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WATER FRONT, P.5 • MOVIE GUIDE, P.39 • OPEN HOUSES, P.45
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Youth Drought Project
Brad Smith starts program to employ teens, save water, and help residents get tax rebates, p.20
Brushing Up
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6 Montecito Miscellany
Saying goodbye to Larry Crandell; Oprah making TV movie; Katy Perry in Vegas; Gigi Hadid on the job; Katie McLean’s spirit; Diane Boss hosts party; Tracy Tynan book bash; all aboard Condor Express; Los Arroyos gala; Taste of the Vine; SB Zoo celebration; Under the Harvest Sun; and Princess Diana’s legacy
8 Letters to the Editor
Jim Carswell praises Bob Hazard; Peter Clark explains what brown can do for you; Dale Lowdermilk on the money; Ben Burned on gray water; Jay Peterson on water; John Burk expounds on East Beach Grill; Larry Bond gets political; and Paul Burri prefers Hillary
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Lynda Millner reports on the Central Coast Wine Classic; the Australian Wine Symposium; Champagne and Caviar brunch; and Art Fund’s “Views from the North”
21 State Street Spin
Erin Graffy breaks down the 5th annual Montecito Motor Classic, which spotlights the BMW and rolls onto Coast Village Road on September 25
26 On Entertainment
Steven Libowitz interviews artist Dorene White as part of the SB Studio Artists Tour’s 15th anniversary; FUTURE/PERFECT at the Lobero; Improv Festival in Ventura
27 Spirituality Matters
Steven Libowitz provides details about Buddha Nature, A Dharma Course slated for September 1; Sunburst Fellowship’s Earth and Spirit Weekend; and La Casa Maria’s public programs
36 Meet The Teacher
Sigrid Toye talks with Jesse Wooten, SB Middle School dean of 8th grade, English teacher, wilderness coach, and New Hampshire transplant
38 Brilliant Thoughts
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Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events
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ON THE WATER FRONT
by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club
Time for a Change
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lthough a handful of readers in Montecito may enjoy watching Dick Shaikewitz, chairman of the Montecito Water District (MWD) and me spar over such minutia as whether board members are elected or appointed, I would bet the vast majority wants to know only one thing: When will MWD deliver a credible action plan for providing Montecito with reliable and sustainable water? For the first time in the last eight years, Montecito voters will have an opportunity in November to make an informed choice about who will lead us to a viable water solution. Voters will select two water board members this fall and three more in November 2018.
Where We Are Now
It’s the end of another long, hot, dry summer. Montecito has never looked worse. After five years of drought, our foliage is withered, dry, and parched. Once-green lawns have gone brown; hedges and plants are in distress; and exhausted trees are dead or dying. Even the Argentine ants have become bonedry, invading Montecito homes with increasing frequency in search of water. This once-green and lovely place now looks dirty and grimy, like it hasn’t had a bath in five years.
MWD’s Long-Term Water Plan
Other local water districts have created comprehensive supply and demand plans to address this and future droughts. Goleta’s plan includes protection of local groundwater and recycling. Santa Barbara’s plan includes desalination, recycling, and groundwater management. Carpinteria has an exceptionally generous supply of local groundwater and is taking aggressive steps to preserve it. Montecito has no plan in place for desal, no plan for recycled water use, no plan to curb the depletion of our meager supply of groundwater and no plan to bank and store reliable water for use in dry years. Instead, MWD is lurching from crisis to crisis, relying on uncertain purchases of imported water and unreliable Table A State Water that it can’t even get into Lake Cachuma because of pipe and pump constrictions.
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Five years before the start of this current drought, MWD’s paid consultant, Steven Bachman, Ph.D., presented his Future Water Demand and Water Supply Options report to the District. Bachman’s conclusion: “Water supplies can be enhanced by storage of unused water for use during dry periods and by judicious purchase of additional supplies in wet years when they are available. Without these actions, demand will soon overtake supply during dry years, and District customers will suffer shortfalls of supply during those dry years.” The MWD Board paid dearly for that advice, but no action was taken to buy and bank reserve water supplies for this or future droughts.
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What is needed now is a smart, competent, engaged board whose members will work together as a team to craft real solutions to real problems to solve our water woes. With full awareness that serious droughts in this region are cyclical, MWD leadership has had more than 20 years since the last multi-year drought to get ready for the one we are now battling. MWD leadership desperately needs an infusion of new ideas, new attitudes, and new approaches. We need board members who will listen to and take action to implement those new ideas, attitudes, and approaches.
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Ignoring Questions
There is growing concern that the current MWD board is becoming less and less interested in the voices of its customers. The current leaders regularly shut off community input at public meetings. The board refers to district residents as “ratepayers” rather than “customers,” implying that we are valued only as sources of revenue. They ignore our questions, explaining that they are too busy to respond. All this could change when ballots are counted on November 8. Voters have the power to set a new course for MWD. If we really want change, we should use this election cycle as an opportunity to bring new faces and new ideas to the board. Elect Floyd Wicks and Tobe Plough as new members of the Montecito Water District Board this fall, and watch them bring strong water management and public-policy experience to what is now a less than dynamic board of directors. •MJ 1 – 8 September 2016
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ne of the most humorous and kindly souls, Larry Crandell, known affectionately as “Mr. Santa Barbara” for his half a century of public works in our tony town, has left us for more heavenly pastures at the age of 93. Larry, who I first met at a lunch at Olio e Limone when I moved to our rarefied enclave nine years ago, died peacefully at his residence in the Vista del Monte retirement home surrounded by family and friends. A recipient of a Purple Heart, Larry served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and was a bombardier flying in B-24 bombers with the 15th Air Force in Italy. He met his wife, Marcy, after leaving the service and the tony twosome had five children, moving to our Eden by the Beach 56 years ago, working in real estate and investments. But Larry was best-known for his civic endeavors, serving as a fundraiser, auctioneer, emcee, and toastmaster with numerous organizations, including the Unity Shoppe, Channel City Club, and Santa Barbara Foundation. A self-deprecating individual with a wry sense of humor, he is survived by his three sons, Larry Jr., Steven, and Michael, and 10 grandchildren. Designing Woman Montecito exercise wear designer Katie McLean is bored with basic black! “As I see it, most of the outfits around are gaudy neon or basic black, I felt that needed to change,” says former MUS student Katie, who has just launched her Psychedelic Honey – Swim X Activewear collection, hand-designed prints for the “free spirit.” “It is dedicated to inspiring health, creativity, and adventure, and empowering ladies with self love,” says Katie, who studied at Otis College of Art and Design in L.A. The new collection features eight signature prints and five comfy styles, and is dubbed Bold As Love, based on Katie’s upbringing in a bohemian warehouse of fabric, music, artists, and surfers. “From the prints, patterns, and line sheets to the logo, mission, and video, I’ve been hand-designing every detail
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Larry Crandell shows where he used to sit in the nose of a B-24, 70 years ago in 1945
to embody radiant well-being and beauty from the inside out,” says Katie, who admits to being a “passionate health nut” after living in Kauai and teaching Pilates and kickboxing. “It is based on the active, coastal mountain town that is Santa Barbara, made with love in California.” If you care to check out the new collection, which features natural colors and culturally inspired retro prints that resonated with Katie’s “vintage collecting old soul,” check out her website psychedelichoney.com.
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LETTERS
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
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recently returned home after having vacationed in Santa Barbara and having the opportunity and privilege to read Bob Hazard’s Guest Editorial (“The War on Law Enforcement,” MJ #22/29). It was so nice to read a factual, researched article on the current seemingly “anti-cop” mood that is so prevalent in many forms of media. I was truly surprised to see this article, and it has been shared numerous times. Having been raised in Santa Barbara and moving to the Pacific Northwest in 1977, I have seen numerous changes in both locations. Being a police officer in Washington State, as well as both of my sons, it is a sad affair when the career you have chosen is seemingly so vilified. Every officer that I know and work with chose law enforcement for the good that they believed they could do for society as a whole. Unfortunately, with the mood today, I could not encourage anyone to follow the same path. Again, thanks for the excellent article. Jim Carswell Washington State
Brown is Beautiful
I’m amused (mildly) by all the “much ado about nothing” going on along “our” (or is it “their”?) Coast Village Road. I drive it often, and at the moment it’s clean and tidy… and (gasp!)… brown! Yes, brown is beautiful. Beautiful dirt, from which everything we can see or touch was extracted. And give it a little time… it will be green again. Nature has a funny way of doing that. So forget about the grass, it’s the trees along our road that really need to be nurtured, because without trees, fuggettaboutit. Peter Clark Montecito (Editor’s note: Well, you’ve certainly given us pause to reconsider and even appreciate the look of the median. Problem is, I remember when I first arrived in California in 1959 and was impressed with not only the colorful median but also the foliage alongside the beautiful and fast-moving freeways in and around Los Angeles. Most of that has disappeared, of course, but the idea of flowers and foliage surrounding our roadways is an idea that dies hard. – J.B.)
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Pay Them... or Else
Finally, bureaucrats in Richmond, California, have come up with a brilliant solution to stop the rampant crime within their city: they have apparently chosen to give people money to not commit crimes. This unique approach is a stroke of genius and our organization (notsafe. org) would like to offer some additional thoughts to help fine-tune and hybridize this idea into other problem areas. If the U.S. Department of Interior were to offer $15,000 per year to anyone thinking about setting a forest fire, millions of dollars in damage could be averted. Arsonists: don’t give up your matches until you’ve reached an agreement and been paid in cash! Why couldn’t the Treasury Department offer 10 percent “incentive” to those contemplating creating counterfeit money? For example, a potential criminal who plans to print/ scan $10 million in $20 bills could notify the Secret Service (and the Clinton Foundation) of their intentions and agree to delay any illegal activity for a guaranteed payment of say, $1 million dollars. Such a bold reward may sound ridiculous, but it could be considered a bargain because it would keep $9 million in fake currency off the streets, while only costing the taxpayers $1 million. Surely, the Department of Defense could spare a few dollars to pay struggling terrorists and amateur bomb makers a couple million if they promise to refrain from strapping explosives to their children. These agreements would not be over-restrictive or permanent, but could be renegotiated annually by U.S. Secretary of State Kerry. If some decide to change their criminal careers, opportunities are endless. Once an arsonist sees the error of his ways and decides to become a counterfeiter or drug dealer, taxpayers would be asked to pay for “retraining.” Once he/she has qualified as a reformed currency manipulator they’d be given a new identity, moved to Compton (or Chicago) and be paid generously from the “Richmond-Rainbow Deal” fund for not selling crack. Financial opportunities should be made available to everyone, including pimps who do not rent out their hookers, alcoholics who do not drive after
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This Week in and around Montecito
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Opening Reception 10 West Gallery presents its new show, featuring Marilyn McRae, Stuart Ochiltree, Penny Arntz, Peggy Ferris, Mary Thompson, Karen Zazon, Karin Aggeler, Maria Miller, and Rick Doehring. Featuring a variety of media including: bronze sculpture, 2-D repurposed magazine paper sculpture, acrylic paintings on canvas and panel, digital art, and mixed media on canvas.
(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting. When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. Today’s poet: Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 1st Thursday Open House Join the Mental Wellness Center for a special evening of local art, music, and hors d’oeuvres while connecting with the community and learning more about the organization’s services. When: 5 to 8 pm Where: Mental Wellness Center, 617 Garden Street RSVP: (805) 845-3298
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Walk & Roll Montecito Union School students, teachers, and parents walk or ride to school, rather than drive. When: 8 am Where: Via Vai, Ennisbrook, and Casa Dorinda trailhead Info: 969-3249 Open Studios Tour This year, there is a record number of art studios open to the public to mark the 15th anniversary of the Santa Barbara Studio Artists Open Studios Tour on Labor Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday,
September 3-4. Tonight, there will be an artist’s reception at The Corridan Gallery. William Sansum Diabetes Center will be the beneficiary of all admission tickets sold. Art aficionados will have a bevy of choices on this year’s SBSA Open Studios Tour – never before have this many SBSA members opened their ateliers to the public. Most of the studios are in Santa Barbara, and a few others in Montecito and Goleta. Last year, SBSA participating artists sold $90K in art to patrons. Visitors from all over the U.S. as well as international locales have taken the tour. When: opening reception tonight from 5 to 8; tour takes place Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 5 pm Where: tonight’s reception is at Corridan Gallery, 125 N. Milpas Street Cost: tour costs $20 Info: www.santabarbarastudioartists.com.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 Centering Prayer Practice Retreat A mini-retreat day for Centering Prayer practice. There will be meditation walks, journaling, reflection, and prayer practice. Led by Sisters Suzanne Dunn, Jeannette Love, and Annette Colbert. Beginners welcome. When: 9:30 am to 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031 Tour & Talk Come enjoy a scenic walk through Coal Oil Point Reserve, a beautiful, protected area on the coast of Goleta. Knowledgeable tour guides will discuss the cultural and natural history of the area while taking you through the many habitats that Coal Oil Point has to offer. To join the group, there is no charge, but email copr. conservation@lifesci.ucsb.edu to RSVP and for more information.
