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Tea time: Kirk Douglas already making plans for 100th birthday in December, p. 6

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, P.8 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT & MOVIE GUIDE, P.39 • OPEN HOUSES, P.45

WELCOME TO WONDERLAND Laguna Blanca Lower School invites youngsters and families to spend a whimsical day on its San Ysidro Road campus, (page 24)

Coming & Going

Young Frankenstein is a show you simply should not miss, and this weekend is your last chance to catch it, p.17

Beautification Day Recap

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Election

MJ crunches the numbers and provides a summary of the presidential, state, and local voting results

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Letters to the Editor

Kirk Douglas party; Gwyneth’s fragrance; Oprah lists favorites; Katy’s birthday bash; Doug Margerum’s wine; George Lucas galleries; Opera SB kicks off; rock opera Lizzie; Neal Taylor Nature Center; SB Magazine soirée; Dream Foundation’s Dreamland; tenor Ben Bliss; and Brandon Mowery Lidia Zinchenko on San Ysidro Road; Carol DeCanio’s compliment; Thomas Bryan gets political; Terence Ford’s band of brothers; Morten Wengler seeking MJ; Jennifer Buur on winners; Denice Spangler Adams on water; and Mark Magid gives thanks

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Beautification Day recap; Montecito Association discusses short-term vacation rentals; and Laguna Blanca expecting hundreds for Owls in Wonderland event

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Lynda Millner goes to town with Heal The Ocean’s Really Big Show; Opera SB’s Wine and Opera Dinner; author Linda Thompson at Tecolote; and “Designing America” exhibit

17 Coming & Going

James Buckley reviews SB High School’s version of Young Frankenstein; and Beverlye Fead is an author and blogger, who gave a TEDx talk in the Big Apple – not bad for an 82-year-old with tumors

Real Estate Mark Hunt surveys the scene of four properties ranging from $52 million on East Valley Road to a Mediterranean estate for almost $7 million

22 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz makes note of Cynthia Waring and Yoga Soup; Circle of Light; benefit concert at Lobero; Buddha Nature course; The Enneagram; and sharing and singing

23 On Finance

Money manager Tim Hatton is back in the fold, turning his attention to politics, the U.S. Constitution, and the notion of states proposing amendments

28 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz sits down with filmmaker Dayton Duncan prior to his presentation November 15; Granada hosts Vocalosity; and cellist Sol Gabetta at Hahn Hall

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You auto know: Ashleigh Brilliant checks under the hoods of vehicles “strangling” the Central Coast and looks in his rear-view mirror at automotive history

Movie Guide 40 Our Town

Picture this: Joanne Calitri’s camera focuses on Halloween revelry around Ghost Village Road

42 Calendar of Events

Shakespeare@400; Trombone Shorty at the Arlington; John Cleese and Eric Idle; opera in the house; Celebration of Life Exhibit & Benefit; Granada hosts Scott Kelly; Antioch says “Book it”; Kris Kristofferson at Lobero; and film focus

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Editorial

by James Buckley

Oh, What a Night!

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orty-eight hours before Election Day, a friend I regularly commiserate with and with whom I share political leanings was asked, via a small email chain we share, if she believed Donald Trump would or could still win; here was her response: “I still think for some reason he is going to win. The deck is completely and utterly stacked against him: money outspent; media bias coverage; media collusion with DNC [Democratic National Committee]; Hillary getting questions ahead of time; Trump’s mic rigged outta whack during debate; Google, Facebook, Twitter, FBI, DOJ [Department of Justice], all compromised; blackouts on news feeds favoring Trump; blackouts and lost feeds on James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas; 98% newspaper endorsements; utterly dishonest and stacked polls; inaccurate poll reporting to discourage Trump voters from voting; ballot box stuffing; rigged voting booths...

“It is so ludicrously – in an almost surreal and cartoonish way – arrayed against him that I think this is a God Moment (think Old Testament)... and that Trump will prevail. Think this through logically. I shall again repeat my claim: if Hillary wins – well, everyone has been saying that – so no surprise. But if Trump wins – knowing all that I recorded above — it could only truly be through Divine Intervention.

“You won’t be able to explain it any other way, but it is so deliciously lined up like that I think he will prevail.”

Our hope now is that once a Trump administration is formed and he takes the oath of office, he’ll use those first 100 days to act upon the promises he made: reducing the corporate tax rate, implementing a 10-percent “repatriation” tax to bring back off-shore profits, and naming a Constitutional conservative to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court for a start.

Other Election Results

Tobe Plough and Floyd Wicks received 2,207 and 2,166 votes, respectively, to win the two available seats on the Montecito Water District Board of Directors.

We congratulate them and wish them well. (Charles Newman received 1,912 and Thomas Mosby 1,022).

Salud Carbajal, with 114,270 votes, bested Montecito-based Justin Fareed, who received 98,214. Congratulations are in order for Mr. Carbajal, who will now join the rest of California’s large contingent of Democrat lawmakers in Washington, D.C. •MJ

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Michael, 72, is in charge of the former Spartacus star’s centennial celebrations and suggested a lunch, but it seems Kirk has other ideas.

“He doesn’t like to watch people eat, so we’re down to a tea,” says the Wall Street actor. “We’re just trying to get the details worked out, but it’s turning out to be a major function.”

Kirk was born Issur Danielovitch Demsky to Russian immigrants in New York in 1916, going on to become a wrestling champion and finding tremendous success as an actor, with 91 credits to his name, according to the Internet Movie Database, starting with The Strange Love of Martha Ivers in 1946.

His most recent appearance was in a 2008 TV film titled Empire State Building Murders.

And the veteran actor, who has been married to his German-born, 97-yearold wife Anne for 62 years, has been reliving his old memories in a series of memoirs.

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show: “He’s a great literary writer. It’s a lost art. He’s got a history of letters he and his wife (wrote to each other).

“My stepmother Anne, she’s been my stepmother for 65 years; I’ve noticed they’re working on a book together. So he’s quite content, quite satisfied, he’s just an extraordinary guy.”

As for the birthday bash, Michael says: “I’ll probably wish him 101... He is rocking. I can easily see him going on.”

Meanwhile, he says his much younger wife, Welsh actress Catherine ZetaJones, 47, is making plans for when he is in a wheelchair.

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t’s a regular weekday on San Ysidro Road by MUS, about 2:30 pm. The lines of expensive SUVs and some fancy sedans stretch up and down the street. Engines are idling with no regard to global warming, with fossil fuel burning to keep the air-conditioners on so that the mothers of the kids to be picked up stay cool and focused on the logistics of the hectic mess, which is just about to erupt.

And then it begins.

They run the red lights, cut each other off, give each other certain steely stares and honk; indeed, every second won in the pickup line counts because, after all, what’s more important than making it on time to the ballet or soccer class? Feels like mother apes fighting to save their little ones from the paws of some predators...

And it happens just like or about that every school day without fail.

I’m there to pick up my three boys and it never ceases to amaze me. The process of kids’ pickup at MUS is a bit strange, to say the least. My kids, for example, are in first grade and MUS has four first-grade classes dismissed every day at the same time, which translates into over 50 cars crammed in their tiny San Ysidro side parking lot every day. The order of the kids coming out is always a crapshoot: your kid can come out among the first, and then you are lucky to come early and be the first in line, or, if you come early and stand the first in line, but your kid’s class is stuck behind, you can block everybody behind you in the line for a long while and prevent the others whose kids are already waiting from getting to them and driving away.

It’s chaotic and disorganized. And not too safe for many drivers passing by or standing there. All that would be a necessary evil if MUS had zero other options and we all absolutely had to suffer. However, in reality, while we all fight tooth and nail in the San Ysidro parking lot, the school has... a completely empty and convenient lot on the Schoolhouse Road side available every day after kindergarten pickup ends more than 30 minutes earlier.

Since that lot is empty each day after 2 pm, it would make a lot of sense to direct at least half the San Ysidro lot traffic there to pick up two out of four first-grade classes.

Wouldn’t you agree?

It would restore reasonable logic to the pick-up process, would make

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everybody’s life easier, and traffic on San Ysidro Road safer. You would assume this decision would almost make itself, but when on a particularly congested pick-up day I asked an administrative staff member why they wouldn’t do exactly that, I got a fairly strange answer. I was told: “We don’t want to split the staff into two lots; the current way is fine, and everything is under control.”

Really?

It takes at least 20 minutes to complete the pickup the current way.

That is 100 minutes per week, 400 minutes per month, which makes it total of 66.6 hours per school year of time wasted on smelling other cars’ exhausts and waiting in line at the school. That’s some unpleasant math.

And to add insult to injury, the school district is talking about investing millions of dollars in reconstruction of the same tiny parking lot, which makes no sense considering they have a completely free, simple, and immediate solution to this problem.

Why wouldn’t they instead invest those millions in starting up middle and high schools in the district? That would keep young professional families in town, create jobs for teachers, and improve the quality of life in Montecito. But that, of course, is a whole different matter...

Lidia Zinchenko Montecito (Editor’s note: I haven’t been around the school at pick-up time for a while, as my own children graduated last from MUS some 18 years ago, though there were fewer children and way fewer SUVs in those days. As for a middle, junior, or high school, that is indeed “a whole different matter,” as the MUS District is a designated K through 6 school. When my family first arrived in the mid-’80s, the new principal-superintendent, Dr. Bronte Reynolds, was encouraged by the Santa Barbara School District to sign off on changing its designation from a K-8 to a K-6. Which he did, much to his later regret. In any case, bureaucracies being what they are, altering MUS’s status would take an act of God. Best to forget it, as Santa Barbara does have some impressive high schools, including SBHS. – J.B.)

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This Week in and around Montecito

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Antique Show Remnants of the Past Vintage, Antique, and Artisan Home Décor Show takes over Earl Warren Showgrounds today and tomorrow. More than 70 vendors will display their wares, and there will be food vendors and special guests.

When: today 1 to 7 pm, tomorrow 10 am to 4 pm Where: 3400 Calle Real Cost: $15 admission Info: www.remnantsofthepast.com

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Lecture at SBMM Santa Barbara Maritime Museum presents a lecture, “The Mesa and the Sea,” by Betsy J. Green.

When: 7 pm; members-only reception at 6:15 pm Where: 113 Harbor Way Cost: free (SBMM members), $10 (non-members) Register: Go to www.sbmm.org or call 456-8747 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Spanish Conversation Group The Montecito Library announces a new 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

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Mesa Artists Studio Tour Twelve artists whose output includes abstract, representational, landscape, and figurative work in watercolors, pastels,

oils, acrylics, and other media host annual Mesa Artists Studio Tour, opening their homes for a pre-holiday exhibit and sale.

Follow red balloons and signs to enjoy the art of Karin Aggeler, Danuta Bennett, Kathee Christie, Carissa Luminess, Niki Lunn, Kimberley Pratt, Meg Ricks, Morgan Green, Nancy and Bill Hull, Jean Demro, and Sara Woodburn.

When: Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 4 pm Cost: free Map and info: www. santabarbaramesaartists.com Artists Reception Porch in Carpinteria announces “Balint & Dallett,” an exhibit of art work by Santa Barbara artists Sierra Balint and Lloyd Dallett. Porch will host a reception for the artists tonight. Sierra has loved art since her days fingerpainting as a toddler.

She took art classes and workshops, and was part of the Visual Arts and Design Academy at Santa Barbara High School.

Most recently, she attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Her botanical oil paintings on wood will be on display. Lloyd received her BFA in painting and sculpture at the Boston Museum School. Her work has been shown in Santa Barbara as well as NYC, Russia, and Paris. Fifty percent of the sales of her whimsical dog sculptures will be donated to the Downtown Dog Rescue of Los Angeles (Downtowndogrescue.org).

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: 3823 Santa Claus Lane Info: 684-0300 Book Signing at Tecolote Tiffany Margolin signs her book: Relationship Reset: Get Her to Love You As Much As Your Dog Does.

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977

When: 6:30 to 8 pm Where: Laguna Blanca School, 4125 Paloma Drive

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Owls in Wonderland Laguna Blanca School hosts carnival with an Alice in Wonderland theme. Attractions and activities include a mad scientist, scavenger hunts, games, arts and crafts, tea parties, live rabbits, and owls for photo ops, and of course, Alice herself will be there to entertain.

Admission is free, and the event is open to the community.

When: 11 am to 2 pm Where: 260 San Ysidro Road Cost: free admission Info: 687-2461 Beeswax Candle Dipping Workshop Enjoy the timeless art of making beeswax candles. Presented by the Beekeepers Guild of Santa Barbara.

When: 11 am Where: 1619 San Leandro Lane Cost: $25 (members), $35 (non-members) Register: beekeepersguildsb@yahoo.com

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Cold Spring School Board Meeting When: 6 pm Where: 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Info: 969-2678 Athletics & College Admission Please join Matt Struckmeyer, director of College Counseling at Laguna Blanca School, and John Abrami of the Santa Barbara Swim Club for a moderated discussion of the complete ins-and-outs of applying to college as an athlete. After specific presentations by each panelist, questions from the audience on all matters of college admission and athletics will be answered.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Book Signing at Tecolote Cynthia Spivey signs her book, How to Eat Paleo (When You Don’t Live in a Cave).

When: 3 to 5:30 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977 Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 4 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 Caring for Wildlife Learn simple facts about living in harmony with our “natural pest controllers” in this special wildlife presentation.

When: 6 to 7 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Parenting Workshop El Montecito Presbyterian Church presents a free lecture by June Michealsen: “Growing Kids with Grateful Hearts.” Free childcare provided with reserved place.

When: 6:30 to 7:30 pm Where: El Montecito Presbyterian Church, Parish Hall, 1455 East Valley Road Contact: bkennedy@westmont.edu by November 13

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Montecito Planning Commission Meeting MPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies and that issues raised by interested parties are addressed.

