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Special delivery: Nacho and Delfina Fuigeras secure invitation to Prince Harry’s nuptial, p. 6

LETTERS, P. 8 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 23 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

SIGNS OF RECOVERY

MONTECITO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION – WITH THE HELP OF DOUG FORD AND HIS VOLUNTEERS – SETS OUT TO REPLACE OR REPAIR 36 ICONIC MONTECITO STREET SIGNS LOST ON JANUARY 9 (STORY ON PAGE 12)

Bottoms Up

Artist Bud Bottoms submits pair of illustrations for Montecito memorial concepts, p. 8

He is a Jolly Good Fellow

James Paul Brown’s 80 years on planet Earth have encompassed a surprising variety of careers, p. 26

One More Time

Trumpeter and keyboardist Jeff Elliott returns to jazz up SOhO on Monday, April 9, p. 32

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Guest Editorial

Bob Hazard goes with the flow, exploring evacuation warnings and future options for Rosewood Miramar Beach Resort, the Santa Barbara Inn, and others

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Nacho Figueras gets royal invitation; Sara Miller McCune; Shaun O’Bryan; SB County Arts Commission; CAMA at Granada; Layosh Toth; Marilyn Horne contest; Rescue Mission’s feast; Let It Be; Katy Perry’s home; and SB Symphony

8 Letters to the Editor

A variety of correspondence from Journal readers comprising Dr. Keith Schofield, Bill Mason, Heidi Holly, Bud Bottoms, Megan Orloff, Imke Bomer, Robert Miller, Ben Burned, Dale Lowdermilk, and Dr. Sanderson Smith

10 This Week

Knit ‘N Needle; poetry club; Walk & Roll; Spanish group; STEAM; Green Day; trunk show; feminine workshop; SB Music Club; Cold Spring School; MA meeting; “Kindergarten Readiness”; community info; MBAR meets; Spanish; STEAM program; 2nd Friday art; Princess Weekend; Japanese matcha; support group; art classes; brain fitness; story time; yoga; Italian; Carp art; and Latin dance

Tide Guide 12 Village Beat

Street signs rebuilt and replaced; Land Use Committee meets; Ambiance opens on Coast Village Road; and website helps parents find summer camps

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner reports on SB Maritime Museum transforming into the Titanic; and Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care celebrates anniversary

16 Our Town One Call Does It All

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Joanne Calitri is in tune with Jonathan McEuen, who performed in Carpinteria in support of his new album, Through the Sun Gate, and Alastair Greene

20 Your Westmont

College orchestra and choir start Messiah tour; Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Brooks, and Lynda Weinman to speak at conference in June

21 In Business

Jon Vreeland stands at the altar, with Montecito Weddings co-founders Emma Recher and the reverend Sarah Farmer

23 Brilliant Thoughts

Beam him up: Ashleigh Brilliant explores the universe and galaxies, looking for logical explanations about what’s the matter

Our prayers go out to the victims of the Thomas Fire and Mudslides.

26 Coming & Going

James Buckley catches up with James Paul Brown, 80, whose background includes much more than painting; “Night of Heroes”; and summer camps

27 On Law

Attorney Steven Blum expounds on loss of life and property damage, insurance coverage, compensation, “wrongful” death claims, and proximate cause

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32 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz talks with musician Jeff Elliott; Idiomatiques; American Idiot at Center Stage; Lucidity Festival; and classical music summary

36 Ernie’s World

Seeing the forest for the Bonzai trees, Ernie Witham fills his lungs with the smell of spring – including Fish & Poop

Real Estate View

Michael Phillips reviews the latest Montecito Heat score of 63, down almost 27 percent from last year, no thanks to the Thomas Fire and mudslide

38 Legal Advertising 39 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz chronicles chief spiritual officers; Madisyn Taylor; SKY workshop; The Art of Gong Meditation; Science & Religion group; Essential Oils workshop; singing; and Sat Nam Fest

42 Calendar of Events

A Pr of e s sion a l L aw Cor p or at ion CIVIL

Chuck Graham ventures to chilly Mono Lake in California’s Eastern Sierra, where the Western classic High Plains Drifter was filmed

Films at library; art galleries; art on 1st Thursday; Michelle Lewis; SB Choral Society; Kurt Olsson; Daniel Pink; singer Marc Cohn; and UCSB Arts Walk

46 Classified Advertising

Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate salesMNJ05S0

47 Local Business Directory

Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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Guest Editorial

by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an associate editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club.

Evacuation Planning

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s we roll into spring, most in Montecito feel a temporary sense of relief, anticipating that any rainstorm in April will not rise to the ½-inch-perhour threshold needed to trigger another evacuation.

Evidence is that the added protection from new wider, deeper, boulder-lined creek channels restored by the Army Corps of Engineers and County Flood Control, plus massive debris channel clearing by County Flood Control, has mitigated much of the debris flow risk.

Evacuation Options in 2019

However, as we look ahead to the winter of 2018-19, there is the possibility of another evacuation. If that occurs, what follows is a short list of some of your more attractive options.

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anta Barbara Polo Club player Nacho Figueras and his former model wife, Delfina, have landed one of the most coveted invitations in the world.

The tony twosome have received an invite to the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, on May 19, one of just 600 sent out by Buckingham Palace on behalf of Harry’s father, the Prince of Wales.

The die-stamped invitation with gilded beveled edges features the three-feather heraldic emblem of Prince Charles and, as well as the service at the 14th-century chapel built

by King Edward III in a lower ward of the castle, it invites guests to a reception in the majestic St. George’s Hall, site of many a state banquet, hosted by Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, who marks her 92nd birthday on April 21 and will be buried in the chapel in due course with her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

There will also be an “intimate” dinner for 200 in the evening at nearby Frogmore House, former home of the Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria, who is buried with her husband, Prince Albert, in a magnificent mausoleum nearby.

The inclusion of Buenos Aires-born Nacho, 41, at the nuptials is not too surprising, as he has played polo with Harry many times as a member of fashion designer Ralph Lauren’s Black Watch team on the East Coast.

Male guests are requested to wear uniform, tails, or a lounge suit.

Given dashing Nacho is the face of Ralph Lauren advertising around the world, I have no doubt he’ll be the picture of sartorial elegance at the noontime ceremony, on which I am doing commentary for KEYT, the ABC affiliate, from its aerie on TV Hill.

Given the eight-hour time difference between California and London, I will be up at the crack of dawn for the worldwide event.

One for the Books Montecito uber-philanthropist Sara Miller McCune has received a rare accolade.

Sara, founder of Sage Publications in 1965 at the age of just 24, has

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Sara Miller McCune receives major international award

been awarded the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award for 2018.

The peripatetic charity supporter, whose company employs more than 1,500 people in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington, and Melbourne, Australia, is flying to England to receive the trophy at the International Excellence Awards on Tuesday, April 10.

Sara will also use the trip to speak at the fair’s Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum the following day.

“I am grateful to the organizers for recognizing the critical work that an independent academic publisher can

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certainly – as always – captured the Thank you for running my letter (“A spirit of the event.

Lasting Tribute,” MJ #24/8). I hope The photos she took illustrated that it will encourage others to become

the guests were certainly having a involved in offering their ideas for If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something good time. We appreciate your contin- a memorial to our recent disasters, you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite H, Montecito, CA. ued support of the Friendship Center. something long-lasting and inspiraHeidi Holly tional, such as the “Phoenix Up from 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to jim@montecitojournal.net Montecito the Ashes.” And, on display in a park (Editor’s note: And, we appreciate the as a tribute to our famous Montecito excellent work Friendship Center does and Oaks and the mighty little acorns have been in science my whole life, so-called primitive people creat- the comfort it provides its patrons on both that become 200-year-old giant trees and as I age I realize it rarely has ed their rather sophisticated system sides of the mental health equation. – J.B.) whose massive trunks are like sentineeded a Newton or Einstein; it about 500 years ago. nels that help protect us from rock and has just needed information and comThank you for your consideration mudslides. mon sense. As an example, I realized with all of us in mind. All comments A park that not only describes the in recent weeks after witnessing the would be appreciated. life of an acorn, but also info about current hysteria over rain and floodImke Bomer insecticides: a park like the Botanic ing, there is a simpler explanation to Montecito Garden. our freak 200-year storm that indicates Bud Bottoms it was not a freak at all but a chance Santa Barbara coincidence of unusual conditions that cannot arise easily again.

Are we fortunate to have a “stable The formation of rain from clouds genius” as president? And someone still is not fully understood. It is not so brave that he would run into a In response to both the “A New simply that humidity rises to 100 per- building with an active shooter armed Montecito” editorial (#24/10) and Ray cent. The cloud requires nucleating only with his bare hands. Not only Bourhis’s “Transforming Montecito” condensation nuclei, and without does he “know more about taxes than Artist Bud Bottoms’s whimsical design concept letter (#24/10), I offer a suggestion: them it has been stated that we would the greatest CPA,” and “knows more includes fun and informative displays The Montecito Association. not exist. We just had the largest burn about ISIS than the generals,” he has The Montecito Association has in California history. This was no “one of the great memories of all been a foundation of this community honor but a curse that should never be time.” Indeed, he remembers that for 70 years and is well-poised and allowed to occur again. At my house, “Fredrick Douglass is doing a great aptly prepared to help advocate for it looked like snow falling, but no: it job,” and that Andrew Jackson was residents, preserve the community’s was ash. People had to wear masks. In against the Civil War that started 19 semi-rural nature, beauty, and charm other words, the atmosphere was full years after his death. and bring people together to share in of condensation nuclei in some areas.

When it comes to energy policy, he the community’s treasures – our peoBy chance, a storm then came in “knows more about renewables than ple and places. and this explains the resulting precip- any human being on Earth.” On tax Our small community has endured a itous heavy downpour, more so, on policy, “Nobody knows more about lot over the last few months, and as we the most recently extinguished burn taxes than I do, maybe in the history look to our community’s future, there areas where the air had had less time of the world.” On banking, “Nobody has never been a more paramount to disperse. The additional release of knows banking better than I do.” On time than now for us to unite. To come potable water from water pipe breaks trade, “Nobody knows more about together both in support of neighbors and hydrants in specific areas – that trade than me.” On infrastructure, and businesses and in shaping the path needs a more detailed analysis – also “Nobody in the history of this counforward as Montecito rebuilds. was unfortunate, raising the volume try has ever known so much about Bud Bottoms’s stainless steel/bronze “Up from the LETTERS Page 224 to one that could move boulders. As a infrastructure as Donald Trump.” On Ashes” concept for a Montecito Memorial result, now the atmosphere is normal nuclear weapons, “There is nobody again and so will be our rainfall. There who understands the horror of nuclewill be slight mud flows and rocks ar war more than me.” Trump also falling in the canyons but mentions of took credit for no plane crashes last further catastrophes now are foolish; year. And last but not least, Trump these canyons are wider and deeper said, “I think I am actually humble.”

The best little paper in America and now can carry any storm we are Nobody knew what Stage 4 narcis(Covering the best little community anywhere!) likely to receive. sism looked like until Donald Trump.

Also, in those canyons that had high Now we do. Of course, all these boasts Publisher Timothy Lennon Buckley levels of fuel and burned so hot that are ridiculous, and show contempt Editor At Large Kelly Mahan Herrick • Managing Editor James Luksic • Design/Production Trent Watanabe Associate Editor Bob Hazard roots were destroyed, it may be advis- for the intelligence of his supporters. able to consider reseeding with more During the campaign, Trump asked Account Managers Sue Brooks, Tanis Nelson, Leanne Wood, DJ Wetmore, appropriate vegetation. his audience about Ben Carson’s Bookkeeping Diane Davidson • Proofreading Helen Buckley • Arts/Entertainment/Calendar/Music Steven Keith Schofield, M.A., Ph.D., claim of bravado, “How stupid are Libowitz • Columns Leanne Wood, Erin Graffy, Scott Craig, Julia Rodgers, Ashleigh Brilliant, Karen Robiscoe, University of California, Emeritus the people of the country to believe Sigrid Toye, Jon Vreeland • Gossip Thedim Fiste, Richard Mineards • History Hattie Beresford Santa Barbara this crap?”

• Humor Ernie Witham, Grace Rachow Photography/Our Town Joanne A. Calitri • Society Lynda Millner My question exactly.

Travel Jerry Dunn • Sportsman Dr. John Burk • Trail Talk Lynn P. Kirst Bill Mason Montecito Published by Montecito Journal Inc., James Buckley, President While planning to rebuild Montecito, (Editor’s note: We’ll take it that we can PRINTED BY NPCP INC., SANTA BARBARA, CA I urge you to view the DVD Ghosts of mark you down as “No fan” of our presiMachu Picchu, which you can find on dent. – J.B.) Montecito Journal is compiled, compounded, calibrated, cogitated over, and coughed up every Wednesday by an exacting agglomeration of excitable (and often exemplary) expert edifiers at 1206 Coast Village NOVA (PBS), available from the Santa Circle, Suite H, Montecito, CA 93108.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 14

(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 5 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 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. New members welcome.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, APRIL 6 Walk & Roll Montecito Union School students, teachers, and parents walk or ride to school, rather than drive.

When: 8 am Where: Via Vai, Ennisbrook, and Casa Dorinda trailhead Info: 969-3249 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish.

Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 After-School STEAM Program Build with Legos, do snap circuits, and drop-in craft activities at Montecito

Library. Ages 5 and up.

When: 3:30 to 4:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Green Day’s American Idiot Green Day’s powerhouse album is brought to life in this electricrock musical of youthful disillusion, presented by Out of the Box Theatre Company. American Idiot – based on Green Day’s Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum album, an indictment of the Bush Administration after the attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as the increasingly submissive nature of the American public – boldly takes the American musical where it’s never gone before. Lost and disconnected in modern-day America, Johnny, Tunny, and Will struggle to find meaning in their lives. The three twenty-somethings flee the constraints of their hometown for the thrills of city life, but their paths quickly diverge as Tunny enters the armed forces, Will is called back home to attend to a pregnant girlfriend, and Johnny descends into an urban underworld, following a seductive love interest and a deadly new best friend. As each of the three men learns to navigate his “alienation,” we see in them America’s struggle to find a new path.

This powerful, high-octane, rock fable includes every song from Green Day’s album American Idiot, as well as several songs from follow-up release, 21st Century Breakdown.

When: April 6-15 Where: 751 Paseo Nuevo Info: www.outoftheboxtheatre.org SATURDAY, APRIL 7 Trunk Show Giannetti Home is hosting a trunk show to introduce a new artistic shoe

Princess Weekend at the Zoo Join the SB Zoo for this popular event that has been expanded from one day to two – twice the tiaras, twice the fun on April 14-15! Free with admission. Meet Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and other princesses in person as they help celebrate frogs. All costumed princesses welcome – as are knights, pirates, and cowboys. Learn how zoos and aquariums are working to save the world’s threatened amphibians.

When: today and tomorrow, 10 am Where: Santa Barbara Zoo, 500 Ninos Drive Info: www.sbzoo.org collection. Join to meet the artisan, George Esquivel, hear how they are made, try them on or design one of your own. Refreshments will be served.

When: noon to 4 Where: Giannetti Home, 1309 State Street Info: www.giannettihome.com Sacred Feminine Workshop David A. Best and Bato Kraguljac present an event with words and music to heal the feminine spirit.

When: 2 to 5 pm Where: Unity Church, 227 E. Arrellaga Street Cost: $55 Reservations & Info: www.davidabest. com 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: First United Methodist Church, Garden and Anapamu streets Cost: free MONDAY, APRIL 9 Cold Spring School Board Meeting

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When: 6 pm Where: 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Info: 969-2678 TUESDAY, APRIL 10 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 Tuesday Talk “Kindergarten Readiness” with Erin Guerra and Debbie Williams, administrators at Crane Country Day School.

When: 6:30 pm Where: El Montecito Presbyterian Church,1455 E.Valley Road Childcare: free childcare available with reservation, email bkennedy@ westmont.edu WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 Community Informational Meeting An update on rebuilding following the January 9 debris flow. Topics include mud and debris removal, update on red-tagged homes, and Planning & Development’s new interactive map. This meeting was canceled two weeks ago due to the storm and evacuations. Hosted

by Montecito Association and First District supervisor Das Williams’s office.

When: 5 to 6:30 pm Where: Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road THURSDAY, APRIL 12

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When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu

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Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, APRIL 13 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish.

Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 After-School STEAM Program Build with Legos, do snap circuits, and drop-in craft activities at Montecito Library. Ages 5 and up.

When: 3:30 to 4:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Second Friday Art Exhibit Inside & Out presents the work of three contemporary artists, Karen Zazon, Jeanne Dentzel, and Rosemarie Gebhart, who draw much of their inspiration from nature. By varying means, they depict the outside world through their inner minds. Zazon’s paintings draw the viewer in with layers of sensuality and a palette that is inspired from her outdoor experiences.

