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The Voice of the Village

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THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42 • OPEN HOUSES, P. 45

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Music Academy hosts Montecito’s biggest estate sale; items up for grabs include furniture, vintage clothing, kitchenware, antiques, art, luggage, jewelry, and way more! (story on page 12) Old-fashioned Fun

Montecito Union School unveils annual carnival Saturday with rides, games, food, and raffle, p. 34

Coming & Going

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In Memoriam

Lynn Matteson, Ph.D., husband of the Journal’s Lynn Kirst, passes away at 75 at Serenity House, p. 5 Cover photo by Kelly Mahan

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12 Village Beat

5 In Passing

Lynda Millner covers the SB Wildlife Care Network; Girls Inc. of Carpinteria’s “Women of Inspiration” luncheon; Cold Spring School Foundation and “Living the Beautiful Life”; and author David Brooks at the Montecito Country Club

Lynn Robert Matterson, Ph.D, husband of Journal contributor Lynn Kirst, passes away April 21 at Serenity House in Santa Barbara

6 Montecito Miscellany

Gigi Hadid in Vogue; Paul Walker’s brother Cody; Eric Schmidt and Google; Towbes host Granada gala; Opera Santa Barbara; violinist Priya Mitchell; musicians Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner; Transition House at the Bacara; actor and dancer Adam Barruch; African People & Wildlife Fund luncheon; Frank McGinity in Barron’s; wild horses in Summerland; Pacific Pride Foundation’s Royal Ball; Hot Havana Nights; the SB Trust for Historic Preservation gala; tenor Ian Bostridge at Lobero; and discount of “loyalty” for royalty

8 Letters to the Editor

Dee Elias sounds off about Ringo Starr and The Beatles; Stuart Ochiltree’s concerns about water and fountain follies; and Byron Ishkanian on cars

10 This Week

Knitting and crocheting; Art Faire; Walk & Roll; French conversation; Margaret Wheatley at women’s conference; MAW and May Madness; MUS carnival; United Youth: A Festival of Expression; lecture by Larry Greenfield; art benefit campaign with Beth Amine; Humane Society Open House; Brian Shapiro art opening; La Casa conversations; Presentation of Grants gala at Montecito Country Club; MA Land Use meeting; Sudoku workshop; poetry club; Samarkand’s Spring Art Show; artist reception; and Roar & Pour Wine Festival

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21 Ernie’s World

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23 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz interviews Michelle Dorrance about “The Blues Project”; laughs with “Ask Me Another” at the Lobero; Donald Davis among storytellers at Ojai Art Center; Ojai Playwrights Conference; goodbye, Granada Books; Ventura highlights; Fork & Cork Classic and The Jewish Festival

24 Coming & Going

James Buckley takes a closer look at the musical Maiani brothers and Montecito Music, David Myrick’s archives, the Montecito Association and Highway 101, and Muslim hero Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the Granada

29 Legal Advertisements 33 SBWC 2015

Erin Munsch previews the 43rd annual Santa Barbara Writers Conference, which features workshops by three Montecito writers, slated for June

39 The Curious Traveler

Jerry Dunn Jr. returns to the Land of Enchantment and specifically Santa Fe, where New Mexicans and transplants settle down to take care of business with food and spirits

41 Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events

Crary, Evans & Spurgin in Goleta; May Day at Paseo Nuevo; SB Festival Ballet takes Center Stage; Funk Zone Art Walk; Byrds flock to Plaza Playhouse; Honeysuckle Possums and The Sherpas; Santa Barbara Music Club concert; Los Angeles Philharmonic at CAMA; David Sedaris at the Arlington; Les Arts Florissants at UCSB; and the Lobero hosts Joan Armatrading

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In Passing LYNN R. MATTESON, Ph.D. (1939-2015)

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to pursue a college education. Lynn was the Valedictorian of his graduating class in 1957, delivering his Valedictory address from the stage of War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. During this era, he also developed a keen interest in sacred music, and sang Gregorian chant in a church choir. While working the night shift as an orderly at Cowell Hospital in Berkeley to put himself through college, Lynn attended the University of California, Berkeley. There he obtained all three of his advanced degrees, starting with a B.A. in history in 1962. He went on to study with the renowned French historian of art and architecture of the medieval era, Jean Bony (1908-1995), earning a Masters degree in 1965 with his thesis on the stained-glass windows in the west façade of Chartres Cathedral in France. Lynn’s Ph.D. in Art History was awarded in 1975, with his dissertation entitled “Apocalyptic Themes in British Landscape Painting, 17701850.” Although he initially trained as a Modernist, Lynn changed his focus to European art, and spent most of his career teaching 18th and 19th century European Art. His specialty was British and French Romantic painting, especially the art of J.M.W. Turner (17751851), Theodore Gericault (1791-1824), and John Martin (1789-1854), whose art Lynn championed before it was widely known. Lynn was a Chester Dale Fellow from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the first recipient from the West Coast. This was significant as before his receipt of this grant, much of the Eastern art establishment disparaged the intellectual seriousness of scholars west of the Mississippi. The prestigious fellowship enabled Lynn to

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Ringo Rocks

nostalgic return to Cleveland for Ringo Starr’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On April 18 of this year, I walked into the Public Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, for the first time since 1964, when I first saw The Beatles in concert. Beatlemania dominated my early teenage years, as it had done for all my friends. Like millions of other young girls, I remember thinking that if only Paul McCartney could meet me, we would fall in love and be married – forever. A wave of nostalgia for those days washed over me as I walked back into the Public Hall, 51 years later. I was returning to report on the induction of Ringo Starr and others into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Most exciting was the fact that Paul was also going to be there, to introduce Ringo. Also being inducted were singer Bill Withers, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, an early soul act called the 5 Royals, and rockers Green Day, Lou Reed, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. John Legend, and Stevie Wonder were also there to help with the celebration. The hall looked bigger than I remembered. It contains 10,000 seats, but as we entered, I remembered exactly where I sat in 1964: Section 4, Row R, Seat 52. I also remembered the fans holding up “I Love The Beatles” signs and screaming during the entire show. I know because I was one of them. Thousands of teenagers, midway through the show, rushed the stage, and it was chaos for a time. No one was hurt, order was finally restored and The Beatles returned to the stage and finished the concert – yeah, yeah, yeah! At the end of the concert, they held hands, raised their arms and in their trademark move, bowed together. The induction ceremony and concert was sold out; the crowd older and quieter than the one in 1964, but still enthusiastic. Things revved up when Joan Jett and the Blackhearts opened the show and the audience’s energy rose with her dynamic performance. HBO cameras were recording the event from all angles for a special that will be aired on May 31. Fourteen cameras were in constant motion from the ceilings, on the tracks laid out on the main floor and in the hands of cameramen scanning the crowd. It struck me how professional and big everything was, compared to the performance in 1964, when it was just them, and us, with no elaborate

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video or sound systems. Although it was at the beginning of the “British Invasion” and truly an influential time in rock n’ roll history, only a part of that 1964 Cleveland performance was documented and is now in the archives. Luckily, for me, I kept a diary of those Beatlemania days and that concert and others. In my notes are the details of a two-year plot that my friend and I carried out to meet The Beatles in person. It tells of how we broke all the rules to finagle our way into their hotel room when they returned to Cleveland in 1966, and how we met Paul, John, and George (Ringo was in the other room), and chatted with them for a few moments before we shook their hands and their manager said it was time to go. Later, I used these notes to write a book about those days so I wouldn’t forget any of these life-changing events. Now, so many decades and life-experiences later, I found myself back in the Public Hall with Paul and Ringo. My twin goals were to cover the event and to give Paul my book as a gift. I no longer expected him to fall instantly in love with me (darn it), but I hoped he might find it a little humorous and nostalgic. We entered the hall around 3 pm for a “behind the scenes” tour. I was secretly hoping to see Paul rehearsing and maybe even shake his hand once more and give him a book. I knew it wasn’t what I was supposed to be doing as a reporter, but when it comes to The Beatles, I have never been able to behave! We first went inside the Press Room, and then we moved to the Main Floor where Joan Jett, Miley Cyrus, and Tommy James were rehearsing the opening number. The auditorium was filled with caterers setting up tables for the celebrities. There were large security people roaming the balcony with sniffing dogs, and camera and soundmen all over the place, checking their equipment. I was told Paul and Ringo had rehearsed earlier that day and were gone. Darn! As we walked by the front of the stage, I noticed celebrity photos attached to the chairs where each would be sitting. Beside pictures of Nancy (Paul’s wife), Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison, and Joe Walsh (Ringo’s brother-in-law and a former Montecito resident who called out one of his Montecito friends and collaborators – Barry DeVorzon – from the stage at Santa Barbara Bowl during an Eagles

concert a few years back), was Paul and Ringo’s picture! While we took snapshots, I noticed black gift bags on every chair. I had a split second to decide my next step. What would you do? Luckily, Miley Cyrus was on stage scantily clad and most eyes were on her. It was an easy decision for me. I quickly dropped my book into Paul’s gift bag! I was so nervous. It was a gift, after all—right? I quietly walked away, half-expecting to be arrested on the spot, but no one seemed to have noticed. Whew! The event was five hours long, with music and long speeches and lots of applause. The music was wonderful and varied and the hall rocked, like the old days. I had a seat close to the stage, and I could see Paul and Nancy and I watched as she reached into his gift bag and pulled out my book. She looked at it for a long moment, flipped through it, and then placed it back in the bag. I was thrilled, but still a little nervous that somebody was going to call security to come and get me. Nobody did. The concert ended with a blasting version of “I Want to Be Your Man” and Paul’s induction of Ringo. “It’s cool that we’re back in Cleveland,” Ringo said and the place erupted in applause and cheers. After it was done and they were all walking off stage, Paul skipped over to Ringo, grabbed his hand, and they raised their arms together, like the old days, and took a final bow. As Yoko said earlier to the audience, it would have been nice if John and George had been there. I think I was the last one to leave the Public Hall that night. Things had come full circle and there was a sense of deep satisfaction to that, but on the other hand, 51 years seems to have

gone by awfully fast. I took one last glance at Row R, Seat 52, and as the camera lights shut down, I walked out of the Public Hall with a lump in my throat and a warmness in my heart. Dee Elias Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Dee’s book is available at: www.ConfessionsofaBeatlemaniac.com)

Fountain of Folly

I was surprised to see my letter to the editor in your last issue (“Montecito Privilege” MJ #21/16) regarding the ill-advised water district’s decision to increase allocation even after a year of successful conservation. In my letter, I also commented on the fountain in the upper village. The “Editor’s note” at the end of my letter was a disappointing confirmation of Montecito privilege. It did not comment on the increase in allocation from purchasing more water by an agency deeply in debt; instead it focused on the fountain. It was suggested that fountains could “happily splash away with recycled water if some is available.” Without knowing if the fountain indeed uses recycled water. To cover that question, the editor’s note suggests that, “they use very little water anyway... And... C’mon, the birds deserve a little fun once in a while.” I thought the comment gave the sense that fountain usage of water is trivial and not a big deal, which totally misses the point. In reality, fountains across the state including downtown Santa Barbara are being turned off by businesses and local government as part of a real effort and a necessary wake-up call regarding a drought that is affecting

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every aspect of life in California. While it may be true that fountains use little water, they are a visible symbol of excess and usage, which is inconsistent with the reality we face and may worsen. If we want people to conserve, fountains simply send the wrong message, and the editor’s note that trivializes conservation efforts – even small ones – is not very helpful. Stuart Ochiltree Montecito (Editor’s note: Ahhh... I have nothing to add other than the observation that a burbling fountain using recycled water (with a sign indicating that it is using recycled water) would send an excellent message, would it not? – J.B.)

