Social+Activities

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media type="custom" key="12467344" The options include Japanese restaurant [|Arigato Sushi] (Santa Barbara), Italian restaurant Bucatini (Santa Barbara), Mexican restaurant El Torito (Santa Barbara), and The Beachside Bar/Cafe (10 minute walk from the KITP along the coast).

__Please sign up before Feb 16th 1:00 pm__

**group dinner: Thursday Feb 2nd** We went to The Beachside Bar/Cafe at 7:30 pm, after gathering at the front entrance of Kohn hall (the KITP building) at 7:00 pm.

group: Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos Carsten Gundlach So Matsuura Hans Bantilan Curtis Asplund Toby Wiseman Frans Pretorius Luis Lehner Poul Damgaard Zbigniew Ambrozinski Sang-Woo Kim David Berenstein Richard Brower Simon Catterall Philippe de Forcrand David Garfinkle Masazumi Honda Liza Huijse Nikos Irges Romuald Janik Sandor Katz Ethan Neil Herbert Neuberger Jun Nishimura Daniel Nogradi Marco Panero Edward Shuryak Fumihiko Sugino Asato Tsuchiya Larry Yaffe Paul Chesler Gary Horowitz

**group dinner: Thursday January 26th** We went to [|China Pavillion] on Chapala Street, downtown SB at 7:30 pm.

group: Curtis (have a car, can drive 1 other person) Nikos (office 2407, no car-would need a ride, no extra person) Ethan (no car) So (no car) Asato (no car) Jun (no car) Masazumi (no car)

If we do not have enough cars, we'll take the bus together, the [|24X] that stops in front of KITP (at 6:35 pm) and deposits at the bus transit center, which is a short walk to China Pavilion. This bus can also be taken back to the KITP, the last one departing downtown at 10:10 pm.

=Jazz & Folk Music= SB has but one place that features jazz and folk: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club. They have decent food if you want to eat before/during a performance. There are actually a number of places that feature live music regularly, for example [|Cold Spring Tavern], [|The James Joyce], [|Dargan's], [|Muddy Waters], and occasionally at the closest place to campus [|The Mercury Lounge]. The best place to find all local events, including copious amounts of classical, jazz, folk, rock etc. is our local weekly [|The Independent]

= **Hiking around Santa Barbara** =

=Sport Activities= //**SAMPLE:**// Anyone interested in swimming/running (maybe biking if nice bikes available for renting) or playing some sports like table tennis or soccer at the Rec.Cen. of UCSB !? Drop a line here or pop up at my office