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ON THE WATER FRONT
by Bob Hazard
Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club
The Controversial Miramar Water Allocation
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he new and improved plan to re-build the long-stalled 15.7-acre Miramar Beach Resort & Bungalows was presented last week by the developer, Caruso Affiliated, to the Montecito Association (MA), along with a request for Confirmation of Water Service Availability to the Montecito Water District (MWD) operations committee. The historic Miramar Resort has been closed since 2000. Its vacant and dilapidated cottages were demolished in February 2013. If the newly designed resort wins Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR) and Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) approval this year, the Miramar could secure funding, begin construction next summer, and be open for business by summer 2017. The new plan appears to be a winner. Kudos to Caruso for reducing the footprint from 186 to 170 rooms and suites. The main restaurant has been moved from the lobby building to a location overlooking the beach. Event attendance has been reduced from a maximum of 500 attendees to a more manageable 400 guests. Public access to the beach has been maintained. Best of all, Caruso retained local architect Marc Appleton to design a resort that reflects the community charm and character of the original Miramar cottages. The reduction in size and scale and the change in character represent a pleasant compromise between the historical traditions of the old Miramar and its enhanced compatibility with community standards.
Request for Water Service
Back in May of 2007, MWD issued the Miramar a “Can and Will Serve Letter” – a promise of water that was reaffirmed in both 2008 and 2011. This month, before moving ahead with MBAR and MPC, the Caruso team approached MWD for a re-confirmation of its “Can and Will Serve” commitment for a total of 45 acre-feet (AF) per annum, or an equivalent amount of water that would service 45 Montecito families for a year. Despite being closed for the last 14 years, the Miramar has been and still is an existing customer of MWD. It has continued to pay its water meter charges and water billings on the five existing water meters on the current property. Legally and contractually, the Miramar Beach Resort & Bungalows is an existing commercial water user and, as such, should be served and treated the same as other existing commercial customers. Under Emergency Rationing Ordinance 93, the quantity of water allocated to commercial customers is based on historical 2003-06 water usage, determined by MWD for intended use as if the property was in full service. Annual water usage estimates for the Miramar have been revised downward since 2007. Current estimates are 9.64 AF for guestroom use; 10.72 AF for beach club, spa, pool and oceanfront; 4.59 AF for the main building and conference center; 17.24 AF for restaurants, kitchens, bars; 1.65 AF for water features; 0.84 AF for evaporative cooling; and 9.5 AF for low-flow landscaping, for a total of 45.19 AF per year. This requested water usage compares quite favorably with the 207-room Santa Barbara Biltmore, which in 2011-12 used 91 AF per year, and the 41-unit San Ysidro Ranch which used 38 AF. On a per-room basis, the beautifully landscaped San Ysidro Ranch uses 0.92 AF per year; the Biltmore uses 0.44 AF per year; and the Miramar is proposing only 0.26 AF per year.
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A commitment to the Miramar of 45 AF of water per year poses a difficult messaging problem for MWD. While we should all applaud MWD for its integrity in honoring its commitments, a large segment of this community will oppose MWD approval. Their perception is likely to be: “Montecito has been under mandatory rationing for six months. Remarkably, this community has reduced its water usage by more than 40 percent from the same period last year, while the rest of California has struggled to meet Governor Jerry Brown’s target of a 20-percent reduction. “Unlike the rest of California, severe rationing has had serious negative consequences for Montecito. Our lawns are dead. Our hedges and plants are tinder-dry, creating a greater wildfire risk. Specimen trees and indigenous coast live oaks, thought to be drought-resistant, are showing signs of stress and
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hank you, Robin Williams, for all your selfless love and for making the world a brighter, happier place. Thank you for all the laughs, smiles, wonder, inspiration, and joy. Thank you for two hours of world-class gut-wrenching hilarity when I took my mom to see you at the Arlington. Thank you for being so kind to everyone. I remember somehow being so lucky to have dinner under the Sydney, Australia, skyline with all the voice actors from the movie Happy Feet who just got off a boat party that you threw for them. The brilliant Carlos Alazraqui (better known for his Taco Bell Chihuahua voice, stand-up, and Reno 911 character) was on my left and the very kind Elizabeth Daily (known as E.G. Daily for her Rugrats voice) was on my right. Besides [the event] being one of the most entertaining meals of my life, they spent much of the night talking about how kind and giving you were: statements that come from everyone who ever spent any time with you. I’m sorry you were in pain. A million hugs and endless love to your family and close friends. You are physically gone, but the joy you brought so many will live on. Whenever I need a laugh, I will continue to YouTube one of your interviews, especially one from Inside the Actors Studio, or watch one of your masterpieces. They are all perfection. I’m excited that you have four films about to be released. I especially thank you for inspiring so many by being open and honest about your struggles. Even with your passing, your open heart has inspired others and gives them strength, including myself. You are one of a kind, one beautiful being, a life force like no other. In science, the law of conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but I think, like a quasar, you bent the rules and used more energy than scientifically possible. It wouldn’t surprise me if NASA soon discovers a new tickling planet phenomenon or a new burst of positive energy from above. Thank you, fine sir, O Captain! my Captain! I know I speak for many. All my love and gratitude; what dreams may come. I sincerely hope you are at peace. James Malia Carpinteria
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Rest In Peace, Dallas
We lost yet another gift to Montecito when Dallas Clark passed away. She was one of those people who did what needed to be done, when it needed to be done. She was part of our Little Village, and she will be missed. Michael Edwards Montecito
Terrible Tennis Trait
How about having the audience scream, as some of the players do during the points? We find it obnoxious, and we did play tennis for oh-so-many years, when it was quiet, when the pros and college athletes were on the court! Listening to them really turns us (hubby, too) off. Jean von Wittenburg Montecito
Talking Trash
I ride my bicycle often, by choice, throughout Montecito and always take plastic bags with me to pick up trash. The amount of trash I collect is disturbing. Please remind residents and their workers to control littering and be aware of light trash that flies out of the back of truck beds. I’ve seen it happen. Thank you, Tracy Taylor Montecito
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nents continue to trot out claims that have been refuted many times and accusations based on no evidence. Adding your own cheers, jeers, red herrings, and non-sequiturs to the Journal’s letters hasn’t helped. Here are some moles. You published a letter from Richard Nordlund under the headline “IPCC Favors Fracking” [MJ # 20/30]. However, A) Mr. Nordlund’s letter doesn’t say that: the quote he gives raises the question, but doesn’t answer it. In fact, IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) explicitly does not “favor” any policies: on its website, under Organization, you will find that its work is “policy-relevant and yet policy-neutral, never policy-prescriptive.” B) A Google search for “IPCC and fracking” produces several articles quoting IPCC authors as disputing this interpretation of their work. C) The fracking in the letter is entirely for natural gas to replace coal in power plants. The fracking proposed in Santa Barbara is entirely for oil. D) Mr. Nordlund’s reference to “one article published August 1, 2014”, seems to be too imprecise to identify it. Did you read it before you endorsed his “excellent research”? If so, please tell us where we can find it. On 3-17 July, you said you were “not particularly worried” about CO2 levels of 400 ppm because they have “regularly surpassed 1,000 parts per million” in the past. Estimates of longago levels are uncertain, but it seems to be about 2 million years since we last reached 400 ppm (Science, volume 326: p. 1394) and about 100 million since our last 1,000 (Science, 276: 544). Homo sapiens have been around for about 200,000 years, humans about 2.5 million, and primates about 85 million, so there is little experience of 400 ppm and none of 1,000. Why do you think those “regular” 1,000 levels
show there’s nothing to worry about? On 31 July-7 August, you commented that Australia had recently rescinded its carbon tax. You don’t say what this signifies, leaving the impression that wiser scientific or economic heads have prevailed. The reality seems simpler. A right-wing government was elected in September 2013, and rescinded an action of the previous government. Australia is a major coal exporter, so it may be more significant that Australia had a carbon tax than that it was rescinded. On 7-14 August, you described yourself as “non-ideological” but opposed to bullying by climate change “alarmists” and anti-fracking “devotees” (no name-caller, you!). “Bullying” usually means hurting other people or threatening to do so if they don’t obey you. In this debate, the only local example I know is pro-fracking threats to supervisors and voters of expensive lawsuits if Measure P wins. A national example may be reports of officials in some states (e.g., North Carolina and Texas) removing references to climate change from scientific panel reports, trying to dictate simplistic methods for predicting sea level rise, and forbidding local authorities from using estimates based on other methods. Do these count as bullying to you? Do you have examples on the other side? Warnings of climate change consequences are not bullying. They are predictions of what nature will do, not threats of what people will do. There are also “alarmist” claims that clean energy will destroy our economy and leave us freezing in the dark. Finally, a big mole: your claim (1724 July) that “there has been no noticeable warming on Earth since 1997.” This claim uses data in IPCC reports on global mean surface temperature
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This Week in and around Montecito
SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 Silent Meditation Walk A Silent “Japa” Meditation walk will take place today, departing from Lower Manning Park in Montecito. The event is pet- and family-friendly, though pets must be kept on a leash throughout the walk. The walk will last approximately 35 minutes and will conclude with a brief meditation. When: noon Where: Lower Manning Park on San Ysidro Road Info: rupameditation@gmail.com
(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 Republican Women Feature Congressional Candidate Chris Mitchum, Republican candidate for the 24th Congressional District, will speak to Santa Barbara Republican Women, Federated, at their brunch at La Cumbre Country Club. “Restore America’s Promise” is the event’s theme. When: 10:30 am Where: 4015 Via Laguna Cost: $25 RSVP: 699-6756 or sbrepublicanwomen@gmail.com
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Participants must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting. When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Coast Guard Lecture A lecture series sponsored by Santa Barbara County Arts Commission and Silvio Di Loreto; this oration will provide information on the various missions the Coast Guard performs around the world and how these missions have evolved over the years. It will also include real-life accounts of missions, rescues at sea, and drug smuggling interdictions performed by the Coast Guard cutter BLACKFIN, stationed in Santa Barbara. When: 7 pm; members-only reception at 6:15 pm Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way Cost: free for members; $10 for non-members Registration: www.sbmm.org or call (805) 962-8404 x115
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 Montecito Union Preps for New School Year
Montecito Union welcomes new families; class lists are posted; picnic to reconnect and get ready for school to start. When: 4 pm orientation; 4:45 pm class lists; 5 to 7 pm, Mustang Roundup Family Picnic Where: 385 San Ysidro Road
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 Santa Barbara Kennel Club Dog Shows The Santa Barbara Kennel Club hosts its 106th and 107th SBKC dog shows. The Dog Show started in 1919 and is one of the oldest and most prestigious of its kind in the country. A portion of the proceeds from the admission will go to support the Santa Barbara County K-9 dogs and Take the Lead, which services people in the support of purebred dogs who suffer lifethreatening or terminal illness. Also happening this year: the fifth annual Breeder’s Showcase, the Bullygangza, and the Sighthound Spectacular! These events offer an opportunity for families to ask questions of the experts and find out which breed is right for them. More than 175 breeds will be represented. In addition, a Dog Show tour at 10 am both days will show attendants the ins and outs of the event. When: today and tomorrow (August 24) from 8 am to 6 pm Where: Earl Warren Showgrounds, Las
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Summer Twilight Tour Enjoy the longer days of summer in the light of late afternoon at Lotusland’s Summer Twilight Tour. Wine and light hors d’oeuvres will be served on the geranium terrace overlooking the main lawn from 4:30 to 5:15 pm. Guests may take a docent-guided tour, or members may enjoy the gardens on a self-guided excursion. When: 4 pm Cost: $65 members, $75 non-members Reservations: 969-9990 or send an email to reservation@lotusland.org
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MONDAY, AUGUST 25 Montecito Planning Commission Meeting MPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies, and that issues raised by interested parties are addressed. Today in a special hearing, the commissioners will look at the county’s energy and climate action plan, and Measure P, among other items. When: 9 am Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito; today the Board will look at the revised plans for the Miramar Resort & Bungalows, among other agenda items. When: 2 pm Where: Country Engineering Building,
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 Summerland Book Club An ongoing Summerland tradition moderated by the Rev. Dr. David Beamer. Current title: The Third Jesus by Deepak Chopra. The group can be joined at anytime. When: 5:30 pm Where: Summerland Church, 2400 Lillie Avenue
COMING UP Free Tech Classes at Montecito Library iPads and iPhones are versatile devices capable of countless useful functions, but many of these remain a mystery to their owners. The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System will be offering free workshops demonstrating various tips and tricks to help users get more from their Apple mobile devices. Volunteer Harold Adams will explain some of the mysteries of Apple mobile devices and their apps. Everyone is invited to bring along their iPad or iPhone along with any questions. Classes will be held on the first Wednesday of every other month at 1 pm, beginning September 3. Users of all levels are welcome. Montecito Library is located at 1469 East Valley Road. Call the Montecito Library at (805) 969-5063 for more information.
