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Justin Klentner’s Ranch squad defeats John Muse’s Lucchese in SB Polo Club final, p. 6

LETTERS, P. 8 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 19 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

Water Front

Ken Coates, erstwhile strategic planner, expounds on candidacy for Montecito Water Board, p. 5

Village Beat Supervisors approve Accessory Dwelling Unit ordinance language to streamline “granny units”, p. 12

AN ACTOR’S ACTOR

William “Bill” Daniels, who lives with wife, Bonnie, in Montecito and Los Angeles, recounts long and memorable career stretching from television to Broadway to Hollywood (story begins on p. 36)

On His Toes To celebrate DANCEworks’s 10th year, choreographer Doug Elkins creates new piece, p. 16

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On The Water Front

Ken Coates, an erstwhile corporate strategic planner, explains why he’s throwing his hat in the ring as a candidate for Montecito Water Board

6 Miscellany

Pacific Coast polo; Kick Ash bash; Hillbilly Hoedown; DANCEworks; Leslie RidleyTree; Dylan Star; Kenny Loggins’s estate; Craig McCaw’s cars; Neverland Ranch; and Marathon du Medoc

Letters to the Editor

A mix of missives from Journal readers Jeffrey Harding, Dan Seibert, Brett Adams, Thomas Carlisle, Jaclyn Fabre, Roger Morrison, and Gwyn Lurie

10 This Week

Knitting; poetry; artist; Walk & Roll; Spanish; Sea Glass; lawn bowling; Pascale Beale; Roe Ann White; yacht club; Polo & Wine fest; wedding showcase; governance; MA meets; Alzheimer’s; MERRAG; MBAR; Wine Down; Funk Zone; and college applications

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Accessory Dwelling Units standards; Montecito Sanitary District update; and Wine Down at Friendship Center

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner reports on the Magic Castle Cabaret; Ferragosto picnic; and the Santa Barbara Yacht Club party to honor Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care

16 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz talks with choreographer Doug Elkins about Friday Club; and Santa Barbara Polo & Wine Festival, plus ZZ Ward

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19 Brilliant Thoughts

What a steal: Ashleigh Brilliant’s latest words of wisdom involve theft, private property, stolen moments, and the nicking of words (i.e., plagiarism)

20 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz chronicles Deep Presence; Yoga Soup update; WHOLEHEARTED; Open Mic Nights; mind training; and anthropology

22 Purely Political

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Bob Hazard delves into socialism, California “dreaming,” Democrats, young voters, the difference between socialism and communism, and so forth

In Passing

Opera singer Christina Murphy Allison passes away on August 22 at Maravilla

23 On Sanitation

Judy Ishkanian, tossing her hat in the ring as a candidate for re-election to the Montecito Sanitary District, spotlights her family, background, and credentials

32 Our Town

All that jazz: Joanne Calitri is in tune with SB Jazz Collective and UCSB graduate Andrew Williams, prior to their show at SOhO on Tuesday, September 18

34 Montecito Sportsman

Dr. John Burk plays the game of Santa Barbara School of Squash, whose director Robert Graham seeks success “through squash and education”

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36 Aging in High Heels

Beverlye Hyman Fead follows the storied career of actor William “Bill” Daniels, from his childhood to Northwestern University to television to his book

38 Legal Advertising 42 Calendar of Events

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On The Water Front

by Ken Coates Ken Coates is a retired corporate strategic planner, a longtime member of our Montecito community, and is currently running for the Montecito Water Board.

Why I am Running for Montecito Water Board

our years ago, I attended my first Montecito Water Board meeting hoping to understand why Montecito and Summerland residents had to endure water rationing, penalty rates, and the threat of a service cut off. In subsequent meetings, it was clear that the management and the board had no strategic plan, as mandated by the State, had ignored the 2007 recommendations of an expert on how to address potential drought issues, were struggling for financial viability, and were not cooperating with other water and sanitary agencies for solutions. The board even rejected an offer from community members to fund an engineering study for a Montecito desalination and recycling plant. Many other residents shared my concern that the water issues could not be addressed effectively by the existing management and a dysfunctional board. As a result, Tobe Plough and Floyd Wicks were asked to run for election to the board. With their fresh ideas and the retirement of the general manager, the situation has improved substantially. There is now a strategic plan in place, discussions with the City of Santa Barbara about participating in its desalination plant have been reopened, and dialogue with the Montecito Sanitary and other nearby districts on recycling has begun. However, there is much more to be done. Water security for Montecito and Summerland will require diversification of our water supply, and that will mean smart harvesting of every drop of water on this side of the mountains. We cannot rely upon uncertain snowpack in the Sierras or rainfall locally to provide for our future needs. We need local solutions – completion of a desalination agreement with the City, recycling of the 500,000 gallons of partially treated wastewater dumped into the ocean every day, better management of our groundwater, and further conservation efforts. Accomplishing these tasks will require strong direction from our Montecito Water and Sanitary boards that has not been provided by the incumbents seeking re-election. Experience in failing to deal with the issues cannot be accepted any longer.

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Monte ito Miscellany by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 11 years ago.

Justin Time: Klentner Ranch Wins

Silver Air Pacific Coast Open 2018 polo team winners Remy Muller, Mariano Obregon, patron Justin Klentner; Jake Klentner and Jesse Bray (photo by Priscilla)

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TO THE EDITOR

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Remembering John McCain

The six of us were the summer interns; most of us worked in the “Annex,” just down the hall in the Longworth House office building

Dan Seibert (left) and then-U.S. Senate candidate John McCain, way back when

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y first job after college was in the Arizona House of Representatives as the House reader: the guy who sits just below the Speaker of the House on the floor and reads the bills, tabulates the votes using a computer, runs the microphones, that kind of stuff. It was a front-row seat in the debate and passing of laws. That was in 1983 and 1984. In 1985, I switched jobs to be the head page, overseeing 15 college-age pages in their duties serving House members. That was coming to an end in April, and I set my sights on a paid summer internship with then Congressman John McCain. McCain was good friends with Burton Barr, the House

Majority leader. Burt wrote a letter of recommendation for me (actually, it was Shirley his secretary who had taken a liking to me over the couple years I was there). The internship lasted from June to July; I lived in a dorm on the campus of George Washington University with other summer interns. This dorm was five blocks from the White House and five blocks to the [National] Mall. I shipped my bicycle out on a Greyhound bus – that turned out to be a terrific idea. I rode it everywhere and saw much of the District of Columbia and Alexandria, Virginia. My father had a childhood friend who lived outside Annapolis and worked at the Pentagon. Twice he picked me up and I spent the night at his family’s house. We ate fresh blue crabs caught off of his dock, went canoeing on the Chesapeake Bay, and they took me to the Naval Academy for a visit. Pure magic for a young man coming from the desert of Arizona. Among many concerts on the mall, one high point was the Boston Pops 100-year anniversary with guest John Denver. It was broadcast live on PBS. Another moment was the July Fourth concert on the steps of the Capitol; that orchestra was conducted by Leonard Bernstein. When I returned to Phoenix and people asked me what it was like, I would say, “I’ve never seen another human swear so much.” It was a fact; McCain had mouth like a sailor, and a wicked sense of humor. In the last photo, we stood in his office and he picked up the sheet of paper, upsidedown. Then said something like, “The goddamn Democrats, what the hell is this thing I’m supposed to read?”

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I could barely suppress laughing out loud. In Phoenix, I worked on McCain’s Senate campaign, doing opposition research and volunteer work. In November, all my close friends who were in a band said they were moving to Santa Barbara, to use it as a base and to work in L.A. I made the choice to quit McCain the same week they offered me a paid position. I’ve never regretted my decision to move here and become a gardener. Dan Seibert Santa Barbara

Best of Both Won’t Work

I firstly want to thank Robert Bernstein of Goleta for reading my article “Bernienomics” in the July issue of our sister publication, the Santa Barbara Sentinel (Vol. 7, Issue 8), and secondly, I thank him for his well-written response published in last week’s Montecito Journal (“Why Not the Best of Both?” MJ #24/35). In my article, I decried the rise of

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This Week in and around Montecito

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

(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 6 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 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: Alice Walker When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Artist Reception Guest artist Amy Ryan imbues her ceramic sculptures of wet paintbrushes with whimsy and personality. Guest artist Charlie Patton shows an energetic 10-foot abstract painting on canvas. Seven 10 West artists round out the group show. When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 10 West Gallery, 10 West Anapamu, Info: 770-7711 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 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 Spanish Conversation Group When: 1:30 pm

Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 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 ocean-themed 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. The 2018 Giving Back recipient is the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network (SBWCN), a local nonprofit that rescues, rehabilitates, and returns injured and orphaned animals back to their native homes in both Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties every year. During the recent Holiday Fire on July 6, SBWCN nearly lost their facility headquartered in Goleta. The property experienced serious damage, including excessive ash, burnt plastic, and enclosure damage. Until repairs are completed, the SBWCN is rehabilitating 180 injured animals at the Santa Barbara Humane Society. When: 10 am to 5 pm, today and tomorrow Where: 3400 Calle Real Cost: $5 to $15 Info: www.santabarbaraseaglassand oceanartsfestival.com Lawn Bowling Lessons Don’t miss this opportunity to give lawn bowling a try with free lessons! Santa Barbara Lawn Bowls Club wants to introduce you to the social,

Third Annual Funk Zone Artist Showcase Featuring more than 20 artists with studios or galleries in the Funk Zone; show runs from September 14 through November 11. Reception: today, 5 to 8 pm; artist talk hosted by Ted Mills at 6 pm Where: MichaelKate Interiors and Art Gallery, 132 Santa Barbara Street

laid-back sport that’s in the same family as bocce ball. Adults of all ages welcome. Wear flat-soled shoes. All equipment provided. This event is co-sponsored by the City of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation. When: 10 am to noon Where: Spencer Adams Park (De La Vina & Victoria streets) Info: (805) 965-1773 Cooking Demo & Tasting with Pascale Beale Are your salads stuck in a rut? Would you like to make your own vinaigrettes? Join Pascale Beale at Viva Oliva to learn how to create healthy, refreshing, and invigorating salads and delectable dressings using the luscious oils and vinegars from the store. Pascale will also be signing copies of her recipe books. When: 11 am Where: Viva Oliva, 1275 Coast Village Road Artist Reception “Wave”, a series of photographs by Roe Ann White, will be on display at Porch on Santa Claus Lane. Tonight is the artist’s reception. When: 3 to 5 pm Where: Porch, 3823 Santa Claus Lane Info: (805) 684-0300 Yacht Club Charity Regatta The Santa Barbara Yacht Club is celebrating the 14th Annual Charity Regatta benefiting Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care, an organization that has served the community for 110 years. Guests will enjoy a day

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of yacht racing, scenic boat rides, barbecue, jazzy live music, and other family-friendly fun. This year’s theme is “Celebrating Our Dedicated Teachers.” The “celebrity skippers” who help with the boat races will be teachers who went above and beyond during the Thomas Fire and the January mudslides. Over the past 14 years, the SBYC Charity Regatta has raised more than $1.3 million to help VNHC provide compassionate, comprehensive healthcare in the homes of those who need it most. When: noon to 7 pm Where: Santa Barbara Yacht Club, 130 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109 Info & Tickets: www.vnhcsb.org/ regatta Polo & Wine Festival The Santa Barbara Polo & Wine Festival takes place today. The festival combines polo, local wine, and music for a unique one-day experience. This full-day occasion will feature two polo matches, music, and tastings from some of Santa Barbara’s finest wineries. Attendees will live the polo lifestyle and be treated to an elegant atmosphere. Organizers encourage attendees to dress as one would for a typical polo game. When: noon to 8 pm Where: 3300 Via Real, Carpinteria Cost: $75 per person Info: www.sbpoloandwine.com SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Wedding Showcase Burlap & Bordeaux presents area caterers, bakers, florists, photographers, videographers, bridal gowns, musicians, and more. When: 11 am to 3 pm Where: Santa Barbara Woman’s ClubRockwood, 670 Mission Canyon Road Cost: $18 per person Info: www.simplythebestofsb.com MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

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Governance Forum An Informational Community Forum, hosted by the Montecito Association, addressing Governance Options for Montecito. The Montecito Association 6 – 13 September 2018

is not taking a position on this issue. David Mullinax of the League of California Cities will address the impact on the community of city incorporation of a Community Services District. Paul Hood of the Local Agency Formation Commission will address the process of city incorporation or forming a Community Service District. Moderated by Michael Cooney. When: 6 pm Where: Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road Info: www.montecitoassociation.org TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito. When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Alzheimer’s Workshops In the middle stage of Alzheimer’s disease, those who were care partners now become hands-on caregivers. Hear caregivers and professionals discuss helpful strategies to provide safe, effective, and comfortable care in the middle stage of Alzheimer’s. Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or other dementias is exceptionally demanding. These consequences may disproportionately affect women, who tend to spend more time than men caregiving, taking on increased caregiving tasks and caring for someone with more cognitive, functional and/or behavioral problems. When: 3 to 5 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Info: (800) 272-3900 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 MERRAG Meeting and Training Network of trained volunteers that work and/or live in the Montecito area prepare to respond to community disaster during critical first 72 hours following an event. The mutual “selfhelp” organization serves Montecito’s 13,000 residents with the guidance

and support of the Montecito Fire, Water, and Sanitary districts. This month: light search and rescue training. When: 10 am to noon Where: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro Road Info: Joyce, 969-2537 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu

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Wine Down Friendship Center’s annual Wine Event and Big Heart Awards. Enjoy wine from many local wineries, served in the courtyard of the Montecito Friendship Center. When: 4 to 7 pm Where: 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $75 Info: www.friendshipcentersb.org

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 Get Ahead in College Applications with Santa Barbara Public Library The Santa Barbara Public Library (SBPL) hosts a free College Application Essay Prep Course. The aim of the course is to provide students with a completed draft of their college application essay. SBPL’s instructor will provide students with detailed writing guidance, composition strategies, and successful essay examples to help students in writing their strongest application essay. This three-part class is designed for local high school and community college students who will be applying to undergraduate programs within the next two years. Meetings will take place over three Saturdays: September 15, September 29, and October 13. Registration is limited to 15 to enable the instructor to tailor the course to the specific application choices of each student. When: 11 am to 1:30 pm Where: Eastside Library, 1102 E. Montecito Street Registration: 963-3727 •MJ