Stopping Traffic in 1955

I read Randy Lioz’s recent article (“A Graceful Gull” MJ #21/15) about Peter Meijer’s 1955 300 SL with great interest, as it brought back memories of the distant past about the car. I am an acquaintance of Mr. Meijer and his brothers and have viewed his gullwing many times; what a beautiful automobile. In 1955, I was serving in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps as resident agent in the town of Straubing in Bavaria, located on the Danube River between Regensburg and Passau on the Austrian border. World War II was, of course, over, and Germany was rapidly recovering from that conflict. During the course of my duties in the town of Straubing, I traveled many times between there and the U.S. Army Kaserne (base) and airfield located a 30 April – 7 May 2015

• Concept to Completion • Exceptional Architecture few miles southeast of the town. Most trips were uneventful. The road traveled was only two lanes through farm country. About onethird of the way from town to the Kaserne was a fledgling Mercedes Benz car dealership attempting to develop a business in the area. I had passed it many times but on this one day, driving on the way back from the Kaserne, I sensed something different. There was an unexplained excitement and stir in the area. The country road was more clogged than it had been just a few hours before. As I neared the location of the Mercedes Benz agency, traffic had come to a dead stop. Nothing was moving. I parked my car and made my way, walking, in the direction of the agency. Then, I saw what was causing the excitement. A car carrier was parked and was unloading two cars. That is what the throng of people was watching. The two cars were both bright silver. One was a MB 190SL and the other was a Mercedes Benz Gullwing 300SL. Those watching were speechless, as was I. No one had seen two such beautiful cars in their lifetime. The crowd was almost silent as the vehicles were being unloaded. I will never forget that day. Although I have owned many Mercedes Benz autos since, even my own 1955 190SL, that one day will always be with me. I hope your readers will enjoy this memory. Byron M. Ishkanian Montecito (Editor’s note: Mr. Ishkanian adds that he has been a “resident of our beautiful Montecito since 1961.”) •MJ

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FRIDAY, MAY 8 Spring Art Show The Samarkand’s Annual Spring Art Show will showcase approximately 100 works of art created by Samarkand resident and staff artists, both professional and amateur, May 8-10. A variety of media will be represented, including watercolor, oils, acrylics, pastels, textiles, photography, pen and ink, digital art, sculpture, collage, ceramics, plant/garden, needlework, and jewelry. When: today, 10 am to 5:30 pm, and tomorrow May 9, and Sunday, May 10, 10 am to 3 pm Where: 2550 Treasure Drive Cost: free and open to the public Info: Pam Bigelow, 569-8506

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SUNDAY, MAY 3 Humane Society Open House The Santa Barbara Humane Society invites two-legged and four-legged guests of all ages to its annual Open House. The longestrunning animal welfare nonprofit in Santa Barbara welcomes the community to come experience the shelter’s beautiful five-acre property, meet adoptable dogs and cats, eat lunch, and watch live demonstrations from local dog training groups. The Humane Society will also be providing discounted $5 vaccinations for furry companions at its on-site veterinary clinic, special program demonstrations, face painting, magic show, and reading corner for kids, and the chance to meet adoptable dogs. This event is free and open to the public, with donations encouraged. When: noon to 4 pm Where: 5399 Overpass Road in Santa Barbara Info: 964-4777

THURSDAY, APRIL 30 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting. When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Art Faire Student art on display at Cold Spring School When: 5 to 7 pm Where: Cold Spring School, 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Info: www.coldpspringschool.net FRIDAY, MAY 1 Walk & Roll Montecito Union School students, teachers, and parents walk or ride to school, rather than drive. When: 8 am Where: Via Vai, Ennisbrook, and Casa Dorinda trailhead Info: 969-3249

French Conversation Group The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System hosts a French conversation group for those who would like to practice their French language conversation skills and meet others in the community who speak French. Both native speakers and those who learned French as a second or foreign language will participate, and new members are always welcome. When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: Sara Doehring, 969-5063 Women’s Conference During this retreat, participants will work with six core Buddhist tenets: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, meditative stability, and wisdom. Host Margaret (Meg) Wheatley, Ed.D, author of eight books, teaches and speaks globally. She is the co-founder and president of the Berkana Institute. When: tonight 7:30 through Sunday, May 3, 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria,

800 El Bosque Road Cost: commuter, $295, resident, $395 Info: www.lacasademaria.org SATURDAY, MAY 2 May Madness Music Academy of the West presents its annual massive treasure sale. Items for sale include furniture, rugs, small appliances, kitchenware, garden accessories, fine linens, antiques, silver, crystal, china, art, collectibles, hardcover books, board games, music and movies, electronics, jewelry, men’s and women’s clothing, luggage, and sports equipment. Merchandise will be arrayed by type throughout the academy’s grounds. Proceeds from the estate sale will directly benefit the Music Academy. Parking will be available on the campus. Additional parking space and shuttle service will be available at Las Aves complex, located on the corner of Los Patos Way and Cabrillo Boulevard. When: 9 am to 3 pm Where: 1070 Fairway Road Info: (805) 969-4726 Montecito Union School Carnival It’s carnival time again at Montecito Union School. This year’s fun and games include: rock-climbing wall, face painting, a giant slide, 50-foot obstacle course, and cakewalk. When: 10 am to 3 pm Where: Montecito Union terrace, 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 United Youth: A Festival of Expression The purpose of this event is to give our

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stations accessible at the event. The goal is to make these powerful and healing movement classes available to any individual or facility who could benefit from them. Program begins at 7 pm with informational talks on the power of healing through dance, followed by the Maravilla Retirement Community resident seniors performing their choreography with Beth and testimonies on how Joyous Movement has improved their health and well-being. When: 6 pm Where: 216 State Street Cost: $10 donation Info: www.joyous-movement.com. SUNDAY, MAY 3 Conversations at La Casa One of the great tragedies of our globalized world is the “trafficking” of human beings for sexual exploitation and forced labor. The practice often focuses on poor and marginalized women and children. Two colleagues from Pacifica Graduate Institute, doctors Oksana Yakushko and Indhushree Rajan, will help us understand the scope and extent of this issue, based on travel and research in such countries as India. When: 2 to 5 pm Where: 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: www.lacasademaria.org MONDAY, MAY 4 Presentation of Grants Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara presents its 11th annual Presentation of Grants Reception, celebrating new 2014-15 grantees, who will share $460,000 in grants pooled from the donations of 2014 Women’s Fund members. When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Country Club, 920 Summit Road Cost: $20 Info: www.womensfundsb.org TUESDAY, MAY 5 Montecito Association Land Use Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today the Land Use Committee meets. When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 Sudoku Workshop Learn new tips and tricks to help improve your Sudoku game. No prior 30 April – 7 May 2015

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the Girls Inc. members, Ana Delgado and Arianna Lopez, who presented the awards to the 2015 honorees: Michelle Apodaca, Dr. Jennifer Freed, Rendy Freedman, and Donna Jordan. Michelle is director, offices of the chairman, CEO, COO, and CFO at Deckers Brands. She oversees the company’s philanthropic efforts, which are many. It even includes making a specially designed boot for a crippled penguin at our zoo. Jennifer and Rendy are co-founders and co-directors of Attitude, Harmony, Achievement! (AHA!). They coined the term before Oprah. They have a team of 20 that goes to all the high schools teaching about bullying, character development, prejudice, and things relating. Donna’s claim to fame is being Carpinteria’s first female mayor. She also served four terms as a councilwoman for the city. Among her many credits, she’s co-founder of Carpinteria Beautiful. Speaker Saran Kaba Jones was born in Liberia where she had a happy childhood until age 8, when war was coming and her parents escaped to nearby Abidjan. Nineteen years later in 2008, Saran returned to find a wartorn destitute country. She vowed to help and founded FACE Africa, which stood for Fund a Children’s Education Africa.

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Smoke ‘n’ Burn 2.0 are (from left) Rick Maiani on guitar, Laine Maiani on bass, Sarah Maiani on drums (her mom, Tipper Gore, is also an accomplished drummer), and Patrik Maiani on keyboard; their song, “Smile,” has been chosen as the theme song for the up and coming film remake of “Black Beauty,” due in theaters in July

atrik Maiani and his brother, Rick Maiani, grew up in Montecito and have been playing music together for more than three decades. Their father, Dario, was an opera singer with an international rep-

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What do you want viewers take away from the show – a visceral experience, lots of joy, or something more educational? All of that and more. I love when people walk up and say something even as basic as they now realize that tap dance is like music. Or that they understand the integration of music and tap dance, or the how tap has influenced other forms. If they learn something about race in America, especially right now with what’s happening with violence in our culture, that’s also important. It can be a healing, but also joyful and emotionally evocative. Whatever shows up in their minds, or even better their bodies – I love watching them tap dancing as they leave. Your dad was the coach of USA women’s soccer who recruited Mia Hamm and many of the other gold medalists for the 1996 team when they were teenagers. Your mom has a ballet school. How did you end up in tap? I absolutely love soccer and learned a lot from ballet, but I have flat feet and inflexible legs. I figured out at an early age that I didn’t have the line to perform at a high level in ballet. My mom encouraged me to explore my musicality and timing. My strength lies in tap because of my love for the music, and I loved improvising from a very young age. I did play competitive soccer through high school and even in my freshman year at NYU. I had quick feet. But I definitely wasn’t

international caliber. Then I found who I was in tap dance. (Dorrance Dance performs at 8 pm Saturday night at the Granada Theatre. Tickets cost $35-$45. Call 893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or call the theater at 899-2222 or visit www.granadasb.org. Michelle Dorrance and company members Elizabeth Burke, Gabe Winns, and Byron Tittle will lead a community dance class geared toward intermediate tap students at The Dance Network, El Mercado Plaza, 4141 State Street, Suite A4, on Friday, May 1, 5:30-7:30 pm. Admission is $20 for dancers, but observers are also welcome at $10 each. $5 discount for Santa Barbara Dance Alliance members. Call 225-6078 or visit www.sbdancealliance.org.)

Just What the (Laugh) Doctor Ordered

Quick. What’s a prescription for laughter and lite learning with the initials AMA that has nothing to do with the American Medical Association? If you answered “Ask Me Another”, chances are you’d do well on NPR’s hit game show/podcast that combines brain-teasing word puzzles with pub-style trivia, music, and even special celebrity guests in a decidedly whimsical comedy mix that nobody could confuse with “Jeopardy”. The WNYC/NPR production – heard locally on KCLU public radio 102.3 FM and 1340 AM at 1 pm on Sundays (repeated at 2 am on Tuesdays) – is coming west for a live taping at the Lobero Theatre on Saturday night. “I love that it’s simultaneously high-brow and low-brow. We can joke about philosophy at the same time as the Kardashians,” said Art Chung, AMA’s “Puzzle Guru,” a former lawyer whose experience dates back to

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the early episodes of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Chung writes and edits a team of staffers and freelancers who have so far contributed more than 500 games over the show’s 3½-year history, including musical parodies, genre mashups, fractured film titles, and lots of other trivia with a twist. Subjects can range from TV shows of the 1950s to millennial rock bands and everything in between. “You really need to know a little bit about a lot of things,” said Chung, who cited mashups combining famous people’s names with products, and another celebrating ComCon that paired comic book characters with medical diseases as some of his favorite games. The big winners, who outlast a single opponent in early rounds to advance to the final game at the end of the show, take home either an “Ask Me Another” anagram T-shirt (Chung is an anagram addict) or a special edition Rubik’s Cube. Just as with its NPR big brother “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”, the nominal value of the prizes hasn’t curtailed contestant applications. “People take it very seriously,” “We have had a former Jeopardy! champion on our show, and people who won hundreds of thousands of dollars on Millionaire. I tell them know you’re not going to win any money here and they’re cool with it. They just want to show people that they know stuff.” The show’s strength comes not just from the cleverness of the games, however. Much of its success is due to host Ophira Eisenberg, a standup performer and author who was already well-known to NPR audiences through her appearances on “The Moth”. Her delivery and comic timing keeps “Ask Me Another” humming as she dialogues with the contestants and often gets into witty interplay with Jonathan Coulton, the show’s “one-man house band,” who runs the musical games and provides instrumental interludes between games. Plus, she gets to interview the VIPs (Very Important Puzzlers) – the special guests who appear on each episode and even play a game tailored to their talents. Matthew Weiner, whose Mad Men TV show wraps up later this month, will be on hand in Santa Barbara.

(“Ask Me Another” comes to the Lobero Theatre at 8 pm Saturday, May 2. For tickets and information, call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com.)

