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The Partnership goes to Hollywood

Pat McElroy and Les Firestein invited to represent Montecito-based Partnership for Resilient Communities on the Ellen show, p. 6

Village Beat

Jameson Lake at 83% capacity after last week’s rain, p. 12

Under a Million

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Editorial

Bob Hazard on why it’s vital to donate to the Partnership for Resilient Communities now to help fund the installation of steel nets in Montecito

Tuesday Talks is co-sponsored by El Montecito Early School and El Montecito Presbyterian Church. This parent workshop series is free and open to the public and is designed to give parents support and inspiration in their journey through early childhood parenting.

All Tuesday Talks are held in the Library at El Montecito Presbyterian Church from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free childcare and dinner are provided for all children beginning at 5 p.m. with a reservation (contact: bkennedy@westmont.edu).

January 29, 2019 – Sharon Wilcox, MS: Parent Talk (or how to mindfully talk with your children without losing your mind!)

March 19, 2019 – Jane Wilson, Ph.D.: Growing Gratitude in Our Homes May 7, 2019 – Monica Babich: More with Less: How to Apply Minimalist Principles at Home in Parenting to Foster a Happy Family Life El Montecito Presbyterian Church 1455 E. Valley Road (805) 969-3566 www.elmopres.org

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Letters to the Editor

Partnership for Resilient Communities featured on Ellen; CAMA’s first concert of year; Santa Barbara Symphony’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”; LUM Art Zine Show; memorial service for Gene Sinser; Allen Leech nuptials; Rob Lowe teams with Atkins; Jason Reitman directs Ghostbusters sequel; Natalie Portman on Facebook; Goop in London; Katy Perry gushes over Orlando; Carol Channing passes; sightings A collection of communications from local residents Brent Zepke, Larry Lambert, Margie Grace, Michael Klein, and Rita Serotkin

10 This Week in Montecito

A list of local events happening in and around town

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Partnership for Resilient Communities hosts meeting at MUS; bridge updates; last week’s storms caused lake levels to rise, but water quality is still an issue

14 Seen Around Town

American flag made from fire hose dedicated; Santa Barbara Maritime Museum presentation on 1969 oil spill; Mural Room conservation project receives award

20 On Life

Jodie Hollander hosts meeting to discuss grief and healing power of poetry

23 Brilliant Thoughts

There have been various attempts to fix the wrongly named months in our calendar year, but nothing has stuck

24 On Entertainment

Steve Libowitz talks with Mimi deGruy about documentary on late husband, Mike; film events around town; six questions with comedian Paula Poundstone; classical concerts; acoustic acts

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27 Discovering What Matters

Why we believe money will bring us happiness and how to combat that feeling

28 Your Westmont

Pulitzer Prize columnist Peggy Noonan keynotes President’s Breakfast; Katherine Hayhoe explores global warming

33 Ernie’s World

Ernie finds himself in a compromising position in Zion

38 Open House Directory 39 Aging in High Heels

Beverlye Fead profiles Susan Gulbransen, who has a long list of local credits, including beginning the restoration project for the Granada, and teaching at the SB Writers Conference

Legal Advertising 41 Our Town

Jon Batiste’s Q&A and solo concert at UCSB

42 Calendar of Events

Bill Frisell concert; Trombone Shorty plays Chumash; How to Transcend a Happy Marriage at Center Stage; Ismail Lumanovski and Inspector Gadje Balkan brass band; Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo; 50th anniversary of SB oil spill; Martha Redbone’s local debut; The Sound of Music at Granada; annual Women’s Philanthropy Luncheon;

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Four homes in Montecito on the market for under one million dollars

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Guest Editorial

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

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f you do nothing else this week, pull out your pen and write a check to the Partnership for Resilient Communities, or go to the website (partner shipsb.org) to make a tax-deductible donation through the Santa Barbara Foundation. Contributions can be as low as $10 or as high as $250,000. The future of Montecito may depend upon it. Here is why…

Assessing the Community Risk

Last week’s mandatory evacuation was but one warning that Montecito’s steep canyons remain at high risk for debris flows. “The threat of a repeat debris flow is real for at least the next five years,” according to Thomas Dunne, Professor of Hydrology & Geomorphology at UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. “Urgent action is needed to protect life and property in Montecito,” says Dr. Matthias Jacob, Principal Geoscientist, BGC Engineering and author of Debris Flow Hazards and Related Phenomena.

With this past week’s rains, the current Montecito debris basins have filled to 33% of their capacity but did not overflow. Heavy equipment has been busy removing rocks and other debris from existing basins, preparing us for the next storm. An added level of protection is needed now in order to slow down the velocity of any potential debris flow and to catch debris before it hits the basins.

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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.

TV Spotlight on the Partnership

Ellen DeGeneres with Pat McElroy and Les Firestein on her TV show (photo by Michael Rozman / Warner Bros)

The dynamic duo drove down to the Warner Bros. studios in bustling Burbank, where Ellen’s long-running show is taped, after Les, a longtime friend of the former Oscars host, reached out to her about the new organization, which is trying to raise $5.4 million to install steel nets to prevent disastrous debris flow in our community creeks in the future.

“We were contacted within 24 hours by a producer,” says Pat, executive director. “In less than 72 hours everything was arranged. It was like being shot out of a rocket.

“It was put on YouTube and has had more than 40,000 hits. Ellen has a powerful audience. She was very gracious to us and our families, who were all invited down. She encouraged everyone to check out our web-

site and asked all of them to support us.”

As my photo shows, Les and Pat also received a substantial $20,000 check, courtesy of Shutterfly, a Redwood City company specializing in image-publishing services, towards their project.

Inspired by Itzhak Legendary New York-based violinist Itzhak Perlman mesmerized the sold-out audience at the Granada when he appeared in CAMA’s – Community Arts Music Association – first concert of the New Year.

It was his sixth appearance for the century-old organization going back more than 50 years, having

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strophic mudslides a year ago, got priceless publicity, not to mention a $20,000 check, when they appeared on Montecito TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres’s eponymous Los Angeles program.

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TO THE EDITOR

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

Judges or Psychics?

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t is difficult to decide whether to laugh or cry at a recent judge’s ruling denying the U.S. government’s right to use the census to count the number of U.S. citizens. Laughing because it is deceivers’ dream to have every action of this presidential administration – including masking the difference between citizens and illegals – decided by particular judges, and crying for the same reason.

The power to count the number of citizens in the United States is given to the Executive Branch under the Constitution (Article I, Section 2.3).

President James Madison, a co-author of the Federalist Papers, wrote, “A popular government without particular information, or the means to acquire it, is but a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”

Every ten years, the census is the means by which the government obtains the “information” concerning the number of their owners, the citizens, and where they reside, which will be used to determine the alloca-

tion of the members of the House of Representatives, funding, and other important purposes.

Recently, Federal Judge Jesse Furman ruled that the census could not include a question about U.S. citizenship. Disappointingly, he disregarded the lack of evidence and ruled that the official in charge of the census, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, “concealed the true motives” for his “arbitrary and capricious” decision to include a question about U.S. citizenship. This ruling raises the question of whether there is, or are, any reasons for Judge Furman to ignore the case record and rule as a psychic?

Judge Jesse Furman, the brother of President Obama’s chief of the Council of Economic Advisors Jason Furman, was nominated for the court

by President Obama, whose words were, “If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists... all else is lost.” However, with respect to the 2010 census, the words of another author of the Federalist

Papers, Alexander Hamilton, “the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint” may be applicable.

For the 2010 census the Obama administration, including Jason Furman, wanted to “statistically correct” the count of people by adding fictitious people to areas where he, and his administration, felt there were “under-counted” minorities. In effect, they wanted to convert the counting to a statistic, where a statistic is something that cannot be counted but must be calculated. For example, your weight could be counted or measured, but the average weight of your family is a statistic since it must be calculated. Disraeli captured the difference with the quote “There are lies, damn lies, and statistics,” where obviously he was not speaking of the count but of the counters.

The Justice Department’s appeal, based on the lack of evidence supporting the opinion, is being opposed by, among others, the state of New York, who argue that Judge Furman’s psychic skills substituting for evidence is “moot” after he issues his ruling. Is it the objective of Judge Furman’s supporters that all future appeals of any judges’ final order should be eliminated? Or, to delay the decision until after the approaching printing deadline, or to litigate every Constitutional right of this administration from counting

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votes in the Electoral College to counting citizens? Or, are the words of author Tom Clancy that, “The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government” applicable?

Motives sometimes seem to defy logic in the political world, where often there are reasons to both laugh and cry.

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No Diplomacy

In defending Naomi Schwartz’s letter to Caltrans (“Caltrans’ Arrogance, MJ # 25/1), you say that “perhaps a little more diplomacy was in order from the Montecito crowd.” There was no diplomacy from the Montecito crowd. The Montecito crowd did not say, “Let’s talk.” The Montecito crowd said, “No.” You were silent about Salud Carbajal and the closing of the southbound on-ramp. The Montecito crowd rewarded Carbajal’s cooperation in converting Coast Village Road into the third lane of the 101 by sending him to Congress.

And Bob Hazard editorialized against Measure M, which called for county roads to be maintained in their current condition. The Montecito

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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 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

Treasure Hunt in Carpinteria Seventy-five vendor stalls will overflow with treasures and merchandise at the Museum Marketplace on the grounds of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History. This popular monthly fundraiser features antiques, collectibles, hand-crafted gifts, plants, and great bargains on gently used and vintage goods of every description, including jewelry, furniture, housewares, clothing, books, toys, and much more.

When: 8 am Where: 965 Maple Avenue in Carpinteria Info: 684-3112

Book Signing at Chaucer’s Patrick Kilpatrick shares from his new book, Dying for Living: Sins and Confessions of a Hollywood & Libertine Patriot, Volume I. With an entertainment career spanning more than 170 credits as lead actor, producer, screenwriter, director, and global entertainment teacher, Kilpatrick is now sharing his life in his much-anticipated two-volume memoir.

Revealing details of a volatile, yet privileged upbringing, and a searing, often hilarious and scandalous literate look behind three decades of working with Hollywood’s elite, Kilpatrick tells a rollicking tale that will keep you turning the pages.

When: 7 pm Where: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State Street Info: 682-6787 FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

parents about their experience.

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Soothe Your Qi A day to relax, rejuvenate, and reconnect with your true essence. Ray and Jessica Kolbe will lead this retreat that will make you say, “I wish I always felt this good.” The day will include breathwork, Qigong, professional massage, guided meditations, sound vibration healing, therapeutic yoga, beach time, and more.

When: 8:30 am to 5 pm Cost: $185 Reservation: Jessica@JessicaTaiChi. com Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music.

A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public.

When: 3 pm Where: First United Methodist Church, Garden and Anapamu Streets Cost: free

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TEDxLagunaBlancaSchool Explore the unknown, the undiscovered, and the unfamiliar. In this age of unprecedented discovery, Laguna Blanca students seek to plumb the depths of human experience. The community is invited to join in mapping UNCHARTED territory across the realms of science, art, technology, culture, space, and time. Based on the theme UNCHARTED, the event will feature 12-15 speakers from all around the world, all of whom were selected after a tight application process. Speakers range from Time Magazine’s Female Indiana Jones to a former navy pilot captain and ex-POW to an Emmyaward winning wildlife documentary filmmaker. The event will take place on the school’s Hope Ranch campus in the Merovick Gymnasium. To meet the speakers, visit tedxlagunablancaschool. com/speakers-part-2.

TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment, and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics – from science to business to global issues – in more than 100 languages.

When: all day Where: 4125 Paloma Drive Cost: Limited tickets are available for $75 Info: tedxlagunablancaschool.com/shop

Women’s Philanthropy Luncheon The Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara hosts the 35th Annual Women’s Philanthropy Luncheon at the Biltmore.

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” – Jane Austen

Storytelling at Montecito Library Michael Katz tells stories with his own highly energetic, animated, and interactive style of storytelling. A favorite at the Montecito Library, Michael has a magical way of creating a relationship between audience and performer. The title of this performance is “See Me, Hear Me,” which inspires children with folktales and original stories that teach them about compassion for themselves and others.

When: 4 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Leaf Learning Lesson Leaf Learning, a seminar style guide to the health and wellbeing applications of cannabis, is scheduled at the Carpinteria Woman’s Club in Carpinteria. The session is intended for adults and open to the public.

Presented by KopSun LLC, a cannabis information and health resource company, Leaf Learning takeaways include the differences between hemp and marijuana, the endocannabinoid system, how CBD and THC differ, dosing options, and varying methods of use. The presentation will be followed by an opportunity for questions and answers.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 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: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 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 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Knox School Free Pre-Testing Day If you’re curious whether your child qualifies to apply to The Knox School of Santa Barbara, join on Pre-Testing Day. Your child can take a pre-test evaluation conducted by experts in giftedness for free. Testing takes approximately an hour. During the group testing, parents are asked to stay and fill out an observation form on their child. Depending on the results, parents can use the scores for application to The Knox School or the school will recommend further testing.

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When: Mondays, 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50 (includes lunch) Info: 969-0859 MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

Spirituality Matters

by Steven Libowitz

Soothe Your Qi by the Sea

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ith the stress and extravaganzas of the holidays a few weeks in the rear view mirror, Qigong and Tai Chi instructor Jessica Kolbe is collaborating with her yoga instructor husband Ray Kolbe in a daylong immersion this weekend for people to nourish and pamper their bodies, hearts, minds, and spirits. Among the activities beyond practicing the two disciplines during the “Soothe Your Qi: A Day to Relax, Rejuvenate, and Reconnect” workshop are periods of deep breathing and guided meditations, sound healing, a professional massage, beach time, and even a gourmet lunch.

