An Art Exclusive

Art Meets Philanthropy

12-19 November 2020 Vol 26 Issue 46

SERVING MONTECITO AND SUMMERLAND

Artist Charles Fazzino launches fundraising campaign for Unity Shoppe, p. 11

AN ART EXCLUSIVE THE JUST-OPENED CALDWELL SNYDER GALLERY ON COAST VILLAGE ROAD CEMENTS MONTECITO’S CREDENTIALS AS A WEST COAST ART DESTINATION, (STORY ON PAGE 6)

Offshore Oil Well Clean up

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Bear Necessities

All the bear-proofing tips you need to protect yourself before hibernation, p. 22

Steppen Out

Steppenwolf frontman and Montecito resident John Kay on why he’s sung “Born to be Wild” for the last time, p. 16

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5 Editor’s Letter Gwyn Lurie writes about the importance of bringing back compromise.

And on that there can be no compromise.

6 On the Record Caldwell Snyder Gallery opens on Coast Village Road; Beekeepers Guild of Santa Barbara announces winners of Harvest Festival; updates on 101 Freeway widening 10 Letters to the Editor A collection of communications from readers Dale Lowdermilk, Susan Moore, Laurie Zalk, and Diana Thorn 11 The 501c3 Weekly Artist Charles Fazzino launches fundraising campaign for Unity Shoppe to support food scarcity work during pandemic 12 Summerland Buzz Offshore oil well cleanup; Virtual Vacation to Honduras; Adios Bonita, hola Hacienda; post-election afterthoughts 14 Nosh Town A full-plated roundup of local restaurants offering to-go and limited dine-in/outdoor Thanksgiving menus with Santa Barbara flair 16 On Entertainment Steppenwolf ’s John Kay at the Lobero; R. Michael Gros’s curtain call; Theater Talk and Focus on Film; election fallout; and Chaucer’s choices 22 Montecito on the Move Election backs up 101 traffic into Montecito; how to outsmart bears in Montecito; 5G hazards 26 Perspectives by Rinaldo S Brutoco Business and the Paris Accords: economically motivated environmentalism The Optimist Daily The Optimist Daily is collaborating with Lost Art of Love Letters and Santa Barbara Response Network to launch Thankful Thursdays 27 Purely Political France’s forceful defense both of freedom of speech and its culture of tolerance, is a lesson for U.S. leaders, writes James Buckley 28 Montecito Miscellany Stuart Whitman’s Ranch up for grabs; Philip Myers’s non-fiction spy thriller; Rob Lowe’s new fixer-upper; Barbara Allen de Kwiatkowski’s pricy possessions; and more 30 Far Flung Travel Atop of the volcanic ridges of Santa Cruz Island in search of the ruler of the skies: the peregrine falcon 32 Dear Montecito Since graduating from Crane School KiSea Katikka is surviving her third unintentional gap year 35 Brilliant Thoughts Ashleigh Brilliant sets the record straight on diary keeping and their value as a matter of historical record 36 MMMM Crossword Puzzle Solution Tide Chart 38 Your Westmont A live webinar explains analytic decision-making; museum gets a large donation of sculptures; and the Warriors tip off the men’s basketball season 46 Classified Advertising Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 47 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

“The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle

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Editor’s Letter

by Gwyn Lurie CEO and Executive Editor of the Montecito Journal Media Group

We Must Recover the Lost Art of Compromise.

On This There Can Be No Compromise.

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he election is finally over. Or maybe it isn’t. But one thing is clear: for some of us this moment brings exhilaration, joy, relief. For others, this moment is profoundly disappointing and downright hard to take.

American Democracy has arrived at a crossroad. If you listen to almost any news outlet, down one road lies salvation from the Forces of Darkness. Down the other lies a descent into spiritual and moral ruin.

Wouldn’t it be nice if life offered us such clear choices of “good” vs “evil”?

Any thinking person understands that it’s not that simple. And it is the buying into this kind of cartoonish false dichotomy that debases our modern politics. Since when did disagreement become synonymous with treason?

Opponent with enemy?

We keep hearing about what a deeply divided country we are. But are we?

MSNBC and Fox are deeply divided. But what they’ve really divided is a market. It behooves them to be polarized. They greatly benefit from the narrative of a divided country. But do we benefit, John & Joanne Q. Public?

Our government’s system of checks and balances was designed to require compromise to get anything accomplished. So is compromise a good thing, or does it inevitably involve a sour aftertaste for everyone who drinks it? Can Biden be our collective digestif?

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There are those who speak of compromise as if it means diluting one’s principles. But does compromise adulterate “principles” or “selfinterest”? I researched the word “compromise” and found that one meaning is “a mutual promise... An agreement reached through mutual concessions, or an accept-able adjustment between conflicting ideas or desires.”

Families require daily compromise which presumably is motivated by love and in that context is considered healthy. So why, in the context of governing, is it considered otherwise?

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On the Record

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Nicholas Schou is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of several books, including Orange Sunshine and Kill the Messenger. If you have tips or stories about Montecito, please email him at newseditor@montecitojournal.net

Caldwell Snyder Gallery Opens New Storefront on Coast Village Road The gallery’s new storefront featuring a Brad Howe sculpture

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ontecito’s newest storefront, the small yet striking Caldwell Snyder Gallery features a monumental Brad Howe steel sculpture out front and showcases works by an exclusive roster of 55 living contemporary artists from around the world. It’s no coincidence that it’s located just across the street from the Honor Bar. Along with his longtime partner Susan Snyder, co-founder Oliver Caldwell first opened the gallery on Sutter Street in San Francisco’s Union Square neighborhood in 1983; it has since expanded to include a separate gallery in the historic, turn-of-the-century Star Building in Napa Valley’s St. Helena.

Caldwell and Snyder had long been hoping to break into the Southern California market, which is why he and his wife toured every major art-friendly coastal village from La Jolla north to Carmel earlier this year, looking for the best town to locate a new gallery. Yet after finding too many resort towns such as La Jolla and Laguna Beach oversaturated with bad art (and overpriced galleries full of it), the couple realized that only Montecito had the potential they were looking for.

“We were just sitting at the Honor Bar and eating lunch when we noticed that the place across the street was unoccupied,” Caldwell told the Montecito Journal this week, just days after the gallery’s soft opening. (“Soft opening” is somewhat of an exaggeration; per Caldwell. “We never really opened,” he said. “We just started moving in and all of a sudden people who were walking or driving by and were curious started moseying on in.”)

Caldwell’s timing was fortuitous. The former Bay Area resident had only just discovered Montecito when his children moved to Santa Barbara for college, and at his wife’s behest, they followed suit. “We moved down here and just fell in love with the area,” he says. Because of COVID-19 complications, the high-end women’s clothing boutique that used to inhabit the space had recently closed, so after contacting the landlord, Caldwell happily signed a lease.

“We love the neighborhood and the street and the whole vibe,” Caldwell says of Montecito and Coast Village Road. “It’s a beach town but it’s sophisticated and we were surprised there weren’t a lot of art galleries.” Because Caldwell Snyder sells art priced roughly between $25,000 and $100,000, the gallery wasn’t looking to open up on a block surrounded by storefronts promoting California beach art kitsch.

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Letters to the Editor

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

Stunned and Irredeemable

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’m stunned... and so is an insignificant handful of fellow irredeemable voters.

Give it a couple weeks and stout-hearted Republicans will eventually accept the mostly-legal ballot results.

I think it’s uncertain whether deplorable conservatives will reconcile, forgive, join hands, sing Kumbaya and fully cooperate with the new administration, like the democrats did when Trump was elected in 2016.

Dale Lowdermilk

Bravo, Ann

Ann Brode’s writing is thoughtful, inspiring, and personal. She tackles issues with a clear eye, honesty and compassion. She makes me think.

She encourages readers to explore the unknown and revisit the past in new ways...

Thank you for carrying her column, and I hope you will expand her work.

Susan Moore

Inspirational Journey

Thank you, Ann, for so eloquently sharing Sage’s wonderful journey

walking The Camino.

It’s an inspiration to all, but especially to those of us who are “seniors” in body, but not mind.

Sage’s will to fulfill a dream is wonderful example of spirit.

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Laurie Zalk

Keep Printing Differing Views

As an American who believes in free speech and freedom of the press, I am very upset over the election interference and censorship by big tech toward conservatives or people who not believe the way they do. This is not what America is all about.

Going forward, I would like to thank the Montecito Journal for allowing people with differing views to express themselves via letters or articles. Our country is a diverse nation with many views. By doing so, its helps people to understand how people think. At least that is how I feel.

Bravo, keep up the good work.

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The 501c3 Weekly

by Zach Rosen

The Intersection of Art and Philanthropy

Fazzino’s definitive three-dimensional style of art was originally inspired from his childhood love for pop up books

Artist Charles Fazzino has launched a fundraising campaign for Unity Shoppe to support their food scarcity work during the pandemic

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lthough based in New York, the distinctive three-dimensional work of Charles Fazzino is recognized by many locals who have visited or simply just walked by his prominent State Street gallery. The 3D Studio Gallery is located under Hotel Santa Barbara and displays a range of his unique structural artworks of cityscapes, celebrities, and other pop art themes that have made his art renowned worldwide. Charles has recently launched a fundraising campaign for Unity Shoppe to support their food scarcity work during the pandemic. Philanthropy has been a notable part of his career, including a similar fundraiser for the 9/11 fund and museum. With food scarcity being one of the issues he has focused on over the years, Charles has hosted fundraisers with various food pantries and nonprofits in the Santa Barbara and New York areas, wanting to help support the communities who have helped support him.

When the pandemic started he knew that food banks were going to be stretched thin as layoffs, illnesses, and other hardships affected families around the world. In response he crafted a special artwork, “This Soon Shall Pass,” that would deliver a message of hope while raising funds for those in need. The piece paints an inspiring scene that spans the globe with landmarks from each of the areas being heavily affected by COVID-19 at the time of him illustrating. His artwork graces galleries in many of these areas and he wanted a piece of art where the communities being affected felt represented. He also wanted to make sure that these funds helped 12 – 19 November 2020

support the local communities where his art is being sold, especially New York and Santa Barbara. So far the fund has raised more than $40,000 with 100 percent of net proceeds from the special piece going towards the fund. While he has had to work with a limited crew during this time he has been paying each artist a higher than normal fee for their work on the piece as a way of helping them during this time.

Having worked before with Unity Shoppe, Charles wanted to help and after speaking with Unity Shoppe Executive Director Tom Reed, he found out that they were in need for a new refrigeration unit for their food distribution service. Charles donated $2,500 from the fund and will be raising the rest of the $12,000 needed through additional sales of “This Soon Shall Pass” with $400 of each piece sold going to Unity Shoppe.

The artwork is an open edition meaning they will produce as many as are sold.

Charles’s definitive three-dimensional style of art was originally inspired from his childhood love for pop up books and over the years he has learned to finetune the process, incorporating better materials and processes. Today, his artworks are produced in a warehouse located in New Rochelle, New York, in conjunction with about 60 artists who help with the detailed process. Each piece begins with an original illustration by Charles. The base print of the finished image is then silk screened on a museum quality board with three additional copies of the print being produced on a thinner acid-free paper. Images

from the thinner sheets are carefully cut out in triplicate using an X-Acto knife with each layer being glued on top of one another, incorporating silicon in between for depth. These layers are built on top of the base print and the artwork is then embellished with glitter and Swarovski diamonds to give each piece that final shimmer.

In “This Soon Shall Pass,” Charles paints a colorful image of the world after the quarantine. Cityscapes and iconic structures line the horizon while butterflies, balloons, and hearts dot the sky. The line, “This soon shall

pass and then we can all kiss, hug, celebrate, and travel again” adorns a rainbow, celebrating a time when we will no longer be faced with these challenges. The featured cities span the world and evokes the feelings of a cheerful, connected world – an image we can all use these days.

