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For Montecito’s Susan St. John, Kenya comes fullcircle with lifelong schoolsupport project, P. 6

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P.10 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P.50 • OPEN HOUSES, P.53

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Planning Commission explores Westmont College Master Plan for new Leadership Center, p.12

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Michael Hammer vows to raise the now three-year-old Coast Village Car Show to a whole new level, p.26

GOOD-BYE

DEBBY “D”

Between storm clouds and rain showers, accompanied by a large pod of frolicking dolphins, Debby Davison – the face and the voice of Santa Barbara from nearly her first KEYT broadcast until her retirement from the station 16 years later – was buried at sea in view of the coast that she loved so well (story begins on p.5)

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

5 Editorial

James Buckley reflects upon the ceremony at sea held for local television personality Debby Davison, who passed away July 7

6 Montecito Miscellany

Susan St. John and Kenya; Jennie Garth weds David Abrams; Tab Hunter Confidential in Los Angeles; Rob Lowe’s love life; Katy Perry visits AHA!; Cody Walker to co-star in Nicolas Cage film; California Wine Festival; La Fiesta del Museo endures rainfall; Blondes versus Brunettes; MAW contest at Granada; Condor Express opera cruise; birthday breakfast at Pierre Lafond; Belmond El Encanto polo luncheon; Downtown Nugget pre-opening; and SB Polo Club hat contest

8 Letters to the Editor

Arthur Merovick tips his cap to Lady Ridley-Tree; David McCalmont on elections; Katherine Smith seeks vacation rental info; Joe Mackey says enough already; Bill MacKinnon reflects on Ross Macdonald; Señor Anonymous about Donald Trump; Sharol Siemens and Montecito Community Foundation; and Barry Howard writes about The Milan Expo

10 This Week

Artist workshop with Joni Chancer; Dr. Lita Singer book signing; community workshop; Swazzle puppets; The New Yorker discussion; Once on This Island; 1960 class reunion; benefit concerts at SOhO; Effortless Being seminar; Carp Museum Marketplace; Rachel B. Aarons book signing; Living Wall Garden class; The Hunting Ground screening; MBAR meeting; Summerland yoga; poetry writing; magic at library; knitting and crocheting; vacation rental ordinance workshop; Centering Prayer; Classic Car Show; silent yoga walk; tea dance; art classes; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; Adventuresome Aging; Story Time; Italian talk; and farmers market Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

12 Village Beat

26 Coming & Going

James Buckley starts his engine and cruises with car and art aficionado Michael Hammer about the 4th Annual Montecito Motor Classic

30 MAW 2015

British baroque conductor Nicholas McGegan converses with Steven Libowitz before a Tuesday, July 28, concert at the Lobero; picnic concerts at SB Museum of Art; and flutists, pianists, and violinists abound

35 Your Westmont

Special Olympics athletes visit Santa Barbara before the World Games, and a Warrior slays the Westmonster 5K

42 Montecito Sportsman

John Burk ventures to the San Bernardino Mountains and traverses far and wide around Big Bear Lake to experience the Alpine Zoo, Pebble Plains, and Solar Observatory

44 Legal Advertising 47 Movie Guide 50 Calendar of Events

Concerts in the Park; Summer Film Series; The Turtles at Chumash; SB in step at Marjorie Luke; Jim Gaffigan comes to Santa Barbara Bowl; Chumash resort hosts Shaun Jones; Ataris rocks Velvet Jones; Arts Fund Gallery exhibit; Debbie Davis at Carrillo Recreation Center; and The Hunting Ground at Marjorie Luke

53 Open House Directory 54 Classified Advertising

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

55 Local Business Directory

Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

Montecito Planning Commission discusses Westmont’s Master Plan; Corazon Cocina to open at Montecito Country Mart; Friends of Montecito Library discuss fundraising; American Riviera Bank to merge with The Bank of Santa Barbara; and expect delays on San Ysidro Road beginning next week

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner chronicles the Courthouse Legacy Foundation; the Art Foundation of Santa Barbara; and SB Museum of Art’s latest exhibit

22 On Entertainment

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Steven Libowitz gets a close look at Tell Me on a Sunday and chats with director Jamie Torcellini; special events at Ventura’s Rubicon; and a summary of additional theatrical productions

24 The Way It Was

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Editorial

Building

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Debby Davison (6 December 1950 – 7 July 2015)

he Condor Express pulled out of its berth at Sea Landing just after 4 pm on July 19 and the captain steered the craft – loaded as it was with mourners and memories – out past the official three-mile federal limit legally required for the completion of its mission, which was to bury one of Santa Barbara’s favorite daughters. The always smiling, always upbeat Debby Davison succumbed to breast cancer Tuesday evening, July 7, after a 10-year struggle with the disease. She passed away peacefully at Serenity House in Santa Barbara, surrounded by family and close friends. She was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, but became – at the age of 39 – the face of Santa Barbara just a few days into her beginning stint as a KEYT television Debby Davison news co-anchor. Working alongside veteran King Harris, the two covered – along with newbie TV reporter John Palminteri – the Painted Cave Fire that ripped through the city in late June 1990. She reported on it with such a degree of professionalism and reassurance that Santa Barbarans adopted her, called her their own. Before she died, Debby had prepared her own funeral arrangements that included having her ashes buried at sea off the coast of the city that had embraced her so passionately and had meant so much to her. On this Sunday, Debby’s sons Eric and Scott, Eric’s wife, Stacy, Debby’s bereaved husband, Dennis Phelps, his son Dennis and wife, Carla, and some 100 of Debby’s friends and relatives were onboard to reminisce and help carry out her dying wishes.

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of them visit a local tattoo parlor. When they got there, Eric decided against a tattoo, but Debby went ahead and chose a small turtle design, which she had inked onto her right butt cheek. Eric says he’d been searching for the right container to place her ashes in, but couldn’t find anything that seemed appropriate. He asked his mother to “contact” him and offer some guidance, and just days before this at-sea ceremony was to take place, he spied the ideal item online and had it shipped overnight to his home. The papier-mâché turtle arrived in time, and her ashes were placed

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

Lauding Lady Ridley-Tree

our article on the extraordinary generosity of Lady Ridley-Tree (Editorial, MJ #21/28) was a fine tribute to a woman who heads a short list of those wonderful people whose philanthropic contributions have so positively impacted the unique quality of life that we all enjoy in this special place. She has provided the example for so many in supporting the various causes that benefit us all. The new Cancer Center of Santa Barbara will take its place as the finest facility of its type between L.A. and the Bay Area. It will be a key factor in allowing Santa Barbara to continue to attract and retain some of the finest oncology physicians in the country. To have this center of excellence in our own backyard is a privilege usually reserved for residents of the largest cities in the country. We all owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Lady Ridley-Tree for having done so much in the past and, now once again, for her leadership in the effort to provide this new state-of-theart facility as part of our exceptional healthcare options. I speak for us all, and especially for those facing the challenges of this terrible disease, in expressing heartfelt appreciation. Arthur Merovick Montecito (Mr. Merovick is a board member of both Sansum Clinic and The Cancer Foundation. His family and friends have established the A.J. Merovick Patient Assistance Fund to help those facing the financial hardships that accompany a cancer diagnosis. – J.B.)

The “Early Voting” Machine

It’s a misnomer to even call this “Early Voting,” because, for all intents and purposes, it never ends: It goes on 24/7/365. Between rounding up illegal non-citizens like sheep and shepherding them by bus a month before Election Day with a Democrat Slate Card for “guidance,” and finding more and better ways to circumvent election rules by getting teenagers, dead people, non-citizen legal residents, and felons to vote the party of government (Democrat) begin election day with a victory margin that’s almost impossible to overcome by normal legal means. The major reason why the Democrats don’t come close to win-

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ning in non-presidential voting cycles is because most of the people they count on to swamp the ballot box with illegal votes can’t be coaxed to vote except every four years. With this outrageously slanted playing field during a presidential voting cycle, Democrats begin the election campaign with almost a lock on the Electoral College. This won’t cease until election rules are strictly enforced. But this won’t happen because those that benefit from Democrat election victories will scream “racists” and throw all sorts of other one/two syllable epithets at anybody who wishes to stop illegal voters from voting. The bottom line is that Democrats feel everybody has a right to vote in American elections, just as everybody in the world has a right to enter America and squat (before then claiming a portion of the entitlement welfare pie). And if they vote Democrat, they may claim the moral right to vote more than once. After all, we must keep the scoundrels out of office at all costs. What greater moral crusade is there than that? David S. McCalmont Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Yeah, I saw the machine in action about three weeks before the 2012 election. It was at an outlet mall outside Las Vegas. Voter registration tables had been set up in the middle of the mall, whereupon one could register... and then vote, all at the same time. The people in line did not look like Romney’s voters. I knew then that we were in trouble, regardless of the movement in the polls. The party machinery had already locked up tens of thousands of votes from people who would otherwise have been too lazy or unconcerned to cast a ballot. It was a brilliant strategy; one that could never work if there were actually an Election Day rather than an Election Month – or longer – that has been allowed to develop over the past couple decades. Let’s face it: these people – let’s call them apparatchiks – are simply better at growing well-paid government jobs for themselves and benefits for their constituents than their opponents are at trying to stunt the tide of more regulation, more taxes, and more control. – J.B.)

Short-Term Rental Blues

I am hoping you can investigate and give some information regarding shortterm vacation rentals in Montecito. I am curious about the legality and regulating of this practice.

Recently, two homes in my neighborhood became vacation rentals and the noise is beyond intrusive and nerve-racking. Music at full blast, drunken loud voices, raucous laughter at late hours, and multiple cars blocking the streets and driveways. If this was an occasional occurrence by a neighbor, I would not mind, but it is five to 10 times a month. One of the homes has four bedrooms and the ad states it can sleep 14 people. Fourteen people staying there and multiple friends stopping by. This home has a minimum stay of two nights, so renters are constantly coming and going. Of course, not all renters are rude, but enough are that it definitely is a quality-of-life issue. This is a business in a residential area. I have contacted the rental agency and they told me they would tell the renters to keep it down, but I have not seen any change. I am hesitant to contact the police. I know we can’t be the only homeowners with this growing problem and was hoping your paper could shed some light on the zoning and legal issues. Katherine J. Smith Montecito (Editor’s note: Yours is the very first letter we’ve received about this, but there has been an ongoing conversation about how to deal with the issue. A vote by the SB Board of Supervisors should take place sometime over the next couple months and the likelihood is that there’ll be a minimum of at least two weeks, perhaps even 30 days, imposed upon such rentals, countywide. – J.B.)

When Will “Enough” Be Enough?

A recent Wall Street Journal article outlined the consequences of

Democrat-Green policies on the Golden State beginning in 1999 with Gray Davis and continuing. Gasoline is now $1.11 a gallon higher in California than the national average. Electricity costs consequently are also excessively high. Back in Colorado now, it is gorgeous and green and wet, although I know winter is out there in the distance. I do wonder if the citizens in California will rise up against these scientifically flawed rules and laws. The demographics suggest not. As beautiful and enchanting as Santa Barbara, Montecito, and California are, I do wonder if – like others who have fled California – we will at some point throw up our hands and say, “That’s enough.” Contrary to global warming alarmists, new research suggests a new ice age beginning around 2030, because of a predicted decrease in sunspot activity. And now the national press reports Congresswoman Lois Capps wants to abolish the terms “husband” and “wife.” Good grief! Joe Mackey Montecito

We Hardly Knew Him

In 2009, I wrote an essay lamenting the extent to which residents of Santa Barbara and Montecito had lost sight of one of the area’s greatest novelists, Ross Macdonald (aka Ken Millar). You ran my piece (MJ #15/40) under the title “Ross, We Hardly Know Yah.” Returning to that thought, I note that a recent issue of The New York Times carried a wonderful review by Louis Bayard of Suzanne Marrs’s and Tom Nolan’s new book, Meanwhile

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SUNDAY, JULY 26 Living Wall Garden Class Explore the art of nature and join for a “Living Wall Garden” class with Francis Dawson, who will demonstrate how to create art that is alive and evolving using a variety of plants and natural materials to create beautiful garden art that can be displayed in your home. All materials are provided, and guests take home their living garden art after the class. When: 10 am to noon Where: Santa Barbara Public Market, 38 W. Victoria Cost: $45 Reservations: (805) 770-7702

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, JULY 23 You Can Become an Artist If you’ve been hesitant about creating art, this is the day to start on your journey. Especially geared for the beginning artist, learn to create simple sketches, learn essential watercolor techniques and more, in a supportive and encouraging format. Hosted by Joni Chancer, who has facilitated art workshops nationally and internationally for more than 20 years. When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $109 with lunch; $95 without Info: www.lacasademaria.org Book Signing at Chaucer’s Author and psychologist Dr. Lita Singer will sign her book, Cancel the Pity Party: Five Steps to Creating Your Best Life. When: 7 pm Where: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State Street Info: 682-6787 Community Workshop The Alliance for Living & Dying Well recommends using the Five Wishes process developed by Aging with Dignity to lead your conversation and help formulate the decisions you put into your Advanced Care Directive. To get this conversation started, The Alliance offers free workshops for members of our community to attend and gain knowledge on end-of-life care! When: 10 am to noon Where: Montecito Covenant Church, 671 Cold Spring Road, Fellowship Hall Registration and information: 845-5314 Swazzle Puppets Swazzle is a puppet company dedicated to the art of live puppetry. This time, they’ll take young readers on an adventure with Superconductor: An Adventure Through Music. The show tells the story of Superconductor, a daring hero who goes on a comical quest to rescue Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm from the clutches of the villainous Decomposer. Best for ages four and up. Please arrive early, as space is limited.

