Legendary Theatre Owner Always Gave Others the Spotlight by Montecito Journal

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SERVING MONTECITO AND SUMMERLAND

When the going gets tough, the tough get going — and UCSB A&L is a prime example of perseverance, p.42

District 4’s Prowess

A closer look at the numbers reveal that District 4’s voice was loudly heard in both the victories for Randy Rowse and Kristen Sneddon, page 6

The Power of Community

Legendary Theatre Owner Always Gave Others the Spotlight

A farm on Temple Street in Summerland will remain an outlet for both food and education after 250 donors banded together to buy it for $2.25 million, page 8

ruce Corwin, owner of Metropolitan and Arlington theatres, was always a force for good and wrote a leadership playbook that put people first. Editor Gwyn Lurie writes a touching tribute to a community icon. (story starts on page 5)

Let Them Do the Cooking

From the Miramar to San Ysidro Ranch, a look at some spots to enjoy the spoils of a Thanksgiving meal — prepped by someone else, page 60

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28 Your Westmont The museum showcases many familiar Barbizon artists; a talk examines strategies of young Bolivian speakers; and women’s soccer hosts the GSAC Tourney 29 Body Wise Lawrence Spann and Elizabeth Robinson convene ongoing healing workshops using literature, therapeutic writing, mythology, and archetypal psychology 30 Seen Around Town From the Montecito Motor Classic to Social on the Green, Lynda has been plenty busy around town 34 Montecito Moms It’s Apropos! Catering business is the perfect fit for Michelle Isom 36 Far Flung Travel A trip out to Santa Cruz Island brought about an unexpected experience 38 Doctor’s Orders Dr. Richard Scheinberg provides needed insight on the advantages of orthobiotics, or stem cell treatment 39 Legal Advertisements 42 The Giving List UCSB Arts & Lectures has found a way to impact despite the pandemic 44 Calendar of Events From mermaids at the Maritime Museum to Jim Lauderdale in Santa Ynez, a look at the week ahead . . . 46 Our Town Walk to End Alzheimer’s Returns to Santa Barbara 48 Mini Meta Crossword Puzzles 49 Monthly Meta Crossword Puzzle Solution 54 School Happenings After 15 years, Montecito Union School cut the ribbon on its innovative Nature Lab 60 Santa Barbara by the Glass A look at the Thanksgiving menus at the Rosewood Miramar, San Ysidro Ranch, Toma and Helena Avenue Bakery 62 Classified Advertising 63 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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5 Editor’s Letter Remembering a true man of the people in Bruce Corwin, a longtime cornerstone of the South Coast community 6 In the Know District 4 might not get much attention when it comes to the city’s services, but voters sure spoke loudly on November 2, playing a significant role in Randy Rowse’s mayoral victory 8 Village Beat Escrow closed earlier this week on a 6.84-acre property at the top of Temple Street in Summerland; meanwhile, Upper Village sees a break-in 10 Montecito on the Move Beautification Day in Montecito was a sight to behold 12 Letters to the Editor Would separation of red and blue really quell what ails America? 14 Rails to Trails Hattie Beresford and her trusty sidekick took to Idaho for quite the adventure 15 Brilliant Thoughts We hope you’ll read this, you know, in good faith . . . Robert’s Big Questions Is the climate crisis simply a market failure? 16 On Entertainment Music Academy of the West’s Marilyn Horne Song Competition winner Sun-Ly Pierce will finally get her shot to perform with pianist Chien-Lin Lu 18 Montecito Miscellany Celebrating Mary Tonetti Dorra’s new book, while also honoring our military heroes 22 Dear Montecito Montecito provided the platform for ambition for this Montecito Union School product 24 Community Voices Jeff Giordano says that campaign endorsements are all about the money 26 Perspectives by Rinaldo Brutoco “Conscious Uncoupling”: Loving separation vs. violent divorce The Optimist Daily Collaboration and Inclusion: Study says collaborative rewards make women more competitive at work

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A True People Person

ow would you feel if you lived with Multiple Sclerosis for more than half a century and, in an unrelated incident, suffered an organ failure that necessitated a new kidney donated by your son? If you were Bruce Corwin, you’d feel overwhelmingly grateful. Corwin was grateful to have survived everything life threw at him, grateful to have thrived, and was most of all grateful for the many opportunities he had in his life to help others. His grandfather, Joseph H. Corwin, founded the first Metropolitan Theatre in downtown Los Angeles where, according to Bruce, giving was always core to their mission, which may be why for Bruce giving came so naturally. “Helping was in our blood. It’s just… what one did. We started with our own [Jewish] community and gave what we had,” Corwin said in a recent interview with the Journal. “Since theatre was our business, for underfunded congregations that needed a physical place of worship, my folks would hold high holy day services in our theatres. My dad also donated pipe organs to congregations in need, because organs were both necessary and prohibitively expensive.” Later in life Corwin would be on the receiving end of a different kind of organ, the aforementioned kidney, from his son. “I definitely believe in karma,” Corwin said with a wry smile. Though the Corwin family began their philanthropic journey by helping Jewish people in need, their mission expanded significantly over time. Corwin’s family synagogue (Temple Israel in Hollywood) was an early booster of Martin Luther King, Jr. In fact, they sponsored an important speech of King’s, and as a result a 25-year-old Corwin met Dr. King when

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In the Know

by Nick Masuda

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one in the county’s Democratic Party. Rowse picked up 45.27% of the vote in District 4 (3,141 votes), while newcomer James Joyce was second at 28.05% (1,946 votes). Incumbent mayor Cathy Murillo, who was the Democratic Party’s endorsed choice, came in a distant third at 17.57% (1,219 votes). So, voters are clearly taking the party’s endorsement with a grain of salt, if not the entire shaker of salt. The margin of victory in District 4 was a major factor in Rowse winning the overall election with 10,037 votes, or 38.61%, and Joyce finishing second at 27.41% (7,125 votes) and Murillo third at 25.20% (6,551 votes). In 2017, Murillo won the election with 28.4% of the vote, or 6,577 votes. “We were very pleased by the voter turnout,” Rowse said. “And it wasn’t just District 4, but they definitely led the charge.” Rowse pointed to Frank Hotchkiss, a Republican, winning District 4 in 2017 as an indicator that District 4 was up for grabs. Hotchkiss won 24.1% (1,587 votes), while Murillo was second at 22.5% (1,478 votes).

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Montecito resident Diane Pannkuk and Montecito business owner Leslie Person Ryan at a newly acquired property in Summerland that will be used for farming to benefit Summerland residents by offering fresh, locally sourced food

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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scrow closed earlier this week on a 6.84-acre property at the top of Temple Street in Summerland; the property has been the subject of much community discussion over the years, as its fate was uncertain until about two months ago, when the Carpinteria/Summerland Unified School District, which has owned the property since 1955, accepted a bid on the land. The highest bidder, Santa Barbara Agricultural Farm and Education Foundation, paid $2.25 million for the property. Leslie Person Ryan, owner of Montecito’s Letter Perfect on Coast Village Road, has been leasing the property the last few years to farm fruit and vegetables for her Sweet Wheel Farm and Flowers business, which she created following the 1/9 Debris Flow that essentially left Summerland residents without access to food for multiple days. “Basically, Summerland is a food desert. If the freeway is shut down, the only place for residents to buy food is from the liquor store or the gas station. Our only grocery store, Cantwell’s, closed four years ago, so we don’t have access to quality food in an emergency,” Ryan told us during a recent visit to the farm. Intent on offering organic, locally sourced produce to Summerland residents, Ryan first began farming in Orcutt, and opened a small produce cart on Lillie Avenue (there is also a second cart in Montecito, on the Letter Perfect property). Once she secured a lease on the vacant Temple Street property, which has historically been used as farmland, she expanded the produce offering to a larger space next to the gas station on Lillie Avenue; it’s open every day and is stocked with seasonal, fresh produce, homemade food products, and flowers. Earlier this year, the Carpinteria/Summerland Unified School District

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announced its intention to sell the property, and Santa Barbara County eyed the parcel as a potential future home of affordable housing, a plan which did not go over well with neighbors nor the Summerland community at large. Ryan, who was at risk of losing her lease and therefore her farm, sprang into action, enlisting a group of powerhouse community members to form a nonprofit foundation complete with an advisory panel of architects, doctors, botanists, fundraising experts, and legal counsel, which includes Nancy Furman-Alex, Dani Lynch, Adam McKaig, Phyllis Noble, Michael Porter, Diane Pannkuk, Bruno Rocca, Geoff Green, Marc Chytilo, and Julie Etra. Board members include Ryan as president, Alma Mainz as treasurer, and Jasmine Jefferies, secretary.

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Montecito on the Move by Sharon Byrne, Executive Director, Montecito Association

Montecito’s Beautification Day: A Huge Win for Our Community

Hands team gets briefing before cleanup, with several sharing stories of living unsheltered

The entire project was generously funded by Montecito Association members and the Montecito Community Foundation

ast Saturday, something amazing happened in Montecito. A community got on its feet and spread care and love into the world. It was Beautification Day — and the impact was powerful. The day unfolded with two ensemble casts that had never rehearsed together taking on two big projects. The first team consisted of Montecito Fire, the Montecito Water District, the Montecito Trails Foundation, the Montecito Rotary Club, Beautification Day Committee members, MERRAG, and a slew of neighbors who convened on the Upper Green in front of Pierre Lafond’s at 9 am. Montecito Water brought the water, while Montecito Fire brought a very helpful setup crew, as did the Montecito Rotary. We brought burritos for everyone from

Little Alex’s, supporting a long-standing business before they vacate the Montecito Country Mart later this month. We put everyone in bright yellow safety vests and armed them with trash bags and pick-up sticks to be pandemic safe. It was a sight to be seen — the community banding together again. Volunteers fanned out into the neighborhood and picked up litter. The sea of yellow vests stood out like bright flowers across the landscape. The large volume of collected trash went into a dumpster donated by Heal the Ocean, a huge supporter of this project. The second ensemble convened at Olive Mill and the railroad tracks. The Hands Across Montecito team had helped several people out of the camps along the tracks, and it was

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time to clear the sites. Attempts to engage Union Pacific to do it had gone nowhere, so we decided to tackle it. We hired two people that we’re sheltering, and we met four people living unsheltered that wanted to work on the project. We obtained permission from Caltrans to clear their property near Butterfly Lane. They gave us 200 bags and were surprised we paid everyone $20 per hour. We wanted to express that the community cares about the individuals stepping up to help us, truly valuing what they’re doing for us. They deserve a living wage. When people paid minimum wage face $2,000 per month rent, it’s not hard to see the route to homelessness. Caltrans was keenly interested in this project, and perhaps replicating our model. Our first Hands Across Montecito graduate Andrew Velikanje was the foreman. We helped him get housed last December. He started EarthComb to hire individuals experiencing homelessness to pick up litter. Andrew has a mission — he wants a cleaner California. Lt. Butch Arnoldi from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office joined us, his job simply to keep us all safe,

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since we’d be working adjacent to the tracks. We had no idea he was going to be such a powerhouse in the cleanup itself. The team took off down the tracks towards a massive camp to tackle, now an environmental hazard. When Arnoldi saw it, he felt it was way too big for this team, that Union Pacific should have handled it. We’ve been asking them for a year. The team knew it was Herculean, but they jumped right in. Karma and Jessie are familiar to many Montecitoans. We got them out of the camp at Hot Springs in April and moved them into a hotel. They now have housing vouchers and have done outreach with the Hands team. They set a fast pace. There was an enormous skateboard ramp up in this camp, with Andrew disassembling it, and the team, including Arnoldi, moving it off the cliff down to the area beside the tracks. Lunchtime was approaching, so we hustled to finish this behemoth of a camp. Hands team member Andrea Hein brought lunch from Panino, and Kath Washburn guided the team to the pool area at Montecito Shores to have lunch. These two ladies are “sheroes” in every sense of the word. They never miss an outreach session and were early backers of the Hands project. A new camp had appeared by Montecito Shores, and it was occupied by a man who assured us he will be returning to San Francisco soon. The team then moved to Butterfly Lane area and dissembled three abandoned sites there and hauled the trash to the dumpsters provided by the Heal the Ocean, and the freeway shoulder for Caltrans. We finished at 5 pm, and everyone was elated. We got everything done! Six people that had been repeatedly told they were worthless proved they were rockstars by delivering something of enormous worth to the community that had sheltered them and wanted to see them fly. •MJ 11 – 18 November 2021

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Dividing by Red and Blue States Won’t Solve Complex Problem Has red vs. blue created a boiling point for America?

endorsement of a definitive departure from the status quo of the previous four years in their choice of who would lead our nation in the executive office. Although this election proved divisive and contentious in its polarization of our people, the majority of our population made the salient decision to embrace a different style of leadership.

Although this election proved divisive and contentious in its polarization of our people, the majority of our population made the salient decision to embrace a different style of leadership.

Thanks for the Support

It is bittersweet that we have come to the end of this campaign season. Regardless of the election results, I’m moved by the countless conversations over the past few months and opportunity to engage in public dialogue. It was an incredible honor to work side by side with volunteers and supporters who were dedicated to positive changes and innovation in the community. Without prior political experience, our team built a campaign from the ground up in a very short period of time and this was a significant accomplishment. I’m deeply grateful for their tire-

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n Rinaldo Brutoco’s essay this week on the idea of red states and blue states: I like how he analyzed the question. The only problem with whole states going red or blue: every state has a ratio of each. Would such a divide then require that all “blue” persons living in a “red” state move themselves and their lives to a “blue” state, and vice versa? Isn’t this akin to the “black-white” segregationist-apartheid “culture” that we had up to our mid-century, before MLK marched so courageously into the American consciousness? It feels kind of like that with this idea. Only the colors have changed.

