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Over and Dundee: Paul Hogan finalizes divorce with Linda Kozlowski thanks to crocodilesized settlement, p. 6

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 11 • MOVIE GUIDE, P. 21 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

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Water Pressure

Bob Hazard’s declaration of water independence for Montecito dips into desalination and future solutions, p. 5

Fiesta Family

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Silent Screen

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 On The Water Front

26 Trail Talk

6 Montecito Miscellany

28 On Estate Planning

Bob Hazard declares water independence for Montecito by delving into desalination, the wave of the future, and lists possible remedies Paul Hogan divorce; Adam Bianchi in school’s Sports Hall of Fame; Laurel Braitman’s new book; Marilyn Horne becomes Honorary La Diva; Arthritis Foundation and Taste of the Town; Conde Nast Traveler praises Santa Barbara; Union Bank celebration; MAW Summer Festival hits its stride; SB to King Harbor race; Lotusland annual gala; Polish TV crew at SB Polo Club

8 Letters to the Editor

Ken Donnell and Indian Valley; Des O’Neill and Ernie Salomon sound off on SBCC bonds; good, bad, and ugly depending on one’s lifestyle; Linda Stewart-Oaten back for more about CO2 and global warming; Larry Bond and nothing but trouble

11 This Week

Summerland Book Club; Walk With A Doc; French conversation; Centering Prayer retreat; Tea Dance; MA Land Use Committee; Sadako Peace Day; MAW Summer Concert Series; Poetry Club; fiction master class; SBMM lecture; live music at Café Luna; art classes; Adventuresome Aging; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; Story Time; Italian conversation; farmers and artisans markets; Car Day; Boy Scouts meeting

Tide Guide

Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

12 Village Beat

Update on Miramar Beach Resort & Bungalows; Montecito Fire Protection District survey; planning commission and Crown Castle’s plan; pedestrian pathway at Butterfly Beach and a children’s museum

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner catches up with Kardboard Kayak races; keeps track of the 2014 Polo Classic; and discovers what the “Ruckus” is about at Arts Fund Santa Barbara

21 Movie Showtimes 23 Your Westmont

Dan Aldrich and Nathan Sigler join the Foundation Board, and heptathlete Becky Collier shatters more records

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For Old Spanish Days, Lynn Kirst takes a historic ride down memory lane and follows the path of El Presidente Dennis Rickard’s family tree David Jones knows there are three certainties: death, taxes, and life insurance – so he scrutinizes an array of policies and coverage

32 The Way it Was

Hattie Beresford reflects on additional artists of the Meridian Studios, namely Joseph Franklin De Yong and Gordon Kenneth Grant

35 Ernie’s World

Ernie Witham continues his whirlwind expedition of Washington, D.C., with a Capitol tour and tales from the crypt

37 Seniority

Patti Teel is moving to Arizona, home of the Sedona Mago Retreat Center, where she will take the reins of marketing

38 Music Academy of the West

Steve Libowitz takes a closer look at NY Philharmonic’s Alan Gilbert and the “Carmen Celebration”, chats up Marilyn Horne and Briana Elyse Hunter, then takes a long look at MAW’s calendar

40 Legal Advertisements 42 Calendar of Events

What’s on the musical, theatrical, and cinematic horizon around the coast in one comprehensive package

45 On Entertainment

Steve Libowitz maps out the Ventura County Fair; the play Ghetto at UCSB; and Arts & Lectures single events

93108 Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising

Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales

47 Local Business Directory

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31 July – 7 August 2014

ON THE WATER FRONT

by Bob Hazard

Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

Roadmap to a Sustainable Water Future

wo weeks ago, Dudley Morris, in Letters to the Editor, asked, “With no local government authority in Montecito, how can this community gain water independence?” What a great question. Who will step up to craft a strategic solution for Montecito to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in its water future?

Desalination... The Wave of the Future

Ninety-seven percent of all the water on earth lies in our salty oceans; two percent is frozen in glaciers and ice caps; less than 1 percent of the rest is potable drinking water found in streams, lakes and reservoirs. The largest body of water in the world – the Pacific Ocean, 63.8 million square miles of surface water, larger than all the world’s land masses combined – sits on our front doorstep as an inexhaustible, drought-proof reservoir, containing some 578 billion acre-feet (AF) of water. Only God can make it rain, but man can harvest drought-proof drinking water from the ocean. “If we could ever competitively – at a cheap price – get fresh water from salt water, that would be in the long-range interest of humanity, and would really dwarf any other scientific accomplishment.” – John F. Kennedy, April 12, 1961

California Desalination

There are 17 desalination plants in operation or under consideration along the coast of California, including the about-to-become largest desalination plant in the western hemisphere, 35 miles north of San Diego in Carlsbad. Built by Poseidon Resources, in partnership with Israel’s IDE Technologies, the plant will produce and sell 50 million gallons per day of drinking water at a fixed price to 15 water agencies when it opens in 2016. Carlsbad will use technology that has reduced desalination costs by 50 percent over the last decade.

Worldwide Desalination

There are currently more than 16,000 desalination plants in the world, supplying 66.5 million cubic meters per day, enough water for 300 million people. Desalinated water production is expected to reach 120 million cubic meters by 2020. Israel uses the largest percentage of desalinated water of any country in the world with 50 percent of its domestic water supply coming from desalination, compared to California, which harvests less than 1 percent of its water from desal. Israel has transformed itself from a parched desert into a land of water surplus. Water-scarce regions in Australia, the Middle East, the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, and Algeria have led the way in building desalination plants, many using private investment and contractual agreements rather than public money. Today’s desalination plants are more efficient, recovery rates are higher, and reduced energy consumption results in lower operating costs.

“Terri Green wearing Joseph Ribkoff”

J. Roger Morrison, retired director of McKinsey & Company, who lives six months a year in Montecito and six months a year in London, suggested I investigate a desalination plant on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas, 300 miles east of Nassau, as a potential model for Montecito. Eleuthera, like Montecito, is surrounded by seawater, but freshwater supplies are scarce and uncertain. Opened in 2011, the Tarpum Bay and Rock Sound desalination plant is owned by General Electric’s GE Water & Process Technologies. A water consortium on Eleuthera guarantees the purchase of 150,000 Imperial gallons of freshwater output per day for 15 years. The desal plant was built off-site at a GE plant in Ontario, Canada, loaded onto a standard cargo shipping container and shipped to the Bahamas for on-site installation, all in a time period of six months. The factory-built plant, with a capacity of 200,000 Imperial gallons per day, includes all the equipment necessary, such as piping, instruments, controls, electrical components and connections, and is operated by four technicians, all GE employees. A separate wind farm provides reliable power at a fixed cost for 20 years. In Eleuthera, seawater is drawn from a deep ocean well and pumped

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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Indian Valley Plea

pen Letter to the citizens and public officials of the Montecito Water District: I am a resident of Greenville, California, and have publicly spoken in favor of our local Indian Valley Community Services District (IVCSD) selling and transferring 1,000 acrefeet (AF) of water from our local reservoir to your Montecito Water District. There are many Indian Valley residents who are very concerned about this sale and water transfer, and especially the local ranchers and farmers. Some adamantly oppose any transfer of any local water resources out of this region. I am writing this letter to better explain our situation in the Indian Valley, and to ask that you help me to address the fears and concerns of my neighbors, and thus help me to help you receive this water transfer. I believed it is our moral obligation to not hoard our precious water resources in times of need, and to reasonably share these resources

with other California citizens who are in desperate need of water. It is also my hope that the citizens of the Montecito Water District might respond by helping residents of the Indian Valley improve the quality of our lives in this very impoverished region. It is nice that the IVCSD will receive a substantial sum if this water sale and transfer goes through, but this money will be spent in a heartbeat to pay for immediate needs of the district. In the long run, our lives will not be significantly improved by this onetime water transfer. The residents of Indian Valley truly live in God’s country. The air and water are clean, the pace of life is slow, and we know our neighbors. But the price we pay for this natural beauty is to live in a wrecked economy with a scarcity of fundamental public and private services. We are barely able to keep our local schools going, our public infrastructures are aging, and good job opportunities

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for our children are almost non-existent. We desperately need help to keep our local economy afloat as much as you need our water to keep your lives afloat. It is likely that a majority of Indian Valley residents favor the water transfer to the Montecito Water District, but this does not guarantee the deal will go through. People around here are not likely to “run roughshod” over their neighbors simply to raise a bit of cash for the IVCSD. This affair needs to be thoroughly discussed, debated, investigated, and ultimately framed in a win-win-win scenario in order to pass through the local labyrinth of fear and regulatory/legal obstacles. Everyone in this process needs to be confident and motivated. We will not be a party to any “power play” regarding the sale of our local water. My question to you is… What are the citizens and officials of the Montecito Water District willing to do to help address these fears and assure the citizens of the Indian Valley that this will really be a win-win-win scenario? And in the big picture, how can our two communities, while hundreds of miles apart, form a bond that will positively address the fundamental needs of both communities? It is that potential connection between us that must be nurtured and cultivated if we are to succeed as we both desire. Ken Donnell Greenville (Editor’s note: Anyone interested in contacting Mr. Donnell is invited to email him at: kdd@frontiernet.net)

In Defense of SBCC Bond Issue

I would like to counter Mr. Ernie Salomon’s statement (“Letters to the Editor” MJ # 20/28) that bond money for SBCC may be used for “non-administrative staff and on administrative expenses and benefits other than salaries and pensions.” His statement is simply not true. Mr. Salomon should read the entire paragraph in the SBCC bond brochure before trying to infer anything from a single sentence therein, and perhaps consult California law, which prohibits the use of school bond funds for any purposes other than the enumerated projects set forth in the language of the bond itself, and specifically restricts such funds to construction costs. In addition, there is for every such bond a citizen oversight committee appointed, which reviews all expenses of the various construction projects to ensure that the funds are properly spent and only on the projects planned for and listed in the bond document itself. That was done with Measure V and will be done again for what is now Measure S on the 2014 ballot, if it passes.

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Des O’Neill SBCC Trustee 1994-2010 Measure V campaign chair

Salomon Stands His Ground it:

This is what I wrote and I stand by

The slick SBCC Bond brochure states something that I missed, but it was picked up by a smart neighbor: The brochure states: “No monies can be spent on Administrators salaries or pensions.” This sentence by default says that monies from these infrastructure bonds can be spent on any costs associated with the entire non-administrative staff and on administrative expenses and benefits other than salaries and pensions. I stand by my statement that the sentence by default leaves out using money for who and what I said it leaves out. Whether it can or can’t, or will or won’t be used for them, is another issue unto itself. There is nothing in the brochure spelling out exactly what this bond issue is going to be used for. Nothing! In fact, nothing at all has been released publicly by the bond proponents on the exact projects and particulars of how the money will be spent. Nothing! The proponents have not been forthright on any aspects of these bonds, including their true cost of over onehalf billion dollars! The proponents of this bond boondoggle brochure in bold letters shout: “Ensuring Our Students Are Ready For The Future.” Some of the last bond’s money was used to renovate the press box. SBCC has several courses on sports announcing [does it]? Forty-five million dollars of the money from the new bonds is scheduled to replace the sports pavilion, and another nearly $11 million is scheduled for an aquatics facility. There is $25 million scheduled for “Swing Space.” I don’t know exactly what that means, but I am a great fan of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw and have most of their recordings. For this kind of swing, I will pay. Maybe Swing Space is for swings? Someone told me just this week that fixing this functionally obsolete campus is like putting lipstick on a pig. They are 100 percent correct! It is my understanding that they haven’t spent all the money from the 2008 bonds. When our people learn that their hard-earned money will underwrite the educational costs of hundreds of thousands of students from outside the district, the sound of their wallets closing to these bonds will be deafening! The anti-bond movement is gaining momentum faster than the pro-bond 31 July – 7 August 2014

movement. These bonds have to have a stake driven through their half-billion-dollar heart! Ernie Salomon Santa Barbara

On Good and Bad Statistics

In response to Arnie Cooper’s letter referencing me (“Hate Is As Hate Does” MJ # 20/28): I was making a factual, if light-hearted, observation when he came roaring in with vitriol. Suffice it to say I don’t hate anyone wearing milk jugs for shoes. I just don’t think anyone in Montecito plans to start that as a fashion trend. I was not making fun of any impoverished soul, but simply pointing out that statistics can be made to look bad or good depending on the user. A question I have now is: how do people who go off like that get through an ordinary day? K. Mora Montecito (Editor’s note: That is an excellent – but probably unanswerable – question. It does seem that there is an inordinately large group of people out there just waiting to be “seriously” offended by the smallest challenge to their orthodoxy. – J.B.)

