The Giving List 26 Aug - 2 Sept 2021 Vol 27 Issue 35
SERVING MONTECITO AND SUMMERLAND
Just what could a significant endowment do for the Lobero Theatre? It could pave the path for a fruitful future p.24
A Sense of Belonging
Dr. Hilda Maldonado is Santa Barbara Unified’s first Latina superintendent, and she’s focused on creating lasting connections, page 5
Path to Somewhere
The Hot Springs Neighborhood Trail is complete, with the exhaustive effort now connecting key components of our community, page 10
‘One of a Kind’
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eter Clark could get a party started — either in Montecito or tiny towns in Ireland — with the way he tickled the ivories, but it was his largerthan-life personality that was the main attraction, with his mission to ‘choose good,’ leaving an indelible impact on the South Coast community, (story starts on page 6)
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hen I arrived at the Montecito Journal, I received some push back for writing about affairs outside of Montecito. But I felt strongly then, and still do, that many aspects of life in greater Santa Barbara are integral to the lives of Montecitans. That goes for healthcare, social impact work, the development of downtown, the arts, who is the mayor, who serves on city council, the board of supervisors, and of course, the quality of our local schools. Specifically, those of us who live in Montecito and send our kids to the local feeder schools have a strong vested interest in what goes on in the Santa Barbara Unified School District. Having chaired the Montecito Union School Board during its search for a new superintendent, which ended with the hiring of MUS’s current Superintendent Anthony Ranii, I know how challenging and vital it is to find the right fit to lead a school district. In the case of Ranii, he was basically lured to Montecito with brochure-like promises of beautiful weather and strong resources, only to be faced with the 2018 Thomas Fire and subsequent debris flow. Ranii more than rose to the occasion, and in fact became one of our community’s most vital leaders during that tragedy. Not unlike Ranii, Dr. Hilda Maldonado began her reign as SBUSD superintendent during a crisis: the pandemic was taking hold and our nation lapsed into a chaotic racial reckoning. But that’s only part of the firsts Maldonado has faced. Maldonado is the first Latina superintendent in Santa Barbara’s history, even though Latinos make up 37.1% of Santa Barbara’s population. And she is only the second woman to hold that position. I had the chance to sit down with Maldonado late last spring, and then again recently before school started this year to speak with her about her plans, her aspirations and the challenges that she is determined to overcome. As vaccinations levelled off and it has become clear we’ve not yet reached the end of this scourge, Maldonado voiced her determination.
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ingle is a quiet port town along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, a little cove for some 2,050 people best known for its resident dolphin, Fungie. But on this particular night in 2005, it was another fun guy that captured the hearts of locals and the dozens of Santa Barbarans that had made the trek to the Emerald Isle. And in typical Peter Clark fashion, it wasn’t planned — it was a product of the music that flowed through him, a faucet that simply wouldn’t shut off. As the group entered the Blue Zone — a jazz and pizza/wine bar — a local musician was taking a break just before midnight. “Can I sit in?” Clark asked the man. “Yeah, sure,” the man returned. The ivories on that keyboard didn’t know what they were in for — the “Real Piano Man” was ready to put on a show. “He just whipped up that keyboard,
it was the coolest thing to be in a foreign country, with a room full of people from Santa Barbara, and get a show like that,” said Erin Graffy, a longtime friend of Clark. “It was a magical moment.” And as the Santa Barbara community mourns the loss of Clark — an iconic musician with a heart of gold who spent nearly four decades on the South Coast — there are countless, and similar, stories from those that knew the Wales native the best. For Hank Allen, it was a trip to China that showcased Clark’s electric personality, as well as his affinity for music of all types — Clark wasn’t just a jazz or piano guy, he was a chameleon. As Allen, Clark, and Gil Robledo made their way through multiple stops on the China tour — “They treated us like we were the second coming of Elvis Presley,” Allen said — it was a detour that ultimately provided a lasting memory.
Peter was born in Wales, moved to Australia as a child and landed in California in 1963
Ahead of a performance, a request had come in for Clark to cover a few John Denver classics, a bit more country than what was on the trio’s normal setlist. So, they stopped at a music store, not speaking a lick of the local tongue, and Clark bought a guitar. The fans would get what they wanted, and so did Clark: He entertained. “He was amazing, he simply could do anything he put his mind to,” Allen said. “He was one of the most multi-talented people I’ve ever met.”
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When doing a Google search for Peter Clark, it doesn’t have the normal return for a man that has recorded with hundreds of other musicians, as well as being a teenage heartthrob in his adopted home of Australia, with his family relocating just before Clark began classic piano lessons at the age of 10. Clark rose to fame in the mid-1950s — spurred by a successful appearance
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’m grateful for Gwyn Lurie’s “Candid Condescension” in calling Ed St. George out for his condescending, patronizing attack on City Councilwoman Meagan Harmon. St. George felt entitled to tell Councilmember Harmon that she should be focusing on her children and husband rather than serving in public office and working. Really? It’s 2021 and we still have men who think they can tell women what to do with our lives, just because they are men, and we are women? He didn’t offer the same advice and concern regarding Barrett Reed, who is running in another district, who is the same age, and who also has young children and a full-time job. Here’s my question: where are Councilwoman Harmon’s opponents in all this? The Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee issued a statement (see below), objecting to a mansplainer’s presumption to tell a woman — any woman — how to live her life. Nearly 40 current and former elected officials signed it, along with nearly 70 additional community leaders. Harmon’s three challengers, one a woman herself, are conspicuously absent. I expect public officials to take public positions on issues that matter — and how men treat women matters. I expect public figures to act on their values, and speak out against outdated, patriarchal treatment of women. If these challengers do not object to sexist condescension, then they are not my kind of leader. If they object, but refuse to speak out, they are also not my kind of leader — or a leader at all, truth be told.
Thanks to all who spoke up against sexism and misogyny, and for a world where we respect the rights of women to lead their own lives unencumbered by the unsolicited advice of entitled men who think they know better. Sincerely, Margaret Lazarus
A Statement of Solidarity
‘Instagramification’
On a recent local podcast, a wellknown private developer and commenter on local politics was given a platform to share offensive and sexist viewpoints about women in leadership, condescendingly urging a local woman in elected office to “take a pause” on her career to focus on her children and husband. The following statement is issued in solidarity: “Women belong at every table where decisions are being made and it is not up to men to be the arbiters of a woman’s personal decisions or ambitions. When women lead in government and other sectors, they are far more likely to work collaboratively and forge effective policies in support of the well-being of children, families and all people — especially the most marginalized. “We stand with all women in our community and recognize that Black, Indigenous, Latina, and women of color are disproportionately impacted by sexism and barriers to leadership. Misogyny, in any form, has no home in Santa Barbara County. And no, the women of Santa Barbara will not take a pause.” Luz Reyes-Martin resident, Santa Barbara Women’s P Political Committee
Thank you, Sean Hutchinson for saying it like it is. I call what’s happened in the “rarefied enclave,” the “Instagramification” of Montecito. But hey, welcome to the world in 2021. My own humble abode in westside SB has its own version of “influenced” reality. The “Dickensian pathway” continues to separate the haves and the have nots and I join in your embarrassment for the direction our world is headed. Few in this brave new world of ours treat it with the consideration it deserves. Jim Marshall
Guilty as Charged
A claim of misogyny in the event of concern for the development of children seems misprioritized. Minors have little leverage in pursuing a superior up-bringing when dealt an over-committed parent. If the upward mobility of women takes a backseat to the development of children, call me a misogynist. And no, children and parenting won’t be a closeted topic. If you see something, say something. Matt McLaughlin •MJ
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by Kelly Mahan Herrick Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.
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The long-term goal is to have an eight-mile Montecito Neighborhood Trail Network (MNTN) that connects the six local schools (MUS, CSS, Laguna Blanca, Crane, OLMC, and Cleveland), the community churches, the two business villages, and offers a clear path from the mountains to the beach. “The community needs this, and deserves this,” Powell said, adding that he hopes to continue the pathway on East Valley Road to the Upper Village, and from Hot Springs to Sycamore Canyon. In order to build these semi-rural pathways, the Bucket Brigade has been working with the county and homeowners, building the path in public right-of-way. The most recent pathway project was part of a larger recovery project on Hot Springs,
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s a smooth jazz star, saxophonist Dave Koz has always been acutely aware of audience response, as the genre can often be about providing the sort of soundtrack that people are seeking in their lives. But nearly two years away from performing in front of the public largely due to the COVID pandemic really crystallized that relationship. “We’ve done six shows so far,” Koz said, referring to the Dave Koz & Friends’ Summer Horns Tour that comprises 20 dates across the country, including August 27 at the Lobero Theatre. “One thing I can say without question is that people need the music back — they’ve all been coming out to the concerts and it’s clear that they really, really need it. We need it, too. Or rather, I needed to play live again. I didn’t even realize how much I missed it, but that first show back in Florida a couple of weeks ago was such a cathartic experience. It was amazing seeing all those faces and getting that immediate feedback.” On the other hand, though, Koz said he was glad there was a nearly threeweek break between the Los Angeles show and this Friday’s gig at the Lobero when the tour resumes. “I’ve never been more fatigued, because I’ve been using this muscle, live show chops for 30 years straight. And then all of a sudden it stopped for a year and a half, no amount of livestream or shows from your living room could prepare you for when you’re back in front of a live audience and human beings with that excitement level and you have to match it. I
never realized just how much energy that takes.” It’s not like Koz was purely non-productive during the most restrictive periods of the pandemic. In fact, the veteran saxophonist, whose recording career spans more than three decades, recorded and released two vastly different albums during the time frame. “A New Day,” which represented his first album of original material in 10 years, was made online, as Koz took advantage of the downtime to learn and employ cutting edge technology. “This was a virtual project from the start — even the songwriting was done virtually, and nobody saw anybody in person,” he said. “But because everybody was home, I could call the best drummers, the best bass players, the best keyboardist, and everybody was just clamoring to work on something.” Among the artists collaborating with Koz on “A New Day” are David Sanborn, Brian McKnight, Bob James, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Jeff Lorber, all contributing their parts virtually to the all-original project, save for a cover of the Beatles’ “Yesterday.” “I’d get the tracks back, and they were filled with this excitement and energy and urgency because these people just wanted to make music any way they could,” Koz said of the record that was released in October. In contrast, The Golden Hour, which came out earlier this summer, was made in a Minnesota studio with everybody “masked up all day until it
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Monte ito Miscellany by Richard Mineards
Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, 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.
‘No Substitute for Live Theater’: ETC Raises its Curtains
Sitting: Maureen McFadden, Michael K. Dunn, and Carole MacElhenny; standing: Jim and Jeanne Fulkerson, Jan Dunbar, Euzetta and Simon Williams (Photos by Priscilla)
Derek Westen, Christine Holland, Chuck Sheldon, Meredith Baxter, and Jenny Sullivan (Photos by Priscilla)
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Christine Hollinger, Paula Bruice, Jill Seltzer, Jonathan Fox, Sybil Rosen, and Susan Case (Photos by Priscilla)
t was just the ticket when the venerable Ensemble Theatre Company, which is fully reopening after 15 months of pandemic lockdown, hosted 150 guests and raised a hefty $250,000 with its “Curtain (Back) Up!” bash at the Santa Barbara Club. “When the New Vic theater opened in 2013, we had a Curtain Up fête,” says Jonathan Fox, artistic director.
“This marks a colorful reopening and is just as momentous. “It is a critical part of the alchemy to have a live audience, something that has been missing for the past 15 months. There is no substitute for live theater.” The new season opens on October 9 with Tenderly, a show on the late singer Rosemary Clooney, aunt of movie idol George Clooney, which is fol-
lowed by the Yuletide production The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, and three other shows — Sleuth, Carmen Jones, and American Son. The delightful evening, co-chaired by Paula Bruice, Susan Case, and Sybil Rosen, also marked the company’s first Extraordinary Awards which went to Peter and Debby Stalker, Derek Westen, and Dana White, who were instrumental in getting the New Vic constructed. ETC’s managing director Jill Seltzer
emceed the gala and Jim Nye auctioned off a cornucopia of goodies, including a dinner party for eight, a coastal flight on Derek’s six-seater Piper Mirage, a walkon role in the Christmas show, and a cellar of 75 bottles of wine. Pianist Robert Koenig was accompanied by tenor Ben Brecher, who sang Rodgers and Hammerstein, among other favorites. Among the theater fans turning out were Barbara Burger, Dan and Meg Burnham, Janet Garufis, David and Anne Gersh, Kostis Protopapas, Adele Rosen, Joan Rutkowski, Anne Towbes, and Simon Williams.
