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ALL HANDS ON DECK! HEAD OF SCHOOL JOEL WEISS LEADS 90TH YEAR CELEBRATION AT CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, MONTECITO’S “HANDS-ON” EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PLACE (PAGES 5 AND 12)

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“Pursuing Mindfulness” is a full-time job for Barbara Rose Sherman, who brings her search back to Santa Barbara, p. 13

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On Education

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This Week in Montecito

Joel Weiss relocated from San Francisco to join Crane Country Day School in 2000, and is proud to celebrate the school’s 90th anniversary Richie’s Barber Shop visits Friendship Center; Victoria Riskin’s book release party; Mesa Burger to open on CVR; Direct Relief tops charts; The Mock Marriage impresses; Doris Kearns Goodwin speaks at Granada; two acts from NYC; Los Arroyos celebrates 20 years; Evita sells out Granada; remembering Chad Dreier; Ellen Fund protects rare gorillas; Gwyneth Paltrow files response to lawsuit; MAW alumni awards; Santa Barbara Inn receives award; Jack Sears and Karl Lagerfeld pass; sightings A list of local events happening in and around town; Tide Guide

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A collection of communications from local residents Pete Schenck, J.W. Burk, Karen Friedman, Steve Marko, Polly Frost, Steve King, Brent Zepke, Nancy Gifford, Kathy Jean Schultz, Patrick Nesbitt, and Joan Rutkowski

12 Village Beat

Crane Country Day School marks 90th anniversary with upcoming events; Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors and Clean Coalition enter negotiations to stage microgrid; second of three Mobile Command Units delivered; drought updates

13 Spirituality Matters

Barbara Rose Sherman teaches six-week course on Mindfulness; Dawa Tarchin Phillips’s meditation course; Sunburst Sanctuary’s “Dive into Silence” retreat; “Undoing the Ego through the Practice of Pure Non-Dualism” seminar; “Celebration of our Commonality” gathering; meet-ups around town

14 Seen Around Town

Domestic Violence Solutions luncheon; Congregation B’Nai B’rith’s biennial gala; Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit preview

20 On Entertainment

Joffrey Ballet performs two nights at Granada; three questions with Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival’s Mashey Bernstein; classical corner

22 In Passing Max Phillips (14 February 1992 – 27 January 2019)

23 Brilliant Thoughts

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On Education

by Sigrid Toye, Ph.D. Ms Toye is a former L.A. Unified School District teacher and has worked as an educational-behavior therapist in private practice since 1979.

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n a recent sunny day, I stopped by Crane Country Day School for a visit.

It was one of those special days when the entire school was out on the quad being served a potpourri of luncheon delights. Food stands, tended by kids and parent-volunteers, burgeoned with a huge variety of offerings: everything from salads, veggies, and finger foods to a boxed stack of New York style pizzas. The entire student body, from kindergarten to 8th grade, enjoyed selections under the oak trees or in the sunshine.

“We grow most of the vegetables and green salad fixings right here on campus,” explains Joel Weiss, Head of School. “Not the pizza, of course,” he chuckles, munching on his first cheesy bite as we make our way down a hallway to his office. On the way I lingered, managing to stop every couple of feet to admire the student artwork on the walls.

Now in its 90th year, Crane Country Day School is a small school with a student population of around 250. “There’s an interesting story about how the school was founded,” reveals Weiss, now seated in his office. “It had to do with a dream… well, two dreams,” he says.

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According to legend, William Crane and his wife climbed into their Model T for the lengthy excursion from Pasadena to Santa Barbara in 1926 to visit friends. During the first morning of their visit, Crane’s wife casually mentioned a “silly” dream she’d had during the night that the two of them had moved to Santa Barbara and… established a school. Apparently her husband found her dream anything but silly, as he’d had the exact same dream. Soon after the night of the dreams, the couple began searching for property in Montecito. Two years later, in 1928, Crane School opened its doors to 31 students, mostly boys.

“The educational philosophy established by the Cranes is still in place and is the underpinning of our curriculum today,” says Weiss. “The Cranes believed in a ‘hands-on’ education, otherwise known today as ‘experiential learning’, that included the arts, trades, academics, and sciences. As an example, learning about the solar system had the students actually becoming the planets and walking their orbits around an imaginary sun. And that was 1928!” exclaims Weiss, adding, “Back in the day that was innovative teaching.”

Mr. Weiss boasts that Crane teachers continue to follow in those early footsteps, combining both academic and experiential learning to explore science, technology and math. “Using both sides of the brain is what we are all about; our feet in both courts, the academic and creative. You see kids doing things, building, creating, acting on stage… you see that at all grade levels.”

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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 28 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: a new detached garage on Featherhill Road; a home and garage on El Bosque; a remodel and new outdoor fireplace on Woodley; and alterations on a home on Channel Drive, among other items.

When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, MARCH 1 Walk & Roll Montecito Union School students, teachers, and parents walk or ride to school, rather than drive. Join MUS administrators in the Via Vai Upper Village parking lot to walk to school and start the day with fresh air and exercise.

When: 8 am Info: 969-3249 Classic Storybook Luncheon World-famous lifestyle designer Kathy Ireland will join United Way of Santa Barbara County’s (UWSBC) Women United for “A Classic Storybook Luncheon.” Proceeds from this event will support United Way’s

early education programs in Santa Barbara County.

Women United mobilizes a powerful leadership network of women to strengthen the Santa Barbara community. Through fundraising, volunteerism, and advocacy, Women United focuses on expanding United Way’s early educational opportunities for local children from pre-K through third grade.

When: 11:30 am Where: Coral Casino, 1281 Channel Drive Cost: $100 Info & RSVP: www.unitedwaysb.org/ storybookluncheon Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SUNDAY, MARCH 3 Concert at the Music Academy Gramophone’s 2017 Young Artist of the Year Beatrice Rana is making waves in the international classical music scene, arousing admiration and interest from conductors, critics and audiences around the world. Winner of prestigious competitions, a soloist with the world’s finest orchestras and a critically-acclaimed recording artist, the Italian native is one of the brightest young stars in the galaxy of great pianists. Her “commanding, innate musicality” (Los Angeles Times) will be at the heart of a program that reveals

Santa Barbara Strings Artistry of Strings Benefit Concert Santa Barbara Strings Artistry of Strings benefit concert will take place at Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West. The benefit will provide support to nurture young string musicians and sustain their teaching artists.

The artists appearing will be Mary Beth Woodruff, violin, founder and director of Santa Barbara Strings; Jane Chung, violin; Basil Vendryes, viola; and Andrew Smith, cello.

The annual event supports Santa Barbara Strings in its mission to nurture young musicians through orchestral experiences and in chamber ensembles. The weekend of the Artistry of Strings also includes a masterclass for Santa Barbara Strings chamber ensembles and an orchestra rehearsal led by guest conductor Basil Vendryes assisted by Jane Chung and Andrew Smith. Derek Katz, UCSB Professor of Musicology, will be, once again, writing the program notes for the event.

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When: 4 pm Where: Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road Cost: $10-$37 Info: www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu TUESDAY, MARCH 5 Special Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 9 am to 11 am Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 Montecito Association Land Use Committee The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today the Land Use Committee meets to discuss upcoming projects When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 Santa Barbara Horticulture Society Gathering on a regular basis since 1880, the Santa Barbara County Horticultural Society meets on the first Wednesday of the month at the

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The plantings include edible trees, seasonal edibles, and utilitarian crops.

La Huerta Gardens also features ornamental and native plants from the Mission Era. Jerry was the Chair and instructor of the Environmental Horticulture Department at Santa Barbara City College for 22 years. After retiring, Jerry created La Huerta Gardens where he is the manager and leads volunteers on Wednesday Work Days to maintain gardens.

When: 7 pm Where: 909 North La Cumbre Road Transgender Diversities: The Basics This beginner’s training provides an intro to gender identity and gender diversity – training on differences between gender identity, sexuality, medical sex assigned at birth, and gender expression; includes experiential learning and media. All ages welcome.

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When: 5:30 to 6:45 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

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

THURSDAY, MARCH 7 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 pm to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. This month’s poet: Linda Pastan.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, MARCH 8 Direct Relief Women Celebrate International Women’s Day International Women’s Day is a United Nations sanctioned day to celebrate women and women’s health across the globe. In honor of this event, Direct Relief Women (DRW) will host guest speaker Dr. Jessica Grossman, CEO of Medicine360, and a dignity kit packing event at Direct Relief’s new headquarters. Grossman will bring her wealth of experience to Direct Relief to discuss the importance of closing critical gaps in women’s healthcare that often occur due to lack of access and funding.

Volunteers will pack 2,000 dignity kits, comprised of various hygiene and toiletry products for women with medical challenges in remote parts of the world, following the presentation.

When: 9:30 am to noon Where: 6100 Wallace Becknell Drive RSVP: directreliefwomen@gmail.com Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills

Free Theater Event Six historical women come alive to celebrate women’s history month, March, at the Santa Barbara Public Library performed by DramaDogs, a theater company, written by Terre Ouwehand. DramaDogs portray: Rachel Carson, Marian Anderson, Margaret Sanger, Harriet Tubman, Jeanette Rankin, and Lutah Maria Riggs.

When: today at 4 pm and Sunday, March 10 at 3 pm Where: today at the Carpinteria Branch, 5141 Carpinteria Avenue; Sunday at the Central Branch, Faulkner Gallery, 40 East Anapamu Street More Information: (805) 564-5608 SATURDAY, MARCH 9 Montecito Library Book Club Join for a lively discussion of this month’s title. Check the library for current title; new members always welcome. Today’s title: The Nix by Nathan Hill.

When: 11 am to 12 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 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 ONGOING Fire Prevention Cleanup The Montecito Fire Protection District will conduct its annual neighborhood fire prevention cleanup program starting the week of February 25,

2019. The program is offered to residents in the community to reduce the volume of flammable vegetation in order to create a more defensible and survivable space around the property and to reduce the overall community threat from wildfire.

The District’s Wildland Specialists offer property inspections to educate the residents on ways they can improve the defensible space around their home.

Upcoming schedule: 2/25/19 for the El Bosque, Bolero, Hodges, Periwinkle, Juan Crespi, El Dorado and Live Oaks neighborhood.

Fundamentals of Backpacking Dust off your backpacks and lace up your boots (trail runners)! The Los Padres Forest Association (LPFA) will once again be hosting a Fundamentals of Backpacking course. This will be the 6th year of organizing backpacking classes.

The classes are designed for introductory backpackers of all ages but no matter what your backpacking skill level, there will be tons to learn. The instructors are seasoned thru-hikers, local experts and gear gurus with decades of experience. The topics for the classes include: footwear, mapping/ GPS, backpacks, ultralight, clothing systems, water filtration, sleeping options, shelters/tents/hammocks, cook-

ing, and electronics, and there will be in-the-field experience to put the skills to use.

When: The 5-week course starts March 6 and lasts through April 3, 7 pm to 9 pm Where: La Cuesta High School, 710 Santa Barbara Street Cost: suggested donation Info: beemancron@gmail.com MONDAYS Meditation in Movement Nurture your heart, soul, body, and mind with yoga teacher Dawn O’Bar who teaches every Monday at Montecito Covenant Church; childcare provided When: 8:45 to 9:45 am Where: 671 Cold Spring Road Cost: donations accepted Contact: anna@mcchurch.org Connections Brain Fitness Group Brain program for adults who wish to improve memory and cognitive skills. Fun and challenging games, puzzles, and memory-strengthening exercises are offered in a friendly and stimulating environment.

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n “Sucking It Up” written by Larry Bond (MJ #25/7), he indicates that both he and Mr. Gene Tyburn wonder “...why this common sense solution to our water woes has not been pursued.” The “common sense solution” referred to is to dredge the bottom of the lake when conditions permit to increase its capacity. It turns out there is a very simple, common sense answer as to why that has not, and probably never will, be considered/implemented.

Let’s look at just a few numbers for the answer. Lake Cachuma has a surface area of 3,100 acres. An acre is 43,560 square feet. The volume of water that Lake Cachuma can presently hold is 205,000 acre feet. An acre foot of water is the amount of water that covers one acre at a depth of one foot. If one wanted to increase the capacity of Lake Cachuma by ONLY one acre foot of water, one would have to dredge 43,560 cubic feet of sludge out of the lake’s bottom. Since a cubic yard is 27 cubic feet, 43,560 cubic feet

is equivalent to 1,633 cubic yards. The average dump truck can hold anywhere from 10 to 14 cubic yards, so lets use 12 as the average. Therefore, to haul away 1,633 cubic yards of sludge would require 136 truck loads.

