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London Symphony Orchestra visits Music Academy of the West’s Miraflores campus to perform three programs July 12-14, p. 16

Sauntering Through Saddlerock

Take a leisurely hike with stops for wine tasting and visiting with Stanley the giraffe at Malibu Family Wines, one hour south of Montecito, p. 18

Artist and gallerist Bobbi Bennett launches new and unique surfboard art at Allora

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Village Fourth

Montecito Association pulls off another fun, family-filled 4th of July parade and barbeque, p. 34

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Guest Editorial

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Montecito Miscellany

Last week’s earthquakes serve as a good reminder to be prepared for the future

Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter dines at Lucky’s; Family Fun Day at Gehache Ranch; Jeremy Denk impresses at MAW; The Eco-Challenge; Kinsey Trolley Tour, Talk and Treats; Michael Hutchings’ new cooking show; Rescue Mission barbecue; watching fireworks from Roger Chrisman’s boat; Gwyneth Paltrow pigs out on pasta; Princess Diana’s sweatshirt auctioned; Franco Zeffirelli passes; sightings

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Letters to the Editor

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This Week in Montecito

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Tide Chart Village Beat

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Seen Around Town

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Music Academy of the West

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Santa Barbara in a Glass

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Our Town

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Spirituality Matters

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Brilliant Thoughts

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On Entertainment

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Open House Directory Legal Advertising Coming & Going

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Village Fourth

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Calendar of Events

A collection of communications from readers Penelope Bianchi, Judy Pearce, C. L. Buergey, Sanderson M. Smith, Ed Dewey, Lee Artman, Ray Winn, Thomas Van Stein, and David S. McCalmont

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A list of local events happening in and around town

Greg Bartholomew represented the seller of this light industrial property consisting of three structures in Santa Barbara’s vibrant Laguna District. The listing received multiple offers.

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Montecito Association discusses earthquake preparedness and insurance; Bobbi Bennett launches surf art; local pet volunteer honored Garden Club of Santa Barbara unveils Arizona Garden at Casa del Herrero; Santa Barbara Club hosts Gaviota Coast Conservancy Kathryn McDowell provides insight into London Symphony Orchestra’s four-year partnership with Music Academy of the West; summer festival events happening this week

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“Creative Self-Discovery” four-week series; Dream Tending workshop; SBMA meditation and mindfulness experience Ashleigh Brilliant examines how matches have influenced history UCSB Arts & Lectures and Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture’s annual summer film series at Courthouse Sunken Gardens; SBIFF’s The Wave film festival

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This year marked the 24th Annual Village Fourth parade and barbeque

Concerts in the Park kicks off; Obi Kaufmann signs book; SBCC presents How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying; 31st annual Santa Barbara French Festival; Ted Nash at SBMA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s monthly Studio Sunday; Rosemary Butler sings at SOhO; Music at the Ranch; Michael Long exhibit opening; Newsies at Granada

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Guest Editorial

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

Waiting for the Big One

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ontecito received a warning last week from two of California’s biggest earthquakes in the last 20 years, a 6.4 magnitude quake last Thursday on the 4th of July, followed by a 7.1 magnitude shake and quake 34 hours later at 8 pm Friday evening. Both quakes originated in the Mojave high-desert region near Ridgecrest, a four-hour, 209-mile drive from Montecito.

Ridgefield is a small town, three times the size of Montecito, 110 miles east of Bakersfield, sitting between four mountain ranges – the Sierra Nevada Range to its west, the Cosos Range to the north, the Argus Range to the east, and the El Paso Mountains to the south.

Damage in Ridgecrest and nearby Trona was light, limited to motor homes knocked off their foundations, four gas fires and collapsed chimneys, but few injuries and no deaths. Floors were littered with fallen ceiling tiles and debris. The Naval Air Station at nearby China Lake was shut down rendering it “not mission capable.” Here in Montecito, the tremor and swaying led to the interruption and cancellation of the evening performance at the local Music Academy of the West. Officials halted the performance at Hahn Hall with orders to clear the venue. The Padres game at Dodger Stadium was interrupted in the fourth inning, but not suspended. Disneyland in Orange County closed its rides; the Big Apple Coaster swayed in Las Vegas.

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Royal Diners at Lucky’s

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ucky’s, the achingly popular nosheteria on Coast Village Road, is now By Royal Appointment!

Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter, Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York, the 30-year-old daughter of Her Majesty’s second son, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, dined at the popular steakhouse with her billionaire beau Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 35, I can exclusively reveal.

The tony twosome were eating with two friends, and apparently without security, at a large round table on the eatery’s patio.

“No one seemed to recognize her,” says fellow Brit and polo fan Nigel Gallimore. “I told the managers who she was and put them in the picture, but they didn’t ask for special treatment.”

Mozzi’s stepfather was Christopher Shale, an old prep school classmate of mine and a friend of former British Prime Minister David Cameron, who died suddenly in 2011. Beatrice, ninth in line to the British throne, and her parents attended Christopher’s funeral.

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

East Valley Road to Perdition

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am astonished to be writing again about the Ennisbrook Owner’s Association and their unwillingness to fulfill their responsibilities to us as members and residents.

Ennisbrook owns our entire road. It starts at East Valley Road, and continues past ten properties and the four Ennisbrook members are the last four properties. We are the end of the culde-sac.

Their behavior after a disaster of this magnitude is disappointing and beyond hurtful. We have been dues-paying members for 23 years, building our house and moving in 20 years ago. We are the only house occupied and standing of the four houses.

The others have been torn down, or will be.

When all four of these Ennisbrook houses were built, there was a brand new, lovely landscaped road, which was not damaged when they were built using the road for all construction.

Ennisbrook has refused to repair the massive damage to our road from the mudslide. The road is dangerous to walkers and bicyclists, and beyond unsightly. The curbs and landscaping were destroyed, and there are massive potholes. They insist that “reconstruction” will damage the new road. They also insist the ten houses above the four members’ houses must contribute to its repair. Those houses have lived on this road for over 30 years, with Ennisbrook maintaining it and repairing it with no charge to their houses. They were assured when Ennisbrook was built by the developer, Jack Theimer, that this was always going to be the case.

Ennisbrook has been paid by their insurance, and by the assessments to its members for the cost to fix this road (all four of us Ennisbrook homeowners were also assessed). They continue to delay. We were promised they would begin June 19. Then it was cancelled. They refuse to give us a date,

and continue to refer to the potential damage from rebuilding, and the neighbors having to pay toward the repair.

We are being held hostage, while they are trying to make the neighbors pay. None of the owners whose houses were destroyed have plans at this time to rebuild. I am sure it will be years.

We are living at the end of a dangerous and unsightly road, which was once a beautiful lane. It is sickening.

The Board says it has “a fiduciary responsibility to our members not to waste money on rebuilding a road that could be damaged.”

Excuse me?

What about their responsibility to us? Members for 23 years. We are still paying dues, as are the other three members not able to live here. Their property values have been further damaged by the deplorable condition of the road.

Our enjoyment of our restored property is also negatively affected. It’s like driving through Syria to get home. I think there is no reasonable excuse for their continued treatment of us. From the first day of the disaster to now, 17 months later. It is a disgrace.

Penelope Bianchi Montecito

Yet Another Genius On Wednesday, July 3, I was a member of a sold-out audience at the Music Academy of the West that witnessed another genius at work. The last time I wrote to the Journal was after Jerome Lowenthal’s solo piano recital last year. I acknowledged that I was not an expert, but I thought he was a genius.

Well, now I think MAW has another genius. Judging from the fact that the audience gave Jeremy Denk a very lengthy standing ovation, many

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The Spirit of the Fiesta!

Moody Musing In your Issue # 25/24, there was a count of Moody cottages remaining; I wonder if the one on TV Hill in Santa Barbara was included. During the Coast Highway widening of the 1940s, my aunt and uncle, Helen and Clifford Jameson, moved a two-bedroom Moody Cottage from Posilipo Lane to their property on North Jameson Lane (a stone’s throw west of San Ysidro Road). When the highway was widened to become a freeway in the 1950s, the little house was once again in the way of expansion.

Some years ago, my aunt and uncle’s Moody cottage, now on TV Hill in Santa Barbara, was featured in an article in the News-Press. I called the owner who only knew his home had been moved from Montecito. He was pleasantly grateful to learn some history of his cottage; it had originally been on Posilipo Lane and, during the years of WWII, had been a “red light” house. There was a military camp on Fernald Point to watch for submarines

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agreed with me. We were rewarded with an encore of a wonderful jazzy ragtime variation on a classical theme.

He gave no attribution, but played with such joy that I felt Mr. Denk composed the variation himself.

The concert featured some of the most difficult piano pieces ever written. All played by a virtuoso in total command of his instrument and who – of equal importance – was able to bring the audience along with him on a wonderful ride.

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This Week in and around Montecito

SUNDAY, JULY 21

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, JULY 11 Garden Storytime at Upper Manning Park Come out to play at Upper Manning Park! Library staff will lead outdoor storytime and crafts. Explore Ecology staff will provide hands-on environmental education lessons focusing on nature and nutrition.

Enjoy the beautiful setting and play structure with friends, old and new.

Get some fresh air and join in the Montecito Library’s Summer Reading Program.

When: 10:30 am Where: Upper Manning Park off San Ysidro Road Info: 969-5063 MERRAG Meeting and Training Network of trained volunteers that work and/or live in the Montecito area prepare to respond to community disaster during critical first 72 hours following an event. The mutual “selfhelp” organization serves Montecito’s 13,000 residents with the guidance and support of the Montecito Fire, Water and Sanitary Districts. This month, Light Search & Rescue.

When: 10 am to noon Where: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-2537 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: the Highway 101 HOV project; a new home on Humphrey Road; an addition, new pool, and trellis on Olive Mill Lane; a new home and other improvements on Alston Road; an addition on Hot Springs Road, and many

other items.

When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. This month’s poet: Dylan Thomas (1914-1953).

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, JULY 12 Movie Night at the Mart Every Friday evening throughout the summer, Montecito Country Mart hosts a kid-friendly movie in their center courtyard. Tonight’s film: Paddington.

When: 6 pm Where: 1016 Coast Village Road at Hot Springs Cost: free SATURDAY, JULY 13 Montecito Library Book Club New members welcome; July’s book club selection is The Martian by Andy Weir. This book is available in many format types in the library catalog.

When: 11 am to noon Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

Blondes vs. Brunettes Flag Football Game Welcome to Blondes vs. Brunettes – RivALZ, where two teams of women divide to reflect rivalries such as East vs. West or City vs. Suburb to compete in a flag football game to inspire fundraising, awareness, and action in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. 2019 marks Santa Barbara’s 6th Annual Blondes vs. Brunettes Season. Thanks to the hard work of the players and support from local sponsors, nearly $400,000 has been raised for the California Central Coast Chapter Alzheimer’s Association. Donate to a player and receive admission to the game.

When: Tailgate begins at 11:30 am, kick-off at 2 pm Where: Garden Street Academy, 2300 Garden Street Cost: Tickets are $20 ($25 day of) and kids under 12 get in for free Info: kreeves@alz.org SUNDAY, JULY 14

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Concert at Trinity Minister of Keyboard Music Thomas Joyce will perform a concert of all-Italian music with soprano Adriana Ruiz. Ms. Ruiz studied voice and choral conducting at the Cuban Conservatory of Music “Esteban Salas” in Havana. In May 2018, Ms. Ruiz was the only singer named as an Early Music America (EMA) Emerging Artist. She was among six artists chosen to “represent the best of emerging early music talent from a very large pool of applicants.”

The program will feature baroque works for soprano and continuo. In addition, Dr. Joyce, Minister of Keyboard Music at Trinity, will perform solo organ pieces and orchestral transcriptions spanning four centuries of Italian repertoire. Music

by Luigi Boccherini, Enrico Bossi, Giulio Caccini, Giovanni Gabrieli, Michelangelo Rossi, Gioachino Rossini, Domenico Scarlatti, Allessandro Stradella, Barbara Strozzi, and Antonio Vivaldi.

When: 3:30 pm Where: Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State Street Cost: $10 suggested donation at the door Info: tjoyce@trinitysb.org

Montecito Planning Commission Meeting MPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies and that issues raised by interested parties are addressed When: 9 am Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu

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Apollopalooza Party Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, which resulted in the first lunar landing.

Party like it’s 1969 in the library!

You’ll listen to some space-themed and ‘60s-era tunes and commemorate Commander Neil Armstrong’s “...one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Costumes welcome! (Aliens, Trekkies, Star Wars, ‘60s gear, spacesuits, get creative!)

When: 5 to 7 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 THURSDAY, JULY 18 Garden Storytime at Upper Manning Park Come out to play at Upper Manning Park! Library staff will lead outdoor storytime and crafts. Explore Ecology staff will provide hands-on environmental education lessons focusing on nature and nutrition. Enjoy the beautiful setting and play structure with friends, old and new. Get some fresh air and join in the Montecito Library’s Summer Reading Program.

When: 10:30 am Where: Upper Manning Park off San Ysidro Road Info: 969-5063 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, 11 – 18 July 2019

embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, JULY 19 Bilingual Puppet Show Set to lively Mariachi and South American music, this is a multicultural puppet show about Cinco de Mayo, Dia de la Patria, Dia de los Muertos and other Latin traditions.

The audience will also learn some Spanish!

When: 10:30 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Movie Night at the Mart Every Friday evening throughout the summer, Montecito Country Mart hosts a kid-friendly movie in their center courtyard. Tonight’s film: Jungle Book (1967).

When: 6 pm Where: 1016 Coast Village Road at Hot Springs Cost: free SATURDAY, JULY 20 Better Angels Red/Blue Workshop Please join for the second Santa Barbara workshop that will bring together Republican-leaning and Democratic-leaning citizens for a day of structured conversations, with a focus on listening and reflecting rather than debating and persuading. The goals are to better understand the experiences and beliefs of those on the other side of the political divide; to seek out areas of common ground in addition to acknowledging and respecting differences; to gain insights that might help to heal the increasing polarization in our community and the nation.

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Village Beat

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

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

Montecito Association Meets

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t this month’s Montecito Association Board of Directors meeting, the Board received a presentation from new Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Taylor, who gave a brief presentation on earthquake preparedness. “We spend a lot of time thinking about disasters, and preparing for them,” he said, adding that the recent earthquakes in Ridgecrest have served as a reminder for the entire county to prepare.

