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IT specialist John Holman, 65, proves it’s never too late to become an author, p. 6

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Juice Ranch Coming To Montecito

Compass Opens

Marlo’s Massage Moves

Erin Gomez and Scott Walker to open their popular juice bar at Coast Village Plaza, p.12

John Nisbet moves Compass, a technology-driven real estate brokerage, to new location on CVR, p.24

Marlo Tell expands her business to new Coast Village Circle location, p.30

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Letters to the Editor

The Rally4Kids sign-up for the overnighter is filled up, but there is plenty of room for supporters of the United Boys & Girls Club to attend the Polo Club gala on Saturday, April 29

S E E I N T E R N AT I O N A L P R E S E N T S

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DR. HELENA NDUME

Gwyneth’s two swimming pools; John Holman’s book; LifeChronicles awards; SB Choral Society; SB Chamber Orchestra; State Street Ballet; Jimmy Connors; Ellen wins lawsuit; SB Symphony; and Queen Elizabeth’s chocolate

“ N A M I B I A’ S M I R A C L E D O C TO R ” A P R I L 2 9 , 2 0 1 7 AT 2 : 3 0 P M

Denice Adams expounds on AUDs; Atom Bergstrom on past life; Juan Magalhaes out of Africa; and Ernie Salomon on cancer

L O B E R O T H E AT E R

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Join us for Dr. Ndume’s inspirational story of survival, resilience, and success. Hear about her journey, from escaping apartheid rule, to achieving world renown for her humanitarian services to the blind.

P U R C H A S E T I C K E T S AT

Knit ‘N Needle; The New Yorker; SBMM lecture; bird walk; Spanish group; SB Voice Academy; Easter services; basket weavers; MUS Board meeting; MPC meeting; Channel City Club; Lisa Smartt book signing; food drive; Garden Club; Spanish conversation; MUS festival; gathering journal; author Kia McInerny; PoolSide Yoga; MFPD prevention chipping slate; art classes; brain fitness; Story Time; and Italian talk

Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

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Coast Village Association updates; Montecito Association meets; Juice Ranch to open in Montecito; Compass opens on CVR; Marlo’s Massage moves; and MFPD acknowledges dispatchers

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Lynda Millner makes note of SBMM’s fundraiser Four Nations; William Sansum Diabetes Center preview party; SB Wildlife Care Network luncheon; and Visiting Surgeon week

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22 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz previews Scott Coady’s seminar; Yoga Soup; JourneyDance with Lisa Buell; Thomsons host relationships seminar; and Soul Constellation in Carp

23 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz chronicles Baby Doll director Jenny Sullivan; Rabbit Hole at Jurkowitz; Last Train to Nibroc; book signing/reading in Carp; Isabel Allende; journalist Thomas Friedman; films in focus; Movies That Matter; and UCSB MultiCultural Center

36 Our Town

Joanne Calitri talks with artist Peter Bradley about his work from coast to coast and his residency and workshops as part of the Squire Foundation

37 Legal Advertising 41 Brilliant Thoughts

Word to the wise: Ashleigh Brilliant serves up “one piece of advice” based on his wisdom-filled life of adventures

Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events

Moth’s Mainstage at Lobero; Free Fall with UCSB; Cornerstone in Carp; Art From Scrap; Goleta hosts Honeysuckle Possums; Nachle Deewane; SB Symphony and Hervé Koubi at Granada; New Order rocks SB Bowl; TFDI in Carp; and 90-plus birthday bash

45 Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising

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47 Local Business Directory

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Computer science professor examines big data and surveillance April 13; biology professor secures grant to battle whooping cough; and musicians offer jazz concert

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Rally4Kids co-chairs Maria and Monte Wilson

his Friday, April 28, I’ll be driving my little Audi A5 coupe in a first-time-ever overnight rally to no one knows where (yet).

It will be the third such event I’ve participated in, and I look forward to both the camaraderie, the trivia grilling one must endure, and the excellent eats during the nearly 200mile “ordeal.” I put ordeal in quotes because it is nothing of the sort. We do leave somewhat early in the morning (9-ish) and arrive at our destination (this time, an elegant hotel I’m told), at around 5 pm. But, there’s lunch and games and quizzes and tests of skill in between, along with spectacular scenery (due to this year’s rainy season, the wildflowers are abloom as they haven’t been for years). During the drive, a photographer will be taking pictures, including some with the use of a drone, and he’ll put them up on Instagram so people who aren’t in the rally can participate.

Those who don’t have a full day to devote to the effort can still descend upon the Santa Barbara Polo Club and join the Rally4Kids drivers and navigators at the White Party on the Green the following day, Saturday, 13 – 20 April 2017

April 29.

During a short conversation with the event co-chair (with his wife, Maria) Monte Wilson at our office, Monte reveals there are perhaps as “many as six spaces left for the overnight rally,” but he fully expects to fill those gaps rather quickly. If you want to join the rally, you are advised to log on to rally4kids.org and enquire about any openings. The price for the overnighter “starts at $1,750,” Monte says, but adds that “it includes a lot. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner (for two) on Friday, April 28, a cocktail party later that evening. It includes your hotel room, and then breakfast, lunch, and the gala on Saturday as well.” Required donation for just the Saturday night gala is $250 per person.

Don’t worry about what kind of car to drive, as “the only requirement,” Monte says, “is something that will go a couple hundred miles.” Everything from a ‘65 Volkswagen Beetle to a Volvo, to Ferraris, Maseratis, and maybe a Rolls or two will be chugging along.

As for the White Party on the Green,

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by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News.

He moved to Montecito ten years ago.

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t has been 15 years in the making, but retired Santa Barbara IT expert John Holman has finally published his first book, Pom’s Odyssey, a charming tale of his journey to the antipodes from his home country of England.

His childhood home, Bowshotts Cottage, in West Grinstead, Sussex, formerly belonged to Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mother, and Doyle wrote a number of his legendary detective novels in a wooden shed at the bottom of the garden.

“But I was bit late coming to the writing scene,” John, 65, laughed at his book bash at Tecolote, the bustling bibliophile bastion in the upper village.

The 283-page work recounts his emigration to Australia in 1969 when the country was trying to attract residents with one-way fares costing 10 ....... pounds, or about $13 at current rates, and meeting his wife, Martha.

“With little money, a questionable education, and absolutely nothing in the way of manufacturing skills, I sailed to the antipodes, a mythical place of my imagination, which was far removed from the reality.”

John’s memoir has a colorful cast of characters while he recounts his life lessons as he struggled to find himself.

He has almost finished his second book, tentatively titled The Horse Dealers Legacy, a nod to his equestrian family background, which included having a relative who was royal jockey from 1949 to 1953 for Queen Elizabeth and her late mother.

Reins of a very different sort.

Roger That A decided blast from the past! A photo of racketeer Jimmy Connors with a then 12-year-old ball boy by the name of Roger Federer, which has been provided me by Montecito player Peter Collins.

Jimmy, 64, a longtime resident of our rarefied enclave, held the top ranking for the then record of 160 consecutive weeks in 1977 and an additional eight times during his illustrious career for a total of 268 weeks.

The tennis ace also won 109 titles, playing 1,535 matches, winning 1,256, including eight majors – five U.S.

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Jimmy Connors pictured with a young Roger Federer as a ball boy at a tournament in his home city of Basel, Switzerland

Opens, two Wimbledons, and one Australian Open.

By contrast, Federer, 35, has continuously ranked in the top 10 from October 2002 to November 2016, winning 18 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in history, and held Number One in ATP rankings for a total of 302 weeks, beating Jimmy’s record.

Federer has won seven Wimbledons, five Australian Opens, five U.S. Opens, and one French title.

He has reached a record 28 major singles Grand Slam finals, including 10 in a row from the 2005 Wimbledon Championships to the 2007 U.S. Open.

Who knew?

Pooling Her Resources Montecito’s newest celebrity resident Gwyneth Paltrow, who spent $4.9 million on a four bedroom, four-bathroom house with multiple terraces overlooking the Pacific nearly a year ago, is going to have a splashing time!

The Palladian-style home, described as “a fixer-upper,” is to be totally demolished and replaced with a 7,283-sq.-ft. manse with a

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to jim@montecitojournal.net

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his year’s January first mandate from Sacramento is to fast-track second-dwelling-unit approval of up to 1200 sq ft on nearly all residential property, including your and your neighbor’s, without additional parking, street widening, or other infrastructure improvements.

On April 12, the Montecito Planning Commission will take up AUDs again.

I sat through their last eight-hour meeting, wondering who had read the actual law to know the limits of any municipality’s authority to modify.

On April 13, the City will hold its final meeting on its New Zoning Ordinance (NZO), a.k.a. no or inadequate off-street parking required with narrow streets okay for parking instead of for transporting people. To sum it up: we’re at a standstill.

Everyone needs shelter. We’ve allowed California to grow from less than 100,000 in 1850, to 10 million in 1950, to 40 million today, with projections of 60 million by 2050. Wow, how we’ve grown in less than 170 years.

Celebrate and encourage this “come one, come all” policy.

The California General Plan concludes that the state’s maximum carrying capacity is 30 million. Most recycle to politely rationalize we can carry on as usual and our kids will enjoy a rosy future.

The majority of Californians want unlimited growth, as evidenced by

support of senate speaker Kevin de Leon’s SB54 to become a sanctuary state. It’s days, if not weeks, away from becoming law to draw even more folks to the Golden State.

The more, the merrier!

A Little History The significant AUD revised mandate of 1/1/2017 caught my immediate attention as a person who helped propose and write the early 1980s original Granny Flat Ordinance (GFO), with its mandatory off-street parking and many other requirements, including optional local program participation. I recall months of compromises for off-street parking, on the purpose of public streets being to transport, not park, and the essential need for local control of zoning and building.

The highest goal of GFO wasn’t to care for our parents on our properties as much as to save MediCal dollars on nursing care and the state from insolvency. The senior tsunami is here.

Safety, street use, crowding behavior and decreases in property values were issues from counties and cities, fire, and police.

Whether or not growth is sustainable is not the mandate of 1/1/2017; instead it seems it is more housing without adequate water, infrastructure, parking is what every municipal-

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This Week in and around Montecito

SUNDAY, APRIL 23 PoolSide Yoga Yoga, spa cocktails, and a rooftop social under the stars. Designed for all skill levels, the 60-minute Poolside Yoga class includes live acoustic music and professional instruction by Cara Ferrick of CorePower Yoga. After, enjoy a conscious cocktail at a fireside social on our spa rooftop.

(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 13 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 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Lecture at SBMM Join for a lecture presented by Chumash elder Julie TumamaitStenslie and archaeologist John Foster. The topic: Asphaltum, also known as Chumash Super Glue.

Asphaltum played an important role in many facets of Chumash culture and everyday life, including in their oral traditions. Julie will tell Native American stories and beliefs, and the role they played in Chumash life. John will present an overview of the myriad types of artifacts and the functions and uses where asphaltum played an important role, just as it does in today’s modern culture.

When: members-only reception, 6:15 pm; lecture starts at 7 pm Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way Registration: www.sbmm.org FRIDAY, APRIL 14 Morning Bird Walk Join in for a free Friday morning Bird Walk at Ennisbrook Nature Trail hosted by the Santa Barbara Audubon Society. Open to beginners and experts alike.

When: 8:30 to 10:30 am Where: meet at San Leandro Entrance gate to Ennisbrook Info: www.santabarbaraaudubon.org Floral Pop-up Shop Jenni Kayne in San Ysidro Village hosts a floral pop-up with Olivetta Flowers and Foliage. The store will be offering beautiful floral arrangements as a gift with purchase while supplies last for the Easter weekend.

When: 10 am to 6 pm Where: 525 San Ysidro Road Info: (805) 309-0550 Spanish Conversation Group at Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The gathering is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, APRIL 15 Singing Showcase Santa Barbara Voice Academy hosts singers performing current popular music with George Friedenthal on piano, Maitland Ward on guitar, Larry Perpoli on drums, and Rob Moreno on bass.

When: 6 to 7:30 pm Where: SOhO Restaurant and Club, 1221 State St. #205 Cost: $5; all ages welcome Info: Karen S. Lytle, MA 805-895-7662 SUNDAY, APRIL 16 Easter Services El Montecito Presbyterian,

When: 4 pm Where: Bacara Resort & Spa, 8301 Hollister Avenue Cost: $45 per person, $80 per couple Info: www.meritagecollection.com 1455 East Valley Road, 8:30 & 10 am All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 83 Eucalyptus Lane, 8 & 10 am Montecito Covenant, 671 Cold Spring Road, 8:15 & 10 am Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, 1300 East Valley Road, 7:45 & 9 am TUESDAY, APRIL 18 Basket Weavers Group The Basket Weavers Group is a place to connect with other basket weavers. Bring your own project or start a new one. Beginner and all levels are welcomed. Basic materials are provided. Someone is available to help you get started and to learn different techniques. Please join for a lively and enjoyable afternoon.

