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With an unwavering commitment to the area’s children, Storyteller Children’s Center withstood the pandemic, page 32

Getting Somewhere

The traffic? Horrid. The construction? Exhausting. The aid? Coming in new forms thanks to the feds, page 5

Finally, Progress

After years of planning, the Montecito YMCA project is finally moving forward, with significant modifications, page 6

It takes an entrepreneurial spirit to withstand obstacles and still produce a world-class experience. For Montecito’s Pat and Jennifer Smith, as well as Hamish Marshall and Alex Pananides, it comes in the form of their San Luis Obispo getaway, Hotel Cerro, page 24

A Matter of Ethics?

Is foie gras a faux pas? Norman Kolpas eats his way through foie gras’ history, delectability, and controversy, page 43

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There are $11 million new reasons to hold out hope that the never-ending Highway 101 project might be sped up a bit

6 Village Beat

The Montecito YMCA project finally moves forward, while Montecito Mercantile opens in the Country Mart

8 Music Academy of the West

Not only does Larry Rachleff have the task of shaping MAW’s symphonic ensemble in a matter of days, but he’s also doing it with obstacles

10 Letters to the Editor

Thacher will continue to serve students well, but recent findings at the school should face the highest of penalties

22 PERSPECTIVES by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

What’s with Toyota? Corporate Responsibility is Not Optional

The Optimist Daily

As the weather warms up, here’s how to help animals handle a heatwave

23 Robert’s Big Questions

Diving in on prescriptive law vs. scientific law and how it impacts perspective

24 Weekend Getaways

A pair of Montecito entrepreneurs — Pat and Jennifer Smith, as well as Hamish Marshall and Alex Pananides — have built quite the San Luis Obispo attraction

26 Legal Advertisements 28 Village Fourth

12 Farr Out

The Montecito Association’s Village 4th Road Show was a total hit on Sunday, and we have the photos to prove it

14 Your Westmont

A mission to photograph the San Joaquin kit fox interrupted by some ants in the pants

16 On Entertainment

With an unwavering commitment to children, Storyteller Children’s Center withstood the pandemic

11 Brilliant Thoughts

The Past? Comfortable. The Future? There’s no map for that. As we’ve felt the ground rumble here and there, Tom Farr dives into plate tectonics and its impact on geology

30 Far Flung Travel

The South Coast drought claimed a victim — the beloved Pickle Tree on campus at Westmont

32 The Giving List

The Marjorie Luke Theatre stayed busy during the pandemic, and now sets its eyes on helping others return to live action

34 On Fitness

18 Montecito Miscellany

Got $74 million lying around? There’s a record-setting Montecito gem on the market.

19 Montecito Moms

Amanda Tenold did the sandwich-bag math — and it didn’t add up to helping our planet, so she did something about it with her new business, Dax and Milo

20 Our Town

“LunchBoxing with Lasers” at MOXI by veteran laser artist Mike Gould provides a brand-new experience

21 Ernie’s World

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We all need a bit of guidance in the post-pandemic world, and Shaman Jon is up to the task

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40 Stories Matter

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In the Know

by Nick Masuda

Traffic? Yeah, Still a Pain. But the Cavalry IS Actually Coming.

ith housing opportunities limited in Santa Barbara, some 60,000 people — or 33% of the county’s workforce — commute from neighboring counties to work here. Lauren Bianchi Klemann has been there, rising before the sun, dropping off her infant daughter at daycare, and hitching a ride with her husband to work — knowing that she had to make it back to Ventura before 6 pm to pick up her baby. Hours on the road, hours away from home, all to work in Santa Barbara where Bianchi Klemann is the public information manager for the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments, where she helps thousands in similar predicaments by advocating for infrastructure improvements along the Central Coast. “My story is not unique to me, it’s one of many we hear from local teachers, first responders, service workers, and public health providers,” Bianchi Klemann said. Between Measure A — administered by SBCAG and approved by 79% of Santa Barbara County voters in November 2008 that will contribute $1 billion over 30 years to transportation projects — and state funding, the Highway 101 Multimodal Corridor Project has steadily made progress, even if traffic in the short term has been decidedly worse. So when, after years of delays in federal funding opportunities as infrastructure was debated instead of acted upon in Washington, D.C., the Invest in America Act will purportedly bring more aid to the Central Coast in the form of $20 million in federal funding — $11 million of which is earmarked for the Highway 101 upgrades. With the U.S. House having already approved the funding, the Senate and president’s desk are the only obstacles that remain for this federal boost. “Don’t take this as partisan but for the past four years before this administration, we kept hearing that infrastructure was a big priority, but we weren’t seeing any action, we weren’t seeing any investments and proposals,” said Congressman Salud Carbajal (D, 24th District). “And when this administration came in, one of its priorities was infrastructure, and we were all hoping that that priority would be realized and focused upon.” The math is quite good when it comes to the investment in this particular corridor, as the project is expected to create approximately $1.3 billion in total itemized benefits (savings) to the public, commuters, and the freight industry, according to SBCAG. The project will also support a Central Coast corridor that has been designated as a Critical Urban Freight Corridor by the Federal Highway Administration, the only freeway segment along the Central Coast to have this designation. Some eye-popping numbers showcase why: • Agricultural, manufacturing, and warehouse industries provide 25% of total jobs on the Central Coast; • Approximately 63 million tons of freight worth $50 billion is transported into, out of, and within the Central Coast region; • 50% of this product is distributed within California and 25% is distributed to other states in the nation; • According to SBCAG, the project will also create 5,000 to 6,000 jobs to aid the Central Coast as it recovers from COVID shutdowns. The funding was ultimately the handiwork of Congressman Carbajal, who sits on the U.S. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Carbajal was the Santa Barbara County First District Supervisor as Measure A passed and the area looked to improve not only the 101, but also adjacent local streets, including the Cabrillo Boulevard Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Project. For Carbajal, making sure that this project is seen all the way through is personal. “This is just a continuation of my commitment and making sure that we realize and finish this 101 project and get it over the finish line,” Carbajal said. The project will eventually result in 16 miles of continuous “high occupancy vehicle” (HOV) lanes, as well as peak hour rail passenger service, interregional bus service, and an interconnected active transportation network. “This has been the vision, and it’s nice to see that this Congress is putting infrastructure projects at the forefront of their agenda,” Bianchi Klemann said. “It takes strong leadership to get things like this done, and it’s advantageous for the Montecito and Santa Barbara communities, and Santa Barbara County as a whole, that Congressman Carbajal is recognizing the regional significance of getting the Highway 101 project done.” •MJ 8 – 15 July 2021

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fter nearly 13 years in the making, plans for expanding and remodeling the Montecito YMCA are once again moving forward, with the YMCA’s project application expected to be submitted to Santa Barbara County by the end of the month. “We’re still here, and the project is still happening,” said YMCA executive director Mike Yamasaki, who spoke with us earlier this week before a short presentation at the Montecito Association’s Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting. Reps from the Y set out to renovate and enhance the community facility on Santa Rosa Lane many, many years ago, and submitted an extensive expansion plan to the County in 2013. That former plan required that overflow parking be available offsite at Lower Manning Park, but the Y was unable to secure a long-term parking agreement with the County Parks Commission, and instead sought to revise the plans so that all parking could be on the 4.25-acre site. After multiple iterations, revisions, and countless community meetings with concerned neighbors, a new conceptual design was developed in 2018. The new plan, called the Revised Master Plan, included a change in architectural style and a significant reduction in programing, including eliminating the YMCA’s preschool program. The plans also include a remodeled and slightly expanded main building, which does not include a second story as originally planned. That building will house weight training, cardio, offices, childcare, group fitness, and a flex/meeting room; the group fitness area has been relocated to be further away from the perimeter, in order to assuage neighbor concerns about noise. A new locker room building will be nearly the same size as the current locker rooms, and will include family changing rooms. The new multi-purpose building will be 9,100 square feet and is slated to be tucked in the northwest corner of the site. It will serve as a place for basketball, volleyball, and adult wellness classes. The original iteration of that building was to be located on the current sports court and included roll up doors for an indoor/outdoor feel. In the current plans the roll-up doors were

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eliminated due to noise concerns, and the current sports court area will be used for a secondary parking lot. The pool will be revamped and widened, and the entire new plan is reduced in size by 29% from earlier versions and is approximately 10,000 square feet larger than the current buildings. The new, less intrusive plans have lessened the parking requirement to 96 spaces. The second parking lot, which was originally going to be used for staff only, has now been expanded to offer 44 spaces; it is accessed off San Ysidro Road and will only allow a right turn in and a right turn out. The main parking lot will house about 56 spaces, and any overflow will still go to Lower Manning Park, where there is an ongoing short-term lease agreement that is re-upped every six months. DesignARC architect Mark Kirkhart revised the formerly modern industrial style buildings to have more of a rustic, modern farmhouse feel. The buildings have board and batten siding as well as stone façade. The project will be heavily landscaped on the San Ysidro side, to buffer the facility from the street. The plans have been put on hold multiple times to accommodate minor damage from ash from the Thomas Fire in December 2017, as well as closures following the January 9 Debris Flow in 2018 and additional closures and programming changes caused by the COVID pandemic in 2020 until last month. “We’ve been working on the project throughout the pandemic, but things have been slow going,” Yamasaki told us. The YMCA has reopened fully but continues to hold classes outdoors. Membership is down about 40%, Yamasaki said. Brian Banks is a local land use consultant on the project and told the Land Use and Transportation Committee that the project would be built in phases after garnering the necessary approvals at the county level. The first phase will include the new multipurpose building and additional parking lot; the remodel and additions to the main building will comprise the second phase; and the third phase will include the complete removal and remodel of the locker rooms and the refresh of the

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Music Academy of the West Taking on the Challenge:

by Steven Libowitz

Rachleff Leads MAW into Uncharted Territory

magine stepping in to lead a fully established orchestra with your wits and a baton your only weapons to mold the symphony musicians into at least a shared vision for a performance. That’s the job of most visiting conductors who travel the world for one-off concerts. Now imagine coming to an organization where the players themselves, as many as 100 strong, have barely just met each other, having also just arrived from locations around the world. That’s Larry Rachleff’s job for most of the past 10 summers at the Music Academy of the West, where the music director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic and director of orchestras at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music has served as the first conductor of the season, shaping the members of MAW’s fellows-powered symphonic ensemble for the rest of the festival. Finally, contemplate that the vast majority of this year’s roster of MAW instrumental fellows have not even sat in an orchestra setting for more than 15 months, ever since the arriv-

Larry Rachleff conducting Academy fellows (Photo by Phil Channing)

al of the COVID-19 pandemic foreclosed in-person gatherings around the world, shutting down universities and professional orchestras alike. That’s what is confronting Rachleff as the assorted musicians are assembling in proximity to each other for the first time this week while also getting acquainted with and rehearsing a challenging program for a single performance on July 11. Fortunately, Rachleff is wellequipped for the mission, having molded the MAW musicians — the

vast majority of whom are either pre-professional or just launching their careers — with his enviable combination of encouragement, empathy and enforcement every summer since 2010, save, of course, for 2020. But this year is different. “I really do wonder how long it will take for congealing,” Rachleff said on the cusp of getting together with the fellows for the first time this past Monday. “In past years, I always knew that it took a certain amount of time but that somewhere there was going to be a moment when we would jump over the hurdle and all of us would be in the driver’s seat. No doubt it will happen again this summer. Given the protocols, the question is when.” That’s because, despite the lifting of all restrictions on physical separation and mask-wearing for people who are vaccinated, the Music Academy is maintaining stricter protocols, even though everyone associated with the festival — fellows, faculty and staff — have been inoculated. “Whereas before we could just fill up the Granada with human beings sitting right next to each other, now there are restrictions on the number of people who can be on the stage as well as the distance that they must be from each other, especially in the wind and brass sections,” Rachleff said. “To have the orchestra more spread out

with fewer people adds an extra challenge.” Rachleff already has some experience with those issues, as Rice, which is located in Texas, lifted most of its restrictions earlier in the year and the conductor was able to put together a handful of concerts featuring socially distanced students. “You can’t just throw up your hands and give up,” he said. “You make the environment your environment and find ways to sound good. But it takes time.” While Rachleff and the fellows have only a week, the program was picked to give all the instruments as much exposure as possible to help steer the fellows toward quickly connecting, he said. The concert opens with Katy Abbott’s “Punch,” representing the West Coast premiere of the three-minute fanfare for brass ensemble that the composer notes came from considering concepts of home and connection to nature. “It’s only a couple of minutes long, and it’s very accessible and celebratory, a very friendly way to return to the stage and welcome the audience, while also offering a lot of important pedagogical work for the conductor as teacher,” Rachleff said.

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Letters to the Editor

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Shameful Acts Need Consequences at Thacher

he recent news of the shameful episodes of past sexual abuse at Thacher School is deeply troubling. The perpetrators should be pursued, prosecuted where possible and never again be allowed contact, in any capacity, with young people. In the strongest terms, I condemn them as well as those who covered up these egregious incidents, and those who chose to “look the other way.” At the same time, I offer my sincere and heartfelt sympathy for the growing list of victims. Every effort must be made to support them and to take steps to mitigate the damaging ramifications of these awful experiences. Having condemned those responsible on the one hand and expressed my genuine support for the vulnerable victims, I want to raise an additional factor. The Thacher School has been in existence for more than 130 years. In that time, it has provided an exceptional educational experience for thousands of young people from all over our country, and many scores from the Santa Barbara area. Hundreds of dedicated faculty have devoted their lives to the students in their care. They have provided the scholarship, discipline and example which has secured Thacher’s places as a premier secondary boarding school, certainly in the very top tier in the Western United States. Please do not construe this as softening my criticism of what has occurred or those responsible. But I know first-hand what an exceptional education Thacher has offered so many, preparing them for extraordinary success in the finest colleges, in respected careers and in fulfilling lives. I join those who demand accountability for those terrible acts, and I encourage every possible support

for the unfortunate victims. But I also believe, without reservation, that Thacher has done immeasurable good for so many outstanding young people and will continue to do so. Arthur Merovick Former Headmaster, Laguna Blanca School

Thanks, Summerland Fire

Let’s have a shout-out for the fabulous men of the Summerland Fire Department. I have had occasion to interact with them twice in the last few months and they are awesome. Knowledgeable, smart and so kind, not to mention attractive (any one of them could give Brad Pitt a run for his money). So, ladies, if you are looking for the perfect man, find yourself a fireman. Sheila McNeill

Different Perspective on Critical Race Theory

In response to Robert Baruch’s letter to editor, issue 27, where he quotes the great philosopher, George Santayana, about those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it, I’d like to add another of Santayana’s quotes, “Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.” What planet is Mr. Baruch living on that leads him to believe that Americans have not been taught the ills of this country? It is not a hidden history. The left act as if they’ve just discovered these facts and are in complete shock. Mr. Baruch has failed, however, to take into account the measures that have gone into effect to remedy these areas of our history. For him and his misguided ilk to overlook all the greatness this country offers to all races and to deny that Critical Race Theory is a racist, divisive, and com-

pletely destructive teaching is what I would call at best, a total lack of common sense. Monica Bond