Other logistics arise, but... You get the idea. The red vs. blue state concept just feels like too “pat” an answer to a problem that eludes such a simplistic solution. And this “politics” problem should remain elusive and complex, requiring ongoing, respectful, thoughtful discourse and reasoning, not simply an extended, one-sided tantrum or a raid on our Capitol. Please. Or is that just me? LeeAnn Morgan

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The fickle capriciousness of the American public is disheartening to me. During November of 2020, our citizens unanimously expressed their

Now after a mere 10 months of this new administration and with scarce opportunity to implement meaningful progress in the mitigation of our social dilemmas, the same states who previously supported these changes are once again advocating the same ideological principles which they rejected last year through the election process! Come on people! Please strengthen our country’s unity by allowing it the period of time it so desperately requires to implement the new trajectory on behalf of our collective well-being. Elizabeth Mason

The Good & Bad of COVID

Good things and bad things that have come out of COVID. Best: Parisian dining on the streets! Worst: Paper coffee cups. I asked the owner this morning of a coffee spot on Coast Village Road, “when they were going to have real coffee cups again?” She replied that they weren’t planning on doing it. I asked, as in never again? She replied, “That’s right.” Stanley Boydston

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Riding the Rails in Idaho

Michael Beresford emerging from one of the 10 tunnels on the route in 2010, our first time through

n mid-September, my husband Michael and I hit the road and traveled to Kellogg, Idaho, to ride the rails. Our locomotion, however, was pedal-powered and the iron rails had long been torn out, leaving behind two rail corridors: one of the Union Pacific Railroad and the other of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railway (more commonly known as the Milwaukee Road). Thanks to the efforts of the Railsto-Trails Conservancy, these former railways are now open to the public for hiking and biking. The first, the Route of the Hiawatha, begins at St. Paul Pass Tunnel in the Bitterroot Mountains near Lookout Pass and Montana. It is named for the 1947 luxurious passenger train,

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Ralph A. Clevenger & Friends Chiara Salomoni John Kelsey Beatriz Moino Eryn Brydon Liz Grady

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Trestles were originally made of wood, but iron replaced them after the 1910 inferno, and the line was electrified as well

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which itself was named after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s hero who was so fleet of foot he could outrun an arrow. Though far from the shores of Gitche Gumee, the Olympian Hiawatha could reach speeds of 100 miles per hour and was the pride of the Milwaukee line. Wanting to expand its market westward to take advantage of the expanding trade on the Pacific coast, the Milwaukee company hired surveyors in 1904 and commenced building in 1907. A babble of 9,000 immigrant laborers assembled in makeshift towns, complete with saloons and brothels. Shifts worked day or night all year long to build the original wooden trestles and dig out the tunnels. Wages averaged $1 a day, and the tunnels were dug with pickaxes and shovels. In 1910, a forest fire broke out and grew into an inferno that consumed 2.5 to 3 million acres. A massive cloud of smoke spread eastward as far as the St. Lawrence Seaway and Watertown, New York, where the skies were so dark, lamps had to be lit during the daytime. Many rail workers were rescued when a brave engineer drove the train into the conflagration and brought a large group of workers to the longest tunnel to sit out the fire, before setting off again to rescue others. The Route of the Hiawatha begins at the Taft (aka St. Paul Pass) Tunnel, which is 1.66 miles long. Trail docents wisely check to make sure cyclists have two sources of light. No matter the heat of the day, the tunnel maintains a steady temperature

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Brilliant Thoughts

Robert’s Big Questions

by Ashleigh Brilliant

Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

In Good Faith

ne of the wonderful things about people, is that, in general, we trust each other. Betrayal is a violation of trust – but it is the exception, not the rule. Formal marriage is a solemnization of trust, particularly in terms of sexual fidelity. Divorce is common but getting married is still very popular. We even trust our imagination-based monetary system. We used to think that a dollar represented a certain amount of gold, which we could claim at any time. Now it does not represent anything, except the “full faith and credit” of the United States — a somewhat mystical entity (except that many people have died to preserve it). Which leads me to point out that, not only do we trust each other, we also trust whoever or whatever created us, especially in times of crisis. I need hardly remind you of such expressions as “In God We Trust,” “Trust in God and keep your powder dry,” “Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition,” or, as Germanspeaking peoples put it, (often when fighting each other) “Gott mit uns.” Adolf Hitler’s writings and speeches are riddled with religious exhortations. In his very last radio address, on January 30, 1945, he declared: “God the Almighty has made our nation. By defending its existence, we are defending His work.” Leaders of many persuasions like to put themselves on God’s side. If you examine a current British Pound coin (there is no longer a paper Pound), you will see that, on the side with the monarch’s head, the wording around it ends with the letters “FD,” which stand for the Latin words meaning “Defender of the Faith.” The curious history of this expression goes back to 1521, when King Henry VIII, who was still in the first of his six marriages, and had not yet broken with Rome, published a book defending the sacrament of marriage and the supremacy of the Pope. Pope Leo X was apparently so pleased that he granted Henry that title. Then, in 1530, Henry made himself the head of a new church, the Church of England, in order to dump his first wife and marry a second. But he still called himself “Defender of the Faith,” even though a new Pope revoked the title, and excommunicated him. And, in 1544, the 11 – 18 November 2021

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.

Parliament of England confirmed the title, which his successors have claimed ever since. It was only another 400 years before I was being required to defend my own faith before an English tribunal. Conscription was still in effect, and I was in danger of being drafted as soon as I graduated from the University of London. I had become a very strong pacifist, and registered as a Conscientious Objector. But this required appearing before a special Tribunal, which would decide my fate. And mere sincerity was practically irrelevant. I had very little chance of being granted exemption from military service, unless I could convince this panel that my objection was faithbased – and that usually required some strong religious connection. But I had no religion, and simply didn’t want to kill anybody, or to be trained to do so. As expected, my objections, though well thought out, were rejected, and it was a possible that I would be sent to jail. Fortunately, there was nothing to stop me from emigrating, and, having an uncle in California who was willing to sponsor me, I became an American resident — though conscription was still the law here too, and it took me nine years, instead of the usual five, to become a citizen. When, through the Freedom of Information Act, I finally had access to my FBI file, I learned that they had considered prosecuting me as a draft-dodger, but were stymied by the fact that, rather than hiding, I had been faithful to the law, and always informed the government of my whereabouts. So even today’s governments sometimes recognize some kind of faith, although they may not follow St. Paul in including in their list the other two great virtues: hope and charity. There are, of course, cynics who disparage faith altogether, and define it as “believing in what you know isn’t true.” In marketing my epigrams, I have always tried to tread a fine line on this subject. When people write complaining that I am too flippant about matters involving religion, I can usually mollify them by quoting my own beautifully ambiguous words: “Science may someday discover What faith has always known.” •MJ

Climate Crisis as Market Failure?

s I write this, countries from around the world are convening in Glasgow for COP26 to solve the climate crisis. It is 26 because for 26 years these meetings have been going on and the threat keeps getting worse. I first began talking about the climate crisis in 1981 when it was called Global Warming due to the Greenhouse Effect. Swedish Chemistry Nobel Laureate Svante Arrhenius first warned of this in 1896. The climate crisis is like a meteor headed at the Earth. The damage may be decades away, but the action must happen now. Nature has no obligation to give a warning; we are lucky that we are seeing effects now of the huge disaster that lies ahead. Including vast areas of land that become uninhabitable due to flooding or desertification. Swiss Reinsurance Company estimates $23 trillion in economic costs by 2050. The real costs later will probably be an order of magnitude higher when the long-term impacts really hit. We have known for just as long that we need to move to renewable energy even without a climate crisis. Because fossil fuels will run out. The cost of this transition is high, but far less than not making the transition. So, why hasn’t the transition happened? Market failure. In everyday life we see market successes. Consumer goods like food, clothing, smart phones, and televisions are produced abundantly. Because producers are incentivized to compete and provide these goods as efficiently as possible. But this totally breaks down if no one must pay the true cost of their activity. In the case of fossil fuels, no one is paying to use our fragile atmosphere as a garbage dump. One option: Charge a carbon tax equal to the environmental impact of the carbon. Another option: Decide how much carbon the atmosphere can safely hold and auction the right to dump or remove carbon from the atmosphere. This is called “cap and trade.” This would allow renewable energy sources to compete fairly and to stimulate investment and innovation. But this only works if a government mandates paying the true cost. No business will willingly pay a cost if competing businesses are not compelled to do so, too. Furthermore, the mandate must be applied across all major countries. Another option is for government to “pick a winner” and start investing in sustainable transportation and energy directly. Despite claims of “free market” ideologues, government has always picked winners. Under President Eisenhower the government invested in the Interstate Highway system. Other countries at that time were investing in high-speed rail. Those highways were sold to the public with visions of wide-open roads and high-speed travel. The reality is very different for most commuters trying to get to work in traffic jams, moving at a crawl. This is another example of a market failure. When you enter a crowded road, you are slowing down everyone else. You are not made to pay for their time you are wasting. Again, a market solution is possible. Some cities charge congestion pricing to enter during peak times. Singapore offers another solution. They figured out how many cars can fit in their finite country without congestion and cap the number at that limit. They then auction off the right to have a car. About $50,000 for a 10-year “Certificate of Entitlement” for an economy car. That is not a government tax. It is what the market has determined. Perhaps the biggest market failure? Those who have no money have no leverage in the market. People in poor countries will suffer most from the Climate Crisis even though they had little to do with causing it. The solutions may be complex. But Step Zero is acknowledging that market failures are real and require intervention. Libertarian belief in markets is a religion that is unique to the U.S. But market failures occur everywhere. China does not have the same political pressures as the U.S., but the effect is similar. They also have big corporations employing large numbers of people digging up fossil fuels. China has invested heavily in solar electric projects and high-speed rail. But coal plants are still being built in parallel with that. Some system of international accounting and accountability is needed to remedy these market failures. I plan to write about other market failures, such as our broken healthcare non-system and homelessness. But the climate crisis is the big one now. •MJ

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On Entertainment Music Academy Recital:

by Steven Libowitz

Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, What a Little Moonlight Can Do

t was more than 27 months ago that Sun-Ly Pierce captured the Music Academy of the West’s much-coveted Marilyn Horne Song Competition during the 2019 summer festival. Among the prize package was the opportunity to share the stage with the winning collaborative pianist Chien-Lin Lu for a recital featuring a world premiere of a song cycle from the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and Grammywinning composer Jennifer Higdon on the heels of her MAW residency, which included a staging of her first opera, Cold Mountain. Much has transpired in the two years since the pandemic forced postponement just days ahead of the planned debut: Pierce returned for two more years at MAW (virtual only in 2020 and back on campus this past summer where a chamber collaboration with violist Richard O’Neill were among her highlights) and completed a first season and started her second

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as a Studio Artist at the prestigious Houston Grand Opera — where her digital experience at MAW came in quite handy — while Higdon captured a third Grammy for her Harp Concerto. But that hasn’t dimmed her enthusiasm for the recital that features a program aimed to show off her versatility, including vocal works by lesser-known composers Hugo Wolf, Wonju Lee, and Isabelle Aboulker alongside works by Debussy, Schoenberg, Britten, and Bolcom, plus Higdon’s Wise Moon, which the composer penned after being inspired by an Earth satellite while strolling in Philadelphia one evening. Pierce talked about the program and more in advance of the November 19 recital at Hahn Hall. (Visit www.musicacad emy.org.) Q. How has your take on the program changed given your growth as a singer,

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your level of experience, and the way you view the world now after the pandemic? A. In a way, the [delay] was a blessing in terms of having incubation time to focus and work on my technique, my artistry, and really think about what I want to say as a singer. I’ve worked with and been coached by so many different new people, so I feel like I have so much more information, emotionally and musically, to bring to the premiere of Jennifer’s piece, and I’m a much more thoughtful singer. Just to have two more years of life and having lived through COVID informs you as a person in ways that can be applicable to the song cycle she wrote.

How much input did you have in the creation of Wise Moon? I wanted to take advantage of an opportunity to have a female composer set texts from female poets to contribute to the canon, which is mostly dominated by males. With Jennifer as celebrated as she is, it was a chance to uplift female poets and give them a platform, which is something that I’m really passionate about. So Wise Moon uses the poems “The Moonlight” (Sarah Knowles Bolton), “A Hymn to the Moon” (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu), “The Night is Still” (Edith Matilda Thomas) and “The Half Moon Shows” (Christina Rossetti), along with Carl Sandburg’s “Under the Harvest Moon,” which you can’t really argue with… Each of the five songs represent moon phases, which could also be translated to different phases of life, and she paints that picture clearly musically and in the texts she chose. Chien and I are really excited to have a chance to go through the work with Jennifer at the Music Academy the week of the recital, just dive in and hear some of her thoughts and kind of exchange ideas. It’s a really invaluable part of the process of putting it all together and we’re grateful to have that chance.

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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.

Taking Advantage of the Pandemic

Gathered are Jan and Alison Bowlus with hosts Meg and Dan Burnham presenting author Mary Tonetti Dorra and her new book, Two Lives on Four Continents (Photo by Priscilla)

eteran travel writer Mary Tonetti Dorra has just published her double memoir, Two Lives on Four Continents. Mary, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Travel & Leisure, and Gourmet magazine, celebrated the occasion with a boffo bash at the Granada penthouse of Dan and Meg Burnham. “I’m a Texas girl who happened to be in the right place many times!” says Mary, a Vassar graduate with a Master’s in Italian from UCLA. The book, her fourth including two garden works, took her 10 years to complete and she thanks the pandemic restrictions for enabling her to finish the entertaining tome. “It enabled me to really knuckle down and concentrate,” she declares.

Supporting Mary’s adventurous book are Palmer Jackson, David Cronenbold, Caren Rager, and Robert Miller (Photo by Priscilla)

“Against the sweeping history of the 20th century two people from different worlds find each other and create a unified life.” Among those turning out to fete Mary, who I often quip puts the Dorra in adorable, were Kostis Protopapas, Palmer Jackson, Simon Williams, Caren Rager, Robert and Susie Miller, Charlie and Gayle Rosenberg, and Ginger Salazar.

Honoring True Heroes

A cavalcade of uniforms from all branches of the Department of Defense descended on the cavernous

Hilton ballroom for the 24th Annual Military Ball organized by the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation. Some 300 guests attended the fun fete, co-chaired by John and Hazel Blankenship, which honored all service veterans. Singer David Gonzales, a retired sergeant in the Santa Barbara Police Department, sang both the National Anthem and “America the Beautiful.” Richmond, Virginia, author and historian Francis Gary Powers Jr., son of the U.S. pilot whose CIA Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot

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hen I talk to little kids about psychology, I tell them that psychologists are interested in how people think, feel, and act. I like to remind them that there are many amazing things that change about us as we grow up. For example, if exposed to sign language from an early age, deaf children will “babble” and sign nonsense words in the same way that hearing children make nonsense sounds. The study of these changes throughout our lives is known as developmental psychology, and it focuses on the way we mature and interact with the world. This week, we’re hearing about a particularly amazing skill that originated in childhood from a local named Halie Robinson. Halie is a 25-year-old graduate of entrepreneurship and psychology who is living her dream of running a show stable. Having ridden horses since the young age of two years old, Halie has been a part of stable life since practically her earliest memory. Today, she’s here to tell us about her experiences in horse riding and her motivation to open Huntridge, the boutique show stable.

Dear Montecito,

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I was born and raised in this amazing town known as Montecito. Not a day goes by that I am not enamored by its endless charm, and I truly believe it will never get old. I was lucky enough to attend Chapman University where I studied entrepreneurship and psychology. Like my hometown, my education at Chapman gave me the skills and knowledge to pursue my passion of horseback riding and eventually turn it into a profession. I now run a boutique show stable, called Huntridge, located in Santa Rosa Valley, about 45 minutes south of Santa Barbara. I started riding competitively when I was five years old at a barn called Amapola while attending Montecito Union School. The best part of my weekday was my mom picking me up from school with a Blenders, a Santa Barbara staple, and heading out to the barn for a lesson where several other MUS friends rode as well. Over the last 20 years, my main focus has been developing my career within the equine industry. During college, I decided to study abroad

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

Halie Robinson runs Huntridge, a boutique stable for show horses

at the University of Amsterdam for one semester where I continued to ride professionally. I had the opportunity to experience the business overseas, which is more focused on the development and sales of young horses. During this time, I was able to further my understanding of the process in which horses are trained, selected, and sold, which then became an asset to me back in America when buying in Europe. With riding being my lifelong passion, I am eternally thankful to be able to make it my career, pursuing my goals in competition, training horses, and coaching riders. My focus now is essentially to grow within the program I’ve developed as well as continue competing and coaching at higher levels. I’m grateful to my upbringing and experiences for giving me the ambition and vision to work positively towards my goals. As the saying goes, you can do anything you set your mind to. A lot of people have dreams and goals that seem too farfetched to them or might even seem impossible. But whether you believe you can or believe you can’t, you’re right! Best, Halie •MJ P.S. Parents of Montecito children, if you have recommendations on people to feature in “Dear Montecito” please contact me, stellajanepierce@gmail.com! 11 – 18 November 2021

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Community Voices Endorsements:

Let’s be honest, it’s silly that our current mayor was elected with just 27% of the vote. Rank Choice Voting would eliminate voter splitting, cost less, and be much fairer. It’s the reason why it is used in Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and San Leandro, to name just a few.

by Jeff Giordano

It’s All About the Money

ravery takes on many forms, some literal and some a bit more theoretical. But nuance aside, there is bravery in challenging the status quo, the “machine.” And believe you me, our local Democratic Central Committee (DCC) is a machine. Allow me to explain: Local party endorsements spring from the DCC, yet, because Santa Barbara is a news desert, you might be surprised to learn that endorsements sometimes occur even before true-blue-Democrats enter the race — witness Kristen Sneddon in 2017 and Kate Ford in 2018. Therefore, the Montecito Journal did a great service in shining a light on the dirty business of the DCC (an organization that professes “transparency and openness”). What the MJ failed to highlight, however, was why endorsements matter — money. You see, with endorsements come lockstep funding from the Mission Indians (yes, even in a city race) and various factions of organized labor. When Laura Capps challenged Das

Williams for First District Supervisor, he raised, including PAC money, nearly $1 million. Capps raised less than half this amount. Given the disparity, the only real surprise was that Capps came as close as she did to winning. Thanks to the MJ, this week’s city election demonstrated the bent nature of Santa Barbara politics. Williams’ failed attempt at a backroom deal, godfather-inspired demands for party loyalty by former DCC officials and then, of course, there is the money. Behind her DCC endorsement, Cathy Murillo raised nearly $230,000, much of it from the likes of the California Teamsters, Cement Mason Local, Council of Laborers, United Domestic Workers, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, International Union of Operating Engineers and, of course, the DCC themselves. The bottom line: Endorsed local candidates rarely need our individual help. Democratic challenger James Joyce, on the other hand, raised less than $75,000 and while he didn’t win, he

Kristen Sneddon was elected to Santa Barbara City Council in 2017 despite not being endorsed by the DCC

did have an amazing second-place showing against a very well-known and well-funded field. The good news is that in this instance, local party hacks did not sway the electorate. That said, there remains significant work to be done and hopefully our new mayor, Randy Rowse, who ran as a “no-party preference,” will at least try to make some positive changes, including: Campaign Finance Reform (we have a $4,900 state-imposed individual contribution limit while SF is $500, Ventura is $750 and Los Angeles is $1,500) and the overhaul of our entire city election process.