When: 2:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Community Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Cost: Free Info: 969-3786 Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 4 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 Montecito Planning Commission Meeting MPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies and that issues raised by interested parties are addressed.

When: 9 am Where: County Engineering Building,

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Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Brunch & Lecture Channel City Club presents Sally Bedell Smith, historian and bestselling author of biographies of Queen Elizabeth II; William S. Paley; Pamela Harriman; Diana, Princess of Wales; John and Jacqueline Kennedy; and Bill and Hillary Clinton. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 1996, she previously worked at Time and The New York Times, where she was a cultural news reporter. In 2012, Smith was the recipient of the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence.

Now she’s back with a book about Prince Charles.

When: check-in begins at 9:30 am Where: Fess Parker Resort, Reagan Room Cost: $40 for members, $45 for nonmembers; reservations required Info: www.channelcityclub.org Book Signing at Shared Crossing The Shared Crossing Research Initiative, in collaboration with Hospice Santa Barbara and the Alliance for Living and Dying Well, presents a free book-signing event with linguist Lisa Smartt and her Words at the Threshold: What We Say As We’re Nearing Death.

When: 6:30 to 8 pm Where: 2020 Chapala Street RSVP: info@sharedcrossing.com THURSDAY, APRIL 20 Food Drive at MUS To benefit Santa Barbara Foodbank, donations can be left in the school’s parking lot in the morning during drop off. Items needed include baby food, cereal, pasta, peanut butter, rice, soup, and canned goods.

Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Garden Club Show Star Power is the theme of the upcoming show, to be held at the Music Academy of the West.

The show will feature horticulture specimens, floral design arrangements, photography, and botanical jewelry.

There will also be a Conservation

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Exhibit on transitioning to a droughttolerant garden. Each entry category has a star-associated theme to inspire designs. The Music Academy of the West is located in the Montecito estate formerly known as Miraflores; its lovely gardens are an apt setting for a flower show.

When: today, 10 am to 4 pm, and tomorrow, 10 am to 3 pm Where: 1070 Fairway Road Cost: admission and parking are free 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 FRIDAY, APRIL 21 Spanish Conversation Group at Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The gathering is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, APRIL 22 Montecito Union School Carnival MUS hosts an old-fashioned good time with rides, carnival games, raffle, food, and entertainment, all to benefit PTA-sponsored educational programs.

When: 10 am to 3 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: www.montecitou.org Create a Hand-Bound Gathering Journal Inspired by John Muir’s love of nature, participants will sketch what they see growing on the grounds of La Casa de Maria, paint a lovely watercolor cover with botanical and landscape scenes, construct a journal, and paint/ embellish internal pages. Attendees will have a beautiful place to store small paintings, poems, quotes, postcards, photos, and nature items in its pages and pockets.

When: 9:30 am to 4 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $114, includes lunch ($100 without lunch) Info: www.lacasademaria.org Book Signing at Tecolote Europhiles Welcome! Montecito author Kia McInerny will introduce her newly released novel Max in Filmland. “Max” is a lively tale of misadventure set in 1970s Euro13 – 20 April 2017

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ith a new name, new members, and new energy, the Coast Village Association (CVA, formerly the Coast Village Business Association), is inviting interested parties to a community meeting next Thursday, April 20, at the Four Seasons Biltmore. “We have direction, vision, and momentum, and we are looking forward to connecting with the community,” said newly elected CVA president Bob Ludwick.

The organization began its resurgence last winter, beginning with a successful holiday window-decorating contest on Coast Village Road. Now, with new leadership – in addition to Ludwick, Trey Pinner has been elected as vice president and Thorn Robertson is taking the role as treasurer and secretary – the organization is revising its by-laws and is in the process of assembling a board of directors. Next week’s meeting will be an opportunity for business merchants, property owners, and Coast Village Road area residents to come together to voice their ideas and desires for the organization.

Ludwick, who has a 45-year relationship with the road and is now a nearby resident, says he has the history and inclination to make a positive influence in the area and is already laying the groundwork for a successful overhaul of CVA. He has met with community stakeholders, including Biltmore representatives, Miramar Resort reps, and others, to gain their financial support. Some of the future goals of the association include beautification of medians and signage, a potential flag program, more unifying events such as art walks, wine, and car events, and an attempt to try to sequester some of the street’s taxable dollars to put back into street maintenance. Committees are already being discussed to help accomplish these goals.

Following the community meeting next week, the CVA board will meet every third Thursday of the month at 8:15 am, upstairs at the Montecito Bank & Trust conference room.

Next week’s meeting is Thursday, April 20, at 8 am at the Four Seasons Biltmore. Agendas, minutes, and information about the organization can be found online at www.coast villageroad.com.

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Erin Gomez and Scott Walker are bringing their popular juice bar, Juice Ranch, to Coast Village Road

Juice Ranch Coming to Coast Village Road

Juice Ranch, Santa Barbara’s first cold-pressed juice bar, is opening a fourth location in Montecito, at 1187 Coast Village Road (Coast Village Plaza). Owners Erin Gomez and Scott Walker tell us they are looking forward to expanding their reach into Montecito, with what will eventually become an “anchor location” for the popular juice bar and natural food eatery. “We’ll have outside seating for people to enjoy their juice and an expanded menu of salads, wraps, and sandwiches,” Walker told us during an interview earlier this week.

Gomez and Walker opened Juice Ranch on Parker Way in downtown Santa Barbara in 2013, and in the past four years they have opened two other locations in Carpinteria and Westlake Village. The popular, 100-percent organic juice purveyor, is known for its reusable glass bottles, its locally sourced products, and its ever-evolving addition of carefully curated whole food products including energy bars, sweets, smoothies, coffee, and avocado toast. The new location will expand on this idea, offering a well-rounded food, juice, and smoothie menu, as well as Kombucha on tap.

Juice Ranch is expected to open in June in the former location of children’s clothing shop Dani Boy, which

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The swank 14th fundraiser “Four Nations: Celebrating Santa Barbara Maritime History” reached new heights with a red carpet, soldados from the Presidio and military standing in review as you entered the cocktail party held on the outdoor terrace. Then guests entered the museum completely filled with long harvest tables, four-foot candelabras, and floral arrangements. Stunning, indeed!

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The menu was planned with chef Pete Clements to include cuisine from each culture.

The guest of honor was the internationally renowned underwater photographer Ernie Brooks II. Who could be more perfect? His father founded the Brooks Institute of Photography and he followed in his dad’s footsteps. His work has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institute, among others. He has blazed a trail in the development of underwater photographic equipment and has been underwater in the polar icecaps, all the oceans, and the Channel Islands.

The honoree sponsors were Andy and Mary Jane Cooper and George and Judy Writer.

Bringing us this incredible nautical evening were co-chairs Cindy Makela and David Bolton along with Barbara Anderson, Layla Christian, Emily Falke, SBMM executive director Greg Gorga, Pat Hinds, Elsbeth Kleen, Mimi Michaelis, Sabrina Papa, Sue Parker, Lis Perry, Tara Stoker, Sigrid Toye, and Jay Williams. So many more contributed for the silent and live auctions and as sponsors.

Mark your calendar for May 18-22 when a replica of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo’s flagship will visit. There’ll be dockside tours and a public sail, 10 to 4 pm.

Gala Preview Party

The William Sansum Diabetes Center hosted a gala preview party at Earl Warren Showgrounds amid the thousands of orchid blooms. As board president Sandra Tiffisch Svobody and executive director Ellen Goodstein said, “We are delighted to partner with the 72nd Santa Barbara International Orchid Show.” This spectacle is the largest and oldest continuously running show in the United States.

The show began humbly in 1945 in the Montecito Grange Hall, graduating in 1960 to Earl Warren Showgrounds.

After World War II, the beginnings of our commercial local nurseries arose.

There are now some 25,000 species and more than 100,000 man-made hybrids in the world. There were 50 displays this year with growers coming from as far away as Thailand, Ecuador, Brazil, Germany, and Japan.

The theme was “Orchids Mystique”, which included the poster honoree orchid named Carrie Chu by the Santa Barbaran David Brown, who does orchid growing for a hobby. He was smart enough to name this special flower after his wife.

Guests at the gala had wine and a buffet to enjoy as they strolled among the orchids. The exhibits were amazing, alive with waterfalls and animals (statues – not alive). There were

William Sansum Diabetes Center director of development Ada Conner, board president Sandra Svoboda, board members George Emerson and Joan Arnold

docents to give tours explaining how orchids are judged and to show you the winners. Some of those browsing were William Sansum Diabetes Center director of development Ada Conner and board members George Emerson, Joan Arnold, Bruce Anticouni, and incoming president Dr. Alex DePaoli.

Also, there were sponsors Nancy Crawford and Chris Haskell along with Allan Ghitterman and Susan Rose and Dr. David Kerr, who is director of Innovation and Research at the clinic.

I’m a docent at Casa del Herrero and it’s always interesting to note in my tour talk that the Casa owners, the Steedmans, came to Santa Barbara in the early 1920s in search of insulin for their diabetic brother. At the time, Dr. Sansum was the only doctor in the

Incoming Sansum Diabetes Center board president Dr. Alex DePaoli and Dr. David Kerr, who is director of Innovation and Research

United States who had insulin. The gala’s proceeds all benefit the prevention, treatment, and cure of diabetes.

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Ron Latimer, M.D., FACS with guest instructor Barbara Lee Bass, M.D., FACS at the reception and lecture

Is that Winnie the Pooh amidst all the orchids?

Wildlife Luncheon

The wildest place in town wasn’t the zoo but the benefit luncheon for Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network (SBWCN) at the Biltmore Loggia Room. It is a volunteer, non-profit organization founded in 1988 and dedicated to nurturing injured, oiled, and orphaned wildlife back to health and returning them to their natural environments.

The day began with wine and a really big silent auction, animal- and bird-oriented. I coveted a couple of metal life-size geese until a lady came along and tripled the bid. I’ll have to stick with my little garden rabbit.

The luncheon tables were laden with succulent centerpieces, all part of the silent auction. Board person and emcee Mindy Denson welcomed us and remembered the tiny space in Fairview shopping center where SBWCN began. Board president Roland Bryan said, “This is the 21st annual luncheon, and the next event will be a coastal cruise in September open to the public.”

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Mindy gave a flowery introduction for the guest speaker Rich Block, who is CEO of that other wildest place in town, our zoo. He responded, “I’m glad my wife didn’t hear that introduction.” He showed us a map, which indicated that California is surrounded by the most biodiversity in the United States. We should appreciate that. Rich thinks, “SBWCN and the zoo are like puzzle pieces that fit together.”

Director of animal care Julia Parker brought us two kinds of owls to experience. One had been raised or imprinted by a human and could never be released because it never learned how to survive. Julia said, “If you find a baby bird fallen from a nest, put it back. It’s a myth that the mother won’t take care of it.”

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Visiting Surgeon Week

“Surgeons must be very careful when they take the knife. Underneath their fine incision stirs the culprit, life.” – Emily Dickinson

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Each year, Dr. Ron Latimer invites an outstanding national surgeon to come to Santa Barbara for one week to teach our surgical residents. It culminates with a talk to lay folks and a reception at the Sansum clinic lobby. This year, Dr. Latimer began his introduction with the Dickinson quote “To remind surgeons to be humble, which is sometimes hard to do.”

This year’s guest was Barbara Lee Bass M.D., FACS who came to us from Houston Methodist hospital in Texas. She told us that in olden times, women had to disguise themselves as men in order to do surgery.

Times have changed, but she thought women had to not only be good but also do better to get ahead. She still gave full credit to all the men who were her mentors and helped her along the way.

Dr. Bass also shared with the audience that she was married and had two sons. “Even though you don’t have control of your life for many years, it’s still possible to have a life.”

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There are two existing lots that have been merged into 2.26 acres and the plans also call for an 800-sq.-ft. cabana, says my mole with the martini.

Of late, the 44-year-old Oscar winner has been frolicking in Mexico with the TV producer beau Brad Falchuk, co-creator of the hit series Glee.

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Brahms Away!