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CLF was responsible for the Spirit of the Ocean fountain restoration, which was crumbling to bits. The organization was involved in the redoing of the clock tower and before that helped pay for painting the ceiling of the entry arch outdoors. This party will help to conserve the Mural Room, whose paintings are beginning to peel. The dress was either Fiesta or Western, and was held in the Mural Room and the adjoining second-story balcony or loggia of the El Mirador Clock Tower. Alice Van de Water chaired the event for the fourth and last time. We looked down on fiery Flamenco, folklorico dances and songs while the sunken garden below was covered with folks in their chairs and on blankets enjoying the night. I wondered where the show name Noches de Ronda came from. Ronda is my favorite town in Spain and is perched on a spectacular cliff. I’m still not sure about the name, but it turns out it was a Nat King Cole hit song in the 1950s, some say second only to “Granada” – and that is the era when the show became part of Fiesta. Some of those enjoying the margaritas and Mexican tapas were board members and also sponsors Dr. Loretta Redd, Randy and Julie Barnes, and Keith Mautino. Others were longtime supporter Diana Dobbs, Bendy White and wife Kathryn Snow, James and Lisa Ballantine, Douglas Fell, Dana Machallek, Prudence Squire, Kellam de Forest, Kathrine MurrayMorse, and Isabella Madarang. Some of the committee members on Joanne Rapp, Lylie Francis, chair Alice Van de Water, and Sharol Siemens at the Courthouse Legacy Foundation Fiesta party
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(GMST), which combine measurements on land and sea surface temperatures from several sources. The claim cherry-picks in two ways. GMST is only one of several data sets used to monitor global warming; others include atmospheric and oceanic temperatures, glaciers, snow cover, sea ice, sea level, and atmospheric water vapor. These show continued warming, but deniers ignore them. Also, GMST data extend back to about 1850. Despite warnings that short periods can be misleading, the deniers use only the last 15 years. Still, GMST is important. It’s been nearly flat (averaging out the wiggles) over the last 15 years (the “hiatus”), and most forecasts were too high. The IPCC has not ignored, this but explained in some detail why these data are compatible with the broad scientific consensus that harmful climate change is occurring due to warming caused by increased greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, arising from human activity. The deniers either ignore the explanations or ridicule them. You chose ridicule (they “stumble all over” themselves), but you didn’t say what the explanations were, or why they were so bad that a non-scientist like you can dismiss them with contempt. To fill the gap, I offer a brief summary. Readers can find a great deal more in IPCC reports, especially the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) from Working Group I (“The Physical Science Basis”). A short list is Chapter 2 (pages 187-201), Chapter 9 (769-772) and Chapter 10 (878-891, tougher!). I recommend having the glossary and the acronyms at hand. There are four broad explanations. They are not mutually exclusive: in fact, there is evidence for all of them. First, the energy we receive from the Sun is not constant; it rises and falls in cycles, with troughs lasting from about eight to 14 years. We have been in a trough for most of the 1998-2013 hiatus. Second, not all the energy we receive gets down to sea or land surface lev-
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ues strongly. The other method is modeling. You write a formula that allows for systematic effects [such as] seasons and chance effects like storms or volcanoes, choose parameters to fit the data you have seen, and use the formula to predict the future. That’s rarely easy, but it is especially hard when the series is affected by cycles whose periods are irregular and whose mechanisms are imperfectly known, [such as] solar cycles and the El Nino and Atlantic oscillations. Climate scientists use several smoothing methods and several models. None of them is perfect but they show similar trends, and variation among them helps in assessing uncertainty. This approach is the opposite of sifting through the data to find a short segment of a single data set and applying a single “analysis” that you chose because it gave the answer you wanted. For the vast majority of scientists who have reviewed the data, models, and arguments, climate change is real and gravely threatens the future of the next several generations. If they are “alarmist” it is because they are alarmed, having considered a variety of likely consequences, some of which seem already well underway. It is far too serious and complex an issue to be dealt with by cherry-picking data and calling people names. Allan Stewart-Oaten Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Thank you for your letter and your attention to detail. As for “name-calling,” really, there is only one side engaged in most of that and it isn’t the “deniers.” No doubt if the TexasOklahoma “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s were to occur now, it would become proof-positive of the disastrous effects of the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere. As for the rest of your well-balanced letter, rather than go point by point, let’s both agree that it would probably be better if 1) there were fewer humans and less human activity on Earth, and 2) that a reduction in the use of carbon-based fuels may not be a bad idea. Even so, “alarmists” seeking to control CO2 output are still on the wrong track. Incentives to reduce carbon emissions, rather than an international taxing system, would be far more effective in promoting alternative sources of energy. One other point: Why call it “climate change?” Of course the climate changes. It always has, always does. Why did advocates of taxing and controlling carbon output alter their nomenclature from “global warming” to “climate change?” It’s not as if humans can stop climate from changing. Is the current climate regime really the best climate for all humanity? Or is it just best for those of us living in the temperate zone? I really am curious. – J.B.)
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Fracking = Climate Change?
There has been an interesting dialogue/debate over the past several issues regarding hydraulic fracturing (also given the term “fracking”) that morphed into a debate about climate change. I want to explore terminology used with some of these letters as well as make a point. The term “climate change deniers” was used. I’m not sure where this term originated, but I do not believe it is meaningful. Does anyone deny that climate has, is, or will change over time? Further, I don’t know of anyone who denies that there were some periods of increasing global temperature (global warming) during the 20th century. It seems to me that those who use the term “climate change denier” are really referring to someone who does not readily accept the popular theory that increases in global temperature have been caused predominantly by man’s use of fossil fuels. Simply stated, this theory postulates that when CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere, mainly as a result of burning fossil fuels to produce energy, it will act like the glass in a greenhouse and trap radiation coming from the Sun that will heat the Earth and/ or the atmosphere, causing the global temperature to rise. This hypothesis is plausible and worthy of serious evaluation. However, in the context of significant policy decisions potentially being made that are based on this hypothesis, does it make one a “denier” to expect that there should be strong evidence to support it and few, if any, facts that conflict with it? The idea that man could be causing global warming gained a great deal of interest during the period from 1965 to 1997 when rising global temperatures correlated with rising levels of CO2. In order to evaluate the hypothesis to determine if it should be accepted, IPCC and others created climate models. Climate models are used to simulate the expected greenhouse effect and predict what the effect would be on global temperature, based on the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere. The results of these simulations show significant differences from observed patterns. Global temperatures decreased from 1940 through the late 1960s, even though CO2 emissions were steadily increasing during that period. The simulations failed to predict the ongoing period of no significant temperature increase, currently in its 15th year. IPCC admits this lack of increase in global temperature is occurring (IPCC AR5 Report), but it is called a “hiatus.” (We have a new term: “hiatus denier” [Editor’s note: first coined by me! – J.B.] Does this refer to someone who denies that warming has subsided presently, 21 – 28 August 2014
or someone who denies that warming might resume after its “hiatus”?) So then, what is the evidence that supports the manmade global warming hypothesis? A recent writer to MJ mentioned two things: a co-variance between CO2 and temperature over the last 400,000 years, and a preponderance of reputable climate scientists, commonly referred to as a consensus. Regarding the first: yes, scientists examined ice core and other proxy data over the very long term and found that global temperatures co-varied with CO2 levels, except contrary to what the theory suggests, changes in global temperature preceded changes in CO2 levels. Regarding a consensus, there is debate on how real it is. But even if it did exist, a consensus of opinions is
A consensus of opinions is not evidence of fact. Humans, even scientists, do not get to establish facts by voting on them. Back in Galileo’s time, there was practically unanimous consensus that the sun revolved around the Earth. Galileo experienced much worse than being called a “denier.” – Nick Zwick not evidence of fact. Humans, even scientists, do not get to establish facts by voting on them. Back in Galileo’s time, there was practically unanimous consensus that the sun revolved around the Earth. Galileo experienced much worse than being called a “denier.” In reporting by the media and even in some of the letters written to MJ, I routinely see a matter-of-fact assumption that the significant cause of global warming is man. These writers talk about effects of warming or point to studies that project negative consequences that might happen in the future if warming were to continue, with the assumption that man has or will cause all this – and therefore we have the capability and duty to do something about it. My point is that I have seen no legitimate basis for such an assumption. Does that make me a “denier?” Nick Zwick Montecito (Editor’s note: The short answer is “yes”; the longer answer is “Yes, because you question the legitimate basis for car21 – 28 August 2014
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This month, I completed the design, working drawings, and permit processing of a new 4,877-square-foot residential project. In the permitted surrounding site landscaping, I relied on the natural methods (listed below) to be installed for the conservation of water resources; to gain access to a better and permanent use of rainwater; and to design an attractive self-maintaining landscape as outdoor living spaces that are drought-surviving, and that are child- and pet-friendly (no thorns, blades, or sprays!) • Site drainage: total site boundary to boundary in all directions; the sheet water (rain) is kept on site, via shallow surface swales with gentle oneto-five percent slope to “rainwater ponding” areas usually of any shape or size with plus/minus three-inch depth. These cause the sheet (surface) water to temporarily pond and soak into underground soil storage, where it stays available for short- and medium-depth roots. • Roofwater drainage: roof to gutter, to downspout leaders to downspouts hidden in the exterior walls to belowground surface drains to subterranean dispersal ditches, minimum 12 inches below permeable topsoils below three inches of mulch. Large plants or deep roots find water stored in these areas, and it stays available a long time like aquifers to since there is no evaporation and little percolation to surface. • Soil sculpting: sculpting the site topsoil surfaces with swales, ponding places, berms, drains, and the like levels itself beautifully to access/ egress pathways both pedestrian and
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tank top all the way up to a Roberto Cavalli dress that she wore to the Radio Disney Music Awards, priced around $550.” For Monday’s glittering gala, Dani wants something “age appropriate.” “I can’t take all the credit for her final looks because the final say is up to Mia,” adds Dani. “She knows fashion, style and comfort, and does an awesome job with the final result.” But even at such a young age, Mia is enjoying the advantages of being a star. She gets to keep any of the outfits she wears...
rating that must have been on such a magnificent yacht. It was undoubtedly the trip of a lifetime!”...
Cover Girl TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey, currently sailing off the Spanish island of Ibiza with longtime friend, CBS morning show host Gayle King, shows off her curvy figure in a longsleeved body suit for the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine’s September issue. “It was kind of exciting, but daunting,” says Oprah. The 60-year-old admits that initially she was “a little apprehensive” about such a revealing cover. “As Maya Angelou says in her ‘Phenomenal Woman’, ‘I’m not built to suit a fashion model size,’” says Oprah, referring to the late author’s famous 1995 poem. Still, she says she feels “pretty phenomenal” about the end result. “It’s like pretending I’m a movie star,” she confessed of embracing the dramatic cat suit. The media mogul is certainly no stranger to showing off her figure on the cover of her eponymous Hearst glossy launched 14 years ago. She wore a daring long-sleeve red dress by Badgley Mischka on the magazine’s May cover to celebrate looking good at 60. “Call me crazy, but I’ve never really
Mia Talerico looking oh-so fashionable in a colorful dress by Italian designer Roberto Cavalli Oprah wears a daringly tight cat suit for her new magazine cover
understood our culture’s fear of getting older. The way I see it, every year can be a brand-new journey,” she said at the time. “If you’re blessed enough to grow older, there’s so much wisdom to be gained from celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.” My, Oh Mia It’s not only adults who pull out all the stops fashion-wise when they hit the red carpet at major Hollywood galas. Take the case of five-year-old Santa Barbara actress Mia Talerico, star
of the Disney hit show Good Luck Charlie, which has been nominated for a prime-time Emmy at the 66th annual awards at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Monday. What to wear for such a major event? Dani Mackins, owner of Dani BOY Kids, the Coast Village Road emporium for fashion-conscious youngsters, has styled Mia since the store first opened. “Our relationship has grown into working on her for special events and red carpet premieres,” says Dani. “As far as her red-carpet look, that depends on the seasons. I like to try to mix things up, from leggings and a
Critical Acclaim Lutah, the documentary on Santa Barbara architect Lutah Maria Riggs that was such a hit at the Santa Barbara International Film festival in the New Year, has just been accepted for the Napa Valley Film Festival in November. “They have a four-percent acceptance rate,” committee member Robert Adams told guests at a reception at the George Washington Smith home of Robert and Gretchen Lieff, Los Suenos. “So far we haven’t been declined by any of the fifteen film festivals we’ve applied to, including Denver, Vail, and Vancouver. It’s quite an achievement.”