Quite the Crescendo
Ken and Georgiene Rotman, Janet Garufis, Jonathan Fox, Gregory Roper, Kathy Dimon, and Jill Seltzer (Photos by Priscilla)
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Anne Towbes and Janet Garufis at the Santa Barbara Symphony reception (Photo by Nik Blaskovich)
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
Santa Barbara Symphony celebrated the founding members of the Crescendo Society, a group of visionary supporters who have each made a five-year pledge to support the orchestra at levels ranging from $2,500 to $100,000, with a boffo brunch at the Santa Barbara Club. This means the next four seasons of the symphony, under maestro Nir Kabaretti, will start with at least $538,200 in committed support for concerts at the Granada. Among the supporters turning out and being serenaded by sym-
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Extreme Grout Clean, 834 W Sola St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Manuel V Barajas, 834 W Sola St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Deborah D Barajas, 834 W Sola St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 6, 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. 20210002285. Published August 18, 25, September 1, 8, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rose Café Salsa of Santa Barbara, 834 W Sola St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Manuel V Barajas, 834 W Sola St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Deborah D Barajas, 834 W Sola St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 4, 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. 20210002267. Published August 11, 18, 25, September 1, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CBDANDFREE.COM, 5142 Hollister Avenue Num 552, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. LOVENOPAIN.COM LLC, 5142 Hollister Avenue Num 552, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 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. 20210002236. Published August 11, 18, 25, September 1, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hope, 4979 San Marcos Court, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Heather R. Hart, 4979 San Marcos Court, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 23, 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. 2021-0002158. Published August 4, 11, 18, 25, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cookies Santa Barbara, 1605 E Clark Avenue, Orcutt, CA 93455. East Clark SB OPCO LLC, 2804 Gateway Oaks Drive #100, Sacramento 95833. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 8, 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. 2021-0001988. Published August 4, 11, 18, 25, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV03216. To all interested parties: Petitioner Hilary Suzanne Molina filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Hilary Suzanne Lyn. 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 August 19, 2021 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: October 15, 2021 at 10 am in Dept. 4, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 8/25, 9/1, 9/8, 9/15
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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA - GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION PO BOX 1990, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93102-1990 INVITATION FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for: BID NO. 5922 DUE DATE & TIME: SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 UNTIL 3:00P.M. PYRUS KAWAKAMII & MELALEUCA VIMINALIS PRUNING Scope of Work: Pruning services per specifications throughout various City locations. Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted. If further information is needed, contact Caroline Ortega, Senior Buyer at (805) 564-5351or email: COrtega@santabarbaraca.gov FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code. BONDING In accordance with Civil Code § 9550, if the bid exceeds $25,000.00, the Successful Bidder shall furnish within ten (10) consecutive calendar days after written Notice of Award, a Payment Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the total amount of the bid as well as a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total. LIVING WAGE Any service purchase order contract issued as a result of this request for bids or quotes may be subject to the City’s Living Wage Ordinance No 5384, SBMC 9.128 and its implementing regulations. If there is a difference between the City’s Living Wage rate and Prevailing Wage rates for similar classifications of labor, the contractor and his subcontractors shall pay no less than the highest wage rate. PREVAILING WAGE, APPRENTICES, PENALTIES, & CERTIFIED PAYROLL In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code § 1773.2, the Contractor is responsible for determining the correct prevailing wage rates. However, the City will provide wage information for projects subject to Federal Davis Bacon requirements. The Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rates of wages and employer payments for health, welfare, vacation, pensions and similar purposes applicable, which is on file in the State of California Office of Industrial Relations. The contractor shall post a copy of these prevailing wage rates at the site of the project. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and its subcontractors hired to pay not less than the said prevailing rates of wages to all workers employed by him in the execution of the contract (Labor Code § 1770 et seq.). Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5. There are penalties required for contractor’s/subcontractor’s failure to pay prevailing wages and for failure to employ apprentices, including forfeitures and debarment under Labor Code §§ 1775, 1776, 1777.1, 1777.7 and 1813. Under Labor Code § 1776, contractors and subcontractors are required to keep accurate payroll records. The prime contractor is responsible for submittal of their payrolls and those of their subcontractors as one package. Payroll records shall be certified and made available for inspection at all reasonable hours at the principal office of the contractor/subcontractor pursuant to Labor Code § 1776. The contractor and all subcontractors under the direct contractor shall furnish certified payroll records directly to the Labor Compliance Unit and to the department named in the Purchase Order/Contract at least monthly, and within ten (10) days of any request from any request from the City or the Labor Commissioner in accordance with Section 16461 of the California Code of Regulations. Payroll records shall be furnished in a format prescribed by section 16401 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, with use of the current version of DIR's “Public Works Payroll Reporting Form” (A-1-131) and “Statement of Employer Payments” (DLSE Form PW26) constituting presumptive compliance with this requirement, provided the forms are filled out accurately and completely. In lieu of paper forms, the Compliance Monitoring Unit may provide for and require the electronic submission of certified payroll reports. The provisions of Article 2 and 3, Division 2, Chapter 1 of the Labor Code, State of California, are made by this reference a part of this quotation or bid. A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently licensed to perform the work and registered pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5 without limitation or exception. It is not a violation of this section for an unlicensed contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. CERTIFICATIONS In accordance with California Public Contracting Code § 3300, the City requires the Contractor to possess a valid California C27 Landscaping or C61/D49 Tree Service contractor’s license at time the bids are opened and to continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and certifications required to perform the work specified herein. CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. _____________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager
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ORDINANCE NO. 6018
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA - GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION PO BOX 1990, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93102-1990
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
INVITATION FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until the date and time indicated below at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for: BID NO. 5917
SANTA
BARBARA
ADOPTING
THE
2021-2022
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AND THE SANTA BARBARA
DUE DATE & TIME: SEPTEMBER 22, 2021 UNTIL 3:00 P.M.
POLICE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
EAST BEACH PAVER REPAIR PROJECT Scope of Work: This task is for work located within the East Beach Townhomes residential development at 643 Costa Del Mar and 665 Del Parque Dr. in Santa Barbara, CA. The scope of work includes all labor, materials, equipment, and incidentals necessary to implement the requested task. It shall include, but is not limited to: scheduling of the work, communicating with City staff and the East Beach Townhomes Home Owners Association, removing the existing pavers, excavating approximately 9-inches of the trench zone backfill, reusing any existing materials that can be repurposed, obtaining necessary materials for paver replacement, and installing the pavers according to the manufacturer’s best practices. Ensure the final result maintains uniformity with the surrounding pavers within the highly trafficked road surface. Access to residents property, both pedestrian and vehicle, shall be maintained at all times. Compaction testing shall be performed by the City. Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted. A NON-MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on September 2, 2021 at 9:00 a.m., at East Beach Townhomes, located at 643 Costa Del Mar, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. Parking is available along Ninos Dr. No relief will be granted to contractors for any conditions or restrictions that would have been discovered if they had attended the pre-bid meeting. All attendees are responsible for bringing, wearing a facemask on-site, following current CDC and Santa Barbara County Public Health social distancing guidelines.
The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on August 10, 2021. The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California. (Seal)
FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code. BONDING Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. PREVAILING WAGE, APPRENTICES, PENALTIES, & CERTIFIED PAYROLL In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code § 1773.2, the Contractor is responsible for determining the correct prevailing wage rates. However, the City will provide wage information for projects subject to Federal Davis Bacon requirements. The Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rates of wages and employer payments for health, welfare, vacation, pensions and similar purposes applicable, which is on file in the State of California Office of Industrial Relations. The contractor shall post a copy of these prevailing wage rates at the site of the project. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and its subcontractors hired to pay not less than the said prevailing rates of wages to all workers employed by him in the execution of the contract (Labor Code § 1770 et seq.). Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm
/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 6018 STATE OF CALIFORNIA
) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on August 3, 2021 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on August 10, 2021, by the following roll call vote: AYES:
Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo
NOES:
None
ABSENT:
None
ABSTENTIONS:
None
It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5. There are penalties required for contractor’s/subcontractor’s failure to pay prevailing wages and for failure to employ apprentices, including forfeitures and debarment under Labor Code §§ 1775, 1776, 1777.1, 1777.7 and 1813. Under Labor Code § 1776, contractors and subcontractors are required to keep accurate payroll records. The prime contractor is responsible for submittal of their payrolls and those of their subcontractors as one package. Payroll records shall be certified and made available for inspection at all reasonable hours at the principal office of the contractor/subcontractor pursuant to Labor Code § 1776. The contractor and all subcontractors under the direct contractor shall furnish certified payroll records directly to the Labor Compliance Unit and to the department named in the Purchase Order/Contract at least monthly, and within ten (10) days of any request from any request from the City or the Labor Commissioner in accordance with Section 16461 of the California Code of Regulations. Payroll records shall be furnished in a format prescribed by section 16401 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, with use of the current version of DIR's “Public Works Payroll Reporting Form” (A-1-131) and “Statement of Employer Payments” (DLSE Form PW26) constituting presumptive compliance with this requirement, provided the forms are filled out accurately and completely. In lieu of paper forms, the Compliance Monitoring Unit may provide for and require the electronic submission of certified payroll reports. The provisions of Article 2 and 3, Division 2, Chapter 1 of the Labor Code, State of California, are made by this reference a part of this quotation or bid.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on August 11, 2021.
A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently licensed to perform the work and registered pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5 without limitation or exception. It is not a violation of this section for an unlicensed contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. CERTIFICATIONS In accordance with California Public Contracting Code § 3300, the City requires the Contractor to possess a valid California General A contractor’s license at time the bids are opened and to continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and certifications required to perform the work specified herein. CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. _______________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager
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/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on August 11, 2021.
/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published August 25, 2021 Montecito Journal
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Dear Montecito
Cayley Boyd
by Stella Haffner
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Feeling Alive in the City that Never Sleeps
hough it is sometimes difficult to stand out in Montecito’s competitive landscape, Cayley Boyd rises to the challenge, fully embodying what it means to be a high achiever. Cayley is an accomplished athlete, musician, and businessperson who has spent her more recent years navigating the nail-biting corporate jungle of New York City. But Cayley’s resumé doesn’t end with her academic accolades. Today, she’ll tell us about her journey out of Santa Barbara and how she became the type of traveler that
checks countries off her bucket list the way most of us knock back peanut M&M’s.
