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IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!
Village Beat
First set of Swiss nets to be installed in Montecito; funds still needed, p. 12
(photo by Rose Eichenbaum)
WITH A SCORE BY MILAN SVOBODA AND BASED UPON RUDYARD KIPLING’S RIVETING TALE OF A YOUNG BOY RAISED BY WOLVES, STATE STREET BALLET’S REPRISAL OF THE JUNGLE BOOK AT THE GRANADA LOOKS TO BE A FUN FAMILY AFFAIR (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 19)
The Way It Was
Arlo Atchison didn’t just know cars, he knew how to build cars (and parts) at his Horseless Carriage Restoration Shop in Santa Barbara, p. 22
Mindful Musician
Dalida Arakelian was a Santa Barbara Don and a Montecito Girl Scout; now she works with Neuroscientists and musicians at UCLA, p. 32
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Guest Editorial
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Montecito Miscellany
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Letters to the Editor
Bob Hazard on the necessity of a long-range Strategic Planning Committee if Montecito is going to come to a water solution Santa Barbara Yacht Club opening day; CADA event at Coral Casino; Dalida Arakelian’s Mindful Music Productions; classical concerts; Joffrey Ballet at Granada; UCSB Arts & Lectures parties; Norman Sosner publishes book; Summerland Winery sells; Forbes list; Frank McGinity’s film; Gwyneth Paltrow on drugs; Katy Perry sells home; Isaac Mizrahi’s memoir; John Cleese teams up with Comedy Hideaway; Billy Baldwin’s thoughts on niece’s marriage; André Previn passes; sightings A collection of communications from local residents Palmer Jackson Jr., Lawrence Dam, Bob Hazard, Sanderson M. Smith, Doug Norberg, Pete Schenck, and Ben Burned
10 This Week in Montecito
A list of local events happening in and around town; Local Tide Guide
12 Village Beat
Net installation to commence; insurance woes in Montecito; Montecito Association board hears from Tom Fayram; MFPD recognized for transparency; George Leis joins YMCA board
14 Seen Around Town
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Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation’s Little Heroes breakfast; Giuliana Montecito opens; Annie Leibovitz speaks at Arlington
19 On Entertainment
State Street Ballet’s The Jungle Book; Dirk Brossé conducts Santa Barbara Symphony in Amadeus Live at Granada; Art at Karpeles Manuscript Museum; art gallery openings; 74th annual Santa Barbara International Orchid Show; UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Susan Orlean; CALM Celebrity Authors’ Luncheon; book events at Chaucer’s
20 Microbubbling
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Mitchell Kriegman remembers scholar and magician Ricky Jay
22 The Way it Was
M O N T E C I T O R A N C H E S TAT E S
Arlo Atchison was an expert mechanic that moved to Santa Barbara in 1912 and eventually owned the Horseless Carriage Restoration Shop
26 Spirituality Matters
Paradise Found hosts Spring Equinox sampler; Chakra Awakening workshop; DiviniTree celebrates spring; Equinox Meditation event; Round 2 of Kiaora Fox’s series of 5Rhythms Workshops at Yoga Soup; Tantra Games: Mindful Connecting; tantra class at Mahakankala Buddhist Center; animal meditation workshop; EntheoMedicine event; Sunburst Sanctuary hosts Regenerating Earth & Spirit
34 Our Town
Laguna Blanca AP English students collaborate with State Street Ballet for Library Dances
38 Legal Advertising 39 Brilliant Thoughts
Ashleigh Brilliant on the history of walls
41 Open House Directory 42 Calendar of Events
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Mandelring Quartet at SBMA; Derek Douget plays Lobero; MAW hosts Molly Morkoski; Amadeus at Granada; Fuddy Meers at Rubicon; Ensemble Theatre Company hosts Irish music night; Guthrie family plays Lobero; Headless Household celebrate 25 years of Inside/Outside USA; CAMA brings back Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Guest Editorial
by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an associate editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club.
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n this community, business-as-usual is no longer an option. Separate silos for water and sanitary decisions are as dated as hula hoops. Why? Water in all forms is one of our most fundamental resources. Increasingly, communities are realizing a need for districts to work together on water solutions that deliver more efficient use, integrated management and replenishment of our precious water resources.
Santa Barbara County Plan
The Santa Barbara County “2019 Integrated Regional Water Management Plan” encourages individual districts to work together to develop regional strategies to protect communities from drought, improve water quality and develop local water supplies that reduce our dependence on imported water. Participants in the County planning process include water districts, wastewater treatment districts, stormwater management experts, water quality monitors, and flood control professionals from all eight incorporated cities (Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, Goleta, Lompoc, Buellton, Solvang, Guadalupe, and Santa Maria) plus 14 unincorporated districts, including Montecito Water District, but not Montecito Sanitary District. Cuyama, Los Olivos, and Vanderburg Village have combined their separate water districts and sanitary districts and have added flood control, water quality, water efficiency, groundwater management and salt and nutrient management into a single Community Service District, eliminating separate silos and improving efficiencies.
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Even as Santa Barbara’s new $70 million desalination plant opened in May 2017, city officials rushed to secure a $5 million property for a future water recycling plant nearby. According to Joshua Haggmark, Santa Barbara Water Resources Manager, “Recycled water has the potential to make up fifty percent of the city’s future supply.”
California Wastewater Treatment
Some 417 billion gallons of wastewater are generated each year by the state’s 57 wastewater treatment plants that discharge into the Pacific Ocean or its bays. On the South Coast, five separate wastewater plants generate 9.3 billion gallons per year, piped offshore and deposited into the ocean. Modern treatment technologies can turn wastewater into safe drinking water. Orange County has been a leader in advanced wastewater recycling. Municipal wastewater is passed through micro-filters and reverse-osmosis membranes, then disinfected with ultraviolet light and hydrogen peroxide, then percolated into a ground basin. The end result is purer than tap water. Every advanced municipality in California is planning for wastewater reuse. Currently, priority funding is given to new projects that incorporate recycling and water reuse.
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Monte ito Miscellany
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LETTERS
ACROSS FROM THE COURTHOUSE
TO THE EDITOR
If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite H, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to jim@montecitojournal.net
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Montecito’s Double-Wide Kings (from left) are Robert TenEyck: bass guitar, Palmer Jackson: guitar and vocals, Charlie Crisafulli: drums and vocals, John Simpson: harmonica and vocals, and Cord Pereira on lead guitar (photo credit: Steven Kennedy Photography)
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hanks to all of you who came out to see us at the Lobero Theatre last November to celebrate the music of Neil Young. Over the past several months, we have been busy mixing down the live recordings from that special night. We are excited to announce that we will be releasing a CD of 16 songs from the show and we will also be putting the music out on the various music streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, etc. We are going to celebrate with an “Album Release Concert” at the newly refurbished Alcazar Theater in Carpinteria on Saturday, March 30. It’s a small venue with fewer than 200 seats, but it’s got a great intimate feel and great sound. We will be playing a few new Neil Young tunes as well as our original tunes and a few special covers. We are grateful that all of our special guests
Faith Orcutt
from the Lobero show will be joining us for this show as well; we call it “The Dream Team” and it includes Phil Salazar on fiddle, Bill Flores on pedal steel and Dobro, Elliott Lanam on keyboards and Tina Dabby on vocals. We look forward to seeing you on March 30. VIP tickets are $85, but they’re mostly sold out. Regular admission is $55 and that includes a Live CD from the Neil Young Tribute Show. Show starts at 8 pm at the Alcazar, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue (805) 684-6380. You can also visit our website: www.doublewidekings.com. Palmer Jackson, Jr. Montecito (Editor’s note: Just so people know, The Double-Wide Kings – formerly the Mobile Home Boys – are the best “a-little-country-a-little-rock-’n’-roll” band
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This Week in and around Montecito
SATURDAY, MARCH 16
(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, MARCH 14 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: an addition and attached garage on Golf Road, an addition on Hot Springs, a remodel and addition on Santa Elena, and an addition on Sycamore Canyon, among other items. When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 MERRAG Meeting and Training Network of trained volunteers that work and/or live in the Montecito area prepare to respond to community disaster during critical first 72 hours following an event. The mutual “selfhelp” organization serves Montecito’s 13,000 residents with the guidance and support of the Montecito Fire, Water and Sanitary Districts. This month: CERT Course on CERT Organization. *Note time change When: 6 to 8 pm Where: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro Road Info: (805) 969-2537 FRIDAY, MARCH 15 Montecito Union Special School Board Meeting When: 9 to 11 am
Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics. When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Celebrate Providence Providence School (formerly El Montecito School and Providence, A Santa Barbara Christian School), celebrates 60 years of providing stellar, faith-centered education in Santa Barbara – engaging kids, shaping hearts, and developing young people with character and wisdom. The school now serves 375 children from preschool through high school. All proceeds of the Celebrate Providence auction event benefit the students and mission of Providence School. When: 5:30 pm Where: Rosewood Miramar Beach, 1759 South Jameson Lane Cost: $150 Info: www.providencesb.org SUNDAY, MARCH 17 Book Signing at Chaucer’s Hal Price signs his children’s book, The Adventures of Eli Benjamin Bear – A Heart’s Journey Home. A percentage of the proceeds from this book benefits the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation that empowers families dealing with pediatric cancer in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis
Barbara Ireland Walk & Run for Breast Cancer The Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara presents a 5K, 10K, or 15K walk and run along Santa Barbara’s beautiful waterfront in support of local breast cancer research and programs. This year, the hope is to raise a minimum of $50,000 to benefit breast cancer research, genetic counseling, and patient navigation at the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center at Sansum Clinic. After the race, participants are invited to stretch with Yoga Soup, grab lunch, and listen to some live music from Providence School students. Participants who raise $100 or more will have their registration fees waived. When: 8:30 am Where: Chase Palm Park, 323 East Cabrillo Blvd Info: www.cfsb.org/irelandwalk2019 Obispo counties. When: 2 pm Where: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State Street Info: 682-6787 Study Group: Rumi’s Poetry and Storytelling Explore the secret within Rumi’s poetry that took him to ecstasy, unity, and love. Dr. Fariba Enteshari, through lively storytelling and study, reveals how Rumi’s poetry startles us into healing, self-discovery, and a deeper meaning of life. All are welcome! When: 2 to 4 pm Where: Montecito Community Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Cost: $20 suggested donation Email: info@rumieducationalcenter.org Contact: Candace at (805) 729-5751 TUESDAY, MARCH 19 Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 4 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 Montecito Planning Commission Meeting MPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies and
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that issues raised by interested parties are addressed When: 9 am Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Concert at Montecito Library Join for an all ages concert with local favorite and Montecito Library lover Spencer the Gardener. Spencer will play songs from his Organic Gangster albums (currently recording volume 2) as well as grownup favorites. There will be chairs and a dance area to fully enjoy the show. Music for all ages! Kids and families welcome. When: 5:30 to 6:30 pm Where: Montecito Community Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Creating Intentional Living Spaces Join designer Susan Raymond in an exploration of creating intentional living spaces. This workshop is an opportunity to explore ideas around creating intentional living spaces that reflect your deepest desires and needs whether that’s a quiet sanctuary or an active expression of play. You’ll learn to use vision boards to tap into what best supports your personal well-being and gives you joy as well as ideas for moving that forward into design. Refreshments and nibbles will be served. You will leave inspired, with a vision board to help you develop your own intentional living spaces, and a small gift from Porch. When: 6 to 8 pm Where: Porch, 3823 Santa Claus Lane Cost: $65 Info: office@porchsb.com THURSDAY, MARCH 21 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063
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FRIDAY, MARCH 22 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics. When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Kindergarten Welcome Night Montecito Union School welcomes its newest students and parents When: 6 to 7:30 pm Where: MUS Auditorium, 385 San Ysidro Road Info: www.montecitou.org Fess Parker 30th Anniversary Wine Journey Dinner Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort will pay homage to one of California’s best-loved wine producers, Fess Parker Winery, on the occasion of the winery’s 30th anniversary with an exclusive dinner, the “Fess Parker Wine Journey,” at the resort’s Reagan Ballroom. For this special occasion, Hilton Santa Barbara Executive Chef Mossin Sugich and his culinary team will prepare a fresh and
delicious culinary adventure paired with Fess Parker’s signature wines, including Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from the Sta. Rita Hills. When: 6 to 10 pm Where: 633 East Cabrillo Blvd Cost: Tickets are $125 per person, including tax and gratuity Info: (805) 884-8518
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ONGOING Fire Prevention Cleanup The Montecito Fire Protection District will conduct its annual neighborhood fire prevention cleanup program starting the week of February 25, 2019. The program is offered to residents in the community to reduce the volume of flammable vegetation in order to create a more defensible and survivable space around the property and to reduce the overall community threat from wildfire. The District’s Wildland Specialists offer property inspections to educate the residents on ways they can improve the defensible space around their home. Upcoming schedule: 3/11/19 for the Lower Romero, Oak Grove, Alisos, Olive, Piedras, Veloz, Lilac, Featherhill, Camino del Rosario, Knollwood, Tabor, and Orchard neighborhood •MJ
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Village Beat
WINTER SALE
by Kelly Mahan Herrick
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Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.