When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 10 West Anapamu Cost: free and open to the public When: 10 am to noon Info: copr.conservation@lifesci.ucsb.edu
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 Labor Day Barbecue The Santa Barbara Republican Club will host its annual Labor Day weekend barbecue. The tri-tip and chicken dinner will be catered by the Santa Barbara Elks. Republican candidates for federal, state, and local offices will be there to meet with attendees. Those candidates and the offices for which they are running include: Justin Fareed for Congress; Jordan Cunningham, 35th Assembly; Ed Fuller, 37th Assembly, Bruce Porter, 3rd District County supervisor, and already elected Peter Adam, 4th District supervisor. Goleta local district candidates Jean Blois, John Fox, and Phoebe Mansur will also attend. The keynote speaker will be political consultant Tom Widroe. When: noon to 3 pm Where: call for location Info: 684-3858 Mission Treasures A tour to learn about the Mission’s architecture, artwork, and some of its greatest treasures in areas not normally open to the public. All proceeds support the Mission and SB Archive-Library. When: 12:30 to 2 pm Where: 2201 Laguna Street Cost: $20 per person; no children under 12 Tea Dance The City of Santa Barbara donates use of the ballroom and volunteers provide music and refreshments for this ongoing, free dance event. Ballroom dance music including the Waltz,
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Creative Spark The Montecito Library presents Craft a Dream Catcher class as the monthly Creative Spark Crafternoon. Learn how to weave a modern version of the classic dream catcher. The traditional dream catcher was intended to protect the sleeping individual from negative dreams while letting positive ones through. You will personalize your project by incorporating found objects and treasured keepsakes. When you bring it home, hang your dream catcher over your bed, or display it in your home as a piece of art. When: 3:30 to 4:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Pre-registration is requested by calling: 969-5063
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Summerland Evening Yoga A longtime Summerland tradition taught by Bob Andre. Small Hatha 1 yoga class with brief meditation and breathing work. When: 5:30 pm Where: Summerland Church, 2400 Lillie Avenue Cost: donation
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Lecture at Montecito Library The Montecito Library presents “Tragedy at Honda,” a talk with Greg Gorga, the executive director of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. The Honda Tragedy, which took place in 1923 off the coast of what is today Vandenberg Air Force Base, is still considered the largest naval disaster in U.S. Navy history. This presentation will discuss numerous factors that led to the loss of seven Naval Destroyers in fewer than five minutes. When: 6 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063
Sea Glass Festival This one of a kind, fun-filled festival will be held at Earl Warren Showgrounds today and tomorrow. More than 40 artists will showcase their handmade, authentic, sea glass jewelry and oceanthemed art at the Santa Barbara Sea Glass & Ocean Arts Festival. Thousands of people are expected to attend this year’s event – the only one of its kind in Southern California and one of three on the West Coast. When: 10 am to 5 pm, today and tomorrow Where: 3400 Calle Real Cost: $5 Info: www. santabarbaraseaglassandoceanartsfestival. com
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Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting. When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063
Free College Admission Essay Workshop Come to this workshop and view sample admission essays of students who were accepted into colleges such as USC, Fordham, UC Davis, Chapman, and many more. Dr. Gina La Monica will be sharing her secrets to ensuring college admission success through her 15 years of working as a college administrator, past college tenured professor, and private college admission consultant. Light refreshments will be served. When: 4 pm Where: Santa Barbara Tennis Club, 2375 Foothill Road Cost: free
Lecture at SBMM Santa Barbara Maritime Museum presents a lecture, “Managing the Channel Islands National Park,” by Russell E. Galipeau, Jr. When: 7 pm; members-only reception at 6:15 pm Where: 113 Harbor Way Cost: Free (SBMM members), $10 (non-members) Register: Go to www.sbmm.org or call 456-8747 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker. When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road
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based photographer who began photographing motorsports in the 1950s. Alexander is known for capturing both the glamour and grit of car racing events. Other photographers in the exhibit include Mark Stehrenberger, a car designer and illustrator, and Dan Hogan, who has traveled the world photographing cars and races. During the open house, classic cars will be parked in front of The Gallery, and Lucky’s owner Gene Montesano will lend his patio to the event. Gauthier Jewelers will also be part of the affair, as a special jewelry piece
has been designed specifically for the Montecito Motor Classic. “We are so grateful to all,” said Layden, who will be pouring her own vineyard’s special reserve pinot noir for the occasion. Following the open house, the exhibit will be open to the public for two weeks, from September 24 through October 8, from 10:30 am to 6 pm Tuesdays through Saturdays. The Gallery is located at 1277 Coast Village Road. The Gallery has some exciting other news: Alex and Maria Mertens, former owners of Mertens Fine Art Gallery on
more. “We are happy to have joined forces with Marjorie,” said Alex, who helped organize the MMC opening
Coast Village Road, have joined forces with Layden and Evans to run The Gallery. The couple closed their gallery (also the former home of Layden Fine Art Gallery) in November 2015 after six years in business, and in June formed a partnership with Layden to bring a high caliber of contemporary art from both modern and contemporary masters and esteemed local artists to The Gallery. Maria is now the art director, with Alex in charge of brokering and running the business and all its services: buying, selling, appraisals, insuring, shipping, and
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the orange soufflé they served what is called the finest dessert wine in the world – Chateau d’Yquem 2001. Who am I to argue? It can age to 100 years. That was followed by the oldest, a Bodegas Toro Albala 1946. There were only 825 bottles produced (100 points). Older than some of our readers. Archie’s take on this wine business is, “The shorter I get, the less I can drink. The brain cells I have disposed of by drinking wine, I didn’t need.” I’ll drink to that!
Australian Wine Symposium
The symposium was held at the newly opened Santa Barbara Inn. One of the attendees declared this the best she’d ever attended. It was certainly due to Sparky Marquis, who had come all the way from Australia to bring us his Mollydooker Wines and entertain as well as educate us. Archie had met him on a trip to Australia. The first thing we learned was a mollydooker is someone who is left-handed in Aussie slang. Since both he and his wife are, they named their winery the same. Next, how long to age a wine? Sparky jokes, “As long as it takes to find a corkscrew.” Except his wines have screw tops, so it’s even faster. Three out of every 12 bottles of wine spoil because of cork problems. They also use the least sulphites possible, instead, adding nitrogen to preserve the wine. Sparky showed us how to shake the wine to release the nitrogen, which is not necessary after two years. The Mollydooker Boxer shiraz has been called the best shiraz under $28 in the world. He also created the number-two wine in the world, according to the Wine Spectator’s Top 100 list for 2014. The winery makes nine reds
Sparky Marquis at his wine symposium
and only one white. We had generous portions of four wines to taste, ending with their most expensive at $185 a bottle. Sparky says the key word should be “Wow!” It was. Since he didn’t want to haul his wine back to Australia, he gave away all he had to us.
Champagne and Caviar Brunch
Then it was off to Stella Mare’s for that Louis Roederer Champagne and Black River Caviar brunch. Graham Gaspar was there representing his caviar farm, which has been around since the early 1990s – the only sturgeon farm in the southern hemisphere, Uruguay. Graham says, “It has been called the finest caviar on the planet.” It was a day of superlatives! Along with all the champagne you wanted, we tasted the first course of Siberian Black Caviar and avocado deviled egg. The second course was
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Linda Rosso, Tonya Bjornson, and Juliette Vigneaux at the Champagne and Caviar brunch Arts Fund artists Larry Delinger, Felicia Kincaid, Robert C. Perry, Jonas Tucker, and Luis Ramirez
Wine Classic founder Archie McLaren with patron and sponsor Scott Farmer at the Caviar brunch
Siberian Black Caviar and Australian Barramundi fish with sauce maltaise, garlic, haricots verts, green peas, and organic baby purple carrots. For dessert, there was a chocolate mousse stuffed cream puff with strawberry coulis and whipped cream. We tasted caviar that sells for $180 an ounce. Regarding champagne, I love to paraphrase the legendary Lily Bollinger, “I drink Champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it with breakfast, often at lunch, and always at dinner. When I have company, I considerate it obligatory; when I am alone, it is an old friend. Otherwise, I never touch it – unless I’m thirsty.” And as Mae West said, “Too much of a good thing is wonderful.” Wines and Champagne are all about
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the senses: look, feel, touch, taste, and most importantly, memories. And then I waddled home for a long winter’s nap.
Views from the North
The Arts Fund gallery has been located at 205-C Santa Barbara Street since 2000 in what was Castagnola’s fish market, but there’s nothing fishy about it. The Arts Fund was founded 33 years ago and is “alive and well” with their latest opening “Views from the North.” It spotlights the work of eight North County regional artists using photography, painting, drawing, and mixed media regarding a variety of subjects. Assistant director Hannah Johnson
More Arts Fund artists John Hood, Angelina La Pointe, Connie Rohde, and Mark Velasquez
introduced me to guest curator John Hood, who is professor of art at Allan Hancock College. He was happy to be at the opening during the Funk Zone Art Walk. Guests could stroll throughout the area, sipping a glass of wine at respective galleries and soaking up the art. Those artists participating were Larry Delinger, Felicia Kincaid,
Angelina La Pointe, Robert C. Perry, Luis Ramirez, Connie Rohde, Jonas Tucker, and Mark Velasqez. Gallery director is Marcello Ricci, who keeps busy running the mentorship program. You can view the works until September 17, WednesdaySunday from 12 to 5 pm. Another addition to the cultural scene in Santa Barbara! •MJ
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public are encouraged to attend the hearing to learn about the proposed ordinance and to speak on the matter. The MPC will be asked to adopt a recommendation to the SB Board of Supervisors on the issue. In August, county staff was in front of the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission, discussing ordinance language pertaining to areas in the county outside of the Montecito Community Plan jurisdiction. Those regions, which include Los Alamos, Cuyama, Gaviota, Hope Ranch, and Santa Ynez, will be allowed to have short-term rentals in agricultural areas, subject to regulations including occupancy standards, parking rules, and noise limitations; certain mixeduse zones will also allow short-term rentals. With the new ordinance language that is being presented, short-term rentals will not be allowed in any zone in Montecito, with the exception of the C-V (visitor-serving commercial zone). Properties zoned C-V already have hotels located on them, such as the San Ysidro Ranch, and do not currently contain residences in which to operate a short-term rental. The ordinance language, if approved by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, prohibits short-term rentals in residential, agricultural, resource protection, industrial, and special-purpose zone districts in the Montecito Land Use and Development Code. Last year, Montecito Planning Commission and the Montecito Association (MA) looked extensively into the issue of vacation rentals and their impact on Montecito residents. The MA took a clear position, asking county staff to implement a prohibition across both coastal and inland zones. The MPC agreed, coming to the consensus that short-term rentals
are not compatible with the Montecito Community Plan, which protects the semi-rural character of the community. The MPC is the last of the planning commissions to hear the ordinance language; the board of supervisors is expected to hear the new language in the coming months. The MPC hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, September 21, at 9 am in the Planning Commission Hearing Room at 123 East Anapamu Street. For more information, call 568-3532.
Youth Drought Project
With the historic drought not showing any signs of letting up, many residents are looking for creative ways to make their landscape drought-tolerant. Brad Smith, a former Montecito resident and a founding member of Sweetwater Collaborative, which aims for low-impact development and living within regional water budgets, has started a nonprofit called Youth Drought Project (YPD) to help turn water-guzzling lawns into sustainable landscapes. The program employs local high school and college students to gain valuable work experience by replacing lawns with low-water landscapes. The grass can be either green or “gold” from the drought, and Smith and his crew will come in and use a variety of techniques to make the area drought-tolerant. One of the techniques is sheet mulching, which includes laying cardboard and mulch on top of grass to kill it, create rich soil, and retain water in the soil for water-saving plantings. “When rains come and stimulate the grass to grow, it cannot get through the cardboard and mulch,” Smith explained. “It does not require
very much rain to work; in fact, the small amount of rain we are getting in the drought is plenty.” The cardboard eventually decomposes, and Smith says the treatment is more than 99 percent effective due to the careful choosing of the right kind of cardboard and mulch. Customers can choose from inexpensive county mulch, decorative mulch, decorative gravel mulch, or layering with the decorative mulch on top. Other techniques include rainwater harvesting and planting low water or food-bearing trees and plants. “We are making the most out of people’s dead lawns,” Smith said. Rainwater harvesting is the option of directing water from roofs into shallow basins filled with mulch to irrigate adjacent trees and plantings. “The contours of the shallow basins flowing into adjacent low mounds made with the removed soil make the area more visually appealing,” Smith explains. The nonprofit has partners that can help with plant selection or designing water-saving irrigation or gray water systems, all of which YDP can help install. Smith says he founded the nonprofit two years ago in part to provide employment opportunities for young people, to create more engagement with teenagers and young adults who are easily lost behind a screen. “It gives them a chance to work and build confidence,” Smith says, adding that he quickly found that many of the college students he recruits have never had a job before. “Some of them are not in college and need help finding their way,” he added. The crew is found through word of mouth, other youth organizations, and through Smith’s speaking at classes and cam-
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Andy Tymkin (next to the red car), Archie McLaren (near yellow car), and co-chairs Dana Newquist and Dolores Johnson. Franco De Bartolo, Food and Beverage director for the San Ysidro Ranch, is seated in the white vehicle. (photo by Priscilla)
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sary – and the innovative BMWi8 will be one of the many BMWs and other collectible cars on display. The MMC is a new creation in the automotive industry, according to co-chairs Dolores Johnson and Dana Newquist. “The Montecito Motor Classic is a hybrid of a car show and
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local organizations serving teens and the law enforcement community. PAL provides safe and educational Teen Center activities for at-risk youth, along with mentoring by police officers and programs that build character, teamwork, and leadership. The Santa Barbara Police Foundation provides financial assistance for officers injured or killed in the line of duty and officers, department employees, and family members who suffer catastrophic illness. Sunday’s car show is preceded by a weekend of events. The Gallery Montecito will be hosting the “Start your Engines” VIP reception on Friday night. On Saturday, September 24, the Senior Home Vintage Car Tour schedule organized by Susie Miller brings vintage cars to retirement homes. The
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drinking, teenagers who swear they will not text while driving, litterbugs who promise not to dump trash on the highway, husbands who take an oath never to beat their wives again, and children who take an oath never to steal cookies. Homeland Security could easily speed passengers through airport terminals if potential hijackers simply identified themselves in advance and accepted $100,000 for every aircraft they promised not to destroy. Members of our organization have promised to stop writing sarcastic articles, inciting arguments, embarrassing bureaucrats, and causing general chaos if they were paid $50,000 per year to stop pounding on their keyboards and sending out letters to media outlets such as the Montecito Journal. The Richmond program may have some downside for abuse by pre-criminals, but if it makes everyone feel good, isn’t it worth it? Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Any chance we can pick up some of this public money if we promise to write editorials only praising local and federal government policies? If so, we may have to call an editorial meeting to discuss the matter! – J.B.)