Clearing the Air

Although fracking and global warming are closely related, it was never my intention to equate the two. Greenhouse gases are released during the fracking process, again during transportation and refining, and finally during combustion of the fracked materials. That’s how fracking contributes to global warming. It’s a curious leap for Mr. Jim Buckley to suggest I’m in favor of allowing the government to assume control of my ability and/or right to breathe. I don’t recall saying anything of the kind. In fact, many of us look to our government to protect the quality of our air. I’m thinking here of the way President Reagan employed Cap and Trade to get rid of leaded gasoline and the way the first President Bush employed Cap and Trade to reduce acid rain by cutting sulfur dioxide emissions from coal-burning plants. Those are the kinds of actions I expect from my government. And by the way, human exhalation, as any middle-school child knows, is a normal part of the carbon cycle, in which humans consume plants and animals and breathe out CO2 as a waste product, along with other gases, like oxygen, nitrogen, and argon. The CO2 is taken up by trees and other vegetation during photosynthesis. This process is regarded as “carbon neutral” and therefore is not a contributing factor in global warming. Perhaps it was only a typo, but 31 July – 7 August 2014

if our atmosphere contained only 4 CO2 ppm (parts per million) [Editor’s note: yes, it was a typo], as you claim, life on Earth would be in immediate jeopardy, because that would be insufficient CO2 to keep oxygen producing vegetation alive. Consequently, humans would be imperiled as well. As ice core samples attest, human civilization developed and flourished in a geologic era that had CO2 concentrations well above 4 CO2 ppm but never above 300 CO2 ppm. Unfortunately, we recently reached levels of 400 CO2 ppm, which the human race has never, in its entire history, experienced, until now. These levels will have serious consequences on our environment and our lives. It would be a mistake not to be concerned. What you call an “international community of hiatus deniers” is in fact, a preponderance of reputable climate scientists, who are doing what real scientists do; they’re analyzing and collecting fresh data, the better to refine their models to accurately reflect and more closely approximate what’s happening on the planet. I invite interested readers of the Montecito Journal to “look it up.” But look it up in real scientific journals, like Scientific American, Nature, Science, reports from NOAA, etc. Don’t waste your time with unscientific hit pieces put forth by hired shills and petroleum companies, desirous of maintaining their profit margins. For those who are worried about the high cost of efforts to curb global warming, I suggest that you read “The Carbon Taxes We’re Already Paying,” an op-ed piece by Mark Schapiro, in the July 20 L.A. Times. Among many things discussed are the high cost of superstorms, droughts, flooding, wildfires, lost farmland, crop insurance, and infectious disease outbreaks (increasing because of animal, insect, and plant migrations, due to changing climate). One paragraph in particular, which caught my attention was this: “The costs are hidden, but they’re hiding in plain sight. The world’s 3,000 biggest companies, according to a U.N. Environment Program report, cause $2.15 trillion in annual environmental costs, most of which are not accounted for in their profit/loss statements.” Who’s paying those costs? We are. The so-called “Little Ice Age” (LIA) was not a true ice age but, according to Wikipedia, “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Assessment Report considered the timing and areas affected by the LIA suggested largely independent regional climate changes, rather than a globally synchronous increased glaciation. At most, there was modest cooling of the Northern Hemisphere.” In any event, the rate of glacier recession has

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This Week in and around Montecito

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 Free Music The Valarie Mulberry Trio will perform live music at Café Luna in Summerland. The music will take place during Café Luna’s brunch service. Valarie Mulberry will be joined by her bass player Jeff Kranzler and drummer Jon Dewey. Her musical style features a diverse mix of pop, folk, and bluesinfluenced songs. When: Trio from noon to 1 pm; Valarie will play solo from 1 to 2 pm Where: 2354 Lillie Avenue Cost: free

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Summerland Book Club An ongoing Summerland tradition moderated by the Rev. Dr. David Beamer. Current title: The Third Jesus by Deepak Chopra. The group can be joined at anytime. When: 5:30 pm Where: Summerland Church, 2400 Lillie Avenue

THURSDAY, JULY 31 Walk With A Doc Walkers will enjoy a refreshing walk at Shoreline Park with healthcare professionals, who will provide support to the walkers and answer questions during the walk. Walk With A Doc is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to encourage healthy physical activity in people of all ages, and reverse the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle in order to improve the health and well-being of the country. When: 5:45 pm Where: Shoreline Park (parking lot by the play structure) Cost: free Info: www.walkwithadoc.org

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: Sara Doehring, 969-5063

Participants can hone their dancing skills or learn new dance techniques. The Santa Barbara Ballroom Tea Dance is held on the first Sunday of every month at the Carrillo Rec Center. No partner necessary, but if you can find one bring him or her along! When: 2 to 5 pm Where: 100 E. Carrillo Street Info: 897-2519 Cost: free

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Centering Prayer Practice Retreat A mini-retreat day for Centering Prayer practice. There will be meditation walks, journaling, reflection, and prayer practice. Let by Sr. Suzanne Dunn, Jeannette Love, and Annette Colbert. Beginners welcome. When: 9:30 am to 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031

Montecito Association Land Use Committee The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today the Land Use Committee meets to discuss upcoming projects. When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road

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French Conversation Group The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System hosts a French conversation group for those who would like to practice their French language conversation skills and meet others in the community who speak French. Both native speakers and those who learned French as a second or foreign language will participate, and new members are always welcome.

Tea Dance The City of Santa Barbara donates use of the ballroom and volunteers provide music and refreshments for this ongoing, free dance event. Ballroom dance music including the Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Fox Trot, Quick Step, and rhythm dances such as the Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Mambo, and Bolero are played, among other dance music.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6 Sudoku Workshop Learn new tips and tricks to help improve your Sudoku game. No prior experience with Sudoku puzzles is necessary. Puzzles and pencils will be provided. All ages and levels welcome. When: 4 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 20th Annual Sadako Peace Day In honor of Sadako, the young

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Japanese girl diagnosed with leukemia after exposure to the Hiroshima atomic bomb at the age of two, The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and La Casa de Maria dedicated the Sadako Peace Garden in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing. On the 68th anniversary of the Hiroshima/ Nagasaki bombings, join the community in sharing music, poetry, and reflections on peace, in La Casa’s International Garden for Peace. When: 6 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road, at the Sadako Peace Garden Cost: free and open to the public THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 Summer Concert Series Montecito’s Music Academy of the West presents a series of 60-minute concerts featuring MAW fellows. When: 2 pm Where: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street Info: www.sbmuseart.org Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, AUGUST 8 Fiction Writers’ Master Class A Master Class for Fiction Writers looking to fine-tune their manuscripts before sending out to agents will be held this weekend in Montecito. Led by publishing professional Mr. Shelly Lowenkopf and Ms Toni Lopopolo, the weekend intensive is limited to eight writers. This class is presented by the Pacific Institute for Professional Writing, a nonprofit educational organization. Writers attending will walk away knowing how to attract a literary agent; how, and why to work with a

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Soggy Bottoms Warren Williams’ family of boat builders, grandpa George, mom Julie, and dad John creating the winning kayak

ou’ve heard of “being up the creek without a paddle.” How about “up the ocean without a boat?” All the excitement was on West Beach where the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) in collaboration with Semana Nautica held their eighth Kardboard Kayak races. More than 30 entrants registered for two groups—Family Fun allowing up to four people to build the kayak and the paddler must be 14 or younger. The second category, Paddling Pros, is geared to adult competitors. Each team was given two sheets of cardboard, one roll of tape, a marker, a utility knife, a yardstick, and one hour to construct a functioning kayak. SBMM executive director Greg Gorga was there with his bullhorn to give the “Get ready, get set, go,” signal. Teams ran with their boats, 10 at a time, to the water’s edge and in jumped the paddler whose job it was to take the kayak paddle and head for the red buoy, round it, and paddle back. I had gone to the race because I knew our neighbors, the John Williams family, were participating for the fourth time. I took their photos for this column when I had the good

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luck to have already photographed the winning team with its boat, “Will it float?” It did and they won. Tenyear-old son, Warren, was the paddler and obviously skilled at kayak paddling. Team Kraken won the second Family Fun heat with paddler Eathan Edney. If your boat makes it through the first heat, you can use it again in the adult race. Dad John tried his luck, but no luck; he sank. As John said, “We use a different design each year. We’ve won twice before, but last year was a disaster.” One of the clever boats was the dragon-shaped one named “The Revenge of the Corrugated-ness Monster.” Alas, the monster sank with a soggy bottom. Some just kept swimming, dragging their boats behind. Maybe they need a prize for the cleverest name. The Stuart Fuss family with Grace and Dawson came in third this year with their Us Fuss boat. First place in the Paddling Pros was paddler Colin Martz. Prizes were a cardboard trophy with gold duct tape. What else! But even better were tickets to the Condor Express and Sambo’s, plus a family membership to the SBMM. The event was sponsored by the Condor Express (owner Hiroko Benko was there), Sambo’s Restaurant, Santa Barbara County Parent Click and Santa Barbara Family Life in addition to Channel Islands Outfitters, Santa Barbara Sailing Center, and Sushi GoGo. For a fun and funny family afternoon, check it out next year and don’t forget to visit the SBMM in between.

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President of the Federation of International Polo (represents 89 countries) Richard Caleel and his wife, Annette, at the El Encanto cabana

sweets for a culinary delightful lunch that went with prosecco and other wines. Chef Ayala told us, “We now have a Friends & Neighbors fourcourse dinner special each week with wine pairings at the restaurant.” The final 20-goal game had the Farmers & Merchants Bank team beating Santa Barbara, 13 to 11. For more than 100 years, the most talented players in the world have battled to take home the various cups from the four tournaments that take place in July and August. Santa Barbara is one of only four locations in the United States where they play 20-goal polo, even though there are hundreds of polo fields. It is not a game, just for the rich and famous – the public is welcome. There are games every Sunday at 1 and 3 p.m. Admission is $10 and there is grandstand seating. You can purchase burgers and salads at the snack bar, and drinks are available as well. There are also free games on Fridays. There will be both casual and dressy attire, as you choose. The last game of the season is the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Some of those enjoying El Encanto’s hospitality were Granada Theatre executive director Craig Springer and wife Kirsten, actor Stuart Whitman and Julia, Richard and Annette Caleel, Shaun and Carla Tomson,

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Debbie Kass, Cabana Home’s Steve Thompson, Ricardo Calderon from First Republic Investment Management and Shape magazine model and nutrition expert, Nora Tobin. Also, there was PR lady Jennifer Zacharias and husband Kris with new baby Genevieve Belle, and siblings Dylan and Marlowe. The weather was perfect and the horses beautiful. Another day in paradise. See you at the Polo fields just south of Summerland!

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Aptly named “Ruckus,” the new exhibition at the Arts Fund Santa Barbara in the Funk Zone is a bit of a ruckus. Everyone gets to participate

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Bianchi’s Bestowal Adam Bianchi, husband of interior designer Penny, is a good sport! So much so that Adam was invited back to his former prep school, Choate, in Wallingford, Connecticut, where he graduated in 1957, to be enrolled in the tony school’s Sports Hall of Fame, along with other fellow athletes. More than 500 people turned out for the ceremony at the 124-year-old school, whose distinguished alumni include John F. Kennedy, two-time

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presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson, playwright Edward Albee, philanthropist Paul Mellon, and actors Glenn Close, Michael Douglas, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Paul Giamatti. Adam, whose family owned a number of poultry farms across the western states – now part of the Foster Farms group – played soccer, football, basketball, and baseball for the school and was president of his class for four consecutive years before starting at Stanford, where he also excelled at athletics. “I had absolutely no idea,” says Penny, forever to be known as former TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey’s next-door neighbor. “I was last at the school seven years ago,” says Adam. “I asked if I really needed to be there to get the award. They explained they didn’t present them posthumously!”

Celebrating Marilyn It’s official! Opera legend Marilyn Horne, 80, director of the voice program at the Music Academy of the West for 17 years, has been honored as Fiesta’s first-ever Honorary La Diva of Old Spanish Days, launching a first-time collaboration between the oceanside Miraflores campus and the fiesta organization, which is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. For the first time, a specially commissioned production of Bizet’s Carmen, one of the world’s most famous operas, often associated with Marilyn, will be set in Santa Barbara

in the 1870s, ending with a recreation of fiesta in performances on August 1 and 3 at the Granada. Marilyn will also be in the Fiesta Parade on Friday, August 1, in a special carriage alongside Mike Towbes, chairman of Montecito Bank & Trust, which is sponsoring the academy’s summer festival, and Scott Reed, academy president. As part of the honoring ceremony, this year’s Spirit of Fiesta Talia Ortega Vestal performed, as well as singers performing arias from Carmen, including mezzo-soprano Deanna Pauletto and baritone Andrew Manea, accompanied by Mario Antonio Marro on

piano. Among those checking out the high-note occasion were El Presidente Dennis Rickard, Janet Garufis, Ron Gallo, Kandy Luria-Budgor, Peter Ziegler, Ricardo and Dinah Calderon, Daryl Stegall, Alixe Mattingly, and Michelle Bischoff... Savoring Santa Barbara Social gridlock reigned when the Arthritis Foundation hosted a reception at the BMW Hope Avenue showroom to publicize its 33rd annual Taste of the Town at Riviera Park in September.

