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Twice as nice: Sarah Gore – Al and Tipper Gore’s youngest daughter – ties the knot with Montecito’s Patrick Maiani in Carpinteria, p. 6
THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42 • OPEN HOUSES, P. 45
IT’S SAN YSIDRO VILLAGE!
Bill Tomicki awarded magnum of Margerum MG, Vintage 2012, for naming Richard and Michael Gunner’s new upper village complex (Story begins on p.18)
Seuss-tastic!
Dagny Dehlsen and Deborah de Ponce, armed with Dr. Seuss theme, co-chair Montecito Union School’s 45th Carnival, p. 12
Let’s Dance
For young artists in motion like Grace Barker and Daniel Salinas, something’s afoot at SB’s Center Stage Theater, p. 24
Adam’s Grapple
Fourth District Supervisor Peter Adam, as old-school as his mutton-chop mustache, is here to work, not make friends, p. 5
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Editorial James Buckley sits down with Fourth District Supervisor Peter Adam; Fox News talkshow host Greg Gutfeld speaks out on array of topics 6 Montecito Miscellany Sarah Gore marries in Carpinteria; Bill Tomicki wins Upper Village naming contest; bestseller Empty Mansions to become a movie; Doreen Ladin joins Federation of International Polo; students participate in Santa Barbara Sports Drive; CAMA hosts cruise; a happy Easter for 300-plus at SB Rescue Mission’s feast; clarinetist Don Foster performs at Granada; Arts Fund exhibition “Drift x Fixation”; Montecito’s first “Coffee with a Cop” at Starbucks; author Brock Brower passes at 83 8 Letters to the Editor Leoncio Martins sounds off (again) on free speech; America’s downward spiral; placing criminals on a pedestal; what’s best for the kids; anonymous reader takes offense at Journal cover; “Matching funds” and State Water Project; up close and personal with George W. Bush; Rooster Bradford laments about crazies running wild; SB Track Club expresses gratitude 10 This Week in Montecito American Riviera Bank anniversary; library workshop; Italian conversation; history lecture; SB VisionWalk; Soul Style and Feng Shui; MUS carnival; bridge party; Boys & Girls Club fundraiser; Wildlife Sanctuary Awards; meditation retreat; literature at Crane Country Day School; Antioch University’s Trustee Forum; Channel City Club presents ex-Pakistan ambassador; Jill Swaim guest speaker at library; Walk and Talk tour; MUS Walk & Roll Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 12 Village Beat Peter Murphy remembered by Montecito Tennis Mafia; Montecito Union School Carnival this Saturday; Easter in the Upper Village; Coffee With a Cop in Montecito; architect Lutah Riggs celebrated at Los Suenos 14 Seen Around the World In the first of a two-part series, Lynda Millner traverses Portugal and takes a look back at its extensive history 21 On Estate Planning David Jones tackles life insurance, mortgage protection, retirement planning, longterm care, death and taxes
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24 On Dance For children on the move at Santa Barbara’s Center Stage Theater, all the world’s a dance stage 26 Notes from Downtown Jim Alexander spent his valuable time researching porcupine babies and Chinese minerals, only to discover magical Porcupine Dates 29 On Entertainment The Theatre Group at SBCC wraps up season with Ground; UCSB grad and underwater expert Robert Ballard resurfaces for New Adventures in Deep Sea Exploration; Dendy Dance Company’s Dystopian Distractions set to premiere in SB; Fab Four back for more 32 Home & Garden 17th Annual Carpinteria Beautiful Home & Garden Tour takes root Saturday in Carpinteria 33 Your Westmont Forbes ranks Westmont in its top ROI list; orchestra finale includes The Lord of the Rings April 24-25; Montecito quintet performs April 26 and May 3 37 Seniority Montecito resident Arnette Jens Zerbe is the inspiration for Polly Bookwalter’s new book The Keeper of Butterfly Beach 40 Legal Advertisement 42 Calendar of Events Westmont College Orchestra visits Music Academy of the West; Rick Crowder (a.k.a. Sourdough Slim) coming to Ojai; Museum of Contemporary Art’s “drawing rally” at Paseo Nuevo; band The National en route to Milpas; opera The Consul at Granada; Earth Day festival on Santa Barbara Street; Quire of Voyces concert at Garden Street Academy; SB Museum of Art Women’s Board hosts Off The Wall; Philip Glass Ensemble tunes up for Granada 45 93108 Open House Directory Movie Guide 46 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 47 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer
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Editorial
by James Buckley
The Man from the 4th District
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ourth District Supervisor Peter Adam is a throwback in more ways than one. Firstly, he sports a distinctive, almost unsettling, mutton-chop-style mustache that spreads across the top of his upper lip and under his nose, sprawling into the middle of his cheeks but not quite connecting with what would otherwise be sideburns. It is disconcerting. But, it does make it easy to pick him out of a crowd. Secondly, he was – up until his election to the Board of Supervisors – a working farmer whose standing-water puddle-after-a-heavy-rain became classified as a wetland by the Environmental Protection Agency. He The refreshingly frank and facially hirsute 4th fought that designation for a decade, District Supervisor Peter Adam discusses his priorities at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Coast Village at first winning a multi-million-dol- Road lar judgment against Santa Barbara County until the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overruled it. Thirdly, he is a small-government man sitting alongside at least three big-government compatriots on the board. He doesn’t get along well with them and they don’t get along well with him. But he’s okay with that. “We butt heads,” he admits, during a half-hour conversation at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Coast Village Road.
Making Friends
Some time after the 9th Circuit decision came down against his family farm, Peter decided to fight City Hall by running for a seat on the Board of Supervisors. “I was driving to work on Highway 1,” he begins, “and Joni Gray was on the radio with Steve Lavagnino’s dad, who was at the time the mayor of Santa Maria. [Steve is 5th District Supervisor; his father is Larry J. Lavagnino]. They were going down the litany of all the things that were wrong in both the city and the county. She said, and I quote, ‘I don’t know what we’re going to do.’ You could just see her throw her hands up in the air. She really meant it. “The thing is, I’ve got four hundred employees [at Adam Brothers Farming]. It’s not a huge company, but you can’t be the boss and not have an answer. At least say, ‘I don’t have an answer, but I’m gonna get one. I’m working on it.’ “I just said to myself, if you’re not going to say what you’re going to do, then you can’t have that job. You certainly can’t have it for free, where nobody runs against you.” This was in late 2011. “I asked for support, found many receptive ears, and we beat her.” He adds that he “worked for her. I like her. I put up signs for her,” suggesting his successful challenge that removed her from office was never personal. Peter is fearless and outspoken when judging his fellow supervisors. For example, when I suggested it would be difficult if not impossible to beat 1st District Supervisor Salud Carbajal, he responds, “If you offered voters in the 1st District any legitimate human being, you could beat Salud.” “That’s pretty rough,” I suggest. “I’m not here to make friends,” he shrugs.
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According to the Santa Maria Sun, Adam’s “top five platform issues during the campaign were budgetary, including bolstering the strategic reserve, implementing pension reform, retaining public safety, decreasing long-term debt, and improving infrastructure.” His priorities have changed a little, though his top priority remains infrastructure repair and maintenance. “One of the fundamental duties of county government is public safety,” he says, so that also remains a priority. On the social welfare front, Adam admits “there are people who can’t take
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Al and Tipper Gore look on as youngest daughter, Sarah, ties the knot with Patrick Maiani
by Richard Mineards
Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail before moving to New York to write for Rupert Murdoch’s newly launched Star magazine in 1978; Richard later wrote for New York magazine’s “Intelligencer”. He continues to make regular appearances on CBS, ABC, and CNN, and moved to Montecito six years ago.
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ormer vice president Al Gore and his ex-wife, Tipper, made a rare appearance together when their youngest daughter, Sarah, tied the knot with Montecito musician and realtor Patrick Maiani in Carpinteria on Good Friday. For artist Sarah, 35, who was getting married for the second time, the simple ceremony was a world away from her last nuptials in July 2007, when she plighted her troth with surfer and tech investor, Bill Lee, wearing a couture Monique Lhuillier gown at the Beverly Hills Hotel with singer Willie Nelson entertaining after a rehearsal dinner for 75 at the popular celebrity eatery, Crustacean. Gathered under the 1888 126-foot high Wardholme Torrey Pine, the world’s largest, Sarah, in a simple peach dress and carrying a bouquet
Newly married couple Sarah Gore and Patrick Maiani (photo credit: David Palermo)
of flowers made by Eileen Mielko, and Patrick, in a dark lounge suit, exchanged vows as Sarah Reed Farmer officiated. Earlier in the day, the family gathered at the Lucky Llama coffee shop and had their reception at the Crushcakes Cupcakery. “It was all very sudden,” Patrick tells me exclusively. “When we got engaged over the holidays, we were going to wait almost a year to get married. “We stopped at the Lucky Llama for a really great cup of coffee a few months back, when I noticed the huge Torrey pine and read the plaque ‘Oldest Torrey Pine known in Existence.’ I said I love the tree and
Sarah said, ‘Let’s get married there someday.’ “So, a few days ago we decided to just go for it. Our family and friends mobilized to join us for coffee and wedding cake at Crushcakes. As Sarah walked up to the tree, the root grabbed her dress to remind us we were getting married on a big strong foundation of love. It was a beautiful moment.” As for Sarah, she says: “Patrick and I are happy to be in each other’s lives. The ceremony was an intimate event that came together like magic. It was beautiful and peaceful, the perfect spot to say our vows. The tree felt
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ROTARY CLUB OF MONTECITO KATI Z. BUEHLER Rotarian of the Month
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our paper assumes that contributing millions of dollars to political candidates is free speech. But, reasonable restrictions on political money do not regulate the content of anyone’s speech: candidates and outside groups are free to The Rotary Club of Montecito’s (RCM) Board was pleased to select Kati Buehler engage in rigorous critique of governin March as their “Rotarian of the Month.” ment officials or policies. Rather, big ati joined the RCM four years ago and quickly took a leading role in the RCM’s service money acts to amplify the voices of project that raises funds for scholarships to students enrolled in the vocational and techthe wealthy over their fellow citizens nical career programs at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC). and allows the rich to act like bullies As the senior director of gift planning at Westmont College, Kati works with alumni, parents and in the public square. friends who desire to leave gifts to the college in their estate plans. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Kati began her career as a commercial loan officer at Bankers Trust in NYC, later as a The Journal plays fast and loose with financial advisor with Dean Witter in Santa Cruz, CA. this distinction between content and Kati was born in Quito, Ecuador and grew up in a trilingual household, speaking Spanish, amplification to mask the fact that it is English and German. Kati and her husband Peter moved to Santa Barbara in 2002 when Peter was concerned only with the “free speech” called to be the pastor at First Presbyterian Church, SB. Kati and Peter have two sons, Peter and of those who can afford to pump milRudy, daughter-in-law Sarah and two grandchildren, Jack (4) and Lucy (2). The RCM celebrates its 60th year of community service and supports both local and international lions of dollars into campaigns. humanitarian projects. 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another regularly, daily from September up to election day in November in its editorial pages, it has every right to do so because of the First Amendment, but that a wealthy individual who would have to buy space to create the opposite environment for his favored candidate cannot because... he doesn’t own a newspaper? Free and unfettered speech, that’s what we are for, not some government-sponsored regulatory body created by elected officials to help squelch opposition and keep those same elected officials in office. If that’s “fast and loose,” then, to paraphrase a noted deceased conservative: in the cause of free speech, regulation is no virtue and playing fast and loose is no vice. – J.B.)
Spiraling Downward
I have one question for the writer of the letter in a recent issue (MJ 20/14) titled “Whining over Citizens United”: Have you ever thought about why a corporation whose main objective is to make a profit would voluntarily incur the expense of large contributions to political parties or candidates? The answer lies in the fact that government and the politicians who run it have control over a significant portion of our economy and consequently businesses are motivated to expend resources aimed at making legislation and enforcement of regulations as favorable to their interests as they can. Campaign finance legislation is simply an attempt to fix a symptom of a problem rather than addressing the fundamental problem created by prior legislation. As is always the case, it creates a spiral of legislation, negative consequences, more legislation intended to fix the negative consequences, which itself creates more negative consequences. At each legislative step, liberty is pried away from the American people. In the current context, prior to the point in time when the government gained the ability to create laws that control how businesses can interact with each other and with customers, (which it could not effectively do before the Supreme Court expanded the Commerce Clause of the Constitution), there was no need for campaign finance laws. After Congress took from businesses the freedom to interact as they see fit, it later felt the need to limit the freedom of businesses (and you and me) to promote their choice or candidate, 24 April – 1 May 2014
party or issue. Unfortunately for the government, they haven’t figured out how to convince the Supreme Court to take away freedom of speech... yet. Nick Zwick Montecito (Editor’s note: Geez, Nick, I couldn’t have said it better myself! – J.B.)
Lady and Gentleman?
I am wondering what’s happened to our sense of justice and English. In print and on television (the big garbage can in the sky), the fiend who shot up a retirement home and an assembly hall for young people – while shouting “Heil Hitler!” – was referred to as an “elderly gentleman.” No way should he be referred to as a “gentleman.” The terms gentleman and lady have to be earned. So many times, we read a report (e.g., “The gentleman fired his Uzi, and the lady took her gun out of her handbag and returned fire.”). Ridiculous... let’s stop elevating these people. Christina Allison Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: A woman with the guts to pull a gun out of her handbag to return fire from an Uzi-wielding “gentleman” deserves to be called a lady, at the very least! - J.B.
