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Guest Editorial

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Letters to the Editor

In the third of a series about U.S. healthcare, Bob Hazard elaborates with several solutions for what’s needed to improve and reform the system Oprah’s new food; morning show marriage; Sea of Louvre;The Lowe Files; Wild Bees; Brazilian bash; artist Will Pierce; documentary Never Surrender; Fiesta Finale gala; MAW Fellows; and flutist Adrian Spence An assortment of correspondence from Mike Kerrigan, Kerry Moriarty, Lynn Kirst, Rich Untermann, Roger Morrison, Jessica Tade, and Albert Mercado

10 This Week Photography by I Heart My Groom

Knit ‘N Needle; Avraprana healing; Spanish group; piano sale; Observed/Observer; SB Republican Club; Patricia Clarke hosts Jesse Alexander; Dr. Guy S. Clark; Cold Spring School; Creativity Camp; MUS Board; MUS begins; meditation; birder class; MBAR meets; The New Yorker; mindfulness retreat; and Qi Gong class

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12 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz interviews Bryan Titus prior to his band’s Saturday concert; Santa Barbara Acoustic Instrument Celebration; and UCSB Music Department festival

15 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner reports on Lotusland Celebrates: Avant Garden; and the SB Woman’s Club La Merienda luncheon

19 Brilliant Thoughts

Rocket man: Ashleigh Brilliant gets lost in space while explaining the lay of the lunar land and man’s perception of the Moon

22 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz reports on singers Mick and Tess Pulver; Orgasmic Meditation with TurnOns; ManKind Project; Pacifica Graduate Institute; and Dr. Jon Mundy

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24 Legal Advertising 25 Movie Guide 26 Calendar of Events

James Bond film series; Stow House; Chumash hosts Chris Janson; A Walk in the Woods; Bryan Ferry concert; Rubicon welcomes Teri Bibb; and William Daniels

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28 Our Town

Joanne Calitri meets James Van Arsdale, an artist-designer-musician (and new father) is welcomed as head of graphic design at SBCC

29 Open House Directory 30 Classified Advertising

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31 Local Business Directory

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Guest Editorial

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

How to Make Healthcare Better

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t is madness to think that one small editorial writer, from one small hometown newspaper, in one small community, who is neither a doctor nor a medical guru, could suggest a credible plan for healthcare reform when healthcare experts, think tanks, college professors, and wiser souls have studied the problem for years. But undaunted, naked and afraid, here is my plan for reforming 18% of the U.S. economy:

Make Congress Do Its Job

Between Democrats sitting on their hands and spineless Republicans seemingly unable to propose a legitimate fix, Congress has shamefully failed to do its job by not addressing reform. The better solution is not one giant reform bill that cannot command a majority vote, but a series of incremental reforms passed on a bipartisan basis.

The fastest way to get every Congressperson focused on healthcare reform would be to make sure that government employees live by the same healthcare rules they impose on everyone else.

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In 2009, senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) snuck into ObamaCare a provision mandating that all Congressional employees must obtain healthcare coverage exclusively through the Affordable Care Act. To avoid this requirement, a wily Congress recruited the Office of Personnel Management to certify that the House (435 members) and the Senate (100 members), plus all Congressional staff members, qualified for a “small business exemption” because they have fewer than 50 employees, and are therefore exempt from the ObamaCare mandates.

Revoking this Congressional exemption would mean that Congress members, their staff and all 2.8 million civilian federal employees would lose the generous healthcare coverage they now enjoy under the Federal Employees Health Benefit program. Instead, they too can experience ObamaCare firsthand, with its escalating premium costs, limited provider choices, and regulatory complexity. By aligning the interests of the ruling class with those of the voters, Congress would immediately either repeal, replace, or fix ObamaCare.

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Make Employer Healthcare More Available and More Affordable. According to the Kaiser Foundation, the number of Americans covered by employer-provided healthcare coverage is 156 million, or 49% of the U.S. population. At the same time, the U.S. Census Bureau claims that coverage for employees and their dependents is enjoyed by 55% of Americans, a slightly higher statistic, but in the same general range of half the country.

There is a lot of room for improvement in employer coverage. Only 56% of private businesses offer health benefits to at least some of their workers. 51% of private employer plans ask employees to share in the expense of coverage by establishing an employee deductible; 37% of employer plans include employee co-pays for primary and specialty care.

In 2016, the average annual premium cost for employer-sponsored healthcare coverage was $6,435 for individual employees and $18,142 per year for family coverage. Employer plans vary greatly as to how much of the premium cost is paid by the company, and how much is paid by the employee.

What is needed is bipartisan support for the sale of employer healthcare insurance plans across state lines creating more choice, pooling of smaller business employees into larger pools at lower rates, portability of coverage when

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TO THE EDITOR

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

Remembering the Coach Legendary Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian, who passed away on August 2, is seen here with freshman backup quarterback Kerry Moriarty, a San Marcos High School alum, taken in 1973 at the end of a practice session

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s you may know, coach Ara Parseghian passed away last week at the age of 94.

He was considered one of the great Notre Dame coaches, winning two national championships during his tenure. I was a freshman on the 1973 National Championship team that beat Alabama, coached by another legend, Paul “Bear” Bryant, in the Sugar Bowl. Ara recruited me from San Marcos High School here in Santa Barbara.

I was recruited along with another player you may have heard of: Joe Montana. Coach Parseghian was the most dynamic coach I’ve ever worked with or known. His intensity was exhilarating and he motivated players simply by being around.

On the lighter side, Coach Parseghian would tease me that I was the only quarterback smaller than he was. I weighed 150 pounds my freshman year.

Kerry Moriarty Montecito

Creating a Traffic Snarl I’m just curious with regards to Caltrans closing the southbound Cabrillo onramp and explaining its reasoning for removing it was for safety issues; how is it that the Sheffield southbound onramp remains open?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want this onramp to close too, but I don’t understand the reasoning in closing one but not the other.

I also wonder why they just didn’t leave the Cabrillo onramp open until Montecito and Caltrans came to an

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agreement on the 101 plan through the corridor, and then close it when construction begins?

What a mess.

Mike Kerrigan Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Calling it a “mess” is surely an understatement. The pressure to close Cabrillo southbound nearly a decade ago (in 2009) was tremendous.

During discussions on the issue, attendees, of which I was one, were told in no uncertain terms that the decision had been made by Caltrans and was going to happen despite any reservations anyone may have expressed. Going along with that decision were the then-Santa Barbara mayor Marty Bloom, members of the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) including Gregg Hart, and the then-1st District supervisor Salud Carbajal. Mr. Carbajal even gave assurances that if traffic became a problem, it could and would be “mitigated”

by Caltrans with extra signage. Now that Mr. Carbajal is our United States representative in Congress, someone should inform him that traffic has indeed become a “problem.” Maybe he actually can do something about it.

The ongoing and apparently never-ending Coast Village Road disaster was created and promoted by virtually all our civic leaders, which should give you a good idea of how much faith one should put in any of them at any time. – J.B.)

Changing Directions a Bad Idea

Just writing to voice my concerns regarding the suggestion from Pete Williams (“We Can Fix This”, MJ

#23/31) to change “the direction in the Coast Village Road parking area so it’s one-way south to north (diagonal parking the other way).”

One only need spend any time using the Montecito Village parking lot in the upper village to see this idea, if implemented, would create absolute chaos. The drivers using the south-facing parking areas to gain an extra minute or two on their way to the southbound freeway on-ramp won’t stop that behavior, so head-on confrontations can be added to the list of traffic woes.

In Montecito Village, where I visit the post office every day, I see drivers ignoring wide-open directional parking spaces in order to turn and use spaces on the opposite side of which they are traveling, simply to save a few steps. I’ve seen drivers patiently wait for a car to back out, then have an opposite-direction driver rudely cut in front of the properly directed car. Accompanied, of course, by honking and expletives.

I saw the exact same scenario in the parking lot of the new Trader Joe’s on Milpas during opening day. I also see the same behavior on a regular basis at Bank of America. Drivers routinely ignore the “Exit Only” sign on Butterfly Lane, instead of driving around to the one-way entrance on Coast Village Road. The result is head-

on encounters and drivers facing the wrong way in the directional parking lot.

I, myself, will admit to turning for an opposite-facing parking spot, but only if the lot is wide open and there are no cars behind me or oncoming. Let’s face it, directional parking spaces do not get the respect for their intended use, so please don’t try to reverse the existing ones on Coast Village Road. The “cure” would be far worse than the “problem.”

Lynn P. Kirst Montecito

Reversing Course

Nice review of the escalating problems along Coast Village Road. The “fix” is simple: reverse the Highway 101 off-ramp to its original onramp mode and move traffic onto the freeway before it gets to Coast Village Road; no cost, no delay. Surely, Montecito has enough horsepower to stage this action – think governor’s office, or Malcolm Dougherty, head of Caltrans – get everybody on board and push.

While traffic engineers might not like fast lane onramps, there are many still functioning (think Sheffield Drive), and there have been many

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23 Back to School Montecito Union School opens its doors for a new school year; early release for all grades.

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, AUGUST 17 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Avraprana Hands-on Healing A talk and demonstration by Stace Barron and Brie Ehret Barron, spiritual educators and healers.

When: 7 to 9 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: www.avraprana.com FRIDAY, AUGUST 18 Spanish Conversation Group at Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Observed/Observer The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara is pleased to present Observed/Observer: Photographs by Matthew Straka.

When: show runs August 18 to September 28; tonight is the opening reception from 5 to 7 pm.

Where: 229 East Victoria Info: www.afsb.org SATURDAY, AUGUST 19 Steinway & Sons Private Piano Sale

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offer an impressive selection of new, used, and factory-restored vertical and grand pianos at the Music Academy of the West. Steinway & Sons pianos are rarely discounted, but through this special arrangement they will be sold at prices well below retail. This exclusive event will only be open to friends and patrons of the Music Academy and registered Steinway & Sons customers. In addition to the savings, know that you will also be supporting the Music Academy with your purchase. Steinway & Sons will donate a percentage of every piano sold directly back to the Academy.

When: today and tomorrow, by appointment Where: 1070 Fairway Road Info & Appointment: 1-877-STEINWAY Lecture & Luncheon The Santa Barbara Republican Club will hold its August luncheon meeting at the La Cumbre Country Club. Mark Schniepp, director of California Economic Forecast, will speak about economic issues facing Californians. The Forecast is now a private consulting firm that originated at UCSB, where Dr. Schniepp was a member of the faculty of the Department of Economics. He is presently occupied in holding large public conferences on economics for business and government leaders. The public is invited to attend; call for details and reservations.

When: 11:30 am Where: 4015 Via Laguna Info/RSVP: 684-3858 Opening Reception Patricia Clarke Studio is honored to present the work of renowned photographer Jesse Alexander in his upcoming solo photographic exhibition, RFK: California 1968. These neverbefore-exhibited images were taken

on the campaign trail in San Francisco and the Central Valley in California a short time before Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles. The artist decided it was time to share these historic images with the public.

When: 3 to 6 pm Where: Patricia Clarke Studio, 410 Palm Avenue A 18 Info: www.patriciaclarkestudio.net Book Signing at Tecolote Guy S. Clark, M.D., signs Sharkbait: A Flight Surgeons Odyssey in Vietnam.

When: 3 to 4 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977 MONDAY, AUGUST 21 First Day of School Cold Spring School students head back to class.

