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SB journalist Mark Brickley chronicles The Beatles in debut book Postcards From Liverpool, p. 6

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Real Estate

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HOLLYWOOD’S LEADING LADY Sherry Lansing was the first woman president of a major (20th Century Fox) film studio, went on to head up Paramount Pictures, produced a number of hit films, (Fatal Attraction among them), and served as a UC regent. She is now an active philanthropist and cancer research supporter and has been invited by the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara to speak at the Four Seasons Biltmore on March 14 (interview begins on page 16)

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5

On The Water Front

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Montecito Miscellany

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Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard goes back into the water, taking measure of the rainfall, the drought, Montecito Water District, and what’s on the horizon – by the numbers David Cassidy; Mark Brickley’s book; MOXI gala; Opera SB with David Kravitz; Gerald Incandela’s birthday; Craig Springer and David Goodman