Jessica Kolbe also teaches and leads workshops through SBCC School for Extended Learning and privately at various venues, and also has a myriad of offerings online, including videos and full courses. The Kolbes also produce Wellness TV shows for the local TV access channel TVSB and lead study/immersion trips to China. Jessica will teach “Happy Heart: Dance to Free Your Emotions,” combining Nia movements with Tai Chi energy work, on

Jessica Kolbe hosts Soothe Your Qi, a day of self-nurturing that includes yoga, QiGong, massage, and more

Saturday, February 2, through SBCC, and lead an “Introduction to Qigong and Tai Chi: Self Care, Stress Relief, Grace & Balance” class on Saturday, February 16.

She talked about QiGong and the Soothe Your Qi event earlier this week.

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THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative.

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Duplexes Sold!

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

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More on the Nets The Partnership for Resilient Communities hosted an informational meeting this week to discuss the steel nets slated for three canyons in Montecito

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n Tuesday, January 22, over 100 Montecito residents gathered at Montecito Union School to hear from the Partnership for Resilient Communities, the group of private citizens who have set out to move forward with installing environmentally-friendly Swiss-made steel nets, which catch debris as it comes down the hillsides. “When the events of last year happened, I think all of us were searching for our ‘lane,’” said MUS superintendent Anthony Ranii.

“Some of you in this room helped by digging people out, or taking care of families that really needed the most support, both emotionally and financially. The Partnership for Resilient Communities’ lane is the mountain itself.”

The Partnership is comprised of former SB Fire Chief Pat McElroy, Brett

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healing the heart Saving a Life

With a feeling of tearing in her chest, Michele rushed to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital where she learned she was having a heart attack leading up to cardiac arrest. If she hadn’t made it to the hospital quickly, she wouldn’t have survived. Within 30 minutes, Dr. Michael Shenoda intervened and saved her life. Dr. Shenoda is an interventional cardiologist affiliated with the Cottage Heart & Vascular Center.

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Matthews, Gwyn Lurie, Joe Cole, Les Firestein, Mary Rose, Ron Pulice, Alixe Mattingly, Cathy Cash, and Hollye Jacobs, who came together following the 1/9 debris flow to look for ways to prevent, or at least slow down, future debris flows. “We knew we had the opportunity to tap the resources in Montecito and beyond,” said Lurie. “We set out seeking solutions to help us not feel so vulnerable living under this beautiful mountain.” Local government quickly got on board, and after much geological study and engineering work funded by the Partnership, the County granted emergency permits for the nets in December.

Montecito Division Chief of Operations Kevin Taylor spoke to the crowd, explaining that the nets represent a mitigation measure to protect the community from future debris flows. “As we lean towards resiliency in our communities, we have to find other mitigation methods besides our current debris basins,” Taylor said.

It’s estimated that there is 25-30% regrowth in our hillsides following the 2017 Thomas Fire; it takes five years for the watershed to completely restore itself to its original condition.

“The threat remains this winter and for at least the next three winters,” he added.

McElroy said that the 1/9 event was the last incident he worked before his retirement, reminding the attendees that 23 members of our community perished; 165 people were injured; 900 people were rescued in the first 12 hours; 527 homes were destroyed or damaged; 28 businesses were damaged; and 1.2 billion dollars in assessed property value was washed away. “We had to ask ourselves, ‘how

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Seen Around Town

Montecito Bank and Trust president George Leis, Mayor Cathy Murillo, Montecito Bank and Trust Chairman and CEO Janet Garufis, and PCVF co-founder Hazel Blankenship at the flag dedication ceremony

by Lynda Millner

Fire Hose American Flag

The flag for the dedication ceremony at the Courthouse

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onors, partners, and supporters gathered at the Santa Barbara Courthouse for an unusual dedication ceremony – a 7-foot-by-9-foot American flag made out of fire hose sourced from the Montecito and Santa Barbara fire departments and used in the Thomas Fire. It was made to honor the First Responders of the Montecito mudslides by retired Santa Barbara City fireman John Carrillo.

The flag will be on display in the main foyer of the courthouse until

February 9 when it will be permanently installed at the main branch of Montecito Bank and Trust at 1010 State Street, or perhaps a school. The bank donated $10,000, which goes to local veterans and first responders Flag artist John Carrillo with his wife, Susan, at the of the 805 through Pierre Claeyssens Courthouse for the presentation Veterans Foundation (PCVF).

In attendance for the ceremony were Ms Millner is the author of The Magic Makeover, Mayor Cathy Murillo, First District Tricks for Looking Thinner, Supervisor Das Williams, PCVF Younger and More co-founder John Blankenship, chief Confident – Instantly. If you have an event that of Montecito Fire protection District belongs in this column, Chip Hickman, Chairman and CEO you are invited to call Lynda at 969-6164.

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of Montecito Bank & Trust Janet Garufis, bank president George Leis, and Superior Court Judge Michael Carrozzo. Judge Brian Hill bought a smaller flag, which will hang in his courtroom. They can be ordered by calling (805) 969-0695 and each is signed and numbered. They come in various smaller sizes and all support veterans and first responders.

The artist, John, said he made the first one for himself but a friend thought he should make a run of them.

PCVF co-founder Hazel Blankenship heard about it and it grew from there.

The red came from red Montecito

Fire Protection District hoses and the white from the Santa Barbara City Fire Department hoses. He paints the blue area on more hoses.

George Leis spoke, “I am proud of all the small loans Montecito Bank & Trust made to victims, both individual and business, of the mudslide who needed our help after the disaster.” As Das Williams said, “Darkness touched us.” Hazel Blankenship reminded us that the motto of PCVF is “Never to be forgotten.” What better way to remember than this flag?

For PCVF information you can call (805) 259-4394 or check out www. pcvf.org. PCVF has events all year on Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Veterans Day, and also the Military Ball.

The 1969 Blowout

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) presented another of its nautical lectures, this time about the 1969 oil blowout and the birth of the environmental movement. Fifty years ago I was living in Europe, but even without cell phones we knew about the disaster in Santa Barbara, California.

A blowout on Union Oil’s platform A released 80,000-100,000 barrels of crude oil into the Santa Barbara Channel, covering the coast from Goleta to Ventura and the Channel Islands, killing thousands of sea birds, fish, dolphins, and seals. This led to environmental legislation around the world.

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can we augment what the County is already doing?’ They had a full plate already,” he said.

The preliminary plans for the nets include installing six ring nets in three high-risk canyons: Cold Spring, San Ysidro, and Buena Vista. The Partnership is also looking at additional nets in Romero Canyon and Hot Springs, which are on federal land; the government shutdown has delayed movement on those nets. The six nets will be anchored into the sides of the canyon; they allow fine soil, sediments, ash, mud, and water to keep moving, while capturing large wood material and boulders. “Once they are robbed of that soil and silt, the boulders will not move on their own unless they are re-energized,” McElroy said.

When the nets fill, the boulders will spill over the center of the net, but with a lot less energy. “We’re thinking of them as a series of brakes,” McElroy said. The addition of the six nets more than doubles the current debris basin catchments in the three permitted canyons, according to the Partnership.

The nets, which are customized for each canyon, will be cleaned out when they are filled, and will remain in place for five years or until native vegetation is re-established. The bottom of the nets, which will hover three

to five feet over the canyons to allow fish and wildlife to pass through, are required to be cleaned out shortly after storms. They take about a month to install from staging to installation, and have already been ordered. All the equipment for the installation will be brought in via helicopter, due to the lack of accessible roads deep in the canyons. “We have to install them when the weather is good, so we are definitely on a time crunch,” McElroy said.

The nets have required authorization from the County of Santa Barbara, the Army Corps of Engineers, the CA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, the California Water Quality Control Board, and landowners. Discussion is ongoing with FEMA, Congress, Sacramento, and the US Forest Service, and the nets have received strong community leadership support.

The budget for the first six nets is $5.4 million, with $3.3 million pledged already. The Partnership is looking to fund $2 million more, and is asking the community for help. The County’s emergency permits require that the money be raised by February 19. “I believe with my whole heart that the nets are our insurance policy for our properties, businesses, homes, safety, and way of life,” said Jacobs. “The more money we raise, the more pro-

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tection we get. We need everyone’s help.”

At the end of the meeting, Ron Blitzer, co-founder of the 93108 Fund, which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help hourly workers get through the loss of work during the aftermath of the 1/9 debris flow, announced the Fund was putting up a $75,000 matching donation to the Partnership to help get the nets built.

If you would like to donate, or would like more information about the nets, visit www.partnershipsb.org.

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Bridge Updates

This week, drivers can expect full overnight closures for two nights on Highway 101 through a portion of Montecito as Caltrans crews finish the final touches on the bridge rail replacement project on Olive Mill Road. The work will allow for the removal of the wooden support structure underneath the existing bridge, according to project manager Jason Kline. “We are anticipating completing all work on the project by the end of January or the first week of February, weather permitting,” Kline told us earlier this week.

Northbound Highway 101 will be fully closed on Wednesday, January 23 and southbound Highway 101 will

be fully closed on Thursday, January 24 during the overnight hours from 10 pm until 5 am. Motorists headed in each direction may detour by using Coast Village Road between Hot Springs Road and Olive Mill Road.

The final pieces of the project include completion of the sidewalk guardrail and bike rail installation on Olive Mill, the removal of five or six dead trees damaged by the storm, pothole repair, and a few other items, according to engineer Tristan Gebhart.

The major detours for the project to replace the guardrails on the bridge, which were damaged by the 1/9 debris flow, were completed before Christmas, after a four-month-long detour through the Danielson Road neighborhood.

Six more bridges continue to be rebuilt and repaired following the debris flow; in a statement released earlier this week Caltrans reported that full access along these bridges on Highway 192 will be completed early this year. The project is expected to cost $30 million. Here are the updates for each individual bridge: Montecito Creek Bridge: Construction continues seven days a week from 7 am until 6 pm, weather permitting to maintain the integrity of the construction site and surrounding area

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On LIFE

by Jeff Wing Jeff is a journalist, raconteur, autodidact, and polysyllable enthusiast. A long-time resident of SB, he takes great delight in chronicling the lesser known facets of this gaudy jewel by the sea. Jeff can be reached at jeffwingg@gmail.com.

Jodie Hollander’s Healing Flight from Classicism

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odie Hollander grew up in a musical family, and that is a largish understatement. Concert pianist father, cellist mother, two sibs each with the gift of drawing effortless gossamer from the violin; dinner conversation ran to the rhapsodic. Now imagine Jodie – a young girl whose double helix would later reveal itself as a ladder to verse, and not to music at all – struggling mightily to fit in.

Piano, cello, flute, even the comparative indignity of guitar – nothing took.

To the growing consternation of her parents, particularly her mother, Jodie couldn’t find a way in to her own family. For a young person, it was just that withering mix of heat and pressure that can degrade one’s spirit. Or produce a hothouse flower.

“I don’t know exactly where the decision came from,” Jodie says today of her eventual surrender. “I recognized I wasn’t as talented as my sister and brother. There was something inside

Jodie Hollander hosts Poetry of Grief and Healing in the Faulkner Gallery on Saturday, January 26 (photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey)

of me – I felt there was a different path for me. But that had implications.”

Implications. Like the family gabbing animatedly at table about Mahler, almost pointedly leaving Jodie outside the magical circle. Night after night after night. The vibrant energies of that crucible and a darkly filigreed relationship with her late mother inform Jodie’s art today. A family of four classical musicians and one square peg/ preincarnate poet being put through the gauntlet? The setup has the flavor of a fable even the Brothers Grimm

might’ve waved off as too alarming.

Today Jodie Hollander is indeed a many-splendored poet whose plaudits happily vindicate her early, and inconvenient, inklings. Fulbright Fellowship in South Africa? Yeah. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant in Italy? Yup. Hawthornden Fellowship in Scotland? How’d you guess? Epiphany came with an 8th grade poetry assignment. “I wrote the poem, and there was something about transforming my experience into writing that was incredibly gratifying. I suddenly felt, ‘I should be doing this.’”

Later, a 16th birthday gift saw her summering at warm Pomona College (Jodie hails originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin) – Jodie on arrival shouting around the hallways with the precocity of a fledgling in full test-flight: “Who’s the poet around here?” Then the naive stumbling into the office of Pomona’s vaunted poet-critic-translator/faculty lion Robert Mezey; and a new corner turned. “I saw that he was in. I walked into his office with a handful of my poems, gave them to him and said, “Will you look at my poetry?” She laughs ruefully at the memory. Mezey churlishly took her papers (possibly too stunned to recoil), and scanning the pages murmured indistinct approval.

Later came mentorship and a happy meeting of minds. They remain poet pals to this day.

On Saturday, January 26, Jodie Hollander – Santa Barbara’s Squire Foundation Poet-in-Residence, will lead a free public workshop in commemoration of the flood events of early 2018 that devastated the area.

The gathering – Poetry of Grief and Healing – will meet from 10 am to 2 pm in the Faulkner Gallery, main branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library.

All ages are welcome to attend, and an RSVP is requested. The free meeting will discuss the genuinely healing power of poetry, will discuss and demonstrate the craft of poetry, and will invite attendees to compose their own works, turning their experiences into healing art.

Jodie Hollander’s poems have been published in The Poetry Review, The Yale Review, PN Review, The Dark Horse, The New Criterion, The Rialto, Verse Daily, The Best Australian Poems of 2011, and The Best Australian Poems of 2015. Her debut publication, The Humane Society, was released with TallLighthouse (London) in 2012. Her full-length collection, My Dark Horses, recently published with Liverpool University Press (Pavilion Poetry). •MJ What: Poetry of Grief and Healing Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Main Branch Library, 40 E.Anapamu Street When: January 26, 10 am to 2 pm Free Event

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 16) Although the majority of the work on the Olive Mill bridge has been completed, Caltrans will finish the final touches on the entire project in the next few weeks

The Toro Canyon Creek Bridge is one of six bridges along Highway 192 that is still under repair

during the rainy season. This bridge is expected to re-open to traffic with some restrictions by July.

San Ysidro Creek Bridge: Bridge rail

work has been completed, work on crash cushions, guardrail, and bike rail work continues. Both lanes remain open during construction. Project

completion is expected by the end of March.