What’s Best for Children This letter concerns the real-life problems of American children today. As you know, because of the troubled economy, a high percentage of both parents must work to keep afloat. When the workday is over, they are exhausted. Children are, therefore, not being cared for and nurtured as in the American traditional past. This is a growing, frightening problem, as you know. I was told, long ago, that Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) predicted that the United States would destroy itself from within by self-indulgence and sports. Now, electronics and the Internet, etc., can be added. How shocking the news was last week when we were told that our educational systems are no longer the best in the world. Truly heartbreaking! We need sound leadership. We also learned that our young people are able to become addicted to eight to 12 hours of wasted time playing games, gambling, [watching] movies, and pornography. This is inhumane, abusive and illegal child maltreatment in the extreme. Control of American electronic systems should be a priority. A child’s brain is not fully developed until age
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SATURDAY, APRIL 26 Santa Barbara VisionWalk Join hundreds at the Foundation Fighting Blindness’ Santa Barbara 5K VisionWalk to help raise awareness and funds for sight-saving research for retinal diseases including retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration and Usher syndrome, which affect more than 10 million Americans. People are invited to form teams or walk independently at the free, family-friendly event, which will also include activities for children,
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THURSDAY, APRIL 24 American Riviera Bank Anniversary Since opening the Montecito branch last April, the bank has hired John Franklin as vice president and senior relationship officer in Montecito. It has also installed a new in-house ATM and is working on permitting for a through-the-wall ATM, which should be installed this summer. American Riviera Bank was founded in 2006 by more than 400 local shareholders and has two local branches. In celebration, cupcakes will be available all day today and tomorrow. Where: 525 San Ysidro Road Info: 965-5942
THURSDAY, APRIL 24 Application Workshop Create stories to develop your child’s language and social skills. This hands-on workshop demonstrates free and easy-touse tools for tablets and mobile devices. The personalized stories strengthen language experiences needed for reading skills. When: 10 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: Patty Haddad, 564-5619 Italian Conversation Group Practice your Italian language skills with others at Montecito Library; new members welcome. When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: Sara Doehring, 969-5063
FRIDAY, APRIL 25 History Lecture Dr. Bridget Buxton of the University of Rhode Island presents: “The Lost Eagle: The untold story of the legionary eagle on Rome’s most famous statue.” The lecture is sponsored by The Archaeological Institute of America, and is free and open to the public. When: 6 pm
Where: Farrand Hall at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol
SATURDAY, APRIL 26 Sacred Space & Feng Shui Through principles of Soul Style and Feng Shui, learn to create a harmonious and balanced home or office environment that is aligned and supports your Soul Self. Hosted by Shawne Mitchell, M.A., author of Home Sanctuaries and Exploring Feng Shui. When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $60 includes lunch Info: www.lacasademaria.org Montecito Union School Carnival It’s carnival time again at Montecito Union School. This year’s fun and games include: rock-climbing wall, face painting, a giant slide, 50-foot obstacle course and cakewalk. Carnival is Montecito Union School’s largest fundraiser. When: Saturday, April 23, 10 am to 3 pm Where: Montecito Union terrace, 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249
refreshments, live music and more. When: 9 am for registration; walk begins at 10 am Where: Chase Palm Park, 323 E. Cabrillo Boulevard Info: (310) 450-2910 or www.FightBlindness.org/SantaBarbaraVisionWalk Bridge Party Santa Barbara Bridge Center (SBBC) presents a low-stress and fun bridge game in a social atmosphere, with individually dealt hands timed to allow discussion between each hand. Masterpoints available at each table at each round. There will be a minimum of 16 hands in four rounds. Players will play different teams on each round. Partners available for single players. When: 6 to 9:30 pm Where: SBBC, 2255 Los Positas Road, Cost: $25, includes dinner and drinks Info: Don Elconin, 452-1221 Surf’s Up for Kids Dinner & Auction The Boys & Girls Club presents its annual fundraising event, emceed by Shaun Tomson. The night includes a cocktail party, silent auction, hula dancing and music. When: 5 to 11 pm Where: Fess Parker’s DoubleTree, 633 E. Cabrillo Boulevard Info: 962-2382
SUNDAY, APRIL 27 Wildlife Sanctuary Awards Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network presents the 18th annual Wildlife Sanctuary Awards, a luncheon at the Montecito Country Club. There will be a silent auction and honorees, and Master of Ceremonies for the event will be Bob Bason. When: 11:30 am Where: 920 Summit Road Info: www.sbwcn.org Mindfulness Practice Retreat A half-day for calming the mind, opening the heart and finding peace through guided
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meditations, including Metta (LovingKindness) meditation. All are welcome. Radhule Weininger, M.D., Ph.D., practices psychotherapy and is a popular teacher of Mindfulness meditation. When: 2 to 5:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031
MONDAY, APRIL 28 Children’s Literature Event Crane Country Day School showcases two talented leaders in the world of children’s literature: Isabel Baker and Marla Frazee. Together in a presentation for parents and grandparents of preschooland early elementary-aged children, they will offer perspectives on selecting books for children and the creative writing process. Baker, a successful children’s book distributor and reviewer, will present the best new children’s books of the year and also include classics. Frazee, a bestselling and award-winning children’s book authorillustrator, will share the creative processes behind fulfilling this childhood dream. Tecolote will be on hand selling books. The event is free and open to the public. When: 4 pm for teachers, 7 pm for parents Where: Crane’s Barbakow Family Theater, 1795 San Leandro Lane Info: 969-7732 ext. 105
TUESDAY, APRIL 29 Antioch University Forum Antioch University Santa Barbara (AUSB) has announced its spring Trustee Forum: How Can We Balance Homeland Security & Personal Privacy? Journalist Jerry Roberts will facilitate a panel discussion with national security experts Andrew Liepman and Brian Michael Jenkins. The interactive conversation will focus on the complex issues raised by President Obama’s proposed reforms of policies governing the National Security Agency’s collection of the personal data of Americans. Two national security experts will discuss how disclosure of the top-secret material affects the nation’s battle against terrorism, U.S. defense and diplomacy, government power, and Internet and telecommunications privacy. This discussion takes place amid the national and global controversies and conflicts set in motion by the unauthorized release of an unknown number of previously confidential and classified documents and programs.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 Lecture & Luncheon Channel City Club presents Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States from 2008-2011. He is currently Director for South and Central Asia at Hudson Institute in Washington DC and Professor of the Practice of International Relations at Boston University. He has been a journalist, academic and diplomat in addition to serving as advisor to four Pakistani prime ministers, including the late Benazir Bhutto. When: 11:30 am check-in Where: Reagan Room at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort, 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard Cost: $35 for members, $40 for nonmembers Adventure Speaker The Montecito Branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System will host a presentation about Road Scholar, the educational adventure program created by Elderhostel, providing travel and learning opportunities for older adults across the globe. The speaker, Jill Swaim, is a member of the Road Scholar Ambassador Program, made up of seasoned participants who volunteer their time to give informative and enthusiastic presentations about the
educational travel opportunities available through Road Scholar. Each year, 100,000 participants join the programs across the United States and 150 countries. As a not-for-profit organization, it is committed to providing high-quality and affordable educational opportunities for adults. This talk will familiarize listeners with some of the educational experiences they can enjoy on their next vacation. When: 4 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063
THURSDAY, MAY 1 Walk & Talk Current Montecito Association members are invited to join us for a Walk and Talk tour of the serene gardens and grounds of La Casa de Maria. If you are able to join, please RSVP. The tour will last approximately one hour and 15 minutes and is limited to the first 20 members to reply. When: 1:30 pm Where: 800 El Bosque Road Info: 969-2026
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n what would have been his birthday, “Montecito Tennis Mafia” founder Peter Murphy was honored at Manning Park on April 17. Murphy, who passed away April 28, 2012, founded the tennis group more than 30 years ago; his friends and fellow players gathered to honor his legacy and celebrate the recent beautification of the tennis courts and surrounding area. In the last year, the group of tennis players has been working with county staff to upgrade the tennis courts and nearby picnic area in upper Manning Park. The group sponsored the repaving of the courts and paid for architect Bob Easton to build an iron trellis over the picnic area, attached to the existing pillars. “We had to find a way to leave the historic pillars, while making the area more beauti-
One of six plaques installed in the pillars near the tennis courts at Manning Park
ful,” said Judy Murphy, Peter’s wife. Easton and the group worked closely with Jeff Lindgrun, South Coast Operations manager for the county, who helped oversee the project, as well as First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal’s office. New stone benches were added to the patio area, in addition to massive
Members of the Montecito Tennis Mafia at the revamped picnic area near the Manning Park tennis courts. The group donated funds to have the area beautified in honor of their founder, Peter Murphy, who passed away in 2012.
pruning of nearby trees. “We found two rats’ nests!” Mrs. Murphy said, “The landscaping needed to be tended to.” Vines were planted near the trellis; the hope is that in a few years, the vines will wind their way up and over, creating shade over the picnic table, which was also replaced. Six small plaques were added to the picnic area, all of which have special meaning for Murphy’s friends. “The Man Who Treasures His Friends Is Usually Solid Gold Himself” and “It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose, It’s How You Play The Game” are two of the sentiments on either side of the center plaque, which reads: “In Loving Memory of Peter Murphy.” More than 20 of Murphy’s friends attended the informal lunch, as well as Carbajal, Jeremy Tittle, Mr. Easton, and Mr. Lindgrun. They spoke of Peter’s friendship and loyalty, of his love for tennis and the Montecito community. “Every Sunday, Peter would call every member of the tennis club to tell them where and when they were playing that week,” Mrs. Murphy told
us, “But instead of just relaying the message, he always asked how they were doing, how their family was doing, and what was new in their lives. He was a true friend,” she went on to say. More than 100 members belong to the Tennis Mafia; the group is now managed by a group of five board members – including Lewis Venegas, Mark Levine, Bob Montgomery, Alan Porter and Tom Dain, while Tony Hammond schedules weekly matches for the members. The games are played on private courts as well as at Manning Park. “Peter would have loved this,” Mrs. Murphy said. “He loved Manning Park and the Montecito community. This was his backyard.”
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omans arrived in what is now the capital city of Lisbon, Portugal, 300 years before Christ and Don and I arrived some 2,000 years after. Quite a few things happened in between, like the final running out of the Moors in 1249 and the “Great Age of Discovery” from 1415 to 1578. We were going to have our own age of discovery the next two weeks. Lisbon is a modern city, which as our guide Jose said, “We have chic shops where you’ll need a check and you might be in shock.” People still love the traditional bullfighting, different from Spain because they don’t kill the bull. Futebol (soccer) is definitely the national sport. Another entertainment that is loved is the fado, which we went to one evening. These are popular folksongs, frequently heartbreaking love songs accompanied by two guitars. They are a combination of Moorish fatalism and romantic chivalry. I was intrigued that the bar at our hotel had a whole pig’s leg on the bar for slicing, cured of course. It was there both days we were. But on to bigger things like the bridge over the Tagus River that looks like the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and was built by the same company. There is also a smaller version of one of my favorite statues in the world – the Rio de Janeiro statue of Christ overlooking the harbor. King Carlos was assassinated in 1908 in a community square of Lisbon. And where is our statue of him in Santa Barbara, since he was run out of De la Guerra Plaza? He’s doing just fine in the back courtyard of the Trust for Historic Preservation on Canon Perdido Street. One of my favorite sites was the Carriage Museum. Besides all the magnificent gold-leaf Cinderella carriages was one that showed what was
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The Chapel of the Bones in Evora made from 5,000 people in the town’s graveyard. The walls are all bones and skeleton heads.
under the seat cushion – a one-hole potty. It didn’t seem a problem to have no privacy at all back then. Six horses pulled most of the carriages. We took a bus to Evora, which is a Unesco World Heritage site due to its well-preserved old town center, still partially enclosed by medieval walls and many monuments. The most fascinating site was the 16th century Chapel of Bones –columns and walls literally built from skeletons – bones and heads of 5,000 people from the graves of the town. A quote I saw there said, “We the bones are waiting for yours.” A great spot to be for 24 April – 1 May 2014
A display of cork products, even postcards
Halloween! In the Cathedral of Evora, we saw a statue of a pregnant Virgin Mary and the oldest operating organ in Europe. They don’t have holy water in their Catholic churches because it’s not sanitary. We saw many houses that were painted yellow on the outside. I find this hard to believe but according to our guide, “Yellow paint helps keep the mosquitoes out.” He wasn’t kidding! En route to our 120-passenger riverboat, we passed by acres and acres of cork trees. Portugal is the biggest producer of cork in the world, and the country makes many cork items: shoes, purses, hats and even postcards, which we bought to send the grandkids. Cork is from the bark of the tree and can be stripped only every nine years. In Orbidos, we stopped for coffee at a pousada. These are truly treasures of Portugal (in Spain, they are paradores) because they are government-run historical buildings that are now hotels. They might have been a palace, castle, or monastery. I once stayed in a windmill in Spain. The first pousado was a Moorish castle in Obidos in the 1950s. Obidos is famous for its ginja dry sherry, which they serve in small chocolate “glasses.” You drink and 24 April – 1 May 2014
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are sent to England, where they are used for making whiskey – adding a unique flavor. In about 1878 phylloxera, a root louse, devastated Bordeaux, Burgundy and more, and also arrived in the Douro Valley. The Portuguese grafted their vines to American rootstock and turned the tide by 1890. The peaceful town of Peso da Regua is the official center of the port wine-growing region. The barrels of wine were traditionally transported using wooden sailing ships called rebelos. Now they use special tankers, and the rebelos
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now transport tourists instead. I remember when I first drank wine, it was Mateus Rosé which came in a clay bottle. We thought we were so cool. On the trip, we saw the 1745 Palace of Mateus, which is where the picture on the label came from. The Count of Mateus owns the palace and lets the tourists see one half. The other is kept for family weekends, but he has nothing to do with Mateus wines. The family just let their “house” be used on the label. Sandeman was founded in 1790 and is one of the most famous port wineries. In 1928, George Massiot Brown painted the famous logo figure called DON – a symbol that combines the Portuguese students’ black cape (they are called tunas – nothing to do with fish) and the wide-brimmed Spanish caballero’s hat. He looks like Zorro. Besides putting him on their bottles, they put him on hillsides to advertise. He was in Jerez, Spain, where I lived; it’s the logo on their sherry bottle. At their Portugal winery that we visited, the guides wore the costume. Many of the wineries plant roses at
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the end of the grape rows (like they do in Santa Ynez) to serve like the canary in the coalmine. If the bushes start to die, they know their vines are in danger. One day, we took a side trip to the Avessada Winery for a hands-on wine experience. It started in the field with the jolly owner, Luis, welcoming us and two men playing the accordion and drum while we took buckets and clippers to pick grapes. Cicero said it first but Luis told us, “Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” Then it was time to get in the bins and stomp the grapes. A gushy affair, after which a beautiful lunch was served alfresco, with wine, of course. Then we went to a bakery in the tiny village where the chubby “Pillsbury Dough” lady and crew produce an amazing 8,000 loaves a day sold to some of the best restaurants in Portugal. She loved to walk around with a wine bottle balanced on her head. Anything to entertain the tourists. No one was there except our •MJ group from the boat. 24 April – 1 May 2014
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special and sacred to us both. “For the ceremony we focused on each other, but by telling our story we are hoping to share the moment with everyone we love.” San Ysidro Village We have a winner! Dozens of readers wrote in with suggestions for a name for the new 14,000-sq-ft development of 11 units in the Upper Village, built by Richard Gunner and his son, Michael. The lucky recipient of a 2012 magnum of Margerum MG, donated by wine-maker restaurateur Doug Margerum, is Montecito travel writer
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As a 10-year resident of Montecito and longtime reader of the Montecito Journal, I feel compelled to express my absolute horror, disgust and embarrassment with the cover of the issue showcasing the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation committee to promote their upcoming event “Saks & the City” (MJ # 20/15). In fact, when I saw it on the stands, I did a double take and thought it was a joke. “Live and Let Buy... Diamonds may be forever, but no one has to buy another day... you only live twice.” Really? Does this effectively communicate the objectives and mission of this non-profit that is raising funds for children with cancer and their families? I think not. In fact, in a town with numerous well-deserving charities vying for our attention and donations, I feel this kind of thoughtless display of conspicuous consumption and – I’m speaking as a mother with young children – distasteful states of undress does the opposite. While this provocative image and inappropriate tagline may cause people to take a second look (maybe they’re wondering if bikinis are considered appropriate attire for this event), I believe it discourages and repels many charity-goers, myself included, and dissuades them from understanding, applauding, and contributing to this meaningful cause. After all the hard work that I know it takes committees, vendors and supporters to successfully produce an event like this one, it’s unfortunate that the true message is lost due to a lack of attention and insensitivity. I understand and appreciate the Journal’s front-cover promotion of this very worthy community fund-
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Montecito Water District appears to lack the funds necessary to effectively bid against other districts that are able to pay more for available water from outside sources. The heavy indebtedness of $5,500,000 a year for the district’s excessive share of the undependable State Water Project is finally taking its toll. It is implied that needed funds for purchasing more water will be generated by the high penalty fees extracted from those violating their rationing limits. Such thinking is flawed in three major ways: 1) The violators, living under the pallor of “wrong-doers,” ultimately become the “heroes.” Is this an appropriate mentality to encourage? 2) Such violations are penalized for only two months of over-usage, after which restrictors will be put on errant meters. Thus, the “goose laying the golden egg” will be very short-lived. 3) Sooner, perhaps, than later, there would be even less water for all because of overuse and the high cost of purchasing more when needed, if available, will be out of financial reach of the strapped district. It is rumored that, consequently, we could be cut back to 10 HCF [hundred cubic-feet] for indoor usage only! Perhaps a more productive and
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Lesson Learned
We have a close friend who attended boarding school and college with the former occupant of the White House. Our friend claimed to have kept up his connection with President George W. Bush and, despite my council against it, had accepted presidential appointments to two commissions. He assured us that if we timed our visit during the meeting schedule of one of those commissions, he would make every effort to arrange a visit for us to his buddy in the Oval Office. Of course, my wife went into orbit at the possibility, but I must admit that, although I am a great fan of the presidency, I was not an admirer of President Bush and the prospect of such a visit resulted in conflicted feelings. The sad part of this story occurred shortly after our arrival in Washington, D.C., when a crazed gunman shot and killed 32 innocent undergraduates on the Virginia Tech campus. The shock and suffering from this tragedy was overwhelming. A trivial and peripheral result was my expectation that the president would now be understandably too busy to meet with the acquaintances of his old Yale classmate. When our friend and his wife called to say that, rather than cancelled, our visit had been moved earlier and
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that they would meet us at the White House within the hour, we were both surprised. A short time later, as we all waited in the anteroom outside the Oval Office, my friend’s wife warned me to be ready, “Because in a minute, the president will be standing right in front of you.” She called it perfectly. The door opened, out walked Karl Rove (deputy chief of staff) and Stephen Hadley (assistant to the president for National Security Affairs), two major players on a team to which I was strongly opposed. Right behind them, with a huge smile and outstretched hand was the president of the United States, George W. Bush, a man to whom I had long assigned shallow motives, suspect intelligence and a smugly arrogant personal style. Introductions were made and the door was closed, leaving the five of us alone with only an aide and a photographer. Light banter and some easy teasing made for a surprisingly relaxed and informal feeling. It was clear immediately that my friend and the president had a genuine, long-standing friendship. I felt badly about doubting the stories of their closeness. I have to state that from the outset, President Bush was candid, amusing and welcoming. He spoke sincerely and with eloquent sympathy about the terrible events at Virginia Tech. He also conveyed, with genuine passion, his admiration for the sacrifices of our service men and women, much in the same way I had heard him speak in public, but now with much more ease, confidence and real credibility. After each topic, I anticipated the conclusion of our visit, but in the end we stayed for more than 40 minutes. No one sat, even when the president ate his lunch of a peanut butter sandwich and a soft drink. At one point, he asked my wife and me into a small alcove to show us the gun taken from Saddam Hussein when he was captured. “The Marines thought I’d like it, and you know what? I do like it!” the president said, smiling. In a short time, I had warmed to a man I had spoken against often and loudly for several years. I hadn’t liked his decisions, the people he surrounded himself with – and further, I hadn’t liked him. But though I continued to oppose, and do to this day, the direction he took this country, clearly this was not the self-serving, condescending, Machiavellian figure I had made him out to be. Often, I had told my wife and grown children that I need not like Barbra Streisand to enjoy her beautiful voice or be a personal fan of Pete Rose to enjoy the way he played baseball. Here was the reverse of that
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care of themselves, and so we’re going to have to take care of them.” However, he also believes that a small population of transients take up a lot of money and time. He hopes to find ways “to cost-effectively deal with those people. They’re going to be a chronic problem, and they’ll never find their way out.” He stresses that pension reform too is a must, but his views on how to deal with it have changed with his understanding of the reality of the situation. “I don’t believe [the current pension system] is sustainable, and I don’t believe the younger hires will get what they’ve been promised,” he says. The problem with addressing the issue, he laments, is that “It’s not a priority on the employees’ part. They’ve got their deal and they don’t want to talk about it. They’re happy with the deal. You can’t do anything to them or for them. I believe the system will crash, but we can’t do anything about [pension reform] until it does. We owed that system $1.3 billion last year. I don’t know what the new number is, but I’m sure it didn’t shrink. Where’s $1.3 billion going to come from out of 425,000 people?” “Change can’t be mandated?” I wonder. “No,” he says. “It’s a thirty-year solution. Right now, we’re mining the principal, we’re not living off the interest. But, it takes three votes to re-open labor negotiations and they’re not there... at this point. My colleagues last year refused to do what they are supposed to do. “One of the ways to work the pension problem out,” Adam observes, “is to let it go belly-up, and frankly I think that’s what they expect to happen.” He says the idea is to put in a 401(k)-style retirement plan for county employees. “Then you’re dealing with real money that has to be paid every payday.”