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ext week, amendments to the County Land Use and Development Code, Montecito Land Use and Development Code, and the Coastal Zoning Ordinance to revise existing development standards for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) will go into effect; the amendments were approved by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors in August. Because the County had yet to pass its own ordinance language regarding ADUs, Montecito and other unincorporated areas had been governed by the state-mandated ADU laws, which went into effect January 1, 2017. California Assembly Bill 2299 and Senate Bill 1069 set out to reduce the barriers that homeowners once had when trying to gain approvals for these “granny units,” expanding the capacity to accommodate their development in order to provide additional rental housing in residential areas throughout California. Since the passing of the State laws, there have been 160 ADU applications in the County, with more than 60 approved in Montecito. As outlined by County planner Jessi Steele, a streamlined process has been developed at the County level, with ADUs to be approved ministerially without discretionary review if they meet certain standards. If an ADU is located within an already existing portion of a single-family or multi-family dwelling or accessory building, and has an independent exterior entrance and is within the size limits, it will be exempt from requiring a land use permit. These ADUs will not be subject to parking standards, according to Steele. If an ADU is partially within an

existing building, or a new addition or separate building is being built for it, the ADU must comply with design, height, size, and parking requirements, and the Planning Director may request review of the project from the chair of Montecito Board of Architectural Review or the Historic Landmarks Advisory Commission (HLAC). All ADUs will be required to show approvals from the local sanitary district or show approved onsite wastewater treatment systems. Earlier this year, draft ordinance language was circulated to both the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission and Montecito Planning Commission, who both gave recommendations of added language. Staff has since removed several of those recommendations, including lot coverage, the requirement that a homeowner must live in one of the dwellings, and site preparation standards. Staff did revise the language to allow for parking lifts if additional parking is required. It was also clarified that ADUs cannot be rented out short term (fewer than 30 days) or be sold separately from the principal dwelling. Detached ADUs will also be regulated in location and size; the maximum size of an ADU is 8% of the net lot area, up to 1,200 sq ft. The County may soon need to revise the newly passed ordinance language, as the State is currently revising its requirements via AB 2890, which prohibits standards for lot size or lot coverage, shortens application review from 120 to 60 days, and increases the minimum size of ADUs from 150 sq ft to 800 sq ft. If approved, the law will also expand the types of ADUs that

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On Entertainment

DANCEworks hits the stage Friday and Saturday, September 8-9, at the Lobero (dancers: Cori Marquis & Eric Parra - photo by David Bazemore)

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here is a thin semantic line separating weird and beautiful. And that line is covered in jellyfish.” So said choreographer Doug Elkins at the Lobero Theatre a couple of weeks ago, perhaps answering a question posed by one of the members of the Friday Club. Or more than likely not. Elkins is the high-energy, self-described ADHD-afflicted dance choreographer who is creating a new piece for the 10th anniversary of DANCEworks that will be performed this Friday and Saturday, September 8-9 – doesn’t need any impetus to go off on a tangent. Those disparate lines just intersect in his mind somewhere and create something larger and infinitely more interesting than their individual parts. “Thanks for coming into my frontal lobe,” Elkins said, unbidden but recognizing his own sudden shifts, a week later in the midst of the performance part of the Friday Club event. “Actually more like my medulla oblongata, just a stone’s throw from the amygdala.” Earlier he mused, “It’s

just my stream of consciousness way of being, which is how I operate, in nonlinear time.” Meanwhile, Friday Club is the cadre of dance aficionados who pay extra to spend a couple of hours with the choreographer and his crew of six shape-shifting, mind-blowing dancers – who are winding up a month-long residency at the theater – as they reveal their latest phrases in fragments on stage before repairing to the cocktails and Q&A. Elkins is decidedly not jellyfish-like, unless the sea creatures are actually perpetual-motion machines that stop in mid-sentence to frequently change directions and tone, and give in to impulse on a whim. That’s what Elkins does, verbal at least. Come to think of it, the dancers do it, too, only with their corporeal bodies, often appearing akin to jellyfish then stiffening their spines for strength work, spins, and jumps. Thus like the magic of the company, which evinces an almost metaphysical ability to intermingle and influence one another – with words, ideas, movements, shapes, and probably lots

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of other indescribable things – in ways that go well beyond linear analysis, yet somehow end up as a magical, chills-inducing work of art that works on both the physical and emotional plane. At least that’s what we think will happen, based on Elkins’s history as both as the first choreographer to successfully blend together street dance, ballet, and modern dance who has been hailed by The New York Times as “One of the most musical, witty and inventive choreographers of his generation,” and the fact that during his first DANCEworks residency in 2011, he cleverly mashed up Motown music with Shakespeare’s Othello. This time around, he’s fashioning Kintsigi, based on influences from Japanese philosophy and art filtered through his B-Boy sensibilities and – more importantly – his dancers’ whims and whimsy. Indeed, Elkins elicits, or more accurately impels, collaboration with his half-dozen dancers, many of whom have been with him for years. “Everyone has different ways of working, like tribes in society,” Elkins said. “Usually it’s reflective of the nature of not just the choreographer but the people he brings into his orbit… A colleague and dance critic once said of my work: ‘You’re always doing self-portraits of everybody but you.’ I think that’s true. I really

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. – Vladimir Nabokov

depend on the brilliance of my colleague-collaborators, their willingness to share their own ridiculousness and madness in the process. “It’s like marking up a page, just doodling on a piece of paper while you’re on the phone for 45 minutes. That’s how we start off, and make most of our phrases.” So, many of the shapes, phrases, and fragments emanate from the dancers improvising, either solo, or even more frequently in pairs, as Elkins and Co. favor connection over almost everything else. “Every piece is very relational,” explained Cori Marquis, who has been performing with Elkins since 2010. “We’re allowed, encouraged and continue to have the relationships that we do in fact have with each other. That’s a powerful thing to have facilitated and drawn out.” “I love acknowledging that I’m dancing next to someone,” Elkins said. “I’ve also danced in abstract worlds where you extract yourself as a proton in space, or part of a larger system. But dance to me is a social dialogue. (So) as we’re making work, the jokes, the side commentary, are all part of the process of how we make stuff.” Some of those jokes are musical, such as the inspired juxtaposition of studio outtakes of Brian Wilson working on “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” butting up against the rising tension of Anna Meredith’s similarly tempoed “Nautilus”, which serves as the soundtrack to a series of originally improvised solos that eventually come together with all the dancers on stage. “I like trying to build an interest-

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antasma de México is made with Blanca or Reposada tequila on the rocks, fresh lime juice (or three limes, if you don’t trust it’s fresh) with a splash or “float” of mescal shaken or not. The mescal imparts just a ghost of smokiness to remind the drinker of old Mexico. Mescal, the ancestral form of tequila, harkens back to the raw bitterness of Pulque, tequila’s origins. The fresh lime fractures the refined tequila and harsher mescal into a greater sum of the parts. You won’t find Fantasma in a mixologist’s encyclopedia. I made it up. While sipping my drink, I’ve always wondered how some guy sitting in the desert staring at a spiny cactus declared – “I’m going to make tequila out of that.” Every other hard liquor is produced from a grain or a starch. I once asked local Son Jarocho musician Jorge Milangros this question. He is a master Jarana maker – the guitar carved from a single block of wood – and knower of Mesoamerican arcanum. He explained that first of all, it’s not actually a cactus – the species of Maguey is related to the aloe plant – a succulent. Secondly, tequila came from the discovery of Pulque. As the Maya, Aztecs, and Huastecs scoured the desert for water they learned to stab a big wooden straw into various kinds of desert plants to find the sap inside. Turns out, a cactus is not actually a spine-covered basin of fresh water. Only Prickly Pear and Barrel Cactus are candidates, and they can make you sick. One of the early fathers of tequila poked his straw into the Maguey plant, found Pulque and experienced something Divine. The god Quetzalcoatl got the credit, but that’s a longer story. The Maguey seems to be one of the few plants that internally ferments its own sap. In the great Mesoamerican civilizations of the central highlands, Pulque was served as a ritual intoxicant to priests as well as those sacrificed. Before tequila, pulquerías were the rage, some were luxurious. Rich and poor establishments featured humorous names such as “I’m Waiting for You Here at the Corner” or “The Recreation Center of Those Across the Street” or “Memories of the Future.” The facades and interiors of pulquerías presented, according to Diego Rivera, one of the most important opportunities for muralistas. The tequila-art connection is unavoidable. In mov-

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ie-making, it made George Clooney the highest-paid actor, less for his acting than his tequila. I view my “Fantasma” as a tiny contribution, a link in the long history of tequila. It’s become my handshake in the whirl of alcohol-based social activity. I “invented” my drink with bartender Greg Brichbiel when I first moved to Santa Barbara because I was bored with just tequila, I wasn’t inclined to drink the Montecito Martini – an infinity pool of vodka without the Martini trimmings – and I needed to create my microbubble. I learned about microbubbles in New York City. See, die-hard New Yorkers don’t buy a seat to a Yankees game – that’s too easy. Instead, we wait until we meet someone with box seats behind home plate then wait a bit longer until they offer us tickets. In New York, we find a restaurant and say, “That’s my restaurant.” Microbubbles give meaning in the Big City. Everyone owns “their” New York, their microbubble, and when they leave that particular New York pops, and it’s gone. Historically, Santa Barbara has been at the forefront of “bubble living.” The alternative name “Santa Bubble” is familiar to residents. The moniker isn’t always complimentary. Partly because normal size bubbles tend to get big and flabby, epitomizing instability. With its nine sunny square miles squeezed between the ocean and the mountains, Montecito’s Macondo existence immediately qualifies as bubble material. But what happens when the bubble gets squished or worse by tragedy and the full blow of nature? Give up on bubble living? Or reconfigure to microbubbles? Microbubbles are more resilient. After finding themselves on the forefront of environmental changes, microbubbling seems to be one way people in Montecito have figured out how to pick up and move on. They’ve made their bubbles smaller and fortified them. Microbubbling is a good survival practice in the face of adversity. Cynics ridicule my drink as tequila with a splash of tequila. They’re not wrong. It takes some willful suspension of disbelief to continue living in the bubble, maybe living at all. But that’s where the magic happens, when tequila with a splash of tequila becomes a Fantasma and life is worth living. •MJ 6 – 13 September 2018

Brilliant Thoughts

e don’t need the Ten Commandments to tell us that stealing is wrong. We know it inherently, because nobody likes to be a victim of theft. One of the first words most babies learn is “mine!” (and I’m not sure how much later they also learn “yours”). The concept of private property has a long and honorable history, and it wasn’t until 1840 that a French Anarchist named Proudhon dared to publish a book claiming that Property is Theft. And it took another 130 years, before another “Radical” named Abbie Hoffman took that idea to its illogical conclusion, by publishing a book called Steal This Book. Incidentally, strange as it seems, according to Hebrew scholars, that revered Biblical injunction “Thou Shalt Not Steal” was originally intended to apply only to stealing people – i.e., kidnapping! But today, of course, there are many kinds and degrees of stealing, and some are considered much more serious than others. In most cultures, theft in itself is never a capital crime – although some societies still punish thieves with such barbaric penalties as amputation of a hand. Ordinarily, we sympathize with someone who steals just to survive – although the original crime of Jean Valjean – the hero of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel Les Misérables – which led to his being imprisoned, by a relatively “enlightened” France, for 19 years, was stealing a loaf of bread for his starving sister and her family. The worst theft I personally ever suffered was of a bicycle – a loss less grievous in itself than in the audacity of the crime. The bike (a Peugeot I was quite fond of) was taken at night from the rack to which I thought it was well-secured, at the rear of my 18-foot “Sunrader” mini-motor home, parked on a residential street in the peaceful community of Alameda, California. And I was sleeping inside the vehicle at the time! The bicycle was never recovered – nor, in a way, was my own sense of overnight street-parking security. In the value system under which I was brought up, stealing was not so bad if you stole from somebody who could easily afford the loss, or who might not even notice it. This, of course, applied particularly to large companies that in any case were well-insured, and considered small 6 – 13 September 2018

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losses as simply part of the cost of doing business. But there is another aspect to this whole topic – what I would call “The Romance of Theft.” From the legend of Robin Hood to the innumerable “heist” movies of our own time, the thieves are the heroes, with whom we identify. What is it about stealing that makes it such a popular subject, even if (as for example in the epic of Bonnie and Clyde) innocent people get hurt or killed in the process? Why do we enjoy stories of piracy on the high seas, stagecoach holdups, great train robberies, spectacular thefts of art, of jewels, and of gold?