The artwork and ordering information can be found at the website fazzi no.com/unity. The gallery is currently closed for drop-in visitors however they are still available seven days a week by calling the gallery at 805-7309109.

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Offshore Oil Well Clean Up! A Post-Election Day Gift

Construction crews are carrying out important cleanup work on two of Summerland’s leaky, abandoned oil wells located just offshore

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Leaks from oil wells have resulted in pollution just offshore Summerland’s coast

onstruction crews are carrying out important cleanup work on two of Summerland’s leaky, abandoned oil wells located just offshore. The work should be completed by November 15, but in the meantime a portion of Lookout Park’s parking lot and the beach area are temporarily being used.

Thanks to Heal the Ocean and former longtime Summerlandian and Heal the Ocean executive director Hillary Hauser for helping to clear the way for

the California State Lands Commission to reseal the NorthStar and Treadwell wells.

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LOCAL EATERIES OFFER DINE-IN, TO-GO THANKSGIVING MEALS

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ome of Santa Barbara’s best flavors are savored during the holiday season: citrus, persimmons, sage, fennel, spicy pecans, Mexican chocolate, honey, fresh and dried chili peppers and, of course, seafood.

Chefs are relying on the state’s bounty as a springboard for Thanksgiving, the year’s most important dinner in these parts, when coastal ranch, Mediterranean and Mexican foods merge easily and deliciously.

This year, local restaurants are offering to-go and limited dine-in/outdoor Thanksgiving menus with Santa Barbara flair, from roasted, brined turkey and persimmon-glazed quail to herbed branzino Local chefs are relying on the state’s bounty as a and corn sage stuffing. Other traditional springboard for their Thanksgiving menus dishes can be ordered in full meal packs and á la carte on Thanksgiving Day. Restaurateurs and local chefs – Dario Furlati of Ca’Dario, Peter McNee of Convivo, Massimo Falsini of Rosewood Miramar, Carlos Ramirez of Belmond El Encanto, and San Ysidro Ranch’s Matt Johnson – create unique recipes using California ingredients and flavors for inspiration.

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by Steven Libowitz

Steppen’ Out on His Own

John Kay returns to solo show for the Lobero

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on’t tune in to Lobero Theatre’s latest Live from the Lobero pay-per-view performance by Steppenwolf’s John Kay to hear “Born to Be Wild” or “Magic Carpet Ride.”

In fact, don’t expect to hear any Steppenwolf songs at all.

That’s because Kay, who has lived in Montecito for the last eight years, has recently not only eschewed the classic rock band’s hits in favor of returning to performing as a solo singer-songwriter, he actually put Steppenwolf on the shelf permanently in 2018 following the band’s 50th anniversary shows.

“Half a century since our first album came out felt like it was long enough,” Kay explained over the phone recently. “Besides, the John Kay performs for the Lobero’s latest pay-per-view thought of us continuing to per- performance form when we’re all getting pretty long in the tooth was very appealing. I never wanted to reach the point where people are thinking, those guys have seen better days. We were still delivering the goods musically, but the idea of becoming potentially a caricature of yourself was not appealing. I felt lucky enough that we were supported by our fan base around the world that enabled us to continue for all those years. It was time to put it to bed.”

Even if he were willing to revisit “Born to Be Wild” as an acoustic song for the Lobero show, or, even more of stretch, the psychedelic jam session that formed the middle part of “Magic Carpet Ride,” Kay said it would be an absurd undertaking.

“Would you really want to hear (Beethoven’s) ‘Ode to Joy’ played through a kazoo?” he said. “Certain arrangements really go hand in glove with the song, so it wouldn’t work on acoustic guitar. There’s another thing about ‘Born to Be Wild’ that really excuses me from ever playing it again: I did not play on that record. I did not play that raunchy guitar part. I don’t even know what key it’s in. I just sang it.

“And the truth is that I have absolutely no feeling of being obligated to dip into that material. I’m more interested now in performing some of the songs that I have not had the pleasure of playing live in quite some time, and some newer ones that I’ve written.”

Fortunately, Kay has been working on his solo shows over the last few years at spots all over town, from playing sets at SOhO more than four years ago to honing “John Kay: From Rock Star to Wildlife Advocate” – his multimedia presentation of his journey from blues-based rock icon to co-running with his wife, Jutta Maue, the Maue Kay Foundation, which supports other environmentally oriented charities – at the Sacred Space in Summerland in 2018 before bringing it to the Lobero later that year.

Kay said the program he performed for the Lobero taping was a collection of songs that date all the way back to beginning as a folk singer who came down to the States from Canada via his native Germany in the early 1960s, including blues numbers that still capture his heart, as well as songs from the solo albums he recorded during the Steppenwolf era. Plus a few tales from his half century in the biz.

“After all this time in this music world with traveling and everything else, I have a few short little stories and anecdotes to share with people,” Kay said.

“That makes (the show) more of a continuous experience rather than almost like a live jukebox. People seemed to enjoy what I had to offer when I toured last year that way. So that’s another reason why I don’t really feel any desire to lean on the Steppenwolf material.”

The good news is that you won’t have to get your motor running or head out on the highway – or even cruise down Hot Springs Road – to see the solo show, because, of course, it’s a virtual concert caused by the COVID pandemic, a video pre-recorded at the historic theater to benefit the venue as it tries to

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survive the extended closure.

“The Lobero is one of those special places that is not only beautiful and very historic, with great acoustics, but also has wonderful people who run it who take a lot of care for the place,” Kay said in an interview last week, adding that he and Jutta have attended lots of shows at the theater on recommendation of newfound Santa Barbara friend Hale Milgrim, the former Capitol Records president. “He steered us to performances by artists I was unfamiliar with, but we’d go just based on his suggestion, and it was always really engaging music.

The Lobero was like a large clubhouse where you saw the same people, and socializing was a part of the event. It would be a shame to lose this place that has become so important to the community... So we’re hoping my streaming performance will help a little bit to tide them over until they can open to the public again.”

Maybe, he said, people will even be moved enough to donate more than the $15 fee to view the concert that launches on Friday, November 13, and remains available for streaming for 72 hours. Perhaps when they hear “Enough For Today,” a two-year-old song that he wrote about the power of music, which, he said, he first experienced as a young boy when his mother took him to hear an all-male Russian choir called the Don Cossacks.

“I don’t speak Russian, but their deep voices and ancient melodies moved me to tears. That’s when I began to understand the potential and power of music,” he recalled. “I felt it again just recently when I saw people in New York and in Europe going out on their balconies around sunset to sing or lean out their windows and play an instrument for the express purpose of lifting the spirits of their neighbors during the pandemic. Everyone in the neighborhood seemed to sing along and I thought, wow, talk about the power of music.”

House Calls: No Other than Giddens

It’s doubtful we’ll hear Blu Cantrell’s “Hit ‘Em Up Style,” which Rhiannon Giddens covered so memorably a decade ago as part of a genre-busting, talent-bursting display by her then-band The Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Grammy Award-winning outfit that blended acoustic instruments with a decidedly modern approach.

Indeed, Giddens, an operatically trained singer, songwriter, fiddler and banjo player, has continued to innovate exponentially filtering her roots through her own fierce perspective throughout her solo career, including capturing a MacArthur Genius Grant Award Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi perform a in 2017, and releasing Songs of Our special matinee concert from Giddens’ home in Ireland Native Daughters with sister sing- as part of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ series House Calls and Race to Justice er-songwriters who address historical issues that have shaped the identity of Black women, including slavery, racism and sexism. The album was nominated for a Grammy last year.

Her latest album, There Is No Other, also released in 2019, is a collaboration with Italian multi-instrumentalist jazz musician Francesco Turrisi that was meant to “trace the overlooked movement of sounds from Africa and the Arabic world and their influence on European and American music” as well as “illuminate the universality of music and the commonality of the human experience.” The duo are next up in UCSB Arts & Lectures’ series House Calls and Race to Justice as they perform a special matinee concert from Giddens’ home in Ireland, followed by a Q&A session. Even given the static limitations of the streaming format, this is one show not to be missed, both musically and for capturing a moment in time. Visit https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu for $10 tickets to the event that begins at 11 am on Sunday, November 15, and stays available for 48 hours.

POS-itive Vibrations

Each fall for more than a decade, Pianos on State has placed up to a dozen upright pianos that have been painted and decorated by local artists at various corners of lower State Street and environs for performances and impromptu playing by anyone who happened by. The pandemic obviously put the kibosh on that tradition for this year, but POS decided instead to consider other possibilities. So the keyboards will instead be the instruments for a vir-

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Summerland (Continued from page 12) placing pipe pile over the Treadwell wellhead and then drive the pipe into the ocean floor and right up to impermeable bedrock to encapsulate the wellhead.

Each pipe pile will be cleaned out and pumped full of cement, which will act as a barrier to migration of hydrocarbons. The final step will be the welding of a steel plate on the top of the pipe pile, a secondary barrier to hydrocarbon migration. The jackup crew will then move closer to the beach, to NorthStar, 130 feet offshore, and repeat the process to cap that well.

Heal the Ocean advisory board member Harry Rabin, the founder of On the Wave Productions, has been working closely with InterAct engineers Mike Giuliani and Eric Kroh to map out the operation, with Harry’s topside and underwater pictures helping to locate the well infrastructure beneath the Summerland sand. Rabin noted early on that the prep work was going so quickly, that it’s very possible the project can include the capping of a third leaking well – Duquesne, also near the beach.

“Keeping our fingers crossed!’ Hauser said.

Virtual Vacation to Honduras

We could all use a virtual vacation. Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary board member Leslie Rudd reached out to me enthusiastically via email to get the word out about the parrot haven and rescue center in Summerland whose director of the Sanctuary is longtime Montecito resident Jamie McLeod. Birds with chronic conditions remain at the Sanctuary for the span of their lives – and most parrot species live a very long life, as much as 80 years. That requires food and care.

Losing both daily visitors and the ability to put on programs and events, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sanctuary has suffered a monetary crunch similar to other nonprofits. A November fundraiser via Zoom is on the books.

The free, “virtual vacation” to Macaw Mountain in Honduras will take place on Sunday afternoon, November 22, at 2 pm.

Meanwhile, back at the Sanctuary, a “Red Tier” reopening for docent-led tours and walk-ins with all the safety and health measures accounted for is being instituted. Check with the sanctuary for more information. You can also meet some of the sanctuary “residents” and learn their stories, including a 55-year-old black palm cockatoo named Buddha that once belonged to the sister of the Shah of Iran who lived in Montecito.

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Birds with chronic conditions remain at the Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary for the span of their lives – and most parrot species live a very long life, as much as 80 years

“SBBS is a hidden gem that needs greater community awareness, especially during this time of the pandemic,” Rudd wrote. “The Sanctuary is a haven, rescue, and refuge for captive/companion parrot species. Birds come for two reasons: 1) a bird outlives its loving, caring owner; 2) a bird becomes a behavioral nuisance, often caused by owners who simply can’t meet its high demands, and may inflict unhealthy and dangerous damage to the owner, the home, as well as itself.”

For information, to sign up for the newsletter and receive updates, as well as for the “Virtual Vacation” Zoom link to the Honduras program led by Julie McLeod (a second one is planned to Belize at a later date) go to www.sbbird. org or call 805-969-1944.

Rita’s Baacccckkkk

Longtime Summerland and Santa Claus Lane retailer Rita Villa of Bonita has closed her Santa Claus Lane shop and is getting ready to open her latest boutique, “Hacienda,” by Bonita Lifestyle, at 2272 Lillie Avenue. The shop will be open by appointment and to the public. More details to come soon, as the shopkeeper was still setting up at the time of this writing. Welcome back to Summerland, Rita!

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Congratulations to all the winners and gracious losers for hard-fought battles in our beautiful, complex democracy: those that prevailed and those who lost in our towns, our County, the Golden State, and across the land! A new day’s a coming – I can see the light!

