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Bo Derek, who has gone from 10 to 58, says getting older is no jog on the beach P. 6

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

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Sue Burrows retires from MPC after eight years; county seeks applicants for vacant seat, p.12

When it opened in 1931, Fred Bartholomew’s audacious new Mar Monte Hotel featured rooms with views of either the ocean (Mar) or the mountains (Monte), private bathrooms, Irish linen, German craftsmanship, Spanish atmosphere, and 100 rooms of world-class elegance and comfort (story begins on page 33)

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On The Water Front

Montecito Miscellany

Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard delves into more solutions for the drought, number crunching while he asks and answers questions about desalination, recycling, and emergency permitting Bo Derek from 10 to 58; Portia de Rossi’s early eating disorder; Cody Walker on his late brother; John Cleese house hunting; Beverlye Hyman Fead on Capitol Hill; UCSB and Mel Brooks; Relay for Life; Dream Foundation’s Flower Empower lunch; Hillary Hauser’s poem “Ode to Richard”; Cooking up Dreams with Family Service Agency; Camerata Pacifica’s 25th season; SB Firefighters Alliance; double-dip with Santa Barbara Symphony; Tetzlaff-Vogt Duo at Lobero; friar Larry Gosselin’s third book; Quire of Voyces at St. Anthony’s; author Leo Downey; and Cristina Pato Quartet pipes up Joel A. Maloney gets a read on water meters; MWD’s Mike Clark follows up about desalination; Atom Bergstrom on saving water; Ben Burned wiped out; Paul Day’s photo from China; Joe Mackey on climate change and Cadillac Desert; and Christina Allison not ready to kick the bucket or any buckets

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Rotary Club golf classic; Book Club; knitting and crocheting; Montecito Aesthetic Institute reception; SBMM lecture; Viva Oliva opening; Taste of Santa Barbara food tour; Memorial Day gala; MUS special board meeting; zoo yoga; MUS meeting; The New Yorker discussion; Water Wise Landscaping workshops; Writing for Wellness; Sacred Space and Feng Shui; beekeeping class; Cold Spring School anniversary; Neighborhood Clean-up Fire Prevention; art classes; Adventuresome Aging; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; Story Time; Italian conversation; farmers and artisans markets; Cars & Coffee 11 Tide Guide

12 Village Beat

Sue Burrows announces retirement from Montecito Planning Commission; Cold Spring School board votes unanimously to move forward with remodel project; Casa Dorinda celebrates 40th anniversary with champagne; and trash becomes art on Milpas

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Lynda Millner makes note of Girls Inc. One Hundred Committee luncheon; the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation’s Moments in Time gala; and the Rape Crisis Center’s “Chocolate De Vine” fundraiser

20 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz talks country and folk music with John Moreland, who is coming to the Lobero; Turkish By Matisse and Other Delights at New Vic; spring concert on Center Stage; Q&A with songstress Kimberly Ford; Cold Spring Tavern; Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Festival; and The Leftover Cuties in Ojai

24 State Street Spin

Erin Graffy de Garcia raises a glass to the Central Coast Wine Classic, which flowed into the Santa Barbara Yacht Club

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29 Montecito Report

Julia Rodgers reports on AHA! and its “Sing It Out!” performance, as teens rock the rotunda in Goleta before 300 attendees

30 On Dance

Megan Waldrep steps onto the floor to catch up with Alana Tillim, director and owner of Santa Barbara Dance Arts, which helps shape youths’ lives

33 The Way It Was

Hattie Beresford looks back at Fred Bartholomew’s Mar Monte Hotel “on the beach where Montecito meets Santa Barbara” circa 1931

38 On Sports

Steven Libowitz catches up with UCSB pitcher Dillon Tate, who might just be the best athlete to play at the school; and the SB Basketball Court of Champions announces their 2015 inductees

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Luis Munoz Trio on SOhO revamped stage; magic and A Trip to the Moon; The Talented Ones at UCSB; Everybody Dance Now bash; SB Museum of Art and Ray Strong exhibit; Dirty Knobs perform at SOhO; I Madonnari festival Memorial Day weekend; Teen Insiders Project; Bach is back at Candlelight Concert; Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation and sounds of music at SB Cemetery

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ON THE WATER FRONT

by Bob Hazard

Time to Begin Drought-Proofing Montecito

ast week, we looked at the possibility of partnering with the City of Santa Barbara for a desalination solution. This week, the assignment is to explore the feasibility and costs of designing and building a desalination and recycled wastewater facility in Montecito quickly, and selling water to the Montecito Water District (MWD) at a fixed price of $2,000 per acre foot or less.

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In dry years, Montecito has consumed 6,300 acre-feet of water (AFY) per year. In its latest five-year water plan, MWD forecasts an annual usage of 5,200 AFY with normal rainfall. This water year, with commendable conservation, MWD will use as little as 3,600 AFY.

Montecito, Stop Using Other People’s Water in a Drought

Without significant rainfall and with record-low snowpack in the Sierras, MWD reports that supplemental water purchases have all but dried up, closing the door on the successful strategy MWD has used over the last two years. Subtract 2,000 AFY from MWD’s future supply portfolio. Without rain, water allotted from Lake Cachuma could fall to zero by October 2015. Subtract another 1,200 AFY. Without significant rain in Northern California, MWD’s State Water allotment could also be zero. Subtract another 700 AFY. Without recharge, our own silt-laden Jameson Lake surface reservoir will dwindle to a dribble. Subtract another 100 AFY. That leaves MWD with 11 wells extracting a total of 300 AFY from its depleted groundwater basin. There are also some 550 private wells in Montecito, all inserting their own straws into the same community aquifers, sucking out an unknown quantity of water.

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Desalination is a proven solution all around the world. Naval ships at sea depend on desalinated water. Israel, like California, went dry from chronic drought and rapid population growth. Five years ago, it had to restrict outdoor gardening and agricultural irrigation. By the end of next year, Israel will transform itself from a virtual desert into a lush green paradise, brimming with water from three giant desalination plants in Ashdod, Hadera, and Sorek, with a fourth facility in the works. According to The Wall Street Journal, desalination will provide almost half of Israel’s water by 2016, up from zero in 2004 and 10 percent in 2009. In addition, Israel recycles 80 percent of its wastewater, the highest rate in the world.

High Cost of Desalinated Water in California

The privately owned Carlsbad desalination facility will sell water to individual districts at a price between $2,014 and $2,257 per acre-foot. That is more than twice the cost of water from Israel’s Sorek desalination plant, built by the same company: Israel Desalination Technologies (IDE). The Israeli Sorek facility produces three times as much water as the Carlsbad facility, yet cost only half as much to build, because of California’s regulatory permitting costs and state mandates require the use of pricey renewable energy to replace a third of less expensive, clean fossil fuels, such as natural gas.

Fast-Track Emergency Permitting

Montecito should probably elect to design, permit, and build a wastewater treatment and desalination facility. That would likely require getting a CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) exemption, but emergency fast-tracking exemptions have already been given for wine trains in Napa, bicycle transportation plans, football stadiums, and basketball courts in California. A fasttrack CEQA exemption would follow the same path Montecito, Goleta, and Santa Barbara took in 1991, when they jointly constructed the Santa Barbara •MJ Desalination plant in a record-setting nine months. 21 – 28 May 2015

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Bo Derek, from 10 to 58

rom the moment she emerged in that flesh colored swimsuit in the film 10, she was the pinup of the generation. That was in 1979 and Bo Derek was just 23-years-old. Now, aged 58, the actress, who lives in Santa Ynez with her longtime beau, actor John Corbett, says she finds the aging process “hard.” Much like her slow-motion jog along the beach, time does not seem to have slowed down for the stunning star who looks far younger than her years. Bo, who plays the mother of Tara Reid in the forthcoming TV movie Sharknado 3, says it “wasn’t really acting, nor the hardest role of her career. But I love the film business. And it’s always been good to me..” At just 17, the attractive California teen caused a scandal by running off with photographer and director John Derek, who was not only 30 years older but also already married to Dynasty actress Linda Evans, a move which, she told CBS News, her mother did not approve of. “My mom went ballistic, she went crazy. But you know, when you are 17, you think you know everything. You think you have it together.” The coupling lasted for 22 years until Derek died from a heart attack in

Bo Derek talks about the aging process

1998, and their 46-acre ranch was sold to ER star Noah Wyle. Bo, who makes frequent appearances at the Santa Barbara Polo Club during the summer, now lives on a 110-acre ranch with Corbett, her boyfriend of 13 years, and four horses. Echoing a comment made by the late veteran actress Bette Davis, Bo says old age is “no place for sissies.” “I realize how artificial beauty is. I realize that it doesn’t last forever, that’s for damn sure.” She admits she objectified herself

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Read That Water Meter Regularly!

ecently I learned a very painful, embarrassing and as it turns out, expensive lesson about this drought, and I want to pass on a little wisdom gleaned from that experience with your readers, especially those who own high acreage or have pipes running under ground cover, and that is: read your water meter daily! I know, I know, I know, you’re going to say, “But Joel, that is what so many of our informative water articles told you to do when this drought started.” You’re right! I remember reading Bob Hazard’s advice about this but thought it didn’t really apply to me, because although I live on five acres, I was confident I knew where all my irrigation valves, pipes, and hose-bibs were. Turns out, I was wrong. Turns out, there was one little valve far away from the house on the side of the hill hidden under rosea and encased in a small round irrigation box. Turns out, that little, undetectable valve, cracked at the inlet side and leaked like a fire hydrant for several days. Turns out, I lost a lot of water. And I’m just sick about it. It was the perfect storm in water waste, as I had turned off the irrigation system a few weeks earlier and therefore I didn’t notice any obvious loss of water pressure in the sprinklers. The house water pressure wasn’t affected and the leak (gusher, really) wasn’t obvious to the naked eye. It took a young plumber named Andy (and $500) to finally find that stupid little valve on the side of the hill. But, hey, the good news is we did find it and I was able to cap it off and the dike has been plugged. The bad news is my water bill for April is astronomical, and I will have to throw myself on the mercy of the Montecito Water District when I appeal the fine. My defense, in addition to it being the first time I’ve ever even gone over 50 percent of my allocation: innocent stupidity. The moral of this story: The only way I would know about this water leak in my irrigation system is if I read my water meter on a consistent basis. Please take my advice and establish a baseline at today’s meter number and watch for any obvious spikes in usage. If you notice a major increase and you don’t have loss of water pressure in your house, immediately turn off your main irrigation valve – not just your sprinkler computer. Turn the valve off and check your meter again. If the meter isn’t running, you have an irri-

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gation leak and you need to get on top of it – both for your pocketbook and your piece of mind. Joel A. Maloney Montecito

Not Opposed to Desal

In reference to your response to my letter to the editor in last week’s issue (“No More Free Water” MJ #21/19), I wanted to state that I am not opposed to desalination as a backup water source for Montecito, as long as the plant would be a combo recycled gray-water/ocean-water facility. As such, it would ideally be located down at the Montecito Sanitary District or close to it and would eliminate the current discharge of secondary treated wastewater out into the ocean. It will be quite expensive compared to current surface supplies, but necessary if the current drought continues into the next two to four years. Time will tell. I also challenge all the local eateries and hotels that don’t have waterless urinals in the restroom(s) to put one in! They’re not hard to do and will save about one gallon per flush and offer a Return On Investment (ROI) after about two years. Most importantly, it’s the right thing to do in these times. Urine doesn’t need extra water to travel down into the sewer system, and waterless urinals are not odor causing, as some claim they are. Mike Clark Montecito Water District (Editor’s note: While we agree that it is wise to save water whenever feasible, the new habit of not flushing after urinating has led to a profusion of very smelly public restrooms. I guess that’s the price we must pay for no rain, but I for one believe that this particular water-saving tactic really stinks. You are correct: the waterless urinals are not only more efficient, but they also smell better. – J.B.)

Another Way to Save Water

No one mentions cutting down on electricity to save water, except Charles Fishman, author of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water. It was published in 2011 and this is what he wrote on page two: “The electricity you use at home each day requires 250 gallons per person, not just more than the actual water you use at home in the kitchen but two-and-a-half times more.” 21 – 28 May 2015

Atom Bergstrom Montecito (Editor’s note: There has been a slow and continual lessening of the use of electricity over the past 20 years. Replacing highly inefficient full-spectrum florescent light with energy-efficient ones, replacing incandescent bulbs with LED and florescent, and other tricks have made a difference. – TLB)

Wiping It Up

It’s finally here and available at George pet shop in the Montecito Country Mart. We now have Bowser butt-wipes for those who believe dogs are human and need to be cleaned with some type of tissue after attending to nature’s call. I’d love for a couple of vets to state their opinion on this practice. Montecito Journal’s Jim Alexander, too. I also have to ask... is it any coincidence that Baker’s bulldog is French? Ben Burned Montecito (Editor’s note: I can’t swear to this, but I do believe the dog wipes – Messy Mutt Wipes – have as much to do with, say, wiping little bowser’s schnozzle after eating something particularly messy, from rolling in mud, or simply to wipe a dog owner’s own paws, as they do for what you are suggesting they are meant for. And, as for Messy Mutt Wipes’ inventor Liz Baker’s pet being a French bulldog, no, there is no significance in that. – J.B.)

Greetings from China

I thought you might like to see the results of the latest trip to Hangzhou, China. I’ve gone to work with a foundry to create these cattle in bronze, the first phase being to model them full size in plaster. China has been brilliant, and I can’t wait to go back to finish the bronzes! Paul Day London, England

years...” Count me as a global warming skeptic, but history does demonstrate many recurring patterns, such [as every] 125 years [for] Santa Barbara earthquakes or Atlantic Ocean hurricane episodes. Thanks, Joe Mackey Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: “Climate change” alarmists remind me of a reputed group of cave dwellers who believed that if their high priests did not get up every morning to call for the rising of the sun, it would stay dark until they did. This, of course, gave great prestige to these important, even vital, men whose daily task and solemn duty was to encourage and assist the great ball of fire to make its daily traverse across the sky with their incantations. The sun will rise in the East and set in the West all by itself, and climate will very likely continue to fluctuate in complete disregard of human attempts to “stop” it from changing. As far as droughts tending “to come in cycles of about twenty years,” I’ve only lived here 30 years, and there have been three “droughts” during that time, which would make it every decade. People who’ve lived here longer believe that historically we can expect wet weather for seven years, followed by generally dry weather for seven years, more or less. The sad fact, however, is that this semi-arid region is simply not capable of supplying an overabundance of potable water for the number of people living here, regardless of weather conditions. Desal now! – J.B.)