End of Summer Creativity Camp On day 1, participants will engage in loose, abstract painting to create a treasure trove of vibrant, painted papers. On day 2, the papers will be used to create beautiful collages: a landscape scene, a design, a still life, or a colorful collaged border for a favorite quote.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23 Happiness & Meditation Happiness & Meditation will offer numerous tools that facilitate the elimination of stress and foster deep and profound inner peace, happiness, and well-being. It is an interactive and experiential stress-buster session where participants will have the opportunity to experience energizing breathing technique and relaxing meditation; experience alertness and relaxation at the same time. No experience in breathing exercises or meditation is required.

When: noon to 12:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Beginning Birder Class A beginner’s overview of birding in local areas. The course will get students ready for both their own studies and how to help with the Carpinteria Christmas Bird Count.

When: 7 pm Where: Carpinteria Veterans Memorial Hall, 941 Walnut Avenue in Carpinteria Cost: free THURSDAY, AUGUST 24 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito.

When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 8:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

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Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Taste of the Vine The picturesque bluffs in Summerland will be the site of the 15th Annual Taste of the Vine & Auction at QAD, Inc., which helps fund medical research to cure, treat, and prevent diabetes.

Hundreds of event attendees will hear live music, partake of savory food, fine wines, and handcrafted beer from the Central Coast. Guests will have a chance to win vacation packages, wine, and fine gifts during a live auction.

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When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: 969-0859 TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

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inger-songwriter Bryan Titus comes by his deep vocals naturally. When he was 12 years old, his voice changed from one that could sing soprano in the church choir back home in Connecticut “all the way down to a baritone,” perfect for the Jim Morrison-led Doors, Pearl Jam, and other “vocal-driven groups who were in my ear,” he explained.

As for the twang? Titus is at a loss.

“I couldn’t really tell ya. It just happens. To me, when you’re singing these songs, you’re like an actor putting on a character. It just feels natural to sing that way.”

The songs he referred to are the blend of folk/country-rock, bluegrass, Americana, and other roots music favored by the Bryan Titus Trio, which also features Jeff Kranzler on upright bass and Dustin Janson on cajun and vocals. Their “Postmodern Barn Dance”, as one fan called it, is populated by good-time upbeat songs that recall an earlier era but with a modern approach that keeps it fresh.

The threesome, who met at open mics around town, came together over the last two years soon after Titus relocated to Santa Barbara and has been gigging all over town and up and down the coast ever since.

But Titus, who graduated in 2004 from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, is a bit off-base in demurring about the rough-hewn edge in his singing. Sure, he’s from back east, but the singer-songwriter and his bandmates practice what they preach, including camping out on a recently concluded road trip to Nevada, and Titus gleaned his taste in music both from his bluegrass-band founder father and a 2013 hike of the Appalachian Trail.

That twang is well-earned if not his birthright.

This Saturday, Titus and the boys will make their legitimate local theater debut when they open for guitar hero Albert Lee, the seeming-

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ly tireless septuagenarian who has spent period recording and touring with everyone from Eric Clapton to Emmylou Harris’s Hot Band to the Everly Brothers to Joe Cocker and Jackson Browne, to name just a few, as well as lots of solo work.

Titus talked about his music, his band, and the concert in an interview earlier this week.

Q. How did you develop your style of music?

A. I first heard bluegrass and oldtime music from my dad, who was a classically trained violinist, but just loved bluegrass. I listened to a lot of those songs growing up. But I wasn’t interested until I realized I wanted to play acoustic guitar, and that my voice had the ability to go more in a country or bluegrass direction. When I moved out to L.A., I got more exposed to that kind of music. And then it all came together on a six-month hike on the Appalachian Trail when we’d go through the mountains and into the towns where some of these songs were written, or at least written about.

The whole trip had a sort of ethnologically musical aspect to it. I actually had to hike over Rocky Top, the one from the famous song, and every time we came into a new town, I’d get cleaned up then make it a point to go listen to where the locals were playing. The general idea of what we’re trying to do is take those iconic American sounds and bring them into a more modern storytelling style, with current topics, and modernize 17 – 24 August 2017

the antiques.

How did the band come together?

I had a stylistic idea in mind, then found guys who understood it to fulfill my vision. I’ve been in a lot of bands trying to do this stuff with people who it didn’t come naturally to. These guys just feel the music the same way that I do and know instinctively what to do with it.

Which is great, because explaining it can be tricky. The first time we sang together, we had a moment where we just locked eyes because it sounded so great together. It’s like (quoting Dodgeball) dodge, dip, dive, duck, and dodge – we can do that without having to write it all down. We have a nonverbal communication that happens on stage through the music. It’s a special thing; I haven’t seen anything quite like that before.

What can you tell me about your songwriting process?

The ones I feel are the best come to me almost pre-written, from a moment of inspiration, like they’re almost heaven sent. They’re like a rush, and you have no idea where it’s coming from. (But) the ones based on specific experiences are harder, because I’m trying to write my own personal history – like a story of coming into town in the middle of the night in a thunderstorm and trying to find a place to sleep – and boil it down into a simple lyric. You can’t be too verbose in a song, but you still have to get the meaning across. Even after time goes by and I realize I really like a song, sometimes I have to convince myself it’s true.

The new album, which is some of the best stuff that I’ve written, has a lot of catchy songs but with a good heart. In general, my songwriting is meant to be uplifting or at least reassuring or helpful. My job on Earth is to be of service to people, so I try to put that spirit into the music. The thing is, you can’t rely on the songs to just happen. But this year, I’m finally going pro. I’m just doing music, no side job. I’ve been waiting all my life for this. So it’s very exciting. I’m going to try to be more prolific.

Seems to me you already have a lot of material, from what I’ve heard at your shows. But there are plenty of covers. How do you pick what you’ll play?

We do a mix of songs that make us happy and ones that make other people happy, which then makes us happy. We’ll do standards like Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” but make it our own. Those classic iconic songs are done best by the ones who made them that way. So, to do them identically is a disservice. We try to make it recognizable and enjoyable but also unique to us.

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The Lobero is coming up this weekend, a show that’s nothing like the bar scene.

Yeah, it’s my birthday present to myself, because I’m turning 40 the day after the show. This is going to be the biggest gig I’ve ever played in my life. We’re going to focus on the new record, and we’re going to have an actual set list for the first time in a while. Usually we just call tunes off the cuff, because you can read what the crowd needs. We’ll have a plan instead of just winging it. But there will still be peaks and valleys, climactic moments and then a rest, just like any good story.

The series is called Sings Like Hell, and we definitely fit that bill. We’re some screaming demons.

(Bryan Titus Trio opens for Albert Lee at 8 pm Saturday, August 19, at the Lobero Theatre, 33 W. Canon Perdido St. For tickets, call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com. The band also performs next Thursday, August 24, at High Sierra Grill & Bar in Goleta as part of the Santa Barbara Fermentation Festival at the Stow House on Sunday, September 10, and at Cold Spring Tavern on September 17 and 22. Visit www.bryantitus.com.)

Acoustic Gala is Instrumental to SB

The Santa Barbara Acoustic Instrument Celebration (SBAIC) might be the biggest and most important music festival in town that hardly anyone knows about. The brainchild of Kevin Gillies, a Santa Barbarabased woodworker who also dabbles in making fine acoustic instruments, the SBAIC began last year as a continuation of the legacy of the Healdsburg Guitar Festival, which for nearly two decades brought together luthiers and players to revel in the handmade instruments. Gilles expanded

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upon the idea and created a massive four-day festival that booked scores of instrument-makers and included workshops, seminars, concerts, and gatherings on an early fall weekend.

This year, he scaled back just a bit, while still inviting the woodworkers and master musicians both famed and select from around the world to converge on the city, this time in the more cozy confines of the Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort next weekend, August 25-27. The SBAIC lets visitors meet contemporary luthiers and audition or buy some of the world’s finest handmade instruments directly from the builders, including steel string, slide and classical guitars, and mandolins.

What’s more, each of the recording artists who are performing in venues around town – including national finger-style champions Michael Chapdelaine, Richard Smith, and Tim Sparks; Hawaiian slack key masters Jim West with Ken Emerson; plus Teja Gerken, Mark Hanson, Sean McGowan, Tony McManus, Kinloch Nelson, and Doug Young, among others – will offer also offer workshops in a variety of genres and skill levels as part of the Licks ‘n’ Tricks section and/or play 20-minute demo sessions on the luthiers’ instruments, all day every day.

“Thursday’s concert at Soho will be spectacular,” Gilles opined over the phone the other day. “They’re some of the greatest finger-style players all in one show. But the music all weekend long will be really great. A lot of tight sets by very great guys.”

Still, Gilles is most excited about the new Heritage exhibit that will be up all weekend at the fest’s headquarters at the hotel. The show traces 700 years in the history of the development of the stringed instrument, from the Gambian Kora through the Renaissance and Baroque eras into contemporary guitars and such. “It’s important to understand the context of where the guitar began,” he said.

“Music is our common language. It’s how we know about history, how information was handed down for millenniums, until the written word and now the web. All the acoustic sounds, the natural vibrating materials – wood and gut and skin – this is how we communicated all through history until very recently with electronics.”

The SBAIC website, www.sbaic. com, is loaded with information, including the full slate of concerts and performances, details on workshops and seminars, background on the roster of luthiers (including video interviews) and vendors, and options for daily and weekend passes ($15 to $95) and individual tickets to the concerts.

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The SBAIC isn’t the only local music-related festival entering its second year in August. UCSB’s Music Department inaugurated an abbreviated event late last summer, and this weekend round two extends the jubilee to touch on four calendar days beginning Thursday night, August 17. The festival, which marries performers related to the university with musicians up from Los Angeles and local players and spans several genres, taps one of its own graduate composition students to serve as artistic director.

Marc Evans has that honor this year, and he’s added a showcase for his fellow composers to perform some of their own music, plus sprinkled in other compositions – all of which were commissioned by the department specifically for the festival – throughout the weekend slots.

“I realized when I got here four years ago that there wasn’t much opportunity for people in the composition program to hear their work performed in concert,” said Evans, who co-created an informal year-end event to pick up some of the slack.

“We have a bunch of grad students composing here, so I thought it was pretty important to get them some exposure.”

The fest gets going on Thursday afternoon, with L.A.-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Tholl and his trio presenting a concert of improvised experimental music at the UCSB Art, Design, & Architecture Museum from 3:30 to 4:30 pm, followed an hour later by the Santa Barbara-based Celtic-fusion band Dannsair – which features flutist Adriane Hill, who studied at UCSB under Jill Felber and now serves as the music department’s publicist. The group plays traditional Irish music with jazz and classical accents.

The day closes with the Music Department Showcase featuring UCSB music graduate students and alumni performing world premieres of new works by graduate composers Rodney DuPlessis, Scott Perry, and Heena Yoon.

UCSB alumnus violist Jonathan Morgan kicks offs Friday’s program, dubbed “ToneLight” for its inclusion of special lighting effects. He’ll be performing works for solo viola and viola with electronics – played by last year’s curator, Federico Llach – and is joined

by Evans for Romance?, written by the composer in 2014. Also on the bill for the 4:30 pm concert at Karl Geiringer Hall are Synopsis #9: I Don’t Even Play the Bassoon for solo viola (2009)

by Lisa Bielawap; In Manus Tuas for solo viola (2009) by Caroline Shaw (who just had a new work premiered

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Aperture Duo’s Linnea Powell and Adrianne Pope perform at Geiringer Hall and the Children’s Concert (photo Laura Ford)

by the Music Academy of the West in July), Llach’s Begin for viola and live electronics (2017), written for Morgan, Lament for solo viola (2009) by UCSB professor Joel Feigin, and [[[clouded]]] for viola, electronics, and video (2016) by Joshua Carro, which was also composed for Morgan.