A Response Over Parking Compliance

Mr. (Jon) Emanuel (Letters to the Editor, June 24), thank you for agreeing with my main concerns for “due process” and the possible lack of compliance with Santa Barbara County Public Works Road Encroachment policies. Your concern that I may be hypocritical because my street is wide and has white stripes is misplaced. Just because a street has white stripes does not mean you can’t park on the street. As long as your car is not touching the white lines you can legally park on the road. To accommodate parking and/or pedestrian traffic the county requires that homeowners abide by Santa Barbara County Public Works Road Encroachment policies which require an edge-of-road clear zone, meaning there must be an unobstructed flat area beyond the edge of pavement. That means, before installation, fixed objects like rocks, walls, trees, landscaping or fences generally require an encroachment permit. The encroachment policies state any fixed objects must be set back at least seven feet (25 mph roads) to 10 feet (25 to 35 mph roads). Most of the homeowners in my neighborhood including myself have complied with these policies. My landscaping is approximately 10 feet from the white line and allows for ample parking and/or walking in front of my house. I am completely in compliance with the county’s policy. Can the homeowners on Riven Rock Road say the same? I am also very familiar with San Antonio Creek Trail, a 3.4-mile round trip with elevation gain of 300 feet which is one mile from my house. I have hiked it many times as I have hiked all the trails in and near Montecito many times. As far as enjoying the great outdoors and traveling to enjoy it — William O. Douglas stated, “Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society — once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.” Gordon Hartwig

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Ms. Byrne and Ms. Orloff of the Montecito Association compiled a nice list of things that make Montecito special and how and why we should keep them. One addition: Please slow down!!! When you exit the freeway remember you aren’t in Los Angeles anymore! Be polite. Residential neighborhoods have a 20-25 mph max speed limit as does (surprise!) the Upper Village area of East Valley Road!! Also, tell your pre-teens on their electric bikes to wear helmets and slow down — way down. Sincerely, Kat Laurain •MJ

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Then and When

“Instead of Past, Present and Future, I’d prefer Chocolate, Vanilla, and Strawberry.”

am often asked (in my dreams) how I ever got to be so smart, so wise, so good-looking, so popular and successful. Then I wake up, and the only question in my mind is, how can I get through one more day, with this aging mind and failing body? Here I am, on an inescapable island called Here and Now — yet I have distinct memories (some more distinct than others) of a whole series of experiences in some realm referred to as “The Past” and a vague “not yet” feeling about happenings still on the books somewhere “up ahead” in a mysterious place called “The Future.” The Past is more familiar territory, not only because I myself have been there (in fact, I’ve been there all my life) — but also because I have explored certain parts of it, in an academic field called History, which is all about what is supposed to have happened in the relatively minuscule span of human existence on Earth of which we have any records. I collected a bunch of degrees for getting immersed in that field, but never learned much, except that people have never learned much from History. The same mistakes keep being made over and over again. A classic example was Hitler’s invasion of Russia. That mighty effort had been made at least twice before — notably by Napoleon — yet the Nazis thought they were unbeatable. My highest degree entitled me to call myself a “Doctor of Philosophy” – although I never studied Philosophy (the degree was really in History), and the “Doctor” part means “Teacher” — and my efforts in that direction were never crowned with glory — or even with much satisfaction. My feeling, which has proven increasingly valid, was that, with modern technology, the very best teachers can be made available (at least virtually) to everyone — so there’s little need for all the others. I did, for some two years, play a role at the University of California in Berkeley as a “Teaching Assistant,” assisting professors of History who had practically no contact with their students, except to give lectures to large numbers of them at a time. In that position, it was my job to explain what it all meant, which was, to say the least, quite challenging, since there was so much that I myself didn’t understand. In addition, I had to administer examinations, read papers, and assign 8 – 15 July 2021

grades — none of which I had ever been trained to do (nor had any of the other T.A.’s). So much for the Past. What, then, of the Future? It’s a place of which there are no maps, because nobody who goes there ever comes back. Despite that, we know that many people make their living by attempting to guess, judge, foretell, or predict what will happen, in the Stock Market, on the racetrack, or at the roulette table. Yet astronomers can describe with great accuracy the future behavior of any number of celestial bodies. Is it any wonder that nobody ever makes bets with astronomers?

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lmost everybody who’s looked at a map of the Atlantic Ocean has noticed that South America and Africa fit together. Alfred Wegener noticed too and proposed in 1915 that they indeed were together long ago. He was laughed out of the room. The reason was that he couldn’t say how and why they had split apart and that’s a big part of science: you can propose any idea you want, but you need to come up with a mechanism to get you there. Then, in 1960s, a revolution happened in geology, and we learned that Wegener was right. Plate tectonics was discovered. I was an undergraduate at Caltech just after the first groundbreaking papers were published, some by Tanya Atwater, currently a professor at UCSB. It was an exciting time to witness the complete transformation of a science. One of my professors brought back a suite of rocks from Cyprus that represented a cross-section of the oceanic crust. There are only a few places in the world where we find these so-called ophiolites. Three of the best known are in Cyprus, Oman, and right here in our own backyard at Point Sal. What had happened was that the “how” was discovered after extensive exploration of our oceans was undertaken. Paleontologists and others had sided with Wegener in the early 20th century as their observations of similar rock formations and fossils in Africa and South America seemed to show they were indeed joined long ago. Later, seismometers began showing that earthquakes were concentrated along the edges of continents where active volcanoes were also observed — such as the so-called “ring of fire” around the Pacific Ocean. The last piece of the puzzle was put into place when ships performed a magnetic survey of the oceans and found that the volcanic crust underlying the ocean basins was “striped” with alternating bands of magnetic

polarity. It was known that Earth’s magnetic field reverses periodically (the last time was about 700,000 years ago), so the stripes were an indication that the oceanic crust varied in age systematically. Following the stripes back to the youngest age led the scientists to a new landform, a mid-ocean ridge that was a continuous line of active volcanoes. So oceanic crust was produced at the ridge and moved like a conveyor belt outward, forming the magnetic stripes. Where the ocean crust ran into a continent, it either moved with the rigid continental plate, or was pushed under the continent, as the volcanic ocean crust was denser than the thick continental crust. Where the ocean crust dove under the continents, such as the west coast of South America, it created a deep offshore trench. As the plate sank deeper into the mantle under South America, it began to melt which then rose into the continental crust and popped out as the Andean volcanoes. Those are the simplest scenarios; many more complications were discovered, including those rare instances where the ocean crust is pushed up on land. The uplift of the Himalayas and Tibet were explained by the fact that the Indian Plate has rammed into the Asian Plate. Two continents impacting led to India being pushed under Asia and lifting the Himalayas and Tibet. It also forced large faults to form that allow the eastern part of Tibet and southeast Asia to “escape” from the crunch by slipping eastward much like squeezed watermelon seeds.

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Drought Claims Beloved Pickle Tree In recent years, hundreds of alumni would gather around the Pickle Tree to kick off the Christmas season

ong before Westmont founder Ruth Kerr decided to move the burgeoning college to the former Dwight Murphy Estate in Montecito, the grounds featured a wide array of mature trees. Today, many overarching trees still provide shade for walkways serenely wending their way through campus. One soaring redwood tree on Kerrwood Lawn was well-known for its eccentric shape, which inspired the affectionate nickname Pickle Tree in recent years. When the college moved to Montecito from Los Angeles in 1945, the redwood tree was one of about five on the lawn. On June 17, the last remaining of this set of trees, was removed. Beginning in 2002, lighting the 115-foot-tall tree became an annual Westmont Christmas tradition for alums, professors, staff members, students, and local residents. The celebration featured caroling, playful new traditions, and a Santa

Claus for the children. After the 2008 Tea Fire blazed through campus, the college lit the tree in thankfulness that most of the campus remained intact despite losses from the fire. For more than a decade the enormous tree suffered significant damage due to the drought. Longtime groundskeeper Phil Baker, who retired this year, labored intensively with an arborist to prolong the life of the tree. During and following the drought, they inspected it and did deep-root fertilization as well as irrigation. But the drought inflicted too much damage, and the tree died. For some time, the condition of the tree has raised concerns about the safety of the campus Workers removed the beloved Pickle Tree on community. Redwoods are brittle trees, and June 17 dead branches can break off and hurt people when they fall. Crews with Montecito Tree Care carefully took it down in six-foot sections, even creating two benches with the wood. College officials hope to create commemorative items with the remaining wood and donate some of it to artists for their use.

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he performing arts venues in Santa Barbara each responded to the pandemic in different ways. SOhO, the Granada, and the New Vic Theatre more or less went into hibernation, save for a one-off production or two (Montecito’s Pete Muller recording a Save Our Stages video; Grace Fisher’s holiday show; and Ensemble’s one-man An Iliad, respectively, the latter a one-man staging streamed live). The Lobero did a few live streaming events, too, with Montecito residents Kenny Loggins and John Kay, among others, and hosted Opera Santa Barbara for a holiday variety show in December. On the other hand, the Marjorie Luke didn’t live stream anything at all. But the historic theater at Santa Barbara Junior High School also didn’t shut its doors even though the venue relies on rental income, which zeroed out during the pandemic, for more than half of its budget. Instead founding board president

Rod Lathim raised a cool $100,000 from grants and sponsors to engineer a virtual concert series that comprised eight events in all, including two young Santa Barbara-based singer-songwriters, a more established artist, a playful pandemic version of “Pianos on State,” a far-reaching community-based revue called “Resonance” and original theater company On the Verge’s ambitious and inclusive “Home” project, plus the streaming of two previously recorded shows that hadn’t been seen in years. The six original shows basically turned The Luke into a COVIDcompliant television studio that employed four cameras, professional lighting and screen projections to shoot events onstage, and then utilized extensive post-production sound and video editing, resulting in high quality shows that put Zoomgenerated videos to shame. “We were sitting there in the dark theater, realizing that we had this

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return to the stage. Boxtales Theatre Company’s summer youth camp is currently working at The Luke, with its latest myth for the youth called Tatterhood set to show on July 9, with its original teen stage production of The Popol Vuh set for July 30. The local company was among the early organizations to take advantage of generous support from The Luke’s Dreier Family Rent Subsidy Fund, which Baltzley said is overflowing its coffers. “We’re not producing anything ourselves because we want to get those renters back into the theater, back in front of live audiences again,” she said. “The only way some of our downtrodden, independent theater companies and dance companies can afford to perform right now is by the skin of their teeth. “For them to make any money and for us to get their rental next year, I’m happy to do whatever it takes. I’m happy to bend over backwards to make sure that they get to use The Luke, that they can have their event and sell their tickets so that we know that they will still be around next year.” Baltzley reiterated that nonprofit arts or community-based organizations need only apply to receive at least a 50% subsidy for dates at least through the rest of 2021, probably all the way through 2022, citing a fund four times as large as normal. “I promise, the rent is going to be cheap,” she said, noting that The Luke is trying to lure Folk Orchestra away from the intimate Presidio Chapel, and seducing Santa Barbara Revels to return to the 800-seat venue for its annual Christmas show. “We’re doing everything we can to bring people back into The Luke, where there’s a beautiful background in a professional setting with professional staff running your event and making sure that everything goes exactly the way you want it to. Get your performers back on stage again and know that you’re in a safe space.” •MJ 8 – 15 July 2021

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Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 14 years ago.

Anyone Have $74 Million Lying Around?

illionaire Peter Sperling, 61, and his wife, Stephanie, are selling a third Montecito home, a century-old estate that underwent a 15-year restoration, for a hefty $74 million. If it sells for close to that price, it would be the most expensive ever sold in Our Eden by the Beach, according to property records. The current record was set last fall when one of the largest residential properties in our rarefied enclave, Rancho San Carlos, a 237-acre, 24,483-square-foot estate with 12 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, and 10 guest cottages built in 1931, sold for $63.25 million. Known as Far Afield, the Sperlings’ roughly 20,000-square-foot home boasts seven bedrooms, including a guest house, with spectacular views of

the Pacific and Santa Ynez Mountains. It was originally built for Hobart Chatfield-Taylor and his wife, Rose Farwell, daughter of a U.S. Senator, around 1917. It sits on 10.5 acres with gardens, citrus groves and hiking paths. There is also a peacock aviary. Sperling, son of John Sperling, founder of the University of Phoenix, and Stephanie, who have a passion for restoring architecturally and historically important homes, bought the property in 2002. The massive restoration included lifting the home off its foundations to fortify the structure and replacing all systems. Refined interiors with reclaimed materials from 18th and 19th century properties, including Italian and Spanish tiles, and parquet floors cut from French oak were used in the res-

toration process. A year ago, the tony twosome sold their historic Holmby Hills estate, formerly the home of English horror actor Vincent Price, for $16.5 million. They paid $15 million for the oneand-a-half acre 1920s eight-bedroom, 14-bathroom, 11,600-square-foot property in 2004. They also divested themselves of another two Montecito homes, Gloria, seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms in 6,394 square feet on 5.5 acres on Garden Lane for $15.5 million and another, Owenshire, 17,000 square feet with seven bedrooms for $19.1 million on Picacho Lane, formerly the home of actor Rob Lowe — a total of nearly $35 million for both.

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Santa Barbara’s venerable Granada Theatre is back in business! The eight-story icon that towers over State Street, originally built in 1873 and rebuilt in 1924, has been eerily silent for the past 15 months, other than intermittent audience-free video filming by the Santa Barbara Symphony under maestro Nir Kabaretti. But it will finally be all systems go when the 1,500-capacity venue, which underwent a $60 million renovation and re-opened in 2008, launches the Music Academy of the West’s annual summer festival, which runs through August 14.