It was an evening of high note when the Santa Barbara Choral Society, under veteran conductor JoAnne Wasserman, performed Brahms German Requiem at the First Presbyterian Church.

The entertaining concert, which

Concert major sponsor Diane Dodds Reichert; Karen Williams, artistic manager; and David Reichert (photo by David Bazemore)

featured baritone Lester Lynch and soprano Tamara Bevard, was preceded by a reception in the parish hall, with guests including sponsors Brooks and Kate Firestone, DianeDodds Reichert, Marylove Thralls, Mary Dan Eades, Debra Stewart, and Barbara Burger.

A delightful musical melee.

JoAnne Wasserman, artistic director/conductor; Tamara Bevard, soprano soloist; and Lester Lynch, baritone soloist (photo by David Bazemore)

Life and Death Two of our Eden by the Beach’s late stalwarts, KEYT-TV anchor Debby Davison and philanthropist Larry “Mr. Santa Barbara” Crandell, were honored at the 5th annual Life Chronicles

Father Virgil Remarkable Life Awards at Fess Parker’s, which raised around $100,000 for the 19-year-old nonprofit that videotapes people in their final chapters of life as an abiding memory for those they leave behind.

More than 140 guests turned out for the bash, which was co-hosted by radio host Catherine Remak and playwright Rod Lathim, with an auction including a week’s vacation in a Mexican villa near Puerto Vallarta, VIP tickets to a Kenny Loggins concert and a stay at Fess Parker’s Wine Country Inn. Among the tony throng were Larry Crandell Jr., Janet Garufis, Larry Gosselin, Stan and Betty Hatch, Kate Carter, Peter and Gerd Jordano,

MISCELLANY Page 324 Board members Claudia Scott, secretary; Manu GeigerKolbitsh, director; Karen Williams, director/artistic manager; Debra Stewart, president; Mary Dan Eades, vice president (photo by David Bazemore)

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n a world that is increasingly under surveillance and digital control, Donald Patterson, Westmont professor of computer science, answers the question, “Should We Hide from Big Data?” in a lecture on Thursday, April 13, at 5:30 pm at University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara St. No tickets are required; the limited seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, please call (805) 565-6051.

The free public lecture, sponsored by the Westmont Foundation, is part of Westmont Downtown: Conversations about Things that Matter.

“An enormous amount of data gets collected, so big data isn’t just a benign repository of information,” Patterson says. “It becomes the basis for making decisions and monitoring and assessing individuals and groups.

People with agendas choose which data is worth saving, which colors the pictures they subsequently form about our world.”

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“I would like the audience to leave with new ways to think about data collection, and new ideas about what the threats and opportunities are, and to learn about how computer scientists think about big data and why,” he says.

Patterson earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Cornell University before serving as a naval operations officer for four years. He earned a doctorate from the University of Washington and received multiple grants and won awards for articles on collapse informatics and abstract object usage.

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The National Institutes of Health, the primary agency of the U.S. government responsible for biomedical and health-related research, has awarded Steve Julio, Westmont associate professor of biology, and his collaborators at the University of North Carolina a $1.6 million grant over five years. The grant will be used to explore a bacterial regulatory control system that was discovered at Westmont several years ago. Julio and his collaborators will be trying to decipher how the regulatory system controls bacterial virulence, with the practical goal of identifying new therapeutic targets for whooping cough.

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He was a research scientist for several years at Remedyne Corporation, a vaccine development company in Santa Barbara. He has had his work published by Infection and Immunity, Journal of Bacteriology, and Molecular and General Genetics.

Gettin’ Jazzy With It

The Westmont Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of John Douglas, offers its Spring Jazz Concert Wednesday, April 19, at 8 pm in Westmont’s Deane Chapel. The ensemble features four vocalists: Shanna Cooley, Erin Leahy, Nina Fox, and Daniel Prykhitko. They will be singing several songs, including Manhattan Transfer’s arrangement of “Route 66” and “Everybody Wants to Be a Cat” (from Disney’s The Aristocats).

The jazz ensemble also features Erik Fauss on violin, Chris Fedderson on clarinet and tenor sax, Prykhitko on alto sax, Jay Real on piano, John Butler on guitar, and Jason Watts on drums. Beside vocal standards such as “Young at Heart”, “Alice in Wonderland”, “God Bless the Child”, and “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”, the ensemble will feature Butler singing an original song, “The Happier Side”. Ensemble instrumentals include John Coltrane’s iconic “Giant Steps”, Jerome Richardson’s funky gospel tune “Groove Merchant”, and Real’s original “District 7.” •MJ

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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.

Somatic Self-Leadership Seminar

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cott Coady, founder of the Institute for Embodied Wisdom and creator of the Art of Leadership Mastery program, was slated to be the guest speaker at the most recent Santa Barbara Conscious Networking event in March, which was canceled due to some unforeseen emergencies and snafus. But you can still catch Coady offering “Power, Presence & Authenticity: A Somatic Approach to Self-Leadership” on Thursday, April 13.

Coady will introduce participants to the fundamental techniques and practices that can enable generating a more authentic and powerful presence and help in generating trust to become a more authentic leader. The workshop is an opportunity to engage in the same practices Coady used in his award-winning leadership program designed for NASA and demonstrated with such clients as Capital One Financial, Cargill, and Microsoft.

They are the same techniques and methodologies that are also taught in the Institute’s signature program,

the Art of Leadership Mastery, a seven-month program based on somatics, philosophy, linguistics, integral studies, sports, and action learning.

The workshop takes place 5:30 to 8:30 pm at Workzones, 351 Paseo Nuevo on the second floor. Admission is free. Get more info and pre-register online at www.embodiedwisdom. com.

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It’s a busy night at Yoga Soup on Friday, April 14, when both rooms will be in use for consciousness-altering events. The ongoing monthly Authentic Relating Games (ARG) night – which aims to get at the heart of the human experience by seeing, connecting, and appreciating yourself and others at a deeper, current-time level – strips away even more pretensions with tonight’s theme: Getting Naked. “To be seen, unadorned. To be witnessed, unprepared. To stand before another, undefended. That’s

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The gathering gets going at 7 pm, winds up around 10 pm, and costs $18 in advance, or $25 on Friday. Visit www.yogasoup.com/authentic-relat ing-games-2 for details.

Meanwhile, Shane Thunder, fresh off immersing in the Lucidity Festival last weekend, offers one of his periodic 432hz Sound Healing events. He uses alchemical gemstone and Tibetan singing bowls, chimes, drums, aromatherapy, and guided meditation to take participants into a deeply meditative and rebalanced state via a sound bath that helps to cleanse and purge emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual blocks. The fee is $20 in advance, $25 day of. Info at www.yogasoup. com/432hz-sound-healing.

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The 3 R’s of Relationship

Montecito couple Ragan and Alex Thomson’s next Meaningful Monday gathering takes place April 17 when the subject will be “How to Heal the Inner Child in Your Relationships” in advance of the next seminar led by Dale Halaway on April 28-30. The theme covers all relationships including with partners, business partners, children, businesses, money, pets, and any other. Learn ways to stop sabotaging your relationships by becoming more aware of how your inner child may be running the show by either running, reacting, or resisting. The evening includes energetic grounding work, higher teachings, and coaching by the Thomsons, who also sponsor the Halaway seminars. Admission is free and light refreshments including green drinks and guacamole will be served, and childcare can be provided.

Event time is 6:30 to 9:30 pm at the Thomson’s Montecito estate. RSVP for directions at 453-7281 or visit www. joyticity.com.

Constellations in Carp

Heal the family soul of the matter through a Peaceful Soul Constellation Circle from 7 to 9:30 pm this Tuesday, April 18, in Carpinteria. Lesley Weinstock and Maya Shaw Gale co-lead the facilitated group processes that can reveal and help liberate participants from old family system patterns and dynamics. Bringing the hidden, forgotten, and dishonored events of the past back into the heart with acknowledgment but without judgment can result in long-term, life-changing resolution of the issues, allowing for the natural state of love to flow again, heal lost connections, and experience a sense of security and belonging.

In addition to the personal constellation work that takes place during the evening, there will be an exercise to allow everyone who so chooses to experience constellation work. Cost is $75 prepay, $85 at the door for personal constellation, and $10/$15 for participants. Contact Maya at 857-1789/ mayashawgale@gmail.com or Lesley 212-0052/lesleyweinstock@gmail.com for the address, directions, information, and reservations. •MJ 13 – 20 April 2017

On Entertainment Still Steamy in ’17

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aby Doll proved quite controversial when the film, written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Elia Kazan, was released in 1956.

While critics raved and the movie earned many nominations for Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA awards, it also drew protests and boycotts from the Catholic Legion of Decency and New York Archbishop Spellman, who called it “sinful” and forbade Catholics to see it due to the film’s sexual undertones.

The sensual dark comedy traces tensions between rival cotton gin owners in rural Mississippi, where one may have resorted to arson against the other’s gin, and the other retaliates by attempting to seduce his rival’s 19-year-old virgin bride, the title character. She initially resists, naively holding onto her childhood by sleeping in a crib and wearing children’s nightgowns (which later gave rise to the baby-doll fashion still popular today) before she eventually confronts her abusive husband.

Despite the uproar, the movie helped launch the careers of its stars, including Carroll Baker as Baby Doll,

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LegaL Notice If You Are or Were a Customer of the Montecito Water District, You May be Entitled to a Refund A class action settlement may affect you if you are or were a non-agricultural water customer of the Montecito Water District (“District”) from October 1, 2008 through August 31, 2013. As part of the settlement, the District has agreed to pay refunds for water user fees non-agricultural water customers paid to the District from November 4, 2011 to August 31, 2013, after some District customers alleged such fees were unlawful. If you qualify, you may send in a claim form to ask for settlement payment, do nothing (and receive no payment), exclude yourself from the settlement, or object to the settlement. The Santa Barbara Superior Court has given preliminary approval to this settlement and will have a final hearing on August 8, 2017 to consider whether to approve the settlement, so benefits may be paid.

ARE YOU AFFECTED AND/OR ENTITLED TO A REFUND? If you are a current or former non-agricultural customer of the District for any period of time between October 1, 2008 to September 1, 2013, who did not submit an opt-out form in the lawsuit on or before August 12, 2014, you are a “Class Member” and a part of this lawsuit. As such, you may be entitled to a refund.

WHAT IS THIS REFUND CASE ABOUT? The lawsuit, Patrick M. Nesbitt et al. v. Montecito Water District, Case No. 1415836, claimed certain water rates the District charged to its non-agricultural customers violated Article XIII D of the California Constitution (referred to as “Proposition 218”). Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged the rates imposed on the District’s non-agricultural customers exceeded the proportional cost of service to provide water to their particular properties and, as a result the District’s non-agricultural customers were, in effect, subsidizing the water costs of the District’s agricultural customers.

The Court has determined that the water rates charged to the District’s non-agricultural customers violated Proposition 218, but the Court did not reach a decision on the amount of damages, if any, to be awarded to the Class for this constitutional violation. The District denied and continues to deny that the rates were unlawful, and denies and continues to deny that any refunds are due. The two sides disagree on how much money would be refunded if the case went to trial on the damages owed. Therefore, the settlement is a compromise that avoids costs and risks to both parties from continuing the lawsuit; pays money to qualifying existing and former District customers; and releases the District from certain liabilities, as described in more detail in the Notice on the Settlement website, www.cptgroup.com/Montecito-Water-Settlement.

HOW WILL REFUNDS BE CALCULATED? The District has agreed to pay up to $1,862,250 (the “Settlement Fund”) for refund claims for water user fees paid by non-agricultural customers from November 4, 2011 to August 31, 2013. If eligible, you will receive a refund based on the number of claims submitted and paid out of the Settlement Fund. The maximum refund amount you could receive will be based on the difference between the rate you actually paid for water and the rates set forth in the settlement agreement, plus interest, all as calculated and described in the Notice on the Settlement website, www.cptgroup.com/Montecito-Water-Settlement.

WHAT ARE YOUR OPTIONS FOR CLAIMING A REFUND? A current or former District customer must submit a valid claim postmarked by July 5, 2017. The validity of your claim will be verified by the Claims Administrator. A claim form was mailed to all customers on or about April 5, 2017 and may also be printed from the Settlement website, www.cptgroup.com/Montecito-Water-Settlement. Refunds cannot be processed and issued until the preliminary approval of the settlement by the Court is made final.