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vehicular. Hardscapes and driveway of permeable surfaces can contain and direct the flow of sheet water to remain on site and out of the public right-of-way systems (that normally flow to the ocean thereby displacing rainwater unnaturally from land use.) • Landscaping uses: many native plants and imports from similar climates have been hybridized (cross-pollinated naturally) to be able to produce an abundance of long-lasting, season flowers and fruits, nuts, etc. Safe drought-surviving, self-maintaining plants provide a general or skeletal design planting plan that stays beautiful by alternately blooming and producing season to season year-round. Many types shelter songbirds and animal friends (that don’t bite). Some oaks produce significant amounts of acorns and leaves and earlier peoples attached seasonal nets to their tree braches to funnel the acorns into collection baskets for food processing. Today, acorn/oakleaf mulch is a plant-nutritious groundcover that stays on site, replenishes its soil, and slows evaporation by Mr. Sun on topsoils. Many plant species have a Class A fire-prevention rating. I also used a walkable lawn substitute plant species that never needs mowing, along with a locally hybridized by Lockwood de Forest, Jr. herb that never needs watering: dew and rainfall sustains it, though it likes an occasional dusting. These methods employ Mrs. Earth’s natural tools, such as gravity, absorption, storage, composting, regeneration, growth, etc., naturally at no charge. Taken altogether, these free tools are a very generous source of healthy benefits that provide a reliable and nice style of living conservatively, which is a primary reason to be living here and preserving what’s here. Hope this permitted plan helps others to creatively define the fine arts of architecture and architectural landscape design. It’s a great feeling to walk in a garden while knowing its self-maintenance keeps it beautiful and permanent. A great value, too: like the cooling, clean air year-round afternoon breeze we enjoy here that also creates itself, it’s free. More info at City of Santa Barbara’s web link: www.santabarbaraca.gov/
civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?Blo bID=1667 More respectfully yours, Tom Kress Montecito (Editor’s note: Thank you for a bunch of really good ideas. Let’s face it, though: there are simply too many people living in the dry Southwest to depend upon rain and surface water for their needs. Desalination would allow all those sources of water to replenish themselves, including the once-abundant Colorado River. The time to begin that replenishment is now. – J.B.)
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uring a regular Tuesday morning group meeting recently, I asked the half-dozen men at our table what the most pressing issue Montecito faced was. Believing I’d hear about water shortages, Highway 101, the Miramar, or even Peabody’s, it came as a surprise that most wanted to know what was happening to Montecito Village Grocery. Did Cantwell’s buy it? Will it close? Is Tony the meat guy going to stay? Coincidentally, I had already arranged an interview with Denis Lacey, the new general manager of Montecito Village Grocery to ascertain what changes were on the drawing boards. No, Cantwell’s did not buy the shop and no, it will not close. The new owner is John Burke, president of Trek Bicycle Corporation; his company is headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin, but he has a house in Montecito.
The first thing Denis wanted Montecito to know as we settle onto boxes in the delivery room at the back of the store, was that “Tony ain’t going anywhere. He’s staying right here.” Tony is, of course, Anthony “Tony” Perocco, the grocery store’s popular butcher who has been chopping meat there for more than 25 years. “We want to give [Tony] newer equipment, newer products and make his department bigger,” Denis says. Burke, Lacey, and “Mike,” another investor, took over the operation from Norm Borgatello on “inventory night,” June 30, 2014, and opened for business under new management the next day, Tuesday, July 1. The changeover was relatively easy for a man with the experience Denis has; he was store director – general manager – for Lazy Acres on the Mesa for 15 years before accepting the challenge of taking over Montecito Village Grocery.
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Denis says he’d been paying attention to what was happening in the upper village for a long time and had known the Borgatellos (the family that owns the entire upper village shopping center) since seventh grade. “I went to school with Cathy Borgatello,” he says, “and I knew David.” Denis saw Cathy at Earth Day and asked what she and her family were doing with the grocery store. “After that, things happened really fast,” he recounts. “I got a call from a guy in town who asked if I was interested in talking to John Burke and I said, ‘Why not?’” Denis and John spoke for several hours and continued talking over the next few weeks. “I thought it would be a great opportunity to come up here and design something new, and expand on what we were already doing,” Denis explains. Denis grew up in Santa Barbara and Goleta. He was born in Los Angeles but lived there for just two months before his family moved to Santa Barbara. “My dad (John Lacey) worked at Santa Barbara Bank & Trust. My mom (Maureen Lacey) worked at the NewsPress. I attended St. Raphael’s, Bishop, and then City College.” Denis’s first job was delivering the News-Press to his 115 customers. Then he went to work for Thrifty’s in
Goleta, Carpinteria, and on Milpas, and ended up as manager. He did that for 15 years, then spent the following 15 years at Lazy Acres. Denis and his wife, Lupita (neé Angulo), were married “a little over three years ago, but we’ve been together for over eleven,” he says. The two met and married in Santa Barbara, and now work together at Montecito Village Grocery. Lupita worked at Tre Lune on Coast Village Road for eight years.
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Changes made so far include new picture windows on the south and west sides of the shop, brightening things inside considerably. “The windows were in the original plan of Isaiah’s, back in the 1950s,” Denis says. “Now you see the local wines through the window.” Near future plans call for a cappuccino and juice bar. “The architects are looking at where they may go,” he says. He is working with Alex Clyne of Clyne Construction and architect John Beauchamp of elevenModern. Denis expects to go fully into the remodel after January. “We’ll see how the operation is run through the hol-
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La Festa Di Ferragosto 2014
The 2014 La Festa Ferragosto at Manning Park in Montecito, taking time out from the kids soccer match are, from left: Dick Prato, Gabriella Schooley, Los Angeles Italian Consulate commercial attaché, Elena Marinelli, and event chair Dr. Jim Barbabella
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joint effort of the three ItalianAmerican organizations of Santa Barbara, the Italian American Boot Club (IABC), ICHF/ Circolo Italiano and UNICO (Unity, Neighborliness, Integrity, Charity, Opportunity) Santa Barbara, the annual La Festa di Ferragosto was celebrated August 17 at Manning Park in Montecito. Event chair Dr. Jim Barbabella explains, “La Festa di Ferragosto is an ancient Italian tradition decreed by Emperor Augustus after the harvest. Gabriella Schooley, president of the Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation introduced it to Santa Barbara. Our plan was to return the Italian Festival to Santa Barbara next year if we had a successful Ferragosto. All the proceeds will go to establishing the teaching of the Italian language at Santa Barbara
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High School. I would like to thank the presidents of the three organizations for their assistance, and especially thank my subcommittee chairs and the many volunteers for their diligence and hard work. It would not have been a success without them.” Gabriella adds, “Yes, we now have again Italian classes for the SB students! The classes are dual enrollment with SB City College and will carry university credit. It is a huge achievement of the Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of SB; it is something I have been working on for years and finally the conditions were right! Needless to say, we are delighted.” The sunny mid-day celebration provided a three-course Italian “pranzo” (midday meal) of “antipasti” (appetizers), main courses, and desserts along with wines, beer, water, soft La Festa Ferragosto at Manning Park, stomping white grapes for wine are Daniel Panizzon’s children, Maya and Gabriel
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drinks, and coffee. Everything was prepared from scratch by the member volunteers. Renato Moiso, of Via Maestra 42, who is a member of the three organizations and past president of the IABC, brought in his Italian gelato cart just for fun. There was live Italian music, a bocce championship and other games – such as soccer for the kids – and oh, yes, the stomping of the grapes in wood buckets by barefooted teens. Special guests at the event included Elena Marinelli, commercial attaché with the Italian Consulate of L.A., and Carlin Dunne, second-generation owner of Ducati Vespa SB, brought in two new motorcycles on display. Carlin’s dad, Trevor, a professional motorcycle racer from South Africa, started the business in Santa Barbara 35 years ago, and it’s now located • The Voice of the Village •
in the building that housed the first motorcycle shop in SB in the 1930s. Guest members of the organizations attending were Sophia Gallina and Eileen Prinslow (Food Committee); Finance Committee’s Gabriella Schooley (Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of SB); Dick Prato (Italian American Boot Club) and Jeff Vitucci (Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of SB and UNICO SB). Set Up and serving the food were Barbara Hill Vollero and Linda Jordan, both members of the ICHF Board and members of UNICO SB; the Games Committee’s Frank Umanzio, past president of ICHF and member of all three organizations; the Bar Committee’s Roland Messori (ICHF) and Tony Ruggieri (IABC); the Entertainment Committee’s Dick Prato, past president of IABC and member of the board of both IABC and ICHF; and Marilyn Acquistapace, Anna Brusutti, Victoria De Maio, Silvio Di Loreto, Angela Ellis, Gilda Parodi, Christy Swider, Jeff Vitucci, and Daniel Panizzon, who started the Boot Club with his kids, Maya and Gabriel. Buona estate!
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avid Gray, Jr. (1908-1966) took over his father’s Meridian Studio office at 116 East De la Guerra Street in 1928, the year his father died, and occupied it until 1932. Gray Junior met his artist wife, Nancy Maxwell Gray (1904-1977), at the Meridian Studios in the late 1920s. Originally from Long Island where she had studied at the Art Students League in New York, Nancy had traveled west by train with her four brothers for an extended exploration of California. When they reached Santa Barbara, they visited the local artistic haunts, and she met David at the beautiful Meridian Studios. The couple married in August 1930 in her hometown of Glen Cove, New York. Thereafter, they tended to spend half the year at the Gray enclave on Nantucket Island and half the year in Santa Barbara. David Gray’s former office became a studio in which David Junior sculpted and Nancy painted. After 1932, they worked elsewhere, but for the year 1938-39 they returned to Meridian. Nancy’s work was voted best of show in the late 1950s at an exhibition in Santa Barbara that featured local artists. In 1963, a contemporary reviewer described her one-woman show at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art as “intensely personal with psychological overtones.” Daughterin-law Alma Gray remembers they lived a very Bohemian lifestyle, dressing in jeans and going barefoot about town long before it became a common sight. (City directories, News-Press 20 October 1963. Many thanks to Alma Gray for remembrances and photos.) John (Jack) Borden Hamilton (19051961) was born in New York City. Not much is known about him as an artist other than that he was a member of the Art Students League in New York
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dying. We were promised State Water as our emergency backup, but the state has broken its commitment. “How can you expect this community to welcome a rebuilt resort that serves out-of-town guests with water taken out of the current 5,300 AF forecast needed by all the other residents of Montecito and Summerland? We have imposed a moratorium on new construction residential and commercial water permits. Those who are remodeling cannot get larger water meters or pools approved. Agricultural users are being squeezed off their land.” Last week, MWD director Dick Shaikewitz warned the Miramar team to disclose to its lenders that Ordinance 93 gives MWD considerable discretion in a severe water emergency to alter future allocations to protect the health and safety of its residential users. The intent is clear. The Miramar may be entitled to 45 AF of water today, but without future rainfall, current allocations could be cut as much as 50 percent, with a zero water allowance for landscaping. If the drought continues, the most critical years will be 2015 and 2016. The Miramar could soften public perception by voluntarily agreeing to halve its allocation during the next two years of construction, until its opening in the summer of 2017. Should the Miramar be required to consider drought-resistant or artificial turf for its lawn areas? Should the Miramar install underground storage tanks for the recovery of gray water for future landscaping, or storage of freshwater? Underground water storage installed during site grading would be much less expensive than installation after opening. What contribution could a deep well make to the Miramar water supply?