Disband Montecito Water District
Perhaps Diane Graham (“Coast Village Road Remains a Neglected Strip,” MJ #22/33) could contact the Coast Village Chevron (per their car wash) and/or the Montecito Sanitary District to see if they have surplus or otherwise gray water for watering the median. Maybe even get Santa Barbara Parks manager [Santos] Escobar in on this. I’ve also seen crews there regularly tidying up to prevent further “eyesore.” Ben Burned Montecito (Editor’s note: A very good idea, Mr. Burned! – J.B.)
As a water user in Montecito, I would like to thank Bob Hazard for his well-written articles on the Montecito Water District. They are informative and at times very disturbing when they show what is going on at MWD, although the things he has found parallel what I have found when I have met with the hierarchy of the MWD. When MWD announced they would be out of water a few years ago, I started attending their meetings and also met with Tom Mosby, Karl Meier, and the Board of Directors to discuss their proposals and subsequent implementations of those proposals. With the exception of Karl, it became very apparent that none of the people had any idea how to run an organization effectively, plan for the future, or specifically run a water company. As I have watched the last few years unfold, it seems to have become an even worse situation with no improvement in sight. I realize [MWD general manager] Nick Turner is new to the job and he should probably be given a chance, but I thought I would suggest a solution that might be good for all of the MWD customers. Perhaps the people of Montecito would be better served by disbanding the MWD and moving MWD customers to the Santa Barbara Water District and Carpinteria Water District, based on their location. I realize there are a multitude of issues associated with something like this (many non-trivial), but if I just look at water supply and how best to serve the customers, this approach seems to have merit. I thought I would suggest this to you, as Mr. Hazard seems to have his hand on the pulse of MWD, and thought you might be interested in having a different perspective. Jay Peterson Montecito
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Save the East Beach Grill
The City of Santa Barbara is seriously considering not renewing the lease at the East Beach Grill with the existing tenant as they proceed with plans to renovate the Cabrillo Pavilion. Renovating and expanding the physical space of the Pavilion may make sense to increase the capacity and revenue generation for the restaurant tenant and City, but I think it a big mistake to not continue with the present tenant and allow him to expand his delivery of food choices that have been fully embraced by the Santa Barbara community for over 30 years. Not only was it the favorite choice of local celebrity chef Julia Child, it is the only affordable choice of food in that beach area for countless local families and tourists. Just across the street from this location are several high-end meal choices in hotels, the newest being Convivio. I wonder if the city staff has conducted a field study to determine if a departure from the existing “Grill” fare is acceptable to the community it serves; I and many will not support a high-end East Beach restaurant. As the City attempts to increase revenues, it is on the threshold of taking away choices and shooting itself in the foot with a high-end loser. The East Beach Grill is a casual meeting spot for locals and is a proven winner for satisfying its customers. The City supports affordable housing; what about affordable food? Work with Francisco and keep the East Beach Grill. The City discussed this topic at the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting on Wednesday, August 24; if you were not able to attend, you can email Parks Department: erecreation@santabarbaraca.gov; you can also contact (FHotchkiss@ SantaBarbaraCA.gov); (HSchneider@ SantaBarbaraCA.gov); (HWhite@ SantaBarbaraCA.gov), (jdominguez@ santabarbaraca.gov), (rrowse@santabarbaraca.gov), (cmurillo@santabarbaraca.gov). John Burk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: The East Beach Grill has always been a favorite of ours too, especially when it comes to the wheat germ pancakes with blueberries, though we always bring our own real maple syrup. – J.B.)
A Supreme Mistake
If you are a Republican who won’t vote for Trump, think about it this
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way: A) If Trump wins and turns out to be a jerk as president, he’ll be tossed out in four years. B) If Hillary wins, because you didn’t feel dignified enough to vote for Trump, you, your children, and grandchildren will live under Hillary’s designated Supreme Court justices and their liberal rulings for many years to come (even if she is a jerk as president). This is true... even after Hillary is gone and, even if she is followed by a Republican president that you do like. Here are the statistics: Justice Scalia’s seat is vacant; Ginsberg is 82 years old; Kennedy is 79; Breyer is 77; Thomas is 67. Nowadays, the data show that the average age of a Supreme Court retirement or death occurs after the age of 75, making it a potential five vacancies that may come up over the next four to eight years. The next president will have the power to potentially create a 7-2 Supreme Court skewed in their ideology. Think about that: seven-to-two. If the next president appoints the next five justices, it will guarantee control of the Supreme Court for an entire generation, and 7-2 decisions will hold up much more over time than any 5-4 decisions, which are viewed as lacking in mandate. Hillary has made it clear she will use the Supreme Court to go after the Second Amendment. She has literally said that the Supreme Court was wrong in its Heller decision stating that the Court should overturn and remove the individual right to keep and bear arms. Period. A “No” vote for Trump is a vote for Hillary. Hear this: If Hillary Clinton wins and gets to make these appointments, you likely will never see another conservative victory at the Supreme Court level for the rest of your life. Ever. Remember Romney? Three million conservatives who had voted for McCain did not cast a vote for Romney (for whatever reason), and the result was an additional four years of Barack Hussein Obama. If you are not convinced yet, I’ll leave with one final thought: Hillary is already on the record as saying that her buddy, Barack Obama, “would make a great Supreme Court Justice.” Now are you scared? Larry Bond Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We are definitely scared, but all you have to do is reread One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest to realize that’s what we are dealing with in the upcoming presidential election. The two candidates, as described by Ken Kesey: Randie McMurphy (Donald Trump), the protagonist is a big gambler, a con man, 1 – 8 September 2016
and a backroom boxer. He was diagnosed as a psychopath for “too much fighting and [fornication]” and he didn’t protest because he thought serving his time at the hospital would be more comfortable than the work farm. He serves as the unlikely Christ figure: the dominant force challenging the establishment and the ultimate savior of the victimized patients. Nurse Ratched (Hillary Clinton), the antagonist, is a middle-aged, former army nurse who rules her ward with an iron hand and masks her humanity and femininity behind a stiff patronizing facade. She selects her staff for their submissiveness and weakens her patients through a psychologically manipulative program designed to destroy their self-esteem. Ratched’s emasculating mechanical ways slowly drain all traces of humanity from her patients. We have the other characters too, all of whom fit Kesey’s description of the hospital ward, including Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, and Elizabeth Warren, among others. As a public service, we at Montecito Journal promise to define them in the near future. – J.B.)
Republican No More
Dear Mr. Speaker Paul Ryan, First of all, I want you to know that except for a few times in my life (I’ll be 87 in October), I have voted
Republican. That, sadly, will not be the case this year, although I am especially not much pleased with my alternate choice. This election will surely feel like being between a rock and a hard place. I will choose to vote for Hillary Clinton as the lesser of two evils – very sad to be in such a position in the country that I love so much. My decision will be based on my extensive business experience of about 60+ years. If, as a business manager or owner, I found myself in the position of being forced to choose between hiring one of two applicants, neither of whom I wanted (a position that, fortunately, I never was in), I would choose the one that I suspected of being dishonest over the one that I thought was literally crazy. If I hired the one that I suspected of being dishonest, I would lock the cash register every night and I would keep a watchful eye on that person during the day. It might even feel like hiring an ex-con or a recovering drug addict, both of which I have done. I would feel that I had some measure of control in being aware of knowing what to be on the alert for. On the other hand, I could never know what the crazy one might do the next minute, and I surely could not be able to set up safeguards for that. Would he bring a gun to work
tomorrow? Would he set fire to the place? Would he push the nuclear button if I rubbed him the wrong way? That’s why I will vote for Hillary over your unfortunate choice for this election’s Republican candidate who happens to be a petulant, spoiled, and maniacal six-year-old (“He started it!”) in a 70-year-old man’s body. A six-year-old who claims to be a billionaire and who is incapable of telling the truth, apologizing, or acknowledging that he doesn’t know everything. (“I’m the only one who can fix it.” “I know more about ISIS than the generals.”) And who also refuses to divulge his income tax returns. I appreciate the dilemma that you and other responsible Republicans (and responsible Democrats) must find yourselves in this year. I only wish some of you Republicans had the backbone to divorce yourselves from this maniac (surely it would help the Republican down-ticket). Perhaps I will start to see a few more defections as this maniac continues to spout his outlandish, thoughtless, and off-the-top-of-hishead statements, including his latest one suggesting that 2nd-amendment adherents could “solve” the Hillary problem. I, like many Americans, am deeply
discouraged and disappointed with the way our political system has deteriorated. I surely feel that it is long overdue for someone with a cool head like yourself to reach out to the other party, with a proposal that you sit down behind closed doors and resolve to move from each of your rigid positions to reach a compromise solution to the many problems our country faces. I know, I know, a compromise is a solution that makes both parties equally unhappy. Unfortunately, that’s where we are today, but it would be far better than the do-nothing results we have been getting for the past too many years (and those do-nothing results are surely one of the main reasons for “your idiot’s” success in the primaries). I hope this letter doesn’t fall on deaf ears. It is my sincere wish and, I am sure, that of many other loyal and concerned Americans. Sincerely, Paul Burri Goleta (Editor’s note: We hope you’ll reconsider before November 8, Mr. Burri. Between the makeup of a new U.S. Supreme Court and the abandonment of any realistic immigration policy, the country you grew up in will no longer exist after four or eight years of a Clinton presidency. – J.B.) •MJ
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On Entertainment
Resting by Dorene White
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Painter’s Progress is All White
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didn’t take the direct path in life,” Dorene White mused the other day. “I’ve kind of danced around a bit.” Indeed, White earned a degree in biology from UC Berkeley and spent quite a bit of time as a marine mammal observer, science teacher, and even secluded spiritual seeker before deciding to take up art full time. Now, after a few years studying with Santa Barbara artists Ray Roberts, John Budicin, Thomas Van Stein, and others, the plein-air painter works in her detached studio on the Mountain Drive Montecito property she shares with husband, Gil, dog Gracie and their cat, Jasper. She’s a well-regarded artist who has had her work exhibited locally in solo shows at the Faulkner Gallery, and Westmont’s 5x5 Invitational and Art From Scrap’s 9x9 Invitational, as well as Carmel Visual Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. White’s work is handled locally by Kathryne Designs in Montecito. White is also the president of SCAPE (Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment), an associate artist of the California Art Club, and a member of the Santa Barbara Art Association, Goleta Valley Artists Association, and Santa Barbara Studio Artists. It’s through the latter group that White will be sharing her workspace this weekend as part of the record number of art studios open to the public to mark the 15th anniversary of the Santa Barbara Studio Artists Tour. Fellow Montecitans Peggy Fletcher, Pamela Larsson-Toscher, and Sophie Cooper are also participating in this year’s event, which takes place 11 am to 5 pm on Saturday and Sunday (September 3-4), with a special preview reception from 5 to 8 pm Friday night at The Corridan Gallery, which has housed an exhibit of one painting each from the tour artists – most of whom work out of Santa Barbara – through the month of August. White talked about her background, approach, process, and more from her sunny studio earlier this week.