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.” – Eckhart Tolle

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Editorial (Continued from page 5) Editorial The fact is, most of us are not out there on the extreme edges, but somewhere in the middle, desperate to move toward a process that is fair and just and allows for each of us to “pursue happines.” The one thing we all have in common is we want what’s best for our families, ourselves and our country.

We just don’t all agree on what that means.

For those who don’t share my relief about the apparent outcome of this election, you’re probably thinking: it’s easy for you to say ‘let’s come together’ now that your guy won. Fair enough. But at some point, we must put a stop to the wrecking ball political pendulum swings that have come to characterize and indeed paralyze our nation’s political process. This zero-sum, winner-take-all mentality that has replaced any willingness to compromise..

Whatever you think of Joe Biden, he served in the U.S. Senate for 38 years and has many friends on both sides of the aisle. The Senate bill that kept America from falling off the “fiscal cliff” just seven short years ago was the Biden-McConnell Tax Bill. On December 7, 2016 McConnell spoke to Biden on the Senate floor as the latter was serving his final week as Vice President.

“You’ve been a real friend, you’ve been a trusted partner, and it’s been an honor to serve with you. We’re all going to miss you,” McConnell said publicly to Biden. Mitch McConnell attended Beau Biden’s funer-al. In fact, in researching this history of their relationship I came across a tribute on CSpan given from the Senate floor by McConnell to then Vice President Biden during the Senate’s passage of the 21st Century Cures Act which McConnell said was as “a testament to Biden’s legacy and his efforts to help Americans’ struggle with cancer.” McConnell then announced that they would be renaming the cancer initiatives in that bill after Joe’s late son, Beau Biden. As I watched that moment, it unexpectedly made me cry as I wondered, what the hell happened to this country?

I have to believe that the deep relationships Biden forged over those decades in the Senate will lead to an environment where compromise will be possible. People will not have to live in fear of being in Biden’s crosshairs. This President’s political opponents will not be seen as enemies and will feel free to fight for what they believe in. And for that, and the compromise it is likely to engender, we will all be better off.

My Republican friends, some of the Journal’s investors, and half of the

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people with whom I come into contact every day, don’t share many of my political views. And that is one of the many reasons I love living here. I don’t want to live in a constant echo chamber. I have enough of that in my own head.

I believe that every time we are willing to listen with an open mind to what someone with a differing perspective has to say, we are honoring the idea of compromise. I didn’t plan to build a media company or run our community’s newspaper with a Libertarian partner. But I chose to do so and there is no doubt that I am better for it. My partner Tim Buckley and I often disagree on matters political. Our discussions are lively and sometimes heated. But I know we learn from each other. I know he makes me better. I believe we make each other and the final product better. And I strongly believe that it is through compromise that we have made some of our best and wisest decisions.

The fact is, most of us are not out there on the extreme edges, but somewhere in the middle, desperate to move toward a process that is fair and just and allows for each of us to pursue a good life.

The same is true for our community. During some of our most trying times, whether it be the debris flow or the pandemic, Montecito residents have linked arms and come together, not as Democrats, not as Republicans, but as human beings committed to supporting our neighbors and our village more than we disagree with one another. They say that the secret to successful co-parenting during dark moments in a marriage, is to love your children more than you (momentarily) dislike each other. Couldn’t the same thing be true for this country? When we get entrenched against our political opponents, I think it behooves us to love something outside of ourselves more than we dislike or disagree with each other. And that something is what we call the great American Experiment.

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Montecito on the Move

by Sharon Byrne, Executive Director, Montecito Association

Transportation, the 101, and Bears, Oh My! “Carlos the Bear” has ranged from the San Carlos Ranch and Romero Canyon area through Ennisbrook trail down to Jameson

A schematic of the Highway 101 improvements through Montecito

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he Montecito Association Transportation Committee deals with all things roads, bike paths, and pedestrian walkways in Montecito. At our October meeting, we got an update on the Highway 101 project, including the reasons why the backup was so bad when the Sheffield segment started. The state

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Construction Team at the Montecito Association. We’ve also had multiple presentations on the 101 at our board meetings, which is why you should come!

The Montecito segment is not funded yet, but the California Transportation Commission is expected to decide and announce funding by December 2nd.

At this same meeting, our rock star sheriff, Lt. Butch Arnoldi, presented on a possible ordinance to install permanent signage on persistent trouble spots: Hot Springs trailhead, Riven Rock, and Humphrey Road. We support this effort, as the temporary signage keeps getting torn down or stacked on the side of the road, making enforcement impossible, though not for lack of trying on the sheriff’s and CHP’s parts. We’ve seen new behaviors from visitors during the pandemic, and they’ve not always been kind and respectful to our community, so signage may be the fastest route to education and curbing some of these behaviors, while protecting the community. As this ordinance progresses to the County Board of Supervisors, we’ll keep you posted.

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“What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now.” – Eckhart Tolle

Smarting the Average Bear

We learned that “Carlos the Bear,” as he’s been nicknamed by locals, has ranged from the San Carlos Ranch and Romero Canyon area through Ennisbrook trail down to Jameson.

He’s looking for food, during hyperphagia, when bears try to put on weight for the winter. This behavior is expected to calm with cooler weather as bears in Southern California go into torpor, or dormant, state for the winter. The key is to not be attractive as a food source. We also learned there is another bear family possibly living close to the Toro Canyon park. Great neighbors spoke at the Townhall, some to report successes they’d had at keeping the bear away from their livestock and property.

Bear-proofing tips CA Fish and Wildlife offered:

1. Invest in bear-proof trashcans, or store trash cans in your garage and take it out the morning of pickup.

We’ve got a call in to Marborg on this.

2. Install an electrified fence around livestock enclosures. This seems to work really well.

3. Strip fruit trees (particularly avocado – a bear favorite) as often as possible. We’ve got contacts with food-harvesting organizations that will do it for you, and distribute the fruit to those in need in our community. Bears don’t like citrus, though.

4. If your Ring camera reveals bear visits close to your house, then perhaps invest in a Bear Unwelcome mat.

This delivers a low-charge shock that repels bears.

Bears are looking for easy food to stock up on calories. The best way to avoid bear visits is to not be a viable food source, a fairly easy thing to accomplish.

5G Hazards

We’re going to hear about the hazards of 5G, and how it could impact our efforts to underground our utilities at our next Land Use Committee meeting on December 1 at 4 pm. You’re welcome to come!

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Perspectives

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

Rinaldo S. Brutoco is the Founding President and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital.

He’s a serial entrepreneur, executive, author, radio host, and futurist who’s published on the role of business in relation to pressing moral, environmental, and social concerns for over 35 years

Business Leadership and the Paris Accords

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ovember 4 was an incredibly important day. Not just because a Joe Biden election victory was so uncertain and the tension in the air was thick enough to cut with a knife, but also because it was the day the USA formally ended its participation in the Paris Climate Accords. This marked the end of the mandatory one-year waiting period that President Donald Trump triggered last year. President-Elect Biden has already declared his commitment to rejoin the Paris Accords on Inauguration Day, so why am I writing about them? Two words: Climate change.

Make no mistake about it: rejoining the Paris Accords is an incredibly important symbolic and substantive development. No doubt it will help re-align U.S. government policy decisions with every other major political institution in the world. The Accords were meant to be a beginning, not an end. A small step in an attempt to slow, perhaps reverse, humanity’s slide beyond the 1.5 to 2.0-degree Celsius temperature rise. The real work lies beyond a consensus view that something must be done. There is absolutely no believable path towards achieving that slowing for the foreseeable future, let alone accomplishing a meaningful reduction in atmospheric heating. That can only occur if a much larger force than nation state politics can be brought to bear. Well, there is only one force more powerful than nation states and that is international business.

Fortunately, the international business community is already fully committed to stopping climate change.

Many people are not aware that it was originally major international business players who promoted the Paris Accords. People like Paul Polman, then CEO of Unilever, actively worked the diplomatic corridors with a host of other senior executives from many countries. Why did they do it? Simple: they knew that climate change is incredibly bad for business. You can’t sell much of anything in the midst of a raging West Coast forest fire, nor make big business profits when the entire Gulf Coast is constantly cleaning up after another hurricane, and the Midwest is under flood waters. No, human civilization cannot possibly prosper in the face of a rapidly declining environment. Worse than that, as the Pentagon, virtually all major Western nations, and all major corporations realize, the scientists are correct when they say we have only nine years to turn this around.

Frankly, I think that estimate is woefully optimistic.

Where do we stand right now? There is good news and bad news. Remember, most thoughtful observers and scientists believe that any CO2 count greater than 350 parts per million (ppm) is not sustainable for human civilization over the long haul. Also remember the more CO2, the hotter the atmosphere, which in turns heats the oceans, which in turn raises greenhouse gas concentrations beyond a survivable level as massive releases of methane from permafrost and the ocean floors create more heat than CO2 at present. The World Business Academy has been studying climate change for 15 years and has published extensively on the subject, including a recent white paper entitled “The Methane Accelerator,” describing in precise detail how deadly serious the glob-

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Thankful Thursdays

Who makes you laugh and feel at peace?

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esearch has shown that gratitude promotes new relationships, improves mental and physical health, and boosts self-esteem. Although many of us think about what we are grateful for around the holidays, all too often we let this practice slip during the rest of the year. This is why The Optimist Daily is collaborating with Lost Art of Love Letters and Santa Barbara Response Network to launch Thankful Thursdays.

Each Thursday, we will share a gratitude prompt from Lost Art of Love Letters to help you dive deeper into who and what you are grateful for. Lost Art of Love Letters, started by artist Sondra Weiss, encourages everyone to practice creative letter writing on a wide variety of topics from mental wellness, social justice, and environmental protection to gratitude and self-love.

Love letters from her project have made their way to museums, galleries, aquariums, and even the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations where environmental letters written by global youth were read to world leaders.

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al situation is.

Here’s some “good” news; although we’ve peaked as high as 418 ppm this year and are hovering around the very high number of 415 at present, carbon emissions slowed in 2020. The “bad” news is that the only reason atmospheric CO2 isn’t exploding into higher concentrations is that the global economy has gone into recession from the COVID-19 pandemic. Once the economy starts to pick up as COVID begins to be contained, we will simultaneously experience a commensurate increase of CO2.

The business community knows that all of our major global economic systems will collapse as CO2 concentrations rise. It’s not a political issue, it’s an economic one. It’s the reason business leaders are predominantly in the camp of those who believe we must reverse climate change. Apart from our direct experiences of climate change’s devastation here in the USA, the effects of it are even more destabilizing in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Not to mention the incredible ecosystem destruction that is occurring every minute in the Arctic and Antarctic. Taken together, the trajectory we are on now is an accelerating “train” of destruction that is racing pell-mell towards the end of human civilization.

Ask yourself how successful business will be, any business, when the fires burn more than four million acres per year in one western state alone (that’s the California total for 2020 and the season isn’t over yet), and when the flood waters encroach on 25 percent of Bangladesh land area (as it did this year), or the African deserts grow by 10-15 percent as they have for several years now. As Thomas L. Freidman rightly pointed out, the Arab Spring and resulting decade of unrest since then really started over water scarcity due to climate change.

The millions of refugees who have destabilized Europe are mostly fleeing that encroaching desert and the warlords taking advantage of the situation.

Business does not prosper in such conditions. Business, like society, withers in such conditions. Individual companies and industries are rapidly adapting to the changing climate even as they innovate ways to avoid the worst climate effects – for now.

The question is, can international business stimulate enough change amongst its own membership, and enough political pressure on elected officials, to slow and ultimately stop climate change? We just don’t know. Business knows what to do and is definitely motivated to lead the charge to solve this global dilemma. Will it be enough or “too little too late”? Only time will tell. In future columns, I’ll provide concrete examples of the specific ways individual companies are addressing this crisis. And, in the meantime, for those interested in what business has already done, we urge you to go to the JUST Capital website and see the rankings of the 1,000 largest public corporations in the USA to learn which ones are leading, and how. You’ll be glad you did.

