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Briefs appearance: Michael Keaton goes “undercover” with golden attire from Ellen DeGeneres, p. 6
THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 • MOVIE GUIDE, P. 41 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42
THE WOMEN WHO RUN MONTECITO
Model T and Me
Randy Lioz rides along with 107-year-old Edythe Kirchmaier in Roy Miller’s fully restored Ford Model T, p. 22 Cover photo by Kelly Mahan
The Way it Was
Better roads, more beauty, and attractive auto camps drew turn-of-the-20th-century tourists to Santa Barbara, p. 28
It may (still) be a man’s world, but Montecito is governed and influenced by a coterie of smart and influential women (story on p.12)
Where The Buffalo Roam
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5 Bob Hazard Bob Hazard touches on the history of the Miramar and lists 10 reasons why the SB Board of Supervisors ought to grant the Miramar appeal 6 Montecito Miscellany Michael Keaton briefing; Café Luna closes; Steve Martin stays put; SB Polo Club’s 104th season; Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones; SB Museum of Art; Sara MillerMcCune and Sage; symphonic sounds at Granada; STOMP on stage; musicians and The Nile Project; Father Virgil Remarkable Life Awards; Heiichiro Ohyama and Wendy Chen; having a ball with Opera Santa Barbara; and bijou bash featuring Lee Industries and Mary Heebner 8 Letters to the Editor David Wexler on the Miramar; Judy Pearce looks back Peggy McManus and company; Joseph Mackey’s crime report; Davis Strauss on the water front; Don Michel takes President Obama to task; Robert Bradley and an eye for an eye; Hillary Hauser and Chris Lancashire in praise of Richard Mineards; Rooster Bradford crows about crusades; Jean von Wittenburg surveys the entire Spectrum; Bill Dalziel on Rosetta’s Pond; and Matt McLouglin on slave trade, British accents, and white “idiots” on TV commercials 10 This Week Doug Klug at SB Maritime Museum; AIGA SB workshop with Marty Neumeier; French conversation; David Krieger book signing; Story Time at Laguna Blanca; Beekeepers Guild of SB; Andy Caldwell at La Cumbre Country Club; Beryl Reichenberg at Granada books; free music; “Into the City” art; Mindfulness Meditation; Wedding Showcase; MBAR meeting; Larry Decker book signing; history lecture and luncheon; Leon Scott Baxter at Granada Books; The New Yorker group; American Heart Association; MUS gala; and tea dance Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 12 Village Beat Women take over Montecito; Gene Dongieux opens wealth management office at Plaza Montecito; and Santa Barbara County sheriff deputy needs our help 14 Seen Around Town Lynda Millner sizes up the Festival of Hearts crusade, Tiara Ball’s Rio Carnival, and the artists’ group show Sweet-heART 21 Purely Political Although the 2014 election is old news, James Buckley explains why the battle between Chris Mitchum and Lois Capps is far from over – and why the latter has been taken to task 22 At The Wheel Randy Lioz glances in his rear-view mirror and sees Edythe Kirchmaier, all of 107 years young, reminiscing about learning to drive a Ford Model T 26 On Entertainment Steven Libowitz turns the spotlight on the Oscars, writers, directors, and producers; he chases down Kevin Costner, chimes in with Kurt Elling, previews Cassandra Wilson at UCSB, and brings down the curtain with classical music 28 The Way It Was Hattie Beresford hits the road, literally, chronicling the beautification of Santa Barbara and Montecito, including the Barnsdall-Rio Grande Service Station 35 The Curious Traveler While traversing Yellowstone National park, Jerry Dunn Jr. doesn’t get swept away in a wave of humanity and thus recommends setting your alarm clock early and visiting the landmark when it’s less crowded 38 Notes From Downtown Jim Alexander ponders whether such a “perfect” man should commit to new resolutions while he works on speaking foreign languages 40 Legal Advertisements 41 Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events Ina Garten at the Granada; sonorous sounds at Hahn Hall; three of a kind women rock the Lobero; Taj Mahal returns to town; Rubicon Theater concert series; Poboscis Productions hosts festival at Center Stage; Lucidity pre-party at SOhO; South American sounds fill SB; dancing the night away; and Geoff Green 44 Your Westmont A panel examines presidential leadership February 19; public viewing February 20 includes views of Jupiter; and the orchestra performs concertos 45 Real Estate View Michael Phillips takes stock of the latest Heat Index, which has cooled 26 percent from a year ago, and analyzes the $1-2 million groups that are hot properties 93108 Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising Our very 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
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Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard served as CEO of Choice Hotels International and Best Western International. He is also the associate editor of the Montecito Journal.
Time for a Decision on the Miramar
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he history of the Miramar stretches back to 1876, when the Doulton family purchased a 20-acre oceanfront site. By 1910, there were 29 cottages on the parcel. The site and its cottages were sold to the Paul Gawzner family on November 3, 1939, on the eve of WWII when the name “Miramar” came into use, meaning “behold the sea.” The historically significant but dilapidated resort was acquired by Ian Schrager in September 1998 for $31.7 million. It closed its doors on September 10, 2000, with a promise by Schrager to re-open it in 18 months. Faced with unfavorable economic and regulatory hurdles, Schrager sold the aging cottages, land, and entitlements to Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner in April 2005. Frustrated by opposition at the Coral Casino that quadrupled renovation costs, and vigorous opposition to a proposed hotelowned stairway to the beach, calling it “too Biltmore,” Warner sold the Miramar project and its entitlements to Rick Caruso in January 2007. Caruso has spent the last eight years trying to obtain both Montecito and county approvals needed to obtain resort financing. Sometime after April 21, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors (BOS) will consider the appeal of Caruso, Inc. to overturn three of the conditions recently added by the Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) at its January 21 Miramar Resort hearing. These three conditions are: • Condition 66: Beach Club Memberships. A reduction in initial Beach Club Memberships from the 200 previously approved by the BOS down to 100 because of parking concerns. • Condition 84: Event Attendee Limitation. Maximum attendance at special events was previously approved by BOS at 400 attendees, but reduced to 350 because of parking concerns. • Condition 95: Bus pick-up, drop-off and temporary parking. Bus loading, idling, and unloading should occur only at the main valet parking entrance to the hotel front door.
The BOS should grant the Miramar appeal because: 1) Nearly all immediate neighbors support Caruso’s current plan Emily Roos, homeowner at 1508 Miramar Beach and president of the Miramar Beach Homeowners Association, says: “Our message is simple. Do not delay this project. Move forward with working drawings and construction as quickly as possible to restore a community gem.” Phil and Liz Hogan at 30 Miramar Avenue: “The approved 2011 plan for the Miramar at 186 rooms was much larger. What we have now is a smaller, more beautiful boutique hotel. All the full-time-resident owners on Miramar Avenue strongly support the new plan.” Peter Jordano, Montecito resident, but not a neighbor. “The complexities of the planning process in Montecito have already driven away two successful luxury hotel developers: Ian Schrager, creator of Studio 54, and Ty Warner, the Beanie Baby owner of the Biltmore and San Ysidro Ranch. Caruso has been patient; he has designed a beautiful cottage-style resort.” Other neighbors supporting the Miramar appeal include Doris Binion, 40 Miramar Avenue; Nina Terzian; Jamie Kellner; Laura Lodato; John Stanford; Laurie Michaels; Jessica Schaeman; and many others.
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3) Hotel parking at the Miramar satisfies county planning guidelines Testimony from recognized parking and traffic experts Associated Traffic Engineers (ATE), supported by county staff and County Public Works, concluded that at 100-percent occupancy, 300 club memberships and 400 Beach Club members, the Miramar will offer a surplus of parking for the hotel,
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2) The Montecito Association (MA) supports the Miramar plan, as is On February 10, MA passed a motion re-affirming its unanimous vote to support the Miramar project as designed prior to the MPC-added conditions. A letter to the BOS from the Montecito Association supporting Caruso’s appeal is being prepared. MA board member Sylvia Easton noted: “Caruso has done everything we have asked. This community will benefit from the Miramar.” Dr. Beno Budgor, chair, MA Land Use Committee, added, “I intend to support the Miramar without the three MPC conditions.”
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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, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News. He moved to Montecito eight years ago.
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y wife, Julie, and I moved to Santa Barbara in the mid70s to work for a local solar energy company. We spent our first night in a blue-roofed cottage at the Miramar Hotel, which has left a warm spot in our hearts for this remarkable property. I would love to see it rebuilt someday, as I’m sure many in this community feel the same. I sense a change in the wind as of late that perhaps Mr. [Rick] Caruso is running out of patience and might soon follow misters [Ian] Schrager and [Ty] Warner, abandoning the project, leaving us back at square one. As the current impasse seems to revolve around parking, I’d like to put forward a suggestion that could be a win-win solution. I suggest that Mr. Caruso establish an offsite employee parking facility just a few minutes down the road in the greater Carpinteria area. All hotel employees would be provided with free parking and shuttle service in a fleet of electric vehicles, powered by solar panels on the roof of that facility. As an act of good will, free charging of electric vehicles would also be available there for the community. This would free up a substantial number of on-site parking spaces at the Miramar, taking the pressure off limited neighborhood circulation and parking resources, while providing an environmentally friendly solution. Given the overall cost of the Miramar project, procuring and establishing such an off-site parking facility would be a drop in the bucket while providing Caruso with a green badge of honor. Given that Caruso Affiliates is a first-class development company with a staff of highly seasoned real estate professionals, acquiring and establishing such an off-site parking solution should not present a large challenge for them. The question is, are they up for the challenge, or will they cut and run? I don’t have a dog in this fight, as I no longer work in the solar energy industry, but I do drive an all-electric car, powered by solar panels on our roof, and I must report just how wonderful it feels to be driving on sunshine. I believe the Miramar project could use a bit of wonder and delight about now for all parties involved. David Wexler Santa Barbara
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The “Camel” Cigarette Girl
I enjoyed Hattie Beresford’s article about Amy Du Pont and her association with Peggy McManus (“Amy du Pont of Casa del Sueño” MJ #21/6). My aunt, Mom’s younger sister, was Peggy’s age and said she was always a very nice, friendly girl. I met Peggy in the 1950s when she was married to Houghtling and I kept my horse on San Ysidro on three acres next to their home and we were all friendly. All during my childhood and beyond, Peggy was probably the most identifiable Montecito resident, everyone knew who the lady in the “pink” Buick convertible was. I don’t remember ever seeing the top up. The photo of the pool in your article about Amy reminded me that Peggy said Amy had the pool filled with gardenias for her wedding to Bud McDuffie. I was amazed she’d been married to Bud; I knew him because he and his wife raised Andalusian horses and gave one to us at the Santa Barbara Therapeutic Riding Academy. I also knew him for years at Miramar Beach. Peggy said she was ready for a big break in the movies and that she was going to be paired with cowboy star Tim Holt (I think that’s his name). Instead, she married, and the newlyweds lived in a shack on a ranch. Also, in Hattie’s article about John Jameson, there’s a photo with the Standard gas station by the Montecito Inn; Susie Hammond and I used to go there to use their air hose to fill our bike tires. The station building was moved to Stearns Wharf and became the Moby Dick restaurant (burned in 1973). When Jameson Lane was built, our address (next to the Miramar) changed from Coast Highway to Jameson Lane... I just love Hattie’s history columns! Judy Pearce Santa Barbara (Hattie responds: And I love it when you share your reminiscences. Don’t know if you remember, but Peggy was married three times. David Myrick attended her first wedding at Casa del Sueno and gave her an “Airguide” barometer as a wedding present. Pearl Chase was there, too, and gave her a more conventional gift: a Spanish print and a tea party. They lived for a time at Bud’s father’s Bar Z Ranch outside of Covelo in Mendocino County. Peggy was still famous as the Camel Cigarette girl, and there were many feature stories about their life there. – H.B.) 19 – 26 February 2015
Early Release, More Crime
Several years ago, the Montecito Journal published my letter in which I predicted that, in view of the federal court ruling against the state of California for prison “overcrowding,” the decision to release criminals early would inexorably result in higher crime rates. I came to that conclusion because of 40 years on the frontline of the criminal justice system: 10 years as a state district attorney prosecuting street crime and 30 years as an assistant United States attorney prosecuting primarily white-collar crime and organized crime. Now, add the addition of Prop. 47 passed last November, which made many felonies misdemeanors and reduced the penalties for many misdemeanors. By releasing offenders early and going softer on sentencing, California has released tens of thousands of convicted criminals to ease overcrowding. Well, the results are coming in. According to statistics from the Los Angeles Sheriff Department: auto thefts are up 20 percent, felonies up 16 percent, misdemeanors up 27 percent, and homicides up 18 percent. It is not that I am prescient, but because I used logic, experience, and reality. The California criminal justice system is broken, and the public is paying the price with increased crime. Some people chose to be doctors and some people chose to be carpenters, and some chose crime as their life’s work. You need to find those who violate the law, convict them, and lock them away. Again, I know from experience that many convicted criminals after release re-offend. The California politicians and voters have chosen the path of soft on crime. Rather than spending precious resources on additional jail housing, California has different priorities. Think high-speed rail! Let me go further and extrapolate to the international scene. When you cannot name your enemy and you refuse to confront honestly the peril coming, the consequences will be dire. The current administration will not utter the words “radical Islam.” The current administration minimizes the danger to us posed by “violent extremism.” One cannot deal successfully with bank robbers or burglars, or the mafia or fraudsters, or Nazis or radical Jihad with appeasement, equivocation, and delusion. California’s experiment with early release of criminals has produced more crime. Obama’s refusal to identify and confront evil makes us all vulnerable. I make this prediction now, hoping I am wrong, as I did years ago about increased crime: the USA will suffer more 19 – 26 February 2015
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“Conversion” from What?