Tell Me Something Good

Donald Davis’ ancestors lived on the same Western North Carolina land since 1781, and growing up at the foot of the Southern Appalachian mountains provided a world filled with rich stories and traditions. So it’s no surprise that Davis became a storyteller himself as he tried to make sense of his own family’s history and its influence on his childhood. “It was like having a foot in two worlds,” Davis recalled over the phone recently, just a few days before he would be heading west to headline at the 16th Ojai Storytelling Festival this weekend. “My immediate family lived in town, where we had a car, a telephone, and my dad worked in a bank. But on the weekends, we’d

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When she heard about the AMA position seeking a host with a comedy background, Eisenberg said it was “one of those few times where they explained what the job was, and I thought, ‘You know what? I have those skills!’... It was like they created the job for me.” “I get to flex a lot of different muscles,” she explained. “The host is about energy and moving things along and being quick in the moment. Tell great jokes with stage chops, and respond to the audience. So much of the show is spontaneous. It’s like being a ringmaster. It’s challenging, but I love doing it. But don’t ask Eisenberg to answer any of her own game-show questions. “I’d fail miserably,” she said in an interview. “I can do a lot of things in the moment, but even if I know something when you ask me on the spot, I go blank. I’d maybe come up with something funny, but the right answer doesn’t show up. I was a panelist on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me two times. I was terrified on the final quiz, just mortified. So I studied way too hard, like it was the bar exam. But I won one. So I’m getting better... (but I still) have huge respect for people on the stage.”

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Sturm, Tammy Ball, Jennie Grube, Erin Taylor, Matt Marquis, Carrie Randolph, Erin Goligoski, Tony Miller, Joe Kneafsey, Kim Thomas, Katie Gonella, and Rachel Whitney.

An Evening with David Brooks

UCSB Arts & Lectures presented “Cocktails and Conversation with David Brooks,” a private reception at the Montecito Country Club. David is a New York Times op-ed columnist and best-selling author. As The Wall Street Journal says, “His talent for capturing the way we live now is

truly impressive.” You may have heard David speak on PBS NewsHour or NPR’s All Things Considered where he is a regular analyst. His soon to be published book, The Road to Character, tells about 10 great lives that illustrate how character is developed and how to strengthen our inner lives. He also currently teaches a course at Yale University. He holds many honorary degrees and has been with The Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, and more. With wine and bites, the guests mingled and chatted until time to be seated for the Q&A. Brooks was warm and candid with his comments and generous with his time. Then he headed for Campbell Hall at UCSB for his lecture and book signing for the public. According to the Santa Barbara Independent, “It’s likely that our city enjoys a broader ranger of offerings and a higher level of quality in the performing arts than any other city of comparable size, not just in America, but in the world. We experience this cultural bounty due in no small part to the work of UCSB’s Arts & Lectures Program.” •MJ

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go visit my grandparents who lived about 200 years in the past. They had a log house, with no electricity or running water, and were living as subsistence farmers.” For Davis, turning his elders’ tales into stories for the masses wasn’t something he had to learn about at school. “I just relived their lives,” he said. “I didn’t even know they were stories. It was just remembering things that had happened. I’d tell other people because it was interesting to me. And they’d ask me to tell more. Then I added some of the stories from my own life. That’s how it started. And it took over my whole world.” Fun as it was, though, Davis didn’t imagine he could make storytelling a career early on. Instead he went to seminary school, and became a Methodist minister, which one might think was a very similar profession, although the tales and stories are codified in the bible. “Nobody was paying much attention to storytelling at the time,” he recalled. “There was this great new thing called television that was the wonder of the world. Stories came right into your living room.” But storytelling underwent something of a revival a couple of decades ago, and Davis was ready to take advantage, having already put in 25 years at his local church. “I’d never really left it behind,” he said. “So when festivals came looking for tellers, I got asked to do things. Soon it was time to retire to do this full time.” After almost another quarter-century spinning yarns for a living, Davis is now considered one of the deans of the trade, a master who returns every other year to the Ojai Festival, which is one of his favorites. “I love that little amphitheater in the heart of downtown Ojai,” he said. “It’s such a magical place.” The decades have helped Davis fine-tune the elements of a good story, which in his hands can range from heartwarming family-friendly tales of home and hearth, to funny stories of the odd folks we encounter, nearly all produce a lump in the throat alongside the laughter. “There are two important elements to make a story work,” he explained. “The teller needs to understand that the audience is not just listening but also watching. You have to make the tale descriptive enough that people make a movie in their heads as it goes along. But they also have to make a connection. You want them to recognize people from their own lives in your tales so they’re saying, ‘That’s just like my brother’ or something, some way of getting in. Or they’d get tired of it pretty soon.” If TV caused a downturn in the

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“Show-Stoppers” – a 90-minute cabaret of musical numbers and dramatic scenes performed by Broadway and Los Angeles stars – including Phantom of the Opera stars Davis Gaines and Dale Kristien; American Idol finalist Anthony Fedorov; L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award winner Jennifer Paz (Kim in Miss Saigon), soul singer Billy Valentine, and several of the playwrights. The celebration continues after the show at a private ranch in upper Ojai with wine, cocktails, a live auction, and a farm-to-table feast prepared by local chefs. Information and tickets at www.ojaiplays.org or 640-0400.

Bye-bye, Bookstore Donald Davis headlines the 16th Ojai Storytelling Festival

world of storytelling decades ago, you’d think the rise of the Internet would be an even bigger problem. But Davis said it’s had something of the opposite effect. “People spend the day being unreal, working in a virtual world in which they have no real true emotional human contact because it’s all electronic,” he said. “So they’re starved for connection. They come up here thinking it’s an escape, but really it’s getting a reality check here. Storytelling keeps your heart and souls connected.” (Donald Davis joins fellow tellers Clare Murphy of Ireland, Diane Ferlatte of Africa, Regi Caprenter of New York, Andy Irwin of Georgia, Minton Sparks of Tennessee, and Vijai Nathan of India in the Ojai Storytelling Festival April 30-May 3 at Libbey Bowl and the Ojai Art Center. For more information, the schedule and tickets, call 646-8907 or visit www.ojaistoryfest.org.)

Gardens Variety

Ojai too far to schlep for stories? Fairview Gardens’ 5th annual “Stories in the Orchard” is just two weeks away. Michael Katz, Joseph Velasco, Ann Wisehart, and Michael Andrews will regale all with a variety of tales told in an avocado orchard at the Goleta farm at midday on Sunday morning, May 16. Tickets are just $10 per person, or $25 for a family and include sampling of farm-fresh treats. Call 967-7639 or visit www.fairviewgardens.org.

Also in Ojai

The Ojai Playwrights Conference (OPC) previews its 18th season with a Town & Country-themed benefit gala on Saturday afternoon. OPC artistic director/producer Robert Egan collaborates with Emmy-winning composer and music director Lance Horne for

Granada Books pays tribute to Indie Bookstore Day Saturday before calling it quits a day later with a final bittersweet celebration for the downtown pages place. On tap are games, raffles, and giveaways from Blue Owl, Saigon, Crushcakes, and supporters, crafting workshops, plus words from guest speakers including Ashleigh Brilliant and new Santa Barbara poet laureate sojourner Kincaid Rolle, and music with ukulele duo The Brambles, classical guitarist Joseph Miller, and light rock duo Matt & Breezy. Admission is free. Details at 845-1818 or www. sbgranadabooks.com.

Samonsky Comes Home

Broadway star Andrew Samonsky – whose credits in New York include roles in South Pacific, Scandalous, Queen of the Mist, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood – returns to his hometown in Ventura for a special one-night-only cabaret performance Sunday evening to benefit Rubicon Theatre. Samonsky was in the initial cast for the West Coast premiere of tick…tick…BOOM!, directed by Scott Schwartz at RTC, and the actor has returned to Rubicon the past two holiday seasons in developmental productions of Little Miss Scrooge by Tony and Olivier Awardwinner John Caird and Tony nominee Paul Gordon. The Buena High School grad, who will be accompanied by pianist Miriam Arichea, will perform a selection of musical theater favorites, including “Try To Remember” and “I Can See It” (from The Fantasticks), “Some Enchanted Evening” and “Younger than Springtime” (from South Pacific), “On the Other Side” (from Queen of the Mist), and “Seeing You There” (from Ordinary Days), plus pop hits such as Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind”, and standards including “New York, New York.” Tickets are $59.50, or $125 VIP for priority seating and a private post-show reception with Samonsky. Call 6672900 or visit www.rubicontheatre.org.

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Ventura Music Festival

The 21st annual festival spanning classical to rock at venues all over the seaside town opens Friday night with Cantabile: the London Quartet, followed on Saturday by the Romero family of patriarch Celedonio Romero, who founded the so-called first family of classical guitar. Other highlights include Latin funk-rockers Ozomatli playing Monday at Ventura College Stadium and the husband-and-wife team of the great jazz trumpeter and record company impresario Herb Alpert with singer Lani Hall, slated for next Friday, May 8, at Ventura High School’s Theatre. Info and tickets: www.VenturaMusicFestival.org or 648-3146.

Foodie Festival

The tasting festival season is just getting underway, and wisely the Fork & Cork Classic decided to move up the schedule by a month. The benefit for FoodBank of Santa Barbara County takes place this Sunday, May 3 back at the Montecito Country Club, where food and wine aficionados can enjoy sipping wine from more than three dozen vineyards and sample gourmet dishes from over 20 local chefs and restaurants – including exclusive preparers like Sama Sama, Succulent Cafe, Patxi’s, and the country club itself – while enjoying the panoramic view from hillside venue. This is one of the few events where there is plenty of space to wander and lots of time to meet the chefs and winemakers, as well as bid on live and silent auctions and dance to DJ music. The fact that proceeds go to an organization that supports more than 330 local nonprofits aimed at easing and eradicating hunger is just the, pardon the pun, icing on the cake. Get tickets, a list of participating food servers and wineries, and more information online at www.forkandcorkclassic.org.

Such a Deal

What’re ya kiddin’ me? The Jewish Festival is on the same day? Oy vey! Well, at least you can get your fill of knishes, potato latkes, and even He’Brew Beer over at Oak Park and even have a couple of hours to dance off the calories to the hora as well as other traditional and modern dances. Klezmer Juice, Kalinka, and several other acts perform at two different stages and there will be lots of arts, crafts, and other gifts and tchotchkes available at booths all around the tree-lined park. The season’s first ethnic festival runs from 11 am to 4 pm Sunday, May 3; admission is free. Visit www.jewish santabarbara.org for details. •MJ 30 April – 7 May 2015

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3757 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3757 for the HIGH SCHOOL WELL RAW WATER MAIN will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2015 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 93101, and shall be labeled, “HIGH SCHOOL WELL RAW WATER MAIN, Bid No. 3757". The project consists of the installation of approximately 3,440 linear feet of water main to connect the existing Santa Barbara High School Well to the collection line for the Ortega Groundwater Treatment Plant. The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Installation of the water main, waste discharge connection at the wellhead site, and pressure sustaining valve vault installed near the corner of Olive and Ortega St. per the plans and specs. The Engineer’s estimate is $700,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

ORDINANCE NO. 5686

ORDINANCE NO. 5687

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING SECTION 2.28.030 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE TO GRANT THE LIBRARY DIRECTOR THE AUTHORITY TO PROMULGATE AND POST FACILITY-SPECIFIC REGULATIONS

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING TITLE 9 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING CHAPTER 9.07 TO PROHIBIT URINATING OR DEFECATING IN PUBLIC

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

April 21, 2015.

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.

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In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal. A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work. Effective March 1, 2015, Senate Bill 854 requires the City to only use contractors and subcontractors on public projects that have been registered with the State of California Department of Industrial Relations. 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 22 and April 29, 2015 Montecito Journal

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There will be a Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Wednesday May 13, 2015 at 10:00 A.M., at 630 Garden Street in the Public Works Main Conference Room. The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Philip Maldonado, Project Engineer, 805-560-7544.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

ORDINANCE NO. 5686 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

ORDINANCE NO. 5687 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on April 14, 2015, and was adopted by the

was introduced on April 14, 2015, and was adopted by the

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

April 21, 2015, by the following roll call vote:

AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

NOES:

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ABSTENTIONS:

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ABSTENTIONS:

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on April 22, 2015.

on April 22, 2015. /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 22, 2015.

