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Warren Butler did it: entrepreneur takes control of Cafe Del Sol, aka Montecito Event Center, p. 6
THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 • OPEN HOUSES, P. 38 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42
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Village Beat
Despite recent progress on vacant lot adjacent to Montecito Country Mart, additional parking not yet a reality, p. 12
Quite A Stretch
Montecito Yoga owner and guru Denise Zaverdas is poised for “Heart or Soul” success, p. 13
A STREETCAR
NAMED DESIRE André Previn’s opera of Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece finally arrives in Santa Barbara (Exclusive interview begins on P.11)
Assembly Line
Porsche 911 owners among those revving their engines for Rally 4 Kids event in May, p. 36
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On the Water Front
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Letters to the Editor
Bob Hazard steps right back into Montecito’s water predicament, gauging MWD, conservation, recycling, desalination, leadership, and California’s restrictions
A Symposium on Immunity for Our Community
Cafe Del Sol’s new owner; Bill and Pat Louds of SB; Ellen DeGeneres versus Matt Lauer; John Cleese ridiculousness; Santa Barbara Polo Club and Maserati tour; Paul Walker and Porsche; author Margarita Fairbanks; SB Choral Society; violinist Gil Shaham; Blankenships host Eric Greitens gala; piece of cake for Rescue Mission; The Magnificent Seven at Granada; judge Frank Ochoa retirement bash; and Casa del Herrero’s 90th year
Thursday, April 16 7:00 pm Lobero Theatre
Rev. Stephen Downes on religion and the Journal’s J.B.; Sharon Krischer’s take on insensitivity; Dale Lowdermilk chimes in about Michelle Obama; Scot O’Malley on the Middle East; Lee Moldaver’s opinion on Ernie Salomon and colleges; Ken McCalip calls out Chris Mitchum, while Mark Smith responds
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Tide Guide
Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach
11 Coming & Going
To protect our community – including infants, immunocompromised patients, and even healthy children – from contagious diseases, we need to increase our community’s protective immunity to at least 95%.
James Buckley raises the curtain on A Streetcar Named Desire, prior to its Opera Santa Barbara debut April 24, and catches up with conductor-composer André Previn
12 Village Beat
Country Mart parking lot update; Montecito Water District discusses drought and board reorganization; Casa Dorinda hosts wellness fair; Advanced Veterinary Specialists gain prestigious national certification
13 In Business
Megan Waldrep stands up straight and takes a deep breath while chronicling Montecito Yoga and its owner, Denise Zaverdas, an athletic transplant from Chicago
Panelists
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Lynda Millner observes Laguna Blanca School’s “Celebration in the City”; Robert Gates at the Granada; jazz musicians Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock; and Dr. Keith Lillemoe at Sansum Clinic
Chief Pediatric Medical Officer, Cottage Children’s Hospital; Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
21 On Entertainment
Steven Libowitz previews the senior-studded cast for Puttin’ on the Ritz; retired opera singer Marilyn Gilbert chats about the SB Choral Society; Philippe Quint discusses the Korngold; silent films and Paragon Ragtime Orchestra; and Lucidity Festival
Daniel Brennan, MD Pediatrics Department, Sansum Clinic
23 Coup de Grace
Call her crazy, but Grace Rachow finds it difficult to roll up her sleeves for spring cleaning, no thanks to a spate of emails, texts, and social media in general
Charity Dean, MD, MPH
Health Officer, Santa Barbara County Public Health Department
30 Celebrating History
Hattie Beresford reports on a late-March homage to the Sumerian goddess of beer at the SB Historical Museum while raising a glass to Zach Rosen and England’s brewing heritage
David Fisk, MD
Infectious Diseases Department, Sansum Clinic; Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control, Cottage Health System
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Michael Phillips documents the heat Index score as 133, quite a spike from a year ago, and points out Montecito is currently hot for sellers
Mary-Louise Scully, MD
Infectious Diseases Department; Director, Travel and Tropical Medicine Center, Sansum Clinic
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ON THE WATER FRONT
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by Bob Hazard
The Shape of Things to Come
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ast week’s notice of resignation from the president of the Montecito Water District (MWD) opens a window of opportunity for new leadership in solving Montecito’s long-term water woes. Our first response should be to praise and applaud Darlene Bierig for her many and varied contributions to both land-use and water policies in this community. At the same time, her resignation creates the opportunity to explore new pathways to long-term water security for Montecito.
Peace of
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Water is Montecito’s Most Precious Resource
A successful security strategy involves the creative management of a portfolio of water resources to sustain an adequate water supply, with or without rainfall. Any successful strategy must work equally well whether there is a multi-year mega-drought, or worse, semi-permanent climate change. Independence and reliability also mean that this community can stop importing other people’s water and start producing our own. It is indefensible for individual Montecito residents to keep sticking more, bigger, and longer straws into our limited groundwater basins, under the guise of “I’ll secure my water future, and the hell with the rest of you.”
Conservation First
Sustainable water policy is based on community conservation first. However, committed environmentalists must acknowledge that there is no way that this community can conserve or ration its way to water independence. Our semi-rural home by the sea cannot become a parched semi-arid desert, devoid of the trees, flowers, flora, and fauna that provide residents with an expensive, but superb quality of life. We cannot survive without a reliable supply of water. Banning all outdoor water use is not an option. Recognizing that larger users will pay higher rates is an unpleasant but necessary reality.
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Desalination Third
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Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News. He moved to Montecito eight years ago.
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afe Del Sol, the iconic Montecito eatery overlooking the Andree Clark bird refuge, has a new
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ecently, a member of our church called to my attention that someone in your organization listed as “J.B.” responded to a letter to the editor titled “Religion of ‘Peace’?” by writing that “the mullahs very early on hit upon the successful formula (used by the Catholic Church and the Mafia for centuries, also successfully) of insisting upon the death penalty for anyone who may decide he doesn’t want to be a follower any longer...” As pastor of the Roman Catholic parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Montecito, I find these comments offensive and I write in protest. I doubt very much that “the mullahs” learnt this or anything else from the Catholic Church. It’s also offensive that “J.B.” lumps together the Catholic Church and the Mafia and all about “the death penalty for anyone who may decide he doesn’t want to be a follower any longer...” I am well aware of the history of the Catholic Church over the last 2,000 years and what we now see as periods of terrible darkness, such as happened in the Inquisition. It’s many, many years since the Inquisition put anyone to death in the name of religion and it’s many, many years ((900 or more) since the time of the Crusades. I am also aware of many Catholics who were put to death in the 1600s in England and other places for their faith over the centuries. Unfortunately, many Catholics and Christians are dying today for their faith at the hand of extreme Jihadists, as well as many Muslims dying at the hand of the same extremists. As our Holy Father Pope Francis has said, violence in the name of religion is to be condemned. At the same time, taking potshots at the Catholic Church is also unacceptable. Respect for people’s faith and their church, synagogue, mosque, etc., is important and I always thought is part of our American culture. I would expect that the Montecito Journal would have a higher standard of journalism than that shown by “J.B.” Rev. Stephen Downes Montecito (Editor’s note: Ouch. I guess I could have, should have, worded my response to the original letter writer’s comments (MJ #21/12) a little more judiciously. The writer (a Mr. Bradford) opined that “history records [the Muslims’] aggressive nature for over 1,370 years...” and I
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responded as you read. Having grown up Catholic, I guess it just seemed natural to reference the church’s past unhappy record. I certainly didn’t mean to equate the Mafia to the Catholic Church, so my apology. Luckily, for those of us living in the 21st century and certainly those of us living in the Christian-influenced part of the world, things such as inquisitions and trials for heresy no longer occur. Sadly, that isn’t the case in Islam-oriented countries. – J.B.)
It’s Not Funny
Question #3: What does the Judicial Branch of the government do? Answer: Aid and promote people of the Jewish Faith? It appears that the article was written “tongue in cheek,” and I am willing to assume that Jim Alexander is not an anti-Semite. Nevertheless, the answer to the above question is neither funny nor appropriate. Merely substitute the word Muslim or African-American for Jewish Faith and you probably would have been bombarded with comments. It is not okay to be insensitive. Please choose your words more carefully. Sharon Krischer Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Jim Alexander was actually making a word joke: Judicial/Jewish, that apparently fell flat in your reading. All we can say is that Jim Alexander and I long for a time when it is in fact “okay to be insensitive,” particularly when trying to craft a joke. – J.B.)
#SaveUsAll
Since the First Lady’s hash-tag campaign to #BringBackOurGirls was such a roaring success, here’s some new hash-tags I hope Michelle Obama will endorse: #BringBackOurPregnantGirls # PleaseStopShooting KenyanStudents # PleasePromiseYou WontNukIsrael #StopHurtingDolphins #StopBeheadingChristians #WhereIsJoeBiden # HillaryForPresidentWhat DifferenceWillItMake #HumansArePeopleToo Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Mr. Lowdermilk is Founder of NOTSAFE.ORG and is a longtime practitioner of insensitivity. – J.B.) 9 – 16 April 2015
The “Deal” with Iran
What I don’t understand is why they want to reach an agreement at all. Well, I think I do, actually. At least Neville Chamberlain appears to have been sincere; Churchill included him in his War Cabinet after taking over as prime minister. And there was a pressing need to prevent the risk of Hitler invading England. Of course, the Munich Agreement was not the right approach, but Chamberlain was sincere even if incompetent. As far as I can tell, Obama’s policies are a mixture of arrogance and incompetence. Arrogance, in that he wants to weaken the West because of his views inherited directly from his father, plus he supports Islam because of his upbringing. Incompetence, because he can’t see – refuses to see – the failings of his own policies. I don’t think he can begin to see what a disaster a nuclear Iran will be for the world. A nuclear arms race in the Arab world. Mutually Assured Deterrence has worked for 70 years because the people with their fingers on the button were approximately sane and certainly not looking for martyrdom. Everyone thought it would be a disaster when India and Pakistan acquired nuclear weapons. So far, it has actually been mutual deterrence. Of course, the huge concern is when ISIS and its ilk get hold of Pakistan’s weapons. But Iran is crazy: giving them nuclear weapons will be a disaster. And half a dozen countries with nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Sooner or later, the ultimate suicide bombing will take place. I weep because when I was in my 20s, I traveled all through the Middle East, Afghanistan, etc., with reasonable safety. The Dark Ages did happen and are happening again. As for John Kerry, he is just Obama’s poodle, desperately craving to do something significant. Kerry is a classic example of the British upper classes who brought war to Europe in the first half of the 20th century, and economic disaster after WWII. These guys were tall, good-looking, well-spoken. But the crucial factor is they got their money and position by inheritance. They were not smart at all. Fortunately, a combination of Mrs. Thatcher, whom the aristocracy hated, and the Richard Branson types, have done away with pretty much all of that. Prince Charles is, of course, Exhibit A: not terribly bright but in a position of great importance through inheritance, and thinks he matters because of all the toadies who have sucked up to him from the cradle on. And in California, the pressing issue is plastic shopping bags... The defining characteristic of the age is that common sense has been abandoned. Scot O’Malley Santa Monica 9 – 16 April 2015
Wrong Again?
Always enjoy letters from Ernie Salomon, who brings such energy, passion, and rich vocabulary to everything he does that it’s fun to read him even when the facts behind his mirth, whimsy, caprice are mostly... wrong. It now averages about $73,000 per year to house someone in San Quentin. Of those there, fewer than one in five had either completed college, or had a stable career before committing the crimes that put them on taxpayers’ broad shoulders for years to come. Conversely, it takes less than ten percent of that for someone to go through SBCC and get – for those who stick it out – a prize-winning, nationally rated education and/or highly skilled preparation for a successful, readily transferable work career. In-state students at UCSB can also matriculate for a tiny fraction of $73,000 a year we spend on high-end inmates. Are SBCC and UCSB perfect, without sin or error? Of course not. Which big American corporation, public, private, nonprofit is? But if we look at positive value to the south coast, and risk reduction for our communities, which corporations contribute more, year after year, to our public health and vitality than SBCC and UCSB? They are among our region’s largest employers, product and service consumers, and job creators. They provide honest, high-skilled workers in almost every imaginable field, at very competitive prices to their area employers. Thanks to their entrepreneurial focus, each encourages new business startup creation. At UCSB, scientists and students (even as I write this) are researching aspects of the human genome; the chemical metabolics of cancer; ways to better understand and prevent climate change; to create cheaper, more efficient green energy and fuel cell sources; make safer use of micro-micro nano particles in many fields, and unlock the cosmos’ deepest secrets. How many prison guards who staff San Quentin, and work with its inmates, do cancer or hydrogen fuel cell research on their off-days? Or, like SBCC’s Scheinfeld Center for business entrepreneurship, create new high-value, high-wage jobs for California during work breaks? Meanwhile, SBCC-trained underwater specialists ply their trade above and beneath all the world’s oceans. Their nurses staff Cottage, and all California’s hospitals. Their trained techs take the MRIs, X-Rays, and CAT scans that guide California’s best doctors. Their trained chefs and wait people run our best cafés, restaurants, hotels. Their certificated “green gar-
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(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, APRIL 9 Food Drive at MUS To benefit Santa Barbara Foodbank, donations can be left in the school’s parking lot in the morning during drop-off. Items needed include baby food, cereal, pasta, peanut butter, rice, soup, and canned goods. Where: 385 San Ysidro Road MERRAG Meeting and Training Network of trained volunteers that work and/or live in the Montecito area prepare to respond to community disaster during the critical first 72 hours following an event. The mutual “self-help” organization serves Montecito’s 13,000 residents with the guidance and support of the Montecito Fire, Water, and Sanitary districts. This month: life-threatening conditions and triage will be discussed. When: 10 am to noon Where: Casa Dorinda Auditorium, 300 Hot Springs Road Info: Geri, 969-2537
FRIDAY, APRIL 10 Walk & Roll Montecito Union School students, teachers, and parents walk or ride to school, rather than drive. When: 7:45 am Where: Via Vai, Ennisbrook, and Casa Dorinda trailhead Info: 969-3249 French Conversation Conversation autour de la table, a time for French-speaking enthusiasts to converse over lunch. All levels welcome. When: noon Where: Meet outside Pierre LaFond at the corner of San Ysidro and East Valley roads Info: call Nicole at 770-2364 Embracing the Divine Feminine Through meditation, chanting, text study, and contemplative self-inquiry, meet lady Wisdom and learn how to engage in spiritual practices in order to discover wisdom’s light within and be embraced by
wisdom’s love without. Teacher Rami Shapiro is one of the most creative rabbis in contemporary American Judaism. He draws on a deep reverence and love of the world’s religions. When: April 10, 7:30 pm, through Sunday, April 12, 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $290 commuters, $390 residents Info: lacasademaria.org
SATURDAY, APRIL 11 Puttin’ on the Ritz Center for Successful Aging (CSA) once again hosts the 2015 variety show Puttin’ on the Ritz (formerly named Seniors Have Talent) at the historic Marjorie Luke Theatre. Directed by Rod Lathim, this rollicking, two-hour variety show hosted by KLITE’s Catherine Remak, features singers, dancers, and musicians aged 55 and over, along with multi-generational acts, and special celebrity guests. As the name implies, this diverse talent will be performing songs from the Roaring 20s and early 30s and original sketches… and there’s sure to be a few surprises. Some of the featured performers in this year’s show include retired judge George Eskin, joined by 14-year-old Bishop Diego High School student Claire Velez, famed opera singer Marilyn Gilbert, and singer/actress Carolyn Kimball Holmquist as the spirits of Huguette Clark; and former City of Santa Barbara councilmember Grant House in a swingin’ dance number! And of course, Gil Rosas will be there to entertain and accompany. This year’s event will also honor “Spirit of Successful Aging” award recipients, Judy and Rob Egenolf. When: 2 pm Where: 721 E. Cota Street Tickets: $100 for VIP admission (reserved front section seating); $50 for Patron admission (reserved left or right section seating); $20 General Admission; and $10 Children admission Info: PuttinOnThePitzCSA.org
Santa Barbara Kite Festival The 30th anniversary of the Santa Barbara Kite Festival will take to the skies in the “Great Meadow”, otherwise known as the west campus lawn at Santa Barbara City College. This fun-filled family-style kite flying festival is celebrating 30 years as one of the community’s favorites. The event will spotlight handmade kites, from the creations of local children to cutting-edge flying technologies, designs, and fabrics. Store-bought kites are also welcomed and will be available for purchase. In addition to the “Most Beautiful Handmade Kite” competition, the festival will feature the “Kite Tail Chase” game for children throughout the day. Other competitions include “kite fighting” and “sport flying” for skilled flyers, “highest flying,” and “largest kites.” There will also be food and beverages, and a kids’ zone with a jumper and family info tables. The festival is free and open to flyers of all abilities. Paid parking is plentiful on campus. When: 11 am to 4 pm Where: 971 Cliff Drive Info: davidhefferman@hotmail.com Book Signing at Tecolote Leo Downey signs his debut book, Soultracker – Following Beauty, which follows Leo on his journey through the wilderness and the world as an artist. His presentations are a warm-hearted, educational, inspirational experience of music and stories about Earth, creatures, the world, and tracking beauty with all his heart, mind, and soul. When: 1:30 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977
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Bridge Party Santa Barbara Bridge Center presents a low-stress and fun bridge game in a social atmosphere, with duplicate bridge for players with zero master points. You must have a partner to play, or email carolebennett@cox.net. Reservations required. When: 6 to 9 pm Where: SBBC, 2255 Los Positas Road Cost: $5 per person, snacks included Info: Carole, 452-7400 Cocktails & Conservatives Cocktails and Conservatives will meet at its new location, the Endless Summer Restaurant. Independents, Republicans, and Democrats are invited to share conversations while enjoying beverages and complimentary appetizers. When: 4 to 6 pm Where: 113 Harbor Way, #180 RSVP: 699-6756 or at sbrepublicanwomen@gmail.com
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Beverly O’Regan Thiele is Blanche in Opera Santa Barbara’s A Streetcar Named Desire at the Granada on Friday, April 24, and again Sunday, April 26
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he stars are in alignment once again for A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning masterpiece. They certainly were when the show premiered on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on December 3, 1947, starring a group of then-unknowns, all four of whom went on to become Oscar-winning film stars: Jessica Tandy was Blanche Dubois, Marlon Brando played Blanche’s loutish brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, Kim Hunter was Stella, Stanley’s much put-upon wife, and Karl Malden performed as Mitch. The production was directed by Elia Kazan (he won two Oscars, as did Mr. Brando; Previn is a four-time Oscar winner). That opening-night performance of the gritty, sexually charged play was so powerful that when it was over, the audience stood and applauded for a full 30 minutes. The play wasn’t just a success, it was a sensation. The 1951 movie version of the play was equally well received; Karl Malden and Kim Hunter won Academy Awards for their supporting performances, and Vivien Leigh, who took on Jessica Tandy’s role as Blanche, won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Marlon Brando (Best Actor), Elia Kazan (Best Director), and Mr. Williams (Best Writing, Screenplay) were nominated but none won. In 1995, when Lotfi Mansouri, then San Francisco Opera general director, commissioned conductor-composer André Previn to create an opera from the play, Previn’s response was both positive and immediate. The opera opened in San Francisco in 1998, with Previn conducting and starring Renee Fleming as Blanche and Rodney Gilfry as Stanley. A Streetcar Named Desire receives its Opera Santa Barbara debut at the Granada on Friday night, April 24. I had the opportunity to speak with 9 – 16 April 2015
Mr. Previn recently, via telephone from his home in New York City; what follows is an edited version of that conversation.