Well, now, wasn’t that a treat watching and listening to our president at a recent prayer breakfast meeting, reminding Christians of Christian bad behavior committed 1,000 years ago. Omitted from the president’s presentation was the fact that Christians were defending themselves from Muslim aggression and violence. My, my, how times have changed. Certainly, there is no Muslim aggression and violence going on today. No. Particularly entertaining was the president’s obvious attempt to draw a moral equivalency between those thousand-year-old Christian misdeeds and today’s radical, extreme, murdering, raping, kidnapping, decapitating, mutilating, and flame-induced immolating violence. The ease with which the president was able to assign this thousandyear-old violence to Christians was matched only by his discomfort and refusal to identify that what’s going on today has anything to do with Islam. No problem for him to call out Christian atrocities; big problem for him to call out Islamic atrocities. No apparent concern about offending Christians; big apparent concern about offending Muslims. The president cautioned we Christians against getting “on our high horse” about all of this, in his view, un-Muslim, un-Islamic activity. This, from a man who has yet to dismount from his own lofty steed of
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(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Art Opening & Lecture Santa Barbara Maritime Museum presents Doug Klug, who will lecture about a photographic journey that encompasses more than 20 years of diving the underwater reefs and kelp forests of Anacapa Island. From the Santa Barbara Harbor breakwater, on a clear day, you can see the tiny peaks of Anacapa Island on the horizon, dwarfed by its neighbor Santa Cruz Island. Anacapa Island is only a little more than 30 miles from Santa Barbara Harbor, perhaps two hours away. It is an island that is rich in its heritage of famous shipwrecks, including the Winfield Scott, airplane wrecks, such as the well-known P-38 avenger, and its iconic lighthouse and rock arch. Klug’s first dives on Anacapa Island were as a teenager. In 1986, he traveled to Anacapa as part of a three-day diving excursion aboard the dive boat Conception out of Santa Barbara Harbor. On that trip, at Anacapa Island, he caught his first lobster in the surf grass
east of Cat Rock at a dive site he would later learn to call one of his favorite alltime dives. That adventure became lodged in his memory and since then, he has made diving Anacapa Island part of his everyday life, earning him the nickname “Diver” Doug. In the early 1990s, Klug began a transition from an underwater hunter to an underwater photographer, taking an underwater camera to Anacapa Island to capture the images. When: reception at 5:30 pm, lecture at 7 pm Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way Cost: free Registration: (805) 962-8404, x115
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Strategy Session AIGA Santa Barbara, the Central Coast’s professional design association, presents a three-day workshop with Marty Neumeier, bestselling author of five books on design and innovation. Neumeier will lead an in-depth brand strategy session
Book Signing at Tecolote David Krieger will be reading from his work Wake Up!, the author’s latest collection of peace poetry. A dedicated and honored peace leader, Krieger has been president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation for the last 32 years. In Wake Up!, he takes us down a thought-provoking path with poems of remembrance, as well as warnings about the dangers of the Nuclear Age. Books may be purchased at the book signing or bought online at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Peace Store, wagingpeace. org/shop/ and Amazon.com. Proceeds go to the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. There will also be music by local singer/songwriters Blue Glass Music. When: 4 to 6 pm Where: 1470 East Valley Road Information: 965-3443 for creatives and marketing professionals, in which participants will learn the essential principles of brand tactics while applying them directly to their own brand or those of their clients. The event is intended for designers, brand strategists, marketing managers, advertising planners, entrepreneurs, and CEOs. Participants will work on one specific entity – a product, service, company, or new business concept. The event is limited to 40 people. When: today through Sunday, February 22 Where: Casa Las Palmas in Chase Palm Park Cost: $600-$900 Info: santabarbara.aiga.org/zag French Conversation Group The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System hosts a French
conversation group for those who would like to practice their French language conversation skills and meet others in the community who speak French. Both native speakers and those who learned French as a second or foreign language will participate, and new members are always welcome. When: 2 to 4 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: Sara Doehring, 969-5063
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Story Time at Laguna Blanca Children and families are invited to explore the magical world of storytelling, come listen to stories, and enjoy some healthy treats. The storytelling is geared for kids three to six, though children of all ages are welcome to enjoy the morning. In addition
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Book Signing at Granada Books Leon Scott Baxter speaks at Granada Books about Secrets of Safety-Net Parenting, the book that is putting a new spin on parenting happy and successful children. He’ll talk about his latest tome, share his experiences as a parent and local elementary school teacher, as well as take questions and sign books. When: 4 to 5 pm Where: 1224 State Street Info: www.sbgranadabooks.com to reading books, each Story Time will have a different theme, and Laguna Blanca’s librarian, Meredith Brace, will impart an age-appropriate lesson. When: 9 to 10 am Where: 260 San Ysidro Road Info: storytime@lagunablanca.org Beekeeper Event Goleta Valley Beautiful board members welcome educators from the Beekeepers Guild of Santa Barbara, who will take guests on a guided tour of Terra Sol Garden Center. They will point out plants that attract and support butterflies and bees in gardens. Before the tour, there will also be a lecture discussing the significance of bees, current issues that threaten colonies, and their importance to Goleta Valley farms and neighborhoods. Guild members and nursery staff will also be available throughout the day to answer questions about plants for your garden and home, as well as backyard and commercial beekeeping. Ten percent of all sales will be donated to Goleta Valley Beautiful, a non-profit environmental, educational, and community service organization. When: 10 am to 3 pm Where: 5320 Overpass Road Cost: free Info: 964-7811 Lecture & Luncheon Local issues affecting residents of Santa Barbara County will be discussed by Andy Caldwell, executive director of COLAB (Coalition of Labor, Agriculture & Business), at the Santa Barbara Republican Club luncheon. COLAB, which has more than 1,300 members, advocates on behalf of labor, agriculture and business interests. When: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm Where: La Cumbre Country Club Cost: $25 Reservations: 684-3858
Book Making at Granada Books Local artist and children’s book author Beryl Reichenberg will be holding an art class for kids older than seven. Participants are invited to make a butterfly book to take home. Beryl will also read one of her children’s books, Butterfly Girls, and sign this book and her other books. When: 2 pm Where: 1224 State Street Cost: free Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music. A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public. When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free “Into the City” Exhibit Corridan Gallery presents Santa Barbara artists and their urban landscapes, featuring the art of Judy Neinow, Warner Nienow, and Sophie Cooper. When: reception, 4 to 6 tonight; show runs through March 28 Where: 125 North Milpas Street Info: www.corridan-gallery.com
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Mindfulness Meditation A half-day retreat with guided meditations from Radhule Weininger, MD, PhD. All levels welcome. When: 2:30 to 5:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road
Wedding Showcase “Simply The Best Wedding Showcase of Santa Barbara” presents area caterers, bakers, florists, photographers, videographers, bridal gowns, musicians, and more. When: 11 am to 3 pm Where: Santa Barbara Woman’s ClubRockwood, 670 Mission Canyon Road Cost: $12 per person ($9 for pre-registration) Info: www.simplythebestofsb.com
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito When: 2 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Book Signing & Discussion Santa Barbara psychologist and author Larry Decker, PhD, discusses his new book The Alchemy of Combat. It is a powerful examination of the process of breakdown, renewal and the discovery of meaning and purpose after experiencing the trauma of combat. Attendees will receive a copy of The Alchemy of Combat and are invited to a wine and cheese social with the author following the talk. When: 6 pm Where: UCSB’s Mosher Hall Info: kevin.hagedorn@sa.ucsb.edu
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Lecture & Luncheon History comes alive for the fourth annual luncheon and symposium featuring three survivors of one of the most significant battles of the Pacific during WWII and Iwo Jima. Hailing from Atascadero and Paso Robles are two Marines – Ben Bellefeuille and Joe Hale, both corporals, and Ken Morehouse, a pharmacist’s mate in the Navy. Program will include presentations
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about the three survivors by veterans, including PCVF Board president Phil Conran, USAF Colonel (retired), board member Fred Lopez USMC Brigade General (retired) and Vietnam Veteran and local attorney Steve Penner USN (former). The Iwo Jima symposium includes history about the battles, as well as film clips and music. This is a rare opportunity to experience a piece of living history. When: 11 am Where: Fess Parker Doubletree, Santa Ynez/San Rafael Room, 633 East Cabrillo Blvd Reservations: 564-6223 or channelcityclub.org Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker When: 7:30 to 9 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 American Heart Association Luncheon The Go Red For Women Luncheon will be at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort today; the event is to raise funds for research and initiatives preventing heart disease and stroke. The luncheon is the American Heart Association’s annual event to increase awareness of heart disease – the numberone cause of death for women – and inspire women to take charge of their health. When: 10:30 am to 1 pm Where: 633 East Cabrillo Blvd Cost: $125 per person Info: goredsb.ahaevents.org
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 MUS Gala Montecito Union School hosts its largest fundraiser of the year; this year’s event is themed Viva Las Vegas and will be held at the Coral Casino When: 6 pm Where: 1260 Channel Drive Info: mus-gala.org
SUNDAY, MARCH 1 Tea Dance The City of Santa Barbara donates use of the ballroom and volunteers provide music and refreshments for this ongoing, free dance event. Ballroom dance music including the Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Fox Trot, Quick Step, and rhythm dances such as the Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Mambo, and Bolero are played, among other dance music. Participants can hone their dancing skills or learn new dance techniques. The Santa Barbara Ballroom Tea Dance is held on the first Sunday of every month at the Carrillo Rec Center. No partner necessary, but if you can find one bring him or her along! When: 2 to 5 pm Where: 100 E. Carrillo Street Info: 897-2519 Cost: free •MJ
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his year, for the first time in Montecito Association history, the MA board of directors boasts a female majority. Led by current president Cindy Feinberg, the Association has had its fair share of female leaders over its near 70-year existence, but we’re told this is the first time the board has been weighted to the feminine side (10 women and 7 men.) The MA is led by Feinberg, with executive director Victoria Greene also at the helm. Directors include Trish Davis, Sylvia Easton, Monica Babich, Brenda Blalock, Kathi King, Barbara Mathews, Charlene Nagel, Michele Saltoun, and Jean von Wittenburg, with Susan Robles as office coordinator. Female honorary directors include Sally Kinsell, Diane Pannkuk, and Joan Wells. The trend also spans across several boards and governmental agencies in Montecito, so we thought it an appropriate moment in time to assemble many of the influential women in Montecito for both a photo and a discussion about their continuous roles in the community. At our photo op: Wells and Claire Gottsdanker, two of the advisory committee members who helped write the Montecito Community Plan back in 1992. Since then, the plan has stood as the planning basis of Montecito, and the document by which the Montecito Association, Montecito Planning Commission (MPC), and Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR) base their actions. “It’s time to pass the baton,” said Wells, who also served on MPC many years ago.
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She added that the future of Montecito is in capable hands. Montecito Planning Commission (formed in 2003) is also led by a woman, as of January. J’Amy Brown, former MA president and longtime Montecito resident, has been officially appointed as chair, after serving as interim chair. Before being appointed to MPC in 2013, Brown was also a commissioner on the Historic Landmark Advisory Committee (HLAC). Sue Burrows also sits on MPC, and has done so since 2007 (with a two-year stint as chair). Burrows has also been active in the community for decades; she represented the First District when she served as vice chair of the Santa Barbara County Civil Service Commission in the 70s. Montecito Board of Architectural Review, which helps ensure neighborhood compatibility on new developments and residential projects, boasts two female members: Gottsdanker (former planning commissioner) and Dorinne Lee Johnson (former MA board member). The First District is represented on HLAC via Carla Tomson, who left her seat on the MA board to fill the role. Montecito’s special districts, which are not under the authority of the board of supervisors, also have a large female influence. Right now, the Montecito Water District board is led by board president Darlene Bierig and vice president Jan Abel, both of whom have been involved in the community for many years. Bierig is a former MUS trustee and board
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Festival of Hearts Crusade
Coordinator and volunteer Susan Jorgensen, event chair Kathy Marden and executive director Heidi Holly for the Friendship Center Ms Millner is the author of The Magic Makeover, Tricks for Looking Thinner, Younger and More Confident – Instantly. If you have an event that belongs in this column, you are invited to call Lynda at 969-6164.
Arlene’s assistant Suzy Trandem, decorator Arlene Larsen, and board member Inge Gatz at the Friendship Center’s hearts event
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ardi Gras Magic was the theme for Friendship Center’s 16th annual Festival of Hearts fundraiser at The Fess Parker resort. Professional costume designer Arlene Larsen knows how to throw a party, and she was the decorations lady extraordinaire. You could imag-
ine yourself in New Orleans complete with a live Dixieland jazz band, The Montecito Jazz Project, during the cocktail hour. Feather boas, balloons, and masques were everywhere including the whimsical centerpieces on each luncheon table. Among the feathers were all the
papier-maché heart art made by students, artists, and celebs like Jeff Bridges, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Judy Nilsen, Karen Stancer, Steven Gilbar, Janice Gilbar Treadwell, Stacie Bouffard and Rod Lathim. Heart Wrangler Sharon Morrow and her heart posse Cheryl Guthrie, Jack Hewett, Vicky Garske, and Janice Meaden organized the dozens of hearts for the event. Some are in the silent auction and the rest are favors for the guests. Event chair Kathy Marden and her
Mardi Gras mask at the hearts luncheon
committee did a spectacular job. Board president Dana VanderMey and executive director Heidi Holly welcomed everyone. Heidi reminded the audience, “Today’s proceeds benefit our H.E.A.R.T (Help Elders at Risk Today) program. HEART allows our services to remain available to all in need regardless of income limitations.” Gail Rappaport kept us laughing while she emceed and auctioned off a Joyce Shaar with auctioneer Gail Rappaport at the hearts luncheon
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Honorees Palmer Jackson and Michael Towbes with their wives, Joan and Anne, at the Tiara Ball
variety of trips and events. My favorite was the Dump & Dine Disappearing Act. Spring clean and make the mess disappear with a MarBorg roll-off Dumpster. Then have cocktails and dinner at Harry’s Plaza Café, The Harbor, Longboard’s or the Tee-Off. The Borgatellos were kind enough to give three of these, it was so popular. Susan Stewart told us her story of being the caregiver for her father. “Every day at Friendship Center, my father is nourished physically, emotionally, and spiritually. More importantly, all of our friends there – I can’t bring myself to say ‘staff’ when dealing with this level of love and compassion – treat him with the most important quality: dignity.” Friendship Center is a daycare center with innovative programs, daily meals, and snacks, field trips, transportation, and other services for dependent adults. There is one facility in Montecito and another in Goleta. If you’d like to volunteer or donate, call 969-0859.
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the evening’s two honorees, Michael Towbes and Palmer Jackson, and their decades of support. Cottage Health System president and CEO Ron Werft told us, “Palmer has a long connection to Cottage. He was born there and so were all four of his children. He joined the board in 1973. Michael has three grandchildren born there. He joined in 1981.” Santa Barbara Foundation sent in a tribute for the program, which says it all. “In a community that benefits daily from the generosity of so many, these two gentlemen are instantly recognizable as philanthropic leaders. For decades, they have given, they have guided, and they have made sure good things and important things happen. Never with bravado, always with class, these men have made a difference. We are a far better place for their being among us and caring as much as they do about Santa Barbara County and its best possible future.” Palmer was given a painting of his “backyard” at Alisal Ranch by Ray Hunter and Michael a painting by Jim Dow of his home in the Valley.” Michael responded, “It’s the best board I’ve ever served on.” Palmer claimed he “wasn’t used to all the nice things said.” Among the thousands of adults and children Cottage has treated,
they showed a video of three patients whose lives were saved: one a tiny infant born too soon, another a teen trauma patient from an auto accident, and lastly a lady suffering from a stroke. Her husband was seated next to me and said, “They never expected her to live, let alone recover completely.” Cottage is a not-for-profit, community-owned teaching hospital and is committed to the principle that no patient will be turned away because of an inability to pay. They rely on the support of generous benefactors. To know more, call 879-8980. The ballroom was filled with more than 500 patrons who, after the honors, danced the night away to the music of Impulse.