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FRIDAY MAY 22 Grand Opening Viva Oliva hosts a grand opening celebration with the help of neighbors Allora, Mattie & Me, and the Liquor & Wine Grotto. When: 4:30 to 6:30 pm Where: 1275 Coast Village Road

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, MAY 21 Golf Classic Rotary Club of Montecito hosts a great day of golf, with proceeds benefiting SBCC Vocational Scholarships and various nonprofit organizations in Santa Barbara and internationally. Entry fee is $150 per golfer or $600 per foursome; includes golf cart, entry fee, goody bag, box lunch, and dinner. There will also be a silent and live auction. When: 1 pm Where: Glen Annie Golf Club, 405 Glen Annie Road Info: Carolyn at 962-2382 or Bill at 565-6990 Book Club A new club at Montecito library; new members welcome. When: 1 to 2 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: maryehrmann@yahoo.com 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 Artist Reception Montecito Aesthetic Institute unveils its newest art exhibition, featuring 30 participating artists presenting their interpretation of the theme Eye. From the silly to the sublime, all media are represented. The exhibition runs through September 10; tonight is the artist reception. When: 5:30 to 7:30 pm Where: 1150 Coast Village Road, Suite H Info: www.montecitoaesthetics.com Lecture at SBMM In 1923, seven U.S. Navy Destroyers shipwrecked at Honda Point, just northwest of Point Conception. Twenty-three sailors were lost in the tragedy. To this day, the Honda Disaster is considered the largest naval disaster in United States history during peacetime, and caused

considerable embarrassment and turmoil for our military. Learn more about this unfortunate page in U.S. and Santa Barbara County history via a lecture by Greg Gorga, SB Maritime Museum’s executive director. The lecture is in conjunction with the SBMM’s Tragedy at Honda exhibit. When: 7 pm; members-only reception at 6:15 pm Where: 113 Harbor Way Cost: free for members; $10 for non-members Info: www.sbmm.org

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M.C. along with the Santa Barbara Choral Society accompanied by David Potter on piano. All are welcome. When: 10 to 11 am Where: Santa Barbara Cemetery, 901 Channel Drive Info: www.PierreClaeyssensVeteransFoundation. org

TUESDAY, MAY 26 Montecito Union Special School Board Meeting When: 4 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 Yoga at the Zoo An outdoor yoga class at the Santa Barbara Zoo; all levels taught. When: 5:30 pm Where: 500 Ninos Drive, at Cabrillo Lawn Cost: $10 Info: www.sbzoo.org

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 11 am Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249

THURSDAY, MAY 28 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 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

FRIDAY, MAY 29 Water Wise Landscaping Workshop The Santa Barbara County Water Agency hosts a series of Water Wise Landscaping Workshops; the three-hour class will introduce homeowners, residents, and business owners to the fundamentals of

creating gardens and landscapes that thrive in our semi-arid climate and use limited water resources wisely while looking beautiful all year-round. The Water Wise Landscaping Workshop is presented by Green Gardens Group (G3), an educational organization whose qualified trainers provide an interactive and fact-filled overview of how to develop a successful California-Friendly Garden. When: 6 to 9 pm Where: Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu Street Cost: free; registration required Info: www.waterwisesb.org/workshops Writing for Wellness: A Workshop for Caregivers Caregiving involves us in other people’s stories. Explore how writing helps caregivers process their own experience, help others articulate their stories and open new avenues of reflection on life and spirit. Hosted by Marilyn McEntyre, PhD, who teaches medical humanities in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, and is a fellow at the Gaede Institute at Westmont and a hospice volunteer. When: Friday, May 29, 7:30 pm to Sunday, May 31, 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $390 resident, $290 commuter Info: www.lacasademaria.org

SATURDAY, MAY 30 Soul Style: Sacred Space & Feng Shui Explore advanced principles of Sacred Space and Feng Shui, including how to use conscious self-awareness and intuitive home psychology processes to create a harmonious and energetically enhanced living environment. This workshop is both for beginners, as well as for those interested in discovering deeper insights. Presenter Shawne Mitchell has a masters in consciousness studies and is a thought leader, speaker, and recognized expert in conscious living, combining spirituality with aligning people’s lifestyle with their inner heart and soul. Shawne does private coaching and consulting, and is the author of Home Sanctuaries, Simple Feng Shui; Exploring Feng Shui and others. Her newest book, Principles of Transcendental Leadership, will be

published in late 2015. When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $75, includes lunch Registration: www.lacasademaria.org Intermediate Beekeeping If you have previously completed a beginner beekeeping class or have basic beekeeping knowledge, continue to hone your beekeeping skills. You will gain more knowledge through presentations, discussion of seasonal issues, honey extraction, and field inspection of La Casa’s hives. Please bring your own protective gear if possible. Paul Cronshaw, president of the Santa Barbara Beekeepers Association, has more than 40 years of beekeeping experience. Paul tends the La Casa apiary. When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $75, includes lunch Registration: www.lacasademaria.org Cold Spring School Anniversary Celebration Join Cold Spring teachers, students, and alumni at a community barbecue and celebration of the school’s 125th anniversary. When: 4 to 7 pm Where: 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Info: 969-2678

ONGOING Neighborhood Clean-Up Fire Prevention Schedule May 26 through May 29: East Mountain Drive, Brook Tree Road, Oak Creek Canyon Road, Ashley Road, Ayala Lane, 900-1200 Hot Springs Road MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call. Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS Live Entertainment Where: Cava, 1212 Coast Village Road When: 7 to 10 pm Info: 969-8500

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MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memoryenhancement exercises in a friendly environment When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 TUESDAYS Adventuresome Aging Program Community outings, socialization, and lunch for dependent adults When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $75, includes lunch, plus one-time fee of $35 Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 THURSDAYS Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time. When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative, too. When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Road Local Artisans Market When: 3 to 7 pm Where: La Cumbre Plaza, 121 South Hope Avenue Info: www.localartisansmarket.com SUNDAYS Cars & Coffee Motorists and car lovers from as far away as Los Angeles, and as close as East Valley Road, park in the upper village outside Montecito Village Grocery to show off and discuss their prized possessions, automotive trends, and other subjects. Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Corvettes prevail, but there are plenty of other autos to admire. When: 8 to 10 am Where: Every Sunday in the upper village, except the last Sunday of the month, when the show moves to its original home, close to 1187 Coast Village Road. Info: sbcarscoffee@gmail.com •MJ

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Sue Burrows Retires from MPC

ast week, Montecito Planning commissioner Sue Burrows announced her resignation from Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) after more than eight years of service, making her one of the longest-serving commissioners since the group’s inception in 2003. “It has been an honor to serve,” Burrows tells us, adding that a main reason for her resignation is to spend more time with her grandchildren, Katherine and Emma. “They are growing up much too fast, and we have some great adventures planned,” Burrows said. Burrows was appointed to the commission in January 2007, filling the seat vacated by one of the MPC’s founders, Bob Meghreblian. A now 45-year resident of Montecito, Burrows brought insight and experience from her time serving on the Montecito Association board of directors, as well as a long-

Montecito Planning commissioner Sue Burrows has announced her resignation, after serving on MPC for more than eight years

time partnership with the California Women League of Voters, which she joined in 1990. During her tenure on MPC, Burrows, who served as chair of the MPC for several years, has weighed in on such projects and developments as the Westmont Master Plan, the Miramar, San Ysidro Village, the San Ysidro footpath, and many more. “I’ve enjoyed giving Montecito residents a voice about what impacts our precious community,” she told us, adding she has plans to remain involved in the community, but in a less structured way. MPC chair J’Amy Brown tells us Burrows’ service to the commission will be greatly missed. “She is a gracious lady and excellent commissioner, as well as a dedicated public servant,” Brown said. Burrows’ resignation will be announced at this week’s MPC hearing; First District supervisor Salud Carbajal’s office tells us there will be an open recruitment process to allow interested residents to apply to fill the open seat. The deadline for applications is Friday, June 12. Earlier this year, MPC saw the appointment of attorney Joe Cole to the open seat left by commission-

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Cold Spring Project Moves Forward

At a special board meeting on May 8, the Cold Spring School board voted unanimously to move forward with the remodel plans we first told you about in March (Village Beat #21/11), after a full review of the school’s financial health. “As we see it currently, we are in good shape to move forward with this project,” said Bryan Goligoski, president of the school board. He tells us the undertaking is of utmost priority, and that the board is committed to continuing to move the process forward. The project includes removing the portable classrooms, which have been on campus for more than 20 years, and building a permanent building at the entrance to the school to house administrative offices, a classroom, and an employee boardroom. “The current office is hard to find, and visitors have to pass by the classrooms of our youngest students to get there,” superintendent Dr. Tricia Price told the Montecito Association Board last week. “We are looking forward to a new campus layout,” she said. But first, Dr. Price and the school board must decide how to finance the project, which is estimated to cost $2.2 million. “Given our current cash flow, it’s feasible,” Goligoski told us. At the recent special meeting, the board determined there is about $1.6 million already available in reserves that can be earmarked for the endeavor. While district staff is still compiling various financing options, the remaining $600,000 will likely be funded through private financing, Goligoski said. A small capital campaign may also be used at the end of the project to purchase furnishings for the new building. It’s highly unlikely the board will attempt a bond measure, after two attempts in 2006 and 2008 failed before Measure C ($2.4 million) passed in November 2008, which was used to pay for much-needed safety improvements to the school. If the planning process goes as intended, construction on the campus remodel could begin as early as summer 2016, Dr. Price said. Also on campus, the school is getting ready for its big anniversary celebration planned for Saturday, May 30. This year marks the 125th anniversary of the school; 200 people are expected to celebrate with hot dogs and chili,

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ogether we plant the seeds of hope and the promise of what she can become.” Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara (GIGSB) just held its 30th annual One Hundred Committee scholarship luncheon at Ginni and Chad Dreier’s gorgeous home on TV hill overlooking everything. As Chad joked, “We think we’ve got a pretty good view.” It all began the night before with

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a patron and godparent reception at another home with a view, where Connie and John Pearcy live on East Mountain Drive. The next day, the sold-out crowd gathered on the Dreier’s terrace for wine and sparkling water before strolling through the garden down to the grande tent. From “farm to table” is almost a cliché, but that’s what the decorations were all about. There were crates

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GIGSB board member Amber Ortiz led her first live auction. You could do an Ojai getaway, have Mollie cook an Italian private dinner, time at Pebble Beach, but the favorite was Graceland! After all, the guest speaker was Priscilla Presley. Connie and John Pearcy bid it up and got their prize for $7,000. They’ll be staying at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, where the ducks waddle from their daytime pond in the lobby to the elevator and a ride to their roost each night. Soon to leave after 20 years, executive director Monica Spear addressed the group with tears in her eyes. She gave some sad statistics, such as 78 percent of girls are unhappy with their bodies by age 17, one in five will encounter sexual abuse, and three out of 10 will get pregnant by age 20.

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tarot cards read or your fortune told, as well as a DJ party. For an extra thrill, there was a fire dance. Masks were encouraged and both mysterious and beautiful ones were everywhere on guys and gals. Sherri Montgomery wore the winning design. The evening’s emcee was Aaron Clark, and John Glines kept the live auction alive with bids on VIP tickets to Dancing With The Stars or to the Ellen DeGeneres show, even a private party at Kenny Loggins’s home, to name a few. Executive director Lindsey Leonard wanted us to know that TBCF was founded in 2002. Last year alone, they assisted 150 families and 649 individuals in the Tri-County region by helping alleviate the financial and emotional burden during one of the most difficult experiences any family can go through – a cancer diagnosis for their child.” The theme “Moments in Time” is named after one of TBCF’s programs that creates special moments for children, teens, and young adults when they need an emotional boost during their cancer battle. Eleven-year-old Faith DeBrum received a “Moment in Time” surprise with a new dress from K. Frank for the party, mask makeup done by Saks, and VIP tickets to The Voice and American Idol finales. How fun and so deserved! A big “bear hug” goes to the committee members Makayna Charter, Aaron Clark, Vanessa Decker, Nina Johnson, Monique Montgomery,

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Does Shakespeare Belong in a Museum? The short answer—absolutely. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art sees the clear connections between paintings, theater, and music. Inspired by the painter Eugène Delacroix’s Hamlet suite, the Museum created “Surprised by Shakespeare” in 2015, an evening of pop-up performances of contemporary and traditional riffs on the enigmatic “Prince of Denmark.” The Shakespeare performances are only one way that the Museum pushes artistic boundaries. There are pop-up opera performances. There is Atelier, where members of the community come to the Museum for an evening of performance, creative play, music, dance, and art making — all inspired by art. Envision a museum that is a forum for the entire Santa Barbara community to view the convergence of art in bold, new ways.

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earlier on in her career, but as she is about to put the sex into sexagenarian, she does not stress over her physical appearance. “Aging is really hard. And it’s tough. Bette Davis was right. And there is a certain expectation. I get credit on one hand for not having had a facelift, and then on the other hand it’s ‘Oh my God, why doesn’t she do something.’ So, you’re just torn. “I just have to keep busy, have other interests, and try not to think about it.”

Feeling Better Actress Portia de Rossi, spouse of Montecito-based TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, once went without eating for more than a week at the age of 12. The Aussie thespian opens up about the beginnings of her eating disorder in a new TV documentary series It Got Better. “I felt tremendous responsibility when I was 12 year old, and I was put on a catwalk,” says the 42-year-old beauty, who has since overcome her struggles with anorexia and bulimia. “My modeling agents had told me to go on diet. So I didn’t eat for ten days before then.” The Arrested Development star said she felt awkward at auditions, where she was sometimes bullied. “I get up on the catwalk, and I’m a little kid, and I’m posing and trying to be sexy and strutting around, and all the other models are making fun of my bushy eyebrows,” she remembers. It was after one such audition when a young Portia became bulimic for the first tine. “I got in the car after the event, and just opened up a bag of my favorite candy and put my whole head in it. And I think, s***, what have I done? I just undid two weeks worth of dieting. “I mean, I’m 12 years old. So then I vomit. Erase the feelings with food, erase the food by vomiting. But you’re still left with the shame.” In her 2011 memoir, Unbearable

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Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, Portia wrote that the dangerous habits from her early teen years resurfaced when she landed her first major role as Nelle Porter on Ally McBeal in 1998. “The capri pants I had just tried on were a six and too tight, but to me size eight didn’t exist. I set myself a goal. I would wear those capri pants on day one of my new job, and I would make them fit with the same diet that I had used for the fashion show.” The actress sparked fears for her health in 2000 when she stepped out revealing a gaunt appearance and would cause concern again on and off at times over the following years. Years later having recovered from the eating disorder, which saw her shrink to as little as 85 pounds, she revealed the extent to which she was starving herself. On an interview with near Montecito neighbor Oprah Winfrey, she admitted to living on 300 calories a day and hid it from her castmates and friends. Portia would also take 20 laxatives a day. But the Scandal star managed to find acceptance within herself after her romance with Ellen and the couple’s marriage in 2008. Brotherly Love In November 2013, the world lost Santa Barbara actor Paul Walker. Cody Walker lost a big brother and mentor. Fast-forward two years, and the 26-year-old little brother is still coming to grips with his brother’s death

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in a tragic car accident. The trained paramedic says he is learning to cope by nurturing the things his oldest sibling found dear. Cody, who is the spitting image of Paul, tells People: “I’m doing the best I can to keep his vision.” This includes working for Paul’s charity, Reach Out World Wide (ROWW), which recently saw Cody fly to Nepal to help victims of the earthquake providing medical care, basic necessities, and life-saving purification devices. “His daughter, Meadow, and ROWW were the most important things in his life hands down.” Cody and his older brother, Caleb, 37, both stepped in to help finish Paul’s last movie Furious 7, which has earned more than $1 billion worldwide. On continuing with Paul’s charity work, Cody says: “I want to give it a shot.” “If things work out on the acting front, how great is that? I also get to promote my favorite charity.” The 26-year-old said he felt Paul with him every day in Nepal. “He was there every step of the way. I have two big brothers and an older sister, but he was the oldest. I looked up to him most. “He was a really great example to me – always.” He’s One Bath Boy Former Montecito funnyman John Cleese is house hunting again. He fled the U.K. to Monaco under a self-imposed tax exile in 2012, but now that he has settled back in London, it would appear there is not enough room for his wife and jewelry designer Jennifer Wade’s goats! The 75-year-old comedian, who