A Friendly Face
“There must be someone,” I suggest, “on the Board of Supervisors you’ve been able to get along with, right?” His surprise answer was that he particularly likes 2nd District Supervisor Janet Wolf, who is in a tough re-election campaign this year against a likeable, supremely competent, and way more conservative Roger Aceves. “She’s fantastic to be around,” Adam says. “I’m 180 degrees out of phase with her policy-wise, but I like her. We’re just not able to run this $850-million business together.” But politics, as the saying goes, attracts strange bedfellows. And, in his circle of supporters is the liberal former Montecito Association president, filmmaker Bob Collector, who joined us for coffee at our table and was the person who helped set up our meeting. One of the ways Adam is pursuing his main priority is via Measure M, which is on this year’s June ballot. “It was Janet Wolf’s idea,” he says, “to put an initiative on the ballot for maintenance.” Measure M would require a certain percentage of tax revenue to be spent on infrastructure repair and maintenance, and “will take away the luxury of not putting money aside for maintenance. “The thing is,” Adam continues, “there are choices out there, and we’ve chosen to do a whole bunch of things that don’t do anything for the county’s operating base. We have 1,670 miles of county roads. The county owns 386 buildings and there is no management fund. You can hardly walk into a county
building and not see damage that needs repair. And there’s no inventory. We have to stop the bleeding.” Collector suggests that “Measure M is equivalent to throwing back the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.” Jorgensen Associates is set to release a 3,500-page report in May with financial information on the 309 acres of parkland and 8.5-million square-feet of building space owned by the county, which should help Measure M backers define the need for infrastructure spending more clearly. “The county courthouse needs work, and the other 385 buildings need work, too. They all need a roof, HVAC system, a parking lot. We have an obligation to not let these things fall apart. “No matter how the opposition tries to parse this,” Adam says, “it’s 2.8% of the annual budget. How come you can’t find that money? This was a business problem caused by politics, so why can’t you fix it with a business solution?” he asks. “Obviously,” he concludes, “I’m not going to get anywhere on the dais. We can agree on that, which is why I’m putting Measure M forward.” “Why wouldn’t your compatriots on the board pass this?” I ask. “Because they don’t care,” he says. “Instead, their priorities are about the sea level rising or a plastic-bag ban.” Peter Adam is right about one thing: he’s not on the Board of Supervisors to make friends. But, it sure is refreshing to hear someone speak frankly about the two most serious deficiencies in the administration of Santa Barbara County: deferred maintenance and pension reform.
The Man with the Red Eye
Outside of the colorful roster of varied speakers that visit the UCSB campus via the University’s Arts & Lectures series, the speaker program sponsored by Santa Barbara News-Press publishers Wendy McCaw and Arthur von Wiesenberger at the Young America’s Foundation Reagan Ranch Center on lower State Street invites some of the most intriguing – and conservative – guests available on any circuit, anywhere. Recent invitees include Ann Coulter, John Stossel, Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin, and a whole host of articulate and
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by Jeff Wing
n one of those recent balmy winter evenings whose delicious, unseasonably warm air is said to herald the end of the world, a gathering of dance enthusiasts murmurs and mingles outside Santa Barbara’s Center Stage Theater under a night sky strewn with the flung stars of an earlier cataclysm. Kids in pleated trousers and dark velvet dresses flick in and of the shadows like night birds. Unlike night birds, they are hollering and smacking each other with programs. The crowded Center Stage plaza looks down on the lamp-lit pedestrian hubbub of the Paseo Nuevo shopping village and State Street beyond, and indeed Center Stage is the still point in the downtown shopping district’s swirling center. Once inside the “black box” performance space, though, one is surprised anew by the sudden hushed quietude and intimacy of the space, the audience and performers nearly commingling where the house seating spills right down onto the stage. The seated kids in their starched pleats are stunned into silence by the terrifying prospect of in-your-face art, the imminent threat of theater folk boldly singing, dancing, emoting in costume, and otherwise being wildly uncool and close enough to touch. Tonight’s program will be a mix of classical, neoclassical and modern set pieces, all colorfully narrative, performed by the celebrated Santa Barbara Festival Ballet (SBFB), they of the yearly Nutcracker-withlive-orchestra extravaganza at the Arlington (which this year marks its 40th anniversary as a local tradition). Tonight, though, SBFB is wearing one of its other guises: 11 dance pieces of varying length and tone and humor, accompanied by an array of musical styles and performed by dance masters of all ages and sizes. It’s an unpredictable pastiche, all of it lovely and surprising.
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Not far into the evening, 18-yearold Daniel Salinas, a gravity-mocking teen gazelle, takes the stage and strikes the audience dumb with his interpretation of choreographer Christopher Pilafian’s gift to both dancer and audience, a piece titled, not coincidentally, Daniel’s Jig. It is a brief and potent bit of Terpsichore, exuberant and challenging. Young Salinas at times sails through the air with no apparent effort but that of returning to earth after sometimes uncanny bouts of levitation. Later in the program, longtime SBFB dancer Grace Barker takes the stage and moves like mercury around its confines, her gown swirling and eddying as she paints the space with choreographer Nancy Colahan’s aptly titled Starling. As one might suppose from these performances, Daniel and Grace (Gracie to her friends) are going places. Literally. At the invitation of Regional Dance America, the International Ballet Competition, and the Cecchetti International Ballet Competition, they’ll be traveling to points northwest, south and east, respectively. These teens, who fell into dance as curious toddlers, are taking flight with the wings they’ve grown.
Paris vs. Goleta
1962 was a year to be reckoned with. The Beatles failed their audition for Decca Records (who cleverly pushed them aside in favor of Brian Poole and the Tremeloes), John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, and Bob and Carol Hanlin had their bright idea. In separate careers with the legendary American Ballet Theater (founded in 1937 by Bolshoi defector Mikhail Mordkin), the Hanlins had, as unacquainted dancers with the company, pirouetted in their separate orbits on stages the world over.
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Jim Alexander’s infatuation with porcupines, their quills and babies has clouded his research skills. He’s the only reporter we know who gets sidetracked by thoughts of au gratin potatoes, Super Glue, foreign exchange students, and the “Chinese version” of Viagra.
ears to stimulate circulation (Chinese version of Viagra). It’s not only the Chinese who believe in anomalous cures. My own IrishAmerican father used to swear that a swift kick to my butt would cure laziness, and a cup of lemon juice combined with a week of no TV would remedy my sour disposition. If any parents out there are considering this, I can tell you that a female live-in Swedish
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exchange student named Lotta would work better. I eventually came across numerous articles concerning something called “Porcupine Dates.” I thought, sure, like opossum rendezvous’ or raccoon trysts, or maybe even like a blind date, only tackier. But no, according to Chinese medicine shops when a porcupine is ill or injured, the animal ingests wild herbs to cure itself and these herbs sometimes calcify in its stomach and form into a stone. Talk about candy-coating. First we heard about road apples, which turned out to be horse turds, then sweetbreads, which ended up being calf pancreas, and now porcupine stomach rocks misrepresented as “dates.” What’s next, turkey testicles passed off as rocky mountain oysters? The medicine shops claim porcupine dates cure everything from cancer to color blindness to voter fraud. Though I was skeptical about these claims, it did lend credibility to the baby porcupine story and may have solved a personal mystery to boot. When I’m ill, or injured, or writing humor, I, like the porcupine, also ingest wild herbs. Could it be that the size of my stomach, which always amazes and confounds me, is really the result of too many of these herbs that have calcified in my belly – an Alexander Watermelon so to •MJ speak? Call the Enquirer!
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proposition: I could strongly disagree on many fronts with our president, but I could admire his transparent decency and congenial goodwill. At one point, the president told us that he was about to leave to address the Virginia Tech community. He had earlier told his staff that he wanted the White House interns, several of whom were Virginia Tech graduates, to come to the White House lawn as he and Mrs. (Laura) Bush boarded the helicopter for this difficult and emotional duty. It was a thoughtful and sensitive gesture, which I’m sure those young people will always remember. As we were preparing to leave, the wife of our friend shocked everyone by telling the president that our visit to the Oval Office was not the highlight of our Washington trip. He looked surprised and then amused when my wife explained that, at that very moment, our daughter was delivering our grandson by Caesarian section back in California. The president beamed and said, “How great is that, Art! What’s the baby’s name?” Somewhat embarrassed, I replied, “I’m sorry, Mr. President, I don’t know that yet.” He walked over to his desk and scribbled a quick note and handed it to me, which I later read as “Welcome to this world, baby Merovick,” with his signature and the date. When we arrived home, had I given this memento to my daughter, who shares an extreme version of my political views, she would have disposed of it at the next swap meet. But the baby’s grandmother and I treasure this generous gesture, and on a future appropriate occasion will present it to our grandson, along with an important and overdue lesson learned. Arthur J. Merovick Retired headmaster Laguna Blanca School Santa Barbara
Running Amuck
Up until the early 1920s, all drugs were legal and available at your local “drug” store. Get the idea? There was drug abuse, but it was pretty much confined to the ill and those in need. Its use was voluntary and free. Then came along the liberal do-gooders riding on the after World War I need for change, to tell you what you could or could not do. They raided saloons and busted up all manner of places and passed, in 1919, the 18th Amendment, ushering in the Prohibition era. At the same time, they were abolishing all “drugs” wherever and whenever they could. It was state by state mostly, until the 18th Amendment. The result was terrible crime and
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chaos in our cities and in the countries that supply the illegal drug traffic. By making it illegal, we made it the “ in” thing to do. Rebellious young people sought all of it as often as they could. Probably the only good thing, in some opinions, that came from it was jazz. There is a parallel here. The commonsense people, who knew it was crazy, did nothing and let it happen. Compare Germany in the 1930s when socialist Hitler rose to power. Compare to the U.S today. Too many of the commonsense people sit on their hands and let the crazies run amuck. Rooster Bradford Ventura
On Heavy Medal
On behalf of the Santa Barbara Track Club (SBTC) I wanted to thank you for the coverage of our evening with Olympians in the Montecito Journal (“Coming & Going” MJ 20/14). For many of us, it was certainly the most Olympians and accomplished athletes to be around in one room; truly inspiring. We would like to especially thank Maggie and Steve Wordell for providing such a wonderful venue for the evening, showcasing the best of the American Riviera to all the international athletes who were present. No successful organization is started in a vacuum, and the type of support we have received from the community has been incredible – be it Westmont College, fans of the sport, or those who simply want to expand community opportunities for everyone to live a healthy and successful life. The SBTC is truly a unique opportunity, connecting professional, Olympic-caliber athletes year-round in our community. Through initiatives such as the Youth Track Club, they engage and encourage the kids on a weekly basis to follow their dreams no matter which sport or path they take in life. And who knows, perhaps we inspire the parents, too! From Mile legend Jim Ryun to all-around star Bill Toomey, Santa Barbara has been an oasis to some of the most well known athletes. In the coming months, we look forward to hosting more community events in partnership with community organizations, as well as opportunities for athletes of any age and ability to connect with future stars and past greats alike. To get involved or for more information, please visit our website at: www.santabarbaratc. com. Sincerely, David Monico Marketing director Santa Barbara Track Club •MJ 24 April – 1 May 2014
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Lauren Dyruff and Paloma McKean with their “Who Hair Dos” at Montecito Union Carnival; the 45th annual Carnival is this Saturday, April 26
Carnival, the school’s most anticipated and profitable fundraising event. The carnival will again feature a Dr. Seuss theme. This year: “Seusstastic!” Co-chairs Dagny Dehlsen and Deborah de Ponce have taken over the planning of the event, which raises roughly $60,000 each year for various extracurricular programs on campus through the MUS Parent Teacher Association.