When: 4 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker magazine. When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Theatrical Production  Showstoppers brings the magical world of Once On This Island to life with a talented cast of Santa Barbara youth. When: July 23 through 25 at 7 pm Where: La Colina Jr. High School, 4025 Foothill Road Cost: $7 to $15 Info: 682-9713

FRIDAY, JULY 24 Class of 1960 Reunion Santa Barbara High School’s Class of 1960 will hold a 55th reunion this summer, with events from July 24-26, including a campus tour, golf tournament, dinner dance, and barbecue. Email SBHS1960@ aol.com for more information. Summer Showcase & Benefit Concerts Girls Rock Santa Barbara (GRSB) proudly hosts a benefit concert at SOhO to raise program scholarship funds and to celebrate the original work composed by summer camp participants. All proceeds from the door directly support GRSB’s scholarship fund, allowing community girls from low-income families to attend camp and various after-school programs. When: 6 pm and 9 pm Where: SOhO, 1221 State Street Reservations: 962-7776 Effortless Being: Finding Freedom in the Midst of Life For thousands of years, spiritual traditions have taught meditation as a way to awaken to the happiness, joy, and love that are our true nature. Yet, many people find meditation tedious and difficult, a

never-ending struggle to quiet the mind or focus the attention. This has led to the popular misconception that meditation requires great discipline and years of practice. Peter Russell, who has been teaching meditation for 40 years, shows that the key is giving up all effort and trying. During this weekend workshop, you will learn practices that clarify and deepen your experience of meditation, allowing you to open more readily to the stillness within. He will show you how to manage thoughts, surrender resistance, and let go of attachments; how to distinguish ego from the true self; and how to use inner guidance in support of spiritual practice. He will also share his latest thinking on the nature of consciousness and spiritual awakening. When: 7:30 tonight through 1 pm on Sunday Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $390; includes two nights lodging in a shared room, meals, and tuition Info: www.lacasademaria.org

SATURDAY, JULY 25 Carpinteria Museum Marketplace Seventy vendors will sell their wares at an antiques market featuring antiques, collectibles, jewelry, furniture, books, plants, toys, clothing, decorative arts, household items, and much more When: 8 am to 3 pm Where: Carpinteria Valley Museum of History, 956 Maple St., Carpinteria Cost: free for buyers, $30 for sellers Info: 684-3112 Book Signing at Tecolote Rachel B Aarons MSW, PhD, will sign her book About Pain: For Those Who Suffer and their Caregivers. Aarons is a psychotherapist with more than 40 years experience and a three-time author. When: 3 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop,

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SUNDAY, JULY 26 Free Film Screening A free documentary screening of The Hunting Ground and panel discussion with representatives from local universities, state senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, and other policy makers. The movie is from the Academy Award-nominated filmmaking team behind The Invisible War. It is a startling exposé of sexual assault on U.S. campuses, institutional cover-ups, and the brutal social toll on victims and their families. The movie is a powerful tool to help ignite conversation, raise awareness, and drive change. Panelists will explore how this issue is handled locally and answer questions. When: 1 to 4 pm Where: Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 East Cota Street Info: 680-6479

MONDAY, JULY 27 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. When: 2 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 Summerland Evening Yoga A longtime Summerland tradition, taught by Bob Andre. Small Hatha 1 yoga class with brief meditation and breathing work. When: 5:30 pm Where: Summerland Church, 2400 Lillie Avenue Cost: $12

THURSDAY, JULY 30 Poetry Writing: Tips and Lessons for Teachers This workshop is for elementary grade teachers (grades 1-6) to help put fun and magic into the required poetry unit. Learn lesson plans, how to inspire students to love poetry, value their own voice, and take the fear out of the blank page. Hosted by Perie Longo, PhD, MFT, and Registered Poetry Therapist, who has been facilitating writing workshops for more than 20 years. She has been a poetry teacher with California-Poets-in-the-Schools (CPITS), and was the Santa Barbara poet laureate

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There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald. I urge you to reprint this review. I know that occasionally you reprint essays run elsewhere on political subjects; because of Macdonald-Millar’s importance to this area during the 37 years he lived in Santa Barbara and Montecito, I think Bayard’s review is an opportunity you should not pass by. I don’t know much about Suzanne Marrs, but I can vouch for Tom Nolan’s credentials as a writer and critic. He has written the definitive biography of Ross Macdonald, and he is the crime fiction reviewer for The Wall Street Journal. Their book sheds light on what was going through Ken Millar’s mind as he walked the streets of Santa Barbara, tried to save his home from the Coyote Fire, took his daily swim in the Santa Barbara Channel or the Coral Casino, banged away at the typewriter, and suffered through his marriage to fellow-novelist Margaret Millar. This is a high-test version of what lies below the surface that Richard Mineards deftly skims for us. Bill MacKinnon Montecito (Editor’s note: Thanks for bringing this to our attention, but unfortunately, getting reprint permission from The Wall Street Journal is not easy, would be prohibitively expensive, and would not be something that periodical would ordinarily countenance. – J.B.)

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plant, track storage, Carr Field, and more. Of the 166,664 square feet of development approved for Phase I, only 84,330 square feet were built, due to financial constraints. That pushed the residence hall complex, dining commons addition, and chapel, to subsequent phases, according to the staff report. Now, with the two-year “quiet phase” between Phase I and Phase II ending this November, Westmont is planning to construct a three-building project called the Leadership Center, which includes two residential buildings and one multipurpose structure. The multipurpose building can be transformed for multiple uses with the use of sliding walls and movable furniture to accommodate six different scenarios including a student lounge, lecture hall, banquet facility, and others. The project requires a revision to the Master Plan, which originally called for nine structures that are now being consolidated into the three-building project. A revised CUP is also required, allowing for an increase to the maximum development per phase from 60,000 square feet to 67,000 square feet. Over the five-hour hearing, the commissioners went through the Master Plan CUP section by section, allowing staff-recommended revisions to such items as arrivals and departures of construction crews (construction is now allowed 7 am until 4:30 pm, with deliveries permitted from 7 am to 7:45 am, before nearby Cold Spring School drop-off begins), clarification on certain state holidays, and the revision and clarification of various definitions and language. The commission also discussed a lighting plan for the new residence halls, coordination between Westmont and Cold Spring School (which is also undergoing a remodel next year), and the use of reclaimed water for dust control during construction. The revisions were all consistent with the Montecito Community Plan, Westmont reps explained. Phase II construction, which is expected to begin early next year, will cost roughly $33 million. Montecito Board of Architectural Review has reviewed the project four times; design details will be decided later this summer. The project is expected to be completed by August 2017. Documents related to the project are available online at www.sbcoun typlanning.org.

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other offerings. The pop-up has been operating out of Three Pickles Deli on Canon Perdido in Santa Barbara every Sunday since last fall, and now we’re told it has found a new permanent location at Montecito Country Mart, in the former location of Xanadu Bakery, which closed earlier this year. Owned and operated by chef Ramon Velazquez and his wife, Chrissie, the eatery has a cult following and has garnered rave reviews. Last month, the pair took part in the Montecito Country Mart’s Solstice Celebration, offering up seafood tacos and tostadas to attendees. Xanadu Bakery closed in January of this year, two years after opening across from Vons. (It was open elsewhere in the Mart before an electrical fire forced its closure for 18 months.) Mart owner James Rosenfield has extensively renovated the shopping center since acquiring a 30-year ground lease on the property five years ago. He’s added many tenants including Intermix, Space NK, James Perse, Calypso St. Barth, Rori’s Creamery, Mate Gallery, Merci To Go, Kendall Conrad, Pressed Juicery, George, Hudson Grace, Toy Crazy, and the relocated Read ‘N’ Post. They join previous tenants Malia Mills, One Hour Martinizing, Montecito Barbers, Little Alex’s, Panino, and Montecito Natural Foods. We’ll have much more on the new restaurant as the yet-to-bedetermined opening date approaches. For now, more information can be found at www.facebook.com/ SBCorazonCocina. Also at Montecito Country Mart this summer: free pony rides for children beginning this Saturday, July 25. Other dates include August 1, 9, 15, 22, and 29. All rides will take place from 10 am to noon.

Montecito Library Update

The reduction in hours of operation at the Montecito Library earlier this month was disappointing news to many of our readers and Montecito residents. At last week’s Friends of the Montecito Library (FOML) board meeting, the board of directors approved a new fundraising strategy in light of the recent budget cuts that resulted in the closure. Now open 36 hours per week instead of 45 hours – the library is closed both Sundays and Mondays – the Montecito Library fell victim to budget cuts on the county level, according to the Friends’ board. The Montecito Library receives 1/3 of its funding from Santa Barbara County, 1/3 from reserves that are funds donated to the library but controlled by the county, and 1/3 from dona-

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DOM Bedrooms Baths VIEW BUNGALOW DREAMY OCEAN 10 562 8 7 1 5 G0 Not Listed 0 N I 161 8 LIST 12 5 1 4NEW 5 789 5 4.5 41 4 9 1 6 8 19 6 7 149 5 5 39 4 6 190 5 4 36 3 4 Not Listed 3 7 232 6 5 164 5 2.5 142 2 1545 KNOLL CIRCLE 0 DR, SANTA 4BARBARA 0 5.5 1 5 5 272 3 OFFERED 6 AT $1,850,000 1 3 7 Not Listed 4 3 1 2 4 202 2 3 MEDITERRANEAN Not Listed 3 OLD WORLD 3.5 102 3 3.5 16 5 4 97 3 3.5 4 3 3.5 Not Listed 3 5 92 3 4 74 3 2.5 490 2 2 16 3 17 3 4 Not Listed 33 4 3 6 3 2 89 4 3 1 4 3 102 3 3.5 219 0 0 77 5 1506 MIMOSA 4 LN, MONTECITO 10 2 3 81 2 2 OFFERED AT $2,895,000 37 2 2 8 3 3 Not Listed 3 2 67 3 FUNK ZONE 3 CONDOMINIUM 1 3 2 11 2 2 11 0 0 CE 2 9 I 3 R 174 0 EW P 0 Not Listed 1N 1 343 2 2 32 2 2 10 2 2 45 2 2

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mittee. Keith, Katherine, and Linda were also underwriters and on the endowment committee along with Olivia Marr. Honorary Trustees are David Anderson, Sheila and Frank McGinity, Michael Towbes, and Alice Van de Water. Founding members of CLS at this time are Herb Barthels, Rodney Baker, and Robert Ooley, Bill Mahan, Keith Mautino, and Katherine Murray-Morse. For those who make a bequest or donation to the foundation endowment over the next 12 months, they will be recognized at founding members. Baker reminisced, “I grew up in Santa Barbara, and my brother and I used to squeeze through the Rotunda fence and play every Saturday.” Jacqueline Dyson remembered, “My folks brought me here every Sunday after church. I learned to walk in the Sunken Garden. My dad’s favorite photo is of us at the Courthouse when I was small. I found it in his billfold after he died.” Senior vice president of the Santa Barbara Foundation Jan Campbell spoke to the group about planned gifts. Special recognition was given to Herb Barthels and board president Mahan. Herb was not feeling well, so Jeannie Hill filled in for him. The afternoon culminated with Baker giving a “Behind the Scenes” Tour of the Courthouse. Rodney is passionate about the Courthouse and all the projects that need to be done, like the front

door. The tour was so special that he had the keys to the jail and showed us the solitary cells. We decided that all school kids should see it. No place you’d ever want to be. If you’d like further information, contact development director Linda Rosso at 770-7222 or Jan Campbell at 963-1873.

Art Foundation of Santa Barbara

The Art Foundation of Santa Barbara (AFoSB) has an amazing membership of 400 that I’m just learning about. Recently, they held a Santa Barbara Club members’ art exhibition. Members of the club entered paintings for the exhibit from their own collections, and they were hung all over the club by curator Keith Mautino. All those attending the opening reception were encouraged to vote for their top four favorites. First place went to Mautino’s painting, second to Nancy Schlosser’s, third to Sybil Rosen’s, and fourth to John and Tracie Doordan’s. While smoozing the art there was sparkling wine and hot hors d’oeuvres. This was followed by a presentation by the director of American Legacy Fine Arts Elaine Adams. She had come up from Los Angeles to tell us about “The Art of Buying and Collecting Fine Art.” As she said, “A buyer chooses what appeals at the moment, with no thought as to what

Art Foundation show curator Keith Mautino, Laurie MacMillan, president Arts Foundation Jon DuPrau, and Frank McGinity

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he already owns. A collector has a passion for certain kinds of art and will complement what he already owns.” Elaine is the wife of artist Peter Adams and is recognized as one of the country’s most dynamic and influential forces in the growing shift away from conceptual art and back to representational, figurative formats. President of the Santa Barbara Club John Doordan told us, “This is the third annual members exhibition.” He also admitted that the Club is one of the oldest in California established in 1892 but didn’t have female members for the first one hundred years. In those times when women did visit the club, they had to enter through a special door that led into the Remington room. Marilynn Sullivan has just

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Meshack indicated he could set the meeting up, but insisted that I must visit the village of his birth first.” It was then that Susan met his fiveyear-old daughter, Dorothy, and formed an immediate bond. “Her curiosity was unbounded, and the next morning I finalized my decision that the young girl and her sister, Susan, now 15 and named after me, were going to get an education.” And thus began the saga of Susan providing the necessary funds for their schooling. “Last year I received the first communication from Dorothy in all those years,” says Susan. “She is now fluent in how to use the computer and could speak English. Her message was heartwarming, and I am now in contact with both Meshack, as I have been for the past 15 years, and Dorothy, who has been studying journalism. “Just in case anything should happen to me, I have also created a trust in my will so that the girls can finish their education.” Dorothy graduates from the University of Nairobi in September next year, and Susan says she has every intention of sitting proudly in the audience. “This is one of the most wonderful things I have done in my life,” she adds. “Serendipity at its best!”