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On Entertainment Moreland More Than Just an Okie

by Steven Libowitz

John Moreland brings some Tulsa-tinged sounds to the Lobero on May 23 (photo by Michelle Crosby)

hen it comes to songwriters, Oklahoma is a lot more than OK. The state has seemed to always produce folkies capable of blending plaintive words evoking prairies and pain to melodies that ensure the lyrics strike deep. John Moreland, a self-taught former punk/ hardcore devotee turned sensitive singer-songwriter who still has a penchant for ragged edges, knows that territory well, so when he makes his first visit to the Sings Like Hell series at the Lobero this Saturday, he knows all about the trip, even if it’s only an internal one. Moreland talked about his third album, High on Tulsa Heat, recorded with little outside help in his parents’ Oklahoma home, over the phone from the road recently. Q. A lot of famous folksingers and musicians are from Oklahoma – Woody Guthrie, Leon Russell, Tom Paxton. Were

you aware of that growing up? Do you think your eventual journey to folk music was maybe inevitable? A. Yeah, I think it was. When I was a kid, fifth grade maybe, I watched a video about famous people from Tulsa, and it mentioned J.J. Cale, Leon Russell. I remember recognizing the songs from classic rock from my dad. But I didn’t know or care at the time. Later on, I kind of came back to it. I even have friends in Tulsa who are totally into that music now but had never heard a Cale record until their 20s. There’s a sort of weird force leading us back to that stuff. Going further back, though, how did you get into punk and hardcore at such an early age? I was born in 1985, so I was the right age for when Green Day was huge in the 1990s. You could hear them, Rancid, Social D, bands like that, on

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Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than ten years.

the radio. I just gravitated toward those sounds. I spent a lot of years immersed in punk core. So then, other than the mysterious force, what prompted the transition into a more folk-rock singer-songwriter approach? I understand it was Steve Earle’s “Rich Man’s War” that struck you. Was it really an overnight sort of thing? It was more of a gradual process. It had been several months or a year where I knew that hardcore was getting boring. And I had played in so many bands that lasted six months and then that was it, because the drummer moved away or the bass player was getting married. I got tired of starting over from scratch all the time. I wanted to do something I could make last and have a legacy. And musically, it wasn’t that fun or interesting anymore. I thought of that classic-rock style of music as something that existed in the past; I didn’t know anybody still did it. Finding that Steve Earle song – that he was still active – was a turning point because it was a message I was used to hearing from hardcore, but done in a way that felt a lot more powerful. I realized the music was out there, and I could find a way to do it. What specifically about the song moved you? It wasn’t so much the message – I’d heard leftist political words from punk songs. But the way it was done opened my eyes to how powerful a song could be, with the lyrics put on the right melody and every word in the right place. It affected me a lot more than any punk song I’d ever heard even because the words weren’t just haphazardly shouted. I mean, the way we worked in those bands was that we’d write a chord progression and melodies, and the singer would write lyrics independently of that. And we’d just fit them together because it didn’t really matter. But that’s not a song. “Rich Man’s War” made me realize it. You got noticed right away: three songs from your first two albums made it onto FX’s Sons of Anarchy. I’ve never seen the show, but are you a fan? I haven’t seen the show, either. I saw the episode that one of my songs was in. Well, not the whole episode; my sister showed me the part where my song played. I have really weird taste in TV. I love cheesy ‘90s sitcoms – the same ones I liked when I was 11. I’m

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real glad they (Anarchy) used my stuff, but it wasn’t really a turning point. It was another small piece. A step forward. One piece in a big puzzle. Speaking of that, it sounds like your albums are full of ever-increasing pieces of your own puzzle, and sometimes you’re working from the edges in, other times from the middle out. You write and sing about pain and regret, almost like you’re enjoying the wounds. Every songwriter does that. It’s not always comfortable, but if I don’t do it, I’m in trouble. I’ve been writing songs since I was a kid. It’s always been the natural way I sort out my thoughts, and figure out how I feel and where I stand. If I don’t do it for a while, I just start to not feel very good. I don’t really know how it helps. I just know that I feel less restless. Are you okay with exposing yourself so deeply in your songs, or are they not really the literal truth? I don’t ever change stuff, or hide details to protect myself. People ask if it feels weird, to be so personal and expose myself. But it doesn’t at all. It just feels natural and normal for me to do that in my music. I don’t know any other way. Was there some additional pressure in making your new album because of the success you’ve had? How did you handle it? Yeah, the last one got some praise, so I was worried a bit, hoping I hadn’t lost it, that I could do it again. But I pushed that out of my mind. You can’t do it again. It’s stupid to try. You just move on and do what’s going on in the moment. The weird part is, that it was the first time I’d written while being a full-time touring musician. I can’t write on the road. I need to be alone and have a significant amount of time to be still for long enough to figure out what I’m trying to say and write it down. Is that why themes of home and safety are all over High on Tulsa Heat? A. Yeah, but I didn’t think about that at all until it was done. It was only when I was figuring out the sequence of the songs that I realized just in the titles there were at least four songs that actually referenced Tulsa. It’s weird to be on the road. Friends at home don’t get what I do. It’s hard to relate to people with normal lifestyles. There’s also the love-hate thing you get after 20 years in one place. But being on the road for a living, when I do come home, it’s nice to come home to a place that’s extremely familiar and people I know. I can get around town with my eyes closed, go to any bar and know 50 percent of the people. That’s a good feeling. 21 – 28 May 2015

Something’s Afoot with Turkish Tones

It’s been more than five years since American Dance & Music Performance (AD&M) Group last offered a theatrical concert in town, when it was still known as Ballet Santa Barbara, but it’s not as if the company’s founder/artistic director Carrie Diamond has just been sitting around. Based on both economics (post-2008 recession) and artistic factors, the former New York City dance professional decided to alter her focus and switch gears to make AD&M more of an educational institution. “After our last show at Center Stage in 2008, I made an effort to get more involved with community,” Diamond explained recently. “We focused on developing curriculum and raising money to bring it into the schools and community events. It ended up taking all our time and energy and resources.” AD&M became entrenched in the Santa Barbara dance world, offering matinée performances for seniors and students at such places as the Boys and Girls Club, and creating a free annual community event, Dance: Up Close and Cultural, which took place again last weekend, as well as offering classes in ballet and modern dance for beginners to young aspiring professionals. But something was missing. “Education was great, but there was this other important area, performing as a professional company, that we were really missing,” Diamond said. “It felt like we had gotten off mission. And what we were doing in the artistic field with Up Close, our venue for new work, just wasn’t getting the attention it warranted. The work was getting better and stronger, and people who did see were responding well. So, it was time to get a concert together.” Thus, Turkish By Matisse and Other Delights, which has three performances at the New Vic on May 22-23. While Diamond herself created two new works for the shows, the centerpiece is the title piece, “Turkish By Matisse”, which was choreographed by Mari Sandoval back in 1976, who originally wrote the work as an assignment while studying with the legendary dancer and teacher, Carmelita Maracci. In turn, Diamond was a student of Sandoval’s at Santa Monica High School, and later became a dancer for Storie-Crawford Dance Theatre Ensemble (SCDTE), where company member Sandoval passed Turkish on to her. (It was also at SCDTE that Diamond met Eric Valinsky, then the company’s composer-in-residence and now Diamond’s husband and AD&M’s music director.) “But then our lives diverged,” Diamond said of Sandoval. “She became smitten by flamenco, and con21 – 28 May 2015

American Dance & Music Performance steps into the New Vic with Turkish By Matisse and Other Delights

tinues to this day to teach and choreograph in that style, while I went on to New York and then here. But I found her on Facebook back in 2012, and reignited our relationship. It’s been perfect. It’s like we’re soul mates.” Diamond invited Sandoval to bring her dancers in Up Close & Cultural in 2013, and the two decided then to re-mount Turkish. “We met once a month and recreated it from memory, because there was no record of the work,” explained Diamond, who danced it last year, which she called “a huge moment for me personally.” Now, Turkish falls to one of AD&M’s talented young dancers, Nikki Pfeiffer, to add her own spin to the heirloom work this weekend. The concert will also feature “Elements of Permutation”, choreographed by Nathan Cottam in an AD&M premiere), and two new works by Diamond. “Pastorale”, set to the Beethoven sonata, had a preview at last year’s Up Close show, after which Diamond decided to choreograph the whole composition. “The challenge with something that repeats like that was to make it interesting, so that the audience hears something different as the movements change,” she said. “The idea is to keep it exciting from a dance perspective.” “Jumble” came from the popular

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anagram word game adapted to people, Diamond said. “It’s a personal story – our family dynamics, four people together to work on puzzles, trying to figure it out. That shows up more in the dynamics than literally in the dance, but the movements were approached that way. There are letter shapes, words created with the movements – you wouldn’t know, but that’s how they were generated.” While all of the works save for “Jumble” have seen life either at Up Close or in studio shows, even Diamond is curious to see how audiences react to the more theatrical professional presentation. “The works really needed to be produced, to be seen on a stage, with lights, costumes,” she said. “It’s going to be great.”

Concert Springs onto Center Stage

UCSB Dance Company, the on-campus company directed by Delila Moseley and featuring top senioryear dance majors, offers its annual spring concert at the Center Stage Theater on Wednesday and Thursday. The company just completed a twoweek tour of Europe, where they danced the program in six cities. Derion Smith is the special guest for the shows, which include works choreographed by Genevieve Carson, Nancy Colohan, Jerry Pearson, and featuring José Limón.

Five Q’s: Ford does Joni

Santa Barbara songstress Kimberly Ford is best-known to local audiences as a jazz singer, one who plies the Great American Songbook for a vivacious voice and delightful demeanor. But something new has been brewing for Ford over the last year, a musical love affair with the iconic singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Ford debuted her new tribute concert at SOhO last December, and the singer and her crack Santa Barbara-based

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band return to the club on Sunday night with five more months of experience under their belt in interpreting the innovative singer-songwriter who moved from Laurel Canyon folk to Mingus-inspired jazz and beyond over an astonishing career. Q. You come from jazz. Why has Joni had such a big impact on you? A. I fell in love with singing and learned to play the guitar from her Blue album. It had a real big impact on me. Not to draw a comparison, but I realized as I evolved into different forms of music, she did, too. Now, as I come back to it, I realized she had a similar path. We were both into Mingus at the same time, for example. It all made sense to me. What she was doing has always been in my skill set and knowledge base. And it’s been wonderful to be involved in music from my own generation. Not many musicians beyond folkies in clubs have ventured into Joni Mitchell’s music. What made you so bold? They have been some recently: Herbie Hancock won a Grammy. Tierney Sutton did her album last year. But I’m probably the only one who’s doing all the guitar work myself. She’s always followed her muse and gone down her own rabbit hole, even though her fans wanted her to keep making Blue or Court & Spark. It’s been a huge amount of work, and I’ve really invested a lot. I’m looking at it as almost a literary, academic study. But once I realized it was possible, I wanted to do it. And I knew I would be a better musician for it. I have to play in 15 different tunings to do this show. I know I’m just hitting the tip of the iceberg. It feels like I’ve decided to go get a master’s degree. I’ve gotten a bit addicted to it. From what I heard on the recordings, you’re doing the songs the way she did them. Yes, it’s like jazz: you have to learn

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But plenty of other great local groups have rocked out to the diverse crowd – everyone from local families to bikers to tourists – over the years. Memorial Day brings an extra bonus band bonanza, as Tina Schlieske and the Graceland Exiles with Sister Laura hold forth from 1:30-4:30 at the bar and beyond. The two singer-songwriters are absolute powerhouse rock ‘n’ rollers who mix in blues and more, with voices that sounds as classic as can be. I can’t think of a much better way to spend a holiday afternoon than tossing back a couple of pints and dancing in the gravel.

Kimberly Ford returns to perform at SOhO on Sunday, May 24

it right first. Play it as it was written. Otherwise, you’re lost wandering in the forest. But then you can depart and change it up, which is what you do in jazz. We’re just not quite at the place of totally reinventing the songs, but there are a few. What you’ll hear on Sunday will be quite different from what we did in December. I’m doing all sorts of stuff with the guitar that I wasn’t before. How did you pick which of her songs to play? These are some of the most emblematic songs, the ones people know. We’re trying to connect, and carry the torch of her music since she’s not performing anymore. But we also dig for the deeper cuts that are some of the most powerful songs even if they are more esoteric. We’re trying to reintroduce some of her stuff that people might have missed. We’re experimenting with what resonates.

Out of Town

Simi Valley may not strike you as a vacation destination for the first holiday weekend of the summer. But the Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Festival might make the trek worthwhile. Now in its 26th year, the fest has established itself as one of the biggest roots festivals in the L.A.-Ventura area, and features separate stages for each genre so the music never stops. Among the headliners this year are three iconic bands whose history dates back to the 1960s: Spencer Davis Group, Canned Heat, and Big Brother & the Holding Company; Guitar Shorty, Candye Kane, two-time Grammy winners Terrance Simien & his Zydeco Experience; Leo

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“Bud” Welch and Ventura’s own Big Bad Voodoo Daddy are among the other acts. The fest has huge dance floors, free dance lessons, authentic cuisine food booths, more than 100 specialty craft booths – and a daily Mardi Grasstyle parade, complete with stilt walkers and marching bands. Get tickets, schedules, and details online at www. simicajun.org.

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Do you think she’d like what you’re doing? She’s a really private person, so I don’t know if I’d ever expect to hear anything. But I hope she understands how much she’s impacted our world, and how much she’s shaped music. Hopefully, she appreciates what we’re doing and sees it as a tribute to her music.

Manic Monday

Given that it’s a long way from State Street and nowhere near the proverbial beaten path, it’s easy to forget all about Cold Spring Tavern. The 150-year-old former stagecoach stop has been doing music in the club area for half a century, though, with up to five bands playing every weekend. Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan have held down the 1-4 pm slot on Sunday afternoons almost since they formed more than 20 years ago, and they show up without fail every week that they’re in town. 21 – 28 May 2015

in downtown Ojai to the beautiful private Dancing Oak Ranch in Casitas – with The Leftover Cuties, a quartet that’s not only as playful as its name suggests, but also an energetic outfit that fuses folk and jazz with both musicianship and some hanging threads as ukulele, brass, and accordion substitute for the typical guitar. You may have heard their music on the opening theme for the Showtime series The Big C or in an ad for Samsung. The sounds should be both sultry and swinging on Saturday night for the family-friendly mini-festival. Info: www.ojaicon certseries.com •MJ

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State Street Spin

by Erin Graffy de Garcia

Central Coast Wine Classic Pours into Santa Barbara

rian and Judy Robertson know how to do things first-class and classy. And they know a good thing when they see it. When they discovered that their friend, über-oenophile Archie McLaren was moving to town, they hosted an exquisite reception of wine and welcoming to Santa Barbara’s most recent and renowned resident. The event was at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club. McLaren is one of only two Americans inducted into the Austrian Wine Brotherhood, and one of the few Americans inducted into the Commanderie des Bontemps – Medoc et Graves & Sauternes et Barsac of Bordeaux in France. He is a member of the Vintners’ Club of San Francisco, the Wine & Food Society of San Francisco, the San Francisco Chapter of the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, and the Marin County Chapter of the International Wine & Food Society. He is the former cellarmaster of the Avila Bay Wine Society and the former President of the Central Coast Wine Society. McLaren is the founding Bailli of the

Archie McLaren, founder and chairman of the Central Coast Wine Classic, (the annual culinary and wine symposia) was guest of honor at a reception welcoming Santa Barbara’s newest celebrity resident

Central Coast Chapter of the Confrerie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs. A close friend of Julia Child, Archie was on the national board of the American Institute of Wine and Food. In short, this man knows his grapes. And for the exciting news. Now that Archie has just moved here, he has announced his intention to also move the Central Coast Wine Classic to Santa Barbara next year. This 30-year old annual culinary and wine symposia will be held here in July 2016, and negotiations have already started for the year long planning and preparations. The Central Coast Wine Classic, esteemed nationally as one of the most prestigious – as well as comprehen-

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sive – fine wine and culinary events of California, is also one of America’s most successful charity wine auctions. With Wine Spectator among its many significant sponsors, the revenue is more than a million dollars. So we are having grape expectations of Archie and his illustrious event! Archie and charitable wine auctions have long had a successful pairing. For years, he served as the auction consultant to the American Institute of Wine & Food Rare & Fine Wine. Archie has assisted in launching charity auctions across the nation from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco to Honolulu. He co-founded the extremely popular World of Pinot Noir with Brian Talley. In 2007, he directed and was the auctioneer for the Pinot Plus Auction, the Carneros Wine Alliance’s inaugural Carneros Appellation wine and lifestyle tasting and auction, and was auctioneer for the 2007 and 2008 Lake County Wine Auction. For 23 years, Archie hosted a fine wine program, the Wine Drinker’s Guide to Indulgence, on Public Radio KCBX. His many accomplishments have landed him in Who’s Who in Media & Communications, Who’s Who in the West, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World. A fabulously interesting man, he has studied everything undergraduate to post-graduate from marketing to humanities to English literature. Archie even holds a law degree... but let’s not hold that against him, as he has clearly moved on from torts to corks.