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Q. How does one go from biology to painting? A. I still love biology, but after I graduated from college, where I also got interested in spirituality, I moved to a remote area in the Eastern Sierras, near Lone Pine, to do some retreat time with an elderly philosopher. Up there, I worked in developing a tree business. I came to Santa Barbara for the marine mammal project with NOAA, but that ended fairly quickly
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Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than ten years.
after they outlawed the kill nets. So I decided to teach for a while, and I did okay at a little private school in Oak Grove, but when I tried the public route, I wasn’t too good at being a disciplinarian. It was a little chaotic for me. So then I got into website work, but it wasn’t that fulfilling. I’d always been drawing and painting, and finally my husband encouraged me to get away from computer and try my hand at art. Once I started, I got totally hooked. It goes along with my desire to be outside in nature as much as possible. It’s a strange day if I find myself indoors all day. That’s why plein air is perfect for me. What subjects move you to paint? I’m interested in the more contemporary, impressionistic work that’s still based on nature. I look for something that I respond to, that wakes up a feeling of wonderment in me. I have a hard time thinking of subjects because I have to really be moved by something to want to paint it. I like to emerge in the scene, just stare at it for two to three hours to see the subtleties. Some locations do that. Butterfly Beach in winter especially. The sunrises at Fernald Point along the beach down from the Miramar. In the winter, the sun rises over the ocean and also sets there. It’s my favorite time to be painting. From November to March, I spend a lot of time there, because the sky is really something. Nocturnes are exciting. I love to go out during the full moon and paint. I have to go out anyway, because I can’t sleep when there’s a full moon. Maybe because I’m thinking about painting. I guess it’s an addiction. This last month, I did one in my rose garden in my backyard, and then went to Butterfly Beach the next night. I feel safe down there any time of the day or night. What about time frame? Do you work quickly or take it slow? A few pieces have taken several months, because I just keep looking at them and working on them. Sometimes I’ll hang them in my house, and it might be months before
I see what I need to fix. But the small sketches I do quickly, so I can paint the scene that I’m seeing, because it changes very quickly outside. The larger ones are a minimum of a month on and off. How have you evolved as a painter over the years? I’m starting to understand that I probably am a colorist. That’s what I want to paint, my main thing. It’s not the subject or the light and shadow. I like the subtleties of color, and putting one next to the other, even in the same brushstroke. That always excites me. I do a lot of work on the palette before I even touch the canvas. But I know I still have a ways to go. The other thing is, I just got a membership to the Santa Barbara Zoo so I can go down and paint the animals. I haven’t done much in the way of figure work beyond classes just to refine my eye. But now I’m realizing that they’re down there posing for us all the time, so I should get over there and draw or paint them. Tell us about your studio space that you will be opening to the public next weekend. I think it would be considered pretty primitive. It’s a shed on our property that we used to call the Rat Hotel. We cleaned it up, though, and they’re long-gone. We stuck with fixing it up
ourselves and made it very nice. We put in windows and then added on a patio. I encased that a couple of years ago, and now I’m adding more patios. So it keeps growing. It’s a really cute space. The outdoor patio is wonderful for light. This is your second year participating in the Studio Artists Tour. Do you work during the weekend? And do you like interacting with visitors? I just talk to people. It’s a nice flow. Many of them are people I already know, plus some new ones. It’s fun. I think it’s great to see how people react to the work, because they’re usually art lovers to begin with, so they’re not very critical. And you get to meet Gracie, the painting companion! What about the one piece that’s been up at the gallery all month? It’s based on a small study I made when a friend and I went up to Jalama Beach. It’s incredibly beautiful but notoriously windy, so we rented a cabin so we could catch the calmer times. We got to the beach just a day after a full moon, and went down to paint the rising moon coming up over the hills. It lit up the water and the waves. (Tickets to the 2016 Santa Barbara
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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.
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anta Barbara BodhiPath Center’s resident teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips begins a new six-week session of Buddha Nature, A Dharma Course with Group Meditation, this Thursday, September 1, from 7 to 9 pm. Our true nature, Buddha – ever subject to scientific exploration and philosophical examination is the topic of the new course that will allow participants to explore and discover how your nature works and why following a path to awakening with sincerity and commitment is the most effective way of accessing its potential for freedom and happiness. The BodhiPath Center is located at 102 W. Mission Street (entrance in the back off of Chapala Street). While there is no official admission fee, donations are greatly appreciated. Call 284-2704 or visit www.bodhipath.org/sb. The Center is also presenting a benefit concert for creativity and awakening featuring Hauschka and The Kin on Veterans Day, Friday, November 11, at the Lobero Theatre. The Kin, an energetic alternative duo, will share the stage with renowned experimental musician Hauschka, with the concert followed by a conversation about creativity and awakening led by Phillips, Santa Barbara self-help/personal growth author (Chicken Soup for the Soul) Jack Canfield, and special guests. Proceeds support BodhiPath. Details and tickets available online at www. lobero.com/events/bodhi-path-benefit.
Down to Earth
Sunburst Fellowship, the sangha and intentional community located off Route 1 near Lompoc and
Buellton, hosts an Earth and Spirit Weekend over the Labor Day holiday. With the theme of Permaculture as Spiritual Practice, the retreat invites participants to join together in heartfelt camaraderie to reconnect with yourself, with Spirit, and with our sacred Earth. Enjoy yoga, meditation, and music amidst Sunburst’s pristine natural beauty. The event takes place Friday dinner through Sunday brunch, September 2-4. A special Saturday session offers visitors the chance to experience hands-on application of permaculture principles, and inspiration for bringing Spirit into daily life with Earth-sustaining practices, coordinated by Sean Fennell. The suggested sliding scale donation ranges from $100-$150, and on-site camping is available. Call 736-6528 or visit www.sunburstonline.org.
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Two of La Casa de Maria’s more popular monthly public programs for the community take place this weekend in the retreat center’s location in the Montecito hills. Sunday’s half-day Mindfulness Practice Retreat takes place from 2:30 to 6 pm on September 4, when Radhule Weininger, M.D., Ph.D. – who practices psychotherapy in Santa Barbara and has studied mindfulness meditation since 1981 – leads an afternoon gathering meant to create a refuge for calming the mind, opening the heart, and finding peace with ourselves and others through gently guided meditations. All levels of meditation practitioners are welcome, including absolute beginners. There will be an opportunity for
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practicing sitting and walking meditation, as well as Metta/Lovingkindness meditation, which helps develop an “exquisite empathy,” which is a heartfelt, well-boundaried, sensitively attuned, and highly present way of being with ourselves and others. We often speak of mindfulness not only as bare attention but as affectionate attention. Woven into it is an orientation toward kindness and seeing deeply into the nature of things, which invites us to see how all is interconnected. While there is no program fee, a donation is requested at the door. Wednesday’s monthly Retreat Day is an all-day affair set for 9:30 am to 3:30 pm on September 7, when the theme will be “Feeling Numb?: Physically and Spiritually Responding to Collective Trauma”. Set to take place just four days before the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the workshop will address issues of trauma, which seems to pervade our daily lives. As traumatic individual and global experiences erode our common sense of safety and trigger our coping mechanisms, how can we best personally and collectively respond to the overwhelming presence of pain in the world? Rev. Kate Wiebe, Ph.D., executive director of the Institute for Congregational Trauma and Growth and an ordained Presbyterian minis-
ter, and Erin Jantz, M.A., the program director for Spiritual Formation at ICTG and a certified spiritual director, are offering useful tools, including calming practices and ways to avoid making crises worse by creating “disasters within disasters.” No admission charge, but donations are requested. An optional lunch is available for $14 with advance reservation. Get more details, make a reservation, and delve more deeply into the offerings at La Casa de Maria, which is located at 800 El Bosque Road, by going online to www.lacasademaria. org/events or calling 969-5031. Coming next month to La Casa: a Wednesday Retreat Day on October 12 with Dawa Tarchin Phillips, who is not only BodhiPath’s master Dharma teacher (see above) but also the director of education at the Center for Mindfulness and Human Potential at UCSB, a mindfulness and meditation expert, and the author of a forthcoming book on mindful leadership. And on November 16, it’s “The Soul of the Enneagram”, with Richard Groves, an author and pastoral counselor who is the founder-director of the Sacred Art of Living Center, and a student and teacher of the Enneagram – a tool for enhancing self-awareness via understanding innate personality types – for 30 years. •MJ
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symposium. The 31-year-old pop princess stepped out in a pair of cheeky, skyhigh, bright yellow stilettos with “cigar” heels, part of her new shoe line, with a bold crimson ensemble. Katy, who is known for her quirky sense of style, told WWD: “It’s been a creative goal of mine to be a real contributor in the affordable fashion space. Launching a footwear collection felt like a natural first step for me. “I was intensely involved in designing the shoes. I’m involved in everything I create.” Her new line will include everything from sneakers, sandals, and heels and will range in price from $59 to $299, launching spring of next year. Another local connection at the show was Santa Barbara fashion designer, Catherine Gee, who was promoting her dress line, which recently got an extremely valuable plug in the Conde Nast glossy Vogue.
Author and costume designer Tracy Tynan (far right) speaks about her new book, Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life (photo by Priscilla)
Wear and Tear signed books in the hands of Greg Roper, Jonathan Fox, Steve and Madeleine Oney, with Scott Zimmerman (photo by Priscilla)
Clothes Encounter Author and Hollywood costume designer Tracy Tynan, whose new autobiography Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life has just been published, was feted at the Carpinteria home of Politico investigative writer Ann Bardach and her husband, Bob. Tracy, the daughter of the late British writer and theater critic Ken Tynan – who co-wrote the controversial mostly naked 1969 production Oh! Calcutta!, which also featured scenes by John Lennon, Samuel Beckett, and Sam Shepard – and the volatile American novelist Elaine Dundy, who wrote The Dud Avocado, which is still considered a cult classic.
Mitchell Kriegman, author; hosts Robert Lesser and Ann Louise Bardach with book-signing author Tracy Tynan, and filmmaker Jim McBride (photo by Priscilla)
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Tracy, 64, who designed outfits for The Big Easy and Great Balls of Fire, is the god-daughter of the late actress Kate Hepburn whose character, Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story she is named after, reveals her fascinating, celebrity-filled life in the 310-page, 36-chapter book, when her parents entertained the likes of Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, Maggie Smith, Orson Welles, Norman Mailer, and Tennessee Williams in London and New York, “They were the original celebrity hounds,” laughs Los Angeles-based Tracy, wife of screenwriter and director Jim McBride, who also had legendary British photographer Cecil Beaton as her godfather.
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Among the tony throng turning out for the bustling book bash, undergoing their own wear and tear, were Robyn Geddes, Derek Powell, Tom and Carol Baum, former ABC and CNN correspondent Jeff Greenfield, David Marshall, Toby Rafelson, Jonathan Fox, Ted Bauer, and Steve Onay. Dress Code Former Montecito Union School student Gigi Hadid is young, rich, and famous. So it would not be unimaginable that she wouldn’t think much of destroying a Dolce & Gabbana dress by jumping into a swimming pool with it on because she could just get another. And that’s exactly what the 21-yearold, who is now back with former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, 23, did. Only it was just part of the job. The supermodel daughter of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolonda Foster was posing for a fashion shoot while poolside at the achingly trendy West Hollywood hostelry, the Chateau Marmont, where I used to bunk on my frequent trips to the Left Coast from New York before moving to Hancock Park in Los Angeles in 2001, becoming a commentator on the KTLA morning show. Then someone on the set asked Gigi to jump into the pool; she obliged, plunging into to the water in her $5,375, pink sequined gown. Talk about making a splash. Zoo Gets Its Due The party animals were out in force at Santa Barbara Zoo’s 31st annual gala, with the theme Zoofari at Sea, with 330 guests putting the naughty into nautical, raising around $300,000 for the popular 30-acre menagerie, which houses 500 animals. Sea Breezes, a delightful mixture of vodka, cranberry, and pineapple juice, not surprisingly, was the choice of the night, which, according to zoo PR honcho Julia McHugh, had record sponsorship, with Union Bank throwing in $50,000 alone and many others, including Chad and Ginni Dreier and Leslie Ridley-Tree, following suit in the generosity stakes. Creatively decorated by Lisa Carter and Nancy McToldrige, the gala was a roaring success with a heavenly host of supporters cruising along and dropping anchor, including Peter and Gerd Jordano, Bob and Alex Nourse, Mark and Alixe Mattingly, Justin Fareed, George and Laurie Leis, Hiroko Benko, Mike and Teri Gauthier, Dean and Holly Noble, Robyn Parker, Stan and Betty Hatch, Rich Block, Milt and Arlene Larsen, Jean Schuyler, Chris and Mindy Denson, Luke Swetland, Rob and Judy Egenolf, Richard Weston1 – 8 September 2016
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The Condor Express heading back to the dock with passengers Maria McGrath, Richard Slade and Kaori Hirsch (photo by Priscilla)
All Aboard There was a lot of drama going on when Condor Express owner Hiroko Benko hosted a Hawaiian-themed cruise on her popular whale-watching vessel. British actress Lesley Nicol, better known as Mrs. Patmore, the cook in the popular PBS series Downton Abbey, a friend of Hiroko, brought fellow English thespian Sally Edwards
Los Arroyos Restaurants regional manager Areli Miguel welcoming customers Michelle Isom, Julian and Beth Plante, with owner Tony Arroyo (photo by Priscilla)
Sernading Los Arroyos patrons is Mariachi Mexicanisimo violinist Carlos Abame, with Jordan Schmid, Richard Monk, Tony, Diego, Maria and Arroyo, and violinist Evelin Gil Adame (photo by Priscilla)
Lovely and graceful hula dancer Miss Fernandez charming her audience (photo by Priscilla)
and her husband, Phil Whitchurch, who had been performing in the Los Angeles production of Shakespeare, His Wife and the Dog. “Seeing all the dolphins leaping out of the water was really quite something!” said a suitably awed Edwards, who is about a launch a national tour of her show in the U.K. this month.