That would increase the capacity of Lake Cachuma by a mere 1 acre foot, or by .000048%. That is NOT a significant increase in capacity but it would require a significant amount of time, money and effort to achieve.

And where would one dump all that sludge?

It seems to me there is a much cheaper, simpler and more efficient way to significantly increase the lake’s capacity, and it could be done at almost any time, regardless of how full the lake might be. All it would require is to simply add six inches or a foot to the steel plates that control the spill way at Bradbury Dam. A mere 6-inch increase in height would increase the lake/s capacity by 1,550 acre feet, or .076%. And a one-foot increase in height would increase the

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Why it hasn’t happened is anyone’s guess... ...Whoops, I almost forgot: it would have to be permitted!

Pete Schenck Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Wow, where have you been all these years? What a sincerely excellent idea. We all wonder what “environmental” objections will arise from our UCSB Environmental Studies grads that actually run the county. – J.B.)

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We know that protestors against corporate tax concessions and gentrification (rising rents) of the Queens neighborhood, together with N.Y. unions and the politicians they support, created a negative atmosphere so that Amazon decided not to go forward with plans to build a headquarters there.

Early in the process, New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, commissioned a study that found the tax subsidies to Amazon would over 25 years generate a nine-fold return in state and city tax revenues from the company and its numerous workers.

But snags did arise over Amazon’s rebuffing the unionization of its workers and there is no doubt that rents near the development would rise.

But falling rents is a worse problem when cities lose jobs. What is the best problem to have? New York City Congresswoman, Alexandra OcasioCortez, did an end-zone dance tweeting that she and her supporters had defeated “corporate greed.” But, with

that logic, she should encourage more companies to vacate the city so rents will go down further.

For Amazon, this matter is a nonevent financially and they will move on. For New York, the impact will be the loss of the Amazon “multiplier effect”: more symbiotic companies arriving, more investment and innovation on top of the added jobs. No one will really know how the equation would have worked out; that is really the beauty of letting the free market work, outcomes can be scattered, unpredictable, and can benefit others in projected, but also unintended ways.

The big lesson here is that subsidizing private companies is not a responsible way for government to work. It is not government’s job to select winners and losers – that is for the people and/or the market to decide. The minor lesson is big companies should not obnoxiously conduct a location search like a beauty contest.

The virtues of moderation and the compromise of competing interests and philosophies is still important in moving the economy and the political process forward; that has not changed since Adams and Jefferson butted heads.

J.W. Burk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Adams and Jefferson didn’t agree on a lot, but never argued about government subsidies or tax breaks for businesses, as I don’t believe either issue ever raised its head in the early days of our Republic. – J.B.)

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Friday, May 3 is the Decades Party, which will welcome alumni and their parents and families to the campus for a casual evening of reminiscing. Saturday, May 4, is the 90th Anniversary Celebration, where alumni, past parents, and current parents will be in attendance for a Spring Gala, an adults-only affair with cocktails, appetizers, a sit-down dinner, and dancing, as well as a silent and live auction.

“We have alumni coming in from across the country for this event,” said

Debbie Williams, Crane’s Director of Development. “It’s a big deal for us!” she said, adding that the three living former Heads of School will be in attendance for the event; Selden Edwards (1979-1989), Cheryl Hamilton (1989-1994), and Doris Cottam (1994-2000) will join current Head of School Joel Weiss, who has held the position since 2000.

Williams and retired Crane teacher Dan McCaslin are writing a history book about the school, which opened on September 26, 1928 with 32 boys on a four-acre property. “Back then it was just boys for about ten years until the Santa Barbara School for Girls went bankrupt and Crane became co-ed,” Williams said. Currently, the school

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indfulness as a valuable human practice has been popular in the west at least since Ram Dass penned “Be Here Now” in 1971 and the Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh wrote his series of teachings of the subject. In recent years, scientific studies at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, and elsewhere have proven that a consistent mindfulness practice can alter the physical structure and function of the brain, creating new neural pathways resulting in increased capacities for attention, reduced anxiety, a boost to the immune system, and lowered blood pressure.

While there are many avenues to pursuing mindfulness beyond meditation – through art with a focus, or spending quiet time in nature, for example – a systematic training might make the practice more effective and easily implemented in daily life.

That’s where The Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at UCLA comes into play. The program was created to bring the ancient art of mindful awareness to the school’s mental health research institution in a scientifically supported and rigorous form.

Until recently, however, you would have had to travel to Westwood to partake in the program that goes by the handy acronym MAPs, for Mindful Awareness Practices. But veteran Santa Barbara yoga teacher and longtime mindfulness practitioner Barbara Rose Sherman has been teaching the basic MAPS 1 for 1 MontJournal_February27th'19:Layout Daily Living course in town ever

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t takes more than a village… it takes a community.”

The theme of the Domestic Violence Solutions (DVS) luncheon was Community and purple is their color. We were in the Loggia Room at the Santa Barbara Biltmore to celebrate what has been accomplished so that victims are visible – not invisible – and to raise money to help.

Event chair Virginia Benson Wigle welcomed the group. County of Santa Barbara district attorney Joyce Dudley was to be there, but couldn’t make it at the last minute, so State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson filled in to honor the honoree Megan Rheinschild and the others from the Victim-Witness Assistance Program: Joan Airfield, Terry Lopez, Lourdes Negrete, and Samantha Zaragoza.

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Board emeritus president Julie Capritto introduced executive director Jan Campbell with all good things to say about how many hundreds of miles she had traveled to be in touch with everyone and how inspiring she is. Jan shared, “I worried no one would come to the luncheon.

You know people from Santa Barbara never go out when it rains.” But the house was full.

Domestic Violence marketing and communications Julia Black and development officer JenniElise Ramirez

DVS has been serving Santa Barbara County for the past 41 years. The board president Maura Mitchell and the executive director Charles Anderson want us to know, “DVS answered over 4,900 calls to our 24-hour crisis and information lines, providing approximately 4,680 nights of safe and confidential shelter, responding to over 470 domestic violence calls from law enforcement and hospitals, delivering hundreds of counseling sessions and performing many other services to support our clients.”

In addition, DVS has expanded their Santa Maria shelter capacity from 28 to 60 at a time, because of increased demand. They can serve women, children, men, large families, and members of the LGBTE community. They have transformed second

stage apartments in Santa Barbara by completely redecorating them and completed all deferred maintenance.

They would be happy to have their loved ones stay.

The passion speaker at the luncheon was America Preciado. She brought tears to our eyes hearing her story of abuse and the effects it had on her two children. The ending is amazing.

“I now have my own apartment, a car, and a job I love.” And her kids are safe. Victims are helped to get started all over again with their life.

CEO SBCC Foundation Geoff Green did the “ask” for funds. For information call the DVS office at 805.963.4458. For the 24-hour crisis line in Santa Barbara call 805.964.5245.

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sits on an 11-acre campus, and during the 2018/19 school year serves a total of 252 students from Kindergarten to eighth grade (136 Lower School and 116 Upper School). The school employs 41 teachers, 14 staff members, and six administrators. Crane Celebrates 90 Years is a 128-page commemorative book that will be given to every celebration attendee, thanks to a generous donor.

Given that the original buildings are 90 years old, the past 15 years has brought a number of fundraising campaigns resulting in the construction of new physical spaces to the campus: the library, two art studios, new classrooms and offices, and a Design & Engineering Center. The most recent project, the Oak Tree Quad, was finished in 2017 and is the largest building project in the school’s history. The project, as well as a 2014 parking lot project, are part of a larger Master Plan update, which includes future demolition of two of the school’s older buildings to make way for an expanded Cate Hall. The campus was opened as a staging ground for first responders during the Thomas Fire and subsequent 1/9 debris flow in 2018. “This campus has always been at the center of the Montecito community,” Williams said.

Crane has many traditions that have roots going back to its founding in

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1928: prioritizing the importance of academics while at the same time giving students experiences with both studio and performing arts, experiential education, and public speaking. Currently, 23% of the students at Crane receive some level of tuition assistance with that budget totaling over $1M. “This has always been a focus of Crane and helps to increase the diversity of our student and parent body,” Williams said.

The anniversary event, dubbed “Crane Coming Home,” will be held on May 3rd and 4th. The events committee is seeking any and all alumni, so if you are a former Crane parent or student and have not received correspondence about the event, please contact Anne Perkins, 90th Anniversary Coordinator, at aperkins@craneschool. org or (805) 969-7732 x 321.

Microgrid Moves Forward

In a unanimous vote on Monday, February 25, the Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors authorized Fire Chief Chip Hickman to enter into negotiations with Clean Coalition, a non-profit whose mission is to accelerate the transition to renewable energy and a modern energy grid.

Craig Lewis, founder of Clean

The Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors: Abe Powell, Peter van Duinwyk, Sylvia Easton, Judy Ishkanian, and Michael Lee

Coalition, explained to the Board that the ultimate goal is to increase Montecito’s resilience during emergencies, and to not be dependent upon Southern California Edison during a time when climate change, wildfires, earthquakes, and other disasters can cause us to be vulnerable to long-term power outages. “The overall goal is to provide renewables-driven energy resilience to critical facilities, and ultimately residents in Montecito, and to showcase the benefits of community microgrids for communities around the world,” he said. Lewis, whose company has staged microgrids in other areas hit by disasters, including East Hampton in Long Island NY (hit

by Hurricane Sandy), and northern California (hit by devastating wildfires), explained that building a microgrid in Montecito would require the installations of solar panels at several critical sites in the community, beginning with the MFPD headquarters and Montecito Water District.

The first phase of the project, which would cost nearly $850,000, includes building a solar photovoltaic canopy on top of a single carport, to be located in the back parking lot area of Station 1 on San Ysidro Road. The panels would be able to power the station at the same rate or better than Edison’s current rates, said David Yanni of GI Energy, a construction engineering company that has been analyzing the potential project. Taking into account the state and federal tax breaks and the money earned by selling the energy to MFPD, there is a $285,000 gap to pay for the facility, which will be funded by grant money sourced by Clean Coalition. “It’s a win-win for us,” said Board President Abe Powell, who also leads the ad hoc committee that has been studying the pros and cons to allowing a microgrid site on the property. “It’s not going to cost us more money, and we get the benefit of having reliable energy when we need it most,” said Powell.

Future potential sites include MWD, Montecito Union School, San Ysidro Pharmacy, and the upper village gas station. “All of these sites are critical during an emergency. We need to

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make sure these places stay open and functioning,” Lewis said. “This is the first step in a much larger project to bring resiliency to the greater community.”

MFPD and Clean Coalition will be in negotiations for the next 60 days, working on the details for potentially building the microgrid site. The negotiations will include an executable long-term power purchase and easement agreement, which will require board approval at a future meeting. Green will be at the Montecito Association Land Use Committee next Tuesday for a briefing on the project. For more information, visit www. clean-coalition.org.

Mobile Command Center Unveiled

Earlier this month the Santa Barbara Police Department accepted and unveiled a new 32-ft long, 12-ft tall, custom mobile command unit that will be dispatched during community events, emergency situations, and disasters. The $350,000 vehicle was purchased by the Santa Barbara Police Foundation and One805, a local non-profit that was born after the Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow.

“In the aftermath of the Thomas Fire and mudslide disaster, we quickly realized that this was not a one off; that our first responders didn’t only need our help in the wake of a disaster, they need it year-in and year-out,” said Richard Weston-Smith, board president of One805. The non-profit hosted the large scale Kick Ash Bash in February of last year, marking the largest non-profit event in Santa Barbara history and raising over $2M for the local Fire, Police, and Sheriff departments.

This is the second of three Mobile Command Units to be delivered; the first was to Santa Barbara County Fire last year, with the third slated for the Sheriff’s Department this July.

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SPIRITUALITY (Continued from page 13) said. “It makes each moment light up – you don‘t miss the moments because you’re with them, not lost in ruminating or worrying.”

Sherman – who led more than 20 daylong workshops in yoga and other practices at La Casa de Maria in Montecito before the debris flow hit in January 2018 – will launch another local six-week MAPS 1 series covering basic principles of mindfulness where students will develop a personal meditation practice and learn to apply the principles in their daily life on an ongoing basis, beginning next Thursday, March 7. “There are a lot of doors to mindfulness, but the UCLA course is incredible,” she said.

“It breaks everything down in a very structured way: how to meditate, what the obstacles are, the mindfulness of body, how to deal with physical pain, how to handle difficult emotions and cultivate positive ones, and how to engage in mindful communication. And you get the science, the research, a full foundation. It’s a wonderful way of getting started.”

That latter part can be key, Sherman explained, as research has shown that short sessions practiced frequently are more beneficial than sitting longer but intermittently. “The UCLA course is a way of a taking baby steps toward cultivating peace. Just like with growing a garden, it takes time, but it builds and grows, organically.