When: 9 am Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Basketry Group The Montecito Library is pleased to host a Basketry Group that meets on the third Wednesday of each month. Basketry Group is a great place to find out about basket weaving and to connect with other weavers. Bring some weaving to work on. If you are a beginner, just come to

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watch and learn. There will be materials available and someone who is eager to help you get started. This will be an active, enthusiastic group and welcoming to newly interested weavers.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Summerland Evening Yoga A longtime Summerland tradition taught by Bob Andre. Small Hatha 1 yoga class with brief meditation and breathing work.

When: 5:30 pm Where: Summerland Church, 2400 Lillie Avenue Cost: donation Book Signing at Chaucer’s Betty Fussell signs her newest book, Eat, Live, Love, Die. When: 7 pm Where: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State Street Info: 682-6787

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18

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Book Signing at Tecolote Lisa Kotin signs her book, My Confection: Odyssey of a Sugar Addict.

When: 5 to 6 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977

ONGOING FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Road SUNDAYS Cars & Coffee Motorists and car lovers from as far away as Los Angeles, and as close as East Valley Road, park in the upper village outside Montecito Village Grocery to show off and discuss their prized possessions, automotive trends, and other subjects.

Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Corvettes prevail, but there are plenty of other autos to admire.

When: 8 to 10 am Where: Every Sunday in the upper village, except the last Sunday of the month, when the show moves to its original home, close to 1187 Coast Village Road.

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by Kelly Mahan

has been Editor at Large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito Kelly and beyond. She is also a licensed Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and the Calcagno & Hamilton team. She can be reached at Kelly@montecitojournal.net.

Beautification Day Recap Citizens of the Year Nina Terzian and Mindy Denson, with co-chair Cliff Ghersen

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ontecito Association hosted yet another successful Beautification Day last Saturday; hundreds of Montecito residents in their gold-colored T-shirts could be seen around Montecito picking up litter on the warm and sunny Saturday morning.

After the trash pick-up, kids art winners were announced: Avery, Max, and Natalie, local school kids, were honored for their Beautification artwork, which is still hanging at Tecolote and the hardware store for the next week. Three Beautification Awards were handed out to local residents Earla and Paul Cronshaw, for their bee and butterfly haven on Tabor Lane; Katherine Malkin and her nephew Jared for their repurposed perimeter fence on Sycamore

Canyon and Hot Springs Road (made out of downed Eucalyptus trees); and Marlene Vitanza, owner of Peregrine Galleries on Coast Village Road, for her festive window display. “These are just a few of the people who help keep our community beautiful,” said event co-chair Mindy Denson.

Denson and committee member Nina Terzian were recognized as Citizens of the Year, for their continued volunteerism and outreach efforts for a multitude of local causes. “Today is one of the best days of my life,” Terzian said as she was given a resolution from First District supervisor Salud Carbajal’s assistant Eric Friedman. Terzian’s devotion to saving monarch butterflies inspired

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The “Really Big Show” had Gailyn Addis as Marilyn Monroe and then as Liza Minnelli. Monty Aidem came on as “Old Blue Eyes” Frank Sinatra singing all the classic favorites. The audience got so excited, they were dancing on stage. Auctioneer comedian, Russ Stolnack, known as “The Rocktioneer”, got those paddles up especially for a trip to “Anywhere in the World.” Other items were Waikiki,

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Hillary is rightfully proud of the strides made this year, including significant inroads to upgrade wastewater treatment plants, successful septic-to-sewer work, and now tackling problematic septic systems in the Santa Ynez Valley. They have hired environmental engineering consultants to help them access State and other grant funding, and to advise on ocean and groundwater pollution matters. And much more. They rely on your support. One of Heal the Ocean’s big advocates and honorary chair is Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who lives right here in town.

Hillary thanked everyone for their help and said, “Finally, let us celebrate together the fact that the Really Big Show is the ocean, which deserves

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Opera Santa Barbara had a fabulous night at the Bacara for their third annual Wine and Opera Dinner. This year, we were in the newly renovated Angel Oak restaurant. As the general manager Shashi Poudyal said, “This is the best new restaurant with a view!” The Pacific was out there in all its majesty, and then nature added a glorious sunset.

We had wine courses, food courses, and operatic courses. Two wines were served with each of the four courses – pairings by Trinitas in Napa, with CEO Garrett Busch narrating

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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.

Tennis Courts and Swimming Pools

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ith the lack of new housing inventory in Montecito, and the frequency with which homes in the lower-price ranges move, let’s take a look at some of the homes that haven’t moved so quickly, especially some in the high end.

If one considers the available homes in this category, there are many options for sprawling estates from the $6-million to $25-million range with a few major estates listed over that. These estate properties, with sizable main homes, guest quarters, pool houses, theaters, or what have you, are essentially what Montecito is known for.

For me, an estate that includes a tennis court, pool, and a prime location meets the requirements for what is expected in a luxury estate. Missing one or another of these is not an option for the lucky few who can pick and choose.

Fortunately, estates come in all shapes, and prices.

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by Igor (William Blondell, center), singing “A Roll in the Hay” onstage at Santa Barbara High School

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The Wine House

Vintner Doug Margerum and wife Marni hit Washington, D.C., for Julia Child bash

Santa Barbara winemaker Doug Margerum is making quite a splash in Washington, D.C. In August, his 2014 Sybarite sauvignon blanc was chosen for a state dinner at the White House for Singapore’s prime minister Lee Hsien Loong, and it was on the menu again when Doug and his wife, Marni, attended the second annual Smithsonian Food History gala at the National Museum of American History, when the prestigious Julia Child Award, given by the late cooking wizard’s eponymous foundation for gastronomy and the culinary arts, went to Chicago chef Rick Bayless, winner of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters and an Emmy nominee.

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“It was huge hit,” gushes Doug. “It was the first time many people had tried a digestive. I learned to make it in Italy, and it is one of the only locally made Amaros.”

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Paltrow’s Perfume It may not be Chanel No. 5 or Guerlain’s Shalimar, but Montecito’s newest celebrity resident Gwyneth Paltrow is about to launch her first fragrance, I learn.

The Oscar-winning actress, who has made it her mission to create both organic make-up and skincare products, is marketing her new scent, Edition O1, inspired by winter and free of any artificial ingredients.

Gwynnie, 44-year-old founder of Goop, says it will be the first in a series of perfumes inspired by the four seasons, and the $165 fragrance is debuting just in time for the Yuletide holidays.

“Fragrances which I’ve used up to this point is actually really at best not transparent at all and at worst very toxic,” she tells Elle.com, explaining that some contain “endocrine-disrupting chemicals” that can wreak havoc on hormones.

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of a series of fragrances by Hugo Boss, says she worked with nose Douglas Little to create a blend of cypress, frankincense, labdanum, vanilla, clove leaf, juniper, and styrax tree bark.

Although she has yet to wish about what other fragrances will smell like, she notes she is not a fan of ‘heavily citrusy’ scents despite their popularity.

The mother-of-two hopes her “sophisticated” debut scent will invoke the feeling of sitting by a fire and, when asked why she started with the coldest season of them all, she has a sentimental reason.

“I like the coziness of winter, and the family times that come with it,” she explains. “Everyone is inside and together and curled up on sofas reading.”

Gwyneth, who is a fan of natural remedies, calls the scent “wholistic”, explaining that the barks and herbs featured in the fragrance “all have, from the mystical point of view, healing properties.”

And because she lights candles in her home every day “an hour before sunset” as part of her evening ritual, her new fragrance collection also includes a $72 Edition O1 candle.

“I like to have a demarcation between the day and the nighttime, so I’ll light some candles, have a glass of wine, and I always have a bath,” she says.

Over the past year, her signature brand has been branching out in to different areas, including a skin care range and, most recently, a clothing line.

Carmen Get It! Two years after the Music Academy of the West set Bizet’s popular opera, Carmen, in the contemporary surroundings of our Eden by the Beach, Opera Santa Barbara placed it firmly back in the more traditional Spanish surroundings of 19th-century Seville, when it kicked off its latest season at the Granada with one of its best productions ever.

The sold-out, two-and-a-half hour show directed by Octavio Cardina with artistic director Kostis Protopapas conducting the orchestra, which I saw on Friday night, was a cracker, with superb scenery, lighting, and costumes.

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as her participation on the Montecito Association Board of Directors and dedication to many other charitable causes.

It was all hands on deck by the Beautification Committee, who baked chocolate chip cookies and manned the lunch buffet line. Montecito firefighters were once again grilling up hotdogs, and the Montecito Firefighters Association was honored with a Beautification Award for their ongoing service.

Montecito Association Meets

At this month’s Montecito Association meeting, the board voted to further support a ban on ShortTerm Vacation Rentals (STRs), which is being discussed by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors (BOS) on December 6.

About a year ago, County staff began drafting ordinance language that distinctly prohibits short-term rentals (fewer than 30 days) in residential zones in unincorporated areas of the County, including Montecito. The Montecito Planning Commission and the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission have both reviewed the language and recommend that it be adopted by the BOS. The exception to the ban will be the C-V (visitor-serv-

ing commercial zones). Properties zoned C-V already have hotels located on them, including the San Ysidro Ranch; they do not currently contain residences in which to operate a shortterm rental. The draft ordinance language prohibits short-term rentals in residential, agricultural, resource protection, industrial, and special-purpose zone districts in the Montecito Land Use and Development Code. In other areas of the County, some shortterm rentals are allowed in agricultural zones on properties more than 40 acres.

Sybil Rosen, who has been leading the charge to ban STRs in Montecito, spoke at the meeting, urging board members to attend the BOS meeting on December 6, which takes place in Santa Maria. Resident Tim Werner, who runs several legal vacation rentals in commercial districts agreed with the ban, saying: “I really don’t want to see our community overrun with transient use. We need to honor the core values of the zoning, to protect our neighborhoods.”

Resident Cheryl Thompson opposed the ban, saying that many people who operate STRs are women trying to keep their homes, including single moms, or single women after divorce or death of a spouse.

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core principles of the Montecito Community Plan. In a letter to the board of supervisors, the MA encourages meaningful fines and strong enforcement mechanisms of the ordinance. Executive director Victoria Greene explained that in the future, the County would be able to further amend the ordinance, including making exceptions for homestays (renting out bedrooms or guesthouses for short-term use, when the home is owner-occupied), and re-zoning certain areas for commercial use. “This is a significant issue across many communities across this country and across the world. Yes, there will be exceptions, and there will be people who are going to have extenuating circumstances,” said Rosen.

Also at the meeting, the board voted to send a letter to the County Parks Commission, which is reviewing a proposed lease agreement between Lower Manning Park and the Montecito Family YMCA later this week. The proposed lease agreement is asking for a long-term lease (30 years) for 41 spaces at the park, in order for the YMCA to continue to move forward with its plans for expansion and renovation.

Over seven years in the planning process, the YMCA is requesting a revised conditional use permit to update its 50-year Master Plan, for the purpose of renovating, enhancing, and expanding the existing facilities on the 4.25-acre, located on Santa Rosa Lane. The revised conditional use permit would allow for the demolition and reconstruction of existing buildings and the construction of several new buildings, as well as the continuation of existing programs including a selection of recreational, fitness, and well-being programs for all age groups and licensed pre-school and after-school day care programs.

The proposed project includes an enhanced two-story main building, a new preschool building, a natatorium with a new indoor pool and updated locker room facilities, an expansion to

the current pool, and a gymnasium to cover the current outdoor sports court. The project was slated to go to the Planning Commission last fall, but the YMCA asked for a continuance to work closer with concerned neighbors and solidify a parking agreement with the County.

Currently, the YMCA has a shortterm memorandum of understanding with the County regarding the parking and is allowed to use the roughly 100 spots at Lower Manning Park for overflow for its members during peak times. This new potential lease would ask for fewer spots, 41, but for a stronger, more solidified agreement. “We can’t move forward with the project without this agreement,” said YMCA executive director Mike Yamasaki. As part of the proposed lease agreement, the YMCA intends on taking on a portion of the park maintenance, which some members of the audience agreed is necessary. The requested parking spaces would not be designated, Yamasaki explained; they would be used on a first-come, first-served basis.

Four members of the audience spoke at the meeting, two of which asked the Montecito Association (MA) to support the lease agreement for the project to move forward. The other two were neighbors of the YMCA, who said they still have concerns about congestion, parking, and traffic.

The Montecito board had a lengthy discussion about the issue and decided to send a letter to the Parks Commission asking for more extensive parking studies to be conducted before a long-term lease agreement is signed. “We need to see the impacts it will have on the parking lot during busy school days, and how it may affect traffic related to pickup and drop-off,” said land use chair Cori Hayman. The letter also stated that an agreement should have no detrimental effect on park users, per the Montecito Community Plan.

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Spirituality Matters

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

Unbound for Glory

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erforming more than 30,000 massages left Cynthia Waring with a lot more than strong fingers. They also provided insight into her own life and healing far beyond anything she might have imagined.

Her healing touch not only loosened tight muscles and salved aching joints but elicited clients’ stories of past pain and trauma. Their tales on her table triggered her own forgotten memories, and the mutual awakening led to a unique healing process all her own, where she went deeply into the human dilemma and revealed a path to transform trauma into purpose and see psychological wounds as initiation.

Those insights were first collected into a book and later turned into a stage show entitled Bodies Unbound.

It’s a startlingly honest account and remarkable moving account of her life interwoven with short vignettes from the lives of some of her clients. After a long hiatus, Waring revived the one-woman show earlier this year and recently performed it at several local venues, ranging from house concerts to the Center Stage Theater. Women have been particularly inspired by the performances, but people of any age, gender, or situation can find warmth, humor, and insight in her powerfully performed touching tale of the transformative power of touch.