Then Comes Marriage Our community was celebrity wedding central the other day. While former Good Morning America co-anchor Josh Elliott tied the knot in our rarefied enclave with New York ABC anchor Liz Cho, as I exclusively revealed in this illustrious organ, Beverly Hills 90210 actress Jennie Garth plighted her troth to actor David Abrams, her beau of just eight months, during an intimate ceremony at the 43-year-old star’s ranch in Santa Ynez in front of family and

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friends, including former co-star Tori Spelling, I learn. Her daughters from her 2001 Montecito marriage to second husband, actor-producer Peter Facinelli, Luca, 17, Lola,12, and Fiona, 8, acted as bridesmaids, all wearing different dresses in pretty pastel shades. After the simple ceremony, performed under a wooden flower bedecked archway, guests tucked into a buffet of Southern food and moonshine cocktails. Jennie, who was dressed in a white bridal gown embroidered with roses. and David shared their first dance as husband and wife to Elton John’s “Your Song”. This marks the blonde beauty’s third marriage. She was with Daniel Clark from 1994 to 1996, and her

union with Facinelli ended in June, 2013, after almost two decades together after tying the knot at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church. L.A. Confidential Veteran stars turned out in force for the Los Angeles premiere of Montecito actor Tab Hunter’s documentary, Tab Hunter Confidential. The film, based on his 2005 New York Times bestselling book, was a sell-out event with fellow Montecito resident Carol Burnett joining Don Murray, Connie Stevens, and Terry Moore, and Santa Barbara executive producers Chad Dreier and Sharon Bradford, for the debut, which also coincided with Tab’s 84th birthday

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and was followed by a major after party. “It’s a smash hit on the film festival circuit, “ says Allan Glaser, Tab’s longtime companion. “Everything is a sell-out, with standing ovations at every one. “We’ve been picked up for theatrical distribution and are opening in New York and Los Angeles in October, before rolling out in 30 other cities in November.” The documentary will play in our tony town in the fall.

Bittersweet and Lowe He was known for being a wild child back in the 80s, and it seems Montecito’s Rob Lowe still has a few secrets to share. The actor, 51, who was at ComicCon in San Diego, says he used to poach women from glam rockers Duran Duran back in the day. Both Rob and Duran Duran member John Taylor were linked to actress Nastassja Kinski, now 54. Promoting his new Comedy Central animated show Moonbeam City, the St. Elmo’s Fire icon made the confession when a fan pointed out that show’s neon 1980s look resembled the cover art for Duran Duran’s 1982 best-selling album, Rio. “I might have stolen a girlfriend or two from them,” Rob told his audi-

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ence. “Not to rub their nose in it – cough cough – John Taylor.” Rob was known for dating a string of beautiful women in the 80s, including socialite and old friend Cornelia Guest, Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert, Princess Stephanie of Monaco, actresses Marlee Matlin, and Winona Ryder, and supermodel Janice Dickinson. He also dated his St. Elmo’s Fire and About Last Night co-star Demi Moore when the pair were members of the infamous 1980’s “Brat Pack” of young Hollywood stars. In his 2011 autobiography, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob was candid about how his out-of-control womanizing and alcoholism led to his downfall. However, in May, he celebrated 25 years of sobriety. Taylor is now married to Juicy Couture co-founder, Gela Nash, whom he wed in 1996. In his latest TV role, Rob voices the part of oversexed detective Dazzie Novak for adult cartoon Moonbeam City, which is a send-up of 1980s pop culture. Positive Attitude Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry made a surprise visit to the AHA! (Attitude Harmony Achievement) summer program. Accompanied by her sister Angela Hudson, the former Dos Pueblos High student spent three hours with the teenagers and took part in a creative writing and self expression workshop.

Katy, 30, heard about the organization which helps young students, from Dream Foundation founder Thomas Rollerson and Marla Lee Phillips, says AHA! co-founder and co-director Jennifer Freed. “Katy loved the social and emotions learning focus, alongside the exuberant fun and creative expression. The youth were over the moon and said it was a dream come true to meet their heroine. We were honored.” Katy, who is starring in high street retailer H&M’s 2015 Holiday Campaign following in the footsteps of Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, and her sister capped their visit by dancing the Electric Cha Cha Slide with the youngsters. Brotherly Love He stepped in to help finish his late brother’s scenes in the blockbuster franchise film Furious 7. And now Cody Walker, whose Santa Barbara-based brother Paul was tragically killed in a 2013 car crash, has been signed up to film a new movie with Nicolas Cage. The 27-year-old is starring in the World War II film USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, which has just started filming in Alabama. It’s the first major acting role for the handsome blue-eyed youngest brother of Paul Walker, who proudly shared a number of shots he did on set with Instagram followers.

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ell Me on a Sunday took a long and winded road on its way to the Ensemble Theatre, where the Andrew Lloyd Webber one-woman musical makes its Santa Barbara debut more than 30 years after it was composed. It’s a tale that’s almost as interesting and full of false starts as the musical’s story itself – which follows a young English woman trying to make it in New York City and Hollywood, along the way developing a number of relationships that let her experience both the joys and sorrows of finding and losing love. The idea for the musical originally came from Tim Rice, Lloyd Webber’s partner in the hit shows Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita (Phantom of the Opera came later) and was intended to be a TV series. But some issues developed, and Lloyd Webber turned instead to Don Black, who had not long before won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Born Free”. They turned it into a stand-alone musical intended as a vehicle for Marti Webb, the actress who was then starring as Eva Perón in Evita’s matinee performances. Although it had a successful premiere at a festival and enjoyed popularity as a TV special and soundtrack album, the creators wanted to pair it with another piece for the main stage, which proved challenging and eventually led to them moving on to other work. A few years later, Tell Me On a Sunday became the first act of Song and Dance, as it was combined with a short Lloyd Webber ballet. In 1985, the musical was adapted for Broadway with Bernadette Peters as the character previously known as The Girl, now renamed as Emma; she won the Tony Award, but the piece was short-lived stateside. Fast-forward to

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the 2000s, when the show, now back to a one-act, has had several British and European revivals, and a few endeavors in America. Just last year it had a definitive revival in London that again featured Marty Webb. But Sunday remains more popular for concert versions of its songs than for the full production. “There are probably five or six different versions,” explained Jamie Torcellini, who is directing the Ensemble’s production. “Many have the same songs, but not all of them are the same lyrics each time. You’ll always hear the title song and ‘Unexpected Song’, which have been sung by every diva ever doing a concert. They never change a bit. But a lot of the storytelling and recitative songs change all the time, depending on what’s happening in (the version) of her life. That’s the tricky part, latching on to the story.” Torcellini has his own history with Sunday, having seen it in its original song-and-dance version on London in the 1980s. “I also had the Bernadette Peters album, which I played all the time. I’ve been through my share of breakups and these are little anthems for those that are very good for healing.” In Tell Me on a Sunday, Emma is the only character to appear on stage, although through song she tells of many other characters who have shaped her life since coming stateside, relating her experiences trying to find the balance between love and career, and between using men for advancement and developing a more heartfelt connection. So casting the right actress-singer was of paramount importance, said Torcellini, who himself is no stranger to Lloyd Webber, having appeared in the original Broadway cast of Cats in the early 1980s (his other Broadway credits

include roles in Billy Elliot, Man of La Mancha, and Beauty and the Beast). That “girl” is Misty Cotton, who was last seen at ETC as Petra in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music and who owns a track record of playing strong, female characters, including Eponine in Les Misérables, Ellen in Miss Saigon, Sandy in Grease – and the narrator in Lloyd Webber’s Joseph. She’s won Ovation and Garland Awards, and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actress. “She’s the perfect person for this,” said Torcellini, who noted he’d worked with Cotton years earlier, coaching her for an audition. “To start with, Misty has an amazing voice. It’s unbelievably strong, and has so many facets. She’s also a great musician. This stuff is tough. There are a lot of difficult intervals that are not easy to hit, but from day one she was spoton.” The bulk of rehearsal time, then, has been spent on diving into the story, Torcellini said. “We’re finding out who Emma is. That exploration has been extremely fun and creative for both of us, to find the little moments of humor and personality, which can be very difficult in a one-woman show when you’re not playing off anyone. But Misty’s been amazing, and has made Emma very warm and fun. Because of that, she has completely made me fall in love with the show again.” The production itself isn’t dated, the director said. “The last version was made much more modern, but we’re not using that one. But it doesn’t matter. The basic story is about finding yourself and your own self-worth. That’s universal and timeless.” Torcellini hadn’t yet discussed personal lives with Cotton, but he’s finding himself tripping a bit down memory lane via rehearsals. “I had quite a bit of time with these songs for years,” he said with a laugh. “I’m embarrassed to say I’ve lived through (these experiences) quite a bit, so it’s easy for me to go there... and Misty gets it, too. Totally. I don’t know if she’s as bruised as I’ve been, but she sure sings like it. Whatever she’s tapping into is right.” (Tell Me On a Sunday opens at Ensemble’s New Vic Theater on Saturday, July 25, night following preview performances on Thursday and Friday, and plays until Sunday, August 2. Call 9655400 or visit www.etcsb.org for information and tickets.)

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Rubicon’s Runs

Rubicon Theatre Company (RTC) in Ventura is doing some special events over the summer rather than booking additional traditional theatrical runs. The Education and Outreach program’s Fearless Shakespeare Intensive is a three-week program that has students ages 14-22 working with industry experts in script analysis, scansion, verse work, and character development. The group is putting on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, adapted and directed by RTC regular Joseph Fuqua, who won raves for his own performance as the Danish prince at the Rubicon. Three performances only, July 25-26. RTC is also presenting master classes with industry professionals for both young actors and adults. Montecito’s own Golden Globe and Emmy winning writer Cheri Steinkellner and husband Bill, himself an Emmy winner and veteran of the Groundlings, are among the instructors who will guide participants a number of areas from movement to monologue to improv and mask. The courses begin Monday, July 27, and run through mid-August. Details on all the above are available by calling 667-2900 or visiting www. rubicontheatre.org.

Music Man and More

Counting Tell Me on a Sunday and Showstoppers’ youth theater production of Once on this Island at La Colina Junior High July 23-25 – but ignoring Ventura’s Rubicon altogether – there are no fewer than seven theatrical productions playing simultaneously in our area, five in Santa Barbara alone. I’ve only been able to catch one of the ones that already opened – SB City College’s very big, fun, tuneful, and surprisingly moving presentation of The Music Man, which plays through Saturday – but word is that all are worthy of viewing.

The Rest of the Rundown • Element Theatre Company’s popup production of A Bright New Boise plays at various venues around town through Sunday. • Kate Bergstrom’s On the Verge – the debut of the summer repertory company encompassing several world premieres and new to Santa Barbara shows centering around themes about women – stages its final weekend Thursday-Saturday. • Over the River and Through the Woods!, the comic tale of a Jersey boy trapped between family and career, winds up its run at the Plaza Playhouse in Carpinteria on Sunday. • PCPA Theaterfest’s mounting of the major musical Man of La Mancha continues through August 16 at the charming, open air Solvang Festival Theater up in the Santa Ynez Valley. •MJ 23 – 30 July 2015

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Florodora

Evlyn Nesbit may have been too short for the Sextette, but the New York architect and noted womanizer, Stanford White, wasn’t daunted by her diminutive size (Courtesy Library of Congress) Ms Beresford is a retired English and American history teacher of 30 years in the Santa Barbara School District. She is author of two Noticias, “El Mirasol: From Swan to Albatross” and “Santa Barbara Grocers,” for the Santa Barbara Historical Society.

Florodora opened at the Casino Theater on Broadway in 1900. Rudolph Aronson, a songwriter and theater manager, built the Casino in 1882 as the first theater designed specifically for musicals.

n the night of October 21, 1901, Lobero’s Opera House, said the Morning Press, “… was filled to capacity with a fashionable audience, and for the first time in its history, people managed to arrive in time to be seated before the curtain raised.” That evening’s performance eclipsed all sales records, and more than 300 seats had to be added downstairs. What caused the frenzied stir was that Opera House manager George A. Black had managed to book a onenight stand with the most popular musical comedy ever to hit Broadway, Florodora. The play had opened at New York’s Casino Theatre on November

12, 1900, where, said The New York Times, it made “a pronounced and instantaneous hit!” Destined to run on Broadway for an astounding 552 performances, it developed two national touring companies. Its cast members became instant stars, and its rhythmic tunes were sung and hummed throughout the nation. The Morning Press reviewer wrote, “Santa Barbara has had first-class theatrical attractions this season, in fact the finest that have appeared on the Pacific Coast, but last night’s production of ‘Florodora’ was perhaps the most magnificent and most greatly appreciated performance that has ever graced the boards of the opera house.”

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The musical comedy that filled San Francisco’s Columbia Theater to capacity for a three-week run and caused Santa Barbarans to mind their timepieces, had opened in London in 1899. With book by Owen Hall, music by Leslie Stuart, and lyrics by Ernest Boyd-Jones and Paul Rubens, the production ran for a successful two years at the Lyric Theatre. John C. Fisher, owner of the Fisher Opera House in San Diego, and Thomas W. Ryley, former actor turned manager and producer, secured the North American rights and recruited and trained an American company. A “soft opening” in New Haven on November 9, 1900, was favorably received with several songs and dances gaining repeated encores. Nevertheless, despite the favorable review from The New York Times on the opening night at the Casino Theatre, the show took a few weeks to garner a sizeable audience and neither the cast nor crew was paid for

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more than two weeks. Then things turned around. A little more than two weeks into the run, a contingent of Yale students, who had seen the play in New Haven, came to see it again at the Casino. Enthusiastic and boisterous, they joined in the singing of “Tell Me Pretty Maiden” and carried the song into the restaurants and saloons of New York. Soon, people began to wonder what all the fuss was about and performances began selling out.