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Q. You’ve probably gone over this a hundred times, but I’m hoping you may have something to add, so I’ll ask it: when was it that you decided to try and turn Tennessee Williams’s masterpiece into an opera? A. I had been asked to consider certain material for an opera several times before and none of them really fascinated me. There was one that came from France – it was one of those Greco-Roman things – and I said, “You know, this is a terribly unmusical thing to say, but I cannot identify with a stage full of people who are all wearing sandals. I can’t do it.” When Lotfi Mansouri called me from San Francisco, however, and asked: “What do you think about A Streetcar Named Desire?” I said, “Lotfi, I’m not even going to give you time to hang up before I say, ‘Yes. Of course.’” I mean, it’s America’s great and poetic play, and I couldn’t wait to get going. It is perfect operatic stuff. In many ways, as a good composer said, “It was [always] an opera, but it didn’t have any music yet.”
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It took three years from that point to premiere in San Francisco in 1998. What was the hold-up? I can’t believe it took three years. I mean, it didn’t take me that long to write it. If it took that long, it must have been production things that held it up. Was there some kind of major hurdle you had to overcome in order to put the music together? No, I don’t think so. When it came time to cast it, I told Lotfi that my
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Back in 2013, Rosenfield told us the former gas station was not part of his 30-year ground lease on the property, and instead it was still leased to Shell, which was required to conduct remediation on the site since the closure of the station in 2003. Crews have been on-site on and off for the last three years, collecting soil samples from data-monitoring wells which were installed when the station was demolished. Rosenfield intended on taking
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ew York, New York – that was the theme of Laguna Blanca School’s 2015 party of the year called “A Celebration in the City”. Gala chair Sherry Hlavaty and her committee transformed the Bacara Resort into a classy big city event. The silent auction room was decorated to resemble the Metropolitan Museum of Art complete with life size statues, some dressed in their fig leaves. Parents, grandparents, and friends gathered for cocktails and a look at the art their kids had produced. It was particularly special this year because the internationally acclaimed pop artist Russell Young led students in grades K-6 through a unique series of art projects, even donating all the paint and supplies. He and his English actress wife, Finola Hughes, who you’ve seen on the ABC soap opera General Hospital as Anna Devane, have three children at the school. These works were each accompanied by a book of photos of Russell and the kids creating the pieces. Sherry explained,
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“The various projects ranged in style from Andy Warhol to Matisse to spin art.” Priced at priceless, naturally. The ballroom was stunning, with one whole wall a night scene of the skyline of New York City. The room sparkled in gold and silver with cylinders of glass beads forming a giant chandelier. The guests matched the glitter, with the ladies in long gowns and the guys in tuxes. It was the best-attended gala Laguna Blanca has had: the goal was to raise between $600,000 and $800,000, and they did. It brings critical funds to maintain their
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UCSB’s Arts & Lectures keeps on bringing us outstanding programs. Robert Gates appearance at the soldout Granada was no exception, being both amusing and informative. He should know, since he served eight presidents. He was secretary of defense (2006-2011) and is the only one in U.S. history to be asked to remain in office by newly elected President Obama. Gates also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor.
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Gates also spent 27 years as an intelligence professional, rising from entry-level to director – the only career officer to do so. He was director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1991 to 1993. And the list goes on. He has authored two memoirs: From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War and his latest best-selling book Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. When asked what Gates was most proud of, he quickly responded, “How well I took care of the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.” He told about how the time from a soldier being wounded to the helicopter arriving and getting him to the hospital in Iraq was one hour, but in Afghanistan it was two hours. Despite “it couldn’t be done,” Gates ordered it be done. Within three months, the mission was accomplished. According to doctors, they were able to save many more lives. Gates also described the 127 tanks he ordered for the troops, which could withstand the battles far better than the old design. When the powers that be asked, “What will we do with them after the war?” Gates responded, “I don’t give a s….”. Gates called Washington, D.C., a city of monuments and monumental egos. He joked, “When the television cameras are turned on during a congressional hearing, it has the effect on members like a full moon on werewolves.” Another question was “How did your jobs affect your children?” He
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replied that there were always Secret Service watching the family, and the guards lived in the basement so the kids called them trolls. When his teen-age daughter was going to her prom and informed him that she and her boyfriend would be party hopping after the dance, Dad replied, “I don’t think so, but you can have a party here.” When a concerned mom called not knowing who Gates was, he assured her that he and his wife would be chaperoning. That wasn’t good enough as the women kept nagging. Finally Gates said, “Would three Secret Service men with uzis be sufficient?” She then realized to whom she was speaking. Her daughter came to the all-night party. After the lecture, there was a reception in the Founders Room,
where Gates greeted members of the Leadership Circle and Producer’s Circle and posed with them for photos. The corporate season sponsors are lynda.com, owned by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin. The Gates event sponsors were Susan and Craig McCaw. Miller McCune executive director Celesta Billeci wants us to know that UCSB Arts & Lectures has been there for more than 50 years to educate, entertain, and inspire.
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Nugget in Summerland and Goleta, had been in negotiations to re-open the popular space with property developer Rick Sanders, former co-owner of what is now the Canary Hotel, who bought the site or $1,350,000 in April 2013, at the end of last year, but months-long negotiations collapsed, as I exclusively revealed in this illustrious organ, with Bob saying the demands weren’t “viable.” Warren, a native of Boston, formerly worked at Morton’s Steakhouse in Los Angeles and managed the Stateside restaurant in La Arcada....
Loud and Proud They were the Kardashians of the 70s – attractive, wealthy, and dysfunctional. They were the Louds of Santa Barbara – Bill and Pat, and their five children, ranging from 14 to 20 – Lance, Delilah, Grant, Kevin, and Michele. They were the subjects of the first-ever TV reality show, An American Family, broadcast on PBS in 12 hour-long episodes beginning in January 1973. The show took viewers up close and personal into the home of the Loud family in our Eden by the Beach. Parents Bill and Pat, who has now published a revelatory tome Lance Out Loud, edited by New York photographer Christopher Makos, an old
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came with the show and charges he’d exploited the family and betrayed their trust. “What have I done? What do I do?” he asked. “I never resolved it. I don’t know what I did wrong. I still don’t.” Jokers Wild
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friend from my Andy Warhol days, and their youngsters became household names living in front of the camera for seven months taped the year before the broadcast. A record 10 million weekly viewers were riveted, watching the Loud family’s lives falling apart. On camera, Pat asked her husband to move out and Lance, the oldest son, was the first gay to come out on TV. Pat’s book, which features a fascinating collection of photos, writings, and personal papers of Lance, is published by Glitterati Incorporated in New York in conjunction with the acquisition of the private memorabilia by Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Voyeuristic eyes were mesmerized by the watershed cinema vérité event – viewing unscripted moments in the family’s life that the press called exhibitionist, while members were described as “affluent zombies.” Special contempt was directed at Lance for his “flamboyant, leechlike homosexuality.” The New York Times described him as “camping and queening about like a pathetic court jester, a Goya-esque emotional dwarf.” Lance, who died of complications from AIDS in 2001, stated: “Television ate my family.” He believed the documentary fulfilled “the middle-class dream that you can become famous for being just who you are.” He didn’t shy away from coming out on TV, but reveled in the positive feedback he received from the gay community. He became a penpal of Warhol and flamboyantly embraced his own role as a gay icon. Lance moved to New York from our tony town to be close to Warhol’s Factory in downtown Manhattan, the studio that became a magnet for artists, socialites, and hipsters. He needed a new landscape that gave him the freedom to be gay – and to escape northern California hippies. Affectionate letters from friends, honoring Lance’s memory, describe
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him as loving Warhol, wind chimes, thrift shops, yard sales, Latin men, talking on the phone, cats, riding on his motorcycle, and every taco stand in L.A. It was the time of Free Love when sexuality was celebrated. The “If it feels good, do it” motto swept the country and Lance right along with it. He wanted to live art, live music, be in the music. “Lance loved movies, music, fashion, and anything with a horizontal stripe,” his sister, Delilah, writes. “Never seduced by fame, he wore it as a loose garment. Many consider him an icon for coming out on TV. Those that believe that have it backward. Lance was too impatient to wait for the rest of us, so he ran ahead and scouted the rapids to tell us the water was fine.” But Lance was pursued by his own demons and turned to drugs to “keep them at bay,” his mom Pat recalls. Author and book editor Ellis Amburn, a friend of Lance, writes: “In a world that could be cruel and catty, I never heard Lance say an untrue word about anyone. I always found his blithe spirit contagious.” An American Family wasn’t anything the family thought it would be. Pat, now 89, discusses the show and reveals there wasn’t anything negative breeding in the family with the cameras and the producers. She told The New York Times in 2013 the Pubic Broadcasting Network and the New York affiliate, WNET, viewed the family as airheads and coerced her into asking her husband for a divorce on camera. She is now happily living again with her ex-husband Bill, who is 94. The couple has their own Facebook account under the Loud Family. An American Family was a premonition for reality TV, an unrehearsed voyeuristic eye, unlike today’s reality shows. Craig Gilbert, the creator, never worked again after the documentary aired in 1973. He spent subsequent years avoiding the notoriety that
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Matt Lauer exposed by Ellen DeGeneres (courtesy of Today)
What began as a fun segment on Ellen DeGeneres’s eponymous TV talk show has become a fully fledged prank war between Today host Matt Lauer and the Montecito resident. In the latest tit-for-tat tease, Ellen managed to cleverly alter a Facebook video between the pair, making Lauer appear totally naked. The video was from a conversation the pair had after the last joke that Lauer managed to play on Ellen when he filled her Porsche SUV with 20,000 ping pong balls outside her Warner Bros. TV studio in Burbank, as I recounted here. The jokes between the tony twosome have now been going on for more than a month. It all began when Ellen made a video of Lauer that made him appear as though they had interviewed stars from Fifty Shades of Grey while wearing a leather harness and not much else. Despite having wreaked revenge with his ping pong stunt, Ellen spent a week’s vacation thinking about what to do next. She obviously decided the ball was back in her court. “Before I went on spring break, I found a new hobby. It was messing with Matt Lauer!,” she told her audience the other day. “It’s what I like to do.” This time she once again managed to change history by digitally tweaking a video of Lauer that left little to the imagination. Using video and audio of the original Facebook conversation, Lauer is heard in the clip saying: “You have to admit, Ellen, it took a lot of balls to pull off this prank.” As he continued to bounce a ping pong ball on his bat, he continued: “Can I just end by telling you the obvious? I adore you.” Ellen’s audience roared with laughter as the clip ended with Lauer on
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control of the site once remediation was complete, with plans to turn the vacant lot into additional parking for the center, which has welcomed several new stores since Rosenfield took control of the Mart in 2010. Rosenfield continues to add new tenants to the redesigned retail building, most recently Merci To Go, which opened its doors last week, offering upscale takeout food from a small storefront located next to Kendall Conrad. The eatery joins Mate Gallery, Calypso St. Barth, Intermix, Space NK Apothecary, Hudson Grace, Pressed Juicery, Toy Crazy, Malia Mills, One Hour Martinizing, Montecito Barbers, Little Alex’s, Panino, Montecito Natural Foods, Read ‘N Post, James Perse, Rori’s Artisanal Creamery, and pet store George. Xanadu Bakery closed its doors in January; it’s unclear what will be brought in to replace the locally owned bakery. There are two other vacant spaces, including a corner space once home to Tsunami Sushi. Read ‘N Post owner-manager Jan Hendrickson announced last week that her store is one of the few post offices that will stay open late to accommodate taxpayers on Tax Deadline Day, Wednesday, April 15. “We have received permission from the U.S. Postal Service to extend our hours until 9 pm on tax deadline day,” she said. “As far as we know, we are the only postal facility anywhere on the Central Coast that will offer this service.” All items mailed at the Read ‘N Post before 9 pm will be postmarked April 15, the deadline for sending both federal and California state tax returns. Stamps will also be available for purchase until 9 pm on April 15. However, large boxes and other packages cannot be accepted after the normal 6 pm closing time at Read ‘N Post. In addition to housing a post office, the Read ‘N Post store, which was located next to Starbucks until 2013, also sells greeting cards, gifts, books, magazines, newspapers, and other
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Montecito Water District Board Meets
At this week’s Montecito Water District (MWD) board meeting, members were given a variety of updates on Montecito’s water situation, including one about a desalination plant by engineer consultant Paul Findley. “There have been significant developments on the project in the last few weeks,” Findley told the board and audience members via conference call. A worsening water supply forecast, governor Jerry Brown’s recent Executive Order B-29-15, and a decreased possibility of partnering with the City of Santa Barbara on its desal plant are all playing into MWD’s accelerated movement on building a desal plant in Montecito. Last month, Findley reported a desal plant could potentially be up and running by December 2017. On Tuesday, he outlined an updated development plan that projects a working desal plant – outputting 2,500 acre feet per year – by January 2017. Findley out-
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lined a $35-million plan for various tasks around permitting, site acquisitions, design, contractor procurement, intake/discharge construction, and startup. It’s projected it will cost an additional $34 million in building and property leasing costs. Building a separate plant in Montecito and partnering with the City of Santa Barbara’s desal plant are being looked at on parallel paths, Findley explained. “The city is at the end of a very complicated and delicate permitting path. We don’t want to interfere in any way with them accomplishing that,” Findley said, adding that going through state and CEQA levels autonomously is a quicker option. In another effort to save time, Findley is recommending test facilities be scrapped from the timeline, rolling both testing and actual building into a single CEQA process. The consultant team suggests getting the project through the Coastal Commission process by March 2016, with construction starting next April. Governor Brown’s Executive Order, signed on April 1, mandates streamlined government responses and prioritized review of water infrastructure projects and programs, including the possibility of bypassing CEQA. The Order also includes a mandatory rationing of 25 percent, a number MWD general manager Tom Mosby says newly revised allocations are well within. “The new allocations are still equal to a 34 percent reduction in water use compared to 2013,” he said. Findley says the next steps in the desal process are site identification, authorization of a continued budget for the engineers, grant research, and stakeholder outreach, and the finishing of non-invasive site testing, among other items. In looking at potential partnership with the City of Santa Barbara, the consultants will meet with regulatory stakeholders and meet to discuss findings of meetings when the city is ready, followed by preparing analysis of deal points and deal breakers as they become available, Findley said. Mosby discussed other projects happening in the district, including rehabilitation of the filters at Bella Vista and Doulton treatment plants. Also discussed at the meeting: the resignation of board president Darlene Bierig, which we first reported last week (MJ #21/13). Bierig, who stepped down as president, will serve for the next 60 days or when a new director fills her vacancy – whichever comes first. “To say I’m sad is an understatement,” Bierig said. “My goal was bringing desal online. Even though there are doubters, I know it will be brought online.” The board voted director Dick Shaikewitz to take the role of presi-
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dent; director Jan Abel will remain as vice president. Shaikewitz has been on the board since 2006, and has served as president before. At their next board meeting, the board will decide whether to hold interviews (an appointment process) or hold a special election to fill Bierig’s seat. After two members of the audience suggested the rest of the directors resign as well, Bierig stated: “This community has to think long and hard as to whether they are going to get behind their elected officials or derail the hard and complicated work that is going on. If you want to derail it, then use the electoral process and run for office,” she said. “I’m begging this community to quit undermining their elected officials,” she said in response to the suggestion. For more about the drought and our water situation, visit www.mon tecitowater.com.