The imaginative and dreamy quality of Dentzel’s work brings the outside in, as seen in her interior still-life paintings, with a flare of fantasy.

Gebhart’s blending of lush inks, suggest landscapes without the obvious representation. The works of these three artists invite us to contemplate new possibilities through the outer influences of their inner visions.

When: 5:30 to 7:30 pm opening reception, show runs through May 4 Where: Santa Barbara Tennis Club, 2375 Foothill Road Info: www.2ndFridaysArt.com SATURDAY, APRIL 14 Enjoy Japanese Matcha A hands-on workshop where participants will learn how to make a bowl of tea and enjoy traditional sweets, followed by a visit to the ShinKanAn Teahouse for a demonstration of the Way of Tea (Urasenke). Led by Sokyo Kasai, who has given tea ceremony demos and lectures at many prestigious locations for 30 years.

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ONGOING Grief Recovery Support Group GriefShare features nationally recognized experts on grief recovery topics. Seminar sessions include “Is This Normal?” “The Challenges of Grief”, “Grief and Your Relationships”, “Why?”, and “Guilt and Anger”.

When: 10:30 am, each Monday through May 21 Where: Montecito Covenant Church, 671 Cold Spring Road Info: call Pam Beebe at 679-1501 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 TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 WEDNESDAYS Yoga on Coast Village Yoga is back on Coast Village Road at Simpatico Pilates! Stretch, strengthen, breathe, and rejuvenate, with Vinyassa flow classes taught by Leanna Doyle. All levels are welcome.

When: 8:30 am Where: Simpatico Pilates, 1235 Coast Village Road, suite I Info/Reservations: 895-1368 THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Carpinteria Creative Arts Ongoing weekly arts and crafts show with many different vendors and mediums.

When: every Thursday from 3 to 6:30 pm in conjunction with the Carpinteria farmers market Where: at the intersection of Linden and 8th streets Information: Sharon at (805) 2911957 Latin Dancing for Beginners Dance Fever Studio is offering a beginning course in all International Latin dances, including Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba, and Jive.

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occurred, I knew the project I had agreed to take on suddenly got much, much larger,” Ford said. Shortly after the mudslide, Montecito Fire District personnel escorted him and Urschel through the disaster zone, to survey the damage and take stock of the missing signage. Ford generously offered the labor and use of his workshop to complete the project; Montecito

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.

Montecito Street Signs

Montecito Community Foundation Board president Ted Urschel with board member Doug Ford at his workshop, where 36 Montecito street signs are being rebuilt and repaired following the January 9 debris flow

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his week, eight street signs that were lost in the January 9 debris flow will be re-installed throughout Montecito, the first of 36 signs that are in the process of being repaired or rebuilt completely. “Many residents may not even notice that they are missing, but once they are back up, it will be a subtle sign of recovery and healing,” said Doug Ford, founder of DD Ford Construction. “I hope it will make an impact.”

Ford, a member of the Board of the Montecito Community Foundation, volunteered last fall to take on the project of maintaining Montecito’s 212 iconic hand-painted street signs, a project that the Foundation has overseen and funded since 1975, according to board president Ted Urschel. Before last year, well-known sign maker Paul Musgrove maintained, repaired, and replaced the signs for more than 15 years. “Paul did a great job for us, and once he retired, we were in a lurch to find an affordable replacement,” Urschel said, adding that other sign makers quoted more than twice what Musgrove had charged. “Doug stepped up to handle the signs, offering to give us a competitive rate,” he explained.

Ford got his start woodworking out of his garage in 1979, building furniture and cabinetry for a handful of clients, before eventually building his Santa Barbara-based construction company, DD Ford. He has worked on

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records of each sign and its location, to help determine which signs had been lost.

Ford and his team, which includes his adult children, Josie Ford and Cole Creedon, have traced the lettering from signs that are still standing, in order to recreate the same style lettering. Musgrove, though retired, has been consulting on the project and has been by the workshop a few times to check on progress and give tips. The sign paddles must be built and made to look aged, and then the carved lettering is attached and covered in white reflective material. They are then attached to a wooden signpost, which is dug deep into the ground for strength. “It’s a lot of work, but the alternative is the County-supplied metal poles and signs,” Urschel said.

“These are much more appropriate for our semi-rural community.”

A handful of salvageable signs were found in the mud and turned in by first responders, so the team is working on repairing and repainting those as well. “Working on those has been a bit more emotional,” Ford said. He encourages anyone who may find a downed sign to contact him at Doug@ ddford.com.

Urschel says the Montecito Community Foundation, which must use its funds toward community related projects rather than individual relief, is grateful for Ford’s efforts during a trying time in our community.

“I don’t know that we can thank him enough for what he is doing for Montecito,” he said, adding that Ford’s efforts are saving the Foundation more than $30,000. For more information, and to donate, visit www.montecitofoundation.org.

Land Use Committee Meets

A sign recovered after the mudflow was recreated by Doug Ford and his team

countless homes in Montecito, from minor remodeling projects to major renovations and new home construction.

Prior to the debris flow, the street signs required replacement due to termites, theft, wood rot, or car accidents. Ford’s plan was to have the signs repaired by students in high school woodshop class, as he oversees the shop courses offered by Santa Barbara Unified School District.

“Once the Thomas Fire and mudslide

Community Foundation is funding the cost of materials.

Replacing the lost signs is a complicated endeavor, as the sign lettering was hand carved by Musgrove over the years. “The first thing I asked Paul was ‘What is the font?,’ and we quickly realized we would have to recreate the ‘font’ from signs that were still standing,” Ford explained.

Musgrove’s meticulous cataloging of the signs and their locations was imperative; he brought Ford his

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At a standing-room-only Land Use Committee meeting on Tuesday, April 3, several County staff members gave updates on mudslide recovery, including Water Resources deputy director Tom Fayram, who assured the Committee that FEMA officials are working hard on finishing revised flood maps for Montecito. The maps, which are expected to be finalized in June, will be the foundation on which Montecito residents rebuild their homes following the January 9 debris flow.

Fayram said that he would like to see residents wait for the maps to be released before rebuilding, rather than attempting to undertake individual studies that are expensive and time-consuming. “The amount of work you would have to do, it will likely take you longer than June,” he said. The short-term maps will likely

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Museum Becomes Titanic

William Mauldin, SBMM board president Wilson Quarre, Peggy Wiley, and Liam Young greeting guests boarding the Titanic

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hat a perfect theme for the perfect place! That was the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) transformed into the White Star Line R.M.S. Titanic, the ship of dreams. As co-chairs David Bolton and Cindy Makela said, “Love Boat was too corny.” Titanic had drama.

It took us back to April 15, 1912. The Titanic was the biggest passenger vessel in the world. There was simply nothing like it. Who could imagine it would run into an iceberg in the north Atlantic and sink that night?

Vintage dress was encouraged, putting all the passengers in the spirit of the era. Entry to the party was like boarding a real ocean liner. We received a “first-class boarding pass” (such tickets cost more than $4,000, while “tourists” cost a mere $30 in 1912) complete with a key to our stateroom. There was even a ramp to walk up to the “ship” and a photographer inside, ready for a photo op.

Mixing and mingling was on the balcony of the “ship” savoring flavors of wine and canapés while the Santa Barbara String Quartet played. Some of the ladies were having trouble tasting because they wore gloves. Later, a unique surprise occurred on the bow of the ship that’s in the museum.

Teen Stars Nicole Trujillo and Jake Gildred sang the iconic song “My Heart Will Go On” from the movie Titanic. Who can forget Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio in that famous scene?

Then it was time to descend and enter the first-class dining room, which looked stunning with dark red roses, three-foot silver candelabras and complimentary china at each table. Our programs were “Passports” from the White Star Line R.M.S. Titanic, complete with stamps from various imaginary travels. Even the menu from Pete Clements Catering was inspired by the Titanic’s first-class dining selections.

SBMM executive director Greg

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Gonzalo Sarmiento and Donna Lang in Titanic-era costumes

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McEuen to Greene & Sitars to Sax

Alastair Greene celebrating his 20th anniversary with band members Jim Rankin and Austin Beede at Soho SB

Jonathan McEuen with his band Mark Corradetti, Phil Salazar, Alvino M. Bennett, and Mark Searcy jamming live in Carpinteria

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eturning to the live performing circuit but no stranger to it, Jonathan McEuen performed an “Americana Showcase” in Carpinteria on March 24. With him were Mark Corradetti [Nashville] on lead bass, Phil Salazar fiddle [Ventura], Alvino M. Bennett drums [Chicago/Burbank], Sean Ingoldsby [Ojai] bass, and Mark Searcy acoustic guitar [Ventura]. The opening set show-cased 11 songs from McEuen’s new LP, Through the Sun Gate, a mix of McEuen-genre music he recorded with various local artists, summing up his travels from his time at Cafe Voltaire Ventura, around the country and back.

Songs named “Faktory” and “Ventucky” note he enjoys the double entendre just as much as his music-making does. This multi-instrumentalist talent humbly shares his stage, though clearly standing free in his own rite, rather, an enigmatic soul-bearer strumming, drumming, plucking, and free-form glass-sliding on the delicate neck of his classic ‘62 sunburst Fender Stratocaster – even burning a new memory for his audience of The Allman Brothers Band’s “Statesboro Blues”, totally zeal yet taken. Congrats, JMcE, certainly one not to miss: “Et tu, Scorcese?”

Celebrating his 20th year as a noted blues composer and guitarist, Santa Barbara’s Alastair Greene gave no less than a three-hour gig at SOhO SB on March 23, sold-out as the line to get in was around the corner. Backed by the SB Blues Society and a large loyal fan base, his not-so-shy kick-a blues music got us all up dancing, and the club had cleared the entire front of house just for that.

The concert was filmed for Alastair’s upcoming music videos and other “surprises” for 2018. The 40-song set

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Scott Marcus, Ph.D., director of the Music of India Ensemble concert demonstrates the sitar at their spring concert

list was a walk through his two decade songbook, including hits “Trouble At Your Door”, “State Street Shuffle”, a set with Chris Chalk from his former band called Scarecrow, and songs from his new multi-hit LP, Dream Train. Been awhile since this town was treated to such a seamless stream of live music made with a three-man band – himself with Jim Rankin on bass and Austin Beede drums; less truly is more.

Two ensemble groups at UCSB

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held spring concerts. The Music of India Ensemble directed by Dr. Scott Marcus, chair of the UCSB Department of Music, held its spring concert of Indian classical music on March 15 at Karl Geiringer Hall. The musicians were seated barefoot on floor carpets in the middle of the semi-arena shaped room, as tradition for Indian music. The ensemble is an ever-changing group of musicians from beginner to advanced, studying under Scott’s direction from January through June 5 – 12 April 2018

each year, a program founded by him in 1989. His interpretations of classic ragas and teaching methods afford students the opportunity to perform a raga by the end of a 10-week session.

Scott went over the program about the ragas to be performed with a sitar demo, discussing the basic structure of ragas, the order of the compositions, and its unique differences to Western composition and mastery. To his expertise, he tuned the 18 student sitars by ear.

The sitar ragas were Rag Durga and Rag Juanpuri, with Neal Kumar, son of Ramesh Kumar, on tabla. Scott used his iPhone with an app for the harmonium. The vocal class performed Rag Bageshri, a classic tale of the woman and man trying to see each other for a late-night rendezvous, but the woman has to walk across an open courtyard to him without her ankle bracelets waking anyone. The concert was soldout with many new Indian music fans.

The UCSB Jazz Ensemble directed

by Dr. Jon Nathan held its first large ensemble concert of the year titled “The Full Spectrum” to celebrate standards to modern jazz styles and compositions, in both vocal and instrumental works. The set list started with “The Blues Machine” by Sammy Nestico, which led into “Bonga” and “Caravan” by Duke Ellington. The band changed players for the jazz standards “Get Happy”, “I’ve Caught

a Touch of your Love”, and “People Will Say We’re in Love”. The second half of the concert switched gears to the modern jazz, Grammy-winning composer Maria Schneider’s works “Dane You Monster to My Soft Song” and “Green Piece”, and the concert finale was Joe Farrell’s “Sound Down”, arranged by Ray Ricker.

High-note mentions go to musicians Collin McCrary on alto and soprano sax, Milo Weising on tenor and baritone sax, Danny Toomey on guitar, Mitchell Solkov and Nina Spring on bass, Reno Behnken on piano, Charlie Prindle on drums, vocalist Kennedy Didier, and guest soloist Josh Sheltzer on alto sax. In addition to mastering jazz music, members of the band are also graduate students in geology, political science, astrophysics, engineering, and clinical psychology.

The Jazz Ensemble will be in concert at SOhO Music Club Santa Barbara on April 29, and at Lotte Lehmann Hall on June 6 with musician Jeff Babko, who is a house band member for ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Barbara Anderson, Sabrina Papa, and Tam Trinh with attitude at the SBMM soirée

Performer Gary Malkin at the PHorum “Music in Medicine” event

The Unsinkable Mollie Brown, a.k.a. Claudia Braxton, aboard the Titanic

ning underwater filmmaker working for the likes of National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and BBC. He died in a tragic helicopter accident while filming in Australia. Earlier in his life, he had almost died from a shark attack; he endured 11 operations. He was an advocate for getting all local children out onto the waters of the Santa Barbara Channel.

This annual event helps fund the SBMM extraordinary educational and curatorial programs. In January, they put 627 third through sixth graders aboard the fishing boat Coral Sea from where they saw seals and dolphins in the natural habitat, captured

Cody and Patty Makela in Titanic’s first-class section

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and studied (and then released) local marine life, and more. One of the favorite programs is the Spirit of Dana Point Tall Ship overnight program.

And the list goes on.

Thanks went to John Palminteri, who led the auction, joking that “We had fires and floods and now the Titanic.” Bidding went for a night in the Sunstone Villa, cruising aboard the Condor Express with 80 of your closest friends or watching the July 4 fireworks at eye level from the museum’s Fourth Floor Crow’s Nest.

After months and months of planning, the committee should be happy with the sold-out event – the best they’ve ever given. Besides the co-chairs David and Cindy, there were David Baker, Emily Falke, Greg Gorga, Kimberley Green, Patricia Crosby Hinds, Joe Lambert, Mimi Michaelis, Sabrina Papa, and Michelle Sevilla.

As the evening extravaganza came to a close, my husband, Don, and I couldn’t find a life jacket anywhere, but we did find a pack of Life Savers in the swag bag! Next time you’re down by the harbor at 113 Harbor Way, stop in the SBMM and have a look. Better yet, come to one of their many lectures and become a member.

“Such a nice party. I can’t believe it.

Such a nice party. I hate to leave it.” – T.S. Eliot.

PHorum 2018

Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care (VNHC) will celebrate its 110th anniversary later this year. It continues to serve its communities and meet their needs when people are most vulnerable. It used to deliver firewood by horse-and-buggy and then started the first non-hospital health care service. Eventually, they developed homemaker and home health programs and provided services for our Veterans while ensuring care for the elderly and dying.

In 2014, VNHC launched a new and free community education program titled “Phorum: Perspectives in Healthcare.” It was designed to be an annual symposium featuring health care topics critical to our area. Each

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year, the attendance increases and this year the Lobero was filled with 500 folks. Thanks to Union Bank sponsorship, there was a wine and tapas reception, VIP and regular, plus the program itself.

This year, our community has been deeply impacted physically, emotionally, and spiritually from the tragedy of the Thomas Fire and subsequent mudslides. Prior to these disasters, the planned program for the 2018 PHorum was designed to focus on Music Therapy used at the end of life. Because of our current community needs, the program was changed to “Music is Medicine—Comfort & Renewal After Loss.”

There was a featured performance

by Gary Malkin, a multiple Emmy, Clio, and ASCAP award winner whose work as a musician, composer, and health innovator has redefined the role music and sound can play in healthcare, education, and mindfulness programs. He is particularly known for a palliative classic “Graceful Passages”, co- produced with Michael and Doris Stillwater, which has touched nearly a million people worldwide.

As Gary says, “Music is the universal language of emotion, and music therapy offers emotional support and provides an outlet for reflection and expression of feelings, ultimately improving one’s quality of life. I know from talking to all kinds of people about the disasters that we feel like crying when we discuss it. Perhaps this music therapy will help. Gary uplifted the audience with his charismatic chatter and his singing while playing the grand piano. He’s been playing since he was a child.

Also on the program were VNHC music therapists Stefana Dadas and Jeanne Martin. Stefana played the guitar and Jeanne the harp.