The PTA supports many special programs including Art at Lunch, the Garden Club, The Green Committee, Leadership, Parent Education and funding for special artists in residency and field trips, among other things. Raffle tickets are already for sale on campus for $3 each; raffle underwriters include Montecito businesses Kumon, Sky High, Rory’s Artisanal Creamery, and Toy Crazy. Corporate sponsors include American Riviera Bank and Montecito Bank & Trust. Prizes include tickets to Disneyland, a pizza party for 12 at Rusty’s Pizza, a VIP Giraffe encounter for four at the Santa Barbara Zoo, one month family membership to the YMCA, an Apple iPad, an Apple iPod Nano, and various toys, games, art supplies, sports equipment and more. Carnival attendees will enjoy traditional activities, including parent-staffed booths featuring Seuss Bingo, the Grinch Lollipop Walk, Milk Bottle Battle, Look Book Nook, Stop Thing 1 & Thing 2, Green Eggs and Ham toss, The Sneetches’ Coin Toss, Who Hair-Dos, Face Painting, bounce houses, climbing walls, slides and more. The Montecito YMCA is also taking part in the fun, presenting three booths: Lucky Ducky Pond, Sports of
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All Sorts and Kooky Kids Kites. The front parking lot will again be used for carnival rides, train rides and Go Karts. Other attractions include rock climbing, bubble balls, a mechanical surfboard, a foam pit, open-air photo booth, balloon man and Ferris wheel. YMCA and South Coast Karate will provide demonstrations during the carnival; other live entertainment participants are Christina Buchanan’s Sing Out Loud, the Janet Adderley School, AMP Performance Hip Hop and Santa Barbara Dance Arts. The live auction will not take place this year, de Ponce tells us.
Homemade treats will be available at the Carnival’s popular bake sale. Food and drink from California Pizza Kitchen, Here’s the Scoop, Ruby’s Shave Ice of Santa Barbara, and California Juice Company will also be for sale, as well as Pink Yink Ink Drink Lemonade, and popcorn from the Boy Scouts of America. Two years ago, the MUS Green Team helped make the event more environmentally friendly; they will be back this year, managing and sorting all of the waste in order to divert as much of it as possible from the landfill. Last year, the Green Team consultants were able
to divert 97% of the waste produced into compost and recycling, according to the co-chairs. This is accomplished through working with the food vendors ahead of time, as well as serving food on compostable serving pieces. PTA president Cindy Feinberg tells us the regular parking at Lower Manning Park will be unavailable because of a private event. Instead, free valet parking will be provided for carnival attendees. Self-parking is available in Upper Manning. The carnival runs from 10 am to 3 pm. Montecito Union is located at 385 San Ysidro Road.
Children’s Easter Event
Last Saturday, several dozen kids and their parents spent time in the upper village celebrating the Easter season with a carnival hosted by Jenni Kayne Home, the newest home store near San Ysidro Pharmacy.
Jenni Kayne Home hosted an Easter themed carnival in the upper village
Attendees were treated to face painting, natural egg dyeing, and a bunny and chick petting zoo
Children enjoyed a variety of Easterthemed activities, including face painting, a bunny and chick petting zoo, natural egg dyeing and Peter Rabbit coloring pages. Tables were covered in burlap and decorated with springtime floral and radish centerpieces by SR Hogue & Company. Juices were provided by Pressed Juicery, and baker Elizabeth Colling made Easter cookies shaped like rabbits, sheep and ducks. Jenni Kayne Home is located in the cottage next to S.R. Hogue, and features home and tabletop pieces from a variety of domestic and international vendors. Blankets, candles, cookbooks, serving pieces, utensils, kitchen accessories, and much more
Santa Barbara's "Empty Mansion" Pulitzer Prize winning author Bill Dedman and co-author Paul Clark Newell of Empty Mansions; The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune present a special talk at the Montecito Country Club beginning at 6:30 pm on Friday, May 9. The authors will focus on Bellosguardo, the Santa Barbara estate that stood ready to be occupied for over fifty years but unlived in by the reclusive Ms Clark. Barbara Doran, whose father was manager of the estate, will add her memories of growing up at Bellosguardo, and harpist Jeanne Martin will entertain with tunes from the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Proceeds will benefit the non-profit Montecito Historical Archives, whose mission is to find a home for the expansive archives left behind by Montecito's late great historian, David Myrick. Space is limited but tickets remain available: $35 for general admission; $100 for VIP reception and photo op with the authors, along with a hardbound copy of Empty Mansions. Tickets available at: montecitohistoricalarchives.org, or call 805-637-8641.
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hile debate on immigration policy rages in the halls of Congress, families continue to be torn apart by barriers to crossing borders, and would-be new arrivals take their lives into their hands to get here. Chicago-based playwright Lisa Dillman tackled the subject from a more personal perspective less than four years ago with Ground, about a family on the New Mexico border that’s been split by and culture, law, and visible and invisible boundaries. The play, which premiered at the 2010 Humana Festival of New American Plays, closes out The Theatre Group at Santa Barbara City College’s (SBCC) current season with an intimate staging at Jurkowitz Theatre of the challenging and moving work directed by R. Michael Gros and starring Robert Demetriou, Jennifer Marco, Adrian Marquez, Marisol Miller-Wave, Maria Oliveira and Peter T. Rojas. Dillman, who lived in the area that is the subject of Ground for several childhood years, discussed her background and the play in an email interview over the weekend.
Q. You started writing before you turned 10. How did you morph into writing plays? A. I fell hard for the theater when I was a kid. I was a voracious reader, lived inside my own head much of the time, but I was captivated by the way theater made storytelling three-dimensional. I loved the fact that it was all happening in the moment, that the actors were breathing the same air as the audience. I felt this very strong sense of collaboration between the audience and the actors. Also, the stories I was writing – even very early on – were packed with dialogue. At some point, I realized that taking out the “he said, she said” would transform my stories into plays. New worlds opened up. And, my God, the first time I heard a play of mine read out loud, I nearly passed out from the rush of it. What or who has been the biggest influence on you as a playwright? What experiences most shaped who you are today and how you see the world? My stepfather, Ken Macrorie, was a writer, but he was also a renowned teacher of writing, and his influence on me was profound. He had a small house built at the back of the property where I grew up, and he would go out there every single day to work. When I started writing stories at age eight or nine, he read them and gave me feedback. He didn’t pat me on the head and tell me everything I churned out 24 April – 1 May 2014
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forms the backdrop, the real issue of the play is a disrupted community – and the disrupted families that make up that community. I wanted to look at what happens when a cohered community begins to come apart from the inside in response to changes from the outside. Did you write it to spark a political conversation and/or to espouse your own views on the issue? I wrote the play in part because I was, and still am, very conflicted about immigration policy. I wanted to explore that and to get a bit less lazy in my thinking. That said, the play doesn’t claim to have answers. Immigration is a huge and complex issue; I would never claim that I know how to fix it.
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Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than ten years.
was good. In fact, quite the opposite – he kept it positive, but he was not shy about telling me when he felt the work was weak or phony. That was very powerful to me as well: someone was paying attention to something I’d made. I got used to processing feedback and to the struggles and joys of rewriting. Along the way, I began to trust my own voice. When I was 13, my family moved to Mexico for a time so my stepfather could finish the book he was writing. During that time, I took writing classes from him three times a week. To this day, I look back on those classes as the best teaching I ever got from anyone. Ground takes a look at how a border community and families there have been impacted by changes in America’s immigration policy. Why did this intrigue you? Do you have a background or special interest in immigration policy? Most of my plays focus to some degree on issues of community – and, more specifically, the ways in which specific communities form and cohere or fracture. When it came to writing Ground, I was concerned with these questions, and also with a specific place, a small interconnected community near New Mexico’s border with Mexico. The blend of cultures and belief systems along the border has always intrigued me. So in some ways, writing the play was an easy leap. But though immigration policy of course
I was intrigued by a line from you in another interview: “Part of my job as a playwright was to treat all of the characters with as much fairness as I possibly could, to attempt to really elucidate even the views I least agreed with personally.” Can you expand on that? Sure. The short version is that it’s always my goal to create multidimensional characters that are allowed to speak their truth, even if their truth doesn’t hit the bull’s-eye of my comfort zone. So in Ground, whether a character is someone just living on the border, an undocumented migrant attempting to cross the border, or a member of a citizen-run border enforcement organization, I owe it to the audience to make each character a whole person. To me, that’s just good storytelling. Nobody wants to see cardboard cutouts. How has the play fared since its premiere? Has it received attention in border communities across the country? And, though it’s only been a few years, how has it held up for you? I think the play holds up as a human story, and I expect that will be the case even in the face of ongoing shifts in policy. For example, although the numbers have gone down in the years since the play was written, human trafficking is still a big issue. And deportation is still tearing families apart. I believe the play’s ideas, characters and situations hold up. (SBCC Theatre Group performs Ground at the Jurkowitz Theatre on SBCC’s West Campus, 900 block of Cliff Drive, April 25-May 10. Tickets cost $12$24. Call 965-5935 or visit www.theatregroupsbcc.com.)
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Underwater explorer Robert Ballard has spent a good deal more time talking about discovering the
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Titanic than he did actually at the watery grave of the fated ship more than 12,000 feet deep in the North Atlantic. So before the subject even comes up – when the interviewer simply said he’d have to ask about the topic later – Ballard had a three-word remark at the ready: “I found it.” Of course, Ballard has spent his life veering between ocean explorations, developing new technology to further those adventures, writing about the experiences, and – to no small degree – educating youths and others on his vast discoveries, which include finding other lost legends in the sea (the Bismarck, the aircraft carrier Yorktown, and President Kennedy’s PT-109) and unearthing new life forms on the Galápagos Islands. So, he wasn’t really about to dismiss his most famous adventure out of hand. But more on that later. Ballard, who graduated from UCSB in 1965 with undergraduate degrees in chemistry and geology, is returning to his alma mater on Sunday, April 27 at 3pm, to offer the multimedia presentation New Adventures in Deep Sea Exploration. It’s not only the final installment in the 2013-14 National Geographic Live series, but also the centerpiece event of the All-Gaucho reunion held on the seaside campus every year. That’s got him excited. “It’s the 50th anniversary of my class, and I’m going to see all my frat brothers that I haven’t seen for a million years,” Ballard said over the phone a couple of weeks ago. “There’s a whole weekend of stuff, including dinner in Montecito with the chancellor. It’s all about coming back and seeing friends, which should be a lot of fun, although we’ll have to wear name tags.” Probably not Ballard, though. When you’ve discovered a legendary shipwreck that led to the biggest movie of all time, people tend to recognize you. But the explorer isn’t among those that obsess over the ship. Not anymore, anyway. “I wasn’t a Titanic nut. I’m still not. It’s a fascinating, amazing story, but it was the technological challenge that drew me in, the Mt. Everest of the time. America is all about competition, duking it out, all the games. The other two institutes had the audacity to come into our backyard and look for the Titanic. They failed. It was an underwater space race. And we went last, and we got it. But someone else would have if I didn’t. It’s where the progress of technology had advanced by that point. “Just like with the search for the Malaysian airplane.” Ah, another subject Ballard was understandably tired of talking about. So he simply added, “If I had the
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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 22) Deborah and Peter Bertling, Dave Anderson, Virginia Castagnola, Lyn Anderson (photo by Priscilla)
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well as athletic clothes, to more than 750 needy children, as well as helping increase membership at the club. This year, the drive partnered with the SB High School’s SBici Bike Club, SB Middle School’s Bike Monkeys and the SB Bicycle Coalition’s BiCi Centro, to collect and tune up 35 donated bikes. Over the past four years, Sports Drive has given thousands of items to more than 2,000 children. Running this year’s event were Chris Wagonhurst, Duncan King, Max Henderson and Matt Gillingham...
CAMA on the Channel Cat Where there’s a will, there’s a way! The Community Arts and Music Association’s Legacy Society, where members leave bequests in their wills for the musical non-profit to guaran-
tee its future, hosted a cruise for 80 invitees on Charlie Munger’s Channel Cat, co-chaired by Bitsy Becton Bacon and Julia-Michelle Dawson. Recording the trip for posterity was local photographer Jay Farbman, dexterously piloting a small drone that captured the two-hour nautical adventure from high above. Among the “sailors” were Robert and Christine Emmons, Roger and Diana Phillips, NancyBell Coe, Deborah Bertling, John and Ellen Pillsbury, Ray and Mary Freeman, Jason and Priscilla Gaines, John Lundegard, Seymour and Shirley Lehrer, Virginia Castagnola-Hunter, and Suzanne Bock...
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Easter Feasting Santa Barbara Rescue Mission’s Easter Feast attracted more than 300
homeless to dine on Black Forest ham, turkey, and a variety of desserts, including chocolate, vanilla and carrot cake. A good selection of Montecito residents volunteered as waiters for the event, including yours truly, Geonine Moriarty, Gerd Jordano and Jane Burkemper. “Easter is a joyful time for most of us, but for those struggling with hunger, homelessness and addiction, it is often sad and lonely,” says Rolf Geyling, the mission’s president. “That is why we work so hard to make our hurting neighbors feel at home for the holidays at the annual feast. On one hand, it’s just a meal. But for many, that meal is the first step on the road to recovery.”...
Foster’s on Fire Santa Barbara Symphony’s resident clarinetist, Don Foster, was undoubtedly the star attraction at the Granada when he performed Aaron Copland’s 18-minute clarinet concerto. Foster, who is also principal clarinetist for the Pasadena Symphony, was utterly superb playing the 1947 work and deservedly got a standing ovation from the appreciative audience, to the point he pulled the mouthpiece out of his instrument to signify he had returned to the stage enough. The concert, split evenly between modern and classic compositions, kicked off with French modernist composer Darius Milhaud’s “La Creation du Monde”, a 1923 Ballet in One Act, accompanied by an animated film
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by Santa Barbara resident Carolyn Chrisman, daughter of Roger and Sarah Chrisman. The impressive performance, under the always-elegant baton of Nir Kabaretti, concluded with Beethoven’s magnificent “Symphony No. 7” in A major, one of his most vibrantly powerful works. A matinee show of particular note... Drift x Fixation The Arts Fund’s latest exhibition “Drift x Fixation” features some of the best emerging artists in our Eden by the Beach. “After visiting the various art departments at UCSB, we were impressed by the caliber of work we discovered,” says Kai Tepper, who co-curated the show with Marcello Ricci. “We also noticed an intriguing underlying theme which seemed to resonate amongst many of these artists. “We found we were drawn to this connective theme of the natural landscape, as well as our own curiosity of the various material which the artists use to convey their vision. From there, we couldn’t stop talking about putting this exhibition together.” The show, which runs through May 24, features a number of artists, including Holly Avery, Patrick Gilbert, Adam Jahnke, Clare Little, Megan Mueller, Chelsea Padgett, Maria Rendon, Sommer Roman Sheffield and Luis Alberto Velazquez. “Through the use of man-made and found objects, as well as modern technological process, they explore a fascination and fixation towards romanticized perceptions of both organic and synthetic environments,” adds Tepper. Among those checking out the open-
ing party were Gwen Stauffer, Leon Olsen, Allan Ghitterman, Susan Rose, Richard Ross, Nancy Gifford and Alex Janos... Caffeine Buzz with the Fuzz Montecito held its first-ever “Coffee with a Cop” on Tuesday. Organized by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office and the Santa Barbara Police Department, the event was held at Starbucks on Coast Village Road, where coffee and conversation with the deputies and police officers was the order of the day. “Coast Village Road presents a unique environment, despite the fact that the Santa Barbara Police Department handles the businesses,” says sheriff’s detective Matt Banks. “Sheriff’s deputies are also often seen in the area. This can create confusion for the public. This event gave locals the chance to talk with deputies and officers from both agencies.” The sheriff’s office has held “Coffee with a Cop” events in Carpinteria, Goleta and Isla Vista, but this was its debut here...