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I was sleeping inside the vehicle The answer seems obvious. Whether or not the venture is successful, we can share the excitement of it vicariously, without incurring any of the risk. And if it actually does succeed – let us hope with a minimum of violence – so much the better. Of course, (as with many other crimes) the most successful thefts of all are those we never hear about, because they are never discovered, or at least never publicized. This may be particularly true of modern computer-crime. But it may also apply to such devious deeds as blackmail, forgery, and embezzlement. In such cases, the victim may have good reasons to want the whole thing hushed up. Then there are those thefts of which many or most of us have been guilty, probably without even considering them reprehensible. Hotels and restaurants are particularly vulnerable to this kind of petty theft: soaps, shampoos, towels, sweeteners, jams – anything that can easily be smuggled out. Finally, we confront the species of theft which, for writers, comes with the territory, and which I call “Piracy On The High ©’s.” Of course, I mean stealing words, the Federal offense of Copyright Infringement. Word thieves probably won’t go to prison, but the crime can be a felony, and you might be surprised at the severity of the financial penalties, even if the items stolen are no longer than 17 words. In any case, as one piece of my own encapsulated wisdom put it: “No copy of me can possibly be as good or as bad as the original.” •MJ

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ast year, Michael Russer and his partner, Jacqueline Lopez, created Entheomedicine Santa Barbara to bring expertise on the health and spiritual benefits of medicine journeys to the community. Now they’re diving into something even more valuable, and much easier on the system, than those chemically induced experiences: a process for awareness and connection they call Deep Presence. It was seven years ago this month that Russer had his first experience with presence. Back then, he said, he was deeply unhappy both in his career, despite making “tons of money,” and his marriage, “although it wasn’t about my wife.” Despite a dozen years of seeking help through psychotherapy and life coaches, things hadn’t improved. “I didn’t know what it was, but I just knew I was in big trouble,” recalled Russer, who owned several businesses at the time. “Nothing came close to helping with my feeling of disconnect. I was the antithesis of what this talk is about.” So, after his son went off to college, and he ended his marriage, Russer decided to take more concrete action. “I was determined to step over, jump into the abyss, allow myself to be vulnerable and authentic and tear down all that armor I put around my heart,” he said. “When I made the declaration and totally jumped into it, it was my first experience of Deep Presence, although I couldn’t artic-

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ulate it at the time. But that’s exactly what was happening. The world shifted immediately as I began waking up, being authentic, being me.” Fast-forward a few years, and Russer – who has been diagnosed with several cancers, including prostate, rendering him impotent – found the power of the practice in his first sexual experience with his new partner. “At first I tried to perform for her, anyway, but of course, all the methods failed,” he recalled. “I had the feeling of ‘It’s over before it began.’ Earlier in my life, I would have done anything to not feel that feeling. But I chose instead to be present rather than detached. And that transformed into compete surrender. That allowed us to have an experience that most couples can’t even begin to fathom of the depth of our emotional sexual intimacy. And that’s all because of presence, of not running away from whatever comes up.” Russer defines Deep Presence as “a state of deep awareness, without judgment, expectation or distractions… that goes way beyond mindfulness.” Lopez and Russer began developing the practice within their relationship and eventually Russer, who used to be a programmer, codified it into an “internally self-consistent protocol” that the couple practices throughout the day. “It’s the most inviting way to connect with another human being, because it implies complete vulnerability,” he said. “It’s about putting the ego in the back seat, but it requires practice just like any muscle.” That’s the point behind the free talk titled “The Power of Presence” that the couple will be delivering at 7 pm on Wednesday, September 12, at Karpeles Manuscript Museum (repeats October 2 in Ojai, and October 9 at Karpeles). The talk will introduce the process via an interactive experience where participants pair up to address probing questions designed to elicit a presence response, Russer said. People can expect to leave “knowing that there is a whole different way of looking at their lives, what’s driving their beliefs and their fears,” he said. “Perhaps also an intuition if not a complete understanding that presence can solve many issues, especially with relationships of any kind. When you’re fully present, it changes everything.” The talks serve as a preview to one-

day workshop the couple has conducted previously only in Northern California, which takes a much deeper dive and teaches the full process. “The talk is the what of presence, while the six-hour workshop is the how,” Russer explained. That longer workshop also puts the process in the context of non-duality, which also explains the link to entheomedicine, said Russer, who found greater peace with his terminal diagnosis through the use of psychedelics. “Those experiences deepen it further, but you don’t have to do any sort of journey to practice presence.” For more information or to reserve a spot for the talk, visit www.pres encetalk.com.

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Two community singing offerings are next up on Yoga Soup’s events calendar, beginning Sunday afternoon, September 9, with another installment of the WHOLEHEARTED Workshop with Lisa G. Littlebird. A self-described song leader from the heart. Littlebird – who has more than 25 years of vocal training and compassionate awareness practices – leads in calland-response style with an accessible, easy grace and infectious joy intended to rekindle the love of singing. The 3 to 5 pm workshop weaves vocal invitations, body movement, and improvisation, and draws on a repertoire of more than 400 oral-tradition songs to invite everyone to expand and delight in the full potential of their voices. The “evening of play” designed for people of all ages and abilities. You don’t need to be able to read music or even think you can sing ($25). A more in-depth exploration of connection via singing comes the following day, at 7 pm September 10, when the inCourage Chorus launches its 13-week fall season. Newlyweds Britta Gudmunson and Ben Gould co-lead the no-audition, non-denominational, all-ages community choir that welcome singers, recovering “non-singers,” breathers, and talkers of all experience levels to commune in songs from around the world that span culture, tradition, and language. The concept is that as song is among the most ancient forms of human expression, this allows participants to open their hearts and minds not only to joy but to the expanse of the human experience, a celebration of the wholeness and harmony of life through the medicine of music. Gudmunson and Gould, who are both trained in community singing and who together or alone also teach yoga and mindful eating at the yoga studio and elsewhere, teach all the songs in the oral tradition, meaning eschewing written music in favor of a call-and-response style. So, no music reading or experience is necessary to participate. The official introductory session took place last month, but those who are new to the chorus can drop by the first session the first Monday (or any other single one during the season) for just $15. The cost for the full season, which meets every Monday through November 26 (save for October 8) is $200. Audio recordings are available to the choir members during the season, with each section’s part separately recorded so that members can practice on their own or catch up on a missed session. The season concludes with a benefit concert on December 16.

Concerts, singing workshops, and soundscape sessions in a variety of formats almost outnumber classes containing cat pose and other classic yoga positions at Yoga Soup this month, with events and styles ranging from ambient to folk to kirtan and beyond, including several that’s all about participation. Shane Thunder kicks things off on Friday, September 7, with a 7:30 to 9 pm 432hz Sound Healing session employing alchemical gemstone and Tibetan singing bowls, chimes, drums, aromatherapy, and guided meditation to take participants into a deeply meditative and rebalanced state. The sound bath aims to cleanse and purge emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual blocks among the chakras, resulting in the body, mind, and spirit having a blissful, transforming, and uplifting experience ($20 in advance, $25 day-of). That’s also the same evening as the monthly First Fridays Ecstatic Dance, which takes place 7 to 9:30 pm “barefoot, substance-free, live DJ getdown dance party.” A Contact Improv Warm-Up takes place from 7 to 8 pm, followed by the ecstatic dance til 9:30, which features music that loosely follow an ecstatic dance “wave” with slow and mellow music building to chaotic intensity and then returning to stillness at the end. Admission is $15, and proceeds are donated to a local charity to support our community. Saturday, September 8, brings an East Forest Ceremony to Yoga Soup, an event where a concert meets ritual in a multi-level experience that incorporates elements of music, meditation, and sound healing. With 14 albums already produced, East Forest’s shamanic, ambient electro-pop music has the fundamental mission to create sonic architecture and open doorways for listeners to explore their own inner space. Listeners are invited to rest and relax while enjoying a musical concert, mixing traditional East Forest songs with deep ambient

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hristina Murphy Allison died at Maravilla on August 22, 2018. Born in Brooklyn in 1939 and raised in Vancouver, B.C., she was a gifted soprano who trained in New York, claimed two Rockefeller grants, and sang with distinction with European opera companies for many years, including one memorable performance with Joan Sutherland. She came to Southern California in the mid-1970s and, in 1980, married David N. Allison, whose mother’s family, the Knapps, had long been prominent in Santa Barbara. Soon the newlyweds moved to Montecito, from whence they traveled widely, especially for Christina’s performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the EnglishSpeaking Union in New York. After her husband’s death in 2000, Christina continued to be active, especially with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Irish Historical Society, where she served as a board member, as well as writing, performing, and regularly sending letters to the editor of the Montecito Journal about matters that came to her attention. Her last months were not easy, but at Maravilla, hours before she suddenly died, she was singing quietly, to the delight and enchantment of those who were caring for her. She was much loved by all who knew her. There are no known immediate survivors. Private arrangements are pending. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Irish Historical Society of Santa Barbara, 1114 State Street Suite 250, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 or the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1330 State St., Santa Barbara 93101. •MJ

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Socialism is Back

he American left is twisting itself into knots trying to figure out its basic messaging. Once discredited, “democratic socialists” have been re-energized, led by a 76-year-old Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, who has been preaching socialism for half a century, and 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a stunning upset winner over favored Democrat Joe Crowley, a 10-term Congressman and chairman of the Democratic Caucus. Ocasio-Cortez won by appealing to youth-oriented, tech-savvy, digital millennials on social media. Sex and the City challenger Cynthia Nixon, a self-described democratic socialist, with the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America party, has challenged New York governor Andrew Cuomo, no centrist himself. Both claim socialism is making a big comeback, especially on college campuses and among the younger generations. Socialist fervor is shifting the ideological center of the Democrat Party further to the left, with the endorsement of Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Kirsten Gillibrand.

California Dreaming

In the State of California, where the Republican party is in exile, especially in the coastal counties where 68% of the population lives, it is hardly surprising that more than 90% of Democratic voters have a favorable view of avowed socialist and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats. Among the nearly 20 million registered California voters, 45% list themselves as Democrats; 26% list themselves as Republicans; 24% list themselves as “no party preference;” and the remaining 5% are registered as Libertarian, Green, American Independent, or Peace & Freedom. In Santa Barbara County, party preference is slightly less skewed: 41% registered Democrats; 31% registered Republicans; and 23% “no party preference.” Historically, “no party preference” voters tend to break 43% for Democrats; 29% for Republicans; and 28% for neither party.

What Is Democratic Socialism?

Democratic socialism is based on the premise that government ownership, control, and regulation of business is morally fairer, more efficient, and more desirable than private ownership with its free market competition. According to democratic socialists, the U.S. exploits its workers and destroys its middle class. Therefore, more power needs to be placed in the hands of government. The state needs to provide all 350 million U.S. citizens and 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants with lots more “free stuff” – free hospitalization and medical care, free colleges and universities, free food stamps, and free housing – all administered by federal and state enterprises. Socialists favor a government that can tell its citizens what to eat and how to eat it – no fertilizer and no pesticides; no sodas (and now no straws); regulate restaurants and hotels, and every other business; and deliver a $15-per-hour minimum wage for farmworkers and dishwashers. It is a short leap between telling people what to eat and drink and what to think. Government already tells schools what to teach and how to teach from kindergarten through high school. Teachers’ unions oppose competitive charter schools. Does democratic socialism represent the new face of the Democratic party?

Young Voters for Old Socialists

Face it, getting free stuff is appealing to millennials. A Harvard Business School poll found that 51% of voters between 18 and 29 reject capitalism while one-third favor socialism. For millennials, single payer healthcare and free college are just common sense. They have been taught that inequality is the cornerstone of American history; we are a nation of racial and economic victims. President Reagan was wrong when he claimed that too much government is the problem. The solution is more and bigger government to cure our inequities. Among all voters, Bernie’s approval rating stands at 57%, 17 points higher than President Trump. As millennials grow older, have children, and pay taxes, all those bills for “free goodies” will be theirs – with interest. By that time, the next generation of millennials will be expecting even more “free stuff.”

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udith Ishkanian here, candidate for re-election to the Montecito Sanitary District (MSD). Thank you all for the wonderful responses to my article last week (MJ #24/35). Many of you suggested that I say more about myself. Okay... But first, let me state that I am not going to defile our wounded community with yard and road signs, Also, I would hate to see my name ending up like road-kill along the side of the road! I have lived my entire adult life in Montecito. Byron and I always lived near the beach and we currently live in the Hedgerow. We raised our children here, and I have always been active in volunteer work, learning about how organizations are run. When our children were in grammar school, I was elected to the Board of Directors of the private school. It had a $500,000 budget, and I learned from experts on that board how to read and manage a budget and formulate policy. In the 1980s, I went to graduate school in the UCSB History Department. I was recruited into the Ph.D. program. While in grad school, I worked as a T.A. at UCSB, and as an hourly at Santa Barbara City College. (I was what they call a “freeway flyer.”) I received my Ph.D. in 1993 and continued teaching at UCSB and the City College almost to the end of the century! In 2004, I organized the county-wide Neighborhood Defense League with two friends and we built up a wonderful board of directors. This nonprofit was primarily concerned with state mandated housing and other quality of life issues affecting our county. During those 10 years, I became acquainted with how counties and cities work, and met many lifelong friends both in and out of government service. What we all came to realize was that mandated policies were coming from our State Legislature and Executive bureaucracies, not originating in the counties. Special Districts intrigued me because they were business enterprises concerned with one essential service. I was invited to fill a vacancy on the Montecito Sanitary District in 2005 and loved learning the business, working with intelligent unassuming people and serving on county-wide organizations. The Santa Barbara County chapter of the California Special Districts Association elected me to its board of directors. In 2016, I was elected president. That association elected me to be a commissioner on LAFCO, a State commission that gives local control in matters such as cityhood, consolidations, and urban/agriculture boundaries. I always signed up for re-election on the Montecito Sanitary District but was never opposed, until now. I am proud of the AA+ Bond rating the Montecito Sanitary District earned on my watch. I am proud of all the modernization we accomplished with the one bond we acquired (that we have since re-financed to sunset seven years earlier than originally negotiated). We have given 20 to 30 years of new life to our operation, including a state of the art laboratory, maintenance building, all modern vehicles and equipment, generator and back-up generator, all new electrical system, and many other mission critical projects. Now is the time for our essential services headquarters. Our Slate campaign opponents ridicule “a 3.5-million-dollar building for four employees.” Wrong. We cannot finish our master planned modernization without a building to house all our employees, install state-of-the-art IT and telecommunication systems. Upon completion, we are ready to consider options for water re-use, as outlined in our Master Plan. Our employees deserve the improvement to their working environment that our administration building will provide. Speaking of employees, our operations team was shocked at the irresponsible Slate campaign talking point printed in every local outlet: “The MSD dumps partially treated wastewater into the ocean.” Our plant operators, who have all achieved top certification, responded, “Is that what Montecito thinks of us?” My heart was broken to hear that. I told them, “The citizens know the work you do that takes the worry of their wastewater problem off their minds. And they see it in the cheerful efficiency of our Collections team, seen every day doing their maintenance of the infrastructure in our community.” Yes, I am proud to be part of a top-notch team, and I am not through serving until every mindless danger to our District and community has passed and the co-operative spirit we have always had will prevail. Again, thank you for the calls and emails – and please do vote for me on November 6. •MJ 6 – 13 September 2018

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the appeal of “socialism” thanks to politicians like Bernie Sanders. I laid out an argument of why socialism is a bad way to run a country. You disagreed with my views and say that government contributes much to the economy and that we should embrace the best of socialism and capitalism. The quick answer to your best-ofboth-worlds proposition is that the negative outcomes of socialism far outweigh any positive benefits. And history proves me right. You say that we already have “socialism” to the extent we have things like public roads, public education, public fire and police services, Medicare, and Social Security. As I said in my article, Bernie’s programs are more welfare statist than socialist. Socialism is where the government runs the economy from the top down. Welfare states redistribute income but largely let businesses run themselves. While government-run schools and public safety districts are beneficial, they are mostly run at the local level and users more or less pay for these services through taxes. They also face competition. Many public schools are not doing a very good job educating our kids (Montecito Union and Cold Spring being outstanding exceptions) and voucher systems, charter schools, and private schools provide effective alternatives. Police have “competition” in that private companies provide tandem security services and private ambulances operate alongside our fire departments. In other words, we have choices. Aside from these local services, there are no programs run by the federal government that operate efficiently, effectively, or without political interference. It is these welfare statist programs that I oppose. I oppose them not because they provide some benefits to certain folks; I am against them because they will break the bank while doing a bad job. And in every case, there are better alternatives. You cite Medicare and Social Security as good “socialist” programs. Medicare is running huge deficits

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while driving doctors away from serving older patients. ObamaCare is an ill-conceived failure. Social Security will go broke because it operates politically, not on market and actuarial principles, as do competing private pension funds. You and Bernie want to double down on failure by having things like universal health care and free college education. What galls me about liberals and progressives is that they completely ignore the laws of economics and the historical record. Like you, they argue with “facts” that aren’t facts, they cite “history” that isn’t history, and they ignore the unseen consequences of their policies. The history of government-run programs in welfare states is that they become too expensive and wasteful and provide inferior services. Canadians say they love their health care system – but if they can afford it, they jump the queues and come here for surgery and treatment. The reason these government-run programs fail is precisely because they are monopolies with little or no competition and are not run for profit. You mention Amtrak and properly point out that they operate poorly because of political considerations. That should give you a clue as to how all government welfare programs operate. The United States Postal Service is a better example of how the government fails to efficiently operate a delivery service. Somehow, UPS and FedEx manage to do the same thing profitably. Bernie’s solution for paying for all his “free stuff” is to increase taxes on the rich and corporations. You could tax away all the income of the rich and there still wouldn’t be enough to pay for them. Progressives and Democratic Socialists like Bernie Sanders ignore our huge and growing national debt generated by these programs. It will burden our children and grandchildren for many generations. Who is speaking for them? Why aren’t you willing to consider effective alternatives to government-run programs? There are free market fixes that offer choice, stability, and long-term durability without increasing taxes. Instead, you scorn free markets as being “amoral” when it is the most moral system ever conceived.