Wellness Fair at Casa Dorinda
Last week, Casa Dorinda hosted its first annual Resident Wellness Fair, inviting 23 organizations to present information on topics such as senior fitness, mental acuity, prescription interactions, elder fraud and abuse, heart health, situational awareness, volunteer opportunities, preventative health care strategies, disaster preparedness, and more. Casa’s director of Health and Fitness Marilu Greene tells us the fair was a “tremendous success.” “Our local community organizations are an impressive bunch and were so nice to share their knowledge and experience,” Greene said. Local participating organizations included the Center for Successful Aging, Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care, Parkinson Association, Alzheimer’s Association, American Heart Association, the Red Cross, the Braille Institute, Cottage Hospital, the Physical Therapy Lab, the Medical Center Pharmacy, Santa Barbara’s Sheriff’s Department, Montecito Fire District, MERRAG, and Casa’s Dining Services, Activities Department, and Health & Fitness Department. Upper Village clothing store Lana Marmé was also a participant. Hundreds of Casa residents came out to the fair. “I was amazed at the amount of wonderful information that was shared with residents on preventative health care strategies, along with all the great opportunities for our residents to volunteer locally,” Greene said. The successful event will be held again next year. For more information on Casa Dorinda, please contact Toby Ayars at (805) 845-5682. •MJ 9 – 16 April 2015
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hen Rod Lathim produced and directed the first “Seniors Got Talent” show for the Center for Successful Aging (CSA) back in 2013, even he was surprised that it sold out. Sure, there were some terrific performances, but who would have expected crowds to turn out to see them? But that was precisely the point that the nonprofit CSA was hoping to make: seniors aren’t too old to truly make a contribution, to produce things that are worth more than token attention. With this year’s effort, Lathim and the show are really stepping into the big time and re-raising the bar. Now called Puttin’ on the Ritz, the one-day extravaganza on Saturday afternoon at the Marjorie Luke Theater will feature dozens of performers from the over-55 set (plus some of their younger colleagues) singing, dancing, acting, and careening through a high-energy variety show set mostly in the Roaring Twenties. “The level of talent is just astounding,” Lathim said. “There are wonderful voices, great instrumentalists, terrific actors. It’s also visually stunning, with costumes from the 20s and 30s, flapper dresses and tuxes and tails – just an elegant feast for the eyes and ears.” The best part, said Lathim, is that the benefit event is truly “mission-driven.” “You can get dressed up and go to the Bacara and Biltmore, and take pictures and spend money at the auction, but it has nothing to do with the organization you’re supporting. But this is by and about seniors who have healthy life experiences under their belts.” Lathim said the audience can expect serious scenes, musical numbers, comedy bits, and even a video profile. But mostly just a really good time. “It’s definitely not your grandma or grandpa’s mom and pop show,” he said. We caught up with a couple of the Montecito-based seniors participating in the show, bringing out their talents we only rarely get to hear nowadays. When he got serious about the law, George Eskin had to put aside a budding career as a singer-actor that began in high school and continued through studying drama at Carnegie Mellon (nee Tech), earning a degree in theater arts at UCLA, and studying with Lee Strasberg in New York. Stints as a DA in Ventura and Santa Barbara eventually led to his appointment as a Superior Court Judge in 2003, a post he retired from just 18 months 9 – 16 April 2015
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ago. But the theater never left his heart, and Eskin has appeared in a number of local productions through the years, from sharing the Rubicon Theatre stage with his wife, State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, for Love Letters to understudying Larry Hagman at Rubicon’s Murder in the First. So it wasn’t too big a stretch for the longtime Montecito resident to say yes when Lathim approached him to appear in Puttin’ on the Ritz. Q. I remember as a judge that you once said lawyers should spend time in both the DA’s office and Public Defender’s. From what I understand of your scene in the show, it’s right up your alley in that the concept is to see things from more than one perspective, to find common ground. A. Oh, absolutely. I’m playing an elderly widower who is just sitting on a park bench when a teenager listening to rap music on her headphones comes by and disrupts my reverie. I want to be left alone to feel morose on the one-year anniversary of my wife’s death, and I’m feeling sorry for myself. She attempts to get me out of that and inject some life in me, but her intrusion makes me very grumpy and not patient. But she persists in asking questions until… finally I want to know what is about me that interests her. It’s that I remind her of her
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New Cleese on Life Former Montecito resident John Cleese could feel incredibly bitter about having to shell out a-not-sosmall fortune in alimony payments to his ex-wife. But instead of complaining about how much his third wife, Alyce Faye Eichelberger received, the upbeat veteran comic actor finds the whole situation “completely ridiculous.” In an interview with Der Spiegel, the German magazine, the 75-year-old claimed that he’ll have paid her $20 million by the time he finishes giving her money this year. “I was comfortably well-off before I got divorced from Alyce Faye Eichelberger. I never knew how much I really had. I was just comfortable. “But now I’ve been working for seven years to pay off the alimony. She’s far better off than I am. So you
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could sit around being bitter about that. Or you can just think it’s completely ridiculous.” And the Fawlty Towers star, who even went on a comedy road show humorously called the Alimony Tour in 2011, added that this summer he will make his final payment to his ex. “In July, I make the last payment and then I will have given her $20 million,” he averred. The Monty Python star is now married to his fourth wife, jewelry designer Jennifer Wade, 43, but is still clearly reeling from his third divorce, though he ever so deftly tried to laugh it off. In 1992, he married the American psychotherapist, but the twosome went on to end their marriage in 2008 when John says he asked for a divorce. Alyce hired lawyer Fiona Shackleton, who formerly worked for Prince Charles and Sir Paul McCartney. His vitriol against the famous
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Coup De Grace
by Grace Rachow Ms. Rachow says we live in crazy times… but times have always been crazy. So don’t sweat it.
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t must be spring, because I’m cleaning house. Unfortunately, we have no housekeeper here, due to the crazy assumption on my part that I should be able to tidy up my own house. My dearly departed mother was the world champion of homemaking, while also working at a challenging full time job. So, common sense says I should at least be able to dust and vacuum and get yesterday’s newspaper to the recycling bin. While this seems logical enough, it doesn’t play out in practice. I fail at tidiness because I’m caught up by the distractions of the modern technological world. Like everyone else, I am bombarded with texts and emails that must be answered this very minute. Every single morning, more educational TED talks come online, and a new season of this or that is available to stream on Netflix. And my phone makes a chirp every few minutes. No one has been able to explain to me what the chirps mean, but it has to be a message of some kind. And since I don’t know the real answer, I make something up… such as I should take the dogs for a walk and take some photos with my phone. My mother did not have to contend with a phone that was also an incredible camera with which you can also listen to an audio book, while getting yourself and the dogs some exercise. And come to think of it, while on the walk, I can also text my husband and ask him to bring home a can of scouring powder, because it’s spring – and the voice of my mother in my head insists I need to clean now… or else! This is a lot for a mere human brain to contend with. It’s little wonder I am not up to scrubbing the kitchen floor twice a week, like Mom did. I’m too busy. I have to look at all the new photos from the walk. There are some great ones, so I have to post a few on Facebook, and email a few more to friends, because they have sent me photos of their grandkids. And then I need to work on a few more images on my iPad to turn into my photo app class. My mom liked to take photos, too, but she had a camera that looked like one and used film. A roll of 36 exposures would last her 6 months. When she finally had the film developed, every one of those shots would be decent. 9 – 16 April 2015
I might take 36 shots in a few minutes, and end up deleting all but two. My mother would have gone crazy over the waste, even though, of course, the electrons involved in digital photos are free. Some scientists believe that good housekeeping skills are genetic. Others think domestic skills are something we learn from the example of our parents. It seems that neither theory panned out in my case, and the fact is, I have turned out to be a rotten housekeeper. And it’s only to honor my mother’s relentless pursuit of the perfect home that I muster courage to face reality and celebrate the coming of
My mom liked to take photos, too, but she had a camera that looked like one and used film spring with a fresh can of scouring powder and a scrub brush. Of course, we live in very different times. My mother had sheer ruffled curtains on every window. Every spring, she took them down and washed and starched and ironed them to perfection. That seems OCD now, but I loved to help her wipe the curtain rods and thread the curtains back on. I held one end of the rod up while Mom attached her end to the bracket, and then she put up my end, too. The intoxicating sunshine smell of those starched curtains was well worth the effort. So in the spirit of that memory, I’ll find a way to give this house a good cleaning this spring. My husband will help. He’ll get the high stuff, and I’ll specialize in the low. When everything’s tidy enough to pass muster, I’ll put a bouquet on the kitchen table. And when the light is right, I’ll take a photo and Tweet it around the world. Some days, I feel like I am swimming in so much technology I’ve lost the ability to appreciate the amazing smell of clean curtains. But I am very grateful to have lived to see these times. Messy house or not, I know technology has brought rich gifts to my table, and I feel bless•MJ ed.
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absolute utter favorite would be Renée Fleming, although I had not worked with her before. And, he said, “Well, that certainly goes with me, too.” So he called her and she paid me a great compliment, because when I got her on the phone, I asked, “Would you like me to come and see you and bring Act One [or something] to see what you think?” And she said, “No. If you wrote it, that’s fine. I’ll do it.” Did you know her at that time? No. Not really. I had seen her in several operas, but very shortly after that I began to conduct for her. We did a concert where she did Samuel Barber’s Knoxville and Strauss’s Four Last Songs and it was beautiful.
What were you sure you were going to do with the music, right from the start, that you actually did? Nothing. But, if you mean did I have an absolute game plan in mind, no. I didn’t. The only thing that I had very strong thoughts about was that most people when they remember Streetcar, the play, they think about Brando. And, I don’t think [that’s right]. I think the play is entirely about Blanche, from beginning to end. To me, it was a very soprano starring part. Was there something you were going to do, musically, that you ended up realizing didn’t work? No. I know that many people... very well-meaning people... all said, “Since it’s New Orleans and all that, how much are you going to be influenced by jazz?” And I was [comfortable] in saying, “Not at all.” That would have been too easy. When you say, “Oh, well, here we are in Paris, let’s do the Can Can, and here we are in New Orleans, let’s play the blues,” I don’t
think that’s right. I think it’s all about those people and not about necessarily where they are. There are some elements of jazz though, yes? Well, you’re not the only one who has come to that conclusion. I don’t hear it, but okay.” Stanley is played as a baritone. Did you ever consider his character as a tenor? No. No. Absolutely not. I can’t go into that intellectually, but if you think about it, can you really think of that character singing in a tenor register? I can’t. Why did you decline to musicalize Stanley’s famous “Stella!” cry? Because it’s too famous. There isn’t anybody who’s ever been to the theater that doesn’t know about that. And I had a feeling that if I had musicalized it, it couldn’t help but be risible to some people. And, I thought it would be much more to the point and much more to Tennessee Williams’s point if he actually screamed it the way he does in the play. Raymond Tuttle, in Classical Net, an internet publication, called the atmospherics of the opera “a steamy claustrophobia.” Do you agree with that assessment? If so, is that what you had in mind? I never agree with critics, but if that’s what he thinks, that’s fine with me. What would you do differently now? What would you change? I don’t think I would do anything differently, but I might consider giving Stanley a big aria. I didn’t give
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The prestigious tour kicks off next month in Sylt Island, Germany, continuing on to the U.K. with the Maserati Jerudong Park Trophy, which supports charities of princes William and Harry, at the 121-yearold Cirencester Polo Club on the sprawling Cotswolds estate of my late friend, Henry, Earl Bathurst, and a short gallop from Prince Charles’s country home, Highgrove. Between September 3 and 6, Maserati will compete with its team for the USPA Maserati Silver Cup, ranked in the top four of U.S. tournaments, in Santa Barbara. The final match, the Maserati Metropolitan Polo Classic, will follow in China at the Tianjin Goldin Metropolitan Polo Club in October. A major display of horsepower, whichever way you look at it. Shifting Gears Top German car maker Porsche has hit back at a lawsuit claiming negligence and poor design caused the 2013 crash that killed Santa Barbara actor Paul Walker, saying the sole cause of the crash was the dangerous driving of the man behind the wheel, Roger Rodas. The luxury auto manufacturer is demanding the lawsuit, which was filed by Kristine Rodas, the widow, be thrown out of court.