Romero Canyon Creek Bridge: Structural work has been completed with roadway and utility work continuing. This bridge is expected to re-open to traffic by mid-February. Project completion is anticipated by the end of March.

Toro Creek Bridge: Bridge rails have been poured on one side of the bridge with the other side to be poured following the relocation of water lines this month. Roadway and utility work is ongoing. This bridge remains open with one-way reversing traffic control until project completion. The water lines are currently being relocated with completion anticipated by end of this month. All lanes of this bridge are expected to re-open in June.

Toro Canyon Creek Bridge: Structural work has been completed. Roadway and utility work is ongoing. This bridge is expected to be re-opened to traffic by mid-February with project completion expected by the end of March.

Arroyo Paredon Bridge: The precast bridge has been installed with construction of the bridge railing and deck surface nearing completion.

This bridge is expected to be re-open to traffic by mid-February. Lash Construction of Santa Barbara is the contractor for the $10 million replacement of this bridge. Project comple-

tion is expected by the end of March.

Barricades and locked gates secure each location with detours available via local roads. Emergency responders will maintain access to these locked areas for public safety. A segment of Highway 192 is open to motorists but through traffic is strongly advised to continue using Highway 101. State Route 192 remains closed at multiple locations between Sycamore Canyon/ Camino Viejo Road and Cravens Lane.

Caltrans reminds motorists to move over and slow down when driving through highway work zones.

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crowd and this toxic trio have been very bad for Montecito roads and traffic.

Larry Lambert Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We don’t agree with your assessment. I wrote a number of editorials warning of the pitfalls that would probably occur if 101 southbound onramp were disabled. I did admit to not voicing opposition strongly enough at one particular meeting, particularly after the Caltrans rep said something to the effect of, “No matter how you feel and what you say, this is a done deal.” J’Amy Brown, many others, and myself realized that the closure would produce a substantial negative traffic result on Coast Village Road, but really, we were simply outgunned. It was and is Caltrans that offered no diplomacy and that has proven toxic to Montecito. – J.B.)

Finding A Home

Every time we drive by an empty lot or a “road closed” sign, we feel a tug at our heartstrings. Every time we see “rain” in the forecast, anxiety flickers in our minds. We have come together as a community and displayed incredible strength, compassion and resilience finding ways to help our neighbors and return a semblance of wholeness to our town. But there will forever be a part lost.

As a landscape designer, I have been

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Margie Grace’s chosen boulder for a proposed garden in the triangle at Hot Springs and Olive Mill features a 12-inch circular hole as a remembrance of the loss of 23 lives in the January 9, 2018 debris flow that have left a hole in the heart of Montecito

searching for an impactful way to contribute something that leverages my talents. When I was approached about participating in a Montecito Memorial Garden, it felt right. Several groups, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara Garden Club and Santa Barbara Bloom Project, are already committed to helping make the idea reality.

Envision a landscape that tells a story of the event and its impact on the community, and forever remembers those who were lost on January 9th, 2018. Low broad mounds representing each watershed’s mudflow; boulders arranged in family groupings (23 people who, although lost, remain with us, as solid and as permanent as stone); trees standing over their loved ones representing the families forever impacted; and a community forever changed, represented by a slab boulder set on edge with a large hole cored through, because although we stand strong as a community, we’ll forever have a part missing.

The Garden has a proposed location: the triangle at Hot Springs and Olive Mill. However, cutting through red tape there – or anywhere for that matter – will take time and the stars in alignment. I come to you all (readers) in the hopes that you might help us align those stars or find another suitable home for this garden where it can be enjoyed by all. Your support and suggestions are appreciated.

Margie Grace Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: This is an excellent idea and our suggestion is to enlist the help of the Montecito Association. Ms Grace (mg@gracedesignassociates.com) was named the 2018 Association of Landscape Designers (APLD) Landscape Designer of the Year. – J.B.)

tax like Justin M. Ruhge (MJ # 24/51) claiming that somehow that is a fairer type of taxation. Of course these advocates totally ignore the fact that a large majority of other taxes (paid mostly by low and moderate income earners) are unfair in the opposite direction – and thus regressive. When you add up all taxation, even the lowest 20% of income earners in this country pay about 16% of their income in taxes, and even the richest 1% pay close to only 30% total of their income (almost identical to the percentages paid by those who earn in the $50,000 to $80,000 category). For those interested in the facts, rather than fantasies, I refer you to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report dated 4/11/18 for more complete information.

I suggest that the next time Mr. Ruhge wants another similar topic to propose, he instead should advocate that we eliminate the $132,900 limit on income for payroll deductions of Social Security. Thus, millionaires and billionaires will contribute the same percentage of all their income as the rest of us to go into that fund and ensure it will be safe for all time to retirees; how’s that for fair?

Michael Klein Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Sounds good, but Social Security recipients’ monthly payments are capped, so why shouldn’t taxpayers’ contributions be capped too? Besides, the idea that removing the limit on income will ensure that Social Security “will be safe for all time to retirees,” is laughable.

With a national debt spiraling out of control, nothing is safe from the political class. – J.B.)

“Fair” Tax is Regressive Tax

There isn’t a better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with “Great Whites & Mermaids.” Join the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum on Thursday, February 14th at 7:00 pm for

It is tiresome to again read contributions of advocates of a flat income

Great Whites & Mermaids

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami

a look at some of Ralph Clevenger’s underwater adventures over the past 45 years, including an in-depth view of the underwater photography course he taught at Brooks Institute of Photography. Clevenger will show portfolios and share stories of his commercial assignments, stock photography, and personal work... including his images of sharks and mermaids!

Ralph A. Clevenger grew up on the coast of North Africa and began diving in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea at the age of seven. In the early 1960s, he was strongly influenced by Jacques-Yves Cousteau films and television shows on the underwater world and decided early on to become a marine biologist when he “grew up.” He eventually went on to study zoology and worked for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego as a diver/biologist before attending Brooks Institute of Photography.

Clevenger was a senior faculty member at the Brooks Institute for 33 years, teaching courses in Natural History and Underwater Photography, among other photo and video courses.

Based in Santa Barbara, Clevenger is pursuing his passion for the natural world by specializing in location photography and video projects of eco-travel, environmental portraits, wildlife, and undersea subjects. He’s traveled throughout the world on assignment for clients such as Fox Sports, University of California, California State Parks, Denali National Park Wilderness Center, National Marine Sanctuaries, MacGillivray-Freeman Films, Light & Motion Industries, and others. His publication credits include; Audubon, Afar, Islands, Oceans, Nature’s Best, Outside, Orion Nature Quarterly, National Geographic, Terre Sauvage, and other national and international publications. He is the author of the book Photographing Nature, published

by New Riders.

Ralph’s award-winning photography can be seen on his website: www. ralphclevenger.com, and you can follow his adventures on Instagram at ralphwildshot.

I hope you will help us inform the community about this special event.

Rita Serotkin Marketing Assistant Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (Editor’s note: Sure, as the Maritime Museum is one of our favorites (and even if it weren’t, we’d do it anyway): The Underwater Photography of Ralph A. Clevenger (sponsored by: Marie L. Morrisroe) will be on display at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara on Thursday, February 14, at 7 pm. Cost: $10 (SBMM Members) $20 (Nonmembers). Register: www.sbmm.org or (805) 456-8747) •MJ 24 – 31 January 2019

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Be that as it May

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ou probably know that the last four months of our calendar are wrongly named. “Sept,” “Oct,” “Nov,” and “Dec,” mean, in Latin, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th, whereas those months are actually our ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth. How did this happen? – and, even more to the point, why, for two thousand years, has nothing been done about it?

It all goes back to the ancient Romans, who, for reasons of their own, meddled with their existing calendar and inserted two months named to honor their head honchos, Julius Caesar (July) and his nephew and successor Augustus (August).

This of course threw the whole calendar off, and years which once began, rather appropriately season-wise, in March, now had to hatch virtually in mid-winter, in January.

In the intervening two millennia, various attempts have been made to reform the calendar and re-name the months. The French Revolutionaries thought up rather poetic names appropriate to their seasons, such as the autumn month of Brumaire (“mist”) and the summer month of Thermidor (“heat”). But this whole system was too logical for a world which clings to its old ways, and was abolished, after only 12 years, in 1805.

Indeed the only person since the Romans who had the clout to re-do the calendar and make it stick was a Pope – Gregory XIII, (hence our current “Gregorian” calendar). Even he didn’t dare to try re-naming the months, but he did, in 1582, jiggle their lengths, and the re-shuffle required 11 days to be completely dropped. This in itself was so radical that, for centuries, the change was not adopted in some countries, especially non-Catholic ones, including England – where, when it was finally made law in 1752, there were actual riots, with people carrying banners reading “GIVE US OUR ELEVEN DAYS.” Fortunately, despite all the hubbub, we were still left with the month of May, and all its happy associations.

In parts of the world with marked seasonal changes, people also generally change their outdoor clothing according to the season. In England, where the weather is notoriously erratic, the transition from Spring to Summer, and so into lighter clothing, has produced some sage advice, in the form of a proverb which says, 24 – 31 January 2019

“NE’ER CAST A CLOUT TILL MAY BE OUT.” “Ne’er cast a clout” means “don’t ever shed a garment” – particularly your winter woolies. But unfortunately, the meaning of the latter part of the adage is not so widely agreed upon.

Some people think that “MAY” is the calendar month – so you shouldn’t dress for summer until June comes in.

But there is an alternative theory that “MAY” is the plant called the “May Flower,” or the “Mayflower,” which in England blooms, or comes “out” in Spring – which would probably give you a chance to cast your clouts a few weeks earlier.

Of course, to Americans, the word “Mayflower” immediately connotes the vessel which brought the first English settlers to “New England.”

But “Mayflower” was already a popular name for ships, just as the month of May and its flowers were popular as heralding the approach of summer. There was indeed the ancient tradition of dancing around a “May-pole.” And it was Shakespeare in one of his most famous sonnets (the one which begins “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”) who spoke of “the darling buds of May.” Actually, the whole point of that poem was that even summer has its imperfections (such as the “rough winds” which “do shake” those darling buds) whereas the poet’s Beloved has none.

The chief shortcoming of summer, as Shakespeare saw it, was that it doesn’t last – while his Beloved will, at least in this poem, last forever. And that brings to mind another honoree of that special month, the MAYFLY – an insect whose chief claim to fame is that its life in its mature stage is extremely short – rarely more than 24 hours. It has thus become a sort of poster-child (or poster-insect?) for the brevity of existence.

On the other hand, May is celebrated more joyfully, with such occasions as Mothers’ Day. Never mind the strange fact that Anna Marie Jarvis (1864–1948) who, worked tirelessly and successfully to have Mothers’ Day observed as an official holiday, later became so disgusted with its commercialization that she organized a petition to have the holiday rescinded. She died, alas, in a Sanitarium, where, it is said, the bills to keep her there were paid by the Greeting Card Industry.

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

Taking a Deep Dive with Mimi and Mike deGruy

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Mimi deGruy’s documentary about her late husband, Mike, premieres at SBIFF on January 30

ast January, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival considered cancelling the city’s premiere cinematic event in the wake of the Thomas Fire and the devastating Montecito debris flows before ultimately deciding to go ahead, partly

as a healing offering. This Wednesday, SBIFF 34 kicks off with a locally-produced opening night film catalyzed by another Montecito-related tragedy: the 2012 accidental death of the irrepressible ocean filmmaker and longtime Montecito resident Mike deGruy.

Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than 10 years.

Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy, a feature film documentary directed, produced, written by and told through the eyes of Mike’s widow and production partner Mimi Armstrong deGruy, is something of a personal passion project, put together over a period of more than six years, beginning just nine months after Mike’s death in a helicopter crash in Australia while filming for director James Cameron. Mike deGruy’s underwater cinematography credits include filming for BBC, PBS, National Geographic, and The Discovery Channel in a number of important film and TV specials, including The Blue Planet and Pacific Abyss, and his storytelling-filled adventures took him on many deep sea diving expeditions. Among his myriad accomplishments was being the first to film many rarely seen creatures in their own oceans, including the vampire squid and the nautilus.

But deGruy’s legacy runs even deeper in Santa Barbara, where he was an ever-present and effervescent personality around town and, especially, at the film festival. He founded the Field Trip to the Movies (which was re-named in his honor) and served in many capacities, including interviewing Al Gore on stage at the Arlington for An Inconvenient Truth.

Diving Deep is a remarkable piece of filming, a near masterful mix of Mike’s life and lifelong love of the water, his career and his ecological message, complete with sequences of footage from his films and underwater work, and in-depth interviews with Sir David Attenborough, James Cameron, and many of Mike’s collaborators. Within the first few minutes, there are references to deGruy quoting Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear’s “To infinity and beyond!” as he was lifted over a boat’s to plunge to new depth records for a diver, and images of him cavorting with sea turtles, octopuses,

and dolphins.

But there are also many personal moments and memories for both Mike and Mimi, whose own credits include working with CNN, Turner’s Portrait of America series, and the PBS series The Infinite Voyage. Just six minutes in, Mimi recalls hearing the news of his death and thinking, “How can someone so full of life be here one minute and then gone the next?” There are interviews with his children and close family members, a segment where Mimi recounts her first encounters with Mike and becoming attracted to the “funny amphibian,” a shaman who was connected to the natural world.

Things take a serious turn via an exploration of deGruy’s reaction to the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Atlantic coast and the attendant damage caused by the dispersant. But there are also many lighter moments, which will come as no surprise to anyone who spent even a few minutes with Mike. Witness the life-threatening story of when a shark took a big bite out of his arm – which deGruy later joked that the fish had washed up on the beach, dead of food poisoning.

Earlier this week, Mimi deGruy talked about the films and the fears, and the tears and the laughter, in advance of the film’s screening at the Arlington on Wednesday, January 30.

Here are edited excerpts from our conversation.