SlingShot and Sweet-heART
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Alpha Resource Center presented “Sweet-heART” at Churchill Jewelers, a group show by artists from SlingShot Alpha Art Forum. SlingShot is an art studio and gallery for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities who want to create and sell art. It might be a drawing, painting, sculpture, or textile but it’s told from the perspective of the artist. The on-site gallery offers an exhibition
Executive director of Alpha Thrift Kim Olson, hostess and owner of Churchill Jewelers Lexi Kern-Hirst, and artists’ rep Sue Dumm
space that links the artist to the art community. It is located at 220 W. Canon Perdido. This show was special because Churchill Jewelers owner Lexi Kern-Hirst had opened her doors to a Valentine’s Day exhibition from February 6 through the end of the month. I went to the opening reception not too many days after the store had been brazenly robbed in the morning just after opening. The thieves held guns on the three clerks while they smashed display cases and stole watches. Then ran. Fortunately, no one was hurt. This evening, the walls were lined upstairs and down with colorful paintings from the SlingShot artists. Besides savory treats, there were delicious miniature cupcakes from Beck’s Bakery Bites. The wine was unique and came from Mia and Tyler Willson, who grow the grapes in Carpinteria. Tyler is on the Alpha board and Lexi is his cousin; hence the show. The wine was a 2013 pinot noir with an intriguing label, because it was done by Michael Considine from the Slingshot Gallery. The Willsons plan on featuring more artists in the future. Artists’ rep Sue Dumm and Alpha executive director Kim Olson were all smiles as the shop filled with art
Wine purveyors Mia and Tyler Willson holding a bottle of their pinot noir with an artist label
lovers. Also, there was the associate director of development Marisa Pasquini. If you mention SlingShot, Lexi will donate 10 percent of jewelry sales to them. You can call the SlingShot Gallery at 770-3878 for more information, or better yet stop in next time you’re downtown. •MJ
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Hopkins, Diane Keaton, Jodie Foster, Michael Douglas, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Clint Eastwood, Cate Blanchett, and James Cameron. “The Oscars are coming up. You’re nominated. I want you to have some things to wear for the occasion. So first of all, we make underwear that’s very popular – but we don’t make whitey-tighties, but for you we did,” said Ellen, handing him the risqué gift. “But if you want something fancier..,” she added, unveiling the shimmering gold briefs, to which Michael could only reply: “Whoa!” “It’s your choice,” added Ellen, offering both pairs. ‘It’s the Oscars.” “Know that when the camera comes to me and says, ‘Who are you wearing?’” he said, holding up the tighty-goldies. “But for now... these babies look good.” He then quickly slipped the white underpants over his tan suit and fired off a couple of catwalk poses as the Burbank audience screamed their approval. The versatile thespian, who has played everybody from Batman to Beetlejuice to the Ken doll in Toy Story 3, said it meant a huge amount to finally be nominated for his first Academy Award, having attended his first BAFTA at the U.K. version at the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden last week. “It’s a lot. A lot. The nomination means a lot to me. I think more than I thought it would,” he added. “Maybe more than anything, it’s how unbelievably great people have been. And I don’t mean just the people who are inside the business, but even my friends and everybody who is so happy for me. “In a way, I feel a lot of pressure for them, I want to come through for them. And it means a lot to me personally, I think because all these years you know, trying a lot of things and hanging in there. You know what it’s like, you have to do it. You have to ride out all the tough stuff and keep
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Erudite actor-comedian Steve Martin obviously likes Montecito. No sooner had he listed his 7,377 square-foot, Roland Coate-designed, four bedroom property on nearly six acres, complete with a detached guest house, in Romero Canyon with uber agent Suzanne Perkins at Sotheby’s for $10,990,000, than he decided to take it off the market. The property, which took four years to build, has sweeping views of the ocean and mountains. Suzanne says she couldn’t comment on Martin’s change of heart, though aerial photos of the property were used in Sotheby’s print ads earlier this month. Last year, Martin put his colonial-style, four bedroom, four-and-ahalf bath property, Villa Au Soleil, in St. Bart’s, complete with a two-tier infinity pool overlooking St. Jean Bay, on the market for $10.5 million... Name Game It’s all change at the Santa Barbara Polo Club, which kicks off its 104th season in April. The most prestigious tournament on the Left Coast has now been renamed the Gulfstream Pacific Coast Open and will be played for three weeks at the end of August. Dallas, Texas, tycoon John Muse, who is the club’s new president and has won the event three times, boasting Argentinian ace Adolfo Cambiaso
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on his team, has big plans for his first season running the Carpinteria club. “Gulfstream Aerospace, which has provided more than 2,200 aircraft for global customers since 1958, represents the world’s ultimate company in private aviation,” says Charles Ward, president of Idea Works, which promotes the equestrian hotspot, which had Prince William and his wife, Kate, as guests to celebrate its centennial year. “We strive to bring together the ‘best of the best’ in every business category for our Santa Barbara polo teams and fans to enjoy.” John’s company, Lucchese, which his team is named after, has been manufacturing western boots since the late 1800s and opened its latest store in Houston’s Highland Village, adding to outlets in Nashville, Santa Fe, and San Antonio, earlier this month. The pricey cobblery sells for between $500 and $5,000 a pair, but custom American alligator boots have a sales tag of $14,000... Brits of a Feather They’ve won critical acclaim for their roles as Cambridge University professor Stephen Hawking and his wife, Jane, in The Theory of Everything, but success hasn’t come easily for Eddie Redmayne or Felicity Jones. The dynamic duo, who received
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Cinema Vanguard awards at the Santa Barbara Film Festival last month, say their friendship came about partly from experiencing rejection together as they tried to carve out a name in the tough acting industry. “Eddie and I have spent many years auditioning for film and TV projects together, and being turned down together. And then commiserating together. But this was the first time we’d worked together.” The down-to-earth pair are united in the way they express gratitude for employment. “Early on, you’re so happy to get a job,” she tells Yahoo. “You need
to pay your rent, so you work in all sorts of things. Each film or each part demands something completely different from you. “So it’s a thing where if you have too many plans and strategies, they never work out anyways. It’s got to be instinctive. My main thing is to work with interesting, talented directors. You learn so much from them. That’s where I feel more comfortable and happy working.” And when Redmayne, who just received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor, was asked if his next role can
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accusations of American arrogance, American responsibility for global climate change, his self-credit for receding oceans and a healing planet, his faux concern for the middle class, his fake pursuit of fairness through increased taxation, and his equivalence of American exceptionalism to that of Belgian exceptionalism. By the way, what was the president before he allegedly converted to Christianity at age 28? Perhaps I’m being a little bit harsh in my assessment, as the president looked so presidential and intimidating in his recent Buzzfeed video featuring his “stick selfies.” ISIS, the Mullahs, and Putin must be trembling. Don Michel Montecito
Military Musings
A Jordanian pilot was flying around, minding his own business, doing what he likes to do best – dropping bombs on people from a safe height – when some cowardly devils shoot him down, just when he was enjoying himself, and they are not even nice to him! If it were not for all the death and destruction involved, these silly and continuous Middle Eastern escapades, and the concomitant sideshows like those of Afghanistan and the Ukraine, the whole thing would be a giant comedy. The various “gods” must be laughing themselves to sleep every night. Robert T. Bradley Santa Barbara
An Ode To Richard
Please let me be late in praising Richard Mineards’s contribution not only to the Montecito Journal but to the community of Santa Barbara at large. By covering the activities of so many non-profit organizations, Richard helps everyone in the non-profit world, which thanks him for the valuable publicity he gives us. His attendance, with Priscilla, even at small
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“side events” is also so appreciated! By attending so many musical events, he gives a smattering of what is going on concert-wise, which is a valuable coverage in Santa Barbara we sadly lost some time ago in other news media. It is also fun to hear all the gossip, see all of Priscilla’s pictures, and read Richard’s amusing commentary. I, too, turn to this feature straightaway, when the MJ comes out. I cannot help but offer this spoofy composition in honor of Richard’s Sixth Anniversary at the Montecito Journal: In Honor of Richard Mineards’s Anniversary Your rolling stone gathers no moss, You’re always within a Tiara’s Toss Of events you attend with fabulous zeal, Getting gossip and news as you can exclusively reveal. Who is that star in the skimpy bikini? You learn the good dirt from your Mole with the Martini; Busy pencil on notepad, words written with glee, Re: Everything Doing in Our Eden by the Sea. Priscilla in tow, oh Richard you’re brave! A popular figure amidst Our Rarefied Enclave; You’re here, there, everywhere, we all don’t know how, Always smiling in your sendoff, Pip Pip for Now! All in fun, Hillary Hauser Executive director Heal the Ocean
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Crusaders Versus Jihadists
You need to know this major difference between Jihad and a Christian Crusade: the Crusades pitted one armed group against another armed group. Jihad was different. With a few exceptions Jihad, during this time, was one armed group attacking another group that was little armed or not armed at all. Once the Jihad won the field, they killed any remaining leaders. To the rest, they gave an alternative: convert to Islam or become a corpse or slave. In this simple way, the religious aspects of Islam spread rapidly. Think of it this way: if Christians did the same thing with AK-47s and other explosives, imagine its growth! Rooster Bradford Ventura
Can’t Take It
Enough already. How many times do we have to listen to that Spectrum commercial on, it seems, most of our TV stations? Jean von Wittenburg Montecito
News from Rosetta’s Pond
Just. Be. Cause.
We were gathered together under the rocky overhang, taking a break from our spawning activities, and overheard a conversation our friend on the swing was having with someone in the shadows under the bridge. Apparently, the recently discovered abandoned subway station under the intersection of Parra Grande and East Valley Road is still being used. According to her friends in the neighborhood, the red and gold train number 192 arrives and departs every 25 days, within the midnight hour. The local gossip is that if you slow down too much in the tight bend in the road, one or two arrivals will pop into your car, asking for a ride into Santa Barbara. She said the hitchhikers were always polite, talking to themselves or each other, as if the driver was their chauffeur. Some hopped rides into the upper village substations; i.e., the hatch door in the floor of the Fiction aisle in the Montecito Library or the secret door next to the fireplace in the Wine Bistro’s Elephant Room. Some fun! (But can you believe anyone that lives under a bridge, even a small black bear?) Well, back to work, cleaning the debris off our two new spawning beds. Aunt Theda said, “Humans are strange things, living or dead.
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British Actor David Oyelowo, who played Dr. Martin Luther King in Selma, should understand that when the norm has evolved into a constant parade of “cause” films, there can be a depreciation for these films due to guilt fatigue. I was still reeling from the whipping seen in 12 Years a Slave when Mandela was released. Then, so soon, Selma? Let there be more time between the release of “cause” films, and perhaps the recognition for excellence in acting will be received by deserving actors. Let’s remember that 95 percent of the African slave trade was into Latin America. Did Oyelowo give the same speech in Cuzco? My tolerance for British accents is gone, too. After The English Patient, The King’s Speech, The Imitation Game, Monuments Men, and a thousand other films, FOX News (and so much more), I can’t handle it anymore. Even our little radio station downtown pushes the Brit sound. The Dr. Kim Show and Nipper ’s travel show both feature Britaccented introductions. I can’t take the Anglo-centricity anymore. I go screaming. Also, when I watch sports these days on TV at O’Malley’s Bar, it seems the idea of white people as idiots evidently sells. At least the TV ads for Nissan, Hyundai, Progressive Insurance, and Domino’s Pizza all feature white people as idiots. Matt McLoughlin •MJ Santa Barbara 19 – 26 February 2015
PURELY POLITICAL
Chris Mitchum takes on Lois Capps, the Lois Capps campaign, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
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Mitchum Versus Capps Continues
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erhaps you thought the 2014 election was over and that Democrat Lois Capps had won yet another election as U.S. Representative, beating Republican candidate Chris Mitchum, her most recent opponent. And, for the most part, you would be correct. But, as reported in this paper and elsewhere in media, the pernicious way the Capps campaign wrapped up its media buys left many wondering what exactly a candidate could not do in order to win an election. “What they did just cannot stand,” says Chris as we caught up with him and his fiancée, Doreen Corkin, in Boston, where some 90+ inches of snow have fallen over the past few weeks. “What ‘they’ did” of course, is selectively and deliberately truncate a statement Chris made in explanation of why he was running to replace Capps and what he intended to do once in Washington. In a release announcing his lawsuit, Chris writes that “Mrs. Capps’ astounding, deliberate, and blatant falsification of the truth renders her unacceptable as a public servant. Congress is an entity of and for the people. Its ideals are to be upheld and respected, not violated.” During our telephone conversation, Chris reiterates. “To take a quote, to manipulate a quote, to alter the meaning and basically deceive the voting public – which in essence comes down to lying – and then publicize that in a heavy ad campaign on radio and television comes down to stealing an election,” Chris says, noting that, “This is the kind of thing [ex-president] Jimmy Carter goes to other countries to stop.” The complaint, filed February 17 with the Superior Court of the State of California, is against three separate entities: Lois Capps, Friends of Lois Capps, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The complaint: Defamation and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress. The allegation states that by manipulating and distorting what Mitchum’s answer was during a televised interview, Capps, her campaign, and the DCCC all acted to portray him “as a hypocrite and a narrow-minded ‘Tea Party’ advocate who planned to go Washington not to represent the 24th District, but the Tea Party.” Mitchum’s statement was “I’m not going to Washington to represent the 24th District [just] to bring back baseball fields. That’s not why I’m going. I’m going to fight for my country, and I happen to come from the 24th District.” The Capps campaign cut 19 – 26 February 2015
his statement to say simply, “I’m not going to Washington to represent the 24th District,” implying that Mitchum had an ulterior and perhaps even sinister motive for running since he obviously (in his own words) didn’t intend to represent the 24th District. At the end of the ad, Ms Capps says: “I’m Lois Capps and I approve this message.” Chris suggests she should resign immediately. As for the purpose of bringing a lawsuit this long after the results are in, he says what he’s hoping is that a ruling in his favor would “set a precedent,” that would exist throughout the country, “so that something like this won’t happen again in any campaign. It’ll serve notice,” he stresses. The defendants have 35 days to respond, but usually they’ll ask for more time and “it [will be at least] forty-five days or so before we get a response,” says Chris. According to the law as Mitchum understands it, if Ms Capps resigns in the first year (of a two-year term), a special election would be called. If she resigned in the second year of a twoyear term, and there were less than a year left in her term of office, the governor could name her replacement and that person could then run for the seat the following election. Chris says, only half-jokingly, that he might consider dropping his suit “if within the next ten days she decides to resign.” Would he run if she resigned and a special election were called? “Considering that I probably should be sitting in Congress right now, you bet I
would,” he answers. As for the upcoming 2016 contest, he was less sure. “Right now, my focus is trying to get the right thing done and to set a precedent. I’m not thinking about 2016,” he says, noting that “my entire life went on hold for two years and I’m not sure I want to go through that again. “One of the things I want to show,” Chris concludes, “Is that this is not an anomaly. This is the way they do things. This is how they ‘eliminate’ their opponents. It’s how they work. And to me, it is so inimical to what America is and what a free election is that someone has to stand up and say, ‘Hey, you can’t do this.’” Mitchum’s statement noted that “There is a direct legal precedent holding that a “statement actually made by a public figure, but presented in a misleading context, thereby changing the understanding of the speaker’s words, constitutes defamation. Price v. Stossel 620 F.3rd 992 (9th Cir. 2010).” That case revolved around a defamatory statement purportedly
made by Frederick Price during a sermon at the Crenshaw Christian Center in Los Angeles, who was quoted as saying “I live in a 25-room mansion; I have my own six-million-dollar yacht; I have my own private jet, and I have my own helicopter and I have seven luxury automobiles.” However, it turned out he was referencing a hypothetical person and that would have been obvious if the entire quote had been revealed. The quote aired on ABC’s 20/20 and Good Morning America, and the “Stossel” in the case is John Stossel, now of FOX News, but then with ABC. Stossel publicly apologized for the error and stated that he’d never seen the entire sermon but had gone with the clip given to him by his staff. Mr. Mitchum is being represented by Joshua E. Lynn and Elizabeth A. O’Brien of Lynn & O’Brien, LLP. If you are interested in following this case, you can keep up to date by logging on to Chris’s webpage, mitchumlegal. •MJ com.
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At The Wheel by Randy Lioz
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president, and also chaired the MA’s Land Use Committee and sat on the MA board for years. Abel has sat on the MWD board since 1991, and since that time has also held positions on many local boards and committees. The Montecito Sanitary District is led by general manager Diane Gabriel; Judith Ishkanian sits on the board. At the Montecito Fire Protection District (MFPD), former MBAR member Susan Keller is the vice president of the board, with Geri Ventura an integral part of MFPD and MERRAG. “There does indeed seem to be a convergence of key leadership, and I think this is a great trend,” Keller told us about the increased female leadership.