Chief Taylor showed that our risk is real, with local fault lines making Santa Barbara County susceptible to earthquakes. He discussed home preparedness, including reinforcing rooflines to chimneys, securing water heaters, securing furniture and televisions, and learning how to turn off gas lines. “When an earthquake occurs, you only want to turn off your gas if you smell gas,” Chief Taylor said.

During an earthquake, you should drop, cover, and hold to protect your-

self from falling debris. Residents should consider joining MERRAG, which holds emergency training classes monthly. Each household should have preparedness kits that provide food, water, and survival for 72 hours, and everybody should be signed up for emergency alerts via www.readys bc.org. “This system is our only way to alert you during an emergency,” Chief Taylor said. Only 50% of Montecito residents are registered for emergency alerts. For more earthquake preparedness information, visit https://www. fema.gov/earthquake.

During community reports, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi reported that there have been several burglaries in Montecito in the last month, including a construction trailer burglary on East Mountain, jewelry taken on Picacho Lane, a residential burglary on Glenview Road, and a thwarted burglary on Olive Mill Road.

Earlier this week, a concerning incident, called a “hot prowl” occurred at a home on Hot Springs Road. An intruder entered the occupied home, and a surveillance system showed the intruder opening the bedroom doors of several of the family members. The homeowner heard the commotion and scared the intruder away; detectives are currently investigating. “Not only is Montecito being victimized by these burglaries, but Hope Ranch is also,” said Lieutenant Arnoldi. Burglaries are more likely on Mondays and Tuesdays in the afternoon to evening hours, according to Arnoldi.

MA executive director Sharon Byrne gave an update on insurance non-renewals, based on information gleaned by the MA ad hoc Insurance Committee and a survey conducted in May. The survey showed that over 300 respondents reported a broad array of experiences with insurance companies, from being dropped from their carrier, to facing steep increases in prices and deductibles, or not having any issues thus far. A map of the responses shows that there are non-renewals in the debris flow risk area (i.e. the red zone), and beyond; with some homes in the red zone renewed by insurance carriers with no issue.

Byrne reported that many carriers are dropping policies, and then other carriers are offering coverage but at a drastically higher price, in order to get around gouging restrictions. “We are hoping our Insurance Commissioner will lobby insurance companies on our behalf, and along with our State Senator and the mayor of Malibu, we will be able to stop the price goug-

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ing,” Byrne said. The MA has shared the survey with the mayor of Malibu, where insurance non-renewals are also occurring. “It’s a California-wide pattern of dropping risk,” she said.

Chief Taylor reported that a new debris flow risk map will likely be released at the end of October, after fieldwork in September to reassess the debris field and our risk for future debris flows. “I’m exceedingly hopeful that the map will look very different than it does now,” Chief Taylor said.

The next Montecito Association meeting is Tuesday, August 12.

Stoked Surfboards Launches at Allora

Bobbi Bennett, a well-known photographer, artist, curator, and gallerist, and a familiar face in Montecito, has started a new company, Stoked Surfboards. An official launch of the company – which offers vintage and classic surfboards as a medium on which to display her photography – is set for this Saturday, July 13, at Allora

by Laura on Coast Village Road. “It’s been a long time coming, and I’m excited to get to show these pieces to the community,” Bennett said during a recent interview.

The idea for Stoked Surfboards, which blend Bobbi’s knack for photography and love of surf culture, came a few years back, when she experimentally printed a photograph of two palm trees (dubbed Sexy Palms) on a Channel Island surfboard; she

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Seen Around Town

by Lynda Millner

Casa’s Cactus Garden

Santa Barbara Garden Club horticulture committee Amy Mayfield, Puck EricksonLohnas, and Sharon Bradford at the Arizona garden opening

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he Garden Club of Santa Barbara recently celebrated the unveiling of the new and renewed Arizona (cactus) Garden at Casa del Herrero. This project began a year ago with the club’s Civic Project Grant Program and a lot of hard work by the horticulture committee’s three co-chairs, Amy Mayfield, Puck Erickson-Lohnas, and Sharon Bradford, and club members.

During the early part of the 20th century when many grand estates were built by mid-westerners and easterners, they felt compelled to have an Arizona Garden. They had never seen cactus or even cut leaf philodendron. This included Carrie and George Steedman in the 1920s. I’ve been a docent at Casa del Herrero for almost 20 years and there was never time or money to take care of the

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Casa’s Arizona Garden. It was pretty much a mess.

Members, guests, and invited press were asked to come to a celebration and see the incredible results. Co-chair Amy Mayfield took me on a tour and explained how they propagated

as many plants as possible and also bought new. They had a strict budget, which was rapidly used up for the plants, new irrigation, and gravel for the whole area. She told me, “I looked at dozens of gardens online to get ideas about what to do.” I think she was most proud of the Sapphire Tower or in Latin, Puya Alpestris, which was propagated. No one had seen a bloom like it. It blooms only rarely and I believe that even Lotusland only has one.

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Music Academy of the West London Calling: Three Shows in a Row

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he London Symphony Orchestra’s four-year partnership with the Music Academy of the West, which came on the heels of a similar groundbreaking deal with the New York Philharmonic from 201417, officially began last year. But this summer is when the entire LSO – one of the world’s great orchestras that is also well known for its travel commitments and educational endeavors – is coming to town to teach, connect and, most impressively, perform three different programs on three successive nights, July 12-14.

Former LSO music director Michael Tilson Thomas was also to make his MAW debut for the final two performances, conducting Saturday night at the Granada and Sunday afternoon at the Santa Barbara Bowl, where the LSO shares the stage with MAW’s Academy Festival Orchestra. He had to withdraw due to health concerns, but the programmers were able to tap Daniel Harding, the LSO’s former

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principal guest conductor, to take his place.

We caught up with Kathryn McDowell, the LSO’s managing director since 2005 who was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2011, to talk all things LSO-MAW via email last weekend.

Q. Why did the LSO want to enter this partnership with the Music Academy of the West? How does the arrangement benefit the orchestra’s mission?

A. The LSO’s mission is to bring great music to the greatest number of people. In order to achieve our mission we tour internationally, through LSOLive, our own in-house recording label and facility, we record and stream much of our output, and through LSO Discovery, the Orchestra’s world-leading music education and community programme, we establish partnerships with educational institutions at all

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levels. Music Academy of the West is our first major US LSO Discovery partnership. The LSO also works with partners in Aix-en-Provence and with the British Council on projects overseas currently including working with musicians in Japan working towards Tokyo’s Olympic Games in 2020. Each project or partnership we have is tailored to the specific needs of our partners, this can be coaching young musicians, but it can also be working with music teachers on developing their skills. This special partnership with MAW is the first time we have brought young people from an international project to our London home, giving them extraordinary access to the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle.

How did it go with the first group of Keston MAX fellows last winter? How is it for the LSO musicians to work with the fellows from MAW back in London? Why is providing these sorts of opportunities for young musicians important to the orchestra?

It all went very well to the extent that the LSO musicians were so impressed by the MAW students that they invited them to play alongside at the concert on January 10, conducted

by Sir Simon Rattle. That was thrilling to see. What a great way to end their weeklong stay with us, when the fellows received coaching, and audition training, and an opportunity to perform chamber music at LSO St Luke’s, our centre for learning, and smaller scale performance. The LSO musicians love to mentor and teach, the LSO runs a range of programmes for different ages and abilities through our LSO Discovery programme.

Education and outreach is now an inextricable part of the LSO’s DNA. LSO Discovery exists to offer inspiring

“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

musical experiences to people of all ages and backgrounds who have not necessarily had much contact with classical music and musicians.

It also provides support and training for emerging young instrumentalists, composers and conductors, and gives insight into music for members of the public who would like to learn more.

LSO Discovery work is captured and disseminated digitally, for individual enthusiasts, learners and teachers in the UK and worldwide. LSO Discovery brings LSO Members into contact with a wider public, as well as developing their interests and skills.

What was the impetus behind developing the Voyager program, which has proven quite popular? Also, while it’s about space exploration in general, I imagine there’s extra resonance with the 50th anniversary of the moon landing later this month. Is that able to be incorporated into the piece?

Three times a year, the LSO presents a Family Concert in the Barbican Hall featuring the full London Symphony Orchestra. Presented in a fun and informative way, the concerts feature music based on a theme and offer the chance for everyone to get involved by playing or singing along with the audience participation piece. The LSO is proud of its association with the Star Wars movies so it’s logical that we would be keen to explore a concert that takes space and the cosmos as a theme.

The impetus for the Voyager programme came from Gareth Davies, our Principal flute, who devised and scripted the piece working with designer Victor Craven. Not surprisingly, many members of the Orchestra have other strings to their bow!

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SANTA BARBARA IN A GLASS

by Gabe Saglie Gabe Saglie has been covering the Santa Barbara wine scene for more than 15 years through columns, TV and radio. He’s a senior editor with Travelzoo and is a leading expert on travel deals, tips and trends. Gabe and wife Renee have 3 children and one Golden Retriever named Milo

Come for the Giraffe, Stay for the Wine

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he shattering effects of last year’s Woolsey Fire are not immediately obvious when you stroll through Saddlerock Ranch. The 1,100-acre property along Mulholland Highway, home to the Semler family, is looking beautiful these days, especially after the bloom of spring, with its cavalcade of flowers and trees and a sweeping, undulating landscape of dramatic rock formations. The beaches of Malibu are seven miles away, and easy access off Highway 101 makes it an easy one-hour drive from Montecito.

But wreak havoc, the Woolsey Fire did, according to Kurt Rieback, who

guided us on a leisurely hike through Saddlerock last month. “All the family and employee residences burned,” he tells us as we notice fleeting hints that fire, indeed, roared through this property last November. Numerous barns and an enviable collection of classic cars went up in smoke, too. As for the animals – more than 150 exotic specimens, from zebras to water buffalo to a giraffe with its own social media following, the evacuation of whom during the fire created quite the news frenzy – they’re all back home now, and they’re welcoming guests.

The vines tell a different story,

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though – or at least they might, once harvest happens this fall. There are 90 acres of grapevines here – eight different wine varieties – and because the fire raged through while they were still dormant, if and how they’ll blossom, and the quantity and quality of grapes they’ll produce, is yet to be seen. “We may have lost up to half of our vines,” Kurt tells us.

I first visited Malibu Wine Hikes last year when owner Shane Semler took me on the moderate two-mile hike.

Malibu Wine Hikes is one of numerous onsite businesses run by various Semler children – Shane is one of nine.

Weekend weddings are a constant here. And Malibu Wine Safaris, run

by Shane’s brother, is probably the most well-known adventure, drawing a sell-out 21-and-over crowd yearround.

The Wine Hikes, though, are the most family-friendly way to visit this property – no age minimums.

And the leisurely pace and expansive views make this a truly special way to experience the natural wonders of the Santa Monica Mountains.

“I used to play on this property when I was growing up, and I had a lot of ground to cover,” Shane, 32, told me. “Today, I’m doing the same thing I used to do as a kid – I just get to bring guests along to enjoy it with me.”

Shane explains that his older sister’s love for riding horses is what inspired their parents to purchase this property, a former Arabian horse ranch, in the late 1970s. Exotic animals soon arrived – llamas and camels at first, and then a zebra mating pair that was a gift from Shane’s dad, Ron, to his wife, Lisa. Stanley the Giraffe joined the menagerie in 2015 and today, at age nine, remains the biggest attraction on four legs. A for-

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mer Hollywood star – Jurassic Park and The Hangover Part III appear on his résumé – Stanley was acquired by the Semlers when he became too big to transport between film shoots

and now enjoys a new kind of fame – more than 53,000 Instagram followers for @a_giraffe-named-stanley. You can hand-feed vegetable snacks to most animals during the hikes.

For me, the best part of our family hike last month was the respite between the animal petting and the vineyard stroll when, on a rustic deck overlooking flowering gardens and a natural lake that provides much of the property’s water for irrigation, we paused for wine. This is where hikers are introduced to the Semlers’ wine business – a two-label project that produces some 45,000 cases of wine a year. A third of that, on the eponymous Semler label, is made from grapes grown onsite, including Rhone varieties like syrah and grenache; these wines snapshot both the 11 – 18 July 2019

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potential and challenges of a growing area defined by a regular tug-ofwar between ocean breezes and heat spells. The bulk of the production, and perhaps the most dependably solid wines, are on the Saddlerock label, which sources grapes from all over California, from Santa Barbara to Lodi.

The 2017 Saddlerock Sauvignon Blanc ($45) was clean and lively, with pear and melon notes, thanks to its fermentation in stainless steel tanks.

The 2018 Rosé of Grenache ($48), with its salmon hue, was as pretty as it was refreshing, with lots of watermelon and berry notes. A Cabernet Sauvignon we supped was smooth, jammy and complex. Our tasting stop actually replaces the usual wine portion of this experience – a post-hike visit to the tasting room across the street. Damage from the Woolsey Fire forced refurbishments that have since been completed,

but an inspections backlog is keeping it shuttered for now. That said, as hip as the tasting room is, I almost prefer the bucolic, unhurried aspect of our midway sip stop.

Our Malibu Wine Hikes experience lasted just under three hours.

Offered multiple times a day every Wednesday through Sunday, I recommend the morning options, since the afternoons can get pretty hot. Pricing is $35 per person, or $65 if you want to include a visit with Stanley (and you should). Ask about Flight of Voices, a monthly reimagining of the Hikes that features live musical interludes along the way, and about the summertime Saddlerock Garden Dinners, held en plein air and featuring a rotating lineup of chefs. The Semlers’ new Malibu Wines & Beer Garden in West Hill is open daily. Go to malibuwinehikes. com for more info.

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appointment, I sat staring at a flat, blank wall and I imagined putting something dimensional on it to break up the space. (I love anything 3-D.) The next day new forms emerged, starting on a small scale. I then discovered that I could make these forms almost any size by working in parts and putting the parts together. It’s thrilling to know that size is no longer a limitation!