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Montecito Moms

Tenold’s new business is named after her two miniature Dachshunds

by Dalina Michaels

Protecting the Planet With Style

Dax & Milo is a new brand of multi-use bags that can be found at Lemondrop

ax and Milo may be old dogs, but they are wagging their tails for the new trick, er, brand, that has been created with their names front and center. Enter Montecito mom Amanda Tenold, who is as 93108 as they come. She grew up on East Valley, playing tennis at Knowlwood and attend-

ing Montecito Union School (where I first met her, in Dr. Sorensen’s Kindergarten class circa 1980-something). Things have since come full circle. “I grew up in Montecito, and now we live in my husband’s family home that has been in his family since 1940. You can say we have deep roots in

Montecito,” Tenold said. Tenold is an executive assistant for an international safety consulting company. She and her husband, Rich, have two boys, Brennan (9) and Greysen (8). And it’s because of her two boys that Tenold felt the need to create her company. It started over the very mundane task that every parent knows: making school lunches. “I have been making my boys lunches for more than nine years now. One morning, I realized I was using two, one-time-use plastic bags per kid per day,” Tenold said. “That was 20 bags per week. Twenty bags a week (for) 30 weeks equals 600 plastic bags. That is not helping our planet. I felt the need to look for reusable snack

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by Joanne A. Calitri

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OXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, came out of lockdown this month, featuring its newest interactive sciart exhibit titled, “LunchBoxing with Lasers,” by veteran laser artist Mike Gould. Found on the second floor in a darkened room, the lasers are constantly creating a moving visual, with varying brightness, shapes, and speeds. The lasers are in the primary colors of red, green, and blue. Their intersectMike Gould’s laser artist installation at MOXI (Courtesy photo) ing appears to create secondary colors, however, as my interview with Gould reveals, there is more to that than meets one’s eye. The viewing wall, in lieu of a screen, is painted with a special matte black substrate to allow for non-scattered, non-reflected light. The laser exhibit is accompanied by original music by Ken Kozora. Interactive participation is via three lunchboxes mounted on podiums, for the red, green, and blue lasers. Each lunchbox has three controls — brightness, speed, and a “munge” dial that controls a servomotor so that the diffractive element moves in lockstep with the twisting of the dial by the operator, giving an immediate response to yield a different pattern. I met with Robin Gose, MOXI president/CEO, and Simon Mused, exhibits manager, to talk about life after the pandemic. Mused just created that morning a beta version ChromaDepth diffraction lens mounted in a handheld holder to create an artificial visual depth while viewing the lasers, like 3D glasses. “A visit to MOXI is a jumping off point to further exploration and experimentation,” Gose said. “With this laser exhibit, perhaps visitors will want to experiment with light beam diffraction, or they might think about how they could take something static and make it move, or they might think about how they could create their own piece of art from a found object and make it interactive.” Afterward, I held a Zoom interview with Gould, who has been turned on to laser art since 1967 at Kalamazoo College where he majored in freshwater biology and studied lighting FX in Europe with friend Charlie Davis. Here is a Q&A with Gould: Q. How is the laser design at the MOXI formatted? A. Since 2018, we have been using short-throw projectors to accommodate exhibit spaces. We start with laser diodes, set them up with controlling circuits and dedicated wiring to the lunchbox controls. The laser projectors are a 4 x 4 x 7.5-inch extruded aluminum that house the diodes and are mounted to the ceiling pipes with standardized theatre mounting. The lenses I use for the Lumia are special diverging lenses to make the patterns to fill a short-throw projection space, its analog, there are no computers or digital programming involved. You have multiple talents; tell us more about your musical interests. I play bass, slide, 12-string and acoustic folk guitar, write songs, sing, and have played in various bands. I had a recording studio with 2-, 4-, and 8-track analog recording for local bands and gave most of the gear to a local teen learning center in Ann Arbor. Now I have a rehearsal space for jam sessions with my buddies next to my office. What’s next for your team? The city of Chicago asked us to bid on a light art display, and we have started getting private corporate events. My wish is to get picked up by a corporation to develop this technology further, so we are hoping to get a sponsorship from some laser-related industries. •MJ 411: LunchBoxing Exhibit, now through Sept. 12, 2021 www.mikegouldlaserartist.com | www.illuminatuslasers.com | www.moxi.org MOXI is located at 125 State Street in downtown Santa Barbara

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earning a colorful bruise that resembled President Lyndon Johnson staring into a great abyss, though, without any Internet back then, only a lucky few by Ernie Witham ever got to see it. “Wow. Thanks for sharing that!” Pat Read more exciting adventures in Ernie’s World the Book and A Year in the Life of a “Working” Writer. Both available at amazon.com or erniesworld.com. said. “And I’m guessing that the reason you have been holding my hand the whole time is not just affection.” “After more than 30 years of marnodded at the approaching hikers. riage, I just figured if I slipped over “We’re the official counters,” I said. the edge this time, you’d want to come Pat, sitting beside me, pretended with me.” to log it into her phone. There was “Of course. Or... I could stay up here a steady stream of hikers both comand direct the rescue operation. Make ing and going, but we weren’t really sure they spell your name right in the counters of course. And the only thing newspapers. Tell them the bruise story. officially we were – was out of breath. Maybe this time, you’ll get a Grizzly We were on a steep part of the trail bear-shaped one. And why don’t I go up to Vernal Falls in Yosemite National ahead and hold the snacks and water Park, which climbs about a thousand bottle for the rest of the hike.” feet in a little over a mile. Our goal My wife thinks of everything. was just to make it to the bridge where I knew the hike would be worth Bridalveil Falls turned into a spectacular rainbow you get your first glimpse of the waterit. All the waterfalls and streams at fall. “That part’s only eight-tenths of a bit wobbly, which made me nervous. Yosemite were raging. The previous mile,” I told my somewhat reluctant See, I fell off a mountain once. It was in day we had walked to the base of wife. “Cake walk.” New Hampshire. I was hiking with my Yosemite Falls and took a selfie that It was a gentle slope at first and we Boy Scout Troop. We had stopped just artfully included not only the scenic actually went quite a ways before we short of the peak at a watering hole to wonder but 50 other couples behind stopped for our first “sit-a-spell.” fill our canteens. I thought I’d be clever us with upraised iPhones. Hope their “Cake walk?” Pat said. “You didn’t and be the first to the summit. I scur- shots featured more than two large tell me we would be walking up the ried up the path, stood on a rock over- noses and my index finger. side of the cake.” hang and, leaning over, pretended like For lunch, we had eaten at the famous Since that first stop, we were aver- I was going to jump into the watering Ahwahnee Hotel’s Dining Hall, which aging about 100 yards between rests. hole. That’s when I slipped. I landed is usually open just to people staying And our sea-level legs were feeling a on my butt, soaking fellow scouts and there, but being early in the season,

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they let us in even though we were staying at the less expensive Yosemite Lodge, which sounds far more romantic than it is, having last been updated when the buffalo still roamed. Late that afternoon, we had driven to the famous Valley overlook on the Route 140 entrance road. The lighting was incredible! And we reconnected with a lot of the folks from Yosemite Falls. “Hey, aren’t you the guy that dropped your phone like 20 times trying to take a selfie?” As the sun went lower, Bridalveil Falls to the right became a rainbow. It was spectacular! Collectively, I think the overlook group took like a million photos. One guy took a time-lapse of the fast-moving clouds by setting his phone into the crease of his hat, which he balanced on the wall. “Dude! You’ve got the perfect tripod hat. You should market that.” “Ha! Good idea.” “Fifty-fifty on the profits?” No answer. Now, we were on the verge of our Yosemite waterfall trifecta. It took three more stops, but we indeed made it to the Vernal Falls footbridge. The river was cascading thunderously, and the falls in the background were beautiful. “Well, should we keep going up?” I asked. “Or head back for lunch?” It was a dumb question. •MJ

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by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

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What’s With Toyota???

Corporate Responsibility is Not Optional

he “Sedition Caucus” is defined as those members of the House of Representatives who, after the January 6 insurrection was brought to a halt, voted to stop counting Electoral College votes in the hopes of overturning the 2020 presidential election. Counting these Electoral Ballots is the final legal act prior to initiating the “Peaceful Transfer of Power” from one presidential administration to another. Modeled by George Washington himself, the peaceful transition of power has been one of the cornerstone political features of American Democracy. What happened on January 6 was an attempt by many thousands of Trump motivated insurrectionists to stop the wheels of government and prevent the peaceful transition of power. “A violent uprising against an authority or government” is the dictionary definition of Sedition. When you add on that the purpose of the seditious acts are to stop a legitimate and necessary function of government, it becomes treason. To mollify anyone who thinks this is hyperbole, the technical definition of treason is “the crime of betraying one’s country… especially by attempting to overthrow the government (emphasis supplied).” Without a doubt, overthrowing the normal democratic process of that peaceful transfer of power was specifically intended to keep then President Trump in power despite his loss at the ballot box. We’ve all seen the videos and are horrified at how close the insurrectionists came to achieving the goal of this violent form of treason. How any Member of the House, after such a treasonous insurrection, could vote to invalidate the Electoral College vote count — thereby supporting the specific goal of the insurrection shocks me. Nothing more needs to be said about what happened. What does require a serious examination, however, is which individuals, including members of the mob, members of Congress, and others who did, or continue to, support the failed insurrection. That’s where Toyota comes in. Last week it was discovered that, by a wide margin, the largest financial backer of the Sedition Caucus has been Toyota. They donated almost three times as much as the infamous Koch brothers to House members of the Sedition Caucus. They’ve doled out substantial contributions to 37 Insurrectionist Congressmen, including $5,000 to Randy Biggs (R-Ariz.) who THE WEEK reported to be “one of the most vocal election conspiracy theorists and an alleged organizer of the January 6th ‘Stop the Steal’ rally.” Even more disturbing: Toyota chose to “double down” when this appalling fact was reported. A Toyota spokesperson sent this written statement to the news organization Axios: “We do not believe it is appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on the electoral certification.” What??? Voting to overturn the legitimate national election to prevent the peaceful transfer of power is not just any political vote. It was a vote in support of insurrectionist treason. Toyota is not free to dismiss such an egregious act by in any way equating it to normal political process. We cannot, and we will not, permit Toyota to get away with such a blatant disregard of our American political system. There is a price they must pay and many of us will do all in our power to see that they do pay — with lost sales and profits, for putting their desire for profit over their moral responsibility to serve the best interests of the societies they sell to. Unfortunately, this is not the first Toyota “breach of faith” those of us in California have witnessed. When Trump took office, he tried to reverse the Obama Administration’s goal for 5 percent annual increase in fuel efficiency by reducing this target to just 1.5 percent per year. California refused to allow cars made in the state to meet such meager gains in fuel economy, and (along with the 19 other states that follow its lead on fuel efficiency) continued to target the five percent per year goals. That created a dramatic split in the automobile industry. In July 2019, several automotive companies (Ford Motor Co., Honda, VW and BMW) reached a voluntary agreement to increase fuel efficiency to a compromise of 3.7 percent more fuel efficiency each year. Toyota, on the other hand, chose to join a lawsuit with the Trump Administration against California. Only in February, when the handwriting was on the wall that the suit would die with the Trump Administration itself, did Toyota agree to drop their case. Why, you might ask, was Toyota being so cavalier with its relationship to California res-

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Handling the Heat

As the weather warms up, here’s how to help animals handle a heatwave

ight now, Western North America is experiencing an ongoing heatwave with record-breaking temperatures, and it’s not just humans who are struggling to cope. Here are some ways you can help animals in your area survive these scalding summer days: Put out water According to the National Wildlife Federation, “having convenient supplies of clean water can make a huge difference to the survival of local wild species such as birds, butterflies, and small mammals, during times of extreme heat and drought.” You don’t need to water excessively, just keep the water in your birdbath clean and fresh, or put out bowls of water. For the animals that can’t reach the birdbath, like hedgehogs, setting up small bowls of water is the best strategy. Place a stick or stone in water bowls so that any critter can easily climb its way out of the bowl after refreshing itself.

Helping wildlife with heat stress

When some animals get overheated and dehydrated, they display many of the same symptoms that we do, such as confusion, loss of balance, and collapse. If you see any critters acting abnormally, there is a chance that they are suffering from heat stress. If you don’t feel equipped or comfortable aiding any wild animals when they’re in this state, contact animal services instead. If you feel comfortable, wrap the animal in a towel and place it in a cardboard box. Make sure you keep the animal in a cool and safe area and that it has water to drink. Dampening the towel or spritzing it gently with mist will also help cool down an overheated animal.

Protecting pets

Our pets will likely be more comfortable than wild animals who are facing the heat outside, but there are still some areas of concern, such as hot pavement on your pets’ paws. To check if the pavement is safe, place the back of your hand on the ground. If it’s uncomfortable for you, then it’s too hot for your pets. During days of extreme heat, try to walk your dog early in the morning or late in the evening, and try to avoid concrete. If a demanding schedule prevents you from changing up your walking times, then invest in little booties to protect your pet’s paws from getting burnt. •MJ idents? It turns out that Toyota actually experienced a reduction in its average fuel economy between 2012 and 2017 (even with the PRIUS averaged in!) as it continued to “up sell” us on larger, heavier, more expensive cars. This blatant pursuit of profit, over the quality of the very air we breathe, was all Toyota could think about. Sorry, Toyota, but that won’t do. I drove a leased Toyota Mirai for three years. It’s probably the most advanced commercially available hydrogen car in the world, and I love hydrogen cars! I waited until after the suit against California was dropped in February, but then began my new car search. I was on the phone agreeing to take a new Mirai the day the information came out describing Toyota’s explanation of their “donations.” I immediately called the agent at the dealer and told them that I would be boycotting Toyota products and cancelled my order, following this up with a letter expressing my outrage. Until they develop a sense of civic responsibility, this will be my position. Now I’m getting a hydrogen fuel cell electric Hyundai NEXO. I hope others will similarly express their disapproval of Toyota and refrain from buying their products until the company gets clear about its responsibility to society as a higher objective than maximizing profits alone. Given the numerous crises we face as a state, a nation, and as a global population, there is no choice. The most powerful institution in the world today is business. At a time when climate change is destabilizing our civilization, and political institutions are being challenged as never before, there is no other option for business but to begin “Taking Responsibility for the Whole” of society — the World Business Academy’s motto since its inception in 1986. The very survival of human civilization, as we know it, demands a new understanding of, and commitment to, corporate responsibility — there literally is no other option. •MJ

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Robert’s Big Questions

MAW (Continued from page 8)

by Robert Bernstein

Degrees from Physics departments of MIT and UC Santa Barbara. Career in designing atomic-resolution microscopes. Childhood spent in Europe and the East of the US. Passion to understand the Big Questions of life and the universe. Duty to be a good citizen of the planet.

What is Law?

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86,000 Miles Per Second. It’s Not Just a Good Idea. It’s The Law.” A friend in grad school at UCSB Physics had this sign on his desk. Why is this funny? Because we confuse two kinds of laws. Everyday laws are the ones we should not break. Or else we may get a ticket or a fine or even a prison sentence. These are prescriptive laws. They prescribe how we are asked to behave in society. In contrast, 186,000 miles per second is the speed of light. Einstein showed that no material thing or signal can exceed this speed. It is not that breaking this speed limit will result in a fine or arrest. It is that it is physically impossible to exceed this speed. He showed this in his Special Theory of Relativity. A “theory” in the scientific sense is not wild speculation. It is something backed up by careful observation as well as a theoretical framework that ties it to other established facts. As in Newton’s “Theory of Gravity.” In Special Relativity, an object accelerated near the speed of light gets measurably more massive. Meaning that it takes ever more energy to accelerate it to even higher speeds. It would take all the energy in the universe to accelerate a spaceship to something close to the speed of light. (Photons have zero mass so they can go the speed of light.) This difficulty in accelerating even tiny objects to high speed explains why particle accelerators are miles long and use so much energy. How does this compare with human-made laws? Think about the Ten Commandments, for example. Legend has it that these laws were engraved in stone by an all-powerful God who handed them to Moses. They bear a striking resemblance to laws that already were around. Ask the average person what those laws are, and they probably don’t really know. They might say, “You know. Don’t steal. Don’t kill.” That is two, not 10. Some of the other Commandments do not even fit with our modern legal system at all. A few years back I had to be sworn in as a witness in court. I said that I do not believe in any gods. The judge reached under her desk and pulled out a special affirmation for me. That I would tell the truth under penalty of the perjury laws of the State of California. No gods named. Why isn’t that invoked for everyone? The fact is that people mostly obey 8 – 15 July 2021

laws out of matters of cultural habit and rarely think about threats of penalties. If they do think of penalties, they probably think more of fines and jail than about some mysterious hereafter. Good thing, because Ecclesiastes advises in the Bible “All share a common destiny — the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad.” And that destiny is non-existence. “The dead know nothing; they have no further reward.” No hell or heaven. Just as John Lennon asked us to “Imagine.”

Laws are the rules for operating a society. You could get rid of laws against killing and stealing and it would not violate physics. But societies without such norms are not sustainable.