President/CEO Lynda Tanner and executive director Rick Keith gave special recognition to our local news media: Montecito Journal, Carpinteria Coastal View News, Edhat Santa Barbara, KEYT-KKFX-KCOY, Noozhawk, Pacific Coast Business Times, Rincon Broadcasting, Santa Barbara Independent, and Santa Barbara News-Press. The crystal awards said, “One-hundred-ten percent award for 5 – 12 April 2018

VNHC therapeutic harpist Jeanne Martin Ph.D., president/ CEO Lynda Tanner and music therapy program coordinator Stefana Dadas, MT-BC at the PHorum

Randy Weiss, community relations from Union Bank at the VNHC reception, vice president Penny Sharrett, and VNHC executive director Rick Keith

going Above & Beyond the call of duty when our community needed you most. VNHC 1908-2018.” The awards were given because the information provided helped our VNHC emergency team inform their staff volunteers and patients so they could evacuate safely.

VNHC just won a National Award for its PHorum: Perspectives in Health as the 2018 ElevatingHOME Program of the Year from Visiting Nurses Associations of America. Lynda Tanner just went back to Washington, D.C., to accept the award during the Opening Plenary Session at the VNAA National Leadership Conference.

The senior director of ElevatingHOME said it was difficult to select one individual from a pool of deserving nominees. “At VNHC,

we are especially honored to win this award because PHorum, like any great program, ‘takes a village’ to present successfully,” Tanner commented.

“This award represents the dedication of staff and volunteers, and healthcare professionals who share their expertise to better educate our community about the complexities of healthcare reform. The nuances of end-of-care and now the power of music therapy.”

Today, VNHC has approximately 500 dedicated employees and volunteers who provide care to more than 12,000 patients and families. Each year, the VNHC Foundation provides more than $2 million in various charitable programs. If you would like to help support VNHC, contact the foundation at (805) 690-6290 or visit their website at vnhcsb.org.

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by Scott Craig (photography by Brad Elliott) Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

Orchestra, Choir Host Messiah Tour Michael Shasberger conducts the Westmont Orchestra

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he Westmont College Choir and Orchestra will host its Masterworks Concert tour performing Handel’s Messiah (parts 2 and 3) beginning in Santa Barbara on Friday, April 6, at 7 pm at First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St. Admission is $10, students are free. For more information, contact the music department at (805) 565-6040.

“Messiah is one of the central experiences for both singers and orchestral musicians,” says Michael Shasberger, conductor and Adams professor of music and worship. “It’s one of the treasures of the repertoire that is held in common across time and cultural spans. We are delighted that our students will be entering in that great community of performers who know and love this music.”

The choir and orchestra will travel to Los Angeles as part of their tour, performing Saturday, April 7, at 7 pm in Bel Air Church, 16221 Mulholland Drive, with choirs from Bel Air Church and St. Peter’s by the Sea Presbyterian Church.

The students will participate in morning worship services at Bel Air and St. Peter’s churches on Sunday, April 8.

The musicians will perform their final concert April 8 at 3:30 pm at St. Peter’s by the Sea Presbyterian Church, 6410 Palos Verdes Drive South in Rancho Palos Verdes.

Westmont Hosts Leadership Conference

Keynote speakers Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Brooks, Lynda Weinman, and president Gayle D. Beebe share insights on effective and purposeful leadership in government, non-profit and for-profit sectors at the 2018 Lead Where You Stand Conference, June 6-8, at Westmont’s new Global Leadership Center. The three-day event, “Transformational Leadership in the 21st Century: Pursuing the Greater Good in Challenging Times,” is sponsored by the Mosher Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership and the Brittingham Family Foundation.

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, who spoke at the Westmont Presidents Breakfast in 2015, is a keynote speaker at the Lead Where You Stand Conference on June 6-8

David Brooks, who spoke at the Westmont Presidents Breakfast in 2016, is a keynote speaker at the Lead Where You Stand Conference on June 6-8

Tickets to the conference, which includes materials, parking, and meals, cost $449 and may be purchased online at westmont.edu/lead.

Students may purchase tickets for $199. Conference guests may also book single, air-conditioned rooms with extra-long twin beds and a private bathroom.

Goodwin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, American biographer, historian, and political commentator, has written six critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling books. Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to her latest book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Spielberg and Goodwin worked together on Lincoln, based in part on Goodwin’s award-winning Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, and she has written best-sellers Wait Till Next Year, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, which was later adapted into an award-winning, five-part TV miniseries.

Brooks, New York Times columnist and author of the best-selling book The Road to Character, is one of America’s most prominent political and social commentators. He writes a bi-weekly op-ed column for The New York Times and regularly appears on PBS News Hour and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

Brooks has also written The Social Animal, On Paradise Drive, and Bobos in Paradise. He worked at The Wall Street Journal for nine years and has written for The New Yorker, Forbes, The Washington Post, and many other periodicals. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he has taught at Duke University and teaches a global affairs course on humility at Yale University.

Weinman, who worked in the film industry as a special-effects animator for Dreamquest, cofounded Lynda. com, which she sold to LinkedIn for $1.5 billion in 2015. For more than 30 years, she has spoken on issues ranging from blending technology with education, progressive and alternative education, entrepreneurship, and women in business. She has written more than 16 books on web graphics, as well as guides on programs such as Photoshop and Adobe. Lynda.com offers more than 6,000 courses to businesses, higher education, and government. She has received a multitude of awards, including the 2017 Venky Narayanamurti Entrepreneurial Leadership Award from UC Santa Barbara’s Technology Management program. She is president of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Board of Directors.

Beebe, president at Westmont since 2007, has spent 26 years in higher education. He has authored or edited 10 books and more than 40 articles, including “The Shaping of An Effective Leader: Eight Formative Principles of Leadership” and “Longing for God: Seven Paths of Christian Devotion”. Leading unprecedented growth at Westmont while facing significant challenges, he has loved attracting new resources to build out the campus, developing new academic and co-curricular programs, and pursuing the next horizon. He received master’s degrees in divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, in philosophy of religion and theology from Claremont Graduate University, and in business administration in strategic management from the Peter F. Drucker School at Claremont, and a doctorate in philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont.

For more information about the conference, please contact Mary Pat Whitney at (805) 565-6050 or specialevents@westmont.edu.

•MJ

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In Business

by Jon Vreeland

Jon Vreeland is a writer of prose, poetry, plays, and journalism. His memoir, The Taste of Cigarettes, will be published May 22, 2018, with Vine Leaves Press. Vreeland is married to artist Alycia Vreeland and is a father of two beautiful daughters who live in Huntington Beach, where he is from.

For Better or Worse, Twice is Nice

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t is no secret that most women dream of the day they can walk arm and arm with Daddy down the flower-littered aisle while wearing a long white dress and veil while the organ serenades the bride-to-be in her, hopefully, once in a lifetime experience amid their closest friends and family. However, the cost of this sacred celebration, or the day the bride and groom devote their perpetual and unconditional love to one another averages more than a brandnew automobile – or even one full year at a private college, which costs $34,740, according to collegedata.com.

In 2016, The Knot shows the cost of a wedding with 141 guests in attendance averaged around $35,000, nearly a $3,000 increase from the year prior, and with 149 attendees. And Kelley Blue Book shows the average cost of a new car is $33,560 (USA Today).

Furthermore, the Census Bureau of 2016 shows the annual median household income in the United States at

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just under $60,000. So, as you can see, a new car (or one-year at a private college) plus a semi-outlandish wedding for the couple averages well over a person’s annual salary.

Those astronomical numbers are the reason Santa Barbara business owner Emma Recher, along with the reverend Sarah Farmer, have re-launched Montecito Weddings, a business the Reverend Farmer initially started 12 years back. The two women are determined to utilize the shores of Santa Barbara and Montecito with affordable wedding packages and

provide any couple with aspirations of a tremendous marital inception with a well-planned celebration the newlyweds, as well as any number of guests desired, will remember for the remainder of their lives.

“Santa Barbara is the city of weddings, and we want everybody to be able to get married in Santa Barbara,” says Emma, who is also a novelist born in Paris, France. “And you can have a nice wedding on the beach, especially here in Santa Barbara.”

Montecito Wedding packages offer ceremonial settings on either of the five local beaches, which includes Leadbetter, as well as a Santa Barbara local’s favorite, Butterfly Beach. Or, the future newlyweds also have the privilege of choosing from the Santa Barbara Courthouse Clock Tower, Mural Room – and of course – their historical Sunken Garden, as their formal setting.

Some packages carry a cost as low as 90 percent below the national average, such as the “All You Need is Love” package, which consists of an amorous 25-to-30 minute ceremony given by a non-denominational minister, with a complimentary witness, as well as the filing of the paperwork.

But Emma says that Montecito Weddings can handle weddings of “any-size,” providing everything from a seaside ceremony, or wherever the couple may choose, with the handling

of tedious necessities like invitations, photo and videographer, a coordinator, rehearsal, hair and make-up for the lady-in-white, live pianist or harpist, and a list that goes on and on with the option of customizing packages to the client’s ultimate satisfaction.

“We intend to take the time, stress, and expense out of wedding planning, so that couples can enjoy their special day without having to lift a finger,” says the reverend Sarah Farmer. “Emma upgraded the catering/reception packages by bringing on board local and amazing celebrity chef, Jean-Paul Luvanvi, bringing Montecito Weddings to a whole new level.”

Although Montecito Weddings can book the couple any venue the lovebirds desire, Emma says that the primary focus is to ensure the availability of a beautiful California wedding on the golden shores of the American Riviera. So, before you postpone another year of college, or before you decide to take another chance on your tired old vehicle, visit the Montecito Weddings website at www.montecitoweddings.com, and explore the many packages Ms. Emma Recher and the reverend Sarah Farmer have meticulously organized for the planning of your dream wedding.

Montecito Weddings is at 1482 East Valley Road #312 in Montecito. The phone number is (310) 613-6370. •MJ

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No More Toking

So, smoking is now a crime in Santa Barbara.

This means now no one here will ever die.

Not unless a police officer is killed or injured during a domestic dispute with a couple of infantile drunken idiots.

Not unless innocent people are killed or injured by a drunk driver.

Not unless maniacs with guns are on the loose.

Not unless criminals prey and kill.

But thank God we got rid of that evil tobacco!

Way to go, Santa Barbara City Council!

Now, if you could just do something about the heartbreak of Psoriasis.

Robert Miller Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Thank you for your observations, but we suggest the Santa Barbara City Council can and will tackle, tame, and eventually put an end to not only the “heartbreak of Psoriasis,” but also melting polar ice caps, nuclear war, marital infidelity, and annoying dandruff. And that’s just a start (though they will need some extra tax money for those lofty purposes). Onward, City Council! – J.B.)

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Rebel at Heart

I think Jeff Harding’s writings are spot-on regarding the economy, Trump’s tariffs, et cetera, and that J.B. (“Looking For Help,” MJ #24/11) and David McCalmont (“Falling Flat,” MJ #24/12) should pay more attention to a proven economics professor who knows how to respond intelligently and thoroughly to such issues.

Two things I don’t get are why Jeff’s column (The Capitalist) is in the Santa Barbara Sentinel – a light publication – and why Katy Perry’s personal life is so discussed in the MJ’s letters section. I’m under the impression her preacher dad is some kind of religious zealot, as a whole lot of that type are, and what independently minded, successful individual wouldn’t rebel at that?

Ben Burned Montecito (Editor’s note: It’s all a mystery to us, though we don’t know why paying “more attention” to Mr. Harding’s economic philosophy would help, as we simply disagree with his conclusions. – J.B.)

Banning “How to” Books

The recent decision by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and Reddit founder Steve Huffman to make the world safe by removing “gun-related content” from their sites, represents a politically driven censorship effort to remove opposing views on hot-button issues and may have unintended consequences.

These internet video-hosting services are venturing on to a very slippery slope that could lead them unwittingly into strict content regulation by government agencies and agenda-driven bureaucrats based upon First, Second, and Fourth Amendment grounds, depending upon which political party is in power.

Like Prohibition, blocking or restricting “gun-content” streaming videos will simply create an underground market for those wanting to share dangerous information. In the wrong hands (and minds), any information can be dangerous. Efforts to keep bomb-making books such as The Anarchist Cookbook out of public libraries quickly spawned an underground market for the DVD/CD and text-only versions now shared digitally by tens of millions of subversives, terrorists, and high school chemistry students.

Should other “how-to” books teaching reloading techniques, restoring antique weapons, or how to make a firing pin with a 3-D printer also be restricted? Should chemistry information be restricted to medical and law enforcement “experts”?

How do we “unlearn” about dangerous chemical combinations such as

nitric acid+glycerine, sulphur+potassium nitrate+charcoal, vinegar+baking soda+plastic bottles, water+sodium, gasoline/turpentine or acetone+glass bottles, match heads+plumbing pipe, and the thousands of other lethal mixtures, all of which are readily available on eBay, Amazon, or your local hardware store?

Let’s not forget the thousands of Wikipedia pages and blogs discussing and/or describing the 9th-century Chinese discovery of gunpowder, Alfred Noble’s contribution to warfare, weapons, TNT, the 1836 patent by Frenchman Sorel for galvanized pipe, the history of Dennis Papin and his 1679 invention of the pressure cooker, and Parisian chemist Jean Chancel for his 1805 magical medley of sulphur, sugar, rubber, and potassium chlorate, which produced the strike-anywhere match. As most country boys know, match heads are a common substitute for firecrackers… and gunpowder.

In his book Records of the Unworldly and the Strange, Chinese author Tao Gu describes in 950 A.D., a miraculous “light-bringing slave” created when little sticks of pinewood are impregnated with sulphur. Should this ancient book, sticks of pinewood, and sulphur (a primary component of gunpowder) be banned? Should YouTube and Reddit discussions of this book, and related topics, be blocked or shut down?

With health and safety as justification for halting “gun-issue” discussions, let’s not forget that the demonic NRA was founded in New York City in 1871 for the purpose of defending the rights of former slaves to own firearms. It was the NRA that battled “Jim Crow” laws and the KKK. These inconvenient and historical facts can found in David Kopel and Joseph Greenlee’s The Racist Origins of Gun Control Laws and in most of Dr. John Lott’s best sellers.

We’ve been reassured that YouTube and Reddit will be recruiting “unbiased experts”(?) to monitor content for unsafe, dangerous “gun-issues,” and hate speech from radical and terrorist sources. These “censors” will also likely be promoting and endorsing “common-sense gun solutions” like those enacted by Dr. David Helsel, superintendent of the Blue Mountain School District of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, by supplying each classroom to have a five-gallon bucket of river stones for defense.

To be fair, YouTube and Reddit needs to consider banning all unhealthy, unsafe, and politically incorrect video content including, how to make a banana cream pie (promotes heart disease), how to mix drinks (enables drunk drivers), how to make your own auto repairs (non-professionals can turn vehicles into deadly weapons), how to sharpen knives (turning a butter knife into a serrated assault

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weapon), and how to throw river stones against teachers who assign too much homework.

As the peace-loving candidate Obama rhetorically(?) said in Philadelphia on June 14, 2008, “..if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun…”

Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Lucky for us, that the much-used “memory hole” from 1984 can’t function correctly in the “preserve everything forever” technological era we have entered upon, though many if not most people barely get beyond page one of a Google search, which really is a problem. – J.B.)

Family Education USA

If you complete the challenge you will have listed, in order of admission, the first 13 states to ratify the U.S. Constitution in the period 1787-90.

Below you see 13 word lists. (a) The words in each list contain only letters that appear in the state name. (b) Each letter in the state name appears at least once in the words of each list.

1. AWARD, ELDER (State:_____________) 2. NAIVELY, SPAN (State:_____________) 3. WEENY, JEERS (State:_____________) 4. AIR, GORE (State:_____________) 5. TONIC, UNION, CENT (State:_____________) 6. CHEST, ASSUME (State:_____________) 7. ALARM, DRY, RAIN (State:_____________) 8. CHARIOTS, INSULT (State:_____________) 9. ANSWER, EMPIRE, SHIP (State:_____________) 10. GRAIN, VAN (State:_____________) 11. OWNER, WONKY (State:_____________) 12. TAILOR, CHAIN (State:_____________) 13. LOANER. HIDES (State:_____________) Answers can be found below

Submitted by Sanderson M. Smith, Ed.D. Retired mathematics teacher (Cate, SBCC) Carpinteria •MJ

Answers to Family Education USA

Beyond addressing critical community issues (land-use and development, traffic and safety, telecommunications, water, et cetera), the Montecito Association is committed to: a) preserving the Montecito Community Plan and adapting it where necessary as we face potentially historic change; b) being a comprehensive resource for information and public forums; and c) bringing our community together at events like The Village 4th of July parade and Montecito Beautification Day. We each chose Montecito for a reason, and we all have a say in the future of our unique community. Working together with residents and county stakeholders, including the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, we can continue to preserve Montecito’s character and beauty and can ensure that when change comes, it is in a form that is sustainable and compatible with the character of the Montecito community we know and love. I would encourage the residents of Montecito to engage with the Montecito Association and contribute their ideas, energy, and resources.