A Win-Win for Montecito
In July 2012, the Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors (BOS) approved a county-wide Hotel Incentive Program (HIP), in which the county would rebate to new large hoteliers the Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) earned for the first 15 years of operation. According to a study approved by the County of Santa Barbara in November 2012 by Marston Associates, the Miramar was projected to produce new county tax revenues as follows:
Estimated 15-Year County Revenues from a Re-Opened Miramar TOT Taxes To the County $ 56,755,000 See Note 1. Potential Rebate to Caruso -$ 39,728,500 Net TOT Tax Revenues to County $ 17,026,500 Sales Tax Revenues $ 3,746,000 See Note 2. Property Tax Revenues $ 5,676,000 See Note 3. Total New County Taxes:
$ 66,177,000 See Note 4.
Note 1. Calculated as 10 percent of estimated room revenues Note 2. 1 percent of estimated food & beverage, spa, shop sales Note 3. 1 percent of assessed value. The county general fund does not get all of the property taxes; rather, the county general fund receives 22.7 percent of the incremental property taxes, with the balance going to other taxing agencies and designated funds. Note 4. Without a rebate to the developer, the county would receive a $66.2 million windfall in taxpayer benefits over the first 15 years.
A Strategic Solution
The county is now drooling over the prospect of $66.2 million in new county tax revenues. The Board of Supervisors was willing to rebate $40 million over 15 years to Rick Caruso, a billionaire, to help him get financing for the resort, in order for the county to be paid $16.4 million during the first 15 years and $66.2 million during the following 15 years in windfall tax revenues from Montecito’s newest oceanfront resort. Although the approved county HIP remains in place, Caruso was not able to use it as security for his lenders, because then county executive Chandra Wallace determined that the program needed an annual review and could not be guaranteed for 15 years. Since the county BOS won’t need to rebate $40 million to Caruso, doesn’t it seem both logical and fair that the county should be willing to earmark the $40 million promised to Caruso, if not the entire $66.2 million for the first 15 years, to fund a strategic solution to Montecito’s water woes? $66.2 million in Miramar tax receipts, along with other TOT taxes from new hotels and resorts built in the county, would go a long way toward creating a private/public partnership to construct a desal plant in Montecito, contractually obligated to sell drinking water to MWD, and any other county water district that chooses to subscribe to the Montecito desalination program for emergency drought relief.
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the neighbors. New neighbors Dana and Andrea Newquist were at the ABR meeting, and Dana Newquist spoke about his concerns for the privacy of his tenants who live directly behind the property on Olive Mill. “We are not opposed to the project. I’m all for property rights,” he said. He went on to say, “Our concern is the large ficus hedge that divides the two properties. I would hate to see it come down.” “We plan on preserving them, as per the conditions of the project’s approval,” Price told us after the meeting. Other public commenters included Kellam de Forest, who said he wished the height of the building would have been brought down in the revisions. “It’s the shortest three-story building in the City of Santa Barbara. There was nothing more we could do,” Price said. Kellam also brought up the issue of the five-way stop sign at that corner and the congestion that is already occurring. Another neighbor, Juergen Boehr, asked that the ABR take a fresh look at the project, considering all but one of the board members did not sit on the board in 2008. He said the building should be further reduced in size to fit in with the surrounding neighborhood. In support of the development, two Coast Village Road business owners praised the architect for reducing the scale of the project. Three modifications are still required for the 17,802-square-foot building, including a second-floor balcony encroachment, an encroachment on the northern interior setback to accommodate parking, and a setback encroachment for an upper-level courtyard. “All of these are already part of the approved plans,” Gorrell reminded the ABR members, who gave positive review of the project. The next step will be a hearing at the planning commission in the next month, which will consider if the modified project is within substantial conformity of the approved plans. Price says he expects the gas station that is currently on the site to be demolished as soon as next summer, with construction on the new building to began shortly after. The demolition of the Union 76 station will come on the heels of the remodel of
the Chevron station on Coast Village, which is set to begin in the next 60 days. Mr. Price also says he is already in talks with various retailers about occupying the commercial section of the project.
Montecito Association Explores Miramar and Water
At this month’s Montecito Association (MA) Board meeting held August 12, directors heard from several members of Miramar owner Rick Caruso’s team, who presented new renderings of the plans for the hotel and resort. This third redesign of the Miramar is set to go through the county’s review process once again; Caruso holds approvals to two former versions of the plans from 2008 and 2011. The newest blueprint features fewer guestrooms (170 instead of 186), no underground parking (there will be 441 above-ground spots on site), and a rearranged main building which will hold meeting rooms, a ballroom, spa, and fitness center. The project plans for 27 oceanfront guest rooms and suites, including a freestanding 3,800-square-foot presidential suite, an oceanfront restaurant, and a casual beach bar on the boardwalk. “It’s the best version of the plan to date, and it’s the version we hope to move forward with,” said manager of development Evan Krenzien. Architect Marc Appleton presented some new renderings and said the goal of the design is to make the resort look like an old estate property that has been turned into a hotel. “We want it to look residential,” Appleton said, describing the main building, which will be built to look like a home with an entry courtyard. Preliminary comments by the audience included landscaping ideas to screen the parking lots, issues with the increase in use to the southbound San Ysidro Road freeway entrance, and issues with the stacked parking configuration in the parking lots. “Ninety-nine percent of the parking will be done by valet,” Krenzien explained, adding that some of the
What Should Be Done
The painful but correct decision is for MWD to honor its existing service commitments for a 45 AF of water per annum for a re-opened Miramar resort, so that the Miramar developer can move forward with the MBAR and MPC approval process. The resort will be a fine addition to our community, given the multiple design improvements negotiated during the last 10 years. It would be foolish and shortsighted to hold the Miramar hostage by delaying construction until we solve our water woes. In fact, allowing the project to move forward and expanding our community tax base could be beneficial in paving the pathway to Montecito’s long-term water independence – either by funding a desalination facility or a recycled water system, or both. •MJ
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n.o.t.e.s. from downtown
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Can’t Water Down This Problem
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Marc Appleton’s rendering of a Garden Cottage at the Miramar Resort; the revised hotel plans were discussed at last week’s Montecito Association board meeting
family cottages will have dedicated parking spaces for self-parking. The MA directors, who held a more in-depth workshop on the plans last Thursday, asked the Caruso team about water availability, rail road safety, design features, and parking, all of which will be discussed in the coming months with Montecito Board of Architectural Review (a meeting is scheduled for August 25) and the Montecito Planning Commission (a hearing is expected in October). Also at the MA meeting, Montecito Water District (MWD) board president Darlene Bierig reported on “the good, the bad, and the ugly” in regard to the drought situation. The good: Montecito residents have really stepped up in their water conservation, Bierig reported. In July, there was a 48-percent reduction from last year. “That is all water we’ll be rolling over to the next water year, which starts October 1,” she said. MWD’s goal in passing Ordinance 93 in March was to reduce consumption by 30 percent, a goal that has been far surpassed. “Keep it up!” Bierig said. In addition, the district has acquired nearly 3,000 acre-feet of supplemental water supplies from various water sources to take us into the 2014-15 water year. The bad: the El Niño weather pattern that was expected to lessen the drought conditions in California has been downgraded; experts are now saying the chance of an El Niño winter is at 65 percent. The ugly: based on predictions by MWD staff, the Montecito’s future water situation is dire. It is estimated that by the 2015-16 water year, which begins October 1, 2015, the district will only have 36 percent of the water it currently has. These figures take into account potential rain, water acquired from other sources, and continued customer rationing. This means that the district will likely move to rationing water for indoor purposes only, Bierig said. In the meantime, the MWD board is continually looking for solutions to save water. They are looking into installing smart meters to help customers better take control of their water usage, and they’ve also undertaken a recycled wastewater study in 21 – 28 August 2014
conjunction with Montecito Sanitary District. In addition, the district continues to work with the county on negotiating the reopening of the desalinization plant. “We need to go permanently to a climatic, appropriate landscape design in this community,” Bierig said. “This is going to happen again, folks.”
Peregrine Galleries Celebrates 30 Years
August 9, marked a big anniversary for Peregrine Galleries owner Marlene Vitanza, who opened the vintage jewelry and accessory on Coast Village Road 30 years ago. “It has gone by so fast!” Vitanza tells us during a visit to the shop last week. Vitanza and her late husband, Jimmy, opened the first Peregrine Gallery on Chapala Street in Santa Barbara in 1975. The shop was known for its accessories, paintings, rare artifacts, and furniture, but it was Jimmy’s wealth of antique knowledge that drew in customers, Marlene says. “We were so happy being together, doing what we loved, which was selling antiques,” she recalls. When a small retail space opened up on Coast Village Road nearly a decade later, the couple, who had two children, decided to open a second location. This time, the focus would be vintage jewelry, and Marlene would be running the show. “Jimmy told me that I’d have to run the place! And I did, filling it with everything I love,” Marlene says. The two were married 47 years, kept both stores until Jimmy took ill a few years back; he passed away in 2013. “I still have customers tell me that when Jimmy passed away, he took an incredible wealth of knowledge with him,” she said. Marlene only carries pieces and lines that she both wears and adores. “I really am passionate about what I sell,” she says. Peregrine Galleries carries fine vintage jewelry including Chanel, Miriam Haskell, Taxco Silver, Bakelite, and Early Native American pieces. Customers can expect to find all sorts of treasures, including brooches, necklaces, cameos, rings, men’s
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very Sunday, I meet my friend Shelly Lowenkopf at Renaud’s for breakfast at 7a.m. When I tell people this, their general reaction is astonishment. “Seven a.m.!? Why so early?” To which I answer, “To keep the windbags away.” This has very little to do with the point I’m about to make, except to set the stage. On August 3, Shelly and I exited Renaud’s and felt something pinging off our heads. Bird droppings? Drone droppings? Frogs? Fiesta cascarones? Looking up, Shelly exclaimed, “Is that... whaddayacallit, rain?” Well, I was so shocked by the precipitation that I fainted straight away. I don’t mean to look a gift “storm” in the williwaw, but it took two pails of water to revive me, resulting in a negative .001 inch net accumulation at Lake Cachuma. Santa Barbara is in a stage-two drought. I don’t know the difference between stage two and stage three, or stage 33 for that matter, so the number means little to me. If you’ve lived here as long as I have, you might call it a stage-a-vu drought, because I swear I’ve lived this before. Officials have declared Santa Barbara to be in an “extreme” drought, while Santa Maria has an “exceptional” drought status, but Montecito is holding out for an “extraordinary” drought ranking. It’s all very confusing, so let me make it easier for you: California is so dry, it’ll soon be against the law for even the crudest of men to announce, “I’m going to take a leak.” Our city council wants us to voluntarily reduce water consumption by 20 percent. This plea is a day late and a dollar short. Actually, about five years late and $31.5 million short (estimated cost to get the desalination plant up and running) because at this point Santa Barbara is drier than my mom’s meatloaf (I’m sorry Mom, but it’s true). I’m not an Ivy League grad (though I did graduate from San Marcos High School with a 1.75 GPA), but even I know that a 20-percent reduction probably ain’t gonna cut it. I drove past Lake Cachuma on Highway 154 the other day and at no vantage point could I see water. The lake is down to 34 percent of capacity. No, wait... 33 percent now because Lora just flushed the toilet. Our area is so parched, watermelon consumption should be limited to between 8 pm and 8 am. I’m afraid the volunteer thing isn’t working either. Many people are trying, but others haven’t gotten it yet. Some neighborhood lawns are brown and mangy, while others are greener
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When it comes to discussing the current drought level, Jim Alexander has “stage” fright; he wouldn’t know a stage-two drought if it caused him to be dehydrated. And when he must use the bathroom these days, it’s his face that gets flushed.