Laws are the rules for operating a society. You could get rid of laws against killing and stealing and it would not violate physics. But societies without such norms are not sustainable. In most cases laws are made to encode practices that are already in place. Conversely, you may have a brilliant idea for a law, but no lawmaker will try to pass it. Until it is already widely accepted. At which point the law is somewhat redundant. Sometimes laws are passed without such buy-in. Consider the 15th Amendment, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Neuroscientist Sam Harris is one who believes that it is possible to derive a set of prescriptive laws from descriptive laws. He argues that we know enough about human brains and behavior to make laws for the smooth running of society. We also know enough about the physical world to know that we must stay within the environmental carrying capacity of this planet. Philosopher David Hume claimed that one cannot derive an ought from an is. But I am with Harris on this. We better learn how to derive prescriptive laws based on descriptive facts. Laws like carbon taxes. Otherwise, our society will be as unsustainable as one that legalizes murder and theft. •MJ

Mozart’s “Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543” follows, a classical work that Rachleff said “helps establish the art of orchestra playing — the kind of listening, ensemble breathing, intonation, rhythm ... the execution of stylistic awareness that helps create the foundation for the summer.” The concert closes with Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite,” a late substitution in the program when MAW altered its protocols to allow for more players to be on stage at the Granada. “We needed to find a piece that uses percussionists, harp, piano, winds, and has more activity for the brass so nearly every instrumental fellow could perform,” Rachleff explained. “Normally when you do the ‘Firebird Suite,’ you’d also have quite a voluptuous sized string section, but we can’t have them all on stage at once, so we have to make it work as best we can.” While the compromises and conditions do post a challenge for the conductor, Rachleff’s attitude veers much more toward awe and gratitude at being able to have the fellows’ orchestra featured on such a fiery program in the first place. “This might sound strange coming from a conductor, but perhaps more important than it sounding spectacular — which is still very important — is just that it’s happening,” he said, then paused for a few moments. “Human beings are together making music again. I’m getting goosebumps just thinking about stepping onto that stage at our temple at the Granada and seeing all those faces out there in the audience. That trumps everything.”

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Monday, July 12: Chi-chi Nwanoku, OBE, the founder and artistic and executive director of the Chineke! Foundation, the first professional orchestra and junior orchestra in Europe to be made up of a majority of Black and ethnically diverse classical musicians, delivered the Innovation Institute keynote address during the fellows’ virtual-only first week of the summer festival. Today, everyone is invited to hear what classical music and society itself might take away from the pandemic via a streaming presentation of the talk from Nwanoku, who has been described as nothing short of a visionary (5 pm; free with digital ticket).... Also tonight: the Solo Piano fellows produce their own Steinwayfueled fireworks as the five keyboardists – who include returning 2019 alumni Alexander Lee Agate and Arthur Wang — make their first concert appearance of the summer

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(7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $40 [sold out]) Tuesday, July 13: Talented apprentices make music with master mentors as MAW’s X2 makes its debut. Featured fellows perform alongside faculty members in the new for 2021 series on campus in the intimate Hahn Hall. Works include Jessie Montgomery’s “Strum,” Rachmaninoff’s “Trio Élégiaque No. 1 in G Minor” and Mozart’s “String Quintet in G Minor,” encompassing nine young players along three faculty members in all. Even those without tickets can come early for a free percussion pop-up performance at 6:45 pm outside of Hahn Hall (7:30 pm; $55 [sold out]). Wednesday, July 14: Today’s Chamber Music master class is led by the Takács Quartet, the veteran ensemble founded at music school in Hungary that is now entering its 47th season, remarkably still featuring its original cellist, András Fejér. On the other hand, the violist is brand new, as Richard O’Neill — recent MAW faculty member and the former principal of Santa Barbarabased Camerata Pacifica — signing up last year just as he was releasing his Grammy-winning solo CD. Violinists Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes round out the foursome that will focus on the fellows’ ensemble playing skills this afternoon (3:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $10)... In an X2-style concert that doesn’t fall under the new series’ umbrella, pianist Jeremy Denk — a rare winner of both a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize who was also recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences — will perform with a trio of fellows in a French-themed program that includes Faure’s “Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 15.” The theme reflects the fact that today is Bastille Day, France’s version of the national holiday America celebrated 10 days ago. Vive! (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $55 [sold out]). Thursday, July 15: Virtual virtuoso Steven Isserlis, the widely acclaimed cellist who boasts a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, author and broadcaster, becomes the first of this year’s Mosher Guest Artists to perform, albeit via video. Isserlis, who gives most of his concerts on the Marquis de Corberon (Nelsova) Stradivarius of 1726, will play Bach’s “Solo Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major” and Bloch’s “Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello.” He’ll also be joined by pianist Sophia Rahman, who has recorded piano concertos with the Scottish Ensemble and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales among others and made 30 chamber music discs, for Dvorak’s “Four Romantic Pieces, Op. 75” (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $40). •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

Weekend Getaways

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Escape to the North:

A Look at What San Luis Obispo Has to Offer

The rooftop pool at Hotel Cerro is a great place for viewing sunsets, sipping margaritas, and dipping into the water

fter having been locked up for more than a year, there is a real need among many Montecito residents to just get away — anywhere. The nice thing about choosing San Luis Obispo is that one needn’t go very far to feel very far away; it is a mere two hours by car, yet it throws off a completely different and pleasurable vibration. Firstly, it’s a college town, so it is younger than Santa Barbara, certainly a younger crowd than one will find in Montecito. For example, the weekend (a Thursday/Friday actually) I spent there included market day, which is

Thursday. The entire city of San Luis Obispo (we’ll refer to it as SLO from here on out) takes part in not only the market on Thursdays, but also in the giant bike ride that takes place directly after the market closes at 10 pm. Try that in Montecito, where not only sidewalks but also stray residents with the effrontery to want to do something after the bewitching hour of 10 pm are rolled up. I tried to count the number of pedalers on bicycles and other wheeled contraptions hooting and hollering through the city streets after the Thursday market closed; I’d say at

least 2,000, maybe more, but it was hard to tell. We were on the top floor of the Cerro Hotel, right in the heart of SLO, and had a vantage point that allowed us to watch as those thousands of bicyclists noisily and joyously sped through the city streets. Simply strolling down the streets of SLO is a joy, in that the fully grown trees on both sides offer a pleasant, shaded canopy, and the shopping is exceptional: Except for the one downtown mall, all the stores are individually owned and feature many one-of-a-kind products from fashionable clothing to toys, antiques, and bicycles, along with art galleries, bars, restaurants, and, well, lots more. You may recognize the names of the 65-room Cerro Hotel’s founders and owners — Pat Smith, Hamish Marshall, and Alex Pananides — as they live in and are active in Montecito. Pat and Alex have been business partners for more than 30 years; Hamish is from Australia and worked with Smith and Marshall before getting

his business degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the school Pat attended beginning in 1973. They branched out into real estate development beginning with Arroyo Grande, Atascadero, Paso Robles, Lake Nacimiento and then on to Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, and many more states. His group developed, for example, the Residence Club Little Nell in Aspen and the Viceroy Hotel in Snowmass, both in Colorado. Hotel Cerro takes up about 7/8ths of a city block and makes an ideal location for your weekend getaway. The ocean isn’t that far off, golf courses abound, and there is much to do, including, naturally, touring some of California’s best wine country and its wineries. The hotel is unique, as it is partly in a 100-year-old-plus brick building that’s been completely reinforced with steel trusses. It’ll last another 100-plus years. The rooms are a

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING ON WATER AVAILABILITY CHARGE

Notice Inviting Bids

TUESDAY, JULY 27, 2021, 9:30 A.M. VIA TELECONFERENCE*

BID NO. 5909 Annual Contract for On-Call Sewer Main Point Repairs 1.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Directors of the Montecito Water District (District) to be held on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, at 9:30 A.M. the Board will hold a public hearing to consider the adoption of a resolution to continue an existing Water Availability Charge for the purpose of main replacement and enlargement. A written report, detailing the description of each parcel of real property and the amount of the charge for each parcel for the year, is on file and available for public review at Montecito Water District’s Office located at 583 San Ysidro Road. For information on a specific parcel’s acreage and proposed fee, owner may call 805.969.2271or email info@montecitowater.com. 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. The District will continue to collect such charge on the tax rolls, as in previous years.

The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its Annual Contract for On-Call Sewer Main Point Repairs Project (“Project”), by or before July 27, 2021, at 3:00 p.m. through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids™ portal in order to submit a Bid Proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that their Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids so plan accordingly. The receiving time at on PlanetBids’ server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids. 2.

2.2 Time for Completion. The Project must be completed within 20 working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about August 1, 2021, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding. 2.3 Estimate. The estimate for this Project is $241,563.00 2.4 Bidders’ Conference. A pre-bid conference will not be held. Questions may be entered through PlanetBids Q&A tab. 3.

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3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 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: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959

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 issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

Request for Qualifications: Qualified Contractors

Questions regarding this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) shall be sent via email to:

6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., 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.

Nick Kunstek Groundwater Specialist Montecito Sustainability Agency 583 San Ysidro Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108-2124 nkunstek@montecitogsa.com

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.

All proposals are due by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, July 26th, 2021 per the instructions in the RFQ. Published July 7, 2021 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fern and Fig Real Estate, 2875 Baseline Avenue, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. Sean Blackman, 2875 Baseline Avenue, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 1, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001934. Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The fol-

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

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The Montecito Groundwater Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency is soliciting proposals from qualified consultants to provide technical services related to stream flow gauging within the Montecito Groundwater Basin for the project: Surface Water Flow Gauge Installation. The Request For Qualifications (RFQ) is available on our web site: www.montecitogsa.com or at the Agency Office location shown below.

Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at various locations throughout the City, and is described as follows: The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to repair and replace damaged sewer pipelines and manholes utilizing open trench excavation methods per these specifications. As the City continues its annual sanitary sewer CCTV program, the City expects to discover sewer pipelines and manholes that require repair. The City intends to use this purchase order contract to perform “on-call” construction services for these repairs. The quantity of bid items are an estimate only for the purposes of bid comparison. The actual quantity of these items of work may vary substantially from the estimated amount included in the bid.

At the Public Hearing on July 27, 2021 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 and protests to the application of the fee. Any objection or protest must be presented to the District on or before the close of the July 27, 2021 Public Hearing or be precluded from consideration for the 2021-2022 tax year. *The public meeting will be conducted by telephonic and electronic means in accordance with Executive Orders N-25-20, N29-20, and N-08-21 by the Governor of the State of California. Remote participation information will be available on the meeting agenda posted at 583 San Ysidro Road, Montecito, CA 93108, on the website www.montecitowater.com, and by calling 805-9692271.

Bid Submission.

lowing person(s) is/are doing business as: Trippers & Askers, 406 E. Haley Street #1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Untidy Activity LLC, 1966 E. Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 16, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001776. Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing

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6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4. 7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide separate performance and payment bonds for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount, as further specified in the Contract Documents.

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

Subcontractor List. Each subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a complete Subcontractor List WITH ITS Bid Proposal through the PlanetBids portal. Failure to do will result in rejection of your bid. The Subcontractors List shall include the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license 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.

10.

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

11.

Retention Percentage. N/A.

By: _______________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

Date: ________________

Publication Date: 7/7/2021 Montecito Journal

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Farr Out (Continued from page 12) of mid-ocean ridge. An example we know very well is the San Andreas Fault; it connects a volcanic ridge that runs north from offshore northern California to a section of the ridge that happens to lie in the Gulf of California or Sea of Cortez. Thus, all of California west of the San Andreas Fault, including Baja California, is moving northwest at about two inches/year. Geologists had long sought to explain the large amount of offset on the San Andreas Fault: most known faults have only a few miles of offset over their lives, but the San Andreas appeared to have 150-300 miles. It turns out the tectonics of the western U.S. is even more complicated than just having a huge transform fault on land. As described very eloquently in John McPhee’s book Assembling California, the state has been built up literally by volcanic arcs, like Japan, being transported by the Pacific Ocean Plate and ramming into the North American Plate. Thus, the Sierra Nevada, which are an old, eroded remnant of an Andeslike chain of volcanoes sitting over a plunging oceanic plate, are now isolated way inland by the newer parts of California having floated in from the west. Further north, we all know that Oregon and Washington have some active volcanoes and that’s because the Pacific Plate is diving under the continent and melting like the Andes. The Hawaiian Island chain shows how the Pacific Plate has moved over the last several million years. If we date the various islands from Ni’ihau and Kauai (about 5 million years old), Oahu (3.4 million years), Maui (1.3 million years) to the Big Island, where a new volcano, Loihi, is just beginning to build a new island off its south coast, we can see a progression of the Pacific Plate as it slides over a fixed hot spot, where molten rock is rising from the deep Earth. We can even project back further in time by noting that the Emperor Seamount chain starts northwest of the Hawaiian chain and then turns more northerly, implying the Pacific Plate changed its motion in the distant past. By carefully piecing together the same rock formations and their ages across various continents, geologists have worked out how the continents have moved around over the past billion years or so. There are some great animations of those gyrations out there (www.youtube.com/ watch?v=QhldiOaFqpE, www.you tube.com/watch?v=q-ng6YpxHxU). It turns out about 300 million years ago, a supercontinent named Pangaea formed from all the continental plates. Then about 150 million years ago, it split into Gondwanaland and Laurasia, opening the Atlantic Ocean. Those two super-continents then split up over the next 100 million years into the present 8 – 15 July 2021

The activity of the East African Rift has been in the news lately as Mount Nyiragongo, a volcano on the rift, has erupted, damaging the town of Goma at its base. The corner where South America once connected to Africa at Nigeria is the location of another triple junction. In this case one arm failed and remains today as the Benue Trough along which the Niger River flows.

Strike-Slip and Thrust Faults

Assembling California by John McPhee

continents: North America split from Eurasia about 60 million years ago and gradually, the continents drifted into their present locations. The continents continue their drift and there is at least one place that a continent is currently being ripped apart. The Great Rift Valley in East Africa is a place where what’s called a triple junction has developed. That’s a place where a hot spot has risen, causing the continental plate to be torn apart, eventually to form a new ocean. It’s called a triple junction because there are three arms. In East Africa, the arms run through Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti; up the Red Sea; and through the Gulf of Aden.

