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James Buckley gets up in the grill of John Moeller, ex-White House chef who literally served three presidents; “Mountain Men” Tom and Jack Oar; magic from Arlene and Milt Larsen; and Deacon Buckley races for Team Montecito Paws Up For Pets; Oprah’s Chicago studio closes; Drew Barrymore divorce; photographer John Russo and Elizabeth Chambers; Ariana Nobel’s goodbye; Grupo Corpo at Granada; Ragtime review; Opera SB presents Puccini; CALM authors’ luncheon; MAW summer fest; Thompsons host gala; and Queen Elizabeth’s Bentley

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Steve Daniels on global warming and Janice Poltroon; Joe Rution on DNA; Michael Cameron on science; Zeca Drouin questions Ms Poltroon; Philip Koplin gets political; Ralph Flores writes about Montecito Café; Jay Fender on health screenings; Ben Dover talks Democrats; Chris Cochrane asks about Jim Alexander; Dan Seibert’s nature photos; Brian Smith on sanitation; Jeff Larsen praises news; and Leslie Nelson sees the light

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Knitting and crocheting; poetry club; ART-TINI event; MA Water Committee; German talk; Soul Style; Kids Draw sessions; Cecilia Woloch at Tecolote; Democratic meet and greet; MUS meeting; Mary Lee Emard at library; MA meets; children’s emotional health; Walk & Talk at museum; SBMM lecture; The New Yorker; naturalists at La Casa de Maria; free music Kia McInerny at Tecolote; French film; rabbi Mike Comins; MFPD chipping schedule; art classes; Adventuresome Aging; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; and Story Time

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Montecito Association’s Land Use Committee meets; Music Academy of the West announces completion of fundraising campaign; and more about Montecito Cafe closure

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Lynda Millner reports on the CALM anniversary gala among authors; YMCA Good Friday Breakfast; and the Circle of Life luncheon

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Steven Libowitz catches up with violinist Timothy Chooi, all of 22 years old; musician David Broza attends Community-Wide Teach-In; and dancer Danica Paulos at the Arlington

25 Benefits of the Week

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Climate Change Not So Funny

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y compliments to Montecito Journal for introducing a humorous piece into the paper, and into “Letters to the Editor,” of all places. Unfortunately, the piece isn’t funny.

I refer to “Serious Answer to a Serious Question,” in last week’s edition, addressing the issue of climate change. The letter is attributed to “Janice Poltroon,” a “scientist-at-large” and “professor.” My search of the Internet and local sources divulges no person of such name. Since “poltroon” is an archaic word denoting a craven or cowardly person, shall we presume that no such real person exists and said imaginary “scientist” is a further MJ attempt at levity? Even if she exists, what are her credentials to pass judgment on the ostensible fallacy of “global warming?”

I am also a “scientist” of sorts: a medical doctor. Such a degree gives me no expertise in climatology, but I have read widely on the subject in both scientific and popular literature,

as can your readers. As have I, they may learn – if they are persuadable by facts and scientific evidence – the following: “The earth has completely stopped warming,” asserted in Ms Poltroon’s first sentence, is incorrect. It has been consistently warming for several centuries, since the advent of the Industrial Revolution, and much more quickly for several decades. 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history (last couple of centuries)… until surpassed by 2015. 2016 is already hotter than 2015 so far.

“Climate change” is the phrase now used more frequently by scientists and activists than “global warming” because the unprecedented rapid and worrisome changes in climate are not uniform. Annually, some places do get colder than previously. (Climate, and its temporal and regional manifestation as weather, are incredibly complex phenomena affected by multiple factors.) Such changes do nothing to refute the very strong evidence that

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quitur. Bernie Madoff was reportedly a charming person, too.

Ms Poltroon’s slur about the “particularly evil group at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Center” neglects to mention that multiple investigations of their work have exonerated them of deliberate or accidental bias and misrepresentation.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has not been “altering the way it collects temperature data” to produce desired results. Rather, it has been achieving different results by accounting for further variables in the highly complex data. Refinement of scientific data in the face of new information is common and essential and does not imply fraud or deceit.

Environmentalism and secularism are different belief systems; one does not imply or contain the other. Not all environmentalists are secular. Many deeply religious people, including theists of all the major religions, believe that our beautiful world was created

by God-Allah-Whoever to be valued and maintained reverently by humans.

I could continue to address more of Ms Poltroon’s questionable assertions, but instead suggest that those interested pursue the topic on their own.

Many resources are readily available.

For my above claims, I would be glad to provide sources.

Steve Daniels Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: So, we’ll put you down as a “maybe” on global warming, er, climate change. As for Ms Poltroon’s bona fides, I assure you that although her name has been altered to protect her from a university cohort that would likely hound her off campus for her heretical views, she is a scientist of high standing and high intel-

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the earth as a whole is warming significantly.

Among climate scientists, 98% agree that the climate is warming rapidly and dangerously, and a very high percent agree that human use of fossil fuels is a major cause. (Incidentally, both the insurance industry and the U.S. military have publicly expressed severe concern about the consequences of climate change.)

There have been thousands of scientific papers on global climate change published, and, at last count, not even one peer-reviewed paper in a reputable scientific journal has presented salient evidence refuting the warming trajectory.

Yes, scientists and scientific theories can be wrong. However, computer modeling of climate change with human fossil use as a major factor has thus far been very accurate. (If anything, the changes occurring in the real world – droughts, severe storms, deluges, loss of glaciers – suggest that deleterious changes are happening even faster than predicted by models.)

Models that eliminate the contributions of fossil fuel use have proven inaccurate.

Regarding Ms Poltroon’s innuendo that scientists are corruptible by money: scientists who work for universities or the federal government do not generally do so to become rich. The monetary sums available to them as grants and salaries are orders of magnitude less than the dollars earned by scientists who work for fossil fuel firms. Conflicts of interest are far more common in the corporate world. Incidentally, whether or not “there are several oilmen in town, and they are pretty decent,” as alleged by Ms Poltroon, is an irrelevant non-se-

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lect and does indeed reside on the West Coast and works [and teaches] at a distinguished institution of higher learning, closer to Los Angeles than San Francisco.

She continues to believe that the risk of catastrophe from release of excess carbon dioxide is overstated and that the worldwide response to those projected ill effects is excessive in the extreme. – J.B.)

DNA Deficit

Regarding “scientist at large” professor Janice Poltroon’s “Serious Answer” on the global warming-climate issue, the thrust of her thesis seems to be that scientific thinking today is far too corruptible or questionably rooted to be relied upon. She concludes with her take on religion, for which she believes environmentalism now serves as surrogate.

“As far as I know, there has never been a civilization without religion…

It seems that religion is deeply, deeply engrained in our DNA and arguably no one can live without a belief system.” As for the move toward secularism, ”people can’t live that way.”

You bet! That is the kind of thinking we need on global issues today. I shutter (sic?) to think what other thinking she believes is engrained in our DNA. Joe Rution Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Professor Poltroon responds: It is not a question of belief as to what is ingrained in our DNA; it is a matter of the most obvious fact that all our physical being and two-thirds of our behavior is ingrained in our DNA. The incorruptibility of scientists. Now, there’s a religious belief based on ignorance. How far back to go with scientific fraud? To 200 BC and Archimedes exposing fraud? Or would Piltdown Man, 100 years ago, be far enough? A short essay on science fraud down the ages would be fun if someone has the time to write it.

“Questionably rooted?” Here are some ideas believed by 97 percent of contemporary scientists at the time: Captain Cook’s observation of the Transit of Venus in 1769 was to answer “the last remaining problem in astronomy.” Less than a hundred years ago, people believed in “island galaxies.” Continental drift and plate tectonics wasn’t accepted until about 1950.

Peptic ulcers caused by bacteria? The guy was laughed at until the 1980s, as I recall.

There are thousands more. – J.P.)

Think Again

The issue here is not the thoughtful and important question from Mr. X but the questionable and very debatable credibility of your scientist-at-large professor. I suggest you reconsider your source.

Michael Cameron Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Not to stress the point too broadly, but I’ve known Professor 7 – 14 April 2016

Poltroon for nearly two decades and have enjoyed many meals with her, often in discussion of scientific breakthroughs that she – certainly not I – knows very much about. She has studied atmospherics and has a keen grasp on the subtleties and vagaries of weather and the larger environment. In other words, I trust her opinion on many matters, and the question of “climate change” and man’s effect on it is, after all, what we are dealing with: an opinion, based upon observation [and loosely, computer-generated prognostications], not actual “science.” – J.B.)

More Background, Please

I was intrigued by the statements of Janice Poltroon regarding climate change. Imagine my surprise when I entered “Janice Poltroon” in Google and got only two mentions, both regarding the Santa Barbara Sentinel.

How is it that a “professor” exists only in local weeklies, with no mention of teaching, scholarship, publications, lectures, committees, any of the many claims to fame that good instructors end up having on the net? And removing the quotation marks did not bring me any more information. Can you provide some background?

This reminds me of another definition of “poltroon.”

Zeca Drouin Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: See the above explanation to Mr. Daniels. As for the Sentinel, I was not aware that Ms Poltroon had ever written anything for it, so it was news to me, too. – J.B.)

Principle-Free

Your response to a letter that refers to the Republican tantrum about the Supreme Court (“Two Worlds Collide” MJ #22/12) fails to understand the difference between a budget resolution and a court nomination. When the House and Senate differ, the purpose of their each passing a budget is for them to work out a common fiscal framework. Any budget that might result lacks the force of law, and there is nothing in the Constitution requiring that they separately or jointly adopt one prior to passing laws on taxes or spending.

On the other hand, the Constitution does task the president with proposing a Supreme Court nominee to the Senate, and there is no precedent for the Senate to flat-out refuse to give any and all nominees a hearing.

Democrats have voted against nominees of a Republican president and also called on a president not to make interim appointments or choose nominees they might consider ideologically extreme, but there is nothing beyond

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This Week in and around Montecito

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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 7 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. Today: Langston Hughes. New members welcome.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Art-Tini Event The Assisted Home Hospice Foundation in collaboration with Assisted Home Health & Hospice is pleased to announce its upcoming ART-TINI fundraiser. ART-TINI stands for ART Show-Mar-TINI celebration.

All proceeds will be donated back into the community.

The event includes a reception and appetizers, art exhibit, silent auction, cocktails, live entertainment, and more.

When: 6 to 9 pm Where: Santa Barbara Woman’s Club, 670 Mission Canyon Road Cost: $50 Info: www.assisted1.com/events/ arttini/ FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Montecito Association Water Committee Meeting Typically held the last Friday of each month, the committee discusses ongoing issues with water and the

drought; meetings are open for the public to attend. Today’s assembly is on a special day and at a different location. The meet and greet is with new Montecito Water District general manager Nick Turner.

When: 9 am Where: MFPD Conference room, 595 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-2026 German Conversation The German Conversation Group meets on the second Friday of each month at Montecito Library.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Soul Style: Creating a Lifestyle Aligned with Your Soul This transformational retreat of experiential processes is designed to foster the ah-ha moments of clarity needed for you to align your lifestyle with your soul’s deep and authentic inner voice. Through presentation, discussion, journaling, and creating vision boards with a mandala template to provide your vision with sacred energy, you will discover the joy in manifesting and experiencing your soul’s calling.

Led by Shawne Mitchell, MA, and co-facilitator Connie Williams When: 7:30 pm through Sunday, 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $385, includes two nights lodging in shared room, meals, and tuition. Commuter rate $285, including meals and tuition Info: www.lacasademaria.org SATURDAY, APRIL 9 Sedgwick Reserve Hike The rugged Santa Ynez Valley is the setting for a series of monthly

Kids Draw Architecture Annual Sketch Sessions The Architectural Foundation is pleased to announce the annual Kids Draw Architecture sketch sessions; they are free, and drawing materials will be provided. The award-winning Kids Draw Architecture program was developed by the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara to enrich awareness of the built environment. Young people are encouraged to sketch architectural landmarks, guided by local architects and artists.

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When: 1 to 3 pm Where: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State Street Info: 965-6307 interpretive hikes and nature activities open to the public on the 6,000-acre UCSB Sedgwick Reserve. Three hikes with varying themes such as geology, landforms, Sedgwick panoramas, plants, and animals or birds will be conducted, with hiking levels of Easy, Moderate, or Strenuous. These hikes are approximately two to three hours each and are followed by the opportunity to picnic with your own lunch at the reserve. In addition to the hikes, other activities such as a tour of the newly renovated old barn, the new observatory, the pond, and the new Tipton House, as well as a set-up for painters at the pond, and the use of a bocce court are all planned for those who don’t want to hike and would like to just enjoy the reserve attractions while the hikes are being conducted. Reservations required.

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When: 8:30 am Cost: $10 per hiker, or $15 per couple or family suggested donation Info and RSVP: Sedgwick@lifesci.ucsb. edu Book Signing at Tecolote Cecilia Woloch will read and sign her book of poetry.

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French on Film The French Network of Santa Barbara (Le Réseau Français) is pleased to offer French films to our community.

A “classic” and a “contemporary” picture will be shown at the Fe Bland Theater, SB City College campus, on consecutive Saturdays, April 9 and 16. Both movies have English sub-titles and are offered free to the public.