Waring is offering one final chance to see Bodies Unbound, which is directed by Jill Andre, here in Santa Barbara in the current series before she moves on to other projects, at the intimate and body-spirit centered location of Yoga Soup, on Friday, November 11, from 7:30 to 9 pm.

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Trance Channeling

Also at Yoga Soup: The Circle of Light with psychic medium Riz Mirza, who is said to enter into a deep trance and leave his physical body as master Spirit Guides speak through him with love, wisdom, and powerful piercing insight. His main message bearer is chief Red Eagle, a loving presence who answers your personal questions on any aspect of your life. Participants may receive powerful and insightful answers to personal questions and feel a new sense of freedom and perspective. All aspects of love, consciousness, and how to live a fuller, deeper, more vibrant existence are discussed. At Mirza’s events, people often laugh, cry, and/or are awakened by the guidance and clarity. (Mirza is also available for one-on-one, in-depth private psychic readings in person or by phone). Admission to The Circle of Light, which takes place 8 to 10:30 pm on Wednesday, November 16, is $40.

Kin I Help You?

Bodhi Path’s “Benefit Concert for Creativity and Awakening”, featuring Hauschka, The Kin, and Fred Johnson, which we wrote about a couple of months ago, is finally here. The Kin, who have opened for Coldplay, PINK, Bon Jovi, and Rod Stewart, share the stage with Hauschka, an experimental musician who is a leading exponent of prepared piano technique, and Johnson, an accomplished vocalist and percussionist who has spent the past 35 years presenting international concerts and seminars on the power of creative expression as a tool for personal well being and healing. But the evening is about much more than

just music. Dawa Tarchin Phillips, the resident teacher at Bodhi Path Santa Barbara and director of education at UCSB’s Center for Mindfulness and Human Potential, and Jack Canfield, the Santa Barbara-based co-author of The Success Principles and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, join Hauschka, the Brothers Koren, and Johnson for a pre-performance discussion around creativity and its place in awakening.

Tickets for the 7:30 pm event on Friday, November 11, at the Lobero Theatre cost $25 or $40, or $125 for VIP, which include premier seating and entry to a reception with the artists/speakers, including a hosted bar and appetizers.

Call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com.

Phillips also leads the “Buddha Nature, A Dharma Course with Group Meditation”, a six-week course to explore and discover how your nature works and why following a path to awakening with sincerity and commitment is the most effective way of accessing its potential for freedom and happiness. The new session gets underway at 7 pm on Thursday, November 10, at Santa Barbara BodhiPath Center, 102 West Mission Street (Entrance in the back off of Chapala Street). The center also offers “Open Meditation for newbies, long-timies and in-between” every Tuesday night at 6. Both courses are by donation. Visit www.meetup.com/ Bodhi-Path-Santa-Barbara-BuddhistSpiritual-Community.

The Soul of the Enneagram

The Enneagram is a unique and time-tested sacred psychology that has become one of the world’s most popular tools for understanding self and our relationships with others in love and work. Several spiritual lineages,

including the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, have developed a rich history using the Enneagram – which runs far deeper than simple personality types – in spiritual direction and for life discernment. Richard Groves, author and pastoral counselor and the founder-director of the Sacred Art of Living Center, has been a student and teacher of the Enneagram for 30 years. He leads a six-hour mini-retreat as this month’s Wednesday Retreat Day at La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road in Montecito, from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. on November 16. Admission is free, with donations requested. Optional lunch is $14, with advance reservation. Call 969-5031 or visit www.lacasademaria.org.

Sing for Your Soul

Share and Sing Together: A Breakthrough Intro is a unique and uplifting experiential workshop that features inspiring and energizing activities, including group singing, soulful vocal expression, dynamic movement exercises, circle sharing, and more.

The event is an introduction to the Breakthrough Performance workshop that offers a personal empowerment, therapeutic-style program to supports participants to live a fully expressed life and breakthrough limiting perhaps lifelong fears in countless ways through music and authentic singing.

When we begin to quiet the thoughts of self-doubt and criticism that hold us back and learn to sing joyously from the heart, miracles may happen as we make a connection with our inner selves. The free intro evening takes place 7 to 9 Monday, November 14, in a private home at 435 E. Pedregosa.

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On Finance

by Tim Hatton Tim Hatton is the owner and president of Hatton Consulting, Inc, a registered investment advisory firm. He is the author of The New Fiduciary Standard, which outlines the prudent investment process individuals and trustees should follow in order to meet the high standard of a fiduciary. He holds the Certified Financial Planner and Accredited Investment Fiduciary designations. He lives in Montecito with his wife Jen and two children, Heidi and Hudson. He can be reached at thatton@hattonconsulting.com or at (602) 852-5525

States May Amend Your Ways

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n the midst of this dreadful campaign season, I have some hope for you. It may be a longshot, but there is a political movement that merits your attention. I do believe it has the potential to dramatically alter the way our government operates and it will be appealing to Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

Further, it has the potential to put the teeth back into the checks and balances of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government that has eroded over the last several years.

Article V of the Constitution grants Congress the power to propose amendments to our Constitution, it has happened successfully 27 times.

Amendments abolished slavery, gave women the right to vote, and the 22nd Amendment created term limits for the president of the United States (stay tuned – I am hopeful this current political movement will take the 22nd Amendment a few steps further).

However, Article V provided a second way for amending the Constitution. It allows the states to propose amendments – in my opinion, this was genius and it is the anecdote for what our country needs now. Just days before the close of the 1787 convention to rat-

ify the U.S. Constitution, George Mason raised a concern. In keeping with the checks and balances of the Framers, Mason believed no branch of government should have the power to determine the extent of its own power. Mason surmised that someday Congress would abuse its powers enumerated in the Constitution and there needed to be a way to restrain Congress outside of Congress itself.

So, the Founders gave the states the power to convene and propose amendments to the Constitution outside the purview of Congress, in an effort to restrain federal abuses – Article V calls this action a “convention of states.”

Article V reads: The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the applications of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all interests and purposes, as part of the Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states…

So, two-thirds of the states pass an application to convene a convention of states to propose amendments.

Once those amendments are identi-

fied and passed at the convention, they must be ratified by three-fourths of the states to become part of the Constitution.

What are the possible amendments? There are several, but here are three popular choices: Impose fiscal restraint by requiring the government to balance the budget; term limits for both Congress and the Supreme Court; and limiting federal overreach by restoring the Commerce Clause to its original meaning.

There are some legal experts who worry that a convention of states could rewrite or overhaul the Constitution. Please visit www.con ventionofstates.com for an extensive overview of the process. The group behind this movement calls it “A project of citizens for self-governance.” Recently, the Convention of States team put on a simulation of a convention in Colonial Williamsburg.

Delegations of state legislatures from all 50 states attended; a practice run if you will. It was very successful, and you can view a video of the proceedings at the above-mentioned website. Any concerns of a radically changed Constitution are put to rest by the procedural safeguards of a convention of states; the simulation in Williamsburg demonstrates how this is so.

I mentioned earlier the 22nd

Amendment, which restricts the presidential terms to two. I realize this process seems like a longshot, but there is one amendment we can all get behind without doubt: Congressional term limits. In their April 2016 poll, Gallup, one of the leading polling companies in the United States, found the disapproval rating for Congress was an astounding 83%. This number is consistent along party lines: 80% of Democrats, 83% of Republicans, and 83% of Independents disapprove of the job Congress is doing. Polling for Supreme Court term limits shows similar support.

If there is only one amendment to be ratified through this process, I believe term limits is one the vast majority of Americans can get behind. This may be the most powerful tool “the people” have to break the power vacuum that exists in Congress. Let’s give people who serve in Congress and the Supreme Court 12 years – then you are done!

We no longer need to feel powerless to do something about the corruption and dysfunction in Washington, D.C. There are eight states that have passed their application; 34 are needed. This is not a pipe dream, it is happening. Please educate yourself on this process – www.conventionof states.com – and let’s truly give the power back to the people.

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After review by the Parks Commission, the proposed lease would need to be approved by the board of supervisors, giving members of the community more time to weigh in. “There will be countless more meetings about this project,” said YMCA capital campaign chair Tim Werner. “But we can’t move it forward without getting the parking piece figured out first.”

The board voted to appoint former MA president and board member Peter van Duinwyk back on the board, to fill the vacancy left by Peter Dealy, who resigned last month. Van Duinwyk, a former educator, also serves on the Montecito Union School board and the Montecito Fire Protection District Board. “He is a tremendous asset to our board,” said board member Frank Abatemarco.

The next Montecito Association Lower School campus. meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, “The first Owls in Wonderland December 13. carnival was the brainchild of Laguna parent Robin Fell, who wanted to create a day that ignited the imagination and inspired creativity for young Laguna Blanca School invites stu- children in Santa Barbara,” Laguna’s dents, families, friends, and the entire director of communications, Tara community to “jump down the rabbit Broucqsault, tells us. “It was very hole” for a whimsical day of inter- important to her that every activity active learning and fun for young and aspect of the carnival be interacchildren. This Sunday, November 13, tive. And that interactive component marks the seventh annual Owls in remains very much at the forefront of Wonderland Carnival at Laguna’s our planning each year.”

This year, the event is co-chaired by kindergarten and second-grade moms Tracey Inman, and Christina Waag, who has a fourth- and sixth-grader at the school. The co-chairs are continuing Fell’s original vision, and have created activities that ignite the imagination and inspire creativity. “The carnival sets the stage to explore science, art, and creative thinking for all ages,” Broucqsault said.

One of the school’s favorite traditions, the popular carnival is inspired by Swoop, the school’s owl mascot, and by the timeless tale of Alice in Wonderland. Carnival highlights include a Mad Hatter’s workshop, a mad scientist, multilingual croquet, arts and crafts, tea parties,

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live white rabbits and owls, and of course, Alice herself. Guests will also have the chance to create a keepsake photo using the magic of technology at the Cheshire Illusions Photo Booth.

Adding to the Alice in Wonderland theme, volunteers will be dressed as characters from the story, and all guests are encouraged to dress up, too.

“Laguna Blanca Lower School is looking forward to celebrating the magic of learning this Sunday at Owls in Wonderland. Parents and faculty are working together to put on a wonderful afternoon of interactive activities and performances. We look forward to a beautiful and fun-filled day with guests having the opportunity to explore our charming campus and have fun while learning,” Andy Surber, head of Laguna’s Lower School, told us.

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Laguna Blanca Lower School is located at 260 San Ysidro Road. The carnival is from 11 am to 2 pm on Sunday, November 13.

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embedded with Alpha Company of the Wounded Warrior Battalion West, leading the fStop Warrior Project, a digital photography art therapy program), I quickly learned that the majority of the servicemen and women I worked with suffered from Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and/ or Post Traumatic Stress disorders (PTSD). According to some estimates, 320,000 young veterans suffer from TBI and 400,000 are coping with PTSD. These are not physical wounds, rather they are moral injuries of war. Service members and their families must learn how to carry these burdens for the rest of their The national debt, a generationlives. al-imposed debt, is now past $19.807 These invisible injuries are what trillion, which represents a $9.180 trillion (86%) increase in our nationSebastian Junger describes as a loss of al debt level since the start of the identity in his latest publication, Tribe, Obama Administration. Our GDP resulting in culture shock, isolation, (Gross Domestic Product) is barely loneliness, anxiety, and depression. above recession levels. We have the Post-military separation, psychologlowest worker-participation rate in ical voids, and mental and physical 38 years, and the majority of new trauma can prevent civilian reintejobs are low-paying and/or part-time gration and become detrimental to with few if any benefits. Median the veteran’s family and communihousehold income and wages are ty, and potentially dangerous, even below the year 1999 level. Home deadly, for the veteran. ownership is at a 51-year low. There I, for one, have lost too many of my are 43.3 million people living in povAmerica’s Post 9/11 “war on ter- friends to their own hands and have erty. Welfare is at record levels, led by ror” is our nation’s longest engage- attended too many funerals. Enough California. The cost of food, staples, ment: 15 years and counting. More is enough. rent, energy, medicine, and medical than 2 million American service perFor far too many, the system has care are at high and record levels. sonnel have been combat deployed, failed. VA backlogs and disability Health care is facing a major collapse, over 54,000 have been wounded in claims can take years to resolve. due to the effects of ObamaCare: combat, and 7,000 have been killed in Meanwhile, veteran suicide rates major insurance companies backing action. The Veterans Administration have increased 35 percent since 2001. out, exchanges and coops closing, has treated over 900,000 veterans for In May of this year, some young resulting in additional lost coverage, issues relating to their service in this veteran friends and I formed a peer support group for post-9/11 veterans increased premiums and deductibles, war. increasing costs, decreased accessiThe result of this sustained engage- which meets every Monday night at bility, decline in quality of care, and ment is that many young American the Santa Barbara Veterans Memorial no security as to user provided infor- veterans are returning to their fami- Building. We mean to create a refuge, mation, and 31 million without cov- lies and communities with both phys- a community, to provide our vetererage. ical and psychological difficulties. As ans access to services earned and to Human trafficking, drugs, especial- a nation, we lose 20 veterans of every develop the fellowship that will suply heroin, continue to cross our south- generation and campaign to suicide port successful transitions back into ern border. North Korea with nuclear each day. Tragically, this community the “real world.”

We come together every week to weapons and ballistic missiles con- lost another young Marine veteran to sit and offer support, provide advotinues to declare us an enemy. Iran, suicide just this month. the number-one state sponsor of terThroughout my three-year tour cacy, share resources, swap stories, rorism, has obtained over $150 billion at MCB Camp Pendleton helping and talk a little trash, but, most of in funds and seeks nuclear weapons, wounded Marines and sailors (I was all, to just be present for each other.

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Carol DeCanio Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Not sure if this is a backhanded compliment or a just a plain old observation, but despite the election result, Mr. Trump’s policies were a little broader than a ballet dancer’s “narrow” platform; at least I had no trouble determining what they were, and my balance ain’t the greatest. – J.B.)