WHAT ARE YOUR OPTIONS IN THIS SETTLEMENT? You may either: 1) File a claim form and receive a refund after the claim is verified; 2) do nothing (and receive no refund); 3) exclude yourself from the settlement; or, 4) object to the settlement. If you do not want a refund and do not want to be legally bound by the settlement, you must exclude yourself by July 5, 2017, or you won’t be able to sue about the legal claims in this case. If you exclude yourself, you cannot get a refund from this settlement.

If you stay in the Class, you may, but are not required to, file written objections to the settlement by July 25, 2017. The Notice on the Settlement website, www.cptgroup.com/Montecito-Water-Settlement, describes how to exclude yourself or object. If you object by the deadline, you must also appear at the hearing on August 8, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. If you do not object to the settlement, you need not appear in Court on August 8, 2017.

At the hearing on August 8, 2017, the court will consider whether to issue final approval of the settlement and requested attorneys’ fees and expenses of up to $475,000, to be paid separately by the District and not out of the refund claims.

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closed last fall. Gomez and Walker are busy working with architects and the City of Santa Barbara making tenant improvements in the 587-sq-ft space, as the location will require a commercial kitchen.

The building, which is owned by Montecito residents Hank Hurst and Richard Rosen, is in the process of undergoing extensive remodeling including installation of a new roof, repaving and reconfiguration of the rear parking lot, and upgrades to the decking, painting, exterior patios, lighting, signage, doors, landscaping, elevator, and repair and replacement of supports. Other tenants in the building include Richie the Barber, The Tennis Shop, Here’s the Scoop, the UPS Store, Riviera Smiles, and Sequel Salon.

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Compass Opens on CVR

The Santa Barbara area’s newest real estate brokerage, Compass, has opened its new location on Coast Village Road, nearly a year after launching in Santa Barbara and Montecito. The office moved about two weeks ago from its temporary location on Coast Village Circle. Located in the space formerly occupied by Hayward’s

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John Nisbet of Compass has opened a 4,000-square-foot office at 1101 Coast Village Road

Home and a few other tenants, the new Compass location boasts more than 4,000 square feet of office space to accommodate the agency’s growing network of agents.

Managed by John Nisbet, who has 30-plus years of experience in local real estate markets and most recently managed the Coldwell Banker Montecito

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Saturday, May 13th, 2017 • University Club This magical event will benefit the Unity Shoppe in their 100th Anniversary Year of community service Be part of something very unique and special in Santa Barbara.

Eight Magicians who perform regularly at the Magic Castle will be performing at the Magic Mansion, commonly known as the University Club from 7 pm to 11 pm.

Wander around the Mansion experiencing the different styles of magic.

In between shows, join your friends in Nipper’s Lounge for heavy apps, cocktails, desserts and music.

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Getting ready for the rally to be held Friday, April 28, and for the big White Party on the Green on Saturday, April 29 (photo by Priscilla)

guests are encouraged to wear “whatever they want, but preferably lots of white. If you’ve got a white Elvis costume,” Monte advises, “go for it.”

And they should expect to be well entertained. “We’re going to have lots of surprises,” Monte promises, adding, “It’s probably going to be the most unusual party people have gone to for a long, long time.”

The party will take place in the clubhouse and outside; rally cars and a stage will be on the polo field.

Expect dramatic lighting, fire pits, visual attractions, and if you are worried about cool weather as night (and perhaps fog) rolls in, Monte advises wearing something appropriate and not to worry: “We’ve rented every heater in town. You’ll be able to make your own s’mores. It’ll be a unique environment.”

The live auction of no more than seven items (auctioneer is the inimitable Andrew Firestone) “will be all about experiences that people would not ordinarily be able to get.” For example, one of the auction items awards the winner the opportunity to become an “honorary pit crew member for the day at Laguna Seca with the Scuderia Corsa race team. “This team (which drives Ferraris), has won the 24-hour Le Mans, 24-hour Daytona, Florida Sebring, and Watkins Glen; they won every one of those races last year. This is the top team in endurance

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They’ll have official team uniforms, and winners will get the full Ferrari VIP treatment on race day. Other auction items include an L.A. driving experience, a European river cruise, and a surf package developed by former World Champion surfer (and Montecito resident) Shaun Tomson, who’s donating a surf lesson and a Varial surfboard, designed by Edison Conner; Varial makes the most spaceage lightweight surfboards one can buy.

United Boys and Girls Club Rally4Kids is the nonprofit’s largest fundraiser of the year. Money raised in the past has gone to buy vans used to pick up kids who would not otherwise be able to get to one of the clubs; donations have also allowed the clubs to open on Saturdays, along with providing hot meals for the kids.

“White Party on the Green” is supported chiefly by Michael Hammer, presenting sponsor, The Armand Hammer Foundation; David Sigman, general manager, Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club; and Michael Baker, CEO, United Boys & Girls Club. Other sponsors include Montecito Bank & Trust, Deckers, Hutton-Parker Foundation, the Santa Barbara Porsche Club, and Sun Potion Transformational Food.

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“Friedman wants to explain why the world is the way it is – why so many things seem to be spinning out of control.”

The New York Times Three-time Pulitzer Prize recipient Thomas L. Friedman looks to innovators finding bold solutions to the pace of change transforming our planet to show how we can use our time to reimagine work, politics and community.

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Allende famously wrote her acclaimed first novel, The House of the Spirits, in exile from her home country of Chile. She has since written 20 more works of fiction and memoir. In a rare public appearance, “the queen of magical realism” (Los Angeles Times) will weave together her family history, literary trailblazing and the sorrows and heart-stirring beauty of the human condition.

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Into the Beautiful North Mon, Apr 24 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Luis Alberto Urrea has received an American Book Award for his memoir Nobody’s Son and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Devil’s Highway. Urrea’s novel Into the Beautiful North follows a young woman on a memorable quest to define herself without borders.

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ing her turn directing last year’s I Am My Own Wife. She talked about Baby Doll over the phone recently.

Q. How does Baby Doll compare to Williams classics Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, and A Streetcar Named Desire?

A. Williams writes unbelievably (accurate) female characters. He really knows the women he writes. In this play, he nails it with both the young girl and the older character of Aunt Rose. It’s pure signature Williams, even if someone else adapted it. You hear echoes in places of the other Williams plays, and you’ll also get a real dose of his understanding of the South and of the legacy of the land.

Is it dated? Oil barons and especially adultery and seduction of young woman are no longer as controversial as they were in the ‘50s. How does the material stand up?

For me, the archetypes of the plantation owner and the white racist whose job isn’t working the way it used to are still relevant, even if the circumstances have changed. The young woman with arrested development issues, who is really just a child as an adult, and the old woman representing a fading past, we’re looking at all those things today. We’re still dealing with similar issues. Much time has gone by, but all those situations are at play today.

In what way?

Well, we just went through an election where part of the country felt completely disenfranchised and voted a certain way. And one of the characters is in many ways representative of those people. We’re not making the production a referendum on our current political situation, but it’s certainly a point of reference.

But even if you watch any TV show or pick up a magazine – there is still the highly sexualized image of young women. Our character is just starting to have those feelings, finding her sexuality. The men in the play, they

have to deal with this. It takes place during a time when there’s a shift in approaches, but I think we’re going through another one now.

Talk about the casting. How did you find the actors?

Through auditions, but we got very fortunate because as with any play, it’s the most important part of the job.

Even though I’d seen Lily Nicksay at the Rubicon (where she starred in The Nibroc Trilogy, winning an Ovation Award) and really liked her work, I needed her to convince me should could play this character, which is quite a challenge. And she did. It’s a tricky play, but we got the right people.

What’s been the most challenging part so far for you?

It’s still filmic because it’s such a big story, but it’s also just four characters on a plantation, so it easily translates to the stage. Also, it’s high drama, with a lot going on, but there is a tremendous amount of black humor, and you have to really mine it. It’s not an easy thing to do. It’s also not easy to put with many locations and a lot of action on the stage, which makes it challenging physically. But I think we’re getting it.

What would you like audiences to take away?

I think there are so many varying responses to the piece, I don’t want to put any one idea out there.

Everyone will come away with something unique. Some will be wildly entertained, some will be provoked and want to talk about it, while others will hate it because of the “dangerous” nature of the sexuality and the physical violence. But everybody will have a different take, a different feeling. I know what I want to feel – and I had it today at the end of the rehearsal, which is a director’s dream – but I don’t want to let on, because that will color how others see it.

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Leslie Gangl Howe, the Santa Barbara-based actress who has received eight Independent Awards for her performances for SBCC Theatre Group in such works as The Heiress, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Private Eyes, and Heidi Chronicles, returns to the oceanfront campus to take on the role of Becca in Rabbit Hole, a bittersweet drama about a family cruising through life whose world comes crashing down after an unimaginable accident turns their world upside-down. Howe is cast opposite Paul Canter – who appeared twice last season with SBCC, in Proof as Robert and In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play as Mr. Daldry – as the couple who drift perilously apart in the aftermath of the accident and have to consciously choose to recover from the greatest loss of their lives.

“Some may say it’s depressing, but I see it as about getting over grief, moving beyond such a traumatic loss,” said Katie Laris, who directs the 2007 work by David Lindsay-Abaire. “It shows how people decide how to stay together in the face of loss, and how to reach out and be compassionate to other people, and how people can change because of the love that they share. At the end of the day, it’s about restoring hope even in the face of tragedy.”

Increasing the intensity of the drama, Rabbit Hole – which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and received five Tony nominations on Broadway – will be performed in the Jurkowitz Theatre, the intimate black box venue where the audience is close to the actors. “You just feel so connected to the story that plays out in front of you,” Laris said. “You can truly observe the shifting emotions and the change that happens at almost a molecular level.”

The play also has real-life applications, Laris said, after last November’s election. “It’s a question of how to pick up the pieces and take a positive step forward. You just put one foot in front of the other and move forward. You take action and work for change.... If

(the characters in the play) can survive the worst thing possible, there’s hope for all of us.”

(Rabbit Hole runs April 14-29. Tickets cost $14 to $26. Call 965-5935 or visit www.theatregroupsbcc.com.)

Back on Board

Just months after Rubicon Theatre completed its run through the Nibroc Trilogy – staged over three seasons, and starring Lily Nicksay, who opens in Baby Doll at the Ensemble this weekend – Dogstar Theater Company is taking its shot. Last Train To Nibroc, the first play in the series by Arlene Hutton about a young couple who search for happiness and meaning amid a time of anxiety and change in mid-20th-century America, gets three performances at Center Stage Theater in Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center. Nita Davanzo directs a cast that stars Justin Davanzo and Ming Lauren Holden in the sweetly romantic character study that has drawn comparisons to Thornton Wilder for its look at rustic America, and a couple who exude simplicity and directness. Performances are 7:30 Thursday, April 13, and 3 & 7:30 pm Saturday, April 15. Tickets cost $28 general, $23 for students. Info at 963-0408 or www.centerstage.org.

Moments, Memories, and Mothers

Carpinteria writers Mark Brickley and Topaz Jan Abbott are hosting a book signing/reading and community gathering at the charming Laughing Buddha Thrift store in downtown Carpinteria on Saturday afternoon.

After a few local singer-songwriters perform at 3 pm, Brickley will talk about “Postcards From Liverpoool: Beatles Moments & Memories, his recent book that traces the famed band’s source sounds and songwriting influences. Eight backstories, including how the band struggled to record their first record “Love Me Do”, as well as six interviews about The Beatles with such figures as local rock songwriter Jay Ferguson (Spirit & JoJo Gunne), Paul McCartney’s son James, and the late Jackie Lomax, an early Apple Records artist who lived in Ojai.

Next, Abbott will present her work of original verse and photographs,

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More Words of Wisdom

Literary legend Isabel Allende was a prominent journalist for Chilean television and magazines in the late 1960s and early 1970s before the military coup toppled Chile’s socialist reform government and resulted in the death of her cousin Salvador Allende, who had been elected Chile’s president in 1970. Allende at first worked with groups offering aid to victims of the new dictatorship but fled the country two years later and lived in exile in Venezuela for the next 13 years before moving to the San Francisco Bay area. Settings for her books include Chile throughout the 15th, 19th, and 20th centuries, the California Gold Rush, the guerrilla movement of 1960s Venezuela, the Vietnam War, and the slave revolt in Haiti in the 18th century.

In a rare public appearance, the author, dubbed the “Queen of Magical Realism” by the Los Angeles Times, will talk about her history, her family, her career, and her place as a feminist force in Latin America’s male-dominated literary world, in a talk at the Granada Theatre on April 19. Tickets are $20 to $35 for the general public, $10 for all students. Info at 893-3535 | www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or 899-2222 | www.granadasb.org.