Today’s event spotlights the classic La Grande Illusion (1937), considered to be one of the best of French cinema pre-World War 2. It deals with the interaction among the social classes and their reactions in the Great War (WWI). The protagonists are taken prisoner by the Germans and plot an escape. Directed by Jean Renoir; acted

by Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, and Erich von Stroheim.

When: 7:30 pm Where: City College campus, 721 Cliff Drive SUNDAY, APRIL 10 Meet and Greet Democratic Women of Santa Barbara will host an event with local endorsed candidates Das Williams, Joan Hartmann, Monique Limón, Salud Carbajal, and Hannah Beth Jackson.

The mission of the Democratic Women of Santa Barbara County is to promote Democratic principles, issues, and candidates by educating the public, increasing voter participation, and ensuring election integrity, while collaborating with other Democratic organizations at the local, state, and national level. Democratic Women of Santa Barbara County has been a chartered club of the California Democratic Party for more than 40 years.

When: 2 to 4 pm Where: Butler Events Center, 5555 Hollister Avenue in Goleta Cost: $10 for members and $15 for

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Village Beat

by Kelly Mahan

has been Editor at Large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito Kelly and beyond. She is also a licensed Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and the Calcagno & Hamilton team. She can be reached at Kelly@montecitojournal.net.

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t this month’s Montecito Association (MA) Land Use Committee meeting, member Dick Thielscher reported that after looking into having a crosswalk installed across East Valley Road, it seems unlikely that Caltrans will agree to it. The Land Use Committee agreed to resurrect the idea of a crosswalk from the library to the businesses across the street, and last month Thielscher met with several representatives from County Public Works, Caltrans, and other stakeholders.

“It doesn’t appear that we are getting a crosswalk,” Thielscher reported, saying that a representative of Caltrans said there are concerns with ADA, liability, placement, and driveway issues. Instead, Caltrans agreed to a temporary radar speed sign and more signage about the 25-mph speed limit in the area.

Also at the meeting, the committee voted unanimously to recommend to the full MA board next week that a letter is sent to the Santa Barbara County

Board of Supervisors asking that additional county funding be earmarked for further review of revisions to the Montecito Architectural Guidelines and Development Standards. “It’s time to send them a message that we want to get this done,” said committee member Tom Bollay.

The requested additional funding will pay for staff to further look into Phase II of the revisions of the Guidelines, which will determine how to calculate the square footage of detached accessory structures for proposed development. The revisions to the guidelines have been in the works for many years and will have an impact on what is allowed to be built in Montecito for many years to come. The board of supervisors (BOS) is scheduled to discuss next year’s funding on Friday, April 15.

Last month, the Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) recommended to the board members that they adopt additional revised material as part of Phase I, which includes a resolution to

amend guidelines that address basements, net floor area, and retaining walls, and make additional minor corrections and language revisions that do not materially change the existing regulations, and serve only to clarify or correct existing language. The Land Use Committee also unanimously agreed to ask the full MA board to send a letter to BOS supporting the MPC’s recommendations. The BOS will review the revisions in May.

Music Academy News

Music Academy of the West (MAW) has had a busy week: on Monday, MAW president and CEO Scott Reed announced the successful achievement of a 15-month fundraising effort to fund the completion of the expansion of the Miraflores campus. The $17.5-million campaign was launched in 2014, and the funds are being used to renovate the historic Marilyn Horne Main House, construct a new Teaching Studio Building, purchase 11 Steinway pianos, endow a longrange instrument fund, and increase the academy’s recently established maintenance endowment. The completion of the fundraising campaign is the result of a $4.4-million gift from the Hind Foundation. “This is a tremendous moment in the history of our organization,” Reed said.

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The Hind Foundation is a central California-based nonprofit with a mission to fund community-based projects and programs that encourage people to build an enduring legacy for future generations. The Foundation promotes the expansion and awareness of music and visual arts, and as such, the academy will name the new Teaching Studio Building, Hind Hall.

“We appreciate the Hind Foundation’s generous gift to the Music Academy’s future,” Reed said. “They join a dedicated group of contributors who have all helped to make this project possible.”

Groundbreaking on the building is expected to take place in August of this year, with completion expected in May 2017, in time for next year’s summer festival, which will mark the Music Academy of the West’s 70th anniversary celebration. The building, which will house two rehearsal spaces, six faculty teaching studios, a percussion studio with access to Hahn Hall, storage space, a central courtyard, and a breezeway connecting the practice rooms, will be in front of Montecito Board of Architectural Review in May, according to planner Heidi Jones with Suzanne Elledge Planning & Permitting Services. “This is the next phase of build-out,” Jones explained.

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“So I was thrilled when we moved to Santa Barbara and found that we had a world-class art museum here,” says Bob. “We have a wonderful resource, great permanent art here, and it’s our obligation to display and conserve the wonderful art that’s been given to us by previous generations of collectors in the Santa Barbara community,” says Bob. “We’ll have more gallery space. We’ll have more exhibition space. The significance of the Museum will grow in our community as a result of this campaign,” says Siri.

We are asking those who believe in the power of art to invest in our renovation and expansion efforts. You can go to campaign.sbma.net to make a gift and learn about the campaign.

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Seen Around Town

by Lynda Millner

Celebrity Authors Luncheon CALM luncheon co-chairs Carolyn Gillio and Becky Cohn with auxiliary chair Toni Schinnerer

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t’s amazing to me that CALM (Child Abuse Listening Mediation) is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and I’ve been to all 30 and heard 135 authors. In the first year, 1987, one of the authors was Sue Grafton, who was writing B is for Burglar. She’s now nearly through the alphabet.

About 500 folks gathered at The Fess Parker for a day of fun and festivities, which always begins with shopping for books. The four celebrity authors were there: Meg Waite Clayton, Gregg Hurwitz, Frances Schultz, and Hank Phillippi Ryan who also doubled as an interviewer along with

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Tom Weitzel. In addition, there were 12 guest authors ready and waiting to sign their tomes. People were also buying raffle tickets in droves with

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prizes such as $500 cash or entrée to 20 restaurants.

The ballroom filled for lunch and master of ceremonies (for the sixth time) Andrew Firestone kept everything on track. Andrew had also been at the Santa Barbara Club the night before for the annual cocktail party for the 50 CALM members, spouses, and authors. He told the audience, “CALM auxiliary has raised $2 million through the years.” He introduced auxiliary president Toni Schinnerer, who thanked the co-chairs for the last five years Becky Cohn and Carolyn Gillio. “They will be doing it again for 2017,” she announced. And like the rose parade, they begin planning the day after.

For the first 25 years, the co-chairs were Sharon Bifano and Stephanie

Frances Schultz, who wrote The Bee Cottage Story – How I Made a Muddle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to Happiness and lives part-time in Santa Ynez

Ortale. Sharon told us how she came to establish the luncheon event. “I had just moved here and had been to Erma Bombeck’s celebrity authors luncheon. When this auxiliary wanted a fundraiser, I suggested this same event. Stephanie volunteered to be my co-chair. The first year we only made $200, then $3,000, and on and on. None of the authors is paid.” A standing ovation followed.

The founding of CALM is equally compelling. My friend, Susan Gilbransen’s mom Claire Miles

Journal funny man Ernie Witham with wife Pat Sheppard showing off his latest book

proves what just one person can do.

Claire was a nurse and her husband a doctor. They saw signs of abuse at his work. In 1969, Claire put in a special phone line in her home and an ad in the paper for stressed parents to call Mrs. X. In the first month, she received 27 calls. Susan remembers, “We kids were given strict instructions to never touch that phone.”

From that small beginning sprang the current network. North County accounts for 80 percent of the calls today. District attorney Joyce Dudley says, “No one has an organization

My longtime neighbor from the polo field Margarita Fairbanks, who wrote about her pet rabbit, Valentino, and had him with her at the book signing

like CALM.” Chief executive director Alana Walczak explained there were 17-plus programs. In 2014-15, CALM served 1,800 people in individual therapy, educated more than 7,000 parents and teachers in our local schools, presented nearly 300 child abuse prevention workshops, and treated 250 mothers and children in the domestic violence program. They see 35 percent of children who are recovering from abuse, or neglect, 30

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by Montecito socialite Gretchen Lieff, among a number of others, will contribute funds annually and help with marketing and fundraising for the campaign.

“We envision that this will be a model program that can be emulated nationally working in partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America,” says Gretchen.

“The brutalization of little Davey has had a profound effect on many people who are not accustomed to such things. To be able to turn something so awful into something so good has been cathartic, to say the least.

“It has been very gratifying to see many of our local animal groups, lawmakers, and law enforcement agencies coming together on one mission, to make Santa Barbara the most animal responsible county in the nation.”

The project launch takes place on May 7 at Los Sueños, the beautiful George Washington Smith home of Gretchen and her international lawyer husband, Robert.

For more information on the new campaign, call Kristi Newton on (805) 451-2932 or email knewton@unitedbg. org.

Curtain Falls The famed Chicago studio where Montecito’s most famous resident, TV titan Oprah Winfrey, filmed her

Oprah on the first national broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986 (photo courtesy wiki pedia.com)

eponymous talk show for more than 20 years has been shut down.

Oprah posted photos on Twitter and Instagram as she bid farewell to Harpo Studios and the operation’s final employees, who had their last day at the weekend.

“Today was the final goodbye to the greatest team in television,” wrote Oprah. “This is the team that will be the last to leave the Harpo Chicago building.

“They’ve been sorting, discarding, packing, storing, archiving for a year now. Our goodbye luncheon today, tears and LOTS of great memories.

Thank you all.”

Oprah posted a similar photo of the team on Twitter, writing: “The final 37 of the Greatest team in television. Closing down Harpo in Chicago.

Deep gratitude to you all!”

The company was founded by Oprah in the Windy City in 1986, and the name is both her name spelled backward and that of her character’s husband in the film version of The Color Purple she had made a year earlier with director Steven Spielberg.

In 2012, at its peak, there were more than 12,000 employees working for the company, which also produces Dr. Phil, Rachel Ray, and The Dr. Oz Show.

The Chicago studio, where I taped Oprah’s show twice talking about the Royal Family, was first used by her to make her show in January 1990.

Rosie O’Donnell also taped her short-lived talker, The Rosie Show, at the studio in 2011 to early 2012 before it was cancelled after one season.

The base of operations will now be a three-story space, The Lot, in West Hollywood.

Harpo Studios began laying off its remaining Chicago employees in December after the company moved to California.

Only 183 employees were with the company at that point, and layoffs began on December 11, with all workers knowing they’d be gone by April.

Truly, the end of an era.

Barrymore Marry No More Actress Drew Barrymore, who tied the knot in a low key ceremony with

art dealer Will Kopelman at her $5.7 million Montecito five-bedroom, twoacre estate, a tiara’s toss from the home of Law & Order mega producer Dick Wolf in June 2012, are divorcing, I’m saddened to hear.

Her third marriage to the son of former Chanel CEO Arie Kopelman, which attracted the likes of Cameron Diaz, Molly Sims, Reese Witherspoon, TV talk-show host Jimmy Fallon. Steven Spielberg, and Scarlett Johansson, also produced two children, daughter Frankie, 3, and one-year-old Olive.

Drew first tied the knot aged just 19, but the marriage to bartender Jeremy Thomas in 1994 lasted less than two months.

Her second wedding in 2001, to her Charlie’s Angels co-star Tom Green fell apart nearly as quickly and the twosome split after five months.

Chambers Made Famed photographer John Russo, who splits his time between his homes in Beverly Hills and Montecito, has enlisted the help of art and car collector Michael Hammer’s daughter in law, Elizabeth Chambers, for his new project.

Elizabeth, actress wife of Man From U.N.C.L.E. actor Armie Hammer, is

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your psychic abilities and your belief to be speaking for the majority of “sentient beings” to support a claim that if the situation was reversed, Democrats would do something neither they nor any other political party has previously done. The fact that you consider it justified to defy all precedent in order to protect against a so-called “liberal-forever bastion of Constitutional erosion” reveals the basis for the nakedly principle-free partisanship of your response.

Philip Koplin Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Seriously? Try to remember March 16, 2006, the day then-Senator Obama claimed that a vote for raising the debt limit [as President George W. Bush was asking for] was “unpatriotic,” “irresponsible,” “a sign of leadership failure.” “It is a sign,” he said, “that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal policies.” He goes on: “This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and states of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education...” Oh, there’s more: “Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally.

Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren.

America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

Finally, Senator Obama said something we agree with: that there has been “a failure of leadership,” and that “Americans deserve better” than an “unpatriotic” and “irresponsible” [his words, remember] Senator-turned-president who has added more debt than all the previous presidents combined. But, then again, maybe I am just “psychic” when it comes to dissecting statements of political hacks from either party. Go, Donald! – J.B.)

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Huston’s Montecito Café is closing (Village Beat, MJ #22/13).

Like Elizabeth and Lisa Reifel in 2012, who closed their successful and magical Lewis & Clark, the charming face of Coast Village Road loses a bit of its elegant and charming appeal.

The Montecito Inn has an impossible Coconut Cake to fill.

Thanks to Kelly Mahan for her reporting, which is always a pleasure.

Ralph Flores Former manager, Lewis & Clark CVR

An Egregious Disservice

The anonymous Letter to the Editor “Mandatory Mental Health Screenings” (MJ #22/13) does a disservice to the community. The writer seems to be referring to the “Computerized Self Test for Cognitive Impairment Screening”, a groundbreaking screening test for Alzheimer’s disease, which is known to have a 98-percent accuracy. Since 2011, physicians who provide Medicare beneficiaries an “annual wellness visit” must include this test as a component of their service.