She filed the suit last year, claiming the $500,000 red Porsche Carrera GT her husband was driving, along with Walker as the passenger, had a faulty suspension. She claimed Rodas had tried to keep the car on the road, but couldn’t regain control. She also claimed that a “properly functioning crash cage” would have prevented the deaths. The car crashed into a concrete lamp post and two trees in Valencia on November 30, 2013, killing both Rodas and Walker. She has blamed Porsche for the car exploding on impact, claiming the vehicle lacked a proper “crash cage” and a “racing fuel cell.” Furthermore, Kristine accused Porsche of ignoring multiple fatal crashes that occurred with the model and never took steps to warn their customers. She filed the federal lawsuit for damages due to their actions, However, on March 30, Porsche fired back at the Rodas lawsuit, claiming they are not at fault for her husband’s death, and it was solely the result of his actions while driving their car. The company denies all allegations the car model had defects or that they were aware of them. Porsche, based in Stuttgart, is demanding the lawsuit be dismissed and Kristine awarded zero from the
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legal battle. They say Rodas knowingly and voluntarily assumed all risks, perils, and dangers in respect to the operation of the Carrera GT, and that “he chose to conduct himself in a manner so as to expose himself to the dangers while operating the vehicle.” The company also says the car was altered after the original sale and the alterations contributed to the tragic crash. They also accuse Rodas of misusing and/or improperly maintaining the car. Watch this space... One for the Books Move over, Beatrix Potter! Peter Rabbit, which has sold an astounding 45 million copies in 36 languages since being written in 1893, has got some major competition. Santa Barbara author Margarita Fairbanks just launched her first book, How It Came to Be, in a planned 10-book series on Valentino, the Love Bunny, a charming three-pound Netherland Dwarf rabbit, which has a
distinctive black heart around its eye and a heart on his left cheek. The series also features a cuddly canine, Sparky, two black standard poodles, Miro and Lucca, and a horse, Pandereto. “In a tough, fast-paced world, it is essential to teach young children universal messages about love, tolerance, patience, comfort, confidence, hope, good manners, accountability, nature, spirituality and charity,” says Margarita, whose husband, Chuck Lande, is a former player at the Santa Barbara Polo Club. “Valentino takes us along on his magical adventures which evolves into a global journey teaching values, spreading love and good will, and protecting the Earth.” The series includes colorful illustrations by Santa Barbara artist Suzan Duval. “They are designed as family heirlooms to be treasured and passed down from one generation to the next,” adds Margarita, whose books
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IN BUSINESS (Continued from page 13) A view upon entering. Montecito Yoga’s nickname, “MoYo” also means “Heart or Soul” in Swahili. (photo by Montectio Yoga)
A peek inside the studio at Montecito Yoga, also called “MoYo” (Photo Credit: Montecito Yoga)
Owner Denise Zaverdas in Navasana pose (photo by Montecito Yoga)
used to be envious of the people who would come to my class or friends who are teachers who did go down a very specific path,” Denise admits. “They didn’t have to think much of anything except learning the dogma (teaching) of this certain aperson.” She started with Astanga yoga, a more rigid, athletic/gymnastic practice of systematic postures and breath work. The next day brought Forrest yoga, the other end of the spectrum that is a healing method from a more emotional standpoint. “You become this sponge when you get touched by a practice. I was a sponge,” she says. Her start into this way of life was an endeavor. As a kinesiology major at the University of Illinois, and background as a dancer and athlete, she yearned to combine her interests of biomechanics and dance. With no support from her college advisors (her professors claimed mixing science and art was, “a little cuckoo”), she became discouraged. “I got lost,” she reflects. “I couldn’t believe it existed, because I didn’t think it did.” After graduation, she began a career in advertising, 15 years in duration, which granted her titles such as producer, recruiter, and film editor among others. In ’98, she relocated from Chicago to Newport Beach to be with her husband, Michael, who then owned a floral design business. The move paved way to a culture and lifestyle she would soon call her own. “I kind of went ‘ga9 – 16 April 2015
ga’ over it when I first went to L.A., because there is a plethora of yoga available, as opposed to three or four studios in Chicago at the time,” she says. “When I found yoga, I felt that it combined everything I love about dance, athleticism, science, and heart center practices combined in one.” The Newport Beach commute to L.A. proved to be one of utter dedication. She would leave home at 4:30 a.m. to practice yoga before work and return around 8 or 9 p.m. “Yoga was my lifeline. I needed to get up and go do my practice.” She did what most people advised against – Denise quit her day job. She took a month-long sabbatical from production work to delve into practice, which resulted in establishing a yoga business in her new hometown. Soon enough, it was time to migrate north as her husband sold the floral design business to pursue a job in Camarillo. They looked for a place to live that was close to his new job and good enough for Denise to create another studio. Amusing as it seems, an encounter with cows in Montecito brought the answer they were looking for. “We visited the area and saw two cows off the side of the road,” she says, as if still in awe. “It was a very green time of the year, and I felt an expansive feeling. I thought, ‘This is amazing!’” The cows have since left, but Denise and Michael planted roots. Before long, Montecito Yoga (or
“MoYo”) took shape. Denise as a teacher is gentle, kind, and compassionate, and her tentativeness spreads to everyone in class. The studio’s atmosphere yields that of a retreat rather than an exercise/yoga studio, leaning toward an ethereal setting of peace and calm. The company tagline, “A sanctuary for soul-centered evolution”, defines it best. “I would
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grandfather who passed away, and that touches me. It’s a beautiful scene. I also get to sing a bunch of standards with Rod (Lathim), Carolyn Kimball Holmquist ,and Karen Sweeney, with Gil Rosas on the piano. That’s really fun. I’m thrilled and excited to be a part of the production because it’s such a worthy cause. (CSA) gives people a purpose for living and gives them renewed energy. I think people will enjoy it. Is being in the show rekindling your desire to be on stage singing or performing? I don’t have any intentions of pursuing it seriously now. Years ago, I auditioned for Rick Mokler to play the Clarence Darrow role in Inherit the Wind at SBCC. It came down to me and (another actor) and he won the award for best actor that year. So, I guess Mokler made the right decision, but I was very disappointed at the time. Now, I’m probably too old to do the other role I aspired to – Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. I don’t have any particular plans in that regard. And after Saturday, maybe no one will want me to perform again, anyway. So what’s next for you? The tough thing from my perspective is letting go. That’s my challenge:
giving more than lip service to the notion that it’s time for another generation to take over and assume responsibility and make its contribution to our society. Reducing my involvement is a challenge. I remain very much interested in lots of social issues and criminal justice. That’s why I’m up to my ears with Prop. 47 and our whole societal approach to drugs – the so-called War on Drugs. Why is it a criminal law problem, not one addressed by public health sector? I’m a speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (so there’s no irony in Eskin appearing in a Prohibition Era show). We keep chipping away. But I should probably be slowing down rather than taking Marilyn Gilbert serves as co-chair of the SB Choral on anything else. I have my fingers in Society advisory council lots of pies. My lifestyle is too active, pieces of a couple of songs. I’m playor at least my wife tells me so. But I ing the Polish beauty, accent and all, can’t keep up with her. although I think mine is more German. But who’s going to complain?
Gilbert’s Starring Role Now Advisory
Retired opera singer Marilyn Gilbert, a longtime Montecito resident, and Santa Barbara newcomer singer-actress Kim Holmquist share a scene in which they play a couple of society ladies who left quite a local legacy behind. Gilbert spends her days now writing and co-chairing the advisory council of the Santa Barbara Choral Society with Brooks Firestone (“I call us The Odd Couple,” she said of her partnership with the famed Republican). Q. I spoke with Judge Eskin earlier and now you – I’m wondering why there is such a nexus between music, education, and law? A. Because it’s all performance. A trial attorney, a judge, you’re performing. A teacher, too. It’s absolutely the same thing. When UCLA (where Gilbert created the International Internship program) asked us back to teach interviewing, I told them they should require students to take a semester course in acting. There’s nothing better than being on the stage and having to communicate to people. It’s a great skill.
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What can you tell us about your number in the show? It’s a very short scene, with Huguette Clark and Ganna Walska coming back as a couple of ghosts to talk about what they enjoyed about being the grand dames of New York and Santa Barbara society with Bellosguardo and Lotusland in their lives. Of course, it’s more about Walska, because Huguette was stuck in a hospital room for more than 50 years and never even saw her estate here, but it takes place in one of the rooms there. They’re having tea and discussing life and what they left behind for Santa Barbara. The mayor (Helene Schneider) drops in for a visit, and they have a short conversation and then they continue offering bits and
Do you have any Lotusland stories of your own? I’ve heard so many stories about her. Here’s one people may not know, though I’m not sure if it’s true. She fancied herself an opera singer. But she probably was not very good. Her husband at the time planned a matinee concert for her to invite all their friends in Chicago. But when they got there, there was supposed to be a circus in there that night, and there was a lion in a cage backstage. The manager said not to worry because the lion would be tranquilized and will sleep. So Ghana starts to sing, the lion wakes up and starts to roar, and they had to cancel the concert. The next day, critics wrote: “Lion versus Diva. Lion wins.” Anything like that ever happen to you? I never knew a lion up close enough to have that happen. I haven’t performed professionally for years, even while Nate and I ran the opera company. I was in administration. I had no time to sing. But it’s fun now. I had lunch the other day with Peter Bertling at State & Fig, and I told him I’d be singing the last phrase from “Return to Sorrento”, a beautiful Italian song, and I sang a little bit for him. All these people wanted to know who I was. It was really funny. Waitress asked me to come back and do a concert for us. I could start a career again. (Laughs). I think I’ll die singing. They can write a script about it. I’ll be lying in my casket and suddenly sit up and sing a phrase or two.
Quint and Korngold
When the Santa Barbara Symphony decided to pay tribute to America’s influence on composers around the world with Korngold’s Violin Concerto No. 1 as the centerpiece, Philippe Quint was the obvious choice for soloist. The oft-Grammy nominated
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Russian-American violinist has made the piece one of his repertoire staples and is on record as championing the concerto’s brilliance. Quint talked via email about the Korngold, which sits between modern Japanese-American composer Karen Tanaka’s Guardian Angel and Czech composer Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”) on this weekend’s concert at the Granada. Q. I saw an interview from almost six years ago where you raved about the Korngold Violin Concerto, “If I could play it three times during the concert – I would!” Given that you’ll be playing the piece in Santa Barbara next weekend, I’m guessing that still holds true. Why is it a favorite of yours? A. I’ve downgraded wanting to play it three times to just twice – maybe because I am older and it’s hard enough to play it just once? I also use to say that I know it so well that I can play it backward, however, the real challenge is still to play it forward! I have been championing Korngold Concerto for approximately 20 years now. It is finally becoming a concerto that is being programmed almost regularly with all major orchestras around the globe. Korngold’s writing is very original and complex, and in a great tradition of Wagner, Strauss, and Mahler. Perhaps Korngold is one of the last truly great composers to complete the great Romantic era. After giving more than 100 performances of the piece, it still holds a special place in my repertoire as one of the great concertos to have an absolutely unique voice and identity. Has your approach changed at all since you recorded the concerto that same year? And maybe comment on the difference between playing it on the 1708 “Ruby” Antonio Stradivari and the one you used for the recording, the 1723 ex-Kiesewetter? I always like to say that there is one thing in this world that you can’t buy: experience. Of course, it is not the same Korngold as it was when I learned it and not even the same Korngold that I did a few months ago in Milwaukee. This entirely depends on the collaborative process with the orchestras and conductors I am working with. There are certain things that I am very particular about when it comes to interpreting this concerto, and then once in a while someone points out a new detail to me that becomes a thrilling discovery. I really live for finding tiniest hidden details and subtleties about any work, and therefore for me the process of getting to know the piece is never finished. Naturally, using different-period Stradivaris made a huge difference in my approach toward the piece. A new
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Zachary Lewis-Towbes, jazz sponsors Anne and Michael Towbes, jazz artists Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea with jazz sponsors Cristina and Erck Rickmers at the post-concert reception
evening with two jazz greats, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. They were on the first part of a world tour of duo piano concerts. It is the first time in 37 years that they have toured together. This amazing modern jazz twosome has scored 34 Grammys – 20 for Chick and 14 for Herbie. Their fans adore them and filled the theater for this evening of avant-garde music. There was a reception after where Chick and Herbie met their sponsors, Cristina and Erck Rickmers and Anne and Michael Towbes. To support Arts & Lectures’ “The World Comes to Us”, call 893-2174.