A Dangerous World

and proclaims “Death to America.”

Their government has not ratified the Nuclear Agreement. ISIS, one of many growing Islamic terrorist movements and organizations, are dedicated to the destruction of our nation and people.

Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are engaged in cyber warfare, as to the hacking and theft of national security and government and private sector information and secrets, imposing threats to our national security and economy. Hillary Clinton and the Democrats embrace and want to continue and build upon President Obama’s legacy.

Thomas Bryan Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: The election is over, although this letter obviously came in too late to get in last week’s issue. In any case, the most I can figure is that it is a dangerous world out there and whoever is president has a mighty tough job keeping whatever can be controlled below the boiling point. – J.B.)

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those who show up!” is our message.

Our message to veterans is, “You are not alone, all you have to do is show up.” Success is reserved for those who show up.

All of us in Santa Barbara County can help. If you wish to “show up” for this community or find out more about our group, please feel free to contact me at info@fstopwarriors.org.

Terence Ford Santa Barbara

No More Journals

Every morning, I go to something called The Vintage Market close to Broad Beach [in Malibu] at 6:30 am to read five pages in the Holy Bible. I have done this for many years. Other believers also arrive and we speak of the Scriptures.

At this market, they have your fine newspaper. This past year, your paper has enabled me to take part in the auto rally for children at Pat Nesbitt’s place in Summerland and also to take part in Tom Barrack’s polo fundraiser at his Santa Ynez Ranch.

Lately, I have not been able to read the Montecito Journal at Broad Beach; for some reason, it does not get delivered there anymore.

Morten Wengler Cowboys for Christ Fort Worth, Texas Malibu Chapter (Editor’s note: Sorry about that. We have never “delivered” our paper to the Vintage Market in Malibu, though we do drop off our semi-annual glossy edition (due next month!) there. The only thing we can figure is that someone who lives in Malibu and also has a home in Montecito was bringing copies down with him and dropping them off at the Vintage Market.

We can only guess what happened to our benefactor, but perhaps there will be another person who’ll take up where he/ she left off. – J.B.)

Natalie Wins the Prize

My student, Natalie MyersJohansing, age 9, won first prize for the Montecito Beautification Day poster contest for Mount Carmel School.

The other participants from Mount Carmel were: Malena Sodomka, 2nd grade; Greyson Saglie, 3rd grade; Danica Damiani, 5th grade; Emma Wessel, 5th grade; Sofia Prober, 5th grade; Angelique Huey, 5th grade; Augustine Wooten, 5th grade; and Annicka Dadvar, 6th grade.

Just thought you’d like to know.

Jennifer Buur Art specialist Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Editor’s note: Well, heck yes, we want to know. In fact, if you or your child/ children have won something important to you, please send that info along with a photo or two to jim@montecitojournal.

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Mount Carmel student Natalie Myers-Johansing (left) took first place in this year’s Montecito Beautification Day poster contest; with her outside Tecolote Book Shop is Our Lady of Mount Carmel art specialist Jennifer Buur

net and we’ll be sure to include it in either the Village Beat section or here in Letters to the Editor. Thank you for sending this along. – J.B.)

All Tiered up

The answer depends on the question: the math variables. Corporate chieftains include different complicated factors. Bill payers like me living paycheck to paycheck, off credit as water rates go higher and higher, keep the math simple.

Santa Barbara Water District (SBWD) customers pay more for water each month than water customers in neighboring Districts of Montecito, Goleta, and Hope Ranch-La Cumbre.

Base rates by District: California defines 50 gallons a day as the per person public health and safety allocation. SBWD’s public, health and safety allocation is 4 HCF as compared to MWD’s 25 HCF, SBWD 4 HCF; Goleta 6 HCF; MWD 25 HCF; La Cumbre 20 HCF at lowest rate, or 40 HCF every 2 months.

The monthly comparable billing rates suggest a MWD Customer pays 43% to 56% less than a Santa Barbara customer for the same about (HCF) of water, if I can still successfully do second-grade basic math.

You’re right in disclosing SBWD top tier rates include EIR, desal land holding, desal plant re-building and activation costs complicating an apple-to-apple comparison.

The water pricing structure of each Water District reflects political priorities. SBWD higher tier customers recently received another rate increase of 22%, while first tier customers were awarded a rate decrease..

SBWD lowest tier customers using 4 HCF or less are directly subsidized by other customers. I’m not a lawyer, but this practice seems unlawful 10 – 17 November 2016

under Proposition 218, which states customers cannot be charged more than the cost to serve and tiers cannot be used to enforce conservation or be punitive. Why 20 years post-1996, and Prop 218 passage, are tiers still used?

SBWD practices ‘social justice” as defined by City Council, staff, and appointees to the SBWD Advisory Commission, and taught in Santa Barbara Unified District Schools.

SB City Council decided to build more housing in its General Plan regardless of drought conditions or adverse impact to SBWD Customers.

One thousand-plus new housing units, plus motel(s) require water.

Thousands of applications were received to build more units, after the city council decided to no longer limit growth by limiting water hookups. Increasing tourism requires more water.

Paradise lost.

SBWD is focused on funding costs to re-build and operate its desalination facility. The plan is the same as last time: to ensure a stable, reliable source of water to customers, assuming City residents responsibly elect competent, informed representatives to keep this new desal plant operational and upgraded technologically for the benefit of all SBWD customers, plus anticipated future MWD customers. (Having paid for the first plant, trust was destroyed by past leaders with current ones hustling to keep water flowing.)

MWD rightly focuses on the water service needs of the vast majority of its customers maintaining large parcels in designated high-fire areas. It protects customers by its provision of water. Fire insurance likely remains available despite the drought, while several insurers are no longer writing policies for some incorporated areas served by SBWD. (Can’t get a mortgage without fire insurance. A concern of those who can’t cash out a home.)

Tier rate structures are punitive to some customers, however structured. For example, there is no reward or payback if you’re allocated 20-25HCF each month, and only use 10 HCF because you’ve a small parcel. Conversely, if you’re allocated 4 to 6 HCF monthly, and must use more for high fire or slope stabilization requirements, simply pay more (regardless of cost to serve under Prop 218). Fixed is fixed. Fixed costs should be allocated to each customer regardless of amount of water use.

At meetings, MWD customers were heard. “We need water.” Also heard, water availability and cost affects home value; and what about my well? If you have a well, your well must soon be metered and billed. If you overuse your allocation, under California law, your home can be confiscated by your local water purvey-

or. SBMA gives water rights on private properties, including “To acquire property and water rights in spite of private property ownership” (propertyid.com/sustainable-groundwater-management-act).

The election is finally over. As a Montecito resident, I voted MWD, although a SBWD customer.

Please point out where I’m offbase. Like others, I want to be better informed to be part of the solution to over-population, limiting building that encourages more to relocate here, and regionally makes the highest and best use of water.

Denice Spangler Adams Montecito Vista Sub-division SBWD customer/MWD voter

Water for Mumosho

I am a member of the Montecito Rotary Club and would like to share with your readers a trip I took last month to the Congo to help complete an important charitable project for our Rotary Club and thousands of people in the Congo.

The Montecito Rotary Club made a pledge to bring clean water to 20,000 people in the Mumosho District of Eastern Congo. With the help of our club, other international supporters and the Rotary Club of Bukavu Mwangaza, the people of the Mumosho District of Eastern Congo, 12 miles from the Rwandan border, now have access to clean water near their homes.

The Mumosho Water Project began in August 2015 to replace a water line that connects a mountain spring to six villages in the Mumosho District that had lacked a water source close to home. Their water supply comes from a mountain spring several miles away, and the water line to the spring had been damaged during the Rwandan conflict.

The Montecito Rotary Club led the fundraising effort among local clubs, and with The Rotary Foundation’s Global Grant program, we raised the

$63,000 needed to fund the water project. The water line was repaired, and 79 water taps were either fixed or added at various locations in the district. The local people were so happy to know that there are people across the world who they don’t know who helped them. They were also happy that they don’t have to walk to carry water.

Previously, Mumosho women and children had to carry water on their backs from the spring up to three and a half miles away from their homes. Fixing the water line not only provides easier access to water but also minimizes the risk of sexual violence against women who walked such long distances to get water. Also, families can now grow their own food gardens, Mumosho children can now focus more on school rather than the long trip to get water, and local villages can cooperate to share the water.

Another benefit is that the Bukavu Mwangaza Rotary Club will work with the Mumosho Health Clinic to ensure community healthcare workers and water mobilizers are trained to continue educating the community about clean water and health issues.

The Montecito Rotary Club has funded many projects to help the Mumosho people become a healthier, more prosperous, and sustainable community. Our club contributed $600 toward the purchase of baby goats to raise for meat, $500 in seeds for people to grow personal food gardens, and $3,000 for sewing machines so women can learn to sew and have a trade. Montecito Rotarians have also supported the building of a school for Mumosho children and provided solar lights for the school.

Montecito Rotarians are gratified that we have been able to help others across the globe in need. Thank you for allowing me to share our project with the Montecito community.

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On Entertainment

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

by Steven Libowitz

Filmmaker’s Oration Only Natural

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aving Dayton Duncan lecture about the National Parks System more than a month after Ken Burns was in town to address the same subject might seem like scheduling the bantamweight undercard after the heavyweight title has already been decided. After all, Burns – the big-name director of a extremely popular series of documentaries that include The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, which won two Emmy Awards and enjoyed re-screenings seven years after its release as America celebrates the centennial of the NPS – packed the Granada back in September when he kicked off the year-long National Parks series celebration that represents a collaboration between UCSB Arts & Lectures with Channel Islands National Park and the UCSB Natural Reserve System.

Duncan will be talking in the half-assmall Campbell Hall back on campus.

But Duncan, who has collaborated with Burns on nearly all of his films since The Civil War, not only wrote and produced America’s Best Idea, he’s actually the guy who visited just about all of the parks, histor-

Dayton Duncan provides presentation Tuesday, November 15

ic sites, and other designated landmarks in the entire system. He’s the one who served as a director of the National Park Foundation. And making the Parks documentaries was his idea in the first place. “Although it only took me 45 seconds to convince Ken,” Dayton said. Duncan was also standing alongside Burns when the

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pair were named an Honorary Park Ranger, an honor bestowed on fewer than 50 people in history – “and most of them are dead presidents,” Duncan said – because of the films’ influence and accomplishments. “That was the greatest honor I’ve ever received.

“When I get grumpy, my kids tell dad to go get his ranger hat, because if you’re wearing that you’re supposed to be nice to people.”

Duncan – who also wrote and produced the Lewis & Clark and Mark Twain documentaries with Burns, and worked on Baseball, Jazz and The War – will deliver the presentation titled “Lands for the Public: The Evolution of the National Park Idea” on Tuesday, November 11, at 7:30, exploring the parks’ course over the more than 150 years, and discussing how a once-radical idea has evolved into a cohesive national parks system with a sometimes conflicting two part-mission: to make the parks accessible to all and to preserve them for future generations.

He talked about the parks, the film, and much more – including politics, as he served as chief of staff to New Hampshire governor Hugh Gallen, deputy national press secretary for Walter Mondale’s presidential campaign in 1984, and national press secretary for Michael Dukakis’s 1988 presidential campaign – over an hourlong interview last week. Here are excerpts: Q. Let’s start with your thoughts about why National Parks matter? Why was it was important to make these films?

A. I think we need parks because as a part of who we are as Americans, regardless of when our ancestors came here or were born here, a true understanding of our nation and its own journey is tied to the land and how we relate to it. The parks tell us quite a bit about that. They are our connection to this great landscape that is so varied across the country, what we call America. And they preserve the best parts of it. And in doing that, we are

ourselves at our best.

We were in a big rush as a nation to get across the continent from East to West and to privatize everything.

As de Tocqueville said, Americans will always prefer the useful to the beautiful. That was insightful back in the 1830s, and it still applies to us today. The Parks represent this other part of us – as much of a hurry as we were in to conquer nature, we were capable in the midst of that to notice this stupendous natural beauty and make sure we preserved that. It was a wonderful democratic moment, the idea that these parks should not be the exclusive property of the wealthy and well-connected or nobility, but should belong to everybody.

Accessibility and preservation are often at odds. How do you balance encouraging even wider demographics to visit with keeping the scenery intact?

The parks do have to keep pushing to make it clear to all Americans regardless of where they are from or their economic status that they are welcome, and that there is a great experience awaiting them. As part of the centennial – which I helped to advise on their plans – one of big efforts is to reach an increasingly diverse population to say that even if you didn’t have this transformative experience as a kid, that the parks are here for you and your family. Give it a go.

It’s critical to have champions, so young people of every race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic background have to get engaged.... There is the opposite problem of being loved to death. But that can be handled with management plans. To me, the bigger challenge is existential: if the parks become this unknown places, irrelevant to people’s lives, then our government, the politicians, will respond to that disinterest with even greater neglect and allowing development. A deep canyon with a river is a great place for a damn or Yosemite as a gated community.

Those impulses will always be with us. So it takes eternal vigilance. Just like liberty.

It was your decision as the writer to focus on the stories and the people in making the films. What drove that idea?

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I’ve always been passionate about the national parks. But as I got older, I realize that they are both a place and an idea. And I’m also a storyteller.

There are lot of ways to make a great documentary on the parks. We could have done episodes on one at a time, or focused on the scientific, like a nature film, or a travelogue showing what there is to see. But that’s not what drives Ken and I. What interests us is the deeper dive into how things happen and how they relate to the American character. With the parks, it was the story of the idea, how it evolved, and the people who were involved, their stories, who made it

happen. Of course, it was great to make that exploration with the most gorgeous backgrounds imaginable.

Why do you and Ken Burns work so well together?