Q. Why did you want to make the film?

A. When Mike died, he and I had been working on three or four projects in production together and when people asked what I was going to do with [them], I had no idea, knowing that my kids were my first priority. But I started the process around nine months after Mike died, working on it very, very slowly for awhile, because truthfully, I just couldn’t handle [seeing him on film]. Then I started watching the footage from the project about the oil spill and another one about Mike’s life where we’d filmed intros and outros in the edit room where he’d talk about sequences he had filmed. He’d pulled all of his favorite sequences and had them on a timeline, almost

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Q. How does QiGong heal beyond the body? How is it different from yoga?

A. Like yoga, its roots go back 5,000 years to ancient Chinese practices that to this day are still the foundation of the Chinese health care system.

It works by coordinating the breath with the intentions of the mind to move energy. What makes it different from yoga is that every movement has intention, whether to dispel disease or frustration and fear or to attract healthy and happiness. We’re not just stretching. The mind is very much engaged, occupied with moving the energy in or out or within our bodies.

If you’re reaching up, for example, the thought might be about reaching for a desire, grasping it and pulling it into your energy body.

How did you get involved and how has your practice affected your own healing?

Twenty years ago I was an interior designer in Montecito, which is stressful. When I went to my first QiGong class I knew right away that I’d found what I was looking for. I was already doing lots of yoga, and other martial arts. But QiGong resonated with me. I love all the visualizations, evoking animals and aspects of nature. I practiced for 10 years and it helped me control my stress. Then I became a teacher and in furthering my studies I realized that it had also healed my emotions, the anger and fear. It gave me the tools to release those toxic energies. I just wanted to share it with everybody who would listen.

There are many practitioners and teachers in the area. What makes your approach special?

I’m known for focusing on visualizations and imagery. That’s the feedback I get from my students. And I’m not a strict teacher. Everybody is different, and has their own interpretations. With QiGong there’s no judgement. It’s about what’s right for your body. And having studied with masters for 20 years I have a deep foundation, and more knowledge about the emotional healing aspects, the five elements, than most of the other teachers around.

The Soothe Your Qi day features a wide variety of activities. How did you develop it, and how do they complement each other?

We had a hard year in 2018 [with the fires and mudslides]. Many people still have PTSD. We wanted to encourage people to spend a whole day on self-care, and let us guide you. Ray is doing restorative yoga, I’m doing QiGong at the beach at low tide, and we’re both leading meditation. The sound bath is about vibrational healing through our voices and gongs and serving bowls. Everybody also gets an

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hour massage from therapists we’re bringing in. We want people to feel nurtured. The idea is to become clear.

(Admission to Soothe Your Qi, which takes place 8:30 am to 5 pm this Saturday, January 26, at Carpinteria Woman’s Club, costs $175. Info and advance registration at Jessica@JessicaTaiChi.com or 805-7053426. Visit www.qigongsb.com.)

QiGong & Music Medicine Sound Bath

If you’re not ready or available for a full day commitment on Saturday, Montecito 22-year veteran yoga teacher Chloe Conger and yoga-community choir-mindful eating-essential oil maven Britta Gudmunson are collaborating on a 90-minute mini session at Yoga Soup starting at 7:30 pm on Friday, January 25. Beginning with Conger’s Radiant Heart QiGong offering, an embodied meditation practice to soothe the nervous system and integrate the body, mind, and heart into a seamless whole, will be followed by relaxing into restorative poses while bathing in sacred sound and transformative music medicine from Gudmunson. Cost: $20 in advance, $25 on Friday.

For a deeper dive, Conger will also be leading a three-weekend series serving as an introduction to Radiant Heart QiGong at Yoga Soup next month. “Living with Ease: QiGong and Meditation” takes place 2:30-4 pm Saturdays and Sundays, February 9-24. Admission is $20 per class or $90 for the series. Gudmunson and her husband Ben Gould preview the upcoming 13-week spring season of the inCourage Chorus that starts on February 11 with a “Mid-Winter Singing” introductory workshop for the non-audition, non-denominational, all-ages community choir this Sunday, January 27. Admission to the 3-5 pm gathering at Yoga Soup is $15 in advance, $20 day-of.

Healing Through Rhythm and Voice

Elsewhere in the healing-through-singing realm, veteran Santa Barbara vocal coach Sloane Reali is joined by percussionist/sound therapist Nacho Arimany for a threehour workshop this Saturday, January 26, at Center of the Heart. Based on the premise that there is no sound as powerful and healing as the authentic human voice, the event will employ body percussion exercises, group-created melodies and other modalities to help participants discover the transformative and healing power of your own voice, and allow the pulsating rhythm to drive you toward your deepest desires. Admission to the 10 am to 1 pm workshop is $55. Visit

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It might seem to be a little strange for the Santa Barbara Consciousness Network to be throwing a third anniversary party when the nonprofit that once hosted monthly expos and expert talks – the speakers included Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks and World Business Academy founder Rinaldo Brutoco – has been dormant since before the summer, when its founder, Forrest Leichtberg, departed for New York City. But lo and behold, Leichtberg is back, having celebrated the new year by trading Manhattan’s skyscraper forest for the trees back here on our sunny South Coast, and securing a new job in the community.

Plans for what a new Networking Expo & Symposium might comprise are still being bandied about, although a vocal workshop with the Ojai-based Brothers Koren is already in the works for February. You can find out more at SBCN’s Conscious Community Celebration starting at 6 pm this Thursday, January 24, at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum downtown, where activities include announcements about future events, a short set of music from the Brothers Koren, potluck snacks and drinks – and lots of networking, of course.

Free admission. RSVP at www.3cn. eventbrite.com.

I.V. for Mantra Lounge

The Santa Barbara Mantra Lounge Kirtan began a few years ago with monthly meetups right here in Montecito at the community center in the Upper Village before heading downtown to the more centrally located, spacious, and spiritually-oriented Unity of Santa Barbara for roughly a two-year stint. After a hiatus that included the founders Divya and Sarvatmas’ annual trip to India this past summer, the gatherings to chant a form of meditative song known as kirtan followed by free plant-based food found a new home last October at the Yes! Dance Studio in Paseo Nuevo shopping center, a spot amenable to both acoustic alchemy and chant-inspired movement. It seemed like the perfect marriage. Alas, it was not to be. Now, three months later, Mantra Lounge Kirtan has resurfaced, once again with a new location, albeit one that’s quite a bit further from Montecito. The good news is that admission has been sliced in half to just $5 for An Evening of Melodious Kirtan, which resumes from 6-8 pm this Saturday, January 26, at Yoga Isla Vista, 900 Embarcadero del Mar Drive, in Isla Vista. As always, Divya

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis

and Sarvatmas provide the ambiance, music, lyrics, and tasty vegan eats served after the singing – you just need to bring your voice, and an open heart. Visit www.meetup. com/Santa-Barbara-Mantra-LoungeKirtan/ or www.facebook.com/ MantraLoungeKirtanSantaBarbara.

Finding answers through the Q Process

Unity Rev. Denese Schellink leads a one-day immersion in The Q Process, an interactive workshop of powerful exercises, multimedia presentations, and meaningful discussions, this Saturday, January 26, at the Unity Chapel. Schellink, a Certified Q Coach, will present the increasingly popular method that aims to offer an experience of “what your life be like if you lived from a deep place of peace, knowing that nothing and no one is against you.” The $129 fee includes the 9:30 am to 4:30 pm workshop, an official manual, and three follow-up coaching sessions. Partial scholarships are available on request. Call (805) 708-7345, email deneseds@gmail.com, or visit www.santabarbaraunity.org/ q-process-workshop-3.

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Heidi Jayne Biggs’ Take Healthy Back Meetup’s has staged sporadic events since the group’s founding, and has had a gap of more than four months since the last gathering.

But the organization whose previous offerings include workshops on becoming your own health advocate and making salad in a jar and a soup swap, is kicking off the new year with two gatherings over four days.

“Imagine a Life,” slated for 6:45-8:45 pm this Thursday, January 24, at a private home in town, features professional “recreationologist” Chris and “lifestyle master” Nikki Cotton, a couple who are “living their best life through a lifestyle of health and abundance.” The pair will share and facilitate a community conversation in a collaborative setting.

On Sunday, January 27, the Meetup holds its second annual Vision Board Party, a three-hour session for participants to employ the popular tool to help focus on their dreams and goals in 2019. The session starts with an interactive discussion to explore tools, resources and strategies designed to strengthen your belief and bring positive energy to all that you desire, followed by time and instruction in creating the vision board. Bring your own supplies, including poster board and magazines. The free 2-5 pm workshop takes place at The Hair Lounge of Montecito, 1807 East Cabrillo Boulevard. Visit www.meetup.com/ Carpinteria-TakeHealthyBack/ •MJ 24 – 31 January 2019

Discovering What Matters

by Dr. Peter Brill

Dr. Brill can be reached at pbrill@dwmblog.com. His blog appears at www. dwmblog.com. Specializing in medicine, psychiatry, marriage and family therapy, nonprofits and business, he has served as a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and Wharton School of Business, consulted to more than 100 organizations, run workshops on adult development, and performed major research on the outcome of psychiatric treatment. He is the founder of Sustainable Change Alliance & co-author of Finding Your J Spot.

The Power of Money – the Bad and the Good

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. I have my own money and I inherited some more from my parents. I find I am very confused about what to do with it. I buy things I don’t really need, and I give to charity but mostly only at the end of the year. I want to do something bigger and give back to my community but where do I start? I find that I am fearful about the money. I have even gone to a financial planner and we determined I have plenty. Can you help? – Gloria in Santa Barbara

Money is so central to our lives, how we think about and use it, that it alters our consciousness and values in hidden ways. Surprisingly, studies show that people are more comfortable talking about sex than they are about money. By becoming conscious of our relationship to money, we can find freedom, openness, joy, and truth. We worry about money, but don’t understand the hidden way that money restricts our spirit, where it can be a way to increased passion and meaning and freedom. Let’s see how.

As a psychiatrist, medical doctor, professor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and impact investor, I have had many different experiences with people and their money – the wealthy and the poor. I worked with wealthy people, chief executives of powerful organizations, and family-owned businesses. I saw how money distorted lives and families. I saw the way money and our relationship to it governs, dominates, and stresses our lives. I worked with some of the wealthiest families where money was used as a means of control and punishment that restricted and hurt the development of their children.

I saw wealthy executives endlessly strive for more money that they didn’t need simply to prove to themselves how successful they were, but they felt like prisoners in their own self-constructed cells. Studies of income and happiness show that there is no increase in happiness above about $70,000 per year. This is true in over 40 countries studied.

Despite the evidence, we believe money will bring us happiness.

An examined and conscious life has become the watchword of the 24 – 31 January 2019

enlightened. But how many of us examine deeply our use of money and how it reflects our values. We search for meaning, wholeness, and peace. Reflecting on our relationship to money is an enormously important part of the search. Unfortunately, our obsession with money causes many to worry (no matter how much

others? Do you find you buy things you don’t need, with money you don’t have, to impress people you don’t know or don’t care about? Or are you just afraid of growing older and magically think the money will prevent it?

It’s ego that creates anxiety about money if it’s not a poverty problem.

It’s about ego and identity. How will I be seen, who will I be, have I succeeded, how will I be treated? When you begin to be concerned about others – about philanthropy, about goodness –your mindset changes, and your anxiety decreases. But in this vast sea of materialism, it’s hard to see that shore. Haven’t we all been judged or have judged others for how we dress, what we own or how rich our experiences are?

What if you could truly feel that you are living out your values? That you are coming from a place of com-

What if you could invest your money more effectively and with the same or less risk you currently face in the investment world?

If you could find assurance that it was safe, as safe as where you put your money now, would you use some of it to do good?

Then the question becomes “Where?” Water, timber, environment, global warming, poverty, social justice…

In future articles, we will present the evidence that with impact investing it can be done as safely as investing in the normal stock market. Some say it is safer because it doesn’t face the huge ups and downs of the market. It is investing in a sustainable future, not an exploitive one based on the next quarter.

If you believed it could be possibly true that you could use your money to express your values, safely,

What do you think needs to change to make a better world? money they have) that they don’t or won’t have enough of it. So, they live in a life of fear instead of with a full heart and joy.

Mostly money only has the power we assign to it.

I believe that under their fears and upsets, even the deepest ones, everyone wants to love and be loved and to make a difference with their lives. But the money-culture has conditioned us to slowly lose our most deeply human values and no longer pursue the ones we truly hold close to our heart.

Anxiety about money can be broken into two categories: factual and emotional. Factually, you have determined with an adviser that you have enough. But emotionally, you remain anxious so it’s about the meaning that money has for you.

Does more money give you more status? Do the latest material objects make you feel you are better than

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passion and wisdom instead of fear and greed. What if you could do that without risking your economic security?

What are your values? Have you stopped to really reflect and decide?

Is simply having more money, no matter what its impact on the world, going to make you happier and more fulfilled? Are you worried about the world your children will face if global warming continues unabated? Do you consider social justice vital to democracy? Does violence to women move you? Do children who fail to learn to read tug at your heart?

Of course, there are endless problems of society, people and world, and you can’t change them all.

What do you think needs to change to make a better world? What really tugs at your heart?

If you used your money to support your values, what would you change, improve, and nourish?

would you put your toe in the water?

Coming from a different mindset will certainly decrease your anxiety.

I welcome all questions and comments and can be reached at pbrill@dwmblog. com.

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by Scott Craig (photography by Brad Elliott) Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

Pulitzer Prize Columnist Peggy Noonan Speaks at Breakfast

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eggy Noonan, a Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist at the Wall Street Journal and a renowned speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, will speak at the 14th annual Westmont President’s Breakfast on Friday, February 22, from 7 to 9 am in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort. Tickets cost $125 per person and go on sale Friday, January 25, at 9 am on the Westmont website (westmont.edu/breakfast). Seating is limited, and tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

Noonan’s weekly column, Declarations, has run since 2000, and she has written nine bestselling books on American politics, history and culture, including, What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era, and When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan.

She contributed an essay on the American presidency to Character

Tickets to the President’s Breakfast, featuring Peggy Noonan, go on sale January 24

Above All with nine other historians and writers. Her newest book, The Time of Our Lives, chronicles her career in journalism, the Reagan White House, and the political arena.