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arlier this week, the Partnership for Resilient Communities announced the international arrival of the first of six Swiss steel ring nets slated for the canyons above Cold Spring, Buena Vista, and San Ysidro Creeks. The first net will be installed in San Ysidro Creek above Randall Road and the San Ysidro Ranch; installation of the system will commence next week, according to TPRC executive director Pat McElroy. “This community initiated and privately funded mitigation plan will go a long way towards critical short-andlong term protections and reduce our risk of future storm related debris flow hazards,” McElroy wrote in a letter to over 250 donors, who collectively contributed $4.2 million for the project. It’s estimated that over the next month to 45 days, contractors and geotechnical engineers will be on site in the canyons installing the nets, and weather permitting, the nets will be
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installed by early May. The six nets will be anchored into the sides of the canyon and will sit three to five feet above the canyon; they allow fine soil, sediments, ash, mud, and water to keep moving, while capturing large wood material and boulders. When the nets fill, the boulders will spill over the center of the net, but with a lot less energy; a phenomenon McElroy has described as a braking system. The nets will more than double the current capacity of our debris basins in the three canyons, and will be required to be cleaned out when they are filled with debris following strong storms. “We are also pleased to report that pending additional fundraising, we will be allowed to install nets on the U.S. Forest Service property in Romero Canyon and upper Hot Springs Canyon,” McElroy went on to say. “This will further the debris flow protection system to cover all five canyons where debris flows occurred on 1/9.” “Over 250 donors, of large and small amounts, have contributed to this critical initiative. We have raised $4.2 million so far thanks to you, which allows us to begin installation. But we still need to raise an additional $1.1 million to complete this phase,” McElroy wrote. “While this journey has seemed long and arduous, our plan was permitted in record time, and with tremendous collaboration, talent, and innovative thinking from our private and government sectors, side by side with extraordinary philanthropic and community leadership, and is a marquee example of commu-
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nity coming together for the common good.” An informal community celebration to mark the beginning of the net installation is slated for Monday, March 18, from 11:30 to 1 pm in the upper village green. For more information, and to donate, visit www.partnershipsb.org.
Insurance Woes
Many residents in Montecito, Santa Barbara, and in both northern and southern Santa Barbara Counties are receiving non-renewals from their insurance companies, a topic that has been discussed at length in both in-person forums as well as online at NextDoor.com, a neighborhood social media site. Joanne Gonzales, Vice President of local insurance agency Brown & Brown, tells us the non-renewals are being issued for several reasons according to the insurance companies, including homeowners’ past insurance claims and carriers deciding to leave the area due to increased financial risk. Gonzales says the non-renewals are occurring all over California, and is a frustrating situation for both homeowners and insurance agents. “Your best line of defense is your agent, who can go to the underwriter and go to bat for you,” she said, adding that her insurance agency and others have been busy fighting for their carriers to keep existing policies following recent fires and mudslides in California. “We are doing everything we can to help you get and keep your coverage,” she said. Gonzales’ advice to all homeowners is to start with your insurance agent, and have them fight the non-renewals. Beyond that there are options for coverage, including several reputable carriers such as PURE, a carrier that recently donated $10,000 to the Partnership for Resilient Communities to install a series of steel ring nets in our local canyons (Brown & Brown also donated $10,000 to the cause). Premiums in disaster areas are roughly double what they were a few years ago, but Gonzales says she expects things will get better as the mudflow risk and flooding risk fades following the Thomas Fire. The last resort is the California FAIR
Plan, which is a Los Angeles-based association comprised of all insurers authorized to transact basic property insurance in California. Coverage is available to all California property owners, as long as required guidelines are met (there are limits on vacant homes and homes with existing damage). Because FAIR coverage is capped at $1.5 million, voluntary insurance companies are offering special subsidy programs that will provide for excess coverage. “It’s a creative way to get the coverage we need here in Montecito,” Gonzales said. Gonzales says she wants homeowners to know they are not alone in dealing with non-renewals and difficulty getting new coverage on home purchases in the County. “I myself was issued a non-renewal because I live near a hillside,” she said, adding that she was able to find replacement coverage after a lot of research. “Homeowners should know that they can get coverage, it’s just not as easy or affordable as it used to be,” she said.
Montecito Association
At this month’s Montecito Association monthly board meeting, SB County Water Resources Deputy Director Tom Fayram reported on Montecito’s debris basins following the strong storms over the last several weeks. “We’ve been going full throttle since January,” Fayram said, adding that hundreds of trucks have been in Montecito clearing debris basins, sometimes 24 hours a day to prepare for back-to-back storms. The County has spent $3 million in debris removal from basins and downstream channels, with San Ysidro channel being the most difficult to clear out. “It has been an ongoing problem, and has had an endless supply of debris,” he said. The sifted debris was dropped at local beaches and other locations. “We intend to make a lot of the material we’ve taken out available to the public, for free, if residents need fill when they are rebuilding,” Fayram said. Fayram also reported on the potential debris basin at Randall Road, outlining the environmental process that has been started. The County’s most significant challenge is financial, as eight properties would need
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to be purchased in order to build the debris basin. In addition to seeking FEMA grants, Fayram is working with neighbor Curtis Skene, who is spearheading private fundraising efforts. “I think this project has a real shot at happening. If we can get some significant help on the acquisition, we can build it,” Fayram said. The County is also researching a potential tax bond to help pay for the $25 million project. During community reports, MUS superintendent Dr. Anthony Ranii reported that in an effort to keep students safe online, the school has installed special software that allows the happenings on kids’ screens to show up on the teachers’ screens. “This will be easier for teachers to monitor our students’ behavior,” he said. Dr. Ranii also reported that next week the school board will vote on two major facilities projects: a new roof and the north parking lot project, both of which will be funded by District reserves. “We very much believe we have to live within our means,” he said. Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi reported on several residential burglaries over the past few months in Montecito: in January two burglaries took place on Hot Springs Road and Middle Road, where a substantial amount of jewelry and cash were stolen during an evacuation. Earlier this month Sheriff deputies responded to a home on Jelinda Drive, where a couple returning home in the evening came upon a burglary in progress, and approached the suspect. “I can’t stress enough that if something doesn’t look quite right, please call us immediately and do not confront intruders in your home,” he said. That suspect got away after stealing roughly $2,000 in cash and a large amount of jewelry. Montecito Sanitary District general manager Diane Gabriel and Montecito Water District general manager Nick Turner reported that neither District sustained service issues during the recent rainstorms. The Board is scheduled to meet again next month on Tuesday, April 9. For more information visit www. montecitoassociation.org.
MFPD Update
The Montecito Fire Protection District received the District Transparency Certificate of Excellence by the Special District Leadership Foundation (SDLF) in recognition of its outstanding efforts to promote transparency and good governance. “This award is a testament to Montecito Fire Protection District’s commitment to open government,” said Fire Chief Chip Hickman. “The entire district staff is to be commended for their contributions that empower the public with information and
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facilitate engagement and oversight.” To receive the award, a special district must demonstrate the completion of essential governance transparency requirements, including conducting ethics training for all board members, properly conducting open and public meetings, and filing financial transactions and compensation reports to the State Controller in a timely manner. SDLF is an independent, non-profit organization formed to promote good governance and best practices among California’s special districts through certification, accreditation, and other recognition programs.
George Leis Joins YMCA Board
Montecito Bank & Trust President and COO George Leis will join the YMCA of the USA board after serving on the Channel Islands YMCA Board
Montecito Bank & Trust President and COO George Leis will join the YMCA of the USA board; Leis is a past chair and current board member for the Channel Islands YMCA, serving seven branches from Lompoc to Camarillo, and now he will join Y-USA as a board member. “It is an honor to be nominated to serve on the YMCA of the USA board,” Leis said. “I have personally witnessed the difference the YMCA makes in the lives of our community members, and it is a passion of mine to support and help the growth of this great organization. I look forward to being part of the national board as we seek to solve critical social issues.” The YMCA of the USA, headquartered in Chicago, reaches 10,000 communities nationwide. Leis currently serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer for Montecito Bank & Trust. He is also a board member of the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, Western Bankers Association, Cabrillo Pavilion Renovation Campaign, Santa Barbara Zoo, and Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce. He also serves as chair of the CSU Channel Islands Foundation board and committee chair for the Cal State Northridge Foundation board. •MJ 14 – 21 March 2019
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TBCF motivational speaker Eduardo Garcia
emotional support. TBCF provides professional and peer support to the entire family. And last is Tools for School. This gives parents the tools to support and advocate for the child’s academic career with a smooth transition back to school after treatment. Brad Lilley from KTYD welcomed the audience and TBCF executive director Lindsey Leonard spoke to the group telling us, “Each case is different.” The good news is that due to research there is an 80% chance of a cure but sometimes there is a relapse. It costs about $10,000 a year to care for a child with cancer and can last six months to three years. The day’s Little Hero was Faith DeBrum. Her father Ronnie told us how difficult it was to keep his car running with all the added bills.
“Teddy Bear was with us every step of the way.” What was sad was to see children in the hospital without a parent. Faith was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma when she was eleven and began treatment at Cottage Hospital Children’s Medical Center. At one point when she began to lose her hair she and her dad both shaved their heads. The family was invited to the TV show The Voice. One of the celebrities told Faith, “You were named Faith for a reason.” The family learned that every day has a purpose. The keynote speaker was Eduardo Garcia whose film of his life after being electrocuted and getting cancer was shown at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on opening night in 2017. Eduardo is a trained chef who began his career at age 15
flipping burgers and throwing pizzas and then attended culinary school. He spent ten years on the high seas cooking as a private chef on luxury yachts. He returned to Montana and founded Montana Mex – happy food. Meantime he went hunting in 2011 and came across a bear carcass. He received a catastrophic electrical shock from a 2400-volt power line hidden beneath the animal, knocking him unconscious. He walked three miles to the nearest road even though severely burned and badly injured. He had half of his left arm amputated and removal of several ribs plus a cancer diagnosis. Today he lives his best life outdoors hunting, fishing, and cooking plus delivering motivational speeches. He is the epitome of what a “refuse to quit attitude” can accomplish.
As Lindsey said to the audience, “In 2018 you helped 180 families through initial diagnosis, during treatment and into recovery. You made sure 14 kids successfully returned to school after missing classes during treatment. You helped 234 individuals navigate the emotional trauma of a pediatric cancer diagnosis. And, you made sure 128 parents had the financial security to stay by their kids’ side though ever step of treatment. If you’d like to donate to this worthy cause, call 805.962.7466 for information.
Giuliana Montecito
There’s a new kid on the block. That would be Giuliana Montecito. Before, it was named Giuliana Haute Couture. It’s a charming boutique in the upper village near Via Vai restaurant and next door to what was Lana Marme’s at 1485 East Valley Road Ste 3. The new family owned shop creative director Mandana Mir has expanded the price line and brought in some different designers. Something for longtime customers and for new ones. Recently Mandana had a fashion show at Casa Dorinda. The lunch crowd all attended to watch their friends model some of the latest
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Animal Activists: State Street Ballet Updates Jungle Book
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omething about the original score by Czech composer and conductor Milan Svoboda for a theatrical production of The Jungle Book drew State Street Ballet Artistic Director Rodney Gustafson’s attention when it arrived unsolicited more than a decade ago with a proposal to use it to create an original full-length work based on the beloved Rudyard Kipling’s collection of stories. The tale of the adventures of a young boy named Mowgli who was raised by a pack of wolves in the jungle had been adapted many times over for stage, television and, most famously, in the classic 1967 Disney animated film. But ballet was something new. “I get a lot of things sent by composers and designers. But for some reason this felt like an idea I was interested in,” Gustafson said. “I read the story as a kid, of course. I liked that it wasn’t a typical ballet. I looked at many different stories, from Hans Christian Andersen to Huckleberry Finn, wanting a protagonist who wasn’t a woman. But mostly the music was so melodic and symbolic, and very much like
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a soundtrack, and almost all very upbeat that it makes you feel good. It had a lot of flow to it, which is conducive to choreography.” So Gustafson and Gary McKenzie set about creative choreography for The Jungle Book, uses movements to convey the relationships, struggles and alliances between Mowgli and the animal characters in the mystical land of wolves, snakes, monkeys, and panthers, in the coming-of-age story that has captivated audiences for more than a century. When it premiered in 2009, State Street’s The Jungle Book was hailed as “a joy to behold” and “visually stunning,” then toured throughout
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uod, ut dicitur, si est homo bulla, eo magis senex” the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC – 27 BC) wrote in the first historical references to bubbles which means “If man is a microbubble, all the more so is an old man...” Ok I’ve translated “bulla” into its micro form. Perhaps that wasn’t the true meaning, but it seems true that life isn’t just a bowl of cherries, it’s also cluster of microbubbles. When one pops someone has vanished. We pinch ourselves to see if they are truly gone. The scholar and magician Ricky Jay lived in a very rare magical microbubble. When he passed away late last year it was easy to think it was another trick. After all – his sleight of hand defied logic and physics. Anyone who attended his Broadway show “Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants,” the assistants being a deck of playing cards, has seen how abjectly brilliant and impossible he was to fathom. Jay could hurl a joker up to 90 miles per hour from ten paces and cut an apple in half. He also wrote perhaps the most valuable text on magic chicanery Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, a compendium of eccentric acts, cons, and freak shows. Ricky appeared in a great number of films. He made an appearance at some point in every David Mamet film as well as such diverse films as Boogie Nights and notably as a techno-terrorist to counter Pierce Brosnan’s 007. The X-Files created a magician character “The Amazing Maleeni” for Ricky, who literally lost his head. Ricky and I crossed paths more than a few times. The first time I booked him as part of a wretched comedy variety show I produced in New York. We were a bit of a freak show ourselves with a local weatherman for a host. When we were desperate for bookings, I convinced the producers to interview the “Lucky Strike Girl.” Only there wasn’t actually a Lucky Strike Girl she was a model who appeared on a Lucky Strike Cigarette Billboard. At one point or another we booked famous comedians like Richard Belzer and Ellen DeGeneres before they were successful. My favorite booking was Ricky Jay. The producers considered Ricky even more suspect than the Lucky Strike Girl. At that time Ricky used a menagerie of wind-up toys as part of his act. I helped him make sure they were ready to go. He hurled his cards at the fast advancing army of tin mon-
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keys, drumming pigs, and roaring tin bears inflicting a variety of disabling injuries. Ok it wasn’t exactly magic, but it was so strange, no one had seen anything like it. Later I produced a tumultuous pilot for a live two-hour show entitled It’s a Big Country. One of those many crazy projects the networks spent millions on that never went further than a pilot and never aired. We built a one-hundred by one-hundred-and-fifty-foot 3D Looney Tune version map of the United States complete with a facade of Graceland that flew up revealing a turntable with a red Chevy, a replica of Mount Rainer with “snow,” Cape Canaveral with a rocket, and more. The high concept was that we were “the only show where you could go anywhere in America without ever leaving the studio.” We also had a high school marching band playing Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition,” a Boy Scout troupe that showed you to your seat and – this is where Ricky came in – unconventional correspondents reporting from around the country in live segments with Chris Issak and Paula Poundstone as hosts. In Ricky Jay’s segment he roamed the country exposing con artists, fakes and frauds in amazing street segments. The last time I ran into him a year before he died he was in Santa Barbara at the Granada David Blaine performance. Ricky had been advising Blaine on his stage show, but he seemed pretty down. I wasn’t alarmed at first as he was usually dour, but hilariously so. I asked him what was up or down considering his mood. He told me that he had broken both of his wrists. I knew he had accidentally slipped in the winter of 2016 but I didn’t know he broke both wrists. Being the optimist, I remarked that putting out his wrists to stop his fall (commonly termed a FOOSH) probably saved his life because otherwise the fall may have been fatal. He didn’t agree. In fact, he looked down at his wrists and adamantly disagreed. “When a magician breaks his wrists, it’s a fate worse than death.” His words hung in the air with a foreboding and irrefutable truth. It stunned me to silence. Ricky Jay was the real deal of fakery. At 72 he knew his ability to hurl a joker into a wall was gone. Even pulling a coin from behind a little child’s ear would likely be impossible. I sensed he felt the walls of his microbubble closing in. •MJ 14 – 21 March 2019
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The Way It Was
by Hattie Beresford
On the Road with Arlo
The roads in Santa Barbara provided hills for Arlo’s Buick, as this circa 1920 view of Dibblee Hill Road (today’s Cliff Drive?) reveals. The road was named for the Dibblee estate, which once stood prominently on the Mesa where East Campus of Santa Barbara City College is sited today. (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
Even after the Rincon Causeway was built, cars sometimes found themselves victim to rising tides, and hoofed horsepower was employed to save them (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
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he Atchison family came to Santa Barbara from Centralia, Washington, in 1912 seeking health for the father who suffered from chronic stomach problems. Alas, salubrious Santa Barbara was not able to work its magic on Garrett, and he died that July. His wife Sarah had set up housekeeping in a home on Carrillo Street, and her three sons quickly found employment. Arlo and his brother Garret Jr. soon opened an auto repair business at 418 State Street called Atchison Brothers, and Arlo’s twin, Otto, went to work as a clerk at Sterling Drug Company. After service with the 54th Heavy Artillery in France during WWI, Arlo returned to Santa Barbara to work at Central Garage, the local Buick Agency. Expertly trained by the Army Transport Service and a definite prodigy, he became shop foreman in 1921. Today, long time classic car enthusiasts remember Arlo Atchison as the owner of the Horseless Carriage
Ms Beresford is a retired English and American history teacher of 30 years in the Santa Barbara School District. She is author of two Noticias, “El Mirasol: From Swan to Albatross” and “Santa Barbara Grocers,” for the Santa Barbara Historical Society.