Patrons and friends Debbie Saucedo, Al Anglin, and Vangie Herrera celebrating the Los Arroyos anniversary (photo by Priscilla)
Hiroko, who has already had a number of opera cruises – High Cs on the High Seas – is also planning a reggae-themed event later this month and plans to launch jazz cruises next year. At least it’s guaranteed everyone will have a whale of time.
Celebrity entertainer Troy Fernandez and his wife, Rose, greeting guests (photo by Priscilla)
Nate Bills and Alyssa Smith aboard the Condor Express feeling the atmosphere of the sea breeze and music (photo by Priscilla)
Ph.D.s from the Santa Barbara County Psych Association enjoying the Hawaiian cruise are Vicki McWain, Jennifer Harris, Suzanne, Rapley, Joan Sandberg, Jean and Ivor John (photo by Priscilla)
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As his 13-year-old son, Diego, handed out decorated cake pops to the 80 guests, Tony looked back on his success. “It has all gone so quickly,” he laughed. “It would be nice to get to twenty!” Among the guests gathered to wish him further success were Robert and
A Moveable Feast Balloon-acy reigned at Los Arroyos on Coast Village Road as the popular eatery owned by Tony Arroyo celebrated its 12th anniversary with a six-piece mariachi band and balloons festooning every available inch of ceiling and terrace space. Starting with his first outpost downtown on Figueroa Street, entrepreneurial Tony has now expanded his empire to three other eateries, including Camarillo and even Reno, Nevada, where his masticatory mecca is called Arroyo Mexican Grill. And a fifth one, also to be called Los Arroyos, is scheduled in November in Indianapolis where one of his main backers, mall magnate Herb Simon, who also has a home in our rarefied enclave, owns the NBA basketball team, the Indiana Pacers.
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Christine Emmons, Richard Monk and grandson, Jordan, Judy Foreman, and Carlos and Evelia Abame. Fruit of the Vine After a one-year respite, the William Sansum Diabetes Center hosted its 14th annual Taste of the Vine at QAD in Summerland, with the 350 guests raising around $100,000. The popular event, which featured 30 food and wine vendors, with the Bacara being included for the first time, has raised more than $1 million for the 72-year-old center since launching 15 years ago. “Although it is a great, fun event, we must never lose sight of our aims,” says Ellen Goodstein, executive director. The ubiquitous KEYT-TV senior reporter John Palminteri conducted the live auction, which featured a safari to Africa and a trip to Costa Rica. For every $100 donation, optician Rick Feldman of the Santa Barbara Eyeglass Factory provided 10 children with a free eye exam and free glasses up to a value of $169.
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Studio Artists Tour – the funds go to the William Sansum Diabetes Center – cost $20, or $15 each for two or more. Children 12 and younger are free. Maps and a guide are available at the tour’s headquarters at Corridan Gallery, 125 N. Milpas Street. Visit www.santabarbarastudioartists.com for details.)
Working Vigorously on Perfect Project
Santa Barbara DANCEworks’s 2016 residency takes an ambitious turn with Shannon Gillen and her internationally comprised VIM VIGOR Dance Company. New York City-based choreographer Gillen – a Juilliard graduate who not only plies but actively promotes the dance-theater art form as means of interdisciplinary expression – put together her ensemble just a year ago, drawing from dancers she’d worked with everywhere from Europe to SUNY Purchase. The company has already earned a reputation for high-energy, boundary-busting work that employs movement, character, story, and synth-bass soundscapes (created by dancer/DJ Martin Durov) to arouse emotions, engage the intellect, and blur the lines between the two. The company will create a new piece titled FUTURE/PERFECT during their month-long stay at the Lobero, a work that involves extreme physicality as it examines the nature of human relationships, with nature as a background. While the official performances don’t take place until September 23-24, preliminary events begin at 1st Thursday After Hours on September 1, and feature three cabaret-style evenings highlighted by onstage rehearsals, discussions, and a reception, with Gillen and the dancers. We caught up with the choreographer on her first working day of the
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residency earlier this week. Q. What moves you in your choreography? A. I’ve always been interested in dance that has story, iconic characters, real people through whom you can investigate human relations and experiences. My desire is in unleashing what a performer can do, their full color wheel of their potential, on stage. That’s best done when they’re free to be human beings on stage: heroic, vulnerable, destroyed, imperfect, flawed, anything. Bringing inner life to the surface, realizing our dreams in a way we can have new perspective and impressions about what goes on inside of us – seeing that in a stage space is magical, you can project story lines into places that are open. That’s mission-critical for me. How do you want audiences to experience what you do – the takeaway, perhaps? I don’t have an agenda of what you need to glean from the images. It’s more about working through your own open nostalgia. They approach you from the inside and might dig up or unearth experiences you might have had. Maybe you can place yourself where the characters are on stage, or at least feel a connection. I just hope that I can broach and make a connection between what’s happening on stage and in your head. It’s important to believe and be convinced by the images in front of you – that you care about what happens to them. You might come in preloaded about how the world works. Some of the images we sort through can dislodge or shake that up. You may not leave with an answer, but you’ll have had an opportunity to re-evaluate. VIM/VIGOR is the first company you have had on your own. What was the impetus? It’s having this astonishing group who can do this kind of work. It’s been a longtime dream, but there’s a lot of risk in putting together a company, EARTHQUAKE RETROFITTING 50 + YEARS EXPERIENCE - LOCAL 35+ YEARS
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financial and otherwise, which is why I’ve shied away and worked freelance. But I was able to cull from an incredible roster of artists. I can’t even begin to describe how comfortable they are with doing bombastic contemporary floor work, which is a very different way of moving, working with physics and velocity that almost looks like break dancing. I find it very captivating. But (the dancers) also have to be fundamentally actors as well who can play to impressionistic spaces... I had personal relationships with all of them before we stated. A lot of what we do is pretty extreme and needs chemistry, combustible chemistry, to work. You have to build trust and be willing to explore things together, with them feeling confident enough in me to try. We want to make work that is accessible, see into the medium in ways where you get excited about dance. So it sounds as if this DANCEworks residency is coming at the right time? It’s an astonishing opportunity. DANCEworks is a beacon about how people can be cultural ambassadors in this country, forging a chance for artists to have work and support and interest and a theater space to make work that is not half-baked, something that is more advanced and fully realized and matters, not cobbled together. [What they offer] is a passion and commitment to what it takes to make good work, which is a big investment with lots of people who care. So for me, it’s huge. Can you give us a glimpse of FUTURE/ PERFECT? It has a lot to do with a special kind of West Coast optimism and also my nostalgic history of camping. I have images of my brothers and parents out in the woods. On the East Coast, they go camping to get away from it all, but out here it’s about searching, for a spiritual sign, or the universe making itself known through nature. It’s an interesting rub to work with those contrasting images... I’m creating a psychotropic wild walkabout where people who are going camping have different experiences that test the nature of what is and what we want. The signs we might miss, the things we need, what we hope for. Do you have something special planned for the 1st Thursday event and/or the Friday studios, or it more like a peek behind-the-scenes of how you work? Thursday offers an intimate look at some of the set material and access to our character exploration in the very early stages. It’s a unique opportunity to get close to performers who are working with characters in a dance space. To me, what’s most interesting for the audience is to let them see what we really do. We don’t want to
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feed you anything. I really trust my audience’s intellect. They get to see us in the last part of the day in the natural flow and be a fly on the wall. I don’t stop anything – the performers can stay in the throes of what they‘re working on, a scene or movement. Then we can have a conversation about what they just witnessed. Are those valuable for you, to hear the audience’s feedback? Does it affect your vision? Yeah, it’s great, but you have to be thoughtful about what kinds of questions you ask them. It goes beyond “Did you like that?” I’d rather ask, “What did that bring up for you? What got jostled or stirred? How was the duration? When did we start to lose our grip on your perspective, when did your mind wander, and where to, and about what?” Finding the balance of how long you can look at an image and how it evolves and transitions is what makes dreamscapes convincing. So I want to know if we led you with a nice big gap for a second, where you could take a breather. I love getting feedback on that. But I also want to know even what you think about (my) making a piece about camping. It’s a loaded subject. What I hope for during these discussions is to pow-wow about what it brings up – the good, bad, scary experiences, maybe even the supernatural ones. Let’s talk about it. (1st Thursday: After Hours with VIM VIGOR Dance Company takes place at the Lobero 7:30 to 9:30 pm on September 1. Admission is free. The Friday Club events begin at 5 pm for the next three Fridays, September 2, 9, and 16. A $100 minimum donation to DANCEworks provides admission to all three events. VIM VIGOR’s performance of FUTURE/ PERFECT takes place at 8 pm September 23 and 24, preceded by a discussion with dance critic Melanie Bales at 7:15. Call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com for tickets and details.)
Oh, Laughing Matter in Ventura
Improv comedy comes in many forms, ranging from short, highly structured games such as the kind you’d see on Whose Line Is It Anyway? to long-form pieces where characters and story can have up to an hour or more to develop. What they all have in common, of course, is the players creating the performances from scratch, using only suggestions from the audience or a director – and their wits and skills and interacting with one another sans a script with nary a moment’s notice. A good number of approaches will be offered this weekend at the Ventura Improv Company’s annual Improv 1 – 8 September 2016
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Festival, a three-day affair of three performances per night, featuring both homegrown Ventura talent and plenty of visitors. There are companies coming from Los Angeles that specialize in interconnecting scenes (Old Vegas) and creating a completely improvised action movie (The Resistance, which regularly performs at The Comedy Sportz Theater in L.A.). North Hollywood’s Human Test Subjects is an all-women octet with an additional quirk: their goal is to use comedy to help reduce the stigma of mental illness, which has afflicted many members of this troupe. And Santa Barbara’s Amy Nash, who works frequently at the VIC regular weekend shows, has put together a troupe of local players who regularly participate and perform with the Santa Barbara Improv Comedy Workshop to show off their skills in pieces that run deeper than typical games. Each night will open with an improv jam featuring performers culled from any of the local and visiting ensembles plus VIC company players, doing whatever comes to mind of the one picked to direct the show, while the final slot nightly is given over to the ImprovFest2106Mixed Up Show, a short-form extravaganza with an assortment of performers. One of the most highly anticipated performances each year originates at the VIC – Spontaneous Broadway in which the audience supplies madeup song and show titles, which the improvisers, in the guise of Broadway hopefuls, perform as if in an audition. You then vote for your favorite, and the players build a long-form, Broadway-style musical on the spot. The bit features Richard Allen on keyboards, and if that name sounds familiar, it might be because Allen – a classically trained pianist who studied composition and jazz at California Arts and film composition at UCLA – has conducted more than 100 musicals around the Southland, had his music featured at the Magic Castle, and composed lots of music for Milt Larsen’s 1 – 8 September 2016
It’s Magic shows that play the Lobero every year. Coming up with music on the spot might seem even more difficult than creating unscripted dialogue, but Allen, who has experience at both, is always up for the challenge. “Notes are like words to me,” he said over the phone recently. “The same way you do words, I do music. I know it as well as any other language. I do improvisation all the time playing jazz. But writing a song off the top of your head is a combined effort with everybody on stage. You share ideas back and forth.” Allen first showed up at the VIC a few years ago, which would seem an obscure place for someone who has guest conducted The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and The London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in England. “Originally, it was to impress a girl,” he explained. “Really. I’d done a few things with (improv troupe) The Groundlings, hit and miss every once in a while. But there was a girl in the troupe I liked, and she asked me to come try it out. It turned out it was a really good fit with the people.” The girl is long-gone, but Allen still shows up to do musical cues – setting the mood with music or keyboard-based sound effects or turning regular improv games such as Alphabet First Letter or Oscar Winning Moments – into musical ones with small tweaks – the VIC on many weekends. “She made me promise that no matter what happened with us that I’d continue to do keyboards with the improv group,” he recalled. “But I would have, anyway. It just stuck with me.” (The Vic’s Ventura Improv Festival takes place 6 to 10 pm, Friday-Sunday, September 2-4, at the VIC’s theater, 34 North Palm Street in Ventura. Tickets are $15 per night, or $40 for a full festival pass. Call 643-5701 or visit www.venturaimprov.com.) •MJ
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Among the tony throng attending the bustling boffo bash were Ricardo and Dinah Calderon, Virgil and Carol Elings, Hannah-Beth Jackson, Robert Nagy, Don and Libby Toussaint, Ken and Shirley Waxman, Chris and Pamela Haskell, and Silvio Di Loreto.