than Kermit on St. Patrick’s Day. Don’t you green-lawn people know that the Los Angeles Lakers are considering changing their name to the Los Angeles Ponds? Have you not heard that California resident Bill Maher is thinking about giving up his water pipe? When we voted in State Water in 1991, we starry-eyed voters had pipedreams of perpetual Slip-n-Slides on every lawn and mo-flo toilets, but that hasn’t turned out to be the be-all/endall solution. And unfortunately, water doesn’t simply fall out of the sky... wait,
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water – W.H. Auden I guess it does actually, but according to the Montecito Journal editorial staff we only receive measurable precipitation during “Republican Presidential” years. So, until that happens, keep in mind that Santa Barbara is so dry, the local NRA chapter is considering endorsing a water pistol buy-back. Restaurants have finally started serving water on a request-only basis, but, again, too little, too late. I know we must drink something with our meals but let’s use alternatives like milk. Oops, cancel that. This just in: California is so dry, cows are now producing powdered milk. Santa Barbara is sometimes referred to as America’s Riviera, though our “official” city slogan is actually, “Santa Barbara – Goleta’s Much Better Looking Sister.” But if this drought doesn’t end soon, visitors will be greeted at our city limits with a sign announcing a new city slogan: Welcome To Santa Barbara –The Land Of Sun And Fun, But We Don’t Flush For Number One – Population 92,325 (and drying up). Please, people, let’s get our heads out of our aquifers before it’s too late. Here’s a local website with drought information and some good water conservation suggestions: http://santabarbaraca.gov/gov/ depts/pw/resources/conservation/ •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL
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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 22) Belle Hahn Cohen, Gretchen Lieff and her father, Walter Bortz, John Saladino, Joe Knowles, Bob and Sylvia Easton, Brad Dunning, and John Woodward at Los Suenos (photo by Priscilla)
Robert Adams, Martha Gray, Lynn Brittner, Bob Trustkowski, Ted Baer, Erin Graffy, and Melinda Gandara celebrate success of Lutah (photo by Priscilla)
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WAY IT WAS (Continued from page 27) The drawing room of El Mirasol hotel became known as “The Cactus Room” after Adele created the murals (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
Adele Herter, seen here with her daughter Lydia circa 1902, played an important part in Santa Barbara’s artistic and cultural life (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
“Girl with Doll” by Nancy Gray. Her work was described as “pseudo surrealistic with a strange, haunting mood” by a reviewer in 1963. (Courtesy Alma Gray)
host to members of the Santa Barbara group who were visiting New York City. Sufficiently recovered in 1936, he rejoined the league for another three years. In 1937-38, he and Gordon K. Grant rented a Meridian Studio at 114 De la Guerra for a year. Jack, as he was known to his friends, married Polly Forsyth in 1938, and they eventually moved to Montecito. He died in November 1961. (Many thanks to Roxanne Grant Lapidus for photos, information, and ice cream in the canopied swing.) Arthur Merton Hazard (1872-1930) is another artist about whom there is not much known in Santa Barbara. He was born at North Bridgewater,
Massachusetts, and was probably a member of the illustrious Hazard family of Santa Barbara’s Mission Canyon. Trained in Boston and Paris, he returned to Boston to continue his studies under Joseph DeCamp and Frank Duveneck. He was known for landscape, portraiture, and figurative paintings. His portraits, which garnered the approval of the press, reflected the influence of the Boston School’s trend of painting women in luxurious surroundings illuminated by lamp or window light. In 1914, he opened an art gallery at 64 Commonwealth Avenue with an impressive one-man show of his own. Hazard relocated to the West for health reasons in 1923, and he began to specialize in sun-filled garden, desert flower, and coastal scenes. He also joined the California Art Club and Painters of the West. His works include portraits of prominent Los Angeles residents including one of Douglas
The dining room of the DuPont home today still has the copper wainscoting and Adele’s cactus murals (author photo)
Fairbanks, which he painted in Santa Barbara in October 1929. Arthur M. Hazard died near Paris, France, in 1930. (Art and Artists of Southern California; Artists in California – 1786-1940; ancestry.com; WWAA 1938-39 obits; www. antiquesandfineart.com/articles/arti cle.cfm?request=971) Adele Herter (1869-1946) was the daughter of prominent New York City banker John W. McGinnis and Lydia Olivia Matteson. Adele was born in New York City in 1869. Between 1888 and 1891, she was studying art
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in Paris with Bouguereau, RobertFleury, and Courtois when she met Albert Herter, a fellow student and son of Christian Herter of the famous New York design firm named Herter Brothers. A romance ensued and they returned to New York, where they married in April 1893. After a yearlong honeymoon in Japan, the newlyweds returned to Europe in 1894 to embark on careers in art and did not return to the United States permanently until 1904. Nevertheless, they commissioned the famous New York architect Grosvenor Atterbury to design an estate for them in the Hamptons. They called it Prés Choisis (better known as “The Creeks”). It was completed in 1899 and boasted two artists’ studios in addition to a host of elegant rooms. In February 1908, Adele and Albert established Herter Looms to revive the art of tapestry making, as well as to create other fabrics of exquisite colors and designs. In 1913, Adele and Albert made Santa Barbara their second home when they revamped Albert’s mother’s house and turned it into the elegant hotel, El Mirasol. Color played an important role in their design, just as it had for Prés Choisis. In the Peacock Room, for instance, the floor was an intricate pattern of orange and blue. Even the Chinese housemen were decked out in blue, silk mandarin coats by day and bright orange jackets in the evening. One observer remarked, “How few would have had such courage in the use of color, yet how marvelous the 21 – 28 August 2014
Detail of the cactus mural at the DuPont home (author photo)
result now it is done!” For the drawing room of the hotel, Adele papered the walls with gold leaf and silver foil taken from squares of silver paper in which Chinese tea was wrapped. She meticulously ironed each square, which contained real silver, and affixed them to the walls. Upon this background, she painted such exquisite scenes of various cacti that Frank Lloyd Wright exclaimed that it was “the most beautiful wall covering in the world.” Others thought so, too, for in the 1920s Amy DuPont commissioned Adele to paint a cactus mural in the dining room of her Montecito home, Casa del Sueño. In May 1931, an article in House Beautiful reported that not
Adele was also known for her still-lifes and portraits (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
only the walls but the furniture and light fixtures of the DuPont dining room had been designed by Adele Herter. While the El Mirasol mural is long gone, the DuPont mural has been carefully preserved. Today as then, solid sheets of copper wainscoting line the walls, above which scenes of cacti in shades of blue and gray-green grow against a background of squares of silver and gold leaf. Dusky red mesas rise behind cactus blossoms of tea rose red and deep coral, and all
Copper wainscoting and murals were paneled over when Burl Ives owned the home; the result was a wonderful preservation of the unique mural (author photo)
forms are outlined in reddish purple. Besides decorative murals, Adele was predominantly a portrait and still-life painter. Her work was exhibited in many New York galleries over the years, and her portraits include some of the better-known names of high society in the early part of the 20th century. She had a studio at the Meridian from 1927-29. In Santa Barbara, Adele was also involved in Santa Barbara’s civic institutions. She organized the first
Christmas pageant of tableaux at the Recreation Center in 1920. Both she and Albert created ornaments and lights for the Community Christmas Tree on the grounds of the old Courthouse, thereby initiating the tradition of the Tree of Lights. Also, it was the Herters who recruited Frank Morely Fletcher to take charge of the Santa Barbara School of the Arts to which so many of the Meridian’s artists were connected. Adele died at their home in East Hampton, Long Island, in 1946; Albert at El Mirasol in 1950. In 1951, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art held a memorial exhibition of their art, which was loaned to the exhibit by a long list of Montecito and Santa Barbara notables. (Art and Artists of Southern California; California Arts and Architecture; “A Short History of Tapestry” by Eloise Samson Vaughan; Noticias, “El Mirasol: From Swan to Albatross” by H. Beresford; contemporary newspapers; ances try.com passport information; name file at the Gledhill Library of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum; The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury by Peter Panhnoyer and Anne Walker. Many thanks to Carol Dotson of The Agency Real Estate for inviting me to photograph Adele’s work at Casa del Sueño.) •MJ
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idays. I’m learning what’s going on here currently and how we can make it more beneficial for everyone here in town.” Other changes include a bigger bakery and a bigger cheese department. “We’re going to have to get a lot of new
things,” he says as we walk through the store. He points out beer coolers and freezers that need to be replaced. “Adding [about 600 square-feet] to the meat department will give Tony more freedom to move. There’ll be a bigger food service area, better... or I would say more sandwiches, not better ones. They just made a Teriyaki tri-tip sandwich that was phenomenal,” he boasts. “We’re going to expand on the lunches.” The ancient freezers still have their original wooden doors. “We spoke to the Health Department,” Denis laughs. “They said it’s okay if they’re currently installed, but if we move them... we’ll have to buy new ones.” They’ll be buying new freezers. One thing he does plan to keep, even though it’ll never be used again is the ancient meat hangar that runs above our heads. “It’s awesome. People remember when it was used at Isaiah’s,” he says. “A new rotisserie just arrived, so we can have more chickens,” he adds. Denis has placed great attention on wine display, focusing on local wines. “Most wine stores sell wines by the grape,” he explains. “But when people are wine tasting, they’re not going to one winery and saying, ‘I’m only going to drink the Syrah.’ So we’re organizing our wines by the vendor, by the vineyard. Here we have nothing but
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Jaffurs. Right next to it is Doug Margerum’s wines, which are excellent. M5 is sold at Lucky’s, Cent Anni is an excellent wine, and I hear the people who developed it live in Montecito and work with Doug.” Other local wines receiving front-and-center display space include Lafond, Firestone, Babcock, Russack, Blair Fox (who grew up in Montecito and attended MUS not that long ago). “Deep Sea is sold on Stearns Wharf, where the winery is,” Denis enthuses, “and Melville is right over the hill. Brian and Jessica Carr have a place on Salsipuedes.” Lincourt wines are named after owner Bill Foley’s
daughters Lindsay and Courtney Foley, both of whom grew up here. I didn’t see Beau Joie Champagne in the display, but no doubt once the bubbly’s Montecito-based owners Jon Deitelbaum and his wife, Brandis, read this they’ll get their brand in there, too. Other local products include Santa Barbara Harvest produce, Peter Gaum’s Santa Barbara Bar, olives from Santa Barbara Olive Company. “I’ve known the Petrinis for years,” he says. Mousse Odile’s dressing (now Pascucci), and Annie’s Natural Dressing. Planned is a Senior Discount Day (10 percent off entire order, every
Tuesday), and a Student/Faculty Discount Day (10 percent off every Thursday). There will also be a 10 percent Discount Day for firemen, law enforcement, and veterans, but that day hasn’t been chosen yet. Tables and chairs will be put out front. “Especially when the cappuccino bar comes in. You’ve got a new hangout in Montecito,” Denis says. Montecito Grocery offers natural, organic, or “sustainable” products, such as Mrs. Meyers, 7th Generation, or Planet, alongside its more mainstream competitors. Customers can choose organic pet food from Castor & Pollux, or stay with Purina. “We want to expand the vegetar-
ian “meat” offerings,” he says, but confesses, “we’ve brought in Dodger Dogs (made by Farmer John).” Denis says all the old customer account numbers have been changed but not closed. “We wanted to make sure that whatever balances due to the old ownership were taken care of, and then we’re going to continue offering those accounts.” As for home delivery: “Definitely,” he says, they’ll continue to deliver to residents’ homes. ••• Montecito Village Grocery (805) 969-7845, 1482 East Valley Road, is open from 6 am to 8 pm seven days a week. •MJ
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Keeping Venice Liner-Free Montecito actor Rob Lowe must be a happy man this week, having backed a campaign to ban large cruise ships from Venice’s historic center. The Italian government has now confirmed that the huge liners dubbed “the skyscrapers of the sea” will be barred.