We were friends before we ever worked together. We realized that we shared this passion for American history. We discovered that we both read the Declaration of Independence aloud to our children on the 4th of July every year – our interest was more than just academic. We shared a love for communicating through storytelling. We’re best friends, and we still both think that we have the best

job in the world.

written about. That still fascinates me.

How do you think your previous career in politics influences your filmmaking?

It was my time in politics that ignited my interest in history. It dawned on me that we are making decisions that have an impact on the future – we like to think with the best intentions but oftentimes from incomplete information. So I wanted to go back and research the past with a different eye of a participant. It adjusted my conception of history, just to follow the fallible human beings who happened to do something that only in looking back became significant enough to be

I have to ask about your opinion of the current election.

Back in 1988, after Willie Horton, it seemed like that was about as roughand-tumble and dirty as it would ever be. I remember thinking we all need to go home and take long showers.

All that happened then wouldn’t even make the news this year. It’s mostly reminded about how out-of-date I am. But I’m not sure if it’s an anomaly or things are permanently fractured.

History is time, so it depends on who

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So for me, we have to proceed in the belief that knowing more about history will make you a better citizen today.

The more informed you are, the better decisions you can make. That makes both today and the future better. It might be sappy, but there you have it.

Let’s move on to a happier subject: How long is it going to take to make The 11th Inning now that the Cubs won the World Series?

Ken and I were at the CMA awards (for their upcoming film on country music) just before the game in Nashville and watched the final game together in the hotel. I’ll let him decide if we actually do it. But he did tell me that he’s told people that if the Cubs win, we’ll have to update the film.

We’ve got a bunch of films already lined up. So it going to be a while.

Singing for Serenity

Deke Sharon has a very simple mission.

“My life’s work is to spread harmony through harmony.”

But this is no new calling. Sharon, the creator/producer of Vocalosity, the high-powered a cappella show that performs at the Granada on Friday night, has been singing in choirs since he was a barely past a toddler, and professionally since he was 8. Opera soon turned to vocal harmonizing, and eventually to a cappella.

“I’m not sure if I can explain why I’m so drawn to a cappella music,” Sharon said. “It’s like, ‘Why is blue your

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favorite color?’ But for me, the sound of voices in harmony is transcendent, something I’ve loved ever since childhood. I can remember loving singing around the campfire in summer camp, and it’s just never abated. A cappella is my calling.”

It was in college, where he took over the role of music director of The Beelzebubs, one of the better-known university a cappella groups, following two rejected auditions because he was “overzealous” in his intensity, where Sharon first forged what has become the current sound of modern a cappella, a dense vocal-instrumental wall of sound. It grew out of his desire to update the long-standing musical tradition to account for modern tastes.

“Most groups were still singing things like ‘In the Still of the Nights’ or ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’. But I wanted to do what was hot, because the simple fact is that music is a mating call, a desire to make people fall in love with you. It’s true for crickets and birds and rock bands, as well as a male a cappella group.”

So every week, Sharon would visit the local Tower Records to find songs that were just starting to climb the charts. One week, that was Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes”.

“I started arranging it but didn’t know how to make it work because so much of the song is the sound, the rhythm, the percussion,” he recalled.

“I just started writing out what I heard, put down the percussion lines, and just got the singers each to do a part. They all laughed at me at first, but when we performed it that weekend, there was a hush that I’ll never forget.”

Over the year, that sound – high-energy and featuring singers who mimic instruments, including percussion, just with their voices – has exploded across the country via bands like The House Jacks and such TV shows as TV’s Sing-Off and the two Pitch Perfect films. Which is no coincidence as Sharon was heavily involved with all of them, as the founder and 25-year director and arranger of the band, producer of Sing-Off, and arranger, on-site music director, and vocal producer of the movies.

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That success hasn’t surprised Sharon.

“The a cappella sound is eternal,” he explained. “The earliest music had no instruments. Almost all styles around the world have a cappella at their core – madrigals, sea chanties, pub songs, school songs, barbershop, doo wop – all of that is a cappella. What we’re doing now is as old as human civilization. The key was figuring out how to make the sounds of current pop music – rhythmic, textured, layered, and densely instrumental – work with just voices. But people yearn for connection, particularly today with all the machines that get in the way. People listen to music because of how it makes them feel. When you hear that sense of humanity, it touches you in a way overproduced popular music doesn’t.”

With Vocalosity, Sharon has endeavored to put all of his experience together in one place, creating a show that moves between styles and approaches with high intensity and takes a lot of left turns after being bombarded with curveballs.

“We take you on a joyful whirlwind trip through the history of a cappella, but it’s not the way you might expect,” he said. “It’s done entirely through Beatles songs, but messed around: ‘Yellow Submarine’ as a sea chantey, ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ as Gregorian chant. And I love jumping between styles, so there are a lot of unexpected mash-ups and medleys, so we have a lot of fun with the stuff, from straight-ahead pop tunes like what you’ve seen on the TV show or the movies but also the current songs on the charts. It just bounces around.”

Sharon is especially proud of the cast, which includes competitors from Sing-Off, beat-box champions, and many other locales. “It’s incredibly diverse in both personality and styles,” he said.

That broad approach is echoed in the opening act, Santa Barbara’s own Airplay, who Sharon said he was thrilled to have join the show. “They almost got cast for Sing Off multiple times. They still sound fantastic and

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 19) For a combination of 60 years of volunteering are Ross Millikan and his son Roger Millikan NTNC volunteer honored for 15 years of service, and Tomisita “Tommie” Miller volunteer honored for 20 years of service; Julie Anne McDonald, executive director, and Robert Runnels volunteer honored for 25 years of service (photo by Priscilla)

Opera SB’s Carmen (photo by David Bazemore)

deserve kudos, as well as choreographer Wendy Castellano-Wolf.

Next up is Leos Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen in March and Puccini’s La Rondine in April.

A sizzling season of high note.

Busy Lizzie Twenty four hours earlier, I was the Center Stage Theater for a production of a different kind when the Out of the Box Theatre Company staged the rock opera Lizzie, based on the story of Lizzie Borden, the New England daughter accused of axing her parents to death in 1892.

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Oprah was so taken with the modern television’s sleek design, noting that “whatever you’re binge-watching looks better on this truly elegant smart TV.” She also has plenty of sweets and treats on the lengthy list, though the price may set you back. A set of three cans from the Farmshop Holiday Cookie Collection goes for $65 for 24 cookies, but Oprah insists the all-natural treats are “really, really good.”

Although she clearly has a sweet tooth, she is also a devoted follower of the Weight Watchers program.

Keeping with her healthy lifestyle, she has also included plenty of cooking items on this year’s gift guide.

Unsurprisingly, the $400 Dyson Supersonic hair dryer also made the list after its highly anticipated debut earlier this year – and Oprah insists it “gets the job done super-fast and is worth every penny.”

Bisse Bodies Santa Barbara Magazine hosted a sunset soirée for 150 guests at the Bacara spa’s swimming pool to celebrate the introduction of the Barcelona-based company, Natura Bisse’s products at the tony hostelry, which also supplies the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills and the Mandarin Oriental in Washington.

The company also erected an oxy-

gen bubble tent, wherein guests feeling the knead could receive a massage with 99.5 percent purified air from a former Elite model.

I couldn’t resist the urge for a breath of fresh air and returned the next day for an hour of hedonistic pleasure.

Among those not quite making a splash were editor Gina Tolleson, Anne Elcon, Karna Hughes, Doug and Marni Margerum, Robert and Robin Fell, and Sarahbina Ratioula.

Pores for thought, indeed.

Christina Rottman and Kathy Nicolson (photo by Savannah Johns-Pedrocchi, SJP Photography)

Dream Team The cavernous ballroom of the Bacara was socially gridlocked with 400 glamorously garbed guests when the popular charity, the Dream Foundation, hosted its 15th annual gala, Dreamland.

The venue, spectacularly decorated by creative Montecito event planner extraordinaire Merryl Brown, honored special guests, Dreamers Jonathan White, 36, a Brooklyn, N.Y., a woodworker who crafts his own acoustic guitars, and Daniella Dominic Enriquez, 21, who was flown from Tennessee to California to visit her family, probably for the last time.

The bustling bash, chaired by Daryl Stegall, also included a one-of-a-kind performance by Quixotic, an act combining live music, technology, and contemporary dance, and an interactive live auction hosted by the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone and his bubbly wife, Ivana, which featured extravagant vacations in Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Buenos Aires, Chile, and Costa Rica.

A silent auction, with more than 60 items up for grabs, included Hollywood Bowl box seats and a trip to South Africa’s Zulu Nyala game reserve.

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Executives from the Spanish company Natura Bisse at the party (photo by Savannah Johns-Pedrocchi, SJP Photography)

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Greeting guests are Valerie Rice, Food and Beverage curator; Dennis Hoey; Gold sponsor Elizabeth Slaught; Kathleen Patrick, DF Senior Development director; Jackie Wadill, DF Donor Relations manager; Baret Bolsson, gala event committee; Kenny Slaught, DF Board chair and Gold sponsor (photo by Priscilla)

Dream givers enjoying the sharing of being able to help fulfill dreams are: Jean Paul and Eliose DeJoria, Silver sponsors; celebrity Nigel Lythgoe, DF continuous supporter; Sandi Nicholson, honorary board & Patron sponsor; Hollye Jacobs, Bronze sponsor; Bill Nicholson, Patron sponsor, and Debbie Kybarts (photo by Priscilla)

Grammy Award-winning Londonborn artist Estelle, who founded All of Me, an organization that focuses on educating and expanding horizons of young people through college scholarships and volunteer opportunities abroad.

Among the stellar wave of guests at the beano, which was expected to raise around $1 million for the charity, which has helped achieve more than 25,000 dreams for adults suffering from terminal disease since its founding by Thomas Rollerson in 1993,

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Sponsors Jeffery and Courtney Ethenington of Alaska Airlines; with Daryl Stegall,15th Annual Dream Gala event chair; Alexia and Jon Werbeck also of Alaska Airlines with entertainer Eros Biox on stilts (photo by Priscilla)

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Jeanne and Dave Hoffman, Patron sponsors; Diane and Tim Brown, Patron sponsors; Gold sponsors, Holly and Bob Murphy; Deborah Borden, Katie Borden, Patron sponsor; Nissy and Dr. Bob Fuladi, Patron sponsors (photo by Priscilla)

Celebrating the Dream Foundation’s gala at the Bacara Resort and Spa are: Hayley Firestone Jessup, Arthur Coppola, Bronze sponsor; Suzanne McCafferty, Ella Brittingham, Ivana Firestone, honorary committee; Peter Smillie, Stephanie Smillie, Christian Heyer, Mary Morouse, Frank Foster, Kate Coppla, honorary committee; and Andrew Firestone, honorary committee and auctioneer extraordinaire (photo by Priscilla)

were Bill and Sandi Nicholson, Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, TV judge Nigel Lythgoe, Bob and Holly Murphy, Kenny and Elizabeth Slaught, Jon and Brandis Deitelbaum, Tristan Layton, Dewey and Stephanie Nicks, Justine Roddick, Ricardo and Dinah Calderon, Christina Rottman, Mary Ellen Tiffany, Steve and Caroline Thompson, Corinna Gordon, and executive director Kisa Heyer.

Ben There It was an afternoon of pure bliss when the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall was packed for a UCSB Arts & Lectures concert by academy alumnus and tenor Ben Bliss.

Bliss, considered one of the hottest young singers in the nation, received a 2016 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award for his work at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.

Performing just prior to his debut at Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall, Bliss sang an eclectic program of arias and other works by Britten, Mozart, Bellini, Respighi, and Donizetti.

An evening of considerable note.

By George Star Wars creator George Lucas, who has a sprawling beachside home in Carpinteria, is planning to build 10 – 17 November 2016

two new futuristic art galleries despite being blocked from developing one in Chicago, as I have chronicled in this illustrious organ.

The futuresque-looking structures will house the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art which will feature works from history and those taken from his movies.

Both the museums look, appropriately enough, as if they have arrived from outer space and have been designed by award-winning designer Ma Yansong of Mad Architects.

One of the buildings will be developed in Los Angeles, while the other is planned for San Francisco. A museum overlooking Lake Michigan in Chicago was blocked following a bitter and protracted planning row.

According to the foundation behind the plans: “The non-profit museum, which features a bold new architectural design, will be a one-of-a-kind gathering place to experience collections, films, and exhibitions dedicated to the power of visual storytelling and the evolution of art and moving images.

“The museum will present original work by world-renowned and emerging artists, cutting-edge digital technologies, and daily film screenings in state-of-the-art theaters, as well as

extraordinary educational opportunities for students of all ages.”

Lucas, 72, is willing to fund the development as a non-profit corporation and will feature public lectures, workshops, and after-school programs.

Admission will be free, says the foundation.

The museum, wherever it ends up, will showcase popular art Lucas has collected since college, including illustrations by Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, and N.C. Wyeth, as well as works by Lucas’s visual effects company, Industrial Light and Magic.

It will also feature digital media arts and film industry art, including props, costumes, and set pieces.

All in Fund Brandon Mowery is the new director of development at the Lobero Theatre Foundation.

Mowery spent the last 15 years in a variety of lead development roles at UCSB raising millions of dollars for the annual fund, regional office, and departments of science and the college of engineering.

Besides establishing innovative fundraising ideas for the foundation, he can be found on the sidelines of many of his two children’s sports teams, including the Boys and Girls Club and the Page Youth Center.

Mowery’s predecessor, Jim Dougherty, will remain on the Lobero’s staff, serving as director of planned giving for the upcoming heritage campaign, which will build a significant endowment for the theatre, ensuring its long-term fiscal vitality.

Birthday in Bloom Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry, who celebrated her 30th birthday with an exotic bash in Marrakesh, Morocco,

stayed closer to home for her 32nd celebration with a 1950- theme sock hop with her British actor beau, Orlando Bloom, and a slew of other stars.