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Science historian and author Laurel Braitman, a graduate of Ojai’s Thacher School, has launched her latest book, Animal Madness, which she describes as “a book about losing our minds and finding them again.” “I spend a lot of time thinking about humans thinking about other animals thinking about us,” says Laurel, who now lives in San Francisco. “I grew up alongside a small herd of donkeys, two parrots, a series of sickly hamsters, three dogs, a bunch of barn cats that didn’t like me, a rabbit named Violette, an armored catfish named Harold, and a tarantula. “I never stopped wondering what was going on in their heads, and I’m curious about the long history of humans trying to make sense of non-human minds,” she explained at a bijou launch bash at Tecolote, the bustling bibliophile bastion in the upper village. “As a writer and historian of science, I study the ways in which our ideas of animals thinking have changed since roughly the 1880s. I believe that paying attention to animal behavior, particularly when other animals are doing things we might call crazy, can tell us immense amounts about ourselves.” 31 July – 7 August 2014

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THIS WEEK (Continued from page 11) professional editor; how to visualize potential readers; how to think the way agents and editors think; how to think like a professional author; and much more. Writers must email the first five pages and a short synopsis of their manuscripts before acceptance into the workshop. When: this evening through Sunday, August 10, at 4:30 pm Where: a private home in Montecito Cost: $325 Info: (215) 353-1151 or lopopolobooks@aol.com SBMM Lecture Ralph Collier, chair of the Shark Research Committee,  and Peter Howorth, director of Santa Barbara Marine Mammal Center, present a lecture: “Shark Attacks on Boats, People, Dogs, and Seals.” What should you do if a shark takes a fancy to your boat? Yes, this really does happen: boats have been attacked by sharks. Find out why this happens and much more as Collier,

the West Coast’s leading authority on shark attacks, explores various theories on why sharks attack everything from surfboards to boats, and from crab trap floats to people. Learn what makes a shark tick and why it is such a supremely well-adapted predator. Discover from Howorth how attacks on marine mammals can serve as canaries in the coalmines, warning people of shark hazards, and what is being done about it. When: 7 pm Where: 113 Harbor Way Cost: $15 for members, $20 for non-members Info: www.sbmm.org ONGOING MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call. Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850

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accelerated faster than anticipated. Further reading about the effect of global warming on the recession of glaciers (and consequent rising of the seas) can be found at AntarcticGlaciers.org, which has an interesting selection of articles by Bethan Davies (a post-doctoral glaciologist) who says: “Global warming is strongly affecting Antarctica. Around the Antarctic Peninsula, temperatures are warming at a rate that is approximately six times the global average. Air temperatures increased by ~2.5°C from 1950-2000. Regional rapid warming here began in the 1930s. The annual mean air temperature -9°C isotherm has moved southwards, resulting in ice-shelf collapse and glacier recession. A recent ice core from James Ross Island shows that warming in this region began around 600 years ago and then accelerated over the last century.” Dr. Davies continues, “But how unusual is this warmth? Ice core records provide a longer-term perspective on climate over the past four glacial cycles or longer. The icecore record indicates that carbon dioxide and temperature co-varied over the last 400 thousand years, which suggests a close link between these “greenhouse gases” and temperature. Ice core records show that methane and carbon dioxide atmospheric concentrations are higher than at any point in the last 650,000 years.” For information about glaciers at the other pole, in the Arctic, see: “Greenland Glaciers Melting Faster Than Thought, Raising Sea Level Fears” by Brian Kahn (published by weather.com) which cites a new study in Nature Climate Change which “reveals that over the past decade, the region has started rapidly losing ice due to a rise in air and ocean temperatures caused in part by climate change. The increased melt raises concerns that sea level rise could accelerate even faster than projected, threatening coastal communities worldwide. “North Greenland is very cold and dry, and believed to be a very stable area,” said Shfaqat Khan, a senior researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, who led the new study. “It is surprising to see ice loss in one of the coldest regions on the planet.” The article goes on to say,” In the past 20 years, some of these glaciers, particularly in the southeast and northwest, have dumped ever increasing amounts of ice into the ocean. That water has accounted for more than 15 percent of global sea level rise over that period. Since the mid-1960s, climate change has helped drive average air temperatures up about 3.6°F across the Arctic...[and] The rise in air temperatures has fueled a tumultuous decline in sea ice, which has also helped warm the region’s ocean 31 July – 7 August 2014

waters. Around parts of Greenland, ocean surface temperatures rose 1.8° to 3.6°F between 1990 and 2011. While the northwest and southeast sections of Greenland have dramatically lost ice, researchers believed the northeast section was holding its ground. From 1978 to 2003, that was true, but ice loss has accelerated rapidly since mid2003.” None of this is good news. Cheers, Linda Stewart-Oaten Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: As we’ve written here before, many people are obviously sold on the idea of controlling carbon dioxide emissions as a way of... cooling Earth? Preventing “climate change?” All we can say is good luck with that and reiterate that those efforts will do nothing but hand power and money over to unelected but well-paid “power” brokers who will fly around the world in carbon-emitting dinosaurs making sure that no one else can do the same. Australia, coincidentally, recently rescinded its carbon tax and the cap and trade mechanism that went along with it. – J.B.)

Notes from a Troublemaker

I could not find the author of this, but it fits my philosophy and ideology to a T, so I thought I would submit it to you in the form of a letter, so that when people ask who is this guy, and what does he stand for, you can direct them to this: “I’m a Racist for criticizing Obama. I’m a Terrorist because I believe in my 2nd Amendment Rights. I’m a Tea-Bagger for supporting the Constitution. I’m a Threat To National Security because I refuse to shut up! I’m a Troublemaker for asking unanswered questions. I’m a Troublemaker for questioning authority. I’m a Birther for questioning the lack of documentation of the Commander In Chief. I’m a Traitor for blowing the whistle on my corrupt Government. I’m a Conspiracy Theorist for presenting documented facts. I’m Anti-American for supporting Constitutionalists. I’m a War Monger because I support the Troops. I’m a Greedy Capitalist because I believe that you are not entitled to what I’ve earned. I’m a Separatist-Racist because I oppose Illegal Immigration. Yep, guilty on all counts and proud of It! I love our country’s freedoms; that’s why I think I will be voting Republican or Tea Party. Larry Bond •MJ Santa Barbara

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 19) Dr. Kimberly Hurvitz, Trevor Hurvitz, honoree Dr. Graham Hurvitz; Jeremy Harper, artist; Chris Denson, Natasha and Isabella Hurvitz (photo by Priscilla)

Ron Schnor, Asher Garfinkel, Kole Russell, Mike Viera, Kendall Viera, and Pam Viera (photo by Priscilla)

The popular event is expected to top last year’s record of $150,000, which helps 200,000 sufferers in the tri-counties, according to executive director Richard Sanford, honoree Dr. Timothy Spiegel, Jennifer Jaqua, and Jacques Habra (photo by Priscilla)

Asher Garfinkel. “We are nearly sold out already, and the connoisseurs dinner at the El Encanto two days before is always very popular.” This year’s reception, co-chaired by Jennifer Jaqua and Jacques Habra, also revealed a new event poster by Santa Barbara plein air artist Jeremy Harper... No Contest What an accolade! Our Eden by the Beach has been voted one the 10 best small cities in the U.S. by top glossy, Conde Nast Traveler. “Blessed with an unbeatable location... this capital of the American Riviera is as easy on the eyes as can be

imagined,” it gushes. “Add a balmy climate, a multitude of wineries, museums, nature preserves and beaches, and there’s something for everyone to enjoy.” The San Ysidro Ranch and the Canary Hotel got top marks as places to stay, while Lotusland was a “must visit” location. Santa Fe, New Mexico, topped the list, followed by Carmel, Napa, Telluride, Colorado, and Newport, Rhode Island... Fiesta Fun Union Bank hosted a boffo bash at the 185-year-old Hill-Carrillo Adobe to celebrate its third year of sponsorship of Fiesta and the kickoff party. The historic building was plastered with Fiesta memorabilia from the last 90 years from the extensive collection of Santa Barbara resident Marc Martinez, including an impressive collection of souvenir pins from every event over the past nine decades. Guests, including George Leis, Leticia Agular, Chris DeVries, Diana Vandervoort, Cecilia Rodriguez, my Journal colleague Erin Graffy, Rich Block, David Asbell, and Judy Hill, noshed on a mountain of canapés from Los Arroyos, while quaffing a selection of local wines....

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

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anta Barbara residents Dan Aldrich and Nathan Sigler have joined the Westmont Foundation Board of Directors, which cultivates ties between Westmont and the community. Aldrich is vice president of National Accounts and the Caribbean and Latin America Region for American Communications, an industry leader in telecommunications resale, repair, and services. He has been married to Kara, who graduated from Westmont in 1999, for four years, and they have two young daughters. He is active in the community, where he has lived for 16 years, serving as vice chair of the Santa Barbara Downtown Rotary Club Foundation. He served many years on the Turner Foundation board, which is a non-profit, faith-based foundation dedicated to serving low-income families in Santa Barbara. “I am friends with many Westmont alums,” he says. “I hope I can enhance the college’s mission and help it continue to produce strong, talented folks helping out the community,” says Aldrich, who graduated from UCLA. Sigler, who works in healthcare administration as director of transition planning at Cottage Health System, has lived in Santa Barbara since 2008. He is responsible for operational planning for new facilities, including the new Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Santa Ynez hospitals, the Cottage Business Services offices, and Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories. Nathan joined Cottage in August 2008 as service line director for Cottage Children’s Hospital. Prior to joining Cottage, Sigler was 31 July – 7 August 2014

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administrative fellow at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles. Sigler graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and earned a master of health administration from the University of Southern California. He and his wife Leslie, an artist and graphic designer, are members of All Saints by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, where Nathan serves on the vestry. He is on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce. “My personal connection and support for Westmont’s mission come from my undergraduate experience as part of a Christian campus organization, and the value of that fellowship and kind of community as a student,” he says. “At the campus church, I was able to see the value of developing character in students. Westmont is devoted to those same values. I admire the mission of the college and have been impressed with the faculty here.”

The high-flying Becky Collier sets heptathlon records

freshman season of competition in both indoor and outdoor track and field, which culminated in a national runner-up finish in the high jump, as well as a fourth-place finish in the heptathlon. Her indoor season included a fifth-

place finish in the pentathlon and a seventh-place finish in the high jump. In all, Collier earned four NAIA AllAmerican awards and set two school records during her freshman campaign. “That’s absolutely impressive,” says Russell Smelley, Westmont head track-and-field coach. “She’s been able to sustain a national high level of performance and overcome her fear of the big meet.” The USA Junior Championships consist primarily of student-athletes who have just completed their freshman season of competition. Athletes qualify for the meet by achieving a performance standard during their 2014 season. The championship is meant to identify young and upcoming talent in the United States. Collier was the lone NAIA athlete competing in the heptathlon. The heptathlon is a seven-event competition which measures speed, strength, and stamina. Athletes earn points in each event based on performance. The competition is held over two days with the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, and the 200 meters on day one. The second day features competition in the long jump, javelin, and 800 meters. The USA Junior Combined Events Championship was in June at Hornet Stadium on the campus of California State University Sacramento. The venue hosted both the 2000 and 2004 •MJ Olympic Trials.

Collier Breaks Records at Junior Nationals

Becky Collier shattered several Westmont and personal records while becoming the first track-andfield athlete to represent Westmont at the USA Junior National Track & Field Championships in Sacramento June 25-26. Collier finished fifth in the junior heptathlon with 4,988 points, breaking the school record that she previous held (4,871 points). She had personal-best records in the 200 meters (26.53), javelin (110-7), and 800 meters (2:22.66). Collier enjoyed a tremendous A jury consists of 12 persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost

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through a series of membranes. The system recovers 35 to 40 percent of the water treated and the remaining concentrated brine water is injected into a deep land-based well because Bahamian law does not allow the discharge of salt into the ocean. The total build-out and investment cost for GE was said to be less than $15 million.

Is the Bahamas a Montecito Model?

Montecito needs to evaluate the Eleuthera business model, in which GE finances and owns the plant, but contracts for a fixed amount of water to be delivered at a fixed price for a fixed number of years. GE could erect its container-sized seawater desalination plant on land contiguous to the Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) treatment facility near Butterfly Beach, or adjacent to the Summerland Sanitary District (SSD) treatment facility on Summerland Beach. A target for a Montecito plant would be about 2,000 AF of desalinated water per year or 1.8 million gallons per day. A $15 to $25-million cost for water independence in Montecito would be a bargain compared to the estimated $28.75-million cost for the reactivation of the currently mothballed Santa Barbara desal plant, or the proposed $27-million general obligation bond to be voted on in November 2014 to upgrade the 500-student Montecito Union School’s electrical, plumbing, and earthquake standards.

Recycled Wastewater... Part of the Montecito Solution

The Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) now discharges 600,000 gallons of freshly treated wastewater per day into the ocean 1,600 feet off Butterfly Beach, according to Diane Gabriel, General Manager of MSD. Normally, that discharge would be closer to 900,000 gallons a day, but the drought is on and Montecito is cutting back on water usage. MSD’s treated wastewater totals 219 million gallons of water a year, or 672 AF of water. Agricultural, commercial, and institutional users have asked, why can’t this treated wastewater be diverted by pipes or trucks to Montecito’s and Summerland’s largest users for irrigation use. Treatment plants in both Montecito and Summerland would need to be upgraded to a

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tertiary treatment level of recycled water, as required by the State Water Board to meet current environmental standards. According to the Department of Water Resources, California currently uses over 525,000 AF of recycled wastewater per year to irrigate crops, golf courses, parks, landscapes, and freeway foliage, as well as replenish groundwater basins, where it acts as a barrier to seawater intrusion. Forty-eight percent of this recycled water is used for agriculture irrigation, 20 percent for landscape irrigation, and 12 percent for groundwater recharge. Israel treats and recycles more than 80 percent of its household wastewater, the highest recapture rate in the world. Montecito discharges treated wastewater into the ocean.