Sansum’s Visiting Professor
For the fourth year, Sansum Clinic has invited a renowned surgeon to visit Santa Barbara for a week of seminars for our practicing surgeons and physicians. It also allows surgical residents in training at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital a chance to interact daily with the icons, leaders and outstanding teachers of the art of surgery. The visiting professor of Surgery Endowment Fund was established in 2010 by Ronald G. Latimer, MD, and Sansum Clinic to advance edu-
cational opportunities. This year, Dr. Keith D. Lillemoe was invited. He is a world-renowned general surgeon who specializes in gastrointestinal and pancreaticobiliary tract surgery. Dr. Lillemoe began his career by attending The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1978. In 2011, he became the surgeon-inchief and chief of the Department of Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. To add to his credits, he has produced more than 350 journal publications and 115 book chapters. The food trucks from Rincon catering pulled up and the Sansum lobby was transformed from work to play, with delicious bites and wine prior to Dr. Lillemoe’s public lecture. He shared with us how changes under the new healthcare legislation/regulations have affected the practice of medicine and surgery on the East Coast and what he prognosticates for the West. His greatest concerns for medicine are “quality, appropriateness, and safety.” If you’d like to support the Visiting Professor program, contact Dru A. Hartley, director of philanthropy at Sansum Clinic, at 681-7726. •MJ
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deners” try to make sure that water is being conserved and that our urban forests still thrive. Just this year, thanks to the ingenuity of people like Dr. Chuck Mendelsson, Michael Ditmore, and the Rupe Foundation, SBCC now offers new certificate training to provide “compassionate care” for dementia patients. Are there students here each year who do the kind of “dumb things” you and I never-ever did when we were 18, 20, 22? Sure. Are there more out-of-state and foreign-exchange students who bring their nationwide and worldwide mix of cultures, foods, music, literature, tales of amazing cities and countries somewhere over the horizon, and their pocket money? Sure. Does that make our south coast community poorer, or richer? UCSB and SBCC go under a virtual electron microscope of state review by the Coastal Commission each time they prepare for capital or enrollment change. In spite of what Ernie and some others believe, they do not get a free pass. Last fall, UCSB capped an eight-year public process that featured huge numbers of community outreach meetings to get their Long Range Plan re-authorized. A coalition of a dozen community groups had met with them for six years, seeking to mitigate impacts, and improve the Plan. That process has won prizes and recognition for inclusion and transparency locally, and was approved by the Coastal Commission unanimously. Given that UCSB must raise 80 percent of its annual general operating costs each year from non-CA general fund sources, and that SBCC has to do something similar, the fact that these nationally recognized institutions function so well for so many, and create so many new jobs, and great new neighbors, year after year, is something of a minor management miracle of itself. Much as I love Ernie Salomon and his vivid writings, I say, “Hats off!” to SBCC president Dr. Lori Gaskin, and to UCSB chancellor Dr. Henry Yang. How much duller and constrained would the south coast be without them? How much poorer and less knowledgeable would the world be without the fruits of their research and job training? If more communities had institutions like SBCC and UCSB, then San Quentin would house way fewer long-term residents. Then SBCC could help those suddenly under-employed prison guards do some re-careering in one of their top-notch continuing education programs. Lee Moldaver Santa Barbara
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Mitchum is Whining
We can all remember that whiny fat kid in school who could not get along with the other children and would exit the play yard saying loudly, “I am going to take my marbles and go home.” Chris Mitchum’s latest antics remind me of this childish behavior. First, he did not take the high road of a gracious loser and instead wrote letters to the editor in various coastal district news papers basically whiny about his loss and blaming everyone but himself. His letters have finally led him to an ill-conceived lawsuit that lacks any merit. I am sure Al Gore could have pulled the same antics after his loss to George Bush after the courts did not rule in his favor, but unlike Chris Mitchum he took the gracious high road accepted defeat and moved on with his life. Chris, the election is over, so look to examples of gracious losers in your own party as it is time to move on with your life and give us voters a break from the irrational rhetoric that we got plenty of during the actual election campaign period. Most of us are tired of the gibberish! His post-election letters contend and portray himself as a poor downtrodden candidate with no funds and support, and that portrayal we would all have to agree with, but each of us for different reasons. He promotes the idea that because of this lack of support from his own party, he was unable to defend himself against what he contends were outlandish attacks, but perhaps these attacks are right on the mark and are what the Republican National Committee saw long before the voters in the 24th District when they denied Chris funding and support. They saw Chris for what he was, as an extreme rightwing tea party type candidate with poor judgment who would worsen conditions within their own party in Washington. These letters from Chris go on to point out how he views himself arrogantly as another Ronald Reagantype Republican, but his positions in these post-election letters show his true colors as they go far beyond Reagan positions and into the zone of extremism. An extremism that has lead to a steady decline in the number of Republican voters in most states except for rural states and localities. It is an irrational extremism that has led to an almost complete breakdown of our national government’s ability to function with near government shutdowns. Most recently, this irrational extremism manifested itself with the Legislative branch unconstitutionally inserting itself into the arena of foreign policy an area reserved for the Executive branch so America speaks with one voice. These post-election
letters show how wise the majority of voters were in rejecting Chris as our district representative. The basic issue of debate is what Chris values most the 24th district interest or the national interest. Well, Chris, the correct answer should have been that you value each equally or the 24th a little more, but no – you bluntly stated that you would not look out for the needs of the 24th district in the quote from the disputed ad. District representatives are primarily elected to look out for the needs of us all within the district, as no one else will do so. For example, Lois Capps went to the mat for the City of Santa Maria when [it] needed Federal Funding for a new flood protection levee between the City and the Santa Maria River. So, the ad was a correct reflection of your views on the importance of the district and not what was left out of the quote. So, Chris you have a long road to haul with both voters and the courts with your arguments, because the basic issue was looking out for district needs and you failed that test. You should be placing the blame on yourself for losing the election and for making such an outlandish statement! Your attorney should have reviewed with you how public figures, such as yourself, fit into defamation actions. Public figures have a bully pulpit and easy access to the media, and can refute any improper claims made against them. That is why you rarely hear of a public figure filing a defamation suit. The courts and the public in general apply a much higher bar for success for public figures. You, in fact, used your bully pulpit prior to the election and a majority of voters rejected your lame defense about your poorly advised comment. It’s time to stop the whiny rhetoric and move on with your life! Ken McCalip Santa Maria (Editor’s note: Mr. McCalip is a North Santa Barbara County native who holds bachelor and doctorate degrees in history, cultural geography, and law from various California universities. He can be reached at kennethmccalip@yahoo.com. What follows is a reply to this commentary by a representative and backer of Mr. Mitchum.)
Just More Name Calling
Unlike most on the far left who resort to name-calling when they run out of facts, Mr. McCalip opens with name-calling. Perhaps this foretells the scarcity of his facts. First, the letters I’ve seen by Mr. Mitchum were never “whining… blaming…” Rather; all of his letters have been in response to the type of
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personal attack that is represented by McCalip’s commentary. Marching in lockstep with Capps’s and the DCCC’s [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] ads, he calls Mr. Mitchum “an extreme right-wing Tea Party type.” McCalip goes on to say that he “arrogantly” views himself “as another Ronald Reagan-type Republican.” Let’s pause here: I would say he “proudly views himself as a Ronald Reagan Republican.” I would caution Mr. McCalip to remember in 1984, the vast majority of Americans were “Ronald Reagan Republicans” when they handed him the biggest presidential landslide in American history. He then says that Mr. Mitchum goes “far beyond Reagan positions and into the zone of extremism.” Extremism, Mr. McCalip? Mr. Mitchum believes in the Constitutional Republic as it was founded by our forefathers. As far as I have seen, all his positions are rooted in that rich soil. Is it that you believe our Constitution is “extreme?” Is the document that made this nation great to be discarded? You gave a sweeping statement but failed to name even one “extreme” position. You say he doesn’t care about the 24th District. “He bluntly stated he would not look out for the needs of the 24th District in the quote from the disputed ad.” Ah, you drank the KoolAid, Mr. McCalip. What you state is what the ads stated, and thus the suit. If you had taken the time and viewed his entire interview at Cal Poly rather than just the Capps ad, (you can see it at MitchumLegal.com) you would see that he said, “I am not going to Washington to represent the 24th District to bring back baseball fields; that’s not why I’m going.” He was clearly not going for “pork.” He was going to take care of the needs of the District. If you had watched the rest of the interview, he went on to say that the general problems in the district reflect the problems in the nation: jobs, energy, business restrictions, corporate taxes; fix them nationwide, we take a large step fixing them here. Because you seemed to get stuck on believing the Capps ad, the rest of your commentary is just the Kool-Aid festering in your bowels and doesn’t warrant response. No one likes negative ads, but the reality is that they work. Two weeks out, Mr. Mitchum had pulled ahead of Capps in the polls, and [she] had to do something to win. They chose to win at any cost. Their malicious attack worked. They won, but the way they won is not in the American spirit of doing things. To remain silent and allow the ends to justify the means, is to give tacit approval. I am happy that Mr. Mitchum will not do that. Mark Smith •MJ Santa Barbara 9 – 16 April 2015
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ly translates in English as “uncomfortable” for violin, while also noting that overall it was a wonderful work that just needs some revisions. Frankly, there are many more concertos that are very awkwardly written for violin. In fact, the violin is a just a very uncomfortable instrument to play. I’ve always been envious of cellists and pianists. At least they get to sit when they play!
Silent Treatment
Philippe Quint in tune with Korngold
(old) violin is like a new person in your life – it takes time to get to know each other and to make necessary adjustments and compromises, but that’s what makes this process so fascinating. The Korngold is a touchstone piece in terms of the relationship between Hollywood and classical music, as he was very successful in film scoring, but it also haunted him later. The concerto is comprised of many of his film compositions, including Robin Hood. What are your thoughts on the conflict between the two worlds that seems to exist even today? Aside from championing the work in a musical sense, I have been a very active advocate of anti-”Hollywood” connotation that Korngold is associated with. What very few people know is that although some of the film scores he composed were specifically written for those films, a lot of these works already existed before they made their way onto the screen. This is the case with the concerto as well. All three movements had existed for some time before they appeared on soundtracks of Robin Hood, The Prince and the Pauper, Another Dawn, and Juarez. Korngold revisited the original sketches and organized them into a traditional three-movement classical concerto. My favorite speculation here is that if Wagner had had access to a film camera, I suspect he would have jumped on every opportunity to further his concept of “musical drama”. It is a great pleasure to see that Korngold’s music is finally getting the respect and attention it deserves. On your current tour you’re mostly playing the Op. 35 Tchaikovsky, which you recorded last year, – which I believe is the one that was once called “unplayable” because of its difficulty. The Korngold is said to be tough, too. You’re famously drawn to concertos that are difficult for violinists. Is it the challenge that interests you? Leopold Auer ( to whom the work was originally dedicated) called the concerto “unviolinistic” and the Russian word neudobni, which real9 – 16 April 2015
Santa Barbara got treated to a wonderful series of silent films with live music when Michael Mortilla played improvised piano parts as classics of the era screened at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens every Friday night last summer. But you ain’t seen nothing yet. Let’s put it this way: if that series was a rowboat, the pairing of the Buster Keaton classic Steamboat Bill, Jr.. with live music by the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra (PRO) written at the same time in 1928 at the Granada Monday night would be, well, a steamship. Or for the younger set, think Friendster versus Facebook. The PRO is the world’s leading silent film accompanist, with more than 650 screenings to its credit, the result of a deal struck back in 1992 when the Washington, D.C., public library donated 26 packing crates full of silent film music from the old Capitol Theater to the PRO and its American music revivalist director Rick Benjamin. By then, Benjamin had already unearthed a treasure trove of old sheet music from the early 20th century from the old Victoria Talking Machine Company while still a student at Juilliard, where he gathered some of his musical student colleagues to play through some of the 4,000 songs. “It was just a goofy thing to do, take a break from Mendelssohn and play these arrangements just for fun,” Benjamin recalled recently. “But in our very first get-together, something clicked. It was really good music – melodic, technically beautiful, full of counterpoint and wonderful orchestrations. And nobody knew about it anymore. The whole era was lost. We decided to revive it.” Fast-forward to the present, where PRO, among its other works, plays for silent films as part of the bargain to hold stewardship over the thousands of scores from the Washington library. As always, they’ll be playing Monday night on period instruments that recall the nuances of the era when thousands of cinemas in America had such ensembles entertaining for movie-goers. “There must have been 8,000 at the high point – more than there are Starbucks location today,” Benjamin said. “It was vast.” The combination of the silent films with the live band is remarkably com-
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra gives the silent-film treatment
pelling, Benjamin said. “There’s a real warmth and a humanity to this era in cinema. Because the artists aren’t able to speak to you, there’s emotional connection through faces and eyes. A giant screen within a beautiful space with an orchestra playing and hundreds of other people next to you laughing – the alchemy all comes together to make it magical. There’s nothing like it.”
Lucidity IV
There are lots of great reasons to head up the San Marcos Pass for the fourth installment in Lucidity’s Festival’s six-year arc: camping with friends, seven different villages offering more than 200 workshops and other micro-events, creating intentional community and connection, and a brilliant sustainability plan to reduce impact and leave the land in even better shape than before this weekend are just four. Then there’s the music. Jams, beats, tunes, and melodies covering a swath of styles will be wafting through the air on three official stages, and lots of other impromptu locales, nearly nonstop from morning through deep into the night. As always, if you’re a fan of bass and drum music, elec-
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. – D.H. Lawrence
tronica, and hip-hop, though, this is one festival you don’t want to miss. The Polish Ambassador is a superstar of dreamwave, mind-altering glitch and world-infused groove, while Thriftworks offers electronic music fused with dubstep and hip hop. Pega5U5 gets all psychedelic and groovy over the beats, while Pumpkin has become a house music fan favorite at Coachella and Lightning in a Bottle. But one of this year’s big headliners actually eschews the heavy drum and bass sound for a more acoustic vibe: the Colorado quintet Elephant Revival offer gypsy, Celtic, alt-country, and folk music, playing among them such instruments as banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, washboard, djembe, musical saw, stompbox, double-bass, and more banjos, and they join up for soaring vocal harmonies on their original compositions. Getting even more folkie are the T Sisters, the Oakland-based trio who play just one instrument each and often sing a capella. It might even be safe to leave the earplugs at home. Get all the details, complete lineups, workshop schedules, logistical specs, and more info on the festival’s earth-friendly approach online at www.2015.lucidityfestival.com. •MJ
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Celebrating History
The Story of Beer
by Hattie Beresford
David Sheehan (left) and friends enjoy a glass of kwass at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s cellar event
Lynn Brittner, executive director of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, introduces cicerone Zach Rosen in the adobeturned-brewhall
Guests mingle in the courtyard of the Covarrubias Adobe before learning about the history of beer through sight, sound, and taste
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he evening of March 26 at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum saw members and guests gathered in the courtyard of the Covarrubias Adobe to pay homage to Ninkasi, the Sumerian goddess of beer. As museum staff passed out glasses of kvass, the Medieval version of the ancient Sumerian brew, cicerone Zach Rosen prepared to guide us through the fascinating history of beer and all its permutations. Apparently, some of the earliest records regarding America’s favorite alcoholic beverage date back to cuneiform writings found on the carved dress of a statue of the goddess of brewing. Essentially a hymn, this writing both praises Ninkasi and records the steps taken in making of beer. These steps begin with making dough of bappir, and then mixing it with herbs and spices and dates and honey. After several cooking, fermenting, and filtering steps, they end by pouring the beer from the collector vat “like the onrush of the Tigris and Euphrates.” Beer, it is implied, is as
Zach Rosen took his audience from ancient Sumeria to the present-day renaissance of craft beer
life giving as the waters of the two great rivers. As Zach led us through the intricacies of the development of various beers, museum staff poured glasses of kvass which he had brewed, as well as ales, porters, wheat beers, and India Pale Ales donated by Pure Order Brewing Company, Telegraph Brewing Company, and the Brewhouse. Each libation was paired with a special selection of foods donated by Whole Foods. The porter, for instance, was paired with smoked tenderloin of pork. Other tasty pairings included
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chevre coated with crushed marcona almonds, prosciutto, and sheep’s cheese, and fruit tartlets. (In English pubs during my youth, a pint of beer was paired with pickled eggs.) In England, the making of beer remained a household task well into the Middle Ages. Women were responsible for brewing the beer and baking the bread. (No wonder, as they both require and produce yeast, not to mention grain.) As villages grew up, alehouses were established and run, initially by female brewsters or alewives. By the late Middle Ages, however, this profession was increasingly taken over by men as hopped beer, which had developed in Belgium and Holland, supplanted ale in popularity. Profitability also played a role in this change. In 1551, for instance, there was one alehouse for every 142 people in England. Men began to see the alehouse as a commercial venture. At one point, beer could no longer be brewed from rye or wheat. By royal decree, beer for the commoners could only be brewed with barley. Wheat
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and rye were to be saved for the aristocracy as these grains were in short supply and tasted better, and would, of course, be wasted on the plebian population. The Industrial Revolution led to standardization and mass production of beer, and small, local independents found themselves less able to compete. When prohibition put all distillers and brewers out of business (with the exception of moonshiners), the small brewers basically disappeared. In the 1980s, a smattering of new local breweries ventured into the market with increasingly good results. Today, Americans are in the midst of a “craft beer” boom, as a plethora of small, independent brewers have entered the market and been embraced by adventurous consumers. Part of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s cellar series, this enjoyable romp through the history of beer was sponsored by museum trustee George Burtness. To check on other events sponsored by the museum, go to www.santabarbaramuseum.com/ events.html. •MJ 9 – 16 April 2015
Real Estate View
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he Montecito Heat Index measures present demand for single-family homes in Montecito in five price sectors. Today’s Heat score is compared to this date last year. All data are from the Santa Barbara MLS and are uniformly deemed reliable. Today’s Heat score is 133, a sharp increase of 40% over this date last year. The popular $1-2M group continues to be our demand leader with fewer properties for sale each month. In fact, compared to this date last year, listings are down by 31%. Soon, the Heat measurement could well begin at $2M. This sector’s leading score is up 47% over last year. The also popular $2-3M group easily outperformed last year’s score by 171%. The $3-4M sector narrowly bettered last year and the $4-5M properties tied last year for demand. The $5M and above major estate sector showed a strong performance last month, yet today is down 38% from a year ago. The national real estate market, which never quite seems to reflect our story, is trying to stay positive with fluctuating monthly sales data and is preoccupied with the increasingly apparent absence from the market of the millennial crowd who seem, for a variety of reasons, not to be purchasing homes and starting families. Since few people in that 18 to 30 or so age group will ever be able to afford to rent, much less purchase a home in Montecito, we are not discussing it much. Even when
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the troubles hit in 2006 and we had a significant new inventory of below $1m homes in our top-seeded Cold Spring and Montecito Union super schools, it wasn’t really first time, beginning family buyers who won the keys, it was local investors who are generally holding them for long term and increasingly lucrative short-term rentals. This issue should be a major concern for all of us in the greater Santa Barbara community and will impact quality of life for all, should this 75M strong generation continue to not be able to live here. In the meantime, the story in Montecito is quite exceptional, particularly for sellers, with a lot of buyers wanting and able to live here. From the first of the year to present, sales are up a dramatic 32% from the same period last year, and Sold Dollar Volume is up a staggering 102% from $107.5M to $217.4M. The Average Sale Price went from $3.2M to $4.8M, an increase of 52%, and the median increased 23% from $2.4M to nearly $3M. Not to compare communities, of course, yet the median sales price for Hope Ranch for this period is down 78%. With all this good news for sellers and the strongest selling season upon us, one would think there •MJ would be more of them.