All this jostling of continental and oceanic tectonic plates is the cause of most of the earthquakes we feel. As an oceanic plate dives beneath a continent, it sticks sometimes and when it finally slips, we can have a very large earthquake. Japan suffers from those as well as other areas in southeast Asia. Transform faults like the San Andreas also stick and then slip occasionally, usually along a long stretch. These faults, called strike-slip, slide sideways; and if you look across the San Andreas fault, you’d see the other side moving to the right, so it would be called a right-lateral, strikeslip fault. The last big earthquake along the San Andreas was the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The last one in the southern section of the San Andreas was in 1872. As the stress builds up on the stuck fault, the probability of a large earthquake increases. Along the South Coast and to the east toward L.A., we have a somewhat different situation: there is a big bend in the San Andreas Fault

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Montecito, including Senator Monique Limón, Assemblymember Steve Bennett (37th District), and Story and photos by Joanne A. Calitri Santa Barbara County First District Supervisor Das Williams. Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Contact her at: artraks@yahoo.com Department, plus MERRAG, Boy Scouts Troop 33, Cold Spring School District, and, of course, our beloved Association member Michael “Viper” and Victor Sanchez in vehicle, to start Montecito Fire Department were Maloco leading the aerial display the well-known parade. With 29 cars also featured on the route — all alongside fellow pilots Kent Field in tow, the route was jammed with made possible by a plethora of sponfrom Santa Barbara and Jon Russell families and friends dressed in USA sors, including: MERRAG, Mark and from Calabasas. colors, waving flags, and cheering the Kelly Delaney, Mark MacGilvray, After the flyover, parade co-chairs fly-over pilots and car parade entrants Susan Petrovich, Eileen Read, Mindy Denson and Kathi B. King as they drove by. David and Paige Rockecharlie, cued CHP Officers Sean Kelly on There were plenty of politicians Patrice Serrani, Kathryn Washburn, moto, followed by Shannan Sams enjoying the short jaunt through and Ed and Kat Wetzel. •MJ

A Pictorial Journey of the 2021 Village 4th Road Show

he roaring sound of 1955 Vintage Beech T-34 Mentors Air Force and Navy planes in a V-formation broke through the cloud cover as they flew over the Montecito Association’s Village 4th Road Show starting gate on San Ysidro Road on Sunday, with 18-year Montecito resident, veteran, and Montecito

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The San Joaquin kit fox is the largest fox species in North America

blow my cover with the foxes. Near the dens there was little or no vegetation to conceal myself. I needed to get out there before the family of kit foxes warmed themselves during the rising sun. At 4 am, I was up scanning, and the fox pups were already playing, but just briefly. As soon as they dove back

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Congratulations to Our Scholars

Endowment for Youth Committee (EYC) recently held a Virtual Recognition Event to celebrate 23 young African-American scholars who received grants totaling nearly $80,000 either directly from its endowment or through one of its strategic community partners. EYC provides financial, social, cultural and academic support and advocacy for its student membership who are called EYC Scholars. While EYC’s support and advocacy efforts are primarily targeted at Santa Barbara County’s Black diaspora and African-American communities, it also views its work as building and strengthening the greater Santa Barbara community. EYC looks to help lead the discussion around the benefits of diversity equity & inclusion and cultural competency. EYC is pleased to support these 23 young ambassadors who are or will become advocates and leaders in whatever communities they will ultimately reside. We want to thank the family and friends of these scholars who have laid a foundation of lifelong learning. We also want to recognize those benefactors who, along with funds from Endowment for Youth Committee, made direct contributions to this 2021 scholar recipients: Richard & Marguerite Berti, Cliff & Rosalyn Lambert (RTLC donoradvised fund), Southern California Gas Company and Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara.

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Status Spring 2021:

Status Fall 2021:

Nathaniel Getachew Will Goodwin Michael Brown-Fiedtkou Phillio Saavedra Mayah Johnson Dominique Harrison Talia Hamilton Devin Goodwin Precious Nwosu Ebba Tefera Kidus Efrem Amia Simmons AzaAliyah McKnight Tyana Pope Emily Dubowsky Andrea “Danielle” Wilkes Brandon Nnoli Kundai Chikowero Franciele Periera Hailey Gough Anais Siordia Jillian Stineman Gavin Townes

Pomona College Chapman University UC San Diego UC Santa Barbara Spellman College Allan Hancock College San Marcos High School Bishop Diego High School Dos Pueblos High School Pioneer Valley High School San Marcos High School Lompoc High School CSU Northridge Sacramento State University St. Joseph High School SB Community College San Marcos High School Dos Pueblos High School SB Community College CSU Fullerton Santa Barbara High School Carpinteria High School Lompoc High School

Pomona College Chapman University UC San Diego UC Santa Barbara Spellman College CSU Fresno UC Los Angeles Oregon State University Colorado Mesa University San Diego State University Boston University UC Santa Cruz CSU Northridge Sacramento State University Boise State University San Diego State Univ Boston University Cal Lutheran University SB Community College CSU Fullerton UC Merced SB Community College Allan Hancock College

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The Giving List by Steven Libowitz

A Commitment to Youth:

Storyteller Children’s Center Withstood the Pandemic

anta Barbara has been all awash with talk about the reopening of public schools ever since the pandemic shut them down last spring. Parents of school-age children have had different desires and needs in this area as the situation and responses including various methods of remote learning shifted, with some schools reopening earlier than others, amid different ways of coping with the coronavirus crisis. Somewhere in that mix it seems incumbent to note that Storyteller Children’s Center has been running its programs since last summer. In fact, July 13 marks the one-year anniversary since Storyteller returned to in-person schooling, fulfilling its ongoing purpose of serving as a therapeutic preschool providing high-quality early childhood education for the county’s most vulnerable children — those from Santa Barbara’s poorest or homeless families — as well as pro-

viding comprehensive support services for their caregivers and families. It’s all in service of helping the youngsters start school emotionally and socially ready to learn, with the coping skills and impulse control that allow them to grow and prosper into well-educated, well-adjusted adults and thriving members of the community. The pandemic wasn’t going to get in the way of that purpose. “We had to completely reconfigure our classrooms so we could spend 95 percent of the day outdoors,” explained executive director Susan Cass, who arrived at her position only last August, five months after COVID closed things down in March 2020, and jumped right into the fray supported by her predecessor, Donna Barranco Fisher. “The families couldn’t be on site, which was heartbreaking, and just had to drop their kids off at the gate,” Cass continued. “We had to stay on

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top of all the protocols… We’ve been resilient and we made it through, but the fact is that this was a much more challenging and difficult year for our families than it was for us.” That’s why it became such a mission to make Storyteller available again as soon as possible last summer, she said. “The way I saw it was for a lot of our children, this was their respite from some of the stress and trauma they might be experiencing at home. It was a place where they could continue to play and laugh, and just be children and feel safe. Storyteller needed to be open for these families,”

Cass explained. Now that regulations are easing, with more opportunity expected as the new school year starts in August, Cass is eagerly anticipating a return to the old normal when both family members and volunteers — who were also banned due to licensing regulations for more than a year — can be on site once again. “What I’m really looking forward to is welcoming the families back onto campus,” said Cass, a Santa Barbara native who graduated from Cate

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Far Flung Travel (Continued from page 30) into their den I grabbed my gear, and quietly as I could, ran out onto the alkali loam. I picked a spot behind some low-growing shrubs and huddled in the mid 30-degree temps. As first light dashed the Caliente Mountains in pink and orange hues to the west, I scanned repeatedly across my immediate horizon. Nothing stirred. As I lowered my binoculars, and the morning sun warmed my back and shoulders, I found a kit fox staring back at me. It was the female, and she was only 15 feet away from me. Other than doing a 360-degree spin, she remained calm. After I fired off a few frames, she gradually returned to her subterranean lair. Four more hours drifted by and as it grew hotter, nary a kit fox revealed itself. I packed up and moved on, enjoying the antics of antelope ground squirrels into the early afternoon. By late afternoon I returned, the heat of the day on the wane. The father and one pup were out, moving between dens maybe 150 feet from

each other. Once they dove into a den, I ran out with my camera gear and set up between each den. A couple hours drifted by with only the ears of the pups rising above the openings of the two prominent den sites. When I was sure the foxes were down below, I decided to move to the den with the father and one pup. After repositioning myself with both dens in my immediate view, I settled in and waited. An hour later the father emerged first. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I had parked myself next to a red ant hill. Suddenly, while holding the shutter down while photographing the kit fox, I endured multiple, simultaneous bites on both my legs, while having to do so without flinching, and holding my camera and lens as steady as I could. Then the dad ran off to its other den 75 yards to the north. Once he greeted his other pup, I quickly stood and stripped down, ridding myself of an army of angry ants. Tiny welts dotted my exposed legs while I ridded

The San Joaquin kit fox can be found at Carrizo Plain National Monument

myself of the fire ants. Afterwards. I scooped up my gear and picked a better spot, the other pup still down below. Maybe it heard me while I furiously swiped at those menacing ants on my thighs, its curiosity getting the better of it. Its ears were a dead giveaway though as they crested the steep mound of dirt surrounding the den, the largest of any fox species in North

America. However, the pup was onto me, revealing nothing more than those large ears that can hear a giant kangaroo rat drumming its feet deep inside its burrow. Just as the discomfort from those welts on my legs subsided, like a periscope those kit fox ears slowly descended back down into its den, not to be seen again until after the sun went down and shadows had swept across the Carrizo Plain. •MJ

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Post-Pandemic Spiritual Guidance from Shaman Jon

by Michelle Ebbin

s summer arrives and many of us are emerging as “walking wounded” from the isolation and multi-layered toll of the coronavirus, I think it’s safe to say that we could all use a little spiritual guidance to help transition back into the post-pandemic world. Post-Isolation Syndrome is a real thing and reintegrating into society after the stress of the pandemic, which retriggered physical, mental, and emotional traumas for so many, could require more help than you’re used to. Luckily for us, amongst the new transplants to our little haven is Jon Rasmussen, a full-time shaman, advisor, speaker, and author of the book, Dreaming Your World into Being: The Shaman’s Secrets to Having the Life You Desire Now. Jon is a gifted healer who has practiced numerous personal growth healing and shamanic traditions for more than 30 years. In addition to a degree in Electrical Engineering from Cal

Jon Rasmussen is an internationally recognized shaman

Poly San Luis Obispo, Jon is one of the few people who has been initiated into the shamanic energy medicine practices of the Q’eros, one of the most highly respected indigenous people in the Andes, known as the keepers of the ancient knowledge. For those not familiar with it, Shamanism is the world’s oldest spiritual practice and found in many cultures around the world. It is not a religion, but rather a practical and

pragmatic way to find solutions to problems in your everyday life, from health problems, professional challenges, or family conflicts to ancestral issues. Shaman practices are said to treat ailments and illnesses by mending the soul. By alleviating traumas affecting the soul or spirit, shamans can help restore the physical body to balance and wholeness. According to Wikipedia, “Shamanism involves a practitioner who is believed to interact with a spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as a trance. The goal of this is usually to direct these spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world, for healing or another purpose.” Jon says, “Shamans mediate between the spiritual and physical worlds.” I can tell you firsthand that in my experience with shamans (and I’ve had several), Jon Rasmussen is the real deal. Not to reveal too much personal information from my own session with Jon, but I can tell you that he was intuitively able to help me release some deep fears and anxieties that I’ve been carrying around for a long time. He also gave me some super helpful “homework” to help

integrate the changes made in the core energetic layer into the mythic layer, the psycho-spiritual layer, and ultimately into the physical expression of my life. It was exactly what I needed. Shaman Jon regularly conducts individual, couples, and group shamanic healing sessions all over the world. He has been the resident shaman at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur and Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, and he offers group and corporate seminars, as well as video and phone consultations. He has quite a celebrity following and has been featured as an expert in many news outlets, as well as on television series such as Chelsea Does, and The Lowe Files. As the coronavirus pandemic potentially comes to an end, it’s important to remember that there’s hope and a better path forward. As Shaman Jon told me, “A lot of the wisdom teachings and practices of shamanism have been available for such a long time and are exactly well-suited for dealing with crisis. We can help you; we can guide you, we’ve been through it, and we know how to manage this.” Friends, I cannot think of a better time to call Shaman Jon. For more information: www.ShamanJon.com. •MJ Muller Monthly Music Meta http://www.pmxwords.com

July 2021 Make It Count by Pete Muller ACROSS 1 Word before tag or out 5 Plane part 10 Gp. for Lexi, Lydia, or Inbee 14 "Methinks, thou ___ general offence, and every man should beat thee" (Shakespearean slam) 15 First-rate 16 Britpop band that did "Parklife" 17 Call from a drill sergeant 19 Second-most-affordable natural fiber (after cotton) 20 Hill in Hollywood 21 Rum brand named after a literary character 23 Stern award, for short 24 Its name in Japanese translates to "Sulfur Island" 27 Postshow party spot, sometimes 29 Racetracks, usually 31 Plays a great solo, in jazz-speak 32 Accident investigation agcy. 35 "Little ___" (Fleetwood Mac hit) 37 Hill in Nashville 39 "Come as You ___" (Nirvana hit) 40 Exude 42 Once called 43 "Once" or "Begin Again" 45 First name in legal fiction 46 Road shoulder 47 Hammerhead ends 49 Hackneyed 51 Top 10 hit for Stevie Wonder 53 Siderite, say 57 "___ Naturally" (Buck Owens song covered by the Beatles)

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58 Stereotypical housecat hangout 60 Bug in the throat 61 Roc bottom? 63 Final movement? 66 Rare blood type, informally 67 Ham's place? 68 Frigid finish? 69 Perseverance launcher 70 Watering holes 71 They're sometimes taken at the office: Abbr. DOWN 1 Mecca visitor 2 "Me and My ___" (Harry Nilsson song) 3 Word before pool or pad 4 Works 5 Chest pounder's practice, briefly 6 NPR host Shapiro 7 Nickname for a Texas city 8 Comment made while disrobing, perhaps 9 Later 10 JFK successor 11 Depth-finding device 12 It'll crack you up 13 Geometry calculations 18 Makeshift weapon 22 Drink with gusto 25 Second-largest country in West Africa 26 "Keep Yourself ___" (Queen song) 28 Initialism for a financial fiduciary 30 Oracles 32 Where Forrest met Lieutenant Dan, for short 33 Beverage brand owned by PepsiCo 34 Leave a group you don't feel right about, say 36 Georg with a baton 38 Edge of fashion?

40 Homo, for instance 41 "(Don't ___) The Reaper" (Blue Öyster Cult hit) 44 "The Hurt Locker" weapon, briefly 46 Jeremy known for his "greatest happiness of the greatest number" philosophy 48 Popular snowmobile brand 50 "___ Boy" (Ruth B hit referencing Peter Pan) 51 Tempter on your left shoulder, maybe 52 WNBA All-Star Delle Donne 54 Root used in perfume-making 55 Office shuffle, for short 56 Rather pointless weapons? 59 Metallica drummer Ulrich 62 JFK alternative 64 Sheridan of "X-Men: Apocalypse" 65 "___ Loose" (song from "Young Frankenstein")

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The MMMM is a free award-winning monthly crossword, published at noon on the first Tuesday of each month. Its difficulty level is similar to a NY Times Wednesday or Thursday puzzle. To finish the puzzle, solvers need to figure out the meta, which is usually a song or band. Solvers have until Sunday at 11pm to submit their answer to the meta. 1

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“We love our boys, but Milo and Dax were our first ‘children.’ At 13 and 14 years, respectively, our miniature Dachshunds were our first babies,” Tenold said. “They both are always right by my side and so I wanted to make sure they got credit for being such a special part of our family.” Now, with her company launched, Tenold is happy to reflect on what makes Montecito special. “My perfect day in Montecito is having lunch with family and Amanda Tenold and her husband, Rich, and two boys, Brennan (9) and friends. Our favorite Greysen (8) spots on Coast Village are Los Arroyos, Mesa Burger, Jeannine’s, and Renaud’s. I also like to wander into Mate Gallery at the Montecito Mart for inspiration. There’s just something about an old nautical flag meets a seersucker napkin. It’s the perfect West Coast meets East Coast vibe.” Tenold hopes that people will find her bags not only functional but fun. “I am all about convenient. I love that this is a product you can get behind because it is good for the environment, and it can be reused and repurposed. Whether it is taking snacks to the beach or those school lunches we will be making come August,” Tenold said. “Dax & Milo is meant for kids and parents alike.” You can find Dax & Milo locally at Lemondrop in the Upper Village and online at www.daxandmilo.com. •MJ

return to her passion. “After a little research, I found a food-safe, medical grade fabric for the inner lining. Durable, sustainable, economical,” Tenold said. “The liner would need another fabric to protect and prettify the outside, so I got very excited when I realized I could use my weird passion for fun cotton prints to make the bags look cute and playful and personal. It was all coming together!” The company officially launched online in June 2021 and Tenold is excited about the future: “I have so many different ideas. I want to make bags in different sizes and create different reusable products”. All the bags are made by-hand locally, and so the quality is strong. “I realized early on that I am not a sewer, but I do everything else,” Tenold said. In addition to sourcing the fabrics and creating the style, she wanted them to be easy to use and clean. “These bags are meant to be washed and dried in the washing machine. I don’t have a lot of countertop space in our kitchen, so I didn’t want to have bags that needed to be air-dried,” Tenold said. “Plus, I have found over the years that silicon bags get moldy if they are not completely dry — and no kid wants to eat out of a moldy sandwich bag!” She had to do her due diligence to make sure her product would work for moms, but also would be easy enough for kids to use on their own. “I looked at so many options. Zippers are more costly on the manufacturing end, which would make the bags less affordable,” Tenold explained. “My choice ended up being plastic snaps. They are clean, reliable, and easy for little hands to open and close.” The other perk of Dax and Milo is the snap button versus Velcro. “Velcro bags tend to fray and fall apart, especially if you wash them multiple times. Plus, stuff (crumbs, lint, hair) will stick to Velcro and that is just gross,” Tenold said. “You don’t have to worry about that with our bags as plastic snap buttons won’t wear and tear.” So why not name the brand “Brennan and Greysen”?