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Purely Political

by James Buckley

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The French Have it Right

y wife was born in France, came to the U.S. in the early 1960s with her family, and remained strictly a French citizen with a green card until the mid-1980s, when U.S. law requiring that U.S. citizens have only one loyalty was altered to allow for dual citizenship. She is now a proud nationalized U.S. citizen.

Because my wife is and remains a French national, our children and grandchildren are also French and American. I am, however, strictly American though, curiously, far more of a Francophile than my wife.

I love France for many reasons, not the least of which is that my wife is French and we spent many glorious weeks in France during the early part of our relationship. Before that, my first international flight on Icelandic Airways brought me to Paris via New York to Luxembourg and a long latenight bus ride through the French countryside to the City of Light. The bus driver was a fan of Edith Piaf, whose nasally songs resonated on his loudspeaker all the way to Paris. I was in love before I ever stepped on Boulevard St. Michel, bought my first crepe au Grand Marnier, or tasted a hot dog with fiery mustard in a baguette.

But, the French’s insistence upon staying true to their national motto of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité is what really draws me to the country. France’s continued ardent dedication to its national motto easily outshines this country’s fading fealty to the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Free Speech, the Free Practice of Religion, the Right to Peacefully Assemble, and the Right to Bear Arms are all under assault in the U.S. and only meekly defended if at all.

For example: The response by the French public and their president to the recent killing of 47-year-old French high-school teacher Samuel Paty is a case in point.

Mr. Paty displayed some of the cartoon drawings of Islam’s prophet Mohammed, originally printed in a Danish newspaper and reprinted in

a satirical Paris weekly called Charlie Hebdo, during a civic education class.

The Muslim religion strictly forbids any representation of Muhammed and those cartoonish drawings are considered particularly blasphemous. Mr. Paty paid with his life, murdered on a public street in Paris by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee, who then beheaded the unfortunate teacher.

The trial of the Muslim terrorists who shot up the Charlie Hebdo offices five years previous, killing 17 people including 11 writers, cartoonists, and editors of the publication, was taking place at the time of the class, so tensions were high. Mr. Paty was using the drawings (that Charlie Hebdo had reproduced that week to honor the memory of the victims of that terrible event) to illustrate why Muslim fanatics did what they did and why it was wrong for them to have done so. He stressed that France’s tradition of the open dissemination of ideas had to take precedence over any religion.

Thoughtfully, Mr. Paty suggested that any Muslim in his class who may be offended could exit the classroom with his permission before he took out the drawings for the students to examine for themselves. Nevertheless, a 13-year-old Muslim student from the class who didn’t excuse herself told her father about the session, and her father posted an angry video denouncing the teacher, demanding he be reprimanded.

The 18-year-old who killed Mr. Paty followed up the murder with his own post, proudly taking credit for the act, showing the bloodied headless man on the ground, and bragging about his deed.

Police tracked down and killed the young man during a confrontation.

President Emmanuel Macron of France attended Mr. Paty’s funeral, during which French military in fulldress uniform carried the teacher’s casket. “He was killed,” the President said, “because Islamists want our future… and,” he boldly proclaimed, “they will never have it.” Immediately

afterwards, Mr. Macron lauded the teacher, giving him France’s highest award: the Legion d’Honneur. Mr. Paty was also named a Commander of Academic Palms, another high honor.

After the memorial, thousands gathered in a public square in support of the dead high-school teacher, many in the throng bearing signs reading “Je Suis Prof” (“I am a teacher”), “I Am Samuel,” and “No To Barbarism.”

President Macron went on Snapchat to deliver another homily: “Being French is not just about living in France,” he intoned. “It’s also about rights and duties.”

To send the message home that such killings will not, cannot, be tolerated, students throughout France, from kindergarten through high school, were greeted by a new curriculum item on the very first day back from summer vacation. All – even kindergarteners – observed a minute of silence for Mr. Paty, before being given a lecture about the importance of freedom of

speech. Younger students were spared many details of the killing, but discussion became more graphic for students in the higher levels. President Macron went on Snapchat to deliver another homily: “Being French is not just about living in France,” he intoned.

“It’s also about rights and duties.”

Compare that response to what regularly goes on in U.S. schools, colleges, and universities. Administrators at all educational levels have introduced “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” for any students that may take offense with what a teacher or another student does or says in a classroom and even off campus. “Micro-aggressions” are “revealed” and condemned, speech codes are introduced bearing proscriptions against “hate speech,” advising that much that once passed as protected Free Speech is now construed as harmful or hurtful to “the most vulnerable” and “marginalized,” making them feel “unsafe”; for the most part such speech, especially on campus, is currently forbidden and punished.

President Macron’s solid resistance against censuring Mr. Paty’s classroom activities, and his forceful defense both of freedom of speech and France’s culture of tolerance, is a lesson our own leaders, teachers, school administrators, and politicians could do well to adopt.

Vive la France!

•MJ

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Monte ito Miscellany

by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 13 years ago.

Stuart Whitman’s Montecito Ranch Up for $62 Million

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scenic Montecito ranch owned by the late Oscar-nominated actor Stuart Whitman is up for grabs for $62 million, one of our rarefied enclave’s most expensive properties.

Stuart, well-known for cowboy roles in films with John Wayne, owned the 13-acre estate in the Santa Ynez Mountains until his death in March at the age of 92.

He sold another property, just a tiara’s toss or two from the San Ysidro Ranch, two years ago to local philanthropist Sara Miller McCune.

The hacienda-style compound has three structures with a total of four bedrooms, and three and a half baths, a swimming pool, tennis court and sweeping ocean, mountain and

island views.

It is reached by a 200-foot driveway and covered patios line the backside of the home and walking paths wander through the palmThe late actor Stuart topped grounds.

Whitman’s 13-acre Stuart, whom I Montecito estate has would often drink hit the market for $62 coffee with at Pierre million Lafond, was known for his acting in The Comancheros, Night of the Lepus, and the Western series Cimarron Strip.

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is currently dealing with the aftermath of super typhoon Goni, which made landfall in the Philippines.

Known locally as Rolly, the typhoon Kerri Murray, is the latest in the president of a series of vio- ShelterBox, which lent storms to rip is currently dealing through the coun- with the aftermath of try with 140-mile- super typhoon Goni in the Philippines per-hour winds and torrential rainfall. It became the most powerful storm to hit the national since the typhoon Haiyan seven years ago.

Hundreds of thousands of people have evacuated their homes and the first town hit by Goni is said to have lost 90 percent of its homes.

Tropical storm Astani, known locally as Siony, is also approaching the region, which will cause more massive destruction.

To make matters worse, the Philippines is experiencing the second worst COVID-19 outbreak in Southeast Asia. Families now have the double threat of having nowhere to live except potentially overcrowded evacuation centers, while trying to protect themselves from the deadly virus.

“ShelterBox is uniquely positioned to respond to the disaster,” says president Kerri Murray. “To curb the spread of COVID-19, the Filipino government imposed a complete ban on the importation of aid supplies.

“ShelterBox has responded to disasters in the Philippines 27 times, more frequently than any other country in the organization’s history. Because of this, ShelterBox already had pre-positioned aid in the country. Operations have a warehouse in Cebu, in the nation’s center, stocked with emergency shelter materials and non-food items, such as water containers and solar lights.”

Check out the ShelterBox website, shelterbox.org, if you care to help.

The Spy Who Squished Me

Prolific local author Philip Myers, 68, has published his latest book, Squished: Jackie Kennedy, Espionage, Murder and Me. The revelatory tome combines facts Myers gleaned from working with former First Lady Jackie Kennedy, whom he got to know through his work with the Santa Barbara Committee on Foreign Relations. Myers is a Stanford University Phi Beta Kappa graduate who has made 58 trips to Russia over 25 years.

“It assumes Jackie took a CIA job actually offered to her in 1951 and kept it,” says Philip about the book from his home in Palm Springs. “The marriage to JFK is arranged by the

“You create a good future by creating a good present.” – Eckhart Tolle

CIA unknown to him, but known to his father, Joe. “She remained an agent all her life, collaborated with the Russian spy of Squished, who Philip Myers’s latest, was murdered in Squished: Jackie a staged auto acci- Kennedy, Espionage, dent in France.”

Murder and Me, Philip, who has combines irresistible written 14 books, plot lines like the Kennedys, the Cold started work on his War, and the CIA book in 1992.

“Jackie and I collaborated on the research for two and a half years.

When she died in 1994, work largely halted, but bit by bit I gathered more information. It really took off again in 2006 when a book on Cold War espionage, The Main Enemy, appeared and its information dovetailed with him, allowing me to identify tentatively a Russian mole in the U.S. government who had been involved in the murder.”

A work worthy of Ian Fleming.

Staying in the ‘Hood

Former U.S. ambassador to Austria Susan McCaw paid $9.5 million for the Erdman House, the first time the Lutah Maria Riggs house was listed in more than 50 years

Former U.S. ambassador to Austria Susan McCaw, ex-wife of cell phone billionaire Craig McCaw, has paid $9.5 million, a hefty $2 million over the asking price, for the Erdman House, designed in 1959 by noted architect Lutah Maria Riggs.

Nearly 9,000 square feet, on four eucalyptus and pine tree studded acres, the sublimely preserved midcentury modern boasts Douglas Fir hardwood floors and is situated on a private road near the Valley Club.

The main house has three bedrooms and five full bathrooms, and an additional poolhouse with an additional bedroom and bathroom. There is garaging for four cars and four additional carport spaces.

Susan, a philanthropist and former investment banker who holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, also paid $6 million for a Palm Beach, Florida mansion three months ago.

Last year she and her then husband sold their former Montecito getaway for $12.2 million to ex media titan Gary Newman, former co-CEO of Fox TV.

Forking for a Fixer Upper

After selling his Picacho Lane Oakview 20-room, 10,000-square-foot estate for $44.5 million last month, 12 – 19 November 2020

Rob Lowe has lost no time in splashing out the cash on two new properties, including a new $5.2-million-fixer upper in Montecito.

After buying a $3.75 million contemporary home in Beverly Hills, the 9-11: Lone Star actor’s new 4,275-squarefoot three-bedroom, four-bathroom pad built in 1929 on an acre, is just a short walk from Coast Village Road.

The real estate details suggest the single-story structure is a potential teardown or needs significant renovation.

There is also a two-car garage and an L-shaped swimming pool with views of the Pacific.

The new home in the Big Orange was built in 1950 in Beverly Park with 3,000 square feet of interiors in a contemporary style with five bedrooms and three bathrooms.

Up for Auction

An old New York friend, former model and socialite Barbara Allen de Kwiatkowski, who left us far too early, dying of natural causes aged 69 in June, is having her possessions sold

by Christie’s in Manhattan in a total of eight sales over the next few months.

Barbara, whom I first met when she was modeling for the Italian couturier Valentino, was the muse for my Upper Eastside neighbor, artist Andy Warhol, and hung out at The Factory,

his downtown studio.

Her first husband, Joseph, bought a share of Warhol’s magazine Interview and she then remarried Christie’s is aucPolish-born aircraft tioning the pricy broker and horse possessions of the breeder Henryk de late former model Kwiatkowski, 31 and socialite Barbara years her senior, Allen de Kwiatkowski (Photo courtesy: in 1986. They had Bob Colacello photo, a son, Nicholas, Vito Schnabel Gallery, before Henryk’s Christie’s) death in 2003.

Their myriad homes included Conyers Farm in Connecticut, Calumet Farm in Kentucky, Lyford Cay in the Bahamas, near the late actor Sean Connery, and 1 Beekman Place, near Manhattan’s East River.

Many of them were decorated by Parish-Hadley, the same firm Jackie Kennedy used to decorate the White House.

The extensive collection includes a 1973 Warhol silkscreen of Mao, and an extremely rare portrait sketch of Barbara.

Other items include furniture by Diego Giacometti, vases by Jean Dunand, and iconic jewelry by Verdura, Harry Winston, Belperron and JAR.