Shanna Anderi, Chrissy Bewley, Margaret Ellis-Beltran, Vanessa Garcia, Brae Grensky, Curt Cruthirds, Ida Pointer-Gomez, and Ricardo Calderon at QAD (photo by Priscilla)
William Sansum Diabetes Center executive director Ellen Goodstein with patrons Virgil and Carol Elings, Ada Connor, WSDC director of Development (photo by Priscilla)
Anita Balboa, board trustee; California State Senator HannahBeth Jackson, and Ellen Goodstein, WSDC executive director (photo by Priscilla)
From William Sansum Diabetes Center are Dr. Alex DePaoli, board vice president, Sandra Svoboda, board president; Dr. Bob Nagy, board trustee, Immediate past president (photo by Priscilla)
Gathered in the QAD Courtyard are “Taste of the Vine” auctioneer KEYT’S John Palminteri, June and Tom Anderle with Rick Feldman (photo by Priscilla)
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Bountiful Harvest Summerland wine entrepreneur Bilo Zarif threw his 11th annual Under the Harvest Sun fundraiser for Summerland School and Just Imagine It, a nonprofit that decorates the children’s ward at Cottage Hospital. More than 350 guests helped gross more than $100,000 from the socially gridlocked beano at Bella Vista, the sprawling Summerland estate of polo-playing hotel magnate Pat Nesbitt, which, not surprisingly, featured a round-robin match with three teams, featuring Pat, Jonathan Burrows, Bilo, Scott Wood and Bane Bossom, son of Andrew Bossom, who organizes polo tournaments at Will Rogers State Park in Pacific Palisades. John Palminteri, who dashed over from the Taste of the Vine event, joined actor Billy Baldwin wielding the gavel for the auction, which featured a Caribbean jaunt in St. Maarten, a desert getaway in La Quinta, a trip to the Mexican Riviera, and a safari in the heart of South Africa’s Zululand. Joining the tsunami of bold-faced names at the popular sunset soirée were Christopher Lancashire and Catherine Gee, Leigh Brecheen, Eric and Nina Phillips, Diana Starr Langley, Mara Abboud, Nigel Lythgoe, Tempest Morales, Gary and Victoria Davis, Susie Mayberry, Shaun Thompson, Kelly Gerber, and Jorge Morales. England’s Rose Each decade boasts a new “It” girl who everyone wants to emulate, but it is the late Princess Diana who has been named the biggest style inspiration of all time. Le Tote, a fashion rental service based in San Francisco, polled 2,000 Americans on the most exemplary styles and clothing items, asking them to name the most fashionable woman of each time period dating all the way back to the early 1900s. Results were analyzed by decade and saw the Princess of Wales receive the highest scores across all fashion eras – proving her timeless beauty will always be in style. “Every style icon broke the mold by thinking beyond the trends of the time and creating their own signature look. Looks which, today, we still admire and emulate,” says Ruth Hartman, chief merchandising officer at Le Tote. Screen and stage star Lillian Gish was one of cinema’s fist leading ladies, so it is unsurprising her ensembles made her a fashion icon in the 1910s.
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Meanwhile, famed French designer Coco Chanel took the top spot in the 1920s for her unforgettable fashion sense. Legendary actress Katharine Hepburn, known for her feisty personality, had the most iconic style of the 1930s – beating out Bette Davis, one of the greatest Hollywood actresses in history. Classic Tinseltown legend Lauren Bacall, who was known for her singing voice and sizzling looks, also had the most highly coveted style in the ‘40s, while blonde icon Marilyn Monroe was the “It” girl of the 1950s, as women all over the country hoped to emulate her sexy style. And while the sex symbol ruled the ‘50s, Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s timeless wardrobe got her voted as the most iconic woman of the following decade. Farrah Fawcett – whose red swimsuit photo garnered international attention – stole the top spot in the ‘70s thanks to her all-American good looks. Princess Diana, who I last met at a Christie’s cocktail party before the auction of her evening gowns just two months before her tragic death in Paris, was ranked as having the most iconic style of the 1980s, closely followed by pop icon Madonna. In the 1990s, the “Rachel” hair cut was all the rage, so it is no shocker that Jennifer Aniston beat out Julia Roberts for the most-stylish woman of that decade, while Jennifer Lopez was the most popular fashion choice in the 2000s after she received twice as many votes as Lady Gaga, whose style came in second. Meanwhile, Kate Middleton, has the most iconic style in modern history as the Duchess of Cambridge, beat out the likes of Beyoncé, Victoria Beckham, and the Kardashians. It reminds me of a lunch conversation in New York at La Grenouille with the great French couturier, Hubert de Givenchy, a favorite of gamine glamorpuss Audrey Hepburn: “Fashion is fleeting; style lasts forever.” Too true.35 Sightings: Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos at the Santa Barbara Polo Club...Multi-Olympic gold-medal winner Michael Phelps and his family noshing at Olio e Limone... Actress Reese Witherspoon loading up on swimsuits at Calypso St. Barth in the Montecito Country Mart Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301. •MJ 1 – 8 September 2016
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The finished product: decorative mulch makes for a drought-tolerant landscape During: Youth Drought Project teens sheet mulch a home
pus clubs. Although he is no longer part of Sweetwater Collaborative, Smith previously led several community Drought Forums that included landscape professionals, community leaders, engaged citizens, and representatives from the water districts, including Mike Clark from Montecito Water District. “If any large property owners are seeking a cost-effective way to mulch large areas, whether institutional, commercial or agricultural, this is a great way to go,” Clark tells us. Another benefit? State rebates often cover the cost of the work, up to
$2,000. The rebates are easily applied for online, which Smith can help facilitate. Smith says now is a great time to mulch, before any rain we may get. For more information or a site visit, call 705-5844 or email him at bsmith. interplay@gmail.com.
Montecito Library Has Been Yarn Bombed
The Montecito Library book drops were “yarn bombed” on August 27, when a group of “yarn bombers” covered the book drops in knit and
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crochet work. “Some people are calling it a sweater for the book drop!” said branch supervisor Tatiana Johnson, who sent us this picture. Yarn bombing is a type of removable street art using knitting and crochet,
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MEET THE TEACHER by Sigrid Toye, Ph.D. Ms Toye is a former L.A. Unified School District teacher and has worked as an educational-behavior therapist in private practice since 1979.
A Taste of Adventure
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n a town where pets are prized as much as their human counterparts, it wasn’t out of the ordinary that my first introduction to Jesse Wooten, Santa Barbara Middle School’s dean of the eighth grade, English teacher, and wilderness coach, was his dog, Elko. Resting comfortably in the shade under a table outside a Mesa coffee house, head on his huge paws, Elko’s soulful eyes and soft coat were impossible to resist. As I reached down to pet the dog, Jesse said, “See? Now you know why Elko’s my teaching assistant; comes to school with me every day. Kids love him! He’s a rescue dog; my neighbor actually found him wandering in the desert lost and alone. Been with me ever since.” It was a fitting introduction to Jesse’s world on a high summer morning, and with Elko settled in the shade, Wooten and I pulled our chairs up to the table. What a surprise it was to discover that Jesse is not only a teacher at Santa Barbara Middle School (SBMS) but was also a student back in the day. A local boy from the neighborhood, he also attended Montecito Union School (MUS) through sixth grade. “I rode my bicycle to school every day, at both MUS and at middle school,” he says and adds, “I’ve always loved being outdoors and in the open air; it’s freeing,” And it’s quite a ride up a steep hill to the Riviera from the relative flat of Montecito. Preparation for today’s arduous wilderness rides at SBMS, perhaps? Jesse’s mother, born on the island of Kauai, possessed an independent streak and fostered that independence in her children. Of strong Norwegian stock, she encouraged Jesse to do for himself and find his path from the time he was young. High school at Thacher in the Ojai Valley was a perfect fit. “I’ve always loved meeting new people, never got homesick like some of the kids,” he recalls.
Thacher students come from all over and because of that, he says he had “plenty of opportunity to learn about places other than my hometown.” During the summers, he worked construction jobs in Reno and Napa and notes he “just loved the outdoor work/ play and the idea of new adventures.”
A Roundabout Career Path
Apparently, Jesse’s experience in high school extended his horizons considerably. After graduation from Thacher, he was accepted to Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, a long, long way from home. As a history major, he wanted to become a teacher and took the required courses in education but didn’t make it to the credentialing process because “the education courses were tedious.” In his senior year, Wooten decided to try corporate recruiting but realized the corporate world wasn’t for him. Jesse raises his eyes skyward and laughs, remembering the brand-new suit he’d bought at Joseph A. Bank. “It simply didn’t fit,” he says before breaking out into another laugh. He decided to return to the idea of teaching, but his goal was to teach somewhere overseas. “At twenty-one, I wanted to travel,” he says, “so I applied to several international schools, but couldn’t land a job because of my lack of experience. My mom suggested that as long as I was on a job search, I might just want to send my resumé to Santa Barbara Middle School, so I just dropped it off in the mailbox never thinking it would amount to anything.” Jesse’s plan to teach in faraway places actually began with the surprise call from the middle school offering him a job as a teaching intern. He wasn’t the only “rookie” at school that year. Two others came aboard with him, Brian McWilliams, now head of SBMS, and
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Erin Finnegan, present director of the Outdoor Program. The internship led him to his first full-time teaching position at Dunn Middle School in Santa Ynez Valley. Mentored by renowned history teacher and director Ben Wheeler and Mark Kummel, a knowledgeable naturalist and philosopher, Wooten was introduced to ideas that inspired his teaching. “From my mentors at Dunn,” Jesse relates, “I discovered that teaching is the ability to ‘facilitate’ – to help students process and convey complex ideas and problem-solve, to develop their own thoughts and express them verbally and in writing. Dunn was a great experience,” he adds, “and set me on my journey.” Jesse went on to teach in the Los Angeles area, in Van Nuys, and eventually the inner city, gaining experience along the way with a mix of student populations. He then traveled internationally and taught in locations as far away as Bali, Indonesia. “I taught online English classes to Japanese housewives” he quipped. As much as he loved the challenges and adventures, he eventually felt the pull of home and found himself ready to return to his roots in Santa Barbara. The Jesse Wooten who returned home was not the same as the one that had left. His enthusiasm for teaching and the knowledge he’d gained from his varied teaching opportunities led directly to UCSB, where he obtained his California teaching credential and a master’s degree in education.
The Family Business
He’d come full circle and returned to Santa Barbara Middle School as an English teacher, the position he holds today. “When I started again at SBMS over ten years ago, it was like coming home,” he says. “Some of my best friends are the people I work with. We are a big family – I feel at home and loved (most of the time)!” When speaking of family, Jesse mentions that teaching has become part of his own family’s DNA. He and his wife, Lara, also a teacher of fourth- and fifth-graders at Cold Spring School, have two children, Luke (4) and Wyatt (2). Now happily settled in Santa Barbara, Jesse knows that he had needed to explore the world and experience
Santa Barbara Middle School teacher Jesse Wooten and Elko, his constant companion and adventurer-in-common soulmate
many of the things he did to gain a sense of contentment. He quickly added, “I loved all the travel and fun, but now I’m on another adventure – somewhere I haven’t been before – the adventure of fatherhood!” The SBMS philosophy is akin to Jesse’s own. “The middle school years are so important and fun because the kids are going through such a formative transformation,” he observes. At SBMS, the programs from sixth to ninth vary, built around the neurological, emotional, and physical traits of that specific age. “The ability to think and feel is vital to a successful transition from one rite of passage to the next,” Jesse proffers. “At middle school,” he continues, “children learn how they learn in a challenging academic program, and to persevere and serve one another through the outdoor program. Whether it’s in class, or in nature, we get them out of their comfort zone to find out who they really are and what they really think and believe. Being part of this process as a teacher is inspirational and continues to drive my own education and growth.” As our time draws to a close, Jesse asks how he came to my attention. I assured him that he had been highly recommended from the most credible source possible: one of his students, who described Mr. Wooten thusly: “He’s accessible. I can talk to him. He understands... and he’s fun!” What better words could warm the heart of a hard-working and committed teacher? •MJ
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Brilliant Thoughts
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3834
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
Pocket Protectors
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ou may have heard the story about the pious man and the sinner who were both soldiers on the same battlefield. The pious man had the misfortune to be struck in the breast by a bullet – but his life was saved by a copy of the Bible, which he always carried in his breast pocket. The other soldier, the sinful one, happened also to be shot in the very same part of his body. Of course, he was not carrying a Bible, and he would certainly have been killed – but for the fact that in his pocket he always kept a deck of cards. My favorite poet, A.E. Housman, was the author of a small collection called A Shropshire Lad, which was extremely popular, especially among British soldiers, during World War I. Housman was then already in his 50s – but in a letter he wrote at that time to a friend, he half-jokingly confided that he was hoping someday to hear that some soldier had been miraculously saved, in a similar fashion, by carrying a copy of his poems. This makes sense in a certain metaphorical way, because, as is sometimes explicit in the poems themselves, Housman liked to think of his often-bleak verse as helping others to bear the pain of living. As one of his pieces almost apologetically excused his sadness: It should do good to heart and head When your soul is in my soul’s stead; And I will friend you, if I may, In the dark and cloudy day.