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by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

Rinaldo S. Brutoco is the Founding President and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital. He’s a serial entrepreneur, executive, author, radio host, and futurist who’s published on the role of business in relation to pressing moral, environmental, and social concerns for over 35 years

“Conscious Uncoupling”

Loving separation vs. violent divorce

wyneth Paltrow famously described her attempts to end a long-term marriage without acrimony as a “conscious uncoupling,” which she explained is a way that a couple can consciously choose to disengage with each other and go their separate ways. No matter what you might think of the talented Ms. Paltrow, or her brand of unusual personal products, it would be hard to imagine that anyone would prefer the old style “War of the Roses” version of divorce (shorthand for very nasty, prolonged, and vindictive) to a more peaceful, respectful separation. She would argue that we have evolved as a species to the point where ending a relationship can, and should, be accomplished with a minimum of mean spiritedness. In fact, many of us have successfully “uncoupled” through the process of a legal divorce and are often happier and wiser for it. Last week’s column in this space dealt with the statement by Marjorie Taylor Greene that the “Red States ought to consider a divorce.” Comments to the piece ran the gamut from questioning the accuracy of various Republican and Democratic politicians’ descriptions of Greene, to thoughtful inquiries about how the mechanics of such a separation could occur. Interestingly, not one reader of the many who commented challenged the underlying assumption that we are locked into a “culture war” of “Red” vs. “Blue” that is rapidly devolving from being what we’ve historically viewed as the United States of America. In a similar vein, no one argued that it would be better to have a violent, rather than non-violent, separation. Ok, seems like there is the basis of some joint agreement right there. One of the folks who contacted us wanted to be deeply reassured that the Academy is not arguing that the red and blue states should separate. We’re not making that argument. We’re merely responding to the basic observation that the two cultures of red and blue are diverging to the point that the ultimate dissolution of the Union is, based on todays’ political climate, likely to occur in the near future. More than 625 right-wing armed militia groups have assembled over the last few decades, with a distinct coalescing in the last few years. Calling themselves Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, the Aryan Nation, or a dozen other names, they all have this in common: they sub-

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scribe to an alt-right, white supremacism which includes anti-Semitism and a healthy dose of misogyny. Do we want more Oklahoma City bombings, more Charlottesville rallies, or another January 6th Insurrection? Hence, our inquiry isn’t focused on whether the Union will dissolve. We assume it will. Our inquiry is, can we peacefully achieve that likely outcome? Can we find a “conscious uncoupling” by letting the reds and blues separate without violence? Asked another way, if President Lincoln had responded to the shelling of Fort Sumter with an agreement to let the South go and permit the Confederacy to set up their own independent nation (the issue of slavery forced his hand, and isn’t a factor today), we would have saved the 750,000 combatant lives (not to mention untold civilians, and the injured on all sides) on the battlefield which equaled 2.5% of the American population at the time. With today’s population that death toll translates into more than 8,500,000 Americans who could die if our upcoming separation isn’t peaceful. Do we want to inflict that on ourselves and our children? Absolutely not. And, had Lincoln allowed the South to secede peacefully, we wouldn’t be having the culture wars that rage today, 150 years later. It’s time to let those leave who feel constrained by the system we have, complete with its constitutional protections for individuals no matter where in our great country they live, to have the opportunity to at last form the Confederacy they’ve been dreaming about since Appomattox. Back now to “the mechanics.” How can today’s “Confederacy” peacefully secede from the Union so as to minimize the adverse effects on those who want to leave the Confederacy and “go North”? For starters, any Confederate state that changes its vote about seceding within five years of secession would have the automatic right to change direction and remain in the Union by a simple majority vote. During that fiveyear “separation” period all citizens would continue to be allowed to use U.S. passports, travel freely between states, and sell their goods without tariffs in interstate commerce as is presently the case. Following that separation period the Confederacy would develop its own passports, foreign embassies, military, civil service, and their own

Collaboration and Inclusion

Study: Collaborative rewards make women more competitive at work

ccording to new research from the University of Arizona, the key to closing the wage gap between men and women might be changing how we incentivize workers. The new study finds that women are more likely to take competitive risks at work when they are offered the opportunity to share their winnings. The study took the form of a three-part activity. In the first round, men and women were offered two dollars for every problem solved. In the second round, four dollars were offered to the first two people to complete the problem. In the final round, participants could choose whether they wanted to take the higher risk, higher reward option. Initial results showed that 52% of men chose the higher risk option, compared to 34% of women. However, the researchers noticed a shift when they introduced a twist. In a second iteration of the activity, they told participants that in round three, they could share their winnings with teammates if they chose the four-dollar option. This prompted 60 percent of women to choose the more competitive option. Study co-author Mary L. Rigdon explained to The Conversation, “It’s not that women don’t like competition, but that they are sensitive to social aspects of it that men aren’t. When incentives reflect those social aspects, women are just as competitive as men.”

New study rockets us towards inclusive space travel

The AstroAccess project has taken flight, with the point of this project to make careers in STEM and space more accessible. A group of 12 ambassadors, including disabled students, athletes, veterans, and artists, experienced a simulated zero gravity environment carried out in Long Beach on October 17. The ambassadors and support team boarded a specially equipped plane, and when an altitude of 32,000 feet was reached, the aircraft plummeted back down to earth, creating a free fall period of around 30 seconds where a number of tests were carried out. The cycle of climbing and falling was repeated 15 times in order to gain sufficient results. The ability to carry out safety tasks, such as finding and using oxygen masks, was evaluated, and communication was assessed to see if microgravity influenced American Sign Language. Movement around the area was also tested to see if sound beacons could be used as possible orientation aids for blind members. The official sponsor of the program is The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego. •MJ constitution as a separate nation. Any individual wishing to leave the Confederacy would be allowed to deed their property (residential and commercial real estate) at its then-current present value to a new “Liquidity Transition Corporation” (LTC) established by the federal government. The LTC would utilize bonded indebtedness to pay cash for the real estate being surrendered so that an individual would have the cash resources necessary to invest in residential and/or commercial real estate after they move into the Union. When the assets left behind in the Confederacy and acquired by LTC are ultimately sold, the proceeds would be repatriated to the LTC to help pay off the bonds. In case you’re thinking this is an expensive process you’re underestimating how vastly more expensive war/armed conflict is. Providing liquidity for the people who want to move where they feel most comfortable is hundreds of times less expensive than conflict. In addition to providing liquidity for real estate that

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

cannot be moved from South to North (or rather, Red to Blue), there is the additional burden of providing comparable jobs in the Union for those who leave the Confederacy. The LTC could provide both training for new job skills, a stipend until those new skills could be deployed, and incentives for employers to hire recently arrived Confederacy refugees. We end where we began. The idea of preventing violence by enabling Conscious Uncoupling is far superior to unleashing “the dogs of war,” which inevitably will be the default result if we don’t act consciously towards one another. We must learn that it is no longer acceptable to hold any group of individuals as “prisoners” because they live in a place where they no longer feel safe or “at home.” Let’s be mature enough to “let my people go” even if they, the people, are making life choices we don’t agree with. If Texas leaves and other states choose to leave the Union for the Confederacy, let’s choose to create a Conscious Uncoupling. •MJ 11 – 18 November 2021

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Talk Examines Bolivian Child Workers

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

Museum Opens a Trove from Its Collection

he Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, which moved from the confines of the Reynold’s Gallery to its current home in the Adams Center for the Visual Arts more than a decade ago, reveals the enormity of its holdings in “Academic, Barbizon, and Impressionist Artists: Highlights from the Permanent Collection” from November 11- December 18 in the museum. A free, public opening reception will be held Thursday, November 11, from 4-6 pm at the museum. “The exhibition will reveal the depth and strength of the museum’s 19th century collections in paintings and prints,” says Judy L. Larson, R. Anthony Askew professor of art history and museum director. “Visitors will experience the diversity of styles and subjects that defined a generation of artists in Europe and the United States.” The exhibition features academic artists Frans van Kuyck (Belgium) and Hermann Angermeyer (German); Barbizon artists Charles-François Daubigny, Henri Harpignies, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot; and impressionist artists Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Lawton S. Parker, and Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin. This is the first time the museum has organized an exhibition around extraordinary gifts of Barbizon art from Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree, Galerie Michael, and the Dewayne and Faith Perry Print Acquisition Fund. The Arts Alliance of Ventura County gave the museum two stunning works by Parker, an American artist who lived in Giverny, France, for a decade. The museum’s prestigious collection of 19th century art, especially French, tells the story of the Belle Époque, a period before the outbreak of World War I when the artistic scene markedly flourished in France. “Traditionally it was artists who studied at art academies, with their

Lawton Parker’s “Vera of the Moulin Rouge” (1910), a gift from the Arts Alliance of Ventura County

formulaic methods of working, who were featured at the official salons, but tastes began to change favoring realism,” Larson says. “Images of modern life appealed to a new generation of artists. “Another major change came from the Barbizon artists who championed working directly from nature and celebrating idyllic landscapes, in stark contrast to the industrialized and modern cities. Their plein air method of painting was a huge influence on the impressionists who also painted outdoors, interested in the effects of weather and time of day on their landscapes. The impressionists painted not only landscapes, but also took their subjects from scenes from modern life.” The museum is open weekdays from 10 am to 4 pm, and Saturdays from 11 am to 5 pm. Admission is free. For more information, please call the museum at (805) 565-6162 or visit westmont.edu/museum. Guests will be required to wear face masks while inside the museum. If you are experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms, please do not visit the museum.

Elizabeth Gardner, Westmont assistant professor of communication studies, examines a protest by children and adolescents in South America on Thursday, November 11, at 7 pm in Westmont’s Global Leadership Center. The Paul C. Wilt Phi Kappa Phi Lecture, “Child Workers Redefining a Bolivian Childhood in the Código Niña, Niño y Adolescente,” is free and open to the public. The talk describes strategies the young speakers used to campaign for their rights. “Traditionally, children and adolescents don’t get quoted in the news,” Gardner says. “They might be seen as cute, but for a long time they’ve not been taken seriously enough to be considered agents in a situation.” Beginning in late 2013, a wide range of international media outlets began publishing a story about Bolivian children organizing a protest of the legislature’s efforts to raise the minimum age to work to 16. “I was intrigued,” she says. “I followed the story and learned that those kids had been tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed. Then they’d gotten the chance to meet with the president. Then they’d convinced the legislature to do an about-face and instead lower the minimum age for labor to 10 years old. At that point, I knew it was a case I wanted to study in depth.” By 2014, youth-led movements were becoming commonplace, such as action by the Parkland school shooting survivors, Greta Thunberg leading climate strikes, and youth protestors in Hong Kong. “What are some of the assumptions we have about childhood — what it should be — and how does that affect how we listen to young speakers?” Gardner says. “I explore how children redefined what it means to be a child through the strategy of dissociation and how that move helped them to successfully weigh in on this national policy.”

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Gardner, who joined the Westmont faculty in 2016, graduated from Houghton College before earning a master’s degree and doctorate at the University of Maryland. She teaches rhetorical criticism and public speaking.

Women’s Soccer Hosts Tournament The No. 17 Westmont women’s soccer team hosts the Golden State Athletic Conference Tournament beginning Thursday, November 11, with two semifinal games on Thorrington Field. Ottawa (Arizona) will play Hope International at 11 am and the Warriors, co-champions of the GSAC regular season, will battle The Master’s at 1:30 pm. The winners will face off on Saturday, November 13, at 1 pm. Westmont is led by five players who were named to the 2021 All-GSAC Women’s Soccer Team: senior Teagan Matye of Roseville; juniors Taylie Scott of Maple Grove, Minnesota, and Grace Duckens from Rancho Santa Margarita; sophomore Daisy Alvarez of Long Beach; and freshman Shayna Stock of Redondo Beach. Tickets, which cost $10 for general admission, $5 for students and seniors, may be purchased at gsacsports.org/ tickets. •MJ

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traumatic happens. Intense emotional experiences don’t just disappear. They get recorded and tucked away in the emotional body. Occasionally, something happens that stirs things up and a piece of history floats to the surface. When this happens, it could be just an inconvenient hot mess, or it could be an opportunity to sort it out. The Spann-Robinson workshops offer a context where people can tell the story, step away from the drama/ trauma and let some of the muck float away. Then, with a fresh outlook, they can address what needs to heal and what needs to change. Spann’s recent novel, intriguingly titled A Parable of Lies, is an example of how this works. “If we never speak the truth, we live the parable of the lie.”

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Healing Fiction

awrence Spann writes every day in a Mead notebook — with a fountain pen. For him, this practice is more than journaling, it’s therapeutic introspection that allows the unconscious to become conscious. To accomplish this, he writes without an agenda, letting the pen rather than the mind lead the way. What results is a kind of waking dream where streams of memory and emotion coalesce in catharsis and insight. Over the years, this commitment to writing has helped him heal personal trauma, find self-love, and walk away from unproductive behaviors. This personal experience, as well as Spann’s interest in helping others, inspired a career in the healing arts.

A Parable of Lies is well-researched and beautifully written. It’s the story of a man standing at a crossroad where one direction leads to behaviors that are messing up his life. After receiving a master’s degree in Health Sciences from Duke University, Spann went on earn a PhD in Creative Writing; facilitate workshops with Dr. Dean Ornish; and create the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Program at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento. In 2007, he moved to Santa Barbara where his wife, Elizabeth Robinson, was studying myth and depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. It was only a matter of time before Spann and Robinson designed a new workshop format combining literature, therapeutic writing, mythology, and archetypal psychology.

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onto the page. Treating the result as a piece of fiction gives the writer the comfort of being one step removed. Then, with group input, the layers are peeled back to “understand what’s really at core, what’s really important.” Including myth, metaphor, and imagery enrich the process and offer new ways to see hidden meaning as well as a pathway forward. Now, something transformational can begin. What is the rationale behind therapeutic writing? All of us have an emotional history. We’re sentient beings after all. We feel disappointed, sad, hurt, angry, scared when people let us down, plans fall through, or something

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ly buried or cleverly defended, our unresolved issues control our behavior and undermine health, happiness, and success. Because they’re wired in the emotional body, they can be triggered by an old Fleetwood Mac song, the scent of smoke in the air, a random comment, or a provocative story. They can also be triggered by family drama, financial uncertainty, community discord, or a holiday gathering. Surprising enough, even joy and success can bring pain-trauma-hurt to the surface. No matter the catalyst, the next time you’re triggered, why not get out pen and paper and write a bit of healing fiction?