April 22, 2015.

/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published April 29, 2015 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GraySpace Gallery, 219 Gray Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Charlene Koonce Broudy, 12140 Old Walnut Road, Ojai, CA 93023. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 17, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County

Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0001255. Published April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NextHome Decker Realty, 988 Fredensborg Canyon

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Road, Solvang, CA 93463. Steven Decker, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 14, 2015. 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. 2015-0001207. Published April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lookout Co., 318 Ennisbrook Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Lauren Iglesias, 318 Ennisbrook Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 6, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN

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cent and investor concerns about the company’s big spending on far-flung projects. The downturn in the company’s stock contrasted with an 11-percent gain in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index last year. Schmidt, 59, is already among the world’s richest people with an estimated fortune of $9 billion, according to Forbes.

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Taking Stock Google paid its Montecito-based executive chairman Eric Schmidt nearly $100 million last year while the company’s stock slumped. Most of the compensation consisted of stock valued at $100 million. It was the largest stock package that Schmidt has received since 2011, when Google awarded him a bundle valued at $94 million at the time he relinquished the CEO’s job to company co-founder Larry Page. Documents filed with regulators last week also disclosed that Page and the company’s other founder, Sergey Brin, limited their 2014 pay to $1 each, as has been their practice for years. Schmidt, who bought TV talkshow host Ellen DeGeneres’s former estate, just a tiara’s toss or two from Lotusland, for $20 million in 2008, also pocketed a $1.25 million salary, a $6 million bonus, and perks valued at nearly $1 million. His total pay last year soared by more than five-fold from 2013 when his Google compensation was valued at $19.3 million. The hefty raise came in a year that saw Google’s stock drop by five per• The Voice of the Village •

Opera Santa Barbara’s A Streetcar Named Desire

For its final production of the season, Opera Santa Barbara presented one of the greatest American operas, multi Oscar-winner André Previn’s excellent transformation of playwright Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prizewinning A Streetcar Named Desire at the Granada, which premiered in San Francisco 17 years ago. Previn’s glorious score combines modern music with New Orleans jazz, as splendidly played under conductor Mark Morash, with stage direction by Omer Ben Seadia. Soprano Beverly O’Regan Thiel’s Blanche Dubois, the fragile and complex aging Southern Belle, was magical, while baritone Gregory Gerbrandt as the brutish Stanley Kowalski, memorably played by Marlon Brando in the film, was at his intimidating best, with Micaela Oeste as his subservient wife Stella and Casey Candebat, a New Orleans native, as Blanche’s would-be beau. 30 April – 7 May 2015

Kudos also goes to scenic designer Steven Kemp for his creative staging. Having seen the play a number of time over the years in London and New York, as a three-hour opera it has a decidedly new edge. A whole different aria, one might say... Strings Attached

Violinist Priya Mitchell excels

British violinist Priya Mitchell, who studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, was in the spotlight at the latest Camerata Pacifica concert at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn

Hall. The two-piece show launched with pianist Warren Jones playing Liszt’ Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, and then joining horn player Martin Owen and Mitchell in Brahms’ trio in E-Flat Major. The auditorium was fuller than usual for the lunchtime concert, as many were attending the Granada that night for the not-to-be-missed Mutter, Bronfman, and Harrell performance. A cultural conundrum, indeed... Bridge the Gap The venue was gridlocked when violinist Jennifer Koh and pianist Shai Wosner performed an energized concert “Bridge to Beethoven: Finding Identity Through Music,” part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures series. Koh, whose commanding performances are a trademark, has been at Hahn Hall a number of times performing “Bach and Beyond,” her three-part recital series, exploring the history of solo violin repertoire. Beethoven’s Sonata No. 1 in D Major launched the performance, closing with the composer’s Sonata No. 9 in A Major, with Koh’s bow nearly going bald as the horse hair flew away with the intensity of her playing.

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his year will be the 43rd that the Santa Barbara Writers Conference has opened its doors to both aspiring and published writers. Founded by author and artist Barnaby Conrad and his wife Mary, the conference – slated for June 7-12 – has attracted writers such as Eudora Welty, William Styron, Alex Haley, Joan Didion, Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, and Ray Bradbury, who gave an inspiring speech on opening night every year from 1972 until 2008. Even though the conference has changed owners over the years, many of its long-time workshop leaders, including Montecito residents Dale Griffiths Stamos, Marilee Zdenek, and Walter Halsey Davis, continue to teach there for six days in June each year. Stamos, an award-winning playwright, bought a small cottage house in Montecito about 20 years ago. She splits her time writing there and at her home in Los Angeles. “I love the land and how quiet and peaceful it is here,” she said. She had her office custom-built to accommodate her writing, editing, and music com-

UCSB alum Walter Halsey Davis served in the Navy before penning a novel in France

Award-winning playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos takes a structured approach

Marilee Zdenek will conduct a workshop at the writers’ conference

posing (she’s written original songs for her plays). Her most recent work, Lost Music is a film inspired by her short play Identity that examines the effects of Alzheimer’s on a marriage. Recently, the film won the Jury Award for Short at the Edge Independent Film Festival. Stamos also wrote a feature-length screenplay, One White Crow, which won the 2010 Writer’s Digest Stage Play Competition. Threetime Emmy winner Barbara Bain has

appeared in two of Stamos’s one-act plays, Love Struck and Thicker Than Water. Each June, Stamos teaches a workshop called Story Structure for All Genres that helps strengthen story elements such as the premise and three-act structure. She looks at these elements in the context of the whole piece and helps writers to craft a more compelling story. “The conference made my writing,” she said. “Without it, I don’t know that I’d have the writing life I have now.” Stamos didn’t start out as a full-time writer until her husband encouraged her to quit teaching (she taught French and Spanish) and focus full-time on writ-

ing, which was completely daunting, at the time. Shortly after, she started attending the conference and building a community of writers. “Writers can encourage each other to continue to write and produce new work,” said Stamos, who used the yearly conference to help her set writing deadlines. Nothing happened with her writing for the first five years, but she continued to work and to study the craft. As a conference attendee, she found former workshop leader Abe Polsky’s class on playwriting and story structure. Year after year, she listened to others’ work, offered critiques and read as many books on structure as she could. Eventually, Polsky took her aside and said she could teach the class. She has been leading the work-

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members complimented the project’s design, granting it conceptual approval. Westmont’s updated Master Plan includes a residence hall on this site. The Montecito Planning Commission (MPC), which will see the plans in July, will determine if the proposal substantially conforms to the college’s approved Master Plan. Westmont intends to begin construction as soon as the college has completed the capital fundraising. MBAR also saw story poles for a Verizon facility on the campus, and recommended that the antennae be lowered and screening improved to reduce possible visual impacts. The board agreed to send the project to MPC to review the necessity of the endeavor and to determine if the benefits to the community outweigh any potential aesthetic concerns; the project will also be seen by the Montecito Association on Tuesday, May 5. The project includes a dozen sevenfoot-tall antennae, as well as related equipment, which would be screened behind an existing parapet wall, in an effort to increase cellular range capacity in the area.

Montecito Union Carnival There may be a new carnival theme this year, but Montecito Union School carnival attendees can expect some

old fashioned fun; this Saturday, May 2, MUS holds its popular carnival from 10 am to 3 pm. Moving on from the Dr. Seuss theme used for the past several years, this year’s organizers are putting on an “Old Fashioned Carnival,” with rides, game booths, fair food, and a raffle. Hundreds are expected to turn out for the family event, which is one of the PTA’s largest fundraisers, raising about $60,000 each year. Organizer Lucia Engel tells us the carnival will feature some new inflatable activities, as well as a 25-foot ferris wheel, mechanical skateboard, climbing wall, and more. Game booths include a lollipop walk, bean bag toss, duck pond, milk bottle toss, fish bowl, plush animal toss, ring toss, and others. “We wanted to bring back nostalgic games that are nothing but good old-fashioned fun!” Engel told us. Food vendors include California Pizza Kitchen, Pacific Crepes, Here’s the Scoop, Ruby’s Shave Ice, and California Juice Company, in addition to the treats available at the popular MUS bake sale, which also features fresh squeezed lemonade. Raffle prizes include Legoland tickets, Magic Mountain tickets, Universal Studios season passes, VIP giraffe feeding at the SB Zoo, and more. Local raffle sponsors include Rory’s Creamery, Toy Crazy, the Tennis Shop, and Glowzone. “It’s a great family event, and we

hope the community will join us!” Engel said. Proceeds benefit the many programs supported by the PTA, including Art at Lunch, the Garden Club, The Green Committee, Leadership, Parent Education and funding for special artists in residency and field trips, among other things. There is free valet parking during the carnival; self parking is available in the Upper Manning parking lot. The 46th annual carnival is from 10 am to 3 pm, at 385 San Ysidro Road.

Two Residential Fires in Montecito

Investigations continue on two separate residential structure fires in Montecito, which occurred within 12 hours of each other on the evening of April 26 and the morning of April 27. The first fire originated from a 50-by-50-foot mulch pile burning on a property on Picacho Lane a little before 10 pm on April 26. Upon arrival, Montecito Fire personnel found the fire had spread to nearby vegetation and extended to the single-family residence, due to the 68-mph wind gusts in the area. Aggressive actions from fire personnel on scene were able to prevent the blaze from spreading to the interior of the residence, and the fire was knocked down at 10:37 pm. Six engines, one rescue vehicle, and several command vehicles were on

the scene to attack the blaze. Agencies included Montecito Fire Protection District (MFPD), Santa Barbara City Fire Department, and CarpinteriaSummerland Fire District. Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department, and California Highway Patrol assisted with traffic control. As of press deadline, the cause of the fire was still under investigation. The next morning, MFPD responded to another structure fire on Loureyro Road. The original call was received at 7:27 am, and upon arrival, Montecito Fire personnel found a small, single-story structure burning. During the response, an adult female, identified as 88-year-old Lorraine Mathilda Schmerzler of Montecito, was found deceased in the structure. “Because the roof collapsed during the fire, the investigation is very difficult,” said MFPD spokesperson Geri Ventura. “MFPD is the lead agency on the investigation, and we are continuing to investigate the point of origin of the fire, and the victim’s cause of death.” The investigation team includes Montecito Fire along with other members of the Santa Barbara County Arson Task force investigators, including Carpinteria / Summerland Fire, Santa Barbara County Fire, and the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office. An autopsy was scheduled for April 28. •MJ

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Electronic musician Vijay Iyer’s new work, the decidedly contemporary Bridgetower Fantasy, named after a friend of Beethoven, was sandwiched in between the major works. It was a most interesting contrast... Let’s Dance New York Juilliard School dancer and actor Adam Barruch, who will be the choreographer-in-residence for the annual DANCEworks program at the Lobero, gave a taste of things to come in September when he performed his 2014 work Belladonna with collaborator Chelsea Bonosky for an invited audience organized by founder and executive director Dianne Vapnek. The sinuous show, based on a Nathaniel Hawthorne 1844 book Rappaccini’s Daughter in Padua, Italy, about a scientist who cultivates a poisonous garden, was particularly interesting, given hand gestures and movements played as important a role as the foot work. When he returns to our Eden by the

Beach, Barruch plans to engage in a similar process to create a re-imagining of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd with the Oscar, Tony, and Grammy winner’s blessing. “I had done a solo called ‘The Worst Pies in London,’ using the soundtrack from Sweeney Todd,” says Barruch. “Somehow, Sondheim got a video and we met. He said to go ahead. I’m now working on a new piece of physical theater based on that work.” Checking out the show were Larry Feinberg and Starr Siegele, Bill and Lois Rosen, John and Jill Bishop, Eric Nagelmann, Michael Seabaugh, Rachel Howard, Christine Green, Joel and Visanti Fithian, and Barbara Stupay.