Facing the Future with Friedman

Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs author and New York

Times journalist Thomas L. Friedman returns to Santa Barbara the following evening across the street at the Arlington Theatre in an author event also sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures. The bestselling author of such notable books as The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century and From Beirut to Jerusalem, Friedman will deliver a lecture titled “A Field Guide to the 21st Century: How to Live in an Age of Acceleration” based on his latest tome, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations.

Drawing on his reporting of innovators who are finding bold solutions to the pace of change transforming our planet – from AT&T executives in Silicon Valley to U.N. experts in Syria – Friedman will provide a blueprint for how to think and act effectively in our speeded-up times. The talk is geared to offer a guide to overcoming the stresses and challenges of a world being transformed by technology, globalization, and climate change as Friedman seeks to show how by slowing down in this age of acceleration we can use our time to reimagine work, politics, and community. Tickets to the April 20 talk are $25 to $40 general, $15 for all students. Info at 893-3535 | www.

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middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta, whose violence and tenacity are a plus in the ring but wreak havoc via his bad temper, extreme jealousy, and obsessive rage in his relationship with his wife and family. Makeup artist Michael Westmore, whose designs and more have been the subject of a long-running exhibition at UCSB’s AD&A Museum all year, will be on hand to talk about his work on the Oscar-decorated film following the 7 pm screening on April 20. Admission to both events is free.

Bantering Before

Amistad, the next installment of the Granada Theatre’s “Movies That Matter with Hal Conklin” series, screens on Monday with the screenwriter David Franzoni serving as special guest. But unlike most filmmaker forums, the Q&A with the scribe of the film – which is based on a true incident about a revolt of the slaves imprisoned on a Spanish slave ship that became political symbols for the struggle between the northern and the southern states during the 1830s – takes place before the film is shown. Moderator Conklin, a film critic and the former mayor of Santa Barbara who has announced his candidacy to retake the post, will be joined by Franzoni – who also wrote

As the academic year begins to wind down, the Pollock Theater at UCSB is amping up, with several significant screenings on the horizon. On 7 pm Thursday, April 13, the Script to Screen series offers a showing of The Edge of Seventeen with director/ screenwriter Kelly Fremon Craig on hand for a discussion of her comingof-age movie cast in the vein of Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club about what it’s like to grow up as a young woman in today’s modern world.

Next Thursday, the Pollock hosts a screening of Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese’s classic 1980 drama about

King Arthur, Gladiator, and Jumpin’ Jack Flash – and representatives of co-sponsor The Cliff Drive Care Center.

Based on a true incident, Amistad presents a remarkable dialogue regarding the issue of slavery in the pre-Civil War United States. As part of The Granada Theatre’s ongoing community outreach initiative, the Jurkowitz Center has partnered with Santa Barbara’s Cliff Drive Care Center and will host an audience Q&A discussion before the film screening featuring Franzoni. Show time is 7 pm, April 17, and admission costs $10 to $20. Info at 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org.

Cup of Cinematic Culture

UCSB’s MultiCultural Center free film screenings schedule for spring includes a number of out-of-the-mainstream movies, as well as a surprise recent blockbuster. After opening on April 12 with Don’t Tell Anyone/No Le Digas a Nadie, the weekly Wednesday screenings continue with Bruising for Besos on April 19, Starving the Beast (April 26), Hidden Figures (May 3), Trapped (May 10), Love Arcadia (May 17), KIKI (May 24), and Tickling Giants (May 31). All screenings are at 7 pm and feature free admission. For the full detailed list and trailer links, visit www.mcc.sa.ucsb.edu. •MJ

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ity must implement immediately. State law wiped out most local control at the beginning of this year.

Build on What can elected local politicians and advisors do to implement this new mandate? Not much. There’s not a lot of flexibility. Reading the AUD implementation guidelines already adopted by other municipalities is a starting point. Monitoring implementation elsewhere has lessons for us here.

It’s all ministerial over-the-counter approval: adios lengthy design review on the seconds.

Setbacks can be closer to the property line in some instances, cars parked in tandem or stacked by mechanical lift or no parking required under specified conditions, 2nd stories and new detached units can be added, and so forth.

A “can and will serve” letter may be required; however, my take is approval cannot be withheld if AUD is using the same water as primary residence without a separate meter (and is within its MWD allocation).

I could be wrong.

As a Montecito resident served by Santa Barbara City water, this is not an issue for us with no allocation limit other than high cost. Supposedly, if trusting, there will be available desal next drought, and our plant won’t be dismantled and sold again to Iran or elsewhere.

Our local MFD chief [Chip] Hickman took leadership on AUDs to coordinate countywide with the other fire chiefs. More housing, and the fairness of uniformity, is key to this statewide mandate, while protecting public safety is their responsibility.

If you live within a half-mile of transit or ride sharing, you do not need to provide additional parking.

Officials aren’t talking about increasing public municipal transit – as in buses – for a reason: too costly until more in-fill housing is developed. Besides, there’s Uber and Lyft: we’ve all got available transit and ride

sharing.

In the interim, policy guidelines on streets would benefit everyone.

Hot Springs, San Ysidro, and other thoroughfares are already jammed.

Wait until Montecito doubles in size when it’s pickup time at MUS, and the regional Y is fully operational.

Better minds than mine will ensure a bright future for our children, who are wrongly taught to believe that driving electric cars and recycling are the key to sustainability.

In the meantime, view this as an opportunity to help house at least your parent or adult child. Then why not help tackle California’s biggest challenge: overpopulation. It’s not politically correct but is essential to survival of most remaining species.

Denice Adams Montecito (Editor’s note: Let’s not kid ourselves.

Residents with garages, especially those who live in the denser more urban sectors of Santa Barbara, have already converted those garages into extra rooms, either for rentals or to house a parent, sibling, friend, or child. This mandate just makes it a little easier and a little more legal to do so. While we appreciate your concern with overcrowding, we believe it is in the best interests of Montecito and its homeowners to ease the restrictions on private property. We do, however, agree with you that availability of an equal number of parking spaces should definitely be part of the equation. – J.B.)

Past is Prologue?

I enjoyed the letter to the editor about past-life regressions by Mr. David Thomas (MJ #23/14).

I’ve been investigating paranormal phenomena since the 1950s, encountering many such cases both personally and in the literature. One of the most scrupulous researchers on this subject was Ian Stevenson (19182007), author of such comprehensive books as Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, 1966, 1974. Another first-rate source is biologist and parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake.

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There are several explanations other than the “one soul, many bodies” approach, including the idea of Total Oneness, illustrated by something one of my mentors, Swami Nitty-Gritty, said: “Love thy neighbor as thyself, not like thyself. It’s not ‘like,’ it’s ‘as,’ because your neighbor is yourself.”

Telementation (a better word than telepathy, which indicates diseased thought) is another possibility. Many people have demonstrated paranormal abilities under hypnosis, including the famous Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), the so-called “Sleeping Prophet.” (I first read about Mr. Cayce in a serialized version of Morey Bernstein’s The Search for Bridey Murphy in the Los Angeles Mirror.)

While folks furrow their brows over government surveillance, many “remote viewers” are doing the same thing without benefit of instrumentation. My friend asked one of the best of these viewers, “Are you my teacher?”

The reply was, “I am not your teacher. We are the Watchers. People don’t believe we exist, and we prefer it that way.”

Atom Bergstrom Montecito (Editor’s note: The whole idea of being able to tap into the past, even the deep past, via accessing one’s DNA is intriguing and in light of current technological breakthroughs, increasingly plausible. I too love the subject. – J.B.)

Don’t Forget about Africa

I’m a senior at Cate School. I was born and raised in Brazil until I came to the United States as a new junior to play soccer and study at Cate. I recently started fundraising for what I call “Knowledge Kits.” A Knowledge Kit comes with a pencil, notebook, toothbrush, toothpaste, colored pencils and soap. I plan on making 800 Knowledge Kits, one for every kid at Lwaleng Primary School in South Africa. Therefore, I created a website that gives all the details about my project and offers the opportunity for people to make donations. Thus I was wondering if you could help me to

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Growing up with a small family in the favelas (slums) of Brazil, I quickly learned and mastered the skill of resilience, working extremely hard to achieve my goals. I never had money, but my deep passion for soccer and learning carried me far.

I taught myself English in order to come to America and take advantage of all the amazing opportunities that this country offers. My mom works as a maid and my dad works as a butcher, and they rarely had enough money to give me what I wanted, but they always gave me what I needed.

My dad taught me to work hard – and my mom taught me to work for myself.

So, I work for myself very hard.

Through hard work and eagerness for learning, I received a full scholarship to study at the Cate School, where I discovered community service, my greatest passion. Community service offers me the opportunity to help bring up those forgotten by society, to bring up people like myself.

I became the head of Public Service at Cate and I’ve received Leadership and Service awards to visit Costa Rica, Fiji, South Africa, and Nicaragua, where I was able to help to run camps for low-income children, build classrooms, and install water systems.

Last summer, during my service project in South Africa, I had the opportunity to learn about the poor conditions that kids face daily to go to school. When my project ended, I promised myself that I’d do whatever I could in order to help African kids, having Africa as my destination country for future service projects. Therefore, this summer I will be running my own service project in South Africa called Don’t Forget About Africa, which has the principal goal of improving the infrastructure of schools in Africa, as well as their learning environments.

As the first goal of my project, I will be building a kitchen at the Lwaleng Primary School, which will feed 800+ kids daily. As the parents do not pay monthly school fees, the school does not receive enough money to cover all the running expenses. With a grow-

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ing number of learners in the school, they are increasingly aware of the need for a fully functional kitchen.

Currently, the preparation of the food occurs in unhygienic areas. The cooks don’t have a storeroom in which to keep the utensils, and their current kitchen is a shelter with a low wall around it. When it is raining, they struggle to get the fire ready for cooking because the rain blows into the cooking area. The dusty conditions also affect the hygiene of the cooking and preparation area, especially when the wind blows. Furthermore, the working surface for food preparation is insufficient.

Thus, Don’t Forget About Africa is a project that will have a big impact in the lives of many families, and by having this kitchen, these kids will be able to enjoy a better quality of food and will not have to worry about the dangers of food poisoning or diseases in general.

You can find all the details about my project at: juannetorg.wixsite. com/southafrica2017. Readers can also go to my GoFundMe website: www.gofundme.com/dont-forget-about-africa-project. The goal is to raise $3,000; as of April 9, we’re up to $490.

Juan Magalhaes Carpinteria

The Cancer Industry

Here are the facts: the breast cancer rate today is three times higher than it was in the 1940s.

The cancer industry consists of corporations, organizations, and agencies that diminish or mask the extent of the cancer problem, fail to protect our health, or divert attention away from the importance of finding the causes of breast cancer and working to prevent the disease.

This includes drug companies that, in addition to profiting from cancer treatment drugs, sometimes produce toxic chemicals that may be contributing to the high rates of cancer in this country and increasing rates throughout the world.

It also includes the polluting industries that continue to release substances known or suspected to be dangerous to our health, and the public relations firms and public agencies that protect these polluters. The cancer industry includes organizations like the American Cancer Society that downplay the risk of cancer from pesticides and other environmental factors, and that historically have refused to take a stand on environmental regulation.

What the public and the media have to understand is that the pharmaceutical companies are not interested in prevention and cure; they are focused on treatment.

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Only 5% of the billions spent on breast cancer research is spent on prevention. The drug companies cannot make money on a disease that no longer exists. There is not exactly a big market for polio vaccine today.

The PR focus on diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and cancer are all feel-good-cause marketing.

The news media and its owners, including our local papers, radio, and TV stations and online news sites have all failed in reporting the truth about diseases because all they give to the public is PR from Avon, Revlon, et cetera, Pink Ribbon walks that do nothing for breast cancer (or Alzheimer’s walks for Alzheimer’s). Yoplait donates 10 cents for every pink yogurt lid mailed back, meaning you’d have to eat three yogurts a day during the entire four-month campaign in order to raise $36 for the cause.

Reporters have no clue of what they are talking about when they write or speak this PR dribble, and the media owners who support it are in the same boat!

We have lost the war on cancer. At the beginning of the last century, one person in 20 would get cancer.

In the 1940s, it was one out of every 16 people. In the 1970s, it was one person out of 10. Today, one person out of three gets cancer in the course of their life.