At 5:30 pm, The Sfinks, led by oud player Ziyad Marcus play a set of Middle Eastern music at the MultiCultural Center theater. Daniel Moltke (violin), Sam Khattar (drum and vocals), Jim Grippo (qanun and vocals), and Scott Marcus (nay and vocals), Ziyad’s father and chair of the music department, round out the lineup.

Then it’s back to Geiringer Hall at 7:30 for the festival debut of the L.A.-based Aperture Duo, featuring comprised of violist Linnea Powell and violinist Adrianne Pope, who will offer the world premieres of new works by UCSB graduate composers Llach and Mason Hock along with Evans, who said he booked the duo as the festival’s centerpiece. His Leaf Loops comes out of his current algorithmic compositional style in which he first writes a computer program to generate the musical skeleton, and then works with the output to “sculpt” the piece. “This one is based on leaf tracing, with the contours creating the musical patterns that gradually change over time,” he explained. “I like to write this way because the computer takes me into a world I wouldn’t visit otherwise. It’s quite minimalist, which I don’t normally write. The goal is to merge that way of thinking, which is natural to me, with intuitive composing – meaning play, then listen, think about how it feels, and see what I can change.”

Aperture Duo and Ziyad Marcus then team up for the weekend’s final event, the Children’s Concert, new this year, set for 11 am Saturday in the department’s Music Bowl.

Admission to all the events is free.

More details and information about the performing artists and composers are available online on the festival’s dedicated website, www. music.ucsb.edu/summerfestival, or call 893-3230.

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They sold out in May for a late July date. In case you’ve never heard of Lotusland, these 37 acres are ranked as one of the 10 top gardens in the world and located near Westmont College in Montecito.

Ganna Walska purchased the property in 1941, with the man who would become her sixth husband. It was to be a refuge for Tibetan monks. As was said, “He was a scoundrel,” and they divorced in 1946. At that time, she renamed her estate Lotusland, instead of Tibetland. It was appropriate because she had that rare Indian flower in her lotus pond and it symbolizes spiritual renewal.

Ganna spent the next 40 years of her life collecting and creating Lotusland, which has some of the most rare and exotic plant specimens in the world. The eccentric and glamourous Madame Walska came from humble origins. She gained fame with a sporadic operatic career and because of her beauty and lifestyle. The name of her memoirs was Always Room At The Top. She ended up with six husbands, Valentino “models” at Lotusland Avant Garden

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Madame lived in the small “Pavilion” apartment next to the main house. She died in 1984 and left her entire estate to what today is a nonprofit to ensure that her legacy would remain in her gardens. She would be happy to see what her creativity wrought. Every 4th grader in Santa Barbara County has the opportunity to visit the garden on a field trip as part of their science curriculum. Lotusland does this free of charge, even including transportation.

There are ongoing docent-led tours so hundreds more visit. It costs $3 million a year to keep the garden open.

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Artist Colette Cosentino working on her Japanese mural that camouflages the garden renovation

just happen. It was due to the two co-chairs, trustee Belle Hahn Cohen and Rachel Wryan and the first honorary chair, Jennifer Smith Hale. These ladies partnered with 24 women on the committee. Jennifer is the founder of C California Style Magazine and editorial director, CEO and president, publisher, and editorial director

of Santa Barbara Magazine – and no stranger to style. Kudos also go to executive director Gwen Stauffer.

As we entered the garden path, Deborah Bertling’s singing rang through the trees. There were waiters lined along the way with champagne.

Then we walked by the Japanese Garden, which is a favorite and is going through a $4.6-million renovation. They are repairing aging infrastructure, which includes rebuilding and lining the pond, restoring original plant collections, unifying the historic layers of the garden, and much more.

Meantime, artist Colette Cosentino is painting a long mural that camouflages the work. Here’s hoping it will somehow be saved and used somewhere else when all is completed.

Lotusland’s gardens had never seen what we saw this day with fashions from Valentino displayed on mannequins. What a stunning backdrop for a fashion show! The odyssey was in three gardens, with the last having live models. We came to the main house that had three exotic cars

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parked in front, including an early-1900s Locomobile to further take us back to the aura of F. Scott Fitzgerald days.

As we entered the main house, I saw Caroline Thompson from Cabana Home and Lotusland research assistant Rose Thomas, who had curated a show of some of Madame Walska’s fashions. We got just a glimpse of her many hats and jewels on display in glass cases including a marble bust of Madame, who was beautiful, indeed.

They say she was able to create with plants what an artist might paint or another may choose in fashion.

Then it was out onto the spacious grand lawn for a cocktail party. Some of the guests enjoying the ambiance were Marni and Doug Margerum, Daniel Bifano, Merryl Brown, Kendall Conrad, Jane and Paul Orfalea, Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree, Chris Toomey, Anne Towbes, Peggy Wiley and Wilson Quarre, board chair Connie Pearcy and husband, John, Lori Johnston, Chris Castillo, and Suzanne and Gilbert Mathews.

Others sprawled on sofas set on the grass.

It was all quite decadent and wonderful, with an army of waiters at

our beck and call. Dinner by duo Catering was served al fresco, on art-deco beautiful Lucite tables with hot pink flowers on each. The evening ended at sundown but not before a live auction. Executive director of the Centre Pompidou Foundation and world-renowned auctioneer Eliza Osborne kept the auction block ringing. Among the items were three silkscreen portraits of Ganna Walska circa 1920s by renowned British-American artist Russell Young, who is collected by museums, celebrities, and connoisseurs all over the world. They brought in a hefty $45,000.

A dedication was made from Lotusland Celebrates: Avant Garden for its performing arts partnership with Music Academy of the West (two Steinway grand player pianos in the gardens), Opera Santa Barbara, and the ballet dancers from State Street Ballet performing. This was in loving memory of Michael Towbes, Lotusland Lifetime honorary trustee.

Better Homes and Gardens magazine said, “Lotusland is one of 14 gardens to visit before you die.” Madame lived large, but she gardened even larger and it’s right here in Montecito. For reservations, call (805) 969-3767.

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they sent a letter to the city council expressing concerns about the decency of certain pictures being shown in the City. They were especially interested in the beautifying of the waterfront. During World War I, the club president spoke, “The demands upon women are growing greater each day.

She must take the man’s place as he is called out.” They raised $49,000 for the Liberty Loan Drive. And the list goes on throughout all the years and different venues.

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Each year, the Santa Barbara Woman’s Club (SBWC) at Rockwood gives a festive Fiesta luncheon. It is bound in tradition, as is the Club, which has a 125-year history.

Just think, when it was founded in 1892, women didn’t have the right to vote; they wore long cumbersome dresses, and there was a traffic jam of horses and carriages by the Arlington on Equestrian Avenue where they met nearby. There weren’t enough hitching posts. Joining the Club was definitely the “thing” to do because by the end of the first year there were 97 members. Dues were $6 per year.

The SBWC has always been involved in civic affairs. At one time,

All past St. Barbaras Betty Dominguez, Mary Louise Days, Sue Ziliotto, Leeanne Figueroa, and Susan Parent

This day, Rockwood was filled to the brim with members, guests, and local Fiesta dignitaries: mayor Helene Schneider, La Presidente Rhonda Henderson, Sr. Spirit Norma Escarcega and Jr. Spirit Eve Flores, who both danced for us. Also entertaining was the Early California Dance Group, Baile de California led by Diana Replogle-Purinton.

Zermeno Dance Academy dancers performed as well. President of SBWC Barb LaPlante emceed the program.

Lunch was all about Mexican fare, including chili rellanos and enchiladas with a cookie array baked by members and served outdoors (another tradition). Co-chairs Sue Ziliotto and Linda Alderman need to be thanked for all their work. The club gave every guest a fan, which came in handy because of the heat.

To quote a local attorney, William Griffith, who spoke in 1923 regarding good government: “Here is your city – you can do one of three things with it. If you do not like it, you can leave; if you approve of it, remember it will not improve of itself; and, if you love it, you can make it the city of which you have dreamed, a bigger and better Santa Barbara.”

The SBWC began as a social club but grew into a civic organization. May it thrive for another 125 years!

•MJ

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Good Food for Thought Montecito’s most famous resident Oprah Winfrey is expanding – her empire, that is!

The former TV talk-show titan has partnered with Kraft Heinz to launch a new line of “healthy” comfort food called O, That’s Good.

Products will start appearing in stores later this month, and will include pasta with bean purée, broccoli cheddar soup mixed with butternut squash, and mashed potatoes with cauliflower.

Oprah, 63, a known adept, advocate, and shareholder of Weight Watchers, will then appear in an ad campaign for the food giant starting October 2.

The billionaire, who became a Weight Watchers member two years ago and purchased a 10 percent share, credits the diet for her losing more than 40 pounds.

But she is now branching out by creating and marketing her own offerings, branded as comfort food classics with a healthy twist.

On one occasion, Oprah traveled to Kraft Heinz’s test kitchen in Chicago as part of the recipe development process.

She says the idea for the new range was borne out of her determination to find a healthier alternative to traditional mashed potatoes – a quest that led her to mix cauliflower and potato together in order to create a hybrid dish that was more substantive than just the vegetables by themselves, but lower in fat and calories than original comfort food.

“I was sitting at my table in my own home and had whipped up some cauliflower trying to make myself think I was eating mashed potatoes, but it was not working,” she recounts.

“So I thought, ‘What if I used a portion of mashed potatoes and added the cauliflower? Then, I would have a substantive mashed potato-cauli dish.”

The launch of the new lines comes in the midst of a profitable year for Weight Watchers, following Oprah’s involvement.

Its stock has quadrupled since she joined, and the diet company announced earlier this year that its membership increased by 16 percent in the first three months of 2017, reaching 3.6 million.

Oprah, too, has benefitted from the endorsement. Her share was worth $43 million when she purchased it, and it has now reached $154 million.

Heinz previously owned Weight Watchers and sold it back in 1999, before Heinz itself was bought by Kraft.

Kraft Heinz continues to make and sell a line of frozen meals called Weight Watchers Smart Ones, under a licensing agreement.

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Rob Lowe puts on a spirited show

Montecito actor Rob Lowe says he’s had contact with the great beyond.

The 52-year-old told reporters about his eerie exchange at a TV Critics Association summer tour in Beverly Hills promoting his new A & E program, The Lowe Files.

On the show, he and his sons, Matthew, 23, and John Owen, 22, explore urban myths and mysteries on road trips nationwide.

Asked if he’d been able to contact spirits, Rob replied: “Yeah, now. I hadn’t previously to this.”

He said he’d been able to trade messages with a ghost through an electronic device known as an Ovilus, explaining how it works: “There’s a device they use that the theory is it can translate... that the spirits can talk through this device, for lack of a better term.”

The Parks & Recreation star says through the Ovilus, he heard the name of a murder victim at the very spot where she died.

Rob said his son John “just thinks it’s randomly programmed to say words at any given time, which it could be, but how does it know to say the right word?

“Judge for yourself. I don’t want to seem like a nut. I don’t want to end my career here – too late?”

Rob said he’d enjoyed bonding with his youngsters while on the hunt to uncover mysteries.

“We want to solve it, but if we don’t, the point of it is a father and sons on the road, making memories.”

reception at its Pritzlaff Conservation Center to launch its latest exhibition Wild Bees, featuring photographs by New York-based husband and wife team, Paula Sharp and Ross Eatman.