Greeting are Gretchen Lieff, with guest speaker Laly Lichtenfeld, executive director of The African People and Wildlife Fund; Diana Basehart, holding Nell; and Helga Norris (photo by Priscilla)

Gathered in the hostess’s garden are Luke Swetland, president and CEO of SBM of Natural History, Nancy Koppelman, hostess Ann Smith, and Julia Mallet (photo by Priscilla)

Into the Wild Ann Smith, who splits her time between her homes in Montecito and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, hosted a lunch for the African People & Wildlife Fund with co-founder, Yale Ph.D Laly Lichtenfeld. From left: Chelsea Bonosky, choreographer in residence Adam Barruch, Jill and John Bishop, Lobero Theatre Foundation director of development (photo by David Bazemore)

The Tanzanian-based charity founded 10 years ago, has an annual budget of around $650,000 and is run with her husband, Charles Trout. “We try to prevent human-wildlife conflict,” Laly, a Fulbright scholar,

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Poised to support the wildlife fund are Nancy McGrath, Diane Sidon, Lisa Osborn, and Marcia Cohen (photo by Priscilla)

“There were 1.2 million elephants 20 years ago. There are now 450,000 and numbers are dwindling at an alarming rate, much of it from poaching for the ivory.” Diane Sidon, Gretchen Lieff, Diana Basehart, Sandy Knox-Johnston, and Annie Garcelon were among the invitees noshing for nature. Black, White, and Read All Over Frank McGinity lands in Barron’s

Inveterate world traveler and certified public accountant Frank McGinity is certainly making a splash! Frank, a board member of the Community Arts Music Association, has just been featured in Barron’s, the 94-year-old weekly financial newspaper, after submitting an article for its Other Voices column. “I have been reading the publication for 15 years and sent in a piece last September and didn’t hear from them, “says Frank, who is also president of the Art Foundation of Santa Barbara. “In March, I was contacted by an editor and told it was going in, but I would have to wait. “Earlier this month it appeared and I got calls from across the nation regarding the financial advice I had proffered. Half of the letters in Barron’s the following week were about my write-up, which is very gratifying.” Frank, who last year published his first book, Get Off Your Street: A Personal Travelogue,” as I recounted here, says he dedicated the write-up to his late father, Leo McGinity, who was a news reporter for The New York Times for 35 years. “I guess some of his writing skills brushed off,” adds Frank, who received his MBA from Columbia Business School in New York...

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In Transition, Making Magic A torrent of tony tete toppers flooded the cavernous ballroom of the Bacara when Transition House, a nonprofit that helps homeless families with children, held its 18th annual Mad Hatter “Magic of Mardi Gras” lunch. The 261 guests in a mélange of magnificent millinery helped raise more than $75,000 for the cause at the boffo bash, chaired by Florence Michel with the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone as master of ceremonies and pianist Gil Rosas and the Montecito Jazz Project entertaining. Winners of the hat contest for most beautiful, most creative, and most humorous, judged by Lana Marmé, Arlene Larsen, and Gail Shannon, went to Kerry Kilpatrick, Lorna Applefield, and Debbie Snyder, though Leslie Ridley-Tree would have undoubtedly have won if they’d had a category for biggest hat, with her frothy confection made by London-based Irish milliner Philip Treacy, who made Princess Eugenie’s controversial headpiece at the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate four years ago, which I described in my commentary of the event for NBC as “looking like a deformed bagel.” It was later sold for charity for more than $120,000! Among those tipping their hats for the cause were Hiroko Benko, Bob Burtness, Corinna Gordon, Diana MacFarlane, Catherine Remak, Chuck and Missy Sheldon, Kate Firestone, Gayla Visali, David Edelman, Becky Anderson, Mimi Veyna, Monika Dragoo, and Walter and Wendy Clapp...

financing, was socially gridlocked for the occasion. “Our efforts have helped 30,000 children to go to school,” says Linda proudly. Among those turning out to accentuate the negative were Beverley Jackson, Robyn Geddes, Trish Reynales, Blue Caleel, Kendall and Mary Conrad, Anthony SlayterRalph and Priscilla Woolworth, Kimberly Phillips, Gina Tolleson, Doug and Marni Margerum, Sharon Bradford, Wendy Jenson, and Guy and Patty de Gramont... Royal Treatment In four short years, the Pacific Pride Foundation’s Royal Ball has grown into one of Santa Barbara’s most popular charity events attracting a broad cross-section of supporters. This year’s boffo bash, co-chaired by actress Joanna Kerns and her husband, Marc Appleton, at the Bacara, stunningly decorated by Montecito’s Merryl Brown and L.A.’s David Rrivre, with the dress code of modern white with bright pops of color, thoroughly embraced by the 500 guests at the sold-out extravaganza, which was expected to raise more than $600,000. The irreverent Jane Lynch of Fox’s Glee was mistress of ceremonies, while Montecito actress Julia LouisDreyfus, star of HBO’s Veep, presented the inaugural Advocacy Award to Montecito twosome Emmy-winning actor Dan Bucatinsky and his part-

Howling Havana The theme might have been Hot Havana Nights, but Marymount School’s annual gala and auction was anything but balmy as howling winds buffeted the rotunda at Fess Parker’s Doubletree. The 308-guest bash, which was Prepared for Hot Havana Nights are Casey McCann, Melissa Wilson, Andrew Wooden, Marymount principal; Molly Wooden, Hillary Slevin, and Peter Hilf (photo by Priscilla)

Stable Condition The horses at the Summerland aerie of artist Gerald Incandela had to move out to make way for a colorful exhibition of evocative photographs in the stables by Montecito’s Brian Hodges after a recent trip to Uganda. The show, part of a fundraiser for the Community Action Fund for Women in Africa, founded by Tom and Linda Cole, with its emphasis on agriculture, education and micro• The Voice of the Village •

ner of more than 20 years, writer and director Don Roos, in front of a star-studded crowd including actors Marisa Tomei. and Danny Franzese, retired NBA player Jason Collins, Iron Chef Cat Cora, and fashion designer Brad Goreski. Julia, who was formerly on the hit series Seinfeld, says although her White House TV character has taken to sporting a Hillary Clinton hairstyle, that’s as far as it goes. “I won’t be wearing pants all the time!” she tells me. Among the guests at the glittering “Dream in Color” gala, some even sporting white kilts, were Billy Baldwin, KEYT meteorologist Alan Rose, film festival director Roger Durling, Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Kim and Tammy Hughes, mayor Helene Schneider, Stefan and Irina Hearst, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Catherine Remak, Bill and Sandi Nicholson, Mindy Denson, Gary and Jeanne Newman, Scott Wood, David Edelman, HannahBeth Jackson, Salud Carbajal, Arlene Montesano, Terry Ryken, and Rob and Diana MacFarlane.

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Catching the breezes are Vijay and Megan Sharman with Lori and Christain Tudor (photo by Priscilla) Bidders J.C. and Susan Henry with Ginger Salazar and Brett Mathews (photo by Priscilla)

Hot Havana Nights chairs Robert and Lisa Jacobi, who brought their patrons (photo by Priscilla)

expected to raise in excess of $775,000 for new building projects, was co-chaired by Robert and Lisa Jacobi, with prizes including trips to Las Vegas, Wyoming, and Lake Tahoe, and a dinner party for 40 at a Tuscanstyle Montecito estate, owned by the Shefflin family. Fast-talking Joe Rexel wielded the gavel. Those noshing on the avocado and mango salad and chicken con mojo, while celebrating all things Cuban, included Peter Hilf, Deborah Bettencourt, Melody DuPrau, Jaimie Wight, Eddie Reiter, Alex Dunn, Christy Condon, Gordon Abra, Linda Burke, Solange Burns, Rick Hubbard, Noel Johnson, and Elizabeth Palme.

Deck the Halls The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation pulled out all the stops decorating the Presidio Chapel for a sumptuous 200-guest dinner celebrating our Eden by the Beach’s 233-year history and launching its Founding Day weekend. “This is a whole new ballgame for us,” said executive director Jarrell Jackman, who presided over the twoday event, which included a live-music show, the Rancho Roundup and raised around $100,000. Bacara chef David Reardon and Michael Blackwell of the Montecito Country Club catered the sold-out beautifully candlelit, four-course repast including Tamale de Puerco, chicken frijoles, and Chilles en Raya using age-old recipes chaired by David Bolton, while the Celebrate Santa Barbara weekend was co-chaired by Debby Aceves and Keith Mautino. Staff in colorful period costumes added to the historic show, which was preceded by a reception with Spanish hors d’oeuvres and champagne. Joining in the fun were Jerry and Helene Beaver, Janet Garufis, Roger Durling, Michael and Nancy Gifford,

It was a performance with a difference when talented English tenor Ian Bostridge sang at the penultimate performance of CAMA’s Masterseries at the Lobero. Bostridge, an Oxford University graduate making his Santa Barbara debut, sang 24 pieces from Schubert’s 1827 Winterreise based on Wilhelm Muller’s poetry, accompanied by Chinese pianist Wenwen Du. The Austrian composer died just a year later at the all too early age of 31. Bostridge, who has been nominated for 13 Grammys, estimates he has sung the work, described as “a vocal Everest,” at least 100 times, and his easy familiarity with the music was evident to see during the entertaining two-hour, intermission-free performance. He has even written a new book, Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession on his fascination with the work..

birth a second time in the Lindo Wing of London’s St. Mary’s Hospital. If all goes to plan, Kate will have the baby later this week – a girl, I am reliably informed – at the same hospital where Prince George was born in 2013. This time, the 33-year-old royal and her husband will be given 10 percent off the wing’s eye-watering fees thanks to a discount for returning mothers offered by the private hospital group. However, prices have increased since their last visit when George was delivered in July 2013. A suite of two rooms now costs around $10,000 for a one-night stay with normal delivery, plus consultant fees of around $10,000 on top. This means that even the cost of a natural delivery, with little in the way of complications, will easily top $20,000, with added costs if the use of forceps and other equipment is required. The birth could have coincided with the couple’s fourth wedding anniversary on April 29. Sightings: Oscar nominee Michael Keaton checking out the crowd at Lucky’s...Oprah’s beau Stedman Graham on his cell phone at Pierre Lafond...Oscar winner Jeff Bridges lunching at the Coral Casino Pip! Pip!

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AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING SECTION 9.48.010 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING COMMERCIAL USE OF CITY STREETS TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF PUBLIC STREET FURNITURE AS A VENUE FOR SELLING OR OFFERING FOR DONATION

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) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on April 14, 2015, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on April 21, 2015, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

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/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published April 29, 2015 Montecito Journal

statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 9, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0001169. Published April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gentle Dental Santa Barbara, 330 State Street Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Cox Dental Corporation, 9800 S. La Cienega

Scope of Work to include removal and re-installation of new and existing HVAC units. A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on May 7, 2015 at 9:00 a.m., at Airport Building #252, located at 521 Norman Firestone Rd., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C20 Warm-Air Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning 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. 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. General Services Manager

Blvd., Suite 800, Inglewood, CA 90301. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 31, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0001054. Published April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2015.

Interdent Service Corporation, 9800 S. La Cienega Blvd., Suite 800, Inglewood, CA 90301. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 1, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0001066. Published April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gentle Dental Service Corporation, 330 State Street Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Timeless Cruising, 4048 Via Zorro #A, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Claudia Kapp, 4048 Via Zorro #A,

• The Voice of the Village •

Published: April 29, 2015 Montecito Journal

Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 8, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0001144. Published April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coastal Estate Management; Montecito Estate Management, 3672 San Gabriel Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Michael Clark, 3672 San Gabriel Lane, Santa

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the curious traveler

by Jerry Camarillo Dunn, Jr. Montecito Journal Travel Correspondent “The Curious Traveler” received the 2011 gold medal for Best Travel Column from the Society of American Travel Writers, in a competition organized by the group’s western chapter. For Jerry’s latest book, see www. myfavoriteplacenatgeo.com.