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Artist Joan Rosenberg-Dent’s Newest Works

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ontecito artist Joan Rosenberg-Dent is exhibiting her award-winning porcelain sculptural art in a few galleries downtown, following her works selected by the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art earlier this year. I met her on Friday, July 5 at her opening at 10 West Gallery on Anapamu, a contemporary multi-artist showcase location. There Joan is showing eleven new sculptural porcelain pieces, including the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art show’s First Honorable Mention winning wall piece titled, “Raw Edges,” eight additional wall pieces and two tabletop sculptures inspired by the renown Japanese artist Kusama following Joan’s visit to Japan.

J. Paul Longanbach, Chair, Museum Collectors Council for the SB Museum of Art, was at the opening and offered his opinion of her work: “What I like about Joan’s art is even though it is in all white, she can do more with permutations than anyone. The use of

white is neutral enough that it engages shadow as a color and texture.”

We quite agree. The nuance of the various shades of white she obtains in forming and firing the porcelain, leaving it raw or glazed, opaque or transparent, and her design placement of the hand shaped porcelain pieces speak in a new genre of sculptural statement. The larger wall sculptures are unknown amounts of separate porcelain pieces in long wave shapes or rounded bud shapes, mounted with a special adhesive on board painted in the same color. Each has its own emotional expressions the viewer can engage with. There are deliberate playful intellectualism and messages from the artist in her pieces. In “There’s Always One,” a series of small white glazed porcelain buds with one bud glazed black or painted with playful dots; in the six-piece “Metamorphosis” grouping each board has a narrow wire path that leads from a black glazed round

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Artist Joan Rosenberg-Dent with two of her eleven new porcelain works on exhibit at 10 West Gallery

or rectangle flat porcelain piece on the bottom, up to a full bloom all white bud at the top; “Ruffle My Feathers” is a horizontal layered grouping of highly textural porcelain strips and three placements of gold leaf triangles on an edge of a strip depicting the wealth of the going through a tough life experience. In knowing Joan’s art for over 10 years, it has bloomed into a new level, more than worthy of a MoMA all white room location in both scope and artist expertise of the medium.

My interview with Joan: Q. Are these larger works a new direction for your porcelain art?

A. Yes, my porcelain wall pieces have definitely taken me in a new direction. Since my education was from a traditional ceramic point of view, I made objects for the tabletop.

Porcelain became my clay of choice, though primarily used for tableware and figurines, neither of which held my interest. Since my work focuses on form and concept, presented abstractly, I saw no need to continue working on small, tabletop pieces. I’ve always wanted to work larger but porcelain has its limitations and I was not willing to compromise.

How did it come about that the works are much larger than when you began to sculpt using the medium?

Sometimes a quiet moment can lead to a revelation. While waiting for an

Do you refer or relate to something or someone in the art you create?

My art is visually about form. It relates to my background in dance.

When I danced, I became the changing form and was aware of the space around me. In sculpture, my pieces become the forms while I choreograph the spaces around each one.

Intellectually, my work is based on a concept-metaphor, and visually relies on light and shadow to complete the piece. Both form and concept are integral to my pieces. This body of work is unique, nobody does what I do. I have taken this beautiful, translucent material into the world of abstract contemporary art. I don’t count or draw what I am going to sculpt. I first work with the porcelain and shape it in various forms with my fingers, fire it and then lay out all the pieces on my worktable. I make more pieces than I may need as porcelain is fragile and you just never know how many will be usable. I have some kind of idea, I just start playing with the pieces, the playfulness and experimentation leads to discovery.

What is the one word you would use to speak about your work in porcelain?

My word would be “form-raw-delicate.”

What is next for your art and when will you be showing it?

Next for my art is a show of 20-25 new pieces at Grayspace Gallery, Tuesday, July 16. I will have the main gallery to present my new work both on the walls, tabletop and on the floor as well. It is called “RazzamaJazz” which relates to the rhythmic patterns in my work and jazz is the inspirational music I listen to in my studio. •MJ 411: www.jrdstudio.artspan.com

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Spirituality Matters

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

‘Artist’s Way,’ All Over Again

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ulia Cameron’s book, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, originally self-published in 1991, grew out of the failure of her first feature film as a director called God’s Will, which earned scathing reviews. It’s safe to say that Artist’s Way has fared a lot better, as Cameron harnessed ideas in creative personal development – based on the concept that inspiration is from and of a divine origin and influence, not born of the ego – that became a phenomenon and spawned support groups throughout the world, including quite a few here in town.

The book has never really faded from popularity over the intervening years, and received a shot in the arm via Cameron’s 25th anniversary edition. Case in point: This Friday, Lyza Fontana launches a four-week series in “Creative Self-Discovery” based on the Artist’s Way concepts.

Fontana – a self-described Creativity Educator, Facilitator and Coach who is also a certified Trainer and Master Practitioner of NLP and a member of the Creativity Coaching Association – has condensed the course from its typical 12-week format via an interwoven blend of four modules each week to impart the principles and practices of Cameron’s course in four two-hour sessions including exploring guided visualization, journaling, artist dates nature walks and

group sharing. The goal is to create a safe space within yourself to explore your creativity, awaken new possibilities for your life, and deepen the connection with your spirit and core energy.

The course, which takes place 3-5 pm on Friday July 12 to August 3, at Yoga Soup, costs $85 in advance, $95 day-of. Books are available onsite, and participants should bring a journal and pen to the first class.

The Healer Within

It’s been known for quite a while that the quality of our health is affected by what we ingest both physically and mentally. But it’s not always easy to figure out how to employ that information in creating optimal personal health. This three-hour workshop with Dr. Lynn Von Schneidau is meant to help illuminate the causes of any health symptoms by teaching people how to use their inherent wisdom as well as mental and emotional messages and cues. Ongoing stress, hormonal imbalances, joint pains, muscle aches, digestive issues and fatigue are specific issues addressed by the class.

Dr. Von Schneidau, who began her college career at UCSB, has been a primary care doctor and Naturopath in Washington State for 16 years,

earned a Seattle Top Doctor award in 2014, and founded her company Pure Renewal in 2007. Participants in the hands-on interactive class at Yoga Soup, which takes place 3-5 pm on Saturday, July 13, will learn to identify symptoms, listen to internal messages, how to use homeopathic remedies, physical medicine, herbal remedies and other naturopathic tools for healing and self-care to achieve balance, increased vitality and wellness in mind, body and soul. Admission is $35.

Dream On

Pacifica Graduate Institute has been offering courses in Dream Tending for many years, but seems to be putting special attention on this weekend’s workshop, promoting the event heavily in area papers.

The life practice employed by healers, storytellers and poets under many different names for thousands of years has been honed and developed by Dr. Stephen Aizenstat, Pacifica’s founder, who has built on the methods of association, amplification, and animation pioneered

by Freud and Jung, and expanded upon by James Hillman and Marion Woodman. Participants in this three-day workshop will build practical skills grounded in traditional and emerging methods of dreamwork, learning to experience dreams in their living, embodied reality, via hosting and tending relationships with the living images of dreams to discover new ways of experiencing life and achieve better psychological and physical health.

Much more details about the three-day workshop taking place July 12-14 is available online on

Pacifica’s website, or at https:// dreamtending.com/events/summer-dream-tending-workshop, where you can also register for the event, which costs $95. Call (805) 969-3626.

Next Thursday, July 18, Pacifica throws open their doors for a rare open house at no cost. The 11 am to 3 pm event at the Ladera Lane Campus includes the opportunity to experience Pacifica’s unique interdisciplinary graduate degree programs through faculty-led, program-specific information sessions and presentations, plus connecting with Pacifica students and alumni about their experience and what they are doing with their degrees, and hearing a talk by Dr. Evans Lansing Smith on “Joseph Campbell and the Romance of the Grail,” an illustrated memoir of his travels in France with Campbell, with reflections on the comparative and interdisciplinary nature of Mythological Studies.

Visitors will also be able to explore the grounds of both campuses, tour the Joseph Campbell Archives and Library, visit Pacifica’s Bookstores and Libraries and more. Call (805) 969-3626 or visit www.pacifica.edu.

Meditation Mini

Chris Kallmyer: Ensemble, the postFluxus-style multimedia interactive musical art installation at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art inherently incorporates contemplative space.

As one of the periodic programmed events, Gael Belden, an educator with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center at The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, leads a meditation and mindfulness experience at the exhibition at 10:30 am this Saturday, July 13. Belden has more than 30 years of mindfulness practice and teaching, and is the Director of UCLA/MARC’s Intensive Practice Program. Pre-registration required.

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Strike A Light

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he ability to make fire is one characteristic which distinguishes Man from animals. Yet I must admit that, although I’ve always heard stories about the primitive methods by which this can be done, I deserve to rank with the animals – because I still don’t know how.

In the days when even intelligent people smoked cigarettes and carried lighters, somebody invented a gag lighter. When you flicked the switch, a little red arrow popped up and pointed to the nearest person with a match.

Matches have been an important part of our history for the past two centuries. Sometimes they were called “Lucifers,” meaning literally “bringers of light.” You may remember the World War I song about packing up your troubles in your old kit bag, with its cheerful exhortation, While you’ve a Lucifer to light your fag, Smile boys, that’s the style!

Selling matches on the street was once one of the more wretched ways to make a living. But even more wretched was the lot of certain people engaged in the manufacture of those matches, whose work involved frequent contact with white phosphorus.

This led to the development of one of the many new diseases produced by the Industrial Revolution – a malady sometimes involving actual rotting of the teeth and jawbone, which came to be known as “Phossy-Jaw.” Early matches could, rather dangerously, be struck practically anywhere, making very welcome the development of “safety matches,” which could be struck only on special surfaces.

By the Twentieth Century, matches had become such an essential commodity that huge fortunes arose from control of the market. Most notable in this sphere was Ivar Kreuger, “The Swedish Match King.” Unfortunately, his involvement in many enterprises which were, to say the least, shady, led to his apparent suicide on March 12, 1932. (By an odd co-incidence, this took place only two days before the suicide of another great – but decidedly more legitimate – industrial magnate, “The Yankee Camera King,” George Eastman.)

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what you mean. But it was the invention of the matchBOOK, a little over a century ago, which created a whole new medium for art, communication, and advertising. You hardly ever had to buy matches, because they were given away free by all sorts of establishments. The endless variety of designs fostered a whole new breed of collectors (a hobby known as “Phillumeny”), for whom collecting the relatively tiny, flimsy, and expensive postage stamps (“Philately”) had less appeal.

But then came the big change.

Miraculous as it seemed to those of us who for many years had been forced to endure the tobacco habits of others, people stopped smoking, at least in public. It didn’t happen overnight – but smokers had been the chief users of matches. A whole etiquette had in fact developed, based on the lighting of one’s own cigarette, or those of others.

There were even superstitions, such as the taboo against lighting three on a match. (This supposedly stemmed from the trench warfare of World War I, when showing a flame for that long would give an enemy soldier time to draw a bead on its source.)

There was consequently a great decline in the need for matches. This was also accompanied by the development of cheap disposable lighters – whose carelessly discarded remains now constitute a significant element in the litter which defaces our local streets.

Of course, there is still (and now often legally) the smoking of other substances. I myself once wrote a song, to the tune of “Home on the Range,” whose second verse connected that kind of smoking with the concept of brotherhood, which was so much a part of the Hippy ethos: How often at night have I asked for a light From a stranger whom I could not see, And beheld in that place my own

brother’s face, Who had always been looking for me.

And we still need matches for camping, or barbecues – and, of course, for lighting candles – particularly those on birthday cakes. Children are delighted to see the number of candles, signifying how old they now are, and to ceremonially blow them out. For some reason, however, this enthusiasm tends to fade with advancing years – and in any case, the average cake is no longer big enough to accommodate an average lifetime of candles.

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The District is proposing to continue the existing charge as it was established in July 1996 and, with such exceptions as have previously been granted by the Board, with no increase in the charge or change in the methodology by which it is calculated.

Pursuant to Government Code Section 66016(a), at least ten (10) days prior to said meeting, on July 12, 2019, the District will make all of the data, required by Section 66016(a) applicable to said charge, available to the public at its District Office.

At the Public Hearing on July 23, 2019 oral and written presentations may be made concerning said written report and proposed fees by anyone affected by said fees. The Board of Directors will also hear and consider objections to the application of the fee and requests for reduction for any affected parcel. Any objection or request for reduction must be presented to the District on or before July 23, 2019 or be precluded from consideration for the 2019-2020 tax year.

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displayed the board in the gallery she was running at the time –Montecito Gallery (next to Lucky’s) – and it was sold immediately to a local art collector. Since then, the gallery closed, the community was hit by and subsequently recovered from a catastrophic mudslide, and Bennett moved to Ojai, where she found the time to focus on making the boards, which are incredibly labor intensive. “Each board takes me three weeks to a month to make, after I find the board and conceive of the project,” she said.

She carefully picks a vintage board on which to print a specific photograph, using boards from such iconic names as Al Merrick and Rockin Fig. She then restores the boards, which sometimes requires sanding and adding more resin. For the launch, she

has two series of boards available: those featuring photographs from the Southwest, including longhorn cattle, llamas, cactus, and horses, and an ocean series featuring famous Southern California surf spots. Once the photographs are printed on the board, they are coated in a thick, shiny resin, making them a unique piece of art that can be mounted on wall or stood upright.

“Everyone who gets a taste of what Bobbi does, they want it,” said longtime supporter Laura Dinning, the owner of Allora by Laura who has collaborated with Bennett on three prior art launches at her boutique clothing store. Laura and her team are busy getting the store ready for the launch; there will be about 30 boards on display and for sale, ranging in price

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from $2,500 to $15,000.

The most special board on display this weekend is a board commissioned

by Montecito resident and original Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, who grew up surfing the waves at Miramar Beach. He asked Bennett to adorn his signature long board with a photo of himself surfing as a kid; Bennett then added another image she took of a surfer at Rincon. Johnston, who is an original founder of the Surfrider Foundation, signed and donated the board, dubbed Surfrider, which will be

up for auction at the launch party. The board is special for many reasons, one of which is that it was washed away during the January 9, 2018 debris flow from Johnston’s property, and was later found and returned. “It’s a special board, and I’m happy the sale of it will benefit the Surfrider Foundation,” Bennett said.

“Bobbi and her art have always captivated people, and this is another evolution of her,” Dinning said, add-

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by Steven Libowitz

Fun After the Sun: Fifties Flicks al Fresco

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hat could be more fun than spending a Friday evening with your friends watching a free classic film outdoors in a gorgeous garden setting?