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John Long, Doug Ewins, Kathleen Baushke, and Roger Chrisman aboard Star Lipton Cup starter boat, Polaris (photo by Priscilla)
Currently the ships can pass within 1,000 feet of the iconic St. Mark’s Square, granting stunning views to those aboard, but dwarfing Venice’s ancient Byzantine architecture. Now, Italian ministers have reached a unanimous decision to stop liners of more than 96,000 tons from sailing in St. Mark’s basin and the Giudecca Canal – the waterway that separates the main core of Venice from the island of Giudecca, immediately to the south. Rob was among a number of celebrities, including Michael Douglas, Cate Blanchett, Diane Lane, Michael Caine, Edward Norton, Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, and Isabella Rossellini, who added their signatures to a petition calling for an end to the sight of liners dwarfing buildings such as St. Mark’s Basilica. Transport minister Maurizio Lupi says: “It seems to me to be a balanced solution, which takes into account our duty to remove the liners from the canals of Venice, while safeguarding a world heritage city that is the envy of the world and protecting the city’s economy, which is so linked to cruise tourism.” Racing on the High Seas There was a lot of sailing brewing at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club when local mariners vied for the historic Sir Thomas Lipton Cup, one of the oldest sea racing trophies on the West Coast. The impressive three-foot-high solid silver trophy was presented to the club in 1923 by Scottish tea magnate and America’s Cup yachtsman, Sir Thomas Lipton, and raced for this year by 11 Star class 23-foot boats in several races staged over two consecutive days. I was in the midst of the first day’s frenetic seven back-to-back races on the 57-foot cruiser, Polaris, owned by 2010 commodore and local philan-
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Dave Young presenting the 2014 Star Cup Trophy to winners Eric Doyle and Payson Infelise (photo by Priscilla)
thropist Roger Chrisman, which was being used as the starting boat, along with Kathleen Baushke, John Long, and Doug Ewins, 2000 staff commodore, with Dave Young as regatta chair. This year, the coveted trophy was carried off by San Diego Yacht Club members Eric Doyle – 1999 world champion – and his crewman, Payson Infelise, sailing a flawless second day of action after an iffy first day with two first and second finishes before breaking a halyard, which relegated them to last in the final race of the debut day, which featured 18-knot winds. The trophy also features the name of fellow San Diego YC member Dennis Conner – who won the America’s Cup four times – etched at its base three times, as well as another three-time winner, local resident Bill Gerard,
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Tribute to the Mama of Dada It was certainly a most eccentric evening when the Santa Barbara Museum of Art hosted its popular Atelier event, inspired by its current exhibitions, including “Living in the Timeless” by Beatrice Wood. Drawing on the avant-garde spirit of Wood, also known as the Mama of Dada, the crowded playful evening of art, music, dance, and interactive installations was designed to celebrate West Coast individuality and edge. Highlights of the evening included the Dada Disco, featuring local ballet and modern dancers choreographed by Robin Bisio and Kaita Lepre Mrazek, performing reinterpretations of the Ballets Russes’ 1917 production of “Parade,” and a bicycle trip to nowhere, featuring a circular bike, linking salvaged bikes in an unconventional carousel. A most ingenious night... 21 – 28 August 2014
Bacall, one of the last movie icons of Hollywood’s golden age, would turn up often to practice her dance moves with friends, including Oscar winner Robert Duvall, who excelled at the tango. She made her home at the Dakota, the imposing apartment building overlooking Central Park where John Lennon was murdered by a deranged fan in 1980, while I was partying at the Costume Design Institute gala at the Metropolitan Museum, just a short distance away on Fifth Avenue. I last saw her while having lunch at the achingly trendy Fred Segal store in Santa Monica some years back, where we caught up on past times. A most charming and swellegant lady, who will be much missed... Sightings: Actor-director Clint Eastwood checking out apartments at El Escorial near East Beach... Basketball legend Michael Jordan and six friends playing two rounds of fast-paced golf at Sandpiper... Ellen DeGeneres in her silver-grey Porsche shopping at Pierre Lafond Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing item for Richard’s column should e-mail him at richard mineards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the •MJ Journal
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by Scott Craig (photos by Brad Elliott) Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College
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he Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art celebrates its fifth anniversary with a fundraising exhibition, “5x5: Celebrating Five Years,” from August 28-September 11. The exhibition features more than 300 small-scale pieces of art that will be available for purchase through an online auction (www.westmontmuseum.org/5X5) that ends Thursday, September 11, at 5 pm. An artists’ reception with live music on Tuesday, September 2, from 4-6 pm, is free and open to the public. Renowned artists Frank Gehry, Jessica Stockholder, Milton Glaser, Mark Ryden, Kinuko Craft, and Chris Raschka have contributed to the fundraiser, which benefits the museum’s outreach and educational programming. More than two-thirds of the contributing artists are from the Tri-County area, including Dane Goodman, Richard Aber, Linda Ekstrom, Nicole Strasburg, and Marie Schoeff. “I’ve been delighted by the generous response to our fundraiser from Santa Barbara artists as well as
nationally known artists,” says Judy L. Larson, Askew professor of art history and director of the museum. “We are grateful for their willingness to support the museum’s educational outreach efforts. It’s amazing how small, five-inch squares of paper can be transformed into unique works of art.” The exhibition features artwork in a variety of media, including oil paint, acrylic, watercolor, ink, printmaking, drawing, photography, sculpture, assemblage, and collage. The exhibition kicks off an ambitious season at the museum that features the West Coast premiere of internationally famous Chakaia Booker (December 11-January 31) and “Rembrandt and the Jews” (February 12-March 28). The museum first opened during the 2010-11 season with an art collection of 453 objects, valued at $2 million. As of June 2014, the collection has grown to 1,545, valued at more than $15 million. The museum is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm, and 11 am to 5 pm on Saturdays. It is
VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 29) Peregrine Galleries owner Marlene Vitanza celebrates 30 years on Coast Village Road
watches and rings, cases of Turquoise and silver collections, American and early California paintings, and more. Vitanza has become widely known for her jewelry collections, and buyers and sellers contact her from around the country, in addition to her dedicated local following. To mark the anniversary, Marlene hosted a Chanel-themed party on August 9, with proceeds from jewelry purchased during the event benefitting the Santa Barbara Cancer Center. During the evening affair, Marlene showed dozens of pieces of vintage Chanel, and showed guests how they can wear Chanel pieces a multitude of ways. When asked how long she’ll keep
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the shop, she told us: “I’m doing something I love, so I don’t even think about retiring!” Peregrine Galleries is located at 1133 Coast Village Road. Call 969-9673 or visit www.peregrinegalleries.com for more information.
Hot Springs Cleanup
For the last two weeks, Montecito Trails Foundation (MTF) has sponsored a massive cleanup on Hot Springs Trail. The effort, spearheaded by Marc Russo, is in part to remove remnants of the historic Hot Springs Spa and Hotel, which was in operation from the early 1900s until it
Unique Westmont Wilderness Trek Turns 40 Fifteen new Westmont students are in the Eastern Sierra through Tuesday, August 26, for a unique, 12-day backcountry adventure that submerses students in the wilderness while they earn academic and physical education credit. Inoculum, created by alumnus Dave Willis ‘74, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. One of its goals is helping participants get to know students they can trust. By sharing experiences in the mountains, participants will develop relationships with people they can rely on during the toughest first few weeks of school. “Inoculum also helps students learn to explore, enjoy, and protect wilderness,” Willis says. “We hope students will get past thinking that wilderness is merely to be survived and finish Inoculum feeling they’ve thrived in the wilderness.” Willis, coordinator of Sierra Treks, a program that seeks to build Christian faith through wilderness experiences, manages the mountain phase of the Inoculum program every year with a team of staff and trip leaders. English professor Paul Willis, burned to the ground in 1964. “It’s a mess up there,” says Montecito Trails Foundation president Bobbi King, who is overseeing the project. Old pipes, car parts, beds, appliances, and other trash debris are being transported down by Russo and his crew. It’s been a major project and has taken longer than expected, King said. “We keeping finding more and more debris,” she said. The project required gaining permission from both the Land Trust of Santa Barbara County and the Forest Service, who own segments of the land, as well as Montecito Water District. MarBorg is recycling the old metal that has been brought out of the canyon by Russo, who has worked for MTF for more than 15 years. “It’s definitely been a team effort, and the trail will be better because of it,” King said. Montecito Trails Foundation is dedicated to the preservation and maintenance of the public trails in Montecito, Summerland, and Carpinteria. The non-profit’s annual Fall BBQ will be held on Saturday, September 13. We’ll have more on the popular event in an upcoming issue. For more information, visit www. montecitotrailsfoundation.org. •MJ
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Dave’s brother, and alumnus Eric Meyer ‘03 are this year’s faculty leaders. Paul, who was a trip leader on the maiden Inoculum in 1974, and his group have been studying the writings of John Muir, while Meyer’s group is reading The Creation by E.O. Wilson with supplemental chapters and articles from N.T. Wright, Elizabeth Johnson, and Annie Dillard. Tom Fikes, professor of psychology and neuroscience, will assist the backpackers with the rock-climbing and peak-climbing portions of the adventure. Eileen McQuade, associate professor of biology, serves as program director. Kaitlin Jones, biology instructor and lab coordinator, serves as support staff. Dave Willis hopes the Inoculum and other Sierra Treks trips for Westmont over the past 40 years have reminded students about the basic human task. “The earth is the Lord’s, although we rarely treat it that way,” Willis says. “I can’t shake the human job description in Genesis 2:15: ‘Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.’ “The Hebrew there means ‘serve and guard.’ Protecting God-created land, air, water, and creatures by serving and guarding is a big part of what it means to be human. I can’t help but approach it from a theological perspective because in my gut, that’s how I view the world.” •MJ
Rusted hotel debris and old piping are stacked up by cleanup crews to take down the trail. MarBorg is recycling the old metal.
Old pipes and debris have become part of the landscape in Hot Springs Canyon; a massive cleanup of the trail recently took place
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On Entertainment Taking A Tour, for Art’s Sake
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amela Larsson-Toscher took up painting in her early years and came back to it after a two-decade break, during which she mostly worked as an interpreter, for the courts and the university. Maybe that explains her ability to put seemingly disparate things together in the various subjects she captures with oils, in the style of the old masters. Larsson-Toscher, who lives on Butterfly Lane in Montecito, is participating once again in the Santa Barbara Studio Artists tour, which takes place this weekend and features access to 36 private studios of some of Santa Barbara’s award-winning professional artists who often work out of home spaces. The annual two-day, self-guided driving tour kicks off Friday night with a special reception at Corridan Gallery, where the artists – all of whom are expected to attend – will have a single piece of their work on display as a one-shot preview to help visitors plan their own itinerary. Larsson-Toscher, who served as a instructor in the Teen Arts Mentorship program a few years back and has shown at the gallery at the Jewish Community Center and elsewhere, talked about her life in art and her joy in participating in years past in an interview over the weekend. Q. Your parents were deaf, so you learned sign language when you were young, using your hands, as you put it, to communicate. How did that translate into your being an artist? A. I’m incredibly visually oriented.
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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3718 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3718 for the HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (HSIP) DE LA VINA AT ARRELLAGA TRAFFIC SIGNAL PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, August 28, 2014 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (HSIP) DE LA VINA AT ARRELLAGA TRAFFIC SIGNAL PROJECT, Bid No. 3718". The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: installation of new signal and streetlight poles, pedestrian signal indicators with countdown heads, traffic control equipment, electrical connections, conduits, and conductors; retrofit of existing access ramps with truncated domes; coordination with utility companies; traffic control; public notification, etc. The work includes, but is not limited to, mobilization, bonds, insurance, surveying and incidentals per the project plans and specifications. The Engineer’s estimate is $100,000. Each bidder must have a Class A and C10 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 Ashleigh Shue, Project Engineer, 805-897-2507. 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. 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. 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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. 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 6%. 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.
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 5333 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 5333 for the VALLE VERDE WELL UPGRADE PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 26, 2014 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “VALLE VERDE WELL UPGRADE PROJECT, Bid No. 5333". The project is working at an existing City well site. The work includes: relocating a fire hydrant, installing approximately 90feet of 6-inch PVC pipe and tying into a main in the right of way, removing steel piping and pressure vessels in a building, and installing new piping valves and apprentices per plan. The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Insert improvements per plans and specs. The Engineer’s estimate is $87,000. 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 Wednesday August 20, 2014 at 10am at the project site 3791 Torino Dr. Santa Barbara CA 93105. 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 Carson Wollert, Project Engineer, 805564-5376. 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. 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.