Mini Meta

Last Week’s Solution:

By Pete Muller & Andrew White For each of the first five mini crosswords, one of the entries also serves as part of a five-word meta clue. The answer to the meta is a word or phrase (five letters or longer) hidden within the sixth mini crossword. The hidden meta answer starts in one of the squares and snakes through the grid vertically and horizontally from there (no diagonals!) without revisiting any squares. PUZZLE #1 1

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THURSDAY, JULY 8 SBIFF Film Talk This week, Santa Barbara Film Festival director Roger Durling tosses around some topics with Topher Grace, the veteran versatile actor best-known for playing Eric Forman in the Fox sitcom That ‘70s Show. Grace, whose other credits include Spider-Man 3, Interstellar, BlacKkKlansman, Traffic and Mona Lisa Smile, is currently starring in and co-producing the ABC comedy series Home Economics. Next week: Durling dishes with Arthur Schmidt, the 84-year-old film editor who counts nearly 30 film credits between 1977 and 2005, including a nine-movie collaboration with Montecito-dwelling director Robert Zemeckis that boasts all three Back to the Future blockbusters, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump and Cast Away. Rabbit and Gump earned Schmidt Oscars while his work in 1980’s Coal Miner’s Daughter was nominated for the Academy Award. Coming July 22: a meeting with Montecito veteran actor-director Tim Matheson who starred in Animal House, The West Wing and, most recently, the 2019-21 series Virgin River. WHEN: 5:30 pm WHERE: Streaming via Zoom, link provided upon registration COST: Free INFO: (805) 963-0023 or https://sbiff. org/filmtalk

Architecture of India The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara’s summer lecture series zooms in on several monuments and architectural complexes in India, surveying the Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic traditions of the sub-continent. The 10-part series will cover the sites in chronological order, spanning nearly two millennia, from the second century BCE to the 16th century. This week: Shiva’s Cave: The Rock Cut Temple at Elephanta, which stands out for its “architectonic” elements carved from the basalt of the island’s mountain and its walls carved into the most intricate and monumental depictions of both Shiva and his consort Parvati. Next week: Lord of the Mountain: The Kailasanatha Temple at Ellora (July 15). WHEN: 6:45-8 pm Thursdays through August 19 WHERE: Zoom COST: $10 each INFO: https://afsb.org/news-events Movies Under the Stars in Your Cars UCSB Arts & Lectures’ full series of free movies out at the West Wind Drive-In focuses on films from the ’80s and ’90s, when the drive-in was long past its prime, which kind of makes the whole thing even more fun. Titled “Be Excellent & Party On,” the Throwback Thursday schedule continues with a double feature of the 1984 swashbuckling family adventure classic The Goonies with Rob Reiner’s still remarkably resonant Stand By Me, the 1986 coming-of-age odyssey

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THURSDAY, JULY 8 Orbiting at Music Alley The Santa Barbara singer-songwriter-surfer who goes by the name Jupiter is heading back to the bars for a local show tonight. Before COVID-19 hit, Jupiter performed solo or in a band on the streets and in clubs. She found a unique way to pivot through combining two of her favorite pastimes by taking her turquoise ukulele out with her on her surfboard on shore breaks from Santa Barbara to Santa Monica. She also found time to record a new single called “Sing Me to Sleep,” which came out on Valentine’s Day. Now she’s back on dry land, delivering originals and covers “from Moana to the Beatles” at one of downtown’s newest venues, Music Alley, which occupies the former home of Velvet Jones. WHEN: 8-10 pm WHERE: 423 State St. COST: $5 INFO: (805) 869-2338 or www.Music-Alley.com of self-discovery that dances around the line between suspense and humor while shattering the heart. Next up: Clueless, Amy Heckerling’s charming, sassy 1995 comedy based on Jane Austen’s Emma that finds a popular, know-it-all 15-year-old girl played by Alicia Silverstone, who acts as matchmaker and fashion makeover maven, realizing that she’s clueless when it comes to love (July 15). Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early for food trucks, concessions and entertainment. WHEN: 8:30 pm (Gates open at 7 pm) WHERE: West Wind Drive-In, 907 S Kellogg Ave., Goleta COST: Free INFO: (805) 893-3535 or https:// artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/Films.aspx FRIDAY, JULY 9

Santa Barbara National Horse Show The century-old annual equestrian extravaganza — which was displaced at the Earl Warren Showgrounds for a couple of weeks by the carnival-only Santa Barbara Fair late last month — is back in the saddle again. This week features USEF Rated competition in classes highlighted by American Saddlebred, Andalusian, Fresian, Morgan, Rocky Mountain, Tennessee Walking Horses, other gaited breeds, Hackney, Mountain & Moorland & Welsh Ponies and more, including Carriage Driving. The Hunters & Jumpers segment, featuring the $5,000 “Tab Hunter” USHJA National Hunter Derby (in honor of the late longtime Montecito actor), take over next week, July 14-18. WHEN: 4-10 pm today & tomorrow, 4-12 midnight on Friday, 11 am-12 midnight on Saturday, and 11 am-10 pm Sunday WHERE: Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real COST: Free INFO: (805) 687-0766 or http://earlwarren.com

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Shark Tank Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the theater, along comes the Alcazar Theatre’s Shark Weekend. The recently restored Art Deco venue kicks off the trio of terrifying movies tonight with Sharknado, the original 2013 made-for-television sci-fi disaster film that finds cyclones lifting sharks out of the ocean and depositing them in downtown Los Angeles. Tara Reid, Ian Ziering, John Heard and Cassie Scerbo were among the cast of the movie with perhaps the most preposterous premise in history, but that didn’t stop Sharknado from setting off a series that numbered five more flicks in five years. Tomorrow night, the Alcazar takes us back to Jaws, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic that kicked off the whole Great White-as-great-menace movement. I can’t be the only one who recalls being afraid to take a bath or drive through

“When you cease to dream you cease to live.” — Malcolm Forbes

a flooded underpass on the way home from the theater after watching the mechanical beast Bruce do his thing on the anxious masses on Amity Island. Let’s just say you might want to recall that the Alcazar is located in downtown Carpinteria — located just a few blocks from the beach and the shark friendly Pacific Ocean — before booking your seats. The weekend ends with the much more benign Shark Tale, DreamWorks’ 2004 attempt to parody The Godfather via animation. The critics called it a clunker, but the voice vehicle for Will Smith, Jack Black, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie and Godfather veterans Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese was No. 1 at the box office for three weeks running and made nearly $375 million total worldwide. That’s a healthy bite of the budget in my book. WHEN: 7 pm tonight, 2 & 7 pm tomorrow, 2 pm Sunday WHERE: 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria COST: $10 INFO: (805) 684-6380 or https://www.thealcazar.org SATURDAY, JULY 10 Comedy & Coffee Sue Scaduto of Progressively Funny Productions and Hector Renteria host a comedy showcase downtown in our bedroom suburb known as Goleta. Featuring mostly local stand-ups Chris Williams, Anthony Davis, Steven Releford, Victoria Charters and Serge, the show promises to continue the return to post-pandemic normalcy when we need not fear the expelling of breath through long and loud chortles and chuckling with only the laughter being contagious — for vaccinated folks anyway. 8 – 15 July 2021

FRIDAY, JULY 9 Movie Nights at the Mart It’s animania at the Montecito Country Mart this summer, as the Coast Village Road gathering place is showing a series of classic animated films from Disney, Pixar and beyond every Friday night in the courtyard. As a special bonus, a different Pixar short will open each screening. This week: Abominable, the computer-animated adventure film that’s barely two years old and is DreamWorks’ latest entry into making supposedly scary imaginary creatures into adorable animals through the magic of anthropomorphism. A teenage girl named Yi finds a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai, names him Everest and embarks on an epic quest to reunite the creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. But she and her friends must outrun a wealthy man who is intent on capturing a Yeti, and a zoologist who wants to put Everest on display. What wasn’t imaginary is the controversy the film has generated in Southeast Asia over a scene involving a map of the region that evoked the territorial disputes with China over the South China Sea, resulting in the film being banned in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia (but not Montecito). Pixar’s Boundin’, a five-minute short about a dancing sheep who loses his confidence after being sheared, which was shown in theaters before The Incredibles, opens the night. WHEN: 6-8 pm WHERE: 1016 Coast Village Road COST: Free INFO: www.montecitocountrymart.com WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Old Town Coffee, 5877 Hollister Ave., Goleta COST: $15 in advance online, $20 at the door; two drink minimum INFO: (805) 845-1550 or www.face book.com/events/891807378348601 SUNDAY, JULY 11 Music in the Garden Los Angeles-based Holy Crow Jazz Band performs old-time jazz and blues from the 1900s-1930s featuring a repertoire that includes many popular and obscure songs recorded by such artists as King Oliver, Bessie Smith, Bix Beiderbecke, Jabbo Smith, Louis Armstrong and Cliff Edwards, plus a

bunch of original compositions to boot. Mario J. Maggio, who plays clarinet, sax and guitar, and singer-percussionist Jessy Carolina co-lead the large band that feature SoCal stalwarts on trumpet, trombone, guitar, banjo, tuba, bass and piano — plus washboard! Hearing the outfit offering a post-pandemic performance in the picturesque garden at the Solvang Festival Theater might evoke the feel-good, Prohibition-era speakeasies where people went to be untroubled by the consequences and hardships of Depression-era America. WHEN: 4-6 pm WHERE: 420 2nd Street, Solvang COST: $30 INFO: (805) 686-1789 or www.solvangfestivaltheater.org •MJ

WEDNESDAY, JULY 14 Project Fiesta!... Outdoors Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s annual signature exhibition that traces the history of Old Spanish Days opens in its new home for this year in the museum’s beautiful courtyard. The display celebrates 95 years of Fiesta history, covering countless eras and celebrating the pageantry, costume and traditions of the city’s most cherished community festival through the museum’s own incredible collection of posters, clothing, ephemera, film, oral history, photos and more. The 2021 installation is dedicated to El Desfile Histórico (The Historical Parade), which will sadly only be visible via the museum’s display this year as fallout from the pandemic produced its cancellation this year. Erstwhile MJ columnist Erin Graffy will host two programs delving into the development and heritage of the famous Fiesta posters and the stories behind them over Zoom on Wednesday, July 21, and in person in the courtyard on Thursday, July 22. WHEN: Thursday-Saturday afternoon, today through Sept. 26 WHERE: 136 East De la Guerra COST: Free INFO: (805) 966-1601 or www.sbhistorical.org 8 – 15 July 2021

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Village Beat (Continued from page 6) swimming pool and wet area. Banks reported that the team is working through a few more details, including working with the Montecito Sanitary District to receive an intent to serve letter, before completing the County’s application. The project will then undergo environmental and CEQA review, as well as oversight by staff before being heard by MBAR and MPC. The YMCA is located at 591 Santa Rosa Lane.

Montecito Mercantile Opens Storyteller Children’s Center was able to function during the pandemic by taking the bulk of its classes outdoors

School and spent time in Texas and Oregon before returning to town to serve as program director at Jodi House Brain Injury Support Center and as Braille Institute’s ED before coming to Storyteller. “They’re such a huge part of this place and the work that we do. I’m excited about getting to know all of the families — the new ones, returning ones. Our volunteers are also a huge part of our Storyteller family and are such an integral part of making our programs happen every day. We haven’t seen them for a year, and we’ve missed them. If all goes to plan with COVID it will be like a homecoming for everybody. As for me as the new director, I’m excited for the opportunity to get to know people who’ve been a part of this amazing organization long before I came on.” The Storyteller vision extends into the future, as the organization — which serves a total of 70-80 preschoolers on its two downtown campuses — doesn’t sever relationships when the children go on to kindergarten. “We are continuing to look into ways to stay connected with our children after graduation. That’s a big part of expanding our family resource services,” Cass said. “The emphasis moving forward obviously continues to be providing a safe and supportive learning environment for the children, but also looking at enhancing and expanding our connection and relationships with the families, not just in their time at Storyteller, but for years to come.”

“The way I saw it was for a lot of our children, this was their respite from some of the stress and trauma that might be experiencing at home.” — Susan Cass, executive director

It all adds to the mission of laying the early education groundwork for success, not only for the children, but also their families, and, by extension, the larger community that benefits from the results. Storyteller can certainly use support and it strives toward that goal. Opportunities include everything from sponsoring a child at a cost of about $15,000, to providing tools, crafts, other items or smaller cash donations to keep the programs going and building for the betterment of the young children, and all of Santa Barbara society. •MJ

Two months after the closure of Read N’ Post in the Montecito Country Mart, the shopping center’s newest store, Montecito Mercantile, has opened, a sister store to owner Carrie Schei’s beloved Salt House Mercantile on Bainbridge Island. The shop, which is managed and overseen by longtime retailer and merchandiser Kelly Finefrock, has been transformed to feel like a home, with distinct areas for home décor, clothing, kitchen products, and apothecary. “It’s a great addition to the Mart, a sort of classic general store with a modern, Montecito twist,” said Mart rep Kristin Teufel, who oversaw the opening of the store and manages the U.S. Post Office, which is located within the Mercantile. The store features a careful curation of brands including Parker Thatch (totes and bags), La Ligne (sweaters, cashmere), Kule (classic tees, sweaters, socks), Amanda Lindroth (wicker wrapped glasses, pitchers,

hurricanes), Bamford (luxury beauty products), January Labs (skincare), Heather Taylor Home (gingham pillows, blankets, napkins), Harris Reed (candles), Maxwell and Geraldine (dresses), Peter Beaton (hats), and several others which give the store a preppy, East Coast aesthetic and feeling. The shop also offers various artisanal food and drink products, including T.W. Hollister vermouth. An installation of summer-themed photography hangs prominently on the store’s wall, by photographer Dewey Nicks, who was present for the store’s soft opening last week. Schei, a Seattle native, opened Salt House Mercantile in 2014, and since then the gift store has been widely coveted by Pacific Northwest locals and tourists, and has been featured in many publications. After moving to Montecito, Schei decided to open a similar store here, with the help of Finefrock, a fixture in luxury Montecito retail, having worked at Hudson Grace as well as the Miramar Resort’s James Perse location. The Mercantile also offers a small collection of magazines, stationery, and wrapping paper, as a nod to the beloved Read N’ Post that was in business in Montecito for nearly 40 years before closing in April. The full service post office within the Mercantile offers stamp sales, registered mail, and express mail. Montecito Mercantile is open Monday through Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, and Sunday 11 am to 5 pm. Visit www.montecitomercantile.com for more information. •MJ

Montecito Mercantile is now open at Montecito Country Mart, featuring clothing, housewares, apothecary, and gifts, with a preppy, East Coast style

411 STORYTELLER CHILDREN’S CENTER WHERE: 2115 State Street and 2121 De la Vina Street CONTACT: (805) 682-9585 or www.storytellercenter.org TO HELP: For donations, contact Director of Development Adrienne De Guevara at adrienne@storytellercenter.org.