That’s basically the premise behind UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture’s annual summer film series at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens downtown – a bit like Santa Barbara’s version of the drive-in – which reaches its 10-year anniversary in 2019, an indication of the success of the concept.

“It’s about getting together and having a shared experience outdoors in the summertime in a beautiful setting for free. What’s not to like?” said Roman Baratiak, UCSB A&L’s associate director who plans and curates the film programs. Indeed, unlike even organic festivals such as Summer Solstice, it’s all about enjoying the moment, partly due to a minimum of distractions. “We keep the commercial aspects at bay – no giant advertising banners, no beer gardens or food court (although the food trucks usually show up). It’s just about hanging

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with your friends and family, having a picnic and watching a great movie.”

For sure, the films over the decade have been winners, usually time-tested classics that are well worth eschewing viewings on Netflix (if available) to experience projection on the big screen, albeit a giant inflatable one. While previous seasons have individually offered animation, horror films, thrillers, Hitchcock classics and more, this year’s “Those Fabulous Fifties!! Celebrating the Golden Decade of American Cinema” contains a bit of almost all of those genres while focusing on one of filmdom’s perhaps under-celebrated eras.

Still to come in the series that began last weekend are North by Northwest, Rebel Without a Cause, Some Like It Hot,

On the Waterfront, High Noon and Sunset Boulevard.

“These films are historical documents, part of the culture, but we wanted to have different genres, different feels, including action films, social/political criticism films, light things that are summer-y and vacation-y, escapist entertainment,” Baratiak explained. “And we also wanted to cover the iconic actors whose reputations were made in the ‘50s, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and the same with directors, like Billy Wilder. Everybody has their favorites, so it’s hard to narrow it down to just seven.”

Filmgoers are asked to respect the lawn and fellow attendees: Please bring blankets that are permeable (no plastic/nylon/tarps) and chairs that are low-backed and low to the ground.

Filmgoers may start setting up at noon on the day of the Courthouse screenings.

While the formula hasn’t been tweaked with much, there are some upgrades for this summer, including an expanded sound system that features three additional speakers to cover the upper garden area at the courthouse, Baratiak said. “That provides much better sound up there and allows us not to have to crank the volume so high for those closer to the screen.”

Picnicking, including with alcohol for those over 21, is allowed and

encouraged for extra fun before the screenings start. But the fabulous fun does come with a few rules and regulations, however. Filmgoers are asked to respect the lawn and each other by using only blankets that are permeable (no plastic/nylon/tarps) and chairs that are low-backed and low to the ground, and setting up no earlier than noon. Don’t drive stakes into the ground, or dump out unused drinks on the lawn.

Cinema on the American Riviera

Take a seven-day trip to filmdom in France via SBIFF’s The Wave film festival focusing on French film, fifth annual mid-summer mini-fest. Eleven new offerings covering just about all feature genres from romance to comedy, drama and more will play from July 12-18 at SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre. Each film screens twice during the week, and tickets for individual showing are available as well as full fest passes. Ironically, or perhaps intentionally, regular art house programming returns to the Riviera July 19 with Paris is Burning, an official HD restoration of the 1990 American documentary that chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities of the era.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to discuss and consider potential amendments to the Santa Barbara Municipal Code to regulate the conversion of mobilehome or permanent recreational vehicle parks to other uses.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5762 DUE DATE & TIME: JULY 31, 2019 UNTIL 3:00P.M. SWEEPING FOR ASPHALT REPAIR PROJECTS Scope of Work: Contractor shall be available to assist with job site cleanup. The contractor must provide a mechanical broom sweeper to assist with the point repairs performed by City staff.

Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time.

FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code.

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

If the renewal options are exercised, new Payment Bond shall be provided.

PREVAILING WAGE, APPRENTICES, PENALTIES, & CERTIFIED PAYROLL In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code § 1773.2, the Contractor is responsible for determining the correct prevailing wage rates. However, the City will provide wage information for projects subject to Federal Davis Bacon requirements. The Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rates of wages and employer payments for health, welfare, vacation, pensions and similar purposes applicable, which is on file in the State of California Office of Industrial Relations. The contractor shall post a copy of these prevailing wage rates at the site of the project. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and its subcontractors hired to pay not less than the said prevailing rates of wages to all workers employed by him in the execution of the contract (Labor Code § 1770 et seq.). Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5.

There are penalties required for contractor’s/subcontractor’s failure to pay prevailing wages and for failure to employ apprentices, including forfeitures and debarment under Labor Code §§ 1775, 1776, 1777.1, 1777.7 and 1813.

Under Labor Code § 1776, contractors and subcontractors are required to keep accurate payroll records. The prime contractor is responsible for submittal of their payrolls and those of their subcontractors as one package. Payroll records shall be certified and made available for inspection at all reasonable hours at the principal office of the contractor/subcontractor pursuant to Labor Code § 1776.

The contractor and all subcontractors under the direct contractor shall furnish certified payroll records directly to the Labor Compliance Unit and to the department named in the Purchase Order/Contract at least monthly, and within ten (10) days of any request from any request from the City or the Labor Commissioner in accordance with Section 16461 of the California Code of Regulations. Payroll records shall be furnished in a format prescribed by section 16401 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, with use of the current version of DIR's “Public Works Payroll Reporting Form” (A-1-131) and “Statement of Employer Payments” (DLSE Form PW26) constituting presumptive compliance with this requirement, provided the forms are filled out accurately and completely. In lieu of paper forms, the Compliance Monitoring Unit may provide for and require the electronic submission of certified payroll reports. The provisions of Article 2 and 3, Division 2, Chapter 1 of the Labor Code, State of California, are made by this reference a part of this quotation or bid.

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

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

CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. _______________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Spa Escape, 3022A De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Yolanda Rosenthal, 859 N. Patterson Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 26, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the

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

by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2019-0001555.

Published July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INSEASONHARVEST, 1419 De La Vina

Published: July 10, 2019 Montecito Journal

Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Jessica Ann McAlvain, 1419 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Sirwan McAlvain, 1419 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 11, 2019. 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. 2019-0001403.

Published July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mercantile Row Shopping Center, 1587 Las Canoas Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Robert Palmer,

• The Voice of the Village •

When a park owner proposes to convert an existing mobilehome park to another use, or to close a mobilehome park or to cease using land as a mobilehome park, current provisions of state law, as set forth in Government Code Sections 65863.7 and 66427.4 and Civil Code Section 798.56, authorize the City to require the person proposing the change of use to file and distribute a report on the impact of such change and further authorize the City to require measures to be undertaken to mitigate the adverse effects of the change of use upon the residents of the mobilehome park who would be displaced by such change. The City Council has determined that mobilehome parks and permanent recreational vehicle parks are an important source of affordable housing within the City of Santa Barbara. The proposed ordinances will establish new and modify existing mitigation measures to prevent the conversion, closure or cessation of use of mobilehome parks from having a substantial adverse effect upon park residents in terms of cost of relocation, scarcity of similar comparable housing within a reasonable proximity to the City, and the significantly higher costs of other types of housing in the immediate area if park residents cannot relocate to other mobilehome parks.

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

On Thursday, July 18, 2019, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, will be available at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, and at the Central Library.

Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Most Popular, click on Council Agenda Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m., and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilVideos.

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

(SEAL) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager July 8, 2019

1587 Las Canoas Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 9, 2019. 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 Thomas Brian. FBN No. 2019-0001638. Published July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Castaway’s By Paula, 515 San Onofre, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Paula Goldman, 515 San Onofre, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 5, 2019. 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 Thomas Brian.

FBN No. 2019-0001616. Published July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coach, 808A State Street 1st Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Tapestry, INC. Which Will Do Business in California as Coach Leatherware California, INC., 10 Hudson Yards, 19th

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LETTERS (Continued from page 8)

and the Miramar Hotel was taken over by the military for servicemen on R and R and as a redistribution center, providing business for the Moody red light cottage.

Also, the article implied that Maureen (Mo) MacQuiddy Mason was the daughter of the Moody’s contractor Dixon Harold MacQuiddy (called DH) when she was in fact his granddaughter. Her father was Dixon Leroy MacQuiddy (called DL), a professional photographer before becoming a full-time educator. D.L. MacQuiddy taught at Harding elementary school, became principal at Garfield elementary and lastly a beloved principal at Santa Barbara Junior High.

Maureen’s mother was a widow living alone, her two daughters grown, when she died in the fire that burned the home down. The house on the property now Maureen had built, by a talented contractor, in a style resembling the Moody cottages.

A little known fact; in the 1930s Mildred Moody was considering buying the Miramar Hotel when it was owned by the bank due to the Doultons’ bankruptcy. She took her trusted contractor, Dixon H. MacQuiddy, to look the grounds and cottages over. He suggested having the roofs all blue to attract the attention of motorists traveling on the highway. An agent for Paul Gawzner, who eventually bought the hotel, overheard the conversation and passed the information to Paul. Hence, the Miramar’s famous “blue roofs.”

Judy Pearce Carpinteria P.S. The name is MacQuiddy, not McQuiddy as in the article. Dixon L. MacQuiddy’s daughter Kathy MacQuiddy Gailbraith gave me this information.

J’Amy’s Back!

In her first “Just ask J’Amy” article (MJ # 25/23), the question was asked: “Who is responsible for clean up of the boat and boat engine that’s been on the beach since the first of the year?”

That question got the process rolling. Kadie McShirley from the First District Supervisor’s Office went to work and organized a great “A TEAM” from Parks & Recreation.

That team hit the sand like Super Heroes with a well-organized plan, equipment, and can-do attitude. They completed the job in half of a day (June 17). Well done, guys.

A big “Thank You” to the Montecito Journal, J’Amy Brown, Parks & Recreation, Kadie McShirley, and 1st District Supervisor’s Office.

Enjoy your beach.

C. L. Buergey Montecito

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“Free” Not Reasonable It was difficult listening to 20 bellyaching presidential hopefuls in the recent Democratic debates. Nary a one stressed the qualities that have made the USA the greatest and most successful country in the world: individual hard work and personal effort to achieve success, along with collective efforts to assist others in need, both internally and abroad.

I have personally grown tired of the mantra that we are all victims of capitalistic greed. I have yet to hear anything close to a reasonable explanation of how all the “free stuff” the debaters offered (medical care, education, guaranteed salary, elimination of debt, healthcare for illegal immigrants, reparations) would be financed. Higher taxes on the individual rich and successful corporations wouldn’t come close to covering the costs. Specifically, I’d like to have Bernie Sanders explain why single payer health care was a total failure in Vermont, his home state.

I encourage good folks to do individual research. One can easily determine that Elizabeth Warren’s 2% wealth tax wouldn’t come close to covering her gift programs and Medicare-for-all would be a national health care disaster. At least Kamala Harris backed off her ridiculous support for elimination of private health insurance.

I’m conservative. I was hoping that at least one of the 20 Democratic debaters would have had the guts to argue that common sense needs to prevail and that “free everything” is not reasonable. Maryland representative John Delany (on the far right during Debate #1) came close to doing so. In my opinion, he was, by far, the least ridiculous in the group of 20. I don’t know much about Delany, but I hope to hear more from him.

A bit of levity: Regardless of political party I will consider voting for a candidate who will put an end to robocalls.

Sanderson M. Smith, Ed.D. Carpinteria

No More News at the Y

I am a long-term member of the Montecito YMCA. I enjoy going there, the people I meet there and the staff.

However, this took an abrupt change this past week. While I and others were working out in the gym, the staff came in and said that we no longer could watch major news channels, e.g., CNN, Fox, etc. (they were blocking them).

We asked why. We were told that there were ‘some’ folks were being discourteous and arguing about which TV cable news station to watch. So, because of a small number of impolite folks, the majority of the well-man-

nered Y members can no longer watch the news while working out. I spoke with the Executive Director about this.

I opined that he/they were catering to a minority and the majority was paying the price. I also pointed out that he, as Director, should just approach these ‘trouble makers’ and inform them that this is their first and last warning. If they continue this impolite and disruptive behavior they would no longer be allowed to utilize the YMCA. He disagreed. So it seems that being politically correct and catering to the few, the majority must suffer. While I’m sure this sounds like sour grapes to some, it is a source of catching up on the news while working out prior to going to work or whatever is on our agenda for that day. Finally, none of us who use the Y were asked our opinion on this new decision. I’m not asking for a ‘vote’ by the members, but I am asking that common sense be used and that the majority of well-mannered Y attendees not be forced to suffer for the actions of a few.

Ed Dewey Montecito

Flying the Flag

country in the history of mankind. For those who don’t like it, get out … and don’t let the door hit you in the behind on the way out. I suggest you try Afghanistan, or maybe Syria, or better yet Bernie’s and AOC’s panacea: the Socialist Republic of Venezuela … but be sure to take plenty of toilet paper, as they have none. Perhaps North Korea would welcome you. There is an endless list of options.

Ray Winn Montecito

The Mural Project

The Funk Zone Mural on the side of the building at 22 Anacapa Street represents Santa Barbara’s rich legacy and contribution to the History of flight. I chose to paint the famed Santa Barbara Pilot, Earle Ovington, flying in his open cockpit monoplane over Santa Barbara in the early 1920s.

Some of the feats of Earle Ovington included being the first pilot to fly the mail out to the Channel Islands.

Around this time and just down the street, Lockheed Aircraft built and flew their seaplanes from Cabrillo Beach, and soon became an aviation powerhouse.

To construct my mural, I consulted Lee Artman’s U.S. flag festoons the outside of his Coast Village Road apartment

I know this was the biggest flag on Coast Village Road!

Lee Artman Montecito

Time to Clean House

Anyone who can actually compare the situation we have at the border with the following has really gone off the rails of logic and reality. Shame!

And shame on the complicit politicians like Schumer, Pelosi, AOC, and nearly all the Democratic presidential front runners who voted not once, but twice, to withhold humanitarian aid for the border, claiming it was a ‘made up’ crisis. It became a crisis to them when it was politically useful.

Their open border policy, and refusal to change it, brought this whole mess upon us. It could be fixed in about two hours. Time to clean house and get rid of all of them. I now refer to most of them as ‘political whores.’