Montecito is strong. We are resilient.

We will rise together. We are 93108 strong.

Megan Orloff Montecito (Mr. Orloff is a Montecito Association Board member and also its Outreach Committee chair.)

1) Delaware, 2) Pennsylvania, 3) New Jersey, 4) Georgia, 5) Connecticut, 6) Massachusetts, 7) Maryland, 8) South Carolina, 9) New Hampshire, 10) Virginia, 11) New York, 12) North Carolina, 13 Rhode Island

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Brilliant Thoughts

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Astronomy and Angels

D

o you ever long for the good old days, when the sun went around the Earth, and we were really the center of everything?

Science keeps discovering new ways in which we are less and less significant, and the world more and more strange. Not many eras ago, if I were to quip, “They told us to get out of the galaxy before sundown – but they didn’t say which sun,” nobody would get the point. Now, we understand that it’s something more than a silly joke.

How to live in a world like this? One approach is not to take any of it too seriously. Even the astronomer, who spends his (or her) days (or nights) in realms almost inconceivably immense and remote – or the nuclear physicist, who studies the interior vastness of atomic particles – has to come home, take out the garbage, and tell the children bedtime stories. It’s as if there are two separate realities: the one we live in from day to day, and the one we know of, but can safely ignore (if we wish to retain our sanity).

Poets have struggled to express this almost irresoluble dichotomy. One of my favorite examples is by Francis Thompson, a British vagrant whose own mental (and physical) health was indeed often in question, and who died in 1907, just two years after Einstein published his first paper on Relativity.

Thompson was deeply religious, and his poem “The Kingdom of God” strives to affirm that there is no real divide between the universe beyond us and the world within us. “O world unknowable, we know thee,” he starts by declaring. And the stanza that has haunted me since school days proclaims: Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed conceiving soars! – The drift of pinions, would we hearken, Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors.

This does need a little explanation.

Thompson imagines a universe full of “wheeling systems” like our own Solar System. To “darken,” in this context, can be understood as meaning to move obscurely. “The drift of pinions” means the beating of wings – that is, the wings of angels. And “our own clay-shuttered doors” is a poetic way of saying “our own bodies and lives.” (I still remember my English teacher thumping her chest 5 – 12 April 2018

as she read out that last line.) In other less-imaginative words, whatever we consider meaningful and holy is not “out there,” but “in here.”

So, everything that really matters is all around us, as much as it is anywhere else. That line about the “drift of pinions” reminds me of another quotation from the days when people still thought, at least figuratively, in terms of angels – one of the few lingering fragments of my college history studies. It is from a once-famous speech given in the British House of Commons by John Bright in 1855, when Britain was bogged down (as other countries have been in other conflicts) in the Crimean War. Bright was a leading opponent of that now long-forgotten war. He declaimed: “The Angel of Death is abroad in the land. You can almost hear the beating of his wings.” (That war, however – which did give us both “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and Florence Nightingale – went on for another year. Later, Bright, when asked by one of his young children about the meaning of “Crimea” on a monument, is said to have answered, “A crime.” Recent events in that region have given those words new resonance.)

Today – thanks largely to the dubious progress of psychiatry – most of us think less of spiritual intervention in human affairs than of the power of drugs to penetrate our consciousness and shape the ways we see the world. But one potent and controversial pharmaceutical, Phencyclidine (PCP), first marketed in the 1950s, has long been known as “Angel Dust.” And, instead of the Angels of Heaven, some associations of mortals – including certain Allied aviators in both World Wars, and, more recently, a notorious Californiabased band of riotous motorcyclists – have proudly claimed kinship with the nether regions, by calling themselves “Hell’s Angels.”

All these perturbations of our previously placid world view help us sympathize with the reluctance of the Polish Renaissance astronomer, Copernicus, to publish his almost literally Earth-shaking book, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres. It is said that a copy of the first printing was placed in his hands in 1543, just before he died.

What a way to go!

•MJ

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING On Tuesday, April 17, 2018, the Montecito Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at 123 East Anapamu Street, Room 17, Santa Barbara, CA, which will include the following items: 1. Case No. 18ORD-00000-00005. Adopt a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors that the Board of Supervisors adopt an ordinance (Case No. 18ORD-00000-00005) amending Division 35.2, Montecito Zones and Allowable Land Uses, Division 35.7, Montecito Planning Permit Procedures, Division 35.9, Montecito Land Use and Development Code Administration, and Division 35.10, Glossary, of Section 35-2, the Santa Barbara County Montecito Land Use and Development Code, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code; and 2. Case No. 18ORD-00000-00006. Adopt a recommendation to the County Planning Commission that it recommend to the Board of Supervisors that the Board of Supervisors adopt an ordinance (Case No. 18ORD-00000-00006) amending Division 1, In General, Division 2, Definitions, Division 10, Nonconforming Structures and Uses, and Division 12, Administration, of Article II, the Santa Barbara County Coastal Zoning Ordinance, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code.

The proposed ordinance amendments revise the existing regulations, development standards, permit procedures, and definitions in order to accommodate the rebuilding of structures that have been damaged or destroyed during a debris flow event or other natural event resulting in a significant change in topography or alteration of drainage features.

The Montecito Planning Commission meeting begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Commission. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak in support of or in opposition to the project. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the Montecito Planning Commission, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101.

Letters, with nine copies, should be filed with the secretary of the Montecito Planning Commissions no later than 12:00 P.M. on the Friday before the Montecito Planning Commission hearing.

Maps and/or a staff analysis of the proposal may be reviewed at Planning and Development, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101 a week prior to the public hearing. For further information, please contact Tess Harris at (805) 568-3319, by email to tharris@co.santa-barbara.ca.us or FAX to (805) 568-2030.

If you challenge these projects (Case Nos. 18ORD-00000-00005 and/or 18ORD-00000-00006) in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Montecito Planning Commission prior to the public hearing.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the Hearing Support Staff (805) 568-2058. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements.

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Santa Barbara County Planning & Development planner Tess Harris gave a presentation to the committee on proposed ordinance amendments related to the rebuilding, which will be in front of the Montecito Planning Commission later this month. The amendments include allowing property owners to rebuild “like-for-like,” allowing flexibility to increase overall height of the destroyed or damaged structure to comply with the new base flood elevations that will exist for the property after a debris flow event. Property owners would also be allowed to relocate the structure elsewhere on the property to meet new creek setback requirements. No design review will be required for rebuilding like-for-like, if the exterior is not substantially different than the previous plans.

For homes not being built likefor-like, homeowners in a special flood hazard zone would need to apply for a Coastal Development Permit or Land Use Permit, submit site plans, and submit a substantial improvement worksheet that would be reviewed by Flood Control.

The Land Use Committee agreed to gather comments about the proposed amendments to share with the full Montecito Association board next week. Several committee members took issue with the lack of design review, given the potential to have new topography that will substantially increase the height of homes.

Also at the meeting: County transportation rep Matt Dobberteen gave a report on the bridge replacement and repair on Highway 192, saying the process of replacing and mending the bridges will take two years.

Caltrans is currently working on the relocation of utilities located along the corridor, including a natural gas main, and water, power, sewage, and data infrastructure. “All those have to be coordinated in advance of construction,” said Dobberteen, who is acting as the liaison between Caltrans and the County.

Once the bridges are demolished, the construction schedule will commence, which will take eight to 12 months. A discussion ensued regard-

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Earlier this week, California Insurance commissioner Dave Jones announced that insurers have received 2,000+ insurance claims totaling more than $421 million in losses from the Montecito mudslide.

“Over $421 million in insured losses represents more than property lost – behind these numbers are the tragic deaths of 21 people and thousands of residents traumatized by unfathomable loss,” said Commissioner Jones in a formal statement.

Commissioner Jones is credited with taking extraordinary actions under his authority to protect survivors and make sure insurers delivered and continue to deliver on their promises to policyholders. One of Jones’s actions included issuing a formal notice to all property and casualty insurance companies reminding them of their duty to cover damages from the recent mudslides and debris flows, citing substantial evidence that the Thomas Fire was the efficient proximate cause of the mudslides.

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ing the aesthetics of the bridges, with the Committee asking to provide input on the design elements of the bridges, which are required to meet modern engineering standards, and will be wider and include shoulders. “Caltrans has promised me that they are going to come here and make design decisions with you,” Dobberteen said. There will be texture and color choices, but the bridges will not have the same type of masonry work that was done in the early 1900s.

The full Montecito Association board meets next Tuesday, April 10.

On Wednesday, April 11, the MA is hosting another Community Informational meeting related to the rebuilding, at Montecito Union School, from 5 to 6:30 pm. For more information, visit www.montecitoassociation.org.

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Daniel H. Pink

MONDAY!

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity

Mon, Apr 9 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall $25 / $10 all students (with valid ID) “Applying [these principles] could have dramatic impacts on one’s life and on society.”

The Washington Post They say timing is everything, yet we make important decisions such as when to start a business, ask for a raise or get married based on intuition and guesswork. In his book, When, bestselling author Daniel Pink draws on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology and economics to unlock the secret of how best to live, work and succeed.

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Mon, Apr 16 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall “[Burke Harris] delivers revelations about what is really going on – in our bodies, in our families, in our communities – as a result of childhood toxic stress, as well as targeted solutions for individual healing.”

– Ashley Judd, actress and activist Books will be available for purchase and signing

Presented in association with CALM, KIDS Network, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics and the Resiliency Project Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Meaningful Life

The Must-see Recital of the Year!

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Sun, Apr 15 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $40 / $19 UCSB students

Metropolitan Opera superstar Joyce DiDonato will take a rare break from performing the title role in The Met’s production of Cendrillon to make her Santa Barbara debut. Don’t miss today’s reigning diva, performing live!

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Coming

& Going

by James Buckley

James Paul Brown Turns 80

interests. By the mid-’70s, however, he’d either sold or moved on from his interest in radio and publications, moved to Santa Monica (from the Bay Area), and settled into the life of a fulltime artist, becoming a vital part of the Venice art community. Folks such as Artists James Paul Brown celebrates his 80th birthday with friends old and new at Sunstone Winery; with him is his wife of 28 years, Juliet Rohde-Brown, an opera-trained singer who confesses to having cut “a cheesy disco song” called “Bring Me Love” back in the day, before returning to school and earning a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.

She now runs her own small practice and works at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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ots of people only know the name James Paul Brown for his unique paintings that appear on bottles of Sunstone wines. But that isn’t even half the story, as a short conversation with the now octogenarian Mr. Brown reveals. During our short talk at Sunstone Winery headquarters in Santa Ynez, James Paul tells me he was a marathon runner for 30 years and wasn’t always a working artist. He began his career as a radio show host, whose show The Small Business Report (sponsored by American Express) was voted “best radio show in the U.S.” He deejayed

a classical music show, and was an Entertainment Tonight radio show host (working with Leeza Gibbons and Adam Curry); Another of his successful ventures that he also personally deejayed (heard on more than 300 stations throughout the U.S.), was Hit Line USA, whereupon the only way to get on his show was to have a number-one hit record.

Brown was also a publisher, launching Earth magazine in 1970, not long after Rolling Stone and The Whole Earth Catalog began their long runs, and created Earth News Radio and Rock News (radio) to go along with his dual

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Autumn Noe at MUS tells us that Montecito Union School District will be hosting a “Night of Heroes” to personally thank the people directly involved with helping Montecito Union School District during the debris flow and after. “With donations, hard work, love, and support, we were able to make the best of a difficult time for our school community,” Autumn says. Among those to be honored are Santa Barbara Zoo, MOXI, Santa Barbara City College, and Hope School District.

When: Monday April 9, 7:30 to 9:30 pm; Where: MUS auditorium

Summer Camps

Mathew Morrison is just about to launch a community resource web page to list all the Santa Barbara summer camps, “where the parents can quickly and easily filter through the camps by session, age, price, location, make a wish list, and share the wish list with their friends,” he writes.

This came in late, but you should log on to demo.sbkidscamps.com as the actual website (SBKidsCamps. com) wasn’t quite finished, though it may be by now.

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Cheech Marin, Kris Kristofferson, Lee Iacocca, Ray Kroc, even Frank Sinatra, and others began buying and collecting his paintings.

Brown then found more work painting the backdrop for a Los Angeles Ballet production of Raymonda Variations, a poster for the New York Philharmonic, and painted sit-down portraits of pianist Rudolph Serkin and conductor Zubin Mehta. If you saw the original La Cage Aux Folles on Broadway, you could have admired the mural of St. Tropez that Brown painted and that was on display at the Palace Theater until the show closed. James Paul was 1984’s official artist for the U.S. Olympics swim team (the other official artist was David Hockney), after which James Paul worked behind the mic for both NBC and CBS Sports,

delivering on-air sports coverage.

Pepsi commissioned Brown to paint Michael Jackson during his Thriller tour.

James Paul was also named “Artist in Residence” for the re-opening of the Granada after its $50-million renovation. Brown, who moved to Santa Ynez with his wife, Juliet, in 1996, founded and owned Artiste in Santa Ynez until selling the business to Bion Rice of Sunstone and has been painting Sunstone’s labels ever since.

James Paul says he “paints every day,” and his youthful outlook belies his 80 years. So, here’s a hearty “Happy Birthday” for an accomplished and vigorous man, whose paintings continue to grace the handsome labels on Sunstone wine bottles.

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On Law

by Steven A. Blum Steven A. Blum received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1987 and has practiced real estate litigation, specializing in landslides, over the past 30 years in law firms big and small. He lives in Montecito and his website is www.cal-landslidelaw. com. He is a partner of Blum Collins LLP.

Fire, Flood, Mud, and Lawsuits for Wrongful Death

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he awesome mountains above us still precariously harbor massive boulders, reminding us daily of our lost friends, neighbors, and family. Some of the 12-foot high boulders that traveled all the way down the mountain, past East Valley Road, sit like monuments to the enduring power of nature.

What does the law have to say about the loss of life? It’s a big topic, but some have focused on Edison, alleging that the giant utility is responsible for our neighbors’ deaths and should compensate the grieving families.

In earlier articles discussing loss of property, I explained that the California Constitution (Article 1, section 19) and United States Constitution (Fifth Amendment) require a government agency – or a utility – to pay “just compensation” if its public project, operating as intended, is a substantial contributing cause of damage to private property. In other words, even if Edison’s facilities were just one of many causes (along with, say, wind and flood) of damage to homes, then Edison must pay for the damage. This is called inverse condemnation.

But that rule doesn’t apply to wrongful death claims. There, the legal theory is negligence and the type of proof required to win the case is different, so there will be different legal hurdles to overcome.

So, let me tell you about Helen Palsgraf, a 40-year old New York housekeeper whose story is known to every first-year law student in the United States. Her story will influence how the case against Edison is decided.

On August 24, 1924, Mrs. Palsgraf decided to take her 15- and 12-yearold daughters to Rockaway Beach in New York. She was waiting on the platform of the East New York train station on Atlantic Avenue, in Brooklyn, when two men raced past

her to board the train that was about to pull out. One of the men carried a package and jumped on board with the help of a platform guard, while a member of the train’s crew pulled him into the train car.

But the man dropped his package and it exploded – it was full of fireworks. This in turn caused a tall, coin-operated scale to fall onto Mrs. Palsgraf. She didn’t go to the hospital, but the shock was so severe that her health deteriorated, she developed a stammer, and she was unable to work.

Later, she sued the railroad, arguing that its employees were negligent when assisting the man with the fireworks, and that she had been injured as a result.

In May 1927, she won a jury verdict of $6,000 ($84,500 today), which the railroad appealed all the way up to the New York Court of Appeals (their Supreme Court). The legendary justice Benjamin Cardozo (later of the U.S. Supreme Court) wrote for a 4-3 majority of the NY Court’s justices that there was no negligence because the railroad employees, in helping the man board, did not have a duty of care to Mrs. Palsgraf.

Why? Because it was not foreseeable that helping a man with a package could injure Mrs. Palsgraf. As Justice Cardozo put it, she was not within the zone of foreseeable risk and, in a famous line, he stated, “proof of negligence in the air, so to speak, will not do.”

Justice Cardozo wrote: “The diversity of incidents emphasizes the futility of the effort to build the plaintiff’s right upon the basis of a wrong to someone else.” Therefore, “The risk reasonably to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.”

Negligence, he emphasized, derives from human relations, not in the abstract. The railroad won the case.

The legal term for what Justice

Cardozo described is “proximate cause.” To prove negligence, the plaintiff must show that the defendant’s act or omission was the “proximate cause” of the injury. But what is “proximate?” Like Justice Cardozo, judges in negligence cases answer this question by deciding whether, as a matter of public policy, a defendant owes a duty to a plaintiff in a particular situation. Usually, that depends on a judge’s opinion about whether an injury was reasonably foreseeable in that situation.