Larsens Bring Magic to Carpinteria

Two of my favorite, incessantly creatively people are conveniently mar-

ried to each other: Milt and Arlene Larsen. Milt is an award-winning comedy writer, songwriter, and is the visionary behind Hollywood’s famous Magic Castle. Arlene creates the visuals: eye-candy costumes, happily inane props, and phantasmagoric hats. After Milton added his name to Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, you’d think he would sit back on his demiurgic derriere and be done with it all. But no... Milt and Arlene always have one more trick up their sleeve, so to speak. This time they have turned their attention to that precious Plaza Playhouse Theatre in Carpinteria. This 200-seat, 87-year-old auditorium has recently come under a not-profit organization of dedicated volunteers, and with it, a huge restoration to bring back its vintage charm. Bill Krebs and his “Energy Freedom” company have lovingly and lavishly infused life and history back into this local landmark. Milt and Arlene are helping this historic theater kick off their big opening by producing an evening of magical fun and film. You will see the first-ever science-fiction film – from 1902. A famous French magician of that era (George Méliés) created the silent film classic, A Trip to the Moon. But wait, there’s more. The real show comes when Milt and Arlene present master magician John Carney’s show – direct from the Larsen’s Magic Castle. Carney is the master of sleight-of-hand and has won more awards than any other magician at the Magic Castle. In addition to the legerdemain, there will be plenty of laughter, as his humor is part of the show designed to delight an audience of all ages. The magic starts Thursday, May 21, and continues Friday, May 22; doors open at 7 pm (hobnob with the hoipolloi and peruse the pictures in the lobby), and the show starts promptly at 8. (Tickets $35; plazatheatrecarpin •MJ teria.com)

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At The Wheel

Chris Eberz and Lark Cobb won the Rally 4 Kids

by Randy Lioz

Randy is an automotive enthusiast with more than a decade of experience in the industry. Originally hailing from New York, he came to Santa Barbara by way of Detroit to work for an automotive forecasting company. You can regularly find him at Cars and Coffee with his Porsche 911 or Speedster replica.

Rally with a View Rolls Along the Coast Cynthia Howard’s 1958 Porsche 356 Speedster… the real thing is a rare treat

ou may have seen mention of the Rally 4 Kids in last week’s Montecito Miscellany – and several times in my columns. The event supporting the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County was run for the second time, this year with modifications to leave the results less to chance. The organizers, including Diana Starr Langley and Monte Wilson, invited me to participate, and I was accompanied by my lovely navigator and girlfriend, Liz Baker. The initial plan was to pilot my Porsche Speedster replica, but for the sake of comfort – we would be on the road for close to five hours – we chose my 2002 911 coupe. The route began from Summerland software outfit QAD, which offered an excellent starting point, not only for the location, but also for the views. A brief peek inside the building displayed impressive vistas overlooking the hills and made me want to take up a career in software development.

After a brief photo-op, we set off along the back roads toward Carpinteria, where we hit our first stop, the local Boys & Girls Club. We were given a chance to hit six free throws in the gym, where our combined skill resulted in precisely one made shot, though that wasn’t far below the average. Along the way we were answering trivia questions, and one of the first involved a racetrack that used to be nearby. It turns out the Carp Thunderbowl was a dirt track whose fate was sealed by the Highway 101 expansion project. The freeway didn’t actually go through the track’s property. Rather, as it passed nearby, the Thunderbowl was used as a depository for all the excavation dirt. Our journey continued up the 150 toward Ojai, a great driving road, replete with tight switchbacks and marvelous views. We were given strict orders that the rally was not a race – our driver’s licenses were even officially sealed in an envelope so that

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a traffic stop would result not only in some unpleasantness from Johnny Law, but also in disqualification. But for some reason my right foot was a bit itchy on this stretch, so we may have done it a bit more “efficiently.” We next gathered at the Ojai Valley Museum, where we got to some trivia and learned that the original name of the town was actually Nordhoff. From there, we ran down to Oxnard, with a stop at the Painted Cabernet. We were told to snap a pic of our car before going in, so you can imagine what we’d be painting. The results were predictably varied, with efforts that ranged from kindergarten finger-painting to MOMA-worthy. Luckily, Liz’s art-major background saved our effort from falling into the former category, and our collaboration will no doubt be lauded in the motoring art world for years to come. Also in Oxnard, we dropped by a Go-Kart track run by Jim Hall Kart Racing School – Jim was a rally participant as well. We got a chance to post the fastest lap time, a competition in which I placed seventh overall. I’m fairly competitive, but I had little cause to argue that I had a slow kart, since I jumped into it right after David Green jumped out, having set the pole for the day. Our final driving stint was toward Malibu along the PCH, and then up Mulholland Drive. Again, this famous road offered some incredible opportunities for spirited driving, with a full dose of exhilaration priming us for lunch at the Calamigos Ranch. We gathered at the Malibu Café, an open-air venue that feels almost

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like a mini-amusement park, a great place for families to gather. We took our time having some cocktails and listening to the band before heading back down toward the PCH for the ride home. The afternoon was a nice leisurely amble, since we just needed to end up at the Nesbitt Estate by the late afternoon to line up our cars at the event-ending gala. We managed to get through the day of driving with just one instance of raised voices, a pretty good result for an affair such as this. At the gala, there were live and silent auction items, as well as the typical paddle raise, run by Boys & Girls Clubs of America board member Jeff Henley. He challenged participants, if they had any doubt about the value of their donations, to head to a club location and see for themselves where their money goes. So, I decided to take him up on this. This past week, I went to visit United Boys & Girls Clubs CEO Michael Baker at the Westside Santa Barbara location. This is the area of town where he says the need is greatest for the services that his clubs provide. Naturally, Santa Barbara is an expensive place to live, and many of the low-income families in town, especially in this neighborhood, share houses with other families. There can be as many as three or four families in one house, he says, but though some families are dealing with adult challenges that life has put in their way, he asks, “What does that have to do with a 6-year-old?” Kids, in his opinion, should always have 21 – 28 May 2015

access to the safe surroundings of a place like the Boys & Girls Club. Because there are many families near the poverty line in this area, Baker says that 97 percent of the kids here are on the subsidized school lunch program. The clubs supplement that assistance with dinners, and they serve around 200 meals per night, a program underwritten by the Santa Barbara School District. When I visited, there were kids playing soccer in the gym, and pool and foosball in the game room. We went upstairs to the room dedicated for younger kids, where they were learning some hip-hop dance from a local volunteer. We saw the art studio where kids were practicing their yarn work, and then we went into the Musicbox. Amazingly, the club is equipped with its own fully functional recording studio, courtesy of nonprofit Notes for Notes, which operates in clubs here and in L.A. and Nashville. “The days of the school music program are gone,” says Baker, noting that La Cumbre Junior High has been bringing students to the Musicbox to replace some of the programs that used to be on offer. Baker and I talked about his goals for the club, particularly the ability to be open for more hours. They’re currently open from 2 to 6 pm during weekdays, and they do have Saturday hours as well. He’d like to be able to extend that to 8 pm, and also to be open all week. His leadership at the clubs here has tried to focus the staff on being “relentless in finding kids that need our services,” he says. He also wants to make sure that the staff of the clubs is familiar with all of the agencies in town to be able to help connect families in need. My visit to the club impressed with the scope of their programs and the level of participation. It’s been great to be involved with the rally, and now that I’ve seen the organization in action, that sentiment was reinforced. The event itself was certainly worthy of the money that was raised, with drivers and navigators having a blast. Chris Eberz and Lark Cobb, a charmingly enthusiastic couple who are regulars at Cars & Coffee, were declared the winners, and they had nothing but glowing praise for the event, particularly the format that included a great mixture of skills and trivia, along with the driving. “It was one of the funnest days I’ve actually had rallying,” says Eberz, and given his extensive rally experience, who could argue with that? If you have a story about a special car or piece of car culture in the area, email Randy at rlioz11@gmail.com. Or follow •MJ him on Instagram @rlioz. 21 – 28 May 2015

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

Local Artists Featured in VITAL Exhibition

iara Ennis, director and curator of Pitzer College Art Galleries, juries an art exhibition featuring 37 pieces by 29 artists living and working in the San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties May 21-June 20 in the Westmont RidleyTree Museum of Art. A free, public opening reception for “VITAL: TriCounty Juried Exhibition” is Thursday, May 21, from 4-6 pm. at the museum. The winner of the James A. McIntyre Memorial First Place Art Award, a cash prize of $1,000 donated by the McIntyre family, will be announced at the reception, as well as four other awards. “The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art’s compelling exhibition VITAL, allowed for exacting and expansive interpretations from a range of artists working in different mediums and genres,” Ennis says. “The artists’ shrewd and inventive responses articulated all aspects of this multi-dimensional theme providing a thoroughly layered visual experience.” Ennis, who pored over 290 entries by 130 artists, selected a wide range of media for the show, including painting, drawing, photography, art-

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ist’s books, mixed media, collage, and sculpture. The juried exhibition, which Westmont began more than 20 years ago, provides a rare opportunity to showcase the talent of the local area. The show is sponsored by the James McIntyre Supporting Organization, Loretta W . Hubbard, and the Westmont Art Council. The museum is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm, and 11 am to 5 pm on Saturdays. It is closed Sundays and college holidays. For more information, please visit www.westmontmuseum.org or contact the museum at (805) 565-6162.

Washington Shines as SB Track Champs

Athletes from seven local elementary schools competed in track-andfield events May 14 at the Westmont track. More than 250 students from Roosevelt, McKinley, Adams, Cleveland, Franklin, Monroe, and Washington Elementary schools battled for bragging rights, competing in about a dozen events. The annual Track and Field City Championships began two years ago under the leader-

ship of Westmont alumna and Adams Elementary School principal Amy (Bergenske) Alzina and Westmont head track-and-field coach Russell Smelley. Washington edged out Adams, 192 to 184 points. Franklin finished third with 108. Westmont track-and-field athletes, who are competing at the national championships May 21-23 in Gulf Shores, Alabama, served as volunteers, timing and measuring the events. Following the meet, the athletes toured the campus before eating lunch in the Westmont Dining Commons. Alzina, who became the youngest principal in Santa Barbara School District history when she was 29, competed on Westmont cross country and track-and-field teams before graduating in 1998.

Former Warrior Tugce Canitez

Warriors Included in Court of Champions

The Santa Barbara Basketball Court of Champions inducts four former Westmont coaches and student-athletes into the Class of 2015 at a dinner, Sunday, May 31, at 6 pm. at the Fess Parker resort. Tickets, which cost $100 each (or $125 at the door), can be purchased at santabarbarabasketball.com. For more information, contact Curt Pickering at (805) 969-7542. There will also be a silent auction to raise revenue for a college scholarship fund. There will be 17 inductees, including former Westmont coaches Chet Kammerer and Randy Pfund, along with former student-athletes Ron Shelton ’67 and Tugce Canitez ’13. Former inductees include John Moore and Kirsten Moore, current head coaches for Westmont men’s and women’s basketball respectively, who were inducted into the Court of Champions last year in its inaugural class. Kammerer coached Westmont Men’s Basketball for 17 years from 1975 to 1992, accumulating a record of 357-158 (.693). During that span, he led the Warriors to five NAIA National Championship appearances. During the 1984 campaign, the Warriors reached the semifinals for the first time in school history. Kammerer left Westmont in 1992 to join Pfund on the Los Angeles Lakers coaching staff. In 1996, he began scouting for the Miami Heat, where he currently serves as the vice president of player personnel. After the remodel of Murchison Gymnasium in 2008, the floor was named Kammerer Court in his honor. After graduating from Wheaton, Illinois, in 1978, Pfund joined Kammerer as an assistant coach at Westmont. In 1986, Pfund was hired by the Los Angeles Lakers as assistant coach and then served as head coach

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Brenda Castro of Washington Elementary won her heat, finishing the 60m in 9.22

for the 1992-93 and 1993-94 seasons. In 1996, he served as general manager of the Miami Heat until he retired in 2008. Shelton played both basketball and baseball for Westmont in the 1960s. During his three-year Warrior basketball career, Shelton tallied 1401 points, which ranks 11th on Westmont’s career scoring list. His 18.7 career pointsper-game average places him fifth in the record books. Shelton played minor league baseball in the Baltimore Orioles organization before becoming a writer/producer for a number of successful sport-themed movies. Canitez played two years for Westmont Women’s Basketball and led the 2012-13 team to the NAIA National Championship. The native of Izmir, Turkey, was named the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association NAIA Player of the Year in 2012 and 2013, as well as the NAIA Player of the Year in 2013. Canitez dominates the Westmont record books. She holds the career records for scoring average (20.3 points per game), free throws made (423), rebounds (783), and rebound average (11.5). Canitez currently plays professional basketball for Fenerbahce of the Turkish Women’s Basketball League and is a member of the Turkish National Team. In 2012, while a student at Westmont, Canitez represented her country at the summer Olympic Games in London. Among the other inductees is Gerry Karczewski, father of the current Westmont basketball player by the same name. Karczewski played at San Marcos High School with Westmont •MJ assistant coach Jeff Azain. 21 – 28 May 2015

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AHA! board members Michele Cuttler, Bobby Shand, and Stacy and Ron Pulice enjoyed the reception at Deckers Brands rotunda before the “Sing It Out!” event

by Julia Rodgers (Photos by Carly Otness)

AHA! “Sing It Out” Performance Rocks the House All of the teen performers sang a song with Santa Barbara mayor Helene Schneider before their individual performances

ith an audience of about 300 people leaping to its feet and wildly cheering after each rock and roll performance, 11 teenagers sang their hearts out one by one on May 16 during “Sing It Out!,” a fundraising event for the local nonprofit AHA! The high-octane event – which took place at the Deckers Brands’ rotunda in Goleta – is not supposed to be an American Idol copycat event, but rather a chance for teens to gain confidence and overcome fear by performing one of their favorite songs, after being coached by members of a professional rock and roll band during a threemonth time period. Given the reaction of the teens after coming off the stage, the occasion was a huge success. “It was insane – it was completely mind-blowing!” said one performer, Kai Swan, 14, who attends Santa Barbara High School. “I don’t think I’ve ever felt that thrilled in my life.” Montecito resident and rock musician Tina Schlieske practiced with the teens once a week for 12 weeks to help them build up their courage to belt out a tune; her band, Tina Schlieske and the Graceland Exiles with Sister Laura, backed up the teens the night of the event. Laura Schlieske served as vocal coach as well. “This is the most uplifting family show of the year,” said Jennifer Freed, co-founder of AHA! “More than ever, ‘Sing it Out!’ represents what we can be as a community. Teens defeat their fears and adults embrace them. Everyone comes together that night to say ‘Yes’ to heart, courage, conviction, and possibility.” As each teen came off the stage after performing, the rest of the group ran to meet them, providing hugs and high-fives along with squeals of delight. All of this support makes a big difference, the teens in the pro21 – 28 May 2015