Have a great day living in the best

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

with Historian Michael Redmond of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

He provided me with an aerial photograph of the Funk Zone area of Santa Barbara (Circa 1920s). The reference photograph I used shows both the building where the mural is to be unveiled, as well as the original version of Stearns Wharf, before the Breakwater was built. It was the roaring ‘20s and the height of Santa Barbara’s golden age of art, hosting a population of just over 20,000.

I created an idealized interpretative rendition and chose colors closely related to and inspired by an early Art Deco Style travel poster, framing it in a graphic “citrus label,” typical from this time period. One often saw graphic images gracing the sides of the warehouses of the day. Today, this historical type of imagery is more prevalent in neighboring cities of Santa Paula and Lompoc.

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This mural, done in a 1920’s “lemon-packing label style” of early flight pioneer Earle Ovington in his plane over Santa Barbara will soon emblazon the building at 22 Anacapa Street

in the legacy of Santa Barbara’s golden age, and its contribution to aviation history. My hope is that visitors who park in the parking lot will be drawn into the adjacent alleyway to view the other murals along the former warehouse, and lead them into the heart of the Funk Zone.

Thomas Van Stein, M.A. in Art Adjunct Professor SBCC Continuing Education

Epstein and Clinton Together Again Earle Ovington (middle) was the first to fly mail out to the farms and ranches on the Channel Islands

Donald Trump has never been on one of Jeffrey Epstein’s private jets headed for an exotic location with a planeload of liquor and young women (some reportedly

very young) onboard. But, former president Bill Clinton has. Yet, the mainstream media can dredge up a 19.5-year-old photo taken at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Resort in Florida, with Epstein and Trump’s future wife (First Lady) Melania, plus a British socialite.

The mainstream media then claims to associate a quote from Trump with this photo, which states that Epstein loves women as much as he (Trump) does, and, “I’ve heard he (Epstein) likes them on the young side.” This may, or may not, be true, but it should be noted that Donald Trump was unmarried at the time the quote was attributed to him, and Trump has probably hosted thousands of A-tier celebrities and lounge lizards at his famous, and in-demand, soirees.

What the mainstream media can’t do is paint a picture of Trump and Epstein doing anything together, apart from the obligatory poses for paparazzi on hire to Page Six. However, with a little legwork, what the mainstream media could do is establish a link between Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein on flights to overseas Clinton Foundation gigs, and a follow-the-paper-trail investigation tying Epstein to both legal and under-the-table contributions to a corrupt Clinton Foundation, where by the foundation’s own admission

doesn’t distribute more than 5% or 8% of its donations to charitable events, functions, enterprises.

The Clinton Foundation is nothing more than a slush fund to keep Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea living the highlife on someone else’s dime. Indicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is heavily entwined in the affairs of the Clinton Empire, yet, the mainstream media distracts the public with a two-decades-old party-hearty paparazzi photo of Trump and Epstein, and a supposed quote Trump made about Epstein at the time of the photo (while he was between marriages).

This is another glaring example as to why the public doesn’t trust the mainstream media to give a paying public its money’s worth when it comes to covering public affairs in an increasingly politicized culture. The first question the mainstream media asks in the opening moments of any “breaking story” is “What effect will the facts of this story have on the fortunes of Democrat and leftist politics?” The next question they pose to themselves is “How can we link this story in a damaging way to Donald Trump, or Republican interests?”

This is all the mainstream media amounts to in 2019, and it is really sad.

David S. McCalmont Santa Barbara •MJ

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Coming

& Going

Regards to Broadway

by James Buckley

Condor Express owner Hiroko Benko (left) invites you to join her on the upcoming Broadway Musical Cruise. She is seen here with Natasha Sobol (who incidentally, went from deck hand to captain on board the Condor Express, recently joined the U.S. Coast Guard, and now serves as captain on board a Coast Guard vessel).

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ere’s one you don’t want to miss if you can help it: The Broadway Musical Cruise aboard the Condor Express. Owner Hiroko Benko invites one and all to come aboard and enjoy the best of Broadway on a smooth Saturday evening cruise with live and on-deck performers Deborah Bertling and Carol Ann Manzi, accompanied by pianist Tim Accurso. They’ll be singing and playing tunes from West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Carousel and other favorites.

This $65 per-person sunset cruise takes place Saturday, July 20, from 7 to 9 pm, and includes complimentary

appetizers and a no-host bar. The whole thing begins with boarding from the Sea Landing on Cabrillo Boulevard, from where you’ll sail south towards Montecito and back along the coast before disembarking once again at the Sea Landing.

Call 805-882-0088 or 888-779-4253 to make a reservation. You can also log on to condorexpress.com. See you onboard!

Delightful Debbie

Debbie (Bruce) Saucedo sold her company, Debbie’s Delights, some time ago, but she has never left our Fiesta Finale live auction hosts Mike and Debbie Bruce (and our caterer/ chef’s cookbook Nourished by Life)

The dinner party (from left) Erin Graffy, Tom Frisina, James Buckley, Jim Garcia, Helen Buckley, and Chris Frisina

Chef and caterer Luna Paige Smith served up an excellent meal at the home of Debbie and Mike Bruce; her website is nourishedbylife.com

sunny enclave. She and her husband, Mike Bruce, are big supporters of local non-profits and charities, including especially Fiesta Finale, which takes place on the Sunday at the tail end of Fiesta. Debbie and Mike offered a catered meal for six at their Montecito aerie as a live-auction item at last year’s Finale and – prodded by insistently smiling auctioneer Erin Graffy – I was the high bidder.

We did finally get together and were served up an especially tasty meal by caterer and cookbook author Luna Paige Smith (along with excellent

wine, after-dinner digestifs, and a take-home goodie bag).

We began with assorted hors d’oeuvres and dug right into an organic filet, and salmon with Green Goddess sauce. Then, arugula salad w/orange, pecans and shaved fennel, with grilled asparagus, zucchini, peppers, and a sweet potato and leek risotto. Because Erin is a known chocoholic, we were greeted with a very, extremely dark and chocolaty Chocolate Velvet Pie...

I don’t know whether the Bruces will be offering this once again at this year’s upcoming Fiesta Finale, but if they do, you should consider making your own bid for what turned out to be a delectable and memorable auction item.

Nameless No Longer

Art Specialist Jennifer Buur advises us that a photo of some of the young artists involved in the Farmers and Merchants art show from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School ran in issue # 25/23 but they were not identified.

So, in an effort to correct this unfortunate error, here is another photo, along with the names of the talented students involved.

•MJ

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(from the left) Mt. Carmel student artists Brooke Berry, Vince Simolon, Joaquin Gaona, Cate Conlan, and Emma Medina; not pictured but also involved is Annicka Dadvar (photo credit: Shannon Jayne)

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MUSIC ACADEMY (Continued from page 16)

Elim Chan, who started her LSO association by winning the fellowship a few years ago, reprises as conductor.

What does she bring to the podium?

It’s great that we have Elim Chan conducting the Family Concert in Santa Barbara. Elim was the first female winner of our international Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition in 2014, and subsequently held the position of Assistant Conductor of the LSO in 2015-16.

Now Elim has flown the LSO nest but we love to have her back with us every season. She is a huge talent – one of the most exciting conductors of her generation and already widely admired for her unique combination of drama and tenderness, power and delicacy.

With John Williams’ piece part of Voyager, I’m reminded how the LSO marked a milestone in recording his score for the first of the Star Wars films, as well as Superman: The Movie and Raiders of the Lost Ark, which launched an era of soundtrack recording for the orchestra. Why is this area important to the orchestra? How is that legacy still showing up for the LSO, in terms of programming, audience, direction, and how has that experience impacted other programs and programming?

As Sir Simon Rattle recently said in an interview, the LSO players made it very clear when he took up the post of Music Director “that we did not just want to go on, along the same path, they made it very clear that we want to explore more. We want to play early music; we want to play music written yesterday. We want to work in the theatre. We want to go across arts. We want to tackle the incredible masterpieces that were written after the Second World War, and we want to carry on bringing music to everybody.” The desire to investigate new types of music, to explore different environments where music can be presented or make music for film is at the heart of what the LSO stands for.

Turning to next week other two concerts, Daniel Harding was able to step in very quickly to replace Michael Tilson Thomas for the other two concerts here.

Would you talk about his relationship with the LSO and why he was the right choice for the events?

Daniel Harding s among the many leading conductors who have strong and often long partnerships with the LSO. Indeed he was a Principal Guest Conductor for a number of years. I am thrilled that he had a gap in his busy schedule and he was able to stand in for Michael Tilson Thomas. He is one of the LSO special family of conductors.

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Would you please provide some background on the programs, why they were chosen, how the pieces fit together, etc.

– starting with The Granada concert of MTT’s Agnegram, plus Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with James Ehnes, and Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra.

LSO Music Director Sir Simon Rattle has been exploring the theme of roots and origins during the last two seasons of concerts. As he said recently, “It’s a journey we began together in 2018, exploring everything for the influence of European to jazz in American Music. Bartok, one of the great collectors of folk music, is such a central composer to this theme, and the LSO plays his music wonderfully.” Beethoven 250 is also one of the big projects of the next year, celebrating 250 years since his birth; this is a taster of his genius. Obviously this programme consists of works that MTT was keen to conduct, and we are all thinking of him on his road to recovery from heart surgery earlier this summer, what better way to than to hear again Agnegram, one of his great compositions.

Also with Sunday’s community concert with the LSO and MAW Academy Festival Orchestra together: Berlioz, Stravinksy and Tchaikovsky – 3 concerts with different programs in 3 days.

This is how we work all the time.

We perform around 70 concerts each year at the Barbican Centre in the City of London where we have been resident Orchestra since 1982 when it first opened, and a further some 60 concerts across the world. So planning complex but balanced repertory is a key part of our planning.

For example, we play three concerts in Hong Kong in September over four nights, each with a different programme and lead soloists. By presenting this kind of mix hopefully we are providing our audiences with a series of memorable musical encounters during our brief visit.

The LSO was one of the first self-governing, self-determining orchestras.

How does that entrepreneurial spirit show up today?

Probably with the constant searching for and exploration of new and different ways to create, play, present, create and share great music today. That means wrestling with and embracing new technologies, which is why LSO live is such an important part of our operation.

This Week at the Music Academy of the West

Thursday, July 11: Fourteen years ago, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard honed her opera and art song skills

right here at MAW’s Miraflores campus, and left as the winner of the annual Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition. Just two years later, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Roméo et Juliette, and has performed frequently with the prestigious company ever since, including singing the role of Dorabella in a Met: Live in HD program that screened here at Hahn Hall. Her masterclass back at the venue yesterday was a special offering for the fellows prepping to offer the West Coast premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain in August in that Leonard created the role of Ada in the world premiere of the work at Santa Fe Opera in 2015. Tonight, the marvelous mezzo will wind up the public portion of her Mosher Guest Artist residency with a recital, accompanied by MAW Vocal Institute’s director of music, John Churchwell, on piano. (7:30; Hahn Hall; $55[sold out]). (Churchwell, by the way, leads the vocal masterclass at 3:15 pm on Monday, July 15 (Hahn Hall; $10.)

Orchestra at the same jewel of a hall on July 13, and the Community Concert in which the LSO shares the stage with the fellows-powered Academy Festival Orchestra at the al fresco Santa Barbara Bowl on July 14.

Friday, July 12: Pre-events leading up to the Cold Mountain performances continue with a screening of O, Brother Where Art Thou?, the Coen Brothers crime comedy related to the opera in that each is influenced by Homer’s The Odyssey. (1 pm; Central Library Faulkner Gallery; free). Next up: a Social Justice Book Club discussion of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo,” a tale of one of the West African men to be captured and sold into slavery prior to the Civil War. (6 pm Tuesday, July 16; Faulkner; free.)

Wednesday, July 17: In addition to the concert performances, Michael Tilson Thomas’ withdrawal for health reasons created an opening for leading a vocal masterclass that has been impressively filled by Gerald Martin Moore, an internationally renowned singing teacher and a vocal consultant who has worked closely with Renée Fleming for many years as well as Natalie Dessay, Marie McLaughlin, Sabine Devielhe, Erin Morley, Elīna Garanča, and Sarah Connolly. A member of the teaching faculty of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann program and adjunct faculty at Curtis Institute of Music, a frequent judge for prestigious vocal competitions, and the regular host of the Metropolitan Opera Quiz, Moore is perfectly positioned to put MAW’s vocal fellows through their paces.

(3:15 pm; Hahn; $10.)

•MJ

Friday-Sunday, July 12-14: Blimey, it’s LSO weekend at MAW! See the interview above for more about the Voyager family program at the Granada on July 12, a “regular” program by the London Symphony

Tuesday, July 16: MAW’s Faculty Artists Series offers another veritable variety pack of chamber music mixing up the pros with the “students” via Dahl’s Music for Brass (with Paul Merkelo trumpet; Mark H. Lawrence and fellow Kevin Carlson trombone; and fellow Colin Benton tuba), Beethoven’s Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3 (Martin Beaver violin; fellow Kelcey Howell cello; and Natasha Kislenko piano), and Mozart’s String Quintet in C Major, K. 515, played by violinists Martin Beaver and (fellow) Amy Semes, violists Karen Dreyfus and Richard O’Neill, and cello fellow Soyoon Park. When the music steps, everybody gets to mix it up via the complimentary reception with the artists outdoors in the courtyard. (7:30 pm; Lobero Theatre; $46.)

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24TH ANNUAL VILLAGE FOURTH I PHOTOS BY KELLY MAHAN HERRICK AND PRISCILLA

t was another successful and patriotic parade and barbeque last Thursday in Montecito, marking the 24th Annual Village Fourth, sponsored by the Montecito Association. Thousands of residents came out to partake in the festivities, lining the parade route on San Ysidro Road. Co-chairs Mindy Denson, Kathi King, and Trish Davis were once again at the helm, with help from a large committee as well as MA board members and executive director Sharon Byrne.

Roughly 36 groups had entries in the parade, which included a number of vintage vehicles, school groups, and families. The winners are as follows: Community Spirit: ELMO Early School; Patriotic: Alan Porter’s 1955 Red Chevrolet Corvette with Gorillas; Cutest: The Taran Family, who dressed up in different pieces of pie, calling themselves “Montecito Cutie Pies.” Grand Marshal John Venable rode in the parade on a vintage fire truck, surrounded by his family and friends.