So, this may be a good place for me to point out that many of my own works still circulate widely in convenient postcard form, and, in our troubled times, a pack of them might well serve as physical protection, or at least as a kind of emotional armor. To illustrate with just one of my epigrams, chosen more or less at random, out of 10,000, (#3987): No amount of happiness or success could ever compensate me for the anguish of being mortal. But let’s try to keep this discussion on a lighter level. It was from my very British father, Victor Brilliant (who actually did serve in World War I but managed to avoid com-
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bat), that I learned the opening story above. He loved jokes, and there was scarcely any idea or occasion which couldn’t remind him of at least one witticism. He even had a joke about a jokester who claims to be able to come up with a pun on any word anyone can think of. A challenger says, “Okay, how about ‘Japanese’” – to which the wit instantly replies, “Oh, come on! Give a Japan-easy one to start with!” [I hope you understand the colloquial use of “a chap” where Americans might say “a fellow.”] But, getting back to protective armor, this idea seems to have been carried too far more than once in the history of our planet. I think first of certain species of dinosaurs upon whom evolution played the trick of making them so heavily armored that they became more of a target than a predator. Then we have the medieval knights whose shining armor grew more and more protective, until it became so cumbersome that they couldn’t even mount their horses without the aid of a small crane. And, once knocked off the horse, they were virtually helpless. The same process seems to have been happening more recently, as battleships, tanks, and other weapons of war became so heavily protected that they endangered themselves almost as much as they menaced the enemy. It’s grim to think how many tanks and submarines have become the coffins of the crews trapped inside them. I therefore want to leave you with a thought which might be startling at first sight. It’s the idea that in some cases – certainly not all – the best defense may be no defense at all. We might call it “protective vulnerability.” If everybody knows you are no threat, the chances are, you will be left alone. Nature seems to provide some evidences of this, in which conflicts within certain species are settled by the virtual surrender of the weaker party, sometimes lying on the ground with feet up and throat exposed. Nevertheless, I’ll make no attempt to dissuade you from wearing whatever charm you feel may best ward off evil – be it a Bible, a deck of cards – or even – as I myself admittedly carry – a pack of pertinent (or impertinent) postcards. •MJ
Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3834 for the FY17 Sheffield Reservoir: Installation of Mixing System for Water Quality Improvement will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Friday, September 16, 2016 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “FY17 Sheffield Reservoir: Installation of Mixing System for Water Quality Improvement, Bid No. 3834". The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: the purchase and installation of PAX Mixing and PAX Ventilation system for Sheffield Reservoir. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.
There will be a mandatory Bid Walk scheduled for Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 10:00 AM at 2410 Stanwood Drive. The plans and specifications for this Project are available at 630 Garden St and can be viewed by contacting the Project Manager. If plan and specification sets are desired, the bidder can obtain them from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Mary Jornales, Water Distribution Planner, 805-564-5445. In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal. A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work. A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.
This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.
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in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 20160002415. Published August 31, September 7, 14, 21, 2016. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Virtuosa Studio, 3419 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Tasha Holmstrom, 1482 East Valley Rd. #311, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 25, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2016-0002466. Published August 31, September 7, 14, 21, 2016. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: All County Youth Track & Field Championships; Santa Barbara All County Track & Field Championships, 937 Arcady Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Beverley Eanne Lewis, 937 Arcady Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Robert Michael Lewis, 937 Arcady Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 19, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2016-0002423. Published August 24, 31, September 7, 14, 2016. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV03131. To all interested parties: Petitioner Loretta Sayers Gavin filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Loretta Jean Sayers. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed August 1, 2016. Hearing date: September 28, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31
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by Scott Craig Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College
Lit Moon Turns 25 with Glass Menagerie
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ohn Blondell, Westmont theater arts professor, celebrates the 25th anniversary of Santa Barbarabased Lit Moon Theatre Company by presenting Tennessee Williams’s American masterpiece The Glass Menagerie on September 2-3 at 7:30 pm and September 4 at 4 pm in Westmont’s Porter Theatre. Tickets, which cost $20 general admission and $15 for students, seniors, and children, are available online at www.westmont.edu/boxoffice. The cast features Lit Moon members Victoria Finlayson as Amanda, Stan Hoffman as Tom, alumna Paige Tautz ‘14 as Laura, and alumnus Chris Wagstaffe ‘14 as the Gentleman Caller. Scenography and costumes are done by Danila Korogodsky. Alumnus Jonathan Hicks ‘04 is the lighting and technical director. Westmont junior Anna Telfer is stage manager. About an early 20th-century St. Louis family and the tensions that break it apart, The Glass Menagerie is one of the iconic dramas of the American stage, and one of Tennessee Williams’s most famous plays. Based on a 1943 short story “The Girl in Glass,” Williams wrote the play about his own family. His mother was Amanda; his fragile and unstable sister Rose was Laura; and he was Tom (Williams’s given name was Thomas), the aspiring writer. The inciting incident for writing the play most likely occurred in 1943, when Williams’s mother had Rose lobotomized while Williams was away from home for a short time. The play opened in New York in March 1945, became an instant success, and catapulted Williams to international stardom.
Talk to Examine Civil Rights Tragedy
Westmont alumnus Dave Tell ‘98, associate professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas, explores the emergence of commemorations for the life of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old AfricanAmerican teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. “The Emmett Till Memory Project”, sponsored by the Erasmus Society Lectureship endowment, is free and open to the public Thursday, September 8, at 7 pm at Westmont’s Hieronymus Lounge in Kerrwood Hall. Tell, who has written 25 short 1 – 8 September 2016
essays featured in the Emmett Till Memory Project, works at the intersection of rhetorical theory and cultural politics. His current research examines the commemorative explosion of Till’s life in two counties of the Mississippi Delta. Since 2005, granting agencies have invested more than $5.5 million, producing 10 roadside markers, three museums, a driving trail, and a restored courthouse. “This newfound commemorative infrastructure is uncoordinated, unevenly distributed, ideologically inconsistent, and frequently vandalized,” Tell says. “For all these limitations, however, it ensures that the memory of Emmett Till has something it never had before: a material presence on the landscape of the Delta.” Till, who was from Chicago and visiting relatives in Mississippi, was murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman. His abductors beat, mutilated, and shot him before throwing his body into the Tallahatchie River. “Tell will conclude by talking about The Emmett Till Memory Project, a digital humanities initiative to change the terms on which Till is remembered in the Mississippi Delta,” says Deborah Dunn, professor of communication studies and lecture organizer. “His project is being funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.” Tell, who earned a doctorate from Penn State, wrote a book, Confessional Crises: Confession and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America, which explains how the genre of confession has shaped and been shaped by some of the 20th century’s most intractable issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy. Tell won the Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award by the National Communication Association and the Rhetoric Society of America Dissertation Award for his work, “The Politics of Public Confession: Expressivism and American Democracy.” He also won the Kenneth Burke Prize for “Beyond Mnemotechnics: Confession and Memory in Augustine.”
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No. 7 in the NAIA Coaches Poll, has been tearing up the competition. The Warriors returned from a road trip to Kansas, where they took down No. 4 Benedictine College 4-2 on August 27 before destroying No. 13 Baker University 6-0 the following day. The Warriors also beat Marymount 3-0 on August 20 in Rancho Palos Verdes.
Senior midfielder Brooke Lillywhite leads the Warriors with four goals and eight points. Westmont’s defense is fortified by seniors Grace Lemley and Sophie Fuller. The home opener for the women is Saturday, September 3, at 4 pm against Soka University on Thorrington Field. •MJ
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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)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Soil Not Oil – Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents a special gathering that’s part film festival and part conference report. The evening of outdoor film and discussion shares what was learned at the recent 2nd Annual Soil Not Oil Conference in Richmond, California, teamed with screenings of short films that focus on soil and “Carbon Farming” as solutions to climate change. The conference was organized to bring together farmers, ranchers, scientists, policy makers, NGOs, and community leaders to explore how sustainable, regenerative agriculture practices can help mitigate global warming. SB Permaculture Network’s Margie Bushman, Wes Roe, and others will provide reports from the event. The Soil Not Oil international campaign was first launched by scientist and environmental activist Dr. Vandana Shiva of the Navadany Foundation, who suggests restoring global soil quality is one of the best things we can do for climate change, and was one of the first to connect the dots between climate change and the disastrous soil practices of industrial agriculture. Screening are excerpts from The Seeds
of Vandana Shiva; Kiss the Ground, narrated by Woody Harrelson; and The Soil Solution to Climate Change by Santa Barbara-based Jill Cloutier and Carol Hirashima. Attendees are invited to bring their thoughts about positive directions for soil and the planet for the ensuing discussion. Explore Ecology, Art from Scrap, Community Environmental Council (CEC), Sustainable World Radio, Becket Films, and Santa Barbara Food Alliance are co-sponsors of the event. WHEN: 7 to 9 pm WHERE: Art from Scrap Art Center, 302 E Cota St. COST: free INFO: 962-2571 or www.facebook.com/ events/1779098955670853 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Quarter-Century of Quirky Classics – Maybe you saw PCPA’s production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie earlier this summer, a large-scale mounting of the American masterpiece with some of the repertory company’s residents artists, nearly all of whom are members of Actor’s Equity. But that doesn’t mean you should skip this weekend’s presentation of the same piece from Lit Moon Theatre Company, a Labor Day weekend labor of love.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Animal Film Festival – Davey’s Voice – a local nonprofit organization formed to speak out for victims of animal abuse and to educate the community about animal welfare – partners with the Center for Animal Protection and Education to bring the touring Animal Film Festival to Santa Barbara for a one-day show. The movies are anchored by SMART, a documentary about Los Angeles’ Specialized Mobile Animal Rescue Team, a group of highly trained, adrenaline-fueled professionals who risk life and limb to rescue animals. Among the films screening that explore aspects of animal welfare, animal rights, and the human-animal bond are the shorts David & Goliath, an updated version of the Biblical story about David, a Jewish man fleeing for his life from Nazi soldiers, who finds refuge in a doghouse where ultimately a German Shepherd becomes his savior; Fowl Far Afieldk, about a flock of juvenile wild turkeys that migrate into a metropolitan Madison, Wisconsin, neighborhood; Penelope – A Rescue Story, in which a couple rescues a chicken from an Orthodox Jewish ceremony in Brooklyn; The Ethics of Diet, an animated short that examines the pros and cons of our dietary choices; the 78-second pro-turkey piece You’ve Got a Friend in Me; and the 43-minute work Finding Shelter, in which the Rowles family packs up their four kids and moves from the UK to a small town in Bulgaria, where they cause waves by opening an animal shelter. Special guests include George Zaverdas, director of David & Goliath; Santa Barbara DA Joyce Dudley, and two residents who helped in a local animal abuse case. Vegan appetizers and beverages available. Proceeds go toward benefiting animal rescue and protection programs. WHEN: 5 pm opening, films at 6:30 WHERE: The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria St. COST: $50 general, $40 seniors/children, $30 students INFO: 9655400 or www.ensembletheatre.com/rental-shows
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EVENTS by Steven Libowitz
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 From Across the Pond – Conor Coughlan is the 20-year-old singer-songwriter from London whose debut album, Give It Up, put him on par with some of those Triple A kids now making noise during the pennant races in the big leagues, with comparisons to such influences as Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, and Jake Bugg. Our first chance to hear him is one of those semipublic gigs: a show at the Hound Dog House Concerts series. Doors open at 6:30 for an optional potluck meal – bring a drink or snack to share and meet your fellow music lovers – followed by the 8 pm concert. All of the funds go to the artist, which is actually how they can afford to travel around. Check out a whole bunch of free songs, videos, and more on Coughlan’s website: conorcoughlanmusic.com. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Location provided upon ticket reservation COST: $21 INFO: www.hounddoghouseconcerts.com
While we haven’t heard any specifics about puppetry or fractured time warps, nearly everything produced by Lit Moon artistic director John Blondell, the Montecito resident who is also a Westmont theater arts professor, has at least a few unusual twists and turns. What’s more, both the cast and crew feature Westmont alumni. Lit Moon member Victoria Finlayson, who teaches dance at Westmont and is Blondell’s wife, stars as Amanda, the overbearing mother trying to marry off her fragile and unstable daughter Rose, played by Paige Tautz (Westmont 2014). Rose’s brother Tom, played by Stan Hoffman, tries to keep the peace, even as things go depressingly wrong when the Gentleman Caller (Chris Wagstaffe, 2014) finally arrives. The scenography and costumes are by Danila Korogodsky, while 2014 Westmont grad Jonathan Hicks handles the lighting and technical direction and Westmont junior Anna Telfer serves as stage manager. Williams’s autobiographical work was the one that catapulted him to international stardom in 1945. The classic is being staged back on Westmont’s campus, where Lit Moon got its start back in 1991. WHEN: 7:30 tonight & tomorrow, 4 pm Sunday WHERE: Porter Theatre, 955 La Paz Road, Montecito COST: $20 general, $15 students, seniors, and children INFO: 565-7140 or www. litmoontheatre.com