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PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bare, 543 Live Oaks Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Ruby Buddemeyer, 543 Live Oaks Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Zariana Hayes, 2206 Modoc Road #1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 30, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2014-0002221. Published August 20, 27, September 3, 10, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Acquisotic; Bruce Gombrelli Music; Codewise Design, 315 Meigs Road STE A516, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Bruce Gombrelli, 5700 Via Real Unit 48, Carpinteria, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 18, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2014-0002405. Published August 20, 27, September 3, 10, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Exercise Fitness Step, 116 Nopal Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Lonny Jon Fenske, 910 Blanca Place, Oxnard, CA 93036. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 5, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that
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this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0002290. Published August 13, 20, 27, September 3, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Excellent Companion Home Care, 4517 Vieja Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Eric Gungon, 4517 Vieja Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 11, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0002344. Published August 13, 20, 27, September 3, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Billy Burchett Scholarship Fund; Sergio Romero Scholarship Fund; The Star Jasmine Foundation, 631 1/2 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. The Star Jasmine Foundation, 126 Cooper Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 5, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0002298. Published August 13, 20, 27, September 3, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Wine Cask; Wine Cask, 813 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
SB Wine Cask Ventures, LLC, 813 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 1, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2014-0002250. Published August 13, 20, 27, September 3, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Strategically Yours, Strategicallyurs, 3500 Hadley Way, Santa Maria, CA 93455. Ronald L Zell, 3500 Hadley Way, Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 5, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Eva Sanchez. FBN No. 2014-0002289. Published August 13, 20, 27, September 3, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sanger Swysen & Dunkle, 125 East De La Guerra Ste 102. Robert M Sanger, 203 Vester, Ste D, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 15, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0002057. Published August 6, 13, 20, 27, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s)
is/are doing business as: Superior Landscaping and Property Maintenance, 4637 Tajo Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Cody Sell, 4637 Tajo Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 15, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0002054. Published August 6, 13, 20, 27, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Central Processing; Coast Village Mortgage; Coast Village Financial; Coast Village Realty; Coast Village Home Loans; Coast Village Realty & Loan, 1211 Coast Village Road #12, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Jeffrey Millman Schlossberg, 1559 San Leandro Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 4, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): All Radiator Company, 3820 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. All Radiator Company, INC., 3820 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 10, 2014. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 20130000536. Original filing date: February 15, 2013. Published July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2014.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Craftoday; Nonprofit Scout; Nonprofit Teacher, 19 Arroyo Vista Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. Mary Monique Littlejohn, 19 Arroyo Vista Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 23, 2014. This 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. 20140002153. Published July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2014.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Oasis Realty, 55 Hitchcock Way, Suite 206, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Gordon V Elconin, 1220 San Antonio Creek Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 21, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0002116.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zee Zed Zed, 1747 Grand Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Suzanne C. Eldredge, 1747 Grand Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN No. 20140001979. Published July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2014.
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ENDING THIS WEEK Oklahoma! is Outta Here – When people say they don’t make Broadway musicals like they used to, they’re talking about shows like Oklahoma! The 1940s songfest, set in the beginning of the decade just before Oklahoma became a state, was a true groundbreaker, and set a record run on Broadway that stood for more than a decade. PCPA Theaterfest does a bangup job on the musical that was the first collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, who pushed boundaries and creating new theatrical devices, including a dream ballet in the boy-woos-girl story in a small backwoods town. There’s nothing revelatory in the new production that is the centerpiece of the summer season at the Solvang Festival Theater, but wow, is it done well! Director/ choreographer Michael Jenkinson has assembled a first-rate cast of dancers and singers, and evoked palpable chemistry between George Walker, who plays the love-struck cowboy Curly, and Jackie Vanderbeck as Laurey, the farm girl who loves him back. The smokehouse scene between Curly and Galloway Stevens’s Jud Fry is done with upbeat black humor, and PCPA mainstay Kitty Balay comes off nicely as the charismatic voice of reason as Aunt Eller. Hard to say if Jenkinson achieves his stated goal of making the musical authentic for today’s audience by “unapologetically representing realism, heartache, hard work, love, and tragedy”
– but who needs all that symbolism when a show is this well-done and this much fun? Get up to Solvang for one of the last few performances out underneath the stars (which will be out in force as the new moon approaches this weekend) and it’s almost certain that you’ll leave with an extra bouncy in your step, a song in your heart, and a few new rural colloquialisms, lessen you don’t like musicals, that is. WHEN: 8 pm daily through Sunday, August 24 WHERE: Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd Street, Solvang COST: $38.50-$49, with discounts for previews, seniors, students, and children INFO: 922-8313 or www. pcpa.org
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 Students Feeling Blue – Student life, UCSB’s film program, and living by the ocean all come together in Blue Horizons, the premiere of several topical short student-made films that communicate vital stories of the issues surrounding the global ocean. The event is sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center’s Environmental Media Initiative, UCSB’s Department of Film and Media Studies, and UCSB Summer Sessions. This year’s subjects include the misidentification of seafood, mariculture, and fracking. A reception with the filmmakers follows the screening. WHEN: 7-10 pm WHERE: Pollock Theater, UCSB campus COST: free (advance reservation recommended) INFO: 893-5903 or www. carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock
ENDING THIS WEEK Summer Cinema – There’s just this one final night remaining in the summer series of free, funny silent films at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens, where huge crowds have been enjoying the night sky and Spanish architecture as a backdrop for the movie classics. But at least they saved the best for last as the series winds down with Modern Times, the film many consider the greatest silent classic of them all, even though it was made in 1936, a full decade after the “talkies” arrived. Charlie Chaplin’s last turn as the Little Tramp skewers the advent of the industrial age, with the impish character literally becoming a cog in a factory as he’s driven giddily insane by the repetitive tedium of his job. More capers ensue after he’s carted away, landing him everywhere from a political rally to the slammer, where the high jinx continue. WHEN: 8:30 pm Friday COST: free INFO: www.artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Films.aspx
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 Aloha Spirit Bash – The fifth annual Hawaiian cultural festival known as the Aloha Spirit Bash is put together by Aloha Spirit SB, a 100-percent volunteer, nonprofit organization that is the only one dedicated to Hawaiian fundraising in the tri-county area. The luau is a fun-filled day of traditional Hawaiian music and dance, plus wares from the Islands, a silent auction and raffle, and of course, delicious traditional Hawaiian food made with by the Aloha Spirit SB co-founders. The organization is comprised of three highly-motivated Santa Barbara families spreading the Aloha by promoting Hawaiian culture and traditions. Proceeds from the event benefit Food From The Heart, a local charity that prepares and delivers healthy meals to home-bound local residents, chosen to fit Aloha Spirit SB’s mission statement to practice the gift of joyful giving. WHEN: noon5 pm WHERE: Elings Park, 1298 Las Positas Road COST: $10 general admission or $25 with a meal, free for children 10 and under INFO: 895-2772 or www. AlohaSpiritBash.org Marine Debris – Art From Scrap Gallery hosts “To The Sea, an unnatural journey”, an exhibition that also serves as a “playful call to action.” The all-ages collaborative installation makes art out of – while also addressing – plastics in the environment, especially the water. Artists and community members were invited to create creatures out of beach plastic or litter from near a storm drain. The Tidal Zone Diorama is but one piece of the three-part installation which also features a grid of carefully selected trash found on local beaches, and a series of collaborative “Instructional Diagram” paintings depicting aspects of the “pollution process” and children’s reaction to it. Curator Holly Mackay explained the concept of including the community as an impulse to go beyond the fear and repulsion that permeate a problem like this and re-signify the process of cleaning up our environment as positive as opposed to an almighty burden. I think you’ll engage a greater swath of the general public if you present the matter with humor, beauty, and kindness instead of lobbing at them yet another barrage of mind-numbing statistics of the damage we are doing to ourselves.” WHEN: Reception 6-8 pm today; exhibit on display through October 4 WHERE: 302 East Cota Street COST: free INFO: 884-0459 or www. exploreecology.org
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 T.A.M.I. Surfaces – The T.A.M.I. Show, a star-filled, rock ‘n’ roll concert film shot at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1964, has been largely sitting on the shelf since it was completed half a century ago. Finally out on DVD, the movie will be screened tonight at the
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Plaza Playhouse Theater in Carpinteria, with intro and Q&A with its legendary director Steve Binder as fundraiser for the purchase of a new big screen for the intimate community theater. The show, conceived as a live-concert-to-tape-to-film event, was shot over a two-day period in late October 1964 and featured many of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll acts of the day. Hosted by Jan & Dean, the show’s roster of performers included Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Lesley Gore, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and Gerry and The Pacemakers. The Rolling Stones played the closing set grand finale wherein all the performers dance together onstage. What’s more, the house band was the famous group The Wrecking Crew, studio and session musicians that played anonymously on a huge swath of hit records in the ‘60s. (Drummer/ founder Hal Blaine, guitarist including Glen Campbell, and pianist Leon Russell are among the future stars visible in the film). The audience for the T.A.M.I. (Teen Age Music International) event consisted of students from nearby junior and senior high schools who had been given free tickets; future director John Landis and actor/singer David Cassidy were said to be among the crowd. And among the go-go dancers performing in the background were future actress Teri Garr and singer Toni Basil. The film hit theaters in late 1964, but was removed from the circuit because of legal wrangling by some artists and eventually took on mythical proportions as a result. Dick Clark Productions was finally able to issue a fully restored DVD in 2010, which is the version that will be screened
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 Trails ‘n’ Tails – Cap off the dog days of summer with the annual celebration of National Dog Day at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. All four-legged friends of the canine variety are always welcome at the hilltop garden (there’s even a Doggie Membership), but today’s event offers special dog-centric activities, including the “Who’s That Doggie in the Garden?” Photo Contest (winners will serve as poster pals for the 2015 event), vendors offering doggie door prizes and wares, training demonstrations by the Santa Barbara Humane Society, and K-9 demos by the SB Police, Doggie Docent Tours, and Doggie Hikes. Professionally trained veterinary staff from Advanced Veterinary Specialists will be on site to teach about the warning signs of heat stroke, how to treat canine bee stings, and how to care for tired paws in the great outdoors. Among the new activities are a presentation by the City of Santa Barbara, Creeks Division, about the negative impact dog waste has on our local watershed and the importance of cleaning up after your dog both at home and while on walks. Plus, get one free human admission for visitors with a leashed dog. WHEN: 10 am-3 pm WHERE: 1212 Mission Canyon Road COST: Regular admission: $10 adults; $8 seniors (60-plus), children 13-17, college students and active military; $6 children 2-12 INFO: 682-4726 or www.sbbg.org tonight. Binder – who later produced and directed Elvis Presley’s famous Comeback Special TV show in 1968 – will be on hand pre-screening to share some insider stories and give a first-person account of what was involved to gather all the acts for a show that would require two days of performances, the best of which were then edited into the final cut. He’ll also do a Q&A afterward. WHEN: 7:15 pm WHERE: 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $20 INFO: 684-6380 or www.plazatheatercarpinteria.com
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26 Funk Zone Anniversary – Les Marchands Wine Bar & Merchant marks its first birthday with a special tasting date for all. The “casually chic and entertaining
evening” features unlimited tastes of as many selections as you desire of wines – including Lieu Dit Rosé Santa Ynez Valley 2013, Vallin Rosé Santa Ynez Valley 2012, Gros ´Noré Bandol Rose 2013, Fontsainte Rosé Gris de Gris 2013, Jager Rosé Wachau 2013, and Abbatucci Faustine Rosé 2013, plus food pairings by Chef Weston Richards of cheese board with traditional accompaniments; a selection of house-made and imported charcuterie with house mustards, pickles, and olives; and crostini with fava beans, house-made ricotta, mint, and chili oil. All ticket holders are also entered into the in-house raffle, featuring Champagne from the Les Marchands library. WHEN: 5:30-7 pm WHERE: 131 Anacapa Street COST: $25 INFO: 284-0380 or www. lesmarchandswine.com •MJ
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Great Love Debate’s 50th Show – Six months ago, new Santa Barbara resident Brian Howie – the author/director/producer/creator of How to Find Love in 60 Seconds, brought his singles event to Center Stage Theater in a test-run after putting it on previously only in Los Angeles. Then he it took it out on the road, hitting cities from coast to coast and up and down across the United States. Now, perfected through repetition, the Great Love Debate returns to town, still posing the question: “Why is everyone still single?” The event promises to bring together 200 of Santa Barbara’s “most dynamic single women and most eligible bachelors” – the gender balance guaranteed via controlled ticket sales – to listen to and participate in a panel discussion moderated by Lisa Darsonval, an author and dating coach who is the founder of Santa Barbara Matchmaking. The interactive, town hall-style event features six leading experts in the areas of relationships, communication, and dating who will dish, discuss, dissect, and debate the current state of the date, engaging the audience in the process. The evening includes giveaway gift bags for all attendees, a pre-show cocktail hour, and a post-event “Meet, Greet, Mix, Mingle, & Match” afterparty where you can continue the discussion and/or arrange a rendezvous. WHEN: 6:30 pm cocktails, 7:30 pm show WHERE: New Vic Theatre, 33 West Victoria Street COST: $40 INFO: www.SBLove.eventbrite.com
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Chinese. So my work very looks very Asian because of that connection.