A New Lease on Life

Let’s Talk Turkey

The 7,351-square-foot Beverly Hills home owned

by Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis is listed for rent at $55,000 a month

Carpinteria twosome Ashton Kutcher, 42, and wife Mila Kunis, 37, have listed their 7,351-square-foot Beverly Hills home on half an acre for rent.

The property in Hidden Valley in the mountains above Coldwater Canyon is a guard-gated community with neighbors including singers Adele and Katy Perry, and actresses Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lawrence.

The estate, which has five bedrooms and five bathrooms, was first listed for sale in May for $13.99 million and there were non-takers, even after a price drop for $12.25 million.

The dynamic duo, who lives locally on Padaro Lane, near Oscar winner Kevin Costner and Star Wars mega director George Lucas, are leasing the L.A. property for a hefty $55,000 a month.

“It’s Like Banking With Friends”

As Thanksgiving looms large the Foodbank of Santa Barbara is looking for 4,000 fresh or frozen turkeys and chickens to provide healthy meals to families who cannot afford them.

Donations can be dropped off at the organization’s warehouse at 4554 Hollister Avenue from 8 am to 3 pm.

“We need small turkeys and chickens to ensure everyone in our county can have a wholesome holiday dinner,” says Paul Wilkins, chief operations officer. “With shortages expected for food banks across the country in the last quarter of the year, and when our community is facing rampant job losses and economic crisis, the need is higher than ever this year.”

The Foodbank provided food for more than 240,000 people in the county in the last year. Forty-one percent of those served are children, which amounts to more than 83,000 youngsters.

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Far Flung Travel

by Chuck Graham

The Wandering Pilgrim

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y early morning trail run up to Montanon Ridge on the southeast end of Santa Cruz Island was at a pace I wasn’t proud of.

Cold, wet fog swirled over the volcanic isle. My joints ached but loosened with each stride above Potato Harbor, then Coche Point, and finally ascending above Chinese Harbor. Stunning seascapes diverted any discomfort as my pace quickened on the lonely single track leading to one of the best views across the entire Channel Islands National Park.

It’s rare to see anyone on this 10-mile loop. The route was recently added as the Montanon Ridge Loop Trail to the Park Service map. For decades, the trail was considered only as a social trail, or an old sheep trail during the island ranching era, but finally turned game trail for endemic island foxes and island spotted skunks alike. I certainly wasn’t expecting to see a soul at first light on the most biodiverse isle in the National Park.

However, once I topped out on the narrow, nameless ridge that leads to Montanon Ridge, I was greeted by a binocular toting, pack-laden biologist.

“Have you seen any peregrine falcons while on your run this morning?” asked the smiling, yet keen, blonde-haired scientist.

“I have not,” I replied. “Not so far.”

We traded peregrine stories, the raptors that frequent nearby Scorpion Rock and feast on western gulls and their fuzzy chicks, and the peregrines that hover above the sheer, wave-battered cliffs of Potato Harbor. And then there’s the pair on East Anacapa Island that have become one of the webcam stars found on the website of the Channel Islands National Park.

“I left the Navy site at dawn,” she continued. “I’m doing a survey to determine their territories and recovery.”

I was easily intrigued. Peregrines had always been a favorite raptor of mine.

They are found on all continents except Antarctica, and they are without question the fastest flying bird in the world, reaching speeds during a dive that exceeds 200 miles per hour. Their recovery on the Channel Islands from DDT pesticides, was yet another successful example of natural balance returning to the northern chain.

“I’ll certainly keep an eye out,” I said. “But I usually hear them before I see one.”

She smiled and then continued her way toward breathtaking Potato Harbor, where I have seen peregrines in the past on foot but also from my kayak. As for me, I continued suffering my way toward Montanon Ridge.

They Rule the Skies

Kayaking toward Cavern Point between Scorpion Anchorage and Potato Harbor, the drama came without warning. A belted kingfisher was in serious distress. Not 25 feet off my bow, the lone kingfisher species in North America

had just been clipped midair by a peregrine falcon and landed awkwardly in the ocean. However, this was the kingfisher’s lucky day. A bird that size hit by a peregrine wouldn’t usually survive. At the very least the bird would be too injured to fly on, yet this resilient kingfisher not only shook off the saltwater, but also the assault. It launched out of the water and flew into a massive sea grotto with the peregrine in hot pursuit. Once safely inside the sea cave, the peregrine gave up.

On another kayaking trip, this one in early June out and around Scorpion Rock, two peregrines tag-teamed a western gull colony. The gull chicks were just days old and ripe for the taking. The first peregrine dove in and snatched one of the chicks but was instantly harassed by at least 10 western gull parents.

It forced the peregrine to drop its prize as the chick tumbled down a cliff facing the island as the gull parents chased the peregrine away.

Unbeknownst to the rest of the gulls, another peregrine lurked nearby on a lichen-cloaked cliff adjacent to Scorpion Rock. It pounced on the opportunity and swooped in to gather the bedraggled chick, carrying it off to one of the many weather-beaten caves honeycombed throughout the sheer cliffs on the north side of the isle.

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The Channel Islands National Park has several webcams for visitors to watch active wildlife from the comfort of their homes, citizen science in all its glory.

There’s the underwater cam in the Landing Cove on East Anacapa Island.

There’s the bald eagle cams out on the remote west end of Santa Cruz Island.

And there’s the peregrine cam above Cathedral Cove on East Anacapa Island.

During May 2018, that peregrine nest produced three fuzzy white peregrine chicks. Their parents have had this nest for a while now, strategically tucked away from the weather: wind, rain, and fog.

On one occasion, during that late spring, I was fortunate enough to accompany Institute for Wildlife Studies (IWS) biologists Peter Sharpe and Nathan Melling to East Anacapa. They were on a routine inspection of the nest (eyrie) to give checkups to the peregrine chicks and wipe down moisture that had built up on the lens of the webcam.

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When we arrived at the eyrie, we discovered only two chicks. Their dutiful parents watched us with keen eyes, and then like good parents should, they protected their fuzzy chicks. The peregrines repeatedly dive-bombed us, several times coming within a wisp of clipping my head, shoulder, and neck. It surely felt like 200 miles per hour. There wasn’t a whole lot of room to hunker down, the nest rises a couple hundred feet above Cathedral Cove, and with Sharpe and Melling sitting around the chicks, all I could do was stand hunched over, photograph the checkup and dodge the pissed off parents.

Sharpe and Melling attached tracking devices and drew a little blood from each chick. Within 20 minutes all was calm again around the eyrie. The parents watched us leave as we continued searching for more peregrines while hiking through throngs of nesting western gulls.

The rest of the afternoon was spent looking for other peregrines. We spotted another breeding pair on the south side of the island, as they swooped back and forth just west of the lighthouse. From the top of the marine terrace, none of us could spot an active nest, but there had to be one concealed in the sheer, pockmarked cliffs. Sure enough, back on the Vanguard, we motored around the iconic 40-foot tall archway to the south side of East Anacapa. Melling was standing on the bow, scanning with his binoculars.

“There it is,” he pointed three quarters of the way up the cliff. “There’s a peregrine chick sitting on the edge of its nest.”

Standing out like nothing else could, an older, bigger, fuzzier, white peregrine chick stood alone, teetering on the edge of its eyrie, its parents could still be seen riding the thermal updrafts that continually swirl around the narrowest islet in the chain.

Epilogue

But whatever became of that third chick from the nest above Cathedral Cove?

Sharpe and Melling returned to their office, put on their detective hats, and rewound the webcam tape. A brazen, adult western gull was the culprit. It had seized an opportunity like no other.

At the time of perpetration, it was obvious the peregrine parents were not around doting over their young. The tape showed the gull landing in the eyrie and quickly snatching one of the three chicks. A very bold move by a gull and turnabout being fair play.

•MJ

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Dear Montecito

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’ve written and rewritten this introduction so many times. I keep revising because I want to get it right. Most importantly, I want to get it right without any of the self-congratulatory nonsense that often accompanies social justice grandstanding.

I first met KiSea Katikka on my visit day to Crane Country Day School. A shared love of theatre meant that for the next five years, we spent a staggering number of hours together, working with different theatre companies and school programs. We continued to be friends because KiSea is thoughtful and funny and truly resourceful in a way most of my childhood friends never had to be. But all this was set to the backdrop of her personal life.

So when I asked her to write a letter for this column, I was hoping she might give us some insight about the “It took me a long time to realize that my relaunhealthy expectations under which tionship with my classmates would always be a function of what they expected from my life,” says our local schools operate.

KiSea Katikka of her time at Crane School As KiSea says in her letter, we were incredibly fortunate to receive the care and attention from the schools we attended. Equally, it is important to remember that expectations, even – or especially – optimistic ones, have the ability to harm.

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I lived in Montecito cumulatively for two years, and when I did, it was in an apartment behind Starbucks and the Vons parking lot on Coast Village Road.

Generally speaking, Crane treated me very well. The tailored education gave me leeway to tackle my dyslexia and although middle school students aren’t always a picture of acceptance, for the most part they were nice enough. Teachers worked with us on our level even when it meant going out of their way. What strikes me looking back is how the resources at our disposal were all but overlooked by the other students. Meanwhile, I felt very lucky to have access to unpoliced printers in every classroom, ready computer access throughout campus (with proper technical support), and a general abundance of supplies. Not to mention all the opportunities afforded to us from such a well-rounded education.

There were comments, sure. Sometimes other kids would ask why I had such an old phone or why I’d fix a rip in my shirt instead of just buying a new one.

These questions usually rolled off my back. In turn, I was included in conversations about home swimming pools, horses, lavish presents, parties, and trips (often taken for granted). It took me a long time to realize that my relationship with my classmates would always be a function of what they expected from my life. To them, it would have been unfathomable to mend clothing because you weren’t going out to buy something new or to park outside a closed Starbucks to use their Wi-Fi when the power goes out in your apartment. But this was, and is, a part of my reality.

Private schools in Santa Barbara are criticized for a lot of things – being too homogenous, being too wealthy, the usual. But I’ve never heard people talk about the noxious optimism that is inherent to the schools’ culture. We’re taught that anyone who reaches for success will be able to grab it. I was well into high school before I discovered that I didn’t have a college fund. Whatever money available for my education had been used on Crane. It didn’t deter me from graduating high school early. But it did break my expectations about applying to higher education. I’d never been prepared to apply for grants or scholarships.

We weren’t told to strive for college – it had been a foregone conclusion. While I am extremely grateful for everything I was taught there, I am still recovering from the world I was taught to expect back in middle school.

Now writing this, approaching 20 years old, I had thought I would be a least halfway through college by now. I haven’t yet had a chance to get where I’m going. As I sit here, writing this letter, I can’t help but think about college essays I’ve avoided since graduating. I had all but finished my applications. I’d even written a few good ones. But they were never sent out. I didn’t have the money or know what to do.

I’m still intent on applying to college, even in the midst of lockdown, even if I never go. (And I don’t know where the money is going to come from, so I’ll have to get back to you on that.) I’ve survived my unintentional gap year, or three, and attended all the community college classes I can squeeze in while working and getting on with life. This is the reality of my world.

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On The Record (Continued from page 6) street in Laguna looking at art,” Caldwell reasons. “They did twenty years ago, but not now. All these resort towns are not what they used to be. Aspen is still quality, so is Chelsea Art District in New York and Wentworth in Palm Beach, but places like Sausalito, Laguna, and La Jolla are getting tackier, so it’s tricky not to be caught in the wrong pond.”

Caldwell Snyder Gallery is one of the longest-running partnerships in the high-end American art gallery landscape (where, like law firms as one example, many galleries retain the names of their original collaborators despite having undergone various partnership iterations) and has so far opened galleries and shows everywhere from Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Miami, to Cologne, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo. “We are already an international presence,” Caldwell says. “But we’ve always wanted a window into the Southern California market, so to be able to expand during COVID, while a risk, was just an amazing thing, a spontaneous lark.”