Eating Small in Santa Fe Little Discoveries in Craft Food and Drink

anta Fe is filled with people who came from somewhere else. They fall in love with the adobe architecture, the people of the Southwest, the luminous beauty of the sky – and they decide to stay on. “Now what?” they wonder, settling back to Earth. “How in the world am I going to make a living here?” Some get into the food business, but not in the typical green-chile style of Santa Fe. Instead they pick a niche product, something they love, and they hover over that one item like proud parents over a baby, tenderly helping it develop. On a recent visit, I met a bunch of these folks and tried their offerings. As at a great dinner party where the guests all sample bites from everyone else’s plates, these special tastes have to be passed along:

Kakawa

A purveyor of chocolate both edible and drinkable, Kakawa was founded by a “chocolate anthropologist” after researching the cacao elixirs developed in Mesoamerica in pre-Columbian times. (Spanish conqueror Cortez drank chocolate with Aztec ruler Montezuma, a social event Montezuma no doubt later regretted.) Powerful, dark Mesoamerican drinking chocolates are intensely spiced and complex, unlike the smoothedout concoctions that later became popular in Europe and North America and that Kakawa also serves. “Sometimes guys come in here like they’re walking into a bar,” says owner Tony Bennett. “They say, ‘Gimme the chili chocolate, the hottest stuff you’ve got!’ They drink a few sips, their eyes water, and they sputter, ‘I’ll have the American one.’” To avoid the fate of these hot-chocolate macho men, customers can first sample different chocolates in tiny paper cups, then order what they like. The owner’s favorite blend is two-thirds American, one-third Mesoamerican chili chocolate. “Doing anything tonight?” Bennett asked as he poured my cup. I said no, is there something going on? Then I understood: I’d soon be pleasantly amped up on cacao. Prudently, I drank just half a cup, enjoying the subtle flavors, and took the rest home. Mixing it into coffee the next morning created mocha with a spicy southwestern snap. 30 April – 7 May 2015

Western Dry Gin, made with locally picked juniper and cholla cactus, but couldn’t quite describe its distinctive scent. “It should smell like New Mexico after a rainstorm,” said Colin, “at least that’s our goal. There isn’t another gin like it on the planet.” His genuine pride came shining through. “Other artisans I know around town have taken weird routes similar to mine,” he mused, “somehow ending up in Santa Fe and making a product they love.”

ering honey in the fields and at the family farm near Socorro. His wife and baby mind the store. “It’s a way of living for us,” he said. “I’m in the middle of this sweetness, with my hands full. And that’s what we want to share.” I left the shop feeling that Gadiel’s disposition is as pure and sweet as his honey.

Others

Santa Fe Honey

Chocolate toffee creation at Whoo’s Donut’s

Before and after: Santa Fe Spirits’ unaged white whiskey and resulting “Whiskeyrita”

Santa Fe Spirits

“I was either an unemployed or unemployable architect,” says Englishman Colin Keegan, looking back a few years to when residential building took a nosedive with the economy. So Colin reinvented himself, like so many people who move to Santa Fe. Silver-haired and humorous, he lives just north of town in Tesuque, where his orchards produced so many apples he didn’t know what to do with them all. He made cider, but one year ended up with 500 extra gallons. “So I made hard cider,” he recalls. “Then I had 500 extra gallons of hard cider on my hands.” He acquired a small still and made apple brandy – then realized, “Oh s***, I’ve become a moonshiner!” Colin got a distiller’s license, bought an industrial building, and turned a hobby into a business. At Santa Fe Spirits, I took the distillery tour, admiring a 250-gallon still whose copper tank and old-fashioned fittings belonged in a Jules Verne story. A nearby room was filled with oak aging barrels and the pungent aroma of spirits. We adjourned to a small bar to sample Colin’s product line, which ranges from apple brandy to single malt whiskey. Marketing manager Adam Vincent stood behind the counter and set out what looked like a holder for votive candles but was filled with a line of shot glasses. First up was Expedition Vodka. I tossed mine back. “Whoa!” I said, “that tastes like gin!” Colin looked at the array of glasses and realized he had set it down backward. I’d started at the wrong end. “Well,” said Adam with a laugh, “it was right from this side!” I’d really liked my Wheeler’s

Jars capture the sunny spirit of the Santa Fe Honey Salon

Driving around Santa Fe one day, I saw a yellow house on a corner with a sign outside saying “Santa Fe Honey Salon and Farm Shop. Free Samples.” Mmm. I love honey. I was greeted by a nice young guy who had dark hair peeking from under a knit cap and the sweetly intoxicated expression of someone in love. It turned out, he’s in love with honey. A metal rack of jars stood in the front window, some light, some dark, all glowing in the morning sunlight. “I like for people to taste honeys back to back,” he said, introducing himself as Gadiel. “Let’s start with the mountain gambrel oak, a very rare honey. The bees produce it from tree sap, not flower nectar. It can take us seven years to come across it.” Gadiel held out a flat, wooden coffee stir dipped in the honey. I popped it in my mouth – and the world began to melt. The honey tasted like cinnamon and sunshine. (Hmm, not a bad name for a ‘60s rock group.) Next, I tried mountain wildflower honey. “There’s a bit of juniper and clover in there. It’s great for allergy relief.” Then came desert wildflower. “For this we go to the Rio Grande Valley next to the river,” Gadiel explained. “There’s a different set of flowers – you have salt cedar, sage, and tamarisk – so the honey tastes different.” I left the shop with a jar from Gadiel’s special stash: cat’s claw mesquite honey, an unusual creamy white. “Like all our honey, it’s pure, raw, and unfiltered,” he said. “All the goodness is still in there.” Gadiel spends part of his time gath-

Don’t take donkeys to the Kentucky Derby. – Pat Summitt

Whoo’s Donuts: I got addicted to this small bakery’s cake donut with white-chocolate lemon frosting studded with salty pistachios. They also make a maple bacon model with dark-chocolate glaze and chili brown sugar. Tip: Monday is “Dollar Donut Day” at the shop. Whoo’s donuts are also available at the Santa Fe Farmers Market on Saturdays and at other outlets around town. Barrio Brinery: This tiny shop makes pickled products fermented in brine instead of vinegar, which brings extra probiotic benefits. Try the snappy kosher pickles and the fermented escabeche, a blend of jalapenos, carrots, onions, and spices. To wash them down, order Mexican Coca-Cola made with cane sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup.

Handcrafted Food and Drink

Kakawa: 1050 E. Paseo de Peralta, (505) 982-0388, www.kakawachocolates.com Santa Fe Spirits: Distillery: 7505 Mallard Way, (505) 467-8892. Downtown tasting room: 308 Read St., (505) 780-5906. Web: www.santafespirits.com Santa Fe Honey Salon: St. Francis Dr. at Paseo de Peralta, (505) 780-8797, www.santafehoney.com Whoo’s Donuts: 851-B Cerrillos Rd., (505) 629-1678, www.whoosdonuts.com Barrio Brinery: 1413-B West Alameda St., (505) 699-9812, www.barriobrinery.com MONTECITO JOURNAL

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ORDINANCE NO. 5690

ORDINANCE NO. 5691

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING SECTION 9.97.010 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING SITTING OR LYING ON SIDEWALKS AND PASEOS ALONG CERTAIN DOWNTOWN PORTIONS OF STATE STREET

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING SECTION 9.98.010 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING PEDESTRIANS BLOCKING PUBLIC SIDEWALKS

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

April 21, 2015.

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.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

(Seal) /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5691

ORDINANCE NO. 5690

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on April 14, 2015, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on April 21, 2015, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Randy Rowse, Bendy White

NOES:

Councilmember Cathy Murillo; Mayor Helene Schneider

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on April 22, 2015.

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 22, 2015.

/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published April 29, 2015 Montecito Journal Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 9, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2015-0001161. Published April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following

person(s) is/are doing business as: 805Photographer; PictureSB, 16 East Mission Street, Unit C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Braulio Guillermo Godinez, 16 East Mission Street, Unit C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Laura Brittany Godinez, 16 East Mission Street, Unit C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 10, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby

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BID NO. 5389

Installation of Splice Piles Underneath Buildings on Stearns Wharf Scope of Work to furnish all labor and materials necessary to splice seven piles underneath the Harbor Restaurant and four piles underneath the City Commercial Buildings. A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on May 14, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., at Stearns Wharf Office 219F, located at Stearns Wharf, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

(Seal)

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

DUE DATE & TIME: May 21, 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

California.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Councilmembers Dale Francisco, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on April 22, 2015.

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 22, 2015.

/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: My Sacred Skin, 644 Castillo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Wendy Morgan Daniels, 644 Castillo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California A - General Engineering 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. 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. General Services Manager

with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 30, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN No. 2015-0001050. Published April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2015.

as: Di Bartolomeo Services, 2420 Castillo Street, #100, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Joseph R Di Bartolomeo MD INC, 2420 Castillo Street, #100, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 25, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0001002. Published April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1500071. To all interested parties:

Published April 29, 2015 Montecito Journal certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2015-0001183. Published April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2015.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR.

• The Voice of the Village •

Published: April 29, 2015 Montecito Journal

Petitioner Anthony Lopez Olvera filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Anthony Herman Lopez Olvera. 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 about must file a written objection that included 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

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5382 DUE DATE & TIME: May 14, 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Roof Repair for Airport Building #252 Scope of Work to include removal and installation of a new, thermoplastic roof membrane. A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on May 7, 2015 at 9:00 a.m., at Airport Building #252, located at 521 Norman Firestone Rd., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-39 Roofing 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. 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. General Services Manager

petition without a hearing. Filed April 24, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 3, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1500353. To all interested parties: Petitioner Marleny X. Sanchez Bahena filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Landon Yampier Abundez Sanchez to Landon Ulises Abundez Sanchez. 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 about must file a written objection that included

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Published: April 29, 2015 Montecito Journal

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 April 9, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 3, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1500014. To all interested parties: Petitioner Matthew Daniel Wiener filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Hikari Sophie Makita Wiener to Hikari Sophie Wiener. 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 about must file a written objection that included 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 23, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: May 20, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1500338. To all interested parties: Petitioner Andrea Beatrice Read filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Andrea Beatrice Read to Andrea Beatrice Vicars. 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 about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Hearing date: June 10, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1500151. To all interested parties: Petitioner Isdpaula Weidl filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Isdpaula Weidl to Paula Costa. 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 about must file a written objection that included 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 April 9, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 3, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6 ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS OR CITATION: CASE No. 1470046. Plaintiff Oscar D. Zapata v. Defendant Alberto Garcia Perez. Upon reading and filing evidence consisting of a declaration as proved in Section 415.50 CCP by Oscar D. Zapata, and it satisfactorily appearing therefrom that the defendant Alberto Garcia Perez cannot be served with reasonable diligence in any other manner specified in Article 3, Chapter 4, Title 5 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and it also appearing from the verified complaint or petition, that a good cause of action exists in this action in favor of the plaintiff, petitioner, or citee therein and against the defendant, respondent, or citee and that said defendant, respondent, or citee is a necessary and proper party to the action or that the party to be served has or claims an interest in, real or personal property in this state that is subject to the jurisdiction of the Court of the relief demanded in the action consists wholly or in part in excluding such party from any interest in such property, now, on motion of the plaintiff. The small complaint or petition, which is for $2,400, was filed on 12-19-2014. A copy of the summons or citation and the complaint or petition could not be served via alternate methods. Filed December 19, 2014, by Rita Pitts, Deputy Clerk. Published April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2015.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 30 Crary, Evans & Spurgin – It might not have the same ring as Crosby, Stills & Nash. But this trio of veteran American roots musicians has strong West Coast ties and undeniable chops in the arena of folk and bluegrass. Guitarist Dan Crary is a pioneer of flatpicking whose taste hunger for innovation in the area of traditional music have taken him through tours across more than 30 countries. Not to be confused with the legendary jazz pianist, the trio’s Bill Evans is a force on the five-string banjo drawn from his deep knowledge, virtuosity, and passion for the five-stringer – which includes having authored Banjo For Dummies, the world’s best-read book on the instrument – and appearances over a wide variety of formats, from the San Francisco Symphony to Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. Texas-born singer-songwriter-guitarist Steve Spurgin, whose early musical training included piano and French horn, is a former Nashville staff writer who penned some hit songs and has won major awards from BMI and IBMA. For those who might have been a bit disappointed in the musical side of last weekend’s “tribute” to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Will the Circle Be Unbroken? album at the Lobero, this show featuring fast and furiously foot-tapping instrumentals and old-timey songs evoking some of the same folks from that Circle show (Carter Family, Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt) should be just the trick. Plus, it takes place out at the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, home of the late and lamented Song Tree

series. WHEN: WHERE: 820 N. Fairview Avenue, Goleta COST: $20 in advance, $25 at the door INFO: 688-9894 or www. bluegrasswest.com