The colorful 19-piece show, curated

by Kate Davis, was part of a threeyear-long project to capture native pollinating bees in their home environments.

America is home to 4,000 of them, with 1,600 found in California. But many are now threatened with loss of habitat, invasive species, pesticides, and introduced pathogens.

The show runs though November 26 before moving to Dallas and Houston.

A bee list crowd indeed.

Thrill of Brazil Former Santa Barbara Polo Club president Dan Walker and his wife, Linda, hosted a bustling Brazilianthemed bash on the Carpinteria club’s lush lawns.

Dan, who also heads Farmers and Merchants Bank in Long Beach, which recently opened its first branch in our tony town, was in fine form as colorfully befeathered and sensationally sequined Copacabana dancers

In front of one of the three popular Paella pans containing the simmering Paella feast are host Dan Walker and Paquito de Narvarez (photo by Priscilla)

from L.A. performed to the pulsating Carnival beat.

More than 240 guests noshed on paella and quaffed the gallons of champagne and wine, including

MISCELLANY Page 214 Gathered are polo contributors John Muse, Katie Turpin, Charles Ward, Amanda Masters, Justin Klentner, and Paige Beard before the special entertainment begins (photo by Priscilla)

Rhys Williams, Gene McKnight, Josephine Hermans, Amanda Maluf, Ed Hurd, and David Sigman all enjoying the evening’s spirits and energy (photo

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What’s the Buzz?

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden was a hive of activity when it held a

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Brilliant Thoughts

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

IT’S PATIO TIME!

Space Has No Face

O

nce we called it “Heaven” (or “The Heavens”). Now we call it “Space.” There are, so I’m told, more atoms in my body than there are stars in the universe. It was only recently that a certain celebrated, but nameless, Cow jumped over the Moon, thereby provoking the Dish to run away with the Spoon. But I myself (if television transmissions can be believed) have actually seen men jumping on the Moon.

Jules Verne, in From the Earth to the Moon (1870), made some surprisingly accurate predictions, including one that the first successful lunar shot would be made by Americans, and that it would take off from Florida.

That book had what I thought a satisfying ending, with the three “astronauts” trapped in their projectile, and apparently condemned to orbit endlessly around the Moon without ever actually reaching it.

So, I was disappointed when I found that the book had a sequel (Around the Moon) in which, while never actually landing on the Moon, the travelers are able to return safely to Earth, splashing down (in another prescient Verne touch) in the ocean, where they are rescued by a U.S. naval vessel.

Today we know so much more about the Universe – but all we really know is how incomprehensibly vast and mysterious it is. I could never understand how astronomers, with all their knowledge about all this, are still able to lead ordinary lives on this insignificant planet. (But then I feel puzzled in a similar way about how gynecologists are able to make love.)

It was rocketry that made travel beyond Earth from a dream into a reality, and it was German schoolboys, in the days just before Hitler came to power, who first organized a “Spaceflight Society”. Unfortunately, this whole concept got perverted into the wartime development of truly terrible weapons, culminating in the V-2, a rocket-bomb so fast that it literally struck its target, mainly London, before anyone heard it coming.

Yet, as things strangely turned out, many of those same rocket-minded German schoolboys, some of whom had worked for the Nazis, finished up, after the war, in the United States, working for NASA, and eventually sending the first manned rocket to the Moon. A leader among these space engineers was Dr. Wernher Von Braun who, for better or worse, will in my 17 – 24 August 2017

mind always be associated with the masterfully satirical song about him

by Tom Lehrer, which calls him “a man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience.” It goes on: on’t say that he’s hypocritical. Say D rather that he’s a-political.

“Once the rockets go up, who cares

where they come down? – That’s not my department,” says

Wernher Von Braun But for most people today, their picture of space-flight has probably been shaped, more than anything else, by movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, which came out in 1968 – actually a year before the first successful moon flight. My own memories of that epic feature the Straus Waltz, “The Blue Danube,” which for some reason is played as background music throughout the voyage to Jupiter. And of course, there was HAL, the rebellious robot-computer. Then more recently (starting in 1977) there has been a whole series of cinematic space extravaganzas under the rubric of Star Wars.

But none of these offerings brings us any closer to truly comprehending the realities of space and time – because nothing can. Our puny brains, even if they were all linked together into one giant computer (which does, indeed, seem to be on the way to actually happening), could hardly cope with the mathematics of infinity.

The question of what happened before the beginning of time – or, for that matter, of what happens after death, can both be answered with another question: What’s north of the North Pole?

It’s this kind of riddle that explains the persisting popularity of religion in a world where there are no other convincing answers. James Irwin, who walked on the moon in 1971, later became an evangelical minister.

Wernher Von Braun himself joined an Episcopal congregation, and was quoted as saying that “The farther we probe into space, the greater my faith.”

Those of us without any such faith perhaps need a space-trip – or at least some LSD. Shortly after the first Moon landing, Dorothy and I put our names on a list being maintained by TWA for the first commercial flight to the Moon.

Alas! TWA ceased operations in December 2001. I don’t know what became of that list.

•MJ

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Suggestion #3

Pass a Bi-Partisan MEDICARE Reform Bill in 2017. Medicare provides health insurance for 57 million Americans, age 65 and older, regardless of income or medical history. It also covers younger people with permanent disabilities, as defined by the Social Security Administration. While Medicare covers 14% of the U.S. population, younger Americans ask, “Will Medicare be there when I turn 65?”

Medicare is actuarially unsustainable in its present form. The cost of Medicare is projected to grow to $1.058 TRILLION by 2022 fueled by aging baby boomers. Congress needs to bite the bullet now. Rising costs will require unpopular fixes that could include higher employee contributions, age eligibility increases, cost-sharing increases, tax increases, and/or reductions in payments to providers. Other reforms could include curtailment of unnecessary treatments and greater use of generic drugs to replace more costly name-brand drugs.

Suggestion #4

Reform Medicaid. Created in 1965, Medicaid (called Medi-Cal in California and CenCal in Santa Barbara County) was originally conceived as a limited entitlement program for low-income families and individuals, jointly funded by the federal government and the states, for families with incomes below 138% of the federal poverty line. Today, one half of all the babies born in the U.S. are born to Medicaid moms. Medicaid eligibility and benefits widely vary from state to state. Medicaid does not provide healthcare directly, but merely reimburses care providers at rates that are often below the cost of service.

Passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) loosened the rules for Medicaid eligibility leading to “Expanded Medicaid.” In 2013, Medicaid served 60 million people, but now serves 74 million. Costs jumped from $458 billion in 2013 to an estimated $554 in 2017. In 2013, 58% of the total Medicaid costs were picked up by the Feds and 42% by the states. Today, the Feds absorb 63% of costs, while

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The waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid is out of control. In September 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services sent out a warning that improper payments under Medicaid have become so common that that they will account for almost 12% of total Medicaid funding, or just shy of $140 billion. The Wall Street Journal reported that doctors billing Medicaid for services can’t even be verified as doctors; clinics receiving Medicaid dollars turn out to be post office boxes or prepaid cell phones. A program with a 12% fraud rate is ripe for reform.

CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program), a companion program to Medicaid, insures another 9 million low- and moderate-income families, at a cost of $15 billion per year. Expanded Medicaid and CHIP enrollees are fearful of federal funding cuts in any new legislation.

Suggestion #5

Reform Private Insurance Plan Coverage. 22 million middle-income families and individuals, without access to employer plans, are still buying private healthcare insurance for both catastrophic coverage and family care. They are ill served by the high premiums, monstrous deductibles, and high co-pays. They need an ability to purchase healthcare insurance across state lines, join larger pooled groups to lower rates, promote tax-advantaged medical savings accounts, and have access to national low-priced catastrophic insurance plans for hospitalization, physician plans, and prescription care. It was thought that many of them would convert to ObamaCare exchange plans but that has been slow to happen.

Individual insurance plans are unpopular with private insurers. At renewal time, they encourage their clients to switch to ObamaCare exchange plans.

Suggestion #6

Reform, Repair or Fix the ObamaCare Exchanges. Some 12.2 million people have signed up for the ObamaCare exchanges, slightly down from the 2016 enrollment period. Within California, the Santa Barbara County exchange will be down to only one private insurance company, Blue Shield, after the recent withdrawal of Anthem Blue Cross. That will greatly restrict doctor choice in our community, as is already the case in many other regions of the country.

What about cost? My personal trainer, who is a part-time worker, has no employer coverage. She and her husband are both nearing fifty, but in great shape with no pre-existing medical conditions. They each pay $800 a month for ObamaCare, or together just under $20,000 a year. Both have a $2,500 deductible and substantial co-pays. Their medical insurance costs more than their mortgage. They have never exceeded their deductible and never submitted a claim.

What they want is low-cost catastrophic coverage from a pool of similarly healthy adults, while they continue to pay routine medical bills. Their alternative is to pay a $2,000 fine each year and skip coverage altogether.

As Republicans have recently discovered, it is impossible to repeal ObamaCare and leave 12.2 million ObamaCare enrollees without access to healthcare.

Democrats and their friends in the media were quick to amplify the Washington Post story that “If ObamaCare is repealed, 43,000 Americans will die.”

Whether or not to repeal and replace ObamaCare, or to fix it, is the subject of next week’s editorial.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 18) Polo players Sterling Giannico, Facundo and Geronimo Obregon, Jesse Bray, Cory Willliams, Nate Lott, and Charlie Walker surround ambassador Glen Holden with Paquito de Narvarez, Joaquin Papelo, and Hank Uretz (photo by Priscilla)

Justin Klentner, Amanda Masters, Pat and Ursula Nesbitt, Glen and Gloria Holden, Nigel Gallimore, David Sigman, John Muse, Henry Walker, Mike Uretz, Rhys Williams, Jesse Bray, Jason Crowder, Andrew and Anza Bossom, Leigh Brecheen, Charles Ward, Chad and Margarita Lande, Chris and Mindy Denson, Teresa McWilliams, and Charles Walker.

Sea of Louvre

in New York and Europe, with a major patron being former TV newswoman Maria Shriver in Malibu.

“Maria had a major impact on my career and gave me a lot of leads with all her friends,” says former yachtsman Will, a Brooks Institute graduate who used to live nearby. “She was wonderful.”

Among the nautical crowd were Peter Cohen, Tom and Eileen Mielko, Barbara Ireland, Laura Dinning, Sean Stussy, Mitchell Morehart, Charles (From left) Blake and Teddy Muller with their baby girl, Kirsten Becker of Becker Studios with daughter Remy, contemporary artist Will Pierce, and Darrell Becker

(From left) Artist and curator Bobbi Bennett, Allora owner Laura Dinning, Christie Myers Pierce, and celebrated artist Will Pierce (photo by Charles Ward)

(From left) Miny & Roger Willmon, Christie Myers Pierce, Maude Boersema and son Warren

The Gallery, Montecito, just a tiara’s toss from Lucky’s on Coast Village Road, was socially gridlocked when Carpinteria artist Will Pierce opened his latest exhibition of seascapes with fellow artist Bobbi Bennett’s minimalist landscapes, which have been shown in the Louvre in Paris.

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Ward, Britt and Kate Merrick, Christy Myers Pierce, Jim Johnson and Jeremy Tessmer.

On the Money As is tradition, The John E. Profant Foundation hosted a colorful Fiesta Finale gala at the historic El Paseo restaurant, with a record 158 guests raising $100,000 for art scholarships.

Brother Rhyan, 12, and Zeyn Shweyk, 13, played piano, while the Martinez Brothers, who’ve been entertaining at fiesta for three decades, provided the band.