The cancer industry is probably the most prosperous business in the United States. In 2014, there were an estimated 1,665,540 new cancer cases diagnosed and 585,720 cancer deaths in the U.S. Six billion dollars of taxpayer funds are cycled through various federal agencies for cancer research, such as the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The NCI states that the medical costs of cancer care are $125 billion, with a projected 39% increase to $173 billion by 2020.

The simple fact is that the cancer industry employs too many people and produces too much income to allow a cure to be found. All the current research on cancer drugs is based on the premise that the cancer market will grow, not shrink.

Ernie Salomon Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Much of what you write is not only provocative but worth considering, but people – doctors, nurses, caregivers, patients, family members, et al – are not in the business of making sure cancer sticks around. Are there companies and organizations that make a good living from “fighting cancer”?

Sure. However, there are many more who’ve dedicated their lives in a search for a cure and/or alleviating some of the catastrophic effects of cancer. Santa Barbara is fortunate, for example, to have the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara. – J.B.) •MJ

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office, the Montecito Compass office is one of 30 offices in 10 nationwide regions. The company, which was founded in October 2012, has more than 1,400 real estate agents nationwide, with 32 in the Santa Barbara area. “Compass’s premise is that the agents are our clients,” Nisbet said during a recent visit to the office.

Nisbet says the company’s innovative and unique culture of technology-driven real estate is what drew him to the brokerage. “Their approach is different, and that’s what resonated with me,” he said.

“The real estate industry has been underserved by technology, and Compass is changing that,” he said.

“Our proprietary data and market intelligence helps our agents be better, faster, smarter, and more successful.

We provide superior support, so they can be out there building their business.” The Coast Village Road office also houses administrative, marketing, and technology support staff.

The building has a rich history in real estate, as it was once home to Alexander Velto Realty and Fred Sands. “Some of our agents started their careers in this building!” Nisbet said. The offices take up the entirety of the building, with the exception of clothing retailer Whiskey & Leather.

“It’s a great gateway to Montecito,” he said.

A second Santa Barbara area office on the corner of Anacapa and Carrillo is set to open in the coming weeks, Nisbet said. For more information, visit www.compass.com.

Marlo’s Massage Moves

Longtime Montecito massage therapist Marlo Tell has moved her business to a new location on Coast Village Circle, in the offices formerly occupied by the Montecito Journal, which moved upstairs in the same building. “This is a big move for us,” Tell told us earlier this week, adding that the new, larger, space offers three treatment rooms, a reception area, and a break room; far more space than she’s had before. She was at her last location, 1126 and 1128 Coast Village Circle, for five years.

The new location is an expansion of sorts, and Tell is in the process of training three other therapists to join

Massage therapist Marlo Tell has moved her business to the former Montecito Journal offices on Coast Village Circle

her and current employees Gina de los Reyes and Ana Barbara Szabó.

The business will eventually offer an expanded menu of services, as well as house a retail area with skin care, clothing, jewelry, and wellness products.

Tell, a graduate from the Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute, has been practicing massage since 1999, and has a dedicated following. From professional athletes, to post-injury and post-surgical patients, to regular folk looking for targeted deep tissue massage, Tell uses a number of techniques including trigger-point therapy, myofascial release, deep tissue, and Swedish massage to help dozens of body ailments. A combination of those methods is what Tell calls the “Marlo Method,” and the modality in which she trains her staff. Tell is also contracted out with The Lab, a wellness and fitness center in Santa Barbara that offers individual training, fitness, physical therapy, cryotherapy, biomechanical assessments, and massage therapy.

For more information, find Tell on Instagram @marlotell, or online at www.marlosmassage.com. The new location is at 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D.

their dedication, skill, and hard work.

“They truly are our everyday heroes,” said Jackie Jenkins, communications coordinator for MFPD. The Montecito Fire Communications Division (South Coast Dispatch) proudly serves the community with the highest degree of professionalism and strives to render the highest level of service to the community. The Communications division is currently staffed with three full-time Public Safety Dispatchers who are respon-

sible for the receipt, documentation, and disposition of telephonic and radio calls for routine and emergency 9-1-1 situations for both the Montecito and Carpinteria-Summerland Fire districts. Those dispatchers are Leslie Muller, Scott Edwards, and Jennifer Taylor.

The Dispatch Center is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. It is the responsibility of the Public Safety dispatcher to identify the nature of the call as quickly as possible and assist the caller in solving the problem. “The Dispatcher is the critical link between the citizen and the firefighters, as they are responsible for obtaining information from the caller and transferring that information to the firefighters and emergency personnel,” said Jenkins, who manages the three dispatchers.

Because each incoming call is unique and can vary from requests for general information to reports of life-threatening incidents, the Dispatcher must ask specific questions to accurately prioritize the call and assign it appropriately to emergency responders. The faster this critical information is obtained determines how quickly firefighters are able to respond.

“We are extremely proud of our dispatchers, and we recognize the sacrifices they make to provide excellent service to our community,” Jenkins said. •MJ

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Alan Chapman guest hosts SB Chamber Orchestra at the University Club

In its continuing program to perform at different locales, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra hosted an intimate all-Mendelssohn concert at the University Club with a quartet led by longtime director Heiichiro Ohyama.

Ohyama, a noted violist led a talented trio of players with him, violinists Hwi Eun Kim and Kathleen Sloan, and cellist Catherine Chan Biagini.

Cinderella and the Prince: Deise Mendonça and Yassui Mergaliyeva (photo by David Bazemore) Pamela Johnston joins SB Symphony’s board of directors

Fairies (clockwise starting with Leila): Spring Fairy: Leila Drake, Summer Fairy: Emma Nelson, Fairy Godmother: Anna Carnes, Winter Fairy: Meredith Harrill, and Autumn Fairy: Marika Kobiashi (photo by David Bazemore)

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State Street Ballet was in magical mode with its enchanting version of Prokofiev’s Cinderella at the Granada, choreographed by founder Rodney Gustafson.

The two act show, with colorful scenery by Jean-Francois Revon and Stefania Piazzo, transformed the principal character’s humble cottage to the festive ballroom of the royal court.

Cinderella, played by Deise Mendonca, and her Prince Charming, Kazakhstani Yassui Mergaliyeva, were a dynamic duo in costumes designed by Christina Giannini.

Marina Fliagina made a wonder-

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Digital technology executive Pamela Johnston has been elected to the Santa Barbara Symphony’s board of directors.

Johnston simultaneously earned undergraduate degrees in music and mechanical engineering at the University of Cincinnati before completing an MBA at Harvard Business School.

After brief stints as a structural engineer at General Motors, she was named manager of corporate strategy at Motorola, near Chicago, and went on to hold company positions in Florida and Hong Kong.

Johnston currently heads up her own Santa Barbara-based consulting firm, whose clients have included Lynda.com, Pandora.com, and Blurb. com.

Heavy Lies the Head...

Queen Elizabeth is a chocaholic, according to former royal chef Darren McGrady.

Her Majesty, who’ll be 91 later this month, always keeps her favorite chocolate biscuit cake at hand, enjoying pieces every day.

Darren, speaking to Harper’s Bazaar, says: “The chocolate biscuit cake is the only cake that goes back again and again and again every day, until it’s gone. She’ll take a small slice

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Former royal chef Darren McGrady reveals all

every day.”

The affable Dallas, Texas-based culinary wizard will be in our tony town again on May 20 for the Santa Barbara Choral Society’s Rockwood Abbey gala, which yours truly is emceeing with the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone as auctioneer.

Name Shame TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres has won a major legal victory in a case centered around a joke she recounted on her 14-year-old Burbank-based show.

The 59-year-old former Oscars host was sued over a wisecrack she made about the name of Georgia realtor Titi Pierce on her popular chat show.

A judge has now tossed out the lawsuit against Ellen and even explained the decision to do so by deciphering the English language in his judgment.

Legal documents obtained by the TV show TMZ read: “The ‘i’ in the English language can be pronounced in several ways.

“While Titi chooses to pronounce her name with ‘e’ there is nothing demonstrably false in pronouncing it with ‘i’ as DeGeneres did.”

In February 2016, as part of the segment What’s Wrong With These Signs, she displayed an image of one of

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Pierce’s signs on the big screen behind her and made a few jokes about it.

Speaking about the name, which she featured after the similarly amusingly named but unconnected “Nipple Convalescent Home,” she wryly noted: “Titi Pierce, sounds like she might have to send some time in the nipple home.”

Unfortunately, Ellen pronounced the name like the slang name for a woman’s breast rather than the supposedly grammatically correct “teetee,” which is said to have led to the woman being a source of mockery ever since.

Titi claimed it was the first time anyone had mispronounced her name.

She claimed she called the show when it aired in February 2016 and the following month to inform show staff the correct pronunciation of her name and complained that her telephone number had not been blurred.

She also begged that they do not reference her on the show or on social media.

While it was blurred on a video posted on social media, when the program aired again April 15, her number could still be seen.

Her name was apparently derived from the Nigerian word for flower, which her mother discovered in a book on African names.

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Arts Review: Bradley Exhibits at GraySpace

Artist Peter Bradley installing his art at GraySpace Gallery Funk Zone SB (photo courtesy of the Squire Foundation)

Artist Peter Bradley at his closing exhibit at the GraySpace SB with his daughter, Garrett, and the Squire Foundation executive director Ashley Hollister next to his painting titled Not Amorphophallus (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

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here does one begin to write an art review about an artist who was instrumental among his peers in the NYC art scene since the 1970s in abstractionism as a purist and supporter of it, beyond the expected art of African-American artists such as Norman Lewis?

I’ll start my review of Peter Bradley with Darby English’s latest book ceremoniously presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art January 2017 titled, 1971: A Year in the Life of Color. The book presents the historic values of The DeLuxe Show Houston, Texas 1971, credited as the first integrated art show of black-and-white U.S. artists, which Bradley installed and brought fellow artists to exhibit.

English writes that “black modernists – among them Peter Bradley, Frederick Eversley, Alvin Loving, Raymond Saunders, and Alma Thomas – rose above the demand to represent or be represented, compromising nothing in their appeals for interracial collaboration and, above all, responding with optimism rather than cynicism to the surrounding culture’s preoccupation with color.”

Bradley has stayed the course, true to his art and optimism, which he brought to our town during his artist residency at the Squire Foundation SB this spring.

I first met Peter at a welcome luncheon sponsored by the foundation at the end of February. He is a most warm and welcoming person who greets with a both-hands handshake and a straight NYC look into your eyes; he really wants to hear what you have to say. Engagingly knowledgeable about art and music with close friends from Mark Rothko to Miles

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Davis, Peter speaks first hand with insights one can’t find in art history books or gallery shows.

During his residency, he created art at the foundation and kept a full-on public schedule: a 3 day intensive abstract painting workshop; an art critique workshop at the Creative Arts Workshop SB; meeting with UCSB MFA students; a salon with SB poet Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, musicians Mary-Grace Langhorne and Peter Clark, dancer Kelli Forman, and local artist Pali X-Mano; plus meetings during the SB Jazz Festival at SBCAST and the Lobero Theatre.

The whirlwind schedule concluded with the most talked-about Funk Zone art exhibit to date at the GraySpace Gallery on March 31.

There he displayed four large-scale acrylic on canvas paintings he created while here, titled Araucaria 162” x 77”, Not Amorphophallus 105” x 78”, Binky I 74” x 71”, and Binky II 72” x 77”. Adding to the high energy at the opening was his daughter, Garrett, who flew in from New Orleans on her way to Japan. She said, “The Squire Foundation provided an incredible amount of support for Peter to make such ambitious beautiful work. We send our deepest thanks to everyone who supported this effort: the Squire foundation, the community in Santa Barbara, and of course, GraySpace.

Such fantastic work.”

Ashley Hollister executive director of the Squire Foundation added, “Working with Peter redefined the Squire Artist in Residence experience by solely elevating the arts from the community level to a museum experience. He produced commissioned works of art with the entire process

accessible to the public to inspire creative thinking. Our Squire visitors witnessed firsthand the artistic process, observing an internationally recognized artist in a working studio environment. It was absolutely amazing Peter was here, and it wouldn’t have happened without the recommendation from the great friend of the Squire Foundation Nancy Gifford to contact Michael Marzolla at the Abstract Art Alliance, who had an artist they had been wanting to bring to SB for years, Peter.”

Back at his New York studio, Peter spoke with me by phone; here are highlights: Q. Tell us about your residency here...

A. It was an extraordinary time, and the Squire Foundation treated me very well. I’ve been to L.A. and San Francisco, but Santa Barbara is really different.