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In Business: Ariadne Wealth Management
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Montecito’s public schools are also in the hands of women: Tammy Murphy leads Montecito Union School and Dr. Tricia Price is the superintendent of Cold Spring. Gwyn Lurie is the MUS board president and Mary Kirkhart is a board member; Jennifer Miller is the only female on the Cold Spring School board. “It’s interesting to note the abundance of Montecito women in leadership roles. It’s a unique time.” said MPC chair Brown. “We all have one thing in common: serving the Montecito community,” she added. The women in the photo wore red as
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its employees, guests, and meeting attendees. On a per-room basis, the Miramar, with 436 on-site parking spaces, offers a greater parking capacity than the Biltmore or El Encanto. In addition, the Miramar plan provides for 50 off-site parking spaces for hotel employees, if needed at a future date. 4) Parking management is in good hands No hotel developer has a better mastery of valet parking than the Caruso team, given their experience at The Grove, a luxury retail shopping complex that accommodates 40,000 visitors a day, cascading to 90,000 visitors a day at Christmas time. The same parking challenge is resolved at the Carusoowned Americana at Brand in Glendale. 5) Parking for beachgoers not a Miramar problem Unfortunately, there is insufficient parking today for Montecito residents and visitors seeking access to Miramar and Hammonds Beach, even before the construction of an attractive new Miramar Resort. When it is completed, the more appealing the resort, the greater number of surfboarders and beach visitors will seek “free” parking on local streets in lieu of paying for valet parking at the Miramar. Just as it is not the responsibility of the Biltmore to provide Montecito residents with free parking to view the Fourth of July fireworks on Butterfly Beach, or for Lucky’s, or Los Arroyos, or Jeannine’s, to provide parking for shoppers on Coast Village Road, it is not the responsibility of the Miramar to provide parking for every surfer or beach visitor. For MPC to penalize the Miramar Resort economically is an unacceptable infringement on the Miramar ’s financial survival and its ability to compete in its marketplace. 6) Parking adequate for 400 attendees per event The maximum number of attendees at each event was originally set at 600 in 2008. It was dropped to 500 attendees in 2011. Caruso, Inc. voluntarily dropped the maximum to 400 attendees when his team eliminated underground parking in 2014. Professional analysis indicates adequate parking is provided for hotel guests, 400 event attendees and club members at the 300-member level. The MPC requirement to cut to 350 attendees penalizes the resort’s financial feasibility and is unnecessary. The cap should be restored to 400 attendees per event. 7) Bus pickup and drop-off condition unnecessary Condition 95 – that bus loading, idling, and unloading should occur only at the main valet parking entrance by the front door of the resort – is frivolous and unnecessary. Non-owner micro-management of resort operations threatens the flexibility of management. 8) The county needs the tax revenue If The Miramar were to achieve a projected 76-percent annual occupancy at a $600 average daily rate for its 170 guest rooms and suites, the resort would generate $28 million a year in room revenues. The hotel transient occupancy tax (TOT) of 10 percent, billed to each hotel guest, would generate Santa Barbara County tax revenues of $2.8 million per year, added to the existing $7.5 million Santa Barbara County TOT tax haul in 2013-14. At a $200-million assessed value, the Miramar Resort would fill county tax coffers with an additional $2 million per annum in property tax revenues. Add in sales taxes on food and beverage sales, plus payroll taxes on new job creation, and it is hard to imagine that the county BOS would not approve the Caruso appeal. 9) The resort will be an asset to the community Local architect Marc Appleton has designed a cottage-style resort compatible with Montecito’s unique character on the 16-acre site. Each design iteration has brought substantial improvement to the project. 10) It’s the right thing to do The three new MPC conditions put the Miramar at an unfair and significant competitive disadvantage by decreasing the revenue stream by at least $10 million a year, making the Miramar harder to finance and less likely to achieve financial stability, an outcome of no benefit to anyone at a time when both the county staff and expert testimony concur that the added conditions are unnecessary and punitive.
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SBIFF & Oscars
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ll the guilds have awarded their prizes for the best movies of 2014. Oscar voting has come to a close. All that’s left now is the counting of the ballots for the Academy Awards, and the Oscar show itself, which is one of the mostwatched TV events of the year. Here in Santa Barbara, we can be forgiven – much more than, say, Peoria, Illinois – for feeling like we have a stake in the outcome. At least one of the nominated folks lives in our midst, a whole lot of members of the Academy do, and the population of both nominees and voters increased by a huge number over the course of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, with almost 50 total individuals up for Oscars having trod down the red carpet or stepped up on a stage. The actors have been covered extensively here and elsewhere in our local media and beyond. So, given limited space and a deeper interest in what goes on behind the camera and the crafting of the screenplay, we’re focusing this year’s edition of “Quotes from the Nominees” on writers, directors, and producers.
Directors
The Imitation Game, Morten Tyldum – On doing a period film as his first U.S. movie: I think it’s impossible not to be fascinated, intrigued, and even outraged when you hear the story (of
mathematician Alan Turing cracking Nazi codes and then being jailed for homosexual acts) for the first time. I’d just moved to Hollywood and was feeling a little bit like an outsider. I was trying to figure out about myself and he was like the outsider’s outsider. A man who never fit in. He never found his place. He was that different. But that’s also how he came up with these extraordinary ideas. Citizenfour, Laura Poitras – On how her documentary adds to the discourse about NSA leaker Edward Snowden: What I try to do with all my work is to get audiences on a more emotional level, not just intellectual. So if people feel something about the dangers of mass indiscriminate surveillance, if people think about their phone and email differently, I’ve done my job. Technology right now is outpacing our ability both to have legal oversight but also just to know what it means for us. Google, Facebook, and NSA are collecting all this information about us so rapidly. So it says, “We need to talk about this and decide what we want to do about this as a society, rather than having it happen in secret.” On whether the movie can make a difference: Change happens through many different ways. You never know where the tipping point is. I’m currently based in Berlin, Germany, which has the most fascistic history of any country on Earth. And they changed. They have laws that are
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American Sniper, Jason Hall – On how he got into writing: I was a bad actor. I wrote roles for myself but no one would let me play them. Then my mom gave me the book Who Moved My Cheese?. On first meeting Chris Kyle in his Texas town: I was the only guy in the room with Converse on. I thought, “This isn’t going to go well.” On his writing process: I’ve never been to war, so I listened to what they (soldiers) listened to: Aerosmith, Ozzy, Metallica, Hate Breed. I found a very dark song and let it pollute my mind. I tried to create as much conflict through my ears. On working with Kyle: He changed over a couple of years. I turned in the (first) draft, and the following day, he was murdered.
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The Imitation Game, Graham Moore – On why he wrote the film: I was a teenage nerd – computer camp, space camp. Alan Turing is the patron saint of nerds. So when I (coincidentally met one of the producers at a party) I totally lost it. I would’ve been a PA on this movie.” Birdman, Alex Dinelaris – On how the script began life: With Alejandro Iñárritu telling me “I want to do a film in one take, a play shot in a theater.” On how that vision showed up in the film: 95 percent of what’s on the page made it to the screen. There was no editing. The mistakes are all up there. On the writing process: I spent nine months structuring it in my mind. When I am cooking dinner or changing diapers, that’s when the subconscious hits. Whiplash, Damien Chazelle – On his process: Writing is a very small part of writing. 90 percent of the process is sitting on couches feeling [lousy] about myself. Lowering my self-esteem. But that’s where the work happens. The Theory of Everything, Anthony McCarten – On how he got the rights to the story about Stephen Hawking: I flew to England and just knocked on her (Hawking ex-wife Jane, who wrote the book McCarten eventually adapted) door. I figured I would need to be a stalker. I told her, “Don’t be afraid, I just want to make a movie about your life.” It took eight years for her to sign. Then just one year to make it after that.
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American Sniper, Robert Lorenz – On working with director Clint Eastwood for more than 20 years: We just talk about it as filmmaking, not whose job it is do what. (I was interested in directing myself), but I feel like Al Pacino in The Godfather – (Clint) keeps pulling me back in. Birdman, John Lesher – On working with Iñárritu: He is a force of nature. You have to trust his instincts and ride the wave of creativity he infects you with. (It’s like) Mexican guacamole cappuccino sushi – in one long take.
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Kevin Costner realizes he’s still best-known for two movies that revolved around baseball, namely Bull Durham and Field of Dreams, even though they came out more than a generation ago. So it took an exceptional script – and the chance to work with Whale Rider director Niki Caro – for him to say yes to another so-called sports movie in McFarland, USA. “I turn down an awful lot,” he told me on the red carpet before the movie 19 – 26 February 2015
had its U.S. premiere on the closing night of SBIFF. “I’ve been able to do political thrillers, love stories, and romantic comedies and baseball movies. I haven’t been limited. But sometimes these movies come to me. The majority of them aren’t good enough. But this one rang so true.” Costner said he was drawn in by the “obviously sweet” sentiment and the fact that it was based on a true story. “This isn’t a Hollywood ending. These kids didn’t have a lot to look forward to, and one man gave them a chance, pointed them in a direction.” Costner plays that man, coach Jim Kelly, who came to McFarland, a predominately Latino farming community in California’s San Joaquin Valley, after having been fired again from another public teaching job. There, he creates a cross country team after noticing how fast some of the kids ran, and somehow turns the unlikely gang into champion contenders. “He wasn’t even that skilled,” Costner explained. “They (the student athletes) were skilled. And they achieved much more than they ever thought they could. I mean, that’s a pretty good story if it’s told right.” Whether it’s told “right” or perhaps with too much schmaltz, as some reviewers have suggested – it is, after all, a Disney movie – McFarland, USA, which opens this weekend in local theaters and across the country, does put a lot of the emphasis on the kids themselves albeit still focusing on coach White and his family. It’s rare to get such an immersive look into Latino culture from a Hollywood movie. For Costner, that’s part of the film’s appeal. “There’s always an opportunity in a movie when the lights go out for something magical to happen. We’ve understood that ever since we’ve been going to movies as kids. But a lot of times, we’re disappointed because it doesn’t live up to what we want. But when a movie works correctly, when it works at its very best, things can happen that you never ever forget.” Costner called what happened in McFarland – the town itself, as well as the movie – a “miracle.” “The hope is that it translates to people, especially in our community. Around here, we drive by these fields. We all look out there and know that people are doing that work. And they’re doing it for one reason. This isn’t a story about cross country runners. This is more American than apple pie and baseball. It’s parents who are willing to work all day long to make a difference in their children’s lives. There’s nothing more American than that.”
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The Way It Was
Roadside Improvements and a Service Station
The first campaign to beautify gas stations launched in 1931 (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
by Hattie Beresford
Originally, Plans and Planting wanted to improve the architecture and appearance of auto camps and courts. Their 1930 survey said that Campbell’s was planted and kept neatly; had 22 cabins on one-half acre, rooms with kitchen, bedroom, toilets and showers, and steam heat, all for only $1.50 a night. Other auto courts didn’t fare so well in the survey. (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
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ver since travel writer Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) touted Santa Barbara as a health spa in his 1873 book, California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence, city leaders have seen the wisdom in making and keeping Santa Barbara beautiful. Since Nordhoff’s time, there have been continuous campaigns to enhance the city’s charms. In 1886, for instance, the younger set in town created the Go-Ahead Club whose purpose was to improve and beautify Santa Barbara. For their first project, they chose to organize a Centennial celebration on behalf of the Mission in order to raise money for a new roof of tile. In January 1915, the year-old “City Beautiful” committee worked with the Chamber of Commerce to put Santa Barbara in good condition to receive the hordes of visitors expected to arrive in California for the San Diego and San Francisco expositions. The committee included realtors Harold Chase and L.G. Dreyfus, Edgar Park, Dr. Ida Stambach, Margaret Baylor, and Pearl Chase. The group wanted to clean up the “sore spots in the city” and replace weed patches and rubbish heaps with plantings of shrubs and flowers. Plans were made for awards and prize money for property owners who participated in the project. In 1922, Bernhard Hoffman sponsored the Plans and Planting (P&P) Branch of the two-year-old Community Arts Association, and an educational campaign on architecture and civic beauty was begun. Their first project was to sponsor a Small House Design Competition to enhance the attractiveness of the city while creating affordable housing for veterans of WWI. These soldiers had come home
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Ms Beresford is a retired English and American history teacher of 30 years in the Santa Barbara School District. She is author of two Noticias, “El Mirasol: From Swan to Albatross” and “Santa Barbara Grocers,” for the Santa Barbara Historical Society.
to face shortages, recession, and the Spanish flu. The Santa Barbara effort soon joined the national Better Homes in America Campaign. The year after the Santa Barbara earthquake of June 1925, P&P instituted awards for “Civic and Commercial Architecture in Santa Barbara and Montecito,” and they joined the National Committee for Restriction of Outdoor Advertising. In doing so, they were joining a ground swell of communities nationwide who were determined to preserve and beautify their roadside landscapes, scenery, and structures. Several local gas stations were given architectural awards and appropriate signage was one of the criteria.
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Following the invention of the Ford Model T, the first automobile affordable for the average American family, the number of autoists increased dramatically. No longer did people need to travel only to towns tied to the railroad tracks. Now, the open road invited excursionists to explore where they had never gone before. By the 1920s, Americans had taken to the roads in earnest. The Better Roads campaign, begun by bicyclists
Had the photographer of the promotional brochure turned around, he would have revealed that the signage on the highway through today’s Coast Village was nothing to brag about
in 1880, had been assumed by autoists in the 1900s. In 1913 the 3,389-mile Lincoln Highway, the first cross-country highway in the nation, was completed. American advertisers soon capitalized on this new travel phenomenon, and commercial messages began to appear on the sides of barns and covered bridges. Billboards blaring their messages in loud colors appeared on land leased from farmers and ranchers. In response, local organizations called for controls on this form of advertising, finding them both unattractive and unsafe. In Vermont, those who wished to restrict outdoor advertising created flyers featuring the slogan “Attack that Pest, Attack and Fight/Attack the growing Billboard Blight.” Signage was not the only concern, however. The roadsides needed to be beautified through plantings and maintenance. Nationwide, women’s organizations and others were called on to organize clean-up campaigns. In Santa Barbara, besides a campaign against road signs, the Plans and Planting Branch of the Community Arts Association decided it wanted to encourage the beautification of roadside businesses as well. In 1930, Pearl Chase, chair of P&P, wrote, “The Plans and Planting Branch of the Community Arts Association of
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Santa Barbara is working in behalf of the ever increasing numbers who travel the highways for pleasure to improve the character of commercial buildings near towns and on the rural highways… It is frequently remarked that the highways of California are fast becoming lined with cheap and unsightly commercial establishments … [that] seldom serve their purpose most efficiently and with the least possible offense to the eye.” There was much to offend the eye along Santa Barbara’s roads, so the P&P decided to focus on one area, auto camps. “The Association,” wrote Pearl Chase, “is of the opinion that there are architectural and artistic possibilities in the design of these structures and that much improvement might be made in the appearance and convenience of such commercial groups.” Eleven auto camps in Montecito, Goleta and Santa Barbara were surveyed in 1930, and a statewide architectural competition to create artistically pleasing auto camps was announced. Unfortunately, it was cancelled at the last minute, but the P&P regrouped and shifted their focus to service stations. P&P joined several other organizations in the county to promote cleaner, better-landscaped gas stations. Piles of used tires and engine parts, old oil 19 – 26 February 2015
The architecture of the BarnsdallRio Grande gas station on Hollister Avenue was clearly influenced by popularity of Spanish architectural styles and the promotions for roadside beautification (Courtesy Gary Coombs and Phyllis Olsen via Tom Madugno)
In 1934, 124 stations in the Coast District from Carpinteria to Ellwood were surveyed and rated with a star system, with four stars meaning excellent. Certificates were awarded and the ratings and photos published in a brochure with the slogan “High quality gas and oil doesn’t cost any more at an attractive station than it does at an unattractive one.” In 1937, two stations in Montecito received the four stars: E.M Austin’s Standard Station at Olive Mill and Coast Village Road and J. Jordy’s Union Station, also on Olive Mill and Coast Village Roads. In Santa Barbara, five stations received four stars.