Jennifer Freed, co-founder of AHA!, with MaryAnne Contreras of SWANK santa barbara and Marla Phillips

tion before the performance with food from Nana’s Kitchen and wines from Babcock Winery & Vineyards. Top sponsors of “Sing It Out!” include: Deckers Brands, Stacy & Ron Pulice, The Simms/Mann Family Foundation, Beryl & Neil Kreisel, Jill Martin/Kind Eyes Photography,

Kristin Kirby, Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, Brad Lemons Foundation, and Marilee & Stephen Gordon. For more information about AHA!, contact Molly Green at molly@ahasb. org or visit the organization’s website, ahasb.org. •MJ

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gram said. “I felt the support of everyone in the audience. I felt like I was floating – it was amazing,” said Anjali Ordonez, 15, who attends San Marcos High School. “AHA! has helped me be more confident and open-minded. I’ve met a lot of adults I can trust.” “Sing it Out!,” is just one aspect of the nonprofit AHA!, which stands for attitude, harmony and achievement, and was founded 15 years ago. AHA! serves teens and families year-round with both in-school and after-school programs; its main purpose is to teach social and emotional intelligence through a highly creative and participatory curriculum where everyone feels understood and has a sense of purpose and belonging. AHA!’s experiential curriculum guides teens to set goals and to stop bullying and hatred. All programs are funded by donations, and no teen is turned away for lack of funds. The event was planned by MaryAnne Contreras of SWANK santa barbara, and included a recep-

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On Dance

by Megan Waldrep Poetry in motion: performances and recitals fill the SBDA calendar every year (photo by Rod Tucknott Photography)

SB Dance Arts Shaping Futures of Youth A class taught by dance master Brian Friedman (photo by SB Dance Arts)

s working artists in the community, we know the (financial) struggles being in Santa Barbara,” owner and director of Santa Barbara Dance Arts, Alana Tillim, says. Events such as Solstice, Fiesta, and other festivals have put Santa Barbara on the map, making it a destination for the world. The problem? Nobody is getting paid to create the entertainment. “With cost of living and rents on the rise, artists are still expected to rally and spend thousands of hours to come up with this experience that anchors

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our community,” Alana explains. “It’s about how this art gets created, and we felt we could address that.” At 3 pm, the a sprawling, 9,000-square-foot facility on the corner of East Cota and Salsipuedes acts more like a bustling town center than a traditional dance studio. Founded in 2004 and resurrected to its current location in January 2014, Santa Barbara Dance Arts (SBDA) has become a sanctuary for the community, welcoming ages three to 73 with open arms. Variety and versatility are apparent – dancers training for the

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Ablitt’s Fine Cleaners wants to recognize Lewis Ross for being such a positive champion, serving clients in the Montecito community as your dedicated concierge. For 20 years (and not a single sick day), Lewis has been a fixture in Montecito in the iconic Ablitt’s van, picking up and delivering your dry cleaning, laundry, and specialty orders. On the eve of your retirement Lewis, we and the 700 clients you serve, most of whom have become friends over the past 2 decades of your service, wanted to thank you. Enjoy your celebratory trip to Europe this June to pursue your passion for the outdoors, trekking in the alps and the Pyrenees. As an environmentalist you’ve covered 300,000 miles in Montecito over the last 20 years, saving your clients from driving over 2 million miles back and forth to Ablitt’s Fine Cleaners. Thank You, Lewis, we’ll miss you. God Speed!

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Spirit of Fiesta are neighbors to Pilates classes and across the hall from ariel silks and other activities. It’s a safe haven for kids and working families as well. Children are able to come from school, get a snack, do homework in the Wi-Fi-lounge, then head to dance class. The center also works with Transition House, Girls Inc., and the Boys & Girls Club to give children “confidence, a creative outlet, and another career opportunity,” Alana expresses. Even world-class artists (who have trained the likes of Beyoncé and Britney Spears), traveling Broadway shows, professionals from So You Think You Can Dance, and other major productions rely on SBDA as a place to practice and perfect routines. Comparable to spaces found in New York or Los Angeles, it’s easy to see why. Mild tragedy prompted Alana’s love of dance. She grew up training as a gymnast and as a student of the Royal Academy of Dance. At age 10, she broke her back, and doctors said she would never do gymnastics again. Having loved the ballet techniques used on gymnastics floor routines, she asked if she would be able to dance. “After you heal, you can dance,” they said – and her path through the arts began. When she hit college, her life took another turn. Alana headed to UCSB with ambitions to become a lawyer or politician with dance a part of her life, “just for fun.” While in school, she met Steven Lovelace, who had just started a small dance school. Their chemistry was magnetic and within a year, they

became business partners. Seventeen years later, Steven now focuses on teaching at SBDA while Alana takes the reins. Combining Santa Barbara Dance Arts with the Arts Mentorship Program (AMP), also founded by Alana and Steven, brings support for the arts to the next level. The three main programs of AMP – scholarships, a rent subsidy program, and a performance company – have become essential for dance art students and creative businesses opportunity for growth. “We want to make sure the kids and the community understand the real purpose of why we are here, which is the giving back,” AMP board member Pamela Haskell notes. And you can help. “Sponsor A Dancer” is the newest program which gives the public the opportunity to invest in a dancer for a year, covering the costs associated with training. In previous scholarship programs, several recipients have gone to dance for a professional companies in New York, even becoming the first in their family to go to college. Investing in “Sponsor A Dancer” means changing lives. “I want people to know we are here as a resource,” Alana says. “If we want to continue to have a beautiful arts landscape in Santa Barbara, we need to support organizations like this to make it last.” As Santa Barbara Dance Arts proves, •MJ seeing is believing. Santa Barbara Dance Arts 531 East Cota Street, Santa Barbara For a full list of services, visit www.sbdancearts.com

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 12) A sketch of Cold Spring School’s proposed new campus entry, featuring a new administrative office building (photo courtesy KBZ Architects)

live music by Jason Campbell and the Drive, and activities. “It’s a great time to bring together alumni, teachers and former teachers, and current students, to celebrate 125 years, as well as the possibilities of what the campus may become,” Price said. A “Legends Panel” is planned for the event, in which former students and teachers will be invited to tell their favorite memories of the school. A commemorative redwood tree will be planted in honor of the occasion, and students are currently compiling items for a time capsule that will not be opened for at least 25 years. Price tells us there are rumors a time capsule was buried on the campus 25 years ago, during the 100-year celebration, but it’s unclear where the capsule was stashed. “We’ve heard it’s here, buried in cement, but we don’t want to dig up the campus until we have a better idea of exactly where it is,” Price said. For more information about the school, visit www.coldspringschool. net.

Casa Dorinda Celebrates 40 Years

On May 15, Casa Dorinda residents and community stewards came out for a champagne toast at the Casa, marking the facility’s 40th anniversary. “The Casa is such a unique asset in Montecito as the only retirement campus in the surrounding community,” said Ron Schaefer, president and CEO of Casa Dorinda, as he gave attendees a brief history of the estate. “It seems fitting that we celebrate this occasion with a little bit of pomp and circumstance,” he said. Several community members gave brief toasts to the Casa and its residents, including Montecito Association president Cindy Feinberg, Montecito Fire chief of operations Kevin Taylor, Santa Barbara Symphony executive director David Pratt, Music Academy of the West president Scott Reed, Birnam Wood president Bill Kimsey, and others. “The residents at Casa Dorinda feel very lucky to live on this beautiful campus, and we are even more grateful to have the sur21 – 28 May 2015

Casa Dorinda residents J.W. Colin and Renee Templeraud, with Music Academy president Scott Reed, celebrating Casa’s 40th anniversary

rounding communities of Montecito and Santa Barbara stimulating and supporting us,” said Barbara Hadley, Casa Dorinda’s Resident Council president. Congresswoman Lois Capps and supervisor Salud Carbajal sent proclamations of congratulations via representatives from their respective offices. The afternoon event was a kickoff for other anniversary occasions that took place over the weekend. “We are always trying to benefit seniors and the surrounding community, and hearing from our neighbor organizations was icing on the cake today,” Schaefer said. Casa Dorinda, located on the historic Bliss estate in Montecito, is a private LifeCare Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) owned and operated by the Montecito Retirement Association, a nonsectarian, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. The facility is in the beginning stages of an expansion project, which will add 100,000 square feet of additional development to the campus, including 20 new independent living units, 12 memory care units, an underground parking garage, new storage buildings, a second dining venue in the form of a bar and grill, a plaza in front of the main building, and plans for enhancing entryways and architecture, among other items. Public comment on the project’s draft mitigated negative declaration was gathered earlier this year; the county is still reviewing and responding to that feedback before scheduling a hearing in front of the Montecito Planning Commission. Information about the development is available

online at www.sbcountyplanning.org. For more information about Casa Dorinda, visit www.casadorinda.org.

Art Installation on Milpas Street

A small ceremony was held May 16 on Milpas Street to mark the first installation of the “Yes We Can!” art project. Titled “Yes We Can! (turn our trashcans into art),” the endeavor puts local school children’s art on the sides of public trash bins along the Milpas Street corridor, to both beautify the area and discourage littering. The project is the result of a creative collaboration between the Milpas Community Association, la Casa de la Raza, Adelante Charter School, the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, Santa Barbara Beautiful, the City of Santa Barbara Visual Art in Public Places Committee, the City of Santa Barbara Environmental Services Division, and the City of Santa Barbara’s Neighborhood Advisory Committee. The idea was born during the annual Milpas Community Association meeting in February 2014, where the ongoing issue of littering along Milpas Street between Cota and Canon Perdido was discussed. The public trash bins in the area are a variety of styles, and some are in poor condition. Rather than replace them, an idea took hold to have kids beautify them. The proposed undertaking, which includes artwork digitally printed on vinyl banners mounted on the cans, required approvals and permitting through the city; a prototype was used to navigate the Visual Arts in Public Places (VAIPP) committee and the Architectural Board of Review (ABR). VAIPP provided guidance on the artwork, themes, and color schemes, and

City councilmember Frank Hotchkiss and mayor pro tempore Gregg Hart at the ribbon cutting ceremony on Milpas Street on May 16. The pair were marking the opening of the art installation, “Yes I Can!,” in which artwork from local youth is mounted on trashcans to help beautify the neighborhood.

the ABR gave permission to mount the art for three years, providing guidance on technical aspects. The Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara provided the next round of artwork, led by Carolyn Brown and Calvin Mass, followed by Adelante Charter School, under the tutelage of art teacher Devon Espejo. Adelante Charter principal Juanita Hernandez strongly supported the Yes We Can! project and advocated it before the Santa Barbara City Council, which gave its approval. The project was funded by Santa Barbara Beautiful, the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, and the City of Santa Barbara, through a neighborhood improvement grant awarded by the Neighborhood Advisory Committee. A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place, and the artwork is now mounted on cans along Milpas between Canon Perdido and Ortega Street. The art will be rotated out every six months, and there are more cans to cover. Young artists are invited to provide artwork for future installations of the project. For more information, email info@mcasb. •MJ org or call (805) 636-0475.

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Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center (SBRCC) had one of the sweetest affairs of the year with its seventh annual “Chocolate De Vine” fundraiser. This time it was held at Rincon Events on Santa Claus Lane. Rincon catering is known for their wonderful food and it didn’t disappoint. Besides all the chocolate mélange there was a full buffet dinner and a slider that you could hardly get your mouth around. There was also wine to be tasted. The chocolates were judged by Jessica Foster from Jessica Foster Confections, Indera Mortensen, pastry chef at the Fresco Café and

Chef Pink, who is celebrity chef on Food Network and chef and owner of Bacon & Brine. The winners from about 17 vendors were Best Table Top Presentation to Conways Confection; Outstanding Flavor Chocolate to Renaud’s Patisserie & Bistro; with People’s Choice going to Stafford’s Famous Chocolates. Executive director Elsa Granados introduced Hannah-Beth Jackson, a senator who works hard for SBRCC to end sexual abuse. “The crime of rape and sexual assault just gets bigger. One out of every five college girls will be assaulted.” She is appalled that city colleges cannot legally discipline their students for something they do off campus. She wants health classes in school to teach about relationships. HannaBeth was going to send a protest to the National Football League for giving the Heisman trophy to a player who had been accused of rape by two different women. Erin Weber chaired the event with her committee helping: Kindell Arrington, Kaleen Baker, Yesenia Curiel, Sarah Demchuk, Patricia Guillen, Kaitlin Harris, April Howard, Alma Medina-Figueroa, Roselia Mendez, Angela Sanchez, Tom Storm, and Lindsay Walter. Since 1974, SBRCC has worked to support sexual assault survivors and their loved ones, and to build a community free from sexual violence. For information or help, call 963-6832. They are there for you. •MJ Executive director of Easy Lift and a sponsor of Chocolate De Vine Ernesto Paredes with executive director of SBRCC Elsa Granados and event chair Erin Weber

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The Way It Was

Mar Monte Hotel

by Hattie Beresford

Fred’s conversion of the Plaza Mercantile Building in Atascadero offered a wrap-around golf course, polo, and riding horses (Postcard courtesy of author)

The Rosslyn, the premier hotel in Los Angeles in the 1920s, still stands today after an extensive renovation into low cost housing in downtown (Postcard courtesy author)

t took eight months to build and cost $400,000, a princely sum for 1931, but hotelier Fred Bartholomew finally fulfilled his “dream of a lifetime.” Bartholomew’s hotel “on the beach where Montecito meets Santa Barbara” opened to great fanfare on June 11 with a dinner dance for city dignitaries and managers of other first-class Santa Barbara hostelries. Designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm of Walker & Eisen in Spanish-Colonial Revival style, the hotel boasted 100 rooms with views of the ocean (Mar) or the mountains (Monte). All had private tiled bathrooms and several were suites of two to seven rooms. All linens were of Irish linen dyed in ecru by German craftsmen. All furnishings were made to order; all details, designed to carry out the ideals of comfort and harmony. A roof-top garden featured furniture built of oiled wood with rawhide bottoms and backs. Hall carpets, laid on top of deep padding to deaden the sound, were designed to harmonize with the Spanish atmosphere by resembling ornamental tiles. A tiled map of Alta California greeted visitors in the reception lobby, where two shops were established by local business owners. In the cheerful lounge, traditional Mudéjar designs adorned the beams of the ceiling, and a fringed Spanish shawl was draped artistically over the open lid of the grand piano. A harp occupied the opposite corner near a fireplace that warmed the room on cool days. Comfortable upholstered chairs and couches set in conversational groupings on ornamental rugs, as well as arched windows and wrought iron sconces and candlesticks, continued the Spanish theme. Stairs from the lounge led to the 21 – 28 May 2015

Ms Beresford is a retired English and American history teacher of 30 years in the Santa Barbara School District. She is author of two Noticias, “El Mirasol: From Swan to Albatross” and “Santa Barbara Grocers,” for the Santa Barbara Historical Society.