Was SB inspiring for you to create art?

Yes, I was inspired by the color palette here, the plants, the people and the light, which is completely different light from NYC. Looking at your GraySpace exhibit, you used more pastels then?

Well, let’s put it this way, I had asked for certain paints while I was here, but when the paints were delivered some were missing. I couldn’t work with the colors I wanted, and I just made the best of it.

What’s on your music set list when you paint?

James Brown, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bill Evans – we were really great friends.

What was the art scene like for you in the 70s in NYC...

I worked at Pearl Art Supply on Madison Avenue; we were all there, it was an exciting time, but it was also anti-black at that time, and I was the first black artist they had to deal with. Since I wasn’t doing stereotypical African renderings, I didn’t have an art dealer to represent my works.

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How did you work around that... and you hung out with Rothko?

I’m an artist. I try to stay away from it [racism], and I don’t buy into either.

I’m African-American; I’m not from Africa. And I’m doing abstract art.

What many don’t recognize is that abstract art and cubism originated in Africa. It may be documented now; Picasso stole it, similar to Beethoven being black. Listen to the bass lines and rhythms in his music, it’s there.

And yes, Rothko was very cool with me.

Would you say your realm is abstractionism because it’s how you experience the world? [laughs] Exactly.

Looking at his entire body of work, and the ones currently up at GraySpace, one easily concurs with Steve Cannon, who said, “Bradley’s objective, of course, was the primacy of color. He kept himself busy defining his own space in the world of abstract expressionist art, determined to assure us and himself that space – and his statement – was unique in comparison to the likes of Jules Olitssky and Larry Poons.”

Clearly, the only colors Bradley sees are the ones he paints with – colors worthy to focus on and experience.

Enjoy!

411: www.peterabradley.com Bradley is known to have an effect on the New New Painters movement of nine core artists in 1978, with the invention of acrylic gel paint by chemist Sam Golden. His work is held in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Museum of Arts, and African American Museum (Dallas). He grew up with jazz legends Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Cobb, Roy Haynes, Curtis Fuller, Ira Jackson, and Allan Foster.

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($47.61)

ERNEST C RUIZ

($75.59)

BRANDON MEIER

($75.10)

S B AUTO CONNECTION

($53.75)

C R MESHOT

($150.54)

S B BANK & TRUST *

($161.05)

ALLEN MILLS

($34.90)

GASTON SANCHEZ

($136.28)

Published April 5 and April 12, 2017 Montecito Journal

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5523 DUE DATE & TIME: May 4, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Custodial Services Scope of Work to include custodial services for 17 City of Santa Barbara facilities.

MICHAEL P MOORE

($21.75)

LESLIE E SARGENT

($170.98)

BILL MORAN

($17.83)

VICTORIA SARQUILLA

($564.90)

TERESSA MORRIS

($84.55)

JILL SAUNDERS

($33.64)

WILLAIM MORTON-SMITH, MD

($33.98)

MIKE SCARBOROUGH

($71.25)

MARGRET MOWRER

($278.66)

DANN SCHRADER

($67.00)

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

KENNETH MUELLER

($201.63)

DENNIS SCHUETT

($34.11)

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

ANNABELLE MULHARDT

($40.00)

ERIN SCHULZ

($45.10)

RAY MUNSON

($31.99)

PAMELA SCOTT

($29.46)

STEPHEN MURDOCH

($250.00)

MARY SEMLER

($90.07)

MICHAEL MURPHY

($44.98)

SUSAN SENNETT

($38.56)

TED MYER

($51.12)

SHANG HAI RESTAURANT

($289.26)

EMMA NARACHI

($282.39)

SYDNEY SIEMENS

($109.51)

TOYGAR NAZIFOGLU

($116.71)

MELISSA SIMS

($30.83)

MILES NOE

($16.95)

R H SINGER

($44.23)

ORANCO DEVELOPMENT

($43.33)

KATHERINE SKIRVIN

($219.71)

JOSEPH OROS

($206.20)

JESSE SMALL

($71.30)

PABLO ORTEGA

($38.30)

STEVEN SPARKLIN

($100.00)

THOMAS D PARNELL

($32.83)

SPECIALTY TEAM PLASTERING

($73.64)

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• The Voice of the Village •

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on April 27, 2017 at 9:00 a.m., at the Building Maintenance Conference Room located at 616 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

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

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 electronically via PlanetBids.

Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.

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

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

_________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: April 12, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

13 – 20 April 2017

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3855 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3855 for the CITY PARKING LOT 8 LIGHTING will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., TUESDAY, April 25, 2017 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “CITY PARKING LOT 8 LIGHTING”, Bid No. 3855.”

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: remove and replace parking lot light poles and fixtures for City Parking Lot #8 at 1015 Anacapa Street. The Engineer’s estimate is $63,020. Each bidder must have a Class C-10 LICENSE WITH STREETLIGHT EXPERIENCE license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Kenneth Young, Project Engineer, 805-560-7568.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: APRIL 5 and 12, 2017 Montecito Journal

13 – 20 April 2017

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:

BID NO. 5508A

BID NO. 5528

DUE DATE & TIME: May 4, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

DUE DATE & TIME: May 4, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Corporate Yard Underground Fuel Tank Removal Project

Marinas 3-4 Guardrail Replacement Project Phase 3

An OPTIONAL pre-bid meeting will be held on April 19, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., at the Water Distribution Office, located at 625 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Contractor is responsible for any conditions that would have been discovered if they had attended pre-bid meeting.

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Bidders must be registered on The City of Santa Barbara’s Planetbids Portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid.

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 shall be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

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 General A Contractor’s license and HAZ “OR” a C61 Limited Specialty/D40 Service Station Equipment and Maintenance Contractor’s license and HAZ. 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.

Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. _________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: April 12, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Events By Emily, 5948 Casitas Pass Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013.

Emily Catherine Ulrich, 3950 Via Real Apt 126, Carpinteria, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 3, 2017.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0000783.

Published April 12, 19, 26, May 3, 2017.

You suffer all the way through Lent, and what do you get? A ham. – Garrison Keillor

Scope of Work to demo and install approximately 392’ feet of 4300 Aluminum handrail at the Harbor.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on April 27, 2017 at 10:30 a.m., at the Harbor Maintenance Shop, located at 117C Harbor Way, 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.as p. 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 electronically via PlanetBids.

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 B-General Building 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.

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

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

_________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: April 12, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: “Giffy”; There Was One Flower; There Was One Flower Art, 3950 Via Real Apt 126, Carpinteria, CA 93103. Anne B. Whittaker, 3950 Via Real Apt 126, Carpinteria, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa

Barbara County on March 14, 2017.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania ParedesSadler. FBN No. 2017-0000783.

Published April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2017.

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ORDINANCE NO. 5785

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3710 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3710 for the BRIDGE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM-2ND CYCLE will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 9, 2017 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “BRIDGE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM2ND CYCLE, Bid No. 3710".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Deck Treatment with High Molecular Weight Methacrylate (HMWM), Epoxy Crack Injection, Concrete Spall Repair, Bridge Rail Repair and Painting, Wooden Deck Replacement, and other maintenance at seven bridges in the City of Santa Barbara per plans and specs. The Engineer’s estimate is $245,000. Each bidder must have a Class A General Engineering Contractor license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Max Kashanian, Project Engineer, 805-564-5450.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. The Federal minimum wage rates for this project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in Appendix B of the specifications and are available from California Deparment of Transportation Internet web site at http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/oe/federal-wages/. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relates for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors must pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations.

Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determinations otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors must pay not less than the Federal minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

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

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

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

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE WATERFRONT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A LEASE AGREEMENT WITH SANTA BARBARA FISH MARKET, INC, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, 117-A HARBOR WAY, COMMENCING UPON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ENABLING ORDINANCE. The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on March 28, 2017.

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

(Seal) /s/ Sarah P. Gorman City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5785

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on March 21, 2017, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on March 28, 2017, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White, Mayor Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Councilmember Gregg Hart

ABSTENTIONS:

None

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

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

Bidders are advised that, as required by federal law, the State has established a statewide overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal. This Agency federal-aid contract is considered to be part of the statewide overall DBE goal. The Agency is required to report to Caltrans on DBE participation for all federal-aid contracts each year so that attainment efforts may be evaluated. This federal-aid contract has a goal of 5 percent DBE participation.

This project is subject to the “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 19991.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on March 29, 2017.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free hotline to report bid rigging activities. Use the hotline to report bid rigging, bidder collusion, and other fraudulent activities. The hotline number is (800) 424-9071. The service is available 24 hours 7 days a week and is confidential and anonymous.. The hotline is part of the DOT's effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General.

(Seal) /s/ Sarah P. Gorman City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

March 29, 2017. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: April 12, 19 and 26, 2017 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Taylor Paige Aesthetics, 116 E. Yanonali St. #D1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. John Marquette McWilliams, 1416 Robbins Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Taylor Paige McWilliams, 1416 Robbins Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 23, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify

that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes-Sadler.

FBN No. 2017-0000893. Published March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Benchmark Maps, 120 Cremona Dr. #260, Goleta, CA 93117. Benchmark, LLC, 120 Cremona Dr. #260, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa

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Barbara County on March 8, 2017.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0000706. Published March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Screeching Gull Seafood, 594 Via Rueda, Santa

Barbara, CA 93110. Zachary Lee Rypysc, 594 Via Rueda, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 7, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2017-0000694. Published March 22, 29, April 5, 12, 2017.

• The Voice of the Village •

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 17CV01073. To all interested parties: Petitioners Wynona and Michael Raquiza filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Serenity Snow Raquiza to Snow Raquiza. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting

to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed March 14, 2017 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: May 3, 2017 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26

13 – 20 April 2017

Brilliant Thoughts

Showtimes for April 14-20 H = NO PASSES

by Ashleigh Brilliant

FAIRVIEW

Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara with wife Dorothy since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

225 N FAIRVIEW AVE, GOLETA

Take My Advice (and Good Luck!)

T

oday this becomes an advice column. There are people who make their living producing these things – but this is probably the only one I’ll ever write. It was prompted by two recent events: 1. Recently, I received a letter from a Ms Noelle Doona, who identified herself as the assistant headteacher at Hendon School in London, which I attended in 1947-52, from the ages of 13 to 18. She said they wanted “to make a 6-foot poster of you, to display around the school to inspire our current students.” And, besides my permission, she requested various items, including photos showing me then and now, and “one piece of advice for our students today.”

All this astonished me, because I thought I’d lived past the possibility of ever realizing my life-long fantasy of being invited back there to be celebrated and honoured. So, of course, I happily gave my permission and began pondering my “piece of advice.”

2. On a recent morning walk around our block, where I habitually pick up and dispose of litter, one small piece of paper I collected was of particular interest. It had evidently enclosed a Hall’s cough drop. But apparently the cough-drop-makers – and who knows how many other industries – are now venturing into what for many years used to be the exclusive domain of Chinese fortune cookies. Those cookies usually contained just one often cryptic “fortune.”

But this single slip of paper actually contained, in small letters, four little pieces of advice: There was no copyright claim, so I’ll reproduce them here: “Let’s hear your battle cry.”. . . “Put a little strut in it.”... “Bet on yourself.”... “Turn ‘can do’ into ‘can did!’”...

I surmised that these were all supposed to be uplifting exhortations -and indeed I found up in one corner, the words “A pep talk in every drop.”

I tried to imagine some motivational maven at the cough-drop factory enduring an agony of creativity to cough up these gems – but the very concept boggled my mind. Is this what the long-distinguished tradition of advice-givers has come down to?

Once, there were sages, oracles, soothsayers, diviners, and wisdom-dispensers of all kinds. Even today we have people with such titles as advisors, counsellors, therapists, and life-coaches, with certificates from any number of institutions to back up their 13 – 20 April 2017

claims – to say nothing of the whole breed of psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and other professional “head-shrinkers” – all trying to get through their own lives by advising other people how to live theirs.

I myself, believe it or not, have an official proclamation, signed by the mayor of Santa Barbara, on the occasion of my 80th birthday (which was celebrated in 2013 on a hilltop overlooking the city) declaring me the “Wise Old Man of the Mountain.”

Some years earlier, I actually took a stab at this advice-giving racket,

I surmised these were all supposed to be uplifting exhortations and advertised myself as a completely unqualified, uncertificated counsellor, willing to hear and advise you on your problems, for whatever payment you felt it was worth. Thanks to my reputation as a writer of insightful epigrams, I did get a few clients, and, using ordinary common sense, I tried my best to help them. But it was just too distressing, having trustful strangers confiding so freely in me – and it was embarrassing to listen to the sometimes sordid details of their lives. So I soon gave it up.