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Clearly, it was the songs, dances, and beautiful girls that carried the show. The story itself was described unenthusiastically as having “continuity and some sense,” and while not being “startlingly original or unusually brilliant, was interesting at times and on the whole thoroughly acceptable.” The San Francisco reviewers said the plot was “almost logical,” and the Santa Barbara reporter said, “While there is nothing so very intricate in the plot of ‘Florodora,’ it is a consistent story and serves to keep the interest of those who like to follow plots at all times.” Actually, the twists and turns of the plot were not that easy to fol-

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American Riviera Bank and The Bank of Santa Barbara announced last week that a definitive agreement to merge the two institutions has been signed. Once complete, the new bank will be the second-largest community depository based in the City of Santa Barbara, with assets of more than $400 million. “The beauty of this merger is that the bank has the opportunity to grow, and clients have access to expanded services,” Jeff DeVine, president and CEO of American Riviera Bank, told us. One example: American Riviera Bank currently offers mobile deposit services (taking a photo of a check on your smartphone instead of visiting the branch), which The Bank of Santa Barbara clients will now get to enjoy. According to DeVine, the merger combines two of the leading community banks in the South Coast region and will result in an expanded footprint with branches in Santa Barbara, Montecito, and Goleta, as well as full-service Mortgage and Small Business Administration lending departments. The merger will allow the resulting bank a legal lending limit large enough to “meet the needs of the community and higher than either institution previously held.” Upon completion of the merger, which was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both institutions, DeVine will continue in his role as president and Chief Executive Officer. The Bank of Santa Barbara’s CEO Joanne Funari will continue in her role as executive VP and chief operating officer of the combined bank. The new board of directors, all of whom have deep ties to the Santa Barbara community, will be composed of representatives from both boards. Lawrence Koppelman, the current board chair of American Riviera Bank, will continue in his role.

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According to DeVine, the merger is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2015 and is subject to the closing conditions in the definitive agreement, including approval of regulatory agencies and the shareholders of both banks. It has not yet been decided what the new name of the bank will be, or if there will be a hybrid between the names of both banks. “This merger makes so much sense, and we didn’t want the name to get in the way,” DeVine said, adding that both banks have a strong connection to their names and branding. A study is underway, with a name to be determined in the next month or so. The Montecito branch is not expected to change much, except for a

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Montecito Water District (MWD) has scheduled the replacement of the 90- year-old cast-iron water main on San Ysidro Road between School House Lane and East Valley Road. The project is scheduled to start Monday, July 27, and is expected to take one month to complete. Construction activities will occur Monday through Friday between 7 am and 4 pm. Due to the construction work, traffic delays will occur on San Ysidro Road, as construction activity and pipeline installation will require a closure of one lane of traffic that will cause a temporary disruption in normal traffic flow. All traffic will be required to observe special posted safety conditions while passing through the construction zone. For additional information and concerns, contact Thomas Evans, engineering manager of Montecito Water District, at 969-2271. •MJ

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THIS WEEK (Continued from page 10) emerita (2007-09). When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $35 with lunch Info: www.lacasademaria.org Magic at Montecito Library Shawn McMaster, a spellbinding magician whose shows are laced with humor, performs a high-energy, interactive show filled with astonishment and hilarity for the whole family. Don’t miss this amazing magic show. Best for ages four and up. When: 4 to 4:45 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting. When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Short-Term Vacation Rental Ordinance Workshop The County of Santa Barbara has begun a project to clarify zoning ordinance provisions related to short-term rentals (fewer than 30 days). Although never allowed in residential neighborhoods, the county stopped enforcing zoning provisions that preclude this use after counsel determined that existing ordinance provisions lacked necessary clarity. Today a public workshop will be held in Montecito; members of the public are invited to share their thoughts on how and where the use may or may not be permitted. You may also provide comments to project manager Jessica Metzger at jmetzger@countyofsb.org. When: 6 to 8 pm Where: Westmont College in the Page Hall Multipurpose Room, 955 La Paz Road Info: www.montecitoassociation.org

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practice. There will be meditation walks, journaling, reflection, and prayer practice. Led 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 Classic Car & Vintage Travel Trailer Show The Santa Barbara Elks Lodge No 613 will be holding its annual “Groovin in the Grove Classic Car Show.” Along with the classic cars, vintage travel trailers, dating back to the 1930s, will also participate in the annual car show. The Elks expect this year’s event to be the largest since we began the annual show in 2006. Celebrity judges will also take part in the awards ceremony. Each vehicle will be judged from numerous categories, ranging from “American Graffiti” to “Drive Delight”. Car enthusiasts who wish to enter their vehicle in the event are asked to go to www. groovininthegrove.org. Unity Shoppe will be the beneficiary from this year’s show. When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: 150 North Kellogg Avenue Info: 452-0376

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 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. 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

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 Silent Yoga Walk & Meditation This non-denominational Yoga Walk is both family- and petfriendly (please note, pets must be kept on a leash at all times). The walk will be conducted at a moderate pace for 35 minutes and will be followed by a 10-minute guided meditation. The walk and meditation will be facilitated by Santa Barbara native Tom G. O’Brien, who has been teaching meditation to professionals, students, and families from all spiritual traditions for more than 20 years. When: noon Where: Lower Manning Park, 449 San Ysidro Road Cost: adults $10, students $5, no fee for veterans, first responders, or individuals in recovery for substance abuse Info and RSVP: rupameditation@gmail.com or text (805) 453-8965

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lunch for dependent adults When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $75, includes lunch, plus one-time fee of $35 Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 THURSDAYS Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time. When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative, too. When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Rd

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British baroque conductor Nicholas McGegan performs at the Lobero on Tuesday, July 29

by Steven Libowitz

Third Time’s the Concerto Charm

efore last December, it had been a bunch of years since Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos were played professionally in town. But then the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra closed out 2014 with a performance of all six of the famous works, followed this past May by an even more thrilling rendition from Camerata Pacifica, celebrating its 20th anniversary with the full slate of the six Brandenburgs, echoing its first concert two decades earlier when it was founded as the Bach Camerata. Now, we’ll get a third reading of the concertos in fewer than eight months, this time courtesy of the Music Academy of the West (MAW), which has programmed the pieces – four of them, anyway – as part of the faculty concerts at the Lobero formerly known as Tuesday @ 8. Be prepared to be blown away, because not only are the fine faculty members making up the small ensemble for the performance on Tuesday, July 28, but they’re being led by Nicholas McGegan, the impish Englishman long considered one of the finest baroque conductors of our time. But even before brandishing the Brandenburgs, McGegan steps to the podium at the Lobero this Saturday night, July 25, for his annual turn in front of the fellows, when he will lead members of the Academy Festival Orchestra in selections from George Frideric Handel’s opera Rinaldo (a change from the previously announced program of Handel’s Orlando) followed by Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony. The first Italian language opera written specifically for the London stage, Rinaldo was a huge hit in 1711, enjoying decades of popularity before falling out of favor for nearly two centuries until revivals began in the 1950s in Germany, and 30 years later in England and the U.S. The composer’s vocal fireworks and knack for melody will be on display in such arias as Or la tromba and Lascia ch’io pianga. McGegan discussed both concerts recently over the phone from New York just days before arriving on campus. Q. How do you keep a fresh approach to the Brandenburg Concertos when they are so well-known and often played? A. There’s some music I just never tire off, and it’s one of those that I don’t care how often I play it, I just love the music. The Brandenburgs are really glorified chamber music, written for a very small orchestra, less

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than a dozen at its largest. So we’re going to be giving the audience an experience in terms of scale the way it might have been nearly 300 years ago. The way I look at it is, it’s a miracle that they survived at all as the score – the single copies – were found in a library 100 years after they were first played. It’s unimaginable for a world without these pieces. In my view, they’ve never lost their freshness. Some music tarnishes, but that stuff never will.

You’re only performing four of the six concertos. If you do all six, there’s a kind of seventh, meaning moving the furniture around the stage (to accommodate the changing line-up). It’s quite tiresome and it takes too long. Each was written individually at slightly different time; he made a boxed set of it specifically for the Marquis. It’s not like it was conceived as a group of six. What we’re doing is plenty. It’s a rich diet... and really, music doesn’t get any more joyous than that. They really are the most stunning things. You’ve played the Mendelssohn at MAW before. What is its appeal for you? It’s one of my favorite pieces. It’s a great play for the orchestra. It also takes a tremendous amount of energy, even though it’s only half an hour. Which is great, because the students are very energetic, so it’s like taking them out for a run. I promise not to conduct in a kilt, though. I didn’t bring it with me. It’s a bit hazardous anyway, the way I swing around. But the piece is great fun to do. I’ve been in a Mendelssohn mood right now, much dipped in his music – I’m headed to Australia to do a full festival in the next couple of months. What can you tell us about which excerpts were selected from Handel’s Rinaldo? Marilyn Horne did all the hard work. She knows the students and what they’re capable of, and she’s performed the opera herself. So it’s her judgment who should sing which role and what music to use. I’m most joyously doing just what I’m told. There are a number of famous pieces in the opera and we’re doing all of them, plus a few duets that are even better. The music is absolutely glorious. It’s the first opera Handel wrote in London, and frankly he was showing off like crazy. It’s the most over-the-top piece you can imagine, both musically and dramatically. He

simply raided all the music he’d written in Italy, glitzed it up, and put new words to it and the result is this opera. You’re something of a Handel opera specialist, right? He wrote about 40, and I’ve done 25, which is more than most. But I’ve got an awful lot to go. To me, it’s just great that the Handel revival has not just been in the specialized field of early music. Now the Met, LA Opera, and San Francisco are all doing Handel operas on a regular basis. What that means for places like MAW is that the students coming there wanting to study and learn opera can do Handel, and there’s a good chance they’ll be singing it professionally because it’s now standard repertoire. You turned 65 in January. Where do you find all that energy you always seem to display? I’m the Medicare kid now. So it’s good that I’ve built up lots of energy. I drink lots of coffee. And I did just have a holiday in Scotland for 10 days. But music gives me energy. It’s what keeps me going. And working with the students is very invigorating.

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Thursday, July 23: When the vocal chamber music concert first arrived on campus around a decade ago, it was a revelation, as previously the singers and instrumental fellows (save for the vocal pianists, of course) rarely mingled outside of the annual opera production – and even then, the players are in the pit while the vocalists roam the stage. But over the last few years, there has been quite a bit more fraternizing in many ways, from performance/coaching sessions in master classes to selections during weekly picnic concerts to full-fledged concerts, such as this Saturday’s selections from Handel’s opera Orlando featuring vocal program fellows and members of the Academy Festival Orchestra (see above for an interview with conductor Nicholas McGegan). If there’s an interleague game in professional baseball every day, why not? Still, tonight’s annual concert remains quite an attraction, both for its intimacy (Hahn Hall) and the usual breadth

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and depth of the program, which features intense coaching from several faculty members – though we don’t yet know any details of what will be played. (7:30 pm; Hahn; $30).... If you haven’t yet made it out to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art for the fellows free mini-picnic concert performances every Thursday at 2 pm, what’re you waiting for? There are only three left! Monday, July 27: The great Tim Day has up and gone from Miraflores, but fear not – a superb flutist is here to fill in for the final two weeks of the season. Few flutists in history have mastered as many musical circles as Jim Walker, who plays jazz, pop, TV soundtracks, film scores, and, of course, classical, including orchestral, chamber, and solo performances. The former principal flutist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he left the orchestra in 1984 to focus on jazz, studio recording, and teaching. Over the last 30 years, he participated in hundreds of soundtracks in Hollywood, organized the Free Flight jazz quartet, appeared four times on The Tonight Show and collaborated with a diverse roster of musicians ranging from Leonard Bernstein to John Williams to Paul McCartney. The fellows get to enjoy two weeks of Walker, who is also the purveyor of the lauded summer masterclass “Beyond the Masterclass” (1 pm; Weinman Hall; free). (Walker will also participate in the MAFAS Brandenburg Concertos concert on Tuesday, conducted by McGegan).... The solo piano master class has its own distinguished visitor today: Robert McDonald, who was the recital partner for many years to Isaac Stern and others and now is a piano faculty member at the Curtis Institute and artistic director of the Taos School of Music and Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico (1 pm; Hahn; $15).... Stephen Bryant – who is leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and an in-demand guest leader who has worked with the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as a frequent soloist – takes the reins of the violin masterclass this afternoon before lending his talents to the Brandenburg concert Tuesday, July 28 (3:15 pm; Lehmann Hall; $13). •MJ 23 – 30 July 2015

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WAY IT WAS (Continued from page 24) A scene from Act 1 (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

From left: Margaret Walker, Daisy Greene, Vaughn Texsmith, Marjorie Reylea, Agnes Weyburn, and Marie Wilson of the original Sextette (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

None of which was as intriguing to the audience as the “tuneful, sensuous music” and the company of beautiful girls.

Song, Dance, and Girls, Girls, Girls

Belgium-born actress Camille Clifford was a Florodora girl and became the living embodiment of Charles Dana Gibson’s ideal woman

low. Cyrus W. Gilfain is the millionaire owner of the island of Floradora where plantations grow flowers for his perfume factory. Gilfain, however, stole the island and perfume business from his late partner, who, on his deathbed, had asked Gilfain to be guardian to his young daughter Dolores and to the business, until she should come of age. Dolores grows up to be a beautiful woman, and Gilfain, afraid his villainy might be discovered, tries to force her to marry him. She, of course, is in love with someone else, Frank Abercoed, the handsome young superintendent of the business. Enter Anthony Tweedlepunch, an old friend of her father’s, who goes undercover as a phrenologist and palmist to uncover the truth of the situation. Enter, also, the aristocratic but penniless Lady Holyrood, who has set her sights on the unscrupulous millionaire, Gilfain. Love is also in the air for the Floradora girls, who are heads of various island farms, and Gilfain’s clerks. In the end, it is Tweedlepunch who exposes Gilfain as a usurper; unites Dolores and Frank (who has become a Lord through the death of an elder brother); and opens the way for Lady Holyrood to marry Gilfain despite his double-dealing nature.