Caldwell grew up in the Bay Area and attended pre-med at UC Berkeley.

With that resumé, while he may not have seemed destined for the world of art dealing, he notes that his mother, who was from Florence, Italy, ran a successful art gallery there after World War Two. After realizing that he wasn’t suited for a medical career, Caldwell realized that his mathematical and other quantitative skills he gained from his studies were perfectly suited for the art business.

“I learned a lot and all these bizarre things helped me because I can talk to people from all sorts of disciplines and can get through the logistics of pricing and the market,” Caldwell says, adding that he personally handles all the gallery’s tech needs. “Usually entrepreneurs have other people doing these things, but when you are a glorified mom and pop gallery you can’t do that.”

According to Caldwell, he and Snyder have been working like “turtles” ever since they first paired up four decades ago. “We’ve been taking very small calculated risks and steps, building our confidence, expanding our capital, and never betting the farm on anything,” he explains. “I think we are the oldest, longest standing partnership in the art business in the U.S. I don’t know any other partnership that long.

Caldwell says his passion is working directly with the hand-picked roster of artists he and Snyder have cultivated over the years. “I love working with live artists,” he says. “They are so fascinating and interested in what’s happening in the world and are politically engaged. just PM love going to Mexico, France, 874408_MontecitoJournal116_v3_110320.pdf 2 11/4/2020I 2:04:57

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That said, it isn’t exactly a hobby, Caldwell allows. “We have 65,000 clients in our database. I have a hard enough time keeping up with 55 artists. It’s definitely a full-time job.”

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Beekeepers Guild of Santa Barbara Announces Harvest Festival Award Winners

Earlier this year, the Journal highlighted the laudable efforts of our local beekeeping society, the Beekeepers Guild of Santa Barbara, to promote the health and welfare of our local pollinators. Aside from promoting best practices for maintaining beehives and providing resources for humane hive removal, the group also urges local residents to maintain bee-friendly gardens, i.e. those without heavy grass or other non-natural ground-covering (which are inhospitable to burrowing bumblebees) and which feature drought-resistant natural plants and flowers.

On November 8, the guild held its annual Harvest Festival and gave awards to contestants with the best bee-friendly gardens in the Santa Barbara area. And the winners all of whom hail from Santa Barbara, Montecito, or Carpinteria, are: Each Harvest Festival award winner received this Ann Dusenberry, Megan Burge, handsome garden placard Farrokh Ashtiani, Valerie Villa, Donna Grubisic, Richard C. Powell, Kate Eden, Michele Neilson, Anthony Augustin, Dave Sample, Peggy Reagan, Peter Schuyler, Gretchen Ingmanson and Virginia Holihan, Michelle Rainville, Bart Merrill, Laura Wyatt, and Trace Robinson.

Congratulations and keep up the great work; our furry, flying friends thank you!

101 Freeway Construction Update

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Sunday nights, 9 pm – 7 am, 1 lane: Sheffield Dr to N Padaro Ln & Santa Claus Ln to Casitas Pass Rd, on-ramp at Santa Claus Ln Monday – Friday days, 9 am – 3 pm, off-ramp at Casitas Pass Rd Monday – Thursday nights, 8 pm – 7 am, 1 lane: Sheffield Dr to N Padaro Ln & Santa Claus Ln to Casitas Pass Rd, off-ramp at Evans Ave, on-ramps at Wallace Ave and Santa Claus Ln On-ramp at Sheffield Dr, closed for the duration of the project (see detour map below, drivers can use the southbound on-ramps at Wallace Ave and N Padaro Ln) Off-ramp at Sheffield Dr, closed for up to 16 months (see detour map below) Closed at night intermittently from Nov. 1 - 14 Long-term closure starts Nov. 15 – During the closure of the southbound Highway 101 off-ramp at Sheffield Drive, flaggers will direct traffic at the San Ysidro Road and North Jameson Lane intersection during morning peak periods, 7:30 am – 9 am, Monday through Friday. New stop signs will be installed to create a 4-way, stop-controlled intersection at the southbound Highway 101 off-ramp and San Ysidro Road. Flaggers will assist in this area as needed. The combination of new stop signs and flaggers will enable a better flow of traffic during the detour that uses the southbound Highway 101 off-ramp at San Ysidro Road.

On- & off-ramps at Reynolds Ave, closed up to 16 weeks, use off-ramp at Linden Ave and on-ramp at Casitas Pass Rd Off-ramp at Casitas Pass Rd, closed up to 1.5 months, beginning Nov. 16th, use off-ramp at Linden Ave (see map below)

Evans Ave Undercrossing

Flaggers will direct traffic with alternating lane closures as needed during daytime work for the installation of temporary safety barriers, materials delivery, and equipment movement. The majority of work will occur behind safety barriers with lanes open on Evans Avenue under the freeway bridges.

Please note that consecutive ramps in the same direction will not be closed at the same time with the exception of the southbound on-ramps at Sheffield Dr and Wallace Ave.

Sheffield Drive Interchange

The southbound Highway 101 on-ramp will close for the duration of the project, and the southbound Highway 101 off-ramp will close for up to 16 months.

Crews will begin removing old pavement and excavating near the bridge.

Then crews will install shoring piles to support the construction zone. Once installed, crews will begin installing underground supports (piles) for portions of the new bridges in the median.

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Diaries

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y birthday happens to be in December (on the 9th), so my numerical age stays the same practically all through the calendar year. On my tenth birthday, in 1943, one of the presents I received was a “Five-year Diary,” with each small page representing the same calendar date on five succeeding years. So, each day had only four lines on which to record the events and thoughts of that day – and when you got to the end of the year, you had to go back and start all over again in the same little book.

I hadn’t asked for this gift, (and can’t even remember who gave it to me) but I did feel a certain obligation to make use of it. And so, on January 1, 1944, at age 10, I began a career as a diarist, which has actually lasted to the present day.

That first volume, however, which was supposed to last me through 1948, became a literary fiasco. I tried to keep within the lines, but so often had more to say that I was compelled to resort to various stratagems, such as using the margins, and sticking in extra pages. It was all very frustrating – and by the time I reached the end of the second year, I had had enough of that miserably inadequate book, which had in any case become very grubby, after two years of daily handling by a none too delicate youngster.

So, for the third year, I “graduated” to a page-a-day “desk diary” – but then the problem became having too much space for some days, and too little for others. The eventual answer was to start using blank volumes, in which I could insert my own dates, and write as little or as much for each day as I chose. It was all hand-written – and this antiquated system continued well on into the computer age, although I came more and more to regret that these records were not “searchable,” so there was no easy way I could look up anything in my own carefully-recorded past. The only answer was to start typing the entries directly into a computer – which I have now been doing since 2014. But there was something solid and secure about having the whole diary together in a set, which finally totaled 48 bound volumes, now all residing in a large file-drawer.

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even begun any attempt to type the entire diary. The task is simply too daunting – and one thing that would make it challenging for any hired stenographer – or even for any computerized scanning and reading machine – is that, at a certain point – about the time I discovered the very-fine-point “Rapidograph”-type pens – I began writing my entries in an almost microscopic hand, which makes it hard even for me to read them today. So the pages would probably first have to be enlarged, then machine-read, and then carefully edited and proofread.

But of course, all this isn’t likely to be worth anyone’s trouble. I am no Samuel Pepys, and this record of my life, while detailed, will hardly be considered of historical value.

But I know you won’t let me go now without at least a sample of what I have spent so much of my life writing privately (even my wife wasn’t allowed to read the later parts – although actually, I don’t think she was even interested).

We might as well start at the beginning – so here is my very first four-line entry, from January 1, 1944, when I was living with my parents and sister in Washington, D.C. (It was written in ink – but ballpoints had yet to appear, and for some reason, I had been surprisingly slow in mastering the art of writing in ordinary pen-and-ink, so the original looks very untidy): “Went to shul.

Went for a walk.

Heard radio.

F ound interesting

Daddy’s atlas.”

things

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Now I must explain that “shul” was our (Yiddish) word for synagogue. On weekdays I went there, to “Hebrew School,” after regular public school. This particular day was a Saturday, so I attended the regular morning Sabbath service, as I did every Saturday.

Strangely enough, I think I still remember that large atlas, and that the “interesting things” were not in the map section, but in the index, which contained towns with all sorts of strange names, and even our own – yes, there was actually a town of Brilliant in British Columbia!

•MJ

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November 2020 Muller Monthly Music Meta 2020 November “Picture Perfect” Solution Picture Perfect by Pete Muller http://www.pmxwords.com Pete Muller has enjoyed solving crosswords since he was a teenager. He started creating them in 2005 and published his first NY Times puzzle in 2006. While Pete is known for his innovative and tricky puzzles, he places primary importance on creating a fun experience for the solver.

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he November MMMM is billed as the hardest of the year, and this puzzle did not break that pattern, getting the fewest correct answers of the year by far. The clue for PEN [A thick colored one might be useful in cracking this puzzle’s meta] provides a hint to what’s necessary for a solution. You literally need to “Picture Perfect,” meaning color in the letters of the grid in the set [P, E, R, F, C, and T]. Doing this yields the picture to the right. It looks like a smile, but one side is a little more crooked than the other, so it’s more of a smirk.

Rocklouder2424 points out that the top of the smirk is (coincidentally!) “CCR.” OK, so we’re looking for an album cover from 2005 that looks like a smirk.

A few lucky solvers remembered the album in question, but most reported needing to look up something like “2005 album smirk.” Googling that phrase brings up this picture: which closely resembles the colored grid squares.

It’s the cover of the Bon Jovi album Have a Nice Day, and the answer to the November meta.

Congrats to all who made it through this month!

I was with my band in Michigan, and it had been rainy and gloomy for a couple of days. When the sun finally came out we took a little break to learn and record the song “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” from “Have a Nice Day” on an iPhone – enjoy! (https://pmxwords. com/nov20solution) •MJ

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 16 16)) tual concert series. The pianos will be transported to treasured performing arts venues – including the Lobero, the Santa Barbara Bowl, the Marjorie Luke Theatre, SOhO, and Center Stage Theater – where musicians will perform on them for streaming events.

The online concert series kickoff at 5 pm on Friday, November 13 with a 30-minute show livestreamed from the Santa Barbara Bowl on its Instagram @sbbowl, followed by Zach Gill and Opera Santa Barbara teaming up for a 5 pm concert Tuesday, November 17, at the Lobero. Brian Mann, Gil Rosas, Michael Mortilla, Sio Tepper, Jay Real, and Mendeleyev come together at the Marjorie Luke Theatre for a show that debuts at 9 am Wednesday morning, November 25. Dates and times for streams from Center Stage and SOhO have yet to be finalized.

R. Michael Gros announced last week he was retirCommunity members are also being ing as associate professor and co-chair of the SBCC invited to create videos of themselves Theatre Arts Department playing piano-based music from their own homes and include some words about what music means to them in these troubled times. Post the videos to the Pianos on State Facebook page and to your own social media accounts with the hashtags #pianosonstate2020 and #arthelps.

Among the artists painting the pianos include Solange Aguilar, David J. Diamant, Stephen Harper, Jack Mohr, ART from the HEART with Karen Putnam, and the team of Ginny Brush, Eliesa Bollinger, Adrienne DeGuevara, Judy Nilsen, and Wanda Venturelli at the Community Arts Workshop.

Visit https://pianosonstate.com/2020 and www.facebook.com/pianoson state for details.

Gros Says Goodbye to SBCC Theatre

R. Michael Gros’s direction of Santa Barbara City College’s student production of Antigone represents both his debut of putting together a show via Zoom and his swan song at SBCC Theatre. That’s because, as he announced on his Facebook page early in the morning of November 4, Gros has submitted his formal retirement papers as associate professor and co-chair of the SBCC Theatre Arts Department, and resident faculty director for its affiliated producing wing, the Theatre Group at SBCC, positions he has held for more than a decade. Retirement also brings to an end nearly three decades of theater work in the area, which included a stint as Artistic Director/Associate Dean at PCPA Theaterfest and Production Manager at Shakespeare Santa Cruz as well as founding co-artistic director of PlayFest Santa Barbara, a company dedicated to the development of new plays, playwrights and audiences.