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At The Wheel by Randy Lioz
Randy is an automotive enthusiast with more than a decade of experience in the industry. Originally hailing from New York, he came to Santa Barbara by way of Detroit to work for an automotive forecasting company. You can regularly find him at Cars and Coffee with his Porsche 911 or Speedster replica.
Rally 4 Kids – The 911 Owners’ Club
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he second annual United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County Rally 4 Kids is just a month away, and everyone involved is getting revved up. Most of the driving spots are filled, and there is a great range of cars committed already. Looking at the list of drivers I noticed a strong contingent of Porsche enthusiasts, particularly those driving modern, water-cooled 911s. This definitely caught my eye, since I happen to be an owner myself. So I tracked down these drivers and put together a meeting of a sort of mini 911 owners’ club. First, a bit of background. The Porsche 911 succeeded the 356 as Porsche’s flagship sports car in 1964. While the brand came close to replacing the vaunted nameplate, the 911’s survival puts it among the oldest continuously produced models in the industry, along with vehicles such as the Toyota Land Cruiser and Ford Mustang (the Chevy Corvette skipped 1983).
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Amil Garcia with his 2003 911 GT2, David Green with his 2005 911 GT3, Ginni Dreier with her 2014 911 Carrera S convertible, and Jack Bianchi with his 2012 911 Carrera S
The Porsche shield (often incorrectly referred to as a crest) is a combination of the coats of arms of the city of Stuttgart and the Weimar state of Württemberg
When parsing the history of the 911, car aficionados split the time into two eras, comprising the early air-cooled cars, which used similar engine technology to that of the original Volkswagen Beetle from which the first Porsche cars initially evolved; and the “modern” 911s which switched to
a more contemporary liquid cooling system that is common to nearly every other car on the road. These are called “water-cooled,” as the coolant that you put in your car is mostly water, with additives that help it survive the wide range of temperatures an engine goes through. Once upon a time, there were Porsche “purists” who decried these more recent cars as not real Porsches (there are certainly still a few of these around). But along with the engine, the company re-engineered the entire car, giving it a sophisticated chassis that has formed the basis of what is still one of the most respected sports cars in the industry. But enough of the wonky details.
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Let me introduce four of the drivers who will be driving the roughly 200mile winding, circuitous route from the offices of software company QAD in Summerland to the Nesbitt estate, grabbing scavenger items and generally having a blast. Jack Bianchi is a Santa Barbara native who has been involved in the car mechanic business for years. He retired in ‘06, but still works on cars in his shop downtown. It’s a long, narrow space that houses memorabilia from his adventures all over autodom, including lots of racing. We all assembled at Jack’s shop, and I got a look at a couple of the Grand
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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 24) Rollo Dilworth features at the Lobero
Attending Margarita’s book reception is Meredith Eskin Brace and her father, judge George Eskin (photo by Priscilla)
are complemented by Valentino plush toys designed by Hansa, which can be purchased separately. Future plans include books translated into multiple languages, a retail product line, special-edition characters, and an animated children’s series for TV and the web. To launch her new book, First Republic Bank hosted a 150 guest bash for Margarita, a trained hospice volunteer and court-appointed special advocate, who has worked with children at the local Juvenile Hall, at the State Street headquarters, just a tiara’s toss from the Granada, converted into an art gallery featuring original canvases featured in the new book and books to come. Guests, who included David Edelman, Jane Maurer, Dana Hansen, Michael Weisbrock, Jeffrey Baldwin, Roger and Keiko Dunham, Irwin and Sally Eve, and Mark Scott-Paine, were greeted by a life-size version of the bunny character. “Valentino was years in the making and was first sparked in a conversation with my dear late mother, Bibi Fairbanks, who told me my message of love had to be shared with the world,” explains Margarita. Sound of Music Santa Barbara Choral Society, under the baton of longtime conductor JoAnne Wasserman, presented a most diverse concert at the Lobero featuring the works of Bach and Mozart, as well as more contemporary pieces by Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo and Rollo Dilworth, who flew in from Philadelphia for the occasion. Bach’s timeless Air on the G-String kicked off the Music Then and Now performance before Mozart’s six movement Vesperae Solennes de Confessore with accomplished soloists soprano Elissa Johnston, mezzo soprano Tracy Van Fleet, tenor Tyler Thompson, and baritone Ralph Cato, which also featured the San Marcos 9 – 16 April 2015
Madrigal Singers with the German composer’s Ave Verum Corpus under director Carolyn Teraoka-Brady. The second half fast-forwarded through the centuries with Gjeilo’s Dark Night of the Soul, concluding with a exuberant selection of AfricanAmerican spirituals composed and conducted by Dilworth, a professor at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance. Didn’t It Rain, with Cato’s singing a standout and choristers tapping their fingers feverishly on their scores to signify raindrops, and favorites like Take Me to the Water and Walk in Jerusalem, couldn’t fail to please, as the concert concluded with Dilworth’s Freedom Plow, set to texts by Langston Hughes. and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Gil the Thrill
In the Blankenship “bunker” surrounding Resiience author and Navy SEAL Eric Greitens are Lou and Mary Cannon, Dan Secord, Paul Orfalea, Sarah Chrisman, Jane Orfalea, Vorth Baker, Jeff Gates, Judy Dart, Shawn Davis, Roger Chrisman, Mary Secord, Navy SEAL Eric Greitens; hosts John and Hazel Blankenship, Gordy Abiltt, Kevin Taylor, and Rick Darnaby (photo by Priscilla)
Meet and Greitens John Blankenship, founder of the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation, and his wife, Hazel, opened the doors of their Montecito manse for a reception for Rhodes Scholar Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL and author of Resilience:Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life, which he later spoke
about at a Arts & Lectures event at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Greitens, 40, who served four deployments between 2003 and 2007 in the global war on terrorism – Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, and southeast Asia – has written four books,
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Gil Shaham’s Bach has bite
American violinist Gil Shaham was in his element at the Granada when he performed six Bach sonatas and partitas, as part of UCSB’s popular Arts & Lectures series. The concert, with two intermissions, was accompanied by elegant original extra slow motion films featuring children and senior citizens in the background from David Michalek, who worked with the late photographer Herb Ritts early in his career. New Yorker Shaham says there is “no greater joy” than playing Bach. “Even today, when I go to my room and I’ve set aside an hour to practice, I find myself still going at it two hours later, working at it, and loving it.” His flawless technique was evident for all to see, as he performed on his 1699 “Countess Polignac” Stradivarius. “During this time, I’ve learnt so much about violin technique,” says Shaham. “My basic technique changed three times because of this music – the way I hold my bow, the way I hold my violin, the way I put my fingers down. I’ve found myself questioning everything.” Clearly, from his latest show, he’d found the answers...
Among the guests hearing from former Navy SEAL are Sharol Siemens, Dan and Meg Burham (photo by Priscilla)
Waiting to meet and greet author Eric Greitens are John Lee, Lynn Behrens, president Santa Barbara Navy League; Scott and Lisa Burns with Carolyn and Bob Williams (photo by Priscilla)
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Prix cars he works on. While the shop is only one car wide, it’s not a major issue, since the race cars sit in the back and are rarely extricated from the space, especially since the process of starting them is so involved. Due to the delicate tolerances of these engines, it’s a process that literally takes hours. At the rally, Bianchi will be at the helm of a white 911 Carrera S. His car is a 2012 model, making it one of the first of the latest generation of 911s, bearing the designation 991. Porsche owners, like devotees of many auto brands, particularly German luxury marques, tend to refer to their cars by these code designations. The 991 was a relatively big change from its predecessor, the 997, whose code indicates that it shared a fair amount of componentry with the first water-cooled 911, the 996. But Bianchi has owned 911s since well before the era of “modernity.” In fact, he owned just about every early model year from 1965 to ‘78, along with a host of Ferraris and even an Aston Martin DB4. For his modern 911, though, he has the most effusive praise. “So I get in [the 991], having driven some pretty nice cars in my life – I owned a lot of Ferraris,” Bianchi says. “I’ve never driven anything like it… It did everything you wanted it to do but make you a sandwich.” He was shocked at how little you needed to brake for the corners, but also at how balanced it was. His wife has found it to be a great car for road trips to San Francisco. He was so impressed with his new 911 that he wrote a note directly to the manufacturer to compliment them for it. He also called up his friend David Green, also a 911 owner, to insist that he drive the latest incarnation.
Green hails from the East Coast originally, but came to Santa Barbara – by way of Malibu – in 1991 when his kids were starting school. He has found success in land development, and his past also includes a strong Porsche ownership history. Aside from his 2005 911, he currently owns a ‘59 356A coupe, and his wife drives a Cayenne with a diesel engine – which my experience suggests is one of the best diesel motors available in the auto market today. They are continually awed by the Cayenne’s range of up to 700 miles on a single tank. In the past, Green had a ‘73 911E and a ‘65 356C that his wife owned. His first real intro to what a modern 911 could be was his back road experience with a friend’s car, a 996 GT3. This was a track-focused version of the first water-cooled generation. “It was one of the most visceral cars I’ve ever driven,” he remarks. “The last of the mechanical cars, there’s no electronics in it at all,” he adds, referring to the lack of computerized driving aids like stability control that are ubiquitous throughout modern cars. Green was so taken with the car that he bought one himself. “It has no insulation, no back seat,” he adds, also describing the stiffness of the suspension. “My sister-in-law describes it best as being ‘riding on a stone skipping across the water.’” It’s this black 2005 GT3 that Green will be driving in the Rally 4 Kids. Fortunately for his spine, though, it’s not his daily driver. That happens to be a GMC Yukon. Amil Garcia is perhaps the most extreme Porsche enthusiast in the group. Having grown up in Guatemala, he moved here in 1988 and formed a successful IT consulting practice. With that success, he has been able to make his myriad auto-
motive dreams come true. Counting Porsches alone, Garcia has owned 73 of the cars. Still, this is only around half of the 140 cars that he’s owned in his life. “I just get bored,” he says. “Right now, I have three Porsches.” He brought his 2006 GT2 to our meeting, which he’ll be driving May 9. Like Green’s car, it’s a 996, but the GT2 is an even more extreme track tool, with a turbo engine that assaults the road with nearly 500 hp. This car was actually created by Porsche to race in its namesake class, GT2. As such, it has no air-conditioning and is festooned with a huge carbon fiber wing on the rear. Of the four 911 owners, Garcia is the only one who was among the field of 37 drivers at last year’s rally. He has great expectations for this year’s event, since he thought the organizers did a great job picking stops along the previous 180-mile route. “I had a great time, it was a lot of fun,” he says, and the roads and weather proved a perfect combination for the day. The one area he suggested could have been improved was the trip back from Lompoc at the end of the day, so he’ll likely enjoy the fact that this year’s route ends in the same place as the after-party, the Nesbitt estate. Ginni Dreier heard how much fun he had, and it was an easy task to persuade her to join the trail this year. Her husband, who doesn’t have much interest in cars, wasn’t so hot on the idea, so she declined organizer Diana Starr Langley’s invitation to participate last year. “I would get emails or texts from [Garcia] and a couple other people who were in the race going, ‘Why aren’t you here? Oh my God, this is so much fun, we’re having a ball!’ And so I just said, next year I’m doing it.”
She explained that her husband wouldn’t be riding along “unless he’s dead and I put him in there” Weekend at Bernie’s style. But Garcia graciously offered to lend her his navigator (as the passenger is designated for the rally) for this year’s run. Dreier will be driving her 2014 Carrera S convertible in the event. Like Bianchi’s car it’s a 991, but those codes didn’t mean much to her prior to getting together with this group. She loves the way the car drives, but for expertise she relies heavily on Garcia, her friend of more than a decade. I asked Dreier if she considered herself an enthusiast, but she demurred, citing her lack of knowledge compared to the men sitting around her. This was where I insisted on disagreeing, however. My friends and family know me as an automotive expert, but it’s not necessarily what makes me an enthusiast. Just like most other “experts,” there will always be someone who knows more than I do about any particular topic. But an enthusiast is just that, someone who exhibits enthusiasm for a pursuit and who loves living new experiences. Dreier’s excitement about the Rally 4 Kids, like the excitement of the rest of the drivers involved, certainly qualifies her. And by the end of our discussion, she confidently declared, “I’m an enthusiast.” But of course, that doesn’t diminish her desire to fit in among the car geeks. Gesturing toward Garcia she added, “I’ll have him give me a quick course on how to sound impressive.” If you have a story about a special car or piece of car culture in the local area, email Randy at rlioz11@gmail.com. Or follow •MJ him on Instagram @rlioz.