Restoration Shop. Before his cars became antiques, however, Arlo had been a superb mechanic for the most modern of automobiles of the 1910s and ‘20s. The working parts of the automobile were not his only passion, however, since Arlo loved going fast and owned and built racecars and speedboats as well. In the 1930s he became an airplane pilot so he could race through the skies. Local antique car buff, Bob Burtness, says Arlo was an “ace fabricator,” who once made an antique clutch throw out bearing for Bob’s 1923 Hupmobile using a lathe and a block of steel. “He
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The Buick Redbird Racecar
By 1915, Arlo had gotten his hands on a 1910 Buick Redbird roadster and turned it into a racecar before entering the 101-mile Fourth of July Race in Lompoc in 1916. The annual event had begun in 1912 when a group of businessmen in Lompoc initiated the road races as a feature of an expanded 4th of July celebration for the town. Events leading up to this main event included a decorated automobile parade, bronco riding contest, baseball game, foot races, a variety of horse races, bicycle races, and motorcycle races.
“At a quarter to three on Monday afternoon, July 3, 1916,” wrote David Cole in a 1987 article for the Lompoc Legacy, “eleven of the speediest light cars on the coast were lined up on Ocean Avenue of H Street ready to start Lompoc’s 5th Annual Road Race.” The cars needed good brakes and good handling to negotiate the sharp turns and dirt streets of the 33 laps through town. They also needed to be able to accelerate quickly to a speed of 70 miles per hour on the straightaways to be in contention. On the 24th lap, Arlo’s bright red Buick stopped at the pit where he found that every spoke in his right rear wheel was splintered. He was in 4th place and a contender for the money, however, so he decided to press on. Arlo maintained 4th place for a purse of $100, which translates as $2,400 in 2018 dollars. Arlo loved that car and posed it at scenic spots along the roads for photographs. He must have enjoyed driving it on the 1912 Rincon Causeway, the new coastal road that connected Santa Barbara to Ventura. This road, essentially three wooden sections suspended horizontally from the cliffs, saved drivers a tortuous and steep climb up Casitas Pass that also added an extra 9 miles to the trip to Ventura. Before the causeway, drivers had to watch the
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By 1921, Arlo had ditched the Red Bird and taken up with a more sedate Buick roadster on a snowy winter’s traverse of the 1915 Ridge Route that crossed the Tehachapi Mountains from Los Angeles to Bakersfield. Built by the State of California to facilitate travel between Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley, the road wound around the mountain peaks and wasn’t paved until 1917. It included several famous bends, like Horse Shoe Bend and Deadman’s Curve which became popular postcard views. Numerous businesses grew up along the route and Arlo and traveling companion (possibly brother Otto) stopped at several. Just south of Horseshoe Bend, the Liebre Highway Maintenance Camp housed the equipment and men who were needed to maintain the highway. Besides numerous metal sheds, there was a small house of corrugated tin and wallboard for the foreman and a bunkhouse for the crew. Arlo may have spent the night at the National Forest Inn, a white clapboard 14 – 21 March 2019
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Spirituality Matters by Steven Libowitz “Spirituality Matters” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area spiritual gatherings. Unusual themes and events with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.
Intuitive Arts Tasting in Paradise
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aradise Found, the 33-year-old bookstore and boutique across the public library in downtown Santa Barbara, hosts an afternoon of readings at a special Spring Equinox sampler. The Vernal Equinox, with day and night in perfect balance, marks a period of new growth offering a potent and fruitful opportunity for seekers of clarity. Accordingly, five intuitive readers from diverse traditions will be on hand to offer their services, a way to try intuitive readings for the first time, investigate a new modality, or engage in an another enriching, albeit mini, experience for returning clients. Choose among Intuitive Readings from shaman Sudama Mark Kennedy, Intuitive Tarot & Channel with Anna Chapman, Palm Reading (English and Spanish) from Lucy Campa, Runic Readings by Sierra Reeves, or readings from Spiritualist Medium Donnalynne Shaw. All readings cost $40 for a 30-minute session; purchase more than one to receive a 10% discount on all store merchandise. Admission to the 1-5 pm Intuitive Arts Tasting on Sunday, March 17, is free, and you’ll be out in time to still celebrate St. Paddy’s on a less celestial plain before the sun goes down.
DiviniTree Goes Root to Crown, and All Around
Rachel Wilkins launches Chakra Awakening, an in-depth three-part workshop series to take participants on a soulful journey through the chakras, progressively activating the blossoming centers from root to crown and moving towards a blissful state of embodied wholeness. Over three successive Saturdays beginning 1-3:30 pm on March 16, Wilkins will guide the transformational experience progressively integrating and activating the powerful vortexes via focusing on the energy, corresponding elements, and the physiological and psychological experience of our chakras. The series will include Ayurvedic and Tantric philosophy, intuitive vinyasa flow, yin and restorative yoga, breath work, chanting, visualization, and self-study. Admission is $80 in advance, or $90 day of.
Stand Up for Spring
Next Sunday, March 24, DiviniTree celebrates the beginning of the new season on the ocean and by the beach. The am experience begins with stand-up paddling from the marina to Sandspit Beach for an equinox-themed yoga class. After enjoying a grounding savasana in the sun, it’s time to head back to the sea to explore the waters of West Beach, East Beach, and the pier. Kayaks are also available in lieu of the paddleboards. Gather at Paddle Sports Center, 117 Harbor Way, at 8:45 am for the 9-12 noon event, which costs $30 in advance, $35 day-of.
Equinox Meditation
Goa, India-based energy Patrick San Francesco – the chairperson of the Samarpan Foundation, established in India and now also operating in South Africa and Malawi – is a periodic visitor to Yoga Soup, where he leads special meditations that are aimed to heal. A background in law and medicine has given him extensive knowledge of the human anatomy, diseases and ailments, as well as life situations, and resulted in a personal mantra of Love, Peace, Happiness, Kindness, Simplicity, and Clarity. The Equinox Meditation event, which takes place 7-9 pm on Wednesday, March 20, marks the unique and powerful shift of energy that takes place as the sun moves between the tropics at the advent of spring. After an opening hour of individual healing, San Francesco will harness and endow participants with the divine celestial energy of the equinox, which he notes will power your aura and change your frequency to resonate closely to that of the universe. Also note, as this is an extremely powerful meditation, Patrick’s usual post-meditation Q&A will not take place. Admission is $30.
Soon at the Soup: Rhythm of Our Breath
Round 2 of Kiaora Fox’s series of 5Rhythms Workshops at Yoga Soup, slated for 1:30-6:30 pm on Saturday, March 23, takes heed of the fact that in many cultures, spirit and breath are the same word. The workshop will use the map of the 5Rhythms to explore inspiration, release, expansion, and connections to the
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body as well as the breath itself, spirit, and the joy of dance. Making the breath the main impetus of movement fortifies connection to the present moment, and to the authentic and most vital self. Participants will delve into the dance as an invitation to be moved and to celebrate the adventure, and the nurturing effects of experiencing being in a body. Admission is $70 in advance, $85 day-of.
Take Time for Tantra
Lisa Citore – who a week ago produced another successful installment in her uniquely sumptuous, sensual, provocative, and profound women’s ritual theater/performance art series known as “Anima” – has even more experience as a self-described pleasure activist, performance artist, writer, sex educator, and healer who has been leading sacred sexuality workshops with men and women for 16 years. She does private intimacy coaching with couples and sexual healing work with women, and created The Women’s Sexual Mystery School that now has circles in Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Boulder, and New York. As if that weren’t enough, Citore teams with her partner, Len Van Nostrand, with 30 years of education, training, and practice as a psychotherapist and counselor, for the recently revived Tantra Games: Mindful Connecting offerings at Yoga Soup. The Tantra Puja-inspired event is a mix of playful exercises (e.g. communication games, partner yoga, improv dance, meditations, and even PG-rated Tantra practices) designed to induce meaningful encounters. The exercises range from playful and flirty to sensual to soulful, and are designed to inspire authenticity, vulnerability, acceptance and presence. The next experience takes place 7-9 pm Friday, March 22, and costs $18 in advance or $25 day of.
Tantra the Buddhist Way
Mahakankala Buddhist Center is in the midst of a month of meditations with a theme of “The Real Meaning of Tantra: Buddhist Meditations for Everyone.” The new class series, which takes place 6:30-7:30 pm every Wednesday at the center on Brinkerhoff Avenue, centers around the concept that Tantra is defined as an inner realization that functions to prevent ordinary appearances and ordinary conceptions and to accomplish the four complete purities — a completely pure world, a pure self, pure enjoyments, and pure activities. Participants in the March classes, which are suitable for everyone including beginners for a $10 donation, will learn about the minds and meditations that are the foundation for Tantric practice. Each class begins with a guided breathing meditation and culminates with a second meditation based upon the evening’s topic. There is no requirement to attend the whole series or to pre-register.
Compassion for Animals
Mahakankala Resident Teacher Keli Vaughan – a longtime student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso who has served as the assistant teacher for both KMC California and KMC Hollywood – also leads a special half-day course on Saturday, March 23, focusing on alleviating the suffering of animals. Our non-human friends often live in constant fear, lacking mental and physical freedom as people exploit them without their consent. The short meditation workshop will explore methods by which we can deepen our compassion for animals, and use this experience to further our spiritual awareness and development of love for other beings, and includes teachings and meditation in two sessions with a break for refreshments or walking. Meditators of all levels of experience are welcome at the 10:30 am to 1 pm event, which cost $20.
Hear it Through the Great Vine: Double Dose of Aya
Ayahuasca experts Rachel Harris, PhD., and experiential journalist/documentary film producer Rak Razam share the stage at the next EntheoMedicine event slated for Saturday, March 16, at Unity of Santa Barbara. Harris will talk about her research on the therapeutic potential of ayahuasca for depression, PTSD, addictions, and anxiety and the spiritual aspects of the plant. Razam, who bridges the worlds of shamanism, consciousness, and popular culture and is the author of Aya Awakenings: A Shamanic Odyssey will discuss how entheogenic plants help humans see their true non-dual nature, providing a path to planetary awakening and the survival of our species. Also on the program is an update on MDMA from EntheoMedicine’s senior advisor Michael Gilbert. A Harvard MBA, author, former president of the Albert Hofmann Foundation, and a Senior Fellow of USC’s Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, Gilbert will share the latest research on the therapeutic uses of MDMA and progress towards legalizing the psychoactive substance colloquially known as Ecstasy. A Q&A discussion with all the presenters follows. Look for an interview in this space next week. More info and tickets online at https://entheomedicine.org. •MJ
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The Hotel Durant circa 1921 appears to be nearly completed and was destined to become a favorite with the Hollywood crowd (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum) The Ridge Route from Los Angeles to the San Joaquin Valley wended its way around the peaks of the Tehachapi Mountains through many famous curves (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
Arlo’s companion (possibly brother Otto or Garrett) stands next to the 1919 Buick as the two explore Liebre Highway Maintenance Camp (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
Snow on the Ridge Route inspired Arlo to pose with this snowman (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
cost $4. The hotel quickly became the darling of Hollywood celebrities, and luminaries like Jack Demsey, Buster Keaton, Charles Lindbergh, and Clara Bow signed the register.
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The National Forest Inn offered the traveler every necessity and most rooms were heated (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
Locally, Arlo tried out his new Buick on San Marcos Pass (today’s Old San Marcos Road). In the 1920s, San Marcos Road was still a twisting dirt road subject to washouts and rock slides. Local calls for its improvement went unheeded so several Santa Barbara philanthropists stepped in to pay for the work themselves. George Owen Knapp, Clarence Black, and David Gray all had mountain lodges that they wished to visit, so the road was kept in decent repair.