Dear Montecito,
I hope you’ve been having a beautiful summer. I’ve been living in New York City for nearly six years now — it is crazy how time flies! I am currently working at Ankura in corporate finance consulting. It has been a wild time this past year and a half with COVID, but I am grateful for the extra time I spent in Santa
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“We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.” – Carol Burnett
The-Sea Preschool before attending Montecito Union for K-6. I spent a year at Laguna Blanca, a year at Santa Barbara Junior High School, and then three years at Santa Barbara High School. I attended Laurel Springs School, an online high school, for my senior year due to the increasing amount of time I was dedicating to competitive horseback riding. In addition to horseback riding, I also played the piano and cello from early elementary school until college. I believe being a busy child growing up fundamentally shaped me to be the productive adult I am today. At 18, I packed up and moved across the country to attend New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business to attain an undergraduate in business education. I concentrated in Finance and Management and pursued a track in Entrepreneurship. I graduated Magna cum Laude and received the 2019 Award for Academic Excellence in Management. I have also joined the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. While at NYU, I had a particularly impactful semester in the spring of 2017 when I had the opportunity to study abroad in Florence, Italy, at NYU’s exquisite villa campus. It was during this semester when I not only fell in love with the field of management, but I also fell in love with traveling. I planned a trip every weekend and travelled throughout Europe. I even made it to Morocco during my spring break. My love of travel only grew more after studying abroad. During the rest of my time in college, I traveled to Hong Kong for an international business course, where I studied the gaming industry in Macao. I also ventured to Australia and New Zealand, completed a four-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru, and spent my final spring break in Costa Rica. Upon graduation, I booked a oneway ticket to Spain and began an
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Montecito on the Move by Sharon Byrne, Executive Director, Montecito Association
Fire Smoke Drifting In; Housing Bills Facing Opposition
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n the past few weeks, you may have noticed a smoke smell in the air and greyer skies. That’s wildfire smoke drift coming into the area. If you watch the Purple Air site (purpleair.com), you can zoom in or out to monitor air quality conditions in our area and across the state. Our Air Pollution Control District (APCD) has been issuing smoke forecasts as conditions change. It’s important to try to keep a clean room in your house that is free from smoke, if you’re sensitive. While air conditions here have been mostly OK, sometimes the air quality moves into the direction where it’s unhealthy for 24-hour exposure. N95 masks, which disappeared into pandemic use in 2020, are the best for filtrating smoke particles that can lodge deep in the lungs. You can now find N95 masks again at hardware stores and online. On September 7, at our Land Use Committee, we will be talking about backup generators powered by natural gas for Cox Communications equipment. This is part of living in a high-fire world, and they’re already installing them in Montecito. On February 11, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) unanimously adopted a decision (21-02-029) requiring wireline communications providers to increase system resiliency so they can remain operational during emergencies and power outages. The CPUC’s actions are in response to communications services impacted during Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events. This decision helps ensure reliable access to wireless communications, such as maintaining service for a minimum of 72 hours immediately following a power outage; maintaining customer access to 9-1-1 and 2-1-1 services, emergency notifications, and basic internet browsing.
Update on the Housing Bills
Last week, Los Angeles City Council put forth some arguments to oppose Senate Bill 9 that allows lot splits and duplex construction, and Senate Bill 10 that allows 10-14 units on a single-family lot with no local oversight. Councilmember Paul Koretz sponsored the resolution to oppose the bills and spoke eloquently. Councilmember Mike Bonin, dealing with homelessness at Venice Beach, said the problem with bills like these, handed down from Sacramento every year, is they start from the wrong premise. Bonin said they’re written by developers, for developers, and then everyone tries to get amendments in that appease. We need to go from the other direction: start with housing activists, with housing justice groups, and propose the legislation that will work. L.A. City Council voted with him to oppose both bills. The problem for California, and the world, is an affordable housing crisis. When entire buildings are held vacant in Barcelona and residents face rapidly rising rents, homelessness is spiking in the UK, and Amsterdam’s citizens are wondering who can afford to live there except for tourists and foreign investors, affordable housing is not just a California issue. Worldwide, investors are plowing pandemic gains into housing, and firms like Deutsche Bank are outbidding families for a place to live. Unfortunately, Senator Scott Wiener (San Francisco) and the YIMBY (Yes, In My Backyard) groups funded by Facebook, Twitter, and Stripe have draped single-family zoning as racist, and decried the only justice is to end it. Their solution? “Build more luxury housing. Then it will trickle down and become affordable.” This plays nicely into the hands of developers and investors, who’d love reduced zoning barriers and a building spree. Montecitans have been concerned by “spite ADUs,” where a neighbor sites an Accessory Dwelling Unit against your fence, and there’s nothing you can do about it because the ADU law was written precisely to override local planning and development to expedite the creation of affordable housing. SB-9 and SB-10 are built on the same premise as the ADU law: override local controls and allow development with no oversight. SB-10 just barely passed the Assembly on Monday. Now it goes to Governor Gavin Newsom to sign. We want to encourage him to veto it and do something that will work instead. As the world’s fifth largest economy, California is at the forefront of an affordable housing crisis happening all over the world. The legislature’s piecemeal attempts to fix it somehow make it worse. We want to encourage Gov. Newsom instead to form a blue-ribbon Housing Task Force made up of housing activists, tax-law specialists, housing authorities, affordable housing developers and similar experts to propose serious policies to solve the problem of affordable housing. We need to start from the right premise and do something meaningful. •MJ
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Navigating Grief
Part I: What not to say to someone who is grieving
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oss and grief are experiences that every person will face — yet dealing with them makes people profoundly uneasy. This unease can take well-intentioned actions off track, so we have some best general practices from psychotherapists for what (and what not) to say when helping someone through grief. Don’t fall into the fix-it trap — A common way that the fix-it trap manifests is by trying to offer silver linings to the grieving person with phrases like “at least.” This phrase aims to bring attention to what we perceive as the least painful part of a situation, but, it comes across as trying to change the way someone thinks of their loss. Don’t advise — Phrases that start with “you should” are generally not helpful. Another common phrase that shouldn’t make an appearance is “be strong,” because it implies that some expressions of grief are negative. Don’t tell people that they’re “strong” — While this is a well-intentioned compliment, oftentimes it’s praising the grieving person for
repressing their emotions. Reframe the idea that permitting yourself to feel the hardest feelings is a demonstration of true strength and bravery. Don’t try to make sense of it — Avoid saying, “everything happens for a reason” or “you aren’t given more than you can handle.”
Part II: What to Say to Someone Who is Grieving
Be present — Having the right words isn’t always necessary but showing up for the grieving person and being willing to talk about who died is. Show up and accept the person and however they are expressing grief. Use the name of the person who died — Most people who have lost someone do not want that individual to fade away and become forgotten, so even though our initial reaction is to assume that they don’t want to talk about the person that died, the opposite may, in fact, be true. Invite stories — Allowing the grieving party to share stories of the dead can be helpful and therapeutic, so invite them to share their favorite memories. •MJ
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In compliance with county regulations, all faculty, staff and students must wear masks when attending indoor classes, events or working in shared offices. “Westmont expects full enrollment on campus this fall, with students living in the residence halls, attending class indoors, eating in the Dining Commons, and returning to Murchison Gym for chapel services three times a week,” said Neller.“We’ll accommodate remote instruction if required to do so should COVID-19 cases increase countywide. Otherwise, we plan to put Zoom on the back shelf as much as possible. After remaining open successfully last year, we know we can shift to remote education if necessary.” Several large tents throughout campus will house outdoor dining and allow professors to move large classes outside. The college resumes one important element of Orientation after forgoing it last year. The Service of Commitment, a formal ceremony with robed professors who welcome students to the Westmont community, takes place Friday, Aug. 27, from 3-4:30 p.m. on Russell Carr Field.
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‘Soul Care’ Earns Book Award
Soul Care in African American Practice by Barbara L. Peacock (InterVarsity Press, 2020) has won the annual book award from the Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture and the Dallas Willard Research Center (MIDWC) at Westmont College. “Barbara Peacock’s book is a rich and loving reflection on the spiritual practices that ‘have been woven into the fabric of the African American culture.’” says Mark Nelson, Westmont’s Monroe professor of philosophy and director of the DWRC. The author focuses on three practices — prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care — manifested in the lives and thought of 10 African American men and women: Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Darrell Griffin, Renita Weems, Harold Carter, Jessica Ingram, Coretta Scott King, James Washington, and Howard Thurman. “Peacock shows how these African American Christians forged their profound and distinctive approaches to these practices — often in bondage and oppression — to nourish a faith that can sustain the soul,” Nelson says. •MJ 26 August – 2 September 2021
Robert’s Big Questions
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 Will it Take to Act on the Climate Crisis?
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ions and tigers and bears, oh, my! As expressed so well by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, these are the things we evolved to fear. Unfortunately, in the modern world, these are not the things that really matter. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just released its latest report emphasizing the urgency of the climate crisis. Scientists have been warning of disaster for decades and the result has been endless delay and inaction. In a sense, we have jumped off a cliff and are in free fall. And deniers keep saying everything is fine because we haven’t hit the ground yet. Now that we are seeing the effects as fires and floods in the U.S., some of these same deniers have switched to saying that it is real, but there is nothing to be done. Why the denial? Because the climate crisis is the most in-your-face example of a “market failure.” It shows that pure capitalism cannot solve the most important problems facing society. Naomi Klein’s book “This Changes Everything” makes this point. She wrote: “There is still time to avoid catastrophic warming, but not within the rules of capitalism as they are currently constructed. Which is surely the best argument there has ever been for changing those rules.” Capitalism has changed the rules in the past. The same people who worship capitalism as a religion also worship the military and law enforcement. These are massive “socialist” government programs that are funded by taxing and spending on a vast scale. When the U.S. was attacked at Pearl Harbor, did free market capitalists say that the free market would magically raise an army and fight back? Of course not. We are under a far greater attack now than Pearl Harbor and it requires urgent action on a global scale. That means taxing and spending a lot. Ideally, taxing those who are causing the climate crisis as well as those who can afford to solve it. The good news: Scientists and engineers have known for decades what is
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along just in time for World War II. A few years earlier, and World War I might not have taken nearly so many lives. But, apart from physical troubles, there are of course the mental ones, which can involve just as much pain — in such forms as depression and anxiety, not to mention what we used to call insanity. It’s a world of hurt, “out there,” but also “in here.” Yet, strange as it may seem to the rest of us, there are people who actually enjoy inflicting pain on others — and even people who enjoy having it inflicted on themselves (sometimes by themselves). There are names for all these aberrations, but the fact that they’re still around shows just how far medicine still has to go. In the meantime, most of us, to some extent, are at the mercy of those of our fellow mortals who have diplomas from medical schools. We have to believe what we are told and follow the instructions we’re given — or else seek the venerable second opinion. Another approach to pain is through so-called “alternative medicine,” whose popularity may in part be ascribable to its freedom from ordinary restrictions. Conventional doctors at least have to adhere to certain standards of care and responsibility. But outside their professional restrictions, anything goes — from needling, manipulating, and hypnotizing, to weird herbs, eye-reading, and 26 August – 2 September 2021
needed. We need to stop using our atmosphere as a garbage dump for burned fossil fuels. Picture the skin of an apple and how thin it is relative to the apple. Our atmosphere is 20 times thinner than that relative to the Earth. We have dumped 100 million years’ worth of carbon into the atmosphere in just 100 years. The real wonder is how anything has survived this onslaught. We need to build sustainable transportation and energy systems using technology we already have mastered. Sustainable transportation primarily should be electric public transit because land is too precious to be paved over for storing and moving private motor vehicles that waste so much space. Project Drawdown has carefully documented the most effective ways to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gases. Carefully disposing of refrigerants turns out to be a major issue because current refrigerants are thousands of times more powerful greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide (CO2). We also need to reduce food waste and shift to less consumption of meat, especially resource-wasteful beef. We need to educate everyone worldwide to reduce population growth. But the latest IPCC report has shown that even cutting greenhouse gases to zero is not going to be enough, due to so much delay and inaction. We need to actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Carbon engineering has existing technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. For about $150 per ton right now. That includes disposing of it in stable geological formations underground and/or using it for existing industrial processes. But none of this will happen until, 1) People wake up and realize the urgency for action and 2) People vote for the needed taxing and spending to pay for it. If we charge the true cost of dumping carbon in the atmosphere, then markets can provide the innovation to find creative solutions. What is the alternative? Wildfires. Powerful hurricanes and tornadoes. Disease. Flooding. Vast prime land areas submerged. Drought. Crop Loss. Famines. Climate refugees. Wars. Mass extinctions. How much would that cost compared to preventive action? Entire ice sheets can collapse, creating a surface that absorbs more heat in a “thermal runaway” situation. Vast ocean currents can irreversibly be changed, creating temperature extremes our species has never experienced. Once you jump off a cliff you can’t step back onto it. Solving the climate crisis looks very cheap if you look at the alternative. There is no Planet B. Laws of physics carry on regardless of political denial. We need action. Now. •MJ
sheer faith healing. And of course, each of these methods has its believers, and its stories of remarkable cures. I once had the dubious privilege of watching a Tibetan doctor examine a new patient (my wife, who had paid for this experience while we were visiting Tibet — although she had no particular medical problems at that time). The entire examination, as far as I could see, consisted of his taking her left wrist in his hands, and feeling it in various ways. I’m glad to say she survived this ordeal by about 27 years. I myself, while enduring the torments of recovering from a broken limb, tried acupuncture — but felt no benefit from the treatment. I was left to get better on my own, with the help of a conventional orthopedist, a “rehab” clinic, and that well-known physician called time. But the persistence of the pain problem, even with all types of human intervention, both traditional and unorthodox, explains the popularity of various opioid-type drugs, despite the well-publicized dangers of overdose. The fact is that pain, in one form or another, is an almost inescapable part of life — so that escaping from pain, in many sad cases, means escaping from life. Or, to put it slightly more cheerfully, as I did, many epigrams ago: “One thing about pain – It proves you’re alive.” •MJ
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eight-week journey throughout most of the continent, visiting both new destinations and revisiting my favorites from study abroad. I am proud to say I’ve made it to 28 distinct countries before the age of 25. Since graduating in Spring 2019, I have been working in corporate finance consulting. I started at Berkeley Research Group and then transitioned to Ankura in October 2020. Prior to COVID, I was flying twice a week and working on-site with various clients up to five days a week. For someone with serious flight anxiety, this job definitely helped me face my fear. I have spent a surprising amount of time in the great state of Georgia, both in Savannah and Atlanta, as well as a three-month stint in Chicago in the dead of winter. My greatest learning by far from this job has been that nothing can beat the beauty of Santa Barbara! I’ve worked on finance and accounting transformation projects primarily in the hospitality industry, including a short-term home rental company like Airbnb. During peak COVID, I had the opportunity to work remotely on one of the largest bankruptcy cases that year.