FRIDAY, MAY 1 May Day – The community comes together for its annual free May Day celebration at Paseo Nuevo Center Court, where the activities are all about joy and connection. Song leader Adam Phillips will lead the Revels Chorus in special songs of the season, the Revels Dancers will perform Newcastle, a favorite English Country dance, and members of the Pacific Sword Company appearing as the Bowler Boys will perform a rustic dance of the Welsh Border Morris tradition. But by no means is this just a performance. Everyone is encouraged to join in singing seasonal songs and learning a traditional English Country dance. There will be flowers to make garlands, nosegays, and wreaths before the afternoon culminates in the traditional Maypole ritual wherein two circles of participants walk in opposite directions around the pole, holding colorful ribbon streamers and weaving intricate patterns as they move to the inside and then the outside of one another. WHEN: 4 pm WHERE: 651 Paseo Nuevo COST: free INFO: 565-9357 or www. santabarbararevels.org Festival’s Wonderland – Santa Barbara Festival Ballet, best-known for the massive production of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker every Christmas season that

SUNDAY, MAY 3 Sherpas & Possums Unite – There are at least eight singer-songwriters appearing on stage between the two groups performing at the Cambridge Drive Concert Series show in Goleta tonight, which may be the highest quotient of talent per audience member on the South Coast yet this year. Openers Honeysuckle Possums are a Santa Barbara-based all-woman five-piece band that plays high-energy bluegrass, old-timey mountain music, and charming originals – one that is at least as strong as the sum of its parts, which include the separately prolific Susan Reeves and Nicola Gordon. They have been together for several years and recently released their debut album that hasn’t received nearly the attention it deserves for its carefully crafted harmonies and smart arranging. Headliners The Sherpas are just a trio, but pack a lot of wallop between the members: Tom Prasada-Rao, Michael Lille, and Tom Kimmel. They first met back in 1993, when all three were winners of the prestigious Kerrville New Folk competition, and put out a terrific album called Honor Among Thieves a decade later, and while all have shown up fair frequently in Santa Barbara, it’s rare to get the trio as a whole. This is one of those don’t-miss-it gigs for folkies. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Drive, Goleta COST: $10 with advance reservation, $12 at the door INFO: 9640436 or www.cambridgedrivechurch.org

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MONDAY, MAY 4 Seduced by Sedaris – The phrase “By popular demand” might be one of the most overused in public relations, but it’s spot-on when it comes to Santa Barbara and David Sedaris. The NPR humorist and wittily comic author whose sardonic stature far exceeds his physical one has returned year after year for at least half a dozen by now, and perennially sells out the Arlington Theatre, the city’s largest indoor venue. There isn’t even a new book this time around, as his latest New York Times bestseller, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, actually came out in 2013. But no matter. The literary world’s rock star should have no trouble keeping us interested as he pores through more hilarious anecdotes, not-yet-published writing, and excerpts from his mega-best-selling books, followed by a Q&A session with the audience. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State Street COST: $25-$45 INFO: 893-3535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB. edu or 963-4408/ www.ticketmaster.com/venue/73731 features a huge cast of dancers, a full orchestra, and special guest stars, is also capable of scaling things back and doing shows that are much smaller and intimate. Alice in Wonderland is a short children’s ballet featuring dancers 5½ to 18 years old dancing their way through the magical story based on the famous tale by Lewis Carroll. If this evening doesn’t work, however, there are also a number of community engagement performances at venues all over town, including excerpts showing at Santa Barbara Fair & Expo on Sunday, Tat Goleta Public Library on Tuesday, May 12, at Orphalea Early Learning at Tuesday, May 19, and the Santa Barbara Public Library on Tuesday, May 26. There will also be another full performance on June 6 at Marjorie Luke Theater. WHEN: 6:30 pm WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $20 general, $15 students and seniors, $12 children ages 12 and under INFO: 963-0408 or www. CenterStageTheater.org Funk Zone Art Walk – Nine art venues spread all around the few blocks that make up the hottest cultural neighborhood in town are participating in this month’s walk, including The Arts Fund Gallery, which unveils its exhibition for the 2015 Teen Arts Mentorship Master Artists. The show features the work of this year’s cast of professional artists and writers who are imparting their knowledge to Santa Barbara’s next generation of artists this spring and summer. The exhibition comprises a diverse array of media, including alternative process photography, old masters oil painting, plein air painting, creative writing, stainless steel sculpture, drawing, and mix-media from such artists as Thomas Van Stein, Nathan Snyder, and Pamela Larsson-Toscher. WHEN: ArtWalk and opening reception 5-8 pm (Arts Fund exhibition continues through June 20) WHERE: 205-C Santa Barbara Street INFO: www.funkzone.net

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SUNDAY, MAY 3 Byrds of a Feather – The pedigree of Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen in the areas of country, country-folk, and bluegrass are basically peerless. Hillman was one of the original members of The Byrds, the seminal folk-rock band that was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. Next, he collaborated with Gram Parsons to further the development of country-rock, and blended bluegrass with the emerging genre in The Flying Burrito Brothers and Manassas with Steven Stills. In the ‘80s, Hillman formed The Desert Rose Band, which churned out a number of chart-topping hits up through the early ‘90s, and earned two Grammy nominations. For his part, Pedersen began his career in Berkeley back in the early ‘60s playing five-string banjo and acoustic guitar with seminal bluegrass acts as The Dillards, Old and in the Way, David Grisman, and even Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. He leaned toward accompanying singer-songwriters when that era boomed in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and hooked up with the Laurel Canyon Ramblers in the 1990s before finding success as a songwriter whose tune “Wait a Minute” was recorded by Alan Jackson. Hillman and Pedersen have played together on and off for decades, and both live pretty near the site for tonight’s concert, Carpinteria’s Plaza Playhouse (Hillman in Ojai and Pedersen in Ventura County.) WHEN: 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2:30 pm Sunday; tonight-May 18 WHERE: Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $17 general, $12 students & seniors INFO: 684-6380 or www.plazatheatercarpinteria.com

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C’est Magnifique! – French Baroque vocal and instrumental ensemble Les Arts Florissants makes its Santa Barbara debut with the whimsical program of lyrical treats Airs Sérieux et á Boire (Serious Airs and Drinking Songs). Musical director William Christie formed Florissants back in 1979, and since then they’ve become one of the world’s most respected vocal and instrumental early music ensembles. The program of late 17th-century airs de cour from one of the most refined genres of the Baroque period features material that was originally performed in the court of Louis XIV. Love, loss, and licentiousness are among the earthy themes, with music by composers Michel Lambert, François Couperin, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier, among others. Overseas newspapers have raved: “It doesn’t get any better: top-notch instrumental playing from experts conducted by one of the great names in period music-making, supporting a sextet of young voices packed with verve, technical bravado, and relish in their work.” (The Sydney Morning Herald). WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $30$45 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu individual sounds of sopranos, the piano, and violin. The program begins with pianist Betty Oberacker interpreting Johann Sebastian Bach’s Italian Concerto, BWV 971, for solo piano before being joined by soprano Takako Wakita for Six Realizations of Goethe’s Heidenröslein (Little Rose on the Heath) featuring settings by Schubert, Brahms, Franz Lehar, Romanos Owakilowitsch Melikjan, Robert Schumann, and Heinrich Werner. The concert concludes with Saint-Saëns’ Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75, performed by violinist Han Soo Kim and pianist Neil Di Maggio. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu Street COST: free INFO: www.SBMusicClub.org

SUNDAY, MAY 3 City of Angelic Music – London was calling eariler in CAMA’s International Series season, when it was all about England with visits from both the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the great London Symphony Orchestra. The Czech

Philharmonic also returned to Santa Barbara for a concert at the Granada. But now things return to stateside splendor with two classical ensembles headquartered in our neighbor 90 miles south, as the Los Angeles Philharmonic makes its annual visit to CAMA, which first presented the esteemed orchestra nearly a century ago. The brilliant young Russian maestro Vasily Petrenko, who won’t turn 40 until next year, conducts the ensemble this time around, with pianist Lise de la Salle – dubbed “the most exciting young artist in classical music right now” by the Pioneer Press – serving as soloist for the centerpiece Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.37, as CAMA’s season of the piano continues. Also on the program are Anton Webern’s Im Sommerwind and Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben (“A Hero’s Life”), Op.40. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, with Jeffrey Kahane as conductor and pianist, is due Wednesday, May 20. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada, 1214 State Street COST: $38-$103 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org •MJ

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Joan’s Last Jaunt – Joan Armatrading’s return to the Lobero Theatre tonight is both a first and a last. The British singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy nominee is in the midst of her first-ever solo world tour – playing piano, guitar, and sings sans any accompaniment at all – it’s also the last world tour of any kind. As such, the capper to her 42-year career will be a decidedly intimate affair, with music spanning early hits Love and Affection, Down to Zero, Willow, Drop The Pilot, and Me, Myself I to more recent work in her 18-studio-album catalog. Fortunately, the 64-year-old singer-songwriter isn’t fully retiring, and still possess all of the talent and range that had critics and fans calling her the British Joni Mitchell when her self-titled third album hit paydirt worldwide. But the chance to see her so close and solo may never come again. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $50 & $40 ($105 patron tickets include priority seating and pre-concert private reception) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com 30 April – 7 May 2015

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shop ever since. Her advice to new writers: don’t write in a vacuum. Attending a writing conference can be a great way to learn from other writers at different levels. One note of caution: there is a delicate balance between criticism and encouragement. “I would sometimes see some writers crushed by a critique because they didn’t yet know that they were good, or that they had promise,” said Stamos. Validation may not come in the form of awards, she said, though a supportive word from a workshop leader or fellow writer can be enough. There are more than 20 workshops offered at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference ranging from screenwriting, memoir, short story, and fiction. Attendees are bound to find one teacher with whom they resonate. Finding a mentor is something Zdenek, another workshop leader who uses right-brain techniques to unlock creativity, believes in. She had several writing mentors as a conference attendee during the Conrad days. One workshop leader who is still teaching, Sid Stebel, saw something in her work and introduced her to his agent. That agent represented Zdenek on her next three nonfiction books. Before she was a conference attendee, Zdenek had two nonfiction books published – God is a Verb and

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Catch the New Wind – both of which she co-wrote with the famous dancer and actress Marge Champion. But it was her interest in writing a novel that got her to the conference in the 1970s. Like Stamos, Zdenek started out as a conference attendee but ended up leading a poetry workshop (Perie Longo has since taken over). Longo was a student in Zdenek’s class, but Zdenek was so impressed with her work that she recommended Longo take over. Zdenek was interested in research on right-brain abilities, so she asked to teach a workshop that tapped into the right-brain experience. “Well, that moment launched my career,” she said. Filmmaker Frank Perry and author Barbara Goldsmith both said Zdenek had a book there and encouraged her to write The Right-Brain Experience, which became a best seller. The first iteration of the book was geared toward writers, but the next edition widened the field to include anyone who wanted to increase creative output. The book got her invited to speak at events internationally. According to Zdenek, one of the benefits of attending the conference is a sense of community. “I didn’t even know another writer before I started going to the conference,” said Zdenek who learned a lot about the craft of writing as an attendee and as a workshop leader. “Ray Bradbury would

come to my workshop and make comments; it was all great fun.” Finally, friendships that can sometimes last decades are made at the conference. It’s like summer camp for writers without all the awkwardness of youth. One of the biggest benefits, said Zdenek, is making connections. Her advice to new attendees: Soak everything up. Go to any number of workshops; they’re a safe space for writers to share their work. “I will not critique a beginner in the same way as someone who is ready to publish,” she said. “And it’s still just one person’s opinion.” All workshop leaders have stories, some of which might actually be true. One story that is entertaining as it is compelling is about screenwriter and playwright Davis. He spent four years in the Navy and then decided to go to France to write a novel. As if that isn’t remarkable enough, he was cast in a small part in a movie filming in Paris just as he was about to run out of money. Later, he attended UCSB, where he received a bachelor’s and master’s in English Literature and then went on to get an MFA in Theater Arts at UCLA. In January, Actors Ensemble of Berkeley performed his latest play, Panhandle, but he also has 13 produced films to his credit, including Seven Hours to Judgment and Strange Invaders. Each June, he teaches a workshop on screenwriting. “It is a

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common misperception that screenwriters write dialogue,” he said. “That would be to say that a home builder only applies the paint.” Davis shows writers how to develop character, conflict, and plot all in the service of story. He also lends his story-telling abilities to the conference talent show each year, usually playing a guitar and speaking in hushed, deep tones about some lone traveller during the Dust Bowl era. Stamos, Zdenek, and Davis all contribute to a memorable conference week. In fact, regular attendees take their classes year after year, developing connections and relationships with fellow writers and hopefully gaining new insight into their work. Along with these benefits, one of the biggest draws at the conference is the Advance Submission Program. Registered attendees pay a small fee to have one-on-one meetings with agents and editors who read the first five pages of their manuscript. Sometimes attendees land an agent at one of these meetings, but even if that doesn’t happen it’s the best way to receive specific feedback on writing from someone in the publishing industry. The Advance Submission Program is open until Saturday, May 9. For more information and registration for the upcoming conference, •MJ June 7-12, visit sbwriters.com.