Old San Marcos Road had become the second stagecoach route and the main road over the mountains starting in the 1887. (The first route, completed in 1869, began at the end of Kellogg Avenue and crossed an escarpment called Slippery Rock.) Originally built as a toll road, all traffic had to stop at Summit House where station agent Patrick Kinevan supervised the change of horses and collected tolls. Kinevan also had a 160-acre homestead at the station and his wife Nora prepared meals for travelers at Summit House. The stage stopped running in 1901 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed its line through Santa Barbara, but Summit House remained open. In
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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 19) State Street Ballet presents The Jungle Book for one show only on Sunday, March 24, at the Granada (photo by Rose Eichenbaum)
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California and the Southwest before returning for a reprise performance at the Granada in 2011. Eight years later, the ballet company is reviving the work for a single show at the Granada on Sunday afternoon, March 24. While 2019’s The Jungle Book is not a different animal altogether, there has been a significant overhaul. Spurred by longtime State Street guest choreography William Soleau coming on as co-artistic director when McKenzie retired two years ago, “We decided to take another look,” Gustafson said. “There are a lot of new things; it’s been refreshed.” Soleau touched up a number of sections, Gustafson said, noting his co-choreographer’s background in theater as well as dance. “We went all through the piece, which was a little bit disjointed because in the segments Gary and I did before, the storyline didn’t feel like it flowed as well as it could. Bill is masterful at making it very even throughout.” More dramatic is additional new choreography by Kassandra Taylor Newberry, which replaced much of McKenzie’s fight scenes and monkey interplay, Gustafson said. “She’s got a style that’s hip-hop-py and very unique, different than anything you’d see. I’m from classical ballet, Bill is contemporary, but she’s just a genius young choreographer who is so out of the box. The things she did were just great.” Meanwhile, the elaborate and colorful animal costumes by A. Christina Giannini that so captivated kids and adults back in 2009 have been updated for this production with additional new designs by Nicole Thompson. Indeed, the cornucopia of critters is part of what attracted Gustafson to the story in the first place. “Almost everyone in the ballet except for just a few characters are animals, and that’s intriguing because we could create movements appropriate for a tiger or a panther or monkeys. We have a lot of sophisticated stuff in our repertoire, dramas with hardcore music. But sometimes, I love to do a production that’s entertaining to a general audience. The Jungle Book is a lot of fun.” As befitting a tale with universal appeal, State Street’s new production “Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz
will have a lot of international flavor. Mowgli is portrayed by Francois Llorente, a young Cuban gold medal-winning dancer while Japanese dancer Saori Yamashita plays his love interest, and Deise Mendonca, of Brazil, plays Kaa the snake, and American Anna Carnes is the leopard. “I think that’s a really nice feature of our company,” Gustafson said. As part of its community outreach mission, State Street Ballet will present a Jungle Book educational experience for students in grades 2-5 on March 22, where 1,300 Santa Barbara School District students will see excerpts from the ballet and participate in interactive movement and a Q&A session. Meanwhile, families can get an early taste of The Jungle Book at the Santa Barbara Zoo when several characters show up in costume in advance of the regular Dinosaur Shows at 12 noon and 3:30 pm on Saturday, March 16. Tickets to State Street’s 2 pm, March 24, performance of The Jungle Book cost $36-$104 ($24 kids 12 and under) and are available at www.granadasb.org, or (805) 899-2222.
Brossé & Mozart: Great Minds Sync Alike
Four years and at least seven of his own scores ago, the distinguished conductor-composer Dirk Brossé made his debut with the Santa Barbara Symphony with the Granada’s first live-to-screening synchronized musical performance since the installation of the theater’s state-of-the-art rear-projection film system. Brossé and the members of the orchestra who often also frequently freelance on film scores in Los Angeles brought out the genius in Charlie Chaplin’s silent romantic comedy City Lights. That was a piece of cake for the veteran musician who by his own estimate has guest conducted more than 120 orchestras all over the globe in his 40-year career. The Belgium-born Brossé, who counts about 30 film scores and another dozen musicals among his more than 400 compositions, has also been pretty busy in the interim leading to this weekend’s sophomore
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Arlo’s Buick, peeking out from the right, made it to the top of San Marcos Pass and Summit Lodge (House). The sign on the left warns drivers to go slowly and sound their horns on the curves. (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
the 1920s, Arlo, or perhaps his twin brother Otto, photographed one of his visits to the summit of San Marcos Pass. Albums of photos, like the one donated by a member of the Atchison family, can provide important historical evidence of events and lifestyles of the past, which leads to an appreciation of our present. Besides, the images show so much more than mere words can relate and are completely fascinating. The Santa Barbara Historical Museum is
fortunate that this family chose to preserve these images by donating them to posterity. (Sources: “Lompoc Road Racing: Parts I & II” by David Cole, Lompoc Legacy No. 52 and 53, Winter and Spring 1987; Ridge Route: The Road that United California by Harrison Irving Scott, 2002; contemporary newspaper reports; ancestry.com sources; obits and cemetery records; Michael Redmon, “History 101,” Santa Barbara Independent, 13 April 2006.) •MJ
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appearance with the local orchestra. The Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Ghent Film Festival in Belgium, where he also serves as a professor of conducting and composition at the School of Arts / Royal Conservatory of Music, Brossé keeps writing and wielding the baton, adding to an already impressive body of work. Most recently, he conducted “Brave in Concert,” playing the Disney film score live to a screening in Brussels, and “Shakespeare in Concert,” with a variety of film and theater clips, in Prague, just in the last two months, while back in October he stepped in for John (Star Wars) Williams in a milestone celebratory concert of the famed film composer/conductor’s movie scores with the London Symphony Orchestra. His duties in this weekend’s pair of concerts (see the Entertainment Calendar on page 42 for details) addresses excerpts of important works by one of the great masters of the last millennium in Mozart, whose composing genius is exalted while his juvenile behavior pilloried in the jealousy-devours-you tale in the multiple Academy Award-winning 1984 movie Amadeus. Timing is everything in syncing to the screening, Brossé explained in an email interview from Belgium.
How does composing affect, or relate to, conducting, and vice-versa? It has been a long time struggle [doing both]. The composer wants more time to write while the conductor loves doing more and more interesting projects. I try to find the right balance. In summer I take time to write and during the years there are three to four cluster moments (4-6 weeks) of traveling and conducting.
Belgian conductor Dirk Brossé joins the Santa Barbara Symphony for Amadeus Live at the Granada on Saturday, March 16, and Sunday, March 17
Q. What makes you so prolific, or rather, how are you able to do it all? A. I am a fast worker and I try not to [waste] too much time. My life is quite structured. I do travel a lot but study most of my score on planes, trains, and during any lost moment. Composing I do in my studio. Then it should be quiet around me – and in my head.
The program here is Amadeus Live, with the score performed live by the symphony in sync with screening the movie. Were you a fan of the movie when it played theatrically? How does the film itself hold up for you? It is one of the greatest films about movies about a composer ever made. I was a fan since the first moment. It gave an insight to a greater public of who Mozart was, or at least who he could have been. Of course it is an “interpretation” by a couple of screenwriters – reality was pro25bably a bit different – but still, it gives an idea about Mozart’s epoque, his life and his relationship with Salieri. What is your approach or, more specifically, how do you keep things fresh and vibrant when conducting for a live screening or theatrical performance in which the visual focus is on something other than you and the orchestra?
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I try to conduct every piece as it were the very first performance ever. I approach the score with fresh eyes and ears. Every performance I try to do something else in order to keep everything fresh and crispy. At the same time I try to conduct every concert as it was my last one. That helps keep me going…. [As far as] Amadeus, the challenge is to get everything synchronized with the film without [using] a click track. I hate click tracks because when musicians have to play to clicks, they sound like robots. [My] click track is the inner pulse I developed over the years. I know both the film and the score from memory.
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DIJO Productions originally had no plans to stage its production of Art in downtown Santa Barbara, opting instead for the recently renovated appropriately art deco theater now known as The Alcazar in Carpinteria, where the show’s two-week run came to an end last Sunday afternoon. But apparently, disappointing attendance means Karp beats Carp – as in the Karpeles Manuscript Museum on Anacapa, where DIJO will be delivering an extra performance of playwright Yasmina Reza’s 25-year-old classic (translated from the original French by Christopher Hampton), a crisp, witty comedy about sniffing out authenticity vs. pretentiousness in both painting and friendship. The final show at 2 pm on Saturday March 16 will be “a bit minimal setting-wise, but the show can do without the niceties,” said co-star Geren Piltz, who shares the stage in the 90-minute dramedy with Ed Giron and Bill Waxman. Anyway, it’s free. So I guess the play really is the thing. Meanwhile, bouncing back to an actual art gallery, the new exhibition from visual artist Stuart Carey – who last spring put paint to works by photographer Patricia Houghton Clarke to collaboratively mount a show cleverly called “Metamorphograph” – is part of another collaborative show called “Bounce!”, which also features works by Charlie Patton, Taj Vaccarella, and Kurt A. Waldo, the show opens at MichaelKate Interiors in the Funk Zone this Friday, March 15, and hangs at the expansive furnishing emporium through mid-May. Other shows opening during the bi-monthly Art Walk include “The Haley Collective: Homecoming,” featuring works by Larry Mills, Jorge Rivas, and others, curated by Nathan Vonk, who got his start 15 years ago with the collective before moving on to become the art dealer-owner of Sullivan Goss. Luke and Micah Lamar’s FunkFactory and Wallace
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Mind Over Music Former Montecito Girl Scout Dalida Arakelian is putting her musical talents to good use creating a mindful music program at UCLA that helps medical personnel. Dalida, who attended Santa Barbara High, says creative expression has a vital place in society, which led to her initiative to build Mindful Music Productions at the Westwood college. “The way it began was in the back of a neuroscience auditorium where I found a grand piano to practice on after work. In those auditorium escapes my imagination ran free. I studied economics and public health. I understand the health system and the gaps in there – and I have this passion for music,” she explains. “I figured if performing helps me, maybe I can help other people who are going through a challenging situation or experiencing something mentally or emotionally tough... I wanted to break barriers between music and medicine by creating a bridge.” Health care professionals who heard her perform encouraged Dalida to apply for a seed grant to begin a pilot project, and after two years of planning and experimenting her production company was established at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and
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Human Behavior. By forming dozens of partnerships with distinguished philanthropists, executive leaders, passionate students, leading scientists, and accomplished musicians, the non-profit organization has produced more than 300 shows across the college campus and health system community. Dalida has presented the concept of mindful music at TedX UCLA and international arts and health conferences in England. “I’m currently involved in ongoing collaborations with musicians, scientists, and media makers to positively impact the way people behave, think, and live together,” adds Dalida, who credits her grandfather, who purchased an upright piano for her at the age of six, for her passion. Keep it Classical German violin phenomenon AnneSophie Mutter, accompanied by pianist Lambert Orkis, packed the Granada when she gave an exquisite performance featuring works by Mozart, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc. Mutter has been a feature on the global stage for four decades since her solo debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Herbert von Karajan at the 1977 Salzburg Whitsun Festival and has performed with many of the world’s greatest orchestras, as well as collaborating with the most prominent composers and musicians of our time. The four-time Grammy winner was clearly at the top of her form with her latest concert, part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures series. Just five days earlier in another series concert, pianist Beatrice Rana, who is making her Carnegie Hall debut in New York this month, per14 – 21 March 2019
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formed at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall as part of the Up Close and Musical series, sponsored by Robert Weinman. Playing works by Chopin, Ravel, and Stravinsky, it was an electrifying evening. En Pointe A mandatory evacuation scuppered my chances of watching the first show of Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet at the Granada, which featured George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, but I was able to catch the second day’s three-part performance under Scottish artistic director Ashley Wheater. The show kicked off impressively with Justin Peck’s In Creases featuring two grand Steinway pianos 14 – 21 March 2019
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winning anchor Beth Farnsworth. The gala, co-hosted by Michelle Trella and Renata Coimbra, also presented the Woman of the Year award to Lisa Conn Akoni, former supervisor for Juvenile Justice Mental Services, who has worked in the field of family, child, and adolescent health for more than 20 years. She is currently the supervisor and program developer for the R.I.S.E. – Resiliency Intervention for Sexual Exploitation – Project of the SB County Department of Behavioral Wellness. Last year’s winner District Attorney Joyce Dudley also spoke, along with JL president Kielle Horton, community council director Raina Palta and district supervisor Gregg Hart.