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In 2010 she received the Award for Media Excellence from the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor; the following year The Week honored her as Columnist of the Year. In November 2016, the New York Public Library named her one of the city’s Literary Lions. A fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, she has taught in the history department at Yale University.

Noonan received the Pulitzer Prize for Political Commentary for her coverage of the 2016 Presidential Election, “rising to the moment with beautifully rendered columns that connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the nation’s most divisive political campaigns.”

The Westmont Foundation, local businesses, and individuals sponsor the President’s Breakfast to promote discussion of significant issues. Bank of the West is the Lead Sponsor this year, and Gold Sponsors include Canterbury Consulting, Davies Public Affairs, HUB International of California, La Arcada Investment Corporation, Carl and Jo Lindros (Santa Barbara Securities), Bill and Kristin Loomis, MATT Construction, Lindsay and Laurie Parton, Santa Barbara Capital (David and Anna Grotenhuis and Wayne and Sharol Siemens), Warren and Mary Lynn Staley, Peter and Monique Thorrington and V3 Printing with special thanks to ACI Jet and Union Bank. For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Steve Baker, Westmont associate vice president for advancement, at (805) 565-7156.

Hayhoe Connects Global Change, Local Impacts

Atmospheric scientist Katherine Hayhoe examines climate change January 24

Katherine Hayhoe, a prominent atmospheric scientist, professor of political science, and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, speaks at Westmont Thursday, January 24, at 1:15 pm in the Westmont Global Leadership Center. The Pascal Society Lecture, “Mitigate, Adapt or Suffer: Connecting Global Change to Local Impacts,” is free and open to the public.

Following the lecture, the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art will offer a guided tour of the current exhibition, “Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography,” which begins about 3 pm.

Hayhoe, founder and CEO of a program called ATMOS research, focuses on the effects of climate change and creating ways for businesses to be environmentally friendly. She also writes books encompassing topics of climate science, communication and faith, including her most recent, A Climate for a Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions.

She will receive the eighth annual Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication on Monday, January 21, in San Francisco.

PBS Digital Studios distributes her video series, “Global Weirding: Climate, Politics, and Religion with Katharine Hayhoe,” and she has recorded a TED Talk, “The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Fight Climate Change: Talk About It.” •MJ

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like he had set me up [for this film], which was very moving… When I went through that footage, the stuff where he was so angry, I was heartbroken that he hadn’t been able to take that message public. That became the core motivation for making the film, but I also wanted to celebrate his career… In order for that message to resonate with people, I needed to introduce who Mike was, and how he got to that point where he was behaving so differently on camera, the arc. It was so striking to me because he was such a joyful guy.

How did you find balance between Mike’s career, his early life, your life together, the tragedy of his death, and the story he was trying to tell?

I knew the [parts about] his [pool] diving – which was his life all through college before he burned out after getting injured – had to be in because of the moment when he learned to make a conscious decision to push through his fear. That was a revelation to me, and it explained a lot about Mike.

But there was so much footage that we left out, including more of his animal behavior sequences, because I had to focus more on telling the stories rather than a montage of all this beautiful stuff. I like getting into the psychology of things, so rather than showing more footage I wanted to tell these stories. It was like there were all these little films and it was hard to tie it together in a way that it wouldn’t be too exhausting.

The Deepwater Horizon segments were fascinating, both for the content itself and how the way the “clean up” went affected Mike. You spend some time on his own internal processing, or not, of those emotions.

Mike and I had a great marriage, but like anyone we had our own issues.

We had put off talking about those things, thinking we could deal with it later. Mike wasn’t great at dealing with his own psychology and I wasn’t great at trying to get him there either.

There was a lot we never discovered about each other because we put it off. One of the metaphors in the film is that we all need to do that with the people in our lives, just as we need to dive down into the ocean and understand its complexity before it’s too late. They’re dual storylines, and making the film was part of my way of going back in and trying better to understand Mike and my own grief.

Now that it’s done, how has it been for you to make the movie, do all the research and viewing of footage, going back over everything, including the accident that killed him? Does the film serve as perhaps catharsis, or closure, or something else entirely?

Cathartic isn’t quite right. Closure in the area of death isn’t either. My relationship with him continues; it’s a very vibrant thing in that… the memories are all very much alive.

So for me it was really painful at times – I’d almost throw things at the screen, thinking “How could you have gone?!” I had a lump in my throat almost every time I watched it.

But the biggest surprise – or maybe it was by design – is that it gave me something other than my own sadness to think about. It was incredibly healing to get out of my own way and spend time with something bigger than myself. When I was really depressed I’d throw myself into the project and it felt very helpful for my grieving process. It became a mission to get this out there, and hope people take Mike’s spirit and let it inform how they relate to the ocean, keep his energy alive.

Alicia J Garofalo, MD

What does it mean to have the opening night slot for the festival?

Mike loved this community, and he never said no to anyone… [SBIFF executive director] Roger Durling has created a film event that has a global reach but has kept its local Santa Barbara roots. Mike was a community guy who also had an international life.

So it’s really moving and I’m incredibly honored to have the film premiere here.

What ultimately do you hope people take away from seeing it?

Mike lived in the moment more than anyone I know, which might have been because he survived the shark attack, which he called his second birthday. I hope they see his spirit and take every opportunity to relate to each other consciously, and ultimately to jump in and get involved in understanding and protecting the ocean.

Further Focus on Film

UCSB Pollock Theater’s Beatles Revolutions series continues with the 1970 film Let It Be, with a post-screening Q&A with Santa Barbara-based musician-producer Alan Parsons, who served as assistant engineer on the original album (7 pm,

Thursday, January 24; free)... Point of No Return, the 2017 behind-the-headlines doc about the first solar-powered flight around the world, screens as Pollock on Tuesday, January 29, at 7 pm, followed by a discussion with co-directors Quinn Kanaly and Noel Dockstader… Back in the environmental film arena, the 2017 award-winning documentary Broke, about the 2015 oil spill near Refugio Beach, marks the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, and screens at 6:30 pm Tuesday, January 29, at the Santa Barbara Public Library, followed by Q&A with director Gail Osherenko and panel on current oil threats in Santa Barbara.

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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx

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As the 52nd U.S. Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith is on a mission to bring poetry to the masses, showing how poetry can help people see the world from other perspectives.

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Speaker Marc McGinnes with SBMM executive director Greg Gorga

Our speaker was Marc McGinnes, Professor Emeritus and a founding member of UCSB’s Environmental Studies Program. He is a Stanford University graduate, where he was an honors student in history and an intercollegiate athlete in four sports and then a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. After post-doctoral study he joined a law firm in San Francisco.

In 1969 he moved to Santa Barbara to begin work as an environmental lawyer after the offshore oil platform blowout.

McGinnes was chair of the January 28 Committee which presented the Santa Barbara Declaration of Environmental Rights at the national Environmental Rights Day conference on the first anniversary of the blowout and spill.

Then he became founding president of

the Community Environmental Council in 1970. It became one of the nation’s first community-based environmental education centers. In 1971 he joined the UCSB faculty where he developed and taught ten courses in environmental law, policy dispute resolution and ecopsychology. It included the longest running undergraduate course in environmental law in the United Sates.

McGinnes wrote Principles of Environmental Law and had his newest book at the museum for sale, Falling in Love with the Earth, Again. He has been active in the movement ever since 1969. In 1977 he led the founding of the Environmental Defense Center (EDC), which is a regionally centered public interest environmental law firm. And the list continues.

When he was younger, “I thought

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(CLF) is proud of the entire project team and grateful to the many generous donors who made the restoration work possible,” declared president of the CLF board of directors Jan Ferrell. The award was presented in Sacramento by then Governor Jerry Brown.

There was a small electrical fire in 2010 when it was discovered that the murals and many other decorative architectural elements in the Mural Room needed restoration and repair.

An $800,000 fundraising campaign began in 2012 and was completed in 2015. The ceiling has also been lit for the first time ever so now you can see how beautiful it truly is.

The next project is restoration of the Grand Arch over the passageway between Anacapa Street and the Sunken Gardens. The Foundation began to raise money in 2017 on their way to $321,000. County Architect Robert Ooley, FAIA said, “It is important we address this issue now.” The County of Santa Barbara is responsible for the general maintenance of the Courthouse but does not have funds for restorations. Since 2004 the CLF has taken on ten different projects including the Clock Tower. To learn how you can help with this most worthy project visit www.sbclf.org. •MJ 24 – 31 January 2019

Ernie’s World

by Ernie Witham

Mr. Witham is the author of three humor books including his latest, Where Are Pat and Ernie Now? available at Chaucer’s.)

Conquering the Narrows

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ccasionally, I find myself in a position that seemed like a good idea at the time, but in hindsight could have used a bit more forethought. For some reason these positions often involve water.

Like the time I decided to jump off a roof and into Lake Winnipesaukee at Weirs Beach in Laconia, New Hampshire – on a dare – and realized as I neared the water that a) there were numerous motorboats darting about my landing spot and b) I hadn’t decided ahead of time whether to jump or dive. This resulted in a belly flop of epic proportions. Or as it soon became known – “the Ernie.”

Another time, I was waterskiing with a friend (the boat pilot) and his girlfriend (the spotter) and as I lost my balance I wondered how long they would continue to make out before they realized they were just pulling a rope?

“Need help?”

“No thanks. Just waiting for a boat.”

“That the boat with the lip-locked couple I passed a mile back?”

“Yes.” “Well, have a nice wait… Bob. Ha, bob, get it?”

I was enjoying these fond memories as I was leaning with all my weight on my right arm, which – sweatshirt and all – was shoulder-deep in the frigid Virgin River, as were my two splayed feet and one buttock, a position that probably resembled a Cossack dance or a not-so-great hip hop move. My other hand held my camera, just inches above the little rapids below the steep canyon walls of The Narrows in Zion National Park in Utah, a famous slot canyon, where I tried to get an award-winning, trout’s-eyeview photo.

I wasn’t alone of course. My wife Pat and her sister Sally were just a

few turns back, sitting on a wide sandbar on the sunny side of the river, probably sharing amusing anecdotes. There were other hikers too – though none were close enough to ask for help.

“Hiking in the river can be slippery,” people told us at Zion Adventure Company. “The water is fast-moving and the bottom of the river is covered with rocks the size and shape of bowling balls. Plus, it can be cold.”

So, Pat, Sally and I had rented “the Dry Pant Package,” which consisted of Gore-Tex pants, shoes, and neoprene socks, which had to be overlapped in a certain way so that you stayed dry. And they worked pretty well except for the parts of me which were underwater. The final piece of safety equipment, a hiking pole, was still attached to my right wrist and floating just out of reach.

This was the third day of our Road Scholars “Canyons, Cliffs & Waterfalls: Hike the Geological Wonders of Zion” trip. The rest of our group was hiking to Observation Point, but we had decided rather than hike up high where it was steep and dangerous, we would hike the easier Narrows that I was now splayed out in.

It was about this time, I realized I was hungry. I had a sandwich, chips, and a big fat cookie – chocolate chip – in my backpack, which also hovered just above the melodic river.

I came up with a plan. I would tighten my abs and glutes, push up with my right leg, quickly raise my right hand – the one that was supporting all my weight – grab the Hiking Stick, force it into the rocks below me and simply stand up. Or, I would tumble backwards and my camera, lunch and I would become a trout’s eye view.

I tried to think of a clever thing to yell like kowabunga, but instead just grunted loudly and pushed. All sound seemed to disappear for a few seconds other than my abs and glutes screaming, but the stick caught and I pushed and leaned and pushed and leaned until I actually stood, wobbled a bit, and got my right leg back under me. I had lived!

Back at the sandbar, Pat and Sally listened to my death-defying tale: “Wow, let’s see the photo that made it all worthwhile.” We stared at the little screen on the back of my DSLR as I brought it up.

It was totally out of focus.

“We can probably buy a postcard at the gift shop,” they suggested.

I sighed and ate my cookie.

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before the Thomas Fire and one month before the 1/9 debris flow. Chief McElroy, who planned a carefree retirement, calls the Montecito debris flow, “the most important experience of my life.”

There are more than a dozen deserving men and women who volunteered to form the Partnership for Resilient Communities, but none more critical to its success than its executive director, the affable Irishman, “Pat Mac.” The Partnership team is inking final agreements with three private landowners, including Ty Warner, for two steel mesh ring net installations above the San Ysidro Ranch on San Ysidro Creek; with the Mary K. Robinson Living Trust for two sites on Cold Spring Canyon; and with the Thomas and Peggy Pollock Trusts for up to seven sites on Buena Vista Creek. The plan is to install the first six nets right now – two on each of the three creeks, with the possible addition of five more nets on Buena Vista Creek, which has no County debris basin protection. The agreements with the private landowners are backed by $37 million in insurance policies to protect landowners from liabilities and lawsuits.

The Partnership is working with the U.S. Forest Service and other federal agencies to secure permits for additional nets on federal lands in upper Hot Springs and Romero canyons.

A number of environmentally friendly steel GeoBrugg debris nets, designed in Switzerland and manufactured in Albuquerque, New Mexico are being ordered at an installed cost of $4.3 million. Delivery is expected within two to three weeks. Each net is being engineered and built for a specific location.

Seventy-one locations were studied, classified, and considered for nets by engineering experts working for the Partnership. The seven planned nets on Buena Vista Creek will have a holding capacity of 38,560 cubic yards of debris, compared to no debris basin protection today. The two nets in San Ysidro Canyon will almost double the capacity of the existing debris basin, and the two nets in Cold Spring Canyon will increase debris basin capacity by 75%.

The Installation Process

So-called “Spyder Rigs” from Access Limited Construction in San Luis Obispo are being dropped by helicopter from staging areas on Camino Cielo Road into the first six selected locations. Access Limited specializes in rockfall mitigation, difficult access drilling, and installations in remote areas. Eight anchors are being drilled into each side of the canyons to a depth of 20 feet at each of the six sites. Because of a lack of access roads, the actual nets will be dropped in by helicopter and can be attached to the anchors in one to two days. The need for speed is critical. The emergency permits for the nets expire February 21.