Free markets, private property, and a just and impartial legal system based on natural law have brought about the greatest rise in wealth, health, and happiness in all of human history. Socialism has done the opposite. What I don’t understand is why you would put faith in politicians and bureaucrats, the same folks you disparage as being greedy and amoral in the private sector, yet when they are in the public sector you would give them great power and expect them to act nobly for the “public benefit.” They don’t. Your solution to take the best of socialism and capitalism will fail, because the socialism side of your equation will eventually fail. To fix those failures, politicians inevitably pass more laws restricting capitalism, enlarge welfare programs, and increase taxes. These are dead ends, as Sweden and the U.K. have discovered. In many cases, it has led to tyranny. There are too many errors of economics, history, and data in your letter to address here. It would be nice to think that we could sit down and rationally discuss things, but my experience with progressives is that would not be productive. I just don’t believe in utopia. [Readers may find my original article, “Bernienomics” at my blog: http://anindependentmind. com/2018/05/28/bernienomics/] Jeffrey Harding Montecito

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Given that President Trump styled himself the “law and order” president, it’s bizarre to hear him refer to John Dean as a “rat.” That’s what Mafia dons call people who tell the truth to the cops. Trump thinks Paul Manafort is being “treated very unfairly” for money laundering and tax fraud. “I think the whole Manafort trial is very sad... I think it’s a very sad day for our country,” Trump said. Is it sad that tax cheats are prosecuted? I’m not sad, and people who pay their taxes in our country are rather happy when tax cheats are found guilty. When the FBI served a search warrant on Michael Cohen’s premises, Trump characterized it as a “breakin,” implying something akin to a

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Your response to letter writer “Liberal and Proud” was a typical condescending sarcastic missive (your term) to a well-thought-out letter. What’s also typical about it, you never give the liberal credit for their beliefs, bringing up Jim Crow just skirted the issues that Mr. [Leoncio] Martins talked about. I’m surprised you didn’t bring up Robert KKK Byrd to attention on your talking point. Why don’t you live in the 2000s with the rest of us and try to achieve fairness for all people? I’ll give you credit for running the letter, albeit for your own nefarious reasons. The liberal letters always end up in the back of the bus... er, paper. Thomas Carlisle Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: The letters that end up in the back of the bus... er, paper, are those that mostly are so long they take away from shorter letters. That’s pretty much the only criteria involved. – J.B.)

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I was very pleased to read your recent article on the Montecito and Summerland Water Security Team. I got to know one of the candidates – Brian Goebel – through our active involvement in Parents for Summerland School. It is great to have someone running for Montecito Water District [MWD] who has strong ties to Summerland and surrounding areas. 6 – 13 September 2018

Brian is a strategic thinker with a cando approach to taking on challenges. I and other active community members often seek out his advice and opinions on tackling local issues. He is passionate about building strong community. This is evidenced though his varied activities – from coaching a championship youth baseball team to encouraging civic engagement via his frequent op-eds in various publications, to his work to promote environmental stewardship. We need someone with Brian’s proven track record of solving public-policy problems and collaborating with other agencies to move the MWD forward. I look forward to supporting Brian and learning more about the other two candidates and how they can drive needed change on the board. Jaclyn Fabre Summerland

Move on Wastewater

It must be over five years since Bob Hazard took up his mighty pen and described with great accuracy and objectivity the water crisis facing Montecito and Santa Barbara County. Since then, progress has been made: Santa Barbara’s RO (Reverse Osmosis) plant has been activated and is now operating, although apparently at an investment double the original estimate. The wastewater recycling companies have each developed plans for the increased recovery and reuse of the wastewater. However, each of these initiatives is being taken independently by the four or five individual water companies supplying the Santa Barbara communities. These entities should be merged into one overall water authority, at a minimum for Montecito, but ideally for all of Santa Barbara County. This would prevent the ludicrous ninemonth negotiations between Santa Barbara and Montecito water boards debating who should pay for what and incurring needless costs of executive time and presumably outside advisors. There are many interrelationships that need to be managed to provide an optimum solution. Santa Barbara and Montecito draw their water from common reserves; there are trade-offs in investments in wastewater recovery and investment for new potable water sources; greater investments in wastewater recovery could reduce the need for new potable water sources; recharging of aquifers affects well supplies; and government financing will be required for all the programs. All these issues could be resolved more effectively and at a lower cost under one executive management. Bob has implied the need for a strong executive control in most of his analyses. The unanswered key question is “How do we move these independent 6 – 13 September 2018

self-perpetuating entities into a rational management structure?” Does it require legislation? Can it be put up for vote? The management teams during last year’s [and January’s] fire and mud disasters demonstrated that they could work effectively together. Let’s put them together and move ahead more rapidly on solving the water problem. How do we do it? Roger Morrison Montecito (Bob Hazard replies: Roger Morrison is a problem solver who spent years at McKinsey advising clients all over the world on how to address and solve problems. Too often the lack of success is attributable, not to technology, but to discord between well-meaning people satisfied with the status quo and those who seek a better way – in this case, delivering a reliable supply of water at an affordable price, regardless of rainfall or climate change. The first step is to elect progressive people who share a commitment to work together to achieve the desired result. The three incumbent directors running for re-election at the Montecito Water and Sanitary districts have had a collective 29 years to solve the problem of water security and have not done so. The second step is to conclude negotiations with reliable partner agencies to serve the entire community, not the individual districts. The real answer to long-term water security is a mix of desalination, wastewater recycling, groundwater management, and conservation. Assuming a successful election of newcomers to both boards this fall, step three is for the two boards to begin collaboration and determine what savings can be derived from a community service district that might include Montecito Sanitary, Montecito Water, and possibly Summerland Sanitary. That solution might involve additional partnerships or agreements with additional agencies to achieve broader regional cooperation. – B.H.)

Honorable and Committed

Competitive campaigns can be healthy. They provide an opportunity to freely discuss issues and exchange ideas. Challenging incumbents, especially ones who have sat on public boards for over a decade – out of which too few innovative ideas for solving our community’s water challenges have come – is a good thing. Judith Ishkanian has given much of herself to this community over the past 12 years on the local Sanitation Board of Directors, but that does not mean she owns that position, nor has the ideas and open mindedness to put Montecito on a stronger and more resilient path. In her recent piece (“The Campaign Begins,” MJ # 24/35), Ms Ishkanian asserted several things that I know to be false – particularly her assertion that the slate of candidates for the Water and Sanitary Boards are backed by a group of private sector investors and have “no acquaintance with the issues.” I’m not a big lover of slates, so while I support the premise behind The Campaign’s slate – namely the belief that we would greatly benefit from having a water and sanitation board that could work well together to help us finally solve our long term water issues – I would like to say a few things about one individual candidate, who happens to be on The Campaign slate, and with whom I have worked closely and who has earned my immense respect. As a Member of the MUS Board of Trustees for the past eight years (the chair for five), I have been fortunate to work with many community and parent leaders. None has been more intelligent, hard-working, honorable and committed to the wellbeing of this community than Water Board Candidate Cori Hayman. In all my years on the school board, no parent attended more board meetings, asked more intelligent and informed

questions, and held our feet to the fire more than did Ms Hayman. A lawyer by training and currently land use chair for the Montecito Association, Cori always digs into issues, thoroughly reads budgets and is often the first person to ask the relevant question. This tenacious, no-nonsense quality of Cori’s did not always make me happy to see her walk into our board meetings, as sometimes that would mean a longer night, or a tougher conversation. But over the years I have come to like and respect and deeply value Cori as part of the secret sauce that makes our community great. Since Cori decided to run for the Water Board several months ago, we have had many conversations about water and all the various issues we face in that regard. I have been impressed by how much she knows, and how committed she is to bringing together the Water and Sanitation Boards so that once and for all we can feel confident in knowing our water security is not, on a season-by-season basis, linked to the whims of mother nature. That there are ways for us to capture the water on this side of the mountain and finally achieve 85% water independence. That finally we might not have to rely on the State Water Project for our future. Here’s what I know for sure. Cori Hayman cannot be bought. Nor do I believe can Dana Newquist, Brian Goebel, Ken Coates, or Woody Barret. That suggestion is not only false, but offensive. I don’t know these other individuals as I do Cori, but I hope we can look forward to hearing their thoughts and perspectives so we can more honestly and thoroughly understand what each hopes to bring to these very important board positions. Gwyn Lurie Montecito (Editor’s note: Gwyn Lurie is currently President of the MUS School Board of Directors. ~ JB) •MJ

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Madison Richardson, Tony Yahai, Border Circuit governor; Denny Geiler, USPA governor-at-large; ambassador Glen Holden (photo by Priscilla)

first time. Although Justin, who has had his team for six years, was unable to play in the hotly contested six chukker game against club president John Muse’s Lucchese team – fourtime winners including a three-peat between 2010 and 2012 with 10-goal player Argentinian Adolfo Cambiaso in the lineup – because of a broken hand, his 18-year-old son, Jake, a student at SMU in Dallas, was an admirable stand-in, adding two vital goals to

the final 8-6 score. More than 4,000 spectators turned out for the match for the impressive five-foot-high silver and gold trophy, crowned with an eagle, with the players, Jesse Bray, Jake Klentner, Mariano Obregon, and MVP Remy Muller, also receiving, for the first time, polo’s version of an NFL Super Bowl ring in gold, with black and white diamonds, designed by the club’s official jeweler, Tara Gray, a former Miss Alabama.

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$90 million Boeing 737 business jet, which had flown in from Hawaii, did a fly over of the Carpinteria oceanside club to mark the occasion. Among the horde of horsey hedonists turning out for the occasion were Glen and Gloria Holden, Robert and Robin Fell, Ron and Hudson Macleod, Mike and Claudia

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Uretz, Curtis Skene, Chris and Mindy Denson, Chip Lawson, Phil Heatley, Christopher Lancashire and Catherine Gee, Brian Fagan, Nigel Gallimore, James Golden, Charles Ward, Dan and Linda Walker, Paige Beard, Dana Hansen, Joel Ladin, Jennifer Zacharias, Richard and Annette Caleel, Nolan Nicholson, Chuck and Margarita Lande, Henry Walker, Amanda Masters, Luke Klentner, Morten and Lisa Wengler, Madison Richardson, Tommy Lee Jones and Kenny Loggins. From the Ashes The tangible results of One805’s Kick Ash bash at Bella Vista in Summerland in February, starring Katy Perry, Kenny Loggins, Wilson Phillips, and David Foster, among others, were on show when the first of three $200,000

mobile command units was presented to the city fire department chief, Lee Waldron, in a ceremony at the C.L. Tenney fire station, named after the longest-serving chief in department history, with 26 years of service. The colorful fundraiser, thrown at the estate of hotel magnate Pat Nesbitt and his wife, Ursula, raised a hefty $2 million, of which $1.3 million has already been distributed for first responders, victims of the Thomas Fire and mudslides, and related agencies, according to co-chair Eric Phillips. Richard Weston-Smith, executive board member, said the services needed support “year in, year out, not just occasionally.” “One805 is here to stay,” he vowed. Two other mobile command units,

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 29) Ilene Demetrios, Ray Winn, and Sandi Nicholson (photo by Priscilla)

One805 committee members and sponsors co-chair Patrick Nesbitt, Yardi creative director Tim Hoover; Kelly Johnson, Yardi philanthropic coordinator; Richard Weston-Smith, executive board Member; Arnie Brier, Yardi VP and general counsel; co-chair Eric Phillips; captain Dave Zaniboni, SBC PIO; Gail Kvistad, committee; Diana Starr Langley, executive board; chief Eric Peterson, SB County fire dept.; all to serve Santa Barbara City and County (photo by Priscilla)

which enable communications and coordination between multiple responding agencies, are being presented to the County fire department and Santa Barbara police. Turning out for the ceremony were Greg Hons, Susan Petrovich, Arnie Brier, Eric Peterson, Gordon Morrell, Kelly Johnson, Michael and Nora Hurley, and Ron and Vicki Simms. Westward Hoedown! Dynamic duo Ray Winn and Peter Kavoian certainly know how to throw a party!

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As the tony twosome, who normally host a must-attend Christmas bash at their opulent Birnam Wood manse, will be away this Yuletide, they threw a Hillbilly Hoedown bash, designed by Jonathan Alburger, complete with hay bales, Victorian underwear hanging from the washing line, yards of gingham table cloths, live chickens, and even stuffed dead squirrels with Santa Barbara quintet the Salt Martians entertaining. More than 80 guests noshed on road-kill ribs, swamp greens, fried green tomatoes, and Brother Bubba’s

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PHILANTHROPIST

philanthropic efforts extend to the local medical community;

On the international stage, McCune and SAGE provided

in 2007, she arranged a leadership donation through SAGE to

instrumental support to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, among many other efforts.