The ubiquitous Geoff Green, chief executive of the City College Foundation, roused the supporters to open their wallets for the S.A.F.E. House, which is the county’s first therapeutic and rehabilitative shelter for girls who are survivors of commercial sexual exploitation. The six-bed facility opened in May last year. Making the Rounds The mad social whirl was at full throttle when UCSB Arts & Lectures hosted parties for guest speakers at the Granada and Campbell Hall. The first was held at the charming
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Laguna Blanca student Kiki Tolles leaping on stage for rehearsal of Charles Donelan’s AP English class play Twelfth Night (photo by Charles Donelan)
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Laguna Blanca School’s Library Dances Program Tas Emiabata from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London coaching Laguna Blanca students Caetano PerezMarchant and Kiki Tolles (photo by Brad Elliot)
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s part of their Advanced Placement English studies, the students in Laguna Blanca English teacher Charles Donelan’s class integrate the art of dance into their study of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in an annual program titled, Library Dances. The students study with the State Street Ballet, various musicians, and newly added this year, artist-practitioner from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, Tas Emiabata, for a full quarter culminating in a school-only performance on March 13. I interviewed Charles on this unique teaching method: Q. In sum, what is the integrated approach about? A. This is just one piece of a comprehensive program here at Laguna Blanca that teaches students to solve problems that require multiple skills. It is a project-experiential based learning that is being done across all disciplines in secondary education in the U.S. It works at Laguna Blanca only because we have leadership that is promoting this type of learning and supporting it from the top down, I can’t say enough about Rob Hereford, Head of School, who is oriented toward high achieving academics. And in my class, the students do this in addition to learning English for the AP English exam, and
it’s important to say that last year half of my students had perfect AP scores. How/when did you arrive at the concept of Library Dances to teach Shakespeare? Is this a pilot concept? The originator of Library Dances is Cecily MacDougall, who is the outreach coordinator at State Street Ballet and a dancer/choreographer. The program takes place in a number of schools other than Laguna Blanca, including Santa Barbara Junior High. Our relationship with the program began in the fall of 2014 with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, then The Scarlet Letter 2015, and The Great Gatsby 2016. It’s really Cecily’s concept, although at Laguna Blanca we have gone perhaps a little deeper with it since our students are juniors and seniors in high school. I won’t necessarily do Library Dances every year. Last year, for example, we took time off, but I ended up applying the concept to an interdivisional project that put high school seniors and middle schoolers together in a performance that merged theater with aerial dance. The choreographer for that was Ninette Paloma, and the piece was called “Jane Air.” The performance format for Twelfth Night follows a script I created with student-director Caetano Perez-Marchant and a student choreographer Kiki Tolles trading ideas
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about staging and the dance numbers alternate with short scenes of spoken theater. Is teaching Shakespeare in classic pedagogy not working? Shakespeare can certainly still be taught effectively using more traditional methods, but there’s a different kind and level of engagement available when students perform on a stage in front of a live audience. All the students in Twelfth Night will also take reading quizzes and write essays, so it’s not like we have replaced what has been done in the past. Project-based learning is more about augmenting the standard curriculum than doing away with it. Twelfth Night is on the requirements for AP English Language and Composition. How did you decide on ballet versus other forms of dance, or is that just for this particular work of literature? It’s a ballet because we work with State Street, and they send us not only Cecily as choreographer, but also five of their best dancers as co-creators who appear onstage alongside the students. I like the pairing of ballet and Shakespeare because they both require tremendous discipline, and they both deliver lasting rewards. Oh yes there’s lots of music, both classical and contemporary. What was the feedback from the professional ballet dancers about working with your students? The dancers really enjoy working with the students. They see this as an opportunity to create a new young audience for their art form, and they also like the energy and high spirits. Many of the dancers are not much older than the students, so their memories of high school are fresh. The State Street Ballet company dancers this year were Amara Galloway, Kate Gonzales, Courtney Hanaway, John Piel, and Nick Topete. Shakespeare’s Globe artist Tas Emiabata was also brought in for acting coaching...? What really pushed this year’s Library Dances program into the next level was the grant from Sara Miller McCune and the Leni Fund for the Shakespeare Globe Practitioner artist Tas Emiabata to be here, and the students received coaching for acting as well as the dance from State Street
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Ballet, and he was fabulous. The Globe artist/practitioner program is very strong, and I think their method is brilliant. You attended the SB Unified teacher training with the Globe Theatre... Tell us about that. It was exciting. I don’t get to spend much time with teachers from other schools, and the quality of instruction at the public junior highs and high schools in SB is top notch. How do you assess the knowledge the students acquired by this multi-disciplined approach? We will go through two weeks of rigorous traditional assessment following the performance. Students will write AP-style rhetorical analysis essays and take reading quizzes to make sure they are thoroughly familiar not only with the text, but also with the context of Shakespeare’s theater and his world. I am also constantly taking notes during the rehearsals and the performance that I will use in writing to my students’ parents about their learning, and to colleges when it comes time for letters of recommendation. These observations of the students as they interact with their peers and the professional dancers are extremely useful when it comes to describing what’s special about each individual. The process allows for multiple styles of learning and different rates of progress. Often, it’s the students who are most reluctant at the beginning who end up progressing the most. What is the end game for the students? Some of them will use this experience as the point of departure for auditioning for plays in the future. All of them will take away indelible memories, both cognitive and physical, of what it was like to perform on stage. Ultimately, the most important benefit is the bonding experience. Because everyone takes part, even those with no prior performing experience, the production becomes something they all share. It leaves our students with a powerful group identity that’s not like anything else they do in high school. •MJ 411: Laguna Blanca is a not-for-profit EK-12 co-educational, college preparatory day school. lagunablanca.org 14 – 21 March 2019
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daughter Anne, and her Corgis. There was no mention of Prince Charles or any man. Leibovitz said it was a little
intimidating to ask the queen to take off her crown or tiara. Annie had good stories behind her photos. She took a picture of John Lennon just four hours before his death. At Graceland they let her in a warehouse where Elvis kept all the stuff he never would throw away. On a shelf was a TV with a bullet hole in the screen. It seems that every time Robert Goulet came on, Elvis would shoot at the TV. For the Q & A, Pico Iyer took over. As he said, “If I told you all Annie’s credits we would be here all night.” He has a few himself. His books have been translated into 23 languages and he came all the way from Princeton University to be with us. UCSB Arts & Lectures keeps our cultural bar high with a never-ending variety of entertainment and a wide array of sponsors who make it possible. This event sponsors were Sara Miller McCune and Susan and Bruce Worster. •MJ
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The Arlington Theatre was packed with folks eager to hear from the iconic photographer Annie Leibovitz. After seeing her work many years ago in Vanity Fair and Vogue, I was too. UCSB Arts & Lectures was presenting the program. Annie began her career with the Rolling Stones in 1970 while she was still a student at the San Francisco Art Institute and she’s been going strong ever since. She was with the Stones for ten years and 142 covers. She maintains, “There are no shortcuts to photography. You can’t just rush in and out. It takes time to establish rapport.” While she spoke on stage, there was a large screen for us to see some of her work. One of the sweetest moments was when she photographed Queen Elizabeth II. Annie said the queen had a list of whom she wanted to be photographed with: her grandchildren, her Sally Beckham, Cynthia Thoreson, and Wendy Yager for Giuilana Montecito
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Montecito residence of Audrey and Tim Fisher, the former home of actor James Brolin, for global photographer James Balog, who spoke about his new film The Human Element, how humanity interacts with earth, fire, air, and water. Turning out on a decidedly rainy night were Matthew and Erika Fisher, Betsy Atwater, Tipper Gore, and Bill Allen, Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Rich and Luci Janssen, Randy and Roxy Solakian, Lou Buglioli and Natalie Orfalea, and Tom and Heather Sturgess. Forty-eight hours later I was at the Hope Ranch home of modern art collector Susan Rose, who threw a bash for Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow, who spoke about his new book Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist. Guests included Sara Miller McCune, Lynda Weinman, Christopher Lloyd, Geoff Green, Lois and Laura Capps, Sam Tyler, Heather Sturgess, and Russell Ghitterman. Words from Hawaii Former Montecito resident, Norman Sosner, an ex-president of the Santa Barbara Symphony and fundraiser for the Lobero and Ensemble theaters, has celebrated his 91st birthday by publishing his third novel, The Lady of Lington Manor.
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Norman, who now lives in Hawaii with Joyce, his wife of 63 years, describes the plot as “a heartwarming romance” of a titled lady, herself of humble origin, who befriends a young actress and a doctor, mentors their careers, while they in turn assist her in her ambitious plans to preserve the 700 year history of her West Sussex, England, estate. Combining his affection for history, world affairs, and the romance of travel, he avoids exposing his readers to the current trend of violent and grisly crime, preferring his characters to spend their time to make the world a better place. “I prefer to entertain and uplift,” he adds. If there are any old friends who wish to make contact, his e-mail is info@privatehomeshawaii.com Wine Not? Polo playing Summerland winemaker Bilo Zarif has sold his 17-yearold business to Santa Barbara County’s largest winery, the Terravant Wine Company, says my mole with the martini. The Turkish tycoon has built up a reputation for producing quality estate-grown Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. “It is a bittersweet moment for me,” Bilo tells me. “But I will be staying around.”
On the Rich List Our Eden by the Beach is well represented in the 33rd Forbes rankings of the world’s richest people, with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, 55, topping the list for the second consecutive year after toppling Bill Gates, 63, with $131 billion, $34.5 billion more than the Microsoft tycoon. Warren Buffett, 88, partnered with Montecito’s Charlie Munger in Berkshire Hathaway – ranked at 1,425 with $1.6 billion –, follows with $82.5 billion, with French luxury goods magnate – Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and the Belmond hotel chain – Bernard Arnault, 70, at four with $76 billion. Oracle tycoon Larry Ellison, 74, who has three homes in our rarefied enclave, is at number seven with $62.5 billion, followed closely by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 34, with $62.3 billion. Google honcho Eric Schmidt, 63, who lives on TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres’s former estate, near Lotusland, in ranked at 101 with $13.4 billion. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, 76, a frequent visitor here when his NFL team is in summer training in Oxnard, is number 224 with $6.8 billion, while Star Wars legend George Lucas, 74, who has a beach house near actor Kevin Costner and TV talk show host Conan O’Brien, is ranked 325 with $5.5 billion. Virgin Atlantic entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, 68, is at 478 with $4.1 billion, while Miramar developer Rick Caruso, 60, is at 504 with $4 billion, mega director Steven Spielberg, 72, at 568 with $3.7 billion and Montecito mall magnate Herb Simon, 84, at 645 with $3.4 billion. Beanie Baby billionaire and hotelier Ty Warner, 74, is ranked at 877 with $2.7 billion, while TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey, 65, is at 916 with $2.5 billion. There are 2,153 billionaires on the list, 55 fewer than 2018. Their total net worth amounts to $8.7 trillion, down $400 billion from last year. Reporting on Riven Rock Montecito accountant Frank McGinity, who made the documentary The Romance & Reaping of Riven Rock, which was shown at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, has now been accepted as an entry at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.
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To finance the project, Frank approached 14 of his Riven Rock neighbors – consisting of 34 homes on 87 acres – and asked them to contribute $500 each to the documentry, which recounts the history of one of its most famous residents, Stanley McCormick, and is narrated by actor Ed Asner. “Any time you can be creative it’s a good feeling, particularly when your business is accounting and finance,” says Frank. “It’s a nice diversion.” Not So Far Out Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow predicts psychedelic drugs will be the next big thing in health. The Oscar winner, in an interview with The New York Times, says psychedelic medicine affecting physical and mental health “will come more into the mainstream.” Gwyneth, 46, specifically mentioned the controversial psychoactive substance Ibogaine, but stopped short of recommending it. Ibogaine is banned in the U.S., but clinical trials of the substance for the treatment of alcoholism are currently underway in Brazil. Katy Closes Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry has sold her Hollywood Hills mansion for $9.45 million dollars to restauranteur Michael Chow after having it on the market for two and a half years. The 34-year-old songstress moved to the sprawling pad, which takes up two and a half acres at Runyon Canyon’s peak, six years ago. The former Dos Pueblos High student initially put the 7,400 sq. ft. Spanish-style home, which has four bedrooms, four bathrooms and two half baths, up for sale in September, 2017, for $9.5 million and subsequently reduced the price to $8.95 million amid tepid feedback, but seemingly went back up in price. The “Roar” singer initially purchased the home, part of the prestigious Outpost Estates, for $8.2 million from oil heiress Aileen Getty in April, 2013. Katy also plonked down an additional $3 million for a small home adjacent to the main property. Last year the pop megastar was the highest paid woman in music with earnings of $83 million dollars, according to Forbes. Mizrahi Memoir An old New York friend, fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, sends me his new 372-page book, I.M.: A Memoir. Isaac, 57, who grew up in a Syrian Jewish family in Brooklyn, reveals how he met with therapists, psychics, and even astrologers to escape the depressive spiral caused by being
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Tue, Apr 2 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
Each band brings their musical alchemy to the Santa Barbara stage in a celebration of The Band, 50 years since the legendary group’s debut albums Music From Big Pink and The Band.
Expect anything from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Redding, EDM and Spaghetti Western in this uplifting night of “unabashed genre crashing antics. Nothing is spoof proof” (The Sunday Times, U.K.).
Event Sponsor: Anne Towbes
Event Sponsor: Patricia Gregory, for the Baker Foundation
Sō Percussion
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour
Amid the Noise
Featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant, Bria Skonberg, Melissa Aldana, Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura and Jamison Ross
Sat, Apr 6 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
Mon, Apr 8 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
Hailed as an “experimental powerhouse” (Village Voice), Brooklyn-based Sō Percussion’s innovative work Amid the Noise is a set of short pieces framed by drones and subtly changing harmonies, featuring a percussive arsenal of wood planks, metal pipes, a toy piano – even duct tape.
Presented in association with the UCSB Department of Music
“It’s an allstar outfit with a mission, and that is to tell the story of Monterey Jazz with a shot of the festival experience to fans around the world.” – Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Independent This top-tier roster of diverse and international millennial talent brings the leaders of jazz’s future together on one stage for a can’t-miss performance of original songs and classic jazz standards.
(805) 893-3535 | www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu Corporate Season Sponsor:
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ORDINANCE NO. 5876
ORDINANCE NO. 5874
ORDINANCE NO. 5875
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE
SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE
CHANGE THE PROJECT COMPLETION DATE FROM
WATERFRONT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A LEASE
WATERFRONT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A LICENSE
MARCH 31, 2019 TO JULY 31, 2019 AS SET FORTH IN
AGREEMENT WITH JBC INVESTMENT HOLDINGS I, LLC,
AGREEMENT WITH THE SANTA BARBARA YOUTH
AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO THE INSTALLMENT SALE
COMMENCING UPON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE
SAILING
AGREEMENT
ENABLING ORDINANCE.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ENABLING ORDINANCE.
The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular
The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular
meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on March 5,
meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on March 5,
2019.
2019.
The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the
The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the
provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter
provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter
as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be
as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may
The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the
obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,
be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa
provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter
California.
Barbara, California.
as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be
FOUNDATION,
COMMENCING
UPON
THE
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 5862 TO
FOR
THE
DESALINATION
PLANT
REACTIVATION PROJECT DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING
FUND
PROJECT
NO.