Pathway to Water Independence for Montecito

In response to Dudley Morris’s earlier question, here is a possible pathway to water independence: 1) Leadership Team. Identify a citizen-led leadership team in Montecito with the will, the wallet, and the wisdom to develop a financially feasible plan for sustainable water independence. Leadership is the ability to translate vision into a reality. The vision is to permanently reduce our dependence on drought-diminished rainfall, and the goal is to elevate Montecito from worst to first in creating a sustainable water future. 2) Supporting Task Force. Utilize the combined leadership and engineering talents of Tom Mosby at MWD, Diane Gabriel at MSD and Mike Sullivan at the SSD to form a solution-oriented task force. Montecito’s lack of water lowers living standards, cheapens the character of this community, and depresses real estate values. This is simply not acceptable in Montecito or Summerland. Unfortunately, MWD has just lost the full-time service of Karl Meier, its engineering manager, who resigned to travel the world, but will remain as a consultant. Perhaps Mosby can fill the technology gap by tapping into the expertise of Carollo Engineers Inc, currently employed by the City of Santa Barbara with a financial contribution from MWD to evaluate the re-activation of the mothballed Charles Meyer Desal plant. The city now estimates it will spend $1.18 million in consultant fees for preliminary design services, legal support, and lobbying. Regrettably for Montecito, the City of Santa Barbara has made it clear that the desal plant rehab will not go forward if sufficient rain falls to relieve the drought. 3) Solicit Input and Expertise from Suppliers. Solicit informational presentations and cost proposals for a) desalination, b) wastewater treatment and c) low-cost energy solutions from GE, Poseidon Resources, IDE Technologies, Consolidated Water, Lockheed Martin, Veolia, and other providers with a proven track record of delivering water systems on-time and on-budget. 4) Financial Feasibility. Without a financial feasibility component, no idea is worth the paper it is thought on. Retired Montecito CEOs, CFOs, and private equity entrepreneurs have the expertise to fund this project with either private or public equity. The first task is for the community to come together with a rock-solid commitment to go-it-alone to achieve water independence. Subsequently, it can offer a shared effort to Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, Hope Ranch or Goleta, or even an extended solution including Santa Ynez, Solvang, Buellton, Lompoc, Guadalupe, Santa Maria and Vandenberg, in a regional consolidation approach. Additional partners adds complexity, creates indecision and extends time delays, but offers the benefit of broadened regional support from our county supervisors.

Community Leadership

Years ago, there was no California Coastal Commission, no Department of Water Resources (DWR), no Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), no CEQA lawsuits, and no environmental impact reports. History makers like Max C. Fleischmann, heir to the Fleischmann Yeast fortune, could personally fund and build such projects as the Santa Barbara inner harbor breakwater. Father Junipero Serra could build a Mission, Pearl Chase could create “Santa Barbara Beautiful”, and William Sansum could found Sansum Clinic, and not be faced with a decade of lawsuits followed by a second decade of planning permits. Today, it is much more difficult for philanthropists, engineers, and architects of change to fund a Cottage Hospital, build a Granada Theatre, rebuild City College, or expand the Music Academy, given the myriad regulations, planning and zoning, and city and state obstacles. Making significant improvements to the quality of life has become more complicated, but finding the right leadership is probably the only way Montecito can successfully put together an affordable independent water strategy that provides much-needed sustainable self-sufficiency. We say let’s get started. Now. •MJ

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Saddling Up for a Historic Fiesta Parade

hen Dennis Rickard, this year’s El Presidente of Santa Barbara’s 90th Annual Old Spanish Days (OSD), announced his theme for the 2014 Fiesta, it made perfect sense to anyone who knows him and his family’s involvement in the event. Celebra tu historia, or “Celebrate your history,” references his father’s and grandfather’s pivotal roles as Santa Barbara civic leaders of their respective generations. That tradition will be further solidified when the third Rickard to “sit in the saddle” does so not only metaphorically, but also literally, when he swings onto his horse to ride in El Desfile Histórico, the Fiesta parade. Dennis’ grandfather, James Bickle Rickard (1878-1942) was born in Hawaii, the son of William Henry Rickard (who had British parentage) and Nora Treloar Rickard, pioneer sugar planters and coffee growers. A member of the Hawaii legislature under the monarchy, W.H. Rickard also had notable interests in horses and cattle, and was a key player in a colorful but largely unknown chapter of Hawaiian history. As a royalist, he was one of the plotters involved in Kaua Kuloko 1895, the counter-revolution which sought to restore the Hawaiian monarchy and return Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1917) to her throne after she was deposed by an American-led coup d’état in 1893. According to accounts found in the 1896 book Foreign Relations of the United States, Part II, W.H. Rickard was directly involved with smuggling arms and munitions from California, which traveled to Hawaii aboard the schooner Wahlberg out of San Francisco, then transferred to the steamer Waimanalo in Honolulu and subsequently funneled to insurgents. When the counter-revolution failed, W.H. Rickard and other militia leaders were swiftly tried for trea-

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An early Fiesta Parade image of James Bickle Rickard, grandfather of current El Presidente Dennis Rickard, riding the silver saddle that he commissioned in the 1920s. J.B. Rickard was president of La Primavera Association, which staged a Santa Barbara historical pageant in 1920 that inspired the formation of Old Spanish Days.

A museum and travel professional, community volunteer, and lifelong equestrienne, Lynn Kirst is a fourth-generation Californian who grew up in Montecito; she can often be found riding or hiking the local trails

son against the Republic of Hawaii (which had been recognized as a protectorate of the United States in 1894), found guilty, and handed severe sentences. Less than three weeks after the counter-revolution began, Queen Liliuokalani formally abdicated her throne in exchange for clemency for W.H. Rickard and other royalists who had participated in the conspiracy. “My father always told me the name Rickard is a bigger name in Hawaii than ‘de la Guerra’ is in Santa Barbara,” related Dennis. Interestingly, in Hawaii the name is pronounced “RICK-herd,” with the accent on the first syllable, rather than “Rick-CARD” as in California.

J.B. Rickard and La Primavera

In 1889, W.H. Rickard sent his son James Bickle Rickard (1878-1942) from Hawaii to England for formal education. After attending boarding school in Devonshire, J.B. Rickard spent five years at the prestigious Dulwich College in London, founded in 1619 under the reign of King James I. J.B. Rickard then moved to Washington, D.C. where he obtained his law degree from George Washington University, followed by employment in the lands and railroad division of the Secretary of the Interior. In 1910, J.B. Rickard emigrated to California, where that same year he married a Santa Barbara woman six years his senior, 38-yearold Acacia Teresa Oreña (1872-1958), the granddaughter of Don José de la Guerra y Noriega, Commandante of

John T. Rickard, known as Jack, son of James B. Rickard and father of Dennis Rickard. Two-time mayor of Santa Barbara and later appointed a Superior Court judge by governor Ronald Reagan, Jack Rickard served as El Presidente in 1948 and 1949.

the Santa Barbara Presidio from 1827 to 1842. J.B. Rickard was admitted to the California Bar a year later, and opened law offices both in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara; by 1915 he was appointed city attorney for Santa Barbara, a position he held for two years. In 1922, President Warren G. Harding appointed him postmaster of Santa Barbara, a position he held until 1933. Embracing the Spanish heritage of his wife and community at large, J.B. Rickard was elected president of La Primavera Association, formed in 1919 to organize a spring festival for April 1920. The Association commissioned a Chicago newspaperman, Wallace deGroot Rice (1859-1939) to pen Primavera: The Masque of Santa Barbara. An accomplished writer, poet and essayist, Rice also enjoyed writing historical pageants. After extensively studying California history and Santa Barbara traditions, Rice produced a play that incorporated sweet Mexican songs, Latin-speaking friars, the Spanish Royal March, dancers, caballeros, Yankee sea captains and non-po-

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litically correct observations of the Chumash: “Now come the uncouth natives here to sing and dance before their god, who is no god.” Wanting nothing but the best, La Primavera Association also imported Samuel J. Hume (1885-1962) from Berkeley’s William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre to direct the pageant. Set in the natural amphitheater formed by a creek bed east of the Presidio (now the location of Santa Barbara High School’s Peabody Stadium), the masque featured a dozen speaking roles, augmented by a cast of 300 singers and dancers. The morning after the pageant, visitors were treated to vaqueros demonstrating their skills at traditional equestrian games, and in the afternoon horsemen on their decorated steeds led a parade of school children “dressed in white, garlanded with long green and bright-colored streamers made of fern leaves fastened together with bright flowers.” La Primavera was a smash success, but due to high expenses associated with the elaborate costumes and staging of the masque, it was a financial loss. Although it was never repeated, La Primavera is considered the forerunner of Old Spanish Days, which produced its first Fiesta in 1924. As president of the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce in 1922, J.B. Rickard surely knew that despite the cost overruns associated with La Primavera, the idea of a citywide celebration of its Spanish heritage was a good idea for Santa Barbara.

The Rickard Silver Saddle

The spectacular silver saddle that El Presidente Dennis Rickard will be riding in this year’s Fiesta Parade was commissioned by his grandfather J.B. Rickard. Donated by the Rickard family to the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, the saddle is currently on special loan to the Santa Barbara Carriage and Western Art Museum. The magnificent saddle was decorated around 1929 by John Chester 31 July – 7 August 2014

Field (1862-1954) with more than 1,500 pieces of silver, and is said to have cost $3,500 at the time. John C. Field was the son of renowned silversmith Edwin Field, who was born in Rhode Island in 1820 or 1822 (records vary). Edwin trained at Tiffany & Company in New York before heading to California to try his luck in the Gold Rush. While living in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Edwin Field had two sons (John C. Field was born in the tiny town of Downieville) before heading to Santa Barbara around 1870. Edwin listed his occupation as “jeweler,” and was known to design gold jewelry and repair broken timepieces before expanding into decorating fancy horse tack with silver mounts. He also taught his sons John C. Field and Frank Field (1865-1942) the art of silversmithing. In decorating the Rickard saddle, John C. Field was assisted by his son Edwin Donald Field (1896-1993) and his daughter Marguerite J. Field Thornburgh (1899-1985), who along with their brother F. Frank Field (19041981) formed the third generation of Field family silversmiths, which continues into a fifth generation still working today.

John Treloar Rickard

Familiarly known as “Jack,” John

T. Ricard (1913-2000) was the son of James B. Rickard; his middle name was that of his grandmother Nora’s maiden name, she who was married to the Hawaiian sugar planter W.H. Rickard. Jack spent his summers at the family’s ranch, El Encinal in Los Alamos (another family ranch, La Rinconada, was located in the Cuyama Valley). Jack followed in his father’s footsteps by earning a law degree (at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall) and by serving as city attorney for Santa Barbara. He and his wife Marion had five sons, of whom Dennis Rickard is the youngest. Jack Rickard is credited with revitalizing Old Spanish Days after World War II, and served as El Presidentein 1948 and 1949. As such, he proudly rode the Rickard saddle in the Fiesta Parade, with the silver mounts shown to their best advantage against the dark coat of a black horse, just as his father had ridden in earlier Fiesta parades. It was Jack’s idea to establish the Fiesta Flower Girls in 1949, as well as the President’s Reception, both celebrating their 65th anniversary this year. After serving as OSD El Presidente, Jack Rickard served two terms as mayor of Santa Barbara (1953-1956), then returned to his private law practice but remained involved with civic issues. In 1968, Ronald Reagan (at the

time governor of California) appointed him a Superior Court judge. Jack retired from the bench in 1982. Among the many honors Jack Rickard collected was Santa Barbara’s “Man of the Year” in 1969. A posthumous honor came in 2012, when the new terminal at the Santa Barbara Airport was named the John T. Rickard Terminal by a vote of the city council.

Another tradition that was very important to both John T. Rickard and now his son Dennis is that of Fiesta costumes. “I really encourage the whole community to come out in traditional costumes for the Fiesta events,” said Dennis. Indeed, what better way to Celebra tu historia? Viva la Fiesta!

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As the current El Presidente, Dennis F. Rickard (born 1953) is following the tradition of involvement established by his father and grandfather. “One of the reasons I joined OSD was to keep my family’s name alive,” said Dennis, who is a certified public accountant when he is not attending to OSD business. Dennis is also keeping alive the tradition of riding the Rickard silver saddle in the Fiesta Parade, by special loan arrangement with the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. And as one of the perks of being El Presidente, he has the freedom to designate an Honorary Presidente. “I chose my brother, Robert Webb Rickard, to be Honorary Presidente,” said Dennis. “Bobby has been building Fiesta parade floats for ten years, and he has been very supportive of me.”

Friday, August 1 El Desfile Histórico Downtown Santa Barbara Noon The 90th annual Fiesta Parade is free, but shaded reserved seats are available for purchase. Visit www. oldspanishdays-fiesta.com for more information. Thursday, July 31 – Sunday, August 3 Old Spanish Days Fiesta Stock Horse Show and Rodeo Earl Warren Showgrounds The Competencia de los Vaqueros brings together the best Tri-County competitors, showing their horses in a variety of events such as barrel racing, team penning, roping, and reining. Thursday evening is devoted to Professional Bull Riding. For a complete schedule and ticket information, visit www.sbfiestarodeo.com. •MJ

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 12) Rick Caruso, owner of the Miramar, seen here with First District supervisor Salud Carbajal following demolition of the buildings on the site in January 2013. Caruso and his team have revised the project plans and are confident the resort will open for business in 2017.