Removal of Nets

As a condition of permitting, funding had to be provided for removal of the nets at the end of five years; removal of any debris within 72 hours of inspection after each storm; and routine inspection and maintenance of the nets every two weeks. These environmental protection requirements add another $2 million to the original $5 million budget for the first 11 ring net installations.

review, could be approved in eight weeks. Other potential donors believed that permitting was impossible on federal or state land, and that private landowners would unlikely give permission for fear of liability lawsuits. Both assumptions proved to be wrong. The Partnership’s “Miracle of Montecito” is about to become a reality.

So, open your wallets and give generously. The $5 million cost for the first nets will double our debris flow protection and represents the cost of one home lost in a debris flow. The “cash-strapped” County and the Army Corps of Engineers have done their best to clear channels widened by last year’s storm and line them with boulders. Our small and inadequate debris basins were hurriedly cleaned before last year’s tragic flow but proved inadequate to capture or slow the flow of killer debris. It is unnerving to recall that two of our debris basins were actually scheduled for removal because they were believed to be harmful to fish, according to a plan released by the County six months before January 9, 2018.

Edison Sues Santa Barbara County

Last Friday, Southern California Edison, besieged by lawsuits claiming that an electrical short caused the Thomas Fire, sued Santa Barbara County over the 2018 mudslides on the basis that despite decades of warnings, neither the County nor the State built adequate catchment basins and channels, built bridges too low for flood flows that became clogged with debris; and failed to evacuate residents when the storm was approaching. Edison contends that poor planning by County Public Works and Flood Control prior to the Montecito mudslides directly and proximately caused all or some of the damages that plaintiffs now seek to recover from Edison. The Edison claim is supported by the recent LA Times investigative journal report and other media documenting the County’s failures.

Nets to Lower Insurance Costs

The insurance industry is looking to California and Montecito, trying to decide how to deal with coverage in disaster-prone areas for new homeowner flood and earthquake insurance policies. Lawsuits and countersuits only fan the fears of insurers deciding whether or not to exit from a chaotic marketplace.

Our job is to show insurers and potential new residents that we are resilient.

We are a concerned community that is voluntarily helping insurers and homeowners reduce their risks by making Montecito safer and more secure. Please make a private tax-deductible donation now. Give what you can.

To find out more you can e-mail either alixemattingly@gmail.com or Hollye Jacobs at hollyejacobs@me.com, or go directly to the www.partnershipsb.org website, click on “donate” and make a tax-deductible donation to the Santa Barbara Foundation.

You can also simply drop off or mail a check, payable to Resilient Communities, at the offices of Joe Cole, Attorney, 1482 East Valley Road, Montecito, 93108, in the Upper Village, a few doors north of the Post Office.

•MJ

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been severely truncated for this space, much like what happens to her on the podcast. “[Host] Peter Sagal tells me whenever I’m on the show, the taping runs at least an hour longer than usual,” she said. “That’s because I usually forget what it was I was talking about.”

Fortunately, her stand-up appearances full of smart observational humor and witty off-the-cuff interactions with people in the audience have been honed via her decades of experience that date back to the Boston comedy clubs in the early 1980s, so Friday’s show at the Lobero should get you out of the theater still laughing rather than lamenting.

Q. Your shows are mostly spontaneous.

Do you have any set jokes at all?

A. No. I think of some stuff beforehand, and write it down. Not in its entirety. Sometimes I look at what I wrote and have no idea what it means. Usually it’s just a list of subjects, things to bring to the forefront of my brain because I have a terrible memory. But there’s also 39 ½ years of material rattling around in my head.

The inside of my brain looks like one of those amusement park games where you step into a booth and they blow paper money around you, and you can keep whatever you can grab.

The shows are never the same partly because I have a really bad memory.

But it’s also because my favorite time of the night is talking to the audience.

I just use what they say to set my sails for the show.

But you do react to the day’s news?

Oh yeah. Especially now that I’m absolutely obsessed with it. I don’t know anybody who isn’t talking about it. I’m hoping that ends soon, but it doesn’t look like it. I literally get up every morning and check to see if [President Trump] has been impeached yet. I have a little dopamine hit while I search and then I’m depleted right after.

That brings up the question of how hard it is to do your brand of comedy out on the road today in our incredibly polarized country.

I used to worry about [offending] part of the audience, but those people don’t come to my shows. On the other hand, it’s good to take your eyes off of politics for a night, so I only do a few minutes. But anytime anyone wants to know what I was doing today, it’s always the same: I was watching MSNBC! When I leave the hotel room for the show, I turn off the lights before I turn off the TV! You talk about your family and your life a lot. How much is true?

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rest of it… But the honesty is also what makes it funny. Parenting is f-ing hard! People want to know they are not alone… My family is mostly OK with it because they’re not really paying attention… I was always secretly hoping that my kids might be deterred [from bad behavior] because they would worry that mom might talk about it. But it didn’t work at all!

With all the podcasts and such, does stand up still hold a lot of appeal to you?

I love it! It’s a very healing job.

There may have been times that I didn’t understand that the way I do now. The audience is my best friend, which I’m sure is a terribly mentally unhealthy thing but it’s true. I just feel so comfortable in that setting.

Laughing is good for the brain and the soul. In the spring, it will have been 40 years when I started, so I consider myself very lucky. I have a lot of layers of experience that help, which isn’t to say that I don’t screw up badly or say the wrong thing. But I’ve been at it long enough that I don’t have to worry about not being able to anymore.

Speaking of that, the movie Punchline made it seem that comedians are notoriously unhappy folks. Is that true?

No! It’s total BS. I don’t know where

the idea came from, although I bought into it when I was younger, and wore it like a crown of self-pity. But looking back I’m just embarrassed because our job is joyous! We get up on stage, talk about real stuff, and make people laugh. And then we go home and struggle with life like everyone else.

Classical Corner

Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos, who enthralled a Santa Barbara audience with his unique timbre and astonishing technique when he accompanied pianist Yuja Wang in recital in 2017, returns to town for a program of Beethoven, Prokofiev, Bartók, and Enescu along with pianist Enrico Pace (7 pm Friday, January 25; Campbell Hall)... Opera Santa Barbara celebrates its quarter-century milestone with its 25th Anniversary Gala Concert in a non-stop hit parade of opera favorites sung by Isabel Bayrakdarian, Nina Yoshida Nelsen, Karin Wolverton, Audrey Babcock, and others, conducted by both former and current artistic directors Valery Ryvkin and Kostis Protopapas in honor of co-founder (and Montecito resident) Marilyn Gilbert (6 pm, Saturday, January 26; Lobero)... Santa Barbara Music Club’s next free concert features pianist Steve Hodson, flute and piano duo Adriane Hill and

Christopher Davis, and violin and piano duo Han Soo Kim and Neil Di Maggio playing works by Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven, and Carl Vine (3 pm, Saturday, January 26; First United Methodist Church).

Acoustic Alchemy

Singer-songwriters, folkies, and acoustic wizards abound as the inimitable Martin Sexton headlines over Chris Trapper at SOhO on January 26, the same night as Langhorne Slim, Stelth Ulvang of The Lumineers, and Chris Porterfield of Field Report play a “popup concert” at 8 pm in the Hotel Californian’s Alhambra ballroom as part of the hotel’s weekend-long Constellation event… Celebrated songwriter J.D. Souther, who has recorded many of his own albums as well as penned hits for the likes of the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Roy Orbison, James Taylor, Don Henley, George Strait, Trisha Yearwood, Brooks and Dunn, plays a show postponed from last fall at the Lobero at 7 pm on Sunday, January 27… That’s the same day that percussion fingerstyle guitarist Don Alder – whose music combines textured melodic and rhythmic lines with fiery runs, soulful singing and sagacious storytelling – kicks of the Wooden Hall concert series for 2019 (4 pm; Alhecama Theatre). •MJ

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Afterward, Montecito über philanthropist Sara Miller McCune hosted a post-concert reception in the theater’s founders room for Perlman, who played at a White House state dinner for Queen Elizabeth, and four years ago was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Among the many fans were Opera Santa Barbara director Kostis Protopapas, Marta Babson, Judith Hopkinson, William Meeker, Mahri Kerley, Bob and Valerie Montgomery, Anne Towbes, Peter and Deborah Bertling, George and Sally Messerlian, Mary Garton, Trish Gainey, Ani Aznavoorian, and David and Sofia Malvinni.

Loribeth Gregory-Beck, Chris Lancashire, Catherine Gee, and Nina Johnson at “Pictures at an Exhibition” (photo by Priscilla)

Get the Picture Music lovers packed the Granada for the Santa Barbara Symphony’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” concert featuring works by Johannes Brahms and Modest Mussorgsky.

The first half of the performance, conducted by veteran maestro Nir Kabaretti, was an all-Brahms affair with his Tragic Overture and Concerto in A minor, featuring the symphony’s principal cellist Trevor Handy and violinist Jessica Guideri, symphony concertmaster.

Russian composer Mussorgsky’s 1874 work “Pictures at an Exhibition,”

Gaja Kabaretti, Kevin Marvin, violinist Jessica Guideri, and Yakko and Richard Meyers (photo by Priscilla)

orchestrated by the French composer Maurice Ravel in 1922, wrapped the entertaining show, which was followed by a reception for VIP donors, including Barbara Burger, Paul Munch, Eve Bernstein, Christopher Lancashire, Catherine Gee, and Robert Weinman in the founders room.

The concert was dedicated to two late symphony board members, Art Kvaas, who died a few days short of his 100th birthday, and Gene Sinser, who was a director for seven years and served as treasurer in 2012.

Lauding LUM Art lovers were out en masse when SBCAST – the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology – hosted LUM Art Zine Show POV featuring disparate works by Tosh Clements, Arturo Heredia, Madeleine Eve Ignon, and Tom Pazderka.

The colorful exhibition was curated by the online art magazine’s editor Debra Herrick who waxed lyrical over the 18 works on show, all very different in type and style.

All the artists, who have been featured in the seven-month-old magazine, are based in Santa Barbara or Ventura.

“It’s fun to uncover emerging new talent in the area’s increasingly compelling art scene,” says Herrick.

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Chris Lancashire, Diana Starr Langley, George Rusnak, and Nir Kabaretti at Gene Sinser’s memorial

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whose birth name was Gunther Zinser, was a longtime member of our rarefied enclave before moving to the Santa Ynez Valley two years ago, after owning a successful art gallery in Hancock Park, where I formerly resided when a commentator with KTLA-TV. Gene, who studied at UCLA and USC, was an avid racketeer, traveler, cook, classical music fan, and good friend.

Chris Brown of the Bethania Lutheran Church, and Dani Antman, an interfaith minister and friend of the family, delivered eulogies, as well as cousin Bernie Rubin, daughter Sabrina Sinser Burton, daughter-inlaw Beth Sinser Buttles, stepson Nik DeDominic, and his widow Patty DeDominic.

Santa Barbara singer Lois Mahalia sang with a classical music trio, and Emiliano Campobello played flute.

An added aside to the event was the launch of the massive Delta IV heavy rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base 27 miles away, which was carrying a secret payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, with the sonic boom shaking buildings on the Wings Ranch estate eight minutes after take off.

Among the mourners and friends gathering to remember gentleman Gene were former mayor Helene Schneider, Nir Kabaretti, Nancy Gifford, Gillian Launie, Chris Lancashire, Judy Hopkinson, Diana Starr Langley, Peter and Gloria Clark, Howard Jay Smith, Patricia Dixon, Gail McMahon-Persoon, Rich Baker, George Isaac, and Tracy Beard.

From Highclere to Solvang As Downton Abbey fans eagerly await the release of the first film on the Masterpiece series, Irish actor Allen Leech, 37, who played the chauffeur on the hugely popular TV show, tied the knot with American actress Jessica Blair Herman, 32, at the 10,000 acre Alisal Guest Ranch in Solvang.

Guests included Downton Abbey co-stars Michelle Dockery and Dan Stevens, and his Bohemian Rhapsody co-star Rami Malek, while Glee’s Lea Michele and Darren Criss performed at the reception.

Leech played singer Freddie Mercury’s manager in the recent Queen biopic.

The ceremony, at which the bride wore a gown by Monique Lhuillier and the groom wore a Giorgio Armani suit, was officiated by Jessica’s mother.

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Jameson Lake is 83% full following last week’s storms, but water quality is still an issue following the 2017 Thomas Fire

the same time period in Montecito at the District’s office on San Ysidro Road.

The current capacity of the lake is approximately 5,144 acre-feet with a storage elevation of 2,224 feet.

Thursday’s event put the lake at 2,217 feet and rising, which leaves an estimated seven feet of elevation before it reaches capacity. The series of winter storms last week brought an estimated 1,250 acre feet of runoff to Jameson Lake increasing the total storage to approximately 4,300 AF or 83% of full.

According to MWD, runoff and surrounding streams should keep the lake level rising. This combined with any future rain events could cause Jameson Lake to “spill.” Spill water flows downstream via the Santa Ynez River towards Gibraltar reservoir, and spill from Gibraltar continues in the direction of Lake Cachuma. While this is great news for water supply, it remains to be determined what impact this inflow will have on water quality. Since the Thomas Fire burned through the watershed in December 2017, each rain event deposits more

ash and debris in the lake. Increased contaminants make treatment difficult and as a result, water deliveries from Jameson Lake have been suspended since the Thomas Fire.

The District is completing a treatment improvement project at its primary water treatment facility with the intent of enhancing its ability to treat this supply. It is unlikely that inflow from the recent storms has improved water quality, and water deliveries from Jameson Lake are likely to remain suspended over the coming months until water quality improves or the treatment enhancements prove to be successful. The District will continue to monitor both quantity and quality around the clock and reports that there are no storm-related issues with water service at this time.

For more information, visit www. montecitowater.com.