4210010-005C,
AGREEMENT NO. D15-02006. The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on March 5, 2019.
obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,
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/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager
/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager
) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )
) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on March 5, 2019, by the following roll call
March 5, 2019, by the following roll call vote:
vote:
AYES:
Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo
AYES:
NOES:
None
NOES:
None
ABSENT:
None
ABSENT:
None
ABSTENTIONS:
None
ABSTENTIONS:
None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. CITY OF SANTA BARBARA
)
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on February 26, 2019, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on
Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo
March 5, 2019, by the following roll call vote: AYES:
Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo
NOES:
None
ABSENT:
None
ABSTENTIONS:
None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my
hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara
hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara
on March 6, 2019.
on March 6, 2019.
ORDINANCE NO. 5876
ordinance was introduced on February 26, 2019, and was
the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on
hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara
/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on February 26, 2019, and was adopted by
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ORDINANCE NO. 5875
ORDINANCE NO. 5874 STATE OF CALIFORNIA
California.
on March 6, 2019.
/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager
/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager
I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on March 6, 2019.
I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on March 6, 2019.
/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published March 13, 2019 Montecito Journal
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DBF, 2182 Sycamore Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. David Fee, 2182 Sycamore Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 22, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Menelli
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I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on March 6, 2019.
/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published March 13, 2019 Montecito Journal
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. FBN No. 2019-0000500. Published March 6, 13, 20, 27, 2019.
/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager
Tile & Stone, 1080 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Menelli Trading Company INC, 1080 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 22, 2019. 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
/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published March 13, 2019 Montecito Journal
statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2019-0000438. Published March 6, 13, 20, 27, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Old Coast Landscape, 328 West Mountain Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Christopher J
“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.” – Charlotte Bronte
Kay, 328 West Mountain Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 13, 2019. 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 Brenda Aguilera. FBN
No. 2019-0000372. Published March 6, 13, 20, 27, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Richies Barbershop, 6549 Pardall, Unit B, Isla Vista, CA 93106. Richard Raymond Ramirez, 976 Miramonte Dr. #2, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the
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County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 19, 2019. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2019-0000398. Published March 6, 13, 20, 27, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MRAMOS Products, 1535 Robbins St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Mariana Ramos, 1535 Robbins St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 12, 2019. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 20190000359. Published February 27, March 6, 13, 20, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: July’s Handyman Services, 1072 Casitas Pass Road #429, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Nora Cruz, 5971 Hickory St. Apt 4, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Julio Omar Cruz Torres, 5971 Hickory St. Apt 4, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 12, 2019. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 20190000361. Published February 27, March 6, 13, 20, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: San Martin Handyman, 6584 El Greco Rd. #7, Goleta, CA 93117. Martin Sedano, 6584 El Greco Rd. #7, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 22, 2019. 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 Margarita Silva. FBN No. 20190000442. Published February 27, March 6, 13, 20, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WeekendRacer.com, 230 Bonnie Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Greenstuff LLC, 230 Bonnie Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 4, 2019. 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
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Brilliant Thoughts
PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider the appeal filed by the applicant, RRM Design Group, on behalf of the property owner, 711 N. Milpas LLC, and the appeal filed by Anna Marie Gott and Herman Pfauter, of the Architectural Board of Review's denial of Final Approval for a new mixed-used project located at 711 N. Milpas Street (MST2015-00561). The project consists of 2,759 square feet (net) of commercial space, 76 residential units, 88 vehicle parking spaces, and the merger of eight lots (APNs 031-121-011, -014, -016, -017, -019, -021, -022, and 024) to create a new 66,199 square foot lot. The residential units range in size from 569 to 805 square feet, with an average unit size of 685 square feet. The proposed density for the merged lot is 50 dwelling units per acre. The project site is zoned C-G (Commercial General) and has a General Plan designation of Commercial/ High Residential/ Priority Housing Overlay (37-63 du/ac). The project received Staff Hearing Officer approval of a Front Setback Modification to allow parking spaces within the front setback on Ortega Street and Project Design Approval by the Architectural Board of Review. The project requires Final Approval by the Architectural Board of Review (SBMC Chapter 22.68). The project is exempt from further environmental review pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Section 15183. If you challenge the Council's action on the appeal of the Architectural Board of Review's decision in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing. You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102‑1990. On Thursday, March 21, 2019, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Most Popular, click on Council Agenda Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilVideos. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange. (SEAL) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager Published March 13, 2019 Montecito Journal
of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 20190000293. Published February 20, 27, March 6, 13, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Local Search FX, 1117 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Robert W. Sheffield, 2745 Miradero Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 28, 2019. 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 Jazmin
Murphy. FBN No. 20190000229. Published February 20, 27, March 6, 13, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Merci Montecito, 1028 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. E & S Colling, LLC., 1337 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 11, 2019. 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 Connie Tran. FBN No. 20190000352. Published February 20, 27, March 6, 13, 2019.
by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara with wife Dorothy since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com
Keep Out! (This does not mean you.)
W
hen Robert Frost wrote, “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” he was thinking of the difficulty of maintaining barriers. Nature builds much more successful ones, in the form of mountain ranges, oceans, and deserts, which need very little maintenance. Nevertheless, humanity sees every barrier as a challenge. Still, we need borders, to separate “them” from “us.” Troublesome offenders we can’t kill can only be punished by exile or confinement. Prisons represent our society’s admission of failure to control certain persons other than by separating them from the rest of us. And walls alone don’t do the job. There must be guards, who, like policemen, firemen, and soldiers, are paid to face danger. In California, prison guards, who are euphemistically known as “Correctional Peace Officers,” constitute one of the most powerful political lobbies, because they, in effect, are the wall which keeps us safe from people we can’t handle in any other way. They are strongly unionized, and, though forbidden to go on strike, can exert great pressure on political leaders. But the problem of keeping some things out and others in has a very long history. It may indeed explain why caves, often with only one relatively small aperture, were so popular as early human dwellings. However, when it comes to delineating the territory claimed by an entire nation, the complications multiply exponentially. The U.S.A., as currently constituted, is fortunate in having land borders – albeit extensive ones – with only two other countries, both now considered “friendly.” In contrast, China today borders more countries than any other nation on earth – fourteen in fact – giving rise, over the centuries, to innumerable tensions, and frequent wars. Big rivers make good lines of demarcation – although they can sometimes suddenly change their channels, causing people in the affected area to discover that they have become foreigners, living on the “wrong” side of the river. The Danube, the longest river in Western Europe flows through several countries, but also separates some. One of these separations I was able to experience first-hand, while on a river cruise from Budapest to Bucharest. I was astonished to find that, as far as Romania and its trans-Danube neighbor, Bulgaria, are concerned, the river separates not only two countries but
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two languages – and two different alphabets! In Bucharest, where the language is akin to French and Spanish, I was at least able to make out a word or two in the newspaper headlines. But just across the river, the language is Slavic and the alphabet Cyrillic – and I couldn’t even read the street-signs! Some borders remain in dispute long after the original contenders are gone. A good example is the border between Turkey and what is now the Republic of Armenia. To give you an idea of the complexity of this situation: the mountain called Ararat, on which, according to the Bible, Noah’s Ark came to rest, was once considered to be at the center of Armenia, but is now in Turkey, though it is clearly visible from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Travel across the border has for long been virtually impossible – and the whole impasse goes back more than a century to a terrible episode, usually called the Armenian Genocide, which took place during World War I. (If you visit eastern Turkey you will see many architectural vestiges of what used to be Armenia.) Some countries which are, or were, privileged to control suitable areas extremely remote from their centers of population, had the option of establishing “Penal Colonies” (another euphemism) which inevitably acquired fear-inducing reputations (possibly in themselves serving as a deterrent to potential criminals.) For Russia, there was the vast, terribly inhospitable, and (especially before railroads) almost impossibly distant province known as Siberia – a region which no doubt still houses active prisons to this day. France had (and still has, considering it to be an integral part of its European domain) a huge territory on the north coast of South America, called Cayenne or French Guiana, where it established the fearful penal institution known as Devil’s Island (which was finally closed down in 1953). For Britain there was the whole island-continent of Australia, many of whose current inhabitants can still (not always proudly) trace their ancestry to “transported” convicts. All these places, in their time, served their function of keeping “undesirables” out. Just what proportion of those thus exiled ever got back in again I don’t know – but it must have been a miserably small minority. •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL
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EDITORIAL (Continued from page 5)
After a two-year public review process, the State Water Resources Control Board decided in March 2018 that treated recycled water can be added to California’s 36 surface water reservoirs, which are the source of California municipal drinking water. The State Water Board is now working on regulations for “direct potable reuse” where recycled water is added directly into a drinking system. These rules are expected to be finalized by 2023. The Water Board said it funded more than $748 million worth of recycling projects last year. A sensible recycling plan, endorsed by multiple districts, could generate $20 to $30 million in state funding for Montecito; without joint support, Montecito gets nothing.
Montecito Water District (MWD)
During the last two years, the MWD Board has embraced a 100% change in its water strategy. Gone is the idea that MWD needs to accept the status quo. In the past, MWD has relied on imported State and supplemental water for up to 80% of its water portfolio. State water delivery hinges on an aging conveyance system that carries uncertain snowmelt from the High Sierras, ships it to southern California via canals, pumps and pipelines through the SacramentoSan Joaquin Delta via the California Aqueduct and the South Coast Branch Connector. From there it goes to surface dams and reservoirs like the San Luis Reservoir and Lake Cachuma—and then on to the Cater Treatment Plant and Montecito. Originally designed to serve 25 million people, the State Water Project is now being asked to provide reliable water – rain or no rain – to 40 million people. It has become overpromised and under-delivered. Its system of surface reservoirs is plagued by high rates of evaporation, mandatory spills, reservoir silting, excessive environmental fish releases, inadequately sized pipes and pumps and aging infrastructure badly in need of repair. Our entire State Water system is wholly funded by its users. The alternative water supply strategy, envisioned by the current MWD Board, is to develop highly-reliable, drought-proof, environmentally-friendly water sources locally. The goal is to achieve a supply portfolio in which 80% of consumed water comes from locally-controlled sources that are independent of rainfall – a desalination water purchase agreement with the City of Santa Barbara, a possible agreement with the Montecito Sanitary District for future recycling or, if unable to reach agreement with Montecito Sanitary, alternative arrangements with the Summerland Sanitary District, or the Carpinteria Advanced Purification Project, or the City of Santa Barbara.
Initial MWD Water Banking Efforts
MWD has negotiated an agreement for underground water banking with the Semitropic Water Storage District in Kern County. After a DWR administrative (not actual) spill where Montecito lost a full year’s supply of surface water stored in the San Luis reservoir, the MWD Board negotiated a deal for underground water storage. The Semitropic Water Storage District covers an area of more than 220,000 acres. Montecito’s excess State Water in wet years is stored underground in a water bank for use by Montecito in dry years. Semitropic currently banks 700,000 AF of water in a groundwater storage bank with a capacity of 1.65 million AF. The Montecito Water District envisions storing a minimum of 1,500 AF underground for extended drought protection.
Montecito Sanitary District (MSD)
Since 1947, the mission of MSD has been narrowly defined as “the collection, treatment and disposal of wastewater in the most cost-effective way possible.” The Montecito wastewater collection system includes approximately 61 miles of VCP gravity pipeline of which approximately 26 miles have been rehabilitated, 12 miles of PVC gravity pipeline, 2.2 miles of sewer force mains, and 5 pump stations. The majority of the facilities were installed between 1961 and 1969. Wastewater is piped to the District’s Wastewater Treatment Plant for processing. The Treatment Plant, which has a capacity to treat 1.5 million gallons per day, provides full secondary treatment. In 2016, a dry year, the amount of wastewater that was treated at the Montecito Sanitary plant was approximately 650,000 gallons per day (730 AFY).
Management and Governance of MSD
MSD is governed by a five-member Board of Directors which approves the annual operating and capital budgets and authorizes expenditures of the District’s funds. The District employs a General Manager as the chief executive who reports directly to the Board of Directors; a District Administrator, an Operations Manager, an Engineering Manager, and a Laboratory/Pretreatment
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Manager. The District currently has 16 full-time employees. MSD has consistently done an excellent job of doing the same thing, on-time and on-budget, year after year.