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The New York Times review of opening night of Florodora predicted that “with such sparkling, clever, and catchy music it will be sung, played and whistled everywhere before the town is a week older, and such a wealth of good things certainly spells success for the operetta.” The act that captured the American male’s adulation, however, was the syncopated double sextet’s “Tell Me, Pretty Maiden,” a ragtime tune sung by six top-hatted men and six corseted, Gibson-coiffed girls, wearing black picture hats and clad in pink walking costumes. They clearly stole the show. With a saucy, flirtatious air, the men sang “Tell me, pretty maiden, are there more at home like you?” To which the girls responded with a question of their own, “Tell me, gentle stranger, are there any more at home like you?” When the men replied, “There are a few, sweet maid, and hotter boys you never knew,” the girls coyly sang, “Then tell me, gentle sir, the things these very rakish fellows do.” (Oh, my!) Described as tall, slender, and beautiful, the girls each stood 5’4” and weighed 130 pounds. And there was not a pair of tights among them. New York society was bedazzled by them, and everyone wanted to meet them. Affluent men who attended the Metropolitan Opera House would, supposedly, check their pocket watches and slip way to catch the Sextette number before returning to their seats for the final act of Aida and a late supper with their wives. The much-anticipated production arrived in Santa Barbara via the “Florodora Special” on Monday, October 21, for their evening performance. Seven Pullman coaches carried the company, which totaled 107 members. Besides the actors, singers, and dancers, the company traveled with its own orchestra. Business staff,

The Morning Press ran several articles and ads promoting Florodora (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

electricians, stage workers, and servants of the principal members of the company rounded out the total. In Santa Barbara as elsewhere, “Tell Me, Pretty Maiden” and the chorines of the sextette, which had long been heralded, lived up to every expectation.

The Florodora Girls

A total of 79 girls were in the sextette over the course of its original Broadway run. All of the girls in the tour companies had been trained and performed at the Casino Theatre. But it is the story of the original six that created the myth that a showgirl was destined to marry a millionaire. Margaret Walker made a tidy sum in the stock market thanks to tips from her broker admirers and later married a wealthy man from Atlantic City, New Jersey; Vaughn Texsmith married a New Jersey silk millionaire, and Majorie Reylea married a New York City stockbroker. Agnes Wayburn married a South African diamond merchant, and Daisy Green married a rich Denver mining magnate. Marie Wilson, who had also received stock market tips from her broker admirers, ran up a fortune of $750,000 of her own before marrying New York playboy Frederick Gebhard. Gebhard and Stanford White, the lascivious New York architect, had leased a

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pair of seats to Florodora. Both were devoted fans, and it was from the Florodora chorus that White selected Evlyn Nesbit (who had been too short for the Sextette) for his special attentions. This liaison set off a series of events that eventually led to White’s murder. (But that’s another story.) Some of the later Florodora girls didn’t do too badly, either. Camille Clifford married the son of an English nobleman, and Frances Belmont crossed the pond to become Lady Ashburton. Others, like Nan Patterson, met tragedy. She was accused of the murder of her bookie lover in a hansom cab while he was on his way to a ship where he planned to join his estranged wife. Two trials later, the jury still couldn’t agree, so the deflowered Florodora girl was released.

Aftermath

The incredible popularity of Florodora led to the formation of Florodora Social Clubs in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. In L.A. the club was composed of a quadruple sextette, 12 men and 12 women, who organized social evenings of dance and games American ad men capitalized on the public’s devotion to the musical by marketing Florodora shoes, cookies, chocolates, suits, scarves, and patent medicine. Throughout the nation, the latest craze at the bar scene was the Florodora cocktail, presumably created at the Waldorf-Astoria. To take a trip to the past, mix 1 ½ ounce gin, ½ ounce fresh lime juice, ½ ounce raspberry syrup (or framboise liquor), and ginger ale. Garnish with a wedge of lime, and sing a chorus of “When You’re a Millionaire,” for the grand finale. (Sources: article by Cynthia Lowry in the Toledo Blade, 12 November 1950; vitaphone.blogspot.com/2007/02/arethere-any-more-at-home-like-you.html; Morning Press, October 1901; The New York Times, November 1900; Florodora brochure from 1900; Los Angeles Herald, January 1902; SF Call, February 1902; Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s Gledhill Library files) •MJ 23 – 30 July 2015

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the money to buy the corner (with the “dirt” cleaned up). We also raised enough money to plan for the subtle landscape of the corner. There is so much more to the story, but the heart and soul of it is that we who live here really want to continue loving and improving our community. We are the tax-exempt 501(C)3 organization that can and will continue to fund appropriate causes. Among other things, we also provide the signature wooden road signs. Our board is the recipient of donations and will distribute them as we abide by our by-laws. Our board is tenacious in its endeavor to continue to enhance all that we have in Montecito. As our mission statement says: “The purpose of the Montecito Community Foundation is to support a strong Montecito Community and serve as a resource for philanthropy.” Sharol Siemens President

The Milan Expo 2015

Most Americans believe that world’s fairs ended in the second half of the 20th century. In fact, the last one in the United States was hosted by New Orleans in 1984 and the last on the North American continent was in Vancouver, Canada, in 1986. Yet these unique events have occurred continuously elsewhere throughout the world from Brisbane, Australia, in 1988, to Shanghai, China, in 2010; and of course in Milan, this year. Italy, being among our favorite travel destinations, combined with the prospect of seeing the newest World’s Fair, was too tempting to resist. And reasonably priced business-class seats on Turkish Airlines (a recommendation) sealed the deal. Online information back in March about touring the Expo was limited, but at just over 270 acres – small in comparison to previous universal expos – we thought we could see many of the pavilions over the four days we had allotted. We were not prepared, however, for the fact that there was no onsite transportation, which restricted our daily schedule to what we could see walking eight to 10 miles a day, some 40 miles overall. Opening-day ceremonies on May 1 in the outdoor amphitheater consisted of a procession of flags from the 144 participating nations, and after listening to four of the many scheduled speeches in Italian with no translation, we decided to hit the pavilions. The traffic was rather light, and in spite a few raindrops the day began with enthusiasm. The Expo site has been transformed into a mosaic of nations committed to creating awareness of the theme “Feeding the Planet: Energy for Life.” We each selected pavilions that attracted our attention and/or based on Barry’s experience, having worked 23 – 30 July 2015

on designs of many pavilions in prior Expos. This strategy took us to the Russian pavilion, one of the furthest along the three-mile long central concourse that is the circulation spine of the site. A young, friendly ambassador explained that in Russia, potable water is being made from bread. I thought only Vodka was made from potatoes. However, after the taste of the “water “ in a small cup, I had all I could do but place the cup gently down where it would be out of sight. We took a few breaks during the day to test the food in various pavilions. I prefer to eat at a table with a white tablecloth and silver utensils, but most of the food stations were simple plastic and paper. On Day Two, we met with commissioner general Doug Hickey of the USA Pavilion, who explained that partners D.H.L and Boeing helped to fund the exhibit space. We learned that 120 young, informed “ambassadors” selected from various universities staffing the pavilion are on assignment for the six-month duration of the Expo. The U.S. message was simply explained by a sequential video show of various holidays that we celebrate. Food trucks parked outside were an attraction, but we were unable to experience the pavilion’s James Beard Restaurant, which was not yet open. Foreigners will love the food trucks and fast-food cuisine. The country of Kazakhstan, host of the next World’s Fair, was the busiest pavilion and the buzz was not to miss it. The entire pavilion was a very distinctive design with a huge 3-D theater devoted to the architecture of the city of Astana where the 2017 Expo will be hosted. Who would ever imagine an overview of skyscrapers and a city of tomorrow in this small country, little known in the West? Pavilion Zero, like the number that represents it, marks the beginning of all stories. The first room is a world archive, a huge library of Renaissance inspiration consisting of drawers representing human knowledge. As one moves on, the exhibits detail the domestication of plants and animals on which the seed of civilization lies. The story-telling food is the language of peace through which all people enter into the language of dialogue. This was the most harmonious explanation of the theme of the Expo and should be number one on the list. In summary, The Milan Expo, which will run through October 31, is a varied palette of education, color, design, taste, music, and of course… food! Barry Howard Adele Rosen Montecito (Mr. Howard is a designer of cultural museums and exhibits of historical content; •MJ Ms Rosen is an interior designer.)

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Debby Davison’s son Eric dubbed the papier-mâché creature that held his mother’s remains “Tatu” in honor of the small tattoo she’d gotten in Tahiti on her 50th birthday

inside before we boarded. Eric’s plan was to lower the turtle, which he’d named “Tatu” (a Tahitian word from which “tattoo” is derived), into the sea, whereupon it would slowly sink and deteriorate. From their resting spot at the bottom of Santa Barbara Channel, most of Debby’s ashes would probably drift toward Santa Barbara, but some would likely disperse in the currents and head outward across the ocean, where her reassuring smile may bring comfort and assurance to others. Nearly every solemn Santa Barbara affair turns into a joyous occasion and this was no exception. Friends greeted friends and commiserated with Debby’s family, and there was little doubt that’s what Debby would have wanted. It was the kind of event she would have been part of. She was popular, a desired guest at any gathering. She was loved.

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Just as we arrived at the three-mile mark, a pod of dolphins appeared, jumping joyously and in unison in the calm sea, playing off the starboard side and then the port side of the boat. We gathered on the bow to listen to remarks from friends and family. Catherine Remak called it “an honor to be asked” to help out with the service. “During her life,” Catherine said, “[Debby] envisioned this day, this spot, this boat. We know this because she left instructions. Our being here together at this spot was just what Debby wanted... There was so much to love about Debby,” Catherine said as each person was handed a small rose-colored stone. “She was a community champion, a mother, a wife, a force of nature.” Joyce Dudley remarked that “When cancer was busy attacking her, she

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Special Olympics Athletes Arrive in SB Joann Klonowski, SOWG vice president of Host Town; Savannah Barclay, Special Olympics Southern California global messenger; mayor Helene Schneider; and Westmont president Gayle D. Beebe

ne-hundred Special Olympics athletes arrived July 21 for a four-day visit to Santa Barbara, one of 100 Host Towns in California, before competing in the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles Saturday, July 25 – Sunday, August 2. The largest sporting event in Southern California since the 1984 Olympics, the 25-sport competition includes 7,000 athletes and 3,000 coaches from 177 countries. The Santa Barbara delegations come from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and St. Kitts and Nevis. The athletes have been staying at Westmont, using the college’s facilities for training and touring Santa Barbara with a dinner dance at the Cabrillo Arts Center, trips to the Museum of Natural History and the Santa Barbara Zoo, and a barbecue at Leadbetter Beach. On July 22, the Special Olympics athletes met and trained with elite athletes from the Santa Barbara Track Club, including: Barbara Nwaba, Lindsay Lettow, Lindsay Schwartz, and Tom FitzSimons from Team USA; Tom Hopkins and Ted Glasnow from the USA Nationals 2015; and Keegan Cooke, the Zimbabwe national record holder in the decathlon. “After planning their visit for the past year, we’re excited to finally meet these athletes,” says Jerry Siegel, Host Town committee chair. “The Host Town Committee has worked hard to schedule activities that welcome them warmly and show off our city.” At the World Games, the Santa Barbara delegations will compete in a variety of events, including aquatics, open swim, athletics, equestrian, golf, bocce, gymnastics, soccer, and tennis. “This is a perfect fit for Westmont College,” president Dr. Gayle D. Beebe said. “It so reflects who we are and who we want to be. We’re hon23 – 30 July 2015

ored to host the delegations, recognize their athletic and personal achievements, and support the outstanding work of Special Olympics.” Generous Host Town sponsors include Montecito Bank and Trust (Champion Sponsor) and Pacific Western Bank (Gold Sponsor). Nonprofit sponsors have made gracious donations: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, the Santa Barbara Zoo and Westmont College. American Riviera Bank, Union Bank, and the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table support Host Town activities as Bronze Sponsors. More than 4.4 million adults and children with intellectual disabilities participate in Special Olympics worldwide, with 226 programs in 170 countries. Last year, Special Olympics held more than 81,000 competitions, and some 1.3 million volunteers make these events possible. Special Olympics athletes, who include people of all ages, have an intellectual disability; athletes with physical disabilities compete in the Paralympics. The public can attend all World Games competitions in Los Angeles free, or follow the events on social media and the Internet: • www.Facebook.com/LA2015 • Instagram and Twitter: @LA2015 • Active hashtags include #ReachUp and #ReachUpLA. • www.LA2015.org • The free LA2015 mobile app is available in both the iTunes Store and on Google Play

by three seconds. Jihanna Allard of Norwich, England, was the top female finisher, followed by Desa Marie Mandarino of Santa Barbara. Swider, an incoming sophomore at Westmont, graduated from San Marcos High School. He finished 26th on a 10K course at the GSAC Cross Country Championships on November 8 in Santa Clarita. On the track and field team, he finished sixth in both the 5K and 10K at the GSAC Championships April 24-25 at Westmont. Dubbed Santa Barbara’s toughest 5K race, the Westmonster is a fundraiser for Westmont student-athlete scholarships. The course, which climbs 284 feet, weaves through Westmont’s beautifully wooded campus in the •MJ Montecito foothills.

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Along with older brother, Caleb, he appeared in Furious after Paul’s Porsche Carrera GT crashed into a lamppost in Santa Clarita and caught fire on November 30, 2013. Cage is playing the role of Capt. Charles Butler McVay, whose ship was torpedoed in the South Pacific in July, 1945, after delivering parts for the first atomic bombs. Their mission was classified, so the Indianapolis was not reported missing until four days later. Cody plays one for the crewmen. Of 1,196 sailors aboard, around 300 went down with the ship, while the rest faced exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks as they waited to be rescued.