Following the parade was a BBQ and picnic in Lower Manning Park, where a singer from Music Academy of the West started off the entertainment with the National Anthem, followed by songs from local musician Jackson Gillies, who recently appeared on American Idol. Attendees enjoyed food from Feast & Fest, as well as wine and beer, McConnell’s Ice Cream, and Hippy Pop popcorn.

Dozens of kids came out to participate in the Montecito Cup, which included a tug-of-war, and sack races. Cold Spring School was the winner of the prized Montecito Cup. Enjoy the photos from fun-filled day!

•MJ

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Josh, brother-in-law of President Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, tied the knot with supermodel Karlie Kloss at a small intimate New York ceremony in October, but decided to have a bigger event last month.

Santa Barba warbler Katy Perry also attended the ceremony with English actor fiancé, Pirates of the Caribbean star Orlando Bloom, and Carpinteria twosome, actor Ashton Kutcher and actress Mila Kunis, along with media tycoon Barry Diller and fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, and Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan, and his sister, Princess Salma.

From Zebra entertainment is Curtis Skene, Victoria Firestone Ru, baby Teddy, Wesley Ru, and daughter Morgan Ru (photo

by Priscilla)

Child’s Play It was a trip down memory lane for polo patriarch Glen Holden and his wife, Gloria, when for the first time in six years, they hosted a Family Fun Day at their former Gehache Ranch, now owned by Santa Barbara Polo Club president, John Muse.

The fun event was so oversubscribed, with more than 500 guests –

with Viennese Connections featuring works by the maestro Towards Osiris: A Study for Orchestra, Zemlinsky’s Sinfonietta, and Brahms’ piano quartet in G Minor.

Another glorious week in the academy’s 72nd annual festival...

Bond, Heather Bond Former International adventure racer, Santa Barbara’s Heather Bond is reuniting with an old friend, TV mogul and producer Mark Burnett, after more than two decades in what is described as the world’s most grueling expedition race, The EcoChallenge.

The ten-episode show, which will be held over three weeks in Fiji in

Heather Bond Fiji-bound

Family and close friends Sharon Holden, Tema Landecker, Aizik Snead, Daniel Gonzalez, Echo Snead, Ashley Robbins behind Gloria “Grammy” Holden, and Marisy Gonzalez (photo by Priscilla)

Holden family members Georgianne and Rick Stone (photo by Priscilla)

way above the original estimate of 200 – that no more could be fitted safely on the property, just a tiara’s toss or two from the Carpinteria club.

Entertainment for children abounded with laser tag, a bucking bull, a 40ft. rock climbing wall, a miniature train,

Generations of Holden family members enjoying Family Fun Day at Gehache Ranch (photo by Priscilla)

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bubble and cotton candy machines, and a menagerie with a potbellied pig, rabbits, goats, lambs and a small pony, and hamburgers and hot dogs galore from Seasons Catering.

“It was perfect timing just two days after July 4, as everybody is in town,” says Glen, former U.S. ambassador to Jamaica. “It’s always such a fun time.”

Joining in the fun and frolics were David Sigman, Geannie Sheller, Mike and Claudia Uretz, Tara Gray, Chad and Margarita Lande, Charles Ward, Curtis Skene, Melanja Jones, Jeep and Sharon Holden, Paige Beard, Wes Ru, Robert and Robin Fell, and Dana Hansen.

My Oh MAW Pianist Jeremy Denk was in top form at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall for a sold-out performance playing works by Beethoven, Adams, Mendelssohn and Schumann.

The Avery Fisher Prize winner did it all with consummate ease.

Seventy-two hours later it was time for the Academy Festival Orchestra to shine under conductor Matthias Pintscher at the Granada

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

September and airing on Amazon Prime, will be hosted by British adventurer Bear Grylls, 44, known for his Discovery Channel program Man vs.

Wild, with athletes racing non-stop 24 hours a day, across hundreds of miles of rugged terrain.

Heather, now a local adventure and body guide, has been selected as one of the competitor relations logistics team members.

She first met Burnett in 1993 through a contact while she was a participant in the TV show American Gladiators.

They were on rival U.S. adventure racing teams training for an international race, The Raid Gauloises, held in Borneo in 1994.

Heather also raced in an earlier version of the Eco-Challenge, and went on to participate in The Southern Traverse in New Zealand, the 4Deserts in the Atacama Desert in Chile and the Four Winds Expedition, to name a few.

For the past ten years, Heather, a former Hollywood stuntwoman and L.A. firefighter, has owned and operated Heather Bond Fitness and is currently working on her memoir, Athena Rising.

T Is For Trolley Tour It was a magical mystery tour when Friends of Santa Barbara Public Library hosted a Kinsey Trolley Tour,

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EDITORIAL (Continued from page 5)

NOTICE OF ELECTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Vote-By-Mail General and Special Municipal Election will be held in the City of Santa Barbara on Tuesday, November 5, 2019, for the following Officers: # TO BE ELECTED For Members of the City Council

TERM OF OFFICE

3 (Districts 1, 2, and 3)

For Member of the City Council

5 Years

1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake

1 (District 6)

2 Years (Completion of Gregg Hart’s four year term)

The nomination period for these offices begins on July 15, 2019 and closes on August 9, 2019, at 5:00 p.m.

If no one or only one person is nominated for an elective office, appointment to the elective office may be made as prescribed by Section 10229, Elections Code of the State of California.

Nomination papers for candidates may be obtained from the Santa Barbara City Clerk’s Office at 735 Anacapa Street (southwest corner of De La Guerra and Anacapa).

The designated drop-off centers for ballots will be open on the following days: Santa Barbara City Hall: Saturday, November 2, 2019, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.; and All drop-off center locations: Tuesday, November 5, 2019, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.

Dated this 8th day of July, 2019. /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager Published July 10, 2019 Montecito Journal

NOTIFICACIÓN DE LA ELECCIÓN POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO de que se habrá de llevar a cabo una Elección Municipal General de Voto-Por-Correo en la Ciudad de Santa Bárbara el martes cinco de noviembre del 2019, para los siguientes Funcionarios: # PUESTOS A ELEGIR

DURACION DEL CARGO

Para miembros del Consejo Municipal

3 (Distritos 1, 2 y 3)

5 Años

Para miembros del Consejo Municipal

1 (Distrito 6)

5 Años (Finalización del plazo de cuatro años de Gregg Hart)

El período de nominación para estos puestos comienza el 15 de julio del 2019 y cierra el nueve de agosto del 2019 a las 5:00 de la tarde.

Si ninguna o sólo a una persona está nominada para oficial electo, el nombramiento de ese cargo público puede ser hecho según lo prescrito en la Sección 10229, del Código Electoral del Estado de California.

Los documentos para la nominación de candidaturas se pueden obtener en la Secretaria Municipal de Santa Bárbara que se encuentra en la calle Anacapa 735 (en la esquina sureste del cruce de las calles De La Guerra y Anacapa).

Los centros designados para dejar las boletas de su voto estarán abiertos los siguientes días: Las Oficinas Municipales [City Hall]: sábado dos de noviembre del 2019, entre las horas de 8:00 a.m. y 5:00 p.m.; y Los centros de votación: martes cinco de noviembre del 2019, entre las horas de 7:00 a.m. y 8:00 p.m.

Fechado en este día 8 de julio del 2019. /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC Secretaria Municipal Published July 10, 2019 Montecito Journal

Floor, New York, NY, 10001.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 10, 2019. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2019-0001392.

Published July 3, 10, 17, 24, 2019.

on high alert for future natural disasters, especially ones that could close our only two lifelines to the outside world, the undersized and aging 101, and the inoperative 192 East Valley Road with its still missing bridges.

At 6:42 am on June 29, 1925, the city of Santa Barbara shook with a 6.3 earthquake. In the downtown business district, an area of about 36 blocks, 85% of the commercial buildings were destroyed or badly damaged in 19 seconds. Fortunately, because of the early hour, the quake killed only 13 people.

Most homes survived the earthquake in relatively good condition, although nearly every chimney in the city crumbled. The towers of the Santa Barbara Mission were severely damaged but were subsequently rebuilt by 1927. Many important buildings, including hotels, offices, and the Potter Theater on lower State Street, were lost. The courthouse, jail, library, schools, and churches were among the buildings sustaining serious damage. Concrete curbs buckled in almost every block in Santa Barbara.

The Southern Pacific railroad tracks were damaged between Ventura and the Gaviota coast. Seaside bluffs fell into the ocean, and a slight tsunami was noted by offshore ships. The town was completely cut off from telephone and telegraph, and news from the outside world arrived by shortwave radio. Three strong aftershocks occurred in the next few hours, although none caused additional damage.

A failed dam in the foothills released forty-five million gallons of water, and a gas company engineer became a hero when he shut off the city’s gas supply and prevented fires like those that had destroyed San Francisco twenty years earlier. The epicenter of the earthquake was located in the ocean off the coast of Santa Barbara, in the Santa Barbara Channel.

Aftermath of the 1925 Earthquake

Large-scale construction efforts in 1925 and 1926 removed or repaired damaged structures. New development completely altered the character of the city center. The Santa Barbara Community Arts Association, founded in the beginning of the 1920s, viewed the earthquake as the opportunity to rebuild the city center in a single, unified architectural style. Building codes in Santa Barbara were made more stringent after the earthquake. Traditional construction techniques of unreinforced concrete, brick, and masonry were deemed unsafe and unlikely to survive strong tremblers.

When the Ground Shakes: Tips for Survival FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: All for Real, 2346 Del Sur, Santa Maria, CA 93455. Jon Jackson, 2346 Del Sur, Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 4, 2019. 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

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copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2019-0001330.

Published July 3, 10, 17, 24, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Aesthetics for Angels, 707 E. Valerio St., Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Lacen April Patton, 707 E. Valerio St.,

Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 28, 2019. 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)

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Published June 26, July 3, 10, 17, 2019.

“I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.” – Aryeh Frimer

The quaking question for Montecito residents is: “How well are you prepared?” Running outside during an earthquake tremor is not a good idea. If you try to move while the ground is rolling, you could break a leg or an ankle. Experts advise those inside their homes to drop, cover and hold. Drop to the floor on your hands and knees; crawl under a sturdy table and hold on.

Stay away from glass windows, walls and anything that falls. Standing in a doorframe is an urban myth; it will collapse. If in bed, stay there, but protect your neck and head with pillows.

If outside, avoid power lines, trees and buildings.

If driving, pull over and stay inside the car. Near the shore, seek higher ground. Watch for receding waves, a sign for a probable tsunami.

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The Northridge Story: 1994

The insurance industry and emergency planners are still haunted by the fallout from the 1994 Northridge temblor. That quake cost an estimated $40 billion in today’s dollars for property losses – about half of that to homes. It also sparked a quake coverage crisis in the 1990s. Many companies simply stopped writing policies after getting stung with nearly $20 billion in payouts. And for the companies that remained, consumer prices soared. Those that were still in the market were increasing rates dramatically – doubling, or tripling or increasing by tenfold.

Faced with new expensive, bare-bones policies and high deductibles, homeowners bailed on coverage in droves. The state has been working to get those people back ever since. The publicly managed California Earthquake Authority, a not-for-profit, was set up by the state legislature after insurance companies stopped underwriting policies or had jacked up prices.

Earthquake Insurance in Montecito

Another question, “Should we now purchase earthquake insurance?”

Glenn Pomeroy, CEO of the California Earthquake Authority, worries that nearly 90% of California homeowners do not have earthquake insurance and barely 1 out of 10 commercial buildings is insured for quakes, according to the California Department of Insurance.

Homeowners counter that quake insurance is too expensive and that deductibles are too high to make earthquake insurance cost effective.

Earthquake insurance on your residence or business is not included in even the best California homeowner policies. If you want earthquake coverage, you have to buy it separately or ask to have it added to your policy by endorsement or buy it from the California Earthquake Authority. However, if you have a homeowner’s insurance policy in California, your insurance company must offer to sell you earthquake insurance too.

Here are some things to know, as offered by the California Department of Insurance: • There are limits on what earthquake insurance pays. The purpose of earthquake insurance is to help put a roof back over your head. It does not pay enough to replace everything you lost.

• To estimate your earthquake insurance premium, use the Premium Calculator at www.earthquakeauthority.com • A house is likely to have more damage if it is older, or built of brick or masonry, or has more than one story.

• If you can’t afford earthquake insurance, the state says there are ways to protect your home and reduce damage caused by earthquakes. It suggests retrofitting homes, securing breakable items with museum putty, bolting furniture, and tying down computers and televisions.

By backstopping risk, the California Earthquake Authority, over time, has helped fix what turned people away from coverage. It has dramatically lowered rates – by more than 50 percent – while substantially increasing coverage and flexibility. People can now decide the deductible they want – from as low as 5% up to 25%. Homeowners who have had a seismic upgrade to their foundation, or a retrofit, are eligible for up to a 20% discount for coverage.

“The fact that about 90 percent of the homes in California are unprepared for a major quake is a great concern,” Pomeroy says. “Seventy-five percent of the nation’s earthquake risk is right here in California.

Scientists say we’re going to get hit again; it’s a certainty.”

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Locally, our two biggest unanswered concerns are: 1) collapsed 101 overpasses at Hot Springs, Olive Mill, San Ysidro or Sheffield that could shut down all outbound resident evacuation traffic and inbound first responders and emergency supplies; and (2) a quake of sufficient size that it sends down all those hanging boulders still stored in the canyons of the Los Padres National Forest above Montecito.

Judging by the way Santa Barbara County officials looked the other way while we residents

coughed up nearly $5 million to put up flexible steel nets for protection, it’s likely we won’t be able to count on the county for help. Good thing the Montecito Fire Department, FEMA, and the Army Corps of Engineers stand at the ready, but, at the least, you (and we) really should have a 72-hour backpack nearby. If you don’t know what to put into your emergency sack, call MERRAG (Montecito Emergency Response and Recovery Action Group) at 805-969-2537 or 805-969-7762 and they’ll be able to help.