Need for Strategic Planning Committee
Relationships between MSD and MWD have been severely strained over several decades, with blame enough on both sides. Following the 2018 elections both MWD and MSD have attempted to at least talk together. The highlight has been a joint meeting of the MSD District Operations Committee and the MWD Strategic Planning Committee on February 25, 2019. While encouraging as a first step, the discussion was too focused on “we and they” instead of “What is best for us?”—the community and its ratepayers. At minimum, both districts need to form workable “Strategic Planning Committees” to assess future opportunities, not current operations. The following strategic issues need to be addressed by a new MSD Strategic Planning Committee, working collaboratively with MWD Strategic Planning and the community. Increased Collaboration. What is the best way to acknowledge and build shared trust and shared ideas, currently missing between the Districts? What areas of cooperation need to be nurtured between a MSD Strategic Planning Committee and the MWD Strategic Planning Committees? Montecito’s Environmental Commitment to Recycle and Reuse Its Wastewater. What is the best pathway for both districts to assure the community that no treated wastewater will be discharged into the ocean by 2025? Optimum Wastewater Treatment Plant. How many and what size wastewater treatment plants are optimal to achieve least-cost treatment for recycled wastewater? Could one or two South Coast Sanitary Districts deliver more efficient treatment at a lesser cost? Should MSD and MWD combine with SSD (Summerland Sanitary District), or partner with CSD (Carpinteria Sanitary District) for more efficient reuse, or for indirect injection into a larger groundwater basin? Stormwater Recapture & Reuse Opportunities. What opportunities exist for the capture of stormwater? What are other communities doing? Is flood control coordination with the County a future opportunity for efficient water management? State and Federal Grant Opportunities. Grants for recycling projects, especially for joint districts, are available. Other communities are way ahead of Montecito in securing cooperative grants and/or loans at low interest rates. Campus Planning. Is there a Sanitary Campus Master Plan that maximizes MSD’s site potential? Is it possible that a future desalination-wastewater treatment capability on the MSD site might be needed? Extension of Montecito Sewer System. Should MSD extend sewer service to homes above East Valley Road to get them off septic tanks? When? At what cost? What benefits? In the 1960s, Montecito lost all the taxpaying capacity on Coast Village Road when the Sanitary District was unable to serve CVR businesses. At minimum, MSD needs a long-range, future-focused Strategic Planning Committee consisting of Tom Bollay, its president, and Woody Barrett, a newly-elected geologist with the trust and respect of both the MWD Board and his own MSD Board. A healthy start has been made with the joint meeting between districts. Simply renaming the existing MSD Operations and Maintenance Committee to the “Strategic Planning Committee” would be a step backwards. If Tom Bollay, as the new MSD Board president, could convince his own Board (and the Water Board) that he truly wants to construct bridges of understanding between districts, and to get rid of the “we and they” positions of the last decade he should embrace a separate Strategic Planning Committee that would do the needed legwork but would need full Board approval. Acorns planted today to plan an efficient and coordinated dual future, will grow into oak trees of understanding and mutual cooperation. Both Districts need to at least discuss the longer-term advantages and disadvantages of a single Montecito Community Service District Board, initially encompassing both Boards. The discussion of what is best for Montecito needs to be widened to include potential working arrangements with the Summerland Sanitary Board, Montecito Flood Control, Carpinteria Valley Water and Carpinteria Sanitary with their Carpinteria Advanced Purification Project (CAPP). Ratepayers seem to favor recycling and putting an end to the current discharge of treated wastewater. They expect both districts to set aside past differences. The one thing they cannot tolerate is an inability for two Districts, who should be joined at the hip, to work in separate silos. The current water world punishes those who cannot work together in the delivery of reliable, safe water at the least cost to residents. •MJ
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk
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LETTERS (Continued from page 8)
in, well, a very wide area of the California coast; they’re just dang good and a joy to join and listen to. They usually make an early fall public appearance in Montecito and half the village turns up on what always becomes a very special day of music-food-wine-and-beer for the entire family. – J.B.)
at a point where everything we do must be addressed in identity terms that focus on our differences, and further serve to separate us from our common humanity. Lawrence Dam Montecito
Grasping for Straws
Defining Himself
I recently had to have my blood tested before a doctor’s visit, so I dropped into a lab to comply with my doctor’s orders. I was asked to sign a new form entitled “Respect and Care,” asking me to answer a series of questions to ensure that they could respond to my needs “in a way that makes me most comfortable.” The questions were all multiple choice and had to do with Race, Ethnicity, Sex Assigned at Birth, Present Sex (if different), Gender Identity, Sexual Identity, and my Preferred Pronoun. Answering the questionnaire was optional and each category had a box that said “Unknown” or “Rather not Say,” but the mere fact that they asked me to voluntarily provide such information made me pause. At first I thought it was just a silly manifestation of political correctness, but then it just made me irritated. How could such personal information possibly help them draw my blood in a way that would make me more comfortable? All it did was make me upset to realize that identity distinctions had made their way into as simple a task as having my blood tested. You may correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems we have arrived
Letter writers Kathi King and Charles Newman of the Community Environmental Council accused me of lacking “journalistic integrity” related to my recent Straw Wars editorial, citing a timing error about when the State and local straw bans actually take effect. The dates are confusing to the general public and to local businesses struggling to implement the ban during 2019. The California straw law took effect on January 1, 2019. The original City of Santa Barbara straw ban, which carried fines and jail time, also had an effective date of January 1, 2019. However, after receiving much ridicule from the national press, on September 20, 2018 the City Council elected to remove the criminal penalties from its ban and to push the start date for the ban back to July 1, 2019. Single-use straws and Styrofoam containers, we all agree, add to ocean pollution. The purpose of my editorial was not to deny the environmental impacts of plastic products, but rather to point out that legislative mandates for behavioral change can have unforeseen consequences. Bob Hazard Montecito
No Fantasy Land
They will spend your tax money trying to find a crime to fit their pre-determined guilty verdict. They will provide free health care, free education, and a guaranteed annual income even to those who won’t work. Regardless of your background, they want you to believe you are a victim. Even I, a white male (sorry, it’s the way I was born) should feel guilty because of “white privilege.” They refer to Scandinavia and Canada as successful anti-capitalist examples, seemingly not realizing that these countries have various successful versions of capitalism. They ignore references to Venezuela. Despite being wealthy themselves, they view wealth as greed. They see America’s past as shameful despite that fact that multitudes of people want to come here. They falsely portray American finance as a zero-sum game. They strive to erase portions of American history. They support the Green New Deal. They are the progressive left. Included among them are presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Bernie Sanders. I don’t believe these people are ignorant. I do believe they present fantasy-world ideas and concepts to potential voters. You have every right to disagree with my thoughts, but I strongly encourage everyone to review these people and what the progressive left is proposing. For instance, I’d like Sanders to explain why his Medicarefor-all program was a total failure in his home state, Vermont. And we should note that Alexandria OcasioCortez thought that the three-billion
dollar tax incentive New York would provide Amazon was real money and offered suggestions as to how it should be spent. Dunno about you, but I would want my children to believe that their future existence would be determined by hard work and effort. They live in the greatest country in the world, not fantasy land. They are not victims. Sanderson M. Smith, Ed.D. Carpinteria
Restoring Credibility
Now we have another challenge. The Debris Flow Establishment seems to be out of dry powder. More folks seem to have an interest in hysteria and the activity it generates than in calmly looking at all the information and calculating the risks and accepting a reasonable level of same and some uncertainty. Some times doing little is better than doing a lot. When too many want to appear to be doing something it may be counterproductive in the short and certainly in the long run. With no dry powder, the next real threat will be more difficult to contain. And the next long run problem is that trees are suffocating. Mud must be removed from the base of our trees. Covering the area where roots first are evident at the base of a tree will over time suffocate the tree. This condition is especially evident in areas such as East Valley Lane. Most of the land is private, of course, but with restrictions and nightmarish memories, who can blame the owners for ignoring these properties and the
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THURSDAY, MARCH 14 Quite the Quartet – Like a fine German wine from their birthplace of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, the Mandelring Quartet’s three Schmidt sibling – violinists Sebastian and Nanette and cellist Bernhard – along with violist Andreas Willwohl have only gotten better with age, pushing their partnership dedicated to exemplary performances of chamber music to new heights as time goes on. The foursome’s success in winning some of the world’s great competitions, including the Munich (ARD), Evian, and Reggio Emilia (Premio Paolo Borciani), launched an impressive international career that has taken them around the globe to such international musical centers as Vienna, Paris, London, Madrid, New York, Los Angeles, and Vancouver, as well as regular tours to Central and South America, the Middle East, and Asia. Boasting a discography comprised of more than 30 CD recordings, the Mandelring is currently working on recording all the string chamber music composed by Brahms, but this is a very versatile and adaptable quartet as evidenced by their 30th birthday celebration in Berlin with a series of five concerts at which the audience was invited to select a program of three pieces from a list of 30 immediately before the start. Tonight’s program at the intimate Mary Craig Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art includes three masterworks: Beethoven’s Op. 18,
No. 1; Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2; and Mendelssohn Op. 44, No. 2, the later of which earlier evoked a rave notice: “Brilliance is not a strong enough word… The music transfixes the listener from literally the very first note, electrifying heart and brain without any advance warning.” FRIDAY, MARCH 15 Century-Spanning Companions – Members of the Calder Quartet might find themselves thinking “Good golly, Miss Molly” when pianist Molly Morkoski joins the foursome to kick off tonight’s Camerata Pacifica concert with a performance of Piano Sonata Nº.2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60, by the great American composer Charles Ives. The Concord sonata is a distinctly notable piece of capturing time and place as well as a particular point of view. As noted by Cam Pac’s founding director Adrian Spence, the work “is at turns overwhelming, tender, funny, beautiful, and witty... massive in its magnificence and tremendously demanding of the performer.” As Spence says, it’s certainly a worthy program partner to a late Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127, which, as Daniel Chua notes, expressly evinces the composer’s view of the format as a vehicle for intellectual exploration. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $56: INFO: 884-8410 or www.cameratapacifica. org
FRIDAY, MARCH 15 Double Dose of Douget – Last year’s inaugural Lobero Brubeck Circle Jazz residency program was so successful, they’re not only doing it again to close out the winter, they’re bringing back the same leader. Derek Douget, a member of the Ellis Marsalis Quartet and the Director of the Heritage School of Music, and a cadre of collaborators have spent this past week on an educational tour across Santa Barbara County providing customized in-classroom instruction to jazz students from junior high through college. Douget and cohorts will then cap off the week with a performance at the venerable theater in which the alto and soprano saxophonist will bring a bit of the Big Easy to downtown Santa Barbara. Douget is known for masterfully mixing his Louisiana upbringing with his strong individualism and idiosyncratic voice that has earned him gigs and recording dates with many notable musicians on the New Orleans scene, including the Louis Armstrong Quintet, Nicolas Payton, Ellis Marsalis, Dr. John, Terence Blanchard, Allen Toussaint, Branford Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Wyclef Jean, Jason Marsalis, Kermit Ruffins, Stefon Harris, and many others. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $25 general, $12 students INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com
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SATURDAY, MARCH 16 Sync Me, Amadeus – The Santa Barbara Symphony could hardly have tapped a more appropriate guest conductor than Dirk Brossé to wield the baton for a showing of the multiple Academy Award-winning 1984 motion picture Amadeus on the Granada’s 4K digital cinema screen while the generous soundtrack full of many of Mozart’s most celebrated works are performed live in-sync by the symphony with accompaniment from the Santa Barbara Symphony Chorus. In addition to serving as the music director of The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and guesting for the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Shanghai, and l’Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, among others, the Belgium-born Brossé has also written and composed more than 200 works, including concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music, and symphonic works that have been performed all over the world and have been recorded in more than 40 countries. Among those are around 30 film scores, and another dozen musicals, so he’s pretty familiar with working in cinema and live storytelling. Brossé also bulks up on conducting such special filmic tributes as “Brave in Concert” in Brussels and “Shakespeare in Concert” in Prague in the last two months, and also stepped in for John Williams in the celebration of his movie scores with the LSO last October, not to mention having conducted the Amadeus program before back in 2017. Servin gas soloist is Santa Barbara’s own Natasha Kislenko, a symphony regular who also serves as a continuing lecturer in UCSB’s Department of Music, and on the faculty at the Music Academy of the West. Were he still alive, the envious-to-the-point-of-murder Salieri might get jealous all over again. WHEN: 8 pm tonight, 3 pm tomorrow WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $29 & up ($20 for ages 20-29, $10 all students) INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org
SATURDAY, MARCH 16 Fuddy, Not Duddy – Action is all the rage in Fuddy Meers, a sinister and zany comedic romp with a dark domestic drama at its heart and sweetness at its core. The 20-yearold play by David Lindsay-Abaire – best-known for penning the Pulitzer Prize winning Rabbit Hole in 2007 and, subsequently, the books for the Broadway musicals High Fidelity and Shrek the Musical – illustrates a world in which nothing is as it seems, hardly anyone can be understood, and trusting the wrong person can get you locked in the basement with a foul-mouthed sock puppet, hit over the head with a frying pan, or hauled over the Canadian border. Our heroine is the sunny amnesiac Claire, who must contend with kidnapping, family reunion, and intrusive carnival music playing in her head, not to mention having no recollection of what happened the previous day, including such details as her name, marital status, parentage, and tastes in food and clothing. Part of the fun is figuring out the play’s title, which holds a vital clue to its solution, in a work that was well-reviewed in The New York Times by Ben Brantley, who called it “a wisecracking, self-conscious dysfunctional family comedy … that
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” – Mark Twain
also crosses blithely into brutal, bloodspattered territory.” Rubicon Theatre veteran Jenny Sullivan directs the play that marked just the second effort from Lindsay-Abaire not long after he graduated from the playwriting program at the Juilliard School. WHEN: Tonight through March 31 WHERE: Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura COST: $20-$55 INFO: 667-2900 or www. rubicontheatre.org SUNDAY, MARCH 17 Limericks & Lyrics – Ensemble Theatre Company hosts a festive evening of Irish music and prose supporting ETC’s education and outreach programs. The 90-minute spectacular features musical guests Doug Clegg and Kate Wallace (of Trinity Backstage), Grammy-winner Amanda McBroom, Opera Santa Barbara’s Zach Mendez, and a lineup of actors including actresses Marianna Palks (Glow) and Nancy Nufer, and step dancers The Claddagh Irish Dancers. Other highlights include and Irish singalong and a live limerick contest with Montecito’s Cheri and Bill Steinkellner (Cheers, etc.). ‘Tis a lively way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. WHEN: 5 pm WHERE: New Vic 14 – 21 March 2019
TUESDAY, MARCH 19 Restaurant Reconteur – His dad may forever be an American folk hero for composing “This Land is Your Land” – why could easily supplant “The Star Spangled Banner” as the national anthem – but his kid Arlo has had the longer career, dating back to the 1960s. Arlo Guthrie has been loved by several generations for his prolific output that combines social commentary and masterful storytelling. So why shouldn’t he still be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film Alice’s Restaurant, given that it is actually the halfcentury mark for Woodstock and Guthrie’s part in the Flower Power generation. Arlo is bringing a multimedia experience to life in this return to the Lobero, where he’ll be aided by two of his kids – Sarah Lee (who called Montecito her winter-time home a couple of years ago) and Abe – plus Terry A La Berry and Steve and Carol Ide. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $54 & $64 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com
Theater, 33 West Victoria St. COST: $40 general, $30 students & seniors ($75 VIP tickets include premium seating and a special reception at 4 pm INFO: (805) 965-5400 or www. etcsb.org WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 Salonen Salute – Time was EsaPekka Salonen made it to the podium in Santa Barbara annually as the former music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, who makes a yearly visit to town as part of their lifelong association with the Community Arts Music Association. CAMA is marking its centennial this
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 Local Luminaries’ Landmark – Headless Household’s album Inside/Outside USA has been around only half as long as Alice’s Restaurant – but given the multiple careers of the band members and its sporadic nature, it’s astounding that they’re still around to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the pivotal record. The self-described hopelessly eclectic ensemble has long had critics tying themselves in knots trying to capturing its oeuvre – “Clever without being obnoxious, laid-back without snoozing, their quick-dissolve electric studiohead jazz offers an alternative–not exactly a revolution, more a wink than a nod” (LA Times), and “They sound like Miles Davis playing with the Kronos Quartet conducted by Sun Ra with occasional vocals by George Jones and backup singers from A Man and a Woman” (Rhapsody.com), although Jazz Times’ more direct approach comes closest: “Solid musicianship and an admirable willingness to toss in whatever strikes their fancy.” On the other hand, the Householders – Dick Dunlap, piano; Tom Lackner, drums; (fellow arts scribe) Joe Woodard, guitar; Tom Buckner, tenor sax; Nicole Lvoff, vocals; and, a recent addition, Randy Tico, bass – are on a specific mission and musical agenda in taking note of its seminal 1993 album. Many of the songs from Inside/Outside USA, which as HH’s second album, have shown up in Household sets over the years, including “Saloonacy,” “Trouble in Whoville,” “Wintering in Heaven,” and “Denver Umlaut.” But many of the other cuts, including “Sufferin’ USA,” “Free James Brown,” “The Mayor’s Send-Off,” “Woe to Him (Who Builds his House on Salty Sand,” and “I Can’t Remember the Words,” don’t get much air time or have been altogether lost to the void in the band’s live sets. And if they don’t manage to play all of them tonight at SOhO, you can play ‘em at home yourself as the physical CD will be available for purchase on site. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10 INFO: (805) 9627776 or www.sohosb.com
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overweight and sexually confused. The designer, who has worked with Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Diane Sawyer, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Michelle Obama, says he considered himself “a monster” compared to other children when just six years of age. “I stuck out like a chubby gay thumb,” he admits. Isaac, who I first met at Manhattan’s legendary Studio 54 in the late 70’s when he was just starting out working for Chanel, Calvin Klein, Perry Ellis, and Jeffrey Banks, now regularly appears on the QVC shopping channel selling his fashion wares and is in partnership with Target, a long way from his humble beginnings. He even has his own cabaret show and is quite an accomplished singer.