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Festival, which encompasses four different events, celebrated its 12th anniversary, kicking off with its Old Spanish Nights Tapas and Tasting at the historic De La Guerra Adobe courtyard, which attracted 350 guests. Montecito-based Blaine Lando, one of the festival’s three new owners, along with Sean Hecht and Chris Bellamy, says numbers have been increasing dramatically, with the fest skewing towards a younger demographic. “I would say ticket sales are up 20 percent or more, which is good to hear,” says Blaine. Flamenco dancers and classical guitarists added to the Spanish theme. Just 24 hours later, it was a CAB collective tasting at Fess Parker’s Doubletree, followed by a short walk

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This year’s Montecito Car Classic featured vehicle will be the famous “Round Door Rolls,” a 1925 re-bodied Rolls Royce

(Below) Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, and other artists created and painted art cars such as this decades ago. Michael Hammer believes it “would be cool” to create another generation of such cars, painted by contemporary artists. “Frank Stella is still alive, so he may agree to paint one,” Michael says, adding, “but we’ll also bring in a new generation of artists and to keep that trend going.” He also notes that the cars weren’t just painted. “They actually took them out and raced them.” (photo by Nik Azwaa Azmi)

wasn’t just about cars and guys coming together,” says Michael as we settle into chairs around a coffee table inside his Carpinteria headquarters. “It’s about bringing the community together to help.” They chose to honor Special Olympics that first year and presented the organization with a $30,000 check at the end of it all. “The next year it was $80,000,” says Michael, and the proceeds again went to Special Olympics. Last year, the group handed a $100,000 check to the Police Activities League and the Santa Barbara Police Foundation.

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This year, they’ll likely raise even more. “We’ll be taking over Coast Village Road completely,” Michael says. That they will, as Coast Village Road, from Butterfly Lane on the west to the Honor Bar on the east will be closed to traffic on Sunday, September 27, for a good part of the day.

where it is now. “It is unusual and striking,” says Terry, adding that, “It’s nothing you’ve seen before.” The car has a teardrop back with a huge fin on the rear deck, and unlike any other Rolls Royce, the grill is slanted, not upright. “It’s a very special car and will be the centerpiece of Montecito’s show,” Hammer adds. “Now,” Terry says, “you have some of the world’s biggest collectors bringing cars to the Montecito show because of Michael, and they The Montecito Car Classic is grow- are coming here because they believe ing in stature, after only three years in what we’re doing. It’s going to elein existence, and has drawn the vate the reputation of this car show,” attention not only of Karges of the he avers. “And, as the show grows Petersen Automotive Museum, but with more stature, more important also avid car collectors such as Peter collectors will want to display their Mullin (who won last year at the cars here.” Paris Concours with a Delahaye) As for Michael, he’ll be bringand David Sydorick, names that ing his by-then fully restored 1952 every “car guy” is familiar with. Cunningham C3 Coupe, one of Both men will be present and are only 20 ever produced. Jay Leno expected to enter cars. owns one, too. “It’s the third one Two years ago, Rita Hayworth’s made, and the only one that has Cadillac (donated by the Petersen ever raced,” Michael says. The car is Automotive Museum) was the currently being restored in Canada centerpiece; last year it was Steve overseen by RM Auctions’ chairMcQueen’s Jaguar XKSS and a man and founder Rob Myers. “I totally unrestored (Preservation won’t see it for the first time until Class) 1952 Ferrari. This year ’s I go to Pebble Beach, but you’ll see crowd-pleaser is expected to be the me drive across the ramp to get unique round-door Rolls Royce, a my trophy,” Michael says with a 1925 Rolls re-bodied as a show car laugh. The car will be driven directin 1932. The history is that it was ly to Montecito after its unveiling at owned by a Belgian industrialist out the Concours d’Elegance at Pebble to win the Concours who scrapped Beach in August. the original body and turned it into ••• the round-door Rolls. “The car was The gala honoring auto great Barry later found in a New Jersey junkyard Meguiar will take place at Montecito with grass growing through it,” says Country Club on Friday, September Terry. “A fellow bought it, painted 25. The theme will be “48 Hours,” after it gold, put it on a flatbed and took the movie that stars Eddie Murphy it around as the Duke of Windsor’s and Nick Nolte. The 4th Annual sports car and charged a dollar to Montecito Motor Classic is scheduled view it.” Later, the car ended up in for Sunday, September 27. As many as Japan, where Bob Petersen found 200 cars will be on display along Coast itMontJournal_July22nd'15:Layout in a showroom, painted white. Village11:36 RoadAMfrom Butterfly Lane to 1 7/15/15 Page 1 •MJ He bought it and had it restored to the Honor Bar.

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The latest exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) has much in common with H.G. Well’s futuristic film. Hungarian born artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was way ahead of his time. He employed groundbreaking use of unconventional materials such as aluminum, Plexiglas, and formica in the 1920s through the ‘40s.

This is the first retrospective of Moholy-Nagy’s work on the West Coast since 1968-69, with our art museum being one of the venues at that time. Guest curator of The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy: The Shape of Things to Come was art historian Joyce Tsai from the University of Florida and facilitated by Eik Kahng, SBMA assistant director and chief curator. According to Larry Feinberg, Robert and Mercedes Eichholz director and CEO, “This is the first exhibition to explore how the innovative 20th century master Moholy-Nagy used the medium of painting in his

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An upgraded Big Bear Village section that is near the marina on the lake’s south side offering cafés, bakery, motels, and shops

ight around 1 pm, the winds rise with the heat, up from semi-desert terrain of San Bernardino climbing the mountain range lying to the northeast, finding the passes and low places that cut between the peaks, over and down into the interior desert, swirling up Mojave sand near Victorville. The breezes are especially welcome among some of the alpine meadows that formed ages ago and were turned into lakes in these San Bernardino Mountains where villages popped up with names like Crestline, Lake Arrowhead, Running Springs,

and Big Bear. Mysteriously, the winds die down around 5 pm allowing the sun to set peacefully, broadcasting peach colors that spread from behind the peaks that reflect in the stilled water. The area’s jewel is called Big Bear Lake, a mere three-and-a-half-hour drive from Santa Barbara and in winter, is home to two premier ski areas of Southern California – but on a day like today, it becomes a playground of trees, trails, and trout. The lakeside resort of Big Bear sets at 7,000-foot elevation with a lake of

seven miles, and while its capacity is down like most California lakes, its surface area acreage is only down about 15 percent, so it gives the appearance of being nearly full. It is a popular destination and draws visitors from many areas, but especially the huge valley just east of L.A. called the Inland Empire that consists of San Bernardino, Redlands, Pomona, and Riverside. You can pick your time to go, since it is a four seasons destination (the fall colors are great I hear) but, arriving before school lets out is a definite plus in terms of reduced summer crowds. The town boasts 345 clear days a year, and there are numerous water sports such as jet-ski, kayaking,

water-skiing, guided-boat trout or bass fishing, bow hunting for carp, and a new thrill called “Flyboarding” wherein jets of lake water push a narrow three-foot board skyward – with you on it – to heights reaching more than 12 feet for the daring. Staying on land offers an even wider choice of activities: Segway or hike one of multiple trails of various levels and lengths that radiate out like spokes of a wheel and meander from there; offroad Jeep rides and boulder hopping that offer amazing views; ride a chairlift over tree tops, arriving at Snow Summit’s Stumbling Bear Saloon and restaurant, then decide if you want to descend by trails on foot or bike or take a pass and re-ride the chairlift back down; Zip Line or slide down the Alpine Water Slide, if you dare or take a leisurely cruise on the lake’s Liberty paddlewheel or Pirate Ship, and take in the fresh air and views the mountains offer from a comfortable seat. Big Bear Airport supports small aircraft and offers sightseeing from above via bi-plane, helicopter, or sky diving as well. Looking at the sun. The Solar Observatory, one of only six in the world, on the north shore of Big Bear Lake. It was built in 1969 by Cal Tech but management was turned over to the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Research is funded by NASA, National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Air Force.

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View of Big Bear Lake from the chairlift at Snow Summit Ski Resort, which tops out at 8,200 feet. Snow Summit and Big Bear Mountain were recently purchased by Mammoth Mountain.

Kids panning for gold which is one of the attractions at the Big Bear Historical Museum located at the east end of the lake

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Unique Sights Big Bear Offers: • Pebble Plains – The glaciers receded during the Pleistocene Age, they created unique open areas covered with miniature rare plants found only near Big Bear, home to seventeen protected plant species and four rare kinds of butterflies. Three of these butterflies are found nowhere else in the world. • Solar Observatory – The largest solar telescope in the world is situated on the shores of the lake, one of only six in the world. • The Alpine Zoo that doubles as a sanctuary for injured North American species that are native to this area. Not too large with nicely arranged quarters for kids to view animals with fur or feathers. • Historical museum that takes you back in time to when gold was discovered here in 1885, answers why the water behind the dam that forms Big Bear lake is owned by Redlands and the stages of the dam’s construction, displays the many movies & TV shows that were partially filmed here such as

Bonanza, Gone With the Wind, Lassie, and Old Yeller. Kids can pan for gold here too. • The headwaters of the Santa Ana River – the largest river entirely within Southern California – begins here and winds its way to empty into the Pacific, dividing coastal Huntington Beach from Newport. Its course travels through a picturesque canyon near Big Bear, perfect for using a #4 or #5 fly-rod. • The Pacific Crest trail passes right through Big Bear, and Joshua Tree National Park is a convenient day trip from here, an easy one-hour drive from Big Bear.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3681

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 5401

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3681 for the HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM (HSIP) PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK ENHANCEMENTS PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2015 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, “HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM (HSIP) PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK ENHANCEMENTS PROJECT, Bid No. 3681."

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 5401 for the Sanitary Sewer Acoustic Inspection FY16 will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, July 30, 2015 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, “Sanitary Sewer Acoustic Inspection FY16, Bid No. 5401".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a pedestrian crosswalk enhancement project including but not limited to mobilization, bonds, insurance, traffic control, saw cutting, removal of hardscape, construction of curbs, gutters, ADA compliant sidewalk and access ramps, driveway, pedestrian refuge island, installation of rectangular rapid flashing beacon systems, excavation, installation of permeable pavers, installation of stormwater infiltration system including catch basin, pvc pipes and clean-outs; preparation of subgrade, bedding, base, conforms, striping, sign relocation, clean up, public notices, and incidentals to complete the work as specified per the project plans and specifications. The Engineer’s estimate is $330,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. 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 Andrew Grubb, Project Engineer, 805-564-5404. 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 website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Bidders are advised that this project is a Federal-Aid Construction project and the Contractor shall agree to all requirements, conditions, and provisions set forth in the specification book issued for bidding purposes entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Attention is directed to Appendix C of the “Proposal and Contract” specification book for federal requirements and conditions, as well as documents required to be submitted with this proposal request. This project is subject to the “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The Federal minimum wage rates for this Project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates. Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage requirements in the specification book entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of the “Proposal and Contract” specification books. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal Minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question. 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. Effective March 1, 2015, Senate Bill 854 requires the City to only use contractors and subcontractors on public projects that have been registered with the State of California Department of Industrial Relations. 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. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free “hotline” service to report bid rigging activities. Bid rigging activities can be reported Mondays through Fridays, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Telephone No. 1-800-424-9071. Anyone with knowledge of possible bid rigging, bidder collusion, or other fraudulent activities should use the “hotline” to report these activities. The “hotline” is part of the DOT’s continuing effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General. All information will be treated confidentially and caller anonymity will be respected. Bidders are hereby advised that there is a goal specified for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) for this contract of 3%. Bidders must meet this goal or demonstrate that adequate good faith efforts to meet this goal have been made as outlined in Appendix C, Section 2-1.02.

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to perform Sanitary Sewer Acoustic Inspections on approximately 2,000 pipe segments utilizing the City provided Sewer Line Rapid Assessment Tool (SLRAT). The Engineer’s estimate is $120,000. Each bidder must have a Class A, or the appropriate class of license applicable to the work, to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Friday, July 24, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. at the City of Santa Barbara’s David Gebhard Public Meeting Room, 630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. 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 Lisa Arroyo, Supervising Civil Engineer, 805-5645486. 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 website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/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. Effective March 1, 2015, Senate Bill 854 requires the City to only use contractors and subcontractors on public projects that have been registered with the State of California Department of Industrial Relations. 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

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

PUBLISHED: July 22 & 29, 2015 Montecito Journal

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William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: July 15th and 22nd, 2015 Montecito Journal

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Old Spanish Nights at the Courtyard guests include Laura Bode, Kristan O’Donnell, Taylor Hart of Beckmen Vineyards, Kenneth McAshan, Rain Longo, with Emily Kaufmann, executive director of California Wine Festival (photo by Priscilla)

Victorious Brunettes show their trophy before being surprised by a dumping of the bucket of ice (not in order): Laura Sweningson, Elise Geiger, Feli Rueff, Scottee Reid, Nicole Ivens, Maggie Perry, Harrison Colcord, Sara Box, Dianne Hearn, Rachael Thorton, Tatiana Woroch, Elise Poindexter, Amber McGuaghey, Melissa Mason, Bre Czenczelewski, captain; Tanya White, Tina Torabian, Laura Clayton, Sarah Harris, Bryanna Ojeda, Ashley Antoon, Megan Buttner, Sarah Andrews, Steph Braun, Lara Jacobs, Jodi Barrett with coaches Gary Braun, Matt Capritto, Josh Clayton, Preston Maloney, and Jordon Pena (photo by Priscilla)

Blondes versus Brunettes after a short rainfall (photo by Priscilla)

Performing Spanish dance performers are Pilar Dawson, Nigaña De Hato Rey; with Tina Love, Jenny Strait, and Debra Dawson (photo by Priscilla)

Settled in the original De la Guerra Family fermentation room with tastings of specially select wines are Valerie and Richard Herald, Kara Bellamy, Ramon McDonald of Joya Winery, with Samantha Foxen (photo by Priscilla)

down Cabrillo Boulevard for the Sunset Reserve and Rare Wine Tasting at Chase Palm Park Plaza. The wine lovers’ delight wrapped with the Beachside Wine Festival opposite the park with 90 suppliers showing their wares. A portion of the proceeds went to the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County, as well as a number of global charities. I’ll drink to that. Raindrops Keep Fallin’ Mother Nature nearly drowned out 23 – 30 July 2015

the annual La Fiesta del Museo at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, which coincided with the opening of the new Project Fiesta exhibition, featuring more than 50 festival costumes from the early 1800s to the present. But after an early evening drenching of the dining tables in the museum courtyard for the record 280 guests, giving executive director Lynn Brittner apoplexy, the skies cleared enabling the popular event, chaired by Sharon Bradford, to raise around $100,000 for museum projects and exhibitions.

