) re-watching this one. It was too a mishap to help the painted characters repair —Glen Starkey much fun to view just once. the damage. What follows is a raucous ride, an Glen: I thought Blunt was over-the-top cabaret, and a nasty wolf whose perfect, and she’s got a lovely MARY POPPINS RETURNS wily ways teach the Banks children the truth voice to boot. She certainly behind the phrase, “Don’t judge a book by its What’s it rated? PG takes cues from Julie Andrews’ What’s it worth? Full price cover.” From the out-of-this-world colors, to Where’s it showing? Movies Lompoc, Parks Plaza performance. After all, it’s the nostalgic similarities to the prior film, it all See Sun Screen. supposed to be the same just works. I loved Streep’s character, Topsy, as character. I was also wowed by well, and the musical number that accompanies FILM REVIEWS continued page 42 Miranda, who I only know of the scene is fantastic. This movie is just a ton of from his Broadway musical, fun—showy yet sentimental, sweet, and silly. SCORING Hamilton. I can see from his Get to the theater and bring the kids along— FULL PRICE ...It’s worth the full price of an evening showing résumé that he’s done a few this one is meant for everyone!  MATINEE ...... Save a few bucks, catch an afternoon showing films and a lot of TV, but this RENT IT ...... It’s worth a rental INCREDULOUS: The Banks children—(left to right) John (Nathanael Saleh), Anabel role is definitely his star turn. Sun Screen is written by New Times Senior STREAM IT .....Wait ’til Netflix has it (Pixie Davies), and Georgie (Joel Dawson)—don’t think they need a nanny but quickly He adopts a cockney accent Staff Writer Glen Starkey and his wife, Anna. NOTHING ...... Don’t waste your time learn otherwise. and sings and dances his way Comment at [email protected].

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FILM REVIEWS from page 41 Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman SCHITT’S CREEK Eugene’s real-life son)—have never had PICK co-direct this animated action adventure co-written to work a day in their lives. by Phil Lord and co-produced by Christopher Miller (the duo When? 2015-present MORTAL ENGINES Suddenly they find themselves living in best known for directing The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street). What’s it rated? TV-14 two adjacent rooms in a dingy motel, feeling What’s it rated? PG-13 What’s it worth? Matinee Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) becomes the Spider- Where’s it available? Netfl ix, Amazon at odds with their unsophisticated neighbors I find the interplay between the various Where’s it showing? Movies Lompoc Man of his version of reality, then crosses into a parallel Prime, YouTube such as town namesake and mayor Roland characters engaging, and the dynamics Christian Rivers (Minutes Past Midnight) directs Hera universe where he teams with other realities’ Spider-Men and a Schitt (Chris Elliott); his wife, Jocelyn hink of Schitt’s Creek as an inverted among this once wealthy family explore the Hilmar as Hester Shaw, a mysterious woman living Spider-Woman to stop a an evil that threatens all realities. (Jennifer Robertson); motel manager Stevie PICK Beverly Hillbillies. Instead of poor importance of togetherness and support. on a mobile industrial city seeking revenge for her murdered Superhero team-ups are most satisfying when the juggling people striking it rich and loading (Emily Hampshire); and town veterinarian T Moira and Johnny are a team, but Moira’s mother. Co-producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh bring Philip of characters is completely undetectable. The audience up the truck to move to Beverly Hills, Ted Mullins (Dustin Milligan). shouldn’t be thinking about which character’s turn it is in the 42 pretentiousness often overwhelms Johnny. Reeve’s young adult novel, Mortal Engines, to life—set in a the rich Rose family loses it all and is Dan Levy conceived of the premise spotlight, rather why the characters work so well together. For Alexis and David are frequently at odds, in distant future where mobile cities hunt smaller engine-running forced to retreat to their sole remaining while watching reality TV, wondering, for example, what is it that makes Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir (a part because Alexis is completely obtuse. towns and dismantle those they catch for raw materials. asset, a tiny town called Schitt’s Creek, instance, what the Kardashians would gritty, 1940s private investigator version of Spider-Man) and They’re fun to laugh at—rich people What this film lacks in intertwining storylines it makes up which they’d bought years ago as a joke be like if they suddenly found themselves for in action-packed and in-your-face sequences. Don’t let the John Mulaney’s Spider-Ham (an anthropomorphic pig whose birthday gift for their son. poor. He enlisted his father, Eugene, getting their just deserts! But you also secret identity is Peter Porker) such a perfect pair? come to like them because, deep down, Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and King Kong) Patriarch Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy) who came up with the show’s title, and name across the top of the movie poster fool you—this film Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse pulls this off but also they’re decent human beings. was a video store magnate defrauded together they’re the co-creators and lacks his magic touch and fluid storytelling that we see in his picks the right point-of-view through which to watch the story Eugene Levy is a comedy pro, having by his business manager. His vapid executive producers. Overall, the tone previous work. unfold: Miles Morales, a teenager who gets spidey powers socialite wife, Moira (Catherine O’Hara), is relentlessly droll, and while I’m loving appeared in classics such as Best in As most futuristic stories begin, a narrator recounts the after being bit by a genetically altered spider while tagging was a former soap opera actress who this show thanks to its brisk 22-minute Show, American Pie, and A Mighty Wind. story of the earth and how “the ancients” destroyed it in only an abandoned subway station. Morales returns to the station revels in her past. Their pampered episodes and clever banter, it definitely His son, Dan, has definitely inherited 60 minutes with destructive technology. In case you were later to investigate, only to uncover a plot concocted by crime adult children—vacant Alexis (Annie doesn’t connect with all viewers and his father’s comedic timing … and wondering, the ancients are the present population—yeah, lord Wilson Fisk—aka Kingpin (voiced by Liev Schreiber)—to Murphy) and pansexual David (Dan Levy, reviewers, many of whom have panned it. eyebrows! The father and son are pretty you heard me, you out there reading this review are part of the collide dimensions in order to access parallel universes, but at PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION fun together. The real standout of the ancients’ population. a deadly cost. show, however, is O’Hara, who’s costarred Anyway, in order to survive with whatever resources are What a time it is to be alive for superhero fans. (117 min.) with Levy in a number of films. Their left, cities and towns have been built on top of engines so they —Caleb Wiseblood chemistry together is amazing, and her can freely roam the muddy terrain in constant search. Cities subtle facial expressions are remarkable. that are obviously inhabited by the upper class prey on smaller She’s a terrific actor. towns and literally swallow them up and search them for scrap VICE Chris Elliott as the bumbling mayor technology to continue leading their somewhat successful What’s it rated? R is also good for a lot of laughs. Roland lives. It’s very Hunger Games-esque, as the screen closes in When’s it showing? Opening Dec. 25 means well, but can’t seem to do much on London’s population, cheering and applauding as their city Writer-director Adam McKay (Anchorman: The Legend right. Yes, this is broad comedy, but it’s swallows up a town. NEW of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of genuinely funny! Overall, the film is fun to see in theaters but don’t expect Ricky Bobby, Step Brothers) helms this biopic dramedy about It’s not, however, especially deep, but much in terms of storyline. (129 min.) Washington, D.C., bureaucratic insider Dick Cheney (Christian if you’re looking for some lighthearted —Karen Garcia Bale), who became George W. Bush’s (Sam Rockwell) vice fun, quality acting, zippy storylines, and president, using his power to reshape the U.S. and its foreign FISH OUT OF WATER The formerly wealthy Rose family—(left to right) mother a character named Roland Schitt (Get it? policy. (132 min.) ❍ Moira (Catherine O’Hara), father Johnny (Eugene Levy), and kids Alexis (Annie Roll in shit?), check out Schitt’s Creek. SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE —Glen Starkey Murphy) and David (Dan Levy)—fi nd themselves living in a backwater town, in (four seasons, 22 min. episodes)  What’s it rated? PG the Canadian sitcom Schitt’s Creek. —Glen Starkey What’s it worth? 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HIT THE ROAD: We celebrated food trucks in Santa Maria and beyond at a time when local governments struggled to make them fi t into the already booming local food industry. Popular local trucks included Cubanissimo (which celebrated a year in business at their brick- and-mortar restaurant in 2018), Crave, Taco Tichitas (run by always charming and endearing Rosa Lopez), and Lidos. Pictured: Lidos’ Alisa Urquhart, left, and Steve Dewing make philly cheese steaks in May in Santa Maria.