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than that, I don’t think I’d change anything. In your mind, if not in your opera, is Stanley a sympathetic character? Or is he simply a nasty man? Oh no, no, no. I don’t think anybody is “nasty” in it, neither Blanche, nor Stanley, nor Mitch, nor anybody. They’re just living their lives. I think Stanley is complex.
The production of Streetcar in May of last year in Los Angeles received what the reviewer Mark Swed called a “rapturous” response. He also wrote that your music hadn’t been heard in over 25 years at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Do you expect that to finally change? Do you expect to be asked to conduct there any time soon? No, I think that Four-time Oscar-winning composer-director-pianist André Previn [the late Los Angeles (photo credit: Lillian Birnbaum) Philharmonic Orchestra him one and [Rodney Gilfry] wanted general manager] Ernest Fleischmann one very badly, but I was knee-deep put his footprint on me rather heavily near the premiere and I didn’t feel like and I don’t think they... he and I partsuddenly adding a big piece. Other ed on such enemy terms, that I don’t
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Will you compose another opera? Well, I wrote a second one called Brief Encounter, which did pretty well, not as well as Streetcar but pretty well. And, I’m planning a one-act opera with Tom Stoppard. A Streetcar Named Desire debuts Friday, April 24, at 7:30 pm and will be performed again on Sunday, April 26, at 2:30 pm at the Granada Theatre. Opera Santa Barbara is one of the first regional opera companies to present this version, featuring a score for a reduced orchestra. Single-ticket prices range from $28 to $188 and are available at the Granada Box Office, 1214 State Street, Santa Barbara; online at www.granadasb.org; and by phone at (805) 899-2222. Student Rush tickets are available one hour prior to curtain of any performance for $13, and special pricing discounts are available for groups of 15 or more. •MJ
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beside an advanced wastewater treatment facility on the current Montecito Sanitary District site. The Pacific Ocean is the largest water reservoir in the world, larger than all the land masses on Earth combined; it covers one-third of the globe, contains 46 percent of the planet’s surface water, and it sits right on our front doorstep. As of 2009, there were 14,451 desalination plants operating worldwide, producing 68 million cubic meters of water. The forecast is for 120 million cubic meters of desalinated water by 2020. In 2013, desalination facilities in the U.S. produced potable water at an average cost of $0.29 per person per day, according to Wikipedia. Energy costs are high, but so is the cost of pumping and conveying non-existent snowpack from the High Sierras or northern California all the way to Montecito. In Israel, desalinated water costs $0.53 per cubic meter, in Singapore $0.49 per cubic meter – both affordable. Last year’s Israeli headline was, After Experiencing its Driest Winter on Record, Israel is Responding by Doing Nothing. That’s because Israel, one of the driest regions on Earth, has more scientists and fewer lawyers per capita than anywhere else in the world. The country has achieved water independence through a combination of conservation, recycling nearly 90 percent of its wastewater for outdoor use, and aggressively building and expanding desalination facilities which provide 40 percent of potable water needs now, and 70 percent by 2050.
A Single Community Service District
California has 1,286 special districts in the state that provide water services, 196 of which have been consolidated into Community Service Districts, working together without the challenges of managing separate and competing agendas in water delivery, waste disposal, and water conservation. With its small population and limited resources, Montecito should examine the benefits of combining its now separate water and sanitation districts. Consolidation of our multiple, small service districts would be relatively simple, requiring favorable support by both the Montecito Water Board, the Montecito Sanitary Board, and possibly the Summerland Sanitary Board.
Leadership is the Key
Fred Gluck, Montecito resident, former managing director [CEO] of the giant global consulting firm of McKinsey & Co. and former vice chair of Bechtel Corporation, describes the current situation in Montecito accurately: “The Montecito Water Board has brought the community an assured water supply for the next two years and provided some runway to pursue a more permanent solution. We should thank and honor them for doing their best in a situation that they partially inherited.” Gluck went on to suggest, however, that the board as currently configured, “lacks the project management experience to deliver what is needed at this juncture.” Peter S. Dealy, Montecito resident and member of the Montecito Association (MA) Water Committee, concurs. “The collective expectation of the community,” he says, “for a consolidated Community Service District would include the capability to negotiate complicated water purchase agreements, execute efficiently to secure multiple sources of water, and manage a debt restructuring of MWD’s balance sheet.”
California Imposes Unprecedented Statewide Water Restrictions
Last week, governor Jerry Brown asked the state’s water districts to voluntarily cut water usage by 25 percent by limiting landscaping irrigation to three times a week; banning the hosing of driveways and pavements; banning decorative fountains that do not re-circulate; and serving water in restaurants and bars only on request. Governor, we are way ahead of you. In Montecito, we have already reduced water consumption considerably. This week, The New York Times suggested that “this state [California] faces the prospect of a mass exodus of people leaving for wetter climates” because this drought marks a permanent climate change, rather than a particularly severe cyclical drought. It chastises the state (?) for doubling its population, from the 15.7 million people who lived here in 1960 to 38.8 million today, mostly through unrestrained immigration. NBC, CBS, CNN, and USA picked up the dreary drumbeat of a pending California dust bowl. Such weird reporting, trashing California as a land of lush lawns and large estates gone brown, could negatively impact both tourism and real estate values. Does Montecito face a dire future? No. Through careful planning, we can protect and preserve our “California” way of life, while still acting responsibly. We can attain water independence while returning our state water allotments to the thirsty inland empire that doesn’t have our abundance of nature’s bounty, albeit served temporarily with a dash of salt. •MJ 9 – 16 April 2015
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ONGOING UCSB Music – Back in session (and post-Deltopia), UCSB and its music students now turn back to the arts, as the music department kicks off the new quarter with the West Coast premiere of the Czech-American Horn Duo. Comprised of Jiří Havlík of the Czech Philharmonic and UCSB professor Steven Gross, the duo is offering a three-tiered residency, starting with a recital on Thursday, April 9, featuring works by Joseph Reicha, Johannes Brahms, and contemporary American composer Kerry Turner. Havlík will also conduct his own works. All horn players are welcome to bring their instrument and play in the final ensemble piece. Havlík will also conduct a master class and clinic. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Geiringer Hall COST: free INFO: 893-2064 or www. music.ucsb.edu.... On Sunday afternoon, April 12, Montage: A Celebration of Genres returns for a second year out at the seaside campus. The concert is designed to showcase the depth and versatility in multiple areas of performance within the music department and features a host of university groups performing short pieces that blend one right into the next. The melodious mosaic, curated by flutist Jill Felber, the artistic director of Montage and chair of the music department, pairs collaborations between current and former graduate students with undergraduate students and faculty members in such areas as voice, ethnomusicology, classical music, chamber music, early music, and large ensemble. Expects such rarities as Brahms butting up against the percussion ensemble’s rendition
of Zivkovic’s Trio Per Uno, while the UCSB Chamber Choir will sing Evening Prayer by Ola Gjeilo as a remembrance for the victims of last year’s Isla Vista tragedy before a parading Afro-Brazilian ensemble closes out the show. WHEN: 5 pm COST: $10 general, $5 students, free for children 12 and under INFO: 8932064 or www.music.ucsb.edu FRIDAY, APRIL 10 Spring Dance – UCSB Dance Department’s quarterly concert, titled Dance Particles, showcases six hotoff-the press works choreographed by fourth-year dance majors and faculty, as well as excerpts of works from José Limón, long an influence on the school’s company. Christina McCarthy directs the production that features original costuming and lighting created by student and faculty designers and a cast of 40 dancers exploring possibilities of time, space, energy, and human dynamics. WHEN: 8 tonight and tomorrow, 2 pm Sunday WHERE: UCSB Hatlen Theater COST: $17 general, $13 students, seniors & children INFO: 893-7221 or www. theaterdance.ucsb.edu SATURDAY, APRIL 11 Indian Dance Competition – The UCSB student organization Dhadkan is bringing its national dance competition downtown to the Lobero Theatre. Nachle Deewane will feature nine collegiate Indian dance teams from all over the country competing in two styles – Bollywood fusion and bhangra. The teams hail from Austin, Texas, Arizona (Om Shanti), Michigan (the all-girls team TAAL), as well as all colleges around
FRIDAY, APRIL 10 Country Comers in Concert – Just a few blocks down Highway 246 from the Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez, the Chumash Casino Resort hosts a couple of country acts who are being touted as fast-rising stars in the now more intimate Samala Showroom. LoCash – formerly known as LoCash Cowboys – is a duo featuring Chris Lucas and Preston Brust, who test the limits of the genre as they combine soul, rock, funk, pop, hip-hop, and gospel in a highenergy version of contemporary country. Dallas Smith, a Canadian rock and country singer-songwriter, announced his conversion to pure country with his debut Jumped Right In, while the title track from his first U.S.-released EP Tippin’ Point was ranked number one on SiriusXM’s The Highway Hot 45 Countdown early last year. This two-fer will only set you back right about what a club charges these days, too, if not a little less. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $10 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino.com
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EVENTS by Steven Libowitz
SUNDAY, APRIL 12 Cros for a Cause – The two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member (Crosby, Stills & Nash; the Byrds) David Crosby might be the most famous student to ever have been kicked out of Crane Country Day School in Montecito (for lack of academic progress, we’re told) though he eventually graduated from the Cate School in Carpinteria. A longtime local resident – he now lives up in the Santa Ynez Valley – Crosby first made good more than half a century ago with the Byrds, then had that seminal moment in 1969 in CSN’s first gig at Woodstock. The Cros has always kept his hometown folks close to his heart, so he had no thought of saying no when SOhO asked him to participate in its 20th anniversary series of benefit concerts. Even though Crosby released a fine new album just last year, we’ll likely hear mostly the old hits in this special show, but as of this writing only a few seats at the backroom bar remain available. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $100-$150 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com
California, including UC San Diego’s Zor, which won the championship trophy at Bollywood America 2012, and include veterans of other renowned competitions Jhoomti Shaam, Bollywood Berkeley, and Bruin Bhangra. A guest performance from Indian pop star Arjun is also on the bill, while proceeds from the event go to Ekal Vidyalaya, a nonprofit organization that provides a quality education to children in rural sectors of India. And don’t miss the after-party down in the Funk Zone at Santa Barbara Art Foundry, where the dancers and fans will mix and match (and party) in a non-competitive social environment that also features more music from Arjun and DJ sTIKer from the Bay Area. WHEN: 5 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $25 general, $40 VIP INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com Sketch Sessions – Grab the little ones and head downtown for the first of two annual Kids Draw Architecture sketch sessions, where youngsters create renditions of our architectural landmarks. Drawing materials will be provided and local architects and artists offer plenty of guidance for the budding artists. Today’s session takes place at Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, which was designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style by architect E. Keith Lockard and constructed in 1930. The children will attempt to replicate the stucco and scalloped walls, stained-glass windows, wrought-iron gates, gabled front entrance, arched loggia, and bell tower and fountain. El Presidio de Santa Barbara gets its turn in two weeks, on Saturday, April 25. The results hang at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara annual
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exhibition. Drawings from earlier installments in the event’s more than quarter-century history have been collected in a calendar which will be on sale on site, along with KDA T-shirts. WHEN: 1-3 pm WHERE: 1535 Santa Barbara Street COST: free INFO: 965-6307 or www.afsb.org Underground Comedy Night – The Plaza Theater in Carpinteria is the venue for this next installment of the popular series featuring professional stand-ups in the Southern California region that are currently breaking into the mainstream. Jen Murphy, a Last Comic Standing veteran who has also appeared on Comics Unleashed and This Is Why You’re Single, joins Dave Waite, Allan Strickland Williams, and returning host David Sharp – who have performed variously on Comedy Central and the Big 3 networks – as the schtickmeisters who will try to get you to yuck it up on a Saturday night. All ages are welcome, but the show will feature mature language and themes, so parents and guardians are not encouraged to bring children and to use their own discretion with teens. WHEN: 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2:30 pm Sunday, tonight through May 18 WHERE: Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $20 INFO: 684-6380 or www. plazatheatercarpinteria.com MONDAY, APRIL 13 Lord it Over – Lord Huron’s sophomore CD Strange Trails was due to be released last Tuesday, after our press time, so we can’t tell you about the folk-rock band’s progress since its 2012 debut. But the U.K. Observer raved over Lonesome 9 – 16 April 2015
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TUESDAY, APRIL 14 Back to the Bowl – A pair of popular bands – one with just two CDs to its name and the other one of the iconic outfits in rock history – open the season at the Santa Barbara Bowl with some midweek madness. Alt-J is the British band indie electronica band whose debut album An Awesome Wave captured critics heart; the follow-up, This is All Your, earned a Grammy nomination last year and had writers coming up with such descriptors as “unhurried electromesh” and “bizarre pop… rooted solidly in pathos.” The group’s SB debut comes between appearances on successive weekend at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio. Jungle opens. Also on hiatus between Coachella gigs, legendary Hall of Fame-member rockers Steely Dan return to the venue on April 15, and as usual there’s no new disc to promote – the last one was a dozen years ago, and the group only has put out nine total in 43 years – or anything else to get in the way of Donald Fegan and Walter Becker’s patented blend of complex jazz-tinged song structures and harmonies and often sarcastic, biting lyrics, delivered with verve and precision by an 11-piece outfit of top musicians and singers. Roger Glen Jazz Organ Trio opens. WHEN: 7 pm both nights WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $34.50-$54.50 tonight, $46-$120 tomorrow INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com
Dreams, praising its “echoing acoustic guitars and yearning, Fleet Foxy vocals mixed with cowboy cattle calls and Pawnee chants” while the BBC lauded the “irrefutably vaulting sweep of the music and the ineffable air of melancholy-dented redemption.” The Los Angeles band is singersongwriter-guitarist Ben Schneider’s baby – the other members were added after he began recording solo EPs – which might explain the singular vision that trigger The New York Times to call Lord Huron “the Eagles and Big Country as diffused through My Morning Jacket.” Check it out for yourself when Schneider & Co. play the historic Lobero Theatre tonight. Santa Monica indie pop band Cayucas, a frequent visitor to Santa Barbara, open the show. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $25 general admission INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com Built to Spill – SOhO is the site for the next area concert by the various indie rockers who have served as the vision-keepers for
front man Doug Martsch since 1992. Save for longtime bassist Brett Nelson, Martsch has happily swapped out members with each new recording, and he’s already on the road even though Built to Spill’s ninth full-length album – Untethered Moon, its first in almost six years – won’t even be available until a week from tomorrow. Although BTS have never even enjoyed something remotely near a U.S. chart hit, the band has been highly influential among musicians, with Modest Mouse, The Strokes, Death Cab for Cutie, and even Santa Barbara’s own The Ataris citing ex-Treepeople leader Martsch as a model. Like the more popular rockers coming to Bowl later this week, BTS is spending part of its free week between Coachella concerts on the South Coast, which gives us a great chance for a more intimate show than we’d get down in the desert. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $25 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com •MJ
The Mutter-Bronfman-Harrell Trio Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Yefim Bronfman, piano Lynn Harrell, cello FRI, APR 17 / 7 PM (note special time) / GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $45 / $15 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 Orange You Glad? – Piper Kerman spent 13 months in prison for money laundering and drug trafficking, crimes she committed 11 years earlier while involved in a romantic relationship with a woman who dealt heroin for a West African kingpin. Kerman turned her experiences into the bestselling memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, which Jenji Kohan, the Emmy award-winning creator of Weeds, adapted into a TV series that teamed with House of Card to make the Internet-streaming service Netflix a serious player in original programming in 2013. The series won three 2014 Emmy Awards. Meanwhile, Kerman herself became something of an activist, and now serves on the board of the Women’s Prison Association and speaks regularly to federal probation officers, public defenders, and justice reform advocates, as well as students of law, criminology, women’s studies, sociology, and creative writing, not to mention book clubs. It’s this last category that brings Kerman to town tonight for a free talk at UCSB as part of the Santa Barbara Reads program, the final event in its three-month association with the Orange is the New Black book. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: free INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
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launching his publishing career eight years ago with a tome, Strength and Compassion, including essays and photographs reflecting his humanitarian works in Cambodia, Rwanda, Mexico, Albania, India, Bolivia, Croatia, and the Gaza Strip. Six years ago, his second book, a memoir titled The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL was published, which eventually became a New York Times best-seller. In 2012, the stories were adapted into a book for teenagers, The Warrior’s Heart. “I’ve seen what happened in Bosnia and Rwanda with ethnic cleansing and genocide and came to believe very strongly that it’s important for people with strength to use that strength to protect others,” he says. “That’s what led to my service. I think sharing through writing and speaking is also a form of service.” Among the 70 guests at the bustling book bash were Dan and Meg Burnham, Lou Cannon, Roger and Sarah Chrisman, Dan Secord, Paul and Jane Orfalea, Anne Towbes, sheriff Bill Brown, Wayne and Sharol Siemens, Frank McGinity, and Larry and Beverly Decker. Model Citizen Guests at the Rescue Mission, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, are eating well! Former supermodel turned major entrepreneur Kathy Ireland, who recently celebrated her 52nd birthday, found she had an excess of cake from her party and sent it to the mission to save it going to waste. “She often makes nice gestures like that,” says president Rolf Geyling. “It was delicious!” And nearly 300 turned up for the popular Easter Feast, where I have volunteered as a waiter for the past eight years, to dine on a most handsome repast of ham, macaroni and cheese, and mashed potatoes.