All of us have an emotional history. We’re sentient beings after all. We feel disappointed, sad, hurt, angry, scared when people let us down, plans fall through, or something traumatic happens. Intense emotional experiences don’t just disappear. They get recorded and tucked away in the emotional body. Spann has a MA in Health Sciences from Duke University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Union University in Ohio. For the past seven years, people in our community have known him as the compassionate Anticoagulation Specialist at Samsun Clinic. He stepped away from this position recently to focus on his writing. You can buy A Parable of Lies at a local bookshop or online. For a multi-sensory experience, the e-book includes a playlist of all the fabulous music in the book. •MJ

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nstead of polo ponies, the polo fields in Carpinteria were recently covered with classic cars — more than 200 worth in excess of $400 million. Founder Dolores Johnson was expecting 4,000 car lovers to attend the ninth annual Montecito Motor Classic (MMC) and I think they did. It began 10 years ago on Coast Village Road, but outgrew it and moved to the Polo & Racquet Club. “We have continued to attract fantastic cars from owners and museums like Petersen, Nethercutt, Mullin, and Murphy. Of special interest is our honoree this year: the world renown automobile designer Mark Stehrenberger. He has been an enthusiastic supporter of MMC and has designed many of our posters,” Dolores said.

He started his career in fashion design but was always fascinated with the American (he was born in Switzerland) boat-sized cars and the sky-scraping tail fins. Automobiles in the MMC are judged through Quail judging, a process where the entrants themselves select best in their class, showing the mutual respect they have for each other. MMC judges then select Best in Show or as a class tiebreaker. The entrance was free to the public and there was lots to see — a Kids Zone, the Avenue of Chalets showcasing local boutiques and businesses, and the Polo Club’s new Fieldside Grill. An extra topper this year was the hat contest sponsored by Silverhorn Jewelers. Yours truly (me)

was the judge with the joyous job of choosing three winners: A $1,000 gift certificate from Silverhorn and a crystal trophy, another for $500, and a third for $250. MMC was looking for sass and sensationalism. Third place went to Stancey Monahan, second place Rebecca Brand, and first place Nina Terzian. This year’s theme was the Concept Car, which focused on the advances of

Small Town Big Art Book, 100 Artists of Carpinteria was showcased at the Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center, with it reminiscent of “The Little Engine That Could.” I have a friend who was involved with the Art Center in its early days back in 2006. They really had nothing except the will to succeed and now own their building at 865 Linden Avenue with an executive director in Linda Rosso, an art gallery, and space to teach the arts. Some of their services include youth

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Montecito Moms by Dalina Michaels

It’s Apropos!

Catering Business is the Perfect Fit for Michelle Isom

Apropos Catering also features tuna tartare Michelle Isom with husband, Lance, and daughter, Sofia

Apropos Catering provides a plethora of options, including these light bites

n these chilly fall days, nothing sounds better than a warm grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of homemade soup. Nothing sounds better — except perhaps having someone else make that deliciousness for you. (And bonus points if they can set-up and clean-up!) Enter Michelle Isom, a longtime member of the Santa Barbara foodie community, who is channeling her energy into her own boutique catering company, Apropos Catering, for fetes in the 93108 (and 93101!). Isom has been churning out summer meals at the Knowlwood Tennis Club in Montecito for the past seven years, and before that, many remember her as the owner of Epiphany (a well-known eatery on Victoria Street for a decade). “My first event at Knowlwood was a Memorial Day BBQ. I had just opened my Snack Shop Cafe at Knowlwood and we had to prepare meals for 180 people. We did a full BBQ selection, salads, and all the fixings. It was great fun. I knew I was in the right place,” Michelle said. While she operates her business at Knowlwood during their summer season, Isom realized there was an opportunity to combine her love of food with her love for people. And so, her vision for Apropos Catering was born. “I wanted to help my clients make the most of their time with friends and family when entertaining. My passion is to create an experience. I love working with the host on a menu, deciding how to set it up, and

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what ingredients to use.” Indeed, one of the hardest things in planning an event is the set-up and prep – the labor and time it takes behind the scenes to make it happen. Michelle elaborated, “The word ‘catering’ itself sounds intimidating and expensive. I saw there was a void, especially here in Montecito, for people who want to entertain and typically would cook themselves, but don’t want to get stuck in the kitchen all day.”

“I wanted to help my clients make the most of their time with friends and family when entertaining. My passion is to create an experience. I love working with the host on a menu, deciding how to set it up and what ingredients to use.” — Michelle Isom With Apropos Catering, Isom steps in and handles all the menu planning, as well as prep and food service. She customizes the food and can tailor it to specifications based on what guests want (a vegan side or a gluten-free bread).

“I hope to take out the time-consuming part of cooking that goes along with having a dinner party. The truth is, so many people want to have a good meal, but going out costs a lot and it is hard to entertain at a restaurant. It is so nice when you can host people at your home and have the option to move around.” Michelle prides herself on knowing her clients and what they want. “All of my work is word-ofmouth. I love getting referrals from my clients or from a guest who has attended an event or a dinner that I catered. It’s the best compliment,” Michelle said. Whether it is a cocktail party, a kid’s birthday, or an elegant formal dinner, Michelle is able to harness her menu knowledge with her flair for making everything look fabulous. “We recently did a vegan paella and Banoffee pie for a local celebrity birthday party. There is always something new to create and I get that from the clients I work with!” Starting the catering business seems a natural progression for Michelle, who got her start making pizzas at a pizza parlor in high school and later put herself through college working in restaurants. “I waited tables, served cocktails, managed bars, traveled and opened restaurants for Bice and Patina — I did it all!” Now, she gets to mingle while making bellies happy all over the South Coast. “When you go out to eat, it is not only the food, but it is all the details that go into the experience. It is always something special – whether it is celebrating with friends, a romantic date, or family gathering. It is creating memories.” So, what’s her go-to favorite when planning a catering menu? “I love our tuna tartare or braised beef short ribs, especially this time of year. And for dessert, our clients ask for our famous brown butter sea-

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salt graham cracker peach crumble with a cinnamon whipped cream — it is just divine!” Michelle’s catering business is a family affair, with husband, Lance, often behind the scenes helping with set up and cooking, and daughter, Sofia, also packs and preps when needed.

“I hope to take out the timeconsuming part of cooking that goes along with having a dinner party. The truth is, so many people want to have a good meal, but going out costs a lot and it is hard to entertain at a restaurant. It is so nice when you can host people at your home and have the option to move around.” — Michelle Isom Keeping it in the family is a good way for Michelle to stay connected with her clients as well. “I prefer to stay small, so I can focus on the details and help make each event special. Our sweet spot is definitely between 15 to 50 people.” And when she needs a break from the kitchen, Michelle has her favorite spot to hit in Montecito: Tre Lune on Coast Village Road. “You cannot go wrong there,” Michelle said. “I always order the same thing: Tuna Tartare, Watercress Salad, and their linguine and clams!” •MJ 411 To check out what Apropos is working on next, or to book an experience, visit her on Instagram at instagram. com/aproposcatering/ 11 – 18 November 2021

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Far Flung Travel

by Chuck Graham

Forces of Nature

A red-tailed hawk and Island Fox have a stare down over some prey

A pair of Island Foxes steal an Island Spotted Skunk from a red-tailed hawk

trolling down Scorpion Canyon to the cobble beach, I was keen to see lightning strikes across the Santa Barbara Channel. From the southeast fringe of Santa Cruz Island, the beach was deserted with lightning strikes touching down around the largest isle off the California Coast. As dusk approached, the storm moved directly over Scorpion Canyon. Lightning struck and the thunderclaps were as loud as I have ever experienced. While heading back to my tent, I noticed a subadult red-tailed hawk emerge from the base of a willow tree next to the seasonal arroyo that serpentines its way to the beach. This was a redtailed hawk that arrived at Scorpion Anchorage mid-summer and has stuck around. This raptor has been extremely active. I’ve seen it slay a couple of gopher snakes, its fair share of mice and songbirds, and one day myself and some of the other kayak guides saw it next to our kayaking gear with a dead Island Fox. After examining the Island Fox, we determined that it was an old fox that had passed on its own, was discovered by the red-tailed hawk and the raptor brought the carcass down the canyon where we stage our gear. The hackles of this red-tailed hawk were up like the fur on the back of a dog or cat when it’s agitated. Those neck feathers made its head appear larger, so was the rest of the bird as it fully opened its wings when it emerged from the willow. At first, I was confused as to what was happening, but then two adult Island

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Foxes joined the fray. Each one of the foxes took their turns charging the raptor. There were even a couple of occasions where both foxes dove toward the hawk simultaneously.

Island Foxes are omnivorous. They’ll eat everything they find, but it was strange watching them attempt to steal the redtailed hawks’ prey. The red-tailed hawk was protecting something, but island flora wasn’t allowing me to see what it was clutching. There was a moment of reprieve as the foxes backed off, but were still visible in the coyote bush, willows, island hazardia, and island buckwheat. During that stretch I was able to scooch along on elbows and toes with camera slung over my shoulder. At that point I had maneuvered to where I was facing the red-tailed hawk. I was blown away by what I saw. I spend somewhere between 100 to 150 days per year on the islands. I might see the nocturnal island spotted skunk once a year, maybe. Weighing in at one pound, they are three pounds less than a full-size island fox. They are only found on Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands. There’s not a lot known about them, and research on this mystery fauna is ongoing. So, when we do see them,

it’s big news in Scorpion Canyon. Mostly, we smell them before we see them. I’ve seen one, the same animal twice this fall. One night it walked right up to where I was standing. It sniffed my camera pack, but it didn’t spray. That red-tailed hawk and I stared at one another as it stood over its prey, talons latched onto a gutted Island Spotted Skunk. The other part of the equation was the interest of the Island Foxes. I’ve always wondered about their interactions across the island. Recently, I’ve witnessed a smidge of their behavior when they’ve crossed paths. The night an island spotted skunk walked up to my camera pack, it was busy foraging for island cherries. It was a good year for this fruit. It was dark and within the beam of my headlamp the skunk was gorging on fallen fruit. Suddenly, an island fox arrived. Just a couple feet away from each other, the skunk turned and vanished into the shadows of a lemonade berry

bush. The fox climbed straight up the tree and feasted on island cherries. Neither animal displayed any aggressive behavior towards the other. It may have been all the food available at the time. Island Foxes are omnivorous; they’ll eat everything they find, but it was strange watching them attempt to steal the red-tailed hawks’ prey. Eventually, the hawk appeared to grow uninterested with the skunk. It flew off to a nearby tree. As soon as it did, both Island Foxes moved in. One of them quickly grabbed the skunk and sauntered off into dense cover along the dry creek-bed. I never feel as if I’ve seen everything one can see at the islands, but it sometimes feels that way when one spends a lot of time in one region. I will say, it was a natural moment I never thought I would see, but one I constantly think about since. There’s no predicting wildlife behavior, but with each moment experienced my eyes are wide open. •MJ

Lightning strikes off the pier on Santa Cruz Island

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In the Know (Continued from page 6)

Randy Rowse dominated in District 4 on his way to a resounding victory in the mayoral race

Joyce, who was buoyed by late endorsements from the Montecito Journal as well as the Santa Barbara Independent, also spent considerable time canvassing District 4. “Turnout from previous elections indicates that the district generally has higher voter turnout and has proven to be tuned in and has engaged neighborhoods,” Joyce said. “It’s what those residents have done in the past. It may have helped that we were talking to them for my campaign since early May. But I think the high turnout in the district speaks to the sense of community and the ownership and responsibility to that community,” said Joyce. According to Murillo’s team, they did canvas District 4 with 548 in-person conversations (5.1% of District 4’s 11,977 registered voters) and 362 phone conversations (3.4%). In other words, Murillo directly interfaced with 8.5% of the available voters in our district. Murillo’s defeat was the most prevalent in District 4, although she also lost in both District 2 and District 6, both of which she carried in 2017. District 6, which represents downtown, was the biggest falloff since the last election for Murillo, winning the district with 36.1% of the vote in 2017 (1,244 votes), only to fall back to 31.4% (1,149) in 2021, while losing to Joyce, a fellow Democrat, in the process. “[Cathy’s] campaign worked hard. Ultimately, we didn’t get the results we wanted and believe would have been more representative of Santa Barbara,” said Mike Schaible, a representative from Murillo’s campaign team. Meanwhile, conventional political wisdom thought that Rowse’s victory in District 4 would have aided former Republican now “declined to state” Barrett Reed’s challenging of the District 4 seat on city council, but incumbent Kristen Sneddon won with 61.55% of the vote — a much 11 – 18 November 2021

more resounding victory even than that of Mayor-elect Rowse. Apparently, the political alignment on paper from Rowse and Reed gave way to a growing distaste over partisan politics. “On the campaign trail, partisanship came up more than even homelessness,” Rowse said. “People are sick of party politics. They want to focus on the issues, and that’s why change happened. District 4 was a big part of that change.” “And Kristen has shown she can make decisions on her own, not just follow the party line. She was rewarded for that.” Joyce said he heard much of the same — less politics, more unity. “One of the things that kind of surprised me early on was the number of people who brought up that they were sick of all the divisiveness in our country and community,” Joyce said. Sneddon isn’t surprised by the turnout — and is proud of District 4 and its passion for its small slice of the paradise that is Santa Barbara. “What I’ve learned over the past four years on council is that the people of District 4 care, and they will show up to make their voices heard,” Sneddon said. “That’s why I feel so fortunate to have been chosen again.”

‘Tis the Season, Part I

moments, endless hours of creativity, planning, and review are needed after the last school bell rings. “It’s been a challenging year and a half for teachers, so let’s give back some inspiration and kindness by recognizing educators who go above and beyond. Help us thank all our excellent educators, whether a teacher, administrator, counselor, or support staff – we want to acknowledge those who inspire their students and us every day.” Here, here.

‘Tis the Season, Part II

If your social media feed is anything like mine, cute videos of puppies and kitty cats are probably prevalent. I guess that’s what happens when you rescue the cutest pup ever (sorry, my Bonita is simply the best, don’t argue, it’s just facts). But it can also be heart-wrenching to see the animals that don’t have a loving home for the holidays, the ones just waiting for a bow to be put around their neck as the ultimate gift — one that goes both ways. There are plenty of options to adopt out there, with one of my favorites being Spark Rescue, who has had me contemplating adopting like a bazillion more puppies because of its Instagram feed (instagram.com/sparkrescue/).