The lounge of the new Vista Mar Monte Hotel featured comfortable chairs arranged in conversational groupings on imported rugs and a cozy fireplace. Mudejar decorations on the ceiling beams still exist today. (Courtesy John Fritsche)

bery and flowers. With the public invited to the dinner/dance for $5, the opening proved to be a rousing success. “So great was the pressure for places,” reported the Morning Press, “that Manager Bartholomew decided to repeat the opening features on Saturday evening.” The crowded conditions caused

the tango exhibition to be cancelled, but it was to become a regular feature at dinners and lunches, and tango lessons would be offered at the hotel as well. Vic Janssen’s Vista Mar Monte Orchestra was to play on week-

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Vista Mar Monte in the early 1930s boasted the best in food, service, and amenities (Courtesy of John Fritsche)

ornate formal dining room whose square columns were surmounted by Corinthian capitals. Chandeliers provided light and the design of the carved oak furnishings transported diners to an ancient castillo in Spain. Facing the ocean, the hotel embraced an open patio where guests could relax underneath colorful umbrellas or a vine-covered pergola while listening to the burble of a central fountain. Landscapers had planted large olive trees, palms, and ornamental shrubTo write is human, to edit is divine. – Stephen King

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Before the pool, there was a grassy courtyard complete with fountains, lawn chairs, and pergola (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum) Bartholomew hired the best chefs and wait staff from luxury hotels throughout California for his dining room (Courtesy John Fritsche)

ends while Pete Puentes’s Mexican Orchestra played at lunch and dinner during the week. Miss Polly Pleasants provided mellifluous tunes from the harp, sometimes accompanied by a soloist. The success of the grand opening bred a sense of elation, and Fred Bartholomew said, “I know that we are going to be a success with the traveling public… I have no forebodings of failure and every feeling of optimism in opening this new institution in California’s most beautiful city.”

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Fred Bartholomew

Frederick Aaron Bartholomew was born in Ohio in 1874 to John Saunders and Myra Bartholomew. At age six, his family moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota, where his father established a contracting business, a large brickyard and a 200-acre farm. In 1899, John Bartholomew constructed a five-story, 125-room, brick business building known as the Bartholomew Block. In 1903, extensive remodeling transformed it into a hotel called The Antlers. In 1907, after several owners,

Fred Bartholomew became the proprietor of the hotel and renamed it The Frederick. Over the years, Fred made quite a name for himself as an hotelier due, in part, to his flexibility and awareness of current trends in the business. In a 1918 Hotel Monthly, he stated, “The food business is fickle, and we must adjust ourselves to new conditions as often as necessary.” As an example, he revealed that when the café service he initiated stopped prospering, he changed to a cafeteria system. When business again fell off after a few years, he inaugurated a combination coffee-shop grill with a small café annex, which was still thriving. Nineteen-hundred-twenty-two found Fred looking for additional hotel opportunities. He traveled through Southern Texas and New Mexico, predicting that San Antonio might surpass towns in California and Florida as a tourist resort if its attractions were known. Fred didn’t settle on either place; instead, he took a position as assistant manager of the Hotel Rosslyn in Los Angeles. The 1914, 12-story brick Beaux Arts style hotel would complete a 12-story annex across the street in 1923. In a Hotel Monthly article Fred wrote, “Do you know that the house count here every night is over 1000, and the café serves over two thousand a day! Some hotel! I thoroughly enjoy the work.” Benefitting from his experience at the Rosslyn, Fred once more turned his attention to finding another hotel for himself. In 1926, Fred purchased the 1917 La Plaza Mercantile Building in Atascadero, California. Designed as part of the Utopian agrarian community created by Frederick Gardener Lewis in 1913, the building was both a shopping center and a hotel. When Lewis was forced into bankruptcy by his creditors, Fred purchased the structure and remodeled it into the glamorous Atascadero Inn complete with wrap-around golf course, coffee shop, and formal dining room. Later, Fred created the Annex, which still stands today as the newly renovated Carleton Hotel.

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A Hotel for Santa Barbara

Then in 1930, Fred turned his eyes southward. Teaming up with Charles L. Ross and Moreton A. Durkee, Santa Barbara car dealers, as well as Ezra M. Catlett, a realtor with H.G. Chase and Associates, Bartholomew hired Walker & Eisen of Los Angeles to design a firstclass hotel on the waterfront in the Cabrillo Park tract. It was to be called the Arlington Inn, but the citizenry would have none of it. That name belonged to Santa Barbara’s beloved hostelry on State Street, which, built in 1874 had risen phoenix-like from the ashes of a fire in 1909, only to be tumbled to the ground by the 1925 earthquake. “I selected the name Arlington Inn, because, with the construction of the new Fox Theater…, there is no prospect of a new Arlington,” Fred said. He had wanted to perpetuate the Arlington name, but as this idea was unpopular, he invited the public to recommend a name for the hotel. Suggestions such as Al Viso, Buena Vista, La Retiro, La Playa, and Por la Mar poured in with Vista Mar Monte seeming to resonate most soundly. Fred was at the vanguard of those hotel men who saw opportunity in America’s increasing mania for automobile travel. He wanted the Mar Monte to have easy auto access off Cabrillo Boulevard but still provide hotel-like amenities. His guest rooms would have baths or showers and a variety of dining options, so his lodgers would not need to go in search of food outside the hotel. To achieve this, he asked the Santa Barbara City Council to pave Por la Mar Avenue. He agreed to pay half the cost. Much of the land bordering Cabrillo Boulevard between Por la Mar and Corona del Mar avenues was parkland belonging to the city. He wanted permission to cut a portion of this parkland back to the sidewalk so that cars could safely unload passengers and luggage out of the line of traffic. City council did not grant this 21 – 28 May 2015

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Fresh Fish and Succulent Shrimp simmered with tomato, vegies, fresh basil & garlic tossed with Fusilli pasta & topped with shredded Parmesan. In 1937, cottages were added west of the main hotel. Varying in size from two rooms to seven, each had a balcony or patio, and some overlooked the ocean while others had mountain views. (Courtesy John Fritsche)

latter request. Economic times being what they were, Fred knew he had to have a smooth opening. The only way to do this was to surround himself with experienced help. He recruited a staff from the best hotels in the state, drawing, for example, a chef from the Flintridge Biltmore, a maitre d’hotel from the Los Angeles Biltmore, a pastry chef from the Desert Inn in Palm Springs, and a superintendant of service from the Clift hotel in San Francisco. When he opened, his prices were commensurate with or below the local competition. Rooms averaged $5 a night for a single and $8 for a double. Operated on both the European and American plans, the dining room had a la carte service, in addition to table d’hote luncheon at $1.50 and dinner at $2. It was all very reasonable, except for one thing; the Depression was gaining force and fewer and fewer people could spare a dime. By 1935, Fred no longer had control of his hotel, whose name had been shortened to Mar Monte. He ended his career working as the manager of the Plaza Hotel in San Francisco, and he died in Los Angeles in 1942. In 1937, new owners added an 18-unit cottage-style addition to the

In 1937, a guest of the hotel wrote, “This is in front of one of the Hotel Bungalows. I do wish you could be down here in the sunshine and on the beach. Joan Blondell is here; also other celebrities. Last night there was a dinner party given for twins; they were 83 years old. They all helped entertain and the old man, 86 years old, sang the best. Love, Aunt Nelle.”

west, taking up the former gardens. Two separate buildings flanked a pergola. Each complex of rooms had either a patio or a balcony. In 1945, the Mar Monte was used as housing for the Armed Forces Redistribution Center located in the Cabrillo Pavilion. In 1956, the main patio was replaced by its first pool, and the hotel became part of the national Golden Age Club catering to seniors. In 1976, a three-story addition was built to the west, replacing a former vegetable garden and greenhouse/ potting shed. Today, the Hyatt Corporation owns the venerable hotel and, thanks to the leadership of Chris Aldieri, general manager, has recently added a history gallery that features photos of the early days of the hotel as well as old-time Santa Barbara. It is open for viewing by the public.

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appeared in Fawlty Towers and Monty Python’s Flying Circus, is on the hunt for a rural home near the Georgian city of Bath, Somerset, because he says he feels like “a fish out of water” in the British capital. Speaking at a political rally in London, John says he is looking for a property about five miles outside the picturesque city, made famous by novelist Jane Austen, to get more value for money. “Bath is where we want to be. It is our first choice. “My wife has taken to keeping goats, so we will need a garden. I like a bit of garden.” John, who used to own an apartment in the world-famous Royal Crescent, says Bath is his favorite city “in the whole world.” “It is the most beautiful place. As soon as I stepped off the train going back there. I realized what a stunning city it is. I love the people there.” John was born in Somerset, but surprisingly turned down a British life peerage in 2011 and a commander of the British Empire honor in 1996. He cited the fact he’d have to stay in the U.K. in the British winter as the main reason, but also joked, “Why would you accept such a thing?” at the time. Thrill on the Hill

Beverlye Hyman Fead speaks at the Capitol

Montecito author and cancer survivor Beverlye Hyman Fead has one of her most important speaking engagements yet. Beverlye, 80, who in 2012 was diagnosed with Stage IV uteral stromal sarcoma and given two months to live, has been invited to speak On the Hill with a lunch at the Capitol building in Washington on Thursday, May 21, on behalf of the Alliance for Aging Research. “They are bringing my husband, Bob, and I to the capital and putting us up for a few days,” says Beverlye, who has written two award-winning books: I Can Do This: Living With Cancer and Nana: What’s Cancer?, as well as writing an entertaining blog Aging in High Heels, which she intends to make her third tome with editor Joan Tapper, which is due out this fall. “It’s a beautiful time of the year to be there, and the cherry blossoms

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should all be in bloom. My camera is aching to go there with me!” When she returns to our rarefied enclave, Beverlye won’t be taking it easy as she is speaking at the American Cancer Society for the first rally at Diego Rivera High School, combining the efforts of Santa Barbara and Goleta. “I’m busier than ever,” laughs Beverlye. “Life is good. I love to stay involved and pay it forward.” You go girl. One Mel of a Night Veteran comedian. composer, director, and producer Mel Brooks was in more than fine form at a gala dinner for UCSB Arts & Lectures at the Montecito Country Club. The boffo bash, which raised a hefty $385,000 for the popular program, was sponsored by mega philanthropists Leslie Ridley-Tree – who just jetted off with Hiroko Benko to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show in London, which is attended by Queen Elizabeth – and TV producer Marcy Carsey. Brooks, 89, a rare EGOT winner – an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony – has made a host of successful films, including The Producers (turned into a smash Broadway play), Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights, rattled off his Borscht Belt shtick faster than a Gatling gun and soon had the room in stitches, even though the jokes were decades old. Dan Burnham and Eric Sonquist conducted the live auction after a welcome from Miller McCune executive director Celesta Billeci, with lots including VIP seats at the Hollywood Bowl, a mountain vacation in Idaho, a cello signed by legendary Yo-Yo Ma, and a 10-day expedition to the Galapagos, which was snapped up for $17,000. Among the 200 guests turning out for the cause were Robert and Gretchen Lieff, Bob and Val Montgomery, Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Lewis and Genevieve Geyser, Jeff Jacobs, Dolly Granatelli, Meg Burnham, Seymour and Shirley Lehrer, Henry and Dilling Yang, Mike and Anne Towbes, Richard and Annette Caleel, Julian Nott and Anne Luther, Toni Simon, Nancy Koppelman, and Brian King. A funny, fun, and fashionable fete.... Poem Home Heal the Ocean founder Hillary Hauser’s poem, “Ode to Richard”, which appeared in this illustrious organ as one of many laudatory letters published to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Montecito Miscellany, has now found a permanent home. Holly Murphy, who, with her hus-

Coast 2 Coast owner Holly Murphy with Richard Mineards and Hillary Hauser (photo by Priscilla)

band, Bob, owns the La Arcada boutique Coast 2 Coast, has had the poem etched on a silver salver, which was presented to me at the store, with the poet present, last week. “When I read it, I thought Hillary’s ode was so creative, that it should have a permanent home,” says Holly. Tray chic, indeed. Living the Dream Dream Foundation’s 5th annual Flower Empower lunch at a beachside meadow on Padaro Lane owned by Oscar winning actor Kevin Costner and his wife, Christine, was the perfect rustic repast for the colorfully garbed 225 guests and raised around $100,000 for the popular charity, which recently celebrated fulfilling 20,000 dreams since its founding by Thomas Rollerson in 1994. It was a welcome change from last year’s blistering heat, which had invitees fleeing to the air-conditioned bliss of the Coral Casino’s La Pacifica ballroom. Flower Empower delivers more than 150 bouquets a week to hospitals, the homebound and the elderly with 12 local growers donating their wares. “It really is the most beautiful event,” says director Kisa Heyer, “It exemplifies the compassion and energy of our many volunteers.” The fragrant, flower-filled fete, which was again hosted by KEYT-TV personalities, Alan Rose and Shirin Rajaee with Nora McNeely-Hurley as honorary chair, had a tidal wave of bold faced-names, including Christine Costner, Roger and Robin Himovitz, Tammy Hughes, Layla Khashoggi, Bill and Sandi Nicholson, Robyn Parker, Herb and Bui Simon, Nina Terzian, Dick and Noelle Wolf, Debbie Kass, Tristan Layton, JeanMichel and Jill Marie Carre, Jodi Fishman-Osti, Kate Coppola, Janet Garufis, Justine Roddick, Andrew and Ivana Firestone, Eric and Nina Phillips, Pru Sternin, Missy Sheldon, and Ricardo and Dinah Calderon, quaffing Jon Deitelbaum’s Beau Joie champagne with catering by Seasons. A blooming good time for everybody!

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At Your Service

Mary Tonetti Dorra with two young cooks, Monica and Jimena, at the “Cooking Up Dreams” gala at Montecito Country Club (photo by Priscilla)

Community bidders and re-gifting from the Bank of Montecito are Janet Garufis, CEO/president, and Santa Barbara Hutton Parker Foundation executive director Pamela Lewis (photo by Priscilla)

The Family Service Agency’s inaugural Cooking Up Dreams bash at the Montecito Country Club was a sold-out culinary extravaganza featuring 18 top eateries attracting 250 guests and raising a not inconsider21 – 28 May 2015

Family Service Agency Board members Christina Pizarro, Kathy O’Leary, co-president Stephanie Wilson, Mary Harvey, Roberta “Bert” Heter, and honoree Marnie Cooney; (back row) Andrew Wilson, Rod Durham, Bob Manning, co-president; Robin Sawaske, and Sean Whaley (photo by Priscilla)

Congratulating winning chefs are honoree Marni Cooney, sponsor and FSA board; executive chef Avery Hardin of Scarlett Begonia; Meredith Garfarlo, committee chair of KEYT; executive chef Kurt Steeber of Cielito Restaurant; and Melinda Johansson, Family Services Agency development manager (photo by Priscilla)

able $90,000 to help the elderly, at-risk youth, and families. KEYT meteorologist Meredith Garofalo, who was involved with the Big Brothers, Big Sisters program in Florida, chaired the event, while her colleague, the ubiquitous John Palminteri, served as auctioneer selling a signed guitar from Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry and an African safari which went for $5,000, among other lots. “It was an evening of deliciousness that not only tickled at your taste buds, but tugged at your heartstrings,” says Denise Hinkle, director of development. “I think it’s well

on its way to becoming an annual event.” Among the swarm of gourmands attending were sheriff Bill Brown, Marilyn Gevirtz, Silvio DiLoreto, Mary Dorra, and Warren Butler. Silver Sounds Camerata Pacifica turned back the clock when it celebrated the finale of its 25th anniversary season. Flutist founder Adrian Spence had his first concert with the ensemble, then known as the Bach Camerata at the Lobero in December 1990, with the German composer’s popular Brandenburg concertos.