London to build an indoor Jacobean theatre, which opened

Sara Miller McCune is the founder and executive chairman

McCune’s

in early 2014. Through her connection with Shakespeare

of SAGE Publishing, with subsidiary companies and sales

philanthropy to her investments of time and service. She is a

offices across the U.S. and five continents. McCune remains

past president of the Santa Barbara Foundation Roundtable

production of the London-based Richard III and Twelfth Night .

actively involved in the company’s ongoing expansion and

and was a member of the University of California, Santa

McCune founded the Santa Barbara-based Miller-McCune

development. She is also cofounder and president of the

Barbara Foundation Board of Trustees for more than two

Center for Research, Media and Public Policy, publishing the

McCune Foundation, which awards grants to grassroots

Friday Evening, September 14, 2018 Sara On Miller McCune We Honor Our 2018 Legends

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Globe Centre-USA Inc., McCune supported the Broadway

On Stage at The Granada Theatre.

decades. Currently, she serves atthe Council for Arts &

award-winning magazine Pacific Standard. The magazine and

organizations in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties that build

Lectures at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the

center’s mission now reside with the Social Justice Foundation,

“social capital” with an emphasis on opportunities for the poor

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at

a nonprofit organization supported by SAGE Publishing.

and underserved.In memory of George D. McCune, Sara’s

Stanford University; and Social Science Research Council.

Sara Miller McCune Philanthropist

husband, mentor, and eventual business partner until his death

McCune is a graduate of Queens Colleges of the City University

A passionate supporter of the arts, McCune was on the

of New York and the recipient of honorary doctorates from

board of the Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts

Queens College, the University of Sussex, the University of Bath,

from 1998 through 2009, serving as chief financial officer

and California State University Channel Islands. She has also been

Reflecting her long-standing interest in philanthropy,

throughout the restoration of The Granada Theatre and

recognized as an honorary alum of the University of California,

especially in promoting social, educational, economic, and

its reopening in 2008. She has served on CAMA’s board of

Santa Barbara, and an honorary fellow of Cardiff University and

environmental justice, McCune and SAGE were founding

directors, and remains a member of the planning committee

of Pembroke College, Oxford. She is a recipient of the prestigious

supporters of The Justice Project. Additionally, McCune’s

for its 2019 Centennial Season.

London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award.

in 1990, the foundation sponsors a Graduate Dissertation Fellowship at the UCSB Department of Communication.

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frequently collaborates with other arts and cultural institutions

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performances, collaborations and a deep commitment to music education, the Symphony touches the lives of residents of all ages throughout the region.

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The Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts, Ensemble such as Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, Disney’s Fantasia, The His songs have worldwide and has won two Grammy® Awards. inspired by his 1985 Oscar® Theatre Company and UCSB Arts and Lectures series. The

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left his musical on community, “the soundtrack of our lives.” Over winning “Song of the Year.” Symphonyimprint also connects artistic programming Foreman’s sumptuous Amadeus scheduled for March 2019. and education activities through thoughtful relationships such

Symphony employs more than 100 local andthe regional the last four decades, his chart-topping songs haveTheincluded ASCAP Harry Chapin H as that with legendary Hollywood composer Elmer Bernstein,

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The Santa Barbara Symphony’s Music Education Center serves Kabaretti was selected as Music and Artistic Director in 2006 many more. In addition to his string of successful recordings, Guild of Music Supervisor more than 10,000 students each year throughout Santa Barbara

A Gala with captivating surprises. both solo andThese asmission-driven a member of the programs famed duo County. and equal-access support students through their primary, secondary and high school years

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Messina, Kenny became the first rock star to dedicate Award for his outstanding Unexpected bursts of talent to major thrill. through a comprehensive and indispensable curriculum that houses, and regularly engages acclaimed guest artists such

both in-school and extra-curricular activities. Augustin Hadelich, Zuill Bailey, Anne Akiko Meyers, Glenn himself toincludes recording music for children and families.asHis album and soundtracks. His gift fo

Enchanting visual experiences. To ensure connection and impact beyond its subscriber base,

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Return to Pooh Corner remains the best-selling Santa children’s is unparalleled, and it’s be Barbara Symphony, as well as soloists from within the

Music and song delight. highly talented Santa Barbara Symphony orchestra roster. such as20 an annual Family Eve album ofappeal theto last years. In Concert, 2016, New he Year’s released his latest can remember. the Santa Barbara Symphony produces programs with broad

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Music Review: SB Jazz Collective

azz. In a decade of electronic desktop computer music and musically void cover bands, we find a new local straight no chaser band, the SB Jazz Collective [SBJC], designed by millennial and UCSB grad Andrew Williams. To get a taste of this ear candy, head over to their next gig at SOhO nightclub on Tuesday, September 18. Meanwhile, talking about the band is best served by our interview this week:

Q: How did the SB Jazz Collective start out, what spawned it? A: I wanted to take this generation and revitalize the music and jazz scene in Santa Barbara, to take the burning passion I had for the music and find others who were willing to help spread the joy of playing jazz with me. I founded and started to build out the SBJC in February 2017, after graduating from UCSB and being involved in the jazz program there (I majored in electrical engineering but did music on the side), by reaching out to local

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musicians, posting recruitment ads on Craigslist, as well as reaching out to the music directors in each of the colleges for referrals and to recruit students. My goal was to unite jazz musicians and vocalists from each of the local colleges: UCSB, SBCC, and Westmont, along with young, professional players in town. I built the organization around three ambitions: to unite the local players from the colleges and the community and provide them a space regularly to jam, express their music, and network with a group of energetic and ambitious individuals. To allow them to promote their music, identity, and the organization itself by providing them with opportunities to perform at new venues in the community; and to foster outreach with the community as well as with friends/family/coworkers of the musicians to help revitalize and grow the music and jazz scene. Is this an open group – can anyone join? The SBJC is an open group of young,

The SB Jazz Collective takes five at their pre-SOhO gig [from left]: Colby Pines, Jacob Acosta, Brie Sanchez, Alex Ispa-Cowan, and leader Andrew Williams

professional jazz musicians. Aside from the bi-weekly jam sessions, we regularly rotate the musicians that play at our established gig venues. The band is Alex Ispa-Cowan on his Godin multiac gypsy jazz guitar, Jacob Acosta on his Fender Deluxe Precision Bass, Evan Kramer on drums, Colby Pines on his Yanagisawa saxophone, our two vocalists, Brie Sanchez and Sydney Kovacs, and myself on my Yamaha YPG635 keyboard. Jacob and I are UCSB grads, Brie and Evan are Westmont grads, Alex is a jazz musician from Chicago, Colby a jazz musician from New York, and Sydney a Santa Barbara local. We also regularly book gigs with other musicians in the community, including Jon Harris and Matt Perko on drums, and Pablo Lopez on bass. We tend to play the jazz standards but are transitioning into playing more original compositions from our members. Old jazz standards form a great foundation for us as musicians, and our own compositions allow us to express the passion we have for the music on a deeper, personal level. Where do you see the group heading...? To continue to recruit musicians from all the colleges and everywhere, to expand our gig opportunities at private events and major music venues in Santa Barbara County, it would be amazing to see our group on stage at Campbell Hall, the Lobero, and the Granada theatres. I hope to bring back a jazz festival to Santa Barbara, one for all the local jazz players and bring in guest artists from Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and other countries. I want to give back to the community with music scholarships for students and special events for our gig venue owners. Also, to bring it back to how people experienced the jazz

Quiet as it’s kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. – Toni Morrison

mid-century in a club, really listening and experiencing it with their friends and loved ones in a composition of song and dance. For you personally about jazz: any certain musician or song of influence? I personally enjoy straight-ahead jazz, bebop, Latin jazz, and Neo-bop. My main musical influences are mostly jazz pianists Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, Monty Alexander, Billy Taylor, Oscar Peterson, and more recent artist such as Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, Esparanza Spalding, and Joey Alexander. What are the first songs on your playlist now? “Giant Steps” by Joe Alexander, “What Is This Thing Called Love” by Wynton Marsalis, and “Invitation” by Bill Evans. Anything else you want the readers to know..? Our mission is to uphold and extend the jazz legacy with the next generation of ambitious players. We really encourage people passionate about jazz to connect with us. If you’re a local musical, band director, or really enjoy the music, we invite you to get involved with the organization. Lito Hernandez, an extremely talented local player in town, adopts the term Millennial Jazz – “music that reflects [our] generation and who we are. Just imagine music from all corners of the world conversing in one center point. Now imagine that in an explosion of sound!” I hope to have the organization align itself to and extend beyond that. •MJ 411: SBJC Facebook page www.face book.com/sbjazzco 6 – 13 September 2018

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are exempt from planning permits and will allow multiple ADUs on a qualifying lot. “I think it’s good for us to have our own standards and ordinance, and if we have to come back later and make strategic changes based upon changes in the law, then we will obviously do that,” said planning director Dianne Black. The new ordinance amendments that affect inland areas will go into effect Friday, September 14; Coastal Zone amendments will go into effect once they have been certified by the California Coastal Commission. For applicants that have an approved Land Use Permit or issued Exemption for a proposed ADU on or before August 14, the Land Use Permit or Exemption shall remain valid provided that a building permit is issued by August 14, 2019. Otherwise, the approval or issuance shall be invalid. For more information, visit www. sbcountyplanning.org.

Montecito Sanitary Latest

At their board meeting last week, the governing Board of Directors of the Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) took action to clarify confusion in the community regarding the Sanitary District’s role in a recycled water project to serve the Montecito area. MSD Board members Judith Ishkanian, Tom Kern, Jeff Kerns, Warner Owens, and Bob Williams, unanimously voted to pass Resolution 2018-912, making it clear that MSD has been and continues to be ready and willing to recycle wastewater discharged to the public sanitary sewer system from inside homes and businesses in Montecito. “The Board of Directors wanted to set the record straight,” said general manager Diane Gabriel, who said there has been much erroneous information distributed about the District’s perceived lack of support for a water recycling program. “It’s simply not the case,” she told us, adding that Montecito Water District (MWD) is the only special district that can purvey water. “We need permission or collaboration with MWD in order to get a recycled water program in motion.” The MWD Board of Directors will soon decide on the type of water recycling project that is best suited for their service area, and once that decision is made by the MWD Board, both Districts are prepared to work together to make it happen, Gabriel said. In the meantime, MSD is working on a pilot facility for recycled water to be used for District landscaping. “We’ll be able to demonstrate to the community how using recycled water will work on our own garden and help Montecito Water District determine the best course of action,” 6 – 13 September 2018

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Gabriel said. The resolution, which is available to view online, clarifies that the Sanitary District, since 2004, has designated a site for recycled water treatment processes in anticipation of MWD’s request for recycled water, and for wastewater to be recycled and used in the MWD service area, the Water District would need to fund the production and distribution of recycled water, with the exception of recycled water that would be solely used and funded by the Montecito Sanitary District on its own property. The resolution goes on to reiterate the Sanitary District’s support for recycled water. MWD Board members Tobe Plough and Floyd Wicks, along with MWD general manager Nick Turner, were present at the MSD Board meeting and expressed their support and appreciation for MSD taking action to pass this resolution. For additional information, visit www.montsan.org.

Climat, Buttonwood Farm Winery, Fess Parker Winery, Gainey Vineyard, Kitá Wines, Lafond Winery, Qupé Winery, Santa Barbara Winery, Vinemark Cellars, Zaca Mesa Winery, and Captain Fatty’s Brewery. “As always, we could not put this event on without our generous sponsors,” said Justine Sutton, Development & Communications coordinator for Friendship Center. Sponsors include Heritage House, Lynda Fairly, David and Louise Borgatello, Sally Boughton, Tom and Nancy Crawford, Sharon Kennedy Estate Management, Penny Mathison and Don Nulty, Dr. and Mrs. Randall VanderMey, Sue Adams, Boone

Graphics, Castle Wealth Planning, LLC, Easy Lift Transportation, Inc., First American Title Co., Vangie Herrera and Al Anglin, Home Care Assistance, Sharon and Andy Siegel, Vince Turano and Steve Warner, Linda Seltzer Yawitz, Pat Forgey and Jerry Wilson, Karolyn Hanna, Andriana and Sophia Hohlbauch, Sey Kinsell, Kathy Marden and Pamela Vander Heide, Agris and Elza Petersons, Senior Planning Services, and Mary H. Walsh. The event is Thursday, September 13, from 4 to 7 pm. Tickets are $75 each. For more info, visit www.friend shipcentersb.org. Friendship Center is located at 89 Eucalyptus Lane. •MJ

Gardens Are for Living

Wine Down at Friendship Center

Next week marks the 8th annual Wine Down & Big Heart Awards at Friendship Center in Montecito; members of the community are invited to join for a relaxing and festive gathering in the courtyard with 12 local wineries/breweries pouring their beverages for tasting, along with hors d’oeuvres by Spices N Rice, and live music by Montecito Jazz Project. The annual Big Heart Awards will be presented to notable supporters and guests will have chances to contribute much-needed funds with a silent auction of unique gift baskets and a small live auction courtesy of auctioneer Stephen Meade of KJEE. A portion of the proceeds from this event go to LEAP (Life Enrichment Activity Programs), providing music and movement sessions led by local entertainers and instructors to engage Friendship Center members in body, mind, and spirit. Participating wineries include Andrew Murray Vineyards, Au Bon Montecito Journal newspaper.indd • The Voice of the Village •

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Students Awash in Squash

When I spoke with the director, Robert Graham, about this program he replied with his British accent, “Our Mission Statement is ‘Helping Students Succeed in Life through Squash and Education.’ We are small SBSOS students with assistant directors, Hannah Vidmar (on left), Rebecca Walsh (on right), and Director Robert Graham (middle)

hat is the most effective way to break the cycle of poverty for kids and motivate them to enter college or trade school to make something of themselves? Answer: Capture their imagination and interest. then direct them down a new life-path. I am talking about a program with the unlikely name of Santa Barbara School of Squash (SBSOS) which has as its primary focus the promotion

of a small group (30) of motivated youngsters, taking them from their humble surroundings and opening up a new world through the discipline and athleticism of mastering a sport combined with academic tutoring, a dose manners and discovery. Their goal is 100-percent high school graduation rates for their kids and to make sure they are either college-bound or have an alternative education plan.