Felix is a four-month-old cattle dog mix and is available for adoption through Spark Rescue

So much personality for one feed, but it’s hard not to fall in love. A massive thank you to all the foster parents out there that are keeping these animals safe until their “furever” homes are found (yes, I am that guy now). How can you resist a face like that of Felix? I say you don’t — just give in to the temptation and make this a holiday to remember. •MJ

This community seemingly has a heart of gold, from massive fundraising projects that save farms in Summerland (read Kelly Mahan Herrick’s piece on page 8 this week) to the San Marcos Foothills. This holiday season, a new project is making the goal far more personal — the Santa Barbara Education Foundation wants to shower teachers at the Santa Barbara Unified School District with love. It’s a simple concept — community businesses donate goods or individuals donate money, and the district turns that into dozens of opportunities to give a needed pick-me-up for teachers and support staff that have had to play multiple roles as students have returned to campus this year. Rebecca Benozer is helping organize the effort, starting a website where individuals can make donations (visit the website here: https:// bit.ly/31T1l5z). She’s also landed commitments from businesses such as TW Hollister Vermouth, Panino, Bettina, Sideyard Shrubs, and Costco. The effort will be ongoing, with Benozer open to any and all ideas. You can email her at Rebecca.Benozer@ sagepub.com. “Being a great teacher takes endless empathy, bottomless enthusiasm, and a constant flow of innovative ideas. And it’s not just what happens inside the classroom that counts. To set the stage for those ‘aha’ learning • The Voice of the Village •

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Doctor’s Orders by Nick Masuda

To Stem Cell or Not to Stem Cell:

A Q&A with an Orthobiologics Expert

here is nothing shy about Richard Scheinberg — he believes orthobiologics is a cutting-edge solution to treat joint and musculoskeletal problems. The owner of Scheinberg Orthopedic Group at 401 North Chapala knows that anything associated with “stem cell” treatments comes with a stigma but is adamant that orthobiologics utilizes the body’s own stem cells to help avoid the fallout from traditional surgery on shoulders and knees. “We didn’t really have any way of providing substantial relief other than surgical treatments such as bionic replacement of joints, hip replacements, knee replacement, shoulder replacements, that type of surgical procedure, which are very substantial operations, and that don’t always work perfectly,” Scheinberg said. “So, now we have an option to use your own healing ability, which is your own stem cells to concentrate those stem cells and then re-inject them into areas of the body such as the knee, the

shoulder, the back, that traditionally have been treated surgically.” The Montecito Journal sat down with Scheinberg to chat about orthobiologics, addressing everything from false narratives to what insurance companies will and won’t cover: Q: What are the advantages of orthobiologics? A: I’m an orthopedic surgeon. I’ve been doing surgeries for 40 some odd years and been doing joint replacements, surgeries, sports medicine, arthroscopic surgeries, shoulders, knees — all of it. We as orthopedic surgeons see problems that require a surgical solution up until the advent of orthobiologics, which is stem cell biology as well as PRP, which is concentrated in platelet biology. And in many instances, just simply with this type of injection, which we often will do in combination with PRP — which are concentrated platelets — we are able to achieve very similar results we could have achieved with

Dr. Richard Scheinberg operates Scheinberg Orthopedic Group at 401 North Chapala, Suite 201

a big operation and avoid the prolonged recuperative healing phase recovery phase that is inherent in any operation. What about the time it takes to perform the procedure? An injection such as this from start to finish when the patient comes in as an outpatient usually takes about an hour and a half to two hours before they leave the office and leave the surgery center, and they’re pretty much able to go about their normal activities of daily living after the procedure.

Scientifically, can you be more specific about orthobiologics advantages? So, there’s two aspects of these injections that are beneficial: One is the very powerful anti-inflammatory effect of the PRP and bone marrow concentrate in combination, but also the long-term regenerative effect for the stem cells. So that sometimes takes as long as three to six to nine months to maximize the results. So, if a patient comes in, for example, who wants a knee replacement or a hip replacement, and they’re trying to avoid the surgery, they will oftentimes get immediate pain relief after three or four days following the injection. But it’s a long-term regenerative effect of six to nine months that we’re really looking for; that allows them to function without need for surgery. Indefinitely. What are the advantages to stem cell when compared to epidural injections, particularly for back pain? Traditionally, epidural injections and back injections and pain management are done with steroids. So, if you go to a pain management doctor — and your insurance is going to cover it — they’re going to use steroids on you. They’re going to use cortisone or something of that nature. And steroids are known to be anti-metabolic. They’re good anti-inflammatories, but they are not good for you — partic-

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centration after we centrifuge it and separate it out in our laboratories.

Orthobiologics has become an alternative to major surgery, with Dr. Scheinberg indicating recovery time is much shorter, as is the procedure process

ularly if you have diabetes. Utilizing orthobiologics, we use the same material bone marrow concentrate and PRP and strategically inject that into the facet joints and into the areas of arthritis in the back to eliminate back pain and to heal back pain long-term rather than a short-term solution like an epidural steroid injection. Traditional chronic back problems, epidurals are done almost exclusively with steroids. We use orthobiologics to do them, which is a much more homeopathic solution with long-term, good results and without any detrimental steroids that that can cause collateral damage. You’ve been performing stem cell treatments for eight years now; what is the main concern that patients face? We’ve done literally hundreds of these now. So, it does entail some expense even though in Santa Barbara where we do our procedures, it’s probably a third to a quarter what they would charge in Beverly Hills and other facilities. The reason is we’re trying to get the word out that there is an alternative to major surgery or dealing with injuries and degenerative conditions such as the arthritis, hip arthritis, shoulder surgeries, rotator cuff repairs, and that sort of thing. So, the issue becomes one and economic one because insurance does not cover it. But aren’t there practitioners out there using “off-the-shelf” solutions? Yes, there are some using birth products, amniotic fluid embryonic fluids, Wharton’s jelly things — those types of products as a source of stem cells, when the reality is those aren’t live stem cells and there are no stem cells in those types of products. The only source of stem cells that the FDA really clears is when we use your own stem cells. And we concentrate your own stem cells, which we take from bone marrow, which is the most accessible source of stem cells in your body and provides the highest quality and the highest con11 – 18 November 2021

So, you’re saying there might be some false advertising out there? One of the problems with people bristling [over stem cell treatment], is that there has been a lot of hype in this marketplace by practitioners who aren’t doing it properly and are misleading the public. So that if it is done properly, if you are using your own stem cells that are derived from concentrated bone marrow, then the results are going to be predictably much better than using a source that doesn’t have live stem cells. And so there has been some misinformation in the public about stem cells. This whole area of medicine and biology is very new in the sense that it’s only been maybe 15 to 20 years that we’ve been utilizing these types of solutions. It’s early on, and we don’t fully understand all the nuances of it — other than subjectively the patients get better and avoid surgeries.

medicine and orthopedics for patients to help them, as well as helping them avoid getting themselves into having complications from surgeries, which we still do. I primarily do surgical procedures, but we’re seeing that the patients who do the orthobiologic procedures do better. They’re grateful because they haven’t gone through a big operation that some other doctor has told them about.

“We have some idea and certainly the scientists have a very clear idea as to how the stem cells differentiate bone and tissue and soft tissue and cartilage. This is dependent to a great extent on one’s own DNA and our own ability to heal. And so, there are some variations and results. We’re getting 87% good-to“Now we have an option to use excellent results avoiding your own healing ability, which is surgery, which is very good.” your own stem cells to concentrate those stem cells and then re-inject them into areas of the body such Do other surgeons reject orthobiologics? Is it about the science or the business? as the knee, the shoulder, the It is totally embraced. We have much more literature on this than back, that traditionally have we have on many of the orthopedic been treated surgically.” procedures that are being done, such as arthroscopic meniscectomy and — Richard Scheinberg things of that nature. Surgeries are the

Well, objectively, what do the numbers look like? We have some idea and certainly the scientists have a very clear idea as to how the stem cells differentiate bone and tissue and soft tissue and cartilage. This is dependent to a great extent on one’s own DNA and our own ability to heal. And so, there are some variations and results. We’re getting 87% good-to-excellent results avoiding surgery, which is very good. And in fact, if you looked at the knee replacements that I or any of the other doctors in town are doing, our results aren’t much better with major surgery and the recovery, as well as trauma of going through it and the hospitalization is so much better. You’ve dedicated a significant part of your practice to this style of treatment, why? I’m probably the only orthopedic surgeon who’s doing a lot of these locally because I’ve identified that this was a very productive area of

bread and butter of how orthopedic surgeons make a living, so, there’s an inherent conflict of interest if you will. If I make my living doing the replacements all day long, like several other doctors do in this community and someone saying, “Hey, you may not need a knee replacement and, by the way, 50% or more of the knee replacements being done at Cottage Hospital now could be eliminated with this with a much more simple, less invasive procedure.” Yeah, probably not going to be so happy about that.

Let’s circle back to insurance; what’s the deal on not covering orthobiologics? The patients are coming in to see us because I don’t have any influence over the insurance lobby one way or the other. Right. And there are workers comp insurances that will cover PRP. They don’t cover bone marrow concentrate. And I don’t know why they wouldn’t pay $7,000 for stem cell injection with PRP, instead of the $40,000 or $50,000 or more for a knee replacement. It just stands to reason that they should embrace orthobiologics, but for some reason they haven’t. •MJ

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hen the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, UCSB Arts & Lectures, like every establishment across the country, was forced to close and cancel all its programs. But the 62-year-old organization — still the largest and most influential arts and lectures presenter not only in the Santa Barbara region but in the several hundred- mile span between Los Angeles and San Francisco — also moved quickly to resume programming for the 2020-21 season, albeit virtually. The streaming events topped off with live Q&A sessions conducted by staff and Santa Barbara journalists and friends proved quite popular not only among locals who are long familiar with A&L’s quantity and quality, but also across the country and even around the world, a reach that can only pay further dividends down the road. Programs ranged from concerts to theatrical programs to talks, all produced exclusively for Arts & Lectures with the price of admission set at just $10 or less per event, the better to provide access to the wide community starving for connecting content. “We wanted to offer something to combat the epidemic of loneliness and depression that were coming out of COVID as well as the pandemic itself, and the Black Lives Matters protests after George Floyd’s murder,” explained Meghan Bush, UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Associate Director. “We were trying to throw a lifeline through providing digital entertainment, and we ended up getting really great engagement through the digital programming. It also allowed us a more global audience rather than only with our Santa Barbara-based footprint, reaching people across the world, with people in Bangladesh and China and Brazil tuning in for our programs.” But, of course, A&L’s priority is its home in Santa Barbara, with a community that begins on the UCSB campus and stretches throughout the South Coast community, where the organization not only presents critically acclaimed concerts and dazzling dance performances from touring artists and talks by groundbreaking authors and speakers, but also oversees an outreach program that brings most visiting artists and speakers into local classrooms and other venues for master classes, open rehearsals, discussions and more. So last winter, when it was time to start programming for the 2021-22 academic year just as the COVID vaccines became available providing light at the end of the lockdown tunnel, the folks at UCSB Arts & Lectures found some cause for optimism. “We were starting to see little sparks of hope everywhere,” Bush said. “The thought of emerging as ‘headlights, not taillights’ as the late U.S. Rep John Lewis used to say, began to take shape.” Thus was born “Creating Hope,” the theme for the season-long programming initiative that launched in May with an uplifting hour-long live virtual talk with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in conversation with Santa Barbara-based writer Pico Iyer. Now, more than a month after regular events have started once again to take place in person at UCSB’s Campbell Hall and venues downtown, hope has materialized in cultural events once again bringing the community together face-to-face.

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“Everything we’re presenting has been programmed because we think they bring some element of hope into the equation,” Bush said. “Everything that we’re curating, including the ‘Justice for All’ series that serves as a successor to last year’s ‘Race to Justice,’ is about evolving into a more positive place than we were during the worst of the pandemic.” The “Justice for All” serves as an illustration of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ commitment to serving as an inspiration in connecting all communities even beyond the trendy program organizations adopted in the wake of the Floyd murder and BLM movement in 2020. “We wanted to elevate Black voices and give them a platform to speak and be heard, but it wasn’t like everything was fixed after just one season of presenting those voices,” Bush explained. “Instead, we want to expand it and continue to bring speakers who confront the inequalities that shape our policies and our lives, from public figures to organizers to radical thinkers to a one-man performance such as John Leguizamo.” But A&L still recognizes the values of resuming bringing world-class artists

and entertainers to town, whether it be classical musicians like the duo of violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Yuja Wang; top-notch dance companies Alvin Ailey, The Joffrey Ballet, and Ballet Hispanico; jazz with longtime Arts & Lectures favorite Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Orchestra; American roots music with Punch Brothers, Jason Isbell, Shawn Colvin, and the star-studded My Bluegrass Heart; or world music with Yamato: The Drummers of Japan. “We’re just trying to illustrate the idea that it’s OK to come back and gather again in the theater and feel joy and be elevated together, whether it’s through feats of athleticism in music and movement in dance, which always leaves people feeling uplifted, or classical music or whatever else brings you joy,” Bush said. “Until I went back into the theater to see my first live event, I had forgotten the catharsis and high that you get from engaging in the arts, and how awesome it is to see a live performance or a really interesting speaker.” At the same time, Arts & Lectures didn’t want to abandon those who still don’t feel safe to sit together in a theater, so the organization is offering live streaming to almost 90% of the events on the season’s calendar. “This way when you buy a ticket, it’s up to you how you use it,” Bush said. “Your seat is going to be there regardless of whether you are sitting in it or watching at home on your couch. People feel comfortable having that flexibility.” However, the endeavor, usually entailing the use of multiple cameras, is quite expensive to produce, coming in at a cost of more than $100,000 over the span of the season, Bush said, noting that funding the streaming is a unique philanthropic opportunity that is more than welcome. But there are myriad other ways to support Arts & Lectures, from simply buying tickets to events — which only accounts for about 40% of the costs in a typical year, closer to 25% in the early post-pandemic times — to underwriting an entire program or series or serving as main sponsor of A&L’s ambitious commissioning program, which this year brings premieres from the Danish String Quartet and Jennifer Koh to town. All gifts are more than welcome, and perhaps more important than ever to ensure such important programming continues unabated for another six decades. Contact UCSB Arts & Lectures at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu, or call Development Director Stacy Cullison at (805) 893-3755. Bush can be reached at (805) 893-2098. •MJ

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It’s Going Swimmingly — More than 18 months since its special photography exhibit was set to open, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is finally ready to fulfill some folkloric fantasies as “Mermaids: Visualizing the Myths & Legends” is headed to the harbor. The exhibit, which opens today, features 16 images printed on canvas by Ralph Clevenger and students who were part of his underwater photography course at Brooks Institute. Captivated by the idea of capturing the aquatic creatures with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish that is part of the folklore of many cultures across the world, Clevenger, who taught at Brooks for 33 years, created an annual summer project for his class. Participants and professional mermaid models gathered on a dive boat off the Channel Islands for the budding photographers to create portraits, visual stories, and conceptual images for the students’ final class portfolios. As part of the grand opening, SBMM is hosting a mermaid sighting in which visitors can view the mythical creatures in their “natural habitat” and even pose for photos with them. WHEN: Exhibit today through April 30, 2022; mermaid sighting/photos 11:30 am & 1 pm on November 13 WHERE: 113 Harbor Way, Ste 190 COST: Exhibit free with admission; separate charge for photos INFO: (805) 962-8404 or www.sbmm.org

For the Hale of it — It’s been nearly two years since the last installment of Go To Hale: Quips & Clips, the evening of carefully curated film and concert excerpts created by Hale Milgrim, the former president and CEO of Capitol Records who has stayed very active in the music business from a much less commercialized point of view from his Santa Barbara perch. As befitting emerging from the pandemic, Milgrim and his cohort, Richard Salzberg, have put together a presentation entitled “Music That Connects Us” to illustrate how the universal language of music helps us to heal and stay connected even in uncertain times. The new show features rare musical film clips from the 1960s to the present, with most of the archival film footage largely drawn from the pair’s vast private library collections as put together as a passion project. As always, the clips are tied together by insider commentary from Milgrim making it, once again, a onenight-only experience that, once again, serves as a benefit for the Lobero. WHEN: 6:57 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $20 general INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Laud-able Singer-Songwriter in Santa Ynez — There’s no disputing that Jim