The extravagant Los Angeles shindig, which even featured a giant game of Twister and lookalikes of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and The Supremes, took place at Hudson High, a nod to the former Dos Pueblos High School student’s birth name, Kathryn Hudson.

The “Rise” singer rocked with a big blonde updo, while Bloom, 39, just back from filming his latest film Smart Chase: Fire and Earth in China, sported brief basketball shorts, popular in the period, and a red-letter jacket.

The beano also featured pinball machines, an antique jukebox, a hula hooping dance-off and a pie-eating contest, all of which Katy chronicled on Instagram.

Other guests at the CoverGirlsponsored party included Rolling Stone Mick Jagger’s daughter, Georgia May, model Cara Delevingne, Jessica Chastain, Jessica Alba, and actor Tobey Maguire’s estranged wife, Jennifer Meyer.

Sightings: Former Charlie’s Angels actress Jaclyn Smith walking her dog on Summerland Beach...Actor Josh Holloway noshing at Olio e Limone...

Oscar winner Michael Keaton grabbing his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond.

Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings, and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

To reach Priscilla, email her at priscilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301 •MJ

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TRAIL TALK

Story and photos by Lynn P. Kirst

Winged Horses, Old-School Cowboys, and Trail Rides Hearts volunteers as well as internationally known husband-andwife landscape architects Regula and Douglas Campbell are all smiles at the Pegasus luncheon with executive director Alexis Weaver

E

ven when the weather stays warm, it’s always obvious when autumn is here, as the equestrian social calendar gets crowded with special events and rides. This year is no different, kicked off by the annual Pegasus Luncheon that benefits Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center.

The Pegasus Luncheon continues to improve and attract a larger audience every year. Originally held in the Warren Center at Earl Warren Showgrounds, we ate simple lettuce salads on paper plates. From there, the Pegasus Luncheon grew to the Montecito Country Club, with a higher level of sophistication and cuisine.

This year, the early October event was held at the most popular location of all, the Coral Casino in Montecito.

With its ocean-side location and fine food, Hearts patrons seemed delighted with the latest venue. But wherever it is held, the Pegasus Luncheon is notable mostly for the inspiring message of its mission, which is to provide equine assisted therapy for a wide swath of our community.

Hearts executive director Alexis Weaver told the crowd in the packed La Pacifica Ballroom, “We work with over 300 individuals a year in therapy. Of our $500,000 annual budget, only 40 percent comes from tuition.

Veterans ride for free, and we have 18 therapy horses.” Hearts also has

A museum and travel professional, community volunteer, and lifelong equestrienne, Lynn Kirst is a fourth-generation Californian who grew up in Montecito; she can often be found riding or hiking the local trails

more than 100 volunteers that work in a variety of capacities, and has partnered with other non-profit organizations in the community to broaden its reach. Those include Girls Inc., which was represented at the Pegasus Luncheon by Carma Caughlan, who explained the benefits of this partnership that is now in its second year.

“The girls learn the importance of trust, and they exhibit more self-confidence, leadership, and teamwork capabities.”

Another Hearts partner is CALM (Child Abuse Listening Mediation), represented by Anita Fernandez-Low. She talked about one client, a little girl who had suffered neglect and abuse, whose first sign of engaging with her surroundings came about through concern for the Hearts horses. “The first time I ever saw this girl smile was when she was on a horse and he cantered,” recounted Anita. “The volunteers at Hearts became her surrogate family.”

Hearts board member Susannah Rake, volunteer Dana Sachey, board president Andy Dowen, and board member Sandy Lovett attended the Pegasus luncheon

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Handsome attendees at the Pegasus luncheon included (from left) Bryan Brand, Hearts board member Thomas Bateman, Mark McWilliams, and Bailey Hochalter

Enjoying the sunny pre-lunch reception at the Coral Casino is Hearts advisory board member Lynn Kirst and emcee Thomas Bateman

Another stirring testimony was offered by Philip Bugay, who talked about his father, John “Captain Jack” Bugay. “Dad’s retirement was spent sailing, and he spent over three decades circling the globe,” said Philip. “Ten years ago, Captain Jack had to come ashore for good, and things became more and more difficult. The fog of forgetfulness settled on him, but at Hearts, the horses provided a rediscovered clarity. Captain Jack is now known as Cowboy Jack.”

The elder Mr. Bugay was present at the luncheon and received a standing ovation from the crowd, a prime example of how horseback therapy can assist clients of any age.

More information about Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center can be found online at www.heartsriding. org, or by calling 964-1519.

Mark Your Calendar

Friday, November 11 – Sunday, November 13 32nd Annual Vaquero Show Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum 3596 Sagunto Street, Santa Ynez This annual three-day event honors the lifestyle and renowned horsemanship of the California vaquero, or cowboy, while raising funds for the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum and Carriage House. This is the premier event to learn about the distinctive Spanish-inspired style of clothing and horse tack from the finest craftspeo-

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ple, who will display and sell their handiwork. The Friday night Preview Party and Gala Dinner ($80 per person) includes early buying privileges, appetizers, drinks, and live music by Steve Woods.

New this year will be a “Live Vaquero Skills” demonstration by Pat and Deb Puckett, local vaqueros Bruce Sandifer and Boone Campbell, who will work their bridle horses and cattle in traditional methods on Saturday and Sunday. Music throughout the day on Saturday will be provided by Ron Miller of the Full Gallop Band. Saturday evening will feature a “Cowboy Campfire,” with chili and cornbread served around the outdoor campfire, cowboy poetry

by Dan Hess, and Western music by local favorite Art Green ($25 per person). Vaquero roping demonstrations, vendor booths, and the raffle drawing will round out Sunday’s activities.

Cowboy lunch and no-host cocktails will be available on both Saturday and Sunday.

The full schedule and description can be found online at www.san taynezmuseum.org or by calling 6887889. Tickets may be purchased in advance or at the door.

Thursday, November 17 Los Padres Trail Riders Annual Meeting & Potluck Dinner 6:30 pm dinner, 7 pm meeting Humane Society Educational Center 5399 Overpass Road, Santa Barbara Bring a dish to share and join other equestrians for a potluck dinner, followed by the annual meeting, election of officers, and awarding of grants. No advance reservations are necessary.

Just show up, eat good food, have fun, and make some new friends.

Saturday, November 19 Santa Ynez Valley Riders Trail Ride at Nojoqui Ranch Join fellow equestrians for a trail ride on the beautiful Nojoqui Ranch.

Must be a SYVR member. Ride details and membership information can be found online at www.santaynezval leyriders.org •MJ 10 – 17 November 2016

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Beverlye Hyman Fead, at home in her Montecito kitchen, is 82 going on 50 (as far as we can tell) Ben Zevallos (left) and Cai Norton (the monster) wow the Transylvania audience with their hilarious song-and-dance routine of “Puttin’ on the Ritz”

talent to perform at a level, dare I say, decades above their pay grade? but have yet to discover what that is.

This latest production of the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein is... without mincing words, absolutely terrific. It’s a Broadway-level show starring Broadway-ready high schoolers who can sing, dance, and act as well as anybody who has ever done so on a professional stage.

What a production!

What a cast!

What a set!

What a silly, saucy script!

What glorious mayhem!

The SBHS version of Young Frankenstein is, as usual for an Otto Layman production, the best show in town. If you haven’t already made it a point to purchase a ticket for this weekend to enjoy a show that will surpass whatever expectations you may have about a high-school play, you should do so now. The music is terrific; the band is terrific; the cast is terrific. Did I mention that the play is terrific?

Just a few words about the leading cast members: the surprisingly versatile Ben Zevallos – half Pierce Brosnan, half James Cagney – strikes just the right notes as the befuddled but flexible Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of the original Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

Hazel Brady is a hoot as the professor’s Transylvanian assistant Inga.

Her manic performance in the back of a hay wagon with Zevallos singing “Roll In The Hay” (how the heck she is able to spring up and down and swivel back and forth, and still sing and smile sweetly as the wagon itself moves is a mystery), had me nearly rolling... in the aisle, with laughter and delight. William Blondell is also a surprising find, in that dressed as Igor, Frederick Frankenstein’s manservant and all-around helpmate, with a fully formed hunchback no less, was enough for a continuing laugh, but neither Blondell nor Layman were content to simply use the costume as a comic backdrop; Igor joined in the frivolity with a full complement of 10 – 17 November 2016

freshly mined talent.

The same can be said for Cai Norton as the monster. His role only required him to grunt loudly at first but by the end of the play he too was gyrating, gesticulating, singing, and dancing like a pro. Lily Linz as Frau Blucher (at whose mentioned name the “horses” in the background neigh in fright; blucher is close to a German word for “glue”) was fun. Sarina Wasserman as Frederick’s cold-as-ice fiancée who finally warms up... to the monster... was a treat, as was Drewes McFarling as both the original Dr. Frankenstein and the blind hermit.

Kudos to everyone involved, from choreographer Christina McCarthy to musical director Jon Nathan, vocal director Sio Tepper, costume designer Bonnie Thor, lighting designer Mike Madden, stage manager An Pham, and Jonathan Mitchel, technical director. You all have done something wonderful and have created memories for all those high school students that will last a lifetime. For most, their participation in such a worthy and exciting and satisfying endeavor will stand out as a highlight of their high school educational experience.

As for you dear reader, you will sorely be missing out if you don’t hurry yourself down to the SBHS theatre as soon as you are able. This is a ridiculously good show. It is playing Friday and Saturday, November 11 and 12, at 7 pm and Saturday and Sunday, November 12 and 13, at 2 pm. Tickets are too cheap at twice the price: $10 students and seniors; $15 general admission; $25 reserved orchestra seating. Call (805) 966-9101, ext. 5029, or go online at sbhstheatre. com.

You will thank me for it.

Guaranteed.

Beverlye and Her TEDx Talk

Beverlye Hyman Fead will be 83 years old in a couple of months.

Which is pretty good, since she was given just two months to live 14 years

ago, in 2002, having been diagnosed with stage IV cancer: specifically, uteral stromal sarcoma. Her grandmother, mother, and two sisters died from various cancers at relatively early ages.

Beverlye, who was 68 at the time of her diagnosis and prognosis (a recurrence of a cancer she successfully combatted 11 years previously), feared the worst.

After seeing who she calls “doctor one,” she went ahead and made appointments with doctors two and doctor three. “Two doctors wanted to give me extreme chemotherapy, resection my stomach, and then more chemotherapy, and I knew my life as I knew it would be over if I did that,” she recounts during a late Sunday morning conversation in her apartment near Butterfly Beach in Montecito.

“So, I told doctor four (Dr. Charles A. Forscher of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center),” she continues, “that I didn’t want to go through the chemotherapy and he, along with doctor five (Dr. Frederick Eilber, UCLA Medical Center), came up with an experimental treatment that I went with.”

Now, whenever she speaks to a group of seniors or cancer survivors, she advises anyone and everyone with a troublesome diagnosis to get more opinions. “Doctors one, two, and three,” she notes, “did not go back to my first cancer cells. If they had, they would have seen that [the cancer] was from my uterus and that those original cells had escaped, even though they said they had not, thus making it hormone-driven cancer. No one else had even bothered to go and look at that.”

Beverlye had eight large tumors in her abdomen, and the cancer had spread to her liver and elsewhere.

Dr. Forscher didn’t know whether these tumors were going to continue growing. He really didn’t know what was happening, but the first thing he did was examine her original cancer cells. By doing so, he and Dr. Eilber determined that since her cancer was hormone-driven it could be treated with hormone blockers.

The therapy she “went with” consisted of “a shot and a pill.” The once-

Billiard balls take 7 to 15 days to make and bake

a-month shot is Lupron, commonly given to prostate cancer patients; the daily pill is Femara, given to breast cancer patients. The two doctors didn’t think she needed an operation because the tumors were too large and it would have been hard to get them all out; “it would have been a massive operation with a huge recovery.” She was told that if the regimen worked, it would work on all the cancer sites, regardless of where they were.

Fortunately, the tumor board (yes, there is such a thing) approved the regimen and Beverlye began the therapy almost immediately. Within three weeks, a CAT scan revealed that her tumors were already 25 percent smaller.

Fourteen years later, the tumors in her stomach are still there and – if you have the courage – she’ll invite you to feel them. There is still a little pain – an awareness, really – involved in living with her cancer rather than surgically removing it. But that pain is more like a chronic ailment, such as a sore elbow or a migraine headache.

“It’s just something you learn to live with,” she says.

As two, then three years passed by, she realized she was going to live, and began to understand that the things necessary to successfully combat (and live with) cancer – a positive outlook, helping others, a sense of humor, moderate exercise, eating right, et cetera – are the same attributes needed to age well. Upon that realization, she “crossed over” from cancer to aging and now speaks on both subjects interchangeably.

Recently (October 27), Beverlye was in New York City giving her first TEDx talk; the theme was “Isn’t It About Time?” and Beverlye’s speech (“Isn’t It About Time We Think Differently About Aging?”), along with talks by 15 other, much younger speakers on various subjects, though on the same theme, was streamed to as many as 10 million viewers.

Ms Fead’s diagnosis, therapy, and successful outcome were the beginning of a second life. She’s written three books: I Can Do This; Living With Cancer, Nana, What’s Cancer? (written with granddaughter Tessa), and Aging In High Heels. She speaks to crowds of doctors, cancer patients, and seniors often. She has been named a Legislative Ambassador and Hero of Hope by the American Cancer Society; has been honored with the Courage Award from the Sarcoma Foundation of America; and was keynote speaker at the American Cancer Society’s 100th-year celebration.