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1928 Adobe Ranch House, this historical house has been lovingly restored and decorated to reflect its heritage. It’s a piece of Carpinteria history with a sweeping view of the famous Rincon coastline. (Photos courtesy of Deanarae.com)
One of Carpinteria’s newest neighborhoods, this home embodies how a neutral palette and natural materials mix beautifully with a touch of whimsy
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nown more for its avocados and flower growers, our neighbors to the southeast are gearing up to open their arms and doors to visitors for this year’s Carpinteria Beautiful Home and Garden Tour, “celebrating the small town with a big heart.” For 17 years, this self-guided tour through some of Carpinteria’s best homes and gardens has been a favorite venue for those who love architecture, décor and landscaping. The 17th Annual Carpinteria Beautiful Home & Garden Tour takes place this Saturday, April 26, from 11 am to 5 pm, and according to Donnie Nair, chair of the Home and Garden Tour Committee, “You won’t see five mansions on the tour, but you will see an abundance of fresh ideas, unique uses of materials, environmentally thoughtful gardens, and a unique perspective of how we live in Carpinteria.” Each year, the tour focuses on showcasing a variety of homes and landscapes to enjoy and stimulate the imagination. This year features five unique homes and one expansive seven-acre landscaped oasis. Three of the homes are located within the downtown area of Carpinteria, and each reflects its own exceptional character: a Nantucket-style beach vacation retreat, a Spanish Mediterranean home with a one-of-a-kind mural done by local artist John Wullbrandt, and a newly constructed home with lots of whimsical charm and use of modern materials. The other three properties are all located in the foothills of Carpinteria and offer elaborate views of Rincon and the nearby mountain ranges and valleys. You will be treated to a tour of a historic 1928 ranch house and a post-modern home that houses a sparkling collection of paintings, sculptures and photography. You will want to have your notebook in hand and your most comfortable shoes while
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Known as the Spanish Riviera, this Shepard Mesa home not only offers inspiration in every room, the house has inspiration in every corner. Color, mood, materials, art and a vineyard, but the real star is the ocean view.
exploring our featured landscape property. Strolling this property, you will find an array of tropical plantings, an authentic poolside Tiki hut and even a formal rose garden, along with expansive views of mountains and ocean. “Everyone has their own unique method for enjoying the homes, and we certainly do not put any restrictions on the time you spend at each location or the order in which you want to visit the properties. We hope people will plan to spend the whole day exploring the town of Carpinteria having lunch, shopping and touring this year’s extraordinary homes and gardens,” says Donnie, who has been organizing and selecting the homes since the beginning. The event costs a modest $30 per person; the ticket includes a detailed map and brief description of each home and garden, and ticket holders
This 7-acre garden estate has it all, sweeping ocean and mountain views, an authentic tiki room and a formal rose garden. Take your time meandering the pathways and gather spectacular gardening ideas.
Beautiful Spanish Mediterranean home located in the heart of downtown. This one features a newly renovated kitchen and one-of-a-kind poolside mural by local artist John Wullbrandt.
will also be treated to homemade cookies and a secret-recipe lemonade during the tour. Tickets have been on sale since April 1 at the following Carpinteria locations: Sandcastle Time, The Cotton Company, Porch, Curious Cup Bookshop, Susan Willis,
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Carpinteria Lumber and Roxanne’s A Wish and a Dream. You can also purchase tickets at the Carpinteria Farmers Market on Thursday, or by mail: send check and a return postage envelope to P.O. Box 1294, Carpinteria, CA 93014. Carpinteria Beautiful is a non-profit organization and donations are tax-deductible. All proceeds benefit Carpinteria Beautiful’s many community projects throughout the year. To learn more about this event or see what else Carpinteria Beautiful is doing, please visit www.carpinteria beautiful.org. Follow on Facebook at www.facebook.com/carpinteriabeau tiful for the latest updates on the Home and Garden Tour, including features and photos for this year’s tour. Contact Committee chair Donnie Nair by calling (805) 684-9328 for more •MJ information. 24 April – 1 May 2014
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Sonos Montecito: Paul Mori, Joanne Kim, Trey Farrell, Andrea DiMaggio and Steve Gross
by Scott Craig (photos by Brad Elliott) Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College
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or the second straight year, Forbes magazine has ranked Westmont in the top 100 colleges and universities in its survey, “The 100 Top ROI (Return on Investment) Colleges 2014: The Grateful Grads Index.” Westmont, number 81, is one of three Christian colleges in the list and just one of eight schools in California, including Claremont McKenna, Stanford, California Institute of Technology, Pomona, Mills, USC and Occidental. In the ranking’s second year, Forbes tweaked the formula to focus more on the rate of alumni giving. Its goal is to measure the value of a college degree by listing the median amount of private donations per student over a 10-year period. “The idea is that the best colleges are the ones that produce successful people who make enough money during their careers to be charitable and feel compelled to give back to the schools that contributed to their success,” says Matt Schifrin, Forbes managing editor of investing, markets and personal finance. Westmont’s 10-year median amount of private donations per student is $7,722. “Westmont receives tremendous financial support from alumni, parents and friends who invest in our mission of rigorous academics combined with deep love of God,” says president Gayle D. Beebe. “This support helped us achieve a high ranking, and I’m grateful for the many people who believe in our distinctive education.” In September 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked Westmont in the top 100 best liberal arts colleges for the fifth straight year. “America’s Best Colleges, 2014 Edition” lists Westmont as 94th out of the nation’s 248 liberal arts colleges. In October 2013, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance ranked Westmont among the top 100 liberal arts colleges in its annual list. The report, which named Westmont number 83, features colleges that provide high-quality academics at a reasonable cost. Westmont is one of eight liberal arts colleges in California to make the list and the only California member of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities to be included.
Orchestra Finale Includes Lord of the Rings
Michael Shasberger, Westmont’s Adams professor of music and 24 April – 1 May 2014
worship, conducts the Westmont Orchestra during the Concerto Concert on Thursday, April 24, at 7:30 pm in Hahn Hall at Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road, and Friday, April 25, at 8 pm at First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Avenue. General admission is $10 and students are free. To purchase tickets or for more information, call (805) 565-6040. The performance includes several student soloists, including Samantha Wilson (viola), Lalia Mangione (violin), Isaac Kay (violin) and Rebecca Shasberger (cello). Wilson will play William Walton’s “Concerto for Viola and Orchestra” movement 1. Mangione will perform “Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole” movement 1. Kay and Rebecca Shasberger play Johannes Brahms’ Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, movement 1. The concert also features music from the film score for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and a composition of the hymn “You are My All in All.” “This is the final concert of the Westmont music season and a celebration of the winning performers from the annual concerto competition,” Michael Shasberger says.
The Westmont Orchestra performs Thursday night at Music Academy of the West
positions.” Ibert’s “Three Short Pieces (1930)” are exactly that – three contrasting wind quintet movements that showcase the diverse sounds of each of the instruments. “Along with his orchestral pieces, these gems for quintet are his best-loved compositions,” Mori says.
Completed in the winter of 1993-94, Ewazen’s “Roaring Fork Quintet” for wind instruments is quickly becoming a classic for wind quintet. “Its three movements portray the beauty and grandeur of three spots in Colorado’s Roaring Fork River Valley, Maroon Creek, Snowmass Lake and Buckskin Pass,” Mori says. •MJ
Montecito Quintet Performs Two Concerts
Sonos Montecito, a new wind quintet in residence at Westmont, performs a free, public concert Saturday, April 26, at 7:30 pm in Westmont’s Deane Chapel. The quintet, comprised of Westmont’s applied music faculty, will play works by Carl Nielsen, Jacques Ibert and Eric Ewazen. Sonos Montecito features Andrea DiMaggio, flute; Trey Farrell, oboe; Joanne Kim, clarinet; Steve Gross, horn; and Paul Mori, bassoon. Sonos Montecito will also perform at the Santa Barbara Music Club’s free concert Saturday, May 3, at 3 pm in the Faulkner Gallery of the Santa Barbara Library. The abbreviated program will include Ewazen’s “Roaring Fork Quintet” and a tango by Silvia Coricelli. “Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s ‘Quintet for Winds’ is considered as among the best in the entire wind quintet repertoire,” Mori says. “Its greatness was recognized from its premiere performance in 1922 and continues to be popular and one of the most performed of Nielsen’s com-
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often controversial spokesmen for the conservative and/or libertarian cause. The most recent speaker is a particular favorite of mine: Greg Gutfeld, co-host of The Five, the second-most-watched show on cable news (The O’Reilly Factor is and has been number one for over a decade), and founder and host of the late night Red Eye. Both shows are on the Fox News Channel. Warming up the lunchtime crowd was syndicated radio talk show host Mark Larson. Afterward, Ontario Christian High School student Amanda McGuire offered a short invocation during which all attending bowed heads in prayer. Foothill High School’s Adam Ochs then led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance before lunch. After lunch, Reagan Ranch director Andrew Coffin introduced the speaker by first sharing notes from Gutfeld’s application to attend the Young America’s Foundation’s National Journalism Center. When Coffin inadvertently displayed a facsimile of Greg’s hand-written application, he hurriedly took it down when Greg yelled out, “Oh, great. There’s my mother’s phone number!” And, indeed, it was no joke. There at the bottom of the application was his mother’s phone number. Gutfeld was there ostensibly to promote his latest book: Not Cool; The Hipster Elite And Their War On You, but he was really there as a favorite son, as he is an alumnus of the National Journalism Center. The event was a sell-out, and the overflow room upstairs was also filled. Gutfeld’s career has taken him from editor of his high-school newspaper to a ten-year stint with Prevention magazine in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to staff writer at Men’s Health magazine, to editor-in-chief of Stuff and then Maxim in the U.K., to the Huffington Post (where he collaborated with Andrew Breitbart), and finally to the Fox News Channel, where he has become the cable network’s most popular bête noire. “He’s been called ‘the most dangerous man in television,’” Coffin intoned. “He’s a stink bomb thrown into every faculty lounge, mainstream editing room, and Hollywood movie studio. He continues to fight back against the phonies, elitists, and creeps who want your soul. Ladies and gentlemen,” Coffin concluded with a flourish, “I give you Greg Gutfeld.” FAQs The speaker jumped up from the table where he was sitting with Wendy McCaw and Arthur Von Wiesenberger and began by answering what he said
were the most frequently asked questions he gets: “They ask me how tall I am. Obviously about six feet,” the fivefoot-six personality jokes. “I get my sweaters at Baby Gap.” “What is love? I don’t know why they ask me that.” He revealed that he wears his glasses down over his nose on The Five, “so you can’t see that I’m leering at Kimberly [Guilfoyle, one of his co-hosts on The Five]. He likened the overflow room, which he could hear but not see, to “the children’s table at Thanksgiving.” Among the hundreds of attendees at the Reagan Ranch Center to hear Greg Gutfeld (right) speak He then explains why Bob Beckel, was Colleen Graffy, former U.S. Deputy Assistant another co-host and the only Democrat Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy for Europe on The Five, is so important for the and Eurasia, sister of Santa Barbara News-Press show. “I call it the James Bond villain and Montecito Journal columnist Erin Graffy, and thesis. You need to have a Dr. No. You daughter of former County Supervisor Jeanne Graffy and retired test pilot Chuck Graffy need to have the Man with the Golden Gun with the extra nipples. You need to have the bad guy. I always say you’ve got to love Bob,” Gutfeld quips a little nervously, “especially if you’re a female and he’s paying you by the hour... “Too blue for this crowd?” he asks. “I don’t know,” he wonders aloud, “but it’s going to get worse. “People often ask me if Dana Perino (another co-host) is really that nice,” he says. His answer is: “No. We were at the airport a few months ago and she told Stephen Hawking to hurry up. “People ask what goes on during the commercial breaks, because you always seem to be laughing when you come back on. Basically, the other panelists are on their smart phones checking their stocks; I’m doing charity work for underprivileged children.” Advice for the Youngsters
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As for Red Eye, he says the show “speaks to the edgy and sincerely rebellious nature of Fox News. This was a show that could not be on anywhere else. And, they took a chance with someone like me. They didn’t even know who I was, but they had just seen what I had written on the Huffington Post and sent somebody out to London to meet with me. Red Eye is the most rebellious, anti-mainstream show that’s ever been on television and Fox is doing it.” Gutfeld then offered advice to the younger people in the mostly older audience. “They say at these college commencements to follow your dream,” he begins. “That’s baloney. Don’t follow your dream. Your dream will find you if you get a job and start working. You’ll learn to get up to go to work, if you don’t like the job, you either learn to like it or you move on.” Another piece of advice was that “you’ve got to be willing to move. I lived in San Francisco when I got out of college. I moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania. I went from the number three city in the country to number 300. It was horrible. I stayed there for ten years. I learned to be a reporter there. You can find value in any job. At Prevention, I was writing about osteoporosis and I was only 25 years old, but I learned to talk to doctors and learned not to think I was smart. The best kind of journalism is to admit you don’t know anything.” He also advised “all you young kids out there: they’re going to tell you to ‘express yourself.’ It’s the worst thing you can do. Do not express yourself ever. Shut up for ten years. Report instead of retort. It’s more important for you to listen than to voice an opinion about yourself.” More words of caution: “Don’t get any tattoos” and “stop saying ‘like.’” He advised that if they were going to smoke marijuana, “wait until you’re 35 or 40. If you start having fun in life before you earn it, you’ll never actually earn it. You will never actually grow up.” “Say ‘yes’ to work. I said yes to American Spectator.” He worked in the mail room and relates that “the second day on the job, I got a letter from someone who kept sending stuff every two weeks or so. The guy who worked with me in the mailroom said, ‘Oh, just toss those. That’s what we do with submissions.’ A lot of magazines do that because no one has time to read them. So, I go, ‘Okay, I’ll just toss this, Mr. Limbaugh. It was Rush Limbaugh. I’m not joking.” He quipped that he had a lot in common with Ronald Reagan, including that “Reagan once co-starred with a monkey named Bonzo; I once did a show with Chris Matthews.” When he got serious again, he noted that Reagan “restored a much-needed American optimism. After a horrible decade, he reaffirmed our country’s belief in its exceptionalism and its superiority, and confidently reminded the world that we actually run this place and if you don’t like it, that’s tough. It was a brave and exceptional stance, and one that we need now more than ever.”
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are located on the ground floor, while children’s items are located upstairs. Both Jenni Kayne Home and Jenni Kayne’s clothing boutique are located at 525 San Ysidro Road, in Richard Gunner’s pharmacy development.