Kristen and Serge Chmelnitzki performed the Paso Doble and rumba, while keyboardist Robert Cassidy, husband of Music Academy of the West executive Anna Papakhian, played Debussy’s La Puerta del Vino.

Ricardo Chavez and Leticia Jimenez danced flamenco with Walter Molina on guitar, while Milena Kitic, accompanied by Cheryl Lin Fielding, sang selections from Bizet’s Carmen in her Santa Barbara debut.

Costume contest winners, judged by my Journal colleague Lynda Millner and Jill Nida, were Eric Davis and Julie Anne Brown.

Montecito author Alicia St. John, a recent award recipient, sold a hand-written anthology The Spanish Shawl about the early tales of Santa Barbara with artwork by Angie Ferraro for $750.

Among the fans at the energized fiesta fest were Bill and Trish Davis, Craig Case, Larry Gossselin, Lori Luchnow, Sigrid Toye, Peter Clark and Gloria Montano, Pat Hinds, Madison Richardson and Toni Simon, Bill and Donna Brown, Kerry and Geonine Moriarty, Anne Towbes, Mara Abboud, Carol Wathen, Jane Burkemper, David Bolton, Hal Conklin, Karen Drown, Das Williams, and Gary Simpson.

Fine Fellows Ten outstanding Music Academy of the West musicians have been selected to travel to the Big Apple as Zarin Mehta Fellows in January to participate in the fourth year of the New York Philharmonic Global Academy Fellowship Program, which offers opportunities to train and play with orchestra musicians, representing an innovative approach to training the next generation of world class musicians for successful careers.

The 2018 Fellows, who were selected after rigorous auditions, were violinists Choi Tung Yeung and Gi Yeon Yoon, violist Yuan Qi, cellist Jenny Kwak, flutist Hannah Hammond, oboist William Welter, clarinetist Ryan Toher, Nathaniel Silberschlag on horn, Michael Cox on trombone, and Michael Marks, double bass.

The talented troupe will travel to Manhattan for a 10-day intensive program, including training and playing alongside orchestra musicians, conducted by Stephane Deneve, in selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet from the philharmonic’s subscription concerts the same month.

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ing the L.A. Phil, Hawaii, Detroit, Houston, and Chicago symphonies, and the opera orchestras in Houston and San Francisco.

Yo, Adrian!

Irish flutist Adrian Spence, founder of the popular chamber music group Camerata Pacifica, is a new board member for the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation.

Adrian, also a parachute diver, joins president opera singer Deborah Bertling, Barbara Burger, Howard Hudson, David McKee, and Marylove Thralls in the organization, founded in 1982 to provide aid to deserving vocal and instrumental students with professional potential.

Sightings: Actor Christopher Lloyd at the Santa Barbara Polo Club...

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Spirituality Matters

by Steven Libowitz “Spirituality Matters” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area spiritual gatherings. Unusual themes and events with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.

Singing at SOhO

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t might seem a stretch to suggest that performing a single song on stage at SOhO could be a spiritual experience. But for many of the participants in the Breakthrough Performance Workshop, the show is not only the culmination of the two-month journey led periodically by Mick and Tess Pulver, but also a true breakthrough experience in trusting themselves, getting the mind out of the way and letting their soulful spirit shine through. Each participant gets to shine as the lead singer belting out a pop cover tune (or original, if they dare) backed by an all-star band of local stalwarts, and usually it’s also quite an uplifting and inspirational, as well as entertaining experience for the audience as we celebrate them breaking through fear.

I have personally sat in circle with at least three of the eight singers this time around – Clarinda Conger, Matthew Long, Ninaya Strandberg, Will Gale, Rochelle Zanini, Linda Kerr, Mary Lawson, and Andrea Wagner – and have already witnessed one summoning up the courage to participate in song circles in a way he hadn’t before.

So, I can’t wait to see them singing their hearts out this Sunday evening, August 20, beginning at 7:30. The solo songs are followed by a group performance, and then all are invited to stick around for the DJ dance party to close out the night. Tickets are $15. The show marks the end of the Pulvers’ offering in town next summer, as they are temporarily relocating to San Diego.

TurnON with OM

“Om” is the sacred sound and spiritual icon often used at the beginning or end of a chanting session.

OM, all caps, stands for Orgasmic Meditation, a consciousness practice

to create more confidence, connection, and intimacy that has been featured

by CNN, The New York Times, Deepak Chopra, and elsewhere. After a hiatus earlier this year, TurnONs, which are meetups designed to introduce and educate newcomers to the practice with clothes on and no touching, have returned to town on alternate Sundays.

Two facilitators lead the group through three communication games that serve as surrogate phases for the actual practice. Participants can “play” at whatever level feels comfortable, including simply observing or passing on any questions you don’t want to answer. It’s a friendly invitation to play and push your edges in a way that feels safe, to stretch yourself and engage in self-discovery. Having attended several sessions, I can attest that even at this level, the games often end up creating a feeling of connection among what may have previously been a room full of strangers – simply from the willingness to reveal what’s real and resonating.

The next TurnON takes place 7:30 to 9 pm this Sunday, August 20, at Santa Barbara Dance Arts, 531 E. Cota St. (Corner of Olive St.) Admission is $10.

The event is put on by OneTaste Los Angeles, an organization that teaches Orgasmic Meditation. Call Leah at (510) 912-4765 or visit www.OneTaste. us for more info.

Circle of Men

The ManKind Project (MKP) – an international personal development organization that offers potentially life-changing experiential training and support groups for men of all ages – has been offering initiation weekends and ongoing circles in Santa Barbara for more than two decades. The gatherings often include

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opportunities to explore Shadow Work to go beyond the mind and heal areas that men may hide, suppress, or deny, processes that many liken to spiritual experiences.

With a training set for October, MKPSB is holding a Circle of Men this Saturday as an intro and sample of the weekend experience. All males are invited to unleash your Wild Man (a la Robert Bly’s Iron John) and take a step toward rediscovering your passion, re-imagining and reclaiming your greatest potential as a 21st-century man, in the process becoming a better father, partner, husband, or brother. The free gathering takes place 10 am to 1 pm on Saturday, August 19, at the Unitarian Society, 1535 Santa Barbara St. (Meet on the grass between the chapel and the classrooms). RSVP if possible to Ken Frye via email at ken@kenfrye. com or call 459-7808, but it’s okay to just show up.

The same site also hosts MKPSB’s biweekly Open Men’s Circle, held every second and fourth Tuesday of the month from 6 to 9 pm. The group is part of the ongoing MKPSB Integration circles where men delve into their own personal life mission and support one another in living it. All men are welcome to come share what it means to be a man in today’s world and find the safety and support to speak your truth, in the process discovering shared concerns and celebrating differences. Feel free to attend just once, or come as often as you like to the free gatherings.

For more information, contact Doug Thomas via email at mkpsbwom@ gmail.com or call 448-8171.

Visit www.mankindproject.org for more about all of the programs.

Pacifica Experience

Pacifica Graduate Institute’s next allday immersion intro to its programs takes place this Saturday, August 19, from 10 am to 4 pm. The day allows one to fully explore Pacifica’s unique interdisciplinary graduate degree programs through faculty-led, program-specific information meetings, presentations, and simulated classroom, including a talk on archetypal psychology from analyst Pat Berry, and founding president and chan-

cellor Dr. Steve Aizenstat sharing Pacifica’s creation story. Visitors can also tour the OPUS Archives and Research Center, which houses the Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, and Marion Woodman library and archives. The $35 fee includes lunch and a $10 gift certificate to Pacifica Bookstore, while the school’s $75 application fee will be waived for attendees.

Stay the weekend for additional activities including Psychology on the Edge: Conversations on Suppression, Resistance, and Transformations in the Field, a Friday evening panel discussion with Clinical Psychology faculty members Oksana Yakushko, Michael Sipiora, and special guest Dr. Philip Cushman. Saturday night is the community barbecue, which is open and complimentary for all Pacifica students, alumni, and community members, including Experience visitors to enjoy food from the Santa Barbara area, including Pacifica’s own organic garden.

Sunday morning’s Re-Imagining Careers Panel begins at 9 and features accomplished Pacifica alumni, with a specific focus dedicated to the individuation process and imagination during their coursework, thesis, and dissertation writing.

All events are free and take place at Pacifica’s Lambert Road Campus, 249 Lambert Road, Carpinteria. Call 879-7305 for more information and reservations.

Mundy on Miracles

Dr. Jon Mundy, an author, lecturer, the publisher of Miracles magazine, and executive director of All Faiths Seminary International in New York City, serves as special guest speaker for the morning services at Unity of Santa Barbara before leading a workshop in the afternoon on Sunday, August 20. Mundy, who taught courses in philosophy and religion from 1967 to 2008 at the New School University and at the State University of New York with specialization in the History of Mysticism, will offer “Leading A Guided Life According to the Teachings of A Course in Miracle” from 1:30 to 4:30 pm. The suggested donation is $25. Call 966-2239 or visit www.santabarbaraunity.org.

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LETTERS (Continued from page 8)

improvements to automobile safety, making a fast lane entry far safer than even 10 years ago.

Rich Untermann Santa Barbara

An Arresting Situation

This morning, I was doing a series of stops in the upper village: the doctor’s office, Montecito Village Grocery, the laundry, and finally the library. I parked in front of the laundry, then walked around the corner to drop my books at the library. As I approached the library, I was accosted by an elderly gentleman dressed in what appeared to be a policeman’s uniform. He informed me that I could be arrested for parking my car in the parking lot for the laundry and then going to the library. Apparently, no one going to the library is allowed to park and walk to the front door of the library. He told me that because I was disabled, I would not be arrested but warned that I would be next time.

He was apparently carrying out the orders of the owner of the shopping center, who leases all the individual properties to the shop owners. Clearly, the owner must be paranoid. Any businessman would welcome parking by the library patrons on the chance that they might be intrigued by the products on offer in the shops.

Given that there are no obvious notices highlighting this restriction, I thought I should notify your readers, particularly library patrons, of the dangers that lurk in the upper village parking lot. The Santa Barbara jails are already overflowing. We don’t want to add to the capacity problem with library customers who have “parked illegally.”

Roger Morrison Montecito (Editor’s note: Thank you for bringing this issue up, Mr. Morrison.

Coincidentally, I too was stopped rather harshly from going to the library (where there were no empty parking spaces) to drop off a book. I too was threatened with “arrest” for parking in front of the bank and then walking over to the library, where I would be for all of... three minutes? I was annoyed but thought no more about it after leaving the parking lot and heading to my office without having been able to visit the library.

But you are justified in not only being annoyed but also in being outraged. What is happening to our once-friendly village should be a concern for everyone. What happened to you and me at the parking lot, and what happened to me when an outdoor toilet on my property malfunctioned while I was away are instances of a collapse of civility. The once customer-friendly Montecito Water District, for example, fined me excess thousands of dollars over and above the already exceedingly expensive charge for the actual water wasted. I understand being charged for the water, but then to be penalized for... being away and not knowing anything about the malfunctioning toilet... was not only harsh but also certainly “unfriendly.”

My guess is that the Borgatello family is unaware of the “no-parking” situation, as they have proven to be conscientious landlords over the years and are likely to end this practice now that it has been exposed. As a community, however, it does seem that we’ve begun to lose our way; it is up to residents such as you and outlets such as Montecito Journal to try to help lead the way back. Thanks again for your letter. – J.B.)

Good Work Lives on

Carrie Steedman was deeply passionate about garden spaces. She was an enthusiastic member of the local garden clubs and she frequently won awards for her flower arrangements.