Musicians old and new gather at Hahn Hall to mark the finale of the Camerata Pacifica’s 25th anniversary season (photo by David Bazemore)

Fast-forward a quarter of a century and hundreds of performances later in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ventura, and Santa Barbara, and the Bach concert for the silver anniversary was again on the menu at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall with regular members, including oboist Nicholas Daniel, violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill, and cellist Ani Aznavoorian, and those from the past, including violinist Catherine Leonard, who flew in from Ireland for the sentimental occasion. Making his distinct debut with the chamber music ensemble was harpsichordist Paolo Bordignon. Afterward, the musicians and subscribers drove the short distance to the Santa Barbara Polo Club for an anniversary gala dinner chaired by Leslie Ridley-Tree and cooked by chef and regular supporter Michael Hutchings. All the Bess Santa Barbara Symphony wrapped up its 62nd season with a joint concert at the Granada with JoAnne Wasserman’s SB Choral Society with George Gershwin’s 1930’s southern delight, Porgy and Bess. Soprano Laquita Mitchell, who sang the part of Bess with the San Francisco Opera, and bass-baritone Michael Sumuel, who is off to England’s Glyndebourne Festival Opera in due course, were ideal for their roles, as

maestro Nir Kabaretti, who just signed a new three-year contract with the symphony and celebrates his 10th anniversary in due course, kept his talented musicians in check. San Diego composer Dan Redfeld’s world premiere of his haunting Arioso for oboe, percussion and strings with oboist Lara Wickes, which he wrote after the 2001 World Trade Center tragedy, opened the finale with Howard Hanson’s 1930 work “Romantic” Symphony No. 2 wrapping the first half. Another wonderful evening. Dog Day Afternoon The undoubted highlight of the Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance fire ball was a live feed from Nepal with fireman Eric Grey and his yellow Labrador, Riley, who has been trained as a rescue dog, using its acute sense smell to search out bodies. Handler Eric flew out to the earthquake-stricken country and was about to return when the second quake hit, necessitating a quick U-turn in the dynamic duo’s travel arrangements. The popular event, last held three years ago, attracted 250 guests to the BMW showroom on Hitchcock Way, and raised around $175,000 to buy additional rescue equipment. Since its founding in 2004, the alli-

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anta Barbara isn’t exactly known as a baseball town. Sure, there was a minor league team or two based here for nearly three decades – including a long tenancy by a Single A affiliate in the California League – but the Santa Barbara Dodgers folded up the tent nearly half a century ago in 1967, and the Laguna Ball Park stadium was torn down not long after. Even then, attendance averaged only 225 spectators per game, according to a Wikipedia entry. So it’s understandable that only a few more souls turn out on game days for UCSB baseball at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium, even on the day Dillon Tate pitches. But they should. Because Tate might just be the best athlete ever to set foot on the soil out at UCSB. He’s definitely the school’s first player ever to be in serious consideration as the top selection in Major League Baseball’s amateur draft, which takes place June 8 through June 10. The Claremont, California, native – now 21 – is a fearless competitor in possession of a lethal arm. The right-

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Gauchos’ righthander Dillon Tate, 21, stands and delivers (Photo by Tony Mastres/ UCSB)

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hander has already taken a no-hitter into the seventh inning or beyond twice this year, and while his 8-4 record as of this writing belies his talent level as the Gauchos often don’t hit well when he’s on the mound, his 2.08 ERA (earned-run average) is one of the nation’s best. He has a fastball that often exceeds 95 mph, and a slider and change-up that keeps the hitters off-balance, resulting in a strikeout ratio of more than one batter per inning. Add to that a 6-foot-2 inch, 200pound physique, and the make-up of a much older ballplayer and it’s easy to see why dozens of professional scouts show up every time he takes the mound, aiming their radar guns his way, and shaking their heads when another 97-mph heater smacks the catcher’s mitt or a sneaky fast slider makes a hitter’s knees buckle. Tate was UCSB’s star closer last spring but was stretched out over the fall and winter, and made the rotation due to a teammate’s injury just before the season started in March. Now he’s set to capitalize on that conversion to

a much more valuable role as the draft approaches. Keith Law, ESPN’s baseball scouting guru and a fan, is still touting Tate as a potential pick at the number-one slot, and a sure first-rounder pending an injury or blow-up, having cited the pitcher’s “premium stuff and impressive physicality.” Closer to home, Tom Myers, the area’s scouting supervisor for the Chicago Cubs and a former assistant and associate coach at UCSB, said during a recent Tate outing that the pitcher is everything as advertised. “He’s got a very special arm, plus a four-pitch repertoire, and he’s a very athletic right-hander – and there’s not a lot of them in this year’s draft,” said Myers, who lives on the Mesa. “He’s been showing a lot of control and command – the ability to throw strikes with all his pitches against quality competition, coming up with big pitches in big counts. He has a lot of tools. It’s major-league stuff.” Andrew Checketts, the UCSB baseball coach who recruited Tate to the seaside campus three years ago, has also been mightily impressed. “He’s definitely got a big league arm,” said Checketts, who coached current Red Sox pitcher Joe Kelly at UC Riverside several years ago. “We thought from Day One when he came in here that he would throw very hard. The stuff that’s developed for him is the ability to throw off-speed pitches for strikes and do all the things that have turned him into a complete pitcher.” Indeed, the only one who isn’t singing Tate’s praises is the pitcher himself, who keeps his head down and

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speaks with the soft voice and quiet demeanor of a man going about his work, not a teenager about to potentially earn a multi-million dollar paycheck who is being heaped with praise all over baseball and sports websites. “I don’t read anything about me on the Internet. That helps a whole lot,” Tate said as he ambled out back onto the field after a game in early April, where before being interrupted by a reporter he was about to help rebuild the landing spot next to the pitching rubber where his cleats has dug out a hole – the kind of duty you can be sure he’ll be relieved of a few months from now after signing a pro contract. “I don’t seek out anything. The only thing I look at is footage of me throwing to learn what I can. What keeps me focused is knowing that I still have a job to do. I just want to go out and win the game with my buddies.” It’s his intense focus and ability to bear down that has added to Tate’s cachet as a pitcher well beyond most of his peers in maturity, and what the professionals call “makeup.” Even when errors have put his team in a whole and a loss is imminent, Tate just fires another fastball or slings a slider past another batter. “I just need to keep a clear head and not quit when I’m out there,” he said. “When stuff goes sideways offensively or defensively, it’s my job to stay focused and keep attacking the hitters. I stay away from thinking ‘I have to do this or that.’ You want to think as little as possible when you’re on the mound. Just focus up and fire the ball. ” 21 – 28 May 2015

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Tate does ‘fess up to a pre-game routine that would seem out of character elsewhere: he listens to high-energy rap or hip-hop to amp up the intensity. “I’m a different person off the mound, so I need that extra little boost before I come out here,” he explained. “So it’s got to be something very aggressive to get in the right mindset.” Still, Tate is aware that his life will almost certainly change drastically by the end of June, when the team that drafts him offers seven figures to ink him to his first pro contract. Has it sunk in? “Not to that extent,” he said. “I’m just having a good time coming out

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here and playing baseball, because that won’t last forever. I just try to hold on to the days I do have and try to make the most of them.” We, too, should be savoring those precious few days to see Tate pitch locally before he likely rockets to the big leagues far from Santa Barbara. Visit www.ucsbgauchos.com for tickets and information.

Cagers’ Cream of the Crop

The Santa Barbara Basketball Court of Champions have announced their new inductees for 2015. Willie Wilton, UC Santa Barbara’s first-ever head coach (1937-57),

along with his star center, Lowell Steward (1939-42) top the list which also includes longtime resident Sam Battistone Jr. who founded/owned the New Orlean/Utah Jazz of the NBA; legendary Santa Barbara City College coach Frank Carbajal; Los Angeles Lakers coach Jim Eyen; Los Angeles Lakers player/writer Jay Carty; and Santa Barbara High School coach Gene Snyder, who also played for the UCSB Gauchos and the Santa Maria Dukes professional team; former Gaucho, Cori Close, who is now the head women’s coach at UCLA, and her 1989-92 era teammate, Barb Beainy. Also named were Westmont College’s longtime coach Chet Kammerer; former assistant

coach Randy Pfund, who later served as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers; sports movie writer/director Ron Shelton (White Men Can’t Jump, Blue Chips, Tin Cup, Bull Durham, Ty Cobb); and All-American player Tugce Canitez, who led the lady Warriors to the 2013 NAIA National Championship crown. High schools are represented with Jon Korfas, Doug Little, and Gerry Karczewski of San Marcos, and Bruce Coldren of Dos Pueblos. All of the inductees are expected to be present on Sunday, May 31, for the ceremony at the Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort. Contact Curt Pickering at 969-7542 for details and tickets. •MJ

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ORDINANCE NO. 5693 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING SECTION 14.32.040 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROHIBIT PRIVATE WELL CONSTRUCTION ON PROPERTIES SERVED BY THE CITY'S WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND TO REPEAL SECTION 14.32.115 PERTAINING TO EMERGENCIES The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on May 12, 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.

RESOLUTION NO. 15-035 A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA DECLARING COUNCIL’S INTENTION TO LEVY PARKING AND BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT AREA ASSESSMENT RATES FOR THE 2016 FISCAL YEAR AT A PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD ON JUNE 9, 2015, AT 2:00 P.M. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 36534 California Streets and Highways Code, it is the intention of the Council of the City of Santa Barbara to conduct a public hearing to determine whether to fix and assess a Fiscal Year 2016 Downtown Parking and Business Improvement Area (hereinafter referred to as PBIA), as such benefit assessment area has been established by Chapter 4.37 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code, adopted on September 10, 1991; WHEREAS, upon the completion of a public hearing, it shall be the intention of the City Council to Levy and Collect a benefit assessment within the PBIA as that area is described in the Final Engineer’s Report, approved by the City Council on October 5, 1999, and in the 1999 PBIA Area Map, on file with the City Clerk of the City of Santa Barbara; WHEREAS, for Fiscal Year 2016, the improvements and activities to be provided shall consist of a transfer to the City’s Transportation Division, which shall be exclusively used to support the maintenance of the low hourly parking rates to all persons who park automobiles within the City-owned or operated hourly public parking lots within the PBIA area; and WHEREAS, a more detailed description of the improvements and activities to be provided to the Downtown area of Santa Barbara and the benefit to the assessed businesses may be found in the Final Engineer’s Report, the Addendum to the Final Engineer’s Report of Formula and Methodology of Assessments dated April 7, 2010, and the 2016 PBIA Annual Assessment Report (hereinafter referred to as Annual Report, attached as Exhibit), which was reviewed and approved by the City’s Downtown Parking Committee, serving as the PBIA Advisory Board, as required by Section 4.37.145 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code, and which Annual Report is on file with the City Clerk and available for review or copying by the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA:

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/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5693 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on May 5, 2015, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

SECTION 1. It is the intention of the City Council to levy and collect assessments with the PBIA for the Fiscal Year of 2016, within the boundaries of the PBIA, as such boundaries were established upon the enactment of Chapter 4.37 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code on September 10, 1991, as amended by the City Ordinance No. 5126, adopted October 5, 1999, and by the approval of the related map on file with the City Clerk. It is also the City Council’s intention to confirm the method and basis of assessment as established by the City Council upon the enactment of Santa Barbara Municipal Code Chapter 4.37, and as described in the Annual Report. SECTION 2. The proposed improvements and activities to be provided within the Downtown PBIA for Fiscal Year 2016 will consist of a subsidy of a free parking period of 75 minutes, and the maintenance of the low hourly parking rates for those persons using the City’s Downtown public off-street parking facilities, as more fully described in the Annual Report. The actual assessments to be levied and collected are described in more detail in the Final Engineer’s Report, approved by the City Council on October 5, 1999, and the Addendum to the Final Engineer’s Report of Formula and Methodology of Assessments, approved by the City Council on May 25, 2010. SECTION 3. Time and place for the public hearing to consider the intention of the City Council shall be during the 2:00 p.m. session of the Council’s regularly scheduled meeting of June 9, 2015, in the City Council Chambers, located at the Santa Barbara City Hall. SECTION 4. Written and oral protests to the proposed 2016 Downtown PBIA Annual Assessments, as described in the Annual Report, may be made at the above-described public hearing, provided that such protests are in the form and manner required by Sections 36524 and 36525 of the California Streets and Highways Code. SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall give notice of the above-described public hearing by causing a copy of this resolution of intention to be published in a newspaper or general circulation in the City, no less than seven (7) days prior to June 9, 2015. RESOLUTION NO. 15-035

May 12, 2015, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

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

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA

NOES:

None

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) ) ss. ) )

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on May 12, 2015, by the following roll call vote:

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on May 13, 2015. /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

AYES:

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

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

Councilmember Randy Rowse

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on May 12, 2015.

May 13, 2015. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing resolution on May 12, 2015.

Published May 20, 2015 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Avotea, Avoteas, The Avocado Tea Company, 2624 Borton Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Andrew Quine, 2624 Borton Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 13, 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

/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2015-0001534. Published May 20, 27, June 3, 10, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mr. Bones Productions, 1422 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93109-2065. Dayton B. Howe, 1422 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93109-2065. Melodie Johnson Howe, 1422 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93109-2065. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of

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Santa Barbara County on May 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 Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0001469. Published May 20, 27, June 3, 10, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Studio Milagros, 3601 San Jose Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Donna Taylor, 3601 San Jose Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. William Taylor, 3601 San Jose Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the

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County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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 Miriam Leon. FBN No. 2015-0001505. Published May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Blu Clean, 4088 Via Zorro #A, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Idolina Guinto, 4088 Via Zorro #A, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 22, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the

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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. 2015-0001317. Published May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Valovi, 6788 Abrego Apt 1, Isla Vista, CA 93117. Justin Richard, 6788 Abrego Apt 1, Isla Vista, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 16, 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 Jessica Sheaff. FBN No. 2015-0001251. Published May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Vastola Electric, 815 Palermo Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Wire Bender Inc, 815 Palermo Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 4, 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. 2015-0001434. Published May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Shivall, 4518 Nueces Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Eshida Bisset, 21609 P.C.H. Malibu, CA 90265. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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 Miriam Leon. FBN No. 2015-0001472. Published May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Grato SB, 550 N. La Cumbre, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Ashley Chanel White, 550 N. La Cumbre, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 13, 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. 2015-0001188. Published May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rincon Publishing, 1419 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Willard Thompson, 1419 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 23, 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. 2015-0001342. Published May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015. 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

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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 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 No. 2015-0001119. Published April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Larry’s Small Engine Repair, 916 N. Broadway Suite D, Santa Maria, CA 93454. Larry Bui, 1115 River Birch Ct., Santa Maria, CA 93454. 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 Mayra Andrade. FBN No. 2015-0001263. Published April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2015. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV00566. To all interested parties: Petitioner Joanna Lorraine Emma filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Lauren Emma. 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 27, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 24, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 5/13, 5/20, 5/27, 6/3 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV00562. To all interested parties: Petitioner Alondra Moreno filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Alondra Silva Capuchino. 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

24, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 24, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 5/13, 5/20, 5/27, 6/3 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV00368. To all interested parties: Petitioner Scott McBeth filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Abby Marie Donahue to Abby Marie McBeth. 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 24, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 5/13, 5/20, 5/27, 6/3 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV00014. 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: June 23, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 5/13, 5/20, 5/27, 6/3 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV00338. 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 24, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 5/13, 5/20, 5/27, 6/3 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV00151. 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

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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 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 5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27

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THURSDAY, MAY 21 Savoring SOhO – The restaurant and music club has already had a bunch of benefits for its own coffers in the first half of the year, and now that some of the funds have been spent on important upgrades, everyone is invited to come take a look and enjoy the spoils. First and foremost, the club has installed a new, larger stage featuring a bunch of those new smart LED lights, so sight lines will be much improved. Other accoutrements include a new lounge area with cozy couches and chairs, a retrofitted room in the back that can also serve as either a lounge or a band room for larger groups that don’t fit in the small green room, which, by the way, has also been upgraded. Finally, there’s new flooring and paint in the joint. Tonight’s soirée features complimentary passed appetizers and live music with old-favorite the Luis Munoz Trio, featuring familiar and adventurous tunes from the keyboardist/percussionist. WHEN: 7-9 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: free INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com Launching Talent – Award-winning playwright Yussef El Guindi’s new work, The Talented Ones, is a black comedy that examines the thwarted dreams of an immigrant couple who are eager to make it in their adopted country. The piece is the latest work to take part in UCSB Theater’s Launch Pad, which offers professional playwrights

the opportunity to be in residence while fully producing a new original work with faculty members, guest artists, and students. In Talented, Omar and Cindy’s notions of success and failure become both challenging and lethal as they take on the fabled American Dream. Omar is falling down in his attempts to make a success of his life, while his wife, Cindy, appears to be doing much better, and is becoming increasingly frustrated by Omar’s struggles. His American friend, Patrick, may be Cindy’s way out. Mixing realism with memory and dance, The Talented Ones dissects with increasing ferocity this couple’s marriage and aspirations. El Guindi – whose Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World received the Steinberg/ American Theater Critics Association’s 2012 New Play Award while his latest work, Threesome, is moving to OffBroadway this spring – has continued to rewrite and tweak the play even as the actors are in rehearsal. UCSB Theatre Department head Risa Brainin, El Guindi’s old friend from college, directs. WHEN: 8 pm Thursday, Friday & Saturday, tonight–May 30, plus special 2 pm matinee on Saturday, May 30 WHERE: UCSB Performing Arts Theater COST: $17 general, $13 students & seniors INFO: 893-7221 or www. theaterdance.ucsb.edu FRIDAY, MAY 22 EDN at 10 – Everybody Dance Now (EDN) celebrates the launch of its 10-year anniversary with a benefit

THURSDAY, MAY 21 Moon-shot & Magic – The Magic Castle – the Hollywood institution founded and still run by longtime Santa Barbara resident Milt Larsen – is offering two points of view on the marvels of magic at the Plaza tonight. First up is John Carney’s live magic theater show, featuring the magician who has won more awards from Hollywood’s Academy of Magical Arts (that’s the Magic Castle’s formal name) than anyone in their history. His show amazes, charms, and delights as he blends mindblowing sleight of hand with comedic bits showing intelligence, taste and wit. After the live show, sit back and relax for a rare chance to see the classic short film A Trip to the Moon on the big screen. Directed, produced, written by, and starring magician Georges Méliès the 1902 film features special effects that quickly captivated moviegoers and proved to have a more lasting effect. In its day, when even the idea of moving images was still a new and even peculiar idea, the short film astounded audiences. While the 13-minute production might seem a bit primitive to modern audiences, the film’s immense charm and wit haven’t aged at all, making it a favorite even 113 years later. WHEN: 8 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $35 INFO: 684-6380 or www. plazatheatercarpinteria.com

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SATURDAY, MAY 23 Getting Down and Dirty – Many a folk have oft-noted that The Dirty Knobs – the side project of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers lead guitarist Mike Campbell – could be true rock ‘n’ roll contenders for stardom on their own if only Campbell wanted to go that route. Instead, the masterful player keeps the Knobs as his showcase and fun space for playing the music he loves, a classic-rock driven outfit that can rock your socks off halfway through the night. Although his solos and other ax-work rivals any of the big name guitarists in rock history, Campbell doesn’t hit the road often with the Dirty Knobs, partly due to his duties with Petty, but also out of a desire to live in relative anonymity by sticking to smaller venues around the perimeters of L.A. Thank heavens SOhO has been on his list for more than a decade. WHEN: 9:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 in advance, $18 at door INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

featuring drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and live music, plus the opportunity to hear about the vision for the milestone year ahead. Immediately after the gala, EDN! presents its spring recital, with performances by students and local Santa Barbara dance troupes in the large ballroom at the Carrillo Recreation Center. WHEN: 5:45 pm WHERE: 100 E. Carrillo St. COST: $25 (recital tickets included in gala price, or sold separately for $10 adults, $5 children) INFO: 573-286-4749 or www.everybodydancenow.org

region, including nearly every major showcase space for art in town. The museum also has arranged two related programs: Sketching in the Galleries: The Landscapes of Ray Strong on May 28; and a special “Twilight Landscapes” sketching event inspired by Strong’s “Twilight, Mt. Hood” at Family 1st Thursday on June 4; WHEN: today through June 21 WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: free with regular museum admission INFO: 963-4364 or www.sbma.net (also see www.theraystrongproject.com)

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CanTEEN! Art, Music, & Mocktails – Teens take over Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara tonight to celebrate the Teen Insiders Project 2014-15. The youths are invited to check out the current exhibition, Teen Paranormal Romance, which explores the recent popularity of the literary genre characterized by romantic love with elements of fantasy, science fiction, and horror – artists Kathryn Andrews, Ed Atkins, Chris Bradley, Roe Ethridge, Jill Frank, Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Guyton\ Walker, Anna K.E., and Jack Lavender allude to contemporary notions of escapism, dystopia, and angst. At the same time, the teens will be able to listen to some sick beats (they know what that means) and sip a signature “mocktail.” Meanwhile, the special interactive teen bedroom installation offers visitors a chance to share a secret, dress up for a #paranormalselfie, and watch a short movie by the teen insiders. Refreshments are part of the deal. Make sure to bring your school ID for chances to win door prizes. The event is hosted by the MCASB Teen

Strong Enough – Ray Strong: Beyond Santa Barbara highlights a selection of works by the esteemed Santa Barbara artist Ray Strong (1905–2006) from the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA). The intimate presentation of six paintings and drawings features landscapes and cityscapes produced outside of the local area created during a 45-year period, offering a view of Strong’s travels and his lifelong interest in depicting the environment around him. Strong moved to Santa Barbara in 1960 and quickly became a local institution as he was soon commissioned to paint background settings for the dioramas in the Bird Hall at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, and later he co-founded The Oak Group. The SBMA installation is organized in conjunction with The Ray Strong Project, an initiative of Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery, which includes a series of events and exhibitions coalescing next month at museums and galleries around the

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SATURDAY, MAY 23 Art Along the Creek – More than 200 works of art will be on exhibit and for sale this weekend just a block away from the Mission, where I Madonnari street painting festival takes place every Memorial Day weekend. The contributors are nearly 150 members of Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment (SCAPE), who are known primarily for top quality plein-air landscapes, making this show held outdoors along Mission Creek across from Rocky Nook Park a true marriage of media and message. This year’s honored artist is Don Crocker, one of SCAPE’s founding members, who has a fondness of twilight and nocturnal landscapes. The event also features live music from a variety of small bands – including Glendessary Jam, Cool and the Twang, and The Honeysuckle Possums – who perform nestled in the woods alongside the artwork for the annual juried art show now in its eighth year. Visitors will find a wide range of art styles for sale, including landscapes, still life, portraits and figurative art, along with contemporary, surreal, and abstract works. This is also the second year for “Bite Sized Art”, featuring 8-by-8-inch canvases that retail for $95. Forty percent of each purchase supports the creek restoration project of Phoenix, a nonprofit residential mental health and addiction treatment agency. More than $150,000 has been donated over the years. WHEN: 2-6 pm today, 11 am – 6 pm tomorrow & Monday WHERE: 37 Mountain Drive COST: free INFO: 687-7123 or www.s-c-a-p-e.org

Arts Council, a museum advisory group that aims to make contemporary art and culture more accessible to local youth. WHEN: 5:30 - 7:30 pm WHERE: 653 Paseo Nuevo COST: free INFO: 966-5373 or www. mcasantabarbara.org MONDAY, MAY 25 Bach by Candlelight – Who knew if you didn’t call your series Basically Bach that you could still engage in a little alliteration as long as your programming choices are clever? The 33rd annual Candlelight Concert conducted by Christopher Story VI features the Coffee Cantata, composed for a collegium of musicians Bach conducted regularly at a Leipzig coffee house. The work – which pokes

fun at the craze in Europe at the time for the new beverage – comes from the West Coast Chamber Orchestra with featured soloists Dr. Michael Shasberger, baritone (who will also conduct other works at the concert); Emmalee Wetzel, soprano; Sheridon Stokes, flute; and Dr. Grey Brothers, tenor. Also on the program are Bach’s Air on the G String, selections from Telemann’s Suite in A Minor for Flute and Orchestra with flutist Andrea Di Maggio, and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 with Stokes, Di Maggio, and violinist Tamsen Beseke serving as soloists. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: First United Methodist Church, 305 East Anapamu Street COST: $10-$25 INFO: 9634408 or www.CieloPerformingArts. org •MJ

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 37) Santa Barbrara Firefighters Alliance co-founders showing their continued community support are Jo Sadecki, Betty Stephens, and Joi Stephens (photo by Priscilla)

Welcoming the author at Union Bank’s reception are Susan Aberle, George Leis, host and Union Bank’s regional president; Larry Gosselin, author of Unshadowed Light; with Greg Gorga, and Alexandra Freres, 2015 Spirit of Fiesta (photo by Priscilla)

Before the auction biddings at the Santa Barbara Auto Group courtyard are Eric Peterson, Santa Barbara County fire chief; Paul Cashman, Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance president; Andrew Firestone, auctionee; and Patrick McElroy, Santa Barbara City Fire chief (photo by Priscilla)

Speaking about the book are Mary Kay Fry, photographer; Emiliano Campobello, Native American flautist; and Miki Landseadel, editor (photo by Priscilla)

Among those supporting the cause were Chris and Mindy Denson, Betty Stephens and Lindsay Fisher, sheriff Bill Brown, Lana Marmé, Joyce Dudley, Das Williams, Suzanne Perkins, Meredith Garofalo, Mike Eliason, and Roger and Debbie Aceves....

Ready to dance are Robert Mislang, Bari Brossard, Shirin Rajaee, John Dixon, Marilyn Madrinan, and Michelle Meyerling (photo by Priscilla)

Light My Friar Franciscan friar Larry Gosselin is now working on his third tome. His new 138-page Unshadowed Light, following his debut work “Hidden Sweetness,” features a selection of poems inspired by St. Clare of Assisi, one of the first followers of the more famous St. Francis.

Her order was later named the Poor Clares in her honor. The affable monk is now finishing off Weaving Quest, in which he compares Franciscan doctrine and that of Sufism, a branch of Islamic mysticism. To mark the debut of Unshadowed Light, George Leis, an executive at Union Bank, hosted a reception on the private banking arm’s rooftop for friends and fans, including Randy Weiss, Greg Gorga, Barbara Burger, Cas Stimson, Maria Long, and Felicia Sutherland. Larry read selections of the poetry to the soothing flute accompaniment of musician Emiliano Campobello.

Firefighter recruits and their captain after serving up a “hot” dinner: Jeremy Camacho, Giannis Griggos, Captain Howard Orr, K9 Riley with Dan Rasper, and Vinnie Agapito (photo by Priscilla)

ance has raised a total of $1.2 million for safety and firefighting equipment, including night vision goggles, hand-held global positioning systems, weather monitors, rescue canine support vehicles, and fire curtains, which provide refuge for firefighters trapped and engulfed by flames.

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The ubiquitous Andrew Firestone emceed the event, which included demonstrations of an arson dog at work and firefighters using the hydraulic jaws of life. Paul Cashman was committee chair, with fire chiefs Pat McElroy and Eric Petersen as advisors.

Gathered to hear readings from Unshadowed Light by author Larry Gosselin are attendees Roger Aceves, Peter McDougal, Debbie Aceves, Sal Cisneros, and Jim Crook (photo by Priscilla)

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Dynamic Duo CAMA’s Masterseries also wrapped up its season at the Lobero with the internationally renowned TetzlaffVogt Duo, masters of the German sound. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff, making his fourth CAMA visit to our tony town, and pianist Lars Vogt played a solid selection of Mozart, Webern, and Brahms, but it was with Bela Bartok’s sonata for violin and piano No. 1 that Tetzlaff soared to new heights with his intense and frenzied playing, and Vogt pounding the keys in equal measure, with beads of sweat pouring from both performer’s brows. As an encore, the dynamic duo played Dvorak’s Sonatina in G major, featuring fiery folk dance rhythms. Higher Quire Nathan Kreitzer’s Quire of Voyces was in its usual fine form with its latest concert, Songs of Remembrance, at St. Anthony’s Chapel. Featuring 16th-century religious works by Tomas Luis de Victoria and Gregorio Allegri, the two-hour concert was superlative.

Quire of Voyces music director Nathan Kreitzer

Just 48 hours earlier, the talented choristers performed at Montecito’s Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel for the socially gridlocked funeral of noted art historian Lynn Matteson, husband of the Journal’s bridle correspondent Lynn Kirst. Next year, the musicians have been invited to participate in the 70th anniversary celebrations of the esteemed Llangollen International Music Festival in Wales. “It’s a great honor to be asked,” says Nathan. “Competitors from more than 50 countries will perform during the one-week musical extravaganza.” Keeping Track Author Leo Downey, who used to live in our Eden by the Beach in the late 70s as a member of a rock band, has just written his first book, Soultracker – Following Beauty, which

Leo Downey and his first book

tracks him through the wilderness and the world. “It’s about Heaven and Earth, and our survival skills and a prophecy of a future that’s here,” Leo, who now lives on the Rocky Mountain Buffalo Ranch in Golden, British Columbia. told me at a bijou book bash at Tecolote in the upper village. “I grew up in Iceland and Singapore. I lived the life of a nomad sleeping on the ground and under the open sky for three years in the Sierra Madre Mountains. I started guiding people on ‘vision quests’ and earned my wilderness guide license, as well as volunteering on the California Condor Recovery Project. “I love the freedom I’ve had and have even more in British Columbia.” Piping up Galician bagpipes aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but there was quite a turnout at UCSB’s Campbell Hall when the Cristina Pato Quartet performed as part of the popular Arts & Lectures series. The 90-minute intermission-free show, featuring an accordion, double bass, and drums, linked many of the world’s cultures, from the origins of Latin languages in Europe to the music of Afro-Spanish South America. For Pato, finding the connections between these diverse cultures has helped her to find her own more positive meaning to the eclectic styles of music. An accomplished classical pianist, she is also a founding member of the Silk Road Ensemble Leadership Council, collaborating closely on programming at Harvard University, where the ensemble is in residence.

Cristina Pato exhibits international flair (photo by Erin Baiano)

Sightings: Actor Ashton Kutcher with wife, Mila Kunis, and eightmonth-old daughter, Wyatt Isabelle, strolling in Carpinteria...TV chef Anthony Bourdain at The Lark in the Funk Zone...The Interview actor Charles Rahi Chun at the Santa Barbara Polo Club Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings, and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call •MJ 969-3301.

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