Negligence derives from human relations, not in the abstract Proximate cause is just one type of legal cause. There are lots of different causation tests, depending on the legal theory under consideration.

For example, the causation tests differ for wrongful death (negligence), strict products liability, insurance coverage, inverse condemnation, and criminal law. Each test is grounded in a different mix of policy and legal concerns.

Edison, having now been sued, will defend itself with Mrs. Palsgraf’s story and the precedent articulated

by Justice Cardozo. Would a reasonable person have foreseen that an Edison transformer in Santa Paula, on December 4, 2017, could spark a fire

that would spread 30 miles, melt the vegetation on a Montecito mountain, transform it into a giant slip-and-slide, which then suffered a torrential rainfall that, on January 9, created a debris flow down the canyons and killed people asleep in their homes?

Maybe. But it seems that the argument against Edison for property damage using inverse condemnation principles is an easier case to prove.

And depending on what we find out in the legal process, it might be that those who lost family would be served by focusing on whether the County of Santa Barbara had a mandatory duty to warn residents and breached it by waiting too long and giving the wrong warnings. One purpose of civil litigation is to compensate victims, but another equally important purpose is to change future behavior. Hence, my interest in the County.

Survivors of residents, who may have a wrongful death claim against a government agency in California, must file a proper government tort claim within six months of the death as a precondition to filing a lawsuit.

This is the eighth in a series of articles about the law and the Montecito mudslides. You can read the first seven articles on montecitojournal.net, volume 24, issues 4-13, or email: blum@blumcollins. com.

Next article: “Into the Woods – Do Trees Have Standing?”

•MJ

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Far Flung Travel

by Chuck Graham

High Plains Paddling

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urely Clint Eastwood didn’t envision Mono Lake as a sublime paddling destination during the filming of the 1973 Western classic High Plains Drifter, but today that high-desert realm located in California’s Eastern Sierra is just that, with a few surprises along the way.

I had heard you needed a permit to paddle the expanse of the saline soda lake, not because the State of California was trying to rake in some much-needed coin from the kayaking culture, but simply to keep track of folks who might paddle astray. Apparently, there have been a lot of people who have underestimated the potentially vicious winds that can blast out of the desert and Eastern Sierra, transforming a tranquil paddling trip into an unwanted fight for survival.

“A lot of people have died paddling out there,” said a weathered park ranger at deserted Navy Beach, located on the south side of the 40-mile circumference.

He was actually there looking/waiting for myself, Danny Trudeau, and Craig Fernandez. We didn’t know that we needed a permit, but he didn’t seem too upset with us.

“We’ve had people in the past paddle out and never make it back,” he continued, deadpan. “Next time, head over to the visitor’s center and fill out the paperwork. It won’t take you that long.”

I promised I would and apologized for making him worry. I didn’t tell him about the two gentlemen with the slick, carpetbagger moustaches, dress hats, and the K-Mart special blow-up raft we encountered on the western shore of the lake. Nah, we were still soaking in our three-day push around the two main islands Negit and Paoha and the maze of tufas clustered around the south/southwest lakeshore.

Thermal Awakening

The water was cold in Mono Lake, at least initially. We expected it to be so, especially kayaking at 6,392 feet in the Eastern Sierra and with snowmelt running out of tributaries such

as Lee Vining, Mill, and Rush creeks.

After launching from Navy Beach, we arrived at Paoha 40 minutes later.

Along the way, we all agreed the water was a frigid 40 degrees.

However, when we paddled to the southeast end of Paoha, we felt the water getting increasingly warmer and finally to the point where it was too hot to touch. Thermals were spewing above us and also bubbling up beneath the volcanic isle.

We found a spot that we guesstimated was in the mid-90s, so we had a good soak right out of our kayaks with the Eastern Sierra and Tioga Pass as a breathtaking backdrop. It was a pleasant surprise on the first day of paddling while sharing the warm waters with a bevy of resident California gulls.

Something told us the gulls knew about the hot springs as they fluctuated between feeding in the cold waters for those itty-bitty brine shrimp and then warming themselves when the need arose. There are actually several more small islets tucked between and around the two main isles, and the gulls breed and nest on all the islands in the middle of Mono Lake.

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After our soak, we paddled for the north side of the island. As soon as the sun dipped behind the Eastern Sierra, the temperature dropped quickly. We found a half moon-shaped cove and conveniently perched atop the black volcanic cobble was a picnic table, a campsite too perfect to be true overlooking shimmering Mono Lake and the vast desert plain beyond.

Tufa Towns

It wasn’t easy getting up and out of our tents the next morning. That Eastern Sierra chill was hanging tough. A light wind added a bite to it, so we easily waited until the sun rose above the mountains to the east.

After packing up, we headed for the first stands of tufas situated just north of Lee Vining. Over time, the unique combination of freshwater springs and alkaline has created the other worldly calcium-carbonate spires that stabilize the shoreline and enhance wildlife habitat.

We took our time during the two hours to kayak there, taking in the grandeur of the Eastern Sierra with 10,000-foot peaks nearly jutting out of the glassy lake. We were soon joined by hundreds of migrating

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eared grebes. It was late September and the scruffy little water birds’ numbers grow to ridiculous proportions in the fall. According to park personnel, they arrive each day by the thousands in September and October. They bobbed on the water like little battery-operated toys, then quickly porpoised after the tiny balls of brine shrimp clouding the otherwise crystal-clear water.

Even from a fair distance away from the tufas, this region of Mono Lake was much shallower and sandier than anything we’d paddled thus far. As the tufas wafted on the high-desert horizon between the water and mountains, the incessant chirp of ospreys pierced the lake’s solitude.

We deemed the majestic ospreys the “keepers of the tufas.” They reminded us of angry gargoyles keeping watch over their precious lake. The tufas were not only convenient perches for these fish-eating raptors, but many of the tufas were a nesting habitat for these black-and-white birds. Fortified with tangled sticks and twigs, several of the more prominent tufas were head-dressed with osprey nests. Long before we arrived anywhere on Mono Lake, the ospreys let us know they were nearby.

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have any lights?”

They ended up dragging their boat back to where they began, not thoroughly convinced that was their best option.

The Great Escape

The Beach

Sometimes the best beaches are found on or around rivers, streams, and creeks. Water can grind up rock and pebble, and winds can groom a beach among the willows and Tule reeds as if a kayaker ordered it up.

Instead they’re ready-made, awaiting a distant paddler to discover them.

That’s pretty much how it happened for us while hugging the westerly shore, hoping to locate one of those concealed nooks and crannies with just enough room for three kayakers.

Late in the afternoon with the sun sinking behind snow-capped mountains, we discovered a raised, sandy beach overlooking the lake toward the western flanks of the two main islands.

While pitching our tents and with a fire crackling bright among dense desert scrub, the Eastern Sierra sky performed one of its natural works of art. Late-afternoon monsoonal clouds billowed across the eastern horizon with orange, pink, and purple hues coating those daunting skies. Gusty northeast winds swirled across the lake, and then with dusk descending over the water, the three of us watched bewildered as two schleps motored toward the western edge of Paoha in a flimsy raft straight out of a K-Mart checkout line. As we traded back and forth the only pair of binoculars among us, we came to the conclusion that their makeshift motor resembled something no stur5 – 12 April 2018

dier than an eggbeater.

They were about halfway to the volcanic isle when something went askew. They were soon adrift, struggling to right their ship against swirling, unpredictable winds. It was nearly dark, but what we could decipher in poor light was this; the captain of the vessel had half of an oar and was sitting in a lounge chair furiously paddling on either side of his raft. His beleaguered first mate was ordered to lay over the bow and perform some sort of hideous breast stroke to assist with their mishap.

Somehow, they managed to paddle back to shore, probably using our cozy fire as a beacon of hope. When they disembarked from their miserable olive-green raft – their battery-operated motor clinging to its fragile stern – we had to ask why.

“We were about to drive through Yosemite and I had this inclination to paddle/motor across Mono Lake,” said the man with plaid shorts, a bowling shirt, and a fedora hat. “I just had to be on the water.”

Dressed nearly identical, his partner in crime didn’t say a word and that was probably a good thing. They originally began their venture at a dilapidated boat launch. Earlier in the day we had paddled past it, and now they were hoping to return there in some fashion.

“Think we could paddle back there?” he asked, as we all looked at him with raised eyebrows.

“You best not,” said Danny. “It’s dark now and it appears you don’t

At dawn, we paddled through our third and final tufa maze, the clustered towers standing tall at the base of the desolate Mono Craters.

From our kayaks, we studied a long plume of dust. It wasn’t far from where the nameless drifter Eastwood portrayed in High Plains Drifter had

the townspeople paint the western town of Lago a ridiculing blood red between the south tufa and Rush Creek.

That long plume resembled a long line of galloping horses. Unfortunately, as we neared Navy Beach, the last of the tufas were besieged by a small army of tourists piling out of a dark passenger bus. A potpourri of tourists stormed the shoreline, taking pictures of us as we picked up our pace and paddled for our trucks. Once again, it made me appreciate my kayak affording me the great escape at a moment’s notice.

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Next Friday, April 13, Jennie Reiter, owner of Blanka on Coast Village Road, will officially mark the closing of Blanka and opening of Ambiance, a new boutique with new ownership.

Hit hard by the business loss attributed to the Thomas Fire and mudslide during what is the busiest time of the year in retail, Reiter made the decision to sell her store shortly after the long evacuations in January. “I had to

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make some tough decisions, and truly, the owner of Ambiance came in and rescued me,” she told us earlier this week.

Ambiance owner Kannyn January owned three clothing boutiques prior to acquiring the Montecito store: two Ambiance locations in San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles, and a Mill Valley store called Branded. January has owned the shops for 15 years and hired Reiter to work in the SLO store in 2008. “I worked for her for three years before I moved to New York to continue work in the fashion business,” Reiter said. “We always felt that we would work together again at some point in the future, and when she heard I was struggling, she immediately offered to help.”

January plans to keep the new Ambiance similar in style to Blanka and will offer about 60 percent of the brands that were available, including Reiter’s own brand, Blanka the LABEL. Reiter, whose background is in buying, styling, and merchandising, will stay on at Ambiance as a trend manager, helping to stock all four of January’s boutiques. “I’m so grateful for her,” Reiter said of January. “She came in and rescued me, and it’s been seamless.”

The “Transformation Celebration” is scheduled for Friday, April 13, from 4 to 8 pm. The event will feature cocktails, nibbles, fashion, and a chance to say goodbye to Reiter, who has moved to Santa Monica to further grow Blanka the LABEL. Ambiance is located at 1266 Coast Village Road.

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by Steven Libowitz

Spreading the Jam, One Last Time

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eff Elliott has been running the Santa Barbara jazz jam at SOhO even before it was at SOhO, or at least before it was located where SOhO is now. The trumpeter/keyboardist/ singer has led the house band/rhythm section backing up any and all musicians – professional and decidedly otherwise – who desired the chance to sit in on the stage show since he took it over in 1994, just a year after the jam began. For almost a quarter-century, he has carried amateurs who had difficulty carrying a tune and marveled at unheralded masters who joined just one time on their way through town, always with an easy-going personality and unassuming air.

But now he’s moving on, passing the baton to his chosen successor Kimberly Ford after one last session taking place, not coincidentally, this Monday, April 9, which happens to be the day before he turns 65.

“Retirement age, right?” Elliott said last week. “It’s time to let someone else run it. I thought I’d go out with a bit of a bash, get my family there, have a little cake. I’ve told a few friends, but I haven’t made a big deal out of it.

Hopefully, we’ll have a crowd.”

The audience has waxed and waned, naturally, over the years, since it began in 1993 at the first incarnation of SOhO, in the space next to Victoria Hall that most recently housed The Nugget. Back then it was run by Theo Saunders, a terrific jazz pianist, who wasn’t really suited to hosting, Elliott said. “He was quiet and dark, a very serious man. A great player, but he wasn’t comfortable running the show, so he asked me to take over.”

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Since then, Elliott – whose family moved to Goleta when he was 12, not long after he first started playing trumpet – has served as host, often with trumpet in one hand, the other on the keyboards, at virtually every jam, which started off weekly before shifting to a monthly gig as jazz’s popularity declined in the 2000s. Now, as he gets ready to leave it behind, Elliot can still can recall some of those early gigs as well as stand-out sessions, though the names are little fuzzy as the years have gone by.

“It’s been a ton of fun,” he said.

“Some of the musicians were really good, and we’d really rock the place.

One time a guy name Devin showed up, and it turned out he was Freddie Hubbard’s piano player, so he blew everybody away. There were other people there who were just beginners, which could be a challenge, but I’ve watched quite a few of them become successful. One kid went on to work with Pearl Jam. Another guy got a long gig at a Hilton in China. It makes me feel good to know that I’ve enhanced someone’s career.”

Although he’s been at SOhO forever, the jazz jam was a labor of love, not a big source of income for the trumpeter who studied music at SBCC and

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UCSB, all the while playing jazz, funk, and rock in local bands. His early group, Blues Revival, featured future Fabulous Thunderbirds leader Kim Wilson, known then as Goleta Slim. A few years later, in 1976, Jim Messina, new to Santa Barbara and fresh out of Loggins & Messina, hired Elliott’s fusion band Passage to back him up; they recorded Oasis and toured before the then-Santa Barbara-based Flora Purim and Airto tapped Elliott for an eight-year stint that included recording five albums with the Brazilian jazz couple. It was in the middle of his ensuing decade-long tenure as a sideman with jazz pianist Les McCann that Elliott – who stayed in Santa License 1008801 Barbara#when he wasn’t on the road – took over the jazz jam.

The format has stayed the same over the years, he said, noting that the house band opened the night by playing a set of mostly original songs before welcoming other musicians to the stage to sit in on standards for the second set.

“You’d sign up with the scout, and one at a time they’d come up and do their things,” he explained. “Or maybe in twos or threes. We’d balance out the band and keep the solos short, so the songs wouldn’t go on too long.”

It wasn’t a matter of playing Stump The Band – a favorite of former Tonight Show orchestra leader Doc Severinsen, with whom Elliott also toured. “No, they have to bring in music, the charts.

And they had to know it themselves.

There’s more structure that way.”

Every night was different, he said.

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“Sometimes the jam is like a proving ground, a competitive battle field. It’s exciting to see them try to play better than the other one, and the crowd loves watching them go at it on stage.”

It isn’t just the approaching birthday that led Elliott to let go of the SOhO gig. It’s also having moved to Orcutt eight years ago, after he got married.

The commute is a challenge, he said.

“I loved doing it for the community, keeping jazz going in town. But it’s 150 miles round-trip and usually we only make a few bucks, not even enough really to cover the gas. It’s also hard to drive late at night.”

Elliott has also been amping up his work in Orcutt, where’s he secured regular gigs in hotels and wineries – and also started a jam for the Santa Maria Valley area, which takes place every third Saturday of the month at Ca’ Del Grevino Café in Orcutt.

“You’re all welcome to drive out into the country and join us up here,” he said.

The changing tenure of the Santa Barbara jam has also taken its toll, Elliot said. “Many of the instrumentalists aren’t coming very often anymore.

Mostly we’re getting amateur singers, which are tougher for me, so I’m getting a bit burned out.”

That’s also why he suggested that Kimberly Ford – the veteran Santa Barbara jazz educator and vocalist, who most recently has created a well-received tribute to Joni Mitchell – take over running the jam beginning next month.

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bash on Monday, April 9, when Elliott will be joined by the hot-shot current house band featuring guitarist Chris Judge, bassist Brendan Statom, and either Rene Martinez or San Luis Obispo-based Darrell Voss on drums.

Saxist Vince Denham, a longtime sideman with Michael McDonald, is expected back for the finale, as are other special guests. “I’m not really sure who might show up,” Elliott said.

“I just put the word out, and we’ll see who comes. Just like always.”

The trumpeter wasn’t all that wistful when asked how he’ll feel at the end of the night.

“I’m sure I’ll miss it,” he said. “But I’ll be back, fill in when they need me to. I’m already coming in August when Kimberly is away. And who knows? I may even come down and just play once in a while, as long as I can leave and get home at a decent hour.”

Green Day Musical out of the Box

Samantha Eve laughed when I told her that the only time I saw American Idiot, the Broadway musical version of Green Day’s iconic album, I hated it so much I wished I had left. Really loud. A story that was too hard to follow and a little dated, and so much incongruous activity I wasn’t sure two ibuprofen would erase the headache.

“I get it,” she said. “There’s so much top take in, and the way it’s been done, sometimes there’s just too much going on. I’ve seen a lot of versions where all they do is shout angry rock lyrics in your face, and that’s all there is to it.... You may very well hate our production too. I definitely don’t think everyone will like it.”