At Casa del Herrero, the expansive gardens reflect Carrie’s tastes as much as they reflect those of the landscape architects responsible for the property’s Moorish-inspired design.

Today, the gardens live on as part of a house museum and can be visited by booking a tour. Maintenance is a challenge, but through community support, the doors of access stay open. Your support allows us to complete important preservation projects, maintain the home’s Moorishstyle gardens, and provide education to individuals on our guided tours including school children and lifelong learners.

We’ve seen what one passionate woman can do. Help her good work live on through your passionate support.

Jessica Tade Montecito (Editor’s note: Casa del Herrero is the

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The Circles of Hell

Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy takes the readers through hell, purgatory, and finally heaven.

After the recent presidential election, according to most of the liberal press and many politicians, the country seems to be entrenched in hell. They claim the election was not only fraudulent but more importantly was controlled, manipulated, and decided by Vladimir Putin and his communist henchmen. On a daily basis, we are told that President Trump is incompetent and his election was nothing less than a coup d’état. Some extreme critics call for impeachment based on alleged violations of the Constitution, and some liberal state governments call for resistance against federal law, portraying themselves as freedom fighters against fascism!

Is this relentless attack really sincere, or is it nothing more than the petulant whining of those who supported the loser in a presidential election? If it is just the latter, it is unprecedented.

If the Russians actually created this version of political hell, one would think they should be targeted with specific actions to prevent any future interference. Even before any proof of Russian interference, the majority conservative Congress approved sanctions against Russia.

Vladimir Putin seems to be enjoying the show.

For example, the California Legislature, controlled by a liberal majority that openly and loudly opposes the Trump Administration, even hired the discredited former attorney general, Eric Holder, to man the legal barricades to resist the federal government. A majority of the Assembly recently passed a bill that would allow members of the Communist Party to work and be part of the California government. Representative M. Limon of the 37th District (Santa Barbara) is new, inexperienced, and naively followed the majority. She is another example of unqualified novices representing Santa Barbara and following party lines as we experienced at the federal level during the 18-year representation by Lois Capps The controversial, imprudent measure passed by the State Assembly was later withdrawn by the author, who hopefully realized his imprudence.

The ignorance of history and lack of gratitude to the past is permeating all levels of our society. We have seen recently how some members of the Democratic Party in California, at their last meeting, instead of trying to solve problems were focused on insulting President Trump.

Similarly, experienced federal employees have leaked secret documents to damage the country because of their dislike of the president.

Television hosts try to gain notoriety and approval ratings with their followers by openly insulting the president, and they seem to be encouraged by the actions of a number of politicians. If this warfare continues, we are likely to remain in hell and not reach purgatory in the foreseeable future!

Albert Mercado Santa Barbara •MJ

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Notice Inviting Bids for Bid #3884 1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its Renovation of the Cabrillo Pavilion Arts Center and Bathhouse Project (“Project”), by or before Thursday, September 28, 2017, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

2.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at 1118 East Cabrillo Boulevard Santa Barbara, CA 93103, and is described as follows: Rehabilitation of the Cabrillo Pavilion, a City designated Structure of Merit, and the surrounding site to include accessibility upgrades, structural repairs, seismic upgrades, complete building system upgrades, a new fire sprinkler system, termite fumigation, hazardous material removal, storm water runoff improvements and LEED certification.

2.2 Time for Completion. All specified work shall be completed within 540 calendar days upon issuance of the Notice to Proceed. The planned timeframe for commencement is January 2, 2018.

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $10,000,000+.

3.

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): A-General Engineering Contractor or B-General Building Contractor.

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plans and specifications will be available for download Thursday, August 17th, 2017. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

5.

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent (10%) of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

8.

Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.

9.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of one percent of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

10.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

11.

Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., at the following location: 1118 East Cabrillo Boulevard, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference may be disqualified from bidding.

By: ___________________________________

Date: ________________

William Hornung, C.P.M, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) August 9, 2017

2) August 16, 2017 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Marital Asset Resolutions; Wellworth Financial, 5640 Stanford Street, Ventura, CA 93003. Brenda J. Wilson, 5640 Stanford Street, Ventura, CA 93003.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 25, 2017. 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 Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0002126.

Published August 9, 16, 23, 30, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: E.V. Holdings, LLC, 801 Hot Springs Road, Montecito, CA 93108. E.V. Holdings,

LLC, 801 Hot Springs Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 1, 2017. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2017-0002192.

Published August 9, 16, 23, 30, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Inner Space, 1187 Coast Village Road #194, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Lynne Alexander, 1187 Coast Village Road #194, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 3, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in

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the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2017-0002213.

Published August 9, 16, 23, 30, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bambi Lash Boutique, 113 W. Mission St. Suite E, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Nicole Louise Elias, PO Box 0324, Summerland, CA 93067. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 1, 2017. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2017-0002195.

Published August 9, 16, 23, 30, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Physician’s Practice Management Consortium, 1441 Wyant Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Richmond Zapalac Investments, LLC, 1441 Wyant Road, Montecito, CA 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 17, 2017. 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 Margarita Silva. FBN No. 2017-0002035.

Published August 2, 9, 16, 23, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Autumn Brands, 5425 Carpinteria

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5537 DUE DATE & TIME: August 31, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Sanitary Sewer Cleaning and CCTV Inspection FY18 Project Scope of Work to clean and inspect approximately 10.26 miles of sanitary sewer mains, including mobilization, bonds, insurance, traffic control, permitting, public notifications, pre-inspection cleaning, CCTV inspections, weekly reports, and a final report.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on August 24, 2017 at 9:00 a.m., at El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant, located at 520 East Yanonali St, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.as p. The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be

developed from registered vendors.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). 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. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California A – General Engineering OR C42 - Sanitation System Contractor’s license. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that they shall furnish a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, in the amount of 10% of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. When submitting a bid via PlanetBids™, the Bid Guaranty Bond must be uploaded as part of your submittal AND the original Bid Guaranty Bond must be received by the bid date and time to be considered responsive.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. _________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: August 16, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:

BID NO. 5563

BID NO. 5553

DUE DATE & TIME: August 30, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

DUE DATE & TIME: September 6, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Traffic Signal Maintenance and Repair Services

On-Call Homeless Encampment Cleanup Contract

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.

The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). 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. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-10 Electrical Contractor’s license. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

____________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: August 16, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal Avenue #250, Carpinteria, CA 93103.

Johannes Brand, 5425 Carpinteria Avenue #250, Carpinteria, CA 93103.

Autumn Shelton, 17 Conejo Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 17, 2017.

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 Serena Grossman. FBN No. 2017-0002041.

Published August 2, 9, 16, 23, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dukky Repair and Recovery, 16 West Calle Laureles, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Henri Lombardi Grimm, 1377 East Valley RD,

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Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 26, 2017. 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. 2017-0002154.

Published August 2, 9, 16, 23, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NextHome Preferred Properties, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. Decker Realty, Inc., 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 28, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the

DUE DATE & TIME: September 6, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Downtown Parking Lot Sweeping

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.as p. The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be

http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.

The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.

developed from registered vendors.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.

Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.

The contractor represents and warrants that the contractor has all licenses, permits, qualifications, and approvals of whatsoever nature that are legally required for the contractor to perform the work specified herein.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

___________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: August 16, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

___________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: August 9 & August 16, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal 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 Christine Potter. FBN No. 2017-0002167.

Published August 2, 9, 16, 23, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Calligraphy By Carla, 3721 Cordero Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Carla Harris, 3721 Cordero Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 19, 2017. 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 Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0002064.

Published July 26, August 2, 9, 16, 2017.

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Scope of Work to supplement existing City maintenance personnel efforts, and provide emergency repair services at traffic signals and pedestrian activated warning flashers in the City of Santa Barbara.

BID NO. 5562

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AG Protection, 719 De La Vina, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Iran Alexis Gonzalez, 719 De La Vina, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Rocio Lizette Gonzalez, 719 De La Vina, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 17, 2017. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2017-0002034.

Published July 26, August 2, 9, 16, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pac & Store Container Storage; Pac & Store Portable Storage, 1309 State Street STE A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Preston Maloney, 1417 Pacific Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 19, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2017-0002067.

Published July 26, August 2, 9, 16, 2017.

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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)

ENDING THIS WEEK Sayonara Stow House – The summertime concert series at the historic Rancho la Patera Gardens/ Stow House was supposed to end last Tuesday with a blow-out bash by Area 51, the city’s long-running party band known from appearances at Solstice, Fiesta, and virtually monthly gigs at SOhO. But smoke and ash drifting down from the Whittier Fire

in early July forced postponement of the schedule show from King Bee, so the Rachel Thurston-led dance band now gets the honor of anchoring the series set at the Stow House, one of the loveliest spots in the area, complete with several patches of expansive lawn and ringed by a wide variety of trees and plants. The local food truck First & Oak will be selling tasty bites at the entrance, but feel free to bring a picnic, though no

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EVENTS

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 18 Janson’s Country Jukebox – American country music singer and songwriter Chris Janson’s career got going when he moved to Nashville immediately after high school.

After co-writing and recording two duets with Holly Williams in 2009, Janson’s stardom really took off when he co-wrote Tim McGraw’s “Truck Yeah” single, played harmonica on Lee Brice’s track “Beer”, and wrote the title track to Justin Moore’s album Off the Beaten Path. The following year, his “Better I Don’t” hit the Top 40 on Country airplay, then in 2015 Janson’s self-released single “Buy Me a Boat” became his first Top 5 hit, with the album of the same title – which also included the singles “Power of Positive Drinkin” and “Holdin Her” – hitting No. 1 on Mediabase. Now he comes to the Chumash Casino, the home of California country in Santa Ynez. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $35 to $55 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino.com

outside alcohol or pets are allowed.

Chairs and blankets may be set out on the grounds any time after noon on concert day. WHEN: 5:30 to 7:30 pm August 22 WHERE: 304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta COST: free INFO: 681-7216 or www. goletahistory.org/music-at-the-ranch/ FRIDAY, AUGUST 18

Gone, Almost Gone – As with the previous summer film series at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Garden, the “007: Bond, James Bond” screenings have drawn huge crowds to the glorious venue under the stars just one block off State Street, where the films are shown on a huge inflatable screen tucked into the corner. After a hiatus for Old Spanish Days Fiesta’s Noches de Ronde, the series featuring the exploits of the decades-spanning “Licensed to Kill” British secret agent James Bond returned last Friday with The Spy Who Loved Me. This week’s entry – the next to last in the series – is the only film of the summer that features Pierce Brosnan as Bond in GoldenEye, when the debonair agent saves the world from a powerful satellite system that falls into the hands of an ally-turned-enemy. The villain, a former agent who was known by code name 006 (played by Alec Trevelyan), is a mastermind motivated by years of simmering hatred who is able to anticipate our hero’s every move. Bond also squares off against Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon. 1995’s GoldenEye also marks the Bond movie debut of Judi Dench portraying M, the first time for a woman as Bond’s supervisor. Come early for the live DJ set by KCSB’s Ted Coe prior to the screening.... Closing out the series next Friday, August 25, is Skyfall, the third film to star Daniel Craig, the most recent actor to portray the actually human superhero, who coincidentally this week just confirmed that he will star in at least two more Bond movies. The 2012 film – currently the highest-grossing film in the series (and 15th topearning movie of all time) – finds Bond facing a mess when his latest assignment goes terribly wrong, leading to a undercover agents around the world being exposed.