You grew up in Jamaica, and I understand you had art in the galleries by the time you were a teenager. How did that influence your artistic choices? We were incredibly poor, and I had a talent for painting, so I was just trying to help my family. Being a naïve child, I just approached a gallery, and somehow they felt my work was good enough to accept. I feel very fortunate. And I got to work with Jamaica’s leading artist, who was classically trained and passed that on. Why did you stop painting for more than 20 years? Just before we left Jamaica... I understood how much work it takes to be really good at something, and I realized I didn’t have the maturity yet at 15. So I stopped painting. Twenty years later, I was doing some interpreting at an art class, and the teacher said, “Well, since you’re here, why don’t you work, too?” So I did some drawing and the teacher came by and said, “Wait, you know what you’re doing. This is really good.” I realized then that this was what I was intended to do. So I went back to being mostly a painter. That was almost 30 years ago. How did you choose oils as your medium? I’ve always been attracted to beginnings of things. Most of the artists I looked at in museums were oil painters. So it made sense to me that this is how it’s done. Oils as a medium suits my nature. I like taking time with things, which is great for oils because it takes three days for the paint to dry before you can work on it again. I use that time for reflection, so I’m not just putting things down without thinking through what I’m doing. I like having that time. I need that time. You favor realistic items to paint, but can you explain the connection between mushrooms, women’s work, and motorcycles – the three main areas on your website? (Laughs). That work has been done over the whole amount of time I’ve been painting. The mushrooms was the closest I came to abstraction. They’re still one of the favorite
things I’ve done because it seemed like abstracted reality... I have a fear of motorcycles, so I wanted to do them. I think motorcycle riders are the knights of our day. I find them a very interesting group of people. I enjoyed it, but I knew it wasn’t my forever subject. Now I’m working on what I call “portraits of relationships.” I can utilize everything I’ve ever done and put it together in capturing my relationship with another person. I like painting everything. But this gives me a format that pulls it together in a more coherent way, rather than jumping from one subject matter to another. Are the relationships people you observe or from your own life? With my sister. With my husband, who recently passed away. Different people that I felt close to. Rather than paint their portrait, I paint the things between us that connected us. So they’re very personal. But hopefully other people look at them and bring their own stories... because then it becomes theirs. Now I see what you meant by your working mantra, “Face your fears with intelligence.” In nature, usually an antidote will grow with a poison. So I try to use things that way. Like my husband passing away. I wanted to look at those feelings that were evoked and see how I could turn it around and make it beautiful, make something intelligent. Can I ask what brought you to Montecito 20 years ago? I ran away from Seattle (where my family moved from Jamaica) when I was young, and moved to California, where I found people who were like me. I spent seven years in San Francisco, then moved down to Santa Barbara to be with a guy. (Laughs). When I got married, we moved to Montecito. We got one of those white elephant houses that were available back then, affordable but in bad shape. We were very lucky. Will people get a chance to see you at work on the tour? I like to talk with people about my work, so I usually hire someone to be
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Crenshaw Cranks It Up Again
Someone first tried to put Marshall Crenshaw and the Bottle Rockets together about 15 years ago, but the singer-songwriter didn’t think working with the roots rock band made much sense. Back in 2012, when the two acts once again shared another booking agent, the suggestion came up again, and this time Crenshaw – the bespectacled, Midwestern-raised folk-rocker who captured a cornucopia of critical acclaim back in the early 1980s as a Buddy Holly for the modern era – took a shot. “It was immediately something we all dug, and it really worked,” he said. “I always like them a lot, but I just didn’t get it back then. But when we did it two years ago, it just blew up right away as far as clicking in every way, musically and personally.” Now, Santa Barbara is getting its first crack at the combo tour – which features an opening set by the Rockets, who were among a handful of bands who pioneered alt-country (alongside Uncle Tupelo, the Jayhawks, Old 97’s, and Whiskeytown) way back in 1992. Post-intermission, Crenshaw joins them for a full set of his songs. It’s also a rare gig by either of them in the area. Crenshaw, who stopped making albums of new materials almost a decade ago in favor of a recent singles/EP project, talked about his career in a brief chat over the phone from the road:
Marshall Crenshaw and Bottle Rockets cast their eyes toward the Lobero
Q. When you first came out, you got a lot of attention as being this thrilling combination of old school rock ‘n’ roll with something new. To me, it was like I already knew your songs the first time I heard them. A. Yeah, that was the idea, to create a new wrinkle, to do something that was distinctive and singular, drawing on the past. I was drawing inspiration from music that stirred up childhood memories for me. Fifties rock ‘n roll was the soundtrack of growing up. So there were a lot of familiar elements, but I wanted to do something that was completely distinctive. Like many people, I was blown away by your debut album, which had “Someday, Someway”, “Cynical Girl”, “Girls”, and other great songs. I actually thought your next album was great, too, but it didn’t catch on the same way. What happened? A lot of people missed something on the first album that was in there all along: a forward-looking path and a desire to have an experimental impulse. On the second album, I jumped into that with both feet and took it maybe too far for some people. It was a complete train wreck from a show-business standpoint. I got a lot of bad advice and I took it. Not the record itself, but the behavior and other things. I was talked into it, but I take the blame for it. I do love the record, though. I want to ask you about “Cynical Girl” – not if you found her yet, but more from the concept behind it. Where did it come from, and have you worked through all of that? I grew up in suburbia, but by the time I was 19 I started to despise
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the culture and sprawl. I started to choke on the mass culture I grew up with. The whole post-WWII thing, I got really sick of it. I still prefer the late 19th century / early 20th-century view of what kind of infrastructure created America. I was fully into that mindset. But I was just having fun with the song. Rather than writing a screed about how suburbia is like hell on earth, I just kind of joked around with it. You wouldn’t catch that if you weren’t thinking about it, though. I started off with the music, very rockabilly, Buddy Holly-ish – no lyrics at first. One day, I was walking back to my car after paying a traffic ticket, and I thought of those lines: “I hate TV, I gotta find somebody other than me, who’s ready to write it of immediately.” I thought, “That’s really off the wall. It’s not a typical boy-girl rockabilly lyrics.” I know you always write the music first, then deal with theme and lyrics. How has your process changed, if at all, over the years? I don’t really write that much anymore. I’m just doing other things. The last few songs I wrote I did with Dan Bern. He’s really great about the lyrics. He’s very fast, and smart. I love his style... I should have tried collaborating a long time ago. But I’ve got a lot of stuff going on. We have a UK distributor coming on board for the EP project, and the vinyl is selling. The next one is in the pipeline, and I think it’s the best one. I worked on a film and TV project that I’m not supposed to talk about yet, and I sang a song for an episode of [HBO’s] Boardwalk Empire next season. I’ve got a production company with old friend Stuart Lehrman (Dar Williams, Jules Shear) working with young artists who are brilliant. And I’m doing lots of show. So I’m very happy. Sometimes, things can slow down and drag and I get bummed out and bitter, but now it’s the opposite.
Your voice has gotten deeper, too. A lot more resonance. Yeah, I’m a little worried I might be on the downward arc with that. I have dropped a key on most of my songs. If I tried to sing them in the original keys, my head would just explode – literally. But I wasn’t crazy about the sound of my range back then anyway. I can still hit the high notes if I have to... but it’s more than that: Someone online said it seems like I throw “Someday, Someway” away when I sing it. But I really just have to put more breath in it. I can’t help that I’m getting older. Well, they say rock ‘n’ roll is a young man’s game. You turned 60 last November. How did that impact you? All thru my 50s, I dug the age that I was at. I’m still able to do most everything I ever could. But it is strange... and old guys getting up and playing rock ‘n’ roll? Twenty years ago, I used to say there were people both younger and older than me, and I took some comfort in that. I’m one of them now, so I guess it’s a good thing. It boils down to that. (Marshall Crenshaw and the Bottle Rockets play 8 pm Thursday, August 28, at the Lobero Theatre. Call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com.)
Here Come New Orleans-style Vaud-villains
Nobody knew quite what to make of Vaud and the Villains when the 19-piece 1930s New Orleans orchestra and cabaret made its Santa Barbara debut at Concerts in the Park in June 2013, replete with New Orleansstyle neo-burlesque dancers, comedy monologues, and lots of old tunes done up with gusto. But they’ve played SOhO twice since then, and are returning for the hat trick in a 9
pm show Saturday. We caught up for a quick words with co-founders Andy Comeau, aka Vaud Overstreet, and his wife Dawn Lewis, who goes by Peaches Mahoney. Q. You call what you do Neo-Vaudeville. So how do you think it compares with what Andy’s grandmother did as a vaudeville entertainer? A. Comeau: What always sparked my imagination when I heard my grandmother talk about it was the way the entertainment was presented. Lewis: There’s always something different to look at (with us): lots of singers, the dancers, and solos. But it’s more cabaret. There’s a sexy element, but lots of humor. Comeau: It’s a spectacle. There aren’t a lot of those anymore in music. That’s what intrigues people and makes them bring 30 people back with them the next time. How did this whole thing – a 19-piece band – come together? Comeau: They showed up at our house one day in a bus. They camped out and wouldn’t leave, so we had no choice but to go on the road. No, actually it was a lot of work that just started with a thought floating in the air. We loved the idea of a big porchfront or backyard gathering feeling, very throw-down, and accessible and inclusive in its diversity. We’re always looking for that element in the people in the band. We’ve been doing it six years and had many iterations. When someone left the first time, it felt like the sky was falling down. But we realized that it’s a living thing, and people find us at the right time for them and for us. We lift each other up. It sounds corny, but it’s true. Every Villain has a special stage name. Is it like the Travolta Oscar thing – can we plug into a formula and figure out our own?
No, you cannot. The name is a big, big deal, and it’s very specific. You don’t just get one willy-nilly. You have to earn it, and the only way is to perform in the show at least one time, and then the name has to come to Peaches in a dream. Where do you get all these great old songs, and come up with the arrangements? Comeau: There was that childhood connection, the familiarity with the material before even knowing what music was. It was just around us. But it became education by immersion into the world of old folk. It’s very exciting and inspiring musically, and we just try things out to see if they work, because most of the songs were very simple, just two chords, things to sing while they were splitting rails. When you have a big orchestra cabaret show, you start to figure out what sounds good where and when. We’ve gotten a lot better at it over the years as we found our own voice. Your shows seems to be almost as much a religious experience as a concert. Lewis: It’s more spiritual, or at least it’s evolved that way. People have come up after a show crying and telling us that what we did really moved them. We feel it, too. You get the energy from the crowd so it can become a spiritual thing, connecting with your childhood through music, which is so universal. Your album is called Original Salvation. Help me out here... do people get saved? “Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future…” It’s a quote from Oscar Wilde and it’s our mantra. It captures everything we do. In our imagination, we think of it as a traveling medicine show, like we come into town in this tent and a big truck, and people actually do end up feeling really good when •MJ they leave. That’s the nugget.
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Avocado, Onion, Peppers, Feta, Cilantro Vinaigrette
Small New York Steak 6 oz, and Two Eggs Any Style ...... 25.
Charred Rare Tuna Nicoise Salad .................................................... 27.
Corned Beef Hash (made right here) and Two Poached Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 18.
Lucky’s Salad ................................................................................................. 16.
Huevos Rancheros, Two Eggs Any Style ...................................... 15.
with Romaine, Shrimp, Bacon, Green Beans and Roquefort
Tortillas, Melted Cheese, Avocado and Warm Salsa
Cobb Salad...................................................................................................... 19.
Brioche French Toast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 14.
Tossed with Roquefort Dressing
with Fresh Berries and Maple Syrup
Chopped Salad ............................................................................................. 16.
Waffle Platter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 12.
with Arugula, Radicchio, Shrimp, Prosciutto, Cannellini Beans and Onions
with Fresh Berries, Whipped Cream, Maple Syrup
Sliced Steak Salad ..................................................................................... 24.
Smoked Scottish Salmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 19.
with Arugula, Radicchio and Sautéed Onion
Toasted Bialy or Bagel, Cream Cheese and Olives, Tomato & Cucumber
Jimmy the Greek Salad with Feta .................................................... 14.
Mixed Vegetable Frittata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 17. with Gruyere
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