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I pursued consulting because I believed it would be the best way to continue learning about businesses — this time in the real world instead of the classroom. It is a whirlwind career of constant problem solving and learning. Two and a half years into my consulting journey and one pandemic later, I am beginning to think about the next steps in my career — whether that be graduate school, an industry finance job, or maybe something entirely different. I am so grateful for my life path thus far and am looking optimistically toward the future and whatever it may bring. Sometimes it takes leaving something behind to fully appreciate how lucky you are to have what you had. This is my sentiment for Santa Barbara. I look forward to making my way back home for good to the most beautiful place on Earth one day soon. Please feel free to reach out to me at cayley.l.boyd@gmail.com if you would like to hear more about NYU, consulting, or NYC living. Yours, Cayley •MJ Did you grow up in Montecito? I’d love to hear from you at stella janepierce@gmail.com! MONTECITO JOURNAL
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The Giving List by Steven Libowitz
A Look Toward the Future:
How Endowing the Lobero Helps the Community
“Of course, we were also closed to the public for 15 months in 2020-21 because of the pandemic,” Asbell added, although the Lobero did host quite a few livestreaming events, including concerts by Montecito residents Kenny Loggins and John Kay of Steppenwolf, plus some recorded evenings of entertainment as protocols allowed. The theater was also quick to resume public events after the June 15 state reopening, first hosting Opera Santa Barbara’s foray into Wagner and, most recently, a free community concert with Santa Barbara jam-rock
But Asbell and his associates at the Lobero Theatre Foundation — the nonprofit that officially maintains and operates the historic theater — aren’t putting their attention on the past or even the present, at least for the purposes of this Giving List article. They’re turning their attention toward focusing on the future, namely securing a more than tripling of the theater’s endowment — from $3 to $10 million — to ensure not only its survival but greater service to the community. “First of all, let’s endow the building so that we never have to go
“Let’s endow the building so that we never have to go to the community again to ask for money to re-do the chairs, or put in air conditioning or update the plumbing.” — David Asbell
The Lobero Theatre began hosting in-person events shortly after it was allowed on June 15
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he Lobero Theatre is by far the oldest performing arts venue in Santa Barbara. In fact, it’s actually the longest operating theater in all of California, dating back just a couple of decades after California became the 31st state admitted to the union. The Lobero also ranks fourth in seniority among all performing arts buildings in the entire country, having had a theater operating on the site at the corner of Canon Perdido and Anacapa streets since 1873. “We’re actually the oldest this side of Milwaukee,” boasted David Asbell, the theater’s 20-year tenured
executive director. “We’ve never been a movie theater. We’ve never been a restaurant or a church or anything other than a theater hosting the performing arts throughout that entire time.” And, Asbell pointed out, the Lobero has only been closed for less than 10 years in all that time, first when the opera house refurbished from an adobe school building was replaced by one in the Spanish Colonial Revival style with designs by architects George Washington Smith and Lutah Maria Riggs. A major renovation also shut the doors for a couple of years.
singer-songwriter Zach Gill and many other Santa Barbara stalwarts. The Lobero launches back into a crowded calendar this week with performances by smooth jazz Dave Koz & Friends and the folk duo The Milk Carton Kids. Local pop heroes Toad the Wet Sprocket are due in early September, with such acts as The Wallflowers, Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean, Pat Metheny and the Charles Lloyd Quartet hot on their heels. “It was important to get back to doing shows for the community as soon as possible, as long as it could be within a safety protocol framework,” Asbell explained. “You want to open up and get back to being here for the community.”
to the community again to ask for money to re-do the chairs, or put in air conditioning or update the plumbing,” Asbell said, explaining that the Lobero has engaged architects and facilities specialists to do a study of what might be needed in the next 30 years. “They told us, this is what you can expect to have to do from redoing the roof to painting the building to getting new sound and lighting equipment and the latest technology for the stage. Now we have an idea of what that costs and we can also try our best not to have to close down for any length of time.” That mission has already been
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On Entertainment (Continued from page 14 14)) Dave Koz and Cory Wong released The Golden Hour earlier this summer
was time to record a take,” Koz said. The record is a collaboration with funk guitar phenom Cory Wong that somehow ended up with a lot of songs with car themes in the title. “It’s got this real high-octane kind of power, with a full horn section and incredible rhythm section and of course Cory’s guitar,” Koz said. “It’s music that just drives very hard. I didn’t even realize that there was so much car imagery, but it does fit it. This has a really markedly different sound than what is normally associated with my music. There’s a real zest.” Indeed, “The Golden Hour” does take a bit of a left turn for the saxist, although earlier in his catalog Koz explored funkier tunes before his contemporary jazz stardom smoothed out the road. It was partly the pandemic that had him willing to step outside of possibly pandering to his audience to satisfy his own more adventurous curiosity. “I am really grateful for a fan base that has been with me for a very long time, and they understand this aspect of me and nurture it and support it,” Koz said. “Making an album like this was a little bit of a risk, but at this point in my life, I want to feel the freedom to try new things and know that the audience will at least listen and try to appreciate it. Stretching the boundaries and expanding the envelope is what keeps me excited about music right now in this very unusual place and time.” Also exciting for the sax man is hitting the road with a new lineup for another “Summer Horns” tour, a largely annual event based on the mammoth success of his “Summer Horns” albums in 2013 and 2018, each debuting at No. 1 on Billboard’s Current Contemporary Jazz Albums charts. The albums will form the framework for the set list at the Lobero, fleshed out by songs in various formats from the other artists 26 August – 2 September 2021
on the 2021 roster: jazz-soul-gospel saxophonist Kirk Whalum, a 12-time Grammy nominee over a 25-album catalog; jazz-blues saxophonist Mindi Abair, who has worked with numerous rock and pop stars and earned two Grammy nominations of her own; and multi-instrumentalist Vincent Ingala, who was named Billboard Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year in 2012 when he was just 19 years old. “We all share the same musical DNA of playing in a horn section,” Koz said. “We love the sound of big band jazz, and rock/funk horn bands like Earth, Wind and Fire or Tower of Power; Chicago; Blood, Sweat and Tears; where there’s this wall of sound that’s undeniable and so exciting. And we’ve also got duos, trios, solo songs, everything. If you enjoy saxophone, you’re going to love this night.”
Milk Carton Kids: The Alchemy of Duck Soup
Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale came together in 2011 as the acoustic duo Milk Carton Kids after the singer-songwriter-guitarists, who both lived in the Los Angeles neighborhood known as Eagle Rock, had stagnated in their solo careers. Back then, nobody could possibly have predicted just how much the synergy of the pairing would exceed the sum of the parts. But the duo emerged with a sound that managed to blend the great folk eras of the past with contemporary elements, blessed not in the least with duo singing and harmonies that are almost haunting for their closeness, perhaps more so than any other unrelated artists. MCK has five albums over that span but have had an undeniable impact on the folk genre, having impressed a long list of their contemporaries and elders and forged a passionate following for their intelligently crafted songs
that feature personal yet visionary approaches to the age-old issue of love, loss and desire, not to mention intricate instrumental work behind the vocals. Three of the albums also earned Grammy nominations. Now, the duo is set to put out a box set reissue of their critically acclaimed official debut album, “Prologue,” 10 years after its initial release (although a live album recorded at Ventura’s now-defunct Zoey’s Cafe was self-released a few months earlier). The three-LP box set includes the remastered original album, alongside discs of early demos and live performances and one that traces the evolution of “Michigan” and “New York,” two of the Kids’ most popular songs. Ryan and Pattengale are also heading back out on tour, bringing both their sound that recalls Simon & Garfunkel and a deadpan banter that has been compared to the Smothers Brothers to stages across the land, including August 31 at the Lobero. Haley Heynderickx, the Portland-based singer-songwriter who plays fingerstyle acoustic guitar, opens the concert. Ryan talked about “Prologue” and more over the phone early last week. Q. It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since Prologue because MCK still seems so new. But what made this the right time for a big box set revisit? I mean it hasn’t been 25 years, like the interval before The Beatles Anthology. A. Ten years felt significant, although I agree with you — we still feel like we’re a new band. But we started seeing things on social media, and one person wrote about “Michigan” and said “Do you remember this song? That was so ninth grade for us.” I mean, to us it was yesterday, but it made me realize that as time passes, even if you’re not
paying attention, people go through multiple phases of their life. And it’s cool if your music ends up being a part of those phases for them. Of course, most of the memories are about deaths and illnesses and breakups and divorces — songwriting for me has always been about the pursuit of catharsis and dealing with anxiety or grief or loss. So not happy times. But it feels good that there’s a community around some of these songs that has developed over time. In the original liner notes by Joe Henry, he mentions how your music and harmonies are like being a hall of mirrors, and that he liked being deceived, and would rather be seduced than to have it explained. To me, showing the early incarnations of the songs and how they get put together might spoil that. I like how much it almost hurts, the exquisiteness of listening to what you two can do together, and it seems understanding that might change the experience. Since you mentioned the Beatles, when I listen to the anthology and the different versions of “Strawberry Fields” and how it came together, it does nothing at all to alleviate the mystery and magic of the song. So, I don’t think that whatever sort of alchemy or mystery is stirred up in the listening experience would be disrupted or some fourth wall actually broken by this. My experience is more like, “This is amazing at every step.” And I don’t want to break the spell for you, but what was enjoyable about (the box set) is looking back and seeing all the work and remembering how hard and how much time it took to arrive at what we were going for. When I played clarinet in orchestra in high school, there was an image that the conductor always used to put in
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The pathway gets the finishing touch up before being ready for use by pedestrians, strollers, and wheelchairs
which includes replacing the bridge railing at Oak Creek that was lost in the debris flow, repaving a section of Hot Springs Road, and shifting and replacing curbs to build the pedestrian pathway. The roadway was narrowed for vehicles, and the bike lane was shifted to make room for a pathway. The Bucket Brigade was then tasked with pouring gravel and stabilized decomposed granite and adding plantings where necessary. The 48-inch pathway is minimally ADA compliant, offering ramps and a wideenough path for wheelchairs. “What the Bucket Brigade is doing for this community, bringing in the resources, labor, and experience, is really incredible, and we are lucky to be partnering with them,” Public Works Deputy Director Chris Sneddon told us earlier this year when the project began. “This neighborhood took a monstrous hit in 2018 and we are determined to bounce back stronger and more resilient than ever before. This new trail will help keep residents, students, and essential workers safe as they walk along the narrow winding roads in Montecito,” Powell said, adding that during his time on the trail, he has witnessed many people be able to utilize the new path instead of walking in the street or bike path. “It makes me really happy that people are safe, and that the community is connected.” Powell says the Bucket Brigade’s original mission to dig out homes damaged in the debris flow, restore on and off road trails, and clear open space of debris following the 2018 disaster has expanded. The nonprofit is now actively organizing, training, and deploying volunteers in response to natural disasters and community crises.