Financing remained an issue, and in July 2012, Caruso was in talks with the county to be part of its Hotel Incentive Program (HIP), in which the county would pay back hoteliers the Transient Occupancy Tax earned at their hotel for the first several years of operation (estimated to be $450,000 per year). The HIP program was originally introduced to benefit the building of the Miramar, as a way to incentivize would-be investors, but Caruso was unable to come to an agreement with the county regarding a 15-year commitment to pay the rebate. To show his continued commitment to the community and to the project, Caruso had the former buildings on the property, which were quickly falling apart and infiltrated with rodents, demolished in January of last year. Since then the Caruso camp has remained relatively quiet – until this week, when they unveiled a new, more efficient plan for the property, which they are confident will garner financing and community support. “It’s a better plan overall,” Middlebrook told us earlier this week. “It’s less impactful in every aspect.” The new plan features fewer guestrooms (170 instead of 186), no underground parking (a secondary parking lot will be built in the northwest corner, where the spa was once planned), and a rearranged main building. While the overall square footage of the buildings has been reduced, an oceanfront restaurant has been added to the plans, in addition to a more casual beach bar on the boardwalk fronting the beach. Those eateries, along with a restaurant in the main building, still add up to 258 seats, the same number as before. The pools have been consolidated into one location, and the retail space has been reduced to a small gift shop on the property. The new plans intend on maximizing the open space on the property, according to manager of development Evan Krenzien. Because of the loss of 53 parking spaces, the team is asking for a revision to the conditional use permit, which would reduce the maximum number of event guests to 400 (from 500). 31 July – 7 August 2014

The project plans for 27 oceanfront guest rooms and suites, including a freestanding 3,800-sqare-foot presidential suite. A private member Miramar Club will be located on the property grounds, offering Montecito residents and guests an ideal setting for beach access. The main building, modeled after an historic estate, will incorporate a lobby, bar/lounge, ballroom and meeting rooms, and oceanand mountain-view suites on the second level. Under the new plan, a casual all-day-dining poolside restaurant – as well as a destination spa and fitness center – will be in the main building, making them more accessible to guests.   The grounds will feature meandering walkways and gardens, an expansive lawn leading from the main building to the ocean, pedestrian walkways, and 68 new public parking stalls along Jameson and Eucalyptus to enhance public beach access.   Santa Barbara-based architect Marc Appleton has been brought on to ensure the design ties in characteristics of the old Miramar with the new project. Appleton & Associates Architects, established in 1976, has offices in Santa Monica and Santa Barbara; the company specializes in the planning, designing, and landscaping of custom residential, institutional, and commercial projects for both private and public clients. “As we embark on the next phase of this project, we are confident that we will be able to build a resort that will not only echo the great heritage of the Miramar, but also one that Montecitans will be proud to call their own,” Caruso said in a statement. Middlebrook and his team have

been in Montecito and Santa Barbara the past few weeks, showing the revised plans to stakeholders, neighbors, and county staff. Middlebrook says the plan is more neighborhood friendly, and the visual impacts have been reduced from both Jameson and the beach. “So far, we’ve had a lot of support for the new plans,” he said. Caruso is confident the new project will also be attractive to investors; the team expects to go from the permitting phase directly to the design phase, unlike previous attempts to do so. “The real estate and financial markets have steadily improved, and we have remained committed to this project throughout one of the most challenging economic times imagined,” Caruso said. “We are confident the financial opportunities are there,” Middlebrook added, though he refrained from estimating the cost savings from the new plan. In addition to The Grove, The Americana at Brand (in Glendale), and the luxury residential 8500 Burton Way in Los Angeles, Caruso Affiliated develops, owns, and manages a growing portfolio of properties. The company has an array of other projects in development, including those in Pacific Palisades and Brentwood. The revised plans will be formally submitted to the county this week, and will likely be seen by the Montecito Board of Architectural Review for conceptual review in August. The Caruso team will also spend the next few weeks meeting with the Montecito Association, members of the Montecito Planning Commission, and neighbors. “We’ve remained committed to this property, and we’re confident that this is the plan that will get this hotel built,” Middlebrook said.

MFPD Survey

Next week, Montecito residents will receive a letter in the mail from Montecito Fire Protection District (MFPD), asking for their input on Montecito’s fire and emergency services. “This is the first time we’ve done direct outreach quite like this,” says MFPD’s Geri Ventura. The letter will ask residents to complete a 16-question survey online, which will ask about the community’s expectations, satisfaction, and disap-

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Crown Castle at MPC

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Like Charley Russell, Joe’s sketches appear on a variety of “canvases” (Courtesy Santa Barbara History Museum)

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Joe De Yong in his studio (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

orn in Kentucky in 1880, Mary J. Coulter’s father died when she was a year old. She was raised in her grandfather’s home, where her earliest childhood memories were of her fascination with the Doré illustrations that adorned the walls. After attending the Cincinnati Art Academy, she went to Illinois to study various crafts such as weaving, bookbinding, jewelry, and pottery at the Art Institute of Chicago. There, she became the first curator of etchings and engravings. In 1915, Mary joined the staff of the Department of Fine Arts for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. In 1927, she came to Santa Barbara and had a studio at the Meridian Studios in 193031. In Santa Barbara and Honolulu, she drew and painted landscapes like “From Slopes of Haleakala, Maui” and “Rice Fields, Hawaii” as well as architectural subjects such as “View of Mission Revival Home.” (Sources, Artists in California, 1786-1940; NP 1940 article by Litti Paulding)

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Joseph Franklin De Yong (1894– 1975) was a western artist, illustrator, engraver, sculptor, and cartoonist. When Joe was five years old, his father moved the family from Webster Grove, Missouri, to Dewey, a new little town in the Cherokee Nation of the Indian Territory (today’s Oklahoma). In his autobiography, Joe writes, “For me, the Indian Territory was a magical land where cowboys, Indians, long-horned cattle, roundups and my father’s frequent deer hunting trips in a certain wild region called ‘the Osage Hills,’ combined to create a colorfully patterned patchwork of characters and incidents that peopled my earliest

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Joe De Yong became well-known as a magazine illustrator (Courtesy Santa Barbara History Museum)

remembered dreams – whether asleep or awake.” Joe was given his first saddle at age six, and he began tagging along on roundups as an unofficial wrangler. At that time, rodeos featuring local talent popped up whenever there was a reason to gather and celebrate. They were usually “haphazardly staged,” said Joe, and featured “an outstanding group of hell-raising young cowhands, one of whom was none other than ‘Cousin’ Will Rogers,” whom young Joe came to idolize for his skill at trick roping. In 1908, 14-year-old Joe started riding for wages during the summer months, earning $15 a month and board. Joe met the silent-screen cowboy Tom Mix when Mix made a movie at the ranch where Joe was working. Bitten by the show business bug, he joined Mix in Arizona in 1913 where he “rode fast and furious, up and down hills in groups while chasing outlaws and rescuing the sheriff’s daughter, day after day, after day.” Joe’s movie career ended when he was struck down by a form of meningitis that left him totally deaf, temporarily cross-eyed and without any sense of balance. Recuperating back in Oklahoma, he drew and painted to kill the time. His subjects were taken from the life he could no longer lead. Joe was already a fan of Western artists and considered Charley Russell the most authentic and authoritative

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Gordon Kenneth Grant studied the crafts of native Americans at Ralph Hubbard’s ranch in Colorado and became life-long friends with his Indian instructors (Courtesy Roxie Grant Lapidus)

of them all. Attempting to imitate Russell’s technique of setting up wax or clay figures to understand the shadows and play of light, he wrote to Russell for technical advice. Miraculously, Russell replied and Joe became determined to go to Montana to see him. After Joe visited Russell’s studio in Great Falls, Montana, in July 1914, the De Yong family pulled up stakes and moved to Montana to accommodate their son. Joe ended up working in Russell’s studio for the last 10 years of Russell’s life and was at times a member of his household. Russell was an expert at Indian sign language and Joe acquired a smattering of that knowledge, though most of their communication was in the form of written notes from Russell. Nancy Russell was instrumental in promoting Joe’s work for magazine illustration. During his time with Russell, Joe met Howard Eaton, one of the three brothers who had founded Eaton’s Dude Ranch in Medora, Oklahoma, in 1879 and moved it to Wolf, Wyoming, in 1904. He became dude wrangler and semi-official artist at Eaton’s where he entertained the guests in his tipi with rope tricks and received commissions for his artwork. Under the pseudonym of “Kid Currycomb,” a cartoon character he had created, he was editor of Wrangling Notes, a newsletter produced at the ranch. Joe met Ed Borein when Ed visited Russell in Montana and again when 31 July – 7 August 2014

Rodeo at Dewey, Oklahoma, in the “magical land where cowboys, Indians, long horned cattle and round ups...” created the inspiration for De Yong’s art (Courtesy Library of Congress)

Eagle Dance by Gordon Kenneth Grant (Courtesy of Roxie Grant Lapidus)

Etching by Mary J. Coulter of the Campanile at Berkeley’s University of California Gordon Kenneth Grant with Red Deer and family in Taos, New Mexico, in 1939 (Courtesy Roxie Grant Lapidus)

Joe joined the Russells on a visit to California in 1924, where Joe became acquainted with local Santa Barbara artists. In 1925, at Borein’s urging, Joe traveled to California to take a sculpting class at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts. When Russell died later that year, Joe decided to stay. From 1933-38, and again in 1943, Joe had a studio at the Meridian. Joe had some lean years but found commissions as an illustrator for magazines and commercial enterprises. Through friendships made on Los Rancheros Visitadores treks, he learned that Cecil B. DeMille was looking for a costume designer and a technical advisor. Joe was hired and worked for DeMille and other companies, advising on such classic movies as Wells Fargo (1937), Tall in the Saddle (1944), The Virginian (1946), Bob Hope’s Pale Face (1948), and Shane (1951). He moved to Hollywood permanently during WWII. His work is displayed at the 31 July – 7 August 2014

National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. In Santa Barbara, he joined Ed Borein in creating a panel of cartoons for the Visitadores Room at El Paseo. (Artists of the American West; autobiography in name file of Gledhill Library of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum; ArtRev.com) Born in Berkeley in 1908, Gordon Kenneth Grant came from an artistic family. His paternal uncle was Gordon Hope Grant, known for his etchings and paintings of marine subjects as well as portraits and street scenes. His younger brother, Campbell, was also an artist who studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts and came to Santa Barbara in 1929 after receiving a scholarship to attend the Santa Barbara School of the Arts. Both boys developed a love of the outdoors from camping and fishing with their father, and Gordon’s Boy Scouts activities led him to an appreciation of Indian lore and crafts. When

he was 15, he attended a performance of an Indian dance troop organized by Ralph Hubbard, a staunch promoter of the preservation of Native American culture. Impressed with Gordon’s abilities, Hubbard invited Gordon to spend the summer at his school for Indian arts and crafts in Colorado. Gordon jumped at the offer and spent the next few summers at Hubbard’s ranch learning the arts of Indian costume making, dances, songs, and mythology. As a consequence, he made lifelong friends among his native instructors and developed a great kinship with them. He taught what he had learned at Boy Scouts camps in order to earn the tuition for the University of California, Berkley, where he studied art and mural making and graduated from the School of Architecture in 1930. When his brother Campbell moved to Santa Barbara in 1929, Gordon came down to work with world-famous muralist Albert Herter, who taught at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts. Gordon assisted him in creating murals for the new Hetty H.R. Green Hall at Wellesley College on the theme of “America the Beautiful.” Caroline Hazard, of Mission Canyon in Santa Barbara and former president of the college, had financed the murals in memory of poet Katharine Lee Bates, an alumna, who had written the poem that became the famous American ballad. Gordon returned from the East in 1932 and continued his wanderings and work in the Southwest. The following year, his mother moved to 570 Valley Road in Montecito, which

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became a base for both of her sons. Gordon moved to Santa Barbara in 1934 and took the room over the garage and filled it with Indian artifacts and art, though he also continued visiting Hubbard and Indian friends in the Southwest. By this time, he was becoming known for his “energy-charged depictions of Indian dances.” His work was compared to that of Diego Rivera and he was an admirer and close friend of Mexican muralist Alfredo Ramos Martinez, who was painting the frescoes in the Santa Barbara Cemetery Chapel about this time. His career continued to flourish in spite of the Depression, and a Navajo ceremonial dance painting of his was selected to be sent to Germany for the 1936 Olympic Games’s exhibition of paintings and sculptures. During this time, he took up silver and copper smithing. He had a studio at 826 Garden Street but spent one year at the Meridian Studios when he joined up with artist friend John (Jack) Borden Hamilton to rent one of the units at 114 de la Guerra Street. Gordon also found employment as a muralist working for various governmental work relief programs. At the post office in Alhambra, California, his tempera WPA (Works Progress Administration) murals have since been painted over, but those painted for the Ventura post office in 193738, still depict the “Agricultural Industries of Ventura.” The Ventura oil-on-canvas murals were funded by TRAP (Treasury Relief Art Project). In 1939, he painted “Texas Immigrant” for the Brady, Texas, post office under the auspices of the WPA. Gordon Kenneth Grant’s life ended tragically in a bizarre accident; he was shot by a miniature canon when he was only 31 years old. Gordon had been visiting the workshop of George F. Steedman at Casa del Herrera and was examining a small brass cannon on the work bench when there was an explosion. The coroner speculated that he had accidently touched the fuse with a lit cigarette while he was peering in the muzzle of the cannon. He died March 1, 1940. (Sources: Wellesley College: Report of the President 1930-31; Ancestry.com; www. wpamural.com; Massachusetts Guide to its Places and People – 1937 Federal Writer’s Project; Artists of California by Hughes; www.sbmuseart.org/exhibitions/archive/2001.web; Roxanne Grant Lapidus “Brothers in Art” in Autumn 2003 Noticias.) •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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A rendering of the Children’s Museum of Santa Barbara, which is expected to open June 2016 at 125 State Street. Construction site prep is beginning this week, with an official groundbreaking set for the fall.