Well, then. ‘Nuff said? Not quite.

Because right after that, Eve – who created Out of the Box (OOB) Theater Company back in 2010 and has spearheaded a number of Santa Barbara debuts of edgy musicals at the Center Stage ever since – did offer a guarantee: “It’s the most different production of American Idiot that I have ever heard, a lot more relevant to today.”

Green Day’s 2004 album was a reaction what the band saw as hypocrisy of the Bush Administration’s response to the September 11 attacks coupled with the increasingly placid American public, a scorching disc that won a Grammy and sold in the millions.

The 2010 musical delivered it all with aggressive punk-filled glory via a story of three lost and disconnected young men and their friends searching for meaning in their lives. But 14 or even eight years later, the world is a different place, Eve said.

“When we thought about the original time frame, issues of President Bush weren’t all that scary,” she explained. “From today’s perspective, he wasn’t that bad. So we’re updating 5 – 12 April 2018

cost $19.96 to $139.95. Details online at www.skullandroses.com.

Also, jam-band artist Matisyahu, who played a few years ago at Lucidity and just came off this year’s One Love Reggae Festival, is back on tour in support of his critically acclaimed sixth studio album, Undercurrent.

He’ll headline one of the periodic seven-hour Backyard Bash events at Discovery Ventura on Saturday, April 7, where he’ll share the outdoor stage with Hirie, Leilani Wolfgramm, Dirty Rice, and others. The sprawling restaurant-bowling alley-concert venue is located at 1888 E. Thompson Blvd., Ventura. Tickets run $26.50 to $100. Call 856-2695 or visit www.discoveryventura.com.

Boxed in: Green Day’s American Idiot takes Center Stage

it to take place in the present, with more of the current political situations – Trump, and women’s marches, and the other controversies and divisions happening in our country right now.

And we’re incorporating technology and social media into the themes of addiction. Are you really interacting with people if you can’t put your phone down?”

Given that regional theater companies aren’t allowed to change scripts without prior approval, Eve and OOB had to accomplish the time shift through other means. “We wouldn’t censor or change anything, anyway,” she said. “So we’re using casting and costume and staging choices, plus video projects, which are making it much easier to understand time and place. Where people are and what’s going on are a lot clearer.”

So actors in certain scenes might wear pink hats associated with Pussy Riot, while others don red baseball caps, a la “Make America Great Again” headgear. “We’re trusting our audience to be intelligent enough to keep it together and recognize what we’re doing,” Eve said.

While Eve has directed nearly all of OOB’s previous productions, ranging from 2010’s Reefer Madness to the blood-soaked Carrie (2013) and Lizzie (2016) to last year’s ambitious Rocky Horror Picture Show, she’s handing the reins for Idiot off to a colleague, Joanna Syiek, who runs a similarly edgy company of her own in Los Angeles. “I was ready for a directing break and realized I’d rather be in the show,” she said. “Joanna and I think a lot alike, and our tastes our very similar – we’re both into contemporary musicals and weird stuff like Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which we did around the same time. We had a meeting where we were finishing each other’s sentences and had the same vision for this show. So, I knew I could trust her.”

As for whether I’m ready to trust enough to see OOB’s American Idiot?

Since it’s still a punk rock musical, OOB’s show will still feature a full five-piece band – including a violinist/violist live on stage – “a big sound for a big show in a pretty small theater,” Eve said. And there still will be “actors flailing about and throwing their bodies around on stage.”

“I think we’ve fixed some of the problems we’ve seen elsewhere,” Eve said. “For one thing, it’s easier to tell a story in a smaller stage because you can connect with the actors and feel immersed. You may still hate it. I can’t guarantee that you won’t. But maybe you’ll find something to connect to.”

(Out of the Box Theatre Company’s American Idiot runs April 6-15 at Center Stage Theater in Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center. Call 963-0408 or visit www.CenterStageTheater.org.)

Lucidity and Devout Deadheads

The Lucidity Festival’s first offering of its new six-year cycle, “Rising Dawn”, (which we previewed in last week’s column) takes place this weekend up at Live Oak Camp. But you can also head the other direction for a couple of events that could be Lucidity’s cousins.

Skull & Roses, which was established in 2017 to “explore unique interpretations of Grateful Dead music,” welcomes Deadheads from all around to the arena at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, where Jerry Garcia & Co. played many memorable shows in the 1980s. Twenty different bands will perform – including Melvin Seals & JGB, Moonalice, Jerry’s Middle Finger, and Grateful Bluegrass Boys – with no overlapping sets so there’s no FOMO (fear of missing out).

Camping and vending have shifted to Parking Lot C, which is by the beach, as it was during the Dead’s historic concert in Ventura. The festival run Friday to Sunday at the fairgrounds at 10 W. Harbor Blvd., Ventura. Tickets

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No Gyp: Idiomatiques are Back

Four other local lads with a different approach to jazz are performing at SOhO the night before Elliott’s swan song, as the Gypsy swing-lovin’ Idiomatiques celebrate the release of their sophomore CD, Out On The Town. The quartet – whose members Brian Mann (accordion), Kim Collins (bass), George Quirin (rhythm guitar), and Craig Sharmat (lead guitar) have collectively worked with Michael Jackson, Boyz II Men, Michael McDonald, Larry Carlton, Kenny Loggins, Jackson Browne, and many others – enjoyed rare success with their debut Let’s Go Have Some Fun!, which spent nearly three months on Billboard’s contemporary jazz chart, making The Idiomatiques the first gypsy jazz band in history to do that. After their Sunday night show at SOhO, maybe they’ll return to the club on Monday for a final chance to sit in with Elliott.

Classical Corner

The Westmont College Choir and Orchestra Masterworks Concert tour of Handel’s Messiah starts downtown with a performance at First United Methodist Church (305 E. Anapamu St.) at 7 pm on Friday, April 6. They’ll be offering Parts 2 & 3 of the classic oratorio that is more often heard at Christmastime, before traveling to Los Angeles for a pair of Southland shows over the weekend. Admission is $10, students free. Call 565-6040.

The same venue also hosts the Santa Barbara Music Club free concert at 3 pm Saturday, featuring IsraeliFrenchy pianist Pascal Salomon – who just received his Doctorate in Music degree from UCSB in 2017 – performing Bach’s English Suite in G minor; Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2, and PolonaiseFantaisie, Op. 61; and Debussy’s L’isle joyeuse (The Joyful Island). Details at www.sbmusicclub.org.

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achieve when its commitment to a noble mission is unwavering,” she tells me.

“I am a passionate supporter of what I call the four justices – economic, educational, environmental, and social – on an international scale. I view the work at Sage Publishing as pivotal to their advancement as we build bridges from ideas to usable knowledge.”

Sara’s company publishes more than 1,000 journals and 800 books annually.

Whence He Came

also participated as venues.

Santa Barbara’s Museum of Art also offered free admission in honor of the occasion.

Dennis Smitherman, commission chair, says: “Bringing the community together to celebrate out resources and spotlight the incredible work of our artists, organizations, and galleries is one of the core functions that has placed the organization as the nexus of county arts and culture over the past four decades.”

Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Ginny Brush, and Patrick Davis, former executive directors, and Craig Watson, ex-director of the California Arts Council, spoke after an invocation by Santa Barbara poet laureate Enid Osborn.

Speakers at the Santa Barbara County Arts are retired executive director Patrick Davis; California Arts Council executive director Craig Watson; California Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson; former SBCAC executive director Ginny Brush; and Mary Harris, SBCAC vice chair (photo by Priscilla)

The Arts Fund’s Vittoria “Torrie” Cutbirth, executive director; Claudia Chapman, artist; Frank Umanzio; (bottom row) Jamie Dufek, president; and Joanne Holderman, co-founder (photo by Priscilla)

Shaun O’Bryan, manager of the El Encanto, returns to the antipodes

Shaun O’Bryan, the longtime manager of the Belmond El Encanto, is saying adieu and returning to his native Australia.

“It is purely a personal decision to be closer to my family, my aging and sick parents, and my kids reside in Sydney,” he tells me.

“The hotel is currently recruiting for a new general manager. In the meantime, the divisional managing director for North America, Mexico, and the Caribbean will oversee dayto-day operations.”

Shaun joined the five-star Riviera hostelry, which is now celebrating its centennial, in April 2015 from the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa, and also worked with the Ritz-Carlton group in San Francisco, Half Moon Bay, and Kapalua, Hawaii.

The luxury hotel group recently put the seven-acre property, which consists of 92 suites and bungalows, up for sale, as I exclusively revealed here.

But it will still be managed by the international company under a longterm agreement.

For Art’s Sake Santa Barbara County Arts Commission celebrated its 40th anniversary in grand style at a socially gridlocked Mural Room in the County Courthouse, while a number of locales including the Public Library’s Faulkner Gallery, Sullivan Goss Gallery, and Jardin de las Granadas

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Susan Keller, Mo McFadden, Duncan Wright, Victoria Hamilton, Becky Corey, Mariko Tabar, and Mary Harris repaired to the Channing Peake Gallery, just a tiara’s toss away, to tuck into the anniversary red velvet cake.

Victoria Hamilton, nationally recognized and former executive director of the SBCAC and Rod Lathim, a former award recipient for his contributions to the arts (photo by Priscilla)

The annual Leadership in Art Award was presented to Joanne Holderman and Shirley Dettmann of the Santa Barbara County Arts Fund.

Arts are estimated to bring in around $19 million in annual revenues to our Eden by the Beach, supporting 5,857 jobs.

Afterward the guests, including Nancy Gifford, former mayor Helene Schneider, Marylove Thralls, Christine Emmons, Rod Lathim,

There’s No Doubting Thomas CAMA, the Community Arts Music Association, hosted its final international series concert of its 99th season, when the San Francisco Symphony, under veteran conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, performed to a packed house at the Granada.

It was the eighth time the orchestra played a CAMA season, four of them under Thomas, who is retiring after 25 years in two years time, having won 12 Grammys for SF Symphony recordings.

The entertaining performance kicked off with Austrian Alban Berg’s rigorous 1936 Violin Concerto played to perfection by New York’s Gil Shaham, who has had multi-year residencies with the orchestras of Stuttgart, Montreal, and Singapore, as well as playing with the Berlin, Israel, Los Angeles, and New York philharmonic orchestras, Chicago Symphony, and the Orchestre de Paris.

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The multi-Grammy winner was playing a 1699 Countess Polignac Stradivarius violin.

The concert concluded with Mahler’s 1902 Symphony No.5 in C-sharp minor.

CAMA’s centennial, which starts in October, promises to be a cracker with the schedule including the Russian National Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and violinist Itzhak Perlman.

Toth Implant Santa Barbara Yacht Club has a new manager, Layosh Toth, on board.

Toth has eight years of experience managing country clubs and worked for seven years as manager of the Coral Reef Yacht Club in Miami, Florida, where he organized adult and youth sailing activities, including Miami Sailing Week and the prestigious Junior Orange Bowl Regatta.

For the past four years he was manager of the Larchmont Yacht Club in New York.

“I want to raise the level of service throughout the club and continue the long-standing traditions,” says Toth,

Layosh Toth, new manager of the Santa Barbara Yacht Club

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who also brings his wife, Katalin, with him to the Left Coast.

On the Horne

Soprano Hannah Rose Kidwell and pianist Christina Giuca, a formidable pair (photo by Phil Channing)

The two winners of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition, soprano Hannah Rose Kidwell and pianist Christina Giuca, both alumnae of the Miraflores campus, exhibited their obvious talents at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall.

The dynamic duo were on a fourcity schedule, starting in Houston, Texas, before winging to Chicago and wrapping their tour at Steinway Hall in New York.

Their eclectic show included works

by Turina, Mahler, Enescu, Heggi, concluding with Leonard Bernstein’s “Somewhere” from West Side Story and Cole Porter’s “Looking at You”.

From sponsoring Schipper Construction is Michelle Quinn celebrating with daughter Kaylee, 6, who received an a capella birthday song from everyone (photo by Priscilla)

Easter and beyond,” says Rolf Geyling, president of the mission, which has a $2.5-million annual budget and helps more than 2,000 people yearly.

A most rewarding afternoon.

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Compounding the angst was that I was unable to hear a single song, given the shrill screaming of the besotted females in the audience as the Fab Four of George, Paul, John, and Ringo played “She Loves You” and their other early hits.

What a difference it was at the Granada when the Theater League staged Let It Be: A Celebration of the Music of The Beatles, which imagined a reunion of the lively Liverpudlians

The 33-year-old “I Kissed a Girl” hit-maker has been having problems selling the property, which boasts hiking trails and extensive gardens.

In September, the former Dos Pueblos High student sought $9.5 million for the 4-bedroom, 6-bath 2.3-acre estate in the exclusive Outpost Estates area with panoramic views of the Big Orange.

Pitch Perfect

Santa Barbara Rescue Mission food staff includes Jason Nogo, Diego Curiel, Freddy Rashad, Walter Mayer, Mike Jolly with kitchen supervisor Wesley Jones (photo by Priscilla)

Ham It up Our tony town’s Rescue Mission hosted its annual Easter Feast for our community’s more impoverished residents, and for the 11th year my trusty shutterbug, Priscilla, and I volunteered our services as waiters.

Kitchen director Wesley Jones served 320 pounds of ham, 200 pounds of potatoes, 360 pounds of carrots, and 75 pounds of peas to the hungry guests, rounded off with desserts of carrot, cheese, chocolate,

The Winslow family: James, Rachael, and 7-yearold Logan with Demeree Sorensen at the Easter feast (photo by Priscilla)

Let It Be a great Beatles experience

and red velvet cake, as violinist Chase Fierro serenaded the room.

“It is a heaping help of love that transforms hearts and lives this

Be That As It May I vividly remember going to a Beatles concert in 1963 as a I0-yearold in England having spent what I thought was an extortionate $3 for a ticket for the show at the ABC theater in Northampton.

10 years after the mop-topped rockers threw in the musical towel on what would have been John Lennon’s 40th birthday.

The highly entertaining show opened in London six years ago, the 50th anniversary of the release of their debut album Please Please Me and premiered on Broadway a year later, in the footsteps of another Great White Way show Beatlemania in the 1970s.

The concert not only included songs from The Beatles’s extensive catalog, but from their individual careers, including George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” – a personal favorite – Paul McCartney’s Bond-themed “Live and Let Die”, and John Lennon’s “Imagine”.

The sold-out, two-hour show, which has been seen by more than 2 million people, featured a treasure trove from the early days of “Hard Day’s Night” and “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”, to more iconic later works such as “Get Back”, “Strawberry Fields”, and “Hey Jude”.

At least this time around, I got to hear every word.

Lower Expectations Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry has re-listed her Hollywood Hills home for $9.3 million after buying the Mediterranean-style villa for $8.2 million from oil heiress Aileen Getty.

Before toasters, people had to rub pieces of bread together

Broadway star Lisa Vroman signs up for SB Symphony anniversary gala

Santa Barbara Symphony is celebrating its 65th anniversary season in style, securing Broadway star Lisa Vroman, who sang in Phantom of the Opera for two years on the Great White Way and five years in San Francisco, as host and entertainment for its October 19 ball at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort, formerly Fess Parker’s.

Anne Towbes and Janet Garufis will co-chair the boffo bash. “It promises to be an evening of high note,” says executive director Kevin Marvin.

Sightings: Actor Gary Sinise at Fess Parker’s...Former Sopranos star Michael Imperioli and wife Victoria noshing at Olio e Limone...Rocker Alan Parsons masticating at Opal Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

To reach Priscilla, email her at priscilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301.

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Spring is in the Air, Along with Other Stuff

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I hear that expression a lot just before people leave me standing by myself.

See, bonsai expert Mel Ikeda created a bonsai mountain scape at last May’s Bonsai Club of Santa Barbara’s show and sale, and I won it in a silent auction. Mel attached the mountain scape to a plywood base with the instruction to remove it and place it into a shallow bonsai dish or onto a bonsai slab at a later date, which was now. The only dish big enough that I could find cost more than my car. And trying to find a slab online did not go so well either.

“This is Amazon Chat. How can I help you? I see, who died?”

So, I contacted one of our longtime members, Susanne, who used to make her own slabs, and she said she might have one that would work. Pat and I trekked to her mountain home and were amazed by all of Susanne’s gorgeous trees, pots, and rocks that she had collected all over California.

“Been fertilizing?” she asked.

“I told you to toss the shoes,” Pat said.

My trees have a real yen for Japanese soil

Susanne had some Papa Bear-sized slabs that were too big, some Baby Bear-sized ones that were too small, but then we found…

“Wow, look at this mama. Perfect!”

Several days later, with the help of Mel, I was able to place my mountain scape onto the slab and actually get it home from the workshop in one piece.

It is now bonding with the family.