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“The completion of this trail exemplifies the benefits of direct citizen action to improve community safety and resilience,” Powell said. “Projects like the Hot Springs Neighborhood Trail are part of the Bucket Brigade’s year-round volunteer and community resilience development regimen.” Powell notes that the project could not have been accomplished without the leadership of the Walk Montecito Campaign Committee: Geoffrey Slaff, co-chair; Michael Smith, co-chair; Greg Tebbe; David Jackson; and Jennifer Rapp.
“The completion of this trail exemplifies the benefits of direct citizen action to improve community safety and resilience.” — Abe Powell Walk Montecito Sponsors include the Zurawski/Slaff Family, the Zegar Family Foundation, the Montecito Community Foundation, Sharon Bradford, Karl Weis and Kristen Klingbeil Weis, Michael and Nati Smith, Anne Towbes, the Tebbe Family Foundation, Gerd and Peter Jordano, the Santa Barbara Foundation, Linda Weinman, Ashish and Leslie Bhutani, Carolyn and Andrew Fitzgerald, Ron and Andrea Hein, and Santa Barbara County Public Works. The Bucket Brigade will spend the rest of the year quietly fundraising for future projects, which includes the maintenance and upkeep of the
Customers at Montecito’s quaint upper village grocery store may notice a new face behind the meat case: Don Fortin is the store’s new meat manager and butcher. “I have big shoes to fill,” he told us during a recent visit. Fortin was brought on the team to fill the position left by longtime butcher Tony Perocco, who retired this summer after 41 years at the shop. “He wanted to leave quietly and without fanfare,” Fortin told us. Grocery owners Roxy and Mike Lawler knew the vacancy left by Perocco would be a tough position to fill, as the longtime butcher had quite the legacy; he was the face of the store for decades before the Lawlers took ownership in 2017. For months the owners fretted about who to hire, finally deciding to bring Fortin out from their Aspen grocery store, Roxy’s Market. “It was an easy decision for me,” said Fortin, who has been in the grocery business for years after learning his craft at an Independent Grocers Alliance (IGA) store in Florida before moving on to several Whole Foods stores in the Boston area and then Roxy’s Market in Aspen, Colorado. “This career has given me the chance to travel and live multiple places, and Santa Barbara is an incredible next location,” he said, adding that growing up in northern New Hampshire gave him his fair share of cold weather. “I never need to see snow again,” he laughed. Fortin has his work cut out for him, being tasked with managing the store’s 24-foot meat case, which is relatively large for the size of the small shop. The meat counter is 100% full service, meaning there is no separate side case for already packaged meats; each order is picked by the customer and packaged by Fortin on the spot. Between customer orders, Fortin is cutting and preparing all the offerings, which include a wide selection of fresh fish, prime beef, chicken, lamb, sausages, pre-marinated and seasoned meat, double smoked bacon, and more. “Everything is prepared in-house, multiple times per day,” he explained. Fortin spent a month training with Perocco prior to his retirement, in an effort to meet customers and learn the ins and outs of the meat counter. “He taught me how to make all the items he’s been preparing for years, including the spinach and feta stuffed chicken, which is an all-time customer favorite,” he said. The new butcher says he intends on keeping the prod-
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Don Fortin is Montecito Village Grocery’s new meat manager and butcher; Tony Perocco, aka Tony the Butcher, retired from the store earlier this summer after 41 years of service
uct offering the same, while bringing in new items he knows the store’s customers will love. “There are lots of different kinds of ground meats and steaks that I know will catch on,” he said. Fortin says the shop’s upcoming remodel will make the meat department larger and better and will allow him to offer a side case for customers to pick up pre-packaged meat. “I’m looking forward to that,” he said. The Lawlers own successful independent grocery stores in Aspen, Colorado, and Big Sky, Montana, in addition to the Montecito shop. The out-of-state stores, both called Roxy’s Market, are known for their emphasis on healthy and natural specialty products, in addition to being full service grocery stores. The couple first discovered Montecito several years ago, when their daughter, Chelsea, was attending Brooks Institute. Previously splitting their time between Aspen and Big Sky, they quickly fell in love with the community and bought a home, and had dreams of running a third store here. Montecito Village Grocery, which has been in its current location for over 60 years, was the perfect fit for them. Chelsea helps run the store with general manager Gilbert Raya, while the couple’s other daughter, Courtney, runs their store in Aspen. “It’s run by a family, and it feels like family,” Fortin said of the comradery among the staff. Fortin says he is looking forward to getting to know more of the shop’s customers, most of whom are Montecito locals. “People have a strong relationship with their butcher,” he explained. “It’s a trust thing. Even though they miss Tony, they’ve made me feel welcome, and I’m grateful for that.” •MJ 26 August – 2 September 2021
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During a concert tour of China, Peter took time out for a trip to the Great Wall
on Australia’s Amateur Hour at age 17 and opening for jazz artists such as Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson in Melbourne — before taking on a new identity when he moved to California in 1963. Chet DeMilo was his stage name, with Clark/DeMilo forming a pop and jazz group in Los Angeles that would pick up gigs in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, and Reno, as well as plenty of clubs dotted along the West Coast. He’d form a new group in 1974 called Aries Rising, working alongside wellknown vocalist Randy Crawford for nearly three years. He’d also eventually landed a sixmonth engagement at Sneeky Pete’s on the Sunset Strip. It was shortly thereafter that Lee Hartley crossed paths with Peter — changing the course of her professional and personal lives, for the better. In the late 1970s, Hartley, a bona fide jazz star in her own right, joined a friend at Tony Roma’s on Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. With Hartley having just got off the road
doing her own jazz and R&B shows, she wasn’t prepared for what she saw that night. The energy. The enthusiasm. The positivity. “He was such a caricature,” Hartley said. “The way he interacted with the audience, and he went from one side to the other. He never took a break, just from one song to the next. It was a lot of fun. And the room was packed. “That was my first taste of the Peter Clark experience.” She’d go on to record with Peter, as did dozens upon dozens of others — particularly after he opened his studio, “Music ‘88.” The talent was unmistakable, but it was Peter’s infectious personality that drew people into wanting to collaborate — either in one of hundreds of private events he played, or international trips to Russia (including Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow), Brazil, and the Mediterranean. While a “perfectionist,” according to Hank Allen, Clark saw opportunity with everyone he came across.
While on tour in China, Peter, along with Hank Allen and Gil Robledo, met a group affectionately known as the “Chinese Spice Girls”
“He certainly was one of the most generous people I knew,” Allen said. “He wanted things done correctly, but he was so musically talented. Not only was he artistic, but also generous with his time.”
A Love Affair
While Peter’s star rose amid the spotlight of Hollywood, where he’d also meet his first wife, Dallas, it was a move up the coast that showcased his impact on the music world. Peter and Dallas fell in love with the coastal life that Montecito offered, eventually settling into a home along Channel Drive. That home would become a thing of local lore, with the couple originally denying multiple requests to sell the property to Ty Warner, who had bought all the surrounding homes. Peter and Dallas didn’t have any interest in selling until after a sitdown meeting with Warner and an army of lawyers. It was like a game
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of Monopoly; Warner would not only buy the home, but also build the Clarks a new one next to the Biltmore. Hartley says Dallas had too much business sense to let that multi-million-dollar offer slip by. “At that point, they had to sell,” Hartley said. “She was a brilliant woman; she knew that offer was too good to pass up.” And they became fast friends with Warner as a byproduct — typical of anyone that met Peter, “a flirt with girls and guys, he just made you feel comfortable,” Hartley said. The South Coast became Peter’s studio, bringing in big-name musical talent to play at venues such as SOhO, as well as jazz festivals that serenaded downtown on multiple occasions. Alongside Dallas, Peter also formalized his relationship with the area by buying Andria’s Harborside in 1991, a piano bar and restaurant that was one part spectacular seafood, and the other part a musical playground for Peter and his talented friends to utilize, with impromptu shows commonplace. “Once he got going, it didn’t matter if there was one person in there or dozens, he was in a zone,” Erin Graffy said. They’d sell the property in 2001. But Peter’s connection to the community went well beyond music, and even beyond his restaurant, as he aided nonprofits with both his time and money, including as president of the Santa Barbara Jazz Society. He was almost too generous, according to Peter’s attorney, John Thyne, but he also knew that the reason Peter landed in Montecito is because he earned his piece of the rarefied enclave that is Montecito — and paying it forward was good for Peter’s soul. 26 August – 2 September 2021
Peter was a noticeable presence wherever he went, from teen heartthrob in Australia to artist in Southern California
Peter and Gloria were married in 2016, having met years earlier during an interview
“There are two types of people really that come to Santa Barbara — ones that have been here, that grew up here, been here their entire life,” Thyne said. “And then there are those that have identified how special this community is, and it attracts those special individuals to move here — to our extraordinary community. “Peter was at the top of his game and I think that’s who lives in Montecito, the folks that have achieved so much in life, that this is sort of their reward — a preview of heaven.”
A Man of Montecito
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the community stood out considering his fame. He was a member of the Montecito Mafia, a social group that formed by utilizing private tennis courts to set up epic battles, the matches arranged only days prior, with participants simply told to show up at a location, with little more information. It was good tennis, but even better camaraderie. Steve Lew became fast friends with Peter on those courts, first marveling at his “very strong forehand,” but eventually won over by an infectious personality. “He loved being here, and it showed,” Lew said. “He was friendly to everyone. He had a grand smile; you just couldn’t ignore it.” Through the Mafia and its extended social circle, Peter found an extended family in Montecito, key with his daughter, Jackie, and twin sister, Wendy, both living in New Zealand. “We were always welcome in Peter’s world,” Lew said. He also spent full days studying local news, including the Montecito Journal, which he would devour so that he was aware of everything going on along Coast Village Road and beyond. He was a stickler for spelling errors and wasn’t afraid to share his opinions through a letter to the editor or in conversation with other influential locals. He even lent his talents to holiday parties, including those of former Journal publisher, Jim Buckley. “Peter was one of a kind. He had a way of discovering talent from behind bushes and under rocks. And he had his way of allowing that talent to flower,” Buckley said. “My favorite memories of Peter, however, are when he played piano at our annual Christmas party and led in the singing. We’d have maybe 50 people who’d been drinking and gabbing, and Peter would sit at the piano and get their attention right away. He was able to control a crowd like nobody else.