Members of the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department and Santa Barbara Police Department, along with Starbucks employees, at the first-ever Montecito “Coffee with a Cop”
Coffee with a Cop
On Tuesday, April 22, deputies with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department partnered with Santa Barbara Police Department for the first “Coffee with a Cop” in Montecito. The event was held at Starbucks on Coast Village Road. Sergeant David Brookshire told us during the event that many Montecito residents had turned out for the casual gathering and asked the officers for suggestions on how to stay safe in Montecito. “They are mainly concerned with vehicle and residential break-ins,” he said. Other residents came out to thank law enforcement for their service. “We were very well-received,” said sheriff PIO Kelly Hoover. The SBPD and the Sheriff’s Office routinely hold “Coffee with a Cop” events and decided to do one together in Montecito since both agencies are responsible for policing the community. “Coast Village Road presents a unique environment because despite the fact that the Santa
Barbara Police Department handles the businesses, sheriff’s deputies are often seen on Coast Village Road. This can create confusion for the public,” said sheriff’s detective Matt Banks. The Sheriff’s Office has held “Coffee with a Cop” events in Carpinteria, Goleta and Isla Vista, but this is the first time one has been held in Montecito. The goal of “Coffee with a Cop” gatherings is to provide the public with a casual atmosphere where they can get to know sheriff’s deputies that work in their community and ask questions they may have. To get information directly on events involving the Sheriff’s Office, visit www.sbsheriff.org and sign up to receive Nixle alerts.
Lutah Riggs Event
The Lutah Maria Riggs Society will host a celebratory evening in Montecito on Friday, May 2, honoring Lutah Maria Riggs, the draftswoman and protégé of historic architect George Washington Smith. Between 1918 and his death in 1930, Smith designed more than 54 residential and non-residential structures, mostly in Santa Barbara. In his latter years, he was assisted by Riggs, who later went on to establish her own successful architecture firm. Smith and Riggs designed Los Suenos in Montecito, where the May 2 event will be held. Guests will enjoy an elegant evening of wine and appetizers while having the opportunity to see additional footage from the documentary
The work of architect Lutah Maria Riggs will be the focus of a reception at Los Suenos in Montecito on Friday, May 2
Lutah, which premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival earlier this year. The May 2 event is the prelude to the Pearl Chase Society’s Historic Homes Tour on Sunday, May 18, which takes visitors on a bus-led tour of four George Washington Smith-designed homes in Montecito, as well as his chapel in the Santa Barbara Cemetery. The Lutah Maria Riggs reception will be held Friday, May 2, at 6 pm. Tickets are $150 per person; space is limited and advanced reservations are advised. For further information, email lmrsociety@gmail.com or call 565-0001. •MJ
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Polly Bookwalter Releases Second Butterfly Beach Book Bookwalter’s new book is a follow-up to her popular debut, Butterfly Beach A vivid illustration from the new children’s book The Keeper of Butterfly Beach
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ears ago, Polly Bookwalter strolled along Butterfly Beach and imagined that her future grandchildren would one day walk alongside her and ask, “Grandma, why do they call this Butterfly Beach?” Polly decided to pre-emptively answer that question in her first children’s book, Butterfly Beach. She thought it would simply be a book for friends and family, but its popularity grew. It is now on its third printing, and the beloved book is popular all along the Pacific Coast and throughout much of the country. Fast-forward six years. Some things have changed while others have remained the same. Polly no longer has to imagine grandchildren – she now has four grandsons. Her lifelong passion for finding a way to teach children little lessons about caring for our planet has remained steadfast. She recently released her second children’s book, The Keeper of Butterfly Beach. Polly’s inspiration was a stunning Montecito woman with silver hair who for years has been walking up and down Butterfly Beach picking up trash. At the time, Polly did not know the woman’s name, but she recognized her as the keeper of Butterfly Beach, soon to become the heroine in her new book. The first page of Polly’s book says, “No one knows her real name. She wears a big straw hat and carries a long, wooden stick. People call her ‘The Keeper of Butterfly Beach’ because she keeps the beach clean and tidy.” Eventually, Polly learned that her inspiration for The Keeper of Butterfly Beach is Montecito resident Arnette Jens Zerbe, an artist and actor who is married to fellow-actor Anthony Zerbe. Arnette is thrilled that Polly is doing something to encourage cleaning up the ocean environment. Both of Polly’s books call attention 24 April – 1 May 2014
tagious and says, “Somehow you want to do something permanent to preserve that.” Her next book will be about looking for creative outlets, respecting nature and using nature as art. She has already found her inspiration, an older gentleman who many of us have seen on Butterfly Beach making designs in the sand with his shovel. Each evening, the tide washes his creations away, and he starts anew the next day. This book will complete the trilogy of the Butterfly Beach books. The Keeper of Butterfly Beach and Polly’s first book, Butterfly Beach, are available at numerous places in Montecito and Santa Barbara – including Tecolote, Toy Crazy, The Biltmore Gift Shop, Read n’ Post, Chaucer’s, Granada Books, Kernohan’s Toy Store, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art Gift Store, The Book Den, and Bennett’s Educational Supplies in Goleta. It is also available on Amazon. •MJ
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to ecological concerns. Butterfly Beach addresses the diminishing number of monarch butterflies, but it is filled with the hope that if we protect and care for their habitat, they will return. The Keeper of Butterfly Beach has a simple but profound message: it’s important to care for our oceans and beaches. Polly is both an author and an illustrator. She wants her books to remain true to her own vision. To ensure that this would be the case, Polly formed her own publishing company, Montecito Shores. Both books in the Butterfly Beach series incorporate her own unique and colorful mosaic artwork. Polly divides her time between
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Underwater voyager Robert Ballard will resurface at UCSB, where he graduated in 1965
(search equipment and technology) they’re using in the ocean there now, I would have thrown them in the water and just sat back and read a magazine.” Ballard hasn’t been called in to help in the quest to find the missing plane, but he wouldn’t have had time anyway. At 71, the scientist said he’s “busy as a beaver.” On tap for later in the day, was a rehearsal for a TED conference and further work organizing a six-month expedition for his ship, the Nautilus (named after childhood hero Captain Nemo), and viewing the final cut of his next TV special for National Geographic. “It’s endless. There’s always meetings, fundraising, organizing, publishing and more. We’re at sea six months a year, and we don’t stop when we’re out. There are lots of logistics and team-building.” The call of ship-bound exploration isn’t as attractive as it once was, he said, especially with the advent of drones and other equipment to aid in the process. “I love developing the next toys, and I still do that,” Ballard said. “I want to discover as much as I can before I die. I love going to sea, but not for all that long anymore. I’m interested in finding things, but I can do a lot of that from shore. I’d rather find things than look for them. I love the moment of discovery, you can’t beat it.” Which brings us back to Titanic and that instant when his submersible first landed on the deck of the ship. “There were twin reactions of professional excitement and joy, but also a personal one of sadness,” he said. “It was very complex. I was very thrilled that I did it. But I’m at a gravesite. You don’t jump up and down. We did at first, for a moment – we celebrated. And we felt guilty about it. It only lasted a few seconds. Then it shifted. Because it’s where all those people died. All the lost souls, it speaks to you. Like at Gettysburg – it’s hallowed grounds. There’s no difference.
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It’s just underwater.” These days, though, mostly, it’s all about mapping. The Nautilus has millions of dollars of sonar equipment to aid in that work of learning more about the oceans, which make up 72 percent of the planet and yet, as Ballard likes to say, we still know less about it than we do about the moon. “We react to what we know. But we’ve got to know first. Otherwise, how can you manage the ocean? Which is what we need to do.”
Dancing with Dendy
Mark Dendy spent years in largescale productions such as Julie Taymor’s Met production of The Magic Flute, Carnivale for the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, and his own Ritual Cyclical, a site-specific piece for 80 dancers that premiered last summer. But this Saturday night, Santa Barbara gets to see the world premiere of a rare evening-length work for his own smaller Dendy Dance Company called Dystopian Distractions. The piece blends influences of German choreographer Kurt Jooss’ famous 1930s antiwar piece The Green Table with a dance deconstruction of Picasso’s Guernica, and a little Honey Boo Boo and Elvis Presley for good measure. Dystopian Distractions has come together over a month-long residency at the Lobero courtesy of DANCEworks, now in its sixth year. Here are six reasons to see the work, gleaned from a recent telephone interview with Dendy. It’s a rare political dance work in Santa Barbara or anywhere else: “I saw a piece about the environment five years ago, and it really opened me up into making more political work. I understand that people don’t want to be inundated with this 24-7, but I also don’t understand how you keep your head in sand and go about day-to-day life and allow all these wars, and the corporate takeover of America, and
all the plastic consumption. I needed to go on record at least having saying something rather than just making another dance piece.” Dendy believes in the responsibility of art to deal with important issues: “When modern dance started in ‘30s and ‘40s, there was a lot of work about socialism and working-class life. But the legacy has been dropped. What’s dealt with now is sexual discovery, which is important work, but nobody’s tackling the huge subjects like the survival of the planet. Choreographers have just been doing whatever they’d do if the world wasn’t in a catastrophic situation with both the environment and all these wars.” The work offers a balance between dance and drama: “I like to do mixing and juxtaposing different genres to make a gestalt. My work is not pure dance. I use theater, aspects of cabaret, Broadway-type show biz dancing – all in service of a common theme. I love blending diverse realities. If you move the action only by dance, the audience doesn’t stay with you very long. But if you keep going between different styles and media, it keeps them awake in this age of constant distraction and fast edits. I have to constantly stimulate them with different approaches. As Brecht said, if you’re going to do a didactic art, it has to be engaging and entertaining. You can’t just get out there and preach.” There’s non-stop action, often in more than one place on stage at a time: “I like to show two or three things going on at once because that’s how we’re really living right now. There’s too much information, too much technology. When I check my cell phone on our breaks, I’ve got 70 emails waiting for me. So if people don’t see everything the first time through, that’s fine. That’s how life is.” Dendy plays the general, but doesn’t dance any of the solos, although his vision is in every moment: “I was in the studio doing all the material while we developed it, so it came out of my body and then was grafted onto these dancers. It’s a little bit sad to realize I’m not up for the solos anymore, but now I’m able to make these big pieces. You trade one for the other. It’s all fine.” The piece is intended to actually incite audiences to action: “I don’t intend to wake up the entire audience, but every pebble you throw in pond causes a ripple. If 10 people decide to do something, that has a ricochet, domino effect. We have to open up the possibility for change and revolution in people’s minds. That starts with awareness. The idea isn’t to feel powerless – you can watch the news cycle and feel more depressed; that’s what happens when you just stand by and
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watch. But if you take action, you get more energy.”
The Fab Four Once More
It might seem surprising, but the Marjorie Luke Theatre has now been on the scene in Santa Barbara longer than The Beatles stayed together. And Rod Lathim is damn proud of that fact. “Back in beginning, when the idea surfaced to renovate the theater, I was told that it was a waste of time and money, because people wouldn’t use it, and it would get trashed being on a school campus,” recalled Lathim, who spearheaded the revival of the venue at Santa Barbara Junior High at the comparatively modest cost of $4 million, and has served as its executive director ever since. “But I didn’t listen. And now here we are 10 years later, and it’s been maintained, it’s financially solid and it’s done everything we hoped it would do.” So how better to mark the occasion than to bring back the band that played the first sold-out bash at the Luke back in 2003? The Fab Four – dubbed the Ultimate Beatles Tribute band for their precise attention to detail and uncanny, note-for-note live renditions of the group’s classic songs – take to the stage at the 800-seat venue on Saturday night. The goal is to recreate the magic of that first Luke concert, much as the Fab Four recreated The Beatles’ 1964 and 1965 concerts at the Hollywood Bowl back in 2001. “It was such an amazing night, and the place really hasn’t rocked that way since,” Lathim said. “It was so memorable that we wanted to have them at our anniversary party and really bang our drum – which we don’t do very much, because we’re not a fancy place. We’re the people’s theater.” Still, there are some new touches this time around. Santa Barbara resident Alan Parsons – who engineered both Abbey Road and Let It Be before going on to a career as an art-rock pioneer – will introduce the group from the stage. And the Luke’s courtyard will be transformed into a “Yellow Submarine Soirée” complete with a 1960s vintage environment for the catered party that follows the concert – and as befits “the people’s theater,” you don’t have to be a VIP to attend as all are invited. “It was time to let everybody know that we’re stoked that we made it to 10 and in a very healthy way, without draining the community of funds,” Lathim said. “We’re very busy, more than 300 dates a year (not quite eight days a week, but close). And the place still looks as good as it did when we finished the renovations.” So maybe The Beatles were right: •MJ All you need is love. 24 April – 1 May 2014
EDITORIAL (Continued from page 35)
“Cool represents popularity without achievement. “All you have to be is liked. Doing nothing is now cool. “Being cool is self-esteem for sociopaths. “We have a president whose achievements are rivaled by a Greenpeace activist on a street corner with a clipboard. We’ve got a community organizer matching wits with the KGB. It’s like bringing a brochure on dolphins to a gunfight. “On campus now, identity trumps industry. It’s not what you do, but who you do. “Sexual expression is now seen as a job skill. “In entertainment, cool elevates degradation to an art form. We know the names of Bonnie and Clyde, but we don’t know the names of the 12 victims they killed. We have movies about cop killers, but we don’t know the name Daniel Faulkner, the Philadelphia cop murdered by Mumia Abu-Jamal, a ‘radical.’ Movies about radical terrorists are cool. “Cool has hijacked elections. The last two were not decided by heroism but by hypnotism. Both McCain and Romney, accomplished and intelligent men, lost to a political Justin Bieber. “Cool has poisoned our positions towards the military, mocked as the last option. Our retreat from dominance. How can you defeat Putin when you kind of agree with him? “It’s always the Left that starts the killing. In Venezuela, they’re out of toilet paper, which explains why Sean Penn and Danny Glover aren’t there any more, because they are so full of crap. “Cool is tearing us apart. “Forget about being an American. You’re a trans-gendered little person with peanut allergies. “The hip cannot survive without the non-hip. Loafers depend on the lifters, just as pacifists survive on others willing to die for them.” He rails against speech codes, suggesting that “even sensible liberals – and there are some – find the idea of speech codes pretty disgusting.” He ended his well-received talk on an upbeat note: “How do you beat this progressive death cult?” he asks. “You can’t just be right,” he responds. “You must be persuasively correct.” He advises conservatives to unite and reject moral masochism. “Remember who the enemy is...” he concludes, “and then eat them alive.” •MJ
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PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A Touch of Southern Love, 811 Summit Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Terry Stanford-Jacobson, 811 Summit Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 1, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 2014-0000965. Published April 23, 30, May 7, 14 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Imagine Design Studios, 452 Scenic Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. James T. Forsha, 452 Scenic Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 16, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 2014-0001132. Published April 23, 30, May 7, 14 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Olive Mill Plaza, 1933 Cliff Drive #2, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Coast Village Investments II, LLC, 1933 Cliff Drive #2, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 2, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 2014-0000973. Published April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Spudnuts Donuts, 5718 Hollister Ave. #101, Goleta, CA 93117. Spudnuts Donuts, LLC, 5718 Hollister Ave. #101, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 27, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. Original FBN No. 2014-0000921. Published April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Spudnuts Donuts, 6530 Seville Rd. #101, Isla Vista, CA 93117. Spudnuts Donuts, LLC, 5718 Hollister Ave. #101, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 27, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)
by Melissa Mercer. Original FBN No. 2014-0000920. Published April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOM:AGE, 331 E. Valerio Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Abagail Starr, 331 E. Valerio Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 1, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 2014-0000968. Published April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Select Our, 1120 Coast Village Circle, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Select Our, LLC, 1120 Coast Village Circle, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 10, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. Original FBN No. 2014-0001075. Published April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Skyline Property Management, 445 Vista de la Playa Ln., Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Savvy Real Estate Solutions, 445 Vista de la Playa Ln., Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 21, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. Original FBN No. 2014-0000844. Published April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Overland Security Services, 1517 Stowell Center Plaza, STE L, Santa Maria, CA 93458. Overland Security Services, LLC, 2735 Stephen Place, Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 4, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Dionne Ruiz. Original FBN No. 2014-0000997. Published April 9, 16, 23, 30, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Palm Villas, 616 West Cook Street, Attn: Leasing Office, Santa Maria, CA 93458. 616 West Cook Street, LLC, 23622 Calabasas Road, Suite 337, Calabasas, CA 91302. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 21, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the
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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5318 DUE DATE & TIME: MAY 8, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Paint Airport Building 114 & 251 A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on May 1, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., at the Airport Maintenance Conference Room, located at 1699 Firestone Road, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bid Documents are available at the Purchasing Office and at the pre-bid meeting. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California General B and a C33 Painters Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess the above mentioned licenses and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Contractor shall also present a copy of one "Lead Related Construction Supervisor" and four "Lead Related Construction Worker" CA DHS Lead Related Construction Certifications with bid submittal. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.