accompanied by pianist Kacey Link, sing operatic love songs on board the Condor Express as it cruises out along the beautiful Santa Barbara shoreline in this final excursion of the summer. The romantic evening of music on la mer includes complimentary appetizers and a no-host bar. The cruise departs the Sea Landing Dock in Santa Barbara Harbor, where parking is plentiful. WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: 301 W Cabrillo Blvd. COST: $65 INFO: 963-3564 or www. condorexpress.com/specialty-cruises
Sunset Opera Cruise – What could be more romantic than arias on the open ocean? Santa Barbarabased baritone Brian Hotchkin and soprano Deborah Bertling,
Sullivan’s Starlight – Jenny Sullivan, the veteran theater director whose experience includes multiple productions at Ensemble Theatre and Ventura’s Rubicon Theater, helms a staged reading of Starlight, by Gina R. Tracy, as a benefit for Project Save Our Surf. The mystical journey, set against the wreckage of family, mythology, and Mother Earth, unveils a fight to preserve the planet revolving around the last lobsterman, his frazzled wife, and environmentalist daughter. Mermaids, meteors, and corporate greed take the story into unforeseen depths in this examination of our beliefs and fears of extinction, and choices of how to grapple with what it will take to save our oceans and humankind. Project Save Our Surf founder/actress Tanna Frederick, Jeff Kober, Joanna Strapp, and Gregory Harrison star, along with Amanda McBroom, the Ojai-based actress and cabaret performer who wrote the song “The Rose.” A post-event reception with the actors, crew, and others will follow the play reading. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria St. COST: $18 general admission 9655400 or www.ensembletheatre.com/ rental-shows
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 The Gruff and the Graceful – Singer-songwriters Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle are no strangers to Santa Barbara. The former has visited the Lobero Theatre for several previous concerts, including more than one in the Sings Like Hell series, and an opening slot or two at the Santa Barbara Bowl. Attention showered on her after her 1996 album A Few Small Repairs proved to have such legs that it not only was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 1997 Grammys but also spawned the hit “Sunny Came Home”, a revenge song that captured both Song of the Year and Record of the Year Won in 1998. Earle, who has appeared at UCSB Campbell Hall and elsewhere, also received his first Grammy nomination right around the same time, when Train a Comin’ got a nod for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1996. He later won in the same category for the intensely political disc The Revolution Starts Now, spurred by his anger toward the invasion of Iraq and George W. Bush’s administration in general, in 2004, and repeated the feat five years later with the more sensitive tribute album Townes. Born just a year apart, Colvin and Earle have spent 121 combined years on the planet, most of those making music that has proven enduring while building up impressive catalogs. Both are also terrific guitarists, witty storytellers, and fine singers on top of their composing skills. More than 20 years ago, Colvin covered Earle’s “Someday” right as “Sunny” was about to top the singles chart at the same time as Earle was recovering from a stint in jail. Now, they’ve joined forces for both an eponymous duo album out last June and a summer tour that works its way toward the finish with a show at the Lobero tonight. Previous set lists show they’re playing material from the new disc, Covlin classics such as “Diamond in the Rough”, Earle’s trademark “Copperhead Road”, and unlikely covers like “Wake Up Little Susie” and The Beatles’s “Baby’s in Black”, making the show a must see. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $25 & $35 ($105 patron tickets include priority seating and pre-concert private reception) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com (photo by Alexandra Valenti)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Healing Hands – Rhyan and Zeyn Shweyk, who are 11 and 12, respectively, have been playing classical piano since the age of 5, when they first began lessons with Santa Barbara piano teacher Tanya Irwin. The brothers started composing at age eight, and recently began teaching music themselves to “youngsters” of all ages. Also both still pre-teens, they have lofty
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aspirations: to introduce children, and attract more adults, to classical music, as well as to work together as a neurologist and a cardiologist to somehow better heal and cure using music. Hear them tickle the ivories together at Paseo Nuevo Center Court this evening as part of Santa Barbara’s 1st Thursday celebration. WHEN: 5-7 pm WHERE: 651 Paseo Nuevo COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaradowntown.com/ about/1st-thursday •MJ
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UCSB ARTS & LECTURES Unity’s Century Celebration – Former longtime Montecito resident Kenny Loggins – the veteran pop singer-songwriter who still calls Santa Barbara home – hosts Unity Shoppe’s Celebration of 100 Years of Community Service at the Granada Theatre. The event honors those who joined in the collaborative effort to create Unity’s distribution center serving those suffering a personal crisis, or hardship due to fire or flood or other disasters. The organization also provides eight year-round programs that serve nearly 20,000 low-income clients, providing an immediate, efficient method to distribute food along with work and school clothing and school supplies in a method that preserves dignity. Loggins teams up with the Unity Shoppe Board and others for a “Yesterday – Today and Tomorrow”-themed evening of tributes and entertainment by local youth, volunteers, celebrities, and supporters. The format sounds similar to the annual Unity Shoppe Telethon that takes place every December, which means we’ll hear at least a few of Loggins’s classics. WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $50-$100 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org
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The Granada Theatre is giving away the chance for one lucky a cappella group to perform as the OPENING ACT for VOCALOSITY when they come to Santa Barbara on Nov. 11th
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Youngsters get help with their model car building from Teen Center staff member Kevin Flores and police officer Todd Johnson
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program has garnered rave reviews from the drivers and retirement home staff who witness the remarkable response from seniors who reminisce about the classic cars they grew up with by sharing fantastic stories and memories. (It seems the whole town wants to be a part of this event. Carol Ruiz, owner of Chick-fil-A, wanted to participate and for the third year has stepped in to sponsor the lunch for all the drivers that day.) Children will have a place behind the wheel so to speak, by participating in the Future Car Designers and Model Car Building Competition. This activity is open to all children (ages 9 to 16) who wish to join other youngsters from PAL and the United Boys and Girls Club in the workshops held at the PAL’s Twelve35 Teen Center on Chapala. Each participant is provided a model car that is 1:25th in scale from a selection of classics, muscle cars, late-model American cars, and BMWs. During each workshop, the young creative minds will get a glimpse into the process of automotive design by completing preparation, paint, assembly, function, and modification stages. Local volunteers as well as PAL head officer Bryan Kerr, and sergeant Todd Johnson will personally coach participants through each stage of the process. The model cars will be on display during the Montecito Motor Classic. New to the car show this year is the “Hammer Time Fueling Station,” a VIP reception area held in the Bottle Shop lot. Ticket holders will enjoy signature food and cocktails with premier award show viewing. Tickets are $125 and may be purchased online at www.sbpal.org. The Montecito Motor Classic has been making waves as it continually attracts extraordinary automobiles from throughout California and has included featured cars from the Petersen Automotive Museum. This year, there is already the buzz over the
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new hybrid BMWi8. Additional anticipated cars will be a 1930 Duesenberg Model J Sport Berline, with all-aluminum construction, and a 1917 Stanley Steamer. It is expected that more than 200 distinctive cars will be seen, with awards presented in 11 different categories. The first-place winners in each category will be invited to display their vehicles at the gala event that evening. The Santa Barbara Police Foundation’s “Fun with the Force” gala will be at the Nesbitt Estate, starting at 5 pm. (Tickets, tables, and sponsorships are available online at www.sbpal.org.) This year’s automotive honoree at the Montecito Motor Classic will be Ed Iskenderian — a legend among racers and hot-rodders worldwide as an innovator of camshaft design and manufacturing. Attendees can look forward to meeting the cigar-smoking, 96-year old automotive icon, who will be interviewed by Tom Ford, “the Car Guy” radio personality. Barry Meguiar (Meguiar family of famed car care products) was honored at last year’s gala and later waxed enthusiastically (pun intended) about the Montecito Motor Classic. “To come out this day on the street here in the village, of course, it’s magical. I have seen cars here I’ve never seen before. This is one of the great treasures of the car hobby that has sprouted up here.” Meguiar enthused. “For you guys who are local, you must be so proud to have such a wonderful event. On a larger scale, car guys wherever you are, there is no better place in the world to come than Montecito, and to come on this day and enjoy these cars is pretty special – you need to put it on your bucket list.” Trophies (for first and second place) and other sponsorships are still available by contacting www.montecito motorclassic.com or www.sbpal.org. As Newquist concluded, “Watch out, Pebble Beach, here we come!” •MJ 1 – 8 September 2016
Real Estate
by Mark Ashton Hunt
Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. His family goes back nearly 100 years in the Santa Barbara area. Mark’s grandparents – Bill and Elsie Hunt – were Santa Barbara real estate brokers for 25 years.
Four Remodels in Montecito
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here are many good opportunities on the market in Montecito right now. From remodels and fixers in the $2-million+ range, to substantial homes with views and pools in the $5’s, to junior estates at $7M and up. And then there are the more significant estates in the more-than-$15-million range, all the way up to $50- and $100-million+. Some of the homes on the market are new listings (maybe 15 percent), but for the most part, the market is made up of homes that have been on the market awhile (a few months to a year or more), and those that have had price reductions over time. A very small segment of the market, presented here, includes homes currently for sale that had sold in recent years, that have been remodeled, and are now back on the market. These homes provide the opportunity for a buyer to step into essentially a new home. Recently remodeled homes make up a desirable area of the market. They are usually priced lower than a new home, but not so much more than a fixer, so the value is in the work someone else did to upgrade the house; you pay a fee for their efforts but get all the benefits of living in a newly remodeled home. Here are four recent remodels that are on the market in Montecito and all are in the Montecito Union School District. Interesting for me is the fact that all of these homes were on my “best buys” list when they sold a year or two ago at lower prices when they needed some work or were in a different style. Now they are back on the market with fresh faces and ready for new buyers to enjoy the artistry and hard work that all the craftspeople have put into them.
72 La Vuelta Road: $2,345,000
This newly remodeled, four-bedroom 2.5-bath home is located on a private lane, north of the 101 between San Ysidro Road and Jameson Lane, near fruit orchards and beaches. The two-story home, with plenty of offstreet parking, is situated on an open lot at the top of this lane and includes a pool, guesthouse, patios, and palm tree garden. The increasingly popular fourth bedroom, and the pool, have been remodeled during recent months.
274 Middle Road: $3,399,000
This is a lovely older home with Old-World charm that has been recently remodeled by a local team that has revived many homes in the area. The home
is in a prime Montecito location near the lower village and includes three bedrooms in the main house, plus two detached bedroom suites. The home features espresso-stained floors and white paneled walls, designer finishes, Carrera counters, and tile work to highlight the seaside feel. Outside you will find the guest suites, a welcoming stone terrace near the outdoor fireplace, and among the gardens, a bocce court.
1711 East Valley Road: $8,950,000
This is a unique offering for a number of reasons: • The property is on more than 1.6 acres down a private lane in a top location • Gated motor court with impressive entrance to the home • 7,400+ sq. ft. of Architectural Digestworthy interior design work • 5 bedrooms, 7 baths, office, library, workout room, basement, et cetera. • There is a two-story closet in the master suite • Superbly located near the upper village and Knollwood Tennis Club • Oprah is your neighbor; she lives on the other side of the trees and hedges • Access to the tennis and swimming facilities at Ennisbrook
710 Picacho Lane: $19,500,000
This impressive estate is on 3.6 private acres at the end of a private drive off Picacho Lane. The recently renovated home features ocean, island, and mountain views and a contemporary finish that complements the formal yet relaxed grandeur of the estate. The A+ location is minutes to the upper or lower village. The property sale includes the main home (more than 10,000 sq. ft.) a guesthouse, pool and cabana, tennis court, and off-street parking for many guests. This is my lottery house, in that if I win the lottery, this is the house I am buying for my family. For more information, or if you would like me to arrange a showing with the listing agents for any of these properties, please contact me directly – Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text (805) 698-2174. To see more best buys, visit my site www.MontecitoBestBuys. com, from which this article is based. •MJe
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$2,995,000 | 82 Humphrey Rd, Montecito | 1BD/3BA Michelle Damiani | 805.729.1364
$2,495,000 | 244 Hot Springs Rd, Montecito | 3BD/3BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896
$3,800,000 | 26 Seaview Dr, Montecito | 2BD/2BA Kathleen Winter | 805.451.4663
$3,475,000 | 595 Freehaven Dr, Montecito | 7BD/6BA Ken Switzer | 805.680.4622
$3,395,000 | 1520 San Leandro Ln, Montecito | 4BD/3½BA Team Scarborough | 805.331.1465
$3,295,000 | 754 Winding Creek Ln, Montecito | 4BD/4BA Mary Whitney | 805.689.0915
$3,250,000 | 935 Arcady Rd, Montecito | 4BD/4BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896
$3,195,000 | 2931 Hidden Valley Ln, Montecito | 4BD/5BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896
$2,995,000 | 1389 Oak Creek Canyon Rd, Montecito | 6± acs (assr) Marsha Kotlyar | 805.565.4014
$2,995,000 | 1375 Plaza De Sonadores, Montecito | 2BD/2½BA Patrice Serrani | 805.637.5112
$2,995,000 | 140 La Vereda Rd, Montecito | 3BD/3BA Ralston/Hitchcock | 805.565.4024
$2,995,000 | 2700 Torito Rd, Montecito | 3BD/3BA Tim Dahl | 805.886.2211
$2,950,000 | 4 Sunrise Hill Ln, Montecito | 4± acs (assr) Kerry Mormann | 805.689.3242
$2,795,000 | 125 W Mountain Dr, Montecito | 3BD/4BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233
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