I myself have always believed in getting advice wherever available, especially if it’s cheap or free. Catholics have the advantage here, at least of being able to unburden themselves of feelings of guilt, though, as I understand it, the responses they receive from their confessors may be of less value than just the act of confessing.

Now we’re approaching the end of this advice column, and I haven’t yet dispensed for you a single piece of advice. Well, I know you must be curious about the “one piece of advice” I was asked to send to the students at my old school in London. I thought back to my own teenage years, and how unhappy I had often been, living at home with my parents, and how much I’ve regretted since then that I didn’t have a better relationship with them. So, this is what I sent: “Try to please your parents (even if this sometimes goes against your own feelings.) Remember, they won’t be around forever.” •MJ

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THURSDAY, APRIL 13 Stage Flutter – The Moth’s Mainstage is the touring version of the live show that grew out of a modest storytelling collective that was originally held in its founder’s living room. From those humble beginnings has come a nationwide phenomenon boasting a cult-like following for the true tales from well-known artists, as well as everyday people told in first-person theatrical style. (It has even spawned regional copycats, such as our own Speaking of Stories, which co-opted the idea for a successful series called Personal Tales.) The Moth’s Mainstage events, the critically acclaimed storytelling group’s hottest ticket, features five handpicked storytellers who develop and shape their stories with organization’s directors. This second visit to Santa Barbara follows The Moth’s debut at UCSB a couple of years back. Top level ticket holders not only get the best seats up close where you can see the readers eyes as they impart their tales, they also have access to a pre-party with complimentary drinks and bites before the show, featuring a live set spun by DJ Chris Douridas of show sponsor KCRW. Either way, your ticket price includes a one-year membership to the radio station. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $59 & $89 INFO: 9630761 or www.lobero.com Concert for Samantha – California-based reggae band

Cornerstone, who got their start in Santa Barbara, has been pumping out high-energy reggae since 2005. Their style has evolved into an emerging urban reggae sound that fuses traditional reggae with a conscious Californian vibe to create a unique sound, while staying true to the fundamentals of roots reggae. Now the band that has shared the stage with Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, Don Carlos, Toots and the Maytals, and others is doing some giving back to its community in a benefit concert for Samantha Kuskey, a single mother with a 10-year-old daughter, who is fighting for her life after a diagnosis of advanced-stage ovarian cancer. Proceeds go to help defray her medical costs. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $20 general admission INFO: 684-6380 or www. plazatheatercarpinteria.com FRIDAY, APRIL 14 Lines of Communication – Poetry, vintage typewriters, and wine come together at Art From Scrap tonight as the organization takes poetry out of the realm of spectator sport.

Formatted in the style of Exquisite Corpse, where participants create a series of improvised collective poems, the workshop will come equipped with a collection of vintage typewriters.

Participants will move at timed intervals from machine to machine,

THURSDAY, APRIL 13 Spring Dance – Seasons collide in UCSB Dance Department’s annual spring concert, which makes reference to its calendar opposite in Free|Fall. The show features new, original works by graduating BFA students Rachel Epling (“etched in us”), Kelli Forman (“towards the yin”), Savannah Green (“Life in Cages”), and Olivia Maggi (“The Breeders”) whose pieces – performed entirely by students – mark the culmination of their campus choreographic efforts. The concert also marks the return of 2015 BFA alumna Gianna Burright presenting her work “Anywhere I Can See the Moon”, which was developed as part of her masters thesis project at The Trinity Laban Conservatory and created on members of the UCSB Dance Company, the professional company in residence at the school. They’ll also open the evening with “Buffalo”, LA-based choreographer Stephanie Gilliland’s high-intensity, athletic piece that brings the dancers face to face with their own inner strength and fragility, and close the concert with a nod to José Limón, performing “The Running Dance”, an excerpt of Limón’s full-length work Psalm (1967) that has been restaged by UCSB’s professor emeritus Alice Condodina. WHEN: 8 tonight & tomorrow, 2 & 8 pm Saturday WHERE: UCSB Performing Arts Theater COST: $17 general, $13 children & seniors INFO: 893-2064 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu

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SATURDAY, APRIL 15 Possums of Protest – Five feisty females who have all forged solo careers comprise The Honeysuckle Possums, the high-energy, all-women band that plays bluegrass, originals songs, and old-timey mountain music.

Visceral vocals, carefully crafted harmonies and a spirited style character the quintet, who have performed at local festivals as well as out of town venues. The Possums are performing tonight in a concert to benefit the American Civil Liberties Union in cooperation with the Live Oak Social Justice Ministry at Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation’s Song Tree, the erstwhile series that presented monthly song-oriented concerts for more than a decade. The ACLU aims to secure individual liberties in the face of governmental incursion while The Possums’s intention is “to create and share bliss through music.”

Seems like a good match. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 820 N. Fairview, Goleta COST: $15 (or more) donation INFO: 4032639 or www.honeysucklepossums.com/

adding verses at each stop prompted only by reading the lines created by the previous writer. The poems stay in their respective machines, which will have repurposed wallpaper cut to fit the typewriter so that each collective poem appears on a long, single sheet of paper. The sound of the keys, an occasional suggestion, and a glass of wine should help dispel any trepidation – especially once you realize nobody will know which part you wrote, unless you reveal it yourself. Either way, it’s a return to the good old days before the existence of SpellCheck and the ability to do instant cut-and-paste editing, so perhaps what you type in the moment might more closely reflect your unabridged thoughts and emotions. The collectively created poems will be read at the end of the evening. WHEN: 6 to 8 pm WHERE: Art From Scrap Gallery, 302 E. Cota St. COST: $20 INFO: 884-0459 or www.exploreecology.org/art-fromscrap-santa-barbara.php SATURDAY, APRIL 15 Nachle Deewane – The annual Indian dance competition hosted

by UCSB Dhadkan is a cultural showcase that brings together nine championship-level Bollywood and Bhangra teams from around the nation, along with exhibition acts and after-party music and dancing in one of the largest annual celebrations of Indian music in the area. Competing this year in the Bollywood-Fusion category are UC Santa Cruz’s Kahani, University of Texas’s Jazba, Cal Poly’s

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Kahanee, Berkeley’s Zahanat, and Texas A&M’s Akh Mastani, while Bruin Bhangra, Cal Bhangra, Da Real Punjabiz, and West Side Bhangra vie in the bhangra section. Outside of competition, Fateh will perform, UCSB Andaaz, the university’s co-ed Bollywood fusion dance team, will demo its blended dance styles while UCSB Agni, its classic club, showcases a repertoire of Indian classical music for vocal and table. When the contest concludes, the fun continues with an after-party/concert at the Butler Event Center, where Fateh will offer an encore performance at the special allgroups mixer. Proceeds are earmarked for Pingalwara, a family-oriented charity focused on improving the education, health, and wellness of poor, sick, and in-need individuals in India. WHEN: 5:30 to 9 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $20 general $25 VIP (includes front orchestra seating and a meet & greet with the artists); afterparty is $25 (bundle $40 general, $45 VIP) INFO: 963-0761 or www. lobero.com TUESDAY, APRIL 18 Dance Debut – Recognized as one of Europe’s most distinctive choreographers, Hervé Koubi combines capoeira, urban, and contemporary dance with imagery evocative of Orientalist paintings and Islamic architecture in his highly physical and fluid work. After critically acclaimed appearances on the East Coast following its initial U.S. performances in 2015, Koubi makes 13 – 20 April 2017

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 Symphony Goes Scandinavian – Pianist Lilya Zilberstein serves as soloist for Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor for the Santa Barbara Symphony pair of concerts this weekend. The ensemble will also perform Finn Jean Sibelius’s majestic Symphony No. 5, and, in between – and stretching the Scandinavian boundaries – play Festina lente by contemporary Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The concerts will be performed under the baton of Austrian guest conductor Christian Arming, who has enjoyed significant success conducting both symphonies and operas throughout Europe, Asia, and North America and has served as music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège for five seasons. For her part, Zilberstein earned top honors in the 1987 Busoni International Piano Competition, and ever since has been a popular soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. She has served as artist-in-residence with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, and in October 2015 became the first woman to chair the classical piano department at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. WHEN: 8 tonight, 3 pm tomorrow WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $29 & up ($20 for ages 20-29, $10 all students) INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org

his Southern California debut with “What the Day Owes to the Night”, a work that invokes the complex interwoven threads of his FrenchAlgerian ancestral history. Twelve French-Algerian and African male dancers appear in striking contrasts of light and dark, skin and textile, and whirling yet chiseled movement, all coming together to reveal a powerful interpretation of an internal quest. The Washington Post praised the piece as a “stunning fusion of acrobatics, gymnastics, b-boying, modern dance, and ballet”, while The Boston Globe was impressed by the dancers “launching themselves into cartwheels, somersaults, backflips, and breakdance headspins, as if they were trying to free the soul from the body.”

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $35 & $45 INFO: 899-2222 | www. granadasb.org or 893-3535 | www.

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Tony Lucca, Jay Nash, and Matt Duke. The three singer-songwriterguitarists originally joined forces in 2009 for a co-headlining tour that eventually turned from three individual sets into one cohesive concert. After two well-received recordings, however, the trio decided to go their separate ways again for awhile. Now, after a lengthy hiatus, TFDI has returned to the stage to revisit their inimitable harmonies, penchant for riveting storytelling, and eclectic, genre-melding songwriting – with a brand-new recording due any moment. Lucca, a former Mouskateer who appeared on The Voice in 2012; Nash, who has played SOhO on several singersongwriter nights; and Duke, a New Jersey native who has recorded for Rykodisc, show up ensemble tonight at the Plaza Playhouse Theater for a show that should benefit from the intimacy and rootsy vibes of the venerable venue. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $20 general admission INFO: 684-6380 or www. plazatheatercarpinteria.com •MJ

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TUESDAY, APRIL 18 Order Restored – Music Complete, New Order’s first album without Peter Hook – the singersongwriter/bassist who co-founded the band out of the ashes of post-punk proto-band Joy Division back in 1980 – came out in late 2015. New Order spent much of last year playing sold-out shows around the world, including at such prestigious venues as Royal Albert Hall and Sydney Opera House, as well as the Glastonbury Festival. Now the synth-pop/dance rock band is returning to Santa Barbara’s jewel of a venue up on the hill, the amphitheater known as the Santa Barbara Bowl. But you won’t have to get down on your knees and pray to see them perform. Just buy tickets online or head over to the box office. Polica, the much more neophyte synth-pop band from Minneapolis, opens the show. WHEN: 6:30 pm WHERE: 1122 N. Milpas St. COST: $44-$84 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com

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$6,500,000 | 4029 Via Laguna, Hope Ranch | 5BD/5BA Bartron Real Estate Group | 805.563.4054

$2,695,000 | 1414 La Vereda Ln, Montecito | 4BD/4½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

$16,900,000 | 2692 Sycamore Canyon Rd, Montecito | 7BD/8BA Mary Whitney | 805.689.0915

$8,750,000 | 1711 E Valley Rd, Santa Barbara | 5BD/7BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

$6,950,000 | 900 Park Ln, Montecito | 3BD/5BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

$6,600,000 | 730 Lilac Dr, Santa Barbara | 5BD/5BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

$5,500,000 | 974 Park Ln, Montecito | 2BD/2BA + GH Anderson/Hurst | 805.618.8747/805.680.8216

$4,500,000 | 785/805 Toro Canyon, Montecito Upper | 12.67± acs (assr) Marsha Kotlyar & Michele White | 805.565.4014

$3,250,000 | Freesia Dr, Summerland | 3BD/3½BA Marsha Kotlyar | 805.565.4014

$2,844,000 | 2618 Foothill Ln, Mission Canyon | 3BD/4BA Easter Team | 805.570.0403

$2,475,000 | 1318 Alta Vista Rd, Downtown | 3BD/3½BA + 2BD/2BA Calcagno & Hamilton | 805.565.4000

$2,249,000 | 66 Tierra Cielo Ln, El Cielito/Las Canoas | 3BD/2½BA Team Scarborough | 805.331.1465

$2,100,000 | 2550 Sycamore Canyon Rd, Montecito Upper | 4BD/3BA Patrice Serrani | 805.637.5112

$2,100,000 | 1620 Garden St, Eastside Upper | 5 Unit Apt. SiBelle Israel | 805.896.4218

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