Then when you start to have it, you want more.”

While learning online or practicing alone can help, the UCLA course has the added appeal of participating in a group, added Sherman, who also teaches the practice at nonprofits and corporations. “You get to experience everyone opening their hearts and feeling a sense of unity as they grow and transform. I’m honored to be the facilitator.”

For more details, or to register for the March 7-April 11 MAPS 1 course, visit http://mindfulbusinessworks.com/maps-i-mindful-awareness-practices.

More Meditation

Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Buddhist Center Resident Teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips is back in town and gearing up for a new four-week course at the Mission Street locale. In “The Practice, Art, and Science of Meditation,” Phillips will teach essential fundamentals and specialized instructions on how to develop one’s meditation practice. Participants will learn the building blocks of a successful practice to discover innate wakefulness and a joyful mind. Attendance at all sessions – 7-9 pm on Thursdays, March 7-28, is listed as required.

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patrons) can be paid online, or at the door when registration opens at 6:30 pm on March 7. Reduced cost is available for those unable to pay and no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Need some extra help? Phillips has also launched Dawa’s Office Hours, from 4-6 pm on Thursdays prior to the course sessions. The opportunity to meet one-on-one with the authentic Buddhist Dharma teacher to clarify questions about Buddhism, meditation, and individual practice is available by prior appointment only.

Email sb@bodhipath.org to request an appointment at least 48 hours in advance.

Sunburst’s Silent Retreat

The Sunburst Sanctuary’s annual “Dive into Silence” retreat takes place next weekend, a perfect time to spend close to four days not only not talking, but also enjoying what happens in that space: time to reconnect with oneself and whatever sense of awakening, greater purpose, or sense of spirit or source arises in the quiet of the present moment. Wonders arise from letting stories about the past and hopes and (mostly, in my case) fears for the future fade from conscious thought in favor of being in the present.

At least that was my experience in mid-winter last year when I visited Sunburst for my first-ever silent weekend – which, unlike at some Zen monastery marathons, actually contains several sessions of talking and other guidance from the leaders (yoga, mala meditations, walking instructions), and even a few moments of singing from the participants themselves.

But the experiences that came from not responding verbally to was priceless, as documented by entries in my journal while spending countless quarter-hours with plants or creatures in the garden, or listening to the wind in the trees while on an hours-long solo hike. The guided portions include walking and sitting meditations, instructions in constructing and using malas, and yoga sessions, but most of the time is spent with no words at all, save for those you might find in the meditative books in Sunburst’s small library in the lodge hall, or ones you jot down in your journal. Best of all, for this participant, was the opportunity to explore not only the Hopi labyrinth and other nearby “sacred spaces for solitude” that have been designated for the weekend but also discover wide swaths of the expansive property in Sunburst’s 4,000 acre sanctuary – which should be bursting with wildlife and green-

ery following this winter’s series of rains – during the plentiful unstructured time. That and enjoying nourishing meals in the company of others without conversation of any kind, accompanied only by the wise and brief words from Thich Nhat Hanh about mindful eating that still resonates a year later (at least when I remember to look at the note on my refrigerator instead of wolfing down my food).

The “Dive into Silence” weekend starts with dinner on Thursday, March 7 and ends with Sunburst’s regular weekly 10:30 am Sunday meditation service followed by brunch on March 10. First up after greeting is the participants sharing intentions verbally in a circle before the words fall away and participants instead support each other via each other’s presence and purpose.

You’ll all be the same, yet somehow changed, when talking starts again on Sunday morning.

The cost is by sliding scale donation of $175 - $250, plus lodging or camping fees (commuting is OK).

Call or email the Sunburst office at (805) 736-6528 or contactus@sun burst.org or visit https://sunburst. org/silence. Coming to Sunburst at the end of the month: Regenerating Earth & Spirit, a Family Friendly Weekend, March 29-31. Visit https:// sunburst.org/earth for details.

ACIM at Unity

Meetings on A Course in Miracles take place every Wednesday at Unity of Santa Barbara, with locals supporting each other in absorbing and practicing the principals in the spiritual book that first arrived in the 1970s. This Saturday, March 2, the space hosts a day long dive into ACIM with a seminar titled “Undoing the Ego through the Practice of Pure Non-Dualism.”

ACIM speaker and author Gary Renard and his wife, Cindy, will guide participants through the process of awakening from “the dream of separation” using the purely non-dualistic thought system, including a discussion of principles and practices of undoing the ego through true forgiveness.

Participants will be taught how to gain a deeper understanding of how the mind works in order to take control of thoughts and choose peace and oneness over conflict and separation, and how to heal relationships by changing perceptions and interpretations. There will be a guided meditation for further deepening of the material as well as original music performed by Cindy. The 10 am to 5 pm workshop costs $95.

Visit www.santabarbaraunity.org/ gary-renard-undoing-ego-throughpractice-pure-non-dualism.

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” – Tennessee Williams

C’mon People Now, Everybody Get Together Mary Anne Avila’s new Santa Barbara Human-Being Meetup launches on Friday, March 1, with a “Celebration of our Commonality” gathering from 5:30-7:30 pm. The session for “people who are ready, or at least curious enough, to explore what it would feel like to join with other humans and put away those labels we use to define ourselves and others, (gender, color, culture, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, religion, etc.) to instead celebrate our commonality (needs, hopes, and dreams). Attendees are encouraged to bring a snack, dish and/or beverage to share, and acoustic instruments for drumming at the end of the gathering. RSVP for location and other details at www.meetup.com/Santa-BarbaraHuman-Beings.

More Meetups

Darren Marc’s second round of public gatherings after more than a month’s hiatus takes place this week, beginning with a Cacao Ceremony & Healing Sound Journey in which Marc will be joined by Ka Luna in weaving together a Guided Meditation, Mantra-Chakra Toning Sound Journey, Heart-Centered Sharing, Hands on Healing, and a Healing Sound Bath from 2-5 pm on Saturday, March 2, at his private residence in Oak Park. ($25 donation; www.meetup.com/CacaoCeremony-Sacred-Song-Circle)...

Darren & Friends lead a Kirtan & Healing Sound Journey 7-9 pm on Thursday, March 7, at Amy’s Yoga Studio, 37 Colusa Drive, Goleta, with homemade treats by Jessica included in the $10 suggested donation at door (www.meetup.com/KirtanAscension-Sound-Journey)... Back at his Oak Park home, Marc also hosts a Community Reiki Healing Circle from 7-8:30 pm on Thursday March 14, featuring an intimate healing circle where each participant receives a mini reiki session followed by a guided meditation and a sound journey. ($10; www.meetup.com/Reiki-withDarren-in-Santa-Barbara).

Christina Hackl is teaching yoga classes at the beach with a focus on the practice’s original intent of “becoming your highest state of being through knowing yourself as a soul, embodied in a physical body.” The donation-based Level 1 Vinyasa flow class next meets on the grass in front of lifeguard tower No. 5 at East Beach at 9 am on Sunday, March 3. Details at https://www. meetup.com/meetup-group-SRJkpnuo. •MJ 28 February – 7 March 2019

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# 25/7) offers a glimpse into the extent of underground fires in oil seep areas of California. Man against Nature.

Sometimes nature wins. Especially when we develop in sacred spaces that were never intended to be developed.

FEMA oversees a federal insurance program that covers five million homes and businesses. The Trump administration decided no new policies will be offered after December 21, citing the shutdown and lapse in authority.

It is no longer about walls and border security. Without access to insurance, many properties could face foreclosure and be acquired at a hardship price after an emergency. How do we determine profitability at a cost in human lives?

Karen Friedman Montecito (Editor’s note: We don’t know how it is determined and at what cost in human lives, but we do know that “profitability” and other such things are always taken into account. There were nearly 40,000 traffic deaths that took place in the U.S. last year, for example. We could mandate that every vehicle be built as safe and as sturdy as a tank, which would surely cut down on needless deaths on our highways, but we don’t. Everything made and sold has some kind of mortality factor built in; that’s just the way it is. – J.B.)

Make Him Pay

I heard a reporter say that Jussie Smollett has set back race relations for decades to come. I have a different take. This is a pivotal moment in time.

This is a teaching moment. No one has a pure mind. We all harbor thoughts from time to time that we would never act upon.

As a civil society, we use logic, common sense and love, to move forward. I sincerely hope Mr. Smollett does not get a slap on the wrist. If Martha Stewart was sentenced to prison for five months and five months of home confinement, there should be no excuse in this case for anything else but to throw the book at Mr. Smollett.

I believe in second chances. I believe after thinking about how much harm he has done he can come back and start again. TV, movies, a book, whatever the world can handle.

Lastly, 50% of all earnings off the top (until repaid in full) need to go the city of Chicago for the time and resources that were spent on such a heinous act.

Steve Marko Santa Barbara

It’s No Joke

Gavin Newsom’s attempt to take control over cities will hugely impact the quality of life in Santa Barbara in a negative way. We will no longer have any control over the development in 28 February – 7 March 2019

our own city. Gavin Newsom is as deadly to California as the rest of his family; they are corrupt and just out to make as much money as they can while running the State of California into the ground. We deserve to run the development in our city, not the state government. For those who continue to believe the Democratic Party is still on your side as a Santa Barbaran, and you care about it developing in a way that protects it, take a real look at the Democrat Party. It is not the same party it was even three years ago.

And their Green New Deal is a joke.

Polly Frost Montecito (Editor’s note: The Democrats’ “Green New Deal” may be a joke, but it isn’t very funny, ludicrous as it is – J.B.)

Carpinteria Rotten

Do property rights end at the point of someone’s nose?

As a libertarian, I find the big things (public education, income tax, welfare, warfare) easier to address (all “no”), than the more nuanced things such as land use and environmental protection. Contentious case in point: cannabis growing near housing (or other people’s noses).

Cigarette smoking has been banned in many public places because second-hand smoke allegedly harms the health of non-smokers and most non-smokers find second-hand smoke obnoxious. Speaking for myself only, as a libertarian, clearly the right to life (health) of the non-smoker trumps the right to smoke and expose others to harm without their consent. Consent is implied if one voluntarily enters private property where smoking is allowed.

Though I firmly endorse a landowner’s right to grow cannabis, absent an amicable solution, it’s not difficult to side with adjoining property owners who object to odor and other risks inherent with cannabis farming.

Why? Because the odor (and other potential problems, like burglary and

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possibly worse), devalues property, degrades air, and possibly jeopardizes health, thus violating the more fundamental rights of neighboring property owners.

Why are progressive-environmentalist regimes permitting cannabis growing in populated areas? As with many other zoning issues, citizens are secondary to the revenue an enterprise will generate for the regime.

Especially if other significant revenue generating enterprises (i.e., fossil fuels) have been severely restricted or banned.

A year ago, Ben Williams, Headmaster of Cate School, weighed in online at EdHat, and wrote: “We understand that Santa Barbara County is in dire need of funds due to its significant projected budget deficit, which has been exacerbated by the projected shortfall in Montecito property tax revenue. Despite a series of reports from consultants about the limited and widely variable income likely to be derived from cannabis operations, and multiple warnings from law enforcement about the drawbacks of welcoming the industry – including increased risk to public safety and the presence and influence of organized crime – the County seems to be banking on cannabis as a means to pay its bills.”

The Tax Foundation has added that: “a mature marijuana industry

could generate up to $28 billion in tax revenues for federal, state, and local governments, including $7 billion in federal revenue: $5.5 billion from business taxes and $1.5 billion from income and payroll taxes.”

Steve King Carpinteria

Thrills, Chills, and Pills

While taking my morning pills, I read the news that my blood pressure pill, Amlodipine Benzilates-Valsarton, when made in China, would contain (intentionally since those made elsewhere did not contain it?) a cancer-causing NDEA, brought the discussion of the current negotiations for fair trade with China into my bedroom. I wondered how to follow the words of Mark Bartolini, the then CEO of Aetna, of “focus on helping people stay healthy” (Techonomy: Advancing Global Healthcare, Nov. 2017) after Aetna, my prescription provider, rejected my physician’s prescriptions for alternative drugs by asserting they were “out of stock” without indicating what alternatives were “in stock.”

Aetna responded to my physician’s next set of drugs with “Your prescriber denied it,” which was comical since my physician, as “my prescriber,” had prescribed it. My physician respond-

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Dance Beyond Description as Joffrey Returns

One of the country’s leading ballet companies, the Joffrey Ballet, returns to town for two nights at the Granada on March 5 and 6 (photo by Cheryl Mann)

L

ocal dance lovers are in for a treat this week when the Joffrey Ballet, the veteran company considered among America’s elite, returns to the Granada for the first time in more than half a decade for two different programs spanning seven works. That’s a tall order even for one of the country’s most revered troupe of dancers who are classically trained to the highest standards, even more so considering the first performance takes place on Tuesday, March 5, only two days after the Joffrey winds up its world premiere performances of Anna Karenina, following a two-week-plus run of the six-yearsin-the-making massive work in its Chicago home and in Minneapolis.