•MJ

Notice Inviting Bids Bid No. 5747 1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its Gibraltar Dam Spillway Repair Project (“Project”), by or before Wednesday, August 14, 2019, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

2.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at the Gibraltar Dam (State Dam No. 11) and Reservoir site, is located on the far side of the high Santa Ynez Mountain range about 7 miles north of the City (about 17 miles by road). The dam and reservoir are owned and operated by the City. The dam is a 195 foot tall concrete arch dam. A spillway structure on the left abutment of the dam provides flood routing and water release capabilities for the reservoir. The spillway is a gated concrete structure and requires repair as part of this work.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is 90 calendar days from Notice to Proceed.

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $250,000.

3.

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): A – General Engineering.

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

5.

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

8.

Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.

9.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of onehalf of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

10.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

11.

Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., at the Gibraltar Dam and Reservoir for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. Bidders shall meet at the parking lot for the Paradise Store located at Highway 154 and Paradise Road to caravan to the job site at the indicated bidders’ conference time.The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference will be disqualified from bidding.

By: ___________________________________

Date: ________________

Bill Hornung, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) July 10, 2019 2) July 17, 2019 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Chair of the Casa del Herrero garden committee Duke McPherson and the executive director Jessica Tade

The exotic Sapphire Tower in bloom

in Santa Barbara: the Mission, Courthouse and an adobe and much of that decision was because of the gardens on this eleven-acre estate.

The owner, George Fox Steedman, was a perfectionist and he made many changes to landscape architect Ralph Stevens garden designs. It became an eclectic mix of Country Place Era and Moorish inspired garden spaces. Also involved were landscape architects Lockwood de Forest and Francis T. Underhill.

In the olden days there were twelve gardeners. Today with only two gardeners there’s a great deal to take care of. The Garden Club in prior days helped restore the herb garden. They plan to watch over the cactus garden so it will not be neglected. Now we docents will be able to take guests into the cactus garden for a stroll during our tours.

While guests sipped wine and walked the gravel paths, Casa del Herrero executive director Jessica Tade expressed her gratitude for the Garden Club’s generous time and treasure spent on our behalf.

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of Santa Barbara has been such a joy. I am grateful for their support, and the knowledge and expertise they brought to this project.”

In case you’ve never been to the Casa at 1387 East Valley Road near the Montecito Library, it is open to the public for docent-led tours every Wednesday and Saturday at 10 am and 2 pm. Call 805.565.5653 for reservations. The Casa was built in the early 1920s and is still filled with all of the family’s furnishings, which makes it seem like a home, not a museum. The Steedmans had come with George’s brother who had diabetes and Dr. Sansum was the only person in the United States at the time that had insulin. George and Carrie were from Saint Louis and fell in love with Santa Barbara. They bought their eleven acres to have a second home but by 1930 they were full time residents. We still have relatives on the board. Come and see.

GCC executive director Doug Kern, MClub’s Kathy Washburn, GCC board Donna Senauer, and GCC board member and speaker Phil McKenna

MClub director Maria McCall with president/ COO of Montecito Bank & Trust George Leis at the GCC talk

Gaviota Coast Conservancy

Right in our own backyard sits one of the most beautiful and threatened biodiversity hotspots in the world, the Gaviota Coast. “We should never take this 72-mile long stretch of coast for granted,” said Gaviota Coast Conservancy (GCC) board member Phil McKenna.

We were gathered at the Santa Barbara Club for another Lunch & Learn event, this time about the (GCC) put on by Montecito Bank & Trust’s MClub and directed by Maria McCall.

Phil continued, “The Gaviota Coast is 200,000 acres of creeks and mountain range. It is one of five Mediterranean climates in the world. It is home to 1,400 plants and animals plus the diversity in the ocean. It has the largest congregation of blue whales on the West Coast.”

This piece of land is the longest undeveloped coastline remaining in Southern California. With nearly 90% of Southern California’s coast already lost to development it is doubly important to preserve this, especially

for the wildlife fighting to survive against mankind. Urban sprawl has contributed to the decline of 188 of the 286 California species listed under the Endangered Species Act. For instance, numerous coastal watersheds tie the mountains to the sea, which are some of the last spawning areas of the endangered steelhead trout.

The land also has a rich agricultural history. Because of its temperate climate it can produce multiple citrus crops each year. Other products have included livestock, wheat, beans, wine grapes, fruits and nuts. There is also great space for recreation. The California Coastal Trail will eventually connect the South Coast urban area with county and state parks, where additional trails open routes onto federal lands.

To truly show us what lives in this area we saw a stunning 45-minute film, five years in the making and sponsored by the GCC. There is also a cultural heritage with much evi-

“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.” – Edith Sitwell

dence of long-time human occupation, dating back thousands of years.

The mild climate supported the development of a complex maritime culture of Chumash people in one of the most densely occupied portions of native California.

What’s being done? The GCC is leading a community-based effort to protect the Gaviota Coast. They are working through partnerships with other land conservation organizations, local landowners, resource agencies and government. It’s a complex web of people and organizations that control this land.

You can help preserve our coastal heritage for generations to come with a donation of any amount sent to Gaviota Coast Conservancy, P.O. Box 1099, Goleta, CA 93116. Or check out gaviotacoastconservancy.org.

Thanks to MClub member Kathryn Washburn for bringing this presentation to Lunch & Learn and making us aware.

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ing that she plans to highlight some of the bohemian pieces in her boutique during the party, including luxury bathing suits. The launch party will feature catering from Los Arroyos, as well as margaritas and beer.

The launch and reception is Saturday, July 13, from 5 pm to 9 pm at Allora by Laura, 1269 Coast Village Road. The exhibit runs through July 18. For more information, visit www. stokedsurfart.com.

Local Volunteer Recognized

istrative program director since 2012 and as coordinator of the Working Cat Program since 2017. ASAP’s Working Cat Program places feral cats – who may have otherwise been euthanized – on farms, nurseries, and ranches as mousers, helping control rodent populations. The program placed 47 feral cats in outdoor homes last year. “I am so honored to volunteer with ASAP and proud of the work that ASAP has accomplished in the animal welfare field over the past 30 years. Shelter animals and the cats we work with need us to stand up for them and speak on their behalf,” said Scott.

Scott says that when she isn’t pet

sitting, she’s usually working on the behalf of ASAP shelter cats, performing administrative tasks such as creating cage cards with adoptable shelter cat personality descriptions on them, taking the census which helps ASAP track their cat population or interviewing potential feral-cat adopters.

She also volunteers as a weekly lead caregiver each Wednesday evening at the ASAP shelter. As part of the Pet Adoption Advocate of the Year Award, Pet Sitters International makes a $500 donation to the animal shelter or pet-rescue group of the recipient’s choice; Scott has selected ASAP to receive the donation.

Pet Sitters International, which has

promoted pet adoptions through its annual Take Your Dog To Work Day campaign since 1999. The organization received award submissions from professional pet sitters across the United States and Canada who, in addition to pet sitting, work year-round to promote adoptions and improve the lives of adoptable pets in their communities.

To learn more about Scott and PamperPet Pet Concierge, visit www.pamperpetsb.com. Visit www. asapcats.org to learn more about the Animal Shelter Assistance Program.

For more information on Pet Sitters International and its Pet Adoption Advocate of the Year Award, visit www.petsit.com.

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Local pet sitter and volunteer Mary Scott has been acknowledged for her volunteerism and pet advocacy

Pet Sitters International, the world’s largest educational association for professional pet sitters, has named a local business owner and volunteer as the Pet Adoption Advocate of the Year. The association has selected Mary Scott, owner of PamperPet Pet Concierge, who was instrumental in helping evacuated cats during the Thomas Fire in December 2017.

For Scott, her commitment to her local pet community extends far beyond operating her professional pet-sitting service. Scott dedicates more than 300 hours per year to her volunteer work at the Animal Shelter Assistance Program (ASAP), the stray and open admission cat shelter in Santa Barbara County. Scott has volunteered with the organization since 2009 and is a volunteer member of the organization’s leadership, serving as admin-

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

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Concerts on the Lawn 1 – It’s opening night of the 20th season of Concerts in the Park, one of Santa Barbara’s most popular free summer traditions, a musical extravaganza that brings up to 5,000 people down to the sloped lawn across Cabrillo Boulevard from the gorgeous Santa Barbara waterfront and beach every Thursday night. The official press release always takes pains to say “dust off your dancing shoes,” but that seems a little disingenuous, because if you actually bring true suede-bottomed dancing shoes to the area in front of the stage, you’re not going to want to use them indoors anymore, and whatever footwear you don will almost definitely come home much more dusty than anything in your closet. That might be especially true tonight as the Great Meadow Stage hosts Area 51, the veteran party band that is making the rounds of all the outdoor festivals this year, delivering the funk, pop and rock and dance hits from several decades. Next week: The CPP debut of Pop Gun Rerun, the Orange County band playing hits from the ‘80s by Bon Jovi, Prince, Journey, Missing Persons, Depeche Mode, The Cure, INXS, Pat Benetar, Madonna, Rick Springfield and others. WHEN: 6-8:30 pm WHERE: 323 E. Cabrillo Blvd. COST: free INFO: (805) 5645418 or www.santabarbaraca.gov/ gov/depts/parksrec/recreation/ events/parkrec/concerts.asp

Bastille Day, Baby – Hopefully our ears will have stopped ringing from that thrilling fireworks display on July 4 by the time the 31st annual Santa Barbara French Festival, celebrating that country’s national day and its culture, rolls around this weekend. The rare cultural festival to have survived three decades – even the popular Jewish Fest went on hiatus this spring – is actually many in one: a Dance Festival, a Music Festival, an Arts & Crafts Festival and, of course, a Food Festival. Where else can you chow down on crepes, pastries and wine-soaked delicacies and also cheer on Chows in the annual Canine Cavalcade? Among the attractions at the two-day extravaganza in “the American Riviera” are a mini Eiffel Tower and entertainment on three different stages all day long with dance and music from more than 30 different acts spanning performances, audience participation and instruction, plus Django Reinhardt tributes, accordion music, and of course, the Femme Fatales Drag Revue. For something a little different, play Pétanque on the King’s Court, watch a demonstration of period armored combat, join in at the French Conversation Booth, or shop for French tablecloths.

The highlights are so many, they’re really just lights, like downtown Paris on a Saturday night. WHEN: 11 am-7 pm today & tomorrow WHERE:

THURSDAY, JULY 11 Waterboy – Oakland-based author and naturalist Obi Kaufmann, who penned the bestselling California Field Atlas, was just in town leading a nature hike last week. Now he’s coming to Chaucer’s Bookstore toting his new book, The State of Water – Understanding California’s Most Precious Resource. Turning his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State’s single most complex and controversial resource, the new book employs elegant prose and full-color maps to unravel the braided knot of California’s water infrastructure and ecosystems, exposing a history of unlimited growth in spite of finite natural resources, a history that has led to its current precarious circumstances. Kaufmann argues that environmental conservation and restoration efforts are necessary not only for ethical reasons but also as a matter of human survival, and he offers nine perspectives to illustrate the most pressing challenges as he reveals pragmatic yet inspiring solutions to how water in the West can continue to support agriculture, municipalities, and the environment. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center COST: free INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com

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by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, JULY 12 Up the Ladder – How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, SBCC Theatre Group’s big summer musical, follows the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who uses a little handbook of the same name to facilitate climbing the corporate ladder from lowly window washer to high-powered executive. Along the way, he tackles such familiar but potent dangers as the aggressively compliant “company man,” the office party, backstabbing co-workers, caffeine addiction and, of course, true love. The tune-filled comic gem with an exhilarating score by Frank Loesser (Where’s Charley?, Guys And Dolls), was a huge hit back in the early 1960s, winning both the Tony Award for Best Musical and a Pulitzer Prize, sparking two hit revivals, in 1995 and 2011. Directed by R. Michael Gros, with musical direction by David Potter and choreography by Tracy R. Kofford and Chloe Grace Roberts, How to Succeed features a large cast fronted by Ryan Ostendorf as Finch. WHEN: Opens tonight, runs Thursday through Sundays through July 27 WHERE: SBCC’s Garvin Theatre, 721 Cliff Drive COST: $14-$26 INFO: (805) 965-5935 or www.theatregroupsbcc.com

Oak Park, 300 West Alamar St. COST: free INFO: (805) 963-8198 OR www.frenchfestival.com The Sound of Art 1 – Ted Nash has long been a musical maverick. A co-founder of the New York-based Jazz Composers Collective, a musician-run, nonprofit entity dedicated to presenting the original works of composers who are pushing the boundaries of their self-expression, Nash is also a long-standing member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. He’s also a composer whose recordings have received wide critical acclaim and garnered multiple Grammy awards and nominations. Now he’s back in Santa Barbara at the Museum of Art, winding up a two-week stay as an SBMA artist-in-residence where his five-day workshop had Nash sharing his insight and experience with a selection of local students and fellow musicians. The workshop was run in the vein of his album Portrait in Seven Shades in which he responded to Museum of Modern Art masterpieces, focusing on using improvisation to guide the composition process, inspired by works from SBMA’s collection and contemporary special exhibitions. The experience comes to a close today with a culminating free performance featuring compositions created by Nash and the students. WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State Street (entrance in the rear) COST: free INFO: (805) 963-4364 or www.sbma.net

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Ellen Parr

SUNDAY, JULY 14 The Sound of Art 2 – Chris Kallmyer: Ensemble is a new postFluxus-style multimedia installation by the Los Angeles-based sound and performance artist that centers around a sculptural instrument created specifically for the exhibition comprised of raw timber and handmade bells that functions as a communal bell-ringing instrument, or carillon. The instrument, which is activated by a group of individuals, employs a method of making music by non-musicians that blends collective listening with lively communal rituals and meditation practice.

The exhibition also includes a selection of musical “scores” developed by the artist, a couple hundred of the 40,000-plus possibilities, plus related drawings, and a video projection documenting the inaugural staging of the instrument, Ensemble serves as an oasis for contemplation and exploration.

Today at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s monthly Studio Sunday, you can create your own musical score inspired by Ensemble by drawing and cutting out shapes on scratch foam, rolling them with paint, and printing them on a sheet music background.