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sentation will also include his recommendations as to how to speed up construction time, increase the possibility of state and federal money, preserve more of the aesthetics at Sheffield, and ensure the 101 widening coordinates with local traffic. The meeting will be in conjunction with the regular Montecito Association board meeting at 4 pm, and the location will be on the Association web site and in the Montecito Journal next issue.”

A Muslim Hero

One of the 21st century’s most courageous civil rights advocates, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is coming to speak at the Granada on Saturday, May 23, beginning at 7 pm. VIP tickets that include a VIP dinner, VIP seats, and a post-event reception are available for $200. Other tickets are for sale from $28 to $128 now via the Granada box office (ticketing.grana dasb.org). Those interested in the VIP tickets should contact Sheridan Rosenberg directly at (805) 967-9000. If you are not familiar with Ms Hirsi Ali’s story, you should be. You may remember the most recent incident when Brandeis University announced and then rescinded an offer to award Ms Hirsi Ali an honorary degree after some students objected at the urging of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the school caved in to the pressure. Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1969. The daughter of a political opponent of the Somali dictatorship, Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up in exile, moving from Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia then Kenya. As a child, subjected to female genital mutilation as a Muslim, she

began to question aspects of her faith. In 1992, Ayaan was married off by her father to a cousin who lived in Canada. Instead of marrying someone she had never met, she fled to the Netherlands where she was given asylum, and in time citizenship. In her early years in Holland, she worked in factories and as a maid. She learned Dutch and was able to study at the University of Leiden and worked as a translator for Somali immigrants. After earning her M.A. in political science, Ayaan worked as a researcher for the Wiardi Beckman Foundation in Amsterdam. She then served as an elected member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006. While in parliament, she focused on furthering the integration of non-Western immigrants into Dutch society, and on defending the rights of Muslim women. She campaigned against honor killings and female genital mutilation, practices that had followed the immigrants into Holland. In her three years in government, she found her voice as an advocate for an “enlightened Islam.” Her journey continued in America as a Fellow at Harvard University. She has authored several international best-selling books, including The Caged Virgin, Infidel, Nomad, and her latest, Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation. She has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, appeared on CNN and FOX News, and many other media networks. Time magazine called her one of the world’s “100 Most Influential People.” In 2004, she gained international attention following the murder of

Ayaan Hirsi Ali set to appear at the Granada Theatre on Saturday, May 23

Theo van Gogh, who had directed her short film, Submission, which dealt with the oppression of women under Islam. The assassin, a radical Muslim, left a death threat for Hirsi Ali pinned to the dead man’s chest. In 2006, Ayaan was forced to resign from parliament after the then Dutch minister for Immigration revoked Ayaan’s Dutch citizenship, arguing that Ayaan had misled the authorities at the time of her asylum application. However, the Dutch courts later confirmed that Ayaan was indeed a legitimate Dutch citizen, leading to the fall of the government. Disillusioned with the Netherlands, she subsequently moved to the United States. She is now a Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and a visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She lives with round-the-clock security, as her outspokenness has made her

a target of Islamic extremists. In 2007, she founded the AHA Foundation to protect and defend the rights of women in the U.S. from harmful traditional practices. In 2013, Ayaan became a naturalized American citizen. Katherine Ernst wrote the following in a recent City Journal: “Voltaire, Locke, Luther, Spinoza... it’s tempting to call Ali the modern incarnation of one or another of these. Yet just being the Ayaan Hirsi Ali of our own time is more than enough: she’s the heretic who risks her life with rich intellectual treatises and memoirs to hasten an ideological reformation that could liberate millions. We ignore her quill to our shame and peril.” I urge you to buy a ticket to listen to Ayaan Hirsi Ali speak at the Granada on Saturday, May 23. You will hear one of the bravest humans alive today, and you will not be disappointed. •MJ

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SPECIALTY ITEMS 2 Bottega Italian handbags, excellent condition, each priced under $500 obo. 44” by 29” framed old bamboo gilded painting $3500. 805 563-2526. 365 Happy Hours a cocktail book by local author Tamara Whitacre @amazon 365happyhours@gmail.com Celebrate events in history with an appropriate cocktail. SPECIAL REQUEST Need help to sell some of my framed artwork on EBay or Craig’s list, etc. Will pay Commission. Respond to Genesinser@cox.net DOMAIN FOR SALE www.MontecitoMiramar.com Who knew? All offers considered. Locally owned, 805 698-3683 ANTIQUE/COLLECTIBLE FOR SALE

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ESTATE SALE/RUMMAGE SALE THE CLEARING HOUSE Estate Sale – Zen meets Posh Montecito Gem 165 Olive Mill Lane – May 2nd and 3rd 9:00-3:00 ~ Exquisite Furnishings and Décor Items ~ For photos, please visit our website on April 30th. www.theclearinghousesb.com 39th Annual MAY MADNESS A Spectacular Sale Saturday, May 2, Shop all day 9am to 3pm Music Academy of the West 1070 Fairway Road Furniture Area Rugs Kitchenware Small Appliances & Electronics Garden Accessories Fine Linens Antiques Silver Crystal China Art Collectibles Board Games Music & Movies Jewelry Men’s & Women’s Clothing

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Everyone has a story. If you would like to preserve your past, pass along your hopes and dreams, and provide inspiration for younger generations, together we can create a written account that will become a cherished legacy for your family. Lisa O’Reilly, Member Association of Personal Historians 6846514 or www.yourstorieswritten.com

ESTATE SALE Estate Sale, May 3rd, 12 Noon to 3PM: 1787 Fernald Point Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. - Furniture – contemporary and antique: loveseats, “easy” chairs, side tables, dining chairs & table, rugs, framed paintings/prints/ mirrors, lamps/ pairs, Kitchen appliances, Kenmore White microwave oven, glassware/ wines, china sets, china /crystal serving dishes/casseroles, bed comforters/ quilts – all sizes. Men/ladies dress and sports clothing. Sportswear/gear scuba, ski, camping/golf. 6500watt generator. Information: call 805 896-4313. HOUSE/PET SITTING SERVICES HOUSE & PET SITTING SERVICE -Client references. Responsible. Great with all pets. 805-451-6200 Birds/house sitting & estate management services. Travel without worry. Local refs. Avalon 689-0822 or email: avalonavian@gmail.com

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Half shared ownership opportunity at $1.3mm. $2.6mm property on W. Mountain Drive. Newer 3000sq/ft Mediterranean home, pool, well, landscaped 2 serene acres, seasonal creek. Ocean, islands, city, mountain views. Orchards, oaks, fenced, gated private access road. Garage & RV parking. Email: myvenue@cox.net

PIANO LESSONS Kary and Sheila Kramer are long standing members of the Music Teachers’ Assoc. of Calif. Studios conveniently located at the Music Academy of the West. Now offering lessons in your home for children and adults. Call us at 684-4626.

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Experienced couple seeking a live-in position as caregiver/companion. Errands, Dr. visits, shopping. 760-238-7709 Excel refs.

Marketing and Publicity for your business, non-profit, or event. Integrating traditional and social media and specializing in PSAs, podcasts, videos, blogs, articles and press releases. Contact Patti Teel seniorityrules@gmail.com REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

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Experience Luxury Living. Light filled, newly updated Bonnymede 2 bd/3 ba townhouse. By day experience ocean views across the lovely grounds, by night hear the lap of the waves through your bedroom window. Extras include new heater & AC, 2 car garage, new kitchen, paint, carpet, 24 hr manned gate, pool, tennis courts, $1,675,000. Joanne Schoenfeld, Broker, Santa Barbara Living, 563-9989 REAL ESTATE SERVICES Nancy Hussey Realtor ® “This Deal Would Have Never Happened Without You…”

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3447 Padaro Ln $11,500,000 Winter/Streatfeild 805.451.4663/805.280.9797 Right on the sand of Padaro Lane with 75’ of beach frontage. Contemp. 3BD/2½BA main house with separate 2BD/1BA guest house. www.3447PadaroLane.com.

1015 Ladan Dr $3,900,000 Anderson/Hurst 805.618.8747/805.680.8216 Wine Country Estate, 35 min to Dwntwn SB; 5/7+Casita. Drone video: www.VillaDelSol-Flyover.com

291 Cummings Rd $3,900,000 Bunny DeLorie 805.570.9181 ±40 ac (assr) Lemon/Avocado Ranch. 12K SF (owner) 7BD/6½BA home. HomesAndLandSantaBarbara.com

100 Suey Creek Rd $2,750,000 Kerry L Mormann 805.682.3242 1,100 acres (assr) - Classic California cattle ranch located in SLO County. No improvements.

9067 Vista Anacapa Rd $2,495,000 Sherry Zolfaghari 805.386.3748 Gated estate on 21+ acres (assr) with orchard. 5BD/5½BA + guest unit. Equestrian facilities.

2800 Gypsy Canyon Rd $2,350,000 Kerry L Mormann 805.682.3242 Private & peaceful 143 acre ranch with producing vineyard & room to expand operation.

6587 E Highway 246 $1,850,000 Kerry L Mormann 805.682.3242 Newly built 3BD/3BA 3,500 SF home on 100 acres (assr) in the Santa Rita Hills Appellation.

2381 Refugio Rd $13,900,000 Kerry L Mormann 805.682.3242 Rancho Dos Vistas - 3BD/3½BA, 2,459 SF home on 1,440 acs (assr) on Gaviota near Reagan’s ranch.

3517 Padaro Ln $7,950,000 Jason Streatfeild 805.280.9797 WATCH THE VIDEO ONLINE www.3517PadaroLane.com. Prime Padaro Lane location! 5BD/3BA.

10700 Calle Quebrada $7,950,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 El Capitan Vineyards & Orchards. 11+ acs (assr) w/ ocean views, 5BD/6BA, Pool/Spa, Tennis Crt.

1910 Carrisa Hwy $6,500,000 Ken Switzer 805.680.4622 The Zapata Ranch. Spectacular 11BD/7BA; 2750± ac ranch compound, very private near Paso Robles.

2401 Drum Canyon Rd $3,900,000 Mormann/Israel 805.682.3242 Private & secluded 1006± acre ranch minutes to Santa Ynez Valley & Santa Barbara.

3291 Beach Club Rd $2,975,000 Kathleen Winter 805.451.4663 Ocean view 4BD/3BA beach home off Padaro Lane w/beach access. www.3291BeachClubRoad.com

4188 Foothill Rd $8,500,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Stunning Ocean & Mountain view 12-Acre ranch in Carpinteria features a 5BD/7BA Home, 2BD Guest House, Ranch Manager House & Horse Facilities with Barns, Pastures, Arena & Round Pen. www.4188.MontecitoProperties.com

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