____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager
Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Lea Morales. Original FBN No. 2014-0000856. Published April 9, 16, 23, 30, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Breathtaking Landscaping, 1825 Sunset Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Ricardo Godinez, 1825 Sunset Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 5, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the
ORDINANCE NO. 5651 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING TITLE 22 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING CHAPTER 22.65 ESTABLISHING DESIGN STANDARDS FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT NEAR HIGHWAY 101 TO IMPLEMENT POLICY ER7 OF THE 2011 GENERAL PLAN. The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on April 15, 2014. The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.
(Seal)
/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5651 STATE OF CALIFORNIA
) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on April 8, 2014, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on April 15, 2014, by the following roll call vote: AYES:
Councilmembers Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider
NOES:
Councilmembers Dale Francisco, Cathy Murillo
ABSENT:
None
ABSTENTIONS:
None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on April 16, 2014.
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County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk. Original FBN No. 2012-0001593. Published April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Reel Estates; SB Reel Estates, 2774 Las Encinas Road West, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Mark Bacino, 2774 Las Encinas Road West, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 14, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my
• The Voice of the Village •
/s/ Susan Tschech, CMC Deputy City Clerk I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 16, 2014.
/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor
office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. Original FBN No. 2014-0000786. Published April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Wild Jasmine, 234 Ocean View Avenue, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Julie Loretta Hall 234 Ocean View Avenue, Carpinteria,
CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 24, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 2014-0000861. Published April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014.
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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO 3712
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO: 3668A
Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3712 for the SCHOOL ZONE PEDESTRIAN REFUGE ISLAND INSTALLATIONS will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 P.M., Wednesday, April 30, 2014 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “SCHOOL ZONE PEDESTRIAN REFUGE ISLAND INSTALLATIONS, Bid No. 3712".
Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3668A for the SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL CLEVELAND PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Monday, May 5, 2014, to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL CLEVELAND PROJECT, Bid No. 3668A."
The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a finished pedestrian refuge island project, including rolled curbs, brick pavers, conforms, pavement delineation, and sign installation. This work includes and is not limited to mobilization, bonds, insurance, traffic control, traffic striping, surveying, concrete saw cutting, removal of hardscape, excavation, compaction, pacing of asphalt concrete, Portland cement concrete, brick pavers, cleanup, public notices, and incidentals per the project plans and specifications. The Engineerʼs estimate is $120,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The Cityʼs contact for this project is Andrew Grubb, Project Engineer, (805) 564-5404. In order to be placed on the plan holderʼs list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the Cityʼs website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashierʼs check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal. A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work. The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder. GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA
The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete and deliver the finished intersection improvement project including curbs, gutters, sidewalks, access ramps, driveways, root pruning, root barrier installation, landscape improvements, conforms, pavement delineations, sign replacement, and safety lighting. The Engineerʼs estimate is $200,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The Cityʼs contact for this project is Ken Young, Project Engineer, 805-560-7568. In order to be placed on the plan holderʼs list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the Cityʼs website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Bidders are advised that this project is a Federal-Aid Construction project and the Contractor shall agree to all requirements, conditions, and provisions set forth in the specification book issued for bidding purposes entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Attention is directed to Appendix C of the “Proposal and Contract” specification book for federal requirements and conditions, as well as documents required to be submitted with this proposal request. This project is subject to the “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and available from the California Department of Industrial Relationsʼ Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The Federal minimum wage rates for this Project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates. Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage requirements in the specification book entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of the “Proposal and Contract” specification books. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal Minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question. Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashierʼs check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal. A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work. The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free “hotline” service to report bid rigging activities. Bid rigging activities can be reported Mondays through Fridays, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Telephone No. 1-800-424-9071. Anyone with knowledge of possible bid rigging, bidder collusion, or other fraudulent activities should use the “hotline” to report these activities. The “hotline” is part of the DOTʼs continuing effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General. All information will be treated confidentially and caller anonymity will be respected. Bidders are hereby advised that there is a goal specified for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) for this contract of 7%. Bidders must meet this goal or demonstrate that adequate good faith efforts to meet this goal have been made as outlined in Appendix C, Section 2-1.02. Please note that this project is being rebid, the following was changed from the original bid: - Section A2.10 Qualification of Bidders - Section A2 Proposal Documents - Section A2 Proposal Documents, Form c. Experience Statement - Section A2 Proposal Documents, Form d. Proposed Subcontractors - Section 2-6.4 Work Order - Section 6-1.1 Construction Schedule & Commencement of Work - Section 6-1.7 Special Scheduling - Section 6-7.4 Contract Period - Section C1.03.02 Construction Area Signs - Section C1.03.03 Maintaining Traffic, Pedestrian Access, and Transit Access - Appendix C Federal Requirements, Federal Wage Rates Section GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA
William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED April 16 & 23, 2014 Montecito Journal
24 April – 1 May 2014
PUBLISHED: April 16, 2014 & April 23, 2014 Montecito Journal
Every man in the world is better than someone else and no as good as someone else. – William Saroyan
William Hornung, C.P.M.
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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)
FRIDAY, APRIL 25 Art All-Nighter – From Dusk ‘til Drawn – the Museum of Contemporary Art’s 24-hour “drawing rally” – is both an artcentric community gathering and fundraiser for MCASB (formerly Contemporary Arts Forum). Professional and budding artists work side-by-side with dabblers, providing a rare drawing laboratory for creativity for local contemporary art luminaries, students, community leaders and others. “Drawing” is broadly interpreted, and artists of all disciplines, skill levels, and ages are encouraged to join. The participants spend as much or as little of the allotted 24-hour marathon as they wish – as yes, some troopers work furiously straight through. The completed works are immediately made available for sale to the public at one of four prices ($25, $75, $150 and $300), with proceeds divided between the participants and MCASB. More than 400 artists participated over the previous four annual events. The marathon ends with a two-hour reception and final opportunity to purchase the artwork. WHEN: Begins 5 pm; reception 4-6 pm Saturday WHERE: Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center Upper Arts Terrace COST: free INFO: 319-7980 or www.mcasantabarbara.org USA Rock – The members of The National – the roots-oriented chamber pop/alt-country band – came together in Ohio, but the group gelled and developed its sound in Brooklyn, where their arty approach to rock ‘n’ roll found lots of support in weekly gigs at La Luna in Manhattan. It’s also something of a family affair as baritone singer-songwriter Matt Berninger fronts two pairs of brothers:
Aaron (guitar, bass, piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar), and Scott (bass, guitar) and Bryan Devendorf (drums). The National’s sixth full-length CD, Trouble Will Find Me, evinces a fully evolved artistic vision described as “warm, wistful, and weary” with such telling lines as “I am secretly in love with everyone I grew up with” heralding the themes of regret and refuge-seeking. The band that is a favorite of everyone from music programmers on Game of Thrones to ESPN’s baseball blogger Keith Law headlines tonight at the Santa Barbara Bowl, with opening act Portugal. The Man, named by Rolling Stone’s Gavin Edwards as the “Trippiest Act” at Los Angeles’ annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, was praised for “blend(ing) a steady dance groove, falsetto vocals and psychedelic freakouts.” WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas Street COST: $49 INFO: 962-7411 or www. sbbowl.com ‘Hitchcock Set to Music’ – That’s the enduring reputation of The Consul, Gian Carlo Menotti’s Cold War-era thriller of an opera. Referred to as a “musical drama” by its composer, The Consul was the first opera to win a Pulitzer Prize, and also had an eight-month run on Broadway following its premiere, along the way collecting the 1950 New York Drama Critics’ Award for Best Musical. The opera – which closes out Opera Santa Barbara’s (OSB) 2013-14 season – tells the story of a devoted wife and mother who clashes with the bureaucracy of a nameless police state while trying to obtain an exit visa for her family. With themes of political oppression, soulless bureaucracy, the quest for freedom and the resultant struggles of everyday lives of
THURSDAY, APRIL 24 Concerto Night – Less than two months before the Music Academy of the West’s summer festival begins, Westmont College Orchestra invades the oceanside campus for the first of the school’s annual concerts featuring winners of the competition for spots soloing with the full ensemble. Samantha Wilson (viola) will play William Walton’s “Concerto for Viola and Orchestra”, Lalia Mangione (violin) performs Édouard Lalo’s “Symphonie espagnole”, and Isaac Kay (violin) and Rebecca Shasberger (cello) – daughter of Westmont music professor and conductor Michael Shasberger – play Johannes Brahms’ “Concerto for Violin and Cello” in A Minor. All of the soloists are playing the first movement of the pieces. Also on the program: music from the film score for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and a composition of the hymn “You are My All in All.” WHEN: 7:30 tonight (also 8 pm tomorrow) WHERE: 1070 Fairway Road tonight (First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Avenue tomorrow) COST: $10 general, students free INFO: 565-6040
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THURSDAY, APRIL 24 Last of the Vaudeville Cowboys – Born in Hollywood but partly raised on a family cattle ranch in the Sierra foothills, Rick Crowder seemed destined to wind up as the comic cowboy nicknamed Sourdough Slim, whose stage act is based on his western-style antics and yodeling cowhand. The onetime country singer brings his audiences to a whimsical world where vaudevillian camp and cowboy lore intermingle to produce grins galore. Slim’s fast-paced stage show finds him crooning Western classics, lonesome cowboy tunes and bawdy ballads; playing accordion, guitar and harmonica; dancing a jig; twirling a lariat; dishing out hilarious comedic sketches, not to mention letting loose with some absolutely mind-boggling yodeling. It’s this latter skill at the yippieti-yi-yay yell that won him the Academy of Western Artists 2001 Will Rogers Award for “Yodeler of the Year” and 2009, 2010 and 2011 nomination for “Entertainer of the Year” from the Western Music Association. Slim – who has played everywhere from the National Cowboy Gathering in Elko, Nevada to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York – is coming back to Ojai with fellow vaudevillian Robert Armstrong (who contributes guitar, banjo, ukulele, musical saw, harmonica and national steel) for one rollicking night. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Ojai Valley Woman’s Club 441 Ojai Avenue COST: $20 in advance, $25 at the door, half price for kids under 15, and free for young children who sit on laps INFO: 665-8852 or www.ojaiconcertseries.com decent people, the piece rings as relevant today as it was nearly 65 years ago at its inception. Yet the suspenseful narrative also surprises with several magical touches and is buoyed by a melodic score in which love, hope and redemption all play their part. Ensemble Theatre’s executive artistic director Jonathan Fox makes his OSB debut as stage director for The Consul, while Brent Wilson, who serves as OSB’s chorus master, makes his conducting debut. Soprano Alexandra LoBianco, who is also making her OSB debut in the role of Magda, has been hailed as possessing “a true Verdian voice of velvetcovered steel,” capable of “effortlessly tossing off trills and roulades.” Mezzo soprano Nina Yoshida Nelsen, a Santa Barbara native, perform the role of the secretary, while baritone Joshua Jeremiah makes his OSB debut in the role of John Sorel, while OSB studio artist Julie Adams, an alumna of the Music Academy of the West, plays Anna Gomez. WHEN: 7:30 tonight, 2:30 pm Saturday WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $28-$188 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org SATURDAY, APRIL 26 Earth Day – It was 45 years ago that a massive oil spill from a platform off Santa Barbara’s coast galvanized California into action and caught the attention of the rest of the nation, giving rise to the creation of the Community Environmental Council – and the first Earth Day in 1970. Now, Earth Day in the place it
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all began has become has become a weekend education/celebration almost as massive as the mess that sparked the movement. The two-day festival attractions environmentalists of all types, and offers entertainment, events and attractions all geared toward reducing carbon emissions and treating our planet kindly. Appearing on the mainstage are such popular touring acts as Hot Buttered Rum and local stalwarts Spencer the Gardener, Tommy & the High Pilots, Jonathan McEuen, and the Caverns, while you can learn about plant-based diets and how to make probiotic drinks at the Homegrown Roots Stage. Twenty speakers are slated to talk about a variety of environmental subjects; you can check out and even test drive earth-friendly autos at the Clean Car area, shop at the Eco-Marketplace, and visit myriad community organizations and others at the Public Square and Live Green areas. Just be sure to bike, take the bus, walk or at least carpool on your way to Alameda Park. WHEN: 11 am-7 pm today, 11 am-6 pm tomorrow WHERE: 1400 Santa Barbara Street COST: free INFO: www.sbearthday.org Voyces of “The Vespers” – Montecito will be well represented when Quire of Voyces closes its 20th anniversary season with the program entitled Songs from Ancient Lands. The concert features one of the most moving choral masterworks of the 20th century, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil (often called “The Vespers”). The seldom heard, sensual and deeply felt work melds the beauty of centuriesold chant with the composer’s genius for
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Off The Wall Art – It’s a big weekend for taking home artwork from museum walls. In addition to From Dusk ‘til Drawn MCASB, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Women’s Board is hosting its popular Off The Wall fundraising event in which every ticket holder goes home with a piece of original art created or donated for the event by more than 100 local and regional artists. The evening begins with drinks and hors d’oeuvres in the garden before the action moves indoors, where paintings, sculptures, photographs, and other types of art – from artists Rick Garcia, Meredith Brooks Abbott, Rafael Gaete, Joan Tanner, Ralph Waterhouse, Cayetana Conrad and Rafael Perea de la Cabada, among others – line the walls of the museum’s McCormick House. The main event, when you get to pick a piece to take home with you, starts with a live auction for the first three choices, followed by a random drawing to determine who chooses next. (Think the NBA’s annual draft lottery). So not only do you get to get up close and personal with these original works, you literally take one down and walk away. WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: Ridley-Tree Education Center at McCormick House, 1600 Santa Barbara Street. COST: $350 (admits two and includes one piece of art) INFO: 884-6428 or www.sbmawb.org harmony and polyphony and composition, resulting in what he considered his greatest work – so much so that he chose a movement to be played at his own funeral. Composed in less than two weeks in the winter of 1915 during the darkest depths of WWI, the All Night Vigil is the culmination of Rachmaninoff’s 20-year study of Russian sacred music and a prayer for peace and transcendence. Westmont music professor Nichole Dechaine and Westmont graduate Bryan Lane, along with Adelphos director Temmo Korisheli – who is also associate music
director at All Saints by-the-Sea Episcopal Church – are the soloists for the work that’s been called a veritable choral symphony, full of colors both dazzling and muted, textures both rarified and overwhelming, and scoring that ranges from unison to 11part. Also on the program: Sheremetev’s Now the Powers of Heaven and Sviridov’s Sacred Love. WHEN: 7 tonight, 3 pm tomorrow WHERE: St. Anthony’s Chapel at the Garden Street Academy, 2300 Garden Street COST: $20 general, $15 students & seniors INFO: 965-5935 or www.sbcc. edu/music/website/choir/qv.main •MJ
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ON DANCE (Continued from page 24) Valerie Huston surrounded by artistes (from left): Fabiane Friden, Julie Aidnik, Rae Michaud, Daniel Salinas, Valerie Huston, Grace Barker, Sadie Kimball and Regan Cattoi (photo by Michelle Kimball)
Emmy Lou Crawford and near tweens (from left): Alexa Hellman, Sonya Kaestner, Ella Onishuk, Emmy Lou Crawford, Demi Robitaille, Stella Wing and Caroline KnoxReid
As fate would have it, on leaving the ABT they had each taken teaching jobs with Madam Olga Ziceva’s academy in Northern California. There they met, married and began laying plans for a dance school of their very own, quickly dismissing New York City, Los Angeles and Paris as prospective command centers in favor of an orchard-covered whistle-stop on California’s Central Coast, now known colloquially as The Good Land. By the time the Hanlins retired in 1991, the school – then known as the Goleta School of Ballet – was thriving, and had long since established the relationship with the Santa Barbara Symphony that saw live musicians fill the Arlington’s orchestra pit every holiday season. As the Hanlins moved on with their lives, they handed the reins to an early protégé and soon-tobe Fellow in Cecchetti USA, Denise Rinaldi, who had herself trained at the feet of one of Cecchetti’s earliest boosters in the U.S. and a foundational figure in the Cecchetti firmament here in the U.S. The Cecchetti method, developed in the 1920s by Maestro Enrico Cecchetti and employed today in dance companies the world over, imbues the dancer with a physical self-awareness, producing a recognizable purity of style and line that works within the body’s natural architectural constraints. Cecchetti thus also addresses the physical demands of performance. Teaming up with her partner in the enterprise, Michele Hulse, Rinaldi would firmly secure the Cecchetti Method as the core animating principle of the school going forward. Today, Ms Rinaldi is the director
and indefatigable public face of a local dance institution. Santa Barbara Festival Ballet, as it’s come to be called, both oversees the yearly production of the Nutcracker at the Arlington, and sends newly minted professional dancers, many of them reared in the SBFB studios since the time they were about three feet tall, to dance companies across the U.S. and beyond. Rinaldi’s blue chip team of instructors – Emmy Lou Crawford, Sean Crawford, Valerie Huston, Diana Replogle-Purinton, Kyleigh Carlson and Aimee Lopez, take the new students in hand and build in them a love for the attainable perfection of the Cecchetti mission, the culture of dance itself, and the artistic self-determination and personal fire to achieve great things. The local dance school that began in an unassuming walkup on Magnolia Avenue in Old Town Goleta 50 years ago is now a respected conservatory and incubator of professional dancers who continue to rep the SBFB experience to professional companies and dance schools everywhere.