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on August 5 at Montecito Community Hall and will be open to the public.

At its meeting next Tuesday, August 5, Montecito Association’s Land Use Committee will discuss the possibility of building a pedestrian pathway near Butterfly Beach on Channel Drive. The idea for such a pathway was recently brought up by a Montecito resident, who asked the association to look into what permitting and county processes would be necessary. “It is very preliminary, and we are just discussing what the process would be,” said MA executive director Victoria Greene, who also told us this is not the first time the idea of a pathway has been discussed. The pathway would likely be located on the ocean side of Channel Drive, to allow pedestrians to walk above the beach without being in the middle of the street. The meeting is scheduled for 4 pm

the green light to begin construction on the Children’s Museum of Santa Barbara, slated to open June 2016 at 125 State Street. Equipment is moving onto the currently vacant lot, as site prep will begin immediately, followed by a groundbreaking event this fall. When complete, the 25,000-squarefoot museum will include 17,000 square-feet of interactive educational exhibits based on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STE(a) M), plus a rooftop Sky Garden, smart classroom, and Museum Store. It was designed by the late Santa Barbara architect Barry Berkus and will be Santa Barbara County’s first LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design)-certified museum. It is projected to have 95,000 visitors per year. •MJ For more information, visit www. childrensmuseumsb.org. •MJ

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elcome to the crypt.” I peered around a thick stone pillar. “Did she say crypt, as in dead people and rats?” My wife mouthed the word “What?” We were wearing headphones in the dim room in the bowels of the United States Capitol building, as there were multiple tour guides spieling among the pillars and the 13 statues representing the original 13 states, including John Stark from New Hampshire, whom I thought should have been made out of granite, not marble. I decided to employ one of my many self-taught skills. Using sign language, I indicated I was having trouble. My wife nodded and pointed at a sign on the far side of the crypt. It read, “Restrooms This Way.” I was going to sign that it was hearing trouble, but the tour guide was spieling again, so I simply increased the volume until it felt like she was actually in my ear. We had taken the express bus from Mount Vernon so we could make the 9 am Capitol tour. A lot of the regulars were complaining to the bus driver because it used to cost $3.65 with the bus pass but now cost $4, and they did not feel as though they were getting their additional 35 cents worth. I didn’t think it was such a great idea to complain to the person in charge of hurtling us along the parkway just a few feet from the huge Potomac River, but we made it okay getting off at 14th Street.

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Unfortunately, the Capitol is on First Street. We scurried there (like rats?) just in time to line up with hundreds of others who thought nobody would be there early on Monday morning. Our first stop was the huge Visitor Center for orientation, which was disorienting because there were people everywhere, as well as statues representing many states – including Native Americans for Wyoming

We scurried there (like rats?) just in time to line up with hundreds of others who thought nobody would be there early on Monday morning. and the Dakotas, and Hawaii’s King Kamehameha, dressed in gold, pointing to indicate that the surf was up. I stood still and pointed to see if anyone would take my photo, until my wife showed our passes and got us into the crypt line. Apparently, the crypt was supposed to be the final resting spot for George Washington, but by the time it was completed in 1827, poor GW had been dead for 28 years. That was a long

Round and round the Rotunda: visitors tour the Capitol building

time to keep him on ice, especially as refrigeration was not all that great in 1799, so he is buried on his Mount Vernon estate. “The 40 Doric columns in the crypt,” the tour guide was telling us, “support the floor of the Rotunda and the nine-million-pound dome directly above us. Follow me.” Nine million pounds! Was that a creak? There were even more tour groups in the 96-foot circular Rotunda and 11 more statues. Gerald Ford is looking up like he’s trying to figure where his golf ball landed, and Ronald Reagan, whose hair still isn’t gray, has pieces of the Berlin wall built into the base of his statue. The tour guide pointed up to the “eye” of the Rotunda some 108 feet above us that has a painting titled “The Apotheosis of Washington” depicting GW’s ascent into heaven, flanked by female figures representing Liberty and Victory. Not bad for a guy with bad teeth. Of course, we could only see part of the majestic

painting, as there was a huge piece of plastic covering most of the dome. “The plastic is to catch any falling debris,” the tour guide said, “while they fix some cracks and plug some leaks.” Nine million pounds and it’s cracked and leaking! I thought I felt a drop and flashed a sign-language warning to my wife. “Try to hold it,” she mouthed. Our next stop was the National Statuary Hall that had... wait for it... more statues! Thirty-eight in all, from Father Junipero Serra to Lady Liberty to Rosa Parks, the only person sitting, which seems appropriate. The National Statuary Hall is also where they hold special events including the official dinner after the inauguration of a president. Made me wonder if they have to wear headphones. Maybe I could get a job using my special sign language. I asked my wife what she thought. She mouthed: “Next time, make sure you go before you leave home, •MJ will ya?”

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Aboard Polaris are Ed Attlesey, Richard Mineards, Homer Smith, Bud Toye, Dave Baxter, Roger Chrisman, Harvey Banick, and Brad Schaupeter (photo by Priscilla)

High Seas Speed Nautical social gridlock overtook the ocean waters off the Santa Barbara Yacht Club when the 142-year-old institution hosted the 42nd annual Santa Barbara to King Harbor race, 81 miles to the south in Redondo Beach. One hundred yachts, varying in size from 22 feet to more than 70 feet, frenzily jockeyed for starting positions in the event, one of the biggest races on the West Coast calendar. I was lucky enough to be in the midst of the maritime melee on the 57-foot cruiser, Polaris, owned by Granada philanthropist and 2010 commodore Roger Chrisman, which was being used as the starting boat, along with four other former club commodores – Homer Smith, Bud Toye, Dave Baxter, and Ed Attlesey. Race director Brad Schaupeter handled the organized chaos with aplomb, as the official crew, including Dave Wyman, kept an eagle eye on the competitors to make sure there weren’t any false starts.

Among those jockeying for position from SBYC is Taxi Dancer with skipper Jim Yabsley at the helm (photo by Priscilla)

“You just have to know what you’re doing,” said Brad calmly, as the various classes alternated starting lines, marked by huge yellow and orange buoys that had been anchored a couple of hours before the race start. The event was not without drama, even before the first shotgun was fired by Roger, as Harvey Banick had to be ferried to Cottage Hospital after badly injuring his hand when a blade of his drone cut his finger to the bone. Current commodore Larry Leveille says he entered the second King Harbor race in 1974 before joining the SBYC. “I still remember the hospitality at both ends of the first race, and many subsequent ones,” he says. “We’ve got a long list of people who have been in the event over the years.” Santa Barbara’s Grant Lepper and King Harbor’s Rosie Vullo were this year’s co-chairs. As the yachts disappeared over the horizon, we returned to harbor and a well-deserved repast at the clubhouse...

Another SBYC entry is Prevail with skipper Bill Guilfoyle at the helm (photo by Priscilla)

Another Magical Summer at MAW As the Music Academy of the West Summer Festival reaches its final week, the performances are still pulling in the crowds. The popular Tuesdays @ 8 series at the Lobero featured works by Debussy, Schoenberg and Mahler, while pianist Stephen Hough performed an entertaining “Sonata No. 2”, Notturno Luminoso. Four days later, again at the Lobero, New York Philharmonic music director, Alan Gilbert, conducted an entertaining concert of contemporary works – “Chamber Symphony No. 1” in E-flat major by Schoenberg and a 24-year-old Chamber Symphony by Thomas Ades, with an assortment of unusual instruments, including an empty wine bottle.

Setting the colored flags and sounding the warning horn for participating yachts are Dave Wyman and race director Brad Schaupeter (photo by Priscilla)

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SENIORITY by Patti Teel

Moving to Sedona

Texan polo patron Scott Wood with his ERG team that carried off the USPA Nespresso America Cup, beating club president Dan Walker’s Farmers & Merchants team, 19-9, with brothers Tinchos and Sebastian Merlos, scoring a combined 18 goals to secure a handsome victory. Nespresso executive Michelle McFaul presented the trophy. (photo credit Kim Kumpart)

and Dilling Yang, Mahri Kerley, Terry and Pam Valeski, Bill and Trish Davis, Robert and Gretchen Lieff, Michael and Carole Ridding, Janet Garufis, Nancy Gifford, Peggy Wiley, and Merryl Brown. Following dinner, Sotheby’s executive Andrea Fiuczynski auctioned off a number of lots, including a marble replica of Lotusland’s wishing well, a pair of Silverhorn diamond and sapphire earrings, a trip for two to Paris and a painting by local artist Phoebe Brunner, inspired by the garden... New York Phil music director, Alan Gilbert

Schubert’s 1814 “Symphony No. 2” in B-flat Major, wrapped the sold-out evening... A Fairy Good Time Lotusland turned into a fairytale setting when the 37-acre Montecito estate hosted its popular annual fundraiser, this time with the theme “Once Upon a Time.” The mystery and mischief of children’s stories came to life as the record 500 guests walked through the popular tourist property founded by opera singer Ganna Walska, meeting fairytale characters along the way, including Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, the Seven Dwarfs, and even Rapunzel in a 25-foot high tower with her handsome prince on a white charger trying to rescue her using her luxuriant long hair. And, as with all fairytales, everyone ended up happily ever after, raising around $300,000 for Lotusland’s many programs. Among the garden lovers and green-fingered guests, quaffing the Laurent Perrier champagne and quail egg canapés before dinner on the Main Lawn, were Leslie RidleyTree, Annette Simmons, Bill and Sandi Nicholson, Robert and Margo Feinberg, Thomas Rollerson, Mike and Anne Towbes, Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Susan McCaw, Tipper Gore, Hiroko Benko, Belle Hahn Cohen, Steve and Caroline Thompson, Henry 31 July – 7 August 2014

Polo Club Welcomes Polish It was lights, cameras, action at the Santa Barbara Polo Club when a Polish TV crew descended on the Carpinteria equestrian facility, shooting one of nine 45-minute episodes for Warsawbased TV network, TVN. “We are focusing on Polish women living in America and wanted to include footage of them attending a polo game,” one of the producers told me while filming outside the tent where I was attending a lunch thrown by coffee giant Nespresso, a season sponsor, and marketing director Michelle McFaul, with Dallas polo patron John Muse, just back from the Queen’s Cup tournament at Cowdray Park in England, Texas gadabout Charles Ward, and Leigh Brecheen. The series is scheduled for broadcast in the fall... Sightings: Singer Brad Paisley and wife, Kimberly Williams, checking out the crowd at Opal... Julia LouisDreyfus getting breakfast at Pierre Lafond... Actor Brian Baumgartner and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers at Tonic Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should e-mail him at richardmineards@verizon.net and or send invitations or other correspondence to •MJ the Journal

It’s possible to find your own spiritual pot of gold in Sedona, Arizona

ext week, I’m moving to Sedona, Arizona. Sedona has always been a magical place to me, and I have enjoyed vacationing among its majestic red rocks. This enchanted playground will soon be my new home. I have accepted a position as the marketing manager for the Sedona Mago Retreat Center, which is located between Cottonwood and Sedona. My husband and I have lived in the Santa Barbara area for nearly 30 years so needless to say, this is a big move – both figuratively and emotionally. I will miss my friends and co-workers, who have become my extended family. My husband and I have made only two big moves in our lives: leaving Nebraska, where we were both born and raised, to live in Las Vegas – and then to Montecito nearly 30 years ago. Before moving to Montecito, we used to vacation at the now-defunct Miramar Hotel with our two oldest children. (Our youngest daughter was born after moving here.) At the time, it was a wonderful escape from the heat and overstimulation of Las Vegas, where we lived for eight years. On one of our Montecito family vacations, we saw a “For rent” sign in the window of a cottage on Miramar Beach, called the owner, and on a whim, rented it. The house was small, and it was a little like living in a fishbowl, yet I often look back at that time period as the happiest of my life. Memories of long summer days spent at the beach playing with the children in the sand, get-togethers with other families, and walks through Hammonds Meadow will never be forgotten. Today our children are grown, and it’s time for a new adventure. I am looking forward to working at Mago Retreat Center. It is similar to Montecito’s La Casa de Maria in several ways; they are both non-profit organizations offering programs that are taught by their own staff as well as other renowned experts, and they

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. – Danish proverb

each invite like-minded groups to hold their own retreats at their centers. Most importantly, both centers cultivate spiritual growth, nurture a culture of peace, and work for renewal of the earth. Mago is the name for Mother Earth in ancient Asian cultures. Nestled among the red rocks, Mago Retreat Center provides an ideal space to let go and reconnect with the Patti Teel is the RSVP Volunteer Manager, freelance publicist, and co-host of the Young at Heart Radio Show on KTMS 990. You can contact Patti at seniorityrules@gmail.com.