The “mandatory” nature of this test refers only to the requirement that it be included in the visit in order for a physician to be reimbursed by Medicare, otherwise the physician has not provided the full service of the annual visit to which the beneficiary is entitled. There is no government mandate that people with Medicare must have this test. Anyone can forgo scheduling the covered annual visit, or refuse the specific cognitive impairment screening component. There is no mandate for the physician to send the result of this test “to the feds” as stated in the letter. The physician only sends a “CPT procedure code” indicating he has done the test so that he can get paid for his services to the Medicare beneficiary.

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al medical information to anyone, certainly including “the feds.” The idea that the results of this important, elective medical screening test for seniors would be used to interfere with driver licensing and gun ownership is absurdly paranoid. The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) has provided a significant service to our senior population by recognizing the importance of screening for cognitive impairment, and can help to provide care for the estimated 60 percent of persons with Alzheimer’s disease who are currently undiagnosed. Medicare beneficiaries should take advantage of this service.

Another letter in the same issue on the benefits of vaccinations, written by a Montecito sixth grader, is much more intelligent and helpful to the community than the one by your anonymous writer. I thought you only publish anonymous letters when you believe they address issues of extreme importance to the community. In this case, you have enabled the letter writer’s egregious disservice by publishing the baseless letter. But we don’t know the credentials “A Friend” has to make the ridiculous statements you printed. My credentials are degrees in medicine and public health, and long experience of practice in those areas.

Your readers can judge whose statements are more valid on the subject of health screening.

Jay Fender Montecito (Editor’s note: You are absolutely correct, Dr. Fender; our readers can judge whose statements are more valid, and whether or not they should worry that potentially harmful or embarrassing medical information will be forwarded to third parties. Thank you for your contribution.

– J.B.)

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flaws in our organizable democracy.

I am a simple, loyal, tax-paying Democrat who wanted to get my taxes in order for 2015. Where else would I go besides the IRS office, located on Anacapa Street? For the second time in a row, I was scrutinized by an armed guard first and shoved mimeographs of websites of where to get information, most of which was not relevant.

“I want to pay my taxes.”

“No, we don’t have those (E-2) forms.”

“Will you get them?”

“No.” “How about California...”

“No.” The library: “No, sorry.”

The post office, also on Anacapa: “Well, some of them are displayed, but the feds don’t provide them all; go to a CPA firm.”

I went to H&R Block on Milpas, waited in line and was told they only do “e” versions, no forms.

Now, I am a modern guy (though I don’t trust computer-based refunds, banking, etc.), but how can it be so hard to pay your taxes? I feel that nationalistic zeal that it’s all going to a good place and closing another year with a smile.

Keep your frustration in check and go to “irs.gov”.

Ben Dover Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Does that mean you won’t be voting for Hillary “Lois Lerner” Clinton in November? – J.B.)

Fee Fi Fo Fum

To quote Ronald Reagan: ”There you go again.” The March 21 letter I received from the Montecito Sanitary District informs us of another fee increase in July: this time it’s 37 percent over three years.

My wife and I moved here in 2004 when the rate was $480/yr. The newest annual rate beginning this year will be $1,280. So, here’s some quick math (average annual increases) for the last 12 years from July 2004 to July 2016: • Individual Average Social Security Payment – up 2.2% per year • S&P 500 (including dividends) – up 6.9% per year (increase annualized using 11¼ years from Dec 2004 to March 2016).

• Montecito Sewer Service Charge – up 8.5% per year Hoping that everyone stayed fully invested in order to help pay these fees.

Assuming a 1.0% annual inflation rate (that’s about where the government says we are right now), the average individual Social Security payment in July 2018 would be about $9,000 per year and the Montecito Sewer Service Charge will be $1,480 per year. In 2004, 7 – 14 April 2016

the sewer fee ate up 7% of the average Social Security check; in 2018 it will devour in excess of 16%.

Over the period from 2004 to 2018, the average Social Security payment will have increased an estimated 33% and the Montecito Sewer Service Charge will have increased by 208%, over six times as much.

When many pensions are frozen with no Cost-of-Living-Adjustment and Social Security is increased only by the official rate of inflation, do we really need a 37% increase in the Sewer Service Charge?

Brian J. Smith Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We don’t know for sure, Mr. Smith, but we do know that most of Montecito’s sewer lines were put down some 60 years ago and that replacing them is going to be expensive; we trust Montecito Sanitary District’s general manager Diane Gabriel and her board of directors to do the right thing. – J.B.)

Good News Versus Bad News

Talk about a difference in terrible news versus good news.

In another local paper, the reality of what happened to Dr. [Weidong] Han and his family last week was detailed; in the Montecito Journal, there was an excellent and positive On the Water Front article by Nick Turner (which provided a fact-based overview I haven’t seen anywhere else).

For that matter, I think your last issue turned out to be one of the most interesting.

Jeff Larsen Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Well, shucks, Jeff, thanks for noticing. Editor Tim Buckley tells me that we will in fact have a detailed account of Dr. Han’s work and his legacy in an upcoming issue. – J.B.)

Bring Jim Alexander Back

There once were two great reasons for reading Montecito Journal: checking out pics of hot cougars, and laughing at Jim Alexander’s column, “n.o.t.e.s. from downtown.” Now there’s only one.

Is he still available?

Can he be reinstated?

Thank you for you consideration.

Chris Cochrane Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: I contacted Mr. Alexander, and though he responded positively to having coffee next week, he expressed no interest in regenerating his column. If it’s any consolation, I miss his monthly presence, too. – J.B.)

Bad Wind on the Rise

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Sight is the ability to see the physical world (i.e., the third dimension); vision is the gift of seeing beyond it (i.e., the fourth dimension).

We have seen a tectonic shift across the Middle East and North Africa since the “Arab Spring” uprisings over five years ago. What began with hope quickly dissolved into civil wars, upending the former political order of the past century.

To put things in a more illuminating perspective, it’s imperative to realize the saint-sinner mentality that was derived from the Medieval monastic mindset self-evident today as it was during ancient biblical times. The vast majority of humanity (perhaps as much as 90 percent) is guilt-ridden and fearful, enslaved by ego and a pernicious “Consent Trance Reality” (CTR) derived from a non-thinking collective simulation which scoffs at facts and/or reason. Pain and suffering are the fruits it produces: a direct consequence of this utter fragmentation and lack of autonomy (soul development).

I studied and knew about this for decades, but to witness this close-up and experience its dynamics has truly changed me. I have a much deeper compassion and empathy to see how hard people tend to be toward themselves. I wish I knew how to make a difference to lessen the pain I see around me. It’s everywhere!

The best solution is expressed in a pithy few words by Rumi: “Come out of the circle time (i.e. third dimension) into the circle of love (i.e. fourth dimension: unity consciousness).”

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t was just two years ago that violinist Timothy Chooi made his Santa Barbara debut performing the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Santa Barbara Symphony at the Granada. Now at the ripe old age of 22, Chooi takes a break from finishing up his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music to return to town to play Tchaikovsky’s much-beloved concerto once again under the baton of symphony music director Nir Kabaretti.

As part of its “Sounds of the Ocean” program celebrating Santa Barbara’s coastal environs, the ensemble will also play Michael Torke’s Bright Blue Music, “Four Sea Interludes” from Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes, and Claude Debussy’s popular La Mer. The rising star violinist, who arrived on the scene at age 16 when he captured the 2010 Grand Prix of the 71st Montreal Symphony Orchestra Standard Life Competition, discussed the Tchaikovsky, his instrument, and more over the phone from his home in Philadelphia.

Q. How do you explain having so much talent in one family?

A. Our parents really did support us in every way possible. When [my brother and I] were younger, they let us play whatever instruments we wanted, but we both excelled at violin. Now I’m happy about it, because it keeps our relationship close and gives something to talk about. People think we fight because we’re in the same field and play the same instrument. But we hardly ever do. People thought it would be worse, but we’re almost six years apart, so we’re not that close in age. It’s more like he gives me advice and ideas about what I should do and cautions me not to make the same mistakes he did.

Violinist Timothy Chooi, 22, returns to perform April 9 and 10 at the Granada (photo by Simon Darby)

You’ve won or placed in two more important competitions since you were last in town. Are you a fan of those events?

Actually, I don’t really like them. I think it can be very unhealthy in the long term. But they give you a goal to work toward. I did those last two because I was performing the same repertoire later that year with orchestra, and my teachers told me that their previous students had had positive experiences. My brother won the New Zealand one two years earlier, and I’d always wanted to visit, so it was a free pass to go there for three weeks.

I got to play the Sibelius, which is my favorite concerto. And my family came. So it was a whole package. I can’t say I enjoyed every aspect, as the tension in the actual competition is challenging, but overall it was a good experience. It can give you confidence if you do well, but I don’t think it’s healthy to do very many, and definite-

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ly not as a career. You’re stuck with the same repertoire. So, it’s crazy to do it for the purpose of winning.

You spent three years playing the Guarneri del Gesu violin; now you’re using the 1717 Windsor-Weinstein Stradivarius on loan for the next three.

How do those compare for you? Is it difficult to adjust to new instruments?

It’s just amazing to be able to play on a Strad, and this one is beautiful.

It’s very clear, very resonant, with a bright sound – the complete opposite of the previous one. This transition was hard, and it was startling at first.

But I’m starting to enjoy it. It definitely has a personality. Some really great Canadian musicians have played on it over the years, so I’m just very lucky to have it. I’m learning how to handle it and what sounds best on it every single day. The Strad has opened possibilities to playing things better that I thought were just problems related to me, but they weren’t there when I got the Strad. So, there’s a bit of give and take.

I would love to stay with one violin eventually. But at this age, I have the opportunity to switch around and find what works for me the best. And it’s impossible to purchase one of these and even a lifetime loan is quite a lottery, too. While it’s a challenge to be switching every three years, they are Strads and the Gesu – how bad can that be?

This is your second time through with the Santa Barbara Symphony. What stands out from playing the Bruch in 2014 when you were just 20?

Santa Barbara is a such a beautiful place, so it feels like a mini-vacation where I also get to play a concert. The audience was extremely warm and supportive. I really liked the symphony. They’re very warm people and friendly, and on a musical level they were extremely supportive.

I’ve played with others who aren’t so accommodating. Nir (Kabaretti) is not afraid to suggest things and gave

me lots of ideas, which I appreciated because it’s like having an extra ear outside of yourself. I’m excited to be coming back to play the Tchaikovsky.

What is your experience with the piece?

How does it speak to you? What are the most challenging aspects?

It’s the most-played concerto in the repertoire for a reason. It’s very exciting and audiences always love it. I love just the sheer beauty of the music.

It’s very technically demanding for violin because it goes really fast – there are a lot of notes at times – but it’s also rewarding... I learned it when I was 16 at a summer program in Ottawa with Pinchas Zukerman, who I had met when I was 9. He remembered me, which was amazing. He really took me as one of his own and I studied that concerto, page by page, line by line. I spent lots of time going over it slowly and methodically. It was a very moving experience to work with him so closely. He told me stories about playing it from his first time, to 50,000th. We’ve been close ever since.

And I played the concerto for a year, so I feel very comfortable with it, like I’ve worked out every detail.

You’re also coming back to play with Nikki as The Chooi Brothers (along with pianist Robert Koenig) for the Chamber on the Mountain series in Ojai on May 1.

You two play shows together?

Yes. We’d never played in public before we created the duo back in 2012. But when we overlapped for two years at Curtis, we realized it was stupid not to. It’s an interesting niche for presenters to have a family concert, and we do have the great violins we play. Our program starts with the Prokofiev Sonata for Two Violins in C major, and then we each do a solo sonata (Ravel No. 2 in G and Saint-Saens No. 1 in D minor).

Then we play Navarra by Sarasate, which is based on Hungarian folk songs, which we arranged ourselves to do without piano. And we end with Monti Czardas for two violins, which is very flashy and fun. We love playing the really deep emotional pieces, the inner music. But we’re also fun brothers and we love playing together. So, to do those last two simple and fun pieces and really bring a smile at the end from the audience is a real blast.

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For Israel Native, It’s a Small World

David Broza used to strongly object to people referring to what he plays as world music. But just last year, nearly four decades into his career that has spanned the globe with special focus on Israeli music, American folk, and Spanish guitar – and a recent much-heralded project uniting East and West Jerusalem – the Israeli-born musician has come around.

“I used to insist on being called an Israeli singer-songwriter. But maybe world music is a better way to describe my style, if you think about it as a group of influences from around different areas that you incorporate to create your own sound. I was first listening to rock and folk-rock and maybe even a little jazz. But over the years, I dug into instruments that are very Spanish-y music, and I emulate the sound and technique of flamenco.

And I also play contemporary Israeli music, which is very eclectic and not so categorized like it is in the U.S. So naturally, my own arc has a very varied style. World music it is.”

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“Frankly, for me the issue is that while we do live in conflict, which is a disturbing reality, I don’t have to bow to it and be complacent. I can be proactive. My way is to work with anyone, and to make a home for my music and my muse, striking deep and meaningful relationships with local musicians who as a result become part of my creative journey.