But according to Joffrey’s 12-year veteran Artistic Director Ashley Wheater, the effect is more energizing than exhausting.

“The more you perform, the more comfortable you feel,” he said over the phone last week. “The stage is really our living room.”

The Granada will perhaps turn into our own private parlor when the Joffrey kicks off the two-day residency with George Balanchine’s “The

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

Four Temperaments” followed by works by Nicolas Blanc (“Beyond the Shore” and “Encounter”), Alexander Ekman (“Joy”), Justin Peck (“In Creases”) and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (“Mammatus”), all of which build upon, extrapolate, and/or intentionally depart from the master’s oeuvre. “’The Four Temperaments’ was done in the ‘40s but it’s still a masterpiece of abstract dance today,” Wheater said. “It’s an important work, one of his more abstract ones that breaks away from the classical idiom while using it as its foundation. That influence runs through the entire program, which is about people being daring in what they create.

Balancing Balanchine against people like Nicolas Blanc, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, or Alexander Ekman – all of

whose works were created for the Joffrey – speaks to the boldness of pushing the boundaries.”

Ochoa’s piece employs the company’s physicality while Blanc’s evokes its beauty and thoughtfulness, with the full programs adhering to founder Robert Joffrey’s love for eclecticism, said Wheater, whose career includes a stint as a principal dancer with the company in the 1980s. “What we’re doing now is a continuation of that mission. It’s important to keep his ideas alive, even while we’re pushing against the edge.”

Blurring the boundaries between ballet and modern has become a part of that mission, Wheater said.

“Dance is getting hybridized, just as in theater and opera, and we are definitely a big part of that,” he said. “Our world is more accepting and experimental in the different disciplines. To combine them can be an incredible experience for the audience. We need to make our work relative to the audiences of today. You’ll see a huge body of work over the two nights, and, to me, the company is dancing at an all time high.”

(For tickets and information, visit https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.)

Such a Cinematic Pleasure: 3Q’s with SBJFF’s Bernstein

SBIFF ended almost three weeks ago. The Oscars crowned its winners (including the dubious Best Picture in The Green Book) last Sunday. Even UCSB A&L’s annual two-day offering of the Best of the BANFF Film Festival will be in the rearview mirror before this issue hits newsstands. But the area’s second biggest cinematic confab is still on the horizon, as the revived and revitalized Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival launches its fiveday extravaganza featuring 13 different programs at the New Vic Theater March 6-10.

The fourth edition of SBJFF since its resurrection expands upon its reach across borders and genres and also boasts an increase in world premieres and attendant sessions with filmmakers. Co-chair Mashey Bernstein dished on the new SBJFF developments during intermission at the Center Stage Theater during Monday night’s Personal Stories offering from Speaking of Stories, a few minutes before he was to spin his own tale of his father taking him to the movies decades ago. (Visit https://sbjewish filmfestival.org for details and passes.)

Q. SBIFF just showcased several Israeli films, which you curated, earlier this month. Why do we need the SBJFF? A. SBIFF has only Israeli movies and only premieres. SBJFF has films from Hungary, Morocco, and Mexico, old

“They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!” – Dr. Seuss

movies, silent movies, lots of different programs. It’s a very different intent and focus.

The world is so divisive these days, and there’s a questioning of putting people into categories. There are issues of assimilation, but what is the value on identifying and focusing on Jewish films?

That’s a very important question.

The festival reflects a wide variety and viewpoints of Judaism. And this year we’re focusing on community – we’ve reached out to the classical community, the gay community – so that it’s not restrictive and narrow. We’re really going to work on that in years to come, too. Yes, it’s about Jews, but it’s really playing on the old commercial for Levy’s Bread: You don’t have to be Jewish to love the films.

What are you most excited about this year?

We’re bringing in a string quintet for the silent film, who will play an original score composed for the event live on stage. There are two people coming from Hungary for the world premiere of their short. There’s another short about Margaret Singer, who will be here for the world premiere. She’s 97.

And our first film from Mexico will be the closing night film. And there are a lot of Q&A’s with the directors, which to me is a big part of a film festival.

We’re giving awards for the second year, which has added a lot of gravitas. It’s becoming very successful, and we’re thrilled.

Classical Corner

Opera Santa Barbara kicks off 2019 with its first production of Tchaikovsky’s lyric opera Eugene Onegin at the Lobero March 1 and 3, the first two dates coinciding with Westmont College’s contemporary staging of the Mozart’s The Magic Flute, which brings the fairytale story about love’s trials into the present day, running March 1, 3 & 5 at the New Vic Theater.

In chamber music, pianist Beatrice Rana, Gramophone’s 2017 Young Artist of the Year, makes her Santa Barbara debut with a program featuring works by Chopin, Ravel, and Stravinsky on Sunday, March 3, at Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall, the same afternoon that multiple competition-winning cellist Zlatomir Fung performs in recital with pianist Janice Carissa at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai.

Out at UCSB’s campus, the music department launches its 10-day winter concert series on Wednesday, March 6, with “The Norm,” an enigmatic program from the Ensemble for Contemporary Music featuring works

by Charles Ives, Witold Lutosławski, Robert Suderburg, Charles Chaynes, Darius Milhaud, Scott Perry, Claude Debussy, and John Harbison.

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ON EDUCATION (Continued from page 5)

by Linda Spann

Max Phillips

14 February 1992 – 27 January 2019

W

e lost Max on Sunday, January 27.

Max would have celebrated his 27th birthday this Valentine’s Day. Max grew up in Santa Barbara and will be forever missed by his twin sister, Alexie, sisters Gaby and Katie, mother Karen, father Michael, and stepmother Lana.

•MJ

Teaching “Fractions”

Weiss laughingly recalls an incident from the early Crane years. “A math teacher, teaching the concept of fractions took a pair of scissors and cut his tie in half to illustrate parts of the whole. Great shtick... stays with kids and creates memory, and kids learn,” he notes. “And this was pre-Depression, when most schools relied on rote learning and memorization – not the relaxed schools you see today.”

Joel Weiss, who grew up in Chappaqua, New York, is the son of a Park Avenue lawyer and an artist mother. Weiss envisioned his future as an engineer, having been strong in math and science and surrounded as he was by doctors, lawyers, and business people. As a student at Swarthmore College, however, the doors flew open into to another world. “I found myself surrounded by a bunch of talented college students interested in art, music, poetry and the like.

And randomly during my sophomore year, I signed up for an education course and stumbled into the world of schools.”

Included in that course was actual work in the classroom with children. “My work with kids in the classroom was so refreshing,” he says, “that I realized this was the calling I needed. Two of Weiss’s teachers encouraged him to continue his education at Harvard University. “I sort of stumbled into that too… Luckily.

Most of the other students at Harvard,” he recounts, “were experienced teachers and I found myself with a bunch of adults, much like my parents’ friends, who enjoyed the wider range of working people pursuing interests they loved.

That was a wonderful chapter in my life.”

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The opportunity to become an administrator came knocking at his door a few years later when the Dean of Students position at Lick-Wilmerding opened up. “This wasn’t exactly part of my career plan, but I discovered I really loved being in administration. When kids messed up you got to be with them, to help them to learn, take on responsibility and navigate their way out of a problem… effectively counseling.” A few years later when the Head of School at Lick-Wilmerding took a sabbatical, Weiss was asked to be acting Head until the man’s return. “I got to do a lot of crazy things in one semester that I’d never anticipated,” Weiss laughs. “Definitely scary fun, a quick learning experience and an opportunity to broaden my view.” As a revered teacher and administrator Weiss remained at Lick-Wilmerding for a total of 14 years.

An offer from San Francisco Day School provided an opportunity to work with younger children from kindergarten through the eighth grade. At San Francisco Day, Weiss assumed the position of Head of Middle School and eventually acting Head of School. “By this time I was married and my wife, Mary Ann, a lawyer practicing in San Francisco, and I were both completely focused on our careers. And then… guess what? Our first child came into the world.”

Coming to Crane

It was at that point that the Weiss family began to think about the possibility of relocating. Weiss began to look at potential schools and saw Crane Country Day School in Montecito, another kindergarten-through-eighth-grade independent school. “Everything about Crane just rang my bell,” he says, “Just everything.” Upon being offered the position as Head of School in 1999, the Weiss family packed their bags and headed south. Nineteen years later, he is pleased to be celebrating Crane’s 90th year.

As our time draws to a close, cookies and milk are placed on the coffee table between us and Weiss’s office door opens to admit a group of first graders to story time with the Head of School. “I love reading aloud to kids,” says Weiss with a grin as he offers the children the treats on the table. Between bites of cookies and sips of milk, the first graders were absorbed in the storytelling.

As I slipped out the door, I was grateful for the afternoon and the opportunity to spend time with Joel Weiss, longtime Head at Crane Country Day School, another of Montecito’s amazing neighborhood schools. •MJ

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol

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ed that it would be helpful if Aetna, when denying a drug, would indicate which drugs in the same class were available.

Since Mr. Bartolini recommended “creating a front door to the health system” (id), I called Aetna. After a couple of transfers, a pharmacist said that the numbers on my drugs were so close to the ones the Chinese laced with NDEA that I should have my physician get “approval” for another drug. I asked “approval from Aetna?”

Her reply of “yes” led to my asking “aren’t you Aetna?” There was an audible gasp when I followed with, “What does Aetna recommend that I, as a heart patient, do today, and every day, while Aetna decides whether to approve my physician’s prescriptions for a substitute for the cancer-causing drug Aetna has been selling me?”

The pharmacist called back and said she had called my physician and she had “approved” a replacement set of drugs. The approval was required because the alternative drugs would cost Aetna more, which reminded me of Mr. Bartolini (in 2017 when his compensation was estimated at $59 million) setting a goal for Aetna of providing “what people want and the cheapest way to finance that for them” (id).

Adding to my concern was that last week my blood pressure spiking had caused me to halt dental surgery that was now scheduled for today.

Deciding not to cancel, I “discovered” that I had time, and a willing dermatologist, to have the outpatient surgery on my elbow.

The 14th dawned with China as background for my swallowing an NDEA-laced drug with hopes for the pledges of Aetna’s former CEO “to keep customers healthy” (id), through painless teeth, while keeping my elbow straight, not taking my blood pressure, and being grateful that the 13th was not a Friday.

Brent Zepke Santa Barbara

More On Richard’s 10th MJ Anniversary Generous and Funny

Richard Mineards is the most indefatigable champion and friend

of the non-profit community in Santa Barbara. He not only tirelessly shines a light on the work of all the wonderful folk but he does it with grace, humor, and panache... He never has a mean thing to say and is relentless in finding the good in all of us. We are very lucky to have a writer of his generosity of spirit to keep our fires burning and who can be counted on for some comic relief when we need it the most.

Thank you Richard and Montecito Journal for all you do for the community.

Nancy Gifford

Unique Wordsmithing

Congratulations to Richard Mineards, who celebrates ten years as a Montecito Journal columnist this month. Keeping the community abreast of events large and small, his unique wordsmithing style includes tales of tony twosomes and violin concerts headlined “Wooden It Be Nice.” Then there’s “State of the Unity (Shoppe)” and “Ain’t Love Granada.” Not to mention nearly creating an Olympic event out of tossing tiaras.

Kathy Jean Schultz Love Him Happy 10th anniversary to the Miscellany Master. Love the column!

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Always a Pleasure

Just a note to say congratulations to him and the Montecito Journal on the 10th Anniversary of Richard Mineards’ column. Richard has been such a wonderful addition to the cultural community here in Santa Barbara; his witty writing, fearless sussing out of important events, knowledge of the arts and his insightful take on all things interesting makes it a must read every Thursday. I love the photographs that he includes and am grateful that Priscilla is involved in bringing a visual presence to the articles. It is always a pleasure to see Richard at events and hope that he will be with us here in this very special community for many years to come.

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Put It There

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’m sure you’ve come across the expression, “a place for everything, and everything in its place.”

It makes a lot of sense. It sums up the whole idea of neatness and order. You can’t put things away properly, if you don’t know where they go. And you can’t find anything very easily, unless you know where it’s supposed to be.

But there are levels of orderliness.

At first glance, everything may appear shipshape (an expression reflecting the need to be very orderly in a confined space.) But going below the surface may be like opening the proverbial can of worms. And digging deeper still, you may find you’ve opened the legendary Pandora’s Box, which supposedly contained all the evils of the world.