Lee Hartley met Peter Clark in Palm Springs
“I sure am going to miss his voice, his music, his jokes, and his crazy conspiratorial smile.” It was that affable sense of humor — and unwillingness to relent — that led him to the second love of his life, Gloria Clark. After Dallas passed away in 2013, Peter would connect with Gloria in 2014, familiar with one another due to a story that Gloria did on Peter in Scene & Heard magazine. Peter was transparent in his pursuit, often leaving flowers on Gloria’s car windshield. “He was so romantic, he always
made me feel loved,” Gloria said. They’d eventually tie the knot on September 15, 2016 — a day upon which Peter will be celebrated locally with a private get together. For Gloria, the “love affair of her life” was made possible by a man that proudly wore a sticker that said, “I believe in good.” Whether tipping a parking lot attendant $100 or gifting more than two dozen cars for those in need of reliable wheels, Gloria knows that Peter’s heart will live on in the countless lives he touched. “He always chose good.” •MJ
The 20-Man Music Machine is one of Peter’s many albums
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 26 ‘Cinema Tango’ — The Los Angeles and Santa Barbara Tango communities are teaming up to produce a series of live music and dancing events called La LoCA Milonga at Buena Onda, the Santa Barbara bistro serving authentic handmade and freshly baked Argentinian empanadas. Geraldine Freitag and Alejandra Folguera will be hosting composer-musician Ruy Folguera (Alejandra’s brother) who will be performing tango and highlights of his film music career, while special guest soprano Camila Lima will offer opera arias. Folguera is a film composer whose credits include original and collaborative work for the Rush Hour trilogy, Nina, and, most recently, One Night in Miami, the 2021 Oscar-nominated feature film. Folguera was also awarded Best Music Award in Argentina for “Gangs of Rosario” and Best Song for “Zapata.” Lima’s recent roles include Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at Pacific Lyric Association in Escondido, the Duchess in Dulcinea at USC’s Colburn School, and Adele in Die Fledermaus for the Landmark Opera Company in Los Angeles. The romantic evening boasts the live entertainment, food and dancing by Alejandra Folguera, who also teaches dance and Tai Ji at SBCC continuing education on the
special temporary dance floor in the outdoor space — and all are invited to get up and move too. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Buena Onda Empanadas, 724 Haley St. COST: $20 INFO: (805) 679-3320, www.buenaondasb.com or www.face book.com/events/349795906585388 FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 Paper Trail — Part of Sullivan Goss Gallery’s mission is to demystify the art world for visitors and patrons so that anyone who is interested can get a greater understanding of how and why works of art might be considered particularly important or valuable. For its new exhibition, PAPER TRAIL: The Life Story of Great Works of Art, the effort is also the central theme of the show. The show focuses on the significance of how art moves through the world and across time from the artist’s studio to the walls of the gallery, taking note of how a particular piece might pass through a prestigious collection, previously hung in other galleries or museum exhibitions, and perhaps passed in and out of various countries. PAPER TRAIL features both historical and contemporary works from 20-plus artists that
ENDING THIS WEEK Seaside SCAPE & Gone to Glass — Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment once again make a statement for preserving our area’s special beauty via a new exhibit held in collaboration with and benefitting the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. Also, once again, the exhibit goes virtual, converted to an online event by COVID — which may not be such a bad thing as the artists sold 34 paintings over the internet last year. The exhibit, juried by Oak Group artist Ray Hunter, boasts work by more than 75 SCAPE artists featuring their views of the ocean, the Channel, and Santa Barbara’s maritime life. Images of the art are available for viewing on SBMM’s website, while 40% of the proceeds from sales are earmarked to help the museum rekindle its post-pandemic maritime education programs. WHEN: Through August 31 WHERE: https://sbmm.org/santa-barbara-event/scape-art-show-and-saleonline COST: Free INFO: https://sbmm.org/product-category/scape-2021 or www.s-c-a-p-e.org SBMM is also winding up its collaboration with the Sea Glass and Ocean Arts Festival in hosting a series of Sea Glass Sundays for the month of August. Gaze at raw sea glass galore and hand-crafted sea glass gifts and other wares on the museum’s patio overlooking the Santa Barbara Harbor. WHEN: 10 am-5 pm August 29 WHERE: 113 Harbor Way, Ste 190 COST: Free INFO: (805) 962-8404 or https://sbmm.org
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 Bowlful of Laughs — The Santa Barbara Bowl, which just reopened with the irrepressible Chelsea Handler, continues its current COVID-coping season with more comedians commanding the stage. Up tonight: Jo Koy, who also happens to have appeared on more than 140 episodes of Chelsea Lately as a regular roundtable guest, takes her place at the microphone on the Bowl’s big stage tonight. Koy won the prestigious “Stand-Up Comedian of The Year’’ award at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in 2018 and has had four highly rated and successful comedy specials on Comedy Central and Netflix, plus placed albums atop the Billboard charts. You can also check him out on his weekly podcast, The Koy Pond with Jo Koy. Tomorrow and Sunday night brings Sebastian Maniscalco, the stand-up who has enjoyed phenomenal success with a succession of comedy specials and sold-out arena shows and has started to spread his influence in other media. His memoir Stay Hungry is a best seller, while Maniscalco also hosted the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards and has acted in dramatic roles in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated The Irishman as well as Green Book, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. He also has a new Discovery+ reality TV show called Well Done with Sebastian Maniscalco, which explores food culture and etiquette, with the premiere happening on August 12 and the show already being renewed. WHEN: 7:30 pm (all three nights) WHERE: 1122 N. Milpas St. COST: Koy $45-$105, Maniscalco $56-$105 INFO: (805) 962-4711 or www.sbbowl.com have been made in important ateliers, owned by important art world figures, exhibited in museums, or published in magazines and catalogues. It will also be the first time that the gallery will exhibit an NFT (Non Fungible Token) which just might revolutionize the establishment of provenance for digital art. WHEN: 10 am to 5:30 pm daily, today through October 25 WHERE: 11 East Anapamu St. COST: Free INFO: (805) 730-1460 or www.sullivangoss.com/exhibitions SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 UCSB Summer Music Fest — The Music Department’s sixth annual festival carries the title of “Under One Sky,” which seems a bit ironic since the concerts will stream virtually via YouTube videos, just like last year, although if you take your device outside you can indeed view the video under the sky. In fairness, though, the appellation is meant to call attention to the fact that the UCSB Music community continued to create and produce performances despite being spread out throughout the world due to the pandemic. The festival, curated and managed by students, features performances by University Carillonist Wesley Arai, Gamelan Sinar Surya (an orchestra of gongs, xylo-
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phones, drums and bamboo flutes), Duo Con Fuoco (with pianists Dr. Petra Peršolja and Adam Gravelle), graduate student tabla player Shashank Aswathanarayana performing duos with sitarist Daniel Ohara and professor Scott Marcus, the Director of the UCSB Middle East and Music of India ensembles, and CRUSH Duo featuring UCSB alumni cellists Dr. Chenoa Orme-Stone and Katrina Agate. This year’s event — which was coordinated by graduate composition student/artistic director Alexandra Jones — offers the online audience the opportunity to experience music of various genres, cultures and eras all in one weekend. If you’re craving the live experience, carillonist Arai will be performing his recital live and over streaming at 1 pm today from the carillon in Storke Tower on campus; bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on the grass outside the tower. WHEN: Video premieres at 1, 3 & 5 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: www.youtube.com/c/UCSant aBarbaraDepartmentofMusic COST: Free INFO: www.music.ucsb.edu/summer festival WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 KITP’s ‘Art of Doing Science’ Debuts — The new virtual series from UCSB’s Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics 26 August – 2 September 2021
SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 Eye in Ojai — Throughout Alan Parsons’ varied career, the prog rock pioneer has been a leader in blending technology and art to create a captivating and commercially successful repertoire on record and on stage. His prowess in the studio, which predates his run as a platinum selling recording artist, included producing and/or engineering such landmark albums as the Beatles’ Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia, which we mention because that band just so happens to have played Libbey Bowl last week as part of a Yacht Rock show. After Parsons met his long-time collaborator Eric Woolfson in 1975 to form The Alan Parsons Project, the group released 12 studio albums, achieving eight Top 40 hit singles, the most popular of which was “Eye In The Sky,” which climbed all the way to No. 3 on the charts and is still heard regularly on classic rock radio. Parsons has also taken home 11 Grammy awards and is still making new music at his impressive studio in his current home in Santa Barbara’s foothills. Meander with the rock legend to the mountain village of Ojai to catch the latest version of his Live Project in a rare outdoor, more COVID-safe gig. WHEN: 7 pm (doors open at 5 pm) WHERE: 210 S. Signal St., Ojai COST: $30-$98 INFO: (888) 645-5006 or https://libbeybowl.org aims to demystify the day-to-day work of physicists behind the science headlines. Today’s debut event, dubbed “Merging Neutron Stars,” addresses the stars of GW170817 that sent ripples out through the fabric of spacetime, producing a signal detected by Earth-based gravitational-wave observatories. The stars’ ultimate coalescence then triggered a cosmic explosion whose light was captured by traditional telescopes, making GW170817 the first event ever observed in both light and gravitational radiation, and pushing humanity closer to answering fundamental questions in astrophysics, such as the origin of the universe’s heavi-
est elements and nature of exotic, ultra-dense neutron stars. Jennifer Barnes, a postdoctoral scholar at KITP; Mansi M. Kasliwal, Professor of Astronomy at Caltech; and Leo P. Singer, a research astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, form the panel of early-career physicists who will share insights about their work, illuminating the many ways science is done and the unexpected detours that inevitably arise on that path to achieving new breakthroughs. WHEN: 5 pm WHERE: Zoom COST: Free INFO: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/outreach/ the-art-of-doing-science •MJ
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 Welcome Back to Wildling — The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature hosts a Summer Open House, its first in-person event since the start of the COVID pandemic. Visitors are invited to bring the whole family for the afternoon event and experience such activities as face painting by Parties and Paint by Kate and a visit from a princess who will hand out stickers and temporary tattoos to youngsters, plus a chance to meet some of the artists featured in the museum’s current exhibitions “Bio/Mass: Contemporary Meditations on Nature,” which features artists who create work in series that examine some aspect of nature either in patterns and/or over a long period of time, and “Art from the Trail: Exploring the Natural Beauty of Santa Barbara County,” which celebrates the outdoor treasures of the Central Coast via works by local member artists of the Oak Group, SLOPE, and SCAPE showcasing the trail systems in Santa Barbara County. AR Catering’s food truck will be on site at the museum’s parking lot for the whole event, too. WHEN: 2-6 pm WHERE: 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang COST: Free admission INFO: (805) 688-1082 or https://wildlingmuseum.org/news/2021-summeropen-house 26 August – 2 September 2021
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What do you see as your greatest challenge? Maldonado: Our biggest challenge is folks understanding that when we help those that are historically not successful groups, it doesn’t take away from those that have been. Another big challenge is when we speak about race issues, it doesn’t mean we don’t consider that everybody has a challenge to overcome, but there has been a historical pattern we’re talking about. Because I speak so much about students of color, I have received mail about whether my agenda may be biased. So being able to bring people in to help understand what it is I’m trying to move the district towards is definitely one of my greatest challenges.
Dr. Hilda Maldonado says it will be a priority this school year to get to know students, faculty, and staff on a deeper level (Photo by Nick Masuda)
“I believe our kids need to be in school and that we must do everything we can to ensure that they stay in school in person,” Maldonado said. Maldonado launched undeterred into the work she did over the summer and her plans moving forward: Maldonado: We’ve been super busy. I’ve only really taken four days off this summer. We had a Summer Teacher Institute where about half the teachers (from the whole district) came every day to San Marcos High. We did a bunch of workshops. We had keynote speakers then they had breakout groups in their school levels. Then we opened summer school, which was about 2,000 kids in elementary who came for six weeks, Monday through Thursday with Friday field trips all over town. Then of course, we did junior high and high school as well. We had a Leadership Institute for a week following that, and there was a lot of discussion about how do we lead equity work? The themes were always equity in action for the Teacher Institute and for the Leaders Institute. What do you most look forward to with school starting? I’m very much looking forward to getting to know all of our students, teachers, families, and community members. I believe Santa Barbara can be a leader in education and we have all the best people in place to achieve this. The ABCs of Maldonado’s Plan . . . Maldonado: This year we will focus on academics, belonging, and connections. I call them the ABCs of school improvement. Through investments in personnel who will support our teachers and students we plan to focus on the achievement journey for every child daily so that we can guarantee an excellent educational experience for all. Achievement includes academics, social and emotional wellness, and connections to their teachers and learning environments. ...I will be working with local philanthropies on a healthy child initiative to bring together resources to conduct vision, hearing, and dental checks to our students who have not been seen by a healthcare provider for over a year. We want to go beyond checkups and ensure they get eyeglasses, hearing aids, and dental care. Maldonado was excited to make this next announcement: Maldonado: Did you know that in 2022-23, everybody’s going to get free lunch? We will no longer be requiring any kind of income verification. I’m also working on providing additional leadership development to prepare aspiring leaders so that we can have future school site leaders ready to serve our students, families, and communities. What are your greatest hopes for the district and what are the greatest challenges that we face? Maldonado: My greatest hope is that our district becomes a model district for how to be inclusive and look at the humanness, for lack of a better word, of every child in the system. I believe that every district has similar challenges that we do which is high wealth [mixed with] high poverty, resulting in race-based outcomes that are very much along the same lines. But I believe there’s also great opportunity in Santa Barbara because of its size and the commitment that I feel both internally and externally around this equity agenda for our community.