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Short Cuts — The collection of short plays by Christopher Durang that SBCC Theatre Arts Department is presenting as a student showcase aren’t nearly as brief as the two-minute-max pieces in Greg Allen’s 35-plays-in-70-minutes evening called Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind that UCSB Theatre wraps us this weekend. Which means there’s a whole lot more substance and structure on the SBCC campus, but not enough to lose interest for our driven-to-distraction times. It was just shy of a decade ago that an all-student cast last tackled an evening of works by Durang, a much-celebrated playwright known for authoring quirky plays that veer toward outrageous and absurd comedy. On the national scene since 1980, when Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You won the Obie Award, Durang has proved durable as Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike won the Tony Award in 2013. Among the five offerings at SBCC this time are Medea, a sketch co-authored with Wendy Wasserstein in which the title character and chorus discuss the appropriateness of killing your children to punish your husband. While For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls is a role-reversal parody of The Glass Menagerie. Matt Talbott directs. WHEN: Tonight through November 20 WHERE: SBCC’s Jurkowitz Theatre, 721 Cliff Drive COST: $18 general, $15 seniors, $10 students INFO: (805) 965-5935 or www.theatregroupsbcc.com

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Lions, Tigers, and (Panda) Bears – Susan Orlean, the journalist and 30-year staff writer at The New Yorker, has also written eight books over her career, but the second one, The Orchid Thief, put her squarely in the public eye, not in the least because the nonfiction work was used as the basis for the script by Charlie Kaufman for the wildly creative film, Adaptation. Meryl Streep won a Golden Globe for portraying a fictionalized version of Orlean in the film, which still blows my mind nearly 20 years later. Last month Orlean published On Animals, a collection of 15 essays about animals and how we live with them drawn from works first published in The New Yorker that cover animals we eat as well as pets and non-human movie stars and co-workers. She writes about donkeys, dogs, pigeons, whales, as well as lions, tigers, and panda bears in a voice NPR termed “elegant and conversational… like the smartest friend you know holding court at a party.” A New York Times critic also raved, calling the collection “immensely readable,” and praising “the coupling of a brilliant essayist’s friendly, funny voice with a committed generalist’s all-embracing curiosity.” Orlean is coming to Santa Barbara this evening, bringing her animal magnetism in person to Loreto Plaza as Chaucer’s emerges from virtual-only events to celebrate the bookstore’s 48th anniversary. WHEN: 5 pm WHERE: 3321 State St. COST: Free INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com Lauderdale has often been one of country music’s most sought-after songwriters, a go-to guy for many of country’s biggest stars in need of a good song to finish an album. He authored big hits for George Strait (“The King of Broken Hearts,” “Where The Sidewalk Ends,” and more than a dozen others), the Dixie Chicks (“Hole In My Head”), Patty Loveless (“Halfway Down”), and Gary Allan (“What’s On My Mind”) during the 1990s and 2000s, and counts Elvis Costello among his many fans. Yet he’s often struggled to gain much traction with his own releases although the tepid response from country radio never dissuaded Lauderdale, as he’s put out roughly an album a year over his 35-year recording career, the latest of which, Hope, finds the two-time Grammy winner emerging from lockdown isolation with a document of hardwon optimism that serves as a joyous musical tribute to the spirit of overcoming difficult times. There’s nothing like hearing the writer singing his own material and tonight the recipient of Americana Music Association’s Wagonmaster Award closes out the current season of Tales from the Tavern, the 20-year series that turns the Maverick Saloon into a listening room. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: The Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto Street, Santa Ynez

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COST: $36.16 INFO: (805) 688-0383 or www.talesfromthetavern.com THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Thorn-y Issues — Maybe it was predetermined that Paul Thorn was going to be a musician by dint of his being raised in Tupelo, Mississippi, the birthplace of Elvis Presley. Maybe he got his fighting spirit from his previous career as a professional boxer who sported a 14-4 record that culminated with a nationally televised bout with former world champion Roberto Durán. Whatever the reason, Thorn hasn’t taken too many prisoners as he forged his way into an innovative career boasting a muscular brand of roots music that encompasses Southern rock, country, Americana, blues, and even gospel. Thorn, who has played all over town, including several gigs at SOhO, brings a full band to the Lobero tonight, with local singer-songwriter Will Breman, himself no slough as evidenced by his appearing as a finalist on NBC’s The Voice, opening the show. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $46-$66 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com •MJ 11 – 18 November 2021

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A Very She & Him Christmas Party Thu, Dec 2 / 8 PM / Arlington Theatre Usher in the holiday season with the “old-school studiopop sensibility” (NPR) of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel as they celebrate the tenth anniversary of their album A Very She & Him Christmas.

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individual went to Zaninovich at more than $12,000, and by teams: the Alzheimer’s Women’s Initiative with 19 members at more than $30,000, the Cambridge Drivers Team with nine members at more than $19,000, and Team Carpinteria with 16 members at more than $15,000. The event sponsors included: BMW Santa Barbara, Cottage Health, The Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara, Union Bank, VNA Health, and Westmont Mariposa at Ellwood Shores; and Bronze Sponsors were Casa

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Birnam Wood Country Club was the gorgeous venue for Social on the Green, the annual gala — this year celebrating the merger of the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County and the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara. It took many years of negotiating, but at last the county is united. I loved the letter from CEO Michael Baker, and I quote that in part. “These past 18 months helping our kids through the trials of COVID-19 have been by far the most challenging time in my entire 34-year career with the Boys & Girls Clubs (UBGC). Those of you that know me know how fond I am of the word ‘nimble.’ When we were forced to shut down for several months in the beginning of the pandemic, we immediately turned our clubs into food distribution centers for those most in need. We did not wait to do a feasibility study or weigh the pros and cons. We knew feeding the community

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David Bolton, Laurie Leis, and Tony Vallejo at the Social on the Green soiree

Sal Rodriguez, Otto Schleich, and United Boys & Girls Club CEO Michael Baker at their celebratory dinner

was the right thing to do so we did it the NEXT DAY! When the schools could not have students on campus for in-person classes, we opened our clubs immediately for full-day service to assist with remote learning. We did that for the entire 2020-2021 school year. No feasibility study needed.” Baker goes on to say it was possible because of bold leadership from the board and staff and wonderful supporters. “Our doors will always remain open for those who need us the most.” For those of you who don’t know, Santa Barbara County has the highest poverty rate in the state. UBGC gives more than 5,000 youth members access to tutoring supports and mentoring throughout the year. For every child in California enrolled in an after-school program, there are three more waiting to get in.

The donors all gathered on the terrace for drinks and a humongous buffet with food from a variety of countries. We heard from guest speakers such as Baker, president of Friends of UBGC Jan Creery, UBGC board vice president David Bolton, UBGC board president Tony Vallejo, co-chair of Endowment campaign Paul Menzel, and EVP of Advancement Laurie Leis. Then it came to the auction and paddle raise. I’ve never seen a more generous group with bids from $100,000 down to $100. Then it was time for the Cocktail Lounge, dancing, and maybe a little ice cream. The UBGC mission statement says it all: “To enable all young people, especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. Great futures start here!” •MJ

2021 Puzzle 11: “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon,” Solution November’s MMMM, billed as the toughest of the year, challenged solvers to find a song from the ’70s. The puzzle title, “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon,” refers to a popular Paul Simon album from the ’70s. It turns out the meta answer is the most popular song on the record. Pretty sneaky! But how do you get there? Most solvers quickly found the first step. The grid has five entries that can precede the word “Simon”: SIMPLE, NEIL, CARLY, SAINT, and (can’t forget him) PAUL. In addition, each of these five words have easy-to-find rhymes in the grid: DIMPLE, SEAL, BARLEY, PAINT, and SAUL. Now what? I figured the next step would be really challenging, so I offered an optional hint, in exchange for getting fewer points and losing eligibility for the mug drawing. 126 people took me up on the offer. Here’s the hint: Start with Simon and end with rhymin’, putting together what you find inside. One more rhyme remains. The hint suggests the mechanism for the next step. Take each rhyming pair and find the unique word in the grid that starts with the first letter of the “Simon” and ends with the first letter of the rhyme. As shown in the graphic above, there’s SYD for SIMPLE/DIMPLE, NODS for NEIL/SEAL, CAROB for CARLY/BARLEY, SAP for SAINT/PAINT, and PMS for PAUL/SAUL. Next, take all the inside letters and concatenate them, giving Y-O-D-A-R-O-A-M, or YODA ROAM. What’s a YODA ROAM? An obscure reference to the Mandalorian? As the hint suggests, one rhyme remains, and it’s the song on “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon” that rhymes with YODA ROAM: Kodachrome, this month’s meta answer. Pete always does a cover version related to the meta answer (usually with his band, the Kindred Souls). You can watch the video and see this month’s full write-up here: https://pmxwords.com/nov2021solution

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Entertainment (Continued from page 16 16)) nine horns, nine trumpets and three

What about the rest of the program? Chien and I wanted to be eclectic to reflect all of our interests, so it spans a French art song [Debussy] and Wolf’s “Spanisches Liederbuch” which is totally textural change, a completely different harmonic language. The set of Korean songs by Wonjun Lee came from the piano fellow I competed with in 2019 who introduced me to her music. The rest of the pieces after Jennifer’s song cycle are cabaret songs, which are so fun to sing and fun for the audience.

More MAW

Operatic singing arrives back at Hahn Hall even before the Horne winners’ recital as the Music Academy resumes screening reruns of the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD programs on November 14 with Boris Godunov, Mussorgsky’s 1869 masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, followed on November 21 by a much more modern piece in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, an adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s memoir with libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, which premiered in 2019. Fittingly, Music Academy alumni Rod Gilfry, Isabel Leonard, Brenda Rae, and Nadine Sierra star in leading roles during the course of the Met’s 10-opera strong screening season. Info and tickets at www.musicacademy.org.

Going for Baroque: Symphony’s Musical Pyrotechnics Moving on with Music Academy connections, Baroque master Nic McGegan — who led chamber orchestra fellow concerts for MAW’s summer festival for several seasons dating back a few years — makes his debut as guest conductor of the Santa Barbara Symphony for its Royal Fireworks program November 13 and 14 at the Granada Theatre. The ebullient and effusive McGegan was as effervescent as ever as he talked about conducting the National Symphony and his accommodations at the famed Watergate Hotel in Washington last weekend, although the British native was more excited about being able to walk all around the nation’s capital than staying at the site of the famed break-in that derailed Nixon’s presidency. It’s both his conducting prowess and vast knowledge of Baroque music that sets McGegan apart from his peers, and he didn’t even need to be asked a question to rave on about the program’s anchor, Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks.” “Would you believe there were no string instruments at all, just winds and brass — 26 oboes, 12 bassoons,

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sets of drums — because they had to play over the sound of actual fireworks in the open air and the king had forbidden any strings anyway,” he said. “Of course, we’re indoors so we’ll have more of a regular orchestra with a full string section, which Handel later added.” McGegan’s suggested contribution to the program is the opening piece, Rameau’s “Dances” from the opera Naïs, which was anything but an arbitrary choice even beyond the fact that he’d conducted it in town before with the MAW fellows. “Just as Handel’s ‘Fireworks’ was written for the [British] king to celebrate a peace treaty between England and France in 1748, in France they had Rameau write an opera,” said McGegan, who will also lead a free masterclass at UCSB at 11 am on Friday, November 12. Both pieces are celebrating the same event on either side of the English Channel, written more or less at the same time. These bigger pieces that have a relationship between them really bookend the program.” Not that the stuff in the middle is any less meaty, as the orchestra will play Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major” to mark the masterwork suite’s 300th anniversary, plus Telemann’s “Viola Concerto in G major,” which the conductor called “a lovely little thing.” It features the symphony’s own principal violist Erik Rynearson as soloist. “The 300th anniversary was actually in March, but there weren’t nearly as many live concert opportunities then,” McGegan explained, once again charmingly evoking his encyclopedic knowledge that was refined over his 34-year tenure as Music Director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale that came to a close just last year. “The whole program is a nice way to bring back more normal music making and maybe play catch up a little bit by putting one of these anniversary pieces in.” For McGegan, Baroque is a beautiful way to bring back live music, as the concert represents the first music-only return to the Granada for the symphony. “The pieces aren’t very long and they’re very engaging and approachable with very good tunes and very good rhythm that you could tap your feet to. You can even sing along to it,” he added, the twinkle in his eye apparent even over the phone. “But please don’t.”

Classical Corner: Bach to Basics

The crowded calendar continues with violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Yuja Wang, both of whom have performed in recital previous-

ly at Hahn Hall for UCSB Arts & Lectures, teaming up for a program of two Bach sonatas and ones by Busoni and Shostakovich at Campbell Hall on Friday, November 12… Bach is also on the bill when the Santa Barbara Music Club presents its first program since February 2020 as organists Raymond Egan, Adán Fernández, and Thomas Joyce play works by the Baroque genius and pieces from Mendelssohn, Maurice Duruflé, Florence Price, and Egan’s own compositions at Trinity Episcopal Church on Saturday, November 13. Visit SBMusicClub.org.

Focus on Film: Marvel-ing at Movie Magic

Erik Rynearson

Over the past year, the world has heard a lot from Chloé Zhao as the writer-director’s timely film Nomadland won Oscars as both Best Picture and for Zhao as director, not to mention star Frances McDormand. What’s even more exciting for locals is that Zhao lives in Ojai, and it was in her driveway that McDormand first spent the night in an Econoline van to test out the eventual primary set for Nomadland. Zhao takes quite the left turn with her brand-new film, Eternals, the latest superhero film based on a Marvel Comics story, which opened last Friday to big box office success on par with its current Marvel-mate mega-hit Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The writer-director is making a special appearance for closing weekend of the 2021 Ojai Film Festival on Saturday, November 13, when she will be screening her 2017 film The Rider followed by a Q&A session that will likely touch on all three movies and her life in Ojai. Visit https://ojai filmfestival.com. Speaking of Ten Rings, the film that combines wuxia fantasy and martial arts choreography in Marvel Studios’ first movie with an Asian leading actor also has a local flavor this week as the next installment in UCSB CarseyWolf Center’s Script to Screen series. Director and co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton will join Pollock Theater director Matt Ryan for a virtual conversation on Thursday, November 18, and while there is no screening component to the free event, you can catch Ten Rings in the local cineplex, or streaming on Disney Plus starting November 12. Register at www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/ pollock.

Pop and Jazz Notes

Santa Barbara’s tireless classic rock band Doublewide Kings, fronted by Montecito’s philanthropic leader Palmer Jackson, Jr., return to the Lobero on Saturday, November 13, to revisit the Allman Brothers Band catalog. If their version of “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” as heard at Roar & Pour in front of the Granada (where

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Ghandi

Jackson is executive chairman) is any indication, the ABB will be well served, including, we’re told, some extended jams… The rootsy revival continues the next night at the Lobero when Andrew Duhon, a New Orleans-bred singer-songwriter whose songs in the three-minute novel variety have earned comparisons to John Prine and Jim Croce, shares the stage with back-inSanta Barbara band The Bryan Titus Trio…. Singer-songwriter Peter Harper, still emerging from being known as Ben Harper’s youngest brother, returns to showcase two sets of music at SOhO on Wednesday, November 17.

Festival Fever

Head up the San Marcos Pass over the next two weekends to experience festivals about as divergent as could be imagined. The 37th annual Vaquero Show, which celebrates Western lifestyle and horsemanship in the community, saddles up November 12-14 at The Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum. Events include a big fundraising gala; a twoday sale with craftspeople showing hand-tooled leather saddles, braided Vaquero-styled riatas, bridles, reins, and other Vaquero-inspired horse tack as well as quality Western artwork, apparel, jewelry and more; and a pig roast and barn dance — new for 2021 — at the Pork Palace, with live country-Western swing music from Monte Mills & the Lucky Horseshoe Band. Visit www.santaynezmuseum.org. The following weekend, Lucidity Festival — or at least the “Lucid Family” — gathers once again at Live Oak Campground for the first time in more than 30 months as the last two formal festivals fell victim to Covid concerns. “Medicine of the Moment” is a much smaller affair but no less immersive as the two-day campout set in “the hyper-now” features music, outdoor games, local organic food, and libations as well as that special, albeit COVID-protocol compliant, Lucidity vibe heading into the winter season. Visit www.facebook.com/ LucidityFestival for details. •MJ 11 – 18 November 2021

Editor’s Letter (Continued from page 5) humility, grace, generosity, goodness, loyalty, optimism? A man who left every room he entered better than he found it; who always did more than his share, in everything and with everyone. A man who showed up for any good cause, often lending the use of one of his theatres (the Arlington or a Metropolitan Theatre). Bruce loved supporting good causes and he did so early, often, and generously. He lent his time, his wisdom, and his resources at a moment’s notice for anyone he called a friend. Bruce had a lot of friends. And when he decided he believed in someone or something, he was all in.