People coming to my headquarters for the first time, often exclaim “How orderly everything looks!” But I know that, if they were to open a single file-cabinet, they would find a disorderly collection of old and new files, each containing a disorderly collection of papers. It all needs to be sorted, and much of it should be thrown away. But who has the time or patience or interest or incentive?

It’s much easier (while there is space) to just keep adding new material, than to do anything with all the old accumulated stuff.

I once satirized this craving for at least superficial orderliness: “BEFORE BURNING THESE PAPERS, LET ME MAKE SURE THEY’RE IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.” You may think that computers have solved all these problems. And indeed, it is now possible to alphabetize a long list, with breathtaking speed. But no such tricks can cure the disorder of one’s own mind, which is simply reflected in the contents of your computer. Like our old “folders” and “files” whose names they appropriated, computers constitute only a deeper level in the essential disorder of the Universe.

Yet “order” of some kind remains an ideal. Why, for example, do we venerate the concept of “Law and Order”?

Because laws by themselves are useless without an orderly framework within which they can operate. “Order in court!” is the stern reminder that the machinery of the Law is unable to function in a milieu of chaos.

That’s why a book called Robert’s Rules of Order is one of the most revered and frequently consulted

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publications in America. Other countries and cultures have their own equivalents – but the basic subject is simply how to conduct meetings.

Since it stems from practices developed over centuries by the British House of Commons, the generally-applied term is “Parliamentary Procedure.”

Similarly, there are books with the rules of card games and other games, now published under the generic name of Hoyle, in tribute to an 18th Century authority, Edmond Hoyle (just as any modern dictionary can now legally call itself “Webster’s” in recognition of the great American lexicographer, Noah Webster).

Fortunately, or unfortunately, there are no such clear-cut guidelines for human relations in general, no rulebooks for the conduct of friendships, much less for “love affairs” – apart from the conversation-stopper that “All’s fair in love and war.”

Speaking of war, there have in fact, in recent centuries, been many serious attempts to regulate the conduct of warfare – although that seems almost a contradiction in terms, since we all know that war is what happens when attempts at order break down.

It is much more pleasant to consider other expressions about orderliness – such as “apple pie order.” How nice to contemplate a well-constructed apple pie. But I’m sorry to tell you that those words probably come from a mis-rendering into English of a French expression meaning “neatly folded linen.”

And what about “getting your ducks in a row?” There are various theories, but the one I like best is the simplest: that a mother duck likes to see her ducklings walking in a straight row behind her.

And finally, sticking with our feathered friends, we have “pecking order,” a term which has been around since some German scientists propounded it in 1927. We all have a general idea that it refers to a hierarchy of status, as observed among chickens, i.e. who can “lawfully” peck whom.

What interests me is that the establishment of a pecking order is considered a positive feature (at least among chickens) since it makes for an orderly community.

Now it’s time for you, as an orderly person, to put this article in its place – and I can only hope that, if it’s the wastebasket, you put it in there very neatly. •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6) Author Victoria Riskin and filmmaker-writer husband David Rintels at the Hahn Hall book launch

Mary Tsushima checks out a Friendship Center member’s new ‘do

members trims.

“Without hesitation we jumped at the offer. It was just the kind of gesture we were looking for.”

The shop’s talented crimpers first visited the facility in September last year and were impressed by the calm environment and loving staff.

“We brought all of our equipment as well as Valentine’s cards we made for the members, and did the haircuts while playing Billie Holiday tunes,” adds Jessica. “We also had quite an audience as fifteen of the seniors watched us at work. We were thrilled to go back and spread the love again.”

Getting back to their roots, without a doubt...

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Victoria Riskin, a Montecito resident for three decades, launched the 397page biography of her parents, actress Fay Wray and screenwriter Robert Riskin.

As part of the celebrations, the 1934 Frank Capra-directed film, It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, with the screenplay by Riskin, was shown in the packed auditorium with a question and answer session with the author moderated by Cheri Steinkellner, producer of the hit TV series, Cheers.

Riskin, renowned for writing nearly all of Capra’s best films, including Platinum Blonde in 1931, 1936’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon the following year, and Meet John Doe in 1941, married Wray in 1942 in the New York St. Regis Hotel suite of William Donovan, founder of the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the CIA. His daughter says the book, Fay Wray and Robert Riskin, blossomed out of her parents’ romance and marriage, as well as the response to World War II, and their commitment to Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal.

Key material for her extensive research was lost and, fortunately, found after last year’s mudslides, which destroyed her Randall Road home.

Victoria is now embarking on a 10-city book tour, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Austin, Texas.

Among the many, many friends turning out for the bibliophile blast off were Janet Garufis, Lee Luria, Corinna Gordon, Jane De Hart, Larry Feinberg and Starr Siegele, David and Anne Gersh, Stan and Betty Hatch, and Tecolote’s Mary Sheldon.

Fire up the Grill Mesa Burger, run by award-winning chef Cat Cora and visionary Chris Chiarappa, is moving into the former Trattoria Mollie space on Coast Village Road, says my man with the martini.

Offering gourmet, handcrafted burgers on brioche buns, farm fresh salads, locally brewed beers and Santa

Barbara County wines, this is the company’s third outlet, having opened two years ago on the Mesa, from where its name derives, and Camino Real Markeyplace.

Mollie Ahlstrand, who ran the popular Italian eatery, moved to a new hotspot, the former Tupelo Junction, next to the Granada on State Street.

Recognized for their Relief Santa Barbara charity Direct Relief is one of the top non-profits in the world, according to Fast Company, a leading business and media brand based in Pennsylvania.

The popular organization, which also received the recognition four years ago, delivers lifesaving medical resources throughout the world to communities in need – without regard to politics, religion, or ability to pay.

It comes after a year defined by humanitarian crisis and natural disasters of unprecedented scale during which Direct Relief responded more expansively than ever before in its 70 year history – delivering more than $1.1 billion in humanitarian assistance to locally run healthcare providers in 100 countries, including $231 million in aid to communities in 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

President and CEO Thomas Tighe says the organization’s work “is fueled by the generosity, passion, and participation from all backgrounds and companies of all types and industries just wanting to help people who need it.

“This wonderful recognition is a testament to their involvement, which provides the energy and the ideas.”

Direct Relief earned a four-star rating last year from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator, the eighth consecutive year it has earned the top distinction, Of more than 8,000 charities rated by them, Direct Relief is one of only 66 to receive a perfect 100 score.

Moved by The Mock Marriage Hungarian composer Franz Lehar is undoubtedly best known for his 1905 operetta The Merry Widow, which has

“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.” – Cassandra Clare

been made into a film, a TV spectacular, a full-length ballet, and even an ice show.

But prior to writing the wildly successful work, the Prague Conservatory of Music graduate produced the score for 1904’s The Mock Marriage, which UCSB’s Department of Music beautifully staged at the Lobero in memory of the late professor Carl Zytowski, who taught voice and composition for nearly 50 years.

Under the capable direction of conductor Maxim Kuzin and the musical talents of Scott Levin, Hailey Atwell, Thomas Seven, Naomi Merer, Christy Peterson, Julie Davies, Tyler Reece, Kelly Guerra, Byron Mayes, Steven Thomson, and Byron Wu, the two-hour, three-act show made for a most enjoyable afternoon.

Stage director Steven Daigle, choreographer Jennifer Phillips, scenic designer Yuki Izumihara, producer Benjamin Brecher, and costume designer Stacie Logue all did sterling work.

Leadership in Turbulent Times World-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times bestselling author Doris Kearns Goodwin packed the Granada when she spoke about Leadership in Turbulent Times, the title of her seventh book published last year.

The tome is a culmination of Goodwin’s five-decade career of studying American presidents focusing on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson.

She was inspired while a 24-yearold graduate student at Harvard when she was selected to join the White House Fellows, one of America’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service, which led to her working for LBJ and assisting him in writing his memoirs.

Goodwin then wrote Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, which became a national bestseller and is being re-released this spring.

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UCSB A&L Miller McCune Executive Director Celesta Billeci with Doris Kearns Goodwin (photo

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Beatrice Rana, piano

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James Balog The Human Element: A Photographer’s Journey in the Anthropocene

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Sat, Mar 2 / 7:30 PM / Granada Theatre

25-year-old Italian-born Beatrice Rana is making waves in the international classical music scene and was named 2018 Female Artist of the Year at the Classic BRIT Awards.

The Human Element, documents how the earth’s four elements – earth, air, water and fire – have all been impacted by a fifth element, homo sapiens. (80 min.)

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Program Mozart: Violin Sonata, K. 304 Debussy: Violin Sonata Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 2 Mozart: Violin Sonata, K. 454 Poulenc: Violin Sonata

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The 118th Annual NAMM Show Jackson Guitars master Luthier Mike Shannon with MJ reporter Joanne Calitri at NAMM 2019

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he 2019 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California (Jan 24-27), where the global leaders of music instruments, production, pro audio, and event technology industries gather to showcase their latest. This year had 115,301 registered industry professionals, 2,000 exhibiting member companies represent-

ing 7,000 brands, all housed in the Anaheim Convention Center’s triplex and its sister hotels, the Hilton and Marriott, with sound levels at the booths kept to 85 dB max.

NAMM U Ed Center held over 400 programs for pros, GenNext students, and teachers. Noted presenters: Alan Parsons, Al Schmitt, Michael

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Gibson Brands returned to NAMM 2019 with new CEO James “JC” Curleigh

Nancy Wilson, NAMM 2019 Music for Life Award recipient

Beinhorn, Ed Cherney, George Massenberg, Eddie Kramer, Jack Douglas, Ross Hogarth, and Frank Filipetti.

I attended sound engineer Eddie Kramer’s (Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones) interview by Public Enemy bassist Brian Hardgroove on the making of Jimi Hendrix’s original 1968 LP, Electric Ladyland. We listened to acoustic demos and alternate takes, learned the gear used, recording techniques, and viewed studio photos, including Linda Eastman’s photo that Hendrix wanted for the LP cover. Eddie gave a similar talk at the NAMM Mixing Stage with his computer guru Ruben Valle from Waves Inc, Knoxville, TN. Bits info Eddie shared: “Normal studio set-up was 3 Neumann U47 mics right, left, and center, and a Beyerdynamic M160 double ribbon mic for Jimi’s vocals and guitar amp. Hendrix color-coded the sound effect he wanted: red for distortion, green for reverb, purple – you know, with specific colors [sounds] on each wall in the recording studio. His vocals and guitar bled in

so I used my delay on it and turned off the pre-delay on the Abbey Road EMI plate/plug-in. A 4:1 compression is best for guitar, bass, drum, and vocals. Jimi and I rehearsed a lot, so the 15-minute song, “Voodoo Chile” was recorded in two live takes with the whole band, no overdubs.”

Asked about the intention of Hendrix’s music a few times, Kramer avoided it, so Hardgroove ended with the famous Hendrix quote to the question – “What do you call your music?”

Hendrix replied, “We don’t want to be classed in any category, if it must have a tag, I’d like it to be called ‘Free Feeling.’ It’s a mixture of rock, freakout, blues and rave music.” [November 25, 1966 Press Conference at the Bag O’Nails Club, London as reported in the Record Mirror by Peter Jones, December 10, 1966].

After a no-show 2018, Gibson Brands [Gibson, Epiphone, Kramer, Steinberger, Cerwin Vega, KRK Systems, and Stanton] were literally everywhere at NAMM, orchestrated by

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a way that allows anyone in Santa Barbara to come and enjoy a fun family experience, interacting with our fire, police, and sheriff departments.

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The Mobile Command Unit donated in part by One805, thanks to proceeds from the Kick Ash Bash (photo by Priscilla)

Hurley, and Vicki and Ron Simms, who attended the unveiling. “Without their support we could not have done this,” Weston-Smith said.

The Mobile Command Unit is equipped with satellite communication facilities, a radio mast, and video equipment, allowing it to operate as a mobile police station.

Weston-Smith said the next One805 event will be announced soon, and

that many exciting plans were in the works. “We still need to build out our board and Advisory Council, but our idea is that One805 will be membership based,” he said. “We want to develop a community that is united around our First Responders, so you will be able to join One805 by means of an affordable membership fee.” Future One805 events will be open to the public and designed in

The latest US drought monitor map shows the majority of the state, including Santa Barbara County, as no longer in drought conditions. While the drought may be over according to the US Drought Monitor, Montecito Water District remains in a water shortage condition, and has released a status update on each of our local water supplies.

Jameson Lake is at 100% capacity since spilling on February 3, 2019. Unfortunately, this water is currently undeliverable due to water quality issues resulting from the Thomas Fire. The District is increasingly hopeful that treatment plant enhancements will enable them to deliver an increased amount of water from Jameson Lake this year. Results on the effectiveness of the District’s new treatment enhancements are expected in mid-late March.