Pearl Chase was 26 years old and teaching at Santa Barbara High School when she joined the “City Beautiful” committee in 1914 (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
Barnsdall-Rio Grande Service Station
Oil was discovered on Ellwood Mesa in the 1920s. The Rio Grande Oil Company, which had drilled the first cans, barren asphalt stained with gas successful well on this land, soon partand oil and littered with rubbish, loud nered up with Barnsdall Oil Company paint colors and large excessive sig- to sink several more wells nearby. nage did not add to the beauty of the In 1929, the oil company constructed area, the P&P maintained. In 1931, they a filling station on the State Highway held a “Competition for Improvement near their oil fields. Though not eliin Appearance of Service Stations” gible for one of the P&P architectural and offered cash prizes to those who awards (it was outside the geographentered the contest. ical area covered by these awards), the company nevertheless hired an architectural firm, Morgan, Walls, and Clement of Los Angeles, to design a Spanish Colonialstyle station. Clearly, the “city beautiful” and “roadside beautification” programs in Santa Barbara were having an effect beyond the boundaries of the town. In their 1985 booklet, Sentinel at Ellwood: The Barnsdall-Rio Grande Gasoline Station, Gary Coombs and Phyllis Olsen wrote, “The wealth of architectural elaboration is impressive. Tuscan piers, scrolled roof beams, intricately molded concrete, and more.” The use of Promotional brochure touts John A. Jameson’s Montecito Parkway white and blue ceramic and uses Upper State Street (then Hollister Avenue) as a bad example of outdoor advertising (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical tiles, bullet hole windows, Museum) and a screened cupola 19 – 26 February 2015
In 1925, the Standard Station that stood on the site of Los Aves on Los Patos Road (then Coast Highway) won Honorable Mention in the contest for “Civic and Commercial Architecture in Santa Barbara and Montecito” (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
with tiled dome all combined to make the Barnsdall-Rio Grande service station the crowning jewel of Spanish revival-style gas stations. In 1931, the station won a beautification award for landscaping in the first “Competition for Improvement in Appearance of Service Stations.” In 1934 and ‘37, the station earned a three-star rating from the program to improve the appearance of gas stations. Soon, other businesses grew up near the station. In 1930/31 a restaurant was added. It became a favorite fuel stop for William Randolph Hearst, who stopped by with Marion Davis on his way to or from Los Angeles. Will Rogers, too, was a frequent customer. When the State Highway was rerouted in 1947, it by-passed Hollister Avenue, drastically reducing the number of patrons. It closed as a retail station in the 1950s and stopped all operations in 1972. The charm of the building attracted the film industry, which used it in the 1980 movie The Postman Always Rings Twice with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange, but other than that brief inter-
est, it has been left to languish and decay. In 1985, Coombs and Olsen opined that the station, a symbol of Goleta’s oil-drilling past and possibly one of the last gas stations designed to celebrate the 1920s promotion of Spanish Colonial-style architecture, meets the requirements for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. It was once County Historic Landmark #29, but when the city of Goleta incorporated, the county lost jurisdiction. Back in 2005, a News-Press article expressed confidence that this “bonafide historic gem” will see “a new, and happier, chapter… now that Ty Warner owns it.” Warner received title to the property when he purchased the Sandpiper Golf Course. Though he expressed interest in the building at the time, 10 years later it still sits on a weed strewn lot behind a chain link fence. •MJ (Sources not mentioned in text: files from Gledhill Library and Community and Conservation Collection – CAA+P&P; contemporary news articles; The View from Vermont: Tourism and the Making of a Rural Landscape by Blake Harrison)
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That’s Italian! One of the most colorful and impressive exhibitions at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art is now taking place with the Botticelli, Titian, and Beyond: Masterpieces of Italian Paintings from the Glasgow Museums. The show, which received an astounding 1250 RSVPs when a reception was held to launch the exhibit, explores the evolution of art and reflects the outstanding quality and remarkable 500-year range, from the late 14th to the 19th centuries, of the Scottish museums’ Italian holdings. Included are works by some of the greatest masters of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods, such as Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Domenichino, Salvator Rosa, Luca Signorelli, and Titian, many of which have never before been exhibited outside of Glasgow. Several have been newly restored for the exhibition. The show, organized by Robert and Mercedes Eichholz and museum director Larry Feinberg, consists of more than 40 pieces, beginning with early religious works in the gallery titled The Renaissance:
Tradition and Discover. Among the artistic throng gridlocking the galleries were Leslie RidleyTree, Lee Luria, Robert and Christine Emmons, Starr Siegele, Sara Miller McCune, Ginny Brush, Joseph and Sophia McCabe, Brian King, Valeria Rumori, Nigel Donnelly, Michael Towbes, Tracey Wilfong-Singh, Jeanne Towles, Kathe Parker, Carolyn Amory, Harry Brown, Ricardo and Dinah Calderon, Joel and Doreen Ladin, Bruce and Stacy Stouffer, Steve and Caroline Thompson, Ralph and Diane Waterhouse, and Barbara Woods. The exhibition runs through May 3...
All the Sage Publisher-philanthropist Sara Miller-McCune celebrated the 50th anniversary of her Sage Publications, with a glittering bash at the Biltmore. The company, which has offices in Washington, London, New Delhi, and Singapore, is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. After quaffing the cocktails and snaffling the comestibles, 275 guests attended a lecture in the nearby Loggia Ballroom by Los Angeles-based Sir Ken Robinson, author and an international advisor on education in the arts to government and nonprofits. Among those helping Sara celebrate the half-century were Craig and Susan McCaw, Dan and Meg Burnham, Lynda Weinman, Bruce Heavin, Celesta Billeci, Robert and Christine Emmons, Allan Ghitterman, Jeff Greenfield, Nancy Koppelman, Carla Hahn, Ben Romo, Gwen Stauffer, Mike Towbes, Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp, Lanny Ebenstein, Todd Capps, and David and Gunilla McCune...
Among the guests are Lynda Weinman, Lynda.com; Blaise Simqu, president and CEO of SAGE Publications; Judith Hopkinson, Cottage Health System board member; Susan Rose, Santa Barbara Community leader; Allan Ghitterman, Esquire; Celesta Billeci, Arts and Lectures Miller McCune executive director and seated is Natalie Orfalea of Orfalea Foundation with the celebrated Sara Miller MCune (photo by Priscilla)
Sir Ken Robinson, author and speaker with Sara Miller McCune, publisher, founder, chairman, SAGE Publications; at the reception marking the 50th Anniversary of SAGE and CORWIN celebrating its 25th alongside the McCune Foundation created by Sara and George in 1990 (photo by Priscilla)
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Orpheum Theatre, near my Gramercy Park home nearly 20 years ago, but the energized production, created by Brits Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, has lost none of its entertainment value as amply proven when the eight-member touring cast entertained a sold-out audience at the Granada, part of the popular Theater League program. The 100-minute intermission-less joyful, witty, humorous, and wordless show lets the pulsating percussion beat tell the story using push brooms, garbage cans, inner tubes, hammer handles, Zippo lighters, and even a kitchen sink to create the unique pulse-pounding sound. The show has been performed in 50 countries for an estimated 24 million people and since 2007 has had a permanent new $28-million venue as Stomp Out Loud at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Definitely a production that gets my stomp of approval!..
in ethnomusicology at UCSB in 2004 – and Ethiopian-American singer Meklit Hadero, both based in San Francisco, founded The Nile Project in 2011, gathering musicians from 11 countries across the region in a passionate cross-cultural collaboration, which was amply on display at UCSB’s Campbell Hall during its first tour. Featuring performers from Sudan, Egypt, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi, the talented troupe, representing 11 different Nile-connected nations, played a stunning variety of instruments, including the maenko from Ethiopia, the ney and oud from Egypt and the adunga from Uganda – in addition to violin, saxophone, bass guitar, and six vocalists singing in 11 languages. An invigorating show that, dare I say, went flowingly...
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glitteringly garbed masked guests at the Biltmore honoring legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, who teaches master classes just a tiara’s toss away at the Music Academy of the West. The bounteous bash, co-chaired by Pat Andersons and Rodney Baker, featured the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone, accompanied by his wife, Ivana, auctioning off five operatic jaunts to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Calgary, Canada, Wilmington, Delaware, New York, and Los Angeles, which raised almost $30,000 alone. Opera director Steven Sharpe added to the coffers inviting sponsorships for arias featuring Donizetti’s Una Furtiva Lagrima from L’Elisir D’Amore, Bizet’s Seguidilla from Carmen, and Rogers & Hammerstein’s Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific, sung by mezzo-soprano Eve Giglitti, tenor Javier Abreu, and bass baritone Stefano de Peppo, with Katherine Kozak on piano. Among those in the right aria were president Sandy Urquhart, Paksy Plakis-Cheng, Joan and Geoffrey Rutkowski, Beno Budgor, Roger and Sarah Chrisman, Duncan Mellichamp, Deborah Bertling, Mike and Anne Towbes, Dolly Granatelli, TV actress Finola Hughes, Daniel and Belle HahnCohen, Lee Luria, Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp, Ralph and Diana MacFarlane, Christopher Lancashire, Catherine Gee, Stefan and Christine Riesenfeld, Hiroko Benko, Mary Dora, Robert Weinman, Robert and Gretchen Lieff, and Scott Reed... For Art’s Sake Interior design twosome Steve and Caroline Thompson hosted a bijou bash at their Cabana Home store for the North Carolina furniture company Lee Industries and local artist, Mary Heebner, who was exhibiting 19 – 26 February 2015
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17 works. Mary just sold her magnificent tome Silent Faces/Angkor to the Library of Congress in Washington, which features a traditional printed fine book, accordion folded prints, and Chinese painted scrolls in a custom made display case. A less hefty work Apsara: An Inspiration, which has just been published this month, sells for $2,000 and of 24 printed, nine have already been snapped up. The 50 guests, including Terry and Pam Valeski, Bondi Coley, Sarah Stokes, Karen Lehrer, and Lynne Andujar, noshed on an eclectic selection of pizzas baked in a portable 30524 oven, and quaffed wine, and artisanal
cocktails from Deb Glassman. Furniture and food for thought... Sightings: Oscar nominee Amy Adams dining at Lucky’s... Oprah Winfrey’s beau Stedman Graham checking out the wares at Velo Pro Cyclery on State Street...Veteran actor William Daniels collecting his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond
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across the country. In 2008, Dongieux and his partners sold the firm to a private equity firm, and after an employment contract, Dongieux intended to retire. “I tried. I bought a boat, I bought a bike, I tried to relax,” he laughed. “But I just wasn’t cut out to retire.” So in November 2014, Dongieux founded Ariadne, named for the Greek mythological princess who provided Theseus a thread to escape the labyrinth. “The word means a method or solution to solving a complex problem,” Dongieux said. The firm currently provides financial planning and wealth management for 17 families, using an investment approach rooted in academic research and scientific methods. “It’s not sales-based, like many firms are,” Dongieux said, adding that he and his team work with economists schooled in the science of financial economics. “It’s a completely different approach to managing money and investments,” he said. The firm, which also includes financial planner Adam Stempel and financial analyst Rick DeBreuil, provides personalized service, customizing portfolios for different client’s values and desires. “We love helping people invest, and doing it in a way in which they feel is based around their values,” Dongieux said. Dongieux, a father of two who lives in Carpinteria with his wife, Deanna, an artist, says he chose Plaza Montecito for its Spanish revival architecture and stunning mountain views. Ariadne’s brochures and materials feature Deanna’s painted depiction of the Spanish-style building. For more information, visit www. ariadnewealth.com. The office is located at 1255 Coast Village Road, suite 201A.
Benefit for Sheriff’s Deputy
This Saturday, February 21, a barbecue and silent auction will be held at the Elk’s Lodge in Goleta to benefit Deputy Dan McSkimming, a 16-year veteran of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department. The 43-year-old senior deputy, who is also a husband and father of two, is undergoing a major rehabilitation after hurting his neck last August while working a patrol shift in Carpinteria. Senior deputy McSkimming subsequently suffered a stroke and was placed into a medically induced coma for several weeks. Since then he has made major strides in his rehabilitation, but he still has a long road of recovery ahead. As a way to financially help support senior deputy McSkimming and his family, the Sheriff’s Special Enforcement Team Support Foundation, a non-profit group, as well as members of the Sheriff’s Department are hosting the event, which will feature a silent auction and raffle items that include vacation packages, autographed sports memorabilia and firearms safety and skills training. The Sheriff’s Special Enforcement Team Support Foundation has also set up a GoFundMe account for the McSkimming family, which has raised close to $60,000 so far. Staci McSkimming, Dan’s wife of 13 years, stated she is extremely touched by the community’s generosity. “Words can’t express just how thankful we are for all of the love and support we have received from friends, family, co-workers, and perfect strangers,” she said in a statement.
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During his career at the Sheriff’s Office, senior deputy McSkimming has worked in a variety of assignments including South County Patrol, the Sheriff’s Special Enforcement Team, Forensics, Gang Suppression, and the Sheriff’s Training Bureau. McSkimming frequently patrolled Montecito and Coast Village Road, and was a familiar face at Montecito Association meetings and around town. Prior to coming to the Sheriff’s Office, McSkimming worked for Juvenile Probation. “Thanks to his remarkable will and fortitude, Dan has made great strides
in recovering from this devastating blow,” said sheriff Bill Brown. “I am so proud of Dan and of everyone – friends, colleagues, and strangers alike – who are stepping up to help him and his family during this time of need.” The funds raised will go toward long-term medical care. The benefit is from 11 am to 4 pm on February 21 at the Elk’s Lodge in Goleta, 150 N. Kellogg Avenue. Tickets are $10 at the door. To learn more about the GoFundMe account set up to benefit the McSkimming family, go to www. gofundme.com/benefitfordan.