•MJ

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“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” – George R.R. Martin

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AGING IN HIGH HEELS

ORDINANCE NO. 5867 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE PARKS AND RECREATION DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A CONCESSION LEASE AGREEMENT, WITH BEACHCOMBER SANTA BARBARA, LLC, FOR 2,262 SQUARE FEET OF INTERIOR SPACE, AND 1,330 SQUARE FEET OF EXTERIOR PATIO SPACE AT THE CABRILLO PAVILION, 1118 EAST CABRILLO BOULEVARD, SANTA BARBARA The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on January 15, 2019.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

(Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5867 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on January 8, 2019, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on January 15, 2019, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon, Oscar Gutierrez; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on January 16, 2019. /s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on January 16, 2019. /s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published January 23, 2019 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KIG TECH CONSULTOLOGY, 303 W. Taft St, Santa Maria, CA 93454. Kevin Ayala Avila, 303 W. Taft St, Santa Maria, CA 93454. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 4, 2019. 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)

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by Beverlye Hyman Fead

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.

Woman Of the Year, 2004

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usan Miles Gulbransen is a real Santa Barbara girl. She went to Santa Barbara High School and graduated from Laguna Blanca. After graduation, she attended Mills College as a History major, English minor, and went to UC Berkeley to get her secondary teaching credential. Already, I’m impressed! There is, however, a lot more learning she wanted to do.

After a year of teaching, she earned a Masters in History at UCSB while living at home. Then in 1966 she headed back up to San Francisco to resume teaching and moved into an apartment with three Pan Am stewardesses who were friends of a friend.

The next morning when she went into the kitchen for a cup of coffee, there was one of her new roommates and a cute Pan Am pilot, who lived upstairs, doing a crossword puzzle together. The following year she was accepted to Pan Am as a stewardess and three years later in 1969 she married that cute pilot who was doing the crossword puzzle – Gary Gulbransen.

Her next years were busy raising their daughters Krista and Carrie, but she always found time to be involved with reading, writing, and community activities, her life’s work.

When they moved back to Santa Barbara in 1978, she quickly integrated again into the community and became involved and engaged in what she loves to do: community service.

She worked for 21 years writing book reviews and 16 years doing the weekly literary column “Inprint” for the Santa Barbara News-Press, then a New York Times paper. During that time she also wrote freelance articles for regional magazines.

Her writing is informative and light and fun at the same time.

Since the 1980s she has loved teaching nonfiction writing at the annual Santa Barbara Writers Conference. She also formerly taught writing at SBCC’s Adult Ed. These days she writes a really good monthly column “Beyond Books” that appears in Noozhawk. Her community activities are many. Starting with serving on several boards, among them Santa Barbara Foundation, Montecito Educational Foundation, Santa Barbara Public Education Foundation, UCSB History Associates Board, and Antioch University. She is currently serving on the CALM (Child Abuse Listening and Mediation) Board for the second time, a nonprofit (amazingly) her mother started 50 years ago. Their current efforts are to help prevent and treat families dealing with childhood trauma while building resiliency throughout the Santa Barbara County communities. But that’s not all she had to give.

Now you’ll see why she was voted Woman of the Year.

In 1998, Susan and Joan Rutkowski began the restoration project for the Granada Theatre, which opened in 2008. For six years she served as President of the Board and watched the theater grow far beyond their wildest dreams. The first person they approached to join the effort was Michael Towbes.

Talk about success! Today it’s a wonderful resource • The Voice of the Village •

Susan Miles Gulbransen, Santa Barbara Foundation’s 2004 Woman of the Year

Susan was a Pan Am stewardess in the 1960s before moving back to Santa Barbara in 1978

for our community and arts programs. In looking at all of this, I think I’ve figured it out. Susan has more hours in the day than the rest of us.

In 2000, Fred Klein and Susan co­founded the Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival, which ran until the recession hit eight years later. At a youthful, energetic 77, she has no thought of slowing down. That’s a good thing for us because this community needs her.

The Santa Barbara Foundation named her Woman of the Year in 2004, and the year before that she had received the News-Press Lifetime Achievement Award.

Susan has always loved the outdoors and still finds time for walks or hikes – every day. Being with friends or alone with Gary and talking about a wide range of topics is her favorite way to spend free time.

She and Gary also love to travel and explore the world. Other places fascinate her with the usual tourism plus the histories and cultures of other countries or regions.

I asked her what her advice to others as they continue on life’s journey would be, she replied “Remain active and open to new ideas and take time to socialize, two ways to avoid the word ‘old.’

Also use a sense of humor to move life along.”

Expressing her humor, she then said, “That’s enough to know or, as they say in the texting world, TMI!” •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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starring in a U.K. TV series, Wild Bill.

And his bank account it would appear.

Ghostbuster Gang Returns It looks like they found the Reit-man for the job.

Jason Reitman, 41, who won a Golden Globe and received four Oscar nominations, is to helm a new Ghostbusters sequel to the original film, which his Montecito-based father Ivan, 72, directed.

The project, due in the summer of 2020, will be a continuation of the 1984 movie and its 1989 sequel.

Jason Reitman to direct new Ghostbusters film

Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson will be reprising their roles.

Ivan, who has worked on several films, will produce.

The Good Ol’ Days Oscar winning actress Natalie Portman says she was lucky enough to attend Harvard University before social media hit.

The Montecito newcomer, 37, attended the historic Cambridge, Massachusetts, college from 1999 to 2003, the same time as another famous alumni, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook.

Reflecting on her time there, Natalie revealed she’s grateful for having been able “to go about her business without it being documented.”

She tells People missing Facebook was “really lucky. It’s good to make mistakes and do stupid things when you’re a teenager and young adult and not have it haunt you forever.

“I got in just under the wire. Thank you Mark Zuckerberg for being very young.”

Goop Lands in London Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s pop-up London Goop store is set to become a permanent feature.

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Hill is stocked with carefully curated skincare, homeware, health supplements, clothing, and accessories – all with a distinctly Goop twist.

Opened in September as a poppop venture, it was due to close this month, but will now remain open indefinitely, according to reports.

The shop, with floor to ceiling windows, is decked out in plush velvet and a strategically placed chaise longue.

Gwyneth launched Goop in 2008 as a weekly newsletter offering fans lifestyle recommendation. Now, a year after its tenth birthday, the company is a huge empire worth $250 million, according to The New York Times.

Love is Bloom-ing This month marks three years since Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry was first romantically linked to English actor beau Orlando Bloom when the tony twosome were spotted flirting at a Golden Globes party in Beverly Hills.

And former Dos Pueblos High student Katy, 34, has paid tribute to The Lord of the Rings star in a gushing post, branding him the “kindest and cutest” man in her life as she celebrated his 42nd birthday.

Taking to her Instagram account, the “Roar” singer uploaded a snap of Orlando posing by a swimming pool, writing: “Happiest 42nd birthday to the kindest and cutest man I’ve had the pleasure of spending time with.”

Can wedding bells be far behind?

Goodbye Dolly!

On a personal note, I mark the passing of the irrepressible actress Carol Channing, just short of her 98th birthday.

Channing, who won over audiences with her giddy, guileless charm in trademark roles in Hello Dolly and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, died after multiple strokes at her home in Rancho Mirage.

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In a career that spanned several decades, the saucer-eyed, raspy voiced musical comedy star never shook her association with matchmaker Dolly Levi from the 1964 Broadway musical Hello Dolly, a role she played more than 5,000 times and won her a Tony Award.

I last saw her perform at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre in 1978 and enjoyed a memorable evening with her afterwards at a colorful reception in the Redwood Room at the Clift Hotel.

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Jon Batiste Lecture & Concert Review

Musician Jon Batiste (left) at a casual Q&A at the UCSB Music Department with Professor George Lipsitz and George Blake

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usician Jon Batiste held an afternoon open interview and evening solo concert at UCSB on January 11, via the Arts & Lectures Programming, in conjunction with the UCSB Music Department, sponsored by KCSB FM, KCBX FM, and Potek Wines.

Batiste honed his chops at age six as the drummer in a family band and tuned into piano at age 11. He zoomed into a steady career with both undergrad and grad degrees from Juilliard, to became one of Forbes top 30 under 30. He has a world-wide number one Jazz LP titled Social Music with his band “Stay Human.” More widely known for his stint as bandleader for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the reach of his work involves composing, touring, and educating what he calls at his tender age, the next generation in music. He is on tour with his recently released LP, Hollywood Africans, produced by T Bone Burnett, on Verve Records.

At the afternoon session, he arrived sporting his renowned good looks and threads, sitting at ease in the music department lecture hall fielding the curiosities of those attending. Key question highlights he expounded on:

Advice for those pursuing a music career?

Three things: specificity, understanding your options, and pursuing those who are better than you.

Specificity gives you an opportunity to figure out what you like, what you want to learn and finding the sweet spot to get paid for it. Take as many gigs as you can, say yes to all even ones you don’t like as it leads you to specificity and understanding your options. Read All You Need to Know about the Music Business [by Donald S. Passman]; it will put you ahead of the majority of young musicians out there. Music is not just a pursuit you are passionate about, it’s an infrastructure. Read the book and understand the different forms of copyright, figure out how you can do what you want in music. Find the people you want to be with and learn from the most, try not to take no for an answer, use any source to be with them including YouTube. When I was young and on the road, my friend and I would sit and listen to music for four hours straight, we did a blindfold test and played obscure records and asked who was playing each instrument on the record, we learned a lot.

What is music?

Batiste: Music expresses deeper meanings across time, capturing the knowledge of the time and passing it on to the next generation. Music shows us the ideals of who we are and the best of who we are, and some music drives us to be better when we listen to it. Our lives have a soundtrack.

Who is changing the music industry right now?

There is a lot of change right now all because of the way that technology has impacted the infrastructure of music. You can tell a story on multiple platforms at the same time, it’s wide open and I can drop [music compositions] any time and anywhere. We are

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in-between the paradigms right now of the transition. We can make music anywhere by mixing tapes, you can record your LP anywhere, you don’t need an orchestra, you just find the loops and plug it in. All that allows for a lot of innovation based upon a shift that is not going to resolve anytime soon, and I think it’s a good time to be a musician.

How do you create?

Composing music is something I learned how to do being anywhere and doing anything. I figured out how to use my iPhone voice memos, write music on the laptop, so I can really capture the moment of what I am inspired by. I was writing at the hotel and got a bunch of napkins to write on – I stole this from Duke Ellington and hip-hop culture. It’s finding ways to shorthand things, and these napkins don’t look like much, but are part of the symphony I am writing. You have to figure out your way. The more successful you become the more responsibilities you have, but you have to keep the music going because that is how you got there to begin with, so that is how I survive, by keeping the music going.

How do you perceive yourself as a music educator and music education schools?

I educate via cultural exchange students programs and going to places and schools that don’t have music programs. For music education, schools get it right in having a program, after that it’s tough, the music programs are archaic teaching things that were relevant years ago, and it doesn’t really show people the power of music. The music ed programs don’t do music justice.

Listening to music digitally, records, radio, or live?

Listening to music on an LP is ideal in certain circumstances depending on what you want from the music, like listening to a studio album. For digitally tracked music, it’s best done by listening to the music on a device because there was a crafting of the controlling patterns and series to create it in the studio that you can never recreate live. For live stadium performances, say by Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In the USA,” you go to experience all these people relating to the music, of being together and you don’t care if it sounds like the studio recording. In more intimate settings like a 100 person room, theater or jazz club, there it’s important to see something come to life in front of you, the musicians having a conversation with each other and audience that you can never get in any other way.

In the evening, Batiste gave a solo concert at Campbell Hall. There he shone a light on the importance of a shared music experience. As dynam-

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ically as he walked to his piano on stage, so were the notes he brought forth out of it. His technique is precise, clear, and well trained. His compositions are either full on or gently simple.

He could trill and drive baseline riffs simultaneously, pull out dual-hand contra-rhythms, invoke the classicists and others into the music, all as he breathed and moved on his bench to the feels of the compositions. At times, he would converse with the audience, and walked to them in the aisles for a “Love Riot” with his melodica (a mouth-blown reed and keyboard) playing “If You are Happy Clap Your Hands,” “The Star Spangled Banner,” and “Don’t Take My Sunshine Away.”

The core set list contained 6 songs from Hollywood Africans: “When the Saints Go Marching In,” “What A Wonderful World,” “Kenner Boogie,” “Chopinesque,” “Green Hill Zone,” and “Don’t Stop.”

In reviewing the gig, I couldn’t refrain from thinking, what would Allen Toussaint and Miles Davis say? Would they applaud his incorporating already established works into his songs or take the purist tact and advise? The weaving was undeniable. The left hand drone note and tempo he added to “What A Wonderful World,” for what he says is like a meditation and brings out the joy of the lyrics to the listener, is well noted on the drone of Hindustani ragas, Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s “Bamboula,” as well as in Mick Jagger’s “Joy” (Goddess In The Doorway). “Chopinesque” takes more than 16 notes from Chopin’s Nocturne in E flat major, Opus 9, No 2, however let it be noted (pun intended) that Chopin borrowed the nocturne style from John Field, an Irish composer. And again Gottschalk appears here as well, perhaps because he became friends with Chopin while studying in Paris. Pervasively Batiste’s encore, “Don’t Stop,” is a definitive nod to Ludwig Von Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata,” first movement. For Bob Dylan lovers, it was clear that Batiste’s “Keep On Keepin’ On” is a song with the same key and notes of Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright.” At the concert Batiste quipped, “ I played the song for Bob Dylan thinking he would like it, except Bob told me it sounded like one of his compositions and it would not be a good idea to put it on my new LP, so I’m going to play it live for you here.”

In the end, as we rose to a standing ovation, regardless if you are a purist who prefers all original compositions, or at ease with the blending of already established music, it’s clear Batiste is earnest on conveying a singular message: love who you are and spread the love to others. For him that love is music.

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

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 Transcending Tradition – It was just shy of four months ago that The Producing Unit presented a staged reading of Sara Ruhl’s How to Transcend a Happy Marriage at Center Stage Theater, and the questions and topics raised by the provocative play still resonate even as the company readies a full production.