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ORDINANCE NO. 6008 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING SECTION 9.97.010 OF THE SANTA

BARBARA

MUNICIPAL

CODE

PROHIBIT

SITTING OR LYING DOWN ON PUBLIC SIDEWALKS ON

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NOTICE OF ELECTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Vote-By-Mail General Municipal Election will be held in the City of Santa Barbara on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, for the following Officers: # TO BE ELECTED For Mayor

5 Years

The nomination period for these offices begins on July 12, 2021 and closes on August 6, 2021, 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). Dated this 30 day of June, 2021.

Para alcalde

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The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California. (Seal)

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).

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 6008 STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

ordinance was introduced on June 15, 2021 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on June 22, 2021, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

Meagan Harmon

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

business as: Fiber-Seal of Santa Barbara, 421 1/2 East Valerio Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Joseph J Del Bonis, 421 1/2 East Valerio Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 14, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001743. Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 750MLS, 1337 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Stephane Colling, 1337 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 16, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001783. Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Haigh Holdings, INC, 107 S Signal St, Ojai, CA 93023. Haigh Holdings, INC, 1187 Coast Village Rd – STE 1-284, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 16, 2021. 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.

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Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0001775. Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UPS Store 2342, 315 Meigs Rd Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Urban Urth LLC, 11955 Vara Place, Granada Hills, CA 91344. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 28, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001879. Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Riskin Partners, 1250 Coast Village Rd. Suite A, Santa Barbara CA 93108. Dina Landi, 525 Periwinkle Ln, Santa Barbara CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 17, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001784. Published June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Price, Postel & Parma LLP, 200 E. Carrillo Street, Suite 400, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Douglas D. Rossi, 49 Canyon Acres, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Craig Parton, 33 Langlo Terrace, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

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Fechado en este día 30 de junio del 2021.

Published July 7, 2021 Montecito Journal

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on June 22,

El período de nominación para estos puestos comienza el 12 de julio del 2021 y cierra el 6 de agosto del 2021 a las 5:00 de la tarde.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC Secretaria Municipal

/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

Para miembros del 3 Consejo Municipal (Districts 4, 5, 6)

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CANON PERDIDO STREET

2021.

# PUESTOS A ELEGIR DURACION DEL CARGO

TERM OF OFFICE 5 Years

For Member of the 3 City Council (Districts 4, 5, 6)

POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO de que se habrá de llevar a cabo una Elección Municipal General de Voto-PorCorreo en la Ciudad de Santa Bárbara el martes 2 de noviembre del 2021, para los siguientes funcionarios:

MILPAS STREET BETWEEN CARPINTERIA STREET AND

Cylde (Chip) E. Wullbrandt, 1950 Still Meadow Road, Ballard, CA 93463. Christopher Haskell, 105 La Vista Grande, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Timothy E. Metzinger, 5770 Leeds Lane, Goleta, CA 93117. Todd Amspoker, 247 Morada Lane, Santa Barbara CA 93105. Mark Manion, 26 La Flecha Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Melissa Fassett, 1157 Edgemound Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Ian M. Fisher, 1354 Rialto Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Shereef Moharram, 602 Calle Rinconada, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Kristen M.R. Blabey, 6955 Cathedral Oaks Road, Goleta, CA 93117. Shannon D. Boyd, 1132 Highland Road, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 15, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001753. Published June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Janitorial Services, 232 West De La Guerra St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Manuel Dorado Arroyo, 232 West De La Guerra St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 21, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001820. Published

June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Inspired Being, 2421 Shelby Street, Unit A, Summerland, CA 93067. Linda Dam, 2421 Shelby Street, Unit A, Summerland, CA 93067; Chelsea Rothert, 2962 Iroquois Dr., Thompson’s Station, TN, 37179. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 3, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001653. Published June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JC Electric; JCE 303 W Arrellaga St. Apt 5, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. John Curulla, 303 W Arrellaga St. Apt 5, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 17, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001795. Published June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ceylon International Film Festival, 64 S Patterson Ave, 204, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Ceylon International Film Festival Foundation, 64 S Pat-

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on June 22, 2021.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on May 12, 2021.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published July 7, 2021 Montecito Journal

terson Ave, 204, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 16, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001763. Published June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brunello Cucinelli, 1759 South Jameson Lane, Montecito, CA 93108. Brunello Cucinelli USA Inc., 466 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley, NY 10502. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 1, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001618. Published

June 16, 23, 30, July 7, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV02320. To all interested parties: Petitioner Sarakan Arulthasan filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Sarangan Arulthasan. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed June 30, 2021 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: August 20, 2021 at 10 am in Dept. 4, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28

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Stories Matter

mother, who leaves home to find herself. The teenage daughter left behind is understandably unforgiving. It is a touching story of mothers and daughters, dreams that have gone unrealized, the female body and female rebellion that comes later in Sam’s life. This is truly gifted writing.

by Leslie Zemeckis

From Rogue Ballerinas to Meg Tilly, Here are a Few Must-Reads

adar Girls by Sara Ackerman is a historical novel about the sisterhood of the Women’s Air Raid Defense, a top-secret program, formed after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Daisy, an unlikely recruit that guides pilots into blacked-out airstrips, tracks unidentified planes and makes her place in history against all odds.

ou do not have to be a ballerina, or a dance mom, as I am — quick shout out to Gustafson Studios for managing an end of year, in-person ballet show — to enjoy Georgina Pazcoguin’s memoir Swan Dive: The making of a Rogue Ballerina. Pazcoguin’s rise from ABT Summer Intensive student to NYCB’s first Asian American soloist is funny (farts on stage), cringy (face plants on stage), and infuriating (misogynist abuse on stage). Dive into this one about a dream and finding what you will and won’t tolerate to obtain it.

The pursuit of the killer brings together Lily, an ER nurse with a childhood trauma, and Detective Kylie who uncover secrets in the small town involving a decade-old crime. This is action packed.

acters. Hope uncovers the real story of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the Zoot Suit Riots all the while fighting a blossoming romance with the dead girl’s fiancé. This is a fun one!

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s we see an influx of Los Angelenos enjoying Santa Barbara (good luck with a Lucky’s reservation) this book is a fitting summer read. The Hollywood Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal is a fun one! British spy Maggie Hope infiltrates Hollywood to uncover who killed a beautiful starlet in 1943. I have never read a book done so well that weaves real stars with fictional char-

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peaking of Hollywood, Academy Award Nominee Meg Tilly has a new book out, The Runaway Heiress, a fast-paced story about Sarah, hiding from an abusive husband. Sarah ends up working as a PA for a hotshot Hollywood director. With hubby in hot pursuit, Sarah and her boss investigate hubby’s shady business dealings while trying to stay alive. Tilly has drawn complex and endearing characters in this, her 10th book.

hriller fans will want to grab Far Gone by Danielle Girard. It’s a story of a couple that are brutally shot in their home in North Dakota. Their babysitter, Hannah, though high, manages to escape with their baby.

ayward by Dana Spiotta is a moving story about Samantha, a middle-aged woman, with an ill

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss

n the quirky debut Nobody, Somebody, Anybody by Kelly McClorey, we meet Amy who works as a maid while studying to take the exam to become an EMT. Or is she? I love this strange, lonely girl and her quest to connect. McClorey’s slow revelation of all that Amy struggles with including grief and self-loathing is expertly meted out. •MJ

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Miscellany (Continued from page 18) Adele Rosen, Miles Hartfeld, Gretchen Lieff, Susan Gulbransen, Sandy Schoolfield, and Joan Rutkowski (Photo by Baron Spafford) Wayne and Sharol Siemens (Photo by Baron Spafford)

To mark the occasion after the downtime forced by the pandemic restrictions Palmer Jackson, chairman of the Granada board, and his wife, Susan, hosted a Premiere Patrons Party at their charming Montecito Valley Ranch estate. The bustling beano was like old

home week with many supporters seeing each other for the first time in more than a year. “It’s just so nice to see everybody again and be able to talk and touch. It has been an interesting time,” said Palmer. “Even with the downturn fundraising has been good, with $1.5

million in government assistance. Now it’s full speed ahead!” As classical guitarist Gilberto Gonzalez, a regular at the Stonehouse at the San Ysidro Ranch, entertained and the 50 guests noshed on comestibles from the Catering Connection, it couldn’t have been a nicer return to normality. Among the supporters turn-

Palmer Jackson, executive chairman of the Granada Theatre board, and Caren Rager, Chrisman executive director and president (Photo by Baron Spafford)

ing out were Wayne and Sharol Siemens, Joan Rutkowki, Mercedes Millington, Caren Rager, Arlene Rosen, Christopher Lancashire and Catherine Gee, Peter and Kathryn Martin, Mary Collier, Dan and Meg Burnham, Ed and Sue Birch, Gretchen Lieff and Miles Hartfeld, and Gary and Susan Gulbransen.

Sightings Dan Burnham, Meg Burnham, Susan Jackson, Catherine Gee, and Chris Lancashire (Photo by Baron Spafford)

Emily Jones, Yvette Giller, and Pauline Lowe (Photo by Baron Spafford)

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones at the Rosewood Miramar with hostelry owner Rick Caruso... TV titan Oprah Winfrey’s beau Stedman Graham picking up his Financial Times at Pierre Lafond... Actor Billy Baldwin noshing at Oliver’s. Pip! Pip! Be safe and get vaccinated. •MJ

Check out the colleges our 2017 Eighth Grade graduates will be attending in the fall . . . The American University of Paris Auburn University Berklee College of Music Chapman University Claremont McKenna College Harvard University King’s College (UK) Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College New York University (3) New York University Tisch School of Arts Occidental College Santa Barbara City College (4) Santa Clara University

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Southern Methodist University University College London University of Arizona, School of Acting & Musical Theatre University of California, Berkeley (2) University of California, Santa Barbara University of Puget Sound University of St. Andrews (Scotland) University of San Diego University of Southern California (3) University of Washington Wesleyan College Williams College

Educating Kindergarten through Eighth Grade Students since 1928 LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE FOR 2021-2022 SCHOOL YEAR • FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT CRANESCHOOL.ORG OR 805-969-7732 8 – 15 July 2021

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Your Westmont (Continued from page 14 14)) Global Business, discusses “No Rules Rules: Creating an Organizational Culture that Breeds Innovation and Flexibility.” Beebe, president at Westmont since 2007 and author of the book The Shaping of an Effective Leader: Eight Formative Principles of Leadership, spoke about “Meaning Making as a Leader.” Goodloe, author of the book King Maker: Applying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Leadership Lessons in Working with Athletes and Entertainers, speaks about “Holding Court with the King: Leadership Lessons from the Life and Times of Dr. Martin Luther King.” DeBoer, professor of art at Westmont and winner of the Lilly Fellows Program’s Arlin G. Meyer Prize for academic nonfiction, offers three short talks about “Imagining the Room Where It Happens.” The Mosher Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership, the Brittingham Family Foundation and the Montecito Institute sponsored the event.

Alumna Earns Prestigious Lilly Fellowship

The Lilly Graduate Fellows Program has selected Westmont alumna Olivia Stowell (2019) as one of 10 Lilly Graduate Olivia Stowell, a Westmont Fellows nationwide. The prestigious felgraduate, is lowship supports outstanding students now a Lilly who want to explore the connections Graduate within Christianity, higher education, Fellow and the vocation of the teacher-scholar as they pursue graduate degrees in humanities and the arts. Stowell, who earned a Master of Arts from Villanova, enters the doctoral program in Communication and Media at the University of Michigan this fall. “I’m really looking forward to the cross-disciplinary intellectual community that the Lilly Graduate Fellowship cohort will provide,” Stowell says. “The chance to consistently think with and learn from other graduate students from other institutions and disciplines is such a unique opportunity that I feel very lucky to participate in. “Over the next few years, I plan to continue my research in the intersections of television, race and ethnicity, temporality, and embodiment, particularly in relation to food and cooking as represented on TV,” she says. “I’m also hoping to do some more public writing.” Lilly Graduate Fellows receive three annual stipends of $3,000 ($9,000 total) to use at their discretion. During the three-year program, fellows will meet regularly with a mentor, attend four conferences, and participate in a long-distance colloquium. “My coursework at Westmont prepared me for my graduate studies, both at Villanova and at Michigan,” says Stowell, who graduated from Westmont with a double major in English and theater arts. “My time at Westmont not only allowed me to lay the groundwork for my future research but also connected me with amazing mentors who have continued to support me even after my graduation.” •MJ

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Garden suites at Hotel Cerro feature a Roman style bathtub (and a shower, naturally), outdoor firepit, indoor fireplace, and abundant tranquility

mix of lofts with 14-foot ceilings, the kind one might find in San Francisco or even SoHo in New York City, along with garden suites, and more traditional rooms (all with high ceilings). Our garden suite featured an outdoor patio with a firepit, an indoor fireplace (under the TV set), and — for those wishing to reveal their hidden extrovert — a bathtub, exposed on all sides, into which hot water spills from the ceiling. It’s unique and not a drop of water splashes on the floor as the tub is being filled. The rooftop bar and swimming pool are a treat all their own. The garden suites are so named because just outside one’s suite is the garden from which Brasserie SLO’s chef pulls his herbs. There are also eight privately owned individual condominiums. They too are available for rent, but by the month only. The full-service spa (it may be the only full-service spa in all of SLO) features eight treatment rooms, two of which can accommodate couples. Offerings include seaweed wraps, a steam room, deep tissue massages, and all manner of amenities. Having taken 10 years to put together, the hotel finally opened in February 2020. A month later, it had to close because of the pandemic and has only recently reopened. Our hosts, Pat and Jennifer Smith, were off on an extended hike up Madonna Mountain, which is walking distance from the hotel and is a climb of about 1,200 or 1,300 vertical feet. There is also Bishop’s Peak, two miles away (a vertical climb of about 2,000 feet). SLO is known for a plethora of hiking and bicycling trails, and of course the vineyards and its well-known Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc regions, kissed as they are by afternoon ocean breezes. A visit to the San Luis Obispo Mission (founded in 1772) is not to be missed. Other attractions at the hotel are the honest-to-goodness Germanmade still in the window near the lobby (helpful in getting the hotel’s liquor license), a real Parisian bar direct from Paris, the open-fire pizza oven, and a glass wall filled with Hotel Cerro’s prized wine collection

“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.” — Leonardo DiCaprio

from local vintners (many of whom are friends and acquaintances of the hotel’s owners). Hotel Cerro’s popular Brasserie SLO was crowded for a Thursday night and since this was April and California was still in the throes of a partial lockdown, the only customers — and there were quite a few — were residents of San Luis Obispo; the eatery has become an integral part of the downtown scene. This summer’s guest chef is Vartan Abgaryan, whose background includes stints at Lutece in New York City, Red Pearl Kitchen and A Restaurant in Newport Beach, and the Public Kitchen & Bar at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Most recently he was Executive Chef at Silver Lake’s Cliff’s Edge and later, 71Above, named because it is on the 70th floor (there is no 13th floor) of the U.S. Bank building in Los Angeles (“the highest restaurant west of the Mississippi”); Los Angeles Magazine named it “one of the Top Ten New Restaurants of 2016.” Take my word for it: you’ll have an excellent meal at Brasserie SLO.