Bruce was all about people. So, it was only fitting that he had a license plate that said, simply, “PEOPLE.” It was the first thing you saw when he drove up. And the last image he wanted you to have of him as he went on to the next place.

Bruce was born in Los Angeles in 1940. After graduating from L.A. High School where he served as student body president, Bruce attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut where he majored in political science, played squash, and continued to build his close network of friends that was still strong and growing after 81 years. Wesleyan University was one of those good causes Bruce supported tirelessly which included advocating for talented young people he hoped would be future Wesleyan students. Today, I’m told, there are flowers placed around the goal posts at Wesleyan’s Corwin Stadium. After graduating from Wesleyan, Bruce became the third generation to operate Metropolitan Theatres, a privately held company owned by the Corwin family since 1923. It is through his theatre business that Bruce became deeply entrenched in the Santa Barbara community, which he touched in both public and private ways. In fact, at UCSB there are Corwin Awards for screen writing, play writing, dance and music composition. On a personal note, I’ll never forget when I began to raise money to buy the Montecito Journal. Standing outside the Goat Tree Cafe at the 11 – 18 November 2021

Hotel Californian, my family’s home away from home during the weeks and months that followed our 2018 debris flow, Bruce was my first call. And my first yes. I paced back and forth on lower State Street in the rain, buoyed by Bruce’s enthusiasm. He believed in Montecito and Santa Barbara; he believed in community; he believed in this vision of where I wanted to take the Journal; and he believed in me. That alone gave me the courage to move forward. Bruce moved in the circles of Major League Baseball players. Movie stars. Presidents. And yet he made mere mortals like me feel special. He imbued us with a sense of possibility. Bruce was always a force for good and wrote a leadership playbook that put people first. I think his greatest joy was boosting leadership skills in others. He used that playbook to help his close friend Tom Bradley get elected, the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, building theatres in Watts after the riots, building the Discovery Cube Science Museum and the Martin Luther King Community Hospital in Los Angeles. Perhaps nowhere was Bruce’s playbook more evident than when he created Coro, a leadership training program that prepared hundreds of leaders, including Sen. Alex Padilla, for a life in public service. Bruce also took a leadership position to build The Los Angeles Children’s Museum, in his work to support the California Community Foundation, and when he led the fight to desegregate the Los Angeles Fire Department. I tell you all of this about Bruce because he would likely not have told you himself. To Bruce, credit was not something to be claimed. Bruce could talk with ease and fluency and passion about everything from politics to baseball to current events to movies. But nothing lit him up more than family. Bruce loved family. He loved his family. He loved my family. He loved the families of all his friends. I never met a person who didn’t like Bruce Corwin. He was too kind. But as Bruce would have told you himself, “never mistake kindness for weakness.” Bruce was all about people. So, it was only fitting that he had a license plate that said, simply, “PEOPLE.” It was the first thing you saw when he drove up. And the last image he wanted you to have of him as he went on to the next place. In lieu of flowers or food, please consider performing an extra act of human kindness in Bruce’s honor. If you want to send a tribute to Bruce Corwin, please do so at Tribute4Bruce@gmail.com. •MJ

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School Happenings by Kelly Mahan Herrick

Grand Opening of the Nature Lab

Parents and Montecito Union School Foundation volunteers Cathy Bunnin, Ana Rudnicki, and Tara Fergusson were vital in the funding and build out of the school’s Nature Lab

MUS superintendent Anthony Ranii cuts the ribbon on the school’s Nature Lab, a project that has been in the works for nearly 15 years

ast Wednesday evening, hundreds of Montecito Union School parents, kids, teachers, staff, and members of the Montecito community came out to celebrate the grand opening of its Nature Lab, a project which has been in the works for nearly 15 years. “I want to thank the Montecito Union School board members, past and present, for their vision, support, and approval of such a massive project,” said MUS superintendent Anthony Ranii, as the crowd gathered under a large solar structure on the property. The Nature Lab is located on a 2.3acre parcel of land adjacent to the main

campus; the property was acquired in 2006 as part of a land-swap deal with the Montecito YMCA. Since the acquisition, the School Board had toyed with many ideas on how best to utilize the space, which held a residential home that, for many years, was rented out in order to bring some additional income to the school. Back in 2014, plans for the property included building a five-classroom building on the site, as well as an expanded parking lot, as part of a larger development plan on the campus. That plan has since been scrapped as the Board continues to focus on updating its current classroom buildings to bring them up

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to safety and ADA codes. In 2019, with the financial commitment of the MUS Foundation, the focus shifted to an outdoor learning space to bolster an already robust STEAM program, with students, parents, and teachers all collaborating to re-envision the space and develop protypes that were then considered by the Board. The pandemic served to fast track the build out, offering an outdoor learning space in 2020 that helped get the kids back on campus and into the fresh air. “We wanted to involve students right from the very beginning, and some of the best parts of the Nature Lab were designed and partially built by our students with leadership and guidance from our teachers and staff members,” Ranii said. The 5th graders helped design the “Veg-ete” garden and turned dirt into soil; second graders helped plan and build the Butterfly Waystation around the Hyatt House; 3rd graders planned

out and then helped build the tortoise enclosure; and first graders created “chicken enrichment experiences” at “Cluckingham Palace.” Ranii said that costs were kept low by making full use of MUS Facilities Manager Jesse Landeros and his entire facilities team. The Nature Lab, which features various “stations” including a chicken coop, gardening and farming areas, several different ecosystems, composting space, gathering spaces, and more, is focused on three main themes: environment as an agent of challenge and wonder; building a nature-inspired making and arts collaboratory; and utilizing biodynamic/regenerative agriculture. The building of the project could not have been accomplished without board member Marilyn Bachman, previous presidents Kate Murphy and Gwyn Lurie, and current board members Chad Chase, Peter van Duinwyk, Jacqueline Duran, Jessica Smith, and current board president Susannah Osley. Other accolades go to Nature Lab, STEAM and Special Projects facilitator Sammy Simon, tech wizard Colin Valiante, Principal Nick Bruski, Assistant Principal Rusty Ito, CBO Virginia Alvarez, Executive Assistant Autumn Noe, MUSF president Tara Fergusson, MUSF Vice President Carolyn Fitzgerald, MUSF Nature Lab representative Ana Rudnicki, Mustang Fund chair Cathy Bunnin, the entire MUSF Board, and Architect Catherine Young, who is working with the school on the next phase of the Nature Lab, which will include bathrooms and an Outdoor Learning Pavilion. For more about the Nature Lab, visit www.montecitou.org. •MJ

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Village Beat (Continued from page 8) Former Montecito Association Board President Diane Pannkuk was on the short list of people Ryan contacted in the beginning of the quest to purchase the property. “It’s a real sense of community, which is what touched my heart and enticed me to get involved,” said Pannkuk. In less than two weeks’ time, 250 donors pulled together to raise the $2.25 million to buy the property. The largest portion of the money – $1.6 million – came from a grant from Nora and Michael Hurley’s Manitou Foundation.

“Basically, Summerland is a food desert. If the freeway is shut down, the only place for residents to buy food is from the liquor store or the gas station. Our only grocery store, Cantwell’s, closed four years ago, so we don’t have access to quality food in an emergency.” — Leslie Person Ryan

“They saved us, along with the countless other individuals and businesses who came together to raise the money,” Ryan said. With escrow now closed, the foundation intends on utilizing the farm not just to feed Summerland residents through the farm carts, but Ryan is well-connected to various nonprofits who will benefit from the abundance of fresh produce, which includes all organic melons, corn, wheat, oats, broccoli, herbs, tomatoes, lettuce, and much more. This week, food will be donated from the farm to help feed 600 veterans in Santa Barbara County; the first of three meals in the next two months sponsored by the Veterans Foundation. The farm will also include an educational component, offering schools in the area a place for students to learn about agriculture, farming, compost, pollinators, and more. The foundation also hopes to expand the farm to include a community donor garden, warka towers (devices designed to harvest water from the atmosphere), a greenhouse area, a fire break, compost, bicycle trails, and areas for chickens and goats to roam. “The potential is here to feed a lot of people. If there is no farm, there is no food, and we are grateful we were able to make this happen,” Ryan said. For more information, and to donate, visit www.sbafefoundation.com.

Montecito Association Meets

At this month’s Montecito Association Board of Directors meeting, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi reported that Pierre Lafond Market in the Upper Village was broken into earlier this week, in a similar fashion as a burglary that occurred in July. Both glass doors were broken, and suspects removed cash registers and quickly fled the scene. Deputies were on scene within three minutes of the security company’s call, but the suspects were gone. “It just shows you how quickly these people can get in and out,” Lieutenant Arnoldi said. Arnoldi also reported multiple DUIs in Montecito, a burglary at the Rosewood Miramar, residential burglary on Edgecliff Lane, and a situation at Ty Warner’s property on Channel Drive in which a mentally ill individual who had committed several crimes in Santa Barbara crashed a stolen car into the gates of the estate and fled on foot. There have also been a handful of DUI arrests in Montecito in the last month. During Community Reports, Montecito Water District GM Nick Turner reported that community-wide conservation is improving. He also reported that the District’s Smart Meter program is in full swing, and that all customer water meters have been replaced, which is a great advancement for the District in providing accurate usage data. Turner also noted that November marks the District’s 100th anniversary. Montecito Sanitary District GM Brad Rahrer reported that the MSD Board voted to phase out the District’s sewer lateral rebate program at the end of the year. Residents who are seeking to have a portion of their sewer lateral repairs reimbursed should contact the District as soon as possible to be able to be included in the program. MUS superintendent Anthony Ranii and CSS superintendent Dr. Amy Alzina reported that they are working with Vons in Montecito to host on-campus vaccine clinics in the coming weeks to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to students aged 5-11 and to parents who wish to be vaccinated. 11 – 18 November 2021

Just days after an all-hands-on-deck Beautification Day, the Montecito Association got back to business with a number of updates.

The Association hosted HomeServices Insurance broker Teresa Leung, who explained why many residents in Montecito are not able to get their homeowners’ insurance renewed by their insurance companies. With insurance companies trying to reduce their risk throughout California, many homeowners are finding themselves back in the market for insurance, and are faced with high premiums and less coverage. Insurance companies are not able to raise rates more than 9% per year, so their answer oftentimes is to not renew existing policies. Leung reported that $20 billion has been paid by insurance companies in the last three years in California for fire claims. “Insurance is a business, and they are not in the business to write checks to their customers,” she said. Companies including Chub, AIG, and Nationwide, among others, are no longer writing policies in our area, and some are not writing throughout the West Coast. “They’ve decided California is not a good fit for them, with the brush hazards. Insurance companies don’t like the lush landscaping and all the trees that make Montecito beautiful,” she said. Most companies have created their own software to determine the risk of a property. Part of the calculation is past insurance claims on behalf of both the buyer as well as the property in the last five years. Smaller homes are easier to insure, and current rates that are used to calculate rebuild cost is $800 per square foot. The software also calculates distance to the nearest fire station.

“It’s not always doom and gloom when it comes to insurance, because there is money to be made and someone else will come in and serve the community.” — Teresa Leung Many homeowners are finding success with the California FAIR Plan, which is a Los Angeles-based association comprised of all insurers authorized to transact basic property insurance in California. Coverage is available to all California property owners, as long as required guidelines are met (there are limits on vacant homes and homes with existing damage). Because FAIR coverage is capped at $3 million, voluntary insurance companies are offering special subsidy programs that will provide for excess coverage. “It’s not always doom and gloom when it comes to insurance, because there is money to be made and someone else will come in and serve the community,” Leung said. The Montecito Association sent out an insurance survey earlier this week to glean info on residents’ experience with homeowners’ insurance. The data will be used for future discussions on insurance woes. The next Board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, December 14. To learn more, visit www.montecitoassociation.org. •MJ

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Rails to Trails (Continued from page 14)

Verdant reflections

The light at the end of the tunnel

of 47 degrees. And it’s dark. Very dark. And damp. A constant echoing drip of water accompanies the riders through the abyss. The headlamps only illuminate a few feet ahead and there’s no point of light to steer toward for the longest time. It’s very spooky, and very fun. Railway grades being what they are (1 to 2.2%), the dirt trail runs steadily and gently downhill through a beautiful 111-year-old forest, through nine more tunnels and over seven sky-high iron trestles. Along the way the tales of the railroad and the fire are told through fascinating interpretive signboards. Fifteen miles later the route ends, and some riders return the way they came. Most, however, like we, have paid for the shuttle bus, which brings bikes and riders back to the top via a separate road.

The Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes

The next day, the crunch of autumn leaves and the snap of pine needles accompanied the gentle rush of the river as we rode the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes, the route of the

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Wallace Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad. Yellow warblers and song sparrows added their voices to the concert while baby osprey contributed a piercing counterpoint. Moose grazed in the shallows of the river, and islands of beaver dams rose from the water lilies of the ponds. Inducted into the Rail Trail Hall of Fame in 2010, the 73.2 miles long trail wends its way along the shores of the river and its many lakes, often straddling both, as well as several mining towns. Starting out in Plummer, Idaho, it terminates near Mullin near Lookout Pass on Highway 90 near the border of Montana. Back in the day, more than 100 years of mining enterprises had dumped 72 miles of waste into the Coeur d’Alene watershed. In 1991, the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Council led a lawsuit to force the restoration of this watershed, and by 1993, the Union Pacific had abandoned its floundering Wallace Branch. The fill for the rail consisted of mine tailings rife with hazardous chemicals used in processing silver, lead, and zinc. About that time, the newly formed Rails-to-Trails organization began working with trail advocates and various governmental agencies to rehabilitate the old railway for a bicy-

cle and hiking trail. That they chose to cap the polluted rail bed with asphalt was a true boon to cyclists. The Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes officially opened in 2004 and has provided a beautiful transportation and recreational corridor for millions of people in the intervening years. Like rail trails elsewhere, it has supported a new and vibrant economic base for the Silver Valley. The eastern portion of the trail traverses the Silver Valley with its old mining towns. One of the largest and most intact of these towns is Wallace, which was founded in 1884 and became the regional center for silver mining in the area. Today, Wallace is on the National Register of Historic Places. Its well-preserved Victorian-era brick buildings mainly house an interesting assortment of eating and drinking establishments, but Wallace also has a sense of humor and around each corner lie eclectic surprises. The trail, which is completely off the road and meanders over trestles and through woods and along farmland, passes through many of these old mining towns including Silverton, Osburn, Kellogg

(which has become a ski resort), Smelterville, Enaville, and Cataldo. From Cataldo, a detour of three miles on a quiet auto road leads to the Cataldo Mission. It was founded in the early 1850s by Jesuit missionaries and constructed by the Coeur d’Alene peoples. They called themselves the Schitsu’umsh, meaning “discovered people” or “those who were found here.” French fur traders, however, referred to the tribe as the Coeur d’Alene for their exceptional trading skills, which were sharp as the heart of an awl. West of Kellogg, the landscape widens and the trail meanders through pine forest and along the river until it crosses under Highway 90 to straddle the waterlands and the river. In July, mile after mile of pink water lilies cover the ponds in impressionist splendor, Monet’s Giverny Idaho-style. Bald eagles nest in the tall pines, verdant mountains reflect in the quiet waters, and wildflowers line the trail. In early fall, verdancy hangs on tenaciously in the willows, cottonwoods, and aspen, but golden tones begin to highlight the countryside. The trail passes through the his-

Moose in the shallows of the river along the trail

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Trailheads are provided with bathrooms, parking, and trail maps

Trailside benches and picnic areas as well as interesting interpretive signs made for a leisurely ride

toric town of Harrison, at the mouth of the Coeur d’Alene River. Over the years the town experienced a gold rush and a timber boom eventually becoming a landing for steamboats and a stop for the railroad. Today it is the sole town on this section of the trail and offers food and drink to both trail riders and boaters, who explore the many lakes attached to the river upstream. Farther along, the trail crosses the Chatcolet swing

bridge whose central portion has been raised to allow for boat travel and affords wonderful views.