This year’s above average rainfall will likely result in some recharge of the Montecito Groundwater Basin.

Prior to this winter, the groundwater basin was at or near a historic

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low level. It’s anticipated it will take several years of above average rainfall before the basin will return to normal conditions.

While capacity is at 60% and climbing, the District’s allocation from the Cachuma project currently remains at 20%. The District anticipates the Cachuma Project allocation will increase, potentially to 100% for 2019, but to date, USBR has not yet increased the allocation.

The 2019 State Water Project allocation remains below average at 35% irrespective of the significant rainfall and snowpack received across the state this winter. The District anticipates this will likely increase but there is no certainty.

While the drought conditions continue to improve, MWD reminds residents that at this time, it would be premature to conclude that our water shortage condition has ended.

The effect of this year’s significant rainfall and subsequent reservoir inflows on our overall water supply outlook for 2019 remains uncertain, and the MWD expects to reassess the water supply conditions at the end of winter and the rainy season in late March. Residents should continue their outstanding conservation practices, and understand that our message remains consistent with the State’s: water conservation is a California way of life.

•MJ

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their new CEO James “JC” Curleigh (former Levi’s CEO) and Chief Merchant Officer Cesar Gueikian.

JC said, “The future of Gibson will see a much more holistic, integrated approach to working with our artists.

When I came on board three months ago, the team asked to go NAMM, I said, only if we are ready, we’re going to show up and show the world we are going to be true to who we really are.

For 125 years Gibson has been famous for shaping, creating, and owning sound for every genre and gender in music, and we want to be synonymous with shaping, creating, and owning sound for the future in all our brands. Epiphone guitars, originating in 1873, are some of the highest-quality guitars in the world for the price, with players like Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, and John Lennon.” With that and more, they announced a Chuck Berry’s ES-350T based on x-raying the original with Berry’s son and grandson; the Chris Cornell Tribute Model ES-335 guitar with aged Lollartron humbucking pickups, clear no number Top Hat knobs, Olive Drab Satin finish, Mother-of-Pearl Chris Cornell signature peghead inlay, and a portion of sales to charities in his name; the Epiphone Limited Edition Jared James Nichols ‘Old Glory’ Les Paul Custom; a Ltd. Ed. Peter Frampton “1964” Texan Premium Outfit Epiphone; a Ltd. Ed. Slash Firebird; and a Ltd. Ed. Joe Bonamassa ES-355 Outfit.

Gibson brought in every famed musician using the brand and signed on new ones Wednesday before the show opened. They had VIP meets, performances, Q & A’s and a daily guitar raffle at their booth. A nod to Gibson PR who personally invited me to their private soirée at the City National Grove Anaheim for a two-hour concert by musicians playing Gibson gui-

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” – Cormac McCarthy

tars: Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Nancy Wilson (Heart), Peter Frampton, Robby Krieger (The Doors), Emily Wolfe, Black Pistol Fire, Cam, Jared James Nichols, Toby Lee, and Lauren Ruth Ward with house band Jimmy Vivino, Kenny Arnoff, Daryl Jones, and Jeff Young. The purpose was clear: to showcase the brand with music’s royalty, thank loyals, and add new buyers.

Jackson Guitars righteously held their own, even with a reduced-size booth and the U.S.-made custom models removed prior to the show. Jackson Artists David Ellefson (Megadeath), Phil Collen (Def Leppard), Marty Friedman, and Chris Broderick were around for autographs. Keynote at the booth was their Master Luthier of 40 years Mike Shannon, the guitar-maker god, seen with metal musicians waiting in line for his autograph on their axe. Notes from my one-on-one interview with Shannon: “I’ve been in every department and finally put together a Master Builder final assembly in my area. I leave the playing to the pros! One of my specialties is shaping the necks, I’ve done thousands. The rounder the fingerboard, the less string bend before it tops out on the other frets, so we use a conical compound fret board radius, usually a 12-inch radius at the nut to a 16 at the butt. Some artists like Chris Broderick want 12 inch all the way down. There are five pieces of wood to construct a basic neck through and we use a two-way expanding truss rod. To get the neck right, make sure the wood is dried correctly, and do the construction process used in the right order.

There’s a lot of luthiers out there, when you begin it will be hard on you, don’t give up, get the experience, and remember safety!”

Guitar hero Jimmy Page asked Fender’s Custom Shop to recreate his 1959 telecaster Jeff Beck gave him in 1966. Page added first round mirrors to it, only to replace them by painting a Japanese dragon on it when he started Led Zeppelin in 1968. Both versions with his signature were sold out.

Lesser but similar models are available. Fender also released a Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature Stratocaster with a Jimi Hendrix left-hand vintage tremolo and 3 high-output Custom Shop Hand-Wound Texas Special™ pickups, and a string of other Fender American series models.

Lowden Guitars of Ireland launched Ed Sheeran acoustic guitar models.

Kurzweil debuted its KA-70 and KA-120 digital pianos with piano-touch keys, four stereo speakers, over 600 factory preset programs, 230 auto-accompaniment styles, and 128 voice polyphony and their KP150/KP300X lightweight portable arranger-veloc-

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Maxine Prisyon and Milton Warsaw with Deborah David and Dorothy Largay at the Granada (photo by Graham Kathryn)

Event Sponsors and A&L Community Partners Lou Buglioli and Natalie Orfalea with Doris Kearns Goodwin (center) (photo

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Before her insightful talk, part of UCSB’s Arts & Lectures series, a dinner was hosted for her in the McCune Founders Room for 60 VIP guests, including Anne Towbes, Robert Weinman, Bruce Heavin, Sara Miller McCune, Dan and Meg Burnham, Richard and Annette Caleel, Natalie Orfalea, and Lou Buglioli.

Dance from NYC It was a case of the first and the last when New York’s Jessica Lang Dance made its debut at the Granada, part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures series.

After seven seasons, the nine-member company is disbanding in April so founder Lang can concentrate more on choreography, having created works for American Ballet Theatre and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.

Our tony town was one of the final performances on its tour, with past itineraries encompassing 35 states and seven countries.

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the music of Tony Bennett, made for a memorable evening with a repertoire rich in stunning movement, dynamic visuals, and beautiful cinematic composition.

Just 24 hours earlier at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall another Big Apple group, New York Polyphony, a quartet of super singers, appeared in another Arts & Lectures show, part of its Up Close and Musical series, sponsored by Robert Weinman.

The Faith and Reason concert, sung by countertenor Geoffrey Williams, tenor Steven Caldicott Wilson, baritone Christopher Dylan Herbert, a Music Academy alumni, and bass Craig Phillips, was an eclectic mix of earlier works by Tudor composer Thomas Tallis, and more contemporary pieces by Andrew Smith, Gabriel Jackson, Gregory Brown, and American folk hymns.

A most delightful evening.

Twenty Years of Tony’s Tacos

Restaurateur Tony Arroyo celebrates 20th anniversary

Los Arroyos, the popular Mexican eatery on Coast Village Road, is celebrating 20 years in business.

Owner Tony Arroyo opened his first location in downtown Santa Barbara on West Figueroa Street in 1999 and launched his outlet in our rarefied enclave in 2004.

The chain now has branches in Camarillo and Goleta, with a nosheteria opening in Solvang last year.

“I’m grateful to the community that has made Los Arroyos a part of theirs,” says Tony.

Don’t Cry for Me The Granada was sold-out when the American Theatre Guild staged Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical Evita.

With Yael Reich as Eva Peron, Lance Galgon as Che, and Gary

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Barton as Juan Peron, the legendary Argentinian love story was much enhanced with its use of film reel and photos from the 1940s and 1950s.

And with favorites like “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” and “Buenos Aires,” the energized show couldn’t fail to please...

Remembering Chad Social gridlock reigned at the Coral Casino’s La Pacifica ballroom when more than 150 friends and relatives of the late Chad Dreier, who died in January the age of 71, gathered to celebrate his life.

Photos of Chad, who became president of the Ryland Group, one of America’s largest building companies, were on display throughout the room, chronicling his colorful life and career.

Among the guests were Chad’s widow Ginni, Andrew Firestone, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Hiroko Benko, Mindy Denson, Peter and Gloria Clark, Skip Abed, Hollye Jacobs, Craig Case, Bob Bryant, KEYTTV anchors C.J. Ward and Beth Farnsworth, Thomas Rollerson, Wilson Quarre, and Peggy Wiley...

Ellen Fund Montecito TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres got gardening tools for her 61st birthday from her actress spouse, Portia de Rossi.

Portia, 46, is just back from the African nation of Rwanda working on a project for The Ellen Fund, which she created for the former Oscars host’s 60th birthday last year, to protect rare mountain gorillas.

She revealed all on Ellen’s show at the Warner Brothers studio in Burbank and revealed a rendering for the new campus, which will provide 1,500 jobs and generate millions of dollars for the local economy.

A hefty $5.9 million in donations has been raised so far.

You go girl...

Snow Suit Deepens Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow has filed her response to a $3.1 million lawsuit accusing her of toppling a 72-year-old optometrist on the slopes at a swank Park Valley, Utah, resort.

The 46-year-old Goop guru claims she is the actual victim in the matter and it was sight specialist Terry Sanderson who slammed into her from behind and ruined her day in February, 2016.

The Oscar winner also states in her counter claim that a resort employee witnessed the crash, checked to make sure Sanderson was not hurt, and then filed a report.

Paltrow says any damages awarded in the case will be donated to charity.

Alumni Awards The Music Academy of the West has announced the winners of its second annual Alumni Enterprise Awards, with more than $60,000 being shared among seven alumni, funding four winning projects and three Innovation Awards nationwide.

The four winning projects are Bernardo Bermudez for a children’s opera program in San Diego, Brenda Patterson for a modular set design competition in Charlottesville, Virginia, Steve Perdicaris who launched and developed a free children’s music lessons program in San Francisco, and cellist John Popham, who is presenting a multi-disciplinary videography series in Brooklyn, New York.

New Innovation Awards, given in support of thinking that will push the industry forward in bold new ways, were granted to cellist, composer, and curator Joshua Roman, pianist and performance artist Konstantin Soukhovetski, and Living Art Collective Ensemble’s Danielle DeSwert Hahn.

Gunning for the Top Montecito developer Richard Gunner’s Santa Barbara Inn has just received the coveted AAA Four Diamond Award, one of just five hotels in our Eden by the Beach to get the ranking, with only 6.3 percent of more than 27,000 hostelries inspected garnering the accolade.

The 70-room oceanside hotspot, which also includes the popular eatery, Convivo, reopened in July, 2016, after a two and half year multi-million dollar renovation.

The Santa Barbara Inn on Cabrillo Boulevard, joins the Ritz-Carlton Bacara, the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort, the Harbor View Inn, and Simpson House in getting the award, the second time for Richard, who also developed San Ysidro Village.

icon of the global fashion industry for more than half a century, including Fendi and Chloe, was instantly recognizable with his pony tailed white hair, high necked shirts – he reportedly had a collection of 2,400 – and ever-present sunglasses.

I first met him in 1978 at one of the more exotic parties I’ve attended at Fabrice Emaer’s Le Palace, Paris’s version of Studio 54, for a Venetian Evolutif bash when the former Empress of Iran, Princess Soraya, was carried in on a gondola by six Nubian slaves, and Lagerfeld, dressed like Casanova with an entourage of handsome flag bearers, made his entrance, while nightclub legend, Regine, sang the Gloria Gaynor anthem “I’ll Survive.”

Lagerfeld was an extraordinarily talented individual whose eccentric presence on the fashion scene will leave yawning gap.

Sightings: Singer Katy Perry’s parents, Keith and Mary Hudson, checking out the Rosewood Miramar...

Actor Christopher Lloyd picking up his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond... Former Wimbledon ace Jimmy Connors picking up stamps at the Montecito Post Office Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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

•MJ

Sad News Jack Sears, who with his wife, Emilie, owned one of Montecito’s most iconic watering holes, Cafe del Sol, for nearly half a century, has died in San Diego, aged 84.

The tony twosome sold the property by the Andree Clark Bird Refuge, now the Magic Castle, in 2013 and closed the popular nosheteria the following year.

A charming man who will be much missed and fondly remembered...

Fashion Loses an Icon On a personal note, I mark the passing of fan fluttering fashion kaiser Karl Lagerfeld, who has died aged 85 in Neuilly, an achingly exclusive suburb of Paris.