Double-oh-seven must take to the shadows to track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. The riveting film also features Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem as another former agent gone bad, a cerebral criminal mastermind who has stolen the identities of every MI6 agent in a revenge plot that takes Bond (and viewers) to some of the world’s most exotic corners – Shanghai, Macau, Glencoe. The great Sam Mendes, an Oscar-winning for American Beauty, directs and Adele’s theme song also earned her an Academy Award. Santa Barbara DJ Darla Bea plays a Bond-themed live set as the sun sets. As always, guests are welcome to bring low-back low-to-the-ground beach chairs (the seat must be no more than six inches above the ground) and/or blankets that are permeable (no plastic/nylon/tarps to protect the lawn), and a picnic dinner to enjoy on site, setting up on the lawn no earlier than noon. WHEN: 8:30 pm (Skyfall also screens indoors at UCSB’s Campbell Hall at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, August 23) WHERE: 100 E. Anapamu St. (corner of Anacapa) COST: free INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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Walking for the World? – It was just six months ago that DIJO Productions presented A Walk in the Woods at the Plaza Playhouse Theater in Carpinteria, the first production of Lee Blessing’s often funny two-character about a serious subject – the potential for nuclear war. The story about a meeting between two diplomats – one an experienced Russian arms treaty negotiator (played by Ed Giron), the other an idealistic American (portrayed by Bill Waxman) – is based on a real incident that took place in Geneva, Switzerland, back in 1982, when the Cold War had yet to come to a close. The two men left the formal discussions over nonproliferation between the superpowers to take the title’s “walk in the woods,” where they broke down the walls to see each other as human beings and eventually find a way to forestall the buildup of weapons of mass destruction. Now, DIJO is remounting the work – which hadn’t been presented in town for decades, if ever – at the Center Stage Theater downtown. As tensions between the U.S. and North Korea mount on a weekly basis, A Walk in the Woods feels like a subject that might have been ripped from

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the headlines. At least the drama on stage – Walk was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize – should offer a little escapism, if a little too close to home.

WHEN: Opens 8 tonight, plays six additional shows through September 2 WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $24 general, $21 students and seniors INFO: 963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org SATURDAY, AUGUST 19 Ferry Across Milpas – Across a nearly half-century career, British singer-songwriter Bryan Ferry has forged a path toward elegant poprock, the son of a coal miner ever striving for sophisticated sounds in his singing. While Ferry found his greatest fame in Roxy Music, the arty glam-rock band he co-founded in 1970, his solo efforts – which began just three years later – favored classy synth-pop arrangements covering earlier pop hits or original offerings.

While almost always referring back to Roxy’s repertoire – including an instrumental disc of the band’s hits done 1920s style – his solo output veered into such areas as offering big band arrangements of pop standards from the Great American Songbook, or teaming with such guitarists as the Smith’s Johnny Marr or Chris Spedding for brooding, cinematic works. The latter is actually a part of his current nine-piece touring band, which shows up at the Santa Barbara Bowl tonight offering his modern take spanning his spectrum from Roxy hits “Love is the Drug”, “More Than This,” “Avalon”, and more, to successful solo songs “Slave to Love” and “The Right Stuff” 17 – 24 August 2017

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19 Put on Your Bibb – Broadway leading lady Teri Bibb, who portrayed Christine in The Phantom of the Opera for more than 1,000 performances on Broadway and on tour, returns to the Rubicon Theatre Company (RTC) in Ventura for the first time as a solo sensation for RTC’s Broadway Concert Series. Bibb – who has appeared as Mrs. Cratchit in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol for the past two years and in four annual productions of A Rubicon Family Christmas, as well as in the ensemble for numerous special events and concerts at the theater – has previously given a command performance at the White House, appeared on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, and performed in concert on the stages of Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, and London’s Royal Albert Hall. This weekend, she’ll apply her soaring soprano in celebration of the singers and songs of the silver screen.

In Once Upon a Song, Bibb shares her personal connection to the women who inspired her and helped shape her career in a concert featuring tunes from classic Golden Era films sung by Jane Powell, Kathryn Grayson, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Shirley Jones, and others, and stories from the stage and road. Bibb will be joined by musical director R.L. Rowsey on piano, and directed by Rubicon associate artistic director Brian McDonald, who himself appeared in the national tours of Miss Saigon and Forever Plaid. WHEN: 2 & 8 pm today, 2 pm tomorrow WHERE: Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura COST: $55 general, $50 seniors, $30 Equity members and military, $25 students ($135 VIP experience takes place following the Sunday matinee and includes a post-show reception with the stars, a glass of premium Rubicon-estate grown wine created by film director Francis Ford Coppola, and gourmet hors d’oeuvres) INFO: 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org

and selections from his 14th and most recent solo album, 2014’s Avonmore.

Opening is pianist-singer-songwriter Judith Owen, who will be joined by legendary bassist Leland Sklar with Pedro Segundo (percussion), Gabriella Swallow (cello), and Lizzie Ball (violin). Owen received raves serving in the same role on Ferry’s spring tour, with one reviewer praising her for “captivating with her cheeky wit and sharp storytelling,” a winning approach local audiences

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TUE OCT 3 8PM Daniels Dishes – Actor William Daniels’s face is probably a lot better known than his name. The character actor has performed in a number of iconic roles, among them George Feeny in Boy Meets World, the voice of KITT in Knight Rider, Howard in Two for the Road, the father of Dustin Hoffman’s title character in The Graduate, John Adams in the play and film 1776, and Dr. Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere, which earned him two Emmy Awards.

In his new celebrity memoir There I Go Again, Daniels looks back on his 75-year career, guiding readers through some of Hollywood’s cherished productions while offering recollections of entertainment legends including Lauren Bacall, Warren Beatty, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Mike Nichols, Jason Robards, and Barbra Streisand. Daniels, who served as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1999 to 2001 and has been married to actress Bonnie Bartlett since 1951, comes to Chaucer’s Books tonight to read and sign copies of the 2017 memoir. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center COST: free INFO: 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com

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Our Town

James Van Arsdale settles into his office and new role as head of the Graphic Design program SBCC

by Joanne A. Calitri

Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist.

Contact her at: BeatArtist8@aol.com

Van Arsdale New Head of SBCC’s Graphic Design

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fter a national search to fill the huge shoes of Liz Russotti, outgoing chair of the Graphic Design program and 18-year veteran faculty at Santa Barbara City College [SBCC], our town’s artist-designer-musician and new dad James Van Arsdale was selected for the position.

Our Town proud, I met with James at his SBCC office for a brief interview, as he was busy sorting out his tools of the trade and preparing for the start of classes Monday, August 21.

Smiles abound, James humbly greeted me with, “The exact position title is assistant professor, graphic design, and I will be the head of the program, which is part of the Graphic Design & Photography Department.”

Q. Share how the SBCC Graphic Design position came about for you.

A. The professor who previously held this position recently retired, after which the college embarked on a search. Several SBCC professors that I know mentioned it to me, knowing I would be interested in applying. I was very interested in the prospect of teaching at SBCC, aware of the high quality of the college, and because I myself benefited from the community college system, before transferring to the University of Texas at Austin. The two years I studied at Brookhaven Community College were key for my creative and professional development, as well as my future collegiate success. I want to give back to the very system that helped me – and Santa Barbara is my home, so SBCC is the perfect match. From my own experiences and having met so many skilled SBCC students and dedicated professors in Santa Barbara, I recognize SBCC’s great role in the education of so many students and its positive community impact. That’s something I want to be a part of. This college is one of the best in the country, and the faculty here are amazing. Needless to say, I’m very excited to join them!

What are your first-year goals for the program, and which classes will you be teaching?

Teaching is the primary focus at all community colleges and is the top priority for myself and the other instructors in the Graphic Design program.

I especially want to foster a positive environment and a student-centered classroom, where discussion and critique are important parts of the classes.

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This is vital for engaging the students, teaching them the creative process, and preparing them for graphic design careers. I’ll be teaching some entry-level foundation courses, such as Media Design and Graphic Design Basics, as well as the intermediate course Graphic Design I. My emphasis is on being present and teaching in the classroom, and I feel that it’s especially necessary for creative studio courses like these, where dialogue, “learning to see,” and learning to communicate visually are so important. Every day, along with teaching technical skills, I’ll be interacting with the students, either oneon-one or in groups, to analyze and discuss their design work to further develop their own creative thinking and problem-solving skills. In addition to those courses, the other instructors will be teaching courses in typography, graphic design II, creative thinking, publication design, and more.

The former chair used Second Life [2003] to encourage students in online learning, will you continue with it or start a new software program[s]?

We recognize the barriers distance or time can create for prospective students and, therefore, will continue to offer online courses on a limited scale. One of my tasks for the future is to implement strategies to ensure the online courses live up to the high level of excellence that exists in the classroom. We’re working with a new learning management system this year that all instructors will use for online courses, so I am excited to get in there, brainstorm with the adjuncts, and work on new techniques for teaching our distance learners.

What new pedagogy are you bringing into the program?

In my first year, there are many things I’d love to work on. I’m creating a new course called The History of Graphic Design, which will hopefully be ready to be taught in fall 2018. It will be a lecture class, focusing on the rich and interesting history of this particular field and is something of great value to all design majors. Also, we’re coming up on the 100-year anniversary of Bauhaus in 2019, which was an innovative German design movement and famous school that established a language of vision and gave birth to modern graphic design. This class will cover Bauhaus extensively, as well as expose the students to work by import-

ant global designers up to the present day. I also look forward to starting a Graphic Design Club for students who are pursuing the Associate in Arts in Graphic Design degree at SBCC. This club will provide another way for students to connect and collaborate with each other, and hopefully engage with the community as well.

On the SBCC Graphic Design Department website, it seems diversity of the faculty is low...

Making sure our department promotes and supports diversity is a high priority for me, as it is for the entire college district.

You have a considerable career in design to bring to the position, yes?

After obtaining my MFA degree from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, I embarked on a freelance graphic design career and maintained an art studio practice and exhibition schedule for my personal fine art work. About 13 years ago, I teamed up with Kimberly Hahn and we created Myopia Design, a Graphic Design/ Web Design agency, of which I’ve been the managing partner until now.

The experience of working extensively in the design field, I believe, is extremely necessary for one who is going to teach in this subject. The knowledge and wisdom attained over the years about working with clients, the printing processes, conceptualizing and creating large campaigns, and keeping deadlines on budget will all be very useful in the classroom. I’ll be speaking to the students as someone who has been right there, doing all of these tasks and projects every day. Additionally, my educational and artistic background allows me to bring in theoretical topics to the classes as well, regarding the relationship between Art and Design, advanced thinking on concept visualization, framing one’s work within the greater discussion about the history of graphic design and art, and what’s going on in the world today, both in the social and technological landscapes. I hope in the not-too-distant future to be able to offer a Careers in Graphic Design course to really help our students

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in becoming confident professionals after they graduate. There is so much about the field that goes beyond the nuts and bolts of technique or the spark of creativity, so this sort of class would be extremely beneficial.

Do you see the Graphic Design program interfacing with the local arts community?

One of the reasons I wanted to teach specifically at SBCC is that I have a strong desire to support the art and design community here; I want to increase my level of support by teaching those who want to create, who want to pursue learning in this field, and possibly choose it as a career.

Graphic design is a unique field in that it is so multi-disciplinary, which I think makes it fun. Add to that the ability to be creative and make a good living at the same time. I urge anyone who has the desire to do creative work and wants a viable career choice where there are jobs out there right now, to come and study graphic design with us.