The work is a dark exploration into the apparent incompatibility of traditional marriage with our primal sexual roots as animals, told via a story of two ostensibly happilymarried, middle-aged couples whose worlds are turned upside down by Pip, a woman whose outside-thenorm lifestyle includes sleeping with two male live-in lovers and eating only meat that she has killed herself.

Her live-by-instinct approach alters the two couples’ understanding of relationships, marriage and life purpose, evoking the questions of what parts of our animal nature do we atrophy or simply cut off to be reliable, constructive spouses and parents.

The theme examined in the work that, as one critic put it, via “part absurd domestic serio-comedy, part erotic magic realism,” extends beyond the actual story, though, to raise questions about what we sacrifice when we trade our gut instincts and desires to fit in with society in general, a broader reach courtesy of playwright Ruhl, who has been awarded a MacArthur

Fellowship, nominated for a Tony, and had two of her previous plays named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

Producing Unit founder-teacher-coach Peter Frisch directs the cast featuring Ivy Vahanian, Brian Harwell, Jenna Scanlon, Bill Egan, Shay Munroe, Matt Chung, Blake Benlan, and Roz Borah. WHEN: 8 pm tonight & tomorrow, and January 31-February 2, plus 2 pm Sundays, January 27 & February 3 WHERE: Upstairs in the Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center, at the intersection of Chapala and De la Guerra Streets COST: $29 general, $18 students INFO: 9630408 or www.centerstagetheater.org Balkan Brass – While the Big Easy’s Trombone Shorty concertizes at the Chumash (see above), UCSB’s MultiCultural Center has booked some bold brass of its own tonight.

Ismail Lumanovski, the first Roma clarinet player to graduate from the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York, joins Inspector Gadje, a 14-piece ensemble comprised of 12 brass players and two percussionists.

Lumanovski has been called a “showboat of a performer…, an adventurous, modern-minded-front man” whose sound has been described as having an immaculate Western classical control of the “fiery spirit of Balkan folk music.” Gadje has been praised for their “driving, tight groove of low brass and drums with soaring melodies from trumpets, saxophones

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24 Frisell’s Fashions – Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “the most innovative and influential guitarist of the past 25 years,” Bill Frisell has spent his career either collaborating with artists as diverse as Elvis Costello, Bono, Paul Simon, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, to name just a few, or creating remarkably tasteful arrangements and meaningful interpretations of popular songs. He brought his fascinating take on the Beatles’ songbook to the Lobero a few years ago, and in yet another return to the venue, Frisell leads his current quartet in “When You Wish Upon A Star,” based on his recent Grammy-nominated album of the same name that features his inimitable take on music written for film and television. The concert is meant as much more than simply an homage to a set of iconic scores as Frisell draws his own interpretations from how the music shapes and informs our emotional relationships to what was on the screen. The guitarist will be joined by bassist Thomas Morgan, drummer Rudy Royston, and singer Petra Haden – the daughter of the late jazz bassist Charlie Haden (who himself appeared often at the Lobero) and who has been a member of That Dog, and The Decemberists, and a trio with her two sisters – in reimagining timehonored gems including the title song, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” and themes from Bonanza and other TV shows. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $42-$52 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

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by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 Troy the Trombonist from Tremé – Trombone Shorty, the beloved New Orleans bandleader, singersongwriter and horn-blower, has already conquered crowds at Campbell Hall out at UCSB and in downtown Santa Barbara at the Granada Theatre over several appearances going back more than seven years. Now he’s raring to take his funky jazz party full of fire and brimstone up north to heat up the Chumash Casino Resort. Born Troy Andrews and raised in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Shorty got his nickname when the four-year-old picked up the trombone as his first instrument. By the time he was eight, he was leading his own band in parades, halls, and bars, and toured with the Neville Brothers and Lenny Kravitz while still in his teens. After bursting on the national scene with his 2010 Grammy-nominated Backatown album, Shorty’s highly animated high-energy concerts have since become the stuff of legends.

His latest offering is called Parking Lot Symphony, but his concert tonight takes place in a more hospitable place, inside the casino’s intimate Samala Showroom. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom, 3400 Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $29-$59 INFO: (800) CHUMASH or www.chumashcasino.com

and clarinet [that] incite joy and dance from the very first downbeat.”

Separately, the acts have drawn sold out crowds at such notable venues as the MGM Arena, Fox Theater, and Palace of Fine Arts. Seeing them perform “soaring, funky, dirty, ecstatic” Balkan Brass together should make it a challenge to stay in your seat, although there’s not a lot of dancing room at the intimate MCC Theater. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: MCC Theater (University Center Room 1504), 494 UCEN Road COST: $15 general, $5 UCSB students and children under 12 INFO: (805) 893-2064 or www.mcc.sa.ucsb.edu/ events SUNDAY, JANUARY 27 50 Years Later – Half a century after the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill helped to catalyze the modern environmental movement, several local nonprofits (Community Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Center, Get Oil Out!, and UCSB Environmental Studies Department) are collaborating to commemorate the milestone with a free community event. In recognition of current climate and environmental crises, the event begins with an “Hour of Action” on the plaza outside the Arlington Theatre with representatives from various environmental groups inviting participation in petitions, personal letters to government officials, and commitments to reduce personal carbon footprints. The official program begins at 3 pm, with remarks from a series of influential speakers, including a keynote address by Greenpeace USA Executive Director Annie Leonard, and comments by

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” – Cassandra Clare

national Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, U.S. Congressman Salud Carbajal, California State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Sunrise Movement/UCSB student climate activist Rose Strauss, and local environmental leaders, all of whom will assess progress to date and discuss renewed engagement and civic action. Then it’s time for a musical celebration a whole host of local luminaries, including Zach Gill of Jack Johnson’s band and ALO, Glen Phillips, the Grateful Dead tribute band No Simple Highway, and reggae-folk-funk band Soul Majestic.

There will also be a presentation of an award in memory of local activist and artist Bud Bottoms. WHEN: 2-5:30 pm WHERE: 1317 State St. COST: free INFO: (805) 963-4408 or www. thearlingtontheatre.com TUESDAY, JANUARY 29 The Hall Is Alive – If classic Broadway musicals are one of your favorite things, you’re in luck: The Granada Theatre’s series is hosting the local debut of the new national tour production of The Sound of Music. One of the most enduring and beloved of musicals, the Rodgers & Hammerstein show began on the stage before finding even far bigger success on screen, which continues to be the most successful movie musical in history and enjoyed its 50th anniversary in 2015. A live television production aired on NBC in December 2013 and was seen by more than 44 million people, which sparked the new touring production boasting multiple Tony winners among the directing, choreographer, and technical staffs.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 27 Trocks, Not Mock – The novelty of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo – a company of professional male dancers performing the full range of ballet and modern dance repertoire in faithful renditions of the manners and conceits of those dance styles – has long ago worn off.

The company, founded in 1974 on the heels of the Stonewall riots, which served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement in America and across the globe, have participated in dance festivals, toured the world many times over, appeared in a wide variety of TV shows, and won myriad critical plaudits and awards for their prowess en pointe and all over the stage. While they still go for the comedy, which is achieved by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles, accidents, and underlying incongruities of serious dance in what becomes a parody, the heart of the troupe is that the men dance all the parts – heavy bodies delicately balancing on toes as swans, sylphs, water sprites, romantic princesses, or angst-ridden Victorian ladies in vibrant drag costumes – in the process enhancing rather than mocking, the spirit of dance as an art form. It doesn’t hurt that they have an encyclopedic knowledge of ballet. The trocks will once again dance the fine line between high art and high camp in a return performance at the Granada Theatre. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $35-$45 INFO: 899-2222 / www.granadasb.org or 893-3535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

The moving musical story of Maria and the von Trapp Family is true to the original stage show, and keeps intact all of the Tony-, Grammy- and Academy Award-winning score.

But you won’t have to climb every mountain to see it – if you’re not seated in the orchestra, there’s even an elevator to take you to the second floor of the gloriously renewed theater.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $50 and up INFO: (805) 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org / www.SoundOfMusicOnTour.com WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30 Baring ‘Family Secrets’ – The annual Women’s Philanthropy Luncheon goes beyond presenting famous personalities or live music for its 35th event, instead bringing in the touring Jewish Women’s Theatre for a special performance of Family Secrets.

The piece is a series of vignettes encompassing stories of youthful

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indiscretions, missteps, dishonest acts, and otherwise outright naughty activities that make for a moving, eyeopening and funny show exploring events usually only whispered about.

Among the tales are: A woman teaching a storytelling course on authenticity who is reluctant to reveal her own truth; twin brothers who learn of their grandfather’s heroic activity in South Africa during apartheid, and discover the shocking reason why it was kept from them; and a non-Jewish teen who learns of her father’s first marriage and meets her Jewish halfsister and comes to realize what love really means. The tales are meant to both tug at your heart and make you laugh as part of the fundraising event for the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara. WHEN: 11:30 am to 2:00 pm WHERE: Four Seasons Biltmore Santa Barbara Resort, 1260 Channel Dr. COST: call INFO: (805) 957-1115 or www. jewishsantabarbara.org •MJ

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 29 Redbone Roots – The multicultural approach comes naturally to singer Martha Redbone, who blends the gospel-singing voice of her African-American father with her Cherokee/Shawnee/Choctaw mother’s culture and determined spirit. Powered by a band featuring blues and jazz musicians culled from New York City’s finest, Martha Redbone Roots Project brings together a masterful mix of folk, country, Piedmont blues, gospel, bluegrass, soul and traditional American Indian music. The folk and country sounds of her childhood in the Appalachian Mountains and the eclectic grit of her teen years in pre-gentrified Brooklyn come together in a cornucopia of roots music. Redbone’s latest CD, The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake, was produced by the Grammy-winning Nitty Gritty Dirt Band founder, John McEuen, a former Montecito resident who knows a thing or two about accessing Americana across multiple genres. Also an educator and activist, Redbone’s Santa Barbara debut concert tonight will be followed by her leading a free Talking Circle tomorrow night at 6 at the American Indian Cultural Resource Center, UCSB Student Resource Building Room 1219, as part of the Thematic Learning Initiative: Borders & Bridges. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $25-$38 INFO: (805) 893-3535 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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Real Estate

by Mark Ashton Hunt

Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. His family goes back nearly 100 years in the Santa Barbara area. Mark’s grandparents – Bill and Elsie Hunt – were Santa Barbara real estate brokers for 25 years.

Montecito Under a Million

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t may be difficult to imagine being able to own real estate in an internationally famous town such as Montecito for under a million dollars, but it is indeed very possible. From a studio condo near the beach and Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel, to a two-story townhouse or an ocean view, single level two-bedroom condo, there are options under a million all over Montecito at this moment.

Some people choose to live in a city for the weather (we have that), or for the lifestyle and arts and opportunities (we have these as well), and others want a large home (of course there are many here), but some just want to be in a place they love, and they do not require a large home or cannot afford one. If one can be comfortable in a beachside studio or a townhome-condo in the 1,200+/square foot range, we’ve got that.

If one has the down payment available for a purchase under a million, then forget about renting; your mortgage payment may be close to what the rental cost might be for the same dwelling. Additionally, the value of these purchases is not always visible during an open house tour. If one looks deeper you will find that the listings featured today are all within the Montecito Union School District and within a few blocks to the beach.

To explain further, an $850,000, two-bedroom condo will rent for about $3,500 per month. If you purchase that same condo with 25% down, then your mortgage payment may be somewhere around that same $3,500. Yes, there are homeowner fees and taxes to pay when owning, but by building your own equity, and with the tax deduction for property taxes paid, the difference in cost per month between renting and owning is likely very small.

This is just my (somewhat) educated guess, but it seems difficult to go wrong in the under-a-million market in Montecito.

1936 North Jameson Lane A – $819,000

and overlooks the gardens and lawn at the back of the complex. This unit has been reduced in price to the current asking price.

1220 Coast Village Road #308 – $935,000

As with the previously detailed listing, this unit too is ideally located next to popular restaurants, shops, and the beach. This sun-filled top floor condo also features ocean views.

This Coast Village Road condo is on the top floor and includes two bedrooms, both with ocean views, two baths, storage space, and an outdoor patio off the living room.

Building amenities include a secure building with elevator, designated parking, and large outdoor communal patio. This unit has also been reduced in price over time.

1394 Plaza Pacifica - $995,000

This is a prime location in Villa De Montecito, an end unit at the back of the development, but still close to the pool and clubhouse.

This former model unit has 1,258 sq ft of living space, three bedrooms, two full bathrooms, vaulted ceilings, hardwood and Saltillo tile floors, a fireplace, dual-pane windows, private wrap-around patio, new stainless steel kitchen appliances, new water heater, private laundry, and a four-car garage (double tandem).

There is guest parking within the complex and the amenities onsite include a pool, spa, gym, clubhouse, game room, and play area.

1220 Coast Village Road #302 – $820,000

This two-bedroom two-bathroom condominium is located on the top floor, in the heart of Coast Village Road, seconds from all the charming nearby restaurants, bars, and shops and just a few short blocks to Butterfly Beach.

This is one of the few units within the complex offering skylights (four throughout) and no neighbors living above. Facing north, the unit is private

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Enjoy partial ocean views through the floor-to-ceiling windows that open fully to provide fresh ocean breezes and expansive views of the gardens outside.

This studio unit is well located within the development and includes an updated kitchen, wood floors, and fresh paint.

Additionally, this is the lowest priced unit at the Bonnymede complex, a guard-gated community that is steps to the sand, adjacent to the beach and the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel and just two short blocks to Coast Village Road shops and restaurants.

Complex amenities include a pool, hot tub, and tennis courts.

For more information on any of these listings or to have me arrange a showing with the listing agents, please contact me directly, Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text 805698-2174. Please view my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based.

•MJ

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$5,500,000 | 1147 Glenview Rd, Montecito | 4BD/5½BA Ken Switzer | 805.680.4622 | Lic # 01245644

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