KEYT-TV anchor Paula Lopez and her husband, retired superior court judge Frank Ochoa, wielded the gavel for the auction, which featured a carriage ride in the fiesta parade, a visit to Rancho del Cielo, the former home of president Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, an etching by Edward Borein, and a private La Fiesta Pequena for 40 guests in the museum’s courtyard. Among the tony throng downing the fried quail salad, oakwood smoked beef tenderloin, and pan seared fish prepared by chef Rachel Main, were Larrry Feinberg and Starr Siegele, Bill Burtness, Si Jenkins, El Presidente Cas and Kathy Stimson, Rhonda Henderson, David Bolton, Patrick and Missy DeYoung, Eleanor Van Cott, Jeff and Margo Barbakow, Warren and Marlene Miller, David Bradford, John and Cynthia Hall, David and Sally Martin, and Dennis Rickard. Hair They Go Again It was an event to dye for when the local Alzheimer’s Association hosted its second annual Blondes versus Brunettes Powder Puff football game at the Santa Barbara Polo Club, raising more than $80,000 for the charity’s family services programs. With 30 Amazons on each team, captained by Breanne Czenczelewski and Kiersten Hess, the Brunettes trounced the competition, winning

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

Ready for the game! Rhonda Spiegel, CEO of Alzheimer’s Association, and Gerd Jordano, Alzheimer’s Association Women’s Initiative chair (photo by Priscilla)

6-2, wreaking revenge for losing 22-19 to the blondes last year, although they won the award for the best fund-raising team. “It has become a very popular event,” says Rhonda Spiegel, CEO of the nonprofit. “We raised around $65,000 even before the game started. “Everybody took it very seriously, with the ladies training two or three days a week for the past four months.” “It’s always great fun to watch,” commented Gerd Jordano, chair of the Women’s Auxiliary, who was

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3795 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3795 for the FIRE TRAINING PROPS SITE WORK will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, July 30, 2015 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, “FIRE TRAINING PROPS SITE WORK, Bid No. 3795". The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete site improvements including permeable pavers, infiltration basins, grading and compaction per plans and specs. The Engineer’s estimate is $90,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. at 4 S CALLE CESAR CHAVEZ.

ORDINANCE NO. 5708 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 10.60 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING SECTION 10.60.015, ESTABLISHING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS ON CERTAIN PORTIONS OF LOMA ALTA DRIVE The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on July 14, 2015. The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California. (Seal)

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 Klinzing, Project Engineer, 805-564-5456. 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 website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/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. Effective March 1, 2015, Senate Bill 854 requires the City to only use contractors and subcontractors on public projects that have been registered with the State of California Department of Industrial Relations. 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 15 & 22, 2015 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Summerland Antique Collective, 2192 Ortega Hill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93067. David

Wilkie Owen, 2003 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was

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/s/_____________________ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5708 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on June 30, 2015, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on July 14, 2015, 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 15, 2015.

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, August 4, 2015, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The public hearing will be held to consider the appeal filed by Chris Krach-Bastian, of the Planning Commission's approval of a project located at 3425 Sea Ledge Lane. The project consists of the construction of a new 400 square-foot pool and spa with associated pool equipment and safety fencing on a 17,490 square-foot lot in the Hillside Design District. This proposal is an amendment to a previous Coastal Development Permit approved by the Planning Commission on May 2, 2013, and revised on August 8, 2014, which approved 2,508 square feet of one- and two-story additions to the existing singlefamily residence, the demolition of the existing garage, and the conversion of 488 square feet of existing habitable floor area into a new two-car garage. The discretionary application required for this project is an Amendment to the Coastal Development Permit (CDP2012-00004) to allow the proposed pool, spa, pool equipment and safety fencing to be constructed in the Appealable Jurisdiction of the City's Coastal Zone (SBMC Section 28.44). The Environmental Analyst has determined that the project is exempt from further environmental review pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Section 15303, New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures, which allows for the construction of accessory structures including swimming pools. If the City Council approves the project on appeal, then it is appealable to the California Coastal Commission under California Public Resources Code §30603(a) and SBMC §28.44.200. You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. On Thursday, July 30, 2015, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, August 4, 2015, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Quick Links, click on Current Council Agenda & Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.santabarbaraca.gov: Click on the Government tab, click City Council Meeting Videos (under Quick Links), and then click on the Video link for the meeting date. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at (805) 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

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I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on July 15, 2015. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published July 22, 2015 Montecito Journal

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. 2015-0002122. Published July 22, 29, August 6, 13, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ocean Aire, 125 Harbor Way Suite 7 Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Jon Payne, 6 Harbor Way #239, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June

4, 2015. 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. 2015-0001804. Published July 1, 8, 15, 22, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RJL Capital Management, 812 “A” Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Richard Joy Love, 757 Ashley Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was

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Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager July 22, 2015

filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 8, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0001826. Published July 1, 8, 15, 22, 2015.

of Santa Barbara County on June 3, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0001788. Published July 1, 8, 15, 22, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Divine Bits of Beauty Mosaics; Divine Bits of Beauty Wedding Ceremonies, 1722 Mountain Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Wendy Harriss Brewer, 1722 Mountain Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk

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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. 2015-0001857. Published July 1, 8, 15, 22, 2015. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV01341. To all interested parties: Petitioner Maryanne Wetzel filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Marianne Wetzel. 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 July 6, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: August 19, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/22, 7/29, 8/5, 8/12

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV01613. To all interested parties: Petitioner Mario Alejandro MoralesGuerra filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Alejandro Guerra 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 July 6, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: September 2, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV01526. To all interested parties: Petitioner Sindy Tibaire Clarke filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Sydney Crystal

Clarke 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 July 8, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: August 26, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 4, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV01527. To all interested parties: Petitioner Tala Wael Hishmeh filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Tala Nadeen Hishmeh 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 July 8, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: August 26, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 4, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV00896. To all interested parties: Petitioner Dustin Brady Minter filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Dustin Brady Misael Larrazolo 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 25, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: August 5, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 45) During the last seconds of end game, Blondes captain Kiersten Hess with blocking brunette. Brunettes won the game, while Blondes won the fundraising. (photo by Priscilla)

Condor Express captain Dave Beezer, pianist extraordinaire Kacey Link, Deborah Bertling, soprano, Tyler Thompson, tenor, with hostess Hiroko Benko ready to welcome guests to enjoy the operatic voyage (photo by Priscilla)

During halftime state Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, game official Mike Cano, and SB County supervisor Salud Cabajal flanked by Bre Czenczelewski; Jodi Barrett; Ashleigh Davis; and Kerie Hawkins. (photo by Priscilla)

among the hundreds of spectators with her husband, Peter, including district attorney Joyce Dudley, senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, supervisor Salud Carbajal, Pamela PerkinsDwyer, Toni Simon and Madison Richardson, and the ubiquitous Charles Ward. KEYT meteorologist Meredith Garofalo and Bob Quackenbush, football announcer for Santa Barbara High games, provided the running commentary. The Blondes versus Brunettes events nationwide have raised more than $6 million since they launched in 2005. Truly, getting back to their roots! Concerto Contest The winners of the Music Academy of the West’s highly competitive concerto competition showed off their undoubted talents at an Academy Festival Orchestra concert at the Granada under the baton of Courtney Lewis, assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Korean violinist Hwi-Eun Kim, 25, and Asa Maynard, 22, on double bass opened the concert in Bottesini’s

Couples aboard the Condor for the high-seas romantic adventure are Kerry Methner, Mark Whitehurst, Lee Koranda, and Richard Slade (photo by Priscilla)

The four supremely talented winners of the Music Academy’s concerto competition

Grand Duo Concertante, with Israeli flutist Mark Teplitsky, 23, showing his abilities in Reinecke’s Concerto in D Major and Italian pianist Luca Buratto, 22, caressing the keyboard in Mozart’s Concerto No. 9 in E-flat Major. The entertaining concert wrapped with Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra. The fab foursome were among 16 fellows in the finals at the academy’s Hahn Hall earlier this month judged by a distinguished jury. Four days earlier for a festival artists series concert at the Lobero, the audience was treated to an eclectic program featuring works by Couperin, Ravel, Boulez, and Faure.

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trainee. She called Debby “an eternal energy that we can strive to emulate.” “These dolphins [cavorting off the bow of the Condor Express] are no accident,” her son Eric explained when he took the mic. “My mom and I had many, many dolphin experiences, so if you’re wondering, there’s another bit of truth.” Eric referenced Debby’s first two marriages and then turned to face her husband, Dennis. “With everything she could, she loved you,” he said, “with everything she had, and I know that she knows that you loved her as well if not more.” Eric praised his mother in no uncertain terms. “I wish you could all have known her as a mother,” he said, adding that she felt she had “no maternal instinct,” but he was proof that her motherly instincts “were spot-on.” Others adding poignant comments included Martha Bull and Bob Bryant. Anne Towbes, perhaps one of her closest friends, said that Debby “was like a sister to me.” Anne’s late husband, Bob Smith, had hired Debby and said that Debby was “the most capable person” he’d ever met. “We were great travel buddies,” she said. “To her mountain home in Park City, to South Africa right after 9/11, to South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore, yearly tennis tournaments in Indian Wells.” The two were also Sunday biking buddies. They’d bike to the mesa, to Pierre Lafond, or Summerland. “In the past few months, we stopped biking and started walking,” Anne noted, “and finally we drove to meet our Sunday friends for coffee, and our talks started to turn to her illness and her awareness that her end was in sight.”

and planned special moments to coincide with one whenever possible. The second full moon in a calendar month – which happens just seven times in a 19-year cycle, is called a blue moon. “This month, July of 2015 is one of those rare months,” Eric said and asked those present to “take the time on (Friday) July 31 to smile on the light of the full moon. Because the light of the full moon is so magical, it

truly is the essence of Debby. Let her lift your spirits and bring out the best of you, as she has done so often in the past. “I have told all of you,” Eric concluded, “that the only wish for today is to honor Debby, and to make sure she is long remembered. With the help of hummingbirds and full moons – maybe the dolphins – and all of you, I think that will happen. Thank you all

for being here, and for being in her life and for remembering her.” Eric then headed aft to lift Tatu with his mother’s remains inside, and gently placed the papier-mâché creature in the ocean. As it drifted away from the boat, Eric and the rest of us tossed sunflowers overboard and watched and waited as Tatu slowly sunk beneath the still waters of an •MJ unusually placid sea.

By the Light of the Moon Debby’s husband, Dennis, asked that Eric speak for him, apologizing through him that “the combination of microphones and emotions has been a very bad mix for me. Unfortunately, I can take the grownman-crying thing to levels never before imagined.” Reading from what Dennis had written, Eric said that “If memorials need titles, I’d like to call this Hummingbirds and Full Moons. Both Eric and I have had what I would call ‘unusual hummingbird experiences’ over the past several days. Maybe we’re reading too much into those, but I don’t think so. They’re too much like her. So quick, so precise, so efficient, yet unpredictable. I have to think they’re reminding me to be more loving, passionate, and forgiving. And if hummingbirds are her messengers, then the full moon is surely her spirit.” Debby apparently loved a full moon 23 – 30 July 2015

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ENDING THIS WEEK Concerts in the Park – If it’s a Thursday during summer in Santa Barbara, it must be time for Concerts in the Park, the perennially popular series of pop performances and picnics. Town folk in-the-know and visitors alike assemble on the gentle sloping hill facing the stage at the public park across the street from the waterfront, for two sets of music from a variety of bands. Food and drink (alcohol is officially prohibited), playing with dogs, Frisbee tossing, juggling and lots of dancing are all a part of the gatherings, which span either side of sunset through the tall palms across the street. The season has been truncated to just five concerts this year, all in the month of July. That means there’s only two concerts left in the season, but they’re looking mighty fine. This week (Thursday, July 23): Rainbow Girls, the Santa Barbara-born band of five female singer-songwriter-instrumentalists who rotate as front woman as they combine folk, blues, funk, reggae, rock, and just about anything else they’re in the mood for in a harmony-laden mix that’s entirely danceable. Next week (Thursday, July 30): The 2015 Concerts in the Park series comes to a close with heart-palpitating music from CCR. Well, actually Fortunate Son, a tribute band to Credence Clearwater

Revival and its founder-songwritersinger John Fogerty. Doo-doo-doo, right here in our backyard. WHEN: 6-8:30 pm (blanket/chair setup begins at noon) WHERE: Chase Palm Park, Mountain side of Cabrillo Blvd. COST: free INFO: 564-5418 or www. santabarbaraca.gov/concerts THURSDAY, JULY 23 Dancing at the Luke – Three local dance studios are producing shows at the community-oriented Marjorie Luke Theatre on the campus of Santa Barbara Junior High School this weekend. The activities begin tonight with Santa Barbara Centre for Aerial Arts’ performances from their Summer Conservatory in which advanced students unveil their collective works blending aerial dance, contemporary movement, and physical theater (78:30 pm; call 284-8785). Tomorrow, it’s Gustafson Dance, the school associated with State Street Ballet, which presents a shortened version of the Broadway musical Annie featuring children ages 4-12 from the dance camp, who will sing, dance, and act the story of Annie with a backdrop and costume accessories they have made (6-7:30 pm; 563-3262, ext. 1). Finally, on Saturday, July 25, get a sneak preview of Fiesta with Linda Vega Dance Studio and ¡FLAMENCO! Santa Barbara offering an afternoon