If you’d like to contact Beverlye, you are invited to her online site, beverlyehymanfead.com, upon which she writes a regular blog and features short ruminations on life in general, aging, health, and other subjects. •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S N A M E STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Plaza Liquor, 2840 De La Vina St. #A, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Ziyad Abdulhai, 2037 Oak Ave #B, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Plazaliquor SB, Inc, 2840 De La Vina St. #A, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 4, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2016-0003068.

Published November 9, 16, 23, 30, 2016.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S N A M E STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pallan & Associates, 4799 Glenbrook St, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

Sant Pallan, 4799 Glenbrook St, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 21, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara

Jayasinghe.

FBN No. 2016-0002964.

Published November 9, 16, 23, 30, 2016.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S N A M E STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tartaglia Fine Art, 1187 Coast Village Road #5, Montecito, CA 93108.

Danna Tartaglia, 2648 Grand Ave, Ojai, CA 93023.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 28, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2016-0003019.

Published November 2, 9, 16, 23, 2016.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S N A M E STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Corks; Corks N’ Crowns, 32 Anacapa Street, Unit A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Funk Zone Wines, LLC, 5330 Debbie Road, #200, Santa Barbara, CA 93111.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 27, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph

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Montecito Fire Protection District Public Notice Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of the Montecito Fire Protection District will be holding a Regular Board Meeting at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, November 28, 2016 at District headquarters, 595 San Ysidro Road, Montecito, California. At that meeting the Board will review Ordinance 2016-01: An Ordinance of the Governing Board of the Montecito Fire Protection District adopting by reference and amending the 2016 California Fire Code and Appendix Chapters and Appendix Standards prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire, hazardous materials or explosion; Providing for the issuance of permits for hazardous uses or operations; Establishing a bureau of fire prevention and providing officers therefore and defining their powers and duties within the District; Amending Section R313 of the 2016 California Residential Code; Amending Section 1505 of the 2016 California Building Code; and Repealing Ordinance No. 2013-01.

Published November 9 and 16, 2016 Montecito Journal

E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2016-0002773.

Published October 26, November 2, 9, 16, 2016.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5490 DUE DATE & TIME: November 29, 2016 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Hauling and Delivery of Pavement Materials for Street Roadway Repairs The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™.

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

The primary scope of work will be to deliver hot mix asphalt from the asphalt plant to designated job sites throughout the City and transport asphalt grindings off the job sites to designated locations. Contractor shall also transport project waste materials from the city’s yard to specific locations for disposal.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess either a valid State of California General A or C12 Earthwork and Paving Contractors License.

The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

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

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

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Brilliant Thoughts

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

Strangler in Paradise

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ome of the early names given to automobile parts were of a surprisingly violent nature – particularly “clutch,” “choke,” and “throttle.” But I can’t help seeing a certain metaphorical irony when those terms are applied to the current effects of automobiles upon our community.

The fact is that we are indeed being strangled by cars.

Santa Barbara is effectively reached from the North or South by only a single road, U.S. 101. From the West, we’re sealed off by the Pacific Ocean, and from the East by a range of mountains. But large numbers of people who live outside the city come in daily to work, and there’s also a substantial flow of commuters going the other way.

Considering this situation, one might expect that there would be excellent bus, rail, and sea facilities to supplement that one road in connecting this city with those much-larger urban areas also on the coast: Los Angeles to the South, and San Francisco to the North. But, strange as it may seem, that is not the case.

There are rail and bus lines, but their schedules are infrequent, and their services relatively little-used. And there is an airport, but apart from the well-known inconveniences and tribulations of modern air travel, the distances are relatively so short and the costs so high, that this too is not a preferred option.

Then what about that open highway, the sea? Once there was indeed regular passenger service along the coast by ship – and with modern high-speed vessels, it would be possible to commute quite pleasantly that way between the coastal cities.

But no demand exists to generate and finance the implementation of such a scheme.

Where, then, does all the demand concentrate? You guessed it: the private automobile. With its tremendous appeal, (to quote from my own work on the subject), “No single contrivance ever offered, before or since, to the public, has been capable of satisfying so many individual human desires.” (The Great Car Craze: How Southern California Collided with the Automobile in the 1920s. Woodbridge Press, 1989).

I don’t have to tell you how much more comfortable, safe, and in control you feel in your own car than practically anywhere else (sometimes 10 – 17 November 2016

even more than in your own home).

And that can be equally true even when you’re stuck in traffic, or just parked.

So, although it must be evident to everyone – except those who simply will not see – that Santa Barbara is being choked and throttled by an excessive number of cars, probably the vast majority of drivers believe that the whole problem could be solved by making more room for cars, particularly by widening Highway 101 and by building more “parking structures” (those huge dismal buildings that are really just gigantic garages). This, despite the universal experience that, the more room you make for cars, the more cars there will soon inevitably be.

How did I ever get involved in this controversy? My own family never had a car – but when I emigrated from England to Southern California in the 1950s, I somehow went through that “love affair” which this whole country had experienced with the automobile some decades earlier. I bought my first car (for $50) – a 1941 Plymouth coupe -- before I could even drive, and took enormous pleasure in the ownership of something so large and powerful.

A few years later when I was at Berkeley, working on a Ph.D. in history and had to choose a topic for my dissertation, I said I’d like to do something about the social effects of the automobile. At that time – the early 1960s, this was still a highly unconventional area for research. But I was allowed to proceed and eventually produced the study which, a quarter of a century later, became the book cited above.

In the process, however, at the same time that an actual human love affair in which I was involved happened to be coming apart, my love affair with the automobile also fizzled. I sadly learned (and wrote) about all the negative consequences of that machine’s dominance, which by then could already be seen, felt, and even smelled, all over Southern California.

I suffered my own comeuppance in 2011, when struck and seriously injured in a marked pedestrian crosswalk near my home. But you are no doubt only too familiar with similar stories. It’s the price we still pay (willingly or not) for that illusion of speed and mobility that we once all enjoyed.

•MJ

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Ghost Village Road

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he weekend’s most-welcome rain took a quick break in time for our town’s annual Ghost Village Road event sponsored by the Coast Village Road Association and our faithful businesses in top form. Hundreds of happy kids with their parents, pets, and friends celebrated the occasion.

It was remarkable to note the most popular costumes were preschool girls as princesses, middle-school kids in Star Wars attire – the Force was strong and without Darth Vader – and mostly glamour in high-fashion, 1960s models with an upbeat, fun vibe throughout the afternoon.

•MJ

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sing at a very high level – they should be super-famous. But they’ve all got other jobs and just do this for fun.”

So if the show moves the audience to want to sing themselves, Sharon has the resources available to get them started. After all, it’s his mission.

“We haven’t lived in a more bifurcated, angry, socially split society since the Civil War. But when people sing together, they understand each other. It doesn’t matter where you come from, or who you voted for, or what you do for a living. You learn how to listen and to blend. Singing brings joy to people’s lives.”

4 Q’s with Sol Gabetta

Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta has forged an enviable career ever since winning her first competition at the age of 10. Praised for versatility as well as virtuosity, and poise amid passion, Gabetta has appeared with many of the major orchestras in Europe and performed recitals across that continent and the U.S. Back in 2012, she was nominated for a Grammy Award for her duo album with pianist Hélène Grimaud.

Now Gabetta makes her Santa Barbara debut with popular pianist Alessio Bax – well-known for his frequent appearances with the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra (he returns on May 16 to play Schumann’s

ber music and Baroque music.

Sol Gabetta performs at Hahn Hall

Piano Concerto in A minor) – on Wednesday night, November 16, at Hahn Hall, when the pair will perform Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, op.

73; Brahms’s Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in E Minor, op. 38; and Prokofiev’s Adagio for Cello and Piano (from Cinderella), and Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major, op.

119.

Q. You have called yourself a “dangerous child” at school who always wanted to play everything the other kids were playing. What got you to settle on the cello?

A. The sound of the instrument was much more convincing to me than anything else. The others just didn’t feel as much a part of me. It just fit very well.

I never needed to practice as much because it came easy to me. But I can

only see that today. At 4, it wasn’t that clear why I chose it. And I think it goes better with who I am, my natural character, my personality. I think in a lot of ways, the instrument chooses you. You have to have a connection.

You recently changed instruments, from the 1759 Guadagnini to the 1725 Gofriller. What prompted the switch?

It about the period in your life.

Sometimes you are looking for a certain sound. It’s the first time I’ve changed this deep into my career, and I am still discovering the instrument.

But the main thing is that it projects much better, as I’ve said, like there’s a tiger in there. Some of the instruments can’t handle modern strings and they don’t want to sing. The Guadagnini is an incredibly beautiful instrument, but it’s better for cham-

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We met a long time ago when we were really young, and even then he was so flexible and a wonderful player. It’s a very personal thing. Alessio has a very strong personality, but it’s a real partnership. He wants to be on the same page, so it’s easier for me in the sonatas. He has a lot of experience in chamber music, and every time we meet it never feels new. And he can play anything.

What does interpretation of a composition mean to you? Meaning, how do you gauge how much of your own emotion to put into a performance?

It’s a difficult balance. My approach was extremely passionate when I was younger. But with age that changes.

Now it’s more about how to understand a composition and how to bring out what’s actually in the score. Most of the time, the musician represents himself and it’s difficult to find a balance between who you are, and why you are on stage. It’s important to be a part of bringing these old compositions to life, but it’s you on stage, and the audience is living in the moment with you, so it’s important to communicate and to bridge my abstract understanding of a piece to the people who are listening.

•MJ

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

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Sliding Toward Eradicating Polio – New Orleans native Trombone Shorty began his career as a bandleader at just six years old, was touring internationally by age 12, and spent his teens playing with various brass bands throughout New Orleans, as well as on worldwide concert tours with Lenny Kravitz. So it wasn’t much of a surprise that it’s been just six years since Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue released their debut album, followed by two more in just three years, all of which quickly propelled the funk/rock/jazz/hip-hop band to star status across the land and spots on Leno, Kimmel, and the Grammys.

Now the group, which has played memorable performance at both Campbell Hall and Granada Theatre under the auspices of UCSB Arts & Lectures, returns to town for a benefit concert at the area’s largest indoor venue for which all net proceeds are earmarked for Rotary’s End Polio Now program, a global eradication effort. Also performing are The Stone Foxes, the San Francisco “swampy foot-stomping” rock band founded by brothers Shannon (vocals/drums/ harp) and Spence Koehler (guitar/ vocals), who left the Sierra Nevada foothills to attend San Francisco State and never left, organically adding new members as guests who wound up as members. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $38 to $58 INFO: 963-4408/ www.thearlingtontheatre.com or 800745-3000/www.ticketmaster.com

Verdi’s “Mass”-ive Opera – It was the deaths of two men whom the composer Giuseppe Verdi revered – Gioacchino Rossini, sometimes called “The Italian Mozart,” and the nationalist poet and author Alessandro Manzoni – that inspired him to compose a mass for the dead. The Messa da Requiem has been frequently referred to as the “best opera” from one of the preeminent opera composers in history, who create the music for Aida, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata, Otello, and Falstaff among others.

Now 142 years since its premiere in Milan, the Santa Barbara Master Chorale will perform Verdi’s Messa da Requiem this weekend at the sonically blessed First United Methodist Church in Santa Barbara.

Soprano Christine Hollinger, alto Danielle Marcelle-Bond, tenor Eduardo Villa, and bass Emil Cristescu serve as featured soloists, conducted by Steven R. Hodson, the Chorale’s artistic director who is past president of the Western Division of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and a professor of music at Westmont College. WHEN: 7:30 tonight, 3 pm tomorrow WHERE: First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu Street (at Garden St.) COST: $22 general admission, $20 seniors and disabled, $12 college students, children in K-12 free INFO: 455-3276 or www. sbmasterchorale.org

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Peek at Bard Week – Westmont College theater arts professors John Blondell and Mitchell Thomas reflect on the lasting legacy of William Shakespeare while previewing Shakespeare@400, a citywide celebration of the author on the 400th anniversary of his death. Santa Barbara will host a series of performances next Thursday through Sunday, November 17-20, by an international coalition of theaters and arts organizations, all celebrating the remarkable life and work of Shakespeare on the milestone anniversary. During the lecture, Blondell and Thomas will share insights into the creative programming of the celebration, which will include works by Shakespeare’s Globe, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Bitola National Theatre of Macedonia, the Lit Moon Theatre Company, and Westmont’s student actors. The festival includes Pop-Up performances and fully-staged works including Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Anthony and Cleopatra and “The Complete Walk”, featuring short films shot where Shakespeare imagined the plays and starring England’s finest actors. Get more details and the complete schedule events online. WHEN: 5:30 pm WHERE: University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara Street COST: free INFO: 565-6051 or http:// litmoontheatre.com/shakespeare400-santa-barbara-2016

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by Steven Libowitz

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Pythons in Our Presence – As founding members of Monty Python, John Cleese and Eric Idle are unarguably among the godfathers of modern comedy, helping to pioneer an irreverent, absurdist sensibility that is still emulated by comics around the world to this day. Individually, they have written, performed, and produced some of the most beloved and critically acclaimed TV shows, movies, and Broadway musicals of all-time, including Spamalot, A Fish Called Wanda, Fawlty Towers, and The Rutles. Now the living legends of British comedy are out on tour together – billed as “John Cleese & Eric Idle: Together Again At Last… For The Very First Time” – during which they will blend scripted and improvised bits with storytelling, musical numbers, exclusive footage, “aquatic juggling,” and an extended audience Q&A to craft a unique comedic experience with every performance. Will there be any references to Montecito, Cleese’s longtime on-and-off-again home? It takes a village to find out. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $59.50 to $99.50 INFO: 963-4408/www.thearlingtontheatre.com or 800-745-3000/www. ticketmaster.com

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Celebration of Life Exhibit & Benefit – Art at the JCC (Jewish Community Center) hosts an opening reception for its Celebration of Life Exhibit & Benefit, a poignant show celebrates the lives of local Holocaust survivors through their own art, and commemorates the important anniversary of Kristallnacht with a fresh approach focused on life and renewal rather than death and destruction.