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Was your work in Los Angeles good preparation for your work here? Maldonado: In Los Angeles, I was given a pretty incredible opportunity when I was asked to lead the multi-lingual multi-cultural education department. Actually, it was called the Language Acquisition Department. I had a chance to do that work in collaboration with the Office for Civil Rights out of the Department of Education and the Department of Justice at that time. Which basically called our district out on the poor outcomes of our English learners, which were dismal, where we had generations of kids who had gone through our system in the middle grades and in high school, starting with us in pre-K or kindergarten who were not proficient after six, seven, or even eight years. That work taught me a lot about what it means to bring all parties to the table. The most important group was hearing from the students. When I got to hear what students thought about where they were in the system [in relation to] their hopes and dreams, I realized they didn’t understand they were so far behind and the catch up they needed to make was momentous. It really made me understand how much urgency we need to have around every day counts, every moment counts, every year really counts for all kids. Not just for some, but for all kids. It sounds like you need serious engagement from all of the stakeholders. Maldonado: Engagement is so important and it’s a tool I definitely use, being able to bring people to the table and listen to the voices of the different groups. We learned that teachers really need to understand, “How does it look when I teach a child who doesn’t speak the language that I’m using in the classroom?” Building capacity of the teaching force and the administrator force is another tool that I bring. I think there’s a feeling many times in education like, “If you buy this program, or if you do this strategy, or if you spend money here, there’s a silver bullet.” But that’s not really the case because the job is about people and each and every unique case needs to be treated as each and every unique case. It’s more about giving enough tools to the teacher to be able to appropriately say, “For this student it’s visual. For that student it’s auditory. This one has social and emotional issues, so let me try some tactile.” And just really being able to understand what different ways of teaching children can look like. In my experience, when you talk about trying to bring up the level, people immediately think you’re neglecting the highest-level students. How do you help the community understand that when everybody does better, everybody does better? Maldonado: I think it’s through showing your results and being transparent about your goals and reporting on those goals a couple of times a year, and being honest about whether you’re achieving those goals or not. For example, going back to English learners, if I report graduation rates for English learners, they’re going to be dismal because who is the denominator of those kids? In Santa Barbara, the graduation rate for English learners is approximately 16%. Sixteen percent? That’s staggering! Maldonado: Yes, it is. Now going back to the denominator, the questions we should ask when we hear that is, “Who is in that group? How long have they been in the school system?” There’s a difference between an English learner who arrived in ninth grade or eleventh grade or tenth grade, versus one that came in kindergarten. What is the percentage of kids in the district that you would consider housing or food insecure? Maldonado: I believe that statistic is 15%. But overall poverty rate... is close to 51%. So, how do you begin to lift up the students who have traditionally struggled for a number of reasons? Maldonado: [Last spring] at the board meeting, for example, I highlighted first-gen kids who’ve been accepted to college and the scholarships they’re getting. I did that because we’ve heard nationally, how there’s so many poor outcomes for kids like me. But I am one of those kids. I wanted to show that there’s all these other amazing stories. You’ve got to balance the story. The bad with the good.
“Be curious, not cool.” — Ken Burns
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Maldonado: No different than Los Angeles, but the pandemic has basically forced that collaboration. One of the values of being a Latina leader is that our culture is based on collaboration. It’s the whole before the individual, which has its pros and cons as you can imagine. I do not do well unless there’s collaboration happening. I’ve had to spend a lot of time on that kind of work. One of my biggest messages to my cabinet is, “If one of you contacts another, you need to know that that communication is your priority because you guys are a team. If you’re not answering each other on a meeting request or a collaboration, you’re not part of the same team.” Then there’s also the importance of collaborating around the issues. We all have to sing from the same hymnal, meaning all be on the same page. My experience has taught me that especially because L.A. is so large, you all have to be on the same page, or many things can go wrong.
Dr. Hilda Maldonado is in her second year as superintendent (Photo by Nick Masuda)
My mom always says, “I love all my children the same.” I wonder if it wouldn’t be helpful to find a way to acknowledge other kids too, so the community knows you think about them. Do you know what I mean? So that all groups of kids know they’re a priority. Maybe that balance would help both/all groups of kids? Maldonado: Yes, yes. It’s definitely something I need to get better at. I think that the other part of it is I’m only now barely starting to walk classrooms. I’m barely starting to get to know some of these kids. I’m interested in your thinking around how do we recognize both groups of kids? I wonder if both sets of kids, by putting them together and honoring both, if that wouldn’t help normalize things and give different groups a way to recognize and acknowledge and relate to each other. If it would make the one who hasn’t been recognized before feel more part of the mainstream and if the more historically mainstream kids maybe would get used to knowing that it’s not just about them... do you know what I mean? Might that provide more of that elusive “equity” within the local educational experience? Maldonado: That’s beautiful, you got me. That’s exactly what I’ve been struggling with, I get that. Talk to me about being a woman leader in Santa Barbara. You’re only the second female superintendent in the city’s history. And the first Latina, which is both horrifying and surprising to me. What is that like? Maldonado: I think as a female leader I’ve had to insert myself into spaces instead of being invited or told about spaces that I could be in. Have you felt welcomed? Maldonado: That has not happened at all. There hasn’t been a welcome mat from many people since I’ve arrived, but we’ve been dealing with a crisis, so I just chalked it up to dealing with a crisis. Then as a Latina I think there’s also, again, a need for me to prove that I have the right to lead here. I’ve had to expect respect from people, remind them that I... and for Latinos respect is a big thing, we live and die by respect. Or lack of respect. That also has been a challenge for me as a Latina leader — the recognition that I earned this job fair and square, not just because I’m a Latina female, but because I’m actually a good leader and I want to be known for that, not so much for being a Latina female. In the spring when we spoke you felt like there had not been any real welcome mat rolled out for you… something you largely chalked up to the pandemic. Do you feel different now? Maldonado: Yes. the pandemic made it difficult to connect with people, however things changed as has been the case with all things COVID. For example, last week I had a breakfast meeting hosted by Janet Garufis (president of Montecito Bank & Trust) and Christine Garvey (trustee at Montecito Bank & Trust, CSCIU, and Sansum). We met with many of the healthcare agency executives to discuss a whole child health initiative. In addition, we hosted a Latino Leader Roundtable with elected officials, nonprofit leaders, community leaders, and had a chance to share our goals. I found these two groups to be exceptionally welcoming and open to supporting our students and schools.
Can you tell me a little bit about Parent University? Maldonado: It’s a program run by Dr. Patricia Madrigal that has been funded by Jon Clark from the J Bower Foundation; she has a set of curricula for parents of Latino kids, first-gen kids, on what they need to understand about the school system to know how to engage with the system and what their kids need. I think there is this very middle-class assumption of what parents know about schools. Through Parent University, you take away those assumptions and you’re very explicit about what parents need to understand and know about school systems in the U.S. I went to school in Mexico until I was 11 [where the priorities were] God, schools, then everything else. Teachers are revered in our culture, principals are revered, and we would never question authority. If a teacher says your child is failing, your child is failing. We would never challenge the teacher. I understand that mentality very much, my own parents... and Latino parents will come to school if you’re the teacher and say, “How is Hilda behaving?” That’s all they ask. Because all they care about is, “Did you uphold our family’s sense of being well-behaved and respectful?” That’s the value statement for us. If we’re coming to you with that, you think, “Well, they don’t care.” No, they do care and they actually trust you to do the right thing and be the professional. There’s a lot of misunderstanding there. Parent University is intended to fill in those gaps, help parents understand, and give them the tools to collaborate with the system in a different way. We’re also in a very interesting time, I guess we’re in the information era where information is pushed out, but it’s given in bite sizes. No one reads all of an article anymore. So, knowing how to get the attention of parents, just enough so that they get the essence of your message is really important. As the new kid in town, you’ve been on something of a listening tour, right? If you had to distill down what you’ve heard, what would it be? Maldonado: I connected right away with the very clear message I got when I first got hired as the superintendent here, the message that talked about the importance of transparency and trust around this district. You can only build transparency and trust through effective communication. My bachelor’s degree is in speech communication. I’m not sure most people fully appreciate what a highly political job superintendent is. That you are serving so many different constituencies and at any given moment, you’re not going to please everybody. Maldonado: My mother taught me that lesson when I first became a principal. Her whole message was, “You are not a gold coin therefore not everyone will love you.” Well, I certainly understood what she meant by that. So, here’s the final six-million-dollar question... are the kids going to stay in physical school this year? Maldonado: The nationwide and the statewide push is we’re going to be in-person and I think it’s the right thing to do. I think it’s definitely something we have to do. I just don’t see us going back to remote learning. •MJ
I guess it’s hard for you to assess this because you have been here so far during such a strange time, but do you feel like there’s enough collaboration between departments and entities here in Santa Barbara? 26 August – 2 September 2021
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The Giving List (Continued from page 24) accomplished. What’s next is raising enough money to fill up the coffers of the community access fund so that the Lobero can host the local performing arts organizations at little to no cost in perpetuity, a lofty goal for a venue that only self-produces roughly 30 dates out of more than 220 events per year, instead renting to such outfits as CAMA, Opera Santa Barbara, the Music Academy of the West, and myriad others large and small, as well as outside promoters. “Our next campaign is all about our ability to create an endowment that will provide funds specifically for us to be able to allow those local organizations who use the Lobero to do it rent-free,” explained Jim
Dougherty, the Lobero Foundation’s director of planned giving who was previously its development director. “We don’t want to need to collect rental money from them because every dollar comes out of what they are able to get from ticket prices or toward their own fundraising (for benefit events). We really would like to be in a position where we have a fund set up that allows us to provide them using the Lobero for free. We want to get to where in the worst of times, we can still have a strong program and keep these artists alive and onstage.” The point is to truly make the Lobero the community’s theater once again. “Santa Barbara artists should be able to use the Lobero as their home,
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will always be here. “So, we can respond to new organizations, startups, fledgling companies and do a lot of things to be helpful in supporting them. It’s an investment in the community.” While the benefits accrue in the future, the centerpiece of the campaign, dubbed Ovation Celebration, is a loving look at the Lobero’s long history, a two-plus year focus on its 150-year anniversary. The celebration launches next summer to surround the date of the 2023 sesquicentennial and continues into 2024 to mark the 100th anniversary of the modern building. The whole community is invited, so mark your calendars. For more information, visit www. lobero.org. •MJ
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 4
the way it was intended to be way back when the theater opened 150 years ago,” Asbell said. “If we could endow that aspect, we know that there will be money there every single year to support really making this the community theater without having to worry about various economic cycles (of boom or bust). With that stability, we can really be an agent for propelling a really vibrant performing arts scene in Santa Barbara.” Doughtery explained that the Lobero partially decided to create the community endowment to be able to be more flexible and inclusive, noting that while some presenters or producers such as the Civic Light Opera and Sings Like Hell faded from popularity, the Lobero
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Miscellany (Continued from page 16)
Two custom houses occupy the residence, combining for ten bedrooms and 21 bathrooms across more than 14,000 square feet. Near neighbors include Oscar winner Kevin Costner, Star Wars producer George Lucas, and TV talk show host Conan O’Brien. Mauricio Umansky and Eric Haskell of The Agency in Los Angeles hold the listing.
No Joking Around . . .
Palmer Jackson with Kate and Brooks Firestone (Photo by Nik Blaskovich)
phony musicians were President Janet Garufis, CEO Kathryn Martin, Eve Bernstein, Roger and Sarah Chrisman, Patricia Gregory, NancyBell Coe, Brooks and Kate Firestone, Sara Miller McCune, Warren and Marlene Miller, Howard Jay Smith and Patricia Dixon, Mashey Bernstein, Mary Dorra, Bob and Patty Bryant, Marilyn Gilbert, Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp, and Anne Towbes.
Got Loon Loot?
California’s most expensive residential property, a 22-acre spread known as the Sanctuary at Loon Point, has just surfaced for sale in Carpinteria for a hefty $160 million. The titanic price tag makes it the
priciest property in the Golden State, beating out a $135 million retreat up for grabs in Woodside and a $115 million glass mansion listed in Malibu. If it gets its price, it will rank as California’s second highest home sale ever. The current crown belongs to Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos, who paid $165 million for entertainment magnate David Geffen’s famed film mogul Jack Warner estate in Beverly Hills last year. The Carpinteria compound is owned by Bruce Kovner, an investor and hedge fund manager who serves as chairman of the board of New York’s Juilliard School. Crawling across 22 acres of coastal bluffs, the sprawling estate was assembled over the course of 14 years and consists of five parcels.