ONGOING Singing in the Sunshine – Classic silent films were the theme for last year’s free Summer Film Series screened both out in Isla Vista and downtown at the County Courthouse Sunken Gardens, where blankets, lawn chairs, and picnics – even wine and beer – are most welcome. But UCSB and the city of SB are bringing back the noise for a genre of films in which sound might be the most important factor – the great movie musicals of the Golden Age of Hollywood. This Friday (July 24): You’ll be humming “Tonight, Tonight” as you leave the screening of West Side Story, the electrifying musical that sets the ageless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in 1950s New York, where the Sharks and the Jets battle for territory and respect. Leonard Bernstein composed the astonishing, groundbreaking score, and Jerome Robbins not only reprised his choreography from the original Broadway show, he also co-directed. This film adaptation of the Broadway smash-hit broke box-office records and won 10 Academy Awards, more than any other musical before or since. Next week (7 pm Wednesday at Isla Vista Theater; Friday, July 31, at the Sunken Gardens): Gene Kelly, who starred in the season-opening classic Singin’ in the Rain, returns for An American in Paris, this time opposite Leslie Caron, who made her screen debut as an alluring but unavailable perfume-shop clerk who steals ex-GI Kelly’s heart. The couple’s acting and movement scenes coupled with more dazzling dance sequences and memorable melodies and lyrics from George and Ira Gershwin combined to earn Paris the Oscar for best picture, plus five more Academy Awards. WHEN: 8:30 pm WHERE: 100 E. Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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THURSDAY, JULY 23 Happy Together – When you’re still able to tour profitably after half a century in rock and roll – even if it takes a Vegas-style, revue-type show with several colleagues – who wouldn’t be happy? This year’s roadshow revival at the Chumash Resort features The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie, purveyors of the song that gives the tour its name as well as such hits as “Eleanor”, “You Showed Me” and a cover of Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe”: The Association, who scored with “Cherish”, “Windy”, “Never My Love”, and “Along Comes Mary” (all incidentally produced by future Montecito resident Bones Howe); Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & the Raiders (“ “Indian Reservation”); The Grass Roots, whose “Midnight Confessions” remains one of the greatest pop songs of all time; The Buckinghams, who hit the charts with “Kind of a Drag” and “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy”; and The Cowsills, the family band who inspired the TV series The Partridge Family who are making their debut on the tour featuring siblings Susan, Paul, and Bob delivering such hits as “Indian Lake”, “We Can Fly”, and the title song from the musical Hair. If you’re old enough to remember when all these hits first showed up on the Top 40, we suggest you tread carefully for this collective trip down memory lane. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $55-$75 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www. chumashcasino.com

of flamenco dance and live music, starring the city’s young flamenco professionals (3:30-6 pm; 963-0073 or www.vegaflamenco.com). FRIDAY, JULY 24 Pared Down Comedy – Chumash Casino’s new bi-weekly Friday night yuk-it-up fest dubbed Drew’s Comedy Club – held in the now-intimate Samala Showroom that seats just north of 600 (about seven times smaller than the Bowl) – welcomes standup comic Shaun Jones, who has been seen on B.E.T’S Comic View, Starz’s 1st Amendment Standup and Robert Townsend’s Partners In CrimeThe Next Generation. Nicholas Anthony opens the show, which includes dinner, so you can fill up your belly before the belly laughs begin. Coming soon to the series: Roy Wood, Jr., on Friday, August 7, and Ms. Pat on August 21. And don’t miss the Last Comic Standing live tour on September 17. WHEN: Dinner 7:30 pm, show starts 9 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $50 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino.com Ataris at It Again – The alternative rock band The Ataris, who were formed in Indiana but found success after relocating to Santa Barbara back in the mid-1990s, are back out on the road and coming back to town. The tour is called Blue Skies, Broken Hearts after the 1999

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album Blue Skies, Broken Hearts... Next 12 Exits that brought The Ataris widespread acclaim. (The title refers to the mobile home park that runs near the 101 on Calle Real just past Upper State Street, while “next 12 exits” echoes the road sign on the freeway-indicated exits for Santa Barbara. Singer-songwriter Kristopher Roe released his first full-length solo acoustic album in 2011, but he’s back in the fold now, rocking it up with the personal tales that made The Ataris one of the more popular band to emerge from the south coast in the 1990s. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Velvet Jones, 423 State Street COST: $15 INFO: 965-8676 or www.velvet-jones.com How I See It – The new show at the Arts Fund Gallery is a “sensory touch” exhibition presenting local artists’ tactile works specifically curated so that the pieces can be experienced by the visually impaired. The exhibition aims to rethink what is important to the audience when sight is not the primary sense employed. So, unlike the typical museum experience, where guards stand by vigilantly to ensure that you look but don’t touch, the artists in this show invite everyone to employ their fingers as well as their eyes to feel the textures, to learn the forms, and to study the images they have conveyed with their hands. WHEN: Opens tonight with an artist reception (5-8 pm) as part of monthly Funk Zone Art Walk; continues through September 5 WHERE: 205-C Santa Barbara Street 23 – 30 July 2015

FRIDAY, JULY 24 Contagious Comedy – Jim Gaffigan, whose most recent recording, Obsessed, was nominated for a Grammy this last season, has mastered every artistic avenue available for comedians. Obsessed was also the title of Gaffigan’s fourth hour-long TV comedy special; his first two books, 2013’s Dad is Fat and last year’s Food: A Love Story were both bestsellers (the latter debuted at No. 3); and he’s starring in (and executive producing) his own sitcom, The Jim Gaffigan Show, which is based on his real life (and written by Gaffigan and his wife) in New York as the father of five children living in a small apartment, and hits TV Land and Comedy Central this month – and that’s after guest shots on such TV shows as Portlandia to Flight of the Concords and dramatic roles in all three versions of Law & Order. Gaffigan, of course, is also highly in-demand for his live act; Contagious, the latest tour, arrives tonight [JAMES SAYS: According to Google, the show is actually Friday, July 24] at the Santa Barbara Bowl – as big a venue as Santa Barbara can offer. Nobody makes us laugh more about typical life situations and the joys of fatherhood. Opening is Ted Alexandro, who has performed on the late-night talk shows starring David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, and Jimmy Kimmel and enjoyed two half-hour specials on Comedy Central. Ted co-created the award winning comedy web series “Teachers Lounge”, available on YouTube, in which Gaffigan is, not coincidentally, one of the stars. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $50-$70 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com

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SUNDAY, JULY 26 Hallowed Ground – The documentary film The Hunting Ground premiered at Sundance this past January and caused quite a stir. The movie delves into the issue of rape on college campuses in the United States, and was written and directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering, the creative team behind the 2012 Oscar-nominated doc The Invisible War, which focused on sexual assault in the U.S. military. The new film presents several students, who discuss being assaulted on campus and their experiences with college administrators who either ignore them or put up roadblocks to reporting in order to keep rape statistics low.

Both Harvard and the University of North Carolina are in the crossfire, but so is just-drafted-No.-1 Florida State University quarterback Jameis Winston, who has had accusations of sexual assault lodged against him; his alleged victim, Erica Kinsman, publicly speaks about the incident at length for the first time on the film. Following today’s free screening of The Hunting Ground, co-presented by Democratic Women of Santa Barbara County and the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center, a panel discussion will be held with representatives from local universities, State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, and other policy makers. The participants will explore how this issue is handled locally and answer questions. WHEN: 1-4 pm WHERE: Marjorie Luke Theater, 721 E. Cota Street COST: free INFO: 680-6479 or www.democraticwomensb.org •MJ

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Davies the (Blues) Diva – In her 30-plus year career, Debbie Davies has served as the featured guitarist in several female based bands including Maggie Mayall and the Cadillacs (led by John Mayall’s wife) and Fingers Taylor and the Ladyfinger Revue (who opened for Jimmy Buffett during his 1991 tour). But she’s also had plenty of experience in non-gender specific bands of renown, including stints in Albert Collins’s Icebreakers and collaborations with artists as diverse as Coco Montoya, J. Geils, and Duke Robillard. Davies’s solo career has also been mighty rewarding – she won the 1997 W.C. Handy Award for Best Contemporary Female Artist and the 2010 Blues Music Award for Best Traditional Female Artist. Davies’s new release, Love Spin, is a collection of all-original tunes showcasing all of the facets of her blues styles and playing. Now, she’s back in town to headline the next show from the Santa Barbara Blues Society, the oldest such existing organization in the country. Local musicians Debra Farris and Michael Hallstrom open the show. WHEN: Doors open at 7, opener at 7:15, Davies at 8 pm WHERE: Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 E. Carrillo Street COST: $10-$40 INFO: 722-8155 or www.sbblues.org

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Andrew Lloyd Webber, accompanied by Kacey Link on electronic piano, during the nautical jaunt. The talented twosome also sang “Happy Birthday” to yours truly, who was celebrating the 22nd anniversary of his 40th. For Hiroko, it was a whole new aria to explore. Birthday Boy

dent Texan John Muse, with the trophy after they thrashed Wildcat 14-11, with Jeff Hall scoring two last-minute goals. Hall was awarded MVP and Manchi, played by Nacho Badiola, was awarded best playing pony. Among those checking out hotel executive chef Leo Ayala’s culinary delights and quaffing the Bellinis were regional managing director Ali Richard’s 62nd birthday bash at Pierre Lafond with veteran actor Stuart Whitman; others attending include Geonine Moriarty, Susan St. John, Bill and Trish Davis, Jane Burkemper, Alicia St. John, and Karen Drown

In connection with the anniversary of my birth six decades or so ago, Bill and Trish Davis hosted an impromptu birthday breakfast at Pierre Lafond. It was quite a turnout with Geonine Moriarty, Alicia St. John, Karen Drown, Susan St. John, actor Stuart Whitman, and Jane Burkemper, members of the morning coffee klatch, joining in the fun as we cut not one, but two, birthday cakes to mark the occasion. The British Union Jack flag flew gently in the Pacific breeze. High-season Sensations The Belmond El Encanto hosted lunch at the Santa Barbara Polo Club when two major teams, Lucchese and Wildcat, fought it out in the hotel-sponsored polo classic final kicking off the club’s high season schedule. The luxury hotel group’s head honcho, John Scott, flew in from London for the occasion and, along with the tony hostelry’s manager, Shaun O’Bryan, presented the winning team Lucchese, sponsored by club presi-

Kasikci, Bill and Barbara Tomicki, Jon and Martha Bull, Ricardo and Dinah Calderon, Robert and Marlene Veloz, Charles Ward, Glen and Gloria Holden, Kristi Newton, Richard Caleel, Joel and Doreen Ladin, and Amy Ransohoff. Golden Nugget Having failed in his efforts to take over the iconic Montecito watering hole, Cafe del Sol, after Jack Sears and his wife, Emilie, retired, restaurateur Bob Montgomery, who owns the Nugget in Summerland and Goleta, hosted a pre-opening bash for his new Downtown Nugget, situated on the old Arlington Tavern site, just a tiara’s toss from the New Vic and Arlington theaters on West Victoria Street. The new eatery is open seven days a week, and a weekend breakfast menu is planned in due course. Among those turning out to wish Bob well with his latest culinary venture were Dan and Cindy Cattaneo, Mike and Laura Hamer, Otto Laula,

Celebrating at the Nugget’s pre-opening are Otto Laula, Rose Hodge, Diane Brod, Don and Scott Cooper with Nugget owners Bob and Mickey Montgomery, and Pat Glenwinkel (photo by Priscilla)

Guests at the Nugget’s front patio with appetizers and brew Twan Truong, Cindy Cattaneo, Patrick Price, and Armando Orozo, Nugget server (photo by Priscilla)

Rubin and Barbara Martinez, Pete and Sherry Churchill, Tom and Paula Bruice, Denni Anderson, and Carrie Gustafson. Hats Off For the eighth consecutive year, I have the onerous task of judging the annual hat contest at the Santa Barbara Polo Club on Sunday. There are three categories – the largest, the most creative, and most fanciful – so get out your toniest tête toppers to add to the mélange of magnificent millinery on display in the stands. The winners’ photo will appear in next week’s column, and individuals will also receive prizes from the club.

Even men can get involve with a category for the most distinguished hat. Sightings: Kourtney Kardashian at Santa Barbara Zoo... Hugh Laurie, star of the Fox series House, checking out the Cajun Kitchen...Author T.C. Boyle at the Honor Bar Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call •MJ 969-3301

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1530 Mimosa Lane 1-4pm $7,995,000 6bd/4ba Luke Ebbin 705-2152 1522 East Mountain Drive 1-3pm $7,495,000 3bd/3.5ba Bob Lamborn 689-6800 2225 Featherhill Road 2-4pm $6,995,000 6bd/6.5ba Debbie Lee 637-7588 1098 Golf Road 2-4pm $5,995,000 5bd/4ba Jason Streatfeild 280-9797 1567 East Valley Road 2-4pm $5,950,000 6bd/5ba Ricardo Munoz 895-8725 923 Buena Vista Drive By Appt. $5,750,000 6bd/6.5ba Frank Abatemarco 450-7477 1709 Overlook Lane 1-4pm $5,650,000 5bd/4.5ba Kirsten Wolfe 722-0322 2796 Bella Vista Road 1-4pm $5,650,000 5bd/3.5ba Tomi Spaw 698-7007 720 El Bosque Road 1-4pm $4,950,000 5bd/6ba Marilyn Moore 689-0507 705 Park Lane 2-4pm $4,595,000 5bd/5.5ba Don Hunt 895-3833 709 Park Lane 2-4pm $3,750,000 3bd/3.5ba Pamela Regan 895-2760 1424 East Valley Road 1-4pm $3,200,000 3bd/3ba Brian King 452-0471 1512 Mimosa Lane 1-4pm $2,995,000 3bd/3ba SiBelle Israel 896-4218 1641 East Valley Road 2-4pm $2,425,000 2bd/4ba Gene Archambault 455-1190 120 Tiburon Bay Lane 1-4pm $2,295,000 4bd/2ba Jason Siemens 455-1165 677 Orchard Ave 1-3pm $2,150,000 3bd/2.5ba Charlie Peterson 637-0312 166 Santa Isabel Lane 2-4pm $1,998,000 3bd/2ba Jennifer Johnson 455-4300 12 West Mountain Drive 2-4pm $1,595,000 2bd/2.5ba Joanne Sott 818-599-0305 1220 Coast Village Road #110 1-4pm $1,195,000 3bd/2ba Deb Archambault 455-2966 1220 Coast Village Road #213 2-4pm $865,000 2bd/2ba Jessica Stovall 698-9416

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