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How to Have Yellowstone Park All to Yourself
Emblems of the Wild West, buffalo (officially, bison) in the park number about 3,000 – and often create traffic jams
The classic 1904 Old Faithful Inn, its lobby framed in logs and gnarled branches, offers guests comfort and style but also a connection to the western wilderness
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n our short-attention-span society, it’s a trend nowadays for travel magazines to reduce a place to a short list of attractions: “The 7 Sexiest Hotels in [your favorite destination here].” “11 Tips for A Fabulous Vacation!” But if you’re going to Yellowstone National Park, the roster of things you need to know is relatively short. In fact, just a single item: 1) In summer, Yellowstone gets really crowded. Our first national park, established in 1872 and located in the upper-left corner of Wyoming, is a wonderland that attracts more than three million people annually. (Visitors actually outnumber the combined populations of Wyoming and Montana.) Areas around the major sights – geysers, waterfalls – can look less like a national park than a Wal-Mart parking lot. In fact, humorist Dave Barry once made fun of park visitors treating nature as mass popular entertainment; he pointed out “Old Faithful Geyser, an amazing natural phenomenon that, at regularly scheduled intervals, erupts out of the ground and performs
‘Hello, Dolly.’ Tips are appreciated.” But this past June, I discovered a foolproof way to avoid the summer crowds. Here’s my secret for seeing the park’s wonders – the rainbow hot springs and bubbling mud pots, the wildflower meadows and trout streams, the elk herds and grizzly bears – in silence and solitude: Get up early. Really early. Wa-a-a-y too early. Wolves and bears wake up at dawn to go out for breakfast, so at that hour you have a much better chance of seeing them. (And not seeing other people, who are still in their warm beds and sleeping bags.) I rallied my wife, Merry (“Call Me Intrepid”) Dunn, at the brain-numbing hour of 4:30. We stumbled out of our cabin in the darkness, got in the car, and made it to the Lamar Valley just as the sun rose. This river valley is home to elk, coyotes, wolves, grizzlies, and other free-roaming wild animals. (Hence the nickname “The Little Serengeti of North America.”). As a former Santa Barbara Zoo keeper, Merry hoped to see some critters. But even though the sky was barely
light when we drove into the valley, there was already a traffic jam. Of buffalo. A herd was slowly meandering along the two-lane highway. (Buffalo like paved roads for the same reason we do: easy passage through rough terrain.) We stopped, and in 10 seconds our car was engulfed by woolly brown beasts. Shuffling past, they edged up to our car and snorted into our half-open windows. (Please pass the breath mints.) Buffalo are the park’s largest animals. A male may weigh more than 1,800 pounds, yet can run twice as fast as an Olympic sprinter... and then trample you. More park visitors are injured each year by buffalo than by bears; even so, I later saw camera-toting tourists get out of their vehicles and, as if in a daze, approach within a few yards of these wild and unpredictable behemoths. Sitting in a sturdy metal box on wheels, though, we were safe from
random trampling and goring. We could see the buffalo’s shiny horns and pointed beards up close, and look into their calm, cow-like eyes. We also watched new calves gamboling on their skinny stick legs, just like children playing. Lucky for them, there were no wolves in sight. As we headed out of the valley, a lone driver coming the other way waved for us to stop. A genial man with an Indian accent leaned out the window. “There’s a grizzly just ahead! Look on the ridge, up to the left.” We parked a few hundred yards down the road and spied a dark silhouette 75 yards away. Was it a grizzly? Shaggy brown coat: check. Dish-shaped face: check. Hump on its shoulders: check. It was indeed the kingpin predator of North America. But the grizzly was just rambling on a grassy hilltop, digging up roots
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TRAVEL (Continued from page 35) Freshened up after a $28-million renovation, the 1891 Lake Yellowstone Hotel remains the quietest, most gracious of the park’s lodgings
and bulbs with a massive paw. A Yellowstone grizzly bear’s diet ranges rather democratically from pine nuts to moose (especially and sadly calves). But grizzlies rarely view us as prey, despite their advantages in speed (35 mph) and strength (jaws powerful enough to crush a bowling ball). This bear simply strolled along, digging up breakfast, and I could imagine it humming to itself contentedly. By now we were hungry ourselves, so we drove to Roosevelt Lodge, the smallest, quietest, and least crowded of the park’s accommodations. The log lodge wasn’t open for breakfast yet, so we sat in rocking chairs on the porch with a few other early risers. A little girl scampering around in the cool morning air reminded us of the buffalo calves we’d just seen. At seven o’clock, the front door opened. We took seats in the dining room and ordered the chef’s daily scramble – mushrooms and Swiss cheese – with blueberry muffins and some wake-up coffee. Ahhh. That afternoon we drove the Grand Loop road, which links most of the park’s iconic sights, to see some geothermal features. Yellowstone has 10,000 of them – more boiling hot springs, erupting geysers, and steaming fumaroles than the rest of the world combined. It was hard to forget one Big Fact: we were on top of the world’s largest supervolcano. It could blow at any minute. In fact, it has done just that three times. The first eruption, 2.1 million years ago, was six thousand times more powerful than Mount St. Helens. The explosion sent burning gas, molten rock, and ash blasting across the landscape – thereby, as two local geologists describe it, “vaporizing forests, animals, birds, and streams into varicolored puffs of steam.” I kind of counted on this not happening. Still, the possibility added a frisson of excitement to our visit. The most recent eruption took place 640,000 years ago, leaving the 30-by-45-mile Yellowstone Caldera that fills the center of the park. (The caldera is bigger
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In spring, Lower Yellowstone Falls pours 63,500 gallons of water per second over a drop of 308 feet; it’s the park’s tallest waterfall
Aerial view of Grand Prismatic Spring, whose 370foot diameter makes it the world’s second-largest hot spring; visitors see it from a wooden walkway
than Rhode Island, but what isn’t?) And it’s not exactly as if things are quiet now. Each year, the Yellowstone volcano generates 2,000 earthquakes. We got out of the car at Norris Geyser Basin. By this time of day, the parking lot looked like one at Disneyland, jammed with Homo sapiens and their RVs. Norris is the hottest, most unpredictable geyser basin in the park, with new steaming pools and geysers appearing regularly. Beneath our feet, the land was five inches higher than it had been 10 years ago, thanks to the pressure of hot magma pushing up the whole region. (In simple terms, the molten center of the Earth wants to escape.) Merry and I set forth on a wooden boardwalk designed to keep visitors from falling into a geothermal feature and being inconveniently parboiled. Emerald Spring simmered away, a pretty blue-green color. We passed the world’s tallest geyser, Steamboat, which spouts water in a column 300 feet high – but eruptions can be decades apart. Soon we came to reliable Vixen Geyser, just a small, steaming hole in the ground when we arrived. But we heard subterranean plumbing, the noise of water sloshing and gurgling – and suddenly steam and boiling water burst into the air, 20 feet high. A little girl came along just as Vixen went off. “Wow!” she said, “I was not expecting THAT!” Next morning, Merry and I again
were out of bed at a ridiculously early hour, heading to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. It was carved 10,000 years ago by a rush of water from melting glaciers, and today is 20 miles long, up to 1,200 feet deep, and still growing. From a viewpoint on the north rim, we gazed at the thundering Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River. In dawn’s early light, we were the only people around. Green water poured over the lip of the falls and fell 308 feet, its impact sending clouds of mist up into the morning air. With no other human beings in sight, we saw what mountain men and early explorers saw, a pristine wonder of nature. This is the sight painter Thomas Moran captured while on the 1871 Hayden expedition, in his 7-by-12-foot masterpiece Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. When magazines and newspapers back East splashed images of the painting and William Henry Jackson’s photographs across their pages, the public saw the marvels of Yellowstone for the first time, leading to its preservation as a national park in 1872. That year, the park had 300 visitors. It’s not like that now, but if you follow my one and only travel tip and get up very early, your sacrifice of sleep will earn you a great privilege – that of having Yellowstone National Park all to yourself.
COMPASS POINTS Where: Yellowstone National Park occupies nearly 3,500 square miles in the northwest corner of Wyoming (along with small bits in Montana and Idaho). Visitor information: www.nps.gov/yell Where to bunk: The park’s excellent concessionaire, Xanterra (www.yel lowstonenationalparklodges.com), offers a range of accommodations, from rustic cabins to the elegant Lake
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Yellowstone Hotel. Reserve far ahead. Most popular is the Old Faithful Inn, a 1904 classic of national “parkitecture” that evokes an Alpine lodge set in the Wild West; it is built of native logs and stone with high pitched roofs. The towering lobby surrounds a massive four-sided fireplace. Suites $525; geyser-facing rooms $260. The rambling Lake Yellowstone Hotel (1891) stands on the shore of vast Lake Yellowstone and recently underwent a $28-million facelift. Utterly unlike other park accommodations, the gracious hotel is yellow clapboard with stately white columns; in the afternoon, guests gather in an airy sunroom with live piano music and jigsaw puzzles to assemble, as if in a bygone era. Our freshened-up room was pale green, with contemporary dark furniture and a spacious bath with good water pressure in the shower. Lakeside suite $545; lakeside rooms $339-$359; if you have a group, the three-bedroom Presidential Suite is a great deal at $629. Can’t-fail wildlife spotting: The excellent Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center (www.grizzlydiscoveryctr. org) in the gateway town of West Yellowstone, Montana, educates you about these animals up close; if you don’t see any in the park, well at least you’ll have seen some here. Traveler’s tips: Pack a sweater and rain poncho for changeable weather. (In June we had sun, rain, hail, and snow – all in one day.) Park lodges have no TV, and Internet service is spotty at best. (This encourages spending time with family and friends.) To see wolves, look for wolf spotters, people in roadside pullouts with long scopes; they won’t mind if you quietly join them. Keep your distance from grizzly bears; about 70 percent of fatal attacks here are from mothers •MJ defending their cubs. 19 – 26 February 2015
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chosen the repertoire, even just sticking to the stuff that swings? I went to the material that Sinatra was doing on a global tour with a smaller group, just a handful of cats. I wanted to know how he handled not having a big band on the road. We copped some of those arrangements, (though) there will be a small horn section and a friend who plays vibe augmenting my regular small group. I also went back to several of my records where I’ve covered individual songs closely associated with Sinatra to give them a new twist. It’s not going to be just finger-popping all night. There are some new ideas, some more contemporary sounds. But it all points back to Sinatra.
Focus on Film
The amount of space we have left to preview UCSB A&L’s presentation of The Best of the 39th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival is inversely proportional to the wide-open terrain explored over the two nights of short films at the Arlington covering everything remotely related to mountains, from extreme sports to high-altitude culture and critters. Each night screens nine different films, with People’s Choice Award winner Mending the Line anchoring the slate on Wednesday, February 25, and Grand Prize winner Valley Uprising: The Golden Age closing out the screenings next Thursday. Tickets cost $16. Call 893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu for tickets and schedule.
Five Questions: Kurt Elling
Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling has won every DownBeat Critics Poll for the last 13 years while each of his nine albums has been nominated for a Grammy. So maybe that’s why he thought he was ready to lend his versatile baritone four-octaves strong to the best of Ol’ Blue Eyes. Elling Swings Sinatra comes to the Lobero next Thursday, February 26, as Elling offers his reinterpretations of the Chairman of the Board’s classic repertoire from “Come Fly With Me” and “In The Still Of The Night” to “I Only Have Eyes For You,” and “April In Paris.” The singer talked about Sinatra and his own approach over the phone earlier this week. Q. With all your talents and diverse interests, original songs and more, why a tribute to Frank Sinatra?
Kurt Elling swings into the Lobero
A. Because it’s the 100th anniversary of his birth. So if there was ever going to be a time to dive in, or at least put something together, this is it. I’ve taken so much effort to carve out my own space... but he had such a huge impact on so many generations of male singers. He defined a way of interacting with a big band and orchestra. He was the voice of the American 20th century. It was the right time to tip my hat. What was it about Sinatra that has made him so enduring? He represented so much more than music. He was a distinctly skilled swinging singer at a time when that was popular. He defined a way of being a big star with a big band when that meant swinging really hard. The machismo and command of the stage – and of an audience – that all belongs to him in spades.
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What do you think you have learned, so far, from the Sinatra concerts – about the music, or performing or whatever? We have some of these charts that are really just reductions of some of these classic big band charts, which has shown me again the importance of having custom-tailored arrangements for the singer. The big band charts from Quincy Jones, I can do a passable job of that, even though they were intended for Sinatra and his sound and breath. I put in some shoulder pads, puff up a little bit, and throw down. But for that to work, I have to sing in that style. Take that big band out of the performance equation, though, and you can’t work the same magic. The stuff is time-bound. So you need to re-work these things however subtly to create that kind of frisson.... I’ve been about finding my own spot where I’m best employed on behalf of jazz. It’s been an interesting experiment.
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What’s been your approach to these songs, meaning how do you find that balance between his renditions and bringing your own style? Everything is an experiment. Every night it changes. I’m always tinkering to find the right balance for every situation and audience. I keep what works well and tweak those that didn’t connect quite as much, maybe when there’s a lull in the action. So the balance varies every night. But my voice is in the same range as Sinatra’s, so it’s an organically included ingredient. Even when we’re doing the more modern material, I’m not going to be
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by Jim Alexander
No Resolution Is a Good Resolution
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any of you (well, two people counting my wife and the voice in my head) have asked why I didn’t do my standard “New Year’s Resolution” column last month. I know lots of you probably figured I didn’t make any resolutions because I’ve evolved into the perfect man with no possible room for improvement, but that’s not entirely true. I could still lose an ounce or two. I could visit the gym more often (it’d be impossible to visit it less often). And, I should resolve to replace the gasoline nozzle before driving away from the pump (sorry Union 76 at State and Islay). But the real reason I didn’t do a 2015 New Year’s resolution column was because last year’s resolutions were such disasters. You may remember that last year, on advice from the self-help book The New Me – A Guide For Metro-Sexual Men over 60, I made a resolution to tell my male friends that I loved them. Super Bowl halftime seemed like a perfect time to make this announcement. The best part of this strategy was that it allowed me the whole first half to consume several cans of Budweiser courage. True to my vow, I climbed (clambered?) atop of my Super Bowl host’s coffee table during the game break and pledged my undying affection for everyone. What followed was a dog pile of Mastiff proportion in which onion dip was packed into my pants, guacamole crammed into my ears, and basil pesto hummus stuffed into my navel. That was not the reaction I’d hoped for, and it seemed a bit excessive. To my way of thinking, if anyone deserved to be accosted with such ferocity, it should’ve been the guy that brought the basil pesto hummus. Last year, I also resolved to vote, no matter what level my apathy. Regrettably, it turns out I‘m the kiss of death on Election Day. Pollsters no longer need to bother with exit polls; they can simply call me to see who and what I voted for, and then project the opposite. I am to candidates what Claus Von Bulow is to wives, and I’m to ballot propositions what my wife is to house plants. If you put Lora in a rain forest, thriving flora will turn to potpourri before your eyes. Last year, I resolved to get out of my idiom comfort zone and speak more foreign languages. Unfortunately, I experienced the same results Porky Pig might in trying to recite the nursery rhyme Peter Piper. In an attempt to impress my wife, I took her to a
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Jim Alexander’s regrets? He’s had a few. A half-dozen weeks into 2015, the author is pondering resolutions, such as getting pumped-up while replacing gas pumps – and he speaks using a forked tongue tinged with Spanish.
French restaurant for her birthday. I don’t know about you, but Vêler des Cerveaux sounded like a little piece of Frenchified heaven to me. What it ended up being was two sections of spongy calf brains. I had plenty of time to play brain hockey with my food that night and ponder how, after two years of high school French and a childhood of watching Pepé Le Pew, I could only say, “Pierre et un bel homme.” Unfortunately, Pierre is a handsome man doesn’t come up often in conversation, and it’s never on the menu.
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up a certain amount of Spanish, if only by osmosis
My second foreign language mistake-o happened at Paseo Nuevo mall-o. After following Lora from shoe store to makeup store to shoe store, my dogs started barking and I took a seat on a bench as she continued her quest. While resting, I watched a young Latina mother play with her two children. One can’t live in Santa Barbara for 50 years without picking up a certain amount of Spanish, if only by osmosis. So, when it came time to leave I said to the mother, “Sus hijas son cabras,” thinking it meant, “Your daughters are cute.” On the drive home, my resident Latina wife explained the extent of my blooper. “No wonder she threw her shoe at you, idiota,” she exclaimed. “My Spanish isn’t very good, but I think you told her that her daughters look like goats.” There you have it. If I were a wiser writer, I’d pass on some new words of wisdom at this point, but I’m drawing a blank. All I can come up with is Su boca huele como calcetines suscio. Which I’m pretty sure means either Burn all the metrosexual self-help books or Real men don’t eat basil pesto hummus. •MJ
Day: A Celebration of Billie Holiday at UCSB’s Campbell Hall this Sunday evening. Wilson’s tribute album to Lady Day is due April 7, which also marks Holiday’s 100th birthday. Expect to hear some of Holiday’s chestnuts “Good Morning Heartache,” “Billie’s Blues”, and “What a Little Moonlight Can Do” done up in Wilson’s similarly smoky alto, as well as the Wilson-penned “Last Song (For Lester)”, which Wilson fashioned as a heartbreaking final message from Holiday to her lover Lester Young. Considering that we heard up-and-comer Gregory Porter (who will also play the Santa Barbara Bowl this summer) in January, 2015 is shaping up as quite a year for jazz singers in Santa Barbara.
sings works by Charles Ives, Schubert, Messiaen, Bartók, and William Bolcom, including some pieces that she absolutely owns. Tickets cost $39-$49; call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com. There are no such conflicts the previous afternoon at 3 when the Santa Barbara Music Club offers its biweekly concert at the downtown public library, and it won’t set you back anything at all. Per Elmfors and Robert Else play Poulenc’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (which was commissioned by Benny Goodman), followed by Pierre Gabaye’s Sonatine performed by flutist Andrea Di Maggio and bassoonist Paul Mori. Pianist Leslie Cain concludes the program with Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin. Details at www.sbmusicclub.org.