Earth’s healing energy. It is owned and operated by Tao Fellowship, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was established in 1998 to promote the spirit of Tao as a principle of harmony and peace. The elements of energy, healing, and meditation form the foundation of all their programs and activities. To get to the Mago Retreat Center, you must travel down a long, unpaved road. Last month as I drove down the bumpy road to see the center, I’m sure I’m not the first person to think that it represented a life’s journey – filled with inevitable potholes and ups and downs. Once I arrived, I was ready to relax and soak in the peace and beauty of the environment. The staff made me feel welcome, and I soon realized that this was much more than a job to them; it was truly a calling and a way of life. As I answer the “call of Sedona” and enter a new chapter in my life, I hope to report back to you and will always stay connected with my Montecito and Santa Barbara family. Perhaps you will be drawn to explore and experience the wonder of Sedona and •MJ the Mago Retreat Center. MONTECITO JOURNAL

Music Academy of the West

by Steven Libowitz

A Quintessential Carmen Pays It Forward

he most exciting development at the Music Academy of the West’s (MAW) 2014 Summer Festival has clearly been the new partnership with the New York Philharmonic. The four-year deal has already brought many of the musicians to campus, as well as the vaunted music director Alan Gilbert – who gave perhaps the most engaging performance of obscure material ever presented in a fellows’ chamber orchestra format at the Lobero last weekend – with the full orchestra to follow in future years. But the voice program – previously the most pronounced portion (and certainly the most popular) of MAW – is having a pretty darned-good year, too. That all culminates in this weekend’s presentation of Carmen, a brand-new fully staged production of Bizet’s classic created to coincide with the 80th birthday of Marilyn Horne, the famed mezzo-soprano who runs the MAW voice program and one of the most famous Carmens in American history. Horne’s triumph under Leonard Bernstein’s baton at the Metropolitan Opera in the early 1970s also won a Grammy Award for the cast recording. The Music Academy’s production of Carmen is set in the 1850s right here in Santa Barbara, an era when the region was in transition and still very much influenced by the Californios’ rich Spanish heritage, a backdrop that seems rather appropriate for a story of a gypsy woman, courted by soldier and toreador, seeking freedom and opportunity. The season-long “Carmen Celebration” in honor of Horne continued last week when she received the official title “Honorary La Diva of Old Spanish Days” in a rare collaboration of Fiesta with a performing arts organization. She’ll also ride in Friday’s Fiesta Historical Parade in an antique carriage sponsored by Montecito Bank & Trust, corporate sponsor of the academy’s 2014 Summer Festival. James Gaffigan conducts after leading symphony concerts with the fellows orchestra the previous two summers, while David Paul returns for a third turn as director. The huge production – by far the biggest of MAW’s recent two decades in opera – also feature dancers from Santa Barbara’s State Street Ballet, choreography by William Soleau, and a chorus that includes local children. Last week, I sat down with Ms. Horne and Briana Elyse Hunter, the vocal fellow who will portray Carmen

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Briana Elyse Hunter as Carmen (photo: David Bazemore)

Marilyn Horne’s Carmen was legendary (photo: Henry Grossman)

in MAW’s production; she was born 14 years after Horne’s quintessential turn kicked off the Met’s 1972 season. Here are excerpts from the conversation: Q. Briana, how excited were you to get cast to play Carmen this year, during the special 80th birthday celebration production honoring Ms. Horne? BEH: It’s a great honor, and I feel immensely privileged to be here. This is my first time doing the role. What better place to get it into my voice and my bones and develop this wonderful character?... Carmen has some of the best music. I didn’t grow up with opera. But when I first heard Carmen, I recognized almost every single tune. I didn’t know the context, but I knew the songs – they’ve been absorbed in our culture. And who doesn’t secretly want to be her? Carmen is such a cool character. We want to see ourselves in her. There are so many great things about her I love to project and play out on stage. Is it exciting? Daunting? Challenging? MH: Just say you hate it. BEH: It really reinforces for me the great lineage that we’re carrying on in this art form. We’re another branch on this great tree of this tradition. I feel so lucky to have one of the greatest Carmens supervise my work. MH: When I’m talking about, say, a Strauss song and Lotte Lehmann, I can say, “Just remember, she learned it from him. And I am it now for you!” What does it take to be a great Carmen? MH: First of all, you’ve got to be able to sing it. And then you’ve got to bring your own take on this woman –

who and what she is. I always repeat this whenever I teach: It’s all in the words. (To Briana): Doesn’t that help you? BEH. Yes. MH. It really does. Because Carmen does an awful lot of responding to people in those recitatives. So it helps you create the character. But I will tell you one thing: when I did it at the met, my manager had never seen me do Carmen. And he came back stage and said, (dripping): “That was not all acting!” Ms. Horne stresses that it’s important to bring your personality to the role. How do you see yourself in Carmen, or vice versa? BEH: At first, I really didn’t. Not much. People would say, “You’d make a great Carmen!” and I’d think, “I hope not.” I mean, I hope I don’t treat people that way. But what I enjoy finding (is that) within the stories, (there) is so much of her humanity. She’s been depicted as a one-dimensional femme fatale, a maneater. But there is so much more. I want to make her a richer, more real person, (albeit) one who might have made some choices that weren’t the best. MH: Carmen is tuned in to the elements around her. Pretty deep. (What you have to do is) find that within yourself. You don’t have to make it up. Marilyn, what do you see in Briana that makes her right for this role? MH: Her voice, of course. And her physical appearance – she looks like a Carmen. But we also saw something else in her that made us realize this is the gal we want. How do you feel watching her? Does seeing the production evoke a lot of memories? MH: I haven’t watched yet.

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Tomorrow’s the first day. It’s not fair for me to go in while they’re in the process of putting it together. But (the director) knows I’ll come in with all guns blazing when I do. If I don’t like something, he’ll hear about it immediately. I look at it all: the clothing, every stitch, the sets. All of it... (But, yes) inevitably it brings up memories. They’re there. There were great moments, but also some bad ones... The other big thing is that Carmen is the workhorse of the evening. She sings all night and in all the ensembles. And then that damn Micaela comes on with that aria and just takes the applause of the evening. I’ve told the story many times. I was walking back to my dressing room, after a performance at the Met, with Edgar Vincent, who had been Risë Stevens’s manager. [Stevens, who died last year, was the internationally renowned mezzo-soprano who sang Carmen at the frequently during the 1940s and ‘50s.] And I said I’m not going to sing this part anymore. I work my ass off! And he said, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard her say the same thing. It can be a very dangerous part for a lady to sing because you can get caught up in the heat of the emotion of what’s going on, and you start doing things that are marvelous for the character, but not so great for your voice. I know an awful lot of ladies who sung too many Carmens and had to pack it in. So you have to remember to only pick a few moments to let it all hang out... After I sang Carmen, I would always go back to my coloratura stuff to get my voice lined up again. So how is your stamina, Briana? MH: They all work so hard here. They rehearse from 9-12 mornings, and 1-6 and then evenings 7-10. BEH: Well, they did give me the morning off today... MH: I do try to coach her in the part, how to use the words in different ways. I offer my take; whether she uses it or not is up to her. What has informed your choices, Briana? Have you also listened to all the albums and watched the videos? BEH: I really did. My process is to see a bunch of ways that people have done it. Even just with the ring toss, everyone has their own take. Ms Horne has been extremely gracious with all of her knowledge but also with understanding that I’m a different person. What’s legendary about her role is how each person puts themselves into it. I am never going to be Marilyn Horne, so I’m going to be myself. I’m thrilled to have all the advice, but I just let it simmer and try things out. 31 July – 7 August 2014

Finally, what’s the single most important thing you can tell an aspiring singer? I know you used to tell students “Don’t do me,” meaning maybe being as ambitious as you were about repertory. But it worked for you.... MH: But it may not for others. You’ve got to be your own person. If you’re lucky, you figure yourself out early enough. BEH: (Laughs). Well, I don’t want to do anything bigger than Carmen. At least not for a while. I’d love to do it all. But it’s not so easy to have that career. MH: You have to be careful. People will want you as Carmen now. You can’t do that. Maybe 10 performances a year. That’s it. BEH: I was thinking I need to get a really good pants suit. There are so many roles I want to do where I can’t walk in to the audition with the red dress. I want to broaden the spectrum.

This Week at Music Academy of the West

Thursday, July 31: It’s rare to have

both one of the Downtown Community concerts and a picnic concert on the

same day. Both feature select fellows performing chamber music in an intimate space (Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Mary Craig Auditorium at 2 pm for the former; Hahn Hall at 7:30 pm for the latter), offering pieces they’ve been perfecting in coaching sessions and master classes during the last several weeks. The big differences? The picnic concerts cost $30 and are long sold-out, while the community event is free and available on a first-come, firstserved basis on the day of the concerts.

Friday, August 1: The big deal

tonight and Sunday is Carmen, of course. For more, please see my interview with this year’s star and one of history’s famous Carmens above. (7:30 pm, 2:30 pm Sunday; Granada; $15-$120).

Saturday, August 2: Today’s Chamber Music Matinee (nee marathon, the title prior to this year when it took up the whole day instead of just an afternoon) is a great opportunity to hear MAW’s instrumental fellows in ensembles of all sizes and makeups performing movements from chamber compositions both famous and obscure, especially pieces they haven’t had a chance to perform publicly previously (1 pm; Hahn; $16).... Tonight, a select few of the fellows – that would be those who aren’t playing in the orchestra for Carmen – get to shine on stage alongside Academy Alumnus in Residence Joshua Roman, the illustrious young cellist who inaugurated the program last year. Roman, who turned 30 last December, was a fellow at MAW in 2002 at the age of 18, and won the principal chair at the Seattle Symphony at 22 before launching an enviable career as a soloist, chamber musician and dedicated pioneer of new performing platforms such as YouTube and social media. He’s also partial to exploring new music; tonight’s concert includes the world premiere of we do it to one another, his own setting for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and sopra-

Monday,

August 4: Pianist Jonathan Biss, the final of the four Mosher Guest Artists for 2014, makes his first public appearance in a solo recital to kick off the final week of the summer festival. Biss, 33, is another rising young star, one whose interests run from Mozart and Beethoven to ultra-modern composers. The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant is currently recording all 32 of the Beethoven sonatas in a nine-year project. Tonight, we’ll hear “No. 1” and “23” (Op. 2 & 57, “Appassionata”), plus a nocturne and polonaise by Chopin, and Janacek’s “Sonata October 1, 1905”, “From the Street”, and selections from On an Overgrown Path (8 pm; Hahn; $50). Biss also teaches tomorrow’s solo piano master class (1 pm; Hahn; $13 & $15).

Tuesday, August 5: We’ve had several opportunities to see the great

“

Glenn Dicterow coach the fellows in master classes in both solo violin, string chamber, and string leadership. Tonight’s final Tuesday @ 8 concert is also just the second change to hear him actually perform, as the just-retired concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic joins his wife, violist Karen Dreyfus, and violinist Kathleen Winkler, cellist David Geber, and pianist Jonathan Feldmann for Brahms’ nearly hour-long “Piano Quintet in F Minor”, Op. 34. The concert opens with the Clarinet Quintet by Bernard Herman – who is better known for his film scores, including the music for Hitchcock classics Psycho and Vertigo, and Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane – played by Richie Hawley and one of the fine fellows string quartets. The quintet, written in 1967, was the composer’s final concert work (8 pm; Hahn; $40).

Wednesday, August 6: With just three days left in the summer festival, today’s master class represents the final public appearance of the magnificent Marilyn Horne in this summer celebrating her 80th birthday. Will the vocal fellows be utterly spent after last weekend’s performances of Carmen at the Granada (see above)? Or will they be re-energized and excited for one last coaching session with the great diva? Our money says the latter. •MJ

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What’s been maybe the most challenging part? MH: When Carmen does the fortune in the (tarot) cards (which predicts her death), she believes it. The direction in the score at the end is that “she runs into the knife.” I could never buy it. I couldn’t do it. I didn’t think the people in the audience related to her seeing death in her cards. I just couldn’t do it. Can you? BEH: No. Why would she want death? I think she’d fight to the end. (Director) David (Paul) and I have had this conversation: when you come to that point, even if you know it’s fate, how willing are you to accept it? MH: She’s a gypsy. She believes what she sees in the cards. I think in a way she’s not afraid to die. She’d definitely rather die than be trapped. BEH: Oh, absolutely.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3690

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3690 for the LA COLINA FORCEMAIN No. 2 project will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 P.M., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “LA COLINA FORCEMAIN No. 2, Bid No. 3690". The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: furnish and install an approximate total of 3,290 feet of 8-inch HDPE sewer force main in accordance with the plans and specifications. The Engineer’s estimate is $715,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING THE 2014-2017 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AND THE SANTA BARBARA CITY FIREFIGHTERS' ASSOCIATION The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on July 22, 2014. The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014 at 10:00 A.M. at the LA COLINA LIFT STATION, at the CORNER OF LA COLINA ROAD AND PESETAS LANE. The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Bradley Rahrer, Project Engineer, 805-560-7531. In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal. A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work. The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder. GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA _ William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: July 30 and August 6, 2014 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s)

have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): All Radiator Company, 3820 State

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

ORDINANCE NO. 5661

(Seal) /s/_____________________ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5661 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on July 15, 2014, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on July 22, 2014, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

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

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on July 23, 2014. /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on July 23, 2014. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. All Radiator Company, INC., 3820 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 10, 2014. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 20130000536. Original filing date: February 15, 2013. Published July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Oasis Realty, 55 Hitchcock Way, Suite 206, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Gordon V Elconin, 1220 San Antonio Creek Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 21, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of

• The Voice of the Village •

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5339 DUE DATE & TIME: August 13, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Crash Phone Cable Project for Airport A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on August 7, 2014 at 2:00 p.m., at Airport Administration Office, located at 601 Firestone Road, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C7 Low Voltage Systems or C10 Electrical Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0002116. Published July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Craftoday; Nonprofit Scout; Nonprofit Teacher, 19 Arroyo Vista Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. Mary Monique Littlejohn, 19 Arroyo Vista Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 23, 2014. This

Published: July 30, 2014 Montecito Journal

statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0002153. Published July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zee Zed Zed, 1747 Grand Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Suzanne C. Eldredge, 1747 Grand Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5336 DUE DATE & TIME: August 21, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Pest Management for City Buildings A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on August 13, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., at the Building Maintenance Conference Room, located at 616 Laguna St., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN No. 2014-0001979. Published July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: B&L Painting, 116 N. Nopal St #3, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Jesse Benenati, 15 Las Alturas Circle, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103. Perry Benanati, 265 Pacos Street, Ventura, CA 93001. Mark Lentini, 308 Santa Monica Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 8, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland,

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County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 20140001984. Published July 23, 30, August 6, 13, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Forest Farm Music & Art, PO Box 5816, Santa Barbara, CA 93150. Dorothy Darr, 1008 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 10, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0002011. Published July 23, 30, August 6, 13, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Twelve Hour Baby, 7281 Butte Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. Carissa Stutzman, 7281 Butte Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. Joshua Stutzman, 7281 Butte Drive, Goleta,

CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 30, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 20140001923. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HIPEI, 6174 Manzanillo Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. Ling Star Technology LLC, 6174 Manzanillo Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2014-0001972. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HIPEI, 6174 Manzanillo Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. Ling Star Technology LLC, 6174 Manzanillo Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2014-0001972. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DJD Investments, 201 W. Main Street, Santa Maria, CA 93458. Cleotilde Campoverde, 125 Rosemary Dr, Paso Robles, CA 93446. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 9, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original

statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Mary Quakenbush. FBN No. 2014-0001995. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Skyline Property Management, 14 West Valerio Street #A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Savvy Real Estate Solutions, INC, 14 West Valerio Street #A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 25, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0001879. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Kieran Publishing, 776 Palermo Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Erin Graffy, 776 Palermo Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 23, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2014-0001836. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Anastasia Arts, 1187 Coast Village Road #1434, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Anastasia Nelson, 1187 Coast Village Road #1-434, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 25, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2014-0001876.