The German-born artistic director of Chanel for three decades and an

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.” – Kurt Vonnegut

Longtime Montecito restaurateur Jack Sears dies

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OUR TOWN (Continued from page 28)

ity-sensitive synth-action keyboards – a long time due since the 1985 K250s.

Performances: Carly Jo Jackson guitar songstress with her producer Chris Pelonis on harmonica and Santa Barbara’s Ethan Harb on cajon (reviewed MJ 24/34 Aug 2018).

Carly Jo signed on with Gibson at NAMM who matched her blue hair with a guitar. Greg Marra (Plenty Heavy) with his own custom Sully Raven guitar demo’ed for Wampler Pedals with Nashville’s Jonathan Szetela. GruvGear’s kid musicians at their booth, the youngest was fouryear-old Los Angeles born Justin “LJ” Wilson II playing a 14-minute improv with Justin Raines, a threetime Grammy award winning bassist, drummer Aaron Stix Smith (26) and Robert “Bubby” Lewis (34) on bass.

Steve Postel jammed with Jeff Pevar (Solvang) at Cordial Cables. Also, the Marine Corps Band of San Diego; Black Violin; Elle King; the Butte Strong Choir of kids who lost their homes in the fire; the Yamaha All-Star Concert with Jon McLaughlin, Loren Allred, Jonathan Butler, Sarah McLachlan, and James Taylor; and the 4th Annual Ronnie Montrose Remembered concert spearheaded by Keith St John with George Lynch, Derek St. Holmes, Jason Harless, TRACII GUNS, Doug Aldrich, Frank Hannon, Mitch Perry, Mick Mahan, Sean McNabb, Marc Bonilla, and Jimmy Paxson.

Locals: John Mooy with a Gene Autry Gibson guitar; Alastair Greene demo’ing everything at Seymour Duncan’s booth and beyond while Seymour was winding pickups; Instrumental Music Santa Barbara Manager Marvin Oceguera with Tyler Wu sales; James Garza (SYV) USA Sales Manager Orange Amps plugging the new TremLord 30 amp and analog-no-ear-fatigue The Pedal Baby 100 tube Amp; Christian Pelonis (Stolen Thunder Band), Mix Magazine Editor Tom Kenny and Janis Crowley Western Region Sales Director; Kim Whalen Pelonis from Lost Chord Guitars Solvang; Dishwalla and Rockshop Academy Santa Barbara drummer George Pendergast; songstress Jamey Geston with mom Connie; and Allora Montecito owner Laura with husband Ron Dinning DDS. NAMM 2019 Music for Life award went to Nancy Wilson (Heart) presented by NAMM President & CEO Joe Lamond. The Les Paul Innovation Award went to Peter Frampton presented by musician Steve Lukather (Ringo Starr Band). NAMM 2019 Technology Hall of Fame for advancement of audio technology awards included the 1943 Anechoic Chamber (Leo Beranek), the 1957 beyerdynamic M160 double ribbon microphone, the 1964 Bell Labs electret microphone patent (Gerhard Sessler/James West), 28 February – 7 March 2019

Santa Barbara luthier John Mooy at NAMM 2019

the 1964 Modular Moog synthesizer (Robert Moog), and more.

The 34th Annual TEC Awards went to: the Neumann U67 microphone, Sennheiser HSP Essential Omni microphone & evolution wireless G4, JBL 3 Series MkII Studio Monitors, the Black Panther movie Sound Production (Marvel & Disney Studios Motion Pictures), Record Production for the LP Colors by Beck (Capitol Records) & Television Sound Production to Game of Thrones (HBO/Warner Bros). The Parnelli 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award to Chris Adamson (tour manager of Pink Floyd, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Aerosmith, and Stevie Wonder). She Rocks 2019 Awards went to Macy Gray, Lisa Loeb, Nita Strauss, Erika Ender, Samantha Pink, and Terri Winston. •MJ SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY PRESENTS

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Notice Inviting Bids FY19A WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT PROJECT Bid No. 5648 1.

2.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its FY19A Water Main Replacement Project (“Project”), by or before Wednesday March 27, 2019, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids.

Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

Project Information.

Location

From

N. Ontare

Morada Ln.

To

Francisco Dr. Celine Dr. Santa Barbara St.

E. Montecito St.

E. Mason St.

Gray Ave.

E. Montecito St.

E. Mason St.

Helena Ave.

E. Montecito St.

Yananoli St.

Kimberly Ave.

W. Yanonali St.

E. Mason St.

Anacapa St.

E. Mason

Cabrillo

Cabrillo St.

State St.

Anacapa St.

Cabrillo St.

Bath St.

State St.

Chapala St.

Natoma Ave.

E. Cabrillo Blvd.

Calle Cedro

San Roque Road

Argonne Cir.

Pico Ave.

N. Salsipuedes St.

534 Pico Ave.

Las Positas

Calle Real

Tallant Rd.

Anacapa Street

W. Pueblo St.

W. Los Olivos St.

Chuparosa

N. Ontare Rd.

Cannon Dr.

Madrona Dr.

N. Ontare Rd.

Cannon Dr.

Castillo St.

228 Castillo St.

Yananoli St.

Yananoli St.

Castillo St.

Bath St.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein.

Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR.

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $3,700,000.

2.4 Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Wednesday March 6, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., at the following location: David Gebhard Meeting Room, 630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory.

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A General Engineering Contractor.

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

5.

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

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

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

By: ___________________________________

Date: ________________

William Hornung, CPM, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) Feb. 27, 2019

2) March 6, 2019 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MRAMOS Products, 1535 Robbins St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Mariana Ramos, 1535 Robbins St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 12, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I

hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2019-0000359.

Published February 27, March 6, 13, 20, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: July’s Handyman Services, 1072 Casitas Pass Road #429,

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Carpinteria, CA 93013. Nora Cruz, 5971 Hickory St. Apt 4, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Julio Omar Cruz Torres, 5971 Hickory St. Apt 4, Carpinteria, CA 93013.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 12, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Scope of Work to include crack fill of the Santa Barbara Airport Long Term Parking Lot.

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.

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

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 165 working days.

10.

Crack Fill at Airport Long Term Parking Lot

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on March 7, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., at the Santa Barbara Airport Long Term Parking Lot (meet at the World War II Memorial and Observation area), located at 500 James Fowler Road, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. Bids will not be accepted or considered from parties that did not attend the mandatory pre-bid meeting. Please RSVP via PlanetBids no later than close-of-business the day prior to the scheduled bid walk.

Celine Dr.

Santa Teresita Dr.

6.

BID NO. 5726 DUE DATE & TIME: March 21, 2019 UNTIL 3:00 P.M.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at the below streets, and is described as follows: Install new various sized Ductile Iron and PVC water main. Reconnect services and hydrants following acceptance of new line.

3.

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

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2019-0000361. Published February 27, March 6, 13, 20, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: San Martin Handyman, 6584 El Greco Rd. #7, Goleta, CA 93117.

Martin Sedano, 6584 El Greco Rd. #7, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.” – Lao Tzu

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California A, C-12, or C-32 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 separate Performance 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 they shall furnish a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, in the amount of 10% of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Note: All bids must be accompanied by a copy of the bid security uploaded to PlanetBids. Only the original bid security of the three (3) lowest bidders must be mailed or delivered to the Purchasing Office in a sealed envelope and be received within 72 hours of the bid due date and time for the bid to be considered.

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. ___________________________ Gregory Corral Published: February 27, 2019 Purchasing Supervisor Montecito Journal

Santa Barbara County on February 22, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Margarita Silva. FBN No. 2019-0000442. Published February 27, March 6, 13, 20, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following

person(s) is/are doing business as: Weekend-Racer.com, 230 Bonnie Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Greenstuff LLC, 230 Bonnie Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 4, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph

28 February – 7 March 2019

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara.

The hearing is to consider the appeal filed by Tamara Erickson, representing Hotel Santa Barbara, of the Historic Landmarks Commission’s denial of a Review After Final request by the City of Santa Barbara Downtown Parking to remove two existing sidewalk fountains on the 500 BLK of State Street, 1879 SEG ID, Assessor Parcel No. ROW-001-879 (MST2017-00323). The project involves the removal of two non-operational sidewalk fountains adjacent to the Hotel Santa Barbara to be replaced with star shaped sandstone.

If you challenge the Council's action on the appeal of the Historic Landmarks Commission's decision in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing.

You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102‑1990.

On Thursday, March 7, 2019, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 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 Most Popular, click on 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. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilVideos.

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 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) /S/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager February 25, 2019

E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 20190000293. Published February 20, 27, March 6, 13, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Local Search FX, 1117 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Robert W. Sheffield, 2745 Miradero Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 28, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 20190000229. Published February 20, 27, March 6, 13, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Merci Montecito, 1028 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. E & S Colling, LLC., 1337 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 11, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2019-0000352. Published February 20, 27, March 6, 13, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) has (have) abandoned

Published February 27, 2019 Montecito Journal

the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Glow Fitness, 421 West Anapamu Street Apt C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Whitney Eves, 1395 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara CA 93067. Elizabeth Alexander, 421 West Anapamu Street Apt C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was originally filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 27, 2014. 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 Adela Bustos, filed February 5, 2019.

Original FBN No. 2014-0003057.

Published February 13, 20, 27, March 6, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Bridal Bootycamp, 1 North Calle Cesar Chavez Street, Suite 110, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Elizabeth Alexander, 421 West Anapamu Street Apt C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was originally filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 3, 2016. 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 Adela Bustos, filed February 5, 2019. Original FBN No. 20160000668. Published February 13, 20, 27, March 6, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Villa Maria Post Acute, 425 Barcellus Ave, Santa Maria, CA 93454. Santa Maria Healthcare, INC., 27101 Puerta Real, Suite 450, Mission Viejo, CA 92691.

This statement was filed with the

County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 5, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 20190000301. Published February 13, 20, 27, March 6, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Montecito Club, 920 Summit Road, Montecito, CA 93108.

Montecito Country Club, LLC, 920 Summit Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 28, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 20190000234. Published February 6, 13, 20, 27, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Montecito Association, 1469 East Valley Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Montecito Protective & Improvement Association, INC, 1469 East Valley Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 29, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Brenda Aguilera.

FBN No. 2019-0000243. Published

February 6, 13, 20, 27, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Uncorked Wine Tasting & Kitchen, 432 E. Haley, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Crush Santa Barbara, LLC, 25 S. Salinas, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 1, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN No. 2019-0000269. Published February 6, 13, 20, 27, 2019.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 19CV00469. To all interested parties: Petitioner Lisa Ann Rood filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Lisanna Rood. 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 above must file a written objection that includes 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 30, 2019 by Terri Chavez.

Hearing date: April 17, 2019 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 2/6, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27

93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

SUNDAY MAR 3

If you have a 93108 open house scheduled, please send us your free directory listing to realestate@montecitojournal.net

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TIME

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#BD / #BA AGENT NAME TEL #

255 Bonnie Lane 1422 East Valley 456 Crocker Sperry Drive 1156 Hill Road 26 Seaview Drive 1395 Danielson Road 1167 Dulzura Drive 1284 Coast Village Circle 1040 Alston Road 1107 Clover Lane 2970 Hidden Valley Lane 230 Sierra Vista Road 530 San Ysidro Road, B 925 Chelham Way 2176 East Valley Road 1034 Fairway Road 1936 N. Jameson Lane, D

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Jessica Stovall Jeff Reeves Dana Zertuche Angie Guiberteau Marie Larkin Amanda Lee Sandy Stahl Rachael Douglas Arve Eng Carmen Galzerano Karina Padilla James Sanchez Sina Omidi Tony Miller Joe McCorkell Katinka Goertz Michelle Baney

698-9416 689-2058 403-5520 699-1149 680-2525 895-9835 689-1602 318-0900 698-2915 705-3080 680-7701 448-1148 689-7700 705-4007 455-7019 708-9616 319-7994

1395 DANIELSON ROAD

1-3PM 1167 DULZURA DRIVE

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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, MARCH 1 Rabbit Season – Playwright Mary Chase – who had settled down into the life as a housewife and mother after having one of her plays flop badly on Broadway in the 1930s – was inspired to write Harvey by a neighbor who lost her son in World War II. Although Chase never actually met the woman, she was moved to come up with something “to make that woman laugh again.” Nothing seemed right until one morning when she dreamt about a psychiatrist walking across her bedroom floor followed by an enormous white rabbit.