Among Gros’s credits at SBCC are productions of Other Desert Cities, Proof, The Music Man, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Bus Stop, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Light Up the Sky, and Present Laughter, the bubbly and elegant Noël Coward work that earned Gros an Indy Award for direction.

For Gros, taking on an adaptation of Antigone from Sophocles’ original text was a matter of matching both medium and message, as the Greek tragedy serves students and the Zoom platform as well as bring a work from ancient times into modern focus. The production debuts an on-demand video streaming event on November 14 and will be available through the end of the month.

Tickets cost $15 general, $10 seniors, $5 students per household and can be purchased at www.theatregroupsbcc.com or by calling (805) 965-5935.

Q. Why is Antigone the right play to produce now?

A. One of the things about Greek plays is that there are a lot of two-person scenes, and a chorus who are observers, so it lent itself to being produced online in a way where modern playwriting does not. That was necessary because we’ve got students spread all over the world and this format, the technology, supports bringing them together. Antigone in particular has a lot of themes and subject matter that talks about hypocrisy, church, and state, how a lack of compromise leads to destruction and the concept that without there is no justice. A

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Making Good Choices with Decision Analysis

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nrico Manlapig, associate professor of economics and business, explores “Decision Analysis and the Common Good” in a live webinar on Thursday, November 19, at 5:30 pm at vimeo.com/474003951. The Westmont Downtown Lecture is sponsored by the Westmont Foundation, which helps build connections between Westmont and the greater Santa Barbara community.

Dr. Enrico Manlapig explains using decision analThe webinar features special guest ysis for making tough decisions in a live webinar and Westmont alumnus Phil Beccue on November 19 ’81, decision consultant, risk manager and founder of White Deer Partners Inc. “We’ll discuss decision analysis, which we use to support community organizations locally and abroad,” Manlapig says. “I hope attendees see two things: that good decisions are not the same as good outcomes and, that by focusing on good decisions, we are giving ourselves the greatest chance of making a lasting impact on our community.”

Manlapig and his students in Westmont’s Applied Management Science (AMS) course offer their expertise in analytic decision-making to the local community. Acting as the Westmont Decision Lab students engage with some of the most challenging and important issues facing our community. Students master rigorous analytical methods to support senior leaders and decision-makers.

“Decision analysis is a set of frameworks, tools and methodologies for making tough decisions, drawing upon ideas and techniques from economics, applied mathematics, behavioral economics and finance,” Manlapig says. “It’s a surprisingly little-known field, although its core principles are universal. I use decision analysis for personal decisions, too, and encourage students to do the same.”

Manlapig, an alumnus of the University of Queensland, did his graduate work in economics at Columbia University. He joined the Westmont faculty in 2014 after working as a decision analysis consultant at Deloitte.

Art Gifts to Find New Home at Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art

Warriors Tip Off Season

The Forest Foundation, which has supported the arts and education in California and Illinois since 1963, is donating several sculptures and more than

Decision Analysis and the Common Good Live Webinar by Professor Enrico Manlapig with special guest and Westmont alumnus Phil Beccue ’81

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three dozen pedestals and sculptural stands to the Westmont RidleyTree Museum of Art. Museum officials are working with Brander Vineyard to create a long-term sculpture exhibition at the Santa Ynez winery.

“Navigating COVID19 is stressful, and the arts are critical now more than ever,” says Shana Squire Majmudar on behalf of the Forest Foundation Officials at Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art are working with Board of Directors. “The Brander Vineyard to create a long-term sculpture exhibition at the Forest Foundation, Santa Ynez winery which is ending after more than five decades of supporting the arts and education at the community level, is proud to donate to Westmont and confident the donation will continue that mission.”

The gift includes the Lifshitz sculptural collection, works by Graham Keeble, and a pair of chairs by the late artist Morris B. Squire, a Forest Foundation benefactor.

The exhibition at Brander will include sculptures from other artists, private collectors, dealers, and institutions. “Because of the restrictions to visitors at our campus location, the project with Brander will offer new opportunities for exhibiting our collections to new audiences in the Santa Ynez Valley,” says Judy L. Larson, R. Anthony Askew professor in art and Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art director. “Fred Brander is a major collector of Mexican folk art and has a well-honed artistic eye for color and form. The sculptural installation will include several works that are fun and whimsical.”

Larson says she was first introduced to Keeble’s work through museum friends and donors Fima and Jere Lifshitz. “These assemblage-like works have a whimsy and a joy to them,” she says. “Made from diverse pieces of industrial materials, the sculptures come together to form a figure or an animal. People seem very drawn to this artist’s works.”

Keeble, a metal sculptor from Nevada City, California, began welding in 1994 as an 11-year-old, salvaging scrap metal to create his early works. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, and casted and finished dozens of bronze monuments as foreman and manager at Sierra Sculpture.

The Westmont men’s basketball team tips off its 2020-21 season against the University of Saint Katherine from San Marcos, on Saturday, November 14, at 7:30 pm in Murchison Gym. Though fans will not be allowed in the gym due to the pandemic, the game will be live-streamed at portal.stretchinternet.com/Westmont and available on Roku, Apple TV, Android TV and Amazon Fire TV. Landon Boucher coaches his first game after taking over for John Moore, who ended his coaching career after 27 years at the helm of the Warriors’ program. Boucher, a Westmont alumnus, had served as an assistant coach for Landon Boucher leads his team onto the hard court for the first time on November 14 the Warriors for the last two seasons after leading the San Marcos High School Royals to their first ever CIF-SS Championship.

Ajay Singh, a 6-foot-6 forward from Cupertino, also plays his first game with the Warriors after transferring from Notre Dame de Namur, which canceled all its athletics programs. Last season, Singh led his NCAA Division II team in scoring (14.8 points per game) and rebounding (5.3 rebounds per game), while shooting 50 percent from the field.

The Warriors return seniors Abram Carrasco, who averaged almost 19 points a game last season, and Hunter Sipe, who averaged more than 11 points per game last season. Sophomore Jared Brown expects to build off his freshman season, averaging more than 11 points a game.

•MJ

“If the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?” – Eckhart Tolle

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ORDINANCE NO. 5969

ORDINANCE NO. 5970

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

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150, Goleta, CA, 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 20, 2020.

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). FBN No. 20200002615. Published October 28, November 4, 11, 18, 2020.

SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 10.60 OF THE SANTA

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SECTION 10.60.015 AND ESTABLISHING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS ON CERTAIN PORTIONS OF ALAMAR AVENUE, BATH STREET, CARRILLO STREET, CASTILLO STREET, CHAPALA STREET, CLINTON TERRACE, DE LA

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This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 15, 2020. 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). FBN No. 20200002573. Published October 28, November 4, 11, 18, 2020.

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

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on October 27, 2020.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

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as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

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hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on October 28, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Carla’s Cottages, 2126 East Valley Road, Montecito, CA, 93108.

Carla Case, 2126 East Valley Road, Montecito, CA, 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 14, 2020. 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). FBN No. 2020-0002569. Published October 21, 28, November 4, 11, 2020.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on October 28, 2020.

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I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance

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on October 28, 2020.

on October 28, 2020.

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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). FBN No. 2020-0002659. Published November 4, 11, 18, 25, 2020.

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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.

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 37 37)) lot of what’s in this play is reflective of our society. And even after the election results, our society is still dealing with it. More than 70 million people hold opposing views from the 75 million people on the other side. The play addresses how without compromise, the rigidity can lead to destruction.

Of course, there’s also the theme of hubris: the character Creon says “I alone can solve the problem.” He doesn’t listen to any of his advisers and just says “I’m going to save the city from the civil war and I alone am the leader who can pull us through.” This is a play that’s 2,500 years old, reflective of life in ancient Greece, which was a new democracy, which had the same kind of challenges that we face in many ways.

You’re using the Woodruff translation, which takes a modern approach and focuses on making things clear and lyrical, using more poetic English. Why does it work for you?

I’ve been into Greek theater for a long time because I think that they resonate with us in extremely strong ways even today. So over the years I’ve looked at a lot of different translations and adaptations, including many that are very scholarly and dry, which makes them not performable. The Woodruff is a modern translation with the intention of it to be performed. It certainly captures the intent of the original author but is accessible to the performers and audiences of the 21st century.

I understand you’ve designed the production as a theatrical graphic novel.

The idea was that instead of just having a bunch of square boxes with talking heads, we wanted to energize it and capture the sense of the chorus as witnesses being present without it being structurally boring. Most of the cast is under 25, and we thought they might have an interest in how it would be produced. And so it also created opportunities for us to do the prologue in a really exciting way, like a trailer of a show that’s about to come. We started with the idea of book chapters, or turning the page, as the story unfolds, and wanted to present that idea with energy and really get across that the world was being shattered. Using the graphic novel concept, I don’t think we had a single truly rectangular-only page – there are lots of angles and size changes, with the video clips inside – and we overlaid some other design elements to try to parallel the energy of the graphic novel, which is what young people are reading. We’re pretty excited by the additive qualities that it brings, making it more interesting visually to watch. But it was a challenge because everybody was shooting in their living rooms or bedrooms or their garages, some with a smartphone, others on laptops, and a few with a real digital camera.

It’s still a video, so the visceral aspect and the catharsis that comes with seeing a Greek play in person is lessened. But the story, the message, still resonates and certainly speaks to our world today.

I’m going to close by stealing the title of the previous SBCC theater production, “Looking back, looking forward.” What stands out from your time here, and what are you going to do in retirement?

It’s like asking which is your favorite child, but there are some that rise above, like Proof, which was an extraordinary production, and Spelling Bee was a tremendously fun show. We did the West Coast premiere of Ground, about border crossing issues and my God we’re still talking about that six years later. I made my PCPA debut with (David Mamet’s) Oleanna, which is about student-faculty relationships and the shifts of power. I’ve been fortunate to be able to have a career in the theater as both a professional artist and educator.

(Going forward) I hope to be able to pick up a few freelance directing gigs, which I wasn’t able to do at SBCC because they don’t authorize us using a sub for the period of time it takes to direct a play. I need to update my website after 10 years and see what happens. But mostly I hope to travel. I know it’s a cliché for retirees, but there are places in the world that I want to go, and I’d love to see theater and art museums around the world, visit friends and former students and just enjoy seeing that world while I’m still ambulatory.

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Theater Talk: Table Top Shakespeare Comes to a Close

One of the more intriguing pandemic pivots that arrived this season has been Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare: At Home, a COVID-coerced adaptation of Forced Entertainment’s five-year-old concept that found six performers creating condensed versions of all of the Shakespeare plays, comically and intimately retelling them using a collection of everyday objects as stand-ins for the characters on a stage made from a table top. Complete Works has been performed in theater spaces across the world as well as being webcast to thousands of international viewers, but with stages shut down everywhere and the actors living through lockdown largely confined to their own homes, the series has found an intimate new life by staying home with the performers. Meaning that rather than adorning a table set against the red drapes of a theater, manipulated by the half-dozen performers, the object-characters have instead found their starting positions on an individual actor’s kitchen table or desk.

The nine-week-long Thursday-Sundays production of condensed versions of all 36 Shakespeare plays, which was co-commissioned by UCSB Arts & Lectures, comes to a close this weekend with a final quartet of classics, all of which, like their predecessors, are actually being livestreamed daily at 12 noon from across the pond. Taming of the Shrew (November 12), The Comedy of Errors (November 13), Timon of Athens (November 14), and The Tempest (November 15) round out the series, with Sunday’s presentation being followed by a postshow discussion and Q&A with all of the actors over Zoom. All of the previous productions are also available for streaming until at least Sunday night. Visit https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/TabletopShakespeare.aspx or www.force dentertainment.com/tabletop-live.