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Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pacwest Blooms, 1358 Cramer Circle, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Suzanne B. Schneider, 1358 Cramer Circle, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN No. 2014-0001974. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: 1 Stop Pool Pros 29, 130 South Patterson #1627, Santa Barbara, CA 93116. Jeffrey R. Kirchmaier, 1709 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 18, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0001799. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Quality Promotions & Events; Racecarden, 454 Orange Blossom Lane, Goleta, CA 93117. Charles Baird, 454 Orange Blossom Lane, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 20, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0001819. Published July 2, 16, 23, 30, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Aanstad Imports, 649 Tabor Lane, Santa

Barbara, CA 93108. Julianna Onstad, 649 Tabor Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 25, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0001871. Published July 2, 16, 23, 30, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TOPSYZ, 945 Ward Drive #20, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Julia Chrynko, 945 Ward Drive #20, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 12, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0001743. Published July 2, 16, 23, 30, 2014. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1467576. To all interested parties: Petitioners Susan Robinson and Jason Robinson filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Summer Faye Young Robinson to Summer Marie Young Robinson. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed June 27, 2014, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: August 27, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/6

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ONGOING Concerts in the Park – Creedence Clearwater Revival and headman John Fogerty got their props when Fortunate Son had the huge crowd up and dancing up a storm (or at least a tiny dust cloud) at Chase Palm Park last Thursday. But the park is dark – egads! – this Thursday (July 31) in deference to Fiesta (though you’re welcome to groove it on down to Celebracion de la Dignatarios at the Santa Barbara Zoo, with perennial dance band favorite – and previous park participant – Soul City Survivors the same night. Concerts in the Park returns the following Thursday, August 7, for the penultimate show of 2014, the annual Summer of Rock! concert, featuring a quartet of local hard rockin’ youth bands – Voice of Reason, Bi-Polar Bears, Bad Jack, and Galvanized Souls – doing roughly half-hour sets. WHEN: 6-8:30 pm WHERE: 323 East Cabrillo Boulevard COST: free INFO: www. santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/ parksrec/recreation/events/parkrec/ concerts.asp Music at the Ranch – Want more local music? It’s a smaller and appreciably mellower crowd that comes out each Tuesday to the Stow House in Goleta for the weekly concert series held smack-dab in suburbia at the restored house and gorgeous grounds of Rancho La Patera. The

sweet sound of music permeates the garden setting, where guests are invited to bring a picnic and enjoy dinner while you’re grooving – or just listening – to one of our fine assortment of Santa Barbara-based bands. Here, you’re actually allowed to imbibe alcohol (legally); in fact, wine and beverages are available for purchase on site, as are tasty barbecue victuals from Georgia’s Smokehouse food truck. And if the music doesn’t suit you, a long leisurely stroll around Lake Carneros will soothe the soul. This week (Tuesday, August 5): Mescal Martin, the eight-piece Latin jazz band that blends American jazz and Afro-Cuban music and features some of the area’s top musicians, including saxist John Schnackenberg and percussionist Lorenzo Martinez. Coming Tuesday, August 12: TBA (at least at press time) WHEN: 5:30-7:30 pm WHERE: 304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta COST: free INFO: 6817216 or www.stowhouse.com/events THURSDAY, JULY 31 Next generation – Proximity Theatre Company’s annual benefit concert supports the work of this forward-thinking, outside-the-box youth company that does a heck of a lot more than put on a play, often pushing its players with rigorous rehearsals and lots of activities not normally associated with acting (writing, body work, team-building). “Experimental

ONGOING Summer cinema – UCSB Arts & Lecture’s summer film series focuses on silent comedy for 2014, boasting features and shorter films starring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. There are two venues each week: indoors at Campbell Hall on campus at UCSB each Wednesday at 7:30 pm, and Fridays at 8:30 pm under the glorious night sky open air at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens, where pianist/ composer Michael Mortilla provides live improvised musical accompaniment most weeks. But this week, Campbell Hall is your only option as the Sunken Gardens are occupied Friday with Fiesta’s Noches De Ronde. Coming Aug 6 and 8: The Navigator and One Week, starring the incomparable Keaton. The former features hilarity on the high seas as a pampered young millionaire (Keaton) faces romantic foibles on an ocean liner in a classic that boasts some of Keaton’s most elaborate and entertaining gags, plus sea creatures, spies, and cannibals. The short One Week – which could have been a sequel – finds a newlywed couple receiving a build-it-yourself house kit as a wedding present and attempting to accomplish the feat in one week. Mortilla provides the musical soundtrack for both. More information and the film schedule online at www. artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Films.aspx

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THURSDAY, JULY 31 GOO-ey Art – Get Oil Out! (GOO!) celebrates its 45th anniversary with a special art show, “Reflections of an Oil Spill”, commemorating the 4½ decades of work to protect Santa Barbara Channel and honoring the efforts of several “Artivists” – individuals who combine passion for the environment with visual art. The exhibition opens to the public today, but the artist reception on Wednesday, August 6, from 6-8 pm features Montecito resident Bud Bottoms, the founder of GOO! and the sculptor of the iconic dolphin fountain at the base of Sterns Wharf. Bottoms will participate on a panel with other artists and environmentalists drawn from the show’s artists: Peggy Oki, the Iwerks brothers, Tom DeWalt, members of the Oak Group and SCAPE, and a number of up-andcoming, next-generation artists. Proceeds from sales of the art will help fund the work of Get Oil Out!, which started the same day as the January 28, 1969, oil blow out in the Santa Barbara Channel, which presaged Earth Day. WHEN: Today through August 31 WHERE: Faulkner Library, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: www.getoilout.org

teen performance movement theater is what they call it.” Accordingly, the music for tonight’s show is a bit left of center, too, featuring Santa Barbara bands Mango Mango, Doghouse, Mad Hearts, White Moon, Little Big Here, and special guests. And it’s for and about teens, so show time is a bit earlier than usual, too. WHEN: 6:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10 in advance, $12 at the door INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com Oklahoma! in Solvang – It almost boggles the mind that a pretty standard story about boy meets girl that takes place in a small backwoods town in a rural part of a midwestern state became a groundbreaking musical that ushered in the golden age of musical theater. Oklahoma!, the first collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, reinvented the musical theater genre, pushing boundaries and creating new theatrical devices including a dream ballet and song in which the lyrics were written before the music, allowing them to connect the show tunes/dance numbers with story. Oklahoma! ran for more than five years, a record that stood for 13 years until My Fair Lady in 1956. While the show has been a staple as community and high school theater for generations, the opportunity to see a professional production – especially one done outdoors under the stars, where virtually all the action in the story takes place – is all too rare. Even moreso, given director/choreographer Michael Jenkinson’s desire to make the musical authentic for

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today’s audience, noting that the world the characters live in is “dirty, complicated, and emotional... accurately and unapologetically representing realism, heartache, hard work, love, and tragedy” – a departure from previous musicals, musicals that came before. This piece accurately and unapologetically represents realism, heartache, hard work, love, and tragedy.” WHEN: 8 pm Tuesdays through Sundays, today through August 24 WHERE: Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd Street, Solvang COST: $38.50-$49, with discounts for previews, seniors, students, and children INFO: 9228313 or www.pcpa.org SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 Axes of Jazz – The Santa Barbara Jazz Society continues to step it up with this month’s concert, which brings the New West Guitar Group to the intimate confines of SOhO. The trio – John Storie, Perry Smith, and Jeff Stein – are graduates of USC’s Thornton School of Music, and jointly based in Los Angeles and New York, meaning they’ve come by their success honestly and have done their part to serve as guitar ensemble pioneers. The trio normally favors classic popular covers, jazz standards, and a lot of their own originals, but tonight’s concert is their “A History of Jazz Guitar” program, which means they’ll be playing classic jazz standards in tribute to the rich history of jazz guitar. WHEN: 1-4 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $25 general, $15 SBJS members, $7 31 July – 7 August 2014

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 Ojai Playwrights Conference – The Santa Barbara International Film Festival brings some of the world’s greatest actors, directors and other filmmakers to the heart of downtown. The Music Academy of the West likewise attracts many of the country’s finest classical conductors, soloists, ensemble players and educators to its annual summertime festival. Ditto the Ojai Playwrights Conference, which operates a bit under the public radar but serves as one of the most acclaimed new play developmental programs in the country. The conference itself brings playwrights from all backgrounds together for an intensive two-week, in-residence workshop, with the goal of enabling the artists to qualitatively rework and refine their dramatic vision. The process culminates in OPC’s popular public performance series known as the Summer New Works Festival. This theme this year – the OPC’s 17th – is “Breaking Barriers,” which probably holds true for all of the fest’s previous renditions, too, as playwrights both new and well-established use the nine-day event to showcase new work, collaborate with others, and immerse themselves in playwriting culture. This year’s highlights include eight new play workshops featuring works by the likes of Robert Askins, Bill Cain (author of Equivocation, which received raves and turned a lot of heads at UCSB’s production last spring; it’s among five plays he developed at OPC), Chankethya Chey, Mike Daisey, Nick Gandiello, Sandra Tsing Loh (still refining Madwoman in the Volvo, which she presented at UCSB last season), Ruby Rae Spiegel, and Stew. Alice Tuan once again serves as writer-in-residence. The two “Intersection Series” special performances offer some boggling opportunities, too: Two Dynamic Duos-One Musical Event in collaboration with Walt Disney Imagineering, Creative Entertainment, and An Audience with Meow Meow created and performed by “kamikaze cabaret” artist Meow Meow, directed and adapted by Emma Rice. Patrons can also dine with OPC playwrights, actors, directors, and other company members during the Dinner al Fresco on the picturesque grounds of Besant Hill School in upper Ojai (August 9-10; $17). WHEN: Today through August 10 WHERE: Most events at Zalk Theater at Besant Hill School, 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Road, Ojai COST: Ranges from $25 for individual events to $231 for the OPC All Access Pass, which includes admission to all 11 ticketed events INFO: 640-0400 or www.ojaiplays.org

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students and musician members INFO: 684-8321 www.sbjazz.org or 9627776 www.sohosb.com MONDAY, AUGUST 4 The Fire up Above – Has indie rock ever produced a more thrilling band than Arcade Fire? The Montreallaunched ensemble, which a decade ago put out its first record, Funeral, following the deaths of several of the band members’ relatives, and by 2010 had earned a well-deserved (and rarely accurate) Album of the Year Grammy for 2008’s Suburbs, an ambitious record that evinced the band’s take on everything from their own childhoods to the aspirations of

the middle class over a wildly eclectic soundtrack that incorporated several genres and styles. Reflektor, last year’s follow-up, hasn’t been as commercially successful in terms of bringing Arcade Fire U2-style domination, but still represents artistic leaps over its predecessors – not to mention that the band also scored Spike Jonze’s quirky, and Oscar-nominated, film Her. Arcade Fire’s current tour, with Dan Deacon opening and Owen Pallett as both opening act and main set collaborator, hits the Santa Barbara Bowl tonight for what might be the show of the year. WHEN: 6:30 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $60-$80 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com •MJ

MONDAY, AUGUST 4 Aussies love Etta – Sydney, Australia’s Alex Hahn already earned some accolades within the local jazz and blues scene for her powerful vocals and passionate performances even before recording her debut album, The Wallflower, which pays tribute to the life and music of legendary R&B singer Etta James in 2013. The album and related show drew plaudits for the brutal emotional honesty that helps Hahn portray Etta’s turbulent life story through her greatest hits. Now the Alex Hahn Trio are bringing a stripped-back version of the show stateside for a show at SOhO tonight. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10 with dinner/$12 at door INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

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