That’s exactly what happened with this album.”

The rewards of working with the Palestinian musicians are numerous,

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Out of all three presidents [George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush] Moeller served, George H.W. Bush apparently had “the biggest palate” and enjoyed tasting many different things and styles of cuisine. Being part-Texan and part-Northeasterner, President Bush favored seafood, rockfish, oysters, and steamed lobster in particular. “He didn’t like ‘wet’ fish, though,” Moeller says. He didn’t like his fish poached; he liked it grilled or sautéed, with a little bit of a crust on it. Barbara Bush enjoyed everything, too.

Speed Golf As for President Bush’s infamous disparagement of broccoli: “He did stay away from that green vegetable,” Moeller says with a laugh, “but if you’d seen all the things he did eat, he outweighed everyone else.”

The first President Bush was noticeably fit. “They used to say he played ‘speed golf,’” recounts Chef Moeller. “He was holding up the golf course with all the Secret Service agents and everything, so, he’d just get up and say, ‘Ready? Hit. Ready? Hit.’ He did not mess around.” According to Moeller, President Bush could do an 18-hole course, whether walking or riding, in just over two hours.

According to Moeller, the first ladies often ate lunch alone, as the president would be upstairs in the Oval Office. For the first ladies, it was usually a “soup-salad situation on the light side. Very rarely would we make a cream-type soup [at lunch].” As for the president in the Oval Office, the Navy mess was directly below and that’s who would supply lunch for whoever was in the office at the time.

“A lot of time they may get something sent up to them” from the mess,” Moeller says.

State dinners, which averaged four to six a year (the State Dining Room could fit up to 130 guests at 10 tables; the family dining room could handle up to 22 at one large round table, but often they’d eat alone), usually featured a lot of high-caloric foods, so when the first families ate at home, meals were as healthy as possible. Presidents and first ladies rarely had staff join them for lunch, and vice presidents never came over to eat with the presidents. “They’d never really spend any time together in a private setting,” John recalls.

Saying Goodbye Moeller knew all three presidents on a personal basis. They called him “John,” and he called them “Mister President” or “Mrs. Bush” or “Mrs. Clinton.”

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“Party for Donna Jean”, which takes place Saturday, April 16, at Fleischmann Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, is a tribute to Donna Jean Liss, Camerata’s longtime operations manager, who all agree means so much more to the organization than her title suggests.

“If anyone deserves to be honored, it’s DJ,” reads the email invitation.

“Without her, our music would grind to a halt.”

Hard to say if that’s entirely true, but Liss has surely made an impres-

Adrian Spence and Donna Jean Liss (photo by David Bazemore)

sion on both her colleagues and the patrons of the classical music treasure that performs monthly at Hahn Hall on the Montecito campus of the Music Academy of the West, as well as in Ventura, Orange County, and Los Angeles.

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“If you are just looking in from the outside, it probably seems political.

But we’re just making human contact through music. That’s all. That’s the virtue of music.”

Among the many originals and a few choice covers, the album features “The Lion’s Den”, which Broza adapted from a poem that Judea Pearl wrote in memory of his son Daniel, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002.

As if in defiance of the terrorists’ aims, Broza recorded it with Polyphony, the Arab-Jewish classical youth orchestra.

“Even mentioning Daniel’s name right now still gives me the shivers,” Broza said. “To be able to pay homage to both the journalist and his father was very special, and it was beautiful and sweet to have them (Polyphony) play it.”

Broza also decided to take on a controversial Middle East policy through covering songs by Elvis Costello and Roger Waters, who have shown solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign to force a change in Israeli policies.

“I wanted to do ‘Everyday I Write the Book’ since I first heard it 30 years ago, and this seemed like the right time,” Broza said. “Waters’s song ‘Mother’ always stuck with me, and had a special impact on me while the wall was being erected. I think it has the magic when I listen to how it turned out with the arrangement. I think music can be much more effective than the boycott.”

So does art have a political context to be valuable?

“It can be,” Broza said. “Music can help. But I think of myself as an entertainer. You can use it in areas of great pain and conflict. That’s the gift of

music, but it’s not the role.”

Broza will be skirting that line next weekend when he comes to Santa Barbara for two separate events, beginning with a discussion at the 10th annual Community-Wide TeachIn on Israel, a one-day seminar on Sunday at Santa Barbara Hillel. “I generally just talk about my life experiences as a musician coming from Israel, and the issues I deal with in music and on a personal level – how to overcome the conflict in my work and keep my head above water, and keep moving forward rather than being deterred and blindsided by all the issues of Israel.”

The following evening, April 11, Broza performs in concert at the Lobero Theatre accompanied by Ali Paris, a Palestinian vocalist who plays the qanun, a 76-string zither that dates back to the 14th century.

“He’s a master of the instrument and a great singer,” Broza said. “Above all that, he’s just a wonderful young guy.

We’ll share some songs together when he’s a guest. Otherwise, I try to bring out the story of my life, my musical journey through both the stories and songs.”

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Danica Dances into Arlington

Like a lot of youngsters, Danica Paulos first decided to be a professional dancer when she saw The Nutcracker at age 5. But unlike most of them, she actually made the dream come true. After enrolling in ballet lessons right away, Paulos progressed through professional training in her native Orange County and then Los Angeles, before moving east at 17 to study at the Alvin Ailey School in Manhattan.

Now, Paulos – who Dance Magazine praised for “a rare blend of attack and willowy elegance” – is back in the area for a Southern California tour with the main Alvin Ailey American Dance

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Theater company, including two dates at the Arlington Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday (see Events Calendar for details on page 39). We caught up with Paulos at her childhood home in Huntington Beach earlier this week.

Q. Why were you drawn to Ailey in the first place?

A. I went to see them when I was still very young, and I was very moved.

But I was also interested because they are a repertory company, dancing works by multiple choreographers. So we aren’t limited to one style of dance.

There’s hip-hop, contemporary, classical ballet, modern, West African – so many styles, and that’s what attracted me. Now that I’m there I feel like Ailey dancers have something very special to share in performance -- you can feel the emotion and passion. A lot of other companies are focused on the work and technique, but with Ailey there’s a real emotional connection, which I felt when I first saw them. It was very exciting to be able to develop in their school.

You’re one of the rare dancers to have gone from the Ailey School to the Ailey II company and now the main group. What was your secret, and how was it to make those transitions?

I think it has to do with hard work and a lot of motivation, plus all the support I’ve received along the way.

The transition to the main company was very smooth, because I was already in the building for the school for three years. So, I knew all the dancers and directors and teachers. It felt like I was still at my home. It was very comfortable. The higher that you get, it just gets better. It’s a lot more professional, so it’s actually easier.

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What can you tell us about the pieces that are new on this tour?

“Open Door” is by Ron Brown, who went to Cuba and got inspired by the music and dancing. He choreographed West African movement previously, so there’s lots of that in the piece.

“Awakening” is Robert Battle’s first new work in four, and it’s incredible.

His choreography makes you go into a different place mentally that’s hard to explain but it’s very exciting. You just dive into it and you’re someone else. Everyone transitions to a different place once the music starts. You’re just in it completely 100 percent. You leave everything else from your personal life offstage and invest in the work.

“Exodus” is a hip-hop house piece, very relevant socially to the Black Lives Matter movement and what’s been going on with police brutality and shootings. Choreographer Rennie Harris’s mother passed away recently, and he’s connected life on Earth with the next stage – everyone become an angel, like in a metaphorical version of the biblical story of Exodus. It’s very powerful and emotional. The audience loves it, and it’s very fun to perform because I love dancing to that kind of music.

How does Ailey’s legacy of “uniting and celebrating the human spirit” show up in your own dancing?

I’ll never be able to fully feel what it was like to experience all the struggles that they went through. But I have had my own personal issues. So I tap into my own experiences because the feeling is universal. I bring it out from there.

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non-members and includes a glass of wine and appetizers. Any attendee who joins Democratic Women will get into the event for free.

Info: 680-6479

Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

MONDAY, APRIL 11

Lecture at SBMM A lecture at Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, presented by James Boles, discusses “Methane Seepage Along Faults In The Santa Barbara Coastal Area”.

When: 7 pm, members-only reception from 6:15 to 6:45 pm Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way Cost: free for members, $10 for non-members Registration: www.sbmm.org or call (805) 456-8747

Special MUS School Board Meeting When: 4:30 to 7:30 pm Where: Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 Cold Spring School Board Meeting When: 6 pm Where: 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Info: 969-2678 TUESDAY, APRIL 12 Living with Low Vision Mary Lee Emard, a teacher for the Braille Institute, continues a threeweek series at Montecito Library.

The sessions will cover practical topics chosen by the group from a list. Caregivers welcome!

When: 11 am to noon Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito.

When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 How to Raise Resilient Children Join for an evening with Maureen Healy, award-winning author and expert on children’s emotional health When: 6 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 THURSDAY, APRIL 14 Maritime Museum Walk & Talk Join for a Montecito Association History Committee-sponsored guided tour of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum led

by Greg Gorga, executive director.

Tour museum exhibits including “Art of the Sailor”, the Point Conception Lighthouse lens, and more. This event is limited to and free for Montecito Association members.

When: 11 am Where: 113 Harbor Way Info & Reservation: 969-2026 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

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Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road FRIDAY, APRIL 15 French Conversation Group The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System hosts a French conversation group for those who would like to practice their French language conversation skills and meet others in the community who speak French. Both native speakers and those who learned French as a second or foreign language will participate, and new members are always welcome.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, APRIL 16 Birds, Bees, and Trees Three naturalists, Paul Cronshaw, Matt Kay, and Joan Lentz will frame a day full of the nature at La Casa de Maria.

When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $45 Info: www.lacasademaria.org Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music.

A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public.

When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free French Film The French Network of Santa Barbara

SATURDAY, APRIL 16 Book Signing at Tecolote Montecito author Kia McInerny will sign her international thriller Bond Hunter at Tecolote.

When: 3 to 4:30 pm Where: 1470 E. Valley Road, Montecito Info: 969-4977

(Le Réseau Français) is pleased to offer a “classic” and a “contemporary” French picture at the Fe Bland Theater, SB City College campus. The movie has English sub-titles and is offered free to the public.

Today’s event spotlights the classic a 2014 winner of the “Cesar Award” for best film, best actor, and best adaptation writing, “Les Garçons et Guillaume à table” (English title: “Me, myself and Mum”) is an autobiographical comedy starring the director-writer Guillaume Gallienne.

His rather unusual upper-middle class mother of three sons considered two as “sons” and one as a “daughter.” This takes the audience through a series of experiences leading to Guillaume’s selfdiscovery and allows for a break from the pernicious maternal influences. An 85-minute film that will inspire all.

When: 7:30 pm Where: City College campus, 721 Cliff Drive SUNDAY, APRIL 17 The Hills are Alive: Nature and Spiritual Experience Many of the world’s great spiritual traditions take place in nature. Start the day with an optional hike and return for a slower-paced exploration walk of the grounds with meditation, chanting, teachings, and discussion. Led by rabbi Mike Comins is the founder of the Torah trek and the author of Wild faith.

Co-sponsored by the Montecito Shul and Los Padres Forest watch.

When: 9 am to 2:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $30, includes lunch Info: www.lacasademaria.org ONGOING Montecito Fire Protection District’s Fire Prevention Chipping Schedule Week of April 11: Chelham, Dawlish, Stoddard, Cloydon Circle, and Paso Robles.

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are placed at pre-identified locations within the participating neighborhoods during the week of the project.

Participants are asked to stack larger shrub and tree limb materials at the edge of the nearest passable access road for free chipping.

For more information, call 565-8018.

MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS Live Entertainment Where: Cava, 1212 Coast Village Road When: 7 to 10 pm Info: 969-8500 MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memory-enhancement exercises in a friendly environment.

When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 TUESDAYS Adventuresome Aging Program Community outings, socialization, and lunch for dependent adults.

When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $75, includes lunch, plus one-time fee of $35 Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

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BENEFITS (Continued from page 25)

by Grace Rachow Ms. Rachow says that no matter how stressed out you are, please take the time to be kind.

Confessions of a Stress Case

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’ve studied meditation. I’ve practiced yoga. And I find that that binge watching Downton Abbey does a great job of clearing my mind of all thought.

As a result, I move through the world cool, calm, and collected. I like to picture myself as the epitome of mindfulness.

At least that was how I saw myself until recently.

I might’ve never known my stressedout side if it hadn’t been for the trumpeting pain that erupted one morning at 3 am, when I dislodged a perfectly good molar by clenching my teeth.

A few hours later, my dentist suggested that maybe I’d been a little stressed out lately. He said, “Your relaxed, wakeful self is not connect-

having.

“Stress?” I asked.

Even though I’m old enough to remember the quaint charm of a world where an electric typewriter was an incredible innovation, I don’t want to go back to those days.

I also remember the wringer washing machine my mother used. No thank you. If I’m going to be stressed out, I’d rather contend with modern devices and up-to-date laundry equipment. I love the contemporary world with all its gadgets and gizmos.

Or maybe I am addicted. Either way, it’s a commitment to go forward.

I have faith there’s a way to turn all these swirling electrons toward the purpose of making things easier and better.

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.” – A popular meme

ing very well with your freaked-out nighttime self.

I have to admit that life is getting more and more complex. A lot of the messiness has to do with technology and the endless flow of messages brought to us by the magical, mobile devices we can’t live without.