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It’s a bit of a shame that vocal music lovers have to choose between two exceptional performances on Sunday afternoon, as both the Vienna Boys Choir and soprano Dawn Upshaw – Lobero have concerts in town. The Vienna is the modern-day descendant of the boys’ choirs from the Viennese Court dating back to the 15th century and features almost 100 male singers age 10-14 who mostly hail from Austria. Between the four separate but equal touring outfits, the choir performs around 300 dates per year. They’re named after famous Austrian composers associated with the choir’s history: Bruckner, Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert, each of whom worked with the choir, save perhaps for Haydn, which is the one heading our way for the 3 pm date at the Granada. Tickets cost $23-$66; call 899-2222 or visit www.granadasb.org. Upshaw – whose concert begins an hour later at the Lobero under the aegis of CAMA’s Masterseries – is in some ways a choir unto herself. Not like an Al Jarreau, of course; her vocal instrument is remarkably clear and pure. But the vastness of her repertoire, ranging from art songs to opera, is mightily impressive, as are her credits, which include four Grammy awards and receiving the MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, the first vocal artist to do so. Accompanied by pianist Gilbert Kalish, Upshaw will
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Author Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket
As far as we can tell, A Series of Unfortunate Events author Lemony Snicket, a.k.a. Daniel Handler, has never done a book tour stop in Santa Barbara. That unfortunate streak comes to an end on Monday night when Handler, who has written a slew of other materials under his own name both before and after the 13-book plus three-sequels series, speaks at UCSB’s Campbell Hall, mostly on the topic of the Snicket series. The Events books are ostensibly for children, though adults have certainly proven to be the bigger fan base, even if they claim they’re reading them to their kids or just stocking up the youngster’s library. So does Handler’s own 10-year-old son like the books? “Actually, he’s completely terrified of A Series of Unfortunate Events,” Handler said. “He’s a very sensible kid.” •MJ 19 – 26 February 2015
WHEELS (Continued from page 22) Getting a lesson from Roy Miller in piloting the 100-year-old car
The author, with Edythe and Roy in Miller’s Model T
I’d recently assembled, which positively lit her up. She then described her uncle’s car, a hardtop with curtains around the cabin she had learned on. The ultimate thrill, though, was her joy when we brought her out to her personal parking spot to see the real deal pulling up. The entire Direct Relief staff emerged from the office to see us help Edythe get into the car. Roy was thrilled, as this was his first opportunity to pilot the car with a passenger who was alive when it was constructed. The two of them talked about what it was like to drive during that era – Edythe revealed that she didn’t even need a license. The Model T is not an easy vehicle to start. When it was time to set up, Roy hopped down to hand-crank the motor with a lever sprouting from the radiator grille, careful to adjust the spark timing in order to avoid the signature kickback that leads to tales of broken wrists. We putt-putted out of the lot and down the lane, never reaching the T’s top speed of 45 mph, but Edythe was giddy the whole time, reflecting on cascading memories as we trundled along. After Edythe exited the car, Roy offered to hand me the wheel. But first, he said, an in-depth lesson would be required; piloting a Model T is a different endeavor from driving a modern car. Yes, there’s a steering wheel, a handbrake, and three pedals arrayed on the floor at your feet. But this control setup is deceptive, since those pedals bear little relation to those of a present-day stick-shift. That one on the right? That’s the brake. And where the brake should be, in the middle? Well that’s actually reverse gear. A clutch pedal on the left? No way; that’s the gear selector. So where the heck is the throttle? That’s actually the little lever mounted right behind the steering wheel. It points to 2 o’clock at idle and swings down to bring the revs up. There’s another lever on the left side of the wheel that controls the spark timing. I eased down the throttle lever and leaned on the center pedal with my 19 – 26 February 2015
left foot, easing off the brake with my right, and the T puttered gently backward out of the spot. Next, I cranked the wheel the other way – clockwise does actually turn the car to the right! – and gently toed the left-most pedal to get the car into low gear. Keeping the car in that gear requires you to have your foot planted, but once we got to a more open space I was able to ease off, the pedal backing through neutral and into high gear. At this point, I got to experience the T’s full-bore acceleration, all 20 horsepower worth, which would have been plenty for an era when there was no such thing as a highway on-ramp. We made our way back into the parking lot after a few laps, and I managed to ease it back into the space without much drama. In fact, the drive was surprisingly anxiety-free, and I took to the task more quickly than expected. I’ll give most of the credit to my esteemed instructor, Roy, who arrived
in Santa Barbara three decades ago, having spent time in Germany during his Army days, and Los Angeles and Las Vegas on many interesting ventures, including as a successful SCCA racing career. Lured here by a friend who owned a Lotus workshop, Roy bought his own auto shop in Santa Barbara shortly thereafter. He bought the Model T some 15 years ago, and because the car wasn’t running at the time, so he got a great deal on it; he says it only took around 20 minutes of work for him to get it to crank. Restoring the vehicle was a labor of love that took several years to complete, particularly with Roy’s appreciation of the significance of the task. More than most old cars, preserving a Model T is akin to translating a manuscript of history. It helped, too, that he’d been working on pre-war cars for more than a decade at his shop, East-West Motors. Aside from plenty of local events, per-
I love the world! I’m so happy! – Julia Roberts
haps Roy’s most high-profile gig is as a judge for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. With this association comes a network of some of the most knowledgeable car experts in the world. And he certainly tapped this network to help guide him in his restoration of the antique Ford. The Model T isn’t just a car; it is a symbol of America’s industrial might, which helped to launch our nation’s trajectory as the most powerful force of the 20th century. While car people get riled up about a classic Corvette, everyone goes gaga over a Model T. And it was for this reason that it was such a privilege to experience the car with the incomparable Edythe Kirchmaier. As humans, we’ve grown to treasure the links to our past, tracing the path of our evolution. It’s a thrill to be able to ask a woman like Edythe, “What was it like?” And it’s even more of a thrill to relive it with •MJ her. MONTECITO JOURNAL
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F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Santa Barbara Experience, 1429 Laguna Street #76, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Linda Baird, 1429 Laguna Street #76, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Janice Lyn Maynard, 1429 Laguna Street #76, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 10, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN No. 2015-0000483. Published February 18, 25, March 4, 11, 2015. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Allergy, Asthma and Immunotherapy Care of Santa Barbara, 2320 Bath Street, Suite 303, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Vincent C Tubiolo, MD, 2949 Arriba Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 20, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0000215. Published February 11, 18, 25, March 4, 2015. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Face Painting and Henna, 5773 Encina Rd. Apt 201, Goleta, CA 93117. Samantha Maria Marx,
5773 Encina Rd. Apt 201, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 2, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2015-0000376. Published February 11, 18, 25, March 4, 2015. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Designs by Kat, 2125 Red Rose Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Kathy Jean BruingtonGarcia, 2125 Red Rose Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 6, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0000440. Published February 11, 18, 25, March 4, 2015. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Taste of Santa Barbara, 404 Samarkand Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Noreen Chenoweth, 404 Samarkand Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 2, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by
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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS
PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Saturday, February 28, 2015, during a special workshop meeting beginning at 9:00 a.m. in the Faulkner Gallery at the Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu, Santa Barbara. The public hearing will be held pursuant to California Elections Code Section 10010 to consider a Proposal to establish District Boundaries for City Elections. You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. On Thursday, February 19, 2015, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Saturday, February 28, 2015, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Quick Links, click on Current Council Agenda & Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.santabarbaraca.gov: Click on the Government tab, click City Council Meeting Videos (under Quick Links), and then click on the Video link for the meeting date. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at (805) 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange. (SEAL)
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Christine Potter. FBN No. 2015-0000367. Published February 11, 18, 25, March 4, 2015. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Klein Bottle Productions, PO Box 50421 Santa Barbara, CA 93150. H. Lee Pratt, 1964 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 9, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2015-0000463. Published February 11, 18, 25, March 4, 2015. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT:
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Scotty Network, 732 La Gracia, Santa Maria, CA 93455. The Scotty Network, INC, 732 La Gracia, Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 2, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Deborah Sanchez. FBN No. 2015-0000373. Published February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Acme Therapeutic Massage, 228 Fleming Lane, Santa Maria, CA 93455. Carol Rivers, 228 Fleming Lane, Santa Maria, CA 93455.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5371 DUE DATE & TIME: March 11, 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Interior and Exterior Painting of City Parking Lot 10 A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on March 4, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., at City Lot 10, located at the Ortega Street entrance at 621 Ancapa St., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-33 Painting and Decorating Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 27, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Eva Chavez. FBN No. 2015-0000283. Published February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015.
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the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2015-0000056. Published January 28, February 4, 11, 18, 2015. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cold Spring Staffing, 16 W. Mission St. #G, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Cold Spring Engineering, 16 W. Mission St. #G, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 20, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2015-0000209. Published January 28, February 4, 11, 18, 2015. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1486940. To all interested parties: Petitioner Adriana Elizabeth Hoyos filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Carlos Adrian Hoyos Ramos to Carlos Adrian Vineyard. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not 19 – 26 February 2015
be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed February 9, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: April 15, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/4 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1486660. To all interested parties: Petitioners Kristen Ramirez and Paul Ramirez filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Domonic Beau Ramirez-Taylor to Domonic Beau Ramirez The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed January 23, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: March 25, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1470110. To all interested parties: Petitioner Whitney Victoria Wallace filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Whitney Victoria Lindelof. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter
appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed January 27, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: March 18, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1470097. To all interested parties: Petitioner Christina Ahn filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Yule Kim to Yule Ahn-Kim. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed January 6, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: March 4, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18
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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Gypsy at Hahn – Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian returns to the site of her 1998 summer studies at the Music Academy of the West – or rather the glorious recital hall that replaced her day’s Abravanel – for a gala concert of passionate gypsy melodies from Eastern and Central Europe and fiery flamenco of Spain and Andalucía. Bayrakdarian, who is now on the UCSB music department faculty, will be accompanied by her husband and frequent collaborator Serouj Kradjian, a pianist and arranger, as well as flamenco guitarist Grisha Goryachev in an exploration of the gypsy flamenco influences featuring works by Liszt, Dvorak, Schumann, de Falla, Albeniz, and Lecuona. Bayrakdarian was a featured vocalist on the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack of the blockbuster film The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers, and won four consecutive Juno Awards (Canada’s Grammy equivalent) for Best Classical Album (Vocal). Her collaboration with Kradjian on Gomidas Songs was nominated for a Grammy in 2009. Proceeds from the concert benefit the Bel Canto Fund for Voice at UCSB, founded to support student scholarships and the UCSB Opera Theater. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $30 general, $10 students INFO: 8932064 or www.music.ucsb.edu SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Broadway Musical Concerts Debut – This new concert series from Ventura’s Rubicon Theater Co. features stars from Broadway and
the West Coast performing songs from classic musicals, readings of new song-filled shows on their way to New York, and/or specially created cabaret performances, all in a much more intimate space than you’d find in Times Square or Los Angeles. Kicking things off under the banner “Some Enchanted Evening” are the Ojai-based husband-and-wife team of Amanda McBroom and George Ball. Broadway denizen Ball, who starred in the Broadway production of Jacques Brel, and singer-songwriter McBroom, who wrote the huge hit song “The Rose”, return to a favorite venue after acclaimed performances of the show at 54 Below in New York and The Crazy Coqs in London (where The Times gave the “unmissable” show five stars). The concert – with musical direction by pianist Michele Brourman, and an appearance by multi-instrumentalist Stephen Oberhoff – features songs of love, lust, loss, cherished dreams, and wisdom by such greats as George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Stephen Sondheim, as well as McBroom herself. Coming soon: several original singers from Stephanie Coltrin’s Ovation Award-winning Songs from Miss Saigon recreate the magic (April 4-5); Teri Bibb, who played Christine in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway for seven years, teams with Ventura native Andrew Samonsky, who played Lt. Cable in South Pacific on Broadway at Lincoln Center, for Rodgers Hart and Hammerstein (May 16-17); a staged musical reading of A Secret Garden, Tony Award-winning musical based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett with book and lyrics by Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon (August 22-23); Daddy Long Legs in concert, a reprise of the concert version
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Barefoot and Broiling – Cooking show celebrity comes from all corners of the kitchen these days, but Ina Garten’s story is truly unique. The New York Times best-selling cookbook author and Food Network TV host better known as The Barefoot Contessa got her start with a humble boutique food store in the Hamptons while she was working as a nuclear budget analyst at the White House. Her simple, straightforward approach to cooking became apparent in her celebrated cookbooks and later the TV show. Garten shares her views about the pleasures of good food, cooked with love and passion, and discusses her new book, Barefoot Contessa: Make it Ahead, at the Granada tonight. It’s sold out, but maybe you can offer to trade a gourmet meal for tickets. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $43 - $128 INFO: 8992222/www.granadasb.org or 893-3535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
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EVENTS by Steven Libowitz
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Three Women and the Truth – There’s an awful lot of hyperbole in pop music promotion, and even folkies are getting into the groove these days. But the headline heralding this shared bill between Eliza Gilkyson, Mary Gauthier, and Gretchen Peters isn’t much of a stretch. The singer-songwriters – each of whom has enjoyed separate gigs on their own at the Lobero Theatre previously – are all highly accomplished veterans whose songs full of hard-won wisdom carry the weight of a decades of experiences to help make sense of life complexities and challenges. Gilkyson, whose lineage goes back to early folk music (she’s been recording since the 1960s herself and has put out nearly 20 albums), is a Grammy nominee and Austin Music Hall of Fame member whose songs have been covered by Joan Baez, Bob Geldof, Tom Rush, and Rosanne Cash. Mary Gauthier’s admirers include Jimmy Buffett, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, and Candi Staton, all of whom have recorded her songs. Gretchen Peters has earned two Grammy nominations, and has composed songs for a diverse list of artists ranging from country icons Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, George Strait, and Faith Hill to Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers, Bryan Adams, and Etta James during her 25-year Nashville career. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $43.50 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com
of the John Caird-Paul Gordon musical that premiered at Rubicon. Each concert features three performances over a single weekend (October 3-4). WHEN: 2 & 8 tonight, 2 pm tomorrow WHERE: 1006 E. Main Street, Ventura COST: $69 (discounts for subscriptions) INFO: 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Fellini Fest – Proboscis Productions presents this five-day festival of plays about movies and the people who made them. There are three premiere original productions, including one by Proboscis’s Jeff Mills titled La La La Strada, which explores the creation of Federico Fellini’s iconic 1953 film La Strada through puppetry, music, and movement. Also on the slate: Hungarian theater artist Eva Magyar’s Marlene: The Competition, a one-woman exploration of the trials and challenges faced by a Marlene Dietrich impersonator living in presentday London, and Washington State’s Paradise Theater Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Wells, a solo performance that brings the famed actor/ director/auteur’s giant and magnetic personality to life. WHEN: Strada 7 tonight, Tuesday & next Thursday, and 9 pm next Friday, February 27; Competition, 7 pm Monday; Rosebud 7 pm Friday, February 27 WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $28 general, $23 students and seniors INFO: 963-0408 or www. CenterStageTheater.org
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Lucidity Pre-party – With the Lucidity Festival just two months down the road (April 10-12), here’s a chance to get the positive vibes attuned and flowing early. Members of the Lucid Family and Music Is Love present an immersive evening of live and transformational art, music and fashion. Berkeley-based producer Thriftworks “Flylo’esque”style original take on forward-thinking electronic music weaves eclectic samples and explosive modern bass with clever beat-crafting to energize the dance floor, and Pega5u5 will also spin a set. Meanwhile, local vendors help you get prepped for the festival season with fashion and gear, and I AM Healing purveyors offers whole body tune-ups. Given that the festival has chosen to tread even more lightly environmentally speaking by cutting back ticket sales by 20 percent for the upcoming fourth year (as well as trimming car camping to just 25 percent of last year’s level), this might be your only chance to indulge in the soulful sway. WHEN: 9 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10-$15 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com South American Sounds – M.A.K.U. Soundsystem – a Queens, New York-based outfit that blends genres with a thoroughly forward-thinking ear – juxtaposes traditional Colombian percussion including a trio of drums called llamador, alegre, and tambora over a traditional drum-set, synthesizers, electric bass, guitar, clarinet, and horns. The group infuses African19 – 26 February 2015
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Blues Ambassador – Taj Mahal’s 40 years of international touring have brought him to locales across the globe, and the veteran bluesman has made the most of it, gathering and distilling countless musical traditions from West Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the Hawaiian islands, and elsewhere into his Mississippi Delta blues/Appalachian backwoods roots music foundation. The result is oft-times uneven, as Taj has taken a misstep or two, but the singer-composer and multi-instrumentalist – a two-time Grammy winner – remains one of the most influential American bluesbased artists since the 1970s. Hear his latest musings when the Taj Mahal Trio returns yet again to the Lobero. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $40 & $50 ($105 patron tickets include priority seating and pre-concert private reception) INFO: 9630761 or www.lobero.com
based styles like champeta and porro with popular cumbia rhythms and the New York City sounds of soul, funk, and jazz to create an explosive performance filled with unshakable grooves and danceable rhythms. M.A.K.U.’s lineup, put together by Columbia-born founder Camilo Rodruiguez – who commuted between the South American country and New York City twice a year for a decade – consists mostly of Colombian natives, including vocalist Liliana Conde, also known as Lana Baja, who also plays tambor, maracon, guacharaca, and cincerro. As always, ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! presents the group twice in our area, sandwiching an appearance in Guadalupe. WHEN: 7 tonight & Sunday WHERE: Isla Vista School (6875 El Colegio Road) tonight, Marjorie Luke Theatre (721 E. Cota Street) Sunday COST: free INFO: www.facebook.com/VivaelArteSB WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Farewell, Fearless Funder – Geoff Green has been the executive director of The Fund for
Santa Barbara for more than half of its 35 years, having joined the grassroots organization back in 1998. Later this month, he’ll be adding two words to his title, as Green moves on to take over as executive director of The Fund for Santa Barbara City College. He’ll be trading his current position at the nonprofit devoted to progressive philanthropy projects (including handing out an annual Social Justice award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival) for the similarly sized SBCC job, which currently disburses $3.5 million a year for scholarships for financially strapped students but is looking for rapid growth after the failure of Measure S last fall. But not before one final fundraising effort for Fund for SB: tonight’s Boast & Roast at El Paseo Restaurant, featuring barbs and laudatory comments from colleagues and local luminaries, plus music for dancing by Tina Schlieske & the Graceland Exiles (with Laura Schlieske) and an appetizer buffet. WHEN: 5:30-9:30 pm WHERE: El Paseo Restaurant, 813 Anacapa St. COST: $35 (or more, sliding scale available) INFO: 962-9164 or email events@fundforsantabarbara.org •MJ
SUNDAY!