A Laughing Matter Former Montecito funnyman John Cleese has teamed up with the Comedy Hideaway in Santa Barbara. Owner Andrey Belikov says John, now living back in England, is interested in opening a club downtown in our Eden by the Beach. Currently the club is in a converted meeting room at the High SierraFlightline restaurant at Santa Barbara Airport. It has been around in various locations for ten years. Stay tuned... Rushing to the Altar Montecito’s Billy Baldwin has been open about his support of his niece Hailey Baldwin’s relationship and marriage to singer Justin Bieber. But the 56-year-old actor suggests he wished the tony twosome had slowed their romance down and not rushed into it. “I love them as a couple and would’ve loved to see them get married if they’d waited a couple of more years. Maybe that would have been better,” he tells Us Weekly. “But they didn’t want to wait because they’re both devout in their
faith and that wasn’t the right fit for them, so that’s really none of my business. “I said to them, I hope you don’t jump right in and start having two and three and four kids right away. They can have the next few years together where they can rampage and just globe trot and just tear up and have fun.” Rest in Peace On a personal note, I remember conductor André Previn, who just died in New York aged 89. Previn won four Oscars for his film work and 10 Grammys for his recordings. He was famously married to Frank Sinatra’s ex, actress Mia Farrow and German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who just performed at the Granada. I remember meeting him at a fundraising bash for the London Symphony Orchestra at the former Park Avenue triplex penthouse of Standard oil magnate, John D. Rockefeller, which was then owned by New York billionaire Saul Steinberg, owner of Reliance Insurance. I was suitably impressed by the 38-seat dining room arrangement and impressive Flora Danica china! Sightings: Oprah Winfrey checking out Stella McCartney’s creations at Paris Fashion Week... German fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth lunching with Santa Barbara Magazine owner Jennifer Hale at the Coral Casino... Rocker Peter Noone shopping at Montecito Country Mart Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301. •MJ
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Orchids Galore
The 74th annual Santa Barbara International Orchid Show, the country’s largest and oldest celebration of the plant, returns March 15-17 to the Earl Warren Showgrounds for a three-day event featuring thousands of blooms highlighting the bold and beautiful horticultural innovations and evolutionary feats of more than 50 exhibitors and vendors from around the world. The show pays homage to more than 25,000 species of the uniquely captivating and exotic flowering plants, and boasts innumerable stunning and sweet-smelling exhibits and floral arrangements, orchid art and photography, orchid culture demonstrations, and sales from dozens of local and international vendors. The Orchids After Dark opening night fundraiser features gourmet appetizers from C’est Cheese, a no-host bar, Tiki tunes, exotica/lounge and Island music by DJ Darla Bea, and the chance to commune with the displays away from the crowds. Visit https:// sborchidshow.com.
Thief of Letters
It’s probably just a coincidence that UCSB Arts & Lectures is presenting Susan Orlean, the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief, this Thursday, March 14, on the eve of the annual Santa Barbara Orchid Show beginning its three-day run at the Earl Warren Showgrounds. Meryl Streep won an Academy Award playing the character of Susan Orlean in the wildly clever film adaptation that was called Adaptation. Orlean’s latest, October’s The Library Book, delves into the cold case about the fire at the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986 which destroyed 400,000 books. Orlean will talk with Santa Barbara’s own literary treasure, Pico Iyer, in the next installment of the Speaking with Pico series at 7:30 pm at UCSB Campbell Hall.
Keep CALM and Write On
Mindy Johnson’s latest book, Ink & Paint – The Women of Walt Disney’s Animation, touches upon yet another area in which women’s monumental role has been vastly unreported, revealing the thousands of unsung female artists behind the creative and technical advances within the animation art world at Disney. Johnson, who is an award-winning playwright, Grammy-nominated songwriter, musician and recording artist, film teacher and TV and film producer, is
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” – W. P. Kinsella
currently helping to develop the book for an eight-part docu-series to launch The Walt Disney Company’s new streaming service Disney+. Joining Johnson among the interviewed authors for this year’s CALM Celebrity Authors’ Luncheon, which starts at 10 am on Saturday, March 16, at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort, are Luis Alberto Urrea and Kate Quinn. A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Urrea is the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of 17 books, including the 2016 his collection of short stories, The Water Museum, which was a finalist for the PEN-Faulkner Award and was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews, among others. Quinn is The New York Times bestselling author of seven historical novels, including The Alice Network, the Empress of Rome saga, and The Borgia Chronicles. At least 10 additional authors will be on hand to autograph books and talk with readers, and among the most timely would have to be Jane Sherron De Hart, whose biography Ruth Bader Ginsberg: A Life benefited greatly from the near concurrent documentary RBG, which was Oscar-nominated. Also in the political realm, Jo Haldeman’s In the Shadow of the White House, in which she tells her story as the wife of H. R. Haldeman, often referred to as the second most powerful person in the Nixon administration, and a convicted conspirator in the Watergate scandal. The luncheon supports the nonprofit whose mission is to prevent childhood trauma, heal children and families, and build resilient communities throughout Santa Barbara County. Details and tickets at http://calm4kids.org/ events/celebrity-authors-luncheon.
Book ’Em
Kids get a double dose at 2 pm Sunday afternoon, March 17, at Chaucer’s when author Hal Price, who is “on a mission to save the tradition of family bedtime stories,” shares stories from his latest project, The Adventures of Eli Benjamin Bear – A Heart’s Journey Home. He’s bringing a special guest, writer Susan J. Busen, who will tap into her book Tap into Joy – A Guide to Emotional Freedom Technique to show parents how to help your children achieve freedom from negative emotions and limiting beliefs. The following evening at 7, Chaucer’s Books hosts palliative medicine Dr. Sunita Puri whose debut book, That Good Night – Love and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, delves into her background that formed her desire to enter the specialty as an attempt to translate the border between medical intervention and quality-of-life care. Admission to both events is free. •MJ 14 – 21 March 2019
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trees? If something is not done, what remains a tragic scene will become a tragic desert of neglect. The Montecito Association is in a unique position to rally the troops once again. The time is now. It breaks my heart to have witnessed the expenditure of energy and resources over the last few days when other matters are much more in need. Doug Norberg Montecito
Fat Chance
The main story in a recent issue of the Santa Barbara News-Press that appeared on page 1 in their Business section, is pretty negative, re Mr. Trump’s performance since taking office, and appears pretty thorough, too. And don’t forget the paper endorsed him. Methinks his chances of reelection are maybe only 50%. Ben Burned Montecito
Raising the Level
I should like to thank Larry Bond for his response to my suggestion about how to increase the storage capacity of Lake Cachuma (“Raising Lake Cachuma,” MJ #25/9). He is
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correct; my suggestion to increase the height of the steel plates in the spillway of the Bradbury Dam does come with its own set of issues, but they are either minor or nonexistent compared to those raised by Mr. Bond’s dredging proposal. Permit me to offer some brief comments. 1)Yes, there would be an increase in hydrostatic pressure on the dam as a result of the lake being six inches or a foot deeper. If the level of the lake were increased one foot, the increase in pressure at the base of the dam, where the pressure is the greatest, would be only one psi, which is a .67% increase over the current pressure at that depth. All engineering calculations have, or at least should have, a built-in contingency factor of at least 10%, so an increase of.67% would not materially affect the design parameters or performance of the dam. 2) It is extremely doubtful that a sixinch or one-foot increase in the level of the water in the lake would cause any lakeside vendors or camp sites to have to be relocated. If that were truly the case, then clearly those facilities are currently located too close to the lake’s edge and should be relocated further away from the lake’s edge whether the level is raised or not. 3) Mr. Bond suggested that because I was not an Egyptian historian I used
the wrong word, sludge, in describing what would be dredged from the lake’s bottom. While not an Egyptian historian, I am familiar with Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary. If Mr. Bond checks the definitions of both silt and sludge, he will find that sludge is in fact an appropriate description of the dredged material. 4) Mr. Bond claimed he was not qualified to contest my figures. All my figures were derived from data available on the web about Lake Cachuma and then manipulated using only simple arithmetic operations, multiplication and division, all of which are taught in grammar school and which are far more relevant in today’s society and economy than a knowledge of Egyptian history. I would encourage Mr. Bond to check my calculations, a task I feel confident he could do regardless of his claim to the contrary 5) Mr. Bond’s vision of depositing the dredged material close to the lake so it could be accessed by people with their own vehicles is fantasy. Do the arithmetic; it’s easy. A one-acre foot increase of water capacity created by dredging will require storing 43,560 cubic feet of sediment. Since the dredged material is not a solid, you’d be lucky to be able to store it at a depth of one foot, so how many 43,560 sq ft locations are available and accessible for storage? He likens
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it to the county’s free mulch program. Mulch is one thing, dry and easily handled. The dredged material will be messy, gooey, wet and slimy. Who in their right mind would load their truck or trunk of their car with that stuff?? 6) Dredging is costly and environmentally damaging. Increasing the height of the spillway plates is significantly cheaper and causes little or no environmental damage. I leave for consideration those final thoughts and comments on this topic. I must now return to more practical matters: income taxes. It is my hope that I will have to pay only a minimal amount to the state of California to be squandered away on such ridiculous projects as the high-speed bullet train which will go from one relatively small city to another, transport only very few people, require expensive terminals at both ends and require substantial subsidization for the duration of its life. There are those who believe the bullet train to be an excellent expenditure of funds and those who don’t. It is one more fantasy that cannot and will not be sustainable, is neither practical nor affordable, but oh, what a vision it is. Visions are one thing, reality is another. Pete Schenck Santa Barbara •MJ
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Mint Condition, FL47”, Notch Collar Orig $175K Sell $45,000 w BH Appraisal Call Malibu 310-457-3301 Final Affairs Estate Sale Fri 8-2, Sat 9-2, Sun 9-1 4806 LaGama Way 9 rms traditional furniture, art, Gf clock, decorative objects, easel, porcelain, crystal,silver, rugs, screens, $1 to $1000! See Craigslist photos Jeanne Payne.
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$8,900,000 | 700 E Mountain Dr, Montecito | 6BD/6½BA + PH MK Properties | 805.565.4014 | Lic # 01426886 / 01930309
$6,566,000 | La Cuesta Roquena, Santa Barbara | 5BD/4½BA McGowan Partners | 805.563.4000 | Lic # 00893030 / 02041055
$21,500,000 | 4347 Marina Dr, Hope Ranch | 6BD/7½BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233 Lic # 01209514
$19,995,000 | 1491 Edgecliff Ln, Montecito | Beachfront Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141
$19,950,000 | ParadiseOnPadaro.com, Carpinteria | 6BD/ 6½BA Kathleen Winter | 805.451.4663 Lic # 01022891
$16,250,000 | 1188 E Mountain Dr, Montecito Upper | 3BD/5BA Cristal Clarke | 805.886.9378 Lic # 00968247
$11,000,000 | 956 Via Fruteria, Hope Ranch | 5BD/5BA Bunny DeLorie | 805.570.9181 Lic # 01397098
$6,500,000 | 1164 Hill Rd, Montecito Lower | 4BD/4½BA Cristal Clarke | 805.886.9378 Lic # 00968247
$4,250,000 | 1428 E Valley Rd, Montecito Upper | 4BD/5BA Team Scarborough | 805.331.1465 Lic # 01182792 / 01050902
$3,795,000 | 1156 Hill Rd, Montecito Lower | 4BD/4BA Wilson Quarre | 805.680.9747 Lic # 01415465
$2,995,000 | 1230 San Antonio Creek Rd, San Antonio Creek | 4BD/4½BA Cristal Clarke / Jenny Hall | 805.886.9378 / 705.7125 Lic # 00968247 / 01937474
$2,495,000 | 7475 Shepard Mesa Rd, Carpinteria | 4BD/3BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233 Lic # 01209514
$2,495,000 | 2350 Bella Vista Dr, Montecito | 3BD/3BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141
$2,249,000 | 2777 Macadamia Ln, Montecito Upper | 3BD/2BA Team Scarborough | 805.331.1465 Lic # 01182792 / 01050902
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