Hence was born the plot for the play that received the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, ran on Broadway for nearly five years, was adapted into a hit 1950 film starring James Stewart and influenced lots of other cultural endeavors, including the early Jefferson Airplane song. The plot finds Elwood P. Dowd, a middleaged, mild-mannered, and relatively wealthy man who is convinced that he is attended by a six-foot-plus tall white rabbit. While Harvey has become his greatest friend, the rabbit is invisible to everyone except Elwood, and

his insistence on Harvey’s existence creates a social nightmare for his widowed sister Veta and her daughter Myrtle Mae, who eventually decide to have him committed. Lighthearted chaos ensues, leading everyone to reexamine what they think they know. The Theatre Group at SBCC presents the classic comedy opening this weekend, marking the first time Harvey has hit a professional local stage in many years. R. Michael Gros directs the cast that features Ryan S. Baumann, George Coe, Nita June Davanzo, Sean Jackson, Don Margolin, Kathy Marden, Lynn Robinson, Matt Smith, Hannah Steinmann, Elaine Wagstaffe, Raymond Wallenthin, and Madison Widener. WHEN: Opens 7:30 pm tonight, and continues Thursday through Saturday at 7:30pm, and Sundays at 2 pm, through March 16 WHERE: SBCC’s Jurkowitz Theatre, 721 Cliff Drive COST: $14-$24 INFO: (805) 965-5935 or www. theatregroupsbcc.com Savannah to the Central Coast – For some reason, singer-songwriter Jill Knight has never made it big,

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Double Vision – It’s almost impossible to overstate the breadth and scope of visionary photographer Annie Leibovitz’s career, which began when she started working as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone in 1970, while still a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her first major assignment was for a cover story on John Lennon and by the time she left the magazine after a decade as chief photographer, she had shot 142 covers and published photo essays on rock bands and cultural subjects, including ones on the resignation of Richard Nixon and the 1975 Rolling Stones tour. At Vanity Fair, and later at Vogue, she developed a large body of work – portraits of actors, directors, writers, musicians, athletes, and political and business figures, as well as fashion photographs – that expanded her collective portrait of contemporary life. Beyond the editorial work, Leibovitz has also created a number of influential advertising campaigns, including award-winning portraits for American Express and the Gap. Exhibitions of Leibovitz’s work have appeared at museums and galleries all over the world, including the National Portrait Gallery and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the International Center of Photography in New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris; the National Portrait Gallery in London; the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia; and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Montecito’s Oprah Winfrey is also a big fan, saying of the photog that “Whether she’s photographing the famous and powerful – or simply the woman next door – Annie always captures something unexpected and deeply personal.”

So it’s no wonder Leibovitz’s appearance tonight for UCSB Arts & Lecture is actually two events in one: an hour-long illustrated lecture/presentation followed by a Q&A with Pico Iyer, A&L’s resident interviewer and cultural icon. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $45-$125 INFO: (805) 893-3535 / www.

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by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, MARCH 1 Canvas of Life – Yasmina Reza’s Art is a far more complex piece of theater than its one-word title might suggest. The threecharacter play takes an incisive look at both the world of modern art and the nature of modern friendships in the plot that finds an art lover buying what is essentially a pure white painting for a huge amount of money, angering his best friend and leaving a third friend squeezed in the middle. As the characters’ viewpoints become less abstract and more personal, the men border on forever destroying what are already delicate relationships. Questions about the meaning of art and what it means to be a friend abound, showing the possible parallels between the two. After its debut in France in 1994, Art has gone on to be produced in 45 countries and translated into more than 30 languages, including an English one by Christopher Hampton, and earned Olivier, Molière, New York Drama Critics, and Tony awards. The original London production starred Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, and Ken Stott, while the Broadway ensemble attracted Alan Alda, Victor Garber, and Alfred Molina, both drawing rave reviews, including from the Financial Times (“Not only brings to the stage a topical debate, it makes it invigorating, touching, and finally disturbing”) and Newsweek (“A nonstop cross-fire of crackling language, serious issues of life and art expressed in outbursts that sound like Don Rickles with a degree from the Sorbonne.”) Now DIJO Productions casts three of its regulars – Geren Piltz, Bill Waxman, and Edward Giron – for a 10-day run of the dark comedy in Carpinteria. WHEN: Opens 8 pm tonight, performs 8 pm March 2, 8 & 9, and 2 pm March 3 & 10 WHERE: Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $19 general, $15 students & seniors INFO: (805) 684-6380 or www.thealcazar.org

despite an epic talent and a winningly soulful sound evincing a Southern texture blending Americana, blues, and a little R&B with a California girl’s light-hearted sense of joy and wonder. Knight has been nominated for the “Best Female Vocalist” from the LA Music Awards, and been named a finalist at the Telluride Troubadour competition, at the National Academy of Songwriters “Songwriter of the Year” competition, Billboard Magazine’s “Best Unsigned Band” contest, and the Acoustic Live songwriter competition.

Jill has toured and shared stages with a wide variety of household names in pop/folk-rock, including India Arie, Shawn Colvin, David Wilcox, John Prine, The Tubes, The Doobie Brothers, Roger McGuinn, Laura Nero, Chris Isaak, Delbert McClinton, Michael Hedges, Phoebe Snow, Richard Thompson, Little Feat, David Lindley, Los Lobos, and Peter Rowan. But despite terrific recordings and even more compelling performances, she’s yet to breakthrough the next level of stardom.

Which is all well and good for us, because we still get to see Knight, once a frequent visitor to SOhO, in venues as small and music-focused as the Cambridge Drive Concert Series in Goleta, where the Queen of Central Coast singer-songwriters returns for a third engagement tonight. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge

“Time is an illusion.” – Albert Einstein

Drive, Goleta COST: $15 with advance reservation and $18 at the door INFO: (805) 964-0436 or www. cambridgedrivechurch.org SATURDAY, MARCH 2 Women’s Literary Festival – The 14th annual one-day festival celebrating female writers has gone to Goleta this year, heading west from the city for new digs at the Hilton Garden Inn. But the event still carries the intent to take note of the diverse life experiences that have shaped women’s writing with a firm belief that “the strength of language can stir the soul, increase awareness and understanding of social injustice, strengthen our bonds as community members through mutual respect, and offer solutions to the problems that often divide us.” Today’s festival kicks off with a poetry reading from Rachelle Cruz, the Literary Laureate for the Inland Empire, and a multi-genre writer whose poetry collection, God’s Will for Monsters, won the American Book Award in 2018 and the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Regional Poetry Prize. The four other writers, who will split the before and after lunch sessions, are Dr. Bella DePaulo, who spent years writing and speaking on her expertise in the psychology of deception before publishing her first non-academic book, Singled Out, which aims to debunk 28 February – 7 March 2019

SATURDAY, MARCH 2 Balog’s Earthly Pursuits – The Human Element, the new film from acclaimed photographer/filmmaker James Balog, isn’t as edgy as his Emmy Award-winning Chasing Ice, in which the National Geographic photographer who was once a skeptic about climate change deployed revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers, offering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. The new film documents how the earth’s four elements – earth, air, water, and fire – have all been impacted by a fifth element, homo sapiens, but that’s not new or revolutionary information anymore. Still, Balog does more than document the current and impending disasters, as The Human Element illustrates issues ranging from rising sea levels to air pollution’s impact on human health – something we haven’t seen much about – and focuses on a compelling call for change in an innovative and visually stunning look at how humanity interacts with earth, air, fire, and water. The 40-year veteran mountaineer with a graduate degree in geography and geomorphology whose photographic travels have ranged from Himalayan peak to a whitewater river to the African savannah and the polar ice caps will be on hand today as UCSB Arts & Lectures presents “The Human Element: A Photographer’s Journey in the Anthropocene,” featuring a short talk by Balog preceding a screening of the new film and a Q&A session afterward. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: free INFO: (805) 899-2222 / www.granadasb.org or (805) 8933535 / www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

myths and raise our consciousness about single people and their place in contemporary American society; Randa Jarrar, professor of English at Fresno State University whose first book, an Arab American coming of age novel called A Map of Home, has been translated into seven languages, while her second Him, Me, Muhammad Ali, has garnered many awards; writer and novelist Ivy Pochoda, whose 2017 book Wonder Valley was met with critical acclaim; and Oxnard’s Florencia Ramirez, a trained researcher at the University of Chicago’s School of Public Policy, whose Eat Less Water, combines her roles as activist, educator, creative writing instruction, and mother.

Admission to the festival includes parking, morning coffee or tea, lunch, and the author presentations. WHEN: 8:30 am-3 pm WHERE: 6878 Hollister Ave., Goleta COST: $65 INFO: www. womensliteraryfestival.com Live Beneath the Waves – UCSB Pollock Theater’s Beatles Revolutions series comes to a

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close with a screening of the fab four’s animated adventure Yellow Submarine. Set in the psychedelic paradise of Pepperland, the 1968 film pits the boys’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band against the Blue Meanies, the enemies of fun and music. Director George Dunning and art director Heinz Eidelmann employed a constantly-shifting array of 1960s pop art settings in the revolutionary animated feature, which inspired such directors as Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam to Pixar founder John Lasseter. Half a century after it premiered, the film retains its ability to dazzle from its opening scene to the sing-a-long final credits.

Artist and writer Bill Morrison, who penned The Beatles Yellow Submarine graphic novel, will join moderator Joe Palladino of UCSB’s Film and Media Studies Dept., for a postscreening discussion. WHEN: 2 pm WHERE: Pollock Theater, UCSB campus COST: free (reservations recommended) INFO: (805) 8935903 or www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/ pollock •MJ

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Jazz with pizzazz – The Lobero Theatre welcomes back New Jersey’s favorite jazz son – in both the literal and figurative sense – as guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli, whose father was famed jazz guitarist John “Bucky” Pizzarelli, brings his hip, swinging, and sophisticated style back to town. The younger Pizzarelli sings classic standards from the Great American Songbook and late-night ballads as breezily as Michael Bublé, but also adds covers of such contemporary pop composers as Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tom Waits, and the Beatles, plus inventive and always tuneful guitar lines and chord progressions. The old school entertainer’s oeuvre is perfect for a late winter’s eve – the only thing missing is a fireplace and snow falling outside the picture window. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $39 & $49 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com.

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SEEN (Continued from page 15) Cantor Mark Childs, Steven Amerikaner, and Rabbi Stephen Cohen

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Challah and Motzi was led by Rabbi Daniel Brenner, assisted by gala chairs Diane Zipperstein, Elizabeth Gaynes, Marcy Wimbish, Bethy Fineberg, and Liat Wasserman.

Board president Steven Amerikaner addressed the group. “One thought returned again and again as I watched this ancient ceremony of the Motzi.

We are connected. On a deep, almost subconscious level we are linked to each other in so many ways. Everyone here knows someone else in this room or five or ten or even 50 others in this room. Except for Judi Weisbart, who apparently knows everyone!”

There was entertainment from Cantor Mark Childs and a group of talented young adults from the CBB community: Dawson Fuss, Sadie Leventhal, and Lillian McKenzie.

Also a duo with Cantor and Daniel Hochman accompanied by Konrad Kono. The evening ended with dancing to DJ Darla B. For more information, contact Ann Pieramici at annpieramici@gmail.com or call 805.680.8251.

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Barbara) for several years. What a nice surprise to see it flourishing with a new exhibit and a new director and chief curator Abaseh Mirvali. There was an exclusive preview for an hour before it was open to the public including a wine and beer reception. There were so many attendees they ran out of chairs for the preview and the room was filled to capacity after that.

The exhibit was all about Turin, Italy artist Lara Favaretto. These art pieces came from the Rennie Collection in Vancouver. As Mirvali stated, “My wish is to start new collaborations between MCASB and international contemporary art institutions, which led me to partner with the Rennie on Lara Favaretto.” The artist has had solo exhibitions in Germany, the UK, MoMA New York, Dubai, Italy, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, France and more.

This is an unusual exhibition because it is being shown in four places, including MCASB’s main space in the upper arts terrace of Paseo Nuevo.

Another is at 907 State Street in their window and also at UCSB Glass Box Gallery building 534. Then there is one at 35 Anacapa Street in the Funk Zone where someday MCASB plans to build a new museum. The exhibits last until April 28, 2019 except for UCSB, which has already ended.

During the preview the director of

MCASB director Abaseh Mirvali with Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin and board president Jacquelyn Klein-Brown

Rennie Museum director Wendy Chang, MCASB board member Davin Mantell, and wife Rachel

the Rennie Collection Wendy Chang and Abaseh enlightened us about the artist’s meaning of her work. I’ll let you discover that yourselves when you see the exhibition. I’ll only say it was my week for car wash brushes. I had a free automatic car wash, which my new car with all its bells and whistles didn’t like. They all went

off and I couldn’t get out of their fast enough. Fast forward to the MCASB show. There were seven pair of life size car wash brushes all spinning like mad. I’ll leave it to the viewers to interpret.

For questions call 805.966.5373 and speak with Lauren Roberts Sharp, MCASB communications manager. •MJ

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