In the years to come, I want to bring in community-based guest lecturers from whom students could meet, learn, and establish future working relationships. Hopefully, we can go on some field trips, have some exhibitions of student’s work, and perhaps students can do projects that involve the greater Santa Barbara community so they can see design in action, as it were – learning first-hand how design inhabits our public spaces and affects people in our daily lives. All the time, everywhere around us, graphic design is interacting with people, sharing with people. It’s an incredibly strong and powerful means of communication and expression, which can make one’s life more beautiful, can inform one about injustices, can help people come together or reach each other. It, along with other visual arts media, forms our visual culture – our identity.

It’s really a fascinating and rewarding field within which to work, and I am hopeful that our students, no matter where they go, will become the next generation of exceptional designers.

Congrats, James – and MJ looks forward to your talents at SBCC! •MJ 17 – 24 August 2017

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A former reporter for Newsweek, book editor, and current full-time writer for The Economist, the international newsweekly based in London, helps you produce lean, compelling, and professionally sequenced prose for an article, op-ed, college-admissions essay, or book. Ghostwriting services (preceded by multilingual research, if necessary) are also available. Free, no-obligation meeting: 805-637-8538.

Marketing and Publicity for your business, non-profit, or event.

Integrating traditional and social media and specializing in PSAs, podcasts, videos, blogs, articles and press releases. Contact Patti Teel seniorityrules@ gmail.com

WEDDING CEREMONIES

HEALTH & WELLNESS SERVICES

Ordained Minister Any/All Types of Ceremonies “I Do” Your Way. Short notice, weekends or Holidays Sandra Williams 805.636.3089

MEAL DELIVERY SERVICES A Taste of Home Our meals are homemade and delivered directly to your door.

We deliver Mon, Wed & Friday, starting at $198/ week.

805 603-2918

TUTORING/CLASSES

VIDEOS TO DVD TRANSFERS Hurry, before your tapes fade away. Now doing records & cassettes to CD. Only $10 each 969-6500 Scott.

As YOUR PERSONAL ASSISTANT, I’ll write your checks, pay your bills, filing, correspondence, scheduling, organize everything,reservations, errands. Confidential with excellent references. 636-3089

WRITING/EDITING SERVICES

Vintage Oil Paintings Collector’s level, Pre-WWII Listed American Artists.

Private Dealer. Montecito. 969-4569

COMPUTER/VIDEO SERVICES

COTTAGE/HOME WANTED

Experienced Personal Assistant Available.

Reliable, Professional, Confidential, Proactive, Personable. If you need assistance, call Jennifer at 805-403-4306

FINE ART/PAINTINGS FOR SALE

Conversational Spanish Class w/ wine.

Every Tuesday 6:30 Old Yacht Club Inn 431 Corona del Mar Dr 93101 Selina (310)999-8967 $20

POSITION WANTED

IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT Save 30-60% thru Water Mgmt!

Blending onsite inspections with software your Irrigation is tuned to your landscape Microclimates (shade vs sun, grass vs shrubs vs trees).

Call for Free Evaluation (805) 654-4943 www.ReGen.coop Delivering Waterwise Design & Installations for 28 years.

$8 minimum

Trained and certified instructor will teach you how to meditate to create peace and bliss in your life. Sandra 636-3089.

Learn to Meditate SB native, Tom G. O’Brien is a trained teacher with 25 years of experience. Graduate of Crane,Thacher & Wesleyan U. See Independent article on “Rupa Meditation” of 7/6/2017. Serenity is your birthright; meditation is the key. Local references. 805.453.8965 rupameditation@gmail.com

PHYSICAL TRAINING/THERAPY Wellness Recovery Have you or a loved one been challenged by health or aging issues? House calls to regain one’s best self. Certified in effective exercise for Parkinson’s.

Josette Fast, PT. 37 years experience UCLA trained. 805-722-8033 www.fitnisphysicaltherapy.com

LONG/SHORT TERM RENTALS Beautiful, quiet poolside one-bedroom cottage on estate setting with backyard patio, furnished.

Prefer single person $2800/mo.

Jay (805) 455-2925 jdooreck@mac.com

OFFICE SUITE AVAILABLE Elegant downtown Santa Barbara office suite. Suitable for consultation, massage, acupuncture and more. Fully furnished with storage space. All utilities are included and suite is available Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Parking included.

Rental fee is $500 per month. 805 7010363 or drgloriakaye@aol.com

REAL ESTATE SERVICES REVERSE MORTGAGE SERVICES Reverse Mortgage Specialist Conventional & Jumbo 805.770.5515 No mortgage payments as long as you live in your home!

Gayle Nagy Executive Loan Advisor gnagy@rpm-mtg.com NMLS #251258 RPM Mortgage, Inc. 319 E. Carrillo St., Ste 100 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 LendUSA, LLC dba RPM Mortgage NMLS #1938 - Licensed by the Department of Business Oversight under the CA Residential Mortgage Lending Act. | C-294 | Equal Housing Opportunity

ESTATE MANAGEMENT SERVICES

Fit for Life Customized workouts and nutritional guidance for any lifestyle.

Individual/group sessions. Specialized in CORRECTIVE EXERCISE – injury prevention and post surgery. House calls available.

Victoria Frost- CPT & CES 805-895-9227

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It’s Simple. Charge is $2 per line, each line has 31 characters. Additional 10 cents per Bold and/ or Uppercase letter. Minimum is $8 per issue/week. Send your check to: Montecito Journal, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA 93108 or email the text to christine@ montecitojournal.net and we will respond with a cost.

Photo/logo/visual is an additional $20 per issue.

Deadline for inclusion is Monday before 2 pm. We accept Visa/MasterCard

• The Voice of the Village •

New Zealand family practitioner seeking permanent, nurturing nest in natural setting to live on the property as a caretaker or to be there for an emergency for your loved ones. Practicing Medicine in Santa Barbara for the last 23yrs. Please email sattvasioux@ gmail.com

Live-In Available.

Estate caretaker, manager, companion.

(805) 636-4456

ESTATE/MOVING SALE SERVICES THE CLEARING HOUSE, LLC

Recognized as the Area’s Leading Estate Liquidators – Castles to Cottages Experts in the Santa Barbara Market! Professional, Personalized Services for Moving, Downsizing, and Estate Sales .

Complimentary Consultation (805) 708 6113 email: theclearinghouseSB@cox.net website: theclearinghouseSB.com Estate Moving Sale Service-Efficient30yrs experience.

Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030.

17 – 24 August 2017

Affordable.

LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY (805) 565-1860 Effective.

Efficient.

Voted #1 Best Pest & Termite Co.

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Kevin O’Connor, President

Call for Advertising rates Hydrex Written Warranty Merrick Construction (805) 565-1860 Residential ● Commercial ● Industrial ● Agricultural Bill Vaughan Shine Blow Dry Friendship Center Just Good Doggies Musgrove(revised) Enroll Now  Adult Day Center Loving Pet Care in my Home Valori Fussell(revised)  Respite Care ART CLASSES Lynch Construction  Brain Fitness Programs $25 for play day 695-8850  Caregiver Support Groups Good Doggies $40 for overnight  Veterans Assistance Portico Gallery Carole (805) 452-7400 Pemberly In Montecito and Goleta 1235 Coast Village Rd. • Convenient Parking carolebennett@cox.net 805.969.0859 Beautiful eyelash (change to Forever Beautiful Spa) Beg/Adv . Small Classes. Ages 8 -108 friendshipcentersb.org Luis Esperanza Simon Hamilton Enroll Now (805) 687-6644 ● www.OConnorPest.com Free Estimates ● Same Day Service, Monday-Saturday

Free Limited Termite Inspections ● Eco Smart Products

Licensed, Bonded & Insured

STEVEN BROOKS JEWELERS Custom Design/ Estate Jewelry • Watches • Redesign • Restore• Repair Purchasing Estates/Appraisals Graduate Gemologist/Established 1974 Friendly consultation. Please contact sbjewelers@gmail.com or 805 455-1070

THE BRAINSTEM BALANCING CENTER

We Share the Care!

License #421701581 #425801731

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Master Practitioner & Founder NerveGuy34@yahoo.com www.BrainstemBalancing.com

gnagy@rpm-mtg.

Recognized as the Area’s com Leading Estate Liquidators – NMLS #251258 Castles to Cottages Experts in the RPM Mortgage, Santa Barbara Market! Professional, Inc. Personalized Services for Moving, 319 E. Carrillo St., Downsizing, and Estate Sales .

1235 • Convenient Parking Ste 100Coast Village Rd. Complimentary Consultation Beg/Adv . Small Classes. Ages 8 -108 Santa Barbara, CA (805) 708 6113 email: 93101 theclearinghouseSB@cox.net RPM Mortgage, Inc. – NMSL#9472website: theclearinghouseSB.com REAL ESTATE SERVICES SCULPTURE RESTORATION & RESURFACING Licensed by the Department of Indoor and Outdoor Estate Moving Sale ServiceBusiness Oversight under the REVERSE MORTGAGE Stone, bronzeSERVICES or other Material Efficient-30yrs experience. Elizabeth Residential Mortgage Lending Act. Reverse Mortgage Specialist Museum Quality Restoration Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030.

Conventional & Jumbo 805.770.5515 References Available C-294 No mortgage payments as long as JOANNE DUBY - FRANCINE KIRSCH WOODWORKING/REPAIRS ESTATE/MOVING SALE SERVICES you live in your home!

805 794 6618 - 805 636 7522 Gayle Nagy joanne@joanneduby.com THE CLEARING HOUSE, LLC Artisan Custom Woodworks.

Executive Loan Advisor Repairs on doors, windows, furniture, kitchen for long term tenancy in Carpinteria, Summerland, Montecito or Santa Barbara *Unfurnished desired, *No pets, *Non-smoker, *Excellent local references available CALL Emil-818-645-5595

1 – 8 June 2017

GARDEN CONSULTING LANDSCAPE INSPECTIONS Skilled troubleshooting Gardener training Landscape inspections for Escrow, Construction Certified Arborist & Professional Horticulturist (805)886-2424 www.tierrasage.com

WOODWORKING/REPAIRS Artisan Custom Woodworks. Repairs on doors, windows, furniture, kitchen cabinets.

Small jobs welcomed.

Ruben Silva 805-350 0857.

Contractor Lc#820521.

17 – 24 August 2017

ART CLASSES 695-8850 Portico Gallery

That’s what walking through New York on a June evening feels like: it’s Friday and you’re 17 years old. – John Darnielle

HANDYMAN/CONSTRUCTION

bounty is our birds best bowl of food! The flock goes bananas for your apples, oranges & other homegrown fruits & veggies.

H Property and Repair Specializing in handyman services, flooring and remodels 805-315-6419

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED K-PALS need volunteers to be foster parents for our dogs while they are waiting for their forever homes. For more information info@k-9pals.org or 805-570-0415.

DONATIONS NEEDED Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary Menagerie 2340 Lillie Avenue Summerland CA 93067 (805) 969-1944 Donate to the Parrot Pantry!

At SB Bird Sanctuary, backyard farmer’s

Volunteers Do you have a special talent or skill?

Do you need community service hours?

The flock at SB Bird Sanctuary could always use some extra love and socialization.

Call us and let’s talk about how you can help.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. – Will Durant

805 560-0630

kitchen cabinets. Small jobs welcomed.

Ruben Silva 805-350 0857.

Contractor Lc#820521.

HANDYMAN/CONSTRUCTION

H Property and Repair Specializing in handyman services, flooring and remodels 805-315-6419 Master Craftsman/Handyman Professional, reliable, reasonable & experienced.

Resume available upon request.

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