Who knows? Maybe they’ll play your opus next week. WHEN: 1:30 – 4:30 pm WHERE: Family Resource Center, 1130 State Street COST: free INFO: (805) 963-4364 or www.sbma.net TUESDAY, JULY 16 Concerts on the Lawn 2 – Speaking of Area 51, the fervent funk-soulsters are also the stars of 11 – 18 July 2019

SUNDAY, JULY 14 That’ll Be the Night – Tribute bands abound around town and at festivals nowadays. But not too many of them feature a lead vocalist who actually sang backup with the honoree. Rosemary Butler was a studio and touring mainstay in the late 1970s and early ‘80s, singing on countless popular songs and serving as a back-up singer alongside not only Linda Ronstadt but also Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Whitney Houston, Ray Charles, and many others. In a return engagement at SOhO, Butler will share some of her own journey in the world of rock and roll as told through this cleverly crafted musical tribute to Ronstadt, backed by her own top-notch band of session players and studio wizards. Expect some special guests as well as an opening set by singer-songwriter Gary Stockdale. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $18 in advance, $20 day of show INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

Music at the Ranch, Goleta Valley Historical Society’s weekly Tuesday night summer time tradition at Rancho La Patera & Stow House. Friends and neighbors also gather here to picnic on the lawns under the wide variety of trees adjacent to Lake Los Carneros where all are invited to listen to and dance to some of the best bands in our area. Donna Green and The Roadhouse Daddies opened things up last week, Area 51 takes of this Tuesday, and next week get psyched up for the Molly Ringwald Project, which, as its name suggests, focuses a lot on his from the 1980s when the actress all the rage. WHEN: 5:30-7:30 pm WHERE: 304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta COST: free INFO: (805) 681-7216 or www.goletahistory.org/ music-at-the-ranch/ WEDNESDAY, JULY 17 Extra! Extra! – Disney’s Newsies, based on the 1992 movie, was inspired by the real-life Newsboy Strike of 1899, when newsboy Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway “newsies” on a two-week-long action

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against Pulitzer, Hearst and other powerful newspaper publishers. The musical has an impressive pedigree as it features a score by eight-time Academy Award-winner Alan Menken and Jack Feldman and a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and it doesn’t disappoint.

The action is nearly nonstop, the story suspenseful and even a bit moving as it addresses age-old themes of social injustice, exploitative labor practices and David-versus-Goliath struggles, while the song and dance numbers are absolutely enervating.

The stage version introduces eight brand-new songs not heard in the movie by the original team of Menken and Feldman while keeping many of the beloved songs from the film.

The current incarnation is a touring show from Lake Elsinore-based Theatre Royale, not the subscription behemoth Broadway at the Granada Series. So you can decide which one is David. WHEN: 7:30 pm tonight & tomorrow WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: call INFO: (805) 899-2222 or www.granadasb. org •MJ

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Hole in the Wall – That’s the title of a new exhibition of assemblage works by Michael Long opening today at The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara, a different sort of approach for the gallery. The show is a capsulized study into unnoticed aspects of the physical world as well as the dark corners of Long’s own mind, and blends aspects of real, typically local, architecture with images from his imagination to create unique assemblage boxes that emit a preternatural vibe. Long draws from both his recurring childhood dreams, nightmares and memories and his current careful observations of actual buildings in Santa Barbara to fashion the small, precisely constructed works that serve as eerie reminders of forgotten spaces – both interior and exterior. The “creepy yet elegant” pieces are built by hand and incorporate vintage papers as well as “discarded, recycled, and unwanted things,” resulting in boxes that evoke curiosity and a myriad of associations and feelings in viewers. WHEN: Opening reception 5-7 pm tonight; exhibit continues through September 12 WHERE: 229 E. Victoria St. (in the historic Acheson House on the corner of Garden) COST: free INFO: (805) 9656307 or www.afsb.org

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Letting Herself Go Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow is famously particular about her health and fitness, with experts estimating the cost of her beauty regimen to be around $14,000 a month.

But the Oscar winner says her derriere isn’t what it once was after “pigging out on pasta” during a recent sojourn to Italy.

Speaking at her Goop wellness summit in London, the 46-year-old thespian admitted working out with her personal trainer, Tracy Anderson, had given her an unrecognizably pert behind.

“But my butt is not great at the

Trolleys waiting to pick up Sue Grafton fans (photo by David Sanchez)

moment. I was just in Italy and pigged out on pasta.”

Gwynnie also admitted she lets herself go occasionally on baguettes, cheese and red wine.

Activewear at Auction A sweatshirt gifted to the late Princess Diana by Virgin Atlantic tycoon Sir Richard Branson is set to raise more than $5,000 at auction.

Diana was repeatedly photographed in the blue baggy jumper after making it a habit to always wear it to the Harbor Club gym in London’s oh-so trendy Chelsea to annoy paparazzi looking to get a fresh shot of the peo-

Entertainer Wilson Geyling, Judy Sturgeon, and Terry McElwee of Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara (photo by Priscilla)

Kinsey Trolley Tour, Talk and Treats co-chairs Barbara Hershberg and Anna Lafferty (photo by David Sanchez)

Talk and Treats, for more than 100 fans of the late local bestselling author Sue Grafton, known for her alphabet series of books with private investigator Kinsey Millhone.

Grafton, a former Hollywood screenwriter who died two years ago, aged 77, started her popular series in 1982 with A Is For Alibi, with her last being Y Is For Yesterday.

Her final book, which was never written, was to be titled Z Is For Zero.

The writer based her sleuth in the fictional town of Santa Teresa, our Eden by the Beach, while calling our rarefied enclave Montebello and Hope Ranch Horton Ravine in her New York Times bestsellers, which were published in 28 countries and 26 languages.

She was on the Times bestseller lists for an aggregate of more than 400 weeks.

The tour, which raised more than $5,000 for library funds, was hosted by Betsy Green and Barbara Hershberg, who pointed out the various local locations used in Grafton’s books, including the Granada, La Cumbre Country Club and Shoreline Park.

Before the tour, a panel of three authors, Susan Miles Gulbransen, Fred Klein, and Melodie Johnson Howe, all of whom had known Grafton, regaled guests with anecdotes in the Faulkner Gallery.

Cooking with Michael Local culinary whiz Michael Hutchings is about give Gordon

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Chef Michael Hutchings launches new TV show

Ramsay a run for his money!

Michael is launching a new cooking show, The Santa Barbara Chef, on the Cox cable network, filming in the Flying A film complex, the original West Coast silent movie studio.

The first 30-minute show debuts next month, featuring gourmet recipes from around the world, chef’s tips and wine pairings, set against the beautiful American Riviera.

“I’m looking forward to sharing this exciting new show with fellow food lovers all over,” says Michael, whose storied career has included being executive chef at Disneyland’s fabled Club 33, London’s La Gavroche, and owner of Michael’s Waterside, a Santa Barbara staple and celebrity hangout for more than ten years.

Michael, who now runs his popular eponymous catering company, is no stranger to TV, having appeared frequently with the late Julia Child on the PBS series, Dinner at Julia’s, as well as numerous other programs.

The new show, which is being produced by YTS Films/Hellcat Productions, will air at 11 am in Santa Barbara and San Diego on Channel 4, in Orange County on Channel 3 and in Palm Springs, and Yuma, Arizona, on Channel 27.

Food for thought, indeed.

Calvary chef Jeffery Layne with Dana, Richard, and Hannah Klakeg (photo by Priscilla)

SBRM President Rolf Geyling with his wife Patricia, daughter Olivia, and Joy Van Wickle (photo by Priscilla)

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” – Erica Jong

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while noshing on fare from the Bear and Star in Los Olivos, were Brooks and Kate Firestone, Bill and Trish Davis, Ken and Elsbeth Clements, Roberta Griffin, Carol Bloom, Caren Rager, Bob and Sandy Urquhart, Jen Thompson, Gretchen Lieff and Miles Hartfeld, and Sarah Chrisman, singing a wonderful rendition of “Yankee Doodle Dandy” on the piano.

Santa Barbara Rescue Mission Director of Communications Rebecca Weber, Kim Schuck, and Emma Mais (photo by Priscilla)

Trish Dixon, Howard Jay Smith, Kate and Brooks Firestone, Gretchen Lieff and Miles Hartfeld with Bear and Star executive chef Trenton Shank and executive sous chef Lee Gottheimer (photo by Priscilla)

ple’s favorite.

The 90s polyester sweatshirt, featuring Virgin Atlantic’s Flying Lady, is being sold by RR Auctions in Boston, with the monies going to a Malawi charity.

Grilling Out Hamburgers and hot dogs ruled the menu when the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission held its 11th annual Independence Day barbecue in the parking lot at its newly renovated property on East Yanonali Street.

More than 300 homeless guests enjoyed 560 hamburgers and hotdogs, and 27 pounds of macaroni and potato salad, while quaffing hundreds of cans of soda, provided by the mission’s 71-member strong women’s auxiliary.

Mission president Rolf Geyling, whose sons provided entertainment, says: “The beaches get so crowded that our homeless neighbors, who often spend their days and nights on the sand, are pushed off the shoreline and left with nowhere to go.

“So, eleven years ago, we decided to create a place for them to spend a holiday.”

The mission has provided more than 140,000 meals and 45,000 safe nights of shelter for individuals with no place to turn.

Polaris First Mate Sarah Chrisman, Carol Bloom, and Captain Roger Chrisman (photo

by Priscilla)

Richard Mineards in royal garb as the King of England George III, and Charles Ward as President George Washington (photo

by Priscilla)

On the Market Montecito comedian Steve Martin has just listed his Beverly Hills guest house, next to his main home, for $2.149 million.

The 1,946 sq.ft. 1957 two story Mediterranean property has four bedrooms and four and half bathrooms, sitting on one acre.

Rest in Peace

R.I.P. Franco Zeffirelli (photo by Alexey Yushenkov)

On a personal note, I remember Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli, who has died in Rome aged 96.

I met the Oscar nominee a number of times with New York socialite Mary Mead Carter, a good friend of the helmsman of the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, and the 1999 gem Tea with Mussolini, starring three great dames, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright.

Zeffirelli was also famed for directing operas - including Milan’s La Scala and the New York’s Met - and TV, and received an honorary British knighthood.

A charming and true genius.

Setting Sail After “kinging” as George III in the Village Fourth with Justin Bieber ,wife

Sightings: Singer Neil Young at the Hotel Californian... Former Dallas Cowboy quarterback Troy Aikman noshing at Lucky’s... Oscar winner Michael Keaton checking out the Nugget in Summerland Justin Bieber and wife, Hailey Baldwin, and others cheer on Village Fourth parade with Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis (photo by Kerri Murray)

Captain Roger Chrisman and his daughter Carolyn Chrisman on a cruise around the harbor (photo by Priscilla)

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Hailey Baldwin, and actor Ashton Kutcher and actress Mila Kunis, watching, for the seventh consecutive year with Dallas dynamo Charles Ward, Santa Barbara Polo Club promoter as George Washington, in his Mercedes convertible driven by British

author Deborah Richards, I dashed off to the harbor to board former Santa Barbara Yacht Club commodore Roger Chrisman’s 78-ft. cruiser, Polaris II. The vessel was the perfect locale to watch the colorful pyrotechnics.

Joining in the fireworks and fun,

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To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbarseen.com or call 805969-3301.

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LUCKY’S . . . for lunch • Smaller Plates and Starter Salads •

• Main Course Salads •

Iceberg Lettuce Wedge ....................................................................10 roquefort or thousand island dressing

Sliced Steak Salad, 6 oz................................................................... 27 arugula, radicchio, endive, sautéed onion

Arugula, Radicchio & Endive, reggiano, balsamic vinaigrette.... 12 Caesar Salad..................................................................................... 12 Farm Greens, balsamic vinaigrette................................................. 12

Seafood Louie ....................................................................................32 two shrimp, 4 oz. crab, egg, romaine, tomato ,cucumber, avocado

Jimmy the Greek Salad, french feta ............................................... 12 Giant Shrimp Cocktail (3 pcs)........................................................ 18 Grilled Artichoke, choice of sauce.................................................. 12 Burrata, tomatoes, arugula, evoo....................................................15 French Onion Soup Gratinée ......................................................... 12

Cobb Salad, roquefort dressing .......................................................20 Chopped Salad ...................................................................................18 arugula, radicchio, shrimp, prosciutto, beans, onions Charred Rare Tuna Nicoise Salad................................................... 27 Old School Chinese Chicken Salad ................................................20 Chilled Poached Salmon Salad of the day .....................................22

Matzo Ball Soup or Today’s Soup ..................................................10 Lucky Chili, cheddar, onions, warm corn bread............................14

Lucky’s Salad .................................................................................... 19 romaine, shrimp, bacon, green beans, avocado and roquefort

Fried Calamari, two sauces ............................................................. 12 Lucky Meatballs, tomato sauce, grilled ciabatta...........................15

• Sandwiches • Fries, Farm Greens or Caesar

• Tacos and other Mains •

Lucky Burger, choice of cheese, soft bun or kaiser ...................... 20 Vegetarian Burger, choice of cheese .............................................. 20 soft bun or kaiser (burger patty is vegan)

Chicken, Swordfish or Steak Tacos .................................................22 beans, guacamole, salsa, tortillas

Sliced Filet Mignon Open Faced Sandwich, 6 oz. .......................27 mushroom sauce

Fried Chicken Breast, boneless & skinless, coleslaw and fries ...... 19 Chicken Parmesan, San Marzano tomato sauce ............................22 imported mozzarella, basil

Reuben Sandwich, corned beef, kraut & gruyère on rye ............. 20

Salmon, blackened, grilled or steamed ...........................................22 lemon-caper butter sauce, sautéed spinach

Chili Dog, onions, cheddar & kraut - all on the side ....................14 Maine Lobster Roll, warm buttered D’Angelo roll ..................... 29

Sautéed Tofu, Japanese vinaigrette, green onions, shiitakes ..........18 Sliced Prime NY Steak Frites, 7 oz. ...............................................29 red wine shallot or peppercorn cream sauce Smoked Scottish Salmon, Toasted Bialy or Bagel .........................20 cream cheese & condiments

Grilled Chicken Breast Club on a Soft Bun ................................ 20 bacon, lettuce, tomato, avocado

• Sides • Skinny Onion Rings or Herbie’s Potato Skins ................................9 Lucky’s Home Fries or Fried Sweet Potatoes ..................................9 Lucky’s Half & Half .......................................................................... 10 Sautéed Spinach or Sugar Snap Peas ...............................................9

Our Corkage Fee is $35 per 750ml bottle with a 2-bottle limit per table • 20% Gratuity added to parties of six or more