Focus on Film: Good Trouble with John Lewis

Dawn Porter’s much-heralded documentary, John Lewis: Good Trouble, which chronicles the life and career of the legendary civil rights activist turned longtime Democratic Representative from Georgia, came out shortly before Lewis passed away last summer.

The film, which features both rare archival footage and exclusive interviews with Lewis, celebrates his 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, healthcare reform, and immigration, among other issues. Porter’s film takes the full measure of the man, going back decades to his childhood experiences and his inspiring family that led to his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1957, and includes interviews with political leaders, congressional colleagues and other people who figured A screening of John Lewis: Good Trouble takes place on November 17 as part of both of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ prominently in his life.

The film screens at 5 pm on current series, House Calls and Race to Justice Tuesday, November 17, as part of both of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ current series, House Calls and Race to Justice, and will be followed by a virtual Q&A with filmmaker Porter about Lewis’ legacy of fearless protest as well as her views on how to keep his campaign for justice alive. Visit https://artsandlectures. ucsb.edu.

Things to See Through CWC

UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center’s Subversives series offers a daring double dose of cutting edge cinema, beginning with a discussion of Blood Quantum, a 2019 Canadian horror film that depicts the effects of a zombie uprising on a First Nations reserve whose residents are immune to contracting the plague because of their indigenous heritage. The title refers to laws that define Native American identity by percentages of ancestry, and writer-director Jeff Barnaby (Rhymes for Young Ghouls, File Under Miscellaneous) turned historical and popular narratives of contagion and infection on their heads, something that seems perhaps even more timely today. Barnaby and Métis writer, lawyer and public intellectual Chelsea Vowel will talk about film and its implications over Zoom at 4 pm on Thursday, November 12. The film can be streamed on Shudder.

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A week later, the CWC series eschews the virtual world this week for an in-person double feature at the West Wind Drive-In theater featuring a throwback evening of subversive cult horror. Recreating the drive-in movie experience from the ground up, the show will begin at 7 pm on November 19 with the 2016 retro feminist horror film The Love Witch, followed by the iconic 1982 slasher The Slumber Party Massacre.

In between, CWC’s Script to Screen program soars over to Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), the 2020 superhero film based on the DC Comics team, the eighth installment in the DC Extended Universe and a follow-up to 2016’s Suicide Squad. The twisted tale is told by Harley, played by Margot Robbie, in the screenplay penned by screenwriter/ co-producer Christina Hodson that Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times called “stiletto-sharp.” Hodson joins Pollock Theater director Matt Ryan for a conversation on Zoom at 2 pm on Saturday, November 14. Birds Of Prey can be streamed in advance on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, HBO Max, Vudu, and YouTube. Visit www. carseywolf.ucsb.edu to register for any of the free CWC events.

Personal Surf Film Debuts

Santa Barbara surfer and filmmaker Heather Hudson, creator of the groundbreaking documentary surf films The Women and the Waves, has a new film she’s sharing with local audiences. 93 – Letters from Marge is the story of surf pioneer and icon Marge The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum screens Heather Calhoun (1924-2017) told through Hudson’s 93 – Letters from Marge on November 7 (photo credit: Jeannette Prince) letters she wrote during the last years of her life. “Catch a wave for me!,” “Love and Aloha,” and “Never Stop Lady!” are just some of the phrases that Calhoun concocted to sign off in her many handwritten letters to Hudson, who has crafted the sweet and personal film to shine a light on Calhoun, the 1958 Makaha International Champion. The film chronicles stories from Calhoun’s adventurous life, beginning in a little Hollywood cottage, to her last days while sitting in her home next to a “picture window” with views to the sea and Morro Bay. The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum will screen 93 – Letters from Marge followed by a Q&A session with Hudson, who serves on the Heal the Ocean board of directors where she heads up fundraising and events, as a Zoom webinar at 7 pm on Thursday, November 19. Visit sbmm.org to register for the free event.

SBIFF Heads to Sweden

SBIFF’s Film Talk series heads overseas for High Chaparral, an intriguing short documentary from filmmaker David Freid, who has directed more than 50 cinematic, quirky documentary shorts in more than 40 countries and contributed to National Geographic, NBC, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and VICE, among others. The 2016 High Chaparral tells the story of an American-style Wild West theme park in the middle of a Swedish forest that found a second life as a refugee camp for Syrian refugees during the winter.

The Emmy-nominated Freid, whose Tell My Story screened at SBIFF last winter, will talk about Chaparral over Zoom with a SBIFF programmer at 5 pm Thursday, November 12. Visit https://sbiff.org/filmtalk for a viewing link and registration.

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Two recent virtual visitors to our little town have shown up big on the national stage in the wake of last week’s presidential election. On Monday, Presidentelect Joe Biden announced that former Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General during the Obama administration – who spoke as part of UCSB A&L’s House Calls series in October – would head up his COVID-19 “transition advisory board.” That was two days after Biden gave his acceptance speech last Saturday night with a message crafted by Jon Meacham, the historian and biographer famed for writing about the lives of past presidents, who spoke about our republic for Westmont College just a day earlier. Biden’s words about restoring the “soul of America” echoed the title of Meacham’s 2018 book, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, a Biden favorite; Meacham, it turns out, has been serving as a speechwriter for the now President-elect.

Looking forward, Sister Helen Prejean, perhaps the nation’s foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty, is on the House Calls calendar for this week. Prejean, who ignited a national debate on capital punishment with her bestselling book Dead Man Walking that was adapted into an Academy Awardwinning movie, play and opera, will speak in the wake of the publication of her newest book, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey, a prequel to Dead Man Walking that discusses her road filled with both doubt and belief that led to her life’s purpose and passion. The event, which streams live at 5 pm on Thursday, November 19, includes a Q&A with the audience and will be available for 48 hours. Visit https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.

Chaucer’s Choices

High Five, Santa Monica suspense writer Joe Ide’s latest action-packed thriller in his IQ series of books that Time Magazine calls “an electrifying combination of Holmseian mystery and SoCal grit,” will be dissected in a virtual conversation with the author at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, November 18. Ide will talk about the series, which rapper Snoop Dogg is adapting for television, as well as his own hardscrabble early days, his time dabbling in various careers before becoming a writer, and his latest venture of teaching and influencing other writers.

NBC/MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff discusses his book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, which won the 2019 Walter Cronkite Award for its reporting on NBC/MSNBC correspondent Jacob the child border separation crisis, with author, Soboroff discusses his book, Separated: professor and UCSB Chicano Studies depart- Inside an American Tragedy, on ment chair Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval at 6 November 19 pm Thursday, November 19. Both events can be seen on Chaucer’s Zoom room.

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a’ Dario Ristorante will be serving a Northern Italianstyle Thanksgiving with a selection of hearty rustic cuisine by chef and owner Dario Furlati. A complete meal of herb-roasted turkey, mashed potatoes with rosemary, cranberry compote, sweet yams and peas, savory bread stuffing and home-style gravy is $35 per person. The restaurant operates two Santa Barbara locations as well as in Goleta and Montecito.

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Ca’ Dario Chef/Owner Dario Furlati’s Thanksgiving menu is inspired by rustic holiday meals from his childhood in Tuscany

his rich and incredibly moreish stew has just three key ingredients, which come together to create a truly sumptuous dish. Don’t be put off by the time it needs on the stove. It couldn’t be simpler to make, and once everything is cooking you won’t need to do anything other than let it bubble gently in the background. In place of chicken, you could also use duck.

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almina Winery in Lompoc makes an exclusive white blend for Little Dom’s every year, Little Dom’s Dago White. This is a collaboration between the winery, the chef, and management staff from both Little Dom’s restaurants, MiniBar Hollywood, and artist Gary Baseman, who does original labels for every vintage. Grown in and around Lompoc, it’s got that coastal influence, making it a natural match for the local catch we spotlight at Little Dom’s Seafood: Pacific gold oysters from Morro Bay, live sea urchin, and the ideal pairing, spiny lobster, which we serve with spaghettoni, hand-crushed tomatoes, garlic, oregano, parsley, basil, and of course, white wine. This year the white is 75 percent Sauvignon Blanc, with a field blend of Barbera, Dolcetto, and Vermentino making up the other 25 percent. The red grapes are crushed and skins removed immediately, so no red color comes through. The Dago White has some winter weight, with familiarity of Sauvignon Blanc. Versatile may be an overused wine word, but the Dago hits all the notes on the golden wine spectrum. It has fruit, so it plays well with our raw bar dishes, and a hint of sherry oxidation, I think from the Vermentino, that makes it great match for savory fall fish and veggie dishes.

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alibu Farms offers an all-day prix fixe menu of holiday classics made with seasonal ingredients from neighboring farmers, ranchers, and fishermen from 11:30 am to 8:30 pm. Roasted spice kabocha salad, Diestel Farms roast turkey, herb roasted prime rib, green bean casserole with toasted almonds and 60-minute onions, and whipped mashed potatoes with chives are just a few of the tantalizing dishes that will be served. $165 per person; $65 for children 12 and younger; children under four dine free. Reservations are encouraged.

Diners at Caruso’s will experience executive chef Massimo Falsini’s take on clas- Rosewood Miramar executive chef Massimo Falsini’s menu features pastured heritage turkey, black truffle sic Thanksgiving fare with a southern and herb stuffing, and pumpkin pie with Chantilly Italian twist, which includes slow-roasted and bourbon vanilla heritage turkey, chestnut stuffing, roasted carrots, potato purée, and giblet gravy. Other stand out dishes include a mélange of rock crab, Channel Island lobster tails, and sea urchin; pumpkin gnocchi with porcini mushrooms; black truffle and herb stuffing and pumpkin pie topped with whipped Chantilly and bourbon vanilla. $195 per person; $85 for children ages 4 to 12; children under four dine free.

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OUR FAVORITE FALL RECIPE CHICKEN WITH WALNUTS AND POMEGRANATE

ROSEWOOD MIRAMAR

SAN YSIDRO RANCH

TASTING NOTES WITH JEREMY ALLEN, BEVERAGE DIRECTOR AT LITTLE DOM’S SEAFOOD

• Serves: 4 people

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 1/3 cup walnuts (the fresher the better) • 5 cups of water • ½ cup pomegranate molasses • 1 tbsp tomato purée • ¼ tsp ground cinnamon • 2 tbsp sugar • 2 tsp sea salt • 1 tsp black pepper • 1 3/4 lb chicken thighs, on the bone • A handful of pomegranate seeds, to garnish

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In a food processor, grind the walnuts until they are extremely fine and have the consistency of a smooth paste. Place the ground nuts A fall favorite, chicken with walnuts and pomegranate in a large casserole pot with 4 cups of water and mix well. Bring to a boil and cook on a high heat for 5 minutes, then reduce the heat. Simmer for 1 hour, partially covered, stirring occasionally to stop the walnuts sticking.

2. Add the remaining 1 cup of water, give the sauce a good stir, then stick the lid back on and leave to simmer for another hour. If the sauce starts looking dry, add some more cold water. You are aiming for a thick, porridge-like consistency.

3. The sauce should now have thickened and darkened in color. Add the pomegranate molasses, tomato purée, cinnamon, sugar, salt and pepper and stir well. Add the chicken pieces, place the lid on the pot and continue to cook over a low heat for 45 minutes, until the chicken is cooked and the sauce is a glossy, dark chocolate color.

4. Taste the sauce for seasoning and adjust to your preference: to make it a bit sweeter add more sugar, or pomegranate molasses to make it more sour. Cook for a final 10 minutes with the lid off so the sauce thickens around the meat. Sprinkle with a handful of pomegranate seeds before serving with white rice and some crunchy radishes on the side.

Tip: The longer you leave the walnuts to cook, the more flavorsome the final stew will be, so feel free to let it simmer away before you add the chicken. Be sure to use fresh walnuts, as old ones can make the dish taste bitter.

Recipe originally published in The Saffron Tales by Yasmin Khan, Bloomsbury. •MJ

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