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy

We spent four days riding the rails and added 100 miles to our odometers. Not much, really, when you consider how easy the riding is. In fact, some people would do that mileage in a day. But there’s so much The Chatcolet Bridge affords wonderful views

to see and appreciate, such great little picnic areas along the way, so many photos to take, such interesting interpretive signs, such lovely little towns and museums to explore — so why would we?

With 20 developed trailheads along the way, great maps, and excellent instructions, it was easy to choose an up-and-back route for each day. And all of this is thanks to the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and Idaho State Parks and Recreation. With 20 developed trailheads along the way, great maps, and excellent instructions, it was easy to choose an

up-and-back route for each day. And all of this is thanks to the Rails-toTrails Conservancy and Idaho State Parks and Recreation. When the conservancy first formed in 1986, there were 250 miles of rail trail in the United States. In 2021, there are more than 24,000 miles of trail. (Locally, the Ventura and Ojai bicycle trails — which connect to each another — are rail trails.) Working with local, state, and national groups and authorities, the Conservancy hopes to help develop additional mileage, and is especially working to create the Great American Rail-Trail, which will seamlessly link the nation from east to west. Enough words. The photos tell it all! (Sources: https://familyrvingmag. com/2012/10/01/ride-the-route-of-the-hi awatha/ Ride the Route of the Hiawatha, by Denise Seith, October 2012; www.ride thehiawatha.com/history; Rails-to-Trails Conservancy website; Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes website; Cataldo Mission information boards and docents.) •MJ

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Miscellany (Continued from page 18) Caroline Powers, Analise Maggio, Belle Hahn, and Carolyn Fitzgerald (Photo by Isaac Hernandez)

(Sitting) Bill Erins, Eileen McDargh, John and Hazel Blankenship, Teresa McWilliams; (standing) Robert Kimnach, Rachael Kimnach, Bill Brown, Donna Brown, and guest speaker Francis Gary Powers, Jr. (Photo by Priscilla)

Petlow, Rick Carter, Don Seth, Victoria Hines, Brenda Blalock, Bob Burtness, John De Loretto, and Charlotte Dupont.

Another One Bites the Dust

Gary Francis Powers, Jr., founder and chairman emeritus of the Cold War Museum (Photo by Priscilla)

down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 controversy, was the guest speaker. He is the founder of the Cold War Museum in Vint Hill, Virginia, and wrote Spy Pilot in 2019. Among a deluge of defense denizens were Sheriff Bill Brown, Hillary Hauser, Teresa McWilliams, Dana and Andrea Newquist, Stephanie

Billionaire Peter Sperling, whose father founded the University of Phoenix, has sold his Montecito estate for $19.1 million, making it the third of his properties to sell in the past few years. The first of Sperling’s homes to find a new owner was his Bay Area property, a 1900-built 8,850-squarefoot mansion in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood, which sold for $13.8 million in the summer of 2019. At the same time, he put his estate in Los Angeles’ Holmby Hills up for grabs for $21 million, ultimately selling it a year later for $16.5 million. The latest property dates back to 1999 in Riven Rock, just a tiara’s toss from the estate of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The 5.56-acre estate is a seven-bedroom Englishstyle villa. Amenities include a detached gym and two guest cottages bringing the property’s total square footage to

16,668 square feet. Sperling’s net worth is $1.6 billion, according to Forbes.

CALM Before the Fundraising Storm

Santa Barbara nonprofit CALM, which is celebrating its half-century, hosted its 10th Annual Calm at Heart Lunch Transforming Communities at Los Suenos, the Montecito estate of corporate attorney Robert Lieff and his wife, Susan, which raised around $300,000 from 260 guests. Fortunately, the sea mist cleared for blue skies and sunshine for the boffo bash, co-chaired by Belle Hahn, Carolyn Fitzgerald, Analise Maggio, and Caroline Powers, and designed by uber event planner Merryl Brown. The ubiquitous Geoff Green, CEO of the Santa Barbara City College Foundation, emceed the fete and auctioned off stays at the Rosewood Miramar, which went for $4,000, a New Year vacation to Mammoth Mountain for $12,000, and a fourday stay at one of four destinations around the world, including Grand Cayman, Los Cabos, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Lake Tahoe, which was snapped up for $9,500. “After nearly two years of uncertainty and unfamiliarity we are reinventing the way we help the most vulnerable,” said Alana Walczak, president and CEO. “Our work is far from over. We have to be ready.”

Among the guests, noshing on the Seasons Catering fare and quaffing the Lieff 2018 Syrah-Grenache, were Lois Capps, Joanne Rapp, Carrie Towbes, Steve and Amber Ortiz, George Leis, Teresa McWilliams, Patti Herman, Dinah Calderon, Christine Emmons, Greg Gorga, Deb Richards, Joanne Rapp, and Marcia Wolfe.

A Take on the Big Apple

To the Lobero Theatre for 11-yearold Santa Barbara-based Nebula Dance Lab’s take on Manhattan, my home for nearly 25 years. The work, “Humanity,” choreographed by Texan Chloe Roberts, a teacher at Santa Barbara Dance Arts, is a nine-part tale loosely based on Charles Dickens’ “The Child’s Story,” with the main character dancing a metaphorical journey through the pulsating locales of New York City, including Greenwich Village, Little Italy, Broadway, Central Park, the West Village, and Grand Central Station, illustrated with multimedia projections, music, and movement. The entertaining 50-minute piece was accompanied by the premiere of “Quantum,” choreographed by Meredith Cabaniss, exploring the minutiae of energy and labor through expanding ideas of temporality and scale inspired by the work of Nobel theoretical physicist Max Planck and set to music by Liszt and Chopin. A delightful evening...

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This One Hurts . . .

Prince Harry, 37, will not be allowed to wear military uniform when he hands out awards to war heroes at the Salute to Freedom gala on a former aircraft carrier in New York this week. The Duke of Sussex, scheduled to present five medals, served two tours in Afghanistan with the British army, but will dress in black tie at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum as he was stripped of his honorary titles by his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth. Particularly painful for him, I’m reliably informed, was losing his rank as Captain-General of the Royal Marines, a position held by his grandfather,

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, for around 60 years, as part of a deal for him and Meghan Markle to step back as frontline royals. Harry had hoped to keep the titles, but such a plan was vetoed. He spent 10 years in the army with the Household Cavalry — the Blues and Royals — and later in the Army Air Corps, where he rose to the rank of captain. However, he will be allowed to wear his four medals on his tux.

Happy Birthday, Ray

Scientist, inventor, and real estate investor Ray Winn celebrated the 37th anniversary of his half-century with a cocktail bash at the opulent Birnam Wood home he shares

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with his longtime companion Peter Kavoian, who marked his 65th birthday last month. The tony twosome, who have developed and operate more than 1 million square feet of commercial real estate in Texas, split their time between their Montecito home and their Las Vegas aerie. Ray, who has myriad patents with medical equipment, imaging, and radar navigation systems, quaffed a rather splendid vintage cabernet with guests, including winemaker Sally Jordan, and Bill and Sandi Nicholson. Afterwards the celebration moved to the Stonehouse at the San Ysidro Ranch.

offerings, contains myriad low-cost items, with Oprah, 67, including nearly 40 items costing under $50. In total the list features 111 gift ideas, which range from $2,295 for an at-home workout machine, to a $12 eye shadow palette. “After this past year, I think we all deserve some surprises and delights for the holiday season,” says Oprah. “You’re bound to find something for everyone on your list. Just don’t forget to treat yourself.” Other more budget-minded gifts include reading glasses, a $30 hat with a built-in light, and a Philips rechargeable toothbrush by Sonicare for only $24.

Favorite Things — On a Budget

Singer Katy Perry dressed as a syringe and fiancé actor Orlando Bloom as a surgeon at the Ghost Village Road parade... Actress Gwyneth Paltrow at Gucci’s Love Parade in Hollywood... Philanthropist Sara Miller McCune noshing at Mollie’s. Pip! Pip! Be safe, wear a mask when needed, and get vaccinated. •MJ

Former TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey has launched the festive season with a budget-friendly bang, unveiling a decidedly thrifty version of her annual Favorite Things list. This year’s gift guide, which typically includes an array of lavish

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The Stonehouse Restaurant’s executive chef, Matt Johnson, is going gourmet for Thanksgiving with a seasonally-driven menu speckled with herbs and produce grown right onsite. The four-course experience includes a honey-brined organic Mary’s Turkey with traditional trimmings; roasted chestnut and porcini mushroom soup with Pink Lady apples, chestnuts, brioche and

Bellwether Farms crème fraiche; and pan-seared Maine diver scallops with celery root, pancetta, peewee potatoes, pea shoots, and Manila clam chowder. Dessert highlights include the Traditional Pumpkin Pie with brown sugar Chantilly and orange rum raisins. Bookings are available Thanksgiving Day from 11 am to 7 pm and are priced at $185 per person, or $295 with wine pairings throughout. Among the wines that the Ranch’s sommelier, Tristan Pitre, is selecting for Thanksgiving at the Stonehouse: a Pinot Gris by Domaine Mann from Alsace – it “boasts a wonderful orchard fruit-driven palate that complements many of the hard herbs used in Thanksgiving dishes,” says Pitre – and a Sonoma Coast pinot noir made by Santa Barbara resident Catherine Blagden, with “lots of dark cherry, tea, and spice-driven flavors, and a richer texture, so it can move from turkey to red meat.”

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I asked Pitre for tips to help navigate choosing the right wine for our own Thanksgiving table. “As a general rule, lighter and lower-alcohol wines like Beaujolais go well with a traditional Thanksgiving feast,” he told me, “but if you prefer heavier wines, don’t feel the need to force it.” When I pushed for a specific local recommendation, he pointed to the Radian Vineyard Pinot Noir from The Hilt. “The Radian Vineyard is one of the most unique sites to grow pinot noir on the far western edge of the Sta. Rita Hills,” he said. “The vines are planted in powdery white soils comprised of hydrophobic diatomaceous earth and contain a strong minerality, bright acidity, and a tension unlike any other pinot noir from the area.” sanysidroranch.com, 805-565-1720.

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A pair of Thanksgiving Day options at this luxe oceanfront resort. The Brunch Buffet inside the Chandelier Ballroom will host two seatings — at 1 pm and 4:30 pm — and feature an impressive array of options, including a Farm to Table Market & Lettuce Wall and a sushi station; the Morro and Humboldt Bay Raw Bar will feature oysters, lobster tails, and urchins on the shell; the Carving Station will dole out turkey, ham, and prime rib; and the Chef’s Table will have the fixings, like roasted Brussels sprouts with pancetta vinaigrette and Yukon Gold whipped potatoes. Pricing is $145 for adults and $65 for kids. Executive Chef Massimo Falsini is offering a prix-fixe four-course feast at Caruso’s – traditional Thanksgiving fare with an Italian spin. The main course features options like a slow-roasted Heritage turkey with chestnut stuffing; a Zuppe di Pesce with octopus, mussels, clams, swordfish, and Dungeness crab; and a Devil’s Gulch chicken with a black truffle stuffing and parsnips. Priced at $175 for adults and $75 for kids (young ones under age four eat free), seating is available from 3pm to 9pm. 11 – 18 November 2021

The resort’s Director of Wine, Daniel Fish, selected “some very special wines” for the Caruso’s experience, “which highlight the surrounding region [of Santa Barbara] and international wines from France and Italy,” he says. “Many of these selections have been chosen specifically for this menu and will be poured from the Coravin.” The upgrade to wine pairings for each course is $155 per person. Fish’s personal wine pick for the Thanksgiving table? The 2018 Au Bon Climat ‘Isabel’ Pinot Noir. “Losing the legendary winemaker Jim Clendenen earlier this year was a tragic loss to the local and global wine community,” he says. “It will be a nice way to remember this icon, enjoying his wines around the dinner table this holiday season. His pinots also happen to be a beautiful pairing for a Thanksgiving feast.” rosewoodmiramar.com, 805-303-6167.

Pecan pies are priced between $34 and $40. All orders must be placed by 3 pm on Sunday, November 21. helenaavenuebakery.com, 805-880-3383. Next door, the Santa Barbara Wine Collective is offering complimentary holiday gift packaging for every two-bottle purchase throughout the season. Acme’s Operations Manager Kacey House offers a great Thanksgiving wine buying tip. “Don’t be afraid to spend less,” she says. “An expensive price tag doesn’t necessarily mean a better product. Most of the time, that extra cost is because of heavier packaging and a fancier label, or even more additives — yuck!” When I asked for a specific bottle for the holiday table, she picked a Wine Collective bestseller. The ‘La Cuadrilla’ by Stolpman is a field blend of various Ballard Canyon red grapes. “This red blend is versatile enough to pair well with almost any holiday dish,” says House, “and is budget friendly enough to cook with, too!” santabarbarawinecollective.com, 805456-2700.

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The team at Acme Hospitality is all over Thanksgiving. At The Lark in Santa Barbara, chef de cuisine Logan Jones is featuring a dinein pre-Thanksgiving dinner on Wednesday, November 24, starring his signature date-braised lamb shank; reservations required. And at La Paloma Café, executive chef Jeremy Tummel’s pre-Thanksgiving offering is for takeaway only and includes a whole roasted rotisserie chicken topped with peppercorn apple sauce, rotisserie potatoes, roasted cauliflower, and Caesar salad; perfect for two to four and priced at $85. Helena Avenue Bakery has Thanksgiving Day covered with everything… but the turkey. The line-up of trimmings includes their turkey brine kit; a sourdough bread stuffing kit; a Navel orange and cranberry compote; take-&-bake brioche rolls; and porcini mushroom and black pepper gravy. All dishes are under $30 and come packaged for four to six guests with instructions. And for dessert, don’t forget the pie! The house-made Apple Cranberry, Sweet Potato, and Smoked

“Even their entry level pinot, from Santa Maria, is exceptional, really nicely balanced,” he says. “And then you start moving onto their John Sebastiano, Bien Nacido Block 43, Julia’s,” he continues, referring to the label’s vineyard-specific pinots, “and they just get better and better.” Dolan also points to the wonderful mix of Italian bottles on Toma’s wine list, many of them super special artisanal selections that he’s uncovered while on his yearly walking treks across regions like Tuscany and Piedmont. Think brunellos, nebbiolos, and Chianti classicos. They tend to be lower in alcohol, “which can be a perfect choice for Thanksgiving.” Dolan and his team at Toma are taking Thanksgiving off. Instead, he’s offering up his restaurant — one of the best places to eat in all of Santa Barbara — as a break from the barrage of traditional Thanksgiving foods, either before or after Thursday. “When the family has done what they need to do, many people are just going to need a break,” he says. And that’s when some of Toma’s signature offerings — the seared scallops with pea and scallion risotto, grilled asparagus and pork belly lardons, or the braised beef short ribs with whipped potato and red onion confit — will taste extra delicious. tomarestaurant.com, 805-962-0777. •MJ

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