Santa Barbara Rescue Mission Easter dinner volunteer servers appears to be a family affair with Nico Calin, Wilson Geyling, Maria Calin and Lucas Calin’s first year (photo by Priscilla)
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uled for release in 2017 with Antoine Fuqua, who made King Arthur, Tears of the Sun, and The Equalizer, at the helm with Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, and Vincent D’Onofrio among the seven protectors of a Mexican village. Among the guests checking out the classic after a reception in the McCune Founders Room were Dan and Meg Burnham, Roger and Sarah Chrisman, Wendy Foster, Robert Adams, and former symphony president Gillian Launie...
Before serving a bounty of food, there are volunteers including Morgan Figley, JoAnne Sutton, Aileen Campbell, and Daniel Osti, kitchen supervisor; Maria Henderson, Ruth Bartz, Anna Lerner, and Tarra Van Winderden (photo by Priscilla)
Let’s Be Frank A tsunami of the judiciary descended on the Montecito Country Club for a socially gridlocked retirement bash for Santa Barbara Superior Court judge Frank Ochoa, 64, who has spent half his life serving on the bench. Frank, husband of TV anchor Paula Lopez, has served on numerous statewide judicial committees and task forces, and also served on the local division of the California Court of Appeals. and taught law-related courses at Santa Barbara College of Law and UCSB, his alma mater, before studying at UC Davis School of Law. In retirement, Frank, a former executive director of the Legal Aid
Seven Up The Granada staged the latest in the Elmer Bernstein Memorial Film series when it showed the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven, based on Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film
The Seven Samurai. The popular series, which kicked off in September, is curated by Oscar-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe-winning composer Paul Williams, who welcomed fellow musician, Emmy Award-winning and double Oscar nominee Bruce Broughton, to the stage to discuss the movie, which starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, James Coburn, and Robert Vaughn. A remake of the classic is sched-
Granada Theatre Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts chair Sarah Chrisman with Meg Burnham, ready to enjoy the movie and Elmer Bernstein’s musical score (photo by Priscilla)
Gathered for their father, family, and friend retirement celebration are Alejandro Ochoa, Daniel Ochoa, Alana Ochoa, Olivia Ochoa, honoree Judge Frank Ochoa, Paula Lopez, state senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, judge George Eskin, Tracy Lehr, and judge Kevin Denoce (photo by Priscilla)
More than 24 hams were cooked, as well as 60 pounds of potatoes peeled and 12 turkeys roasted for the gravy, chef de cuisine Daniel Osti, tells me. An eggs-ellent dinner making the holiday even more memorable...
At the showing of The Magnificent Seven of the Elmer Bernstein Memorial Film Series are award-winning composers Bruce Broughton and Paul Williams, guest curator with Chrisman executive director, Craig Springer, Eve Bernstein, and Peter Bernstein (photo by Priscilla)
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Foundation of Santa Barbara County and honorary El Presidente for the 1987 Fiesta, will be operating a private judging practice in the areas of mediation and arbitration, as well as providing other dispute resolution and consulting services. More than 150 guests turned out for the bountiful beano organized by Paula, Jacqueline Inda, and Karen Ortiz, including Brian Hill, Pauline Maxwell, Donna Geck, Arthur Garcia, Steven Perrer, Harry Loberg, Kathy Murillo, Kevin Denoce, Das Williams, Janet Wolf, sheriff Bill Brown, sons Alejandro and Francisco Ochoa, and Lois Capps. Judge George Eskin was master of ceremonies. Instead of a retirement gift, guests made donations to the 9 – 16 April 2015
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Event Sponsors: Marcia & John Mike Cohen Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation for a law-related educational scholarship... Hunting Ground Casa del Herrero celebrated its 90th anniversary by staging its first-ever Easter egg hunt in the sprawling 11-acre grounds. More than 21 adults and 19 children turned out for the colorful event, raising around $4,000 for the George Washington Smith-designed property, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2009. Among those joining in the festive fun were Justin Klentner and Amanda Masters and their sons, Jake and Luke, Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Hilary Burkemper, and my colleague,
Lynda Millner, a longtime docent at the property..
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Sightings: Former Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien picking up coffee at Pierre Lafond...Actor Ashton Kutcher checking out the crowd at the Padaro Beach Grill...Dennis Franz shopping at Vons
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Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla, please email her at priscilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301 •MJ
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Everyone has a story. If you would like to preserve your past, pass along your hopes and dreams, and provide inspiration for younger generations, together we can create a written account that will become a cherished legacy for your family. Lisa O’Reilly, Member Association of Personal Historians 684-6514 or www.yourstorieswritten.com I will write your memoirs or personal story for you! Published author, Guaranteed Quality Service Jay at www.OneGlobePress.com Free consultation. 805-794-9126 Professional Live-In Coordinator looking to relocate to the Santa Barbara area. I have over 20 years experience in home care and the hospital setting. My goal is to ensure people safety and quality of life while living in the comfort of their own home. Celanimary4@gmail.com Personal Assistant- Errands & Transportation. Shopping, cooking, light cleaning. Responsible and Compassionate. $20/hr. Bilingual. Call 403-7316. Woman available for driving, errands, light housekeeping, driving to doctors apts, cooking & laundry. Local Montecito references. Marie- 805-729-5067. Concierge to the senior community - Trusted, experienced, wonderful. A unique personal assistant, providing help with everything from companionship to computers.
$8 minimum
Customized workouts & nutritional guidance for any lifestyle. Individual/ group sessions in ideal setting. House calls available. Victoria Frost, CPT,FNS,MMA. 805 895-9227. Today everyone is an “athlete,” right?... but you’re not. How about simply getting out for a walk several times per week, maybe changing your diet? Email avapache@gmail.com. Local refs. PR SERVICES
Marketing and Publicity for your business, non-profit, or event. Integrating traditional and social media and specializing in PSAs, podcasts, videos, blogs, articles and press releases. Contact Patti Teel seniorityrules@gmail.com REAL ESTATE SERVICES
Nancy Hussey Realtor ® “Nancy Stands head and Shoulders Above The Rest” ~Lisa R./Client 805-452-3052 Coldwell Banker / Montecito DRE#01383773 www.NancyHussey.com
Your local Santa Barbara Real Estate Agent Ursula Santana (805) 455-9025 Keller Williams Realty www. ursularealestate. com CalBRE# 01965452 COTTAGE/APT WANTED
Westmont Employee seeks small apt. for long-term rental. Mature lady, NS, quiet & neat with 2 polite indoor cats. Can pay up to $1500. 805-965-4396 or mdill@westmont.edu UCSB employee seeks apt. for longterm lease. Ex-police officer, current NG military member. NS, neat and quiet. Must allow well-behaved cat and medium dog. Cost negotiable. Monica: 801-634-5548 SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL
For Rent-Beautiful furnished one bedroom cottage on estate setting. Contact: 805 455-2925 CARMEL BY THE SEA vacation getaway. Charming, private studio. Beautiful garden patio. Walk to beach and town. $110/night. 831-624-6714 ESTATE/MOVING SALE SERVICES
THE CLEARING HOUSE, LLC Recognized as the Area’s Leading Estate Liquidators – Castles to Cottages Experts in the Santa Barbara Market! Professional, Personalized Services for Moving, Downsizing, and Estate Sales . Complimentary Consultation
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HOUSEKEEPER wanted, experienced, very clean, English speaking, using green products for Montecito lady 3 to 4 times a week 3 to 4 hrs. a day Please respond to jbvital5@gmail.com
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LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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BUSINESS CARDS FOR VOL 20#48, Dec 10, ’14 M CKEAN CONSTRUCTION
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Hydrex Aaron McKean 533 Olive Street 805.899.4544 tel. Santa Barbara, Ca Merrick Construction 805.896.6719 cell 93101 805.899.4044 fax Aaron@McKeanConstruction.net Bill Vaughan Shine Blow Dry Musgrove(revised) Valori Fussell(revised) Lynch Construction For more information, please contact Good Doggies Carole Bennett (805) 452-7400 Pemberly carolebennett@cox.net Beautiful eyelash (change to Forever Beautiful Spa) Luis Esperanza Simon Hamilton
Broker Specialist In Birnam Wood www.BirnamWoodEstates.com BILL VAUGHAN 805.455.1609 BROKER/PRINCIPAL
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STEVEN BROOKS JEWELERS Joan K. Green, CPA (805) 969-5081 (805) 565-3855 fax Montecito Village 1485 East Valley Road, Suite 2
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Mailing Address Post Office Box 5339 South Santa Barbara, CA 93150-5339 Email: jgreen@hdpcpa.com
Custom Design Estate Jewelry Jewelry Restoration Watches I will take in trade or purchase your gold and platinum jewelry, watches and silver items. 805-455-1070 sbjewelers@gmail.com
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Great Barrier Coatings
Eva Van Prooyen, MFT Psychotherapist
Dealer/Installer – Diamond Seal Systems
1187 Coast Village Road Suite 10-G Santa Barbara, CA 93108 (805) 845-4960
Peerless sealing protection for: Shower glass, mirror, windows, fixtures, stainless, porcelain, tile, grout, and all stone counter tops, floors, and shower enclosures.
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(805) 708 6113 email: theclearinghouseSB@cox.net website: theclearinghouseSB.com Estate Moving Sale ServiceEfficient-30yrs experience. Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030. TUTORING SERVICES
PIANO LESSONS Kary and Sheila Kramer are long standing members of the Music Teachers’ Assoc. of Calif. Studios conveniently located at the Music Academy of the West. Now offering lessons in your home for children and adults. Call us at 684-4626. 9 – 16 April 2015
WOODWORKING/CARPENTRY
Finish Custom Carpentry. Furniture, cabinets, restoration, doors, windows.. Ca Lic#911243. (805)696-8507. Cristian. Artisan Custom Woodworks All types of repairs, doors, window, gates, kitchen tune ups, small jobs welcomed. Appliances don’t fit, call me! Ruben Silva. Cell 805 350-0857 Cal lic#820521. ARTIST REQUEST
Used Nespresso Pods Wanted For Local Artist Do you drink Nespresso
Coffee? I want your used coffee pods. I’m a local artist and I use these colorful pods in my creations. Save them for me and I will pick them up from Carp. to Goleta area. Creative purposeful recycling (up-cycling) at its best! Thanks so much! Evelyn email me at pods.nespresso@gmail.com
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With choice of Hash Browns, Fries, Mixed Green, Caesar Salad, Fruit Salad
Fresh Squeezed OJ or Grapefruit Juice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................... $ 6/8. Bowl of Chopped Fresh Fruit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......................................... 9. with Lime and Mint
Giant Shrimp Cocktail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...................................... 22. Chilled Crab Meat Cocktail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 22. Grilled Artichoke with Choice of Sauce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 14. Burrata Mozzarella, Basil and Ripe Tomato . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 19. Today’s Soup ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 10.
Lucky Burger, 8 oz., All Natural Chuck ....... ...................................................... $ 20. Choice of Cheese, Homemade French Fried Potatoes, Soft Bun or Kaiser Roll
Grilled Chicken Breast Club on a Soft Bun ................................................. 18. with Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato and Avocado
Sliced Filet Mignon Open Faced Sandwich, 6 oz. ........................................ 24. with Mushrooms, Homemade French Fried Potatoes
Hot Corned Beef .................................. ........................................................ 19. on a Kaiser Roll or Rye
Reuben Sandwich ................................. ....................................................... 20. with Corned Beef, Sauerkraut and Gruyere on Rye
French Onion Soup, Gratinée with Cheeses . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 12. Matzo Ball Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 12. Lucky Chili .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 15. with Cheddar and Onions
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Classic Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..................................... $18. with Julienne Ham and Hollandaise
Crab, Shrimp, Avocado, Egg, Romaine, Tomato, Cucumber
Charred Rare Tuna Nicoise Salad ................................................................ 27.
California Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 18. with Spinach, Tomato and Avocado
Lucky’s Salad ............................................................................................... 17. with Romaine, Shrimp, Bacon, Green Beans and Roquefort
Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 22. Smoked Salmon and Sautéed Onion Omelet . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 19. with Sour Cream and Chives
Cobb Salad .......................................... ........................................................ 19. Tossed with Roquefort Dressing
Chopped Salad ..................................... ........................................................ 17.
Wild Mushroom and Gruyere Omelet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 19. Home Made Spanish Chorizo Omelet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 18. with Avocado
Small New York Steak 6 oz, and Two Eggs Any Style ................................ 25. Corned Beef Hash (made right here) and Two Poached Eggs ......................... 19.
with Arugula, Radicchio, Shrimp, Prosciutto, Cannellini Beans and Onions
Sliced Steak Salad ............................... ........................................................ 24. with Arugula, Radicchio and Sautéed Onion
Jimmy the Greek Salad with Feta ........ ........................................................ 14. Dos Pueblos Abalone (4pcs) ........................................................................ 28.
Huevos Rancheros, Two Eggs Any Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 15. Tortillas, Melted Cheese, Avocado and Warm Salsa
Brioche French Toast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 14. with Fresh Berries and Maple Syrup
Waffle Platter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 14. with Fresh Berries, Whipped Cream, Maple Syrup
Smoked Scottish Salmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 20. Toasted Bialy or Bagel, Cream Cheese and Olives, Tomato & Cucumber
Mixed Vegetable Frittata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 17. with Gruyere
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