And just in time because we leave soon for Japan, home of a million (or so) Japanese gardens loaded with bonsai. I might even get to see the volcano where my akadama came from.

“You need new shoes before we go,” Pat said.

“I thought about that, but you know, I’ll bet no one in security makes me take them off and put them on their conveyor.”

“Great idea! Excuse me, I’m going to go see if I change my seat assignment now.”

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’m not sure how my bonsai trees talked me into it, but recently I spent $12.49 on something called Fish & Poop. Manufactured in Fresno, the city famous for its tasty raisins, Fish & Poop is listed as “a blend of fish-based nutrients and guano which forms a synergistic matrix that develops a cohesive partnership for vigorous plant growth.”

Wow! Plus, the bottle I bought was a concentrate, so I now have enough Fish & Poop to form “synergistic matrixes (matrixi?)” for months.

Fertilizing bonsai is important, as professional bonsai soil consists of a cohesive partnership of, well, rocks, all carefully manufactured by devastating volcanic eruption. Akadama, the most prized soil, is imported from Japan and quite expensive. But my trees have a real yen for it (sorry).

However, lava rocks don’t have nutrients, so I had to invigorate my growth with fertilizer.

“Besides applying to the soil, spray your fertilizer right on the foliage,” one of my bonsai instructors suggested. “They’ll love it.”

Sounded like a great idea, so I purchased a cheap spray bottle, raced home, mixed up a batch, and started spraying. Tip for fellow and future bonsai owners: Wait until after you “Shake well before using” to take the cap off the bottle or wear an old pair of shoes. And, tip 2: Try to avoid spraying Fish & Poop into an east-to-west wind while facing west to east.

“If that’s some kind of new aftershave you are using to impress me,” Pat said, “I’m not a fan. But it does look like the flies like it.”

Not really sure if my trees loved it or not because shortly after I sprayed, it began to rain. For three days. My Fish & Poop is now on its way to my neighbor’s yard, and they will get all the love for which I paid $12.49.

“Maybe you should stand in the rain for a few minutes,” Pat suggested. “Or hours. And please, take your shoes with you.”

Well, all artists have their setbacks, but I’d have to wait to reapply Fish & Poop because I had another important project. I had to find a slab.

“Did someone die?” I was asked when I mentioned needing a slab.

“No, it’s for my mountain.”

“Ah.”

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he Montecito Heat Index measures demand for Montecito single-family homes in five price sectors. By identifying demand, (contracts to purchase), rather than sales, (closed escrows) we create a forward-looking indicator of market strength. And since real estate activity fluctuates seasonally, today’s Heat score is compared to this date last year. All data are from the Santa Barbara MLS and are uniformly deemed reliable.

How “hot” is our market today?

The total Heat score is 63, a decrease of 26.7% from last year; last month’s score was 53. Looking at the adjacent chart of individual price sectors, the $1-2M and $5M-and-up groups outperformed last year while all the sectors in between underperformed.

The $4-5M sector, which had been showing strong demand, saw a reduction of inventory of 63.6%, and yet found no buyers.

Overall, we are seeing the effect of the chaos the Thomas Fire and resulting mud/debris flow has brought.

The data are telling. In addition to the number of homes under contract (pending) down by almost 37%, new listings are down 40%, sold properties are down 28%, and the median sale price is about the same as last year.

Compare the median sale price for Hope Ranch, up 25%, and east of State Street, up 12%, to our median price and Carpinteria’s, also impacted by fire and mud, both down the same amount at 9%. Also striking is the recent drop in inventory. Last year, there were for this date 166

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

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

active listings; today we have 104.

Most notable is the high-end. In addition to the $4-5M group down almost 64%, the $5M-and-up group typically includes 75 or so homes for sale; today it is 48.

Disasters such as we have experienced have an impact. This is always the case. And we can measure the effect of fire on other markets. Here we have had the largest fire in memory and something very different – mud, boulder, and debris flow.

For where a fire will not repeat for many years for lack of fuel, mudflows, as we all know too well, are rain-driven. When we take a closer look at homes that were listed and have come off market in the last month, the picture becomes quite clear: those in or near impacted areas were more likely to withdraw awaiting recovery and normalization.

Those not immediately affected did not withdraw and are selling often at pre-event or greater prices – which is a majority of Montecito.

Going forward, given the current scarcity of choices available, buyers will most likely not be seeing any great bargains for those homes that remain on the market. The best markets adjust and normalize. We are doing that.

•MJ 5 – 12 April 2018

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PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 3920 DUE DATE & TIME: April 23, 2018 UNTIL 3:00P.M. SANTA BARBARA GOLF CLUB DRIVING RANGE RENOVATION PROJECT Scope of Work to include grading and leveling of tees, bunkers and greens.

A voluntary job-walk will be held on April 12, 2018 at 9:00 a.m., at the Santa Barbara Golf Club, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.

The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977.

There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). 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. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C27 Landscaping Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

_______________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

Published March 28 & April 4, 2018 Montecito Journal

Fiscal Year 2019 Recommended Operating and Capital Budget NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara has scheduled Public Hearings to consider the Recommended Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2019. The Council will review departmental budgets, as well as proposed adjustments to fees and charges. All hearings will be held in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The dates and times are as follows:

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE OF NOMINEES FOR PUBLIC OFFICE

Monday, May 7, 2018, 2:00 p.m.

Monday, May 14, 2018, 2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018, 2:30 p.m.

Monday, May 21, 2018, 2:00 p.m.

Thursday, May 24, 2018, 2:00 p.m.

Thursday, May 31, 2018, 9:00 a.m.

Wednesday, June 6, 2018, 6:00 p.m.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following persons have been nominated for the offices designated to be filled at the Consolidated Special Municipal Election to be held in the City of Santa Barbara on Tuesday, June 5, 2018.

For Member of the City Council, District 3, 18 Month Term Vote for 1 (no more than)

Members of the public are invited to attend, and interested persons desiring to be heard shall be given an opportunity to address the City Council during the public hearings at the above-referenced dates and times. Written comments are welcome and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. All hearings will be held in conjunction with special meetings of the City Council dedicated to the public review of the budget.

Oscar Gutierrez Elizabeth Hunter Kenneth Rivas Michael Vidal th

Dated this 27 day of March, 2018.

A schedule of public hearing meeting topics, which is subject to change on short notice, will be available beginning on April 17, 2018, on the City’s website at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

/s/___________________________ Sarah Gorman City Clerk Services Manager

The City Council is scheduled to adopt the Recommended Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2019, on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, during the 2:00 p.m. regular City Council session.

Published April 4, 2018 Montecito Journal

Copies of the Recommended Budget will be available for public review on April 17, 2018, at the reference desks of the Central and Eastside Libraries, in the City Clerk’s Office at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, and on the City’s website at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov. For more information, contact the Finance Department at 564-5334.

Copies of fee resolutions with proposed changes will be available for public review on April 17, 2018, in the Finance Department at City Hall and on the City’s website with the following navigation: click on the “HOW DO I” tab at the top, then click on “FIND” and Budget Information; finally, click on Recommended Budget for Fiscal Year 2019.

CIUDAD DE SANTA BARBARA

Agendas and Staff Reports for City Council meetings are available 72 hours prior to the meeting in the City Clerk’s Office at City Hall and at the Central Library. These documents are also accessible online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CAP.

NOTIFICACIÓN DE LOS CANDIDATOS PARA LOS CARGOS PÚBLICOS

Meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on City TV Channel 18 (broadcast schedule is available at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CityTV. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/Council/Videos.

SE DA AVISO que se han designado las siguientes personas para los cargos públicos que serán cubiertos en la Elección Municipal Especial Consolidada, la cual se llevará a cabo en la Ciudad de Santa Bárbara el martes 5 de junio del 2018.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to gain access to, comment at, or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator's Office at 564-5305 or inquire at the City Clerk's Office on the day of the meeting. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements in most cases.

Para Miembro del Concejo Municipal, Distrito 3, Término de 18 meses - Vote por uno (no más de) Oscar Gutierrez Elizabeth Hunter Kenneth Rivas Michael Vidal

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Spirituality Matters

by Steven Libowitz “Spirituality Matters” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area spiritual gatherings. Unusual themes and events with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.

Chief Spiritual Officer

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aking money and living a conscious life are not mortal enemies. So suggests May McCarthy, who over the last 35 years has founded and grown seven profitable companies, in a variety of industries including fashion retail, telecommunications, healthcare software, and capital equipment, that employs 250 people and bring in more than $100 million in annual revenues. She attributes her success to employing spiritual principles, including partnering with her “chief spiritual officer” as her source of intuition, in her business practices.

McCarthy introduced the CSO in her 2015 book, The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance, which carries a five-star review on Amazon.com, showing how creating job descriptions for both yourself and the spiritual partner help in setting up and activating a seven-step daily practice that can lead to a shift in thinking about how financial wealth and abundance are created. The chief spiritual officer is the first step on the journey: welcoming the all-knowing power of the universe as a new member to your financial advisory team.

In her new book, The Gratitude Formula, published last month, McCarthy offers a definable, practical system that readers can put to use every day to achieve success beyond finances: in relationships, career, health, personal pursuits, spiritual growth, and virtually any other aspect of your life. But the basics still include a working relationship with the CSO, which forms the basis of her workshop taking place 1:30 to 4 pm this Sunday, April 8, at Unity of Santa Barbara. In an introduction to the seven simple steps to work with your new CSO as a partner, participants will discover what’s “yours to do” and what is your CSO’s to do – clearly delineating the separate job responsibilities, which can lead to experiencing more fun, more freedom, and greater levels of success in your personal and professional life. Admission is by $20 suggested donation. Call 966-2239 or visit www.santabarbaraunity.org/ path-wealth-seven-spiritual-steps-financial-abundance-freedom.

Taylor-Made Healing

Santa Barbara resident Madisyn Taylor is the cofounder and editor in chief of DailyOM, a popular holistic lifestyle website that encompasses a daily email newsletter and also serves as the series title of two books that 5 – 12 April 2018

reached the top of Amazon.com’s selfhelp charts (“DailyOM: Inspirational Thoughts for a Happy, Healthy, and Fulfilling Day” and “DailyOM: Learning to Live”) and have been translated into more than 15 languages.

Her Meditation for the Highly Sensitive Person reached No. 1 on the New Age album charts for Billboard, Amazon, and iTunes, and she’s been a contributing author for Oprah.com and a regular host on XM Satellite Radio.

Taylor’s third book, Unmedicated.

The Four Pillars of Natural Wellness, published in January, is her account of how she broke free from an excessive reliance on medications to treat binding mental problems and physical ailments to healing herself through the four pillars of natural wellness. The book serves as a gentle and accessible step-by-step guide to self-healing through clearing your mind, strengthening your body, nurturing your spirit, and finding your tribe. Taylor will be at The Sacred Space, located at 2594 Lillie Avenue in Summerland, on Sunday, April 8, to talk about and sign copies of the book. While her 3 pm talk in the small lecture hall is officially soldout, visitors are welcome to listen in from the store and to have their books signed beginning at 2 pm and again after the talk. Info at 565-5535 or www. sacredspace.us. Visit Taylor’s websites at www.dailyom.com and www.mad isyntaylor.com/wp.

SKY Pilot

SKY Meditation, which arrived in Santa Barbara via a series of free introductory sessions last month, has scheduled its first SKY Breathing Meditation Program workshop for this weekend, April 7-9. SKY, which is being practiced by tens of thousands of people around the country, utilizes the innate ability of the breath to trigger an automatic quieting of the mind, leading to a deep experience of meditation for both beginners and experienced meditators.

The process is said to be easy to practice and effective even when the mind is restless or caught up in emotions.

During the practice of SKY, meditators do not try to clear the mind or even watch the breath. The core technique brings the rhythms of the body, mind, and emotions into harmony with the innermost self to provide a framework state that resonates throughout the day.

The weekend program includes instruction and practicing the technique, plus specific light physical

stretches, interactive processes, and other elements to help integrate the benefits of meditation into every aspect of daily life. Many of the wide-ranging physiological, mental, and emotional benefits are often seen immediately.

The SKY materials suggest that numerous peer-reviewed published studies have verified these benefits.

The workshop takes place 3 to 6 pm on Saturday and Sunday, plus 6:30 to 9:30 pm Monday in an intimate space on East Victoria St. The course fee is $395, with a $100 discount for students. Call 815-9700, email santabar bara@skymeditation.org or visit www. eventbrite.com/e/sky-breathing-med itation-program-tickets-44713006807 for details.

If you’re not ready to commit, the organizers are also hosting continuing free workshop that have been moved from the Goleta Valley Community Center to Unity of Santa Barbara. The next one takes place 6:30 to 8 pm on Wednesday evening, April 11, and will feature theoretical as well as an experiential component, including a guided meditation process. Call or email as above, or visit www.eventbrite.com.

The Art of Gong

In Harmonic Immersion: The Art of Gong Meditation, Ron and Michelle Anuradha Angel employ a wide variety of sacred instruments, including gongs, crystal singing bowls, Himalayan bowls, the Halo handpan, Rav drum and Native American flute.

In orchestrating the instruments, they sculpt a rich and varied harmonic soundscape that invites listeners to relax and let the vibrations induce a healing inward journey. The couple, who tour the Art of Gong around the Western states, arrive at Center of the Heart’s Center for Spiritual Living in Goleta on Monday evening, April 9, for a 6:30 to 8 pm session, that costs $20 in advance, or $25 at the door. Please bring your own yoga mat and pillow to find your horizontal comfort. Call 9644861 or visit www.centeroftheheart. com/event/.

Get with the Systems

The Science and Religion Study Group’s next meeting takes place from 7 to 8:30 pm on Monday, April 9, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State Street, where the group’s Mel Sahyun will lead an exploration of Systems Theory, the emerging paradigm that has major implications for scientific endeavors as well as faith. Videos will be screened to provide an overview of the approach that emphasizes connectedness, relationship, community, and belonging, an ecological view of life that is grounded ultimately in spiritual awareness. Discussion follows. For more information, call Bob Richard at 680-5590 or email starryrobert@aol.com.

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Essential Oils

Dr. Benjamin Perkus and Elaine Perkus wind up a series of five free classes about using essential oils for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. “Creating a Healthy Home with Essential Oils”, which takes place 3 pm on Saturday, April 8, discusses how to remove toxins, enhance wellness and create a soothing and uplifting personal environment, while “Aroma Freedom Technique”, which will be held at 11 am on Wednesday, April 11, is a simple yet profound process developed by Dr. Benjamin Perkus for manifesting your heart’s desire and fulfilling your purpose. Dr. Perkus has integrated 20 years of clinical experience as a practicing clinical psychologist with 15 years of work with essential oils into the technique, employs the power of scent to gently shift awareness away from negative thoughts, feelings, and memories to make space for initiating a positive outlook and attitude. The workshops take place up in the foothills at 497 Mountain Drive. A reservation by calling or texting Elaine at (607) 725-7785 is required.

Ongoing Opportunities

Singing to Free the Mind: The Monthly Mantra Lounge Kirtan returns to the intimate small chapel at Unity of Santa Barbara this Saturday, April 7, for an evening of meditative song via call-and-response kirtan – calling to the Divine by various names to invoke presence and connection. As always, the chanting is followed by the sharing of the provided plant-based refreshments and time to connect with the others. Admission is a $10 donation at the door, which includes the vegan refreshments. Call 722-0064, email man traloungesb@gmail.com or visit www. meetup.com/Santa-Barbara-MantraLounge-Kirtan.... Living in Truth, Peace and Happiness: Santa Barbara Advaita, Non-Duality, Satsang Meetup gets together for one of its periodic meetings from 6:30 to 8 pm on Wednesday, April 11, at host Gail Brenner’s home, 11 La Cumbre Circle. As always, newcomers are most welcome to join the community of folks for a gathering that starts with guided meditation to illuminate the deepest truth of being before the floor is opened for questions. Brenner, a Ph.D. psychologist and author, speaks from her own experience about the possibility of moving from common everyday problems to awakened, embodied living in the deep acceptance of awareness of the present moment. Those who are tired of suffering, driven by their emotions, and/or long to see through the mind-made barriers that create separation and limitations, are especially encouraged to attend. No admission charge, but donations are accepted.

Read more about and from Brenner on her website, www.GailBrenner.com, or visit www.meetup.com.

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room for a rate of $705 per night, plus $85 in occupancy taxes, plus overnight parking, but there is also the likelihood that the new Rosewood Miramar will also offer a special “evacuee” rate, as its normal customer base is likely to be non-existent because of said evacuation.

As a former CEO for two of the largest hotel chains in the world, I can still remember the $6 per night room rate at Motel 6 when it was founded in 1962 in Santa Barbara. Twelve years later, the first 60-room Super 8 opened in Aberdeen, South Dakota, for $8.88 a night. But, that was then.