Actress Kathleen McClellan, who starred on Seinfeld as the comedian’s girlfriend, has put her two-acre Montecito mansion on the market for $19.995 million. The 11,740-square-foot home was built by McClellan, also a writer and producer, in 2001. The Mediterranean-style property has five bedrooms, six full bathrooms, and three and a half baths. Riskin Partners at Village Properties has the listing.
No Waffling Here
Belgian-born hedge fund billionaire Philippe Laffont has purchased an historic Spanish Revival estate in in our rarefied enclave’s Hedgerow District, paying $200,000 over the asking price at $11.5 million. Named one of the richest on the Forbes billionaires list in 2020, Laffont co-founded Coatue Management in 1999 with his brother, Thomas, a parttime Montecito resident. The house has five bedrooms and six bathrooms on two acres.
Sign of Things to Come?
Prince Harry is back in the saddle! The polo playing Duke of Sussex,
36, flew to Colorado from his Riven Rock estate to host the Sentebale ISPS Handa Polo Cup in Aspen, as he announced his intention to do more in-person charity work with his Archewell Foundation. The game raised funds for the charity’s work supporting vulnerable children in southern Africa impacted by extreme poverty, inequality, and the HIV-AIDS epidemic. Hopefully in due course we’ll see Queen Elizabeth’s grandson at the Santa Barbara Polo Club, a short gallop from his Montecito home, where his brother, Prince William, played during the centenary celebrations 10 years ago, an event I covered for NBC News.
Quite the Rock
The late Santa Barbara actor Paul Walker’s model daughter, Meadow, 22, is engaged to actor Louis ThorntonAllan. The tony twosome shared the news on Instagram as she proudly showed off her impressive diamond engagement ring. The future groom is studying acting at the prestigious Stella Adler School in New York and recently starred in a music video for Blu DeTiger’s song, “Vintage.” Meadow, just 15 at the time of her father’s tragic car crash on November 30, 2013, has established a nonprofit in his memory, The Paul Walker Foundation, which is aimed at marine science.
That Takes the Cake
A slice of the wedding cake from the lavish nuptials of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981 fetched $2,555 at auction — more than four decades after the royal duo tied the knot at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. The large piece of cake, with icing and a marzipan base, was from one of 23 official wedding cakes. It features a sugared onlay of the royal coat of arms colored in red, blue, and silver. It was given to a member of the late Queen Mother’s household at Clarence House and preserved with cling film in a biscuit tin. The Cirencester, Gloucestershire, auction item also included the order of service, ceremonial details, and a royal wedding breakfast program.
Sightings
Uber investor Charlie Munger noshing at Salty at the Beach... Actor Orlando Bloom on his motorbike at Pierre Lafond... Music man David Foster and wife, Katharine McPhee, lunching at The Honor Bar. Pip! Pip! Be safe - wear a mask when needed and get vaccinated. •MJ Sanctuary at Loon Point in Carpinteria
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On Entertainment (Continued from page 25) The Milk Carton Kids will play at the Lobero on August 31
our minds about the music: that it should feel like a duck swimming — above the water, it’s very graceful and the duck glides seemingly effortlessly, but underneath, the feet are frantically paddling. To me, anytime anyone ever says that our music feels peaceful or relaxing, it’s such a disconnect for me because it feels incredibly hard to do for us, like it’s about to go off the rails at every single moment. Is it still a lot of work? Or are you familiar enough with the harmonies and intervals so that it’s more seamless now? The only thing that’s easier is that we’re better musicians. Maybe we execute an idea more quickly because we don’t have to spend as much time working on parts to be able to do them correctly. But in terms of the creative or any shorthand we may have hoped to develop together, we’re still just as picky and indecisive as ever. Maybe that’s good — I’m the type of person
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McGarry’s New Play Breaks Her Own Code
Santa Barbara writer Claudia Hoag McGarry has been involved in the arts in town for more than 30 years, including teaching English Skills at SBCC for more than three decades, publishing three novels including two thrillers and a young adult memoir, producing four plays all in the historical drama genre, and writing screenplays and even a TV pilot that was optioned. When COVID hit, the urge to paint arose, and McGarry persevered through the pandemic by putting out more than 450 watercolors of local scenes, while a line of postcards based on the pictures have shown up in shops including Kathryne Designs in Montecito, which will soon exhibit 20 or so paintings. So, penning her first fictional play, one that’s a romantic comedy to boot, isn’t that far afield for the prolific McGarry, yet it’s still different enough to have given her pause — and an impetus to do some research. “I was wanting to experiment with writing a romantic comedy, so I read
a little Neil Simon and some of Sarah Treem’s work, even though [the co-creator and showrunner of the Golden Globe-winning Showtime drama The Affair] is more of a modern feminist writer,” McGarry explained. “So, I figured I’d try to do a modern twist on an old-fashioned romantic comedy.” The result is “Breaking the Code”. The title comes from a Leonard Cohen poem, which to McGarry alludes to the premise that “love never really goes away but stays present deep inside of you.” It’s the main character, Christy Pastence, a “somewhat lonely” almost 50-year-old widow playwright living in the Upper West Side in Manhattan who meets a young Pakistani American on a bench in Central Park. A conversation turns to friendship and eventually romance, a challenge for Christy who has yet to let go of her feelings for her dead husband. “She has to break through that to be involved in this new relationship,” McGarry explains, adding that every character in the play — including the young lover, his mother, Christy’s sister (whose own husband may or may not have committed suicide), and her daughter — has to break a code of something that’s been holding them back in order to move forward. What sounds like a lesson in psychology has a lot of levity, McGarry said, and eventually all of the characters “find the key to harmony.” The only question is whether it’s the characters or the playwright — who is working once again with director Jordana Lawrence and a cast of local part-time actors — who get the most joy out of the experience of Breaking the Code, which premieres at 3 and 7 pm on August 28 at Paseo Nuevo’s Center Stage Theater, before moving on the next afternoon to Namba Arts Center in Ventura. “I’m not looking for a producer in Hollywood to buy my material anymore. It’s so wonderful to get to the point where I have enough of a following to just do what I love. It’s pretty satisfying at a certain age to only do things that make you happy.”
Claudia Hoag McGarry’s “Breaking the Code” will premiere on August 28 at Center Stage Theater
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“Everything is a learning process.” – Joel Edgerton
Arthur Schmidt worked on Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Focus on Film
The 37th Santa Barbara International Film Festival is barely more than six months away. Hopefully the pandemic will have released its hard fist by March 2-12, 2022, when the plans call for SBIFF — which went with a hybrid virtual-drive in fest last April — will take place in-person with a schedule bumped back up to 200-plus international and independent films, plus celebrity tributes, industry panels, and all the usual trimmings. At this time, SBIFF has put its initial batch of passes and ticket packages on sale at a healthy 25 percent, but it only lasts until August 31. And with COVID still causing havoc on gatherings, the fest is currently selling fewer passes than usual, so there’s more than one incentive to secure them now. Back online, SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling has rescheduled his chat with Arthur Schmidt, the 84-year-old film editor who logged nearly 30 film credits between 1977 and 2005, including a nine-movie collaboration with Montecito-dwelling director Robert Zemeckis spanning 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 on 1980’s Coal Miner’s Daughter was nominated for the Academy Award. Join them at 5:30 pm on Thursday, September 2. Also, Durling’s Cinema Society post-screening Q&A sessions with filmmakers from new movies, TV and streaming shows conducted at the Riviera Theatre that have been posted to SBIFF’s YouTube channel include Bring Your Own Brigade, Stillwater (with actor Matt Damon and director Tom McCarthy) and Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (with director Morgan Neville). Visit www.sbiff.org for more on the film fest. •MJ 26 August – 2 September 2021
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Healing Art:
A Visit with Pamela Larsson-Toscher
Later, as one of the foremost interpreters for the deaf, she became wellknown for her ability to bridge the gap between linear English and a spatially oriented American Sign Language. Moving on to interpret her experience with image and paint on canvas just felt like a natural progression. It’s not a surprise, then, that Pamela’s paintings seem to be telling an intricate story in the language of life. She calls such artistic interpretation “Realism Re-imagined.”
Realism Re-Imagined in Real Life
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iving in a community that appreciates art adds to quality of life in more ways than aesthetics. Research has shown that simply browsing through an art gallery has the potential to decrease stress and increase our sense of wellbeing. Including an element of visual art in a healthcare setting eases anxiety, stress, and depression for patients, staff, and visitors alike. We experience this each time we slow down to notice the art offerings in Cottage Hospital or the waiting rooms of our healthcare practitioners. The truth is: anytime, anywhere we stand in front of a work of art, there’s an invitation to be in present time, see what we see, feel what we feel. Affecting both mind and body, this interface with art can be a catalyst for healing — true for both viewer and artist. Recently, I sat with Pamela Larsson-Toscher in her studio on Butterfly Lane to talk about how art has played a role in her healing. Though being an artist is an integral part of who she is, Pamela believes her artistic expression was directly influenced by a unique personal history. Because she grew up in Jamaica with deaf parents, it was necessary to translate the gestures and emotional resonance of what she heard in order to communicate. 26 August – 2 September 2021
Although classically trained and a skillful draft person, Pamela makes no preliminary drawings. She simply puts color on canvas and sees what emerges. As described by Jungian art therapist Edith Wallace, such an approach invites inspiration to come from the imagination – with the artist following wherever it may lead. As Pamela says, “I’m so involved with the work that it tells me where it needs to go.” Once a bit is revealed, she steps back in order to see the underlying message and listen to her own voice. Often, this includes an epiphany or insight that tells her where to go next. It also gives her a glimpse of what’s happening in her personal life and healing process. For instance, recently she observed that there were many keys on a particular painting and wondered if they were telling her about new opportunities. And perhaps the canaries on another canvas were suggesting that it was time to let her voice be heard. If you or I were standing in front of one of her paintings, we might zero in on a snake charmer, open pomegranate, or pensive harlequin to find our own meaning. For viewers, realism re-imagined is especially good at evoking the symbolic language of the unconscious. The therapeutic potential lies in opening to the art and letting your own imagination go to work. Being in Pamela’s studio with her art is like witnessing a rich and fascinating journey. Her most recent paintings evoke a feeling of moving from restriction to transformation to
“The Traveler” by Pamela Larsson-Toscher
liberation. Being curious, I asked her to tell me a bit about the work and how it had helped her heal during the pandemic. In response, Pamela said that initially the social isolation brought back childhood fears of being alone and lonely. When she remembered the support of friends and community, it helped her let go of the past and be present for her art. And, because the lockdown eliminated a lot of external distraction, she was able to get in the studio to paint — all day, every day with zest and joy. In her words: “All of a sudden, I had this imposed focus, and my work grew.”
Affecting both mind and body, this interface with art can be a catalyst for healing — true for both viewer and artist. She also had more time to cultivate her imagination. Often, she’d go to bed thinking about what she’d done that day and dream images would appear to illuminate what her painting wanted to say. Tuning in periodically to her wise body, she was reminded to take a break from total immersion, release tension and breathe fully. This timeout was an especially good way to recoup energy and quiet her mind so the paint brush could follow intuition. Over the past year, Pamela found opportunities to heal and grow both in her studio and in her career. As some galleries closed, others opened their doors. Today she is showing at 10 West Gallery and Gallery Los Olivos. With the help of Brad Nack, she moved forward on a proposal for a group show of “Realism Re-Imagined,” featuring her paintings along with the work of Santa Ynez
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artist Masha Keating, Westmont’s Nathan Huff, and Cal Poly’s Guy Kinnear. Though no solid dates have been set, a show will be announced in the near future. In the meantime, you can celebrate Pam and other accomplished local artists in the annual SB Studio Artists Tour over Labor Day Weekend. This is the perfect opportunity to meet the artists where they work, feel the good vibes, and engage in a bit of healing art.
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Santa Barbara Studio Artists Tour WHEN: 5 pm to 8 pm, September 3 Individual Studios Open for Touring WHEN: 11 am to 5 pm, September 4-6 WHERE: Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden Street TICKETS: Buy in advance at www. santabarbarastudioartists.com or at opening reception
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— To learn more about Pamela Larsson-Toscher and her art, go to www.plarsson2.artspan.com •MJ
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