FILE PHOTO BY REBECCA ROSE THE LEMON DUDE: Food writing brings you close to a lot of incredible stories, and for me this year, none was more heart- wrenching than the indomitability of the Sanregret family. Grant and Jen are owners of the bright yellow lemon in Los Olivos, home of Los Olivos Lemons, which serves up fresh batches of lemonade, including fl avored varieties such SONNE LA CLOCHE: One of the hardest moments led to one of as jalapeño, lavender, blueberry, the best surprises in the Central Coast food scene. When Jamie and more. But they are also parents Gluck and John Wentworth shuttered Bell Street Farms, locals to son Vance, who has cystic SHE’S BACK: I breathed a massive sigh of relief when Chef Crystal and fans from as far as San Francisco and Los Angeles were left fi brosis. Their story was more than “Pink” DeLongpre announced she would be taking over the kitchen at heartbroken by the exit of a Los Alamos staple. But the pain was I expected—funny, fi lled with Root 246. The fall menu, unveiled in November, is uber-inspired by Chef short-lived when husband and wife team Daisy Freitas-Ryan optimism and energy, and a true Pink’s quirky ideas about comfort food, including steak and fries, fried and Greg Ryan took over the venue. The pair, both Per Se alums, testament to who the people behind chicken (pictured), and osso bucco. It’s a fun and promising start for the turned Bell Street Farms into Bell’s, a charming take on a French our foodie favorites really are. eatery in Solvang and one of our favorite local chefs. bistro. Out with the old, in with the new, as they say. EATS continued page 44

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FRESH IN THE VALLEY: Another standout new eatery was Valle Eatery, located in NORMAN CAME STORMIN: When the Skyview Los Alamos hotel opened with the Hilton Garden Inn in Lompoc. I made my first visit there in September, almost a a major renovation, one of the most exciting aspects was the overhaul of the year after it opened, and immediately fell in love. Chef Conrad Gonzales has proven existing eatery, which the owners dubbed Norman’s. The sleek restaurant, time and time again he knows his way around tri-tip, but it was here that he finally decked out in classic 1950s Hollywood decor, is intimate yet playful, offering spread his wings with an impressive and advanced menu that felt like comfort food dishes such as Baja scallops, flat-iron steak, and roasted pumpkin with quinoa. but tasted like a fine dining experience. Pictured: A braised pork belly taco with goat They also have plenty of crafty cocktails available from the bar. Never again will cheese and salsa verde. you think of it as the creepy little place on top of the hill in Los Alamos.

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