We have email and texting and social media at our fingertips. Everyday, we field a hundred messages of one kind or another. For some, it’s thousands.

Just responding to the incoming can take more time than there is in a day.

And the faster we get at responding, the quicker the replies keep coming back. Messages are whirling out of control.

It would be so nice to chill out once in a while and get away from the endless stream of contact. But if we take too much time off from the bombardment, our friends will send even more messages asking if we are all right.

I’m determined to keep up with the communication rat race, but I also want to be a calm, cool cucumber along the way.

To keep my mind off of my own stress, I decided to reach out to a one of my friends and see if she could help me with a tech question I had. She’s a couple of decades younger than I am, and so she always has the answers.

Unfortunately, that day she didn’t have time to help me because she was on her way to see her doctor about the chronic stomach problems she’d been 7 – 14 April 2016

Since my friend was off to her doctor, I decided to reach out to another friend. He told me he’d taken the day off of work to see his mom, who’s in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. And now, it was 2 pm and he was halfway through a bottle of wine.

“Stress?” I asked.

I listened to how it felt seeing his mom’s sharp mind slip away. I promised this wasn’t going to happen to him. At the same time, I prayed it did not happen to me.

I decided to call an older friend of mine I hadn’t heard from in a while.

She’s in her 80s and wise about all things. It’d be good to discuss this with her, because she is more experienced, and her mind is in great shape.

She’s always an inspiration.

I soon learned she was stressed-out, too, because her daughter had been having some hard times for the past few months. She hadn’t wanted to bother me with her troubles. That’s why I hadn’t heard from her.

I decided to go for a walk and think.

It was a gorgeous day, and, until that moment, I hadn’t noticed.

It did seem that everyone around me was stressed-out with all kinds of issues. And even people who appear to have everything under control can be secret stress cases. Like me.

So, there you have it. The answer is so simple. You never really know what other people are dealing with.

Be kind...always.

•MJ

to Camerata Pacifica,” explained production manager Dani Couture, who is helping to put the final touches on the event’s agenda. “(Founding artistic director and flutist) Adrian Spence really appreciates her and wants everybody to know it. It’s a way to say ‘Thank you’.”

For the benefit itself, Camerata is pulling out all the stops to make it a Liss-centric event. The Michael Hutchings-catered menu features favorites from Donna Jeans’s birthplace in Kentucky, including Southern Style Crab Cakes, Cheddar Cheese Straws, Wild Turkey Glazed Pork Meatballs, along with Shrimp and Red Cocktail Sauce among the butler-passed canapés. A Kentucky Bluegrass Salad Vinaigrette starts sit-down dinner, with a main course of Bourbon Sauced Top Sirloin (Baked Salmon Fillet “For Company” or Vegetarian: Mushroom Stuffed Baked Onion are available for the non-red meat eaters). Side dishes include Cheddar Cheese Grits, Minted Carrots, Kentucky Pole Beans and Southern Style Biscuits, while dessert brings Bourbon Pecan and Chocolate Pie. Pictures of Liss will be posted on all the walls, and Camerata is even flying in her parents and family from back home in Kentucky for the celebration.

“It’s a long way away, so she doesn’t get to see them very often,” Couture noted, adding, “We’re going to infuse DJ into every detail we can think of.”

Even the location is a nod to Liss’s likes. Going to museums in general, and especially the Natural History one, are among favorite non-musical activities for the self-confessed “nerdy museum person.”

Camerata’s patrons have been a big part of the planning and underwriting for the event, and all of the ensemble’s musicians who will be in town for the following weekend’s set of concerts – including composer David Bruce, whose Camerata-commissioned new work for oboe, harp, cello, and percussion, “The Consolation of Rain” will be premiered – are expected to attend.

They’ll stop by patron tables, mingle with the guests, talk about music, life, and more. But they won’t be playing.

“The party is meant to be very mellow, because Donna Jean is a very laid-back person,” Couture said. “We don’t want her to have to do any work.”

Mellow stops when dinner ends, however, as that’s when Santa Barbara party-band favorite Area 51 takes to the stage, inciting everyone – including the dance-loving Donna Jean – to “cut a rug” on the hall’s expansive floor.

Liss herself, of course, hasn’t been allowed to be involved in the planning.

Which has left her a little uneasy. “It’s a bit scary actually, because I’ve always been a part of everything we do. And it’s a bit embarrassing, too. I’m not used to having people celebrate me.

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging – Will Rogers

It’s not even my birthday. And I’m not leaving Camerata – at least I don’t think I am. So it’s a little strange. But I’m sure it will be a lot of fun.”

On a more serious note, Liss expressed her appreciation of the gesture and the patron response for the event. “It’s really been an honor to have people be so gracious,” she said. “Many who can’t come have sent notes. It’s an honor to be recognized by the patrons because that’s who I serve.

I’m here because I like people, and I want them to have the best concert experience. It’s cool that people dig it.”

Tickets range from $300 for individual “Friends” admission, to $15,000 for a “BFF” table for 10, which includes lots of perks. Funds raised from the “Party for Donna Jean” are earmarked for the operating costs of the chamber music ensemble, which puts on nine sets of concerts in four different locations each season.

Reservations for the event need to be made by this Friday, April 8. Contact Couture at production@cameratapaci fica.org or call (805) 884 8410. As the invite cautions, you don’t want to miss it, especially frequent Camerata concert-goers: “If you don’t show up, can you imagine what your seats will be like next season?!”

Get Wet

Swim With Mike, a charity named for three-time All-American Mike Nyeholt, who was left paralyzed from the neck down after an accident in 1981, raises funds for athletic scholarships for the physically challenged. In the ensuing years, the organization has raised more than $16 million through events at 91 universities, benefiting nearly 200 athletes. UCSB, which has two scholarship recipients, hosts its second annual Swim With Mike event that takes place 11 am to 2 pm, Sunday, April 10, at the UCSB Recreation Center. There are myriad ways to contribute, from participating in the pool in cannonball contests and relay teams to out-of-the-water activities including face painting and auction. Get more information, entry forms, and details online at www.swimwithmike.org/ campaigns/uc-santa-barbara.

Stick a Fork in It

Go on a mini-fast, then head over to the 3rd annual Fork & Cork Classic, the Foodbank of Santa Barbara’s annual wine-and-dine event, which takes place this Sunday, April 10, in its new location at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club in Carpinteria.

Last week’s column had the wrong date and neglected to mention the location. Get tickets, see the wine and catering list, and learn more about Foodbank online at www.forkandcorkclassic.org.

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 12) On Monday of this week, MAW reps received preliminary and final approvals from MBAR for final design details on the renovation of the main house, now named the Marilyn Horne Main House, after the legendary opera singer and Music Academy voice program director Marilyn Horne. The Marilyn Horne Main House will officially be unveiled at an elegant Opening Night Gala on Saturday, June 4, celebrating the opening of the 2016 Summer School and Festival.

Also happening: the Academy’s Women’s Auxiliary is currently accepting donations for the 40th May Madness event, scheduled for Saturday, May 7, from 9 am to 3 pm.

The Auxiliary’s fundraising efforts generate net proceeds exceeding $200,000 annually to help support the full-scholarship program at the academy. The scholarships enable 140 fellows from around the world to study in Montecito each summer. The May Madness chair is Santa Barbara resident Claire Johnson, a member of the Women’s Auxiliary since 2014.

Thousands of items for sale at May Madness will include furniture, area rugs, small appliances, kitchenware, garden accessories, fine linens, antiques, silver, crystal, china, art, collectibles, board games, CDs and DVDs, jewelry, men’s and women’s clothing, luggage, sports equipment,

and cars and other vehicles.

Donations should be brought to the Music Academy, Wednesdays through Fridays, between noon and 3 pm. Contributed items should be clean and in good condition. Large electronics, large appliances, architectural salvage materials (windows, doors, et cetera), sofa beds, metal bed frames, box spring and mattress sets, Christmas decorations, books, records, VHS and cassette tapes, nonflat-screen TVs, and rugs larger than 9-by-12 feet will not be accepted.

Donations can be dropped off in the lower parking area at the Music Academy (follow the signage upon entering campus). To arrange the pickup of a large donation item, please call (805) 695-7950. For vehicle donation information, call 855-500-RIDE (7433) or visit musicacademy.org/car-dona tions.

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alike, much like Montecito Café. He tells us the ideal tenant will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as a full bar. Hayes Commercial Real Estate agent Liam Murphy also tells us his solicitation for Montecito residents’ recommendations on a future tenant has elicited a varied response, and he looks forward to reading more ideas. He can be reached at liam@ hayescommercial.com.

Ralph Flores, the former manager of Lewis & Clark on Coast Village Road that closed in 2012, had this to say: “It’s such a pity that a community favorite like Margaret and Mark Huston’s Montecito Café is closing.

Like Elizabeth and Lisa Reifel in 2012, who [moved from] their successful and magical Lewis & Clark, the charming face of Coast Village Road loses a bit of its elegant and charming appeal. The Montecito Inn has an impossible Coconut Cake to fill.”

The Café, which celebrates 30 years on Coast Village Road this year, remains open until November. The Huston family, which also owns Jane on State Street, is working on opening a second location, Jane at the Marketplace, in the next few weeks.

Attempted Bank Robbery in Montecito

On Thursday, March 31, at 3:31 pm, a male suspect attempted to rob the Union Bank on Coast Village Road, near Vons. The suspect allegedly presented the bank teller with a note demanding cash but fled the scene before receiving any money. The Santa Barbara Police Department has released surveillance photos, and anyone who may recognize the suspect is urged to call SBPD detective Douglas Klug at (805) 897-2346 or dklug@ sbpd.com, or call anonymously at (805) 895-2386.

•MJ

After our cover story last week (MJ #22/13) detailing the impending November closure of Montecito Café, we received several comments about the closure.

Danny Copus, whose family owns Montecito Inn, tells us the family is still searching for a replacement tenant but hope to find a restaurant tenant that will appeal to both locals and tourists

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“Between the chefs, the maids, and the butlers,” he says, “we were the closest ones to them on the second floor.”

The second floor of the White House is where the president and his family live. That floor is “inside the ring of the Secret Service,” Moeller explains, “so to have that little and unique opportunity to spend time with [the president and his family] was just fantastic. There was no Secret Service agent standing in the kitchen watching what I was doing.”

Saying goodbye to one president and bringing in a new one was a somber and difficult job. “What it takes to turn the house over and get it ready for the new president is pretty incredible,” Moeller says. President George H.W. Bush’s loss to Bill Clinton in the 1992 election came as something of a surprise, and even though Moeller had only been at the White House for a short time, the Bushes had brought them into their circle “probably closer than other presidents had.”

Meet Former White House Chef John Moeller He’ll be signing his book, Dining at the White House – From the President’s Table to Yours, on Wednesday, April 20, at Tecolote Book Shop in Montecito’s upper village (1470 East Valley Road (805) 969-4977) from 4 pm to well after 5 pm. For those attending the dinner the following evening, he’ll also be signing there, and Tecolote manager Mary Sheldon will have books available there, too.

Petition Rocks the House The day after Bill Clinton won the 1992 election and became president-elect, Moeller recalls that California’s trailblazing chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse sent a petition to Clinton, congratulating him on his win, and suggesting it was time “to replace the European and French-born chefs that have been [at the White House] for decades.” She said it was about time there were American chefs working there. She wrote that the U.S. had “come a long way with cuisines, this, that, and the other, and here’s the petition that’s signed by 500 chefs.”

For those in the White House kitchen, Moeller says, it was “Oh, crap. What’s going to happen here?”

Although there was no public response by the Clintons to Ms Waters’s petition, Moeller and the other chefs realized they served “at the pleasure” of the president, and for the next two months waited anxiously to see what would happen. The chef that hired Moeller, Pierre Chambrin, was French-born but, since one had to be an American citizen to work full time at the White House, he was a naturalized citizen. The pastry chef too was French-born but was an American citizen, too. They didn’t know what was going to happen, but Chef Moeller says the issue had come up even before Ms Waters’s petition. Upon his being hired, Chef Chambrin said, ‘John, there are five chefs in the White House kitchen. Two in the pastry and three in the cooking side. I could bring in another Frenchman who is an American citizen, but I think there are too many French people here. What I’m looking for is an American who knows something about French cooking.’

John was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but had worked in France in 1984, 1985, and 1986, so that set him apart from the other candidates at the time. “I don’t know if he was clairvoyant or not, but six months later this became an issue,” John says.

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In the beginning, the Clintons said they were “very busy people, that they just wanted basic food. ‘Don’t get too cute with it,’ they said. In the beginning, basically they said ‘Food is fuel,’ you know? ‘We’re not into southern fried chicken and dumplings and those kinds of things. On the other hand, we don’t want a bunch of foo-foo food, either.’ They just wanted well-prepared food that was not laden in fat. But, as they grew into the position, things changed.”