Golf and Other Diversions

Bring your clubs and if your spouse isn’t a golfer, drop her (or him) off at Hotel Cerro’s excellent spa and head out to the links. You can start with Monarch Dunes or Hunter Ranch, the two that I’d say are the most challenging and in the best shape. Avila Beach has an interesting layout, and it plays more like a European course, in that the public shares many of the holes and on a busy Sunday, it can be crowded with picnickers and strollers that you may have to wait for before taking a swing, adding a dimension to the game. Other courses include Morro Bay, Black Lake Resort, Cypress Ridge, a couple smaller, shorter courses and an excellent practice facility at Dairy Creek. Hotel Cerro is located at 1125 Garden Street, between Marsh and Higuera Streets, in the heart of downtown San Luis Obispo. For more information and reservations, please call 805.548.1000 or visit http://hotelCerro.com. •MJ 8 – 15 July 2021

NOSH TOWN Splendor in the Gras?

by Claudia Schou

Norman Kolpas Eats His Way Through Foie Gras’ history, delectability, and controversy Foie gras served classic Europeanstyle (Provided by Norman Kolpas)

A scoop of Foie Cherry ice cream at Humphry Slocombe in San Francisco (Provided by Norman Kolpas)

here are few ingredients in gastronomy that have become the object of widespread controversy and debate in recent history quite like foie gras. Beloved by many chefs and gourmets for its rich flavor and smooth texture, foie gras is made from the fattened livers of geese or ducks, with the fattening typically achieved by gavage, the French term for force-feeding the birds a fatty corn-based mixture (through a tube) that engorges their liver up to 10 times its normal size. Some call that tradition, others animal cruelty. Foie gras production has been banned in several nations, and attempts have been made to do so in several states and municipalities in the U.S., notably California, where a ban on production and in-state sales went into effect — intermittently, due to court challenges — since 2012. In Foie Gras: A Global History, published in April 2021 by Reaktion Books Ltd. as part of its Edible series, cookbook author Norman Kolpas strives to provide a balanced account of this debated pâté’s history and production from ancient Egypt to modern times. Kolpas also explores how foie gras has inspired famous writers, artists, and musicians, including Homer, Herman Melville, Isaac Asimov, Claude Monet, and Gioachino Antonio Rossini. The book includes a guide to purchasing, preparing, and serving foie gras, as well as recipes, from classic dishes to contemporary treats. The Montecito Journal recently caught up with Kolpas to discuss the ongoing debate of this gourmet ingredient, and the inspiration behind its classic simplicity and novel creations. Q. Why a book about foie gras? What motivated you to dive into the debate over that particular menu item? A. Over the years, I’ve written more than 40 books, and many of them have been about food. The history of what people eat and why and how they prepare, serve, and share it has always fascinated me. I knew a little about foie gras before starting and was fascinated by its rich history as well as by the ethical issues surrounding it, something I wanted to treat fairly and equitably in this book, not at all shying away from it. Are there any foie gras producers who have achieved a successful ethical balance with foie gras production? There are foie gras producers who treat their birds humanely. Hudson Valley Foie Gras, in upstate New York, observes ethical practices and even invites journalists to tour their farm and witness the process start to finish, which I did. They invited a trusted colleague of the renowned animal scientist Temple Grandin to visit and inspect their farm, and in her report, she found no fault with their force-feeding process. Other companies also follow ethical practices, including La Belle Farm, also in upstate New York; and D’Artagnan, 8 – 15 July 2021

Marx Rumpolt’s A New Cookbook (1581) expressed the growing German taste for foie gras (Provided by Norman Kolpas)

based in New Jersey. It’s also worth mentioning that Eduardo Sousa has been producing what he calls “ natural” foie gras at his Patería de Sousa duck farm in western Spain’s Extremadura region, which has brought him great acclaim, including a glowing report on NPR and a hugely popular TED Talk by notable New York chef Dan Barber, entitled “A foie gras parable,” that as of today (June 24) has been viewed 1,576,653 times! Sousa lets wild geese roam free on his farm, fattening themselves. Of course, that sort of approach can lead to an inconsistent supply. But, as Dan Barber explained to me when I interviewed him, “the point of his natural foie gras is the inconsistency. He never promised he could produce natural foie gras every year.” Regardless, in the end, concerns about foie gras should be viewed in light of other, broader issues involving animal rights and cruelty in the food industry. The eggs and chickens so many of us eat, the tender young veal so prized in some fine-dining restaurants, the factory-farmed fish that spend their short lives in overcrowded tanks and swimming in their own waste: All of these foods come about through far crueler practices than ethically produced foie gras. According to your book, foie gras has been on the menu since the beginning of human civilization. How has it evolved into the delicacy we know today? Egyptians at least four and a half millennia ago observed birds gorging on grain before migration and discovered that as a result their livers were oversized and deliciously rich, smooth, and creamy tasting. It spread from there to ancient Rome and throughout its empire. Jewish farmers, butchers, and cooks through the Middle Ages prized foie gras, not least because it provided a rich form of buttery fat that complied with kosher dietary laws. It was prized in the Vatican, too, where in the 16th century Bartolomeo Scappi, the chef to Pope Pius V, recorded a recipe for soaking the livers in milk, dusting them with flour, frying them in lard, and glazing them with Seville orange juice and sugar. French and German chefs began preparing mousses and layered terrines of foie gras. And the ingredient reached a classic French apotheosis in the great chef Auguste Escoffier’s A Guide to Modern Cookery, first published in 1907, which included 85 different ways to prepare and serve foie gras. French chefs and central European cooks alike brought a passion for foie gras to America, where in 1889 it even appeared on the menu of the inaugural ball for President Benjamin Harrison. Foie gras is used as an expression of passion in literature. What were some of your favorite reads? English literature major that I was back in my college days, I was delighted to find that foie gras kept popping up as a point of reference for writers, who found it a particularly apt way to express a sense of the good life, a sensual life — or sometimes, by contrast, a life lived to excess. I love the scene in W. Somerset Maugham’s 1944 novel, The Razor’s Edge, for example, in which Isabel Bradley discusses with her uncle, Elliott Templeton, the stuffed eggs and chicken sandwiches she’s planning for a picnic lunch with her fiancé. “Nonsense,” says her uncle. “You can’t have a picnic without pâté de foie gras.” Even contemporary, experimental, and issues-oriented fiction can deploy foie gras to make a point powerfully. In his 241-word “microstory” called Fat Liver, for example, African American writer John Edgar Wideman deplores income

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Nosh Town (Continued from page 43) disparity’s impact on the food deserts of Black neighborhoods, and how our own guzzling of gasoline in our cars and information from our smartphones is a sort of electronic gavage. In that context, his unnamed character concludes, “Who gives a crap if it becomes a crime to force-feed duck or geese?” When describing foie gras in contemporary cuisine, how does the 1960s-era nouvelle cuisine compare to today’s molecular gastronomy foie gras applications? Since foie gras has been exalted for centuries now, it’s not surprising that each new culinary movement wants to give the ingredient its own spin. I think of nouvelle cuisine as a movement that simplified and focused the tastes of fresh seasonal ingredients. (Those same principles, when applied to the bounty of ingredients produced here in California, led to the creation of what is known as California cuisine.) I like to think of a foie gras terrine I enjoyed on a trip I made a few years ago to Bordeaux as a perfect example of that kind of simple nouvelle focus, in which a foie gras terrine — the whole livers cooked together packed into a rectangular porcelain dish, sealed with a layer of aspic, and then chilled and sliced — was presented in all its beautiful simplicity, accompanied by toasted rustic bread and a tart quince paste, both of them providing simply eloquent contrasts of taste and texture to the smooth, rich liver. By contrast, molecular gastronomy of the soaringly creative sort practiced by chefs like the great Grant Achatz at his acclaimed Alinea in Chicago, go for surprising combinations, preparations, and presentations that bring a sort of ingenious laboratory science aspect to the ingredient. One great example is Achatz’s so-called foie gras “shooter” — not a quickly downed cocktail, as that name might imply, but instead a test tube containing layers of foie gras mousse, fig, coffee, and tarragon, all meant to be consumed in a focused explosion of flavors and textures. The same applies to so-called “fusion” cuisine, in which the cooking traditions and styles of different countries, often from different continents, are combined. You can now find slices of the seared liver poised atop oblongs of rice to make so-called foie gras sushi, for example. You interviewed and enjoyed foie gras cooked by some notable chefs for your book. What are examples of some of the creative preparations? It never ceases to amaze me how ingenious and at the same time classically disciplined America’s chefs can be when it comes to preparing foie gras. During a visit I made to Lubbock, Texas, for example, young chef Cameron West at his restaurant called The West Table prepared a dish especially for me in which he accompanied neat slices of foie gras Torchon — a poached and chilled cylinder of foie gras — with the traditional Texan and Southern cornmeal fritters called hush puppies and a jam made from local peaches. I broke open a hot hush puppy, topped it with a smear of foie gras, added a dollop of the jam, and experienced a combination that seemed at once classic, contemporary, and true to the region. What are some unexpected ways this delicacy has made its way onto menus? At the legendary Chicago Hot Dog stand called Hot Doug’s, owner Doug Sohn offered a foie gras-topped gourmet frankfurter on a bun; and though that stand no longer exists, it was immortalized (with Sohn’s permission) in a foie-topped offering called “The Hot Doug” at another Chicago stand, The Dog House. The great French chef Daniel Boulud served a foie gras-stuffed “db Burger” at his db Bistro Moderne in Manhattan and offered a similar creation at his Bar Boulud in London. You even see foie gras finding its way into desserts from time to time, adding an element of richness along with a not-unpleasant meaty undertone that makes sense when you think of how bacon now is sometimes included in sweet dishes as well. I was particularly impressed by “Foietella,” a commercially sold product created by chef David Briggs, owner of Xocolatl de David in Portland, Oregon, who combined foie gras with chocolate to create a gourmet product akin to Nutella. (The Seattle novelty company Archie McPhee even sold for a time a “Gourmet Foie Gras Bubble Gum” beautifully packaged in an antique-looking tin — though the product did not actually contain any foie gras.) And you can’t talk about sweet foie gras treats without mentioning the foie gras flavor produced by Jake Godby and his business partner Sean Vahey in their San Francisco gourmet ice cream shops called Humphry Slocombe. They sometimes make it into ice cream sandwiches with big gingersnap cookies or include sweet cherries in the mixture. He got a lot of publicity for the concoction, along with anonymous death threats from animal rights activists. Governments around the globe have taken steps to remove foie gras from menus in recent years. New York City is home to about 1,000 restaurants that serve foie gras, but in 2019, the City Council voted to ban the dish beginning in 2022. In California, which, according to The Robb Report, previously represented 20% of national foie gras sales,

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Foie gras burgers made their first appearance at gastropubs in London (Provided by Norman Kolpas)

it’s illegal to sell it at gourmet shops and feature it on restaurant menus. Are these the final days of foie gras? Foie gras has been legislated against here and there around the world, even at the same time that its availability and popularity have been growing. And laws are always changing. For example, the intelligent and well-written book The Foie Gras Wars, by Chicago Tribune journalist Mark Caro, details how foie gras first came to be banned in the city of Chicago, and then how that ban was overturned. And there was lots of press about how foie gras came to be banned in California, and how in 2017 the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case to overturn it. Yet, surprisingly, there’s been less publicity about the fact that last year a federal court reinterpreted the state law, clarifying that only foie gras production and sale were banned within the state — meaning that Californians can still purchase foie gras from out of state, just so long as they don’t then sell it here. I would not for a moment wish to belittle the earnestness of animal rights activists, especially those who also draw attention to cruel practices in the mass production of animal-derived foods almost all of us eat every day. And those producers of foie gras who are carelessly cruel to the animals they raise deserve to be put out of business. But I don’t think ethically produced foie gras is going to disappear anytime soon.

Recipe

Foie Gras with Buttermilk Cornmeal Cakes and Spiced Peach Jam

Serves 4 to 6 The combination of foie gras, house-made peach preserves and freshly deepfried hush puppies (Southern-style balls of cornmeal batter) served by chef Cameron West at the West Table in Lubbock, Texas, inspired this easy home recipe for a cocktail party or dinner hors d’oeuvre that captures the same flavors, textures, and temperatures. Guests can eat the foie-and-jam-topped corn cakes with a knife and fork or, more informally, pick them up and enjoy them by hand.

Ingredients

1 cup good-quality store-bought peach jam ½ to 1 tsp bottled hot sauce such as Tabasco sauce 1½ cups plain (all-purpose) flour 3/4 cup stone-ground cornmeal ¼ cup sugar 2 tsp baking powder ½ tsp sea salt ¾ cup buttermilk, plus a little more if needed 1 large egg 4 tbsp unsalted butter, melted non-stick cooking spray 9 oz foie gras Torchon, foie gras mousse or pâté de foie gras

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In a small mixing bowl, stir together the peach jam and hot sauce to taste. Set aside. To make the cornmeal cake batter, in a mixing bowl, stir together the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, and sea salt. In a separate bowl, combine the buttermilk and egg, and whisk until combined. Whisking continuously, drizzle the melted butter into the wet ingredients. Then pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir just until a smooth batter forms, adding a little more buttermilk if needed to achieve a thick but very slightly fluid consistency. Having preheated a large non-stick griddle or heavy frying pan over medium-high heat, spray the hot griddle or pan with non-stick cooking spray. Using a 60-ml (1/4-cup) measuring cup, portion out the batter onto the hot griddle. Cook until the cornmeal cakes are golden brown, about 2 minutes per side, turning once with a spatula. When done, transfer to a warmed platter and continue until all the batter has been used. Cut the Torchon into thin discs and arrange on a separate serving dish. Transfer the spiced jam to a small serving bowl. Pass the hot cornmeal cakes, inviting guests to top them with foie gras and a dollop of jam.

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How To Get Foie Gras In California

Foie gras can be purchased from the state of California but it must ship from another state or country. Whenever purchasing poultry, beef and seafood from a vendor, be sure to do your research to learn more about its production. Here is a list of producers and online stores where you can get foie gras legally. - Based in New York’s Catskills Mountains, Hudson Valley has supplied foie gras aficionados, restaurants, and caterers throughout the U.S. since 1982. On its website, you will find foie gras in all its forms: mousse, terrine, in raw slices to sear, the whole foie to cook yourself, and a delicious Foie Gras au Torchon. www.hudsonvalleyfoiegras.com - Goudy’s French Cuisine offers foie gras crème brûlée, macaron with foie gras mousse, and foie gras chocolatine (croissant). At press time these items were out of stock. www.goudycharcuterie.com - Based in Reno, Laurel Pine’s website claims it offers more foie gras choices than you will find anywhere else online. www.enjoyfoiegras.com •MJ

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