The exhibit features the “Seven Days of Creation” tapestry, a major piece from the studio of Laurie Gross, and includes artwork from local Holocaust survivors and those featured in the Jewish Federation’s Portraits of Survival/ Upstanders Exhibits and Programs: Life Journeys During the Holocaust and Beyond. Long-time Santa Barbara resident and prolific artist Evelyn Gerlach will make her Santa Barbara arts debut. Photographs from survivor Roman Vishniac will also be featured.

As part of the exhibition/benefit, local Holocaust survivors Ralph Baxter, Freddy Caston, Erika Kahn, Edith Ostern, Bernie Penner, Maria Segal, and Margaret Singer, as well as other known artists, have been commissioned to create 8x8” canvasses that will be for sale at $54 each. Proceeds will benefit the Portraits of Survival/Upstanders Exhibits and Programs: Life Journeys During the Holocaust and Beyond, which has welcomed more than 7,000 visitors since its inception in November 2003.

The number 54 is a multiple of 18, which is the Hebrew word for chai, meaning life. As a centerpiece of the show is the seven-panel tapestry titled Seven Days of Creation – an intricately woven and embroidered masterpiece

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that spans more than 10 feet tall and approximately 30 feet wide. WHEN: Reception 1 to 3 pm; Exhibit continues through December 1 WHERE: Jewish Federation’s Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala St COST: free INFO: 957-1115 or www. jewishsantabarbara.org WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Help Him Make it through the Night – Kris Kristofferson was raised in a military family in Texas, spent time as a Golden Gloves boxer who also studied creative writing at Pomona College, then earned a Rhodes scholarship to study literature at Oxford before serving in the Army as an Airborne Ranger helicopter pilot who achieved the rank of captain. But at an early crossroads in 1965, he turned down an assignment to teach at West Point and – inspired by such songwriters as Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, with whom he would later join in the outlaw country music supergroup The Highwaymen – moved to Nashville to pursue his music. It took awhile for Kristofferson to find success, but by the early 1970s he’d penned such chart-topping hit songs as “Me and Bobby McGee”, “Help Me Make It Through the Night”, “Sunday Morning Coming Down”, and “For the Good Times”, all of which helped redefine country songwriting. By 1987, it was estimated that more than 450 artists had recorded Kristofferson’s compositions.

Now 80, Kristofferson has spent most of the last two decades back to his solo roots, a singer-songwriter out on the road accompanied only by his own acoustic guitar and harmonica. Reports indicate that his raspy baritone struggles even more to hit the right notes, but 10 – 17 November 2016

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Beam Me up, Scotty – NASA astronaut captain Scott Kelly spent 20 years with the space agency, culminating in his becoming the first American to spend a year in space as part of the historic mission on the International Space Station. During the mission that just ended this past March, Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko conducted experiments, reconfigured station modules, and captivated the world with live interviews and photos from the International Space Station. The mission also included NASA’s groundbreaking study in which Kelly’s identical twin brother, retired NASA astronaut aptain Mark Kelly, served on the ground as a control model in an unprecedented experiment to understand how space affects the human body. Now back on solid ground on Planet Earth for the last half-year, Kelly is on the lecture circuit offering the illustrated presentation titled “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Lessons from a Year in Space”. The piece employs his trademark candor, humor, and humility to share stories from his 143-million-mile journey, providing unique insights on the leadership, teamwork, and personal perseverance required for such demanding conditions, and his perspective on being separated from loved ones and our planet for a full year. Kelly’s life lessons, stories from above Earth and the path that led him there provide unique and valuable insights on the power and resilience of the human spirit. Kelly, who has been featured on the cover of Time, in live interviews on Today and on CNN, has penned the memoir Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars, which will be published in 2017 and has already been picked up to be made into a feature film. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $35-$55 general, $15 students INFO: 899-2222/ www.granadasb.org or 893-3535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

his delivery and presence and sense of history more than compensate, as Kristofferson conveys the power of literate tales of love, faith, loss, and hope with a dramatic flair of a Golden Globe-winning actor. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $68.75 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com Focus on Film: a Pair at the Pollock – 7 Islands and a Metro is a tale of the cities of Bombay/ Mumbai presented through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation, and literary texts, all employed to chronicle the transformation of an insignificant settlement to the stature of a major metropolis. The film’s narrative is structured around imaginary debates between legendary writers Ismat

Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto and shot mainly during the monsoon; the movie portrays beautiful, yet ruthlessly violent features of Bombay. Director Madhusree Dutta and UCSB Film professor Bhaskar Sarkar conduct a discussion and Q&A after Wednesday’s screening.... Tomorrow night a screening of short film selections from the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival will be followed by a discussion about festival shorts programming and curation with Tribeca’s vice president of filmmaker relations and long-time head of shorts programming Sharon Badal and UCSB film professor Cynthia Felando. WHEN: 7 pm today (7 Island) and tomorrow (Tribeca shorts) WHERE: Pollock Theater, UCSB campus COST: free (reservations recommended) INFO: 893-5903 or www.carseywolf. ucsb.edu/pollock •MJ

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Beyond the Basics of Booking – While Santa Barbara is fortunate to be situated between Los Angeles and San Francisco, which makes it an especially attractive stop for touring shows and performers planning a West Coast swing, there are still plenty of challenges for promoters to face, including competition for bigname acts, often daunting financial hurdles, changing tastes of potential audiences, and adjusting marketing to reach new potential customers. Tonight the heads of two of Santa Barbara’s largest and most prestigious venues – Craig Springer, Ph.D., executive director of the Granada Theatre, and Rick Boller, executive director of the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation – take a look at the state of the performing arts in “Meet the Impresarios: The Art of Booking Touring Shows into Santa Barbara”. The panel discussion is part of the Antioch in Conversation series, which has previously presented representative from several of Santa Barbara’s residential performing arts companies. In a rare glimpse behind the scenes at the fast, fascinating world of high-stakes touring entertainment, the pair will address such issues as: Who is attending? Are audiences growing or shrinking? How high is too high when it comes to ticket prices? What goes into the making of a season? WHEN: 4 pm WHERE: Antioch University campus, 602 Anacapa Street COST: free INFO: 962-8179 or www.antiochsb.edu/events/meet-impresarios-touring-santa-barbara

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SEEN (Continued from page 15) Secretario general Manuel Lejarreta, mayor Helene Schneider, executive director Lynn Brittner, Javier Vallaure, and curator Juan Miguel Hernandez

Napa guy and CEO Garrett Busch with Opera Santa Barbara executive director Steven Sharpe and Armondo Fumanelli from Italy

Pat Andersons, Meg Di Napoli, and Judy Smith at the opera wine dinner

and Fumanelli wine with Armondo Fumanelli from Verona, Italy.

Armondo’s family has been making wine since the late 1400s. They have Roman ruins on their property. Trinitas means “three” in Latin and ironically, Garret just had triplets. Garret’s family not only owns the winery but also the Bacara.

The menu of arias began with Verdi’s La Traviata, second course was La Boheme and Carmen, then Puccini’s La Rondine and another from Carmen. The finale was Puccini’s La Bohème. Our artists were soprano Elizabeth Kelsay, tenor Elliot Deasy, and pianist Kosta Popovic.

My favorite course was second with butter-poached Maine lobster/red wine Americaine/glazed chestnuts/ mushroom duxelles/ lobster coral gratin. My favorite wines came later, with a Trinitas 2012 Martin Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon and Fumanelli 2010 “Squarano” Valpolicella Classico DOC. There was truffle cake for dessert served with a Cab and a Valpolicella.

Executive chef Vincent Lesage and his staff, who took a well-deserved bow, created this fabulous feast for 70 of us.

Opera executive director Steven Sharpe wants you to save the dates for the rest of their new season March 3 and 5 and April 28 and 30, 2017. For information, contact (805) 898-3890.

Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner and Songs in Between hosted by Jelinda DeVorzon and Bui Simon. Friends and fans gathered in a long line to get their books signed.

Who wouldn’t want to know what it was like to be with Elvis? She said on stage he was confident, but off stage he was shy.

Linda told the group, “I started to write my memoir eleven years ago, and then realized I couldn’t tell about Bruce feeling he was trapped in the wrong body before he had come out, so I waited.” She knew 31 years before. He had told her when their children were very small.

Besides her first two loves, there was a long tumultuous one with musical genius David Foster that ended in divorce. Linda is herself an award-winning songwriter. One of her songs – “I Have Nothing” by Whitney Houston from The Bodyguard movie – was nominated for best song in a motion picture at the Academy

Consul general Javier Vallaure with Lynn Brittner, executive director of the SBHM, at the Spain exhibit opening

Awards.

Linda is 66 years young and leading a full life in Malibu near her two sons.

Designing America

“I have always felt that one of the great lacks among Americans has been their knowledge of the whole Spanish influence and exploration and development in the 16th century in the Southwest United States, which is a tremendous story.

Unfortunately, too many Americans think that America was discovered in 1620 when the Pilgrims came to my own State, and they forget the tremendous adventure of the 16th century and the early 17th century in the Southern and Southwest United States.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy The latest exhibit at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum (SBHM) will surely rectify that belief as stated by the late President Kennedy. It Book-signing hostesses Bui Simon and Jelinda DeVorzon on either side of author Linda Thompson

A Little Thing Called Life Tecolote bookstore was the site of a recent book signing for Linda Thompson’s memoir A Little Thing

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is titled “Designing America: Spain’s Imprint in the U.S.”. The exhibit was put together in Spain by the Fundacion Consejo Espana-Estado Unidos and has shown in Madrid, Washington, D.C., and Houston, Texas. The last and only West Coast venue is right here in our town.

For the opening, a group of us were led on a VIP tour by the Spanish curator Juan Miguel Hernandez.

Executive director of California Missions Foundation David Bolton was the interpreter. He was also the link from Spain’s consul general in Los Angeles Javier Vallaure to SBHM executive director Lynn Brittner to get the exhibit in Santa Barbara. Also visiting was secretario general Manuel Lejarreta from the Fundacion. Among the audience was Ignacio Felix Cota (and his wife, Veronica Ulloa), who is a direct descendant of the brothers lieutenant Pablo Cota and Mariano Cota, who were among those soldiers who founded the Presidio on April 12, 1782.

As Juan Miguel explained, there were missions, presidios, and villages. Spain governed cities such as Los Angeles, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, and even New Orleans.

Spain accepted the first free slaves in Florida, but they first had to join the military.

SBHM board president Sharon Bradford welcomed the crowd having wine and tapas in the courtyard.

Mayor Helene Schneider greeted, “Bienvenido. When I come to the museum, I always think, ‘How can you top this?’ and then you do.”

Consul general Javier Vallaure has lived in the United States for 15 years and loves Santa Barbara, saying, “We can exchange our knowledge of each other.”

Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and brought Spain to the continent, launching an unprecedented adventure. It was Spanish maps that influenced our development and many of them are in the museum.

The exhibit will be here until April 10, 2017. Remember, one of the bestkept secrets is that the SBHM is free, so enjoy.

•MJ 10 – 17 November 2016

REAL ESTATE (Continued from page 17)

designed garden and pond to the highest-quality finishes of the interior, to the size of lot and PTO (Proximity to Oprah – who is your next-door neighbor), this is a world-class estate.

The 9+acre property includes a 22,000-sq-ft main house with eight bedrooms and 13 bathrooms, a guesthouse, pool, pool house, tennis court, pavilion, 4-car garage, two 2-car-detached garages, rose, flower, and organic vegetable gardens, and more.

Romance on Cold Spring Road: $15,950,000

Ca’ di Sopra is an impressive oceanview estate that blends Italian architecture with the amenities of modernity. Set on more than six acres on a commanding promontory near East Mountain Drive, the residence has 7 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms, a library, theater, wine cellar, loggia, and many entertainment terraces.

Surrounded by gardens and an infinity pool, there is also a tennis court, gatehouse, recreation room and space to enjoy privacy and views. The main home is nearly 14,000 sq ft and is located among equally or even more significant estates on this side of the street, in the Cold Spring School District. The home was on the market last year at a higher price.

Above Montecito Country Club: $13,500,000

On a private lane, near the lower village is this mostly level-to-gently sloping, 3.16-acre gated estate. Old World style and modern luxury finishes define the property, as it has all been re-imagined and ready for a new owner. There is a gated, private drive leading to the main home and motor court.

There is a separate pool and pool cabana area, tennis court, two-bedroom guesthouse with privacy, sprawling lawns and other areas of drought-tolerant landscaping. The 7,299-sq-ft main residence features a formal dining room, media room, wine cellar, laundry and staff wing, with 6 bedrooms, 6 full baths,

and 2 half bathrooms.

The main floor master wing is generous and private and includes an office, a fireplace in the bedroom, and a master bath. The four upstairs bedrooms are laid out in two separate wings.

There is a five-zone Creston-Lutron system that features state-ofthe-art climate control and security; the home is in the Montecito Union School District.

Lowest-Priced Grand Estate: $6,995,000

This gated Mediterranean estate is located within guard-gated Ennisbrook, in the Montecito Union School District. Two mostly level acres host the five-bedroom, 6.5-bathroom main residence.

There is an impressive entry, a comfortable guest apartment, swimmer ’s pool with cabana, a north/ south tennis court, and a 5-car garage with additional parking for guests, lawns and gardens, and a fireside dining patio. Ocean and mountain views add to the home’s value.

This is the lowest-priced tennis court estate on the market in Montecito at this time.

•MJ For more information, or to arrange a showing with the listing agents for any of these homes, please contact me directly, Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text (805) 698-2174.

Also, visit my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com from which this article is based.

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