Animal Action at Work
Expertly costumed, rehearsed, bathed in calibrated lighting and owning the stage, Daniel Salinas and Gracie Barker are commanding young artists on the cusp of greatness. Here in Santa Barbara Festival Ballet’s studio C this afternoon, they are teenagers, emphatically. Daniel flops like a Raggedy Andy on a folding chair and noisily mangles an empty water bottle, Gracie exudes teenage aplomb on the floor in a relaxed variation of the splits that, in another era, would be accompanied by curlers,
a candy-colored phone with a spiraling 30-foot cord, a bowl of popcorn and flannel pajamas. Shy and at times hesitant, they are both slightly out of their element here, their poise overwritten by charming teen insouciance. How did they get here? Why dance? “When I was little, I had an older sister growing up,” Gracie says, “and as most kids do, I followed my older sibling. My sister took piano, I took piano, my sister took ballet class, I took ballet class. So she started ballet with Miss Emmy Lou when she was four. I really really wanted to take ballet with her, but my mom wouldn’t let me until I got older. My sister hated ballet, she wasn’t….” “...wasn’t a natural?” I offer. Gracie demurs. “She quit a year after I joined. I loved it, though! I loved Animal Action (Daniel laughs) and all the stuff that Miss Emmy Lou does.” She explains the ‘Animal Action’ exercise as dancing in a circle and making animal noises. Possibly an early exercise in imaginative liberation. And Daniel’s intro to the dancing bug? It happened one night... “When I was five, I saw the SBFB Nutcracker at the Arlington. I started my classes the fall after I saw it. I remember seeing the show and watching the boys my age on that stage, and I really wanted to be in that show. I was inspired by what I saw on the stage to learn more about dance. Then, the summer after my eighth grade, I went to American Ballet Theater Summer Intensive, an international summer ballet camp, and when I went and saw what was out there, the level of dedication (he laughs with mild incredulity), I was driven to work harder. We danced in the same studio where ABT dances; it was… amazing.”
Twirling Busy Bodies
These two have been dancing approximately as long as they’ve been walking, and it shows. This summer, Daniel and Gracie will be on the move, appearing as soloists in several important venues around the country, and as part of the Santa Barbara Festival Ballet performing company, as well. The whole of the SBFB performing company is traveling to Spokane for the Regional Dance Festival’s Pacific Region Festival (RDA Pacific) this April; an invitation-only dance conference where seven members of the SBFB company will perform a piece created by Festival Ballet’s Valerie Huston, titled Antonio! The RDA Pacific festival, attended by select dance companies from Arizona, Idaho, California, Utah and Washington State, also consists of three days of classes and workshops and is otherwise the dream of young Grand Jete enthusiasts everywhere. The graceful teens will travel to Spokane four days ahead of the rest of the SB Festival Ballet gang to immerse themselves in a piece they will learn while at RDA Pacific. In a public feat of artistic community and detente, they will then perform the piece alongside members of all the other regional dance companies at both the Regional Festival in Spokane and at the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi, in June. Then in August, the two twirling busy bodies travel to Richmond, Virginia, to compete in the Cecchetti International Classical Ballet Competition (CIBC); a kind of Cecchetti Olympics where they will be rubbing shoulders with young masters from Australia, Canada, South Africa, England and Italy. Our two emissaries from Santa Barbara will each perform a classical variation there, one of many that are
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Among the options of available dance scholarships, opportunities to bump into one of your idols, and informal scouting by major dance company recruiters on the lookout for early promise, this isn’t your typical teen summer experience. There is much at stake. Talent and passion will out. And all the young artists attending these events can be counted on to have been at it since they were toddlers. Gracie becomes reflective about her own journey. “When I was small, there were a lot of little moments,” she offers hesitantly. “I felt special in being... I don’t know. There was a dancer here when I was small; she played Clara in The Nutcracker. I idolized her. I remember I didn’t get her autograph when I really wanted it. I was so sad, I wrote her name in really childish cursive on my program and ran to my mom.
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ESTATE SALE Montecito Estate Sale April 26 & 27 - 9am to 3pm’ 195 Sheffield Drive Refer SB Newspress classified for detail listing on April 25 & 26. Please use discretion in parking. Elizabeth Langtree, Agent.
SPECIAL REQUEST Used Nespresso Pods Wanted For Local Artist Do you drink Nespresso Coffee? I want your used coffee pods. I’m a local artist and I use these colorful pods in my creations. Save them for me and I will pick them up from Carp. to Goleta area. Creative purposeful recycling (upcycling) at its best! Thanks so much! Evelyn email me at pods.nespresso@ gmail.com
SPECIAL ITEMS FOR SALE ANTIQUES: Gas stove. GAFFER & SATTLER. 1930’s.Works fine. $450. HAY RAKE. Classic. Used in Montecito since the 1920’s. Great-looking in your yard. $250. (805) 453-5382.
SPECIAL EDUCATOR with language, art, and music therapy experience. Available for a long-term association with people with moderate to severe disabilities. Superior references. Goals include developing happy and creative experiences with support and care. Email to discuss your situation and ideas: artlanguagetherapy@outlook.com
CAREGIVING SERVICES Caregiving in the privacy of your home. Licensed & years of experience. Best rates in town. 452-4671 Caregiver, 20yrs exp. Available 1hr to 24 hr-shifts, AM/PM. Cleaning, errands, drive my car/your car to appointments/outings. Excellent Montecito refs. Private care, so no agency fees. Marie 805-729-5067.
SPECIAL SERVICES Marketing and Publicity for your business, non-profit, or event. Integrating traditional and social media and specializing in PSAs, podcasts, videos, blogs, articles and press releases. Contact Patti Teel seniorityrules@gmail.com
AUTOMOBILE/VEHICLE FOR SALE
2012 Mercedes GL 550 - $61,500 LOW MILES. Fully loaded Mercedes SUV. 1st owner with clean title pink slip in hand. Dark blue exterior, tan leather interior with black carpet. 21” AMG wheels and 2 headrest TV’s. Call Ruben 818-679-3419 HEALTH SERVICES
Fit for Life Customized workouts & nutritional guidance for any lifestyle. Individual/group sessions in ideal setting. House calls available. Victoria Frost, CPT,FNS,MMA. 805 895-9227. In-Home Physical Therapy Improve the quality of your life. Learn to move beyond your limitations. Josette Fast, PT Over 33 years experience. UCLA trained. 722-8035 www.fitnisphysicaltherapy.com
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Family Legacy Preserved Forever Does it worry you that your family legacy, memories and stories are going to be lost forever? I can draw out this depth and richness in the book of your life story. I take time to get to know my subject, researching and writing the first chapter for free. If we continue we’ll arrange a fee. Phone Paul on 805 453 2428. Commission this as a gift for a family elder? Everyone has a story. If you would like to preserve your past, pass along your hopes and dreams, and provide inspiration for younger generations, allow me to attend while you reminisce. Together we will create a written account
$8 minimum
that will become a cherished legacy for your family. Lisa O’Reilly, Personal Historian, 684-6514 Qualified experienced in home care specialist can organize your home; support your needs with delicious cuisine with respect and sensitivity to individual needs. 20yrs exp. and ex local refs. Lotusfrend@aol.com/698.5120 Personal assistant available, full-time/ part-time, can help with cooking, cleaning, planning& research. Able to travel. 805 729-2083.
TUTORING SERVICES PIANO LESSONS Kary and Sheila Kramer are long standing members of the Music Teachers’ Assoc. of Calif. Studios conveniently located at the Music Academy of the West. Now accepting enthusiastic children and/or adults. Call us at 684-4626.
POSITION WANTED Property-Care Needs? Do you need a caretaker or property manager? Expert Land Steward is avail now. View résumé at http://landcare.ojaidigital.net Personal Driver/Valet for hire. Have 25yrs experience. Call Scotty 805 822-9399 HOUSE/APT/COTTAGE WANTED
Seeking a small place in Montecito. I have lived at my current location for 26yrs and in Montecito for 44yrs. My requirements are modest & would love to have space for growing vegetables. My livelihood as a jeweler is a quiet occupation. Willing to trade any of my skills or talents to offset the rent, if that is of interest. Contact me 805-969-9335 or email me montecitojeweler@gmail.com HOUSE/ PET SITTING SERVICES
HOUSE SITTING SERVICE Responsible. Insured. 805-451-6200 centralcoastsailing@gmail.com WRITING FICTION? Best-selling author and longtime instructor for Adult Ed and SB Writers’ Conference will critique your manuscript. Excellent references (check Amazon books). Note: Now teaching writing class Wed. eves. 5:30-7:30. Duane Unkefer bfzozobra@yahoo.com
Responsible, loving House, Plant, and Pet Sitter. Former Santa Barbara resident, teacher and artist. References available. Contact Katy at ktcastanos@gmail.com
“Home Style” Bridge Party! Santa Barbara Bridge Center -April 26th 6-9:30pm. Reservations a Must! $25. Party Style Bridge with Masterpoints! More information available at: www.sbbridge.org or (805) 452-1221
COMPUTER/VIDEO SERVICES
THE CLEARING HOUSE, LLC Recognized as the Area’s Leading Estate Liquidators – Castles to Cottages Experts in the Santa Barbara Market! Professional, Personalized Services for Moving, Downsizing, and Estate Sales . Complimentary Consultation (805) 708 6113 email: theclearinghouseSB@cox.net website: theclearinghouseSB.com
VIDEOS TO DVD TRANSFERS Hurry, before your tapes fade away. Now doing records & cassettes to CD. Only $10 each 969-6500 Scott
Estate Moving Sale Service-Efficient30yrs experience. Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030.
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Nancy Hussey Realtor ® (33) Closed Real Estate Transactions in 2013! Put This Impressive Record to Work for You in 2014! 805-4523052 Coldwell Banker / Montecito DRE#01383773 www.NancyHussey.com SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL
CARMEL BY THE SEA vacation getaway. Charming, private studio. Beautiful garden patio. Walk to beach and town. $110/night. 831-624-6714 Studio rental in the Upper Village with separate entry. 575sq ft. Full kitchen, laundry, private patio & off street parking. N/P, N/S. Call 969-7659. $1500/mo inclusive.
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PAVING SERVICES MONTECITO ASPHALT & SEAL COAT, •Slurry Seal• Crack Repair• Patching• Water Problems• Striping• Resurfacing• Speed Bumps• Pot Holes • Burms & Curbs • Trenches. Call Roger at (805) 708-3485
CARPENTRY SERVICES Artisan custom wood works, makers of fine furniture, doors, windows, kitchen and bath cabinets, repairs, small jobs welcome. Call Rudy 805-689-7614 or 805-350-0857 License ca 820521
Do you love Reagan history? The Reagan Ranch Center is seeking volunteers who would be interested in serving as docents for the Exhibit Galleries. Docents will have the opportunity share the history of President Reagan and his “Western White House.” For more information or to apply, please contact Danielle Fowler at 805-9571980 or daniellef@reaganranch.org. “The 1st Memorial Honors Detail is seeking veterans to get back in uniform to participate in an on-call Honor Guard
team to provide military honors at funeral or memorial services throughout Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. For more information visit www.usmilitaryhonors. org, email carlvwade@gmail.com, or call 805-667-7909.” Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter is located at the Santa Barbara County Animal Shelter, 5473 Overpass Rd, Santa Barbara, Ca. www.bunssb.org Adopt / Volunteer/Donate with us, and help give abandoned & stray rabbits & guinea pigs a better life.
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1525 Las Tunas Rd $8,295,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Gated, French Provencial style 5bd/6.5ba estate on 1.3 acres. www.MontecitoProperties1525.com
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1389 Oak Creek Canyon Rd $4,350,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 6± ac parcel in premiere Montecito location. Dramatic ocean/island & mtn views. Water meter in!
670 El Bosque Rd $4,295,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Montecito Mediterranean with character! Has pool with rock slide, 4BD/5.5BA. www.DanEncell.com
1425 Mission Ridge Rd $3,950,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Breathtaking Riviera estate site with Panoramic views. 4BD/4.5BA. www.DanEncell.com
1615 Grand Ave $3,850,000 Ken Switzer 805.680.4622 Riviera development opportunity, ocean/city views. 3 adjacent parcels zoned R-2, 10,454 SF ea.
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1385 Oak Creek Canyon Rd $4,750,000 Joe Stubbins 805.729.0778 Gated 6 ac estate site with ocean, island & mtn views. All utilities at site & includes plans.
780 Rockbridge Rd $4,650,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Private in Montecito w/ ocean vws, vineyard, & 3500 wine storage.4bd/5ba www.DanEncell.com
623 Parra Grande Ln $2,495,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 $2,950,000 805.450.6233 Single level ranch style on quiet Montecito lane with large yard. 5BD/3BA + 2 guest quarters. www.DanEncell.com
2862 E Valley Rd $3,500,000 1776 Eucalyptus Hill Rd Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Nancy Kogevinas 3BD Suites & GH, Open Kitchen, Media Rm, Den, 3-Car Garage. Ocean view 4Bd/6Ba home on 4+ acres w/ tremendous SF. www.MontecitoProperties2862.com www.MontecitoProperties1776.com
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