George W. Bush, on the other hand, liked his steaks. “Filet mignon was always a big hit with him. They [George W. and First Lady Laura Bush] liked their Tex Mex-style food. One thing they didn’t like,” John stresses, “were flour tortillas. They said they’re from Texas and they like their tortillas made with corn. And they liked them freshly made. I told them I’d never done that before, but that I would look into it. Well, the Bushes had brought their housekeeper, Maria, with them from Texas to the White House. They paid for her out of their own pocket, but she came with them. Laura Bush said not to worry, that Maria

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SEEN (Continued from page 16) Volunteer committee chair for the YMCA breakfast Joshua Keith, president/CEO of Channel City YMCA Sal Cisneros, and founder of the breakfast in 1978, Hugh Davis

CALM interviewers Tom Weitzel and Hank Phillippi Ryan Montecitan Jeff Farrell, who qualified for the 1960 Olympics six days after an appendectomy

percent are children under 6 years old in treatment to support trauma recovery, 20 percent are parents learning positive discipline to prevent abuse, and 15 percent are adults who have their own history of trauma.

Each year, the Claire Miles award is presented to one of the 50 auxiliary members who has given outstanding service. This year, Doris Medved received the much-deserved trophy.

Of course, the highlight of the day is always entertaining interviews.

And also, I should mention the guest authors, most of whom are from Montecito or Santa Barbara: Melissa Broughton, Jane Pastore Coleman, Lydia Edwards, Margarita Fairbanks, Jeff Farrell, Lisa VanBlaricum, and Ernie Witham (Montecito Journal’s humor man).

Another way to support CALM is by attending their Antiques, Decorative Arts & Vintage show and sale May 13-15 at Earl Warren Showgrounds.

April Thede has been show manager

his search for God changed his life forever.

The Channel Islands YMCA was established in 1887 as a charitable organization, which now has seven branches serving Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. They reach 46,000 individuals and provide more than $1.3 million in financial assistance to families in need of childcare, memberships, camps, youth sports, and afterschool teen programs. For more info, visit clylmca.org or call (805) 569-1103.

for many years. CALM’s motto is, if you suspect abuse in any way, “I will NOT be silent.” You can phone (805) 965-2376.

Keeping Hope Alive

About 400 folks got up early to attend the 39th annual YMCA Good Friday Breakfast at The Fess Parker.

Everyone could get their coffee fix in the lobby before being served in the dining room. President and CEO of Channel Islands YMCA Sal Cisneros greeted the group, asking, “What does Good Friday mean? It is to honor the significance of the death of Jesus Christ.” Thanks went to event chair Joshua Keith for organizing this annual event that celebrates Good Friday.

Also to premier sponsor Marathon Investment Programs.

Past board chair Ric Ruffinelli was master of ceremonies and introduced the Bondarenko Family Singers.

Besides their music, they were an inspiration themselves having left Russia where their father had been persecuted because of his religion

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When one of his teachers told him, “You’re an accident waiting to happen,” Dr. Schloss joked, “That’s what my current boss (president Gayle Beebe of Westmont) thinks, too.” But

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The center has been in Santa Barbara for more than 60 years, founded by three moms who had special-needs children. Alpha provides services for adults and children with disabilities.

People at Alpha are involved in the arts (Slingshot gallery and studio), volunteer service (100-plus hours a month), employed in the community and much more.

Dennis Miller (radio show host and contributor to FOX News) is not only the emcee every year since 2006 but also a friend and hands-on volunteer.

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Some of the program participants were Shelby Gold, Rachel MacKenzie, and Ryan Fitch followed by board president Joshua Weitzman.

He has two Down syndrome children, so he can relate to the needs. There were also videos to show all the good works Alpha does. As Dennis said, “There’s so much darkness — Alpha always makes me smile.”

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Photographer John Russo putting a face to philanthropy (photo courtesy of John Russo)

writing the editorial for John’s new book, 100 Making A Difference, which will feature black-and-white photos of philanthropic celebrities and their respective charities.

Among those appearing in front of the lens are Gwyneth Paltrow, Maria Shriver, Marlo Thomas, Sally Field, Sugar Ray Leonard, and an old friend, Barbara Davis, widow of the late oil tycoon Marvin Davis.

This is John’s second book after he wrote Aboutface in 2008, which raised money for children suffering from

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Debbie Bernal, SBPC controller; Cindy Sapienza, board trustee; Gloria and ambassador Glen Holden, honoree Ariana Nobel, and her husband, Danny (photo by Priscilla)

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“I’ve now taken 84 shots for the book and should finish by the end of this month,” says John, who has shot covers for the likes of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Esquire, Elle, and Rolling Stone, as well as ad campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Lacoste, and Hugo Boss.

The entrepreneurial lensman, a keen racketeer, also has his own eponymous beauty product line of lipsticks, nail polish and fragrance that sells at Fred Segal, the Ritz Carlton, and the Montage in Beverly Hills.

Joanie Bear, tennis clubhouse manager; Bart Hillock, tennis director; Monique Rodriguez, event coordinator; Charles Ward, president of Idea Works; Allison Hansen, event and sales director; Elliott Markowitz, tennis pro; and hostess Robin Fell (photo by Priscilla)

John, who has also shot a host of other celebrities during his illustrious career – including Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Angelina Jolie, Julianne Moore, and Cindy Crawford – is now working on a third tome, a retrospective of his work over the past two decades.

Nobel Byes After 10 years as the manager of the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club, Ariana Nobel bade a fond farewell last week with a socially gridlocked bash at the beautiful Summerland estate of ex-club president Robert Fell and his

former newswoman wife, Robin.

Quite the crowd turned out for the party including former ambassador Glen Holden and his wife, Gloria, Chuck and Margarita Lande, Texas gadabout Charles Ward, Monique Rodriguez, Alison Hansen, Melanja Jones, and Jeep and Sharon Holden, snaffling the comestibles and quaffing the champagne and wine.

Ariana, who now lives relatively nearby in Ventura, is joining her husband, Daniel Nobel’s expanding pediatric dental practice, which has branches in Santa Barbara, Oxnard, and Ventura.

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who staged Camelot and My Fair Lady with a full symphony orchestra at the theater in recent years.

Scenic designer Kevin Depinet deserved kudos for his minimalist, but versatile set, while Chris Sams was a standout as ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker, as well as Matthew Curiano as Jewish entrepreneur Tateh, who eventually achieves the American dream.

It is, without doubt, a picture of social struggles in times past that unfortunately mirror current cultural clashes.

These shows are of the highest standard, without the extortionately high Broadway ticket prices.

In Full Throat VIP fans of Opera Santa Barbara got a sneak-peek at the company’s final show of its 22nd season, with Puccini’s one-act works Suor Angelica, Miraculous Visions, and Gianni Schicchi, The Scheming Imposter, which is being staged at the Granada on April 22 and 24.

Mosher Studio artists Rachel Blaustein, Molly Clementz, Lee Steiner, and Tim Petty sang excerpts from Rigoletto, while Jason Slayden, Scott Levin, Stefano de Peppo, Alissa Anderson, and Monica Yunus, all of whom appear in Gianni Schicchi,

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Brazil’s Grupo Corpo in fine form at the Granada (photo

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Rodney Baker, OSB secretary; Myfanwy Devoe, associate director; Sandra Urquhart, OSB chair; Joan Rutkowski and Herb Kendall, OSB board members (photo by Priscilla)

“This is going to be a terrible wrench for me after a decade at the club, but I will be visiting often as I live just down the road.”

Brazil Thrill Celebrating 40 years of dance innovation, Brazil’s Grupo Corpo, returning to the Granada stage after four years, staging its signature hybrid dance style, which merges ballet and contemporary Afro-Brazilan traditions, The 90-minute sold-out show, part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures series, featured two programs, Suite Branca, choreographed by Cassi Abranches, and Danca Sinfonica, choreographed by Rodrigo Pederneiras, created to celebrate the talented troupe’s four decades.

Dressed in white from start to finish, moving across white linoleum against a backdrop that gradually reveals glacier-like peaks and valleys, the White Suite featured undulating arms and hips, pendular movements, and considerable floor work.

The closing work, with set design by Paulo Pederneiras, revisited the best work from the group’s entire repertoire, with photographs taken over the past 40 years as a backdrop.

A most enjoyable evening.

Ragtime Revival Earlier in the week, it was a performance of very different kind when 7 – 14 April 2016

A scene from the Theater League’s production of Ragtime at the Granada

the Theater League staged the Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime at the Granada.

Based on the 1975 best-selling novel

by E.L. Doctorow about an ambitious Jewish immigrant, an upper-class suburbanite and a determined Harlem musician at the turn of the 20th century, the thoroughly entertaining production was directed and choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Always drink upstream from the herd – Will Rogers

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CALM Balm CALM – Child Abuse Listening Mediation – hosted its 30th annual celebrity authors’ lunch at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree, attracting 500 guests and raising around $100,000 for the nonprofit that helps 2,000 families and children annually.

Three best-selling authors, including prolific novelist, Meg Waite Clinton, writer of The Race for Paris, New York Times top thriller writer Gregg Hurwitz, and world traveler and tastemaker Frances Schultz, were interviewed by multi Emmy Awardwinning NBC investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan and Tom Weitzel of Entertainment Tonight, at the bustling bibliophile bash emceed, for the sixth year, by the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone.

Other authors at the event, co-chaired

by Becky Cohn and Carolyn Gillio for the fifth consecutive year, included Melissa Broughton, Jane Pastore Coleman, Lydia Edwards, Margarita Fairbanks, Jeff Farrell, Lisa Guadagno, Dana Matthaei Kent, Peggy O’Toole, Chris Messner, Tracy Shawn, the Journal’s Ernie Witham, and M.L. VanBlaricum.

The annual Claire Miles Award went to auxiliary member Doris Medved.

Among the many supporters were Dolly Granatelli, Stan and Betty Hatch, Geonine Moriarty, Eve Bernstein, Jean Schuyler, Janet Garufis, Kate Firestone, Hiroko Benko, Diana MacFarlane, and Gail Steinbeck.

At the Academy’s Reception for council members included Ed Heartfeld, Judy Smith with Christopher Teasley, and Mary Freeman (photo by Priscilla)

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Janet Garufis, president/CEO Montecito Bank & Trust season corporate sponsor; with Hyon Chough and Maurice Singer academy’s board member enjoying the annual reception and summer festival preview (photo by Priscilla)

Music Makers A record number of 1,883 talented musicians applied for the Music Academy of the West’s summer festival, sponsored by Montecito Bank & Trust but only 140 from 11 countries and 24 states were chosen to participate, president Scott Reed told invitees to the annual Council of Contributors reception at Hahn Hall.

Scott also revealed that the $17.5-milWelcoming the Academy’s attendees are Scott Reed, president/CEO Music Academy of the West; with classically trained musicians Peter Walsh, pianist; Tracy Cox, soprano; and Allan Palacios Chan, tenor; that gave a performance of excerpts from The Bartered Bride for the Council of Contributors’ members (photo by Priscilla)

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lion cost of the building work for the new Marilyn Horne House had been raised, including donations of $3 million from Seymour and Shirley Lehrer and $4.4 million from the Hind Foundation in San Luis Obispo.

The building will be opened with appropriate fanfare on June 4 with a glittering gala featuring four singers from New York’s Metropolitan Opera.

And the following month, following in the tradition of inexpensive tickets for the New York Philharmonic at the Santa Barbara Bowl last summer, 3,000 $10 tickets will be made available for festival concerts at the Granada.

Pianist Orion Weiss played Three

Preludes by Gershwin, while soprano Tracy Cox and tenor Allan Palacios Chan, accompanied by pianist Peter Walsh, sang excerpts from Smetana’s The Bartered Bride.

Among the merry melodious throng were Ed and Sue Birch, Eve Bernstein, Janet Garufis, Keith Berry, Lee Luria, Bob and Val Montgomery, John and Ellen Pillsbury, Robert Weinman, Chris Toomey, Patrick Posey, Margaret Cafarelli, and Ana Papakhian.

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Thompson hosted a reception at their charming interior design emporium Cabana Home.

Nine paintings by Los Angeles artist Brian Hollister lined the walls while 32 pieces of furniture by Milo Baughman, crafted by the High Point, North Carolina, company Thayer Coggin, filled the floors with Mississippi Modern.

Baughman was considered a pioneer in modern design and one of the major modern furniture designers in the second half of the 20th century. according to Phil Miller, director of sales and marketing for the company.

Among those checking out the goods on display were Robyn Geddes, Joanne Holderman, Hiroko Benko, and Terry and Pam Valeski.

Queen “B” It’s not the kind of vehicle one normally sees on car internet sites, but a gently used Bentley, with just 6,000 miles on the clock, has been creating quite a stir.

The car in question is an immaculately conditioned 2012 Bentley Mulsanne used by Queen Elizabeth during her Diamond Jubilee celebrations and has just appeared on the U.K. car-selling site, Auto Trader, for $320,000.

It is in a rare shade of Barnato green – named in honor of the 1920s British racing driver Woolf Barnato – and features a 6.75-liter engine.

The site describes the Bentley as “ex-Royal Household,” but notes it has new bodywork, suggesting that any bulletproof glass or armored plates have been removed.

The car has been put up sale by collector Simon Gregg, who acquired it after it was retired from Her Majesty’s fleet in 2014.

Despite royal processions going at 9 mph, the Bentley can reach a top speed of 184 mph and goes from 0-60 mph in 5.1 seconds.

Buyers will pay a premium for the royal connection, as comparable Bentleys on the website cost around $110,000 less.

Sightings: Film director Alison Eastwood, daughter of actor Clint, noshing at Olio Pizzeria... Actress Gunnilla Persson at the Circle Bar B Guest Ranch...Michael Keaton picking up his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 7 3EB does SB – Third Eye Blind, one of mid-1990s bands everyone seems to confuse with another – remember Justin Timberlake’s editor character insisting to Mila Kunis’s recruiter in Friends with Benefits that Semisonic’s hit “Closing Time” was a 3EB song? – is actually still alive and kicking nearly 20 years after their self-titled debut sold more than 5 million copies. The album spawned such hits as “SemiCharmed Life”, “Jumper”, and “How’s It Going to Be”, and the follow-up CD Blue also cracked platinum status. Only lead singer Stephan Jenkins and drummer Brad Hargreaves remain from the original lineup, but 3EB did put out its fifth album, Dopamine, just last year (its first in six years) debuting just outside the Top 10 on Billboard’s album chart (though these days that means just a little more than 20,000 units sold, a far cry from the 6 million their debut eventually tallied. The Bay Area alternative/pop-rock band apparently still has enough drawing power to play the city’s largest indoor venue. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $37-$45 INFO: 963-4408/ www.thearlingtontheatre.com or 800745-3000/www.ticketmaster.com FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Clear Channel – Word has it that there are still since Sunday tickets

and even weekend passes available for the fifth installment of the threeday Lucidity Festival that takes over Live Oak Campground this weekend.

Enjoy virtually nonstop live music of both band and deejay variety on several stages, zillions of workshops spread out of seven different communities based on archetypes, a cavalcade of costumes, creative art installations, all sorts of spontaneous entertainment, and participatory ventures – all of which add up to a co-created opportunity for personal transformation through community unlike anything you would ever normally experience in Santa Barbara. WHEN: Today through Sunday WHERE: 4600 Chumash Highway (Hwy. 154) COST: Free-$460 INFO: www.2016. lucidityfestival.com Hawaiian Hoedown – Leokane Pryor, CJ Helekahi, and Jim “Kimo” West turn SOhO into an island oasis on the mainland featuring an early evening of Hawaiian music. Fifteen-year veteran Pryor got his start here in Santa Barbara when he connected with hulu dancer Pilialoha Christiansen, later forming the group Pōhai Kealoha featuring singer Puna Keli’iho’omalu, Nohealani Wright on bass, Danny Rodriguez on ‘ukulele and hula dancers Pilialoha, Kilohana Jeffrey, and Kolonahe Raza.

Helekahi, also known as Boom,

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 50 Years of Alice – Yes, it really has been just shy of half a century since Arlo Guthrie – the hippie, anti-establishment son of folksinger legend Woody Guthrie – first recorded his epic “Alice’s Restaurant”, the only slightly embellished saga of his experiences as an anti-war protester (and litterbug). So now, good ol’ Arlo – who also memorably sang “Coming Into Los Angeles” among other tunes at the original Woodstock – is out on tour doin’ the whole 20-somethingminute rendition of The Alice’s Restaurant Massacree and much more, and, as is his wont, he’s brought some family folk along. That includes daughter Sarah Lee Guthrie, who most recently has been singing in a duo with her husband Johnny Irion, who for his part has spent the last year working with his other band U.S. Elevator. (That band, which has been gigging all over town (SOhO, Seven), makes its Lobero debut in June.) Sarah Lee hasn’t been spending that much time at her West Coast home in Montecito in favor of the road and the Western Massachusetts farm. So, tonight’s show is something of a homecoming for her, and a chance to remember what we loved about the ‘60s for all of us – even those who only know about the decade from their parents. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $54 & $64 ($105 patron tickets include priority seating and preconcert private reception) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

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FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Cup of Joe – Joe Rogan hit the airwaves as a co-star on the TV sitcom NewsRadio (1995-99) then hooked up as host of the crazy-dare reality TV show Fear Factor (2001-06 and 2011-12) and began working as the hyper-excitable commentator for every Ultimate Fighting Championships competition in 2002, a gig he still holds down. More than 11 million people listen to his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience”, in which he and guests discuss current events, political views, philosophy, comedy, hobbies, and just about anything else that comes up. But he was also a stand-up comic going back nearly 30 years now, long before any of those other jobs. And as any good entertainer worth his salt, Rogan returns to the stage to hone his chops and interact with the audience. Come ready for confrontation and laughter. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $33.50-$49.50 INFO: 963-4408/www.thearlingtontheatre.com or 800-7453000/www.ticketmaster.com

has also earned acclaim and lots of fans for his vocals that soar from tenor to falsetto. The Maui native ukulele players groove on everything from traditional and contemporary Hawaiian to reggae and soft rock.

Slack key guitarist West first discover the laid-back style on a visit to Maui in 1985 following a stint as guitarist for “Weird Al” Yankovic. Thirty years later, he’s still a devotee of the style while meshing much of own musical heritage to his original ki ho’alu instrumentals, resulting in lots of work for TV and film soundtracks, as well as NPR and commercials.

WHEN: 5:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com Sizzlin’ Fiddlin’– There are six separate categories under the Projects tab on Mark O’Connor’s website, spanning for orchestral work to an Appalachian Christmas. But none is nearly as fiery as his Hot Swing project. The ensemble captures the electricity and nuance of performance created by O’Connor and company in tribute to his friend and mentor, the legendary French jazz master Stéphane Grappelli, who fairly invented gypsy swing and created The Quintet of the Hot Club of France. Hot Swing performs a number of tunes closely associated with Grappelli, but O’Connor and guitarist Frank Vignola also extend the repertoire with original compositions provided by both musicians. Acoustic string jazz never sounded quite so good, even in Grappelli’s hands. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $39 & $49 ($105 patron tickets include priority seating and pre-

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concert private reception) INFO: 9630761 or www.lobero.com Dance Fever – The organization’s second annual showcase features a student platform followed by a special professional dance show – and your opportunity to take a turn or two yourself on the dance floor in the social dancing period. The best news is that it’s held at the Carrillo Recreation Center ballroom, where the spring-loaded dance floor will spare your knees and feet and propel you forward. Enjoy raffles, games, and refreshments by Light D’light. Make it an elegant evening and dress to impress. WHEN: 5-9 pm WHERE: 100 E. Carrillo St. COST: $40 reserved table seat, $60 VIP table seat INFO: 512-0332 or www.eventbrite.com/e/dancefever-2nd-annual-spring-showcasetickets-22814674305 SUNDAY, APRIL 10 Young Jazz – The Santa Barbara Jazz Society (SBJS) monthly meetings at SOhO are generally concerts with visiting musicians from Los Angeles or beyond. But this month, the SBJS hosts its annual scholarship concert featuring students from UCSB and SBCC vying for a $1,500 in prizes.

The players will compete in the art of jazz improvisation following an opening set from some of their colleagues in the Eclectic Jass Orchestre, a nine-piece combo at SBCC, who will play jazz favorites as a warm-up. To spur attendance, admission is reduced for the general public, just $10 at the door. WHEN: 1-4 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court 7 – 14 April 2016

MONDAY, APRIL 11 Spirals of Sitar – If memory serves, the last time Anoushka Shankar performed in town it was with her famous father, the legendary Indian classical sitar player Ravi Shankar, who counts influencing The Beatles in the late 1960s among his innumerable feats. Anoushka also learned at his feet, and takes Ravi’s ancient Indian classical form as a central current running through her own progressive cross-cultural music that has beautifully expanded the reach and breadth of the music. Her explorations into a variety of genres has been noteworthy since the start, and just a couple of albums in Anoushka scored three consecutive Grammy nominations with Rise, Traveller, and Traces of You. Shankar’s new album, Land of Gold, released just last week, is her response to the current world situation in which people are being displaced by conflict and poverty, though the evocative journey is infused with a message of enduring hope. While Sting, M.I.A, Herbie Hancock, Pepe Habichuela, Karsh Kale, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and Joshua Bell are among the artists with whom Anoushka has collaborated, she’ll be performing here with Manu Delago, the Austrian percussionist who frequently collaborates with Björk, on the Hang drum, and multi-instrumentalist Sanjeev Shankar on the shehnai (double-reed instrument) and tanpura (long-necked lute). WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $25-$38 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

COST: $10 ($7 for members who are full-time students or local professional jazz musicians) INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com TUESDAY, APRIL 12 Legends-ary Opportunity – In just a couple of short years, the La Boheme have become a Solstice fixture, drawing a large group of highly adorned revelers to dance and prance up State Street each June in the famous parade. Now is your chance to join in the fun as La Boheme hosts a free meet-andgreet to get in on the ground floor of

the 2016 theme of “Legends”. The company is creating a float designed

by Nicky LaFleur and planning for various acrobatic and dance acts drawn from the community to join the core dancers moving to high-energy music from DJ Darla Bea. Drinks and light snacks will be provided free of charge to all who attend the introductory meeting, where you can sign up for the rehearsals and parade. No experience necessary and non-dancers are welcome, too.

WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Brasil Arts Cafe, 1230 State St. COST: free INFO: www.labohemedance.com/ solstice-2016 •MJ

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Still a Revelation – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is nearing six decades of using modern dance to celebrate, explore, and express the uniqueness of the AfricanAmerican cultural experience, and the company shows no signs of slowing down in its pursuit of bringing new and classic works in preserving the heritage for generations to come. The Ailey company has already performed for an estimated 25 million people at theaters in 48 states and 71 countries on six continents and has reached millions more through television broadcasts, film screenings, and online platforms. More than 235 works by more than 90 choreographers – including 79 created by Ailey himself – have been part of the Ailey company’s repertory over the years since it made its debut at the 92nd Street Y in New York in 1958, but none has become quite as legendary as “Revelations”.

Ailey’s masterpiece drew upon his “blood memories” of Texas, using the blues, spirituals, and gospel as inspiration, and expressing the cultural heritage of the African-American experience, “sometimes sorrowful, sometimes jubilant, but always hopeful”, in a suite that fervently explores the places of deepest grief and holiest joy.

“Revelations” closes the program on opening night, which also features Rennie Harris’ “Exodus”, Ronald K. Brown’s “Open Door” and Christopher Wheeldon’s “After the Rain Pas de Deux”, while Wednesday’s works include Talley Beatty’s “Toccata”, Judith Jamison’s “A Case of You”, Ulysses Dove’s “Vespers”, Robert Battle’s “The Hunt”, and Brown’s “Four Corners”. WHEN: 8 tonight & tomorrow WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $40-$75 INFO: 893-3535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or 963-4408/www.ticketmaster.com/venue/73731

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 5442 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 5442 for the CABRILLO AND ALAMEDA PADRE SERRA WATERLINE REPLACEMENT PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday April 19, 2016 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “CABRILLO AND ALAMEDA PADRE SERRA WATERLINE REPLACEMENT, Bid No. 5442".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Install municipal water mains ranging in size from 2 inch copper to 12 inch PVC and ductile iron. The majority of the project is 8-inch PVC and ductile iron. The replacements occur at two areas. There are 3 contingency locations that are mostly 12” water mains. The project total length including all contingency locations is about 2.2 miles. The Engineer’s estimate is $2,850,000. Each bidder must have a Class 'A' license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

There is a mandatory Pre-Bid meeting scheduled for Monday April 11th 2016 at 10am at 620 Garden St Santa Barbara Ca David Gebhard Conference Room.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Carson Wollert, Project Engineer, 805-564-5376.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard.

Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations.

In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

Effective March 1, 2015, Senate Bill 854 requires the City to only use contractors and subcontractors on public projects that have been registered with the State of California Department of Industrial Relations.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any purchase order entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider: APPLICATION OF THE PARKER FAMILY FOR 433 EAST CABRILLO BOULEVARD (WATERFRONT HOTEL), APN 017-680-009, ZONING DESIGNATION: HOTEL AND RELATED COMMERCE/ PARK PLAZA SPECIFIC PLAN/ COASTAL ZONE OVERLAY (HRC-2/SP-1/SD-3), GENERAL PLAN DESIGNATION: OCEAN-RELATED COMMERCIAL/ MEDIUM HIGH RESIDENTIAL, LOCAL COASTAL PLAN DESIGNATION: HOTEL AND RELATED COMMERCE; AND 103 SOUTH CALLE CESAR CHAVEZ (HOTEL PARKING LOT), APN 017-113-020, ZONING DESIGNATION: OCEAN-ORIENTED LIGHT MANUFACTURING/ COASTAL ZONE OVERLAY (OM1/SD-3), GENERAL PLAN DESIGNATION: OCEANRELATED INDUSTRIAL, LOCAL COASTAL PLAN DESIGNATION: OCEAN ORIENTED INDUSTRIAL (MST2013-00371)

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on March 29, 2016.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

(Seal) /s/ Matthew Fore Acting City Clerk Services Manager

The City Council applications being recommended for the project include the following: 1. Introduction of an Ordinance of the Council approving a Development Agreement to allow an additional ten (10) years to construct the approved 150-room hotel and parking lot, or a revised project (Council Resolution 89 120); and 2. Introduction of an Ordinance of the Council amending Santa Barbara Municipal Code Chapter 28.95 (Transfer of Existing Development Rights) to defer to the Waterfront Hotel Development Agreement for provisions allowing the applicant to propose the transfer of excess (approved but undeveloped) hotel rooms from the Waterfront Hotel site.

An Addendum to the 1993 Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) has been prepared in accordance with California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15164 to address minor changes to the project and EIR analysis. The City Council will consider the Addendum together with the previously certified Final EIR regarding the adequacy of the environmental review pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15090.

If you challenge the permit approval or environmental document in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at this or earlier public hearings on the project, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to the City Council public hearing.

You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990.

On Thursday, April 14, 2016, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Most Popular, click on Council Agenda Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilVideos.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

/s/______________ Matthew R. Fore Acting City Clerk Services Manager

William Hornung, C.P.M.

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AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING SECTION 7.16.320, BILLING AND COLLECTION, OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE TO ALLOW THE CITY, AT ITS OWN DISCRETION, TO JOIN DISCRETE WATER, SEWER AND/OR REFUSE ACCOUNTS WHEN THE DISCRETE ACCOUNTS CONTAIN CORRESPONDING CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND CORRESPONDING SERVICE LOCATIONS

The application includes a request for a Development Agreement and an associated Ordinance Amendment related to Transfer of Existing Development Rights.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

PUBLISHED: March 30 and April 6, 2016 Montecito Journal

ORDINANCE NO. 5741

Published April 6, 2016 Montecito Journal

• The Voice of the Village •

ORDINANCE NO. 5741 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on March 22, 2016, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on March 29, 2016, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Councilmembers Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on March 30, 2016. /s/ Matthew Fore Acting City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on March 30, 2016. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published April 6, 2016 Montecito Journal FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Memorial Services; SB Memorial Services, 315 Meigs Road Suite A392, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. SB Memorial Services, LLC, 315 Meigs Road Suite A392, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 10, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2016-0000748.

Published April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Goodland Signs, 375 Pine Ave #20, Goleta, CA 93117. Paul Strickland, 716 Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 29, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2016-0000951.

Published April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following

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person(s) is/are doing business as: Adama, 2304 Shelby Street, Summerland, CA 93067. Diana Arrieta, 2304 Shelby Street, Summerland, CA 93067. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 9, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2016-0000726.

Published April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nexthome Preferred Properties, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. Steven Corl Decker, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 30, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2016-0000964.

Published April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nexthome Preferred Properties, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. Decker Realty, INC, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 29, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2016-0000963.

Published April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sharon Goldberg MD, 5333 Hollister Avenue, Suite 175, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Sharon Goldberg, 549 Via Tranquila, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 21, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN No. 2016-0000864. Published March 30, April 6, 13, 20, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Speaks, 549 Via Tranquila, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

Gabriela Goldberg, 549 Via Tranquila, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Sharon Goldberg, 549 Via Tranquila, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Zoe Reifel, 3824 Lincoln Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 16, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter.

FBN No. 2016-0000812. Published March 30, April 6, 13, 20, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DPK Construction, 90 Arnold Place Unit C, Goleta, CA 93117. Douglas P. Krol, 3033 Calle Noguera, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 23, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN No. 2016-0000559. Published March 23, 30, April 6, 13, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NextHome Properties, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. Decker Realty, INC, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was

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filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 7, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter.

FBN No. 2016-0000696. Published March 23, 30, April 6, 13, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: T3 Property Management, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. Decker Realty, INC, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 16, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos.

FBN No. 2016-0000815. Published March 23, 30, April 6, 13, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NextHome Properties; T3 Property Management, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463.

Steven Corl Decker, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 16, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos.

FBN No. 2016-0000816. Published March 23, 30, April 6, 13, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Next Chapter SB Properties, 1482 E. Valley Rd #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Gregory Pavloff, 1482 E. Valley Rd #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Robert Pavloff, 1482 E. Valley Rd #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 29, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

FBN No. 2016-0000594. Published March 23, 30, April 6, 13, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bridal Bootycamp, 1 North Calle Cesar Chavez Street, Suite 110, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Elizabeth Alexander, 421 West Anapamu Street Apt. C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 3, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos.

FBN No. 2016-0000668. Published March 16, 23, 30, April 6, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Prestigious Properties & Investments, 628 Vereda Del Ciervo Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. P.P.I. Realty Investments, INC., 628 Vereda Del Ciervo Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 23, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN No. 2016-0000546. Published March 16, 23, 30, April 6, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Ocean Aire, 125 Harbor Way Suite 7, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Jon Payne, 6 Harbor Way #239, Santa Barbara, CA. This statement was

originally filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 4, 2015. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales, filed March 8, 2016. Original FBN No. 2015-0001804. Published Published March 16, 23, 30, April 6, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ocean Aire, 125 Harbor Way #7, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Allied Voyage LLC, 125 Harbor Way #7, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 8, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

FBN No. 2016-0000724. Published March 16, 23, 30, April 6, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AG Builders, 960 Veronica Springs Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Iran Alexis Gonzalez, 960 Veronica Springs Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 8, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter.

FBN No. 2016-0000715. Published March 16, 23, 30, April 6, 2016.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00954. To all interested parties: Petitioner Mohammed Azam filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Abraham Mohammed Azam. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Hearing date: May 18, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/6, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00752. To all interested parties: Petitioner Ernesto Vladimir Landa filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Vladimir Landa. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Filed March 4, 2016 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: May 18, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 3/23, 3/30, 4/6, 4/13 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00787. To all interested parties: Petitioner Gabriela Guzman-Morales filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Gabriela Morales. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear

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Filed March 4, 2016 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: May 18, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 3/16, 3/23, 3/30, 4/6 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00610. To all interested parties: Petitioner Tara Judith Patrick Nack filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Tara Judith Patrick. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court

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Filed March 4, 2016 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: April 27, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 3/16, 3/23, 3/30, 4/6 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00706. To all interested parties: Petitioner Eudelia Dee Zamora filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Eudelia Dee Raya. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Filed February 20, 2016 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: May 18,

2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 3/16, 3/23, 3/30, 4/6 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00700. To all interested parties: Petitioners Nadia Lash and Valentin Lash filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Emiliya Lyash to Emily Lash. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

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could show me how to make corn tortillas.

Maria and John headed for the Hispanic part of the D.C. area, picked up the necessary ingredients, brought them back to the White House and, says John, “Within a week or two, I was banging ‘em out pretty good.”

••• Chef John Moeller is a raconteur of the highest order, and stories such as those above and many others, delivered by him at the upcoming “Central Coast Wine Classic White House Dinner” at the estate home of Anne and Allen Sides on Thursday evening, April 21, will make this an event a long remembered one by those fortunate enough to attend. The evening will be hosted by Central Coast Wine Classic head Archie McLaren. I do believe there are a few seats (at $500 per person) available for the six-course dinner that will feature the warm flourless chocolate torte featured on the cover of Mr. Moeller’s book. Chef Moeller will be assisted by local favorite, chef Michael Hutchings. If you are interested in attending, go to: archie.wineclassic@gmail.com or call (805) 878-3124.

Mountain Men Living “off the grid” in Montana and Idaho are History Channel’s “Mountain Men” Tom Oar (left) holding his prize mink, and his brother Jack Oar (right); the young man in the middle holding the beaver is Montecito Journal editor Tim Buckley, who has spent some of winter 2015/16 in and around Driggs, Idaho, with his family

Tom Oar and his brother Jack Oar are two of History Channel’s “Mountain Men” and have been for the past four years; the series premiered in 2012. I ran into the pair, along with the series director David Arabia, as they were hauling their handsome green canoe up a boat ramp in early March just outside Driggs, Idaho, where my wife, Helen, and I were visiting our son and his family (wife, Jacqueline, sons Deacon, 4, and Kessler, 2); they have been vacationing the winter in Idaho, mostly skiing one of America’s great ski mountains in Alta, Wyoming, just across the border. Alta is really the backside of Jackson Hole ski area, but gets more snow and one-tenth the number of visitors.

The Oars came down to Driggs “to do some beaver trapping and filming,” Tom tells me during a short interview before they put their canoe in the back of their pickup. “The rivers were all [still] frozen up in Montana,” Jack explains, “and the Snake River here was all wide-open. It makes it a lot easier trapping.”

We didn’t notice until they began going up the ramp that they had not only an unlucky beaver that the men will sell to a taxidermist, but also a mink; both creatures were quite dead but in excellent shape otherwise.

Little Bit of Magic

Arlene and Milt Larsen, famously of L.A.’s Magic Castle have opened escrow on the former Cafe Del Sol building overlooking the bird refuge in Montecito. “For the time being,” Milt says, “we’ll continue leasing the building to Warren Butler for his Events Center while we make plans for our new private club based on the Magic Castle in Hollywood.” Milt reports that “the new

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Milt and Arlene Larsen plan on bringing a little bit of their Magic Castle to Montecito before the end of next year

club will feature the finest close-up magic and variety entertainment. If all goes well,” he says, “we hope to open our Montecito Mini-Magic Castle in the fall of 2017.” And we say Good Luck with that and wish them well.

Team Montecito

My grandson Deacon Buckley, the nearly fiveyear-old son of MJ editor Tim Buckley, will be on “Team Montecito” in the upcoming “Seventh Annual Teton Adaptive Sports Fun Race” to be held Saturday, April 16, at Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

The race is being held to benefit Teton Adaptive Sports (a chapter of Disabled Sports USA, Tax ID# 06-1741611). Tim and his family have spent a great deal of time this winter in the Jackson area and have become supporters of this nonprofit whose mission is “to promote and support sports and recreational opportunities for people with disabilities living in and visiting the Greater Teton Area.”

To see the unmitigated joy on the faces of the blind and skiers with special needs of all kinds who otherwise would never, ever, experience such exaltation, helped down the mountain by a team of dedicated volunteers, is to know pure joy itself.

All funds raised from the 7th Annual Teton Adaptive Sports Fun Race will go to scholarships for adaptive lessons, to support the school programs, instructor training, as well as for equipment purchases. “The beauty of this foundation,” says Tim, “is that the scholarship program is available to anyone. So, if someone from Montecito wants to go skiing in Jackson Hole and has a person with special needs, they can sign up and the volunteers will do everything for them.

Imagine the freedom they experience.”

First prize will go to the team or individual able to raise the most money.

If you’d like to learn more, contact Kurt Henry at (307)-699-3554, or email to: tetonadaptive@aol.com. Checks to support Deacon’s “Team Montecito” should be made out to Teton Adaptive Sports and sent to Montecito Journal, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Montecito, CA 93108.

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Real Estate View

by Michael Phillips

The 1st Quarter Heat Index

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he Montecito Heat Index measures buyer demand for Montecito homes within five price sectors. Heat scores for the first quarter of 2016 are compared to scores in the first quarter of 2015. All data are from the the Santa Barbara MLS and are uniformly deemed reliable.

The total Heat score for all price sectors is 131, a 9.3-percent increase over the same period last year.

As the adjacent graph indicates, our current demand leader is the $1-$2-million sector with a score of 47, even though this group underperformed compared to last year by a significant 21.6%. All other price groups, except the high-end $5M and above sector, scored considerably higher than last year.

The $2-3M sector performed exceptionally well, outperforming by a remarkable 181.8%. And the $3-4M group was even stronger, scoring a 23 compared to last year’s 5. The $4-5M sector, which has experienced uneven demand the last few years, easily outperformed last year by 107.1%.

The buyers didn’t look much beyond the $4-5M sector, however.

For the 1st quarter of 2015 of the 60 homes listed at $5M or more, five pended. This year for the 1st quarter with 77 listed, only one is pending.

It is a newly remodeled 7,400-sqft contemporary on Mariposa Lane offering six bedroom and baths on

Michael is a realtor at Coldwell Banker, and is a Montecito Planning Commissioner.

He can be reached at 969-4569 and info@ MichaelPhillipsRealEstate. com

2.7 ocean-view acres. Offered at $15,900,000, furnishings included.

Year to date, the Montecito market has noticeably expanded compared to the 1st quarter of last year. New listings are up 17% to the delight of buyers who have had very little to look at; the number of homes sold is up a solid 12%, pleasing all but the highest-end estate sellers who have not seen much activity. Overall sellers collected $225.7M and enjoyed a median-price increase from $2.95M to $3.32M. The California Association of Realtors 2016 market forecast calls for a statewide 6.3-percent increase in sales, due to solid job growth and favorable interest rates. However, where inventory is tight and there is diminishing housing affordability, they believe sales growth will be less.

Despite the spring effect increase in inventory, limited listings here in Montecito should continue to put upward pressure on sale prices, and we are already the state’s poster child for lack of affordability.

Yet buyers’ confidence seems to be growing, and activity under $5M is active even though the $1-2M sector seems to be weakening some, which is curious since the under $1M Santa Barbara and Goleta markets (which we don’t have) are red-hot.

Overall, I sense a solid second-quarter story for both Montecito buyers and sellers. Should consumer confidence continue to grow (up sharply in March) the high-end estate buyers should participate as well.

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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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Salads and Other Specialties •

Wedge of Iceberg ....................................................................................... $10. with Roquefort or Thousand Island Dressing

Caesar Salad ........................................ ........................................................ 10.

Eggs and Other Breakfast Dishes •

with Grilled Chicken Breast ...............................................................................

Eggs Served with choice of Hash Browns, Fries, Sliced Tomatoes, Fruit Salad

Classic Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....................................

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Seafood Louis ....................................... ....................................................... 29. $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

Spring into Lucky's for Brunch!

Mixed Vegetable Frittata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 17. with Gruyere

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