The Santa Barbara Inn

My own evacuation resort preference, and that of many of my neighbors, has been the discovery of our home away from home: the delightful, newly renovated beachfront Santa Barbara Inn with its signature restaurant, Convivo, across from East Beach at Milpas and Cabrillo Blvd.

Hotel owners Mimi and Richard Gunner re-opened the Santa Barbara Inn to rave reviews in July 2016 after a complete rebuild of the 55-year-old hotel, which began in 2013. The resulting 68 spacious, 400-sq-ft guest rooms, most with balconies and views of the ocean, offer 42-inch and 55-inch flat-screen, high-definition TVs and wireless Internet access, all without a resort fee.

The Santa Barbara Inn has been offering an evacuation room rate starting at $289 per night. A free breakfast at Convivo is included in the room rate. What moves this hotel from four to six stars for me, is the compassion, graciousness, and charm of its Rooms Division manager, Johanna Dearinger, an alumnus of the Four Seasons Santa Barbara Biltmore, and her hospitable front desk team led by Emily Flowers. They are awesome at providing six-star service!

Other Local Evacuation Hotspots

The newly renovated Fess Parker Hilton Resort has also been popular with evacuees, with room rates through Trip Advisor starting at $361 per

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Accessory Dwelling Unit Ordinance City Meeting CityCouncil Council Meeting Tuesday,April April 17, 2:002:00 p.m. p.m.

Tuesday, 17,2018, 2018, nd nd CityHall, Hall, Council Council Chambers (2 (2Floor) City Chambers Floor) 735 Anacapa Street 735 Anacapa Street

Evacuation Victims

The real victims of mandatory evacuations are not the Montecito homeowners, who were merely inconvenienced, but the local shopkeepers, restaurants, and other service providers, with hundreds of employees facing huge losses of revenue. For business owners, rent and payroll costs continued with no income from Montecito customers. The saddest part of these evacuations is the pain inflicted upon those who work in Montecito. They are the most financially vulnerable, and it is they who have been punished the most severely.

•MJ

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The City Council will hold a public hearing to introduce an ordinance

Theto City will hold public hearing to introduce amendCouncil Title 30 (Inland Zoninga Ordinance) of the Santa Barbara an Municipal to establish regulations for Accessory ordinance to Code amend Title 30 development (Inland Zoning Ordinance) of the Santa Dwelling Units (ADUs) andestablish Junior Accessory Dwelling Units for Barbara Municipal Code to development regulations (JADUs); and adopt a resolution approving the ADU Covenant(s) as Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and Junior Accessory Dwelling to form.

Units (JADUs); and adopt a resolution approving the ADU You are invited to attend this public hearing. On Thursday, April Covenant(s) as to form.

12, 2018, an agenda with all items to be heard will be available at and atthis thepublic Centralhearing.

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Additional information about The this meeting work effort, and and Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. agenda background material, can be found at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ADU.

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night. Equally popular have been seaside accommodations all along Cabrillo Boulevard, especially those willing to take pets. For budget-minded travelers, the lowest-priced rooms in Santa Barbara come in at about $100 per night, offered by Motel 6 of Santa Barbara, the Sunset Motel, and the Town & Country Inn. A favorite hideout of another small group of Montecito evacuees (including MJ founder James Buckley and Montecito Motor Classic honcho Dana Newquist) has been the Inn by the Harbor, which offered a special rate of $125 a night in a unit that included a small kitchenette.

Well-heeled insured Montecito residents fled to the Ritz-Carlton Bacara, the new Hotel Californian, the downtown Kimpton Canary, and the tiny Simpson House B&B. Some sought refuge with short-term rentals from Airbnb or other vacation rental options. Many modest-priced travelers fled to Ventura or Buellton or Solvang to find less expensive accommodations.

A modest-priced beachfront evacuation option includes the 17-room Inn on Summer Hill on Lillie Avenue in Summerland, safely tucked into a no-flood danger zone, owned by Paul and Mabel Shults of Montecito. Ten rooms have full ocean views. King and queen beds are offered at about $200 a night with free Wi-Fi, free overnight parking, free breakfast, and a free hors d’oeuvres, cheese, and wine happy hour.

Danny Copus, owner and GM of the Montecito Inn, was hit directly with a tidal wave of mud and boulders on January 9, forcing an evacuation of all guests at the inn and a mudslide that buried guest cars parked in lower-level parking lots. Guests awaiting evacuation in Army trucks at daybreak were startled to see deliveries of free breakfast treats by volunteers from Little Alex’s, just doing their part to help flood victims. The Montecito Inn was quick to dig out of the muck, repair the damage, and return to business. Montecito Inn owners and managers also helped some Olive Mill Road victims with food, coffee, and even bathrobes.

Unfortunately, the Four Seasons Santa Barbara Biltmore has not been available for evacuations. It closed in mid-December due to deposits of choking soot and ash from the Thomas Wildfire and it reopened in January, days before the January 9 mud and debris flow when guests were again evacuated. The Biltmore is not expected to be back in business before June. Ty Warner’s San Ysidro Ranch, still closed by the mudslide, is not scheduled to be reopened until 2019, though the restaurants – The Stone House and Plow & Angel – should be open sometime this summer.

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HOW WE HEAL:

Trauma and Anxiety Support

FREE Cottage Health Support Groups, Post-Disaster Relief Unless noted, groups are held at: Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 400 W. Pueblo Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105 Programs are FREE and open to all Santa Barbara area residents.

We have licensed clinicians who will assist your recovery with personal attention to your unique situation.

For more information or to register, please contact program staff:

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You may register anytime throughout the program.

HOW WE HEAL: Intensive Outpatient Program Skill Building/Seeking Safety Group: Mondays 6-7:30p.m.

Gibraltar #1 | Tinka Sloss, LMFT This group will be skill specific and will be taught in a psychoeducational fashion. The goals will be skill acquisition, meditation and mindfullness practice.

En Español Process Group: Lunes 6-7p.m.

Gaviota Conference Room | Gonzalo Gonzalez, AMFT Este grupo permitirá a los participantes procesar una experiencia traumática en un espacio seguro. Este grupo estará abierto para adultos jóvenes y mayores.

School Age/Teen Group: Tuesdays 427 W Pueblo Street, Suite B, Santa Barbara | Stephanie Molina, LMFT Group 1: child (ages 7-12) 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Group 2: adolescent (ages 13-17) 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Groups will involve hands-on expressive therapeutic activities such as art therapy. Process oriented group discussions will take place to address current trauma and real-time situations. Skill-based tools to be taught to aid in dealing with current stressors and emotions.

Survivor Group: Tuesdays 6-7p.m.

Gaviota Conference Room | Layla Farinpour, LMFT and Peter McGoey, LMFT This group will be specific to those survivors who directly experienced the disaster. Please call 806-569-7501 before attending to determine eligibility or this group.

Spiritual Care Group: Wednesdays 6-7p.m.

Sacred Space | Chaplain Pam Washburn and the Cottage Spiritual Care Team A non-denominational spiritually-based support group.

Process Group/Inspiring Hope: Fridays 6-7:30p.m.

Gaviota Conference Room | Peter McGoey, LMFT This group will allow individuals to witness how others have healed, and provide a place to start their own healing.

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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)

THURSDAY, APRIL 5 Furthermore on 1st Thursday – Santa Barbara artists’s depictions of Santa Barbara area scenes are on display at several spaces, including Bella Rosa Galleries (1103-A State Street, 966-1707), which hosts an exhibition by renowned painter Lizabeth Madal, whose works depict the beauty of our beloved Central Coast through her composition and design, coupled with a sensitive handling of paint. Madal will be on hand for tonight’s reception, where you can enjoy wine tasting benefiting the Santa Barbara Breast Cancer Resource Center.

The Places We Love: Plein Air paintings of Santa Barbara, at Distinctive Framing N Art (1333 State Street, 882-2108), is a show by Chris Potter depicting our city streets to the idyllic coastline, all new paintings of the places we love.

The Channing Peake Gallery (105 East Anapamu Street, 1st floor) offers the opening reception of the American Institute of Architects’s Santa Barbara Design Awards 2017 Exhibition, featuring entries that reflect the diverse range of current thought about architectural design in our community, plus illustrations by local architects from the book Coloring Santa Barbara. The Santa Barbara scenes are more of the internal – as in inside the body – kind at Indigo Interiors (1321 State Street, 9626909), which hosts a juried multimedia exhibit showcasing several artists’ expressions of the “Idea of Heart” as a basic human condition that matures in the face of crisis. Given that locals have faced plenty of those moments in the last few months, the exhibit serves as a form of healing for the

community. In a similar vein, the modern collaborative workspace Workzones (357 Paseo Nuevo, Second Floor, 966-3722) features artwork by Brie Ehret Barron (who we’ve written about previously in the Spirituality Matters column) in a display of paintings that transfers her emotions to canvas, letting them be alive, uncensored, and not judged.... On the performing arts front, Opera Santa Barbara returns to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art for a pop-up performance followed by a book signing with Geneva Ives, author of Unique Eats and Eateries, which takes readers through the city’s hidden gems from taco trucks to fine dining to farmers markets. Visitors can enjoy mini appetizers from local eateries featured in the book. Also, a couple of wineries are hosting entertainment both participatory and otherwise. Jamie Slone Wines (24 El Paseo, 897-3366) has three large screens in their tasting room, which will be showing winethemed movies all evening, including A Year in Champagne, the 2014 doc that follows grape growers, famed vintners, aficionados, and experts through the complex wine-making process unique to France’s famous Champagne region, and Red Obsession, the Russell Crowe-narrated 2013 Australian film that examines how Chinese demand for France’s finest wines has caused the price of Bordeaux to skyrocket.

Meanwhile, Grassini Family Vineyards (24 El Paseo, 897-3366) pairs its wine by the glass with complimentary popcorn and a game of wine trivia.

WHEN: 5 to 8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaradowntown.com/ about/1st-thursday

ONGOING Early Earth Day – The Santa Barbara Central Library is celebrating Earth Day all month with documentary screenings, Q&A panels, information sessions, and a special virtual reality night. The documentary film Chasing Coral, which screens at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, April 10, takes a look at coral reefs around the world that are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers, and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world this beautiful, informational, and inspiring documentary that captured the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. Coming next week: a screening of the local documentary Gaviota: The End of Southern California, which premiered at SBIFF in 2017, and Frederique Lavoipierre from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s Trail Talk titled “The Big, the Bad, and the Bugly”. WHERE: 40 E. Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: 564-5641 or www.SBPLibrary.org

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THURSDAY, APRIL 5 State of the Art Gallery – The City of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture had teamed up again to present this special al fresco exhibit featuring sculptures created by local artists. The works will be mounted at eight designated sites in the State Street corridor, with each of the pieces offering a unique or interactive element, each centered on celebrating Santa Barbara’s culture, spirit, and resilience as a theme. The opening reception takes place this evening as part of 1st Thursday at the California Love Locks installation site, at 635 State Street, with remarks and a ribbon cutting by mayor Cathy Murillo and project sponsor Santa Barbara Beautiful. All of the artists will be on site with their sculptures to answer questions and offer insights about the work throughout the 5 to 8 pm celebration. For more details, visit www.sbac.ca.gov/2018-state-of-the-art-gallery/.

FRIDAY, APRIL 6 Hearts in Parts – Singer-songwriter Michelle Lewis grew up in the Boston area and honed her composing and performing chops at that city’s prestigious Berklee College of Music tour of the United States behind her first album, This Time Around in 2004.

There have only been two releases since, two EPs – Broken (2009) and Paris (2011) – and 2014’s evocatively titled The Parts Of Us That Still Remain.

All of those were collaborations with producer Anthony J. Resta (Elton John, Duran Duran, Shawn Mullins) as Lewis straddles the line with music that’s “too refined to call folk and too personal to call pop,” crafting intensely visual songs that explore the emotional resonances in burgeoning and breaking relationships. Parts features the single “Run Run Run,” which – despite its non-athletic theme – found popularity among Boston Marathon runners surrounding the bombing, and was featured on the national cable broadcast of the race. She’ll be joined on stage at the Cambridge Drive Concert Series by fellow Santa Barbara singersongwriter Jena Douglas, with the local duo The Harmony Sisters – comprising Katheryn Boisen and Mary Madden – also on the bill. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Drive, Goleta COST: $15 with advance reservation, $18 at the door INFO: 964-0436 or www. cambridgedrivechurch.org SATURDAY, APRIL 7 Marking Multiple Milestones – Conductor JoAnne Wasserman takes the podium for her 25th season at the helm of the Santa Barbara Choral Society as the ensemble celebrates its

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70th anniversary. Proving she’s still got a lot left in the tank, Wasserman has programmed a concert repertoire that features a work never yet performed during her tenure while spanning the choral cannon from classical to modern. The program begins with Josef Haydn’s new-to-Wasserman Missa in Angustiis (Mass for Troubled Times), also popularly known as the Lord Nelson Mass, one of the composer’s late-period liturgical pieces, and featuring chorus, orchestra, and a quartet of soloists, handled here by soprano Rena Harms, mezzo Nina Yoshida, tenor Benjamin Brecher, and bass Ralph Cato. Also on the bill are Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs, and pieces by Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo and Grammywinning American Christopher Tin, neither of whom was born until nearly 30 years after the Choral Society’s first concert right after World War II. To celebrate the Society’s septuagenarian status, all SBCS alumni (former singers) have been invited to attend the concert and join the choir to sing one of the Vaughan Williams songs.

Meanwhile, noting the poignant timing of performing Mass for Troubled Times just months after the recent catastrophic fire and mudslide (though Haydn composed it about war, not weatherrelated tragedies), the disasters’ first responders are being offered two free tickets to the special concerts. WHEN: 8 tonight, 3 pm tomorrow WHERE: First Presbyterian Church, 21 East Constance Ave. COST: $25 general, $7 kids 7 to 17; $70 VIP tickets include priority reserved seating INFO: 9656577 or www.sbchoral.org SUNDAY, APRIL 8 Poets Per Quarter – Kurt Olsson, winner of the 2016 Barry Spacks Prize – named to honor Santa 5 – 12 April 2018

MONDAY, APRIL 9 Pink’s Perfect Timing – Daniel H. Pink’s award-winning series of provocative books about business, work and behavior include Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, and A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. Pink’s TED Talk on the science of motivation is one of the 10 most-watched such offerings in the history of TED. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, the latest book from Pink – who was host and co-executive producer of Crowd Control, the National Geographic TV series about human behavior – delves into an area that is often overlooked. Despite the famous expression “timing is everything,” most of us make any number of important decisions such as when to start a business, ask for a raise, or get married based on intuition and guesswork. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink unlocks the secret to how best to live, work, and succeed, sharing scientific secrets of perfect timing. Of course, all of this begs the question: is tonight the right time to hear what he has to say on the subject? Must be. It’s when the former chief speechwriter for vice president Al Gore will be talking about the book at UCSB. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $25 general, $10 students INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

Barbara’s first poet laureate – joins two other California-based poets in reading their work for the spring offering of the quarterly Santa Barbara Poetry Series and the Central Library. Olsson, whose manuscripts include the enigmatically titled Burning Down Disneyland and What Kills What Kills Us, shares the stage with Pamela Davis, whose 2015 first book, Lunette, won the ABZ Poetry Prize and who has read her poetry at Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and Kate Morgan, an undergraduate English student at UCLA who draws inspiration from romantics, modernists, and contemporaries alike. WHEN: 7 to 8:30 pm WHERE: Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: 564-5641 or www. sbplibrary.org WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 UCSB Arts Walk – The seaside campus finally gets its own annual arts walk that’s open to students, faculty, staff, and the general public,

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Cohn Heads to Lobero – You’ve got to wonder whether singer-songwriter Marc Cohn ever regrets recording “Walking in Memphis”, the soulful ballad that propelled his debut album to platinum status but has defined him ever since. Actually, maybe there’s no wonder, as just over two years ago, Cohn released Careful What you Dream: Lost Songs and Rarities and the bonus album Evolution of a Record featuring neverbefore-heard songs and demos that date back more than a quarter-century, indeed years before his debut. The natural storyteller, whose tales from his own life often distill universal truths, has never tasted that kind of success again, but he certainly earned the respect of such peers as Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Patty Griffin, all of whom made guest appearances on Cohn’s early records. Still, Cohn decided to take a decade-long sabbatical from recording beginning in1998, returning with 2007’s Join the Parade, inspired by the horrific events following Hurricane Katrina and his own near-fatal shooting. Interestingly, 2010’s Listening Booth: 1970, a collection of covers of Cohn’s favorite songs from the year he turned 11 passionately delivered in his immediately recognizable tenor, outsold every other record of his career. Prolific? No. Compelling? Yes. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $40 & $30 ($105 patron tickets include priority seating and pre-concert private reception) INFO: 9630761 or www.lobero.com

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