International Children’s Film Festival
Ready, Set, Adventure!
SUN, FEB 22 / 11 AM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL $7 / $5 children (12 & under)
“Film showcase gives children a chance to see their peers across the globe.” Los Angeles Times (Contains mild, brief swearing in one film.) (Approx. 80 min.)
A Tribute for Billie Holiday’s 100th Birthday
SUNDAY!
Cassandra Wilson
Coming Forth by Day: A Celebration of Billie Holiday SUN, FEB 22 / 7 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL CASSANDRA WILSON COMING FORTH by DAY
Tickets start at $30 / $15 UCSB students
Event Sponsors: Cristina & Erck Rickmers Best-selling Author of A Series of Unfortunate Events
Daniel Handler
Who is Lemony Snicket? And Other Wrong Questions MON, FEB 23 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL $25 / $15 UCSB students
Nederlands Dans Theater 2 TUE, FEB 24 / 8 PM / GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $35 / $19 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price
“Simply stunning: can human beings really dance so brilliantly with such apparent ease?” The Independent (U.K.)
Sponsored in part by 2 Nights / 18 Amazing Films Best of the 39th Annual
Banff Mountain Film Festival WED, FEB 25 & THU, FEB 26 (A different program each night ) 7:30 PM / ARLINGTON THEATRE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24
$16 / $13 UCSB students and youths (18 & under) An Arlington facility fee will be added to each ticket price
ArLight Feet at Granada – It’s been nearly a dozen years since Nderlands Dans Theater 2 visited Santa Barbara, as UCSB Arts & Lectures impressario and major dance enthusiast Celesta Billeci is devoted to diversity in programming. So it’s something of a celebration when the ensemble featuring 16 of the world’s most talented young dancers that serves as the breeding ground for the main company comes our way again with a program full of promise and playfulness. On the bill of fare tonight are pieces by Johan Inger (I New Then, set to the music of Van Morrison), Sol León and company artistic director Paul Lightfoot (Shutters Shut, set to a Gertrude Stein poem, and Subject to Change, set to Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden”), and former Batsheva Dance Company dancer Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar (Sara). Expect energy and enthusiasm and deep emotional exploration. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $35-$45 INFO: 899-2222, www.granadasb.org or 893-3535 and www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
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Photographer and Filmmaker
Carsten Peter - Extreme Planet SUN, MAR 1 / 3 PM / CAMPBELL HALL $25 / $15 UCSB students and youths (18 & under) photo: Carsten Peter
National Geographic Live series sponsored in part by Sheila & Michael Bonsignore Corporate Season Sponsor:
(805) 893-3535 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu Arlington event tickets can also be purchased at: (805) 963-4408 Granada event tickets can also be purchased at: (805) 899-2222
This moment is so much bigger than me. – Halle Berry
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Your Westmont
by Scott Craig (photos by Brad Elliott) Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College
Panel Examines Presidential Leadership The Westmont Observatory opens Friday, February 20, for views of Jupiter
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Professors Rachel Winslow and Thomas Knecht will lecture in University Club
estmont professors Tom Knecht and Rachel Winslow explore presidential leadership in a free, public lecture on Thursday, February 19, at 5:30 pm in the University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara Street. No tickets are required; the limited seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call (805) 565-6051. The lecture, “American Presidents and the Bully Pulpit,” anticipates the Westmont President’s Breakfast on March 6 with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who will speak about “Leadership Lessons from American Presidents” on Friday, March 6, at 7 am in Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort. Tickets to the breakfast, which cost $125 each, can be purchased online at westmont.edu/presbreakfast. Knecht and Winslow will examine why U.S. presidents captivate and inspire us and why are we so quick to praise and excoriate them. The panel, moderated by provost Mark Sargent, will consider Goodwin’s insights on presidential leadership and share their own research amid experiences. Knecht, who teaches political science at Westmont, has written a book, Paying Attention to Foreign Affairs: How Public Opinion Affects Presidential Decision Making. He graduated from Stanford and earned a master’s degree and doctorate at UC Santa Barbara. He taught at the University of Denver from 2004-09 before coming to Westmont. He earned the Bruce and Adeline Bare Teacher of the Year Award at Westmont in 2012. Winslow, director of Westmont’s Center for Social Entrepreneurship, is a 20th century U.S. historian whose
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research and teaching interests include race, family, gender, childhood, and social policy, especially in transnational and interdisciplinary contexts. She graduated from the University of Rochester, earned a master’s degree from California State University, Sacramento, and a doctorate at UCSB. The Westmont Foundation sponsors Westmont Downtown: Conversations about Things that Matter and the President’s Breakfast to reach out and engage the larger Santa Barbara and Montecito communities.
Jupiter Jumps into View
The gas giant Jupiter will be the star attraction at this month’s free public viewing on Friday, February 20, beginning at 6:30 pm and lasting several hours at the Westmont Observatory. In case of inclement or overcast weather, call the Telescope Viewing Hotline at (805) 565-6272 and check the Westmont website to see if the viewing has been canceled. Rising in Leo, Jupiter will be in good position for viewing in the early evening. “Since Jupiter has passed through opposition recently — and now rising just before the sun sets — we may be lucky enough to see a shadow cast onto its surface by one of its large moons,” says Thomas Whittemore, Westmont physics instructor. The viewing may also feature the Orion Nebula, M42. “Orion is high in the sky by 8 pm,” Whittemore says. “If the seeing is good this evening, we may be able to see six of
the Trapezium stars in the heart of the nebula with Westmont’s 24-inch reflector telescope.” The Milky Way, which contains a number of open clusters, is high in the winter sky and a popular viewing subject. “One of my favorites, M35 in Gemini, is a chain of stars with all sorts of subtle color variations,” he says. “This particular object will be best viewed in Westmont’s 8-inch refractor.” Mars and Venus are putting on quite a show in the West, though their alignment will make them unviewable with Westmont’s telescopes. “By Friday evening, they will be about a degree or so apart in this chance alignment,” he says. “The proximity of the creamy-colored (and bright) Venus with the fiery-red (and much dimmer than Venus) Mars yields a wonderful color contrast between the two objects. The public will be able to see this pairing early in the evening and with their bare eyes, but by 8 pm both objects will have set in the Southwest.” The observatory opens its doors to the public every third Friday of the month in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit, whose members bring their own telescopes to Westmont for the public to gaze through. The Keck Telescope is housed in the observatory between Russell Carr Field and the track and field/soccer complex. Free parking is available near the baseball field.
Orchestra, Singers Perform Concerto
The Westmont Orchestra performs works by Leonard Bernstein, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, and Franz Liszt at the Concerto Concert on Friday, February 20, at 7 pm in Westmont’s Page Multipurpose Room and Sunday, February 22, at 3 pm in First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave. General admission is $10 and students are free. Tickets may be purchased at the door. For more information, call (805) 565-6040. Senior soprano Emmalee Wetzel sings “Steal Me Sweet Thief” from Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief. Wetzel has sung in numerous Westmont performances. Senior baritone Luke Mizuki per-
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Junior pianist Aaron Wilk
Senior soprano Emmalee Wetzel
forms “Largo al factotum” from Rossini’s Barber of Seville. Last year, he directed the music for the play “The Last Five Years,” conducted “Adieu, sweet Amaryllis” by John Wilbye in the Vocal Chamber Concert, and traveled with an Emmaus Road team to Tokyo to teach English and volunteer with after-school activities. Senior tenor Andrey Kitsen sings “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s Turandot. Andrey, a computer science major who emigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine, has performed with numerous choral groups in Santa Barbara and Fresno. Junior pianist Aaron Wilk performs Liszt’s Piano Concerto #1 in E flat. Wilk, who recorded his first full-length CD at the age of 11, has opened for Twila Paris, a member of the Christian Music Hall of Fame. The Centennial, Colorado, resident earned a Monroe Scholarship, Westmont’s highest academic honor. He spent last summer conducting research toward a DNA vaccination against herpes simplex virus 1. Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of music and worship, directs the Westmont Orchestra. Han Soo Kim, an award-winning artist who joined the Westmont faculty this fall, is the string coordinator. •MJ 19 – 26 February 2015
Real Estate View Heat Score Cools Off
by Michael Phillips
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he Montecito Heat Index measures demand for Montecito single family homes in five price sectors. And since demand is highly seasonal, today’s Heat is compared to this date a year ago. All data is from the Santa Barbara MLS [Multiple Listing Service] and is uniformly deemed reliable. Today’s total Heat score is 110, a decrease of 26.2 percent compared to this date last year and 15.6 percent compared to last month. Overall, we are seeing the pace of sales slowing with prices increasing. The remarkable under $1M group, which arrived with the 2008 market collapse, is virtually gone with only one home for sale today in that price category. Those properties inflated up to the $1-2M group and have been most in demand ever since. Today, this group is off last year’s score by a significant 56 percent with inventory decreasing in number and only nine presently for sale and four in escrow, and though inventory is largely down across the sectors, the $3-4M group by comparison has twice as many homes for sale. The $2-3M group outperformed last year by 71 percent, while the $3-4M group underperformed by 68 percent and the $4-5M sector nearly reached last year’s number of 13. The $5M-and-up big estate market
Michael is a realtor at Coldwell Banker, and is a Montecito Planning Commissioner. He can be reached at 969-4569 and info@ MichaelPhillipsRealEstate. com
is getting interesting. As you know if you have been following this space, the high-end market group pretty much went to sleep vis à vis the middle- and lower-end sectors when the market melted down. Last month, however, it scored a 17 against the prior year’s zero, and today scores a 21 against a zero-12 months earlier. If not exactly showing off, these are strong numbers for this sector. It has moved the average and median sales price dial considerably as they close escrow and register as sold properties. Specifically, year over year, our average sales price is $3.9M up 25 percent and our median price is $2.8M, up 18 percent. Since the first of the year, though, our average is $5.5M and our median is $4.3M. These high-end estate sales are definitely having an impact. Overall, the story here in Montecito remains fewer sales, 12 percent fewer than last year, and little inventory. Except for Hope Ranch, where sales
are up a striking 37 percent, everyone else locally is experiencing a sellers’ market, with fewer sales than last year and not enough homes for sale to give buyers much negotiating leverage. Looking into 2015, experts including the chief economist for the California Association of Realtors, Leslie Appleton Young, predict the-long anticipated fed fund rate increase will most likely not occur this year – that in spite of historically low mortgage rates, housing affordability will continue to deteriorate, and the homeownership rate in California will drop to just above 50 percent, a troubling low number. Home value growth will slow to three percent this year, and negotiating power will begin to move
back toward buyers. Investors looking for more robust returns than the projected three percent will continue to exit the market and may start selling the properties they bought and rented during the correction, resulting in a much-needed increase in lower-end inventory. Foreign investors, concerned about currency fluctuation in their countries devaluing their capital, are focusing on our high-end markets. The United Kingdom, for example, is expected to pass a large “mansion tax” on properties in excess of $3M, and China has placed restrictions on home buying in its major cities. In 2014, 35 percent of California’s sales to foreigners were Chinese, with Canadians second at 14 •MJ percent.
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1620 E Mountain Dr $6,950,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Secluded & intimate ocean view Montecito compound on 1.7 acres! 3BD/4½BA with views, elegant formal living & dining rooms, 2 fireplaces, + Guest House & Studio. www.1620.MontecitoProperties.com
470 Eastgate Ln $4,650,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 Birnam Wood residence 3BD/3.5BA + large guest apartment, Pool/Spa. MontecitoFineEstates.com
1473 Bonnymede Dr $4,450,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Sea Meadow in Montecito, 3BD/3BA, SW sun exposure, gated. www.1473.MontecitoProperties.com
1090 Toro Canyon Rd $2,995,000 Tim Dahl 805.886.2211 Gated & private 5BD/6BA ocean view estate on 6± acs (assr) w/ 2BD/2BA guest house, pool & more.
230 Hot Springs Rd $2,795,000 David Lacy 805.455.7577 Renovated & enhanced 4BD/2.5BA home in Montecito near lower village. www.MontecitoPartner.com
895 E Mountain Dr $2,395,000 Scarborough/Kogevinas 805.331.1465/805.450.6233 Contemporary Hideaway on 2 acs, (assr) Ocean Vus in Montecito. 3BD/4BA - 3rd bed is detached.
1155 Dulzura Dr $1,895,000 The SB Group 805.886.5735 Sprawling single level 4BD/3BA, with detached art studio on 1 ac (assr). Cold Springs District.
875 Knollwood Dr $14,900,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 5BD/10BA French Country Estate on 2.76 acres (assr) with Ocean & Mountain Views, Pool & Spa.
860 San Ysidro Rd $5,950,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Exclusive & private 3BD/4.5BA on 2.8 acres (assr) in one of Montecito’s most coveted locations.
1475 Bonnymede Dr $4,950,000 Kathleen Winter 805.451.4663 Bright, remodeled 3BD/3.5BA Sea Meadow with a private yard. www.1475Bonnymede.com
603 San Ysidro Rd $4,850,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Stunning 4BD/4BA Mediterranean estate on 1.44 private creekside acres (assr). www.DanEncell.com
720 Ladera Ln $3,795,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 Beautifully renovated peaceful 5BD/4½BA home. Pool, detached studio, ocean & mountain views.
1389 Oak Creek Canyon Rd $3,495,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 6± acs (assr) in A+ Montecito location. Ocean & mountian views. Water meter in-ready to build!
462 Toro Canyon Rd $2,150,000 St. Clair/Mermis 805.886.6741 A Monterey Spanish Colonial Home, located on a creek-side acre. This 4BD/2½BA home exudes ambiance with a tile roof, garden entrance, ornate colorful tiled entry, and water fountain.
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