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and the atmosphere feels more like a family, and so, we can be more effective with our students in this afterschool program. We get to know them and earn their trust, then coach them in academics as well as the sport of squash to improve school grades and their bodies. “We have a speaker series with local individuals and business leaders and expose the kids to possible paths in their life; we have field trips, students do 15+ hours of community service each year, and we get them to think about their future. We run our program over the summer weeks too and keep contact with our students who have gone on to college, sending them quarterly ‘care’ packages.” Santa Barbara School of Squash is a member of, and uses the best practices of, the national organization Squash Education Alliance. Starting at 4th grade and all the way through high school, SBSOS takes a select group of committed low-income pub-

lic-school kids, and has each one sign a contract – along with their parents – spelling out the level of commitment SBSOS expects; a contract that they must all sign and re-commit to each year. Once in the program, they are swept up after school three days a week throughout the year and brought into a new environment of athletics, learning, and high expectations imbued with the notion that they will go to college, the first in their family. This is something these kids never experienced, and it lifts them to higher aspirations because that is the atmosphere and energy that the SBSOS staff assistant directors, Rebecca Walsh and Hannah Vidmar, bring to this program. SBSOS has been in operation since 2006 and the results are paying off, as many “graduates” have entered college receiving more than $2.2 million in collective scholarships for entering colleges such as Berkeley, USC, and Bates and local private schools, Laguna Blanca, and Garden Street Academy. That is a huge accomplishment for such a relatively small program of 30 kids! And this has been made possible by the generous donations from local Montecito and Santa Barbara residents and local foundations. Robert explained that SBSOS is attempting their first large fundraiser this year and hopes the community will get behind it and support it. He explained, “We are trying to have an elegant evening event where people can have fun and enjoy themselves, plus help support the kids at the same time. One of our board members, Brendan Searls, owns the Viva Restaurant in La Arcada Court, beside the turtle fountain and that is where it will be held. The event is titled ‘Viva Las Vegas’ and naturally has a casino theme and will have a special guest appearance that night. Save the date, October 21, a Sunday, 5 pm. I hope you all will come!” Okay, Robert, you convinced me; I’ll be there. •MJ Save the Date: The evening of Sunday, October 21, at Viva in La Arcadia Court Contact: Santa Barbara School of Squash, 1530 Chapala St., Suite F, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 www.SBSOS.org

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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 16)

ing roller coaster of drama,” Elkins explained. “All roller coasters start by going up, to build the anticipation. You can barely see over the horizon. It’s a lesson in choreographing the dynamic of performance. It’s not the same loop over and over, it changes direction, changes speeds. We’re trying to build you a delicious meal or an interesting roller coaster. Hopefully, not both at same time so you don’t (retches).” Then there’s the witty battle of the sexes danced to Stephin Merritt’s take on a Scottish-folk song “Wi’ Nae Wee Bairn Ye’ll Me Beget”, in which the woman cleverly top the man’s ever-increasing ambitious overtures with an even more powerful trump card. The movements follow the tone of the piece more than the words, the result a delightful duet. We’re imagining that delight – and a healthy dose of awe at the dancers’ prowess – will be the likely response at this weekend’s performances. At the very least it will be the physical manifestation of another of Elkins’s Friday Club interjections: “Oh, no. You can hear my inside thoughts.” After the world premiere of Elkins’s new work, the second half of the Friday and Saturday night performances at 8 pm will be comprised of performances from all of the other choreographers who have previously participated in DANCEworks over the decade, including Aszure Barton, Brian Brooks, Larry Keigwin, Mark Dendy, Adam Barruch, Kate Weare, Shannon Gillen, and Doug Varone, who will presenting or perform solos to close out the evening. Tickets cost $25 & $40 ($15 for students), or $105 for VIP tickets, which include entry to post-performance reception and a special commemorative book. Call (805) 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.org.

second full-length album, The Storm, a record that evinces both the Los Angeles-based vocal powerhouse and multi-instrumentalist’s blues grit and hip-hop bounce. Another big name on the bill is Booker T. Jones, the Memphis soul icon responsible for such classic Stax hits as “Green Onions”, “Hang ‘Em High”, and “Time Is Tight”. Among Jones’s accomplishments are membership in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and four regular Grammys, including as recently as 2011. Over the years, his trademark keyboard work has shown up on albums from Ray Charles to

Neil Young, while he also produced recordings for Rita Coolidge, Bill Withers, and Willie Nelson (Stardust). The California Honeydrops blend of near-encyclopedic knowledge of musical styles, genres, and idioms with the sheer desire to keep an irresistible dance groove going have made them a frequent sellout at SOhO. Now on the road to promote Call It Home: Vol. 1 & 2, a new double-disc live album, the band will take their jam to the great outdoors. Blues-rocker Quinn DeVeaux brings a joyous energy to his shows. Tickets to the Santa Barbara Polo & Wine Festival cost $75, or $175

for VIP, which includes access to the VIP indoor/outdoor polo clubhouse and the stage side tent, plus a free sommelier-guided tasting, complimentary champagne, and cheese hour and additional hors d’oeuvres, plus – perhaps most importantly – special restrooms. A portion of proceeds will be donated to Notes for Notes, the nonprofit organization that designs, equips, and staffs after-school recording studios inside Boys & Girls Clubs, offering youth the opportunity to explore, create, and record music for free. Visit http://sbpoloandwine.com for tickets and more information. •MJ

Eat, Drink, Dance, and be Mallet

The high-goal season at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club came to a conclusion Sunday when Klentner Ranch defeated Lucchese in the final of the Pacific Coast Open. But the high times continue at the gorgeous grounds of the 87-acre property nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Southern California foothills this Saturday, September 8, with the Santa Barbara Polo & Wine Festival, California’s first event to combine polo, local wine, and music. The festival’s second edition features two polo matches, a full day of musical performances from notable pop artists, access to wines from Santa Barbara’s finest wineries including a free tasting session, food pairings, and much more. ZZ Ward, who headlines the noon to 8 pm event, last year released her 6 – 13 September 2018

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his wife, mother to his two children, Michael and Robert, and grandmother to his four grandchildren. He credits Bonnie for getting him through college, and taking up the slack when his acting jobs were slow to come. After college, Bonnie and Bill went to New York to find work. He began his rounds of auditions and odd jobs in 1953, and was thrilled to be hired by a summer stock company that had a nine-week season.

AGING IN HIGH HEELS

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Ms Fead moved from Beverly Hills to Malibu and then Montecito in 1985. She is married to retired music exec Bob Fead; between them they have four children, five grandchildren, and a dog named Sophia Loren. Beverlye is the author of I Can Do this; Living with Cancer, Nana, What’s Cancer and the blog www.aginginhighheels.com, and book Aging In High Heels. She has also produced a documentary: Stage Four, Living with Cancer.

William Daniels: An Actor’s Actor Little brownhaired, blueeyed Billy Daniels and his sister Jackie circa 1936

The Long Career

Bill Daniels says he’d still respond to a budding actor’s request for advice by saying, “Don’t do it,” though he only half means it (photo by Alan Light)

ob and I had met Bonnie (Bartlett) and William (Bill) Daniels through our great friend Louise Latham. She was a wonderful actress, and a dear friend who always had lovely parties filled with interesting people. Luckily for us, Bill and Bonnie divide their time between L.A. and Montecito, so we met them at one of her parties. I had always admired Bonnie and Bill separately as actors, so I was happy to meet them in person. Bill had told us bits and pieces of his childhood, but it wasn’t until I read his very truthful book, There I go Again, that I realized what an interesting childhood Bill had. Little Billy Daniels’ mother had Billy working when he was eight years old as a song and dance act on radio. Irene (his mother) heard him shuffle his feet to some music and started his dance classes at three years old at the Sonny Hoey Dance Academy. He had an act with his younger sisters called The Daniels Family, and they went to every audition and every available show that presented youngsters singing and dancing. He and his younger sisters would sometimes work until midnight, and their mother would bring them home at 1 am to catch a few hours of sleep before they woke

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up for school. Bill’s mother would have given Rose, the stage mother in Gypsy, a run for her money. She didn’t miss an audition, nor a show. She knew every line to every song, and one time when Billy forgot the words in the middle of a performance, she came down the aisle, got up on stage, sang it with him until he got back on track, and then went back and took her seat. She laid his path for him and he took right to it. He is probably best-known for his roles as Dr. Craig, Mr. Feeny, John Adams, or the voice of Kitt, the car, but we’ll get to all that later. First, let’s see how he got there.

The Children’s Hours

Billy was a pleaser and to please his mom, he learned all the tap steps, and all the songs and never let out a peep of a complaint. This discipline would serve him well when he got to Broadway later on in life. Billy and his sister Jackie danced for an audition for Nick Kenny’s Children’s Hour, and he said, “No, this is radio, they need to sing,” so Irene took them home, taught them to sing in harmony, brought them back, and they got the

gig. They weren’t paid for any of this, but Irene felt it was good experience. Because of that, in later years, Bill made sure he was paid properly for all his performances. Pretty soon, their sister Carol would join them. She was not quite three years old. They started singing for Alice Clement’s Horn and Hardart Children’s Hour, and the three of them were chosen to be part of the show’s permanent company of performers. They did this show for years. He continued doing it even when he was acting in Life With Father (1945-47). They performed at NBC, where he eventually acted in Philco Playhouse’s Somerset Maugham Presents and The Robert Montgomery Show. Daniels was in St. Clement’s Catholic School when one of the nuns noticed he could harmonize and she put him in the choir. She then led him to the High School of Music and Art, where he stayed for two years. He heard about a part and went to the Empire Theatre at the age of 15, auditioned for Life With Father – and not only did he get the job immediately, he went on tour with them. Life with Father had an unprecedented run of seven years. He started off as the assistant stage manager-understudy and ended up playing all the brothers until he went into the army. At this point of his life, he thought of himself as an actor, not just a song-and-dance man.

Off to College

On advice from a mentor who suggested he go to a real university, he applied to Northwestern and got in. First he served his time in the service and then received word that he had gained admission in the drama department, which is where he met Bonnie Bartlett. He asked her out for coffee and that turned into an almost 70-year love affair. Bonnie, a marvelous actress in her own right, became

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Bonnie was first to get the big break. She was asked to appear in the TV soap opera Love of Life. She played Vanessa, the star, for three years. The most exciting thing that happened to Bill in that period was being cast by Tennessee Williams to play Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He was on his way! From there, he played Jimmy Porter in Look Back In Anger, and thought he had reached Nirvana. He didn’t know his big break was yet to come. He was cast in Edward Albee’s oneacter called The Zoo Story, and won an Obie for his outstanding performance. Great reviews and important parts followed. He hasn’t stopped since. He acted, directed, and took the job of a voice in a car called Kitt in Knight Rider, which was a huge success (and still is). He was in Two for the Road, a classic with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. Next came A Thousand Clowns on Broadway and then On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, followed by a complete switch to a half-hour program on TV called Captain Nice. He then played Dustin Hoffman’s father in The Graduate, John Adams in the Broadway play and movie, “1776,” and was nominated for a Tony, won two Emmys (one along with Bonnie) for playing Dr. Craig in St. Elsewhere. He played Mr. Feeny for seven years in Boy Meets World, and two other variations of that program. When he walks down the street, people are often excited and yell, “Hey, Mr. Feeny, I miss you!” I can’t even begin to record all his nominations, honors, and parts in movies, on stage, and on television. During all this activity, he still found time to be president of the Screen Actors Guild for two years. One of his favorite jobs between gigs was to cook for his grandchildren, until his son Robert turned vegan. Bill says, “I don’t cook vegan.” He is only one of the very few actors who is still working steadily and happily at the age of 91. Over the years, he was frequently asked if he had advice for young actors, and this is what he always said: ”Don’t do it.” He says he would still say that, but only to get a laugh. •MJ 6 – 13 September 2018

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What is the Difference Between Socialism and Communism?

Socialists can own personal property while communists cannot. Socialism is “Communism light,” without the purges and murders of the bourgeoisie. Both Communism and socialism promote a larger and more intrusive government, massive central planning, redistribution of income and higher taxes on private businesses and the financially successful. Karl Marx set the tone for collectivism with the publication of Das Kapital in 1867 and The Communist Manifesto in 1848 when he wrote, “The theory of communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.”

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Greed Hustlers

A core belief of socialists is that capitalism only succeeds by exploiting its workers. Large corporations are all labeled as greedy, but small businessowners, union leaders, government worker unions, and able-bodied people who take government handouts in lieu of working are not greedy, according to socialists. The truth is that most businesses, large and small – like most individuals – try do the right thing, at the right time for the right reason. There are bad apples in every pot, even in the Catholic Church. For most people, it is more desirable to be seen as caring and compassionate liberal than to be labeled as conservative with a cold heart and racial biases.

Socialism’s Record: Fail and Fail Again

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that it cannot be ignored. Allowing the government to decide what is best for you is the antithesis of freedom of choice. Democratic socialists want to own, manage, and control everything – climate, healthcare, environment, distribution of wealth, welfare, wages, steel prices, foreign trade – everything. Socialism completely ignores the diversity in workers’ ambitions, drive, capabilities, and desires. Socialism is a false God, more likely to fail than free market capitalism. Historically, free market capitalism has been the economic system that has increased the living standard for the greatest number of people. Socialism has failed to produce either robust economic growth or greater personal freedom. Under Margaret Thatcher, Britain sold its socialized industries and strengthened its free market system. Productivity rose and so did per capita income. France hovers between slow growth and no growth with its mandated socialist 35-hour workweek and public service union strikes. In Russia, Bolsheviks calling for the abolition of private property, seized power by exterminating the bourgeoisie. Twenty million Soviet citizens were put to death by the regime. China’s economy stagnated after the Communist takeover. Deng looked to entrepreneurial free markets in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, South Korea. He wisely encouraged foreign investment in private industry to reverse his country’s downward slide. Fans of Socialism point to Finland, Norway, and Denmark as role models for a progressive welfare state. These three Scandinavian countries together have a population that is less than half of California’s 40 million residents. None has the military strength to prevent invasion; all rely on NATO for their national security.

My Own Experience

I must confess that as a 22-year-old hotshot graduating from Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs 60 years ago, I rushed home to tell my old-fashioned father of my joy at discovering “democratic Socialism” thanks to my uber-liberal professors at Princeton. The Woodrow Wilson School was a primary pipeline for training would-be future leaders at the U.S. State Department. My dad was an independent small-business owner who had to meet a payroll every week to survive. He simply smiled and chose to ignore the rantings of the fruit of his loin, who had drunk the academic Kool-Aid at one of America’s great universities. After subsequently spending two years of military service in the back seat of an F-89 jet fighter, and 15 years with corporate IBM and then American Express before serving as president, CEO, and chairman of the board of two hotel chains – Best Western and Choice Hotels International – I saw first-hand how excessive government interference could crush the hopes and dreams of thousands of our franchised hotel owners and operators, and their employees. I learned that free-market capitalism, despite its flaws, is the greatest system in the world to raise workers out of poverty, catapult them to the middle class, and then enable them to own their own hotels, and groups of hotels. This was especially true for immigrant hotel owners who arrived in this country dirt poor, but through their own individual initiative, personal responsibility, and hard work achieved their American dream, an impossibility without the structure and advantages of free-market capitalism. The suppression of capitalism, with its replacement by state enterprises and central planning, is a risk not worth taking. •MJ 6 – 13 September 2018

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE INVITING BIDS

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

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

BID NO. 5683 DUE DATE & TIME: SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 UNTIL 3:00P.M. MAINTENANCE & REPAIR OF TRASH RECYCLING CONTAINERS The City has a multi-year program to refurbish public trash and recycling containers throughout the city. This project requires a contractor to un-install containers in six (6) batches of twenty (20) and one batch of five (5). Contractor will un-install containers and take to the City’s annex yard located at 401 E. Yanonali Street. Once refurbished (per the schedule provided), contractor will pick up the containers from the City’s annex yard and re-install the containers in the original locations. Interested parties may download copies of the above mentioned Request for Bid by visiting the City of Santa Barbara’s website,

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To download bid packages and to submit a bid, new vendors must register. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California B-General Building Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ___________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager Published September 5, 2018 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Allure Nail Salon, 623 W. Central Ave, Lompoc, CA 93436. Duyen Thi Lam, 605 South X Street, Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 30, 2018. 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 Deborah Sanchez. FBN No. 2018-0002417. Published September 5, 12, 19, 26, 2018. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Koru Gallery, 1530 Marquard Terrace, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Jeremy Ian Wolfgang Miller, 1530 Marquard Terrace, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 28, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed

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BID NO. 5678

BID NO. 5679

DUE DATE & TIME: September 25, 2018 UNTIL 3:00 P.M.

DUE DATE & TIME: September 24, 2018 UNTIL 3:00 P.M.

Steam Hydro Spraying of Harbor Commercial Areas Scope of work includes Steam Hydro Spraying at the Santa Barbara Waterfront commercial area located at 117, 125, and 132 Harbor Way. A pre-bid meeting will not be held. The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

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

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids. Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

Marina Restroom Steam Cleaning Scope of work includes monthly steam cleaning of the 5 Santa Barbara Harbor marina restrooms. A pre-bid meeting will not be held. The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

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

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE INVITING BIDS PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5680 DUE DATE & TIME: SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 UNTIL 3:00P.M. TRANSPORT, REFURBISH, REPAIR, SANDBLAST AND POWDER COAT PUBLIC TRASH RECYCLING CONTAINERS Interested parties may download copies of the above mentioned Request for Bid by visiting the City of Santa Barbara’s website,

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To download bid packages and to submit a bid, new vendors must register. Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ___________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager Published September 5, 2018 Montecito Journal

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City of Santa Barbara Notice Inviting Bids Bid No. 3928 1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for Bid No. 3928, the FY2019A Pavement Maintenance Project (“Project”), by or before September 27, 2018, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located on various streets throughout the City, and is described as follows: Repair various streets by performing asphalt dig outs to repair failed areas; tree root pruning and concrete curb and gutter replacement; asphalt cold milling and asphalt hot mix overlay; reconstruction of existing non-compliant curb ramps; retrofit existing curb ramps with truncated domes; construct new curb ramps adjacent to overlay streets; traffic striping and marking; relocate and protect existing signs and roadway name stamps; perform traffic control, notifications, and postings, complete and in place. 2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 75 working days from the effective date of Notice to Proceed. 2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $4,500,000.

License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): A. 3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

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

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

Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half. 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

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

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

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

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

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Date: ________________

William Hornung, C.P.M, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) September 5, 2018

2) September 12, 2018 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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Commitment to Kindness & Mindful Pause

Santa Barbara clinical psychologist Dr. Diana Hill’s Workshop in Compassionate Mind Training is based on the research that shows that current neuroscience and contemplative practices support the notion that our experience of compassion is central to living a happy, effective, and flexible life. Yet our brain architecture and modern stressors continuously overstimulate our threat and drive systems. Hill’s workshop, which takes place 1 to 4 pm on Sunday, September 9 ($65), draws from evolution science, affective neuroscience, and ancient practices to explore this dichotomy and cultivate practices to increase the flow of compassion. She will experientially teach the underlying principles and processes of Compassionate Mind Training, which includes awareness of emotion regulation systems, rhythm breathing, cultivating a compassionate self and using it to both heal the inner critic and receive and give compassion to others. In her private practice, Hill takes a holistic approach drawing from her rigorous background in the science of behavior and her training in cognitive behavioral, mindfulness-based, and contextual behavioral therapies, which includes a biopsychology degree from UCSB, a master’s and Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a collaboration with Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry in researching Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She is a specialist in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and has advanced training from ACT co-founders Drs. Kelly Wilson and Steven Hayes. Emily Benaron’s Mindful Pause class takes place every Thursdays from 4:30 - to 5:15 pm beginning September 13. The supportive mindfulness meditation practice includes gentle instruction and guided meditations to cultivate awareness, well-being, concentration, presence, curiosity, connection, and compassion by offering clear and kind attention to our ever-changing human experience. Admission is by donation.

Anthropology Straight Up

The live science talk series “Anthropology Straight Up” returns with a presentations on the subject of the afterlife this coming Tuesday, September 11, at the University Club of Santa Barbara, 1332 Santa Barbara Street. The evening begins 5 pm with full bar service followed by three different speakers: psychic-medium Tony Morris, past-life regression hypnotherapist Peter Wright, CPLT, CHT, LBLT, and cultural anthropologist Dr. Kohanya Groff. Morris held management posts with Fortune 500 firms including MCI Telecommunications and Coca-Cola for 27 years until he had a major spiritual awakening and discovered he had special intuitive gifts. He will share his experiences with connecting with the spirit world and discuss his upcoming first book, Little Red Wagon, which details his own spiritual journey. Peter Wright will then share his experiences with past-life regressions. Wright, a certified hypnotherapist with a master’s degree from University of Pennsylvania, is one of only 40 Past-Life Regression Therapists in the U.S. certified by the International Board for Regression Therapy. He also serves on the Board of the Santa Barbara Chapter of the International Association for Near-Death Studies. Groff, who received her master’s and Ph.D. in anthropology at UC Riverside where her research involved revitalization practices, policies, and rights of contemporary Chumash American Indians, will discuss cross-cultural views on death and the afterlife. Tickets are available at the door or in advance online at https://nightout.com/events/anthropology-afterlife/tickets. The suggested donation is $15 for general admission, or $25 for VIP seating and wine. All proceeds benefit BOAS Network, a non-profit providing a free and education, information, and entertainment forum for anthropology through public outreach, social media, and videos featured on their website http://boasnetwork.org/. Email boasnetwork@gmail.com for more information. •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

MISCELLANY (Continued from page 30) Leslie RidleyTree, Nancy and Bill Kimsey, and Gayle Gelles (photo by Priscilla)

Melissa and David Dvorak (photo by Priscilla)

Aristides Demetrios and Harry Gelles (photo by Priscilla)

Gayle and Pam Beebe (photo by Priscilla)

The Salt Martians Bluegrass Band (photo by Priscilla)

Allen the Alligator (photo by Priscilla)

Jordan, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Robert and Marlene Veloz, Tom and Eileen Mielko, Anne Towbes, Sandi Nicholson, Lee Luria, Fannie Flagg, and Richard and Annette Caleel. Despite the profusion of inflatable alligators filling the swimming pool, the sizzling soirée was anything but a la-coste fête. Fancy Footwork DANCEworks, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary at the Lobero, wraps its month-long residency with New York choreographer Doug Elkins and a heavenly host of past alumni this weekend (September 7-8). Final rehearsals, open to the public, took place last week, part of the innovative collaboration between Dianne Vapnek’s SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara and the Lobero Theatre Foundation, designed to offer notable American choreographers a fourweek residency in which to create, rehearse, and premiere the new 40-minute work Kintsugi Samba on

Eric Parras and Carolyn Cryer of Doug Elkins Dance Company at the Lobero (photo by David Bazemore)

the venerable theater’s stage. DANCEworks has already contributed to the careers of several groundbreaking dancers including Aszure Barton, Larry Keigwin, Brian Brooks, Mark Dendy, Adam Barruch, Doug Varone, Shannon Gillen, and Kate Weare. It promises to be quite a show. Star in Her Eyes With our tony town’s main rue, State Street, having a record high of 38 empty storefronts in July, Santa Barbara resident Erica Brown is determined to buck the trend. She is opening her first retail boutique, Dylan Star, inside of Salon U,

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The 50 guests noshed on pies from Christopher’s pizza oven before wishing her a rousing Happy Birthday. An amazing lady. This is It The former Hot Springs Road estate of Grammy-winning singer Kenny Loggins is up for grabs for $4.4 million. The 5-bedroom, 3-bathroom, 3-story 3,974-sq-ft house on three acres was built in 1981. Rubber Meets the Road

Jackson, who would have celebrated his 60th birthday last week, netted $74 million in 2015 alone. His estate, now renamed the Sycamore Valley Ranch, was bought by Barrack in 2008 for $22.5 million and includes a 12,598-sq-ft 6-bedroom Normandy-style mansion and three guest houses. The Grape Escape It’s the kind of marathon only the French could devise. The 26.2-mile Marathon du Medoc in Bordeaux runs through some of the

Sightings: Dennis Tito, the first self-financed American astronaut, lunching with Robert and Robin Fell at the SB Polo Club... Comedian Steve Martin checking out Jeannine’s on CVR... Francois Delahaye, head honcho of the Sultan of Brunei’s Dorchester Collection, lunching at the Coral Casino

Erica Brown opens new boutique

owned by crimper Michael Romo, at State and Islay. The store is an expansion on her careers in hair styling, fashion merchandising, and photography. “I have loved the art of making somebody feel good in their own skin,” says Erica. “I think everyone deserves to feel good about themselves. “We all work hard for our money. Shopping should be special fun.” Dylan Star opens on Sunday, September 16, with complimentary tacos and margaritas, and music by DJ Flea. The event will be the first of several themed nights that she intends to instigate, including several pop-ups to highlight local designers as well as men’s clothing lines. 94 and Counting

It was a Pizza Party for birthday girl Leslie RidleyTree (photo by Linda Blue Photography)

Montecito über philanthropist Leslie Ridley-Tree celebrated the 44th anniversary of her 50th birthday with a pizza party hosted by her good friend, Christopher Toomey. 6 – 13 September 2018

world’s finest vineyards, with vintage wines available at every one of the 23 drink stops. Not to mention oysters, foie gras, cheese, entrecôte steak, and ice cream. It goes without saying that diet is not high on the agenda. Some 8,500 runners participate each year, 90 percent in fancy dress, with the picturesque route passing through more than 50 chateaux. The race on Saturday, September 8, has more medical support than any other marathon in Europe, unsurprisingly.

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Craig McCaw’s Ferrari a winner (photo by Lothar Spurzem)

Despite paying a world-record price of $38.1 million six years ago for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, which formerly belonged to British racing driver Stirling Moss, Montecito-based cellular phone billionaire Craig McCaw seems to have made a good investment. A similar model of the same year – one of just 36 in existence – just sold for a record $48,405,000 at a Sotheby’s auction in Monterey during Pebble Beach’s Concours d’Elegance. The car is one of the earliest models, being just the third off the Maranello production line. It goes from zero to 60 mph in 6.1 seconds and has a top speed of 174 mph, dominating the motorsport scene in its heyday. It contested 20 races in 1963 and 1964, completing all of them unscathed. Ferrari fans say similar models could go for up to $100 million in due course. Sweet Hereafter The late Michael Jackson, whose Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos is still on the market, despite the sale price for the 2,698-acre property being slashed by owner Santa Barbara Polo Club patron Tom Barrack from $100 million to $67 million in February, 2017, is raking in more money since his death in 2009 than he did while he was alive. Since his untimely demise from a drug overdose at the age of 50, the singer has grossed more than $900 million.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 State Street Standards – Among the veteran venues participating in September’s 1st Thursday is 10 West Gallery (10 West Anapamu St.), which hosted the SB Studio Artists preview party last weekend, and opens “Behold, A Brush”, featuring guest artist Amy Ryan, who imbues her ceramic sculptures of wet paint brushes with whimsy and personality. Charlie Patton also shows an energetic 10-ft abstract painting on canvas…. Claudia Borfiga, Karen Schroeder, and Andrew Baker offer a night of printmaking demonstrations at Channing Peake Gallery (105 East Anapamu St.) to celebrate the Santa Barbara Printmakers Summer Juried Exhibition…. Enjoy “consumable art” at Hoffman Brat Haus (2 West De la Guerra in Paseo Nuevo) where you can indulge in any of 30 European beers and brats while enjoying live music and more traditional art by Highting Heisoon Han and Lizbeth Kyle-Savage in the HOP room…. In the performance arena, Amber & Smoke – the Ventura folk ‘n’ soul duo who also appear tomorrow night at Cambridge Drive

Community Church – hold sway at Marshalls Patio, while artist, musician, and composer Dick Dunlap, whose work “Summer Nocturne” is on view in the exhibition of the same name at the SB Museum of Art, performs popup style piano improvisations in the museum’s Preston Morton Gallery. In the It ain’t over till it’s over department, 1st Thursday After Hours returns, only it’s a movie instead of music under the stars at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Showing is Gaviota: The End of Southern California, the SB documentary that explores one of the most threatened biodiversity hotspots in the world. WHEN: 5 to 8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: 962-2098 or www. downtownsb.org/events/1st-thursday FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Two-Plays: Women Forward– DogStar Theater Company and DramaDogs are collaborating in co-creating an innovative project that shares cast and perspective via highlighting women in roles, both dramatic and comedic, regarding choice, introspection and transformation, and women who play their significant part in the humanity

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Three for 1st Thursday – Downtown SB’s monthly art-and-culture walk gets a sorely needed injection of fresh blood for its first event of the new season, including two new Pop-Up art venues for visitors to enjoy. Santa Barbara Visual Artists Gallery’s (1019 State St.) debut broadens the nonprofit organization’s profile from periodic shows with an exhibition featuring works by 24 local artists in diverse media, ranging from pastel to glass to a piece created from debris from the Montecito mudslide. The two-month display will also feature live demos, local music, and pop-up wine tastings….. Striking abstracts by Peggy Ferris, urban-inspired works by Madeline Garrett, abstract wall sculptures by Michael Irwin, postWarhol V.I.P. portraits by Metrov, charming small sculptures from Dug Uyesaka, and elegant fiber works by Susan Venable are all part of the pop-up at Paseo Nuevo in the empty retail space previously occupied by Big Dogs. Tonight’s 1st Thursday serves as a preview for the official grand opening on September 15…. Also new to the art tour is Santa Barbara Art Works (28 East Victoria Street), an inclusive art studio-gallery where artists of all abilities are welcomed and given the opportunity to work as professional artists. The 1st Thursday exhibit “Self Portraits” features works of 15 resident artists. Wine and light hors d’oeuvres will be served…. Finally, a pop-up of a different approach takes place during the 1200 block of State Street via Our Common Table, from the Lois & Walter Capps Project, which will set up long tables and chairs the full length of the block to connect our community through essential and authentic dialogue. Neighbors, families, community organizations, and businesses are encouraged to join together for food and conversation. WHEN: 5 to 8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: 962-2098 or www. downtownsb.org/events/1st-thursday

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Folk ‘n’ Soul – Ventura County duo Amber & Smoke had its genesis two years ago when vocalist Amber Olive asked to sit in on one of Bill Rotella’s [performances], and had a big impact on both the audience and the star. Last year, Olive was featured as a guest artist on Rotella’s 2017 solo album entitled, yep, amber and smoke – released, by the way, shortly before the Thomas Fire gave new meaning to those words. Bill is the son of L.A. session musician and composer Johnny Rotella (Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett) and the nephew of big-band arranger Jerry Gray (Glenn Miller “String of Pearls”). Rotella, who sings and plays a variety of guitars, harmonica, and ukulele, has previously recorded nine albums as a soloist and with L.A. bands Dakota and Baywood. Pairing with Olive’s soulful and captivating voice, the new group has since recorded a full album together and is working on a third disc. They play originals and retro classics, both of which will be heard tonight when the duo performs tonight at the Cambridge Drive Concert Series, kicking off the new season of the intimate singer-songwriter concerts at the venue in Goleta. Coming later this season are Ryanhood, Burns & Kristy, Phil Salazar & the Kinfolk, Jill Knight, Teresa Tudury, One for the Foxes, and Buddy Mondlock, among others. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Drive, Goleta COST: $15 with advance reservation and $18 at the door INFO: 964-0436 or www.cambridgedrivechurch.org

of the world. The drama is Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, a dialogue about everything from incontinence to infidelity that portrays aging without sentimentality and provides observations about forgiveness, reconciliation, and our own fates. The separate characters on stage in the first act are actually the same “everywoman” at different ages in the second act, each of whom lay bare the truths of our lives – how we live, how we love, what we settle for, and how we die. Lettice and Lovage, a comedy from Peter (Equus) Shaffer, centers around a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an English country house who butts heads with a fact-conscious official at the house. The women, originally at odds with each other, eventually find an enduring and endearing friendship. The plays share the same cast and will be performed in repertory for two weekends only as the companies partnering with local women-ownedand-operated businesses. WHEN: 7:30 pm September 7, 9, 11 & 13, plus 2 pm September 8 & 15 WHERE: Upstairs in the Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center, at the intersection of Chapala and De la Guerra streets COST: $28 general, $23 students and veterans (for special $46 two-play tickets, contact the box office INFO: 963-0408 or www.centerstagetheater.org SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Sea Glass in September – Who hasn’t delighted in finding a

My brain was drowning in grease. – Sherman Alexie

piece of water-worn broken glass nestled amid the shells on a leisurely beach stroll? Well, some folks do more than just admire or collect the shards or other ocean-related stuff – they turn them into objects of art. The Santa Barbara Sea Glass & Ocean Arts Festival celebrates the various approaches via showcasing handmade sea glass jewelry and ocean-themed art by artists from across the country and beyond. Now in its fourth year, the festival – which was housed in its creators’ seaside town of Carpinteria for its first two installments – has grown to nearly 50 artists, vendors, and speakers offering a little something for everyone. This year’s featured artist, Elizabeth Roberts, turns ocean trash into treasure, creating her stunning pieces out of marine debris that she picks up herself on the Oregon coast. Her work illuminates the effects of singleuse plastic pollution while fostering awareness about our impact on the marine environment, which she’ll also discuss in a talk titled “Make Art Not Trash: An Artist’s Call to Action”. Newcomer Marie hélène Jouve is bringing her bold sea glass jewelry all the way from French Polynesia, while prior participant Monica Branstrom comes from Italy, where she leads her Metalsmiths in Florence Workshop. Festival favorite Mary T. McCarthy, a sea glass expert, reiki master, and award-winning author, will be back for a third year offering lectures on “The Healing Power of Beachcombing” and “Ways to Identify 6 – 13 September 2018

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Lowdown on the Blues – Underneath all of Boz Scaggs’s pop hits back in the 1970s – when his multiplatinum album Silk Degrees peaked at No. 2 and spawned such pseudo-soul singles as “Lido Shuffle” and “Lowdown” – Scaggs has really always been a blues singer. He actually served as guitarist and occasional lead singer with the Steve Miller Band in the 1960s before launching his solo career, which grew with 1972’s My Time and 1974’s Slow Dancer before Degrees launched him into another level. His 1980 album Middle Man spawned two Top 20 hits, “Breakdown Dead Ahead” and “Jojo”, before he took a lengthy hiatus during the ‘80s. Scaggs re-emerged and released such albums as Fade Into Light, Dig, and a collection of standards called But Beautiful plus the R&Binflected Come On Home and the Southern soul-influenced Memphis in 2013. Just this past July, however, Scaggs dove deep into his original genre, putting out a new album simply called Out of the Blues. Hear his still silky smooth but quirky laid-back voice take on selections from his half-century plus career when Scaggs returns to town to play the downtown jewel of a venue. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $39 to $185 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org

Your Sea Glass”. New this year is live music, featuring the aptly named local bluegrass band The Salt Martians, plus Harbor Ramblers and PanA-Cea. A portion of festival proceeds will benefit the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network – the local nonprofit that rescues, rehabilitates, and returns injured and orphaned animals back to their native homes – which experienced severe damage to its facilities during the recent holiday fire. WHEN: 10 am to 5 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 N. Calle Real COST: $7 on Saturday, $5 on Sunday ($10 weekend pass) INFO: www. santabarbaraseaglassand oceanartsfestival.com or (805) 6870766 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Tentet Today – The Grammynominated Phil Norman Tentet makes a rare local appearance at SOhO for the Santa Barbara Jazz Society’s monthly meeting. The band, whose smaller size yet similar approach makes it seem like

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a compact big band, reads like a Who’s Who of great jazz players. Leader Norman (tenor sax/clarinet) is accompanied by the great Christian Jacob (piano) and Kevin Axt (bass) of Tierney Sutton’s band and others, plus Dick Weller (drums), Brad Dutz (percussion/vibes), Mike Scott (guitar), Carl Saunders, and Ron Stout (trumpet/flugelhorn), Scott Whitfield (trombone), Rusty Higgins (alto & soprano sax/flute), and Roger Neumann (baritone sax). The ensemble will be exploring new ideas from gifted arrangers such as Alan Broadbent, Kim Richmond, and Bob Florence, plus its own Whitfield and Neumann, drawing on selections from Then and Now, Encore, Live at Catalinas, and other CDs they’ve released over the last 20 years in what is sure to be the SOhO jazz event of the season. WHEN: 1 to 4 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $25 general, $15 SBJS members, $7 members who are local professional jazz musicians or full-time students INFO: 962-7776 / www.sohosb.com or 687-7123 / www.sbjazz.org •MJ

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Gina’s Back in the Villa – Singer-songwriter Gina Villalobos spent many a post-high school year in Santa Barbara, honing her chops and composing skills in a variety of bands (the acoustic harmony trio Liquid Sunshine and the guitar-heavy The Mades) before her initial solo sojourn as a purveyor of Americana/alt-country. She performed in a cornucopia of clubs and at various other venues around town until leaving for a larger area back in the 2000s. We’ve seen her back here periodically, and tonight’s gig finds her on the “Back West” tour with fellow female folkie Amee Chapman, who leans more toward the country-blues-soul side of the genre. Also on the bill are the still currently SB-based singer-songwriters Kate Graves and Natalie D-Napoleon. Hummable melodies and haunting emotions are a certainty. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

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More magic-goers: Nina Terzian, Gloria and Peter Clark with Don Seth

venture is a dream come true for them. They had a soft opening night recently and there I got the scoop from Arlene. “The Cabaret will be

open on Thursdays and Fridays through September, and then adding Wednesdays and Saturdays. From 5 to 7 pm, there is no dress code and no

reservations. After 7 pm, it’s coat and tie with reservations. There won’t be dinners served, but there is a small menu of appetizers like shrimp cocktail, chili, finger ‘Sam witches’ and some sweets.” Of course, they’ll be serving up “platters” of magic – hence the name. There will be a dance floor and a combo plus magic tables for close-up magic when the club is completely finished. I’m sorry I missed the ladies room. I hear its spark-takular with platinum ceiling tiles inset with rhinestones. The renovation is costing more than $1 million. Larsen’s intend to donate guest passes to various charities for their auctions. The décor is funky and fun. It is based on a fictional Palace of Gold in northern Spain where a Count and Countess entertained magicians. The Larsens have assembled antiques and various pieces of décor. According to Milt, “Guests will find themselves

seated on furniture that might have come from a castle or a local thrift store.” The lighting is dim and the music soft. This opening evening, Mark Collier was strolling around delighting us with his expertise doing card tricks. He is just one of the top magicians who will perform at the club. Also there was a “pirate,” Captain S. Rokk, who played classical guitar. If you’d like to be part of this private club for membership information, call Arlene at (805) 564-1060 or Allison at (805) 845-0555.

Ferragosto

Because I lived in Napoli, Italia, for three years and my son was born there, I have a soft spot for all things Italian. Of course, Don and I said, “yes,” when invited by our Italian friends Dr. Jim Barbabella and Frank

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Circolo Italiano vice president Joel Garbarino with past president Gabriella Schooley and president Dr. Bill Vollero at the Ferragosto celebration

and Jean Umanzio to a Ferragosto picnic in lower Manning Park. The group giving the celebration was the Circolo Italiano social club. They are under the umbrella of the Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation (ICHF) of Santa Barbara. “The purpose of ICHF is to foster greater understanding of the culture, history, language, and arts of Italy, past and present, by providing funds for scholarships, awards, education, worthy institutions, and by sponsoring cultural programs and events.” The ICHF chosen logo is the world-renowned drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci around 1487. We’ve all seen it, depicting a male figure in two superimposed positions with both arms extended and one with legs apart. It’s sometimes called the “Proportion of Man”. The image exemplifies the blend of art and science during the Renaissance. Leonardo was possibly the most diversely talented person ever: a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. Frank Umanzio was one of six who founded Circolo Italiano social club in 2000. They now have about 400 on their email list. The club provides opportunities to learn and experience Italian culture through events and presentations whether you are Italian or not. The current president is Dr. Bill Vollero. Ferragosto is based on an ancient Italian holiday. That’s why everyone in Italy rushes out of town in August. It’s actually a perfect time to visit Rome when there are no crowds. Instead,

we went to Manning Park to cele- VNHC executive director Rick Keith, CEO/president Lynda Tanner, Regatta chair Francie Lufkin, and brate with antipasti of caponata, caprese co-chair commodore John Koontz at the thank-you party salad, and meatballs in tomato sauce. That was just the first course. Then came barbecued chicken marinated with rosemary garlic, lemon and olive oil, and grilled Italian sausage. Yum is right! There was plenty of vino tinto (red wine) to accompany the dishes. Did I mention dessert? Chocolate cake, white cake, and cheesecake. We waddled home for a nap.

Charity Regatta

The Santa Barbara Yacht Club (SBYC) held their annual cocktail party in honor of Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care (VNHC) as a “thank you” to sponsors and members of the fundraiser Regatta to be held in September. Admission is open to everyone for an exciting day filled with racing, cruising, music, and games. There’s a champagne reception and barbecue dinner. You can also visit the SB Maritime Museum or enjoy the Beer Garden. As VNHC CEO/president Lynda Tanner said, “The Yacht Club has raised $1.3 million in the 14 years they’ve had the Regatta.” VNHC helps 12,000 folks each year. Speaker Judy Rawles, SBYC member and VNHC beneficiary, reported that “No one is turned away.” A nurse founded VNHC in 1908, and the Yacht Club can claim an equally long history. The evening was dedicated to teachers who did such an outstanding job during the Thomas Fire and debris flow. Speaker Teresa Koontz, SBYC member and educator, explained, “Carpinteria’s schools were closed Dr. Jim Barbabella with the Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation (ICHF) and Jean and Frank Umanzio at the Circolo picnic for Ferragosto

VNHC honored teachers: Jocelyn Tipple, Patrice Warwick, Valerie Yoshimura, and Mary Beth Lee

VNHC cocktail party speaker and teacher Teresa Koontz and Judy Rawles, who spoke about VNHC services

for six weeks, but we were 805 strong.” The following teachers were selected to represent their schools: Carpinteria School District: Christine Gilbert, Nichole Hughes, Krista

Munizich, Gretchen Tofflemire, and Debra Tursick; Santa Barbara School District: Omar Espinoza and Patrice Warwick; Cold Spring School District: Amy Campbell and Johanna Thorpe; Montecito School District: Jacki Hammer and Vicky Harbison; Laguna Blanca School: Valerie Yoshimura; Our Lady of Mount Carmel: Mary Beth Lee and Jocelyn Tipple. These teachers went above the call of duty to arrange alternate classrooms, revise lesson plans, and support children mentally and emotionally. Commodore John Koontz was there to welcome everyone and Francie Lufkin, SBYC staff commodore and Charity Regatta chair, thanked the group for coming. For more information about the Regatta, contact lailan. mcgrath@vnhcsb.org or call (805) 9655555. As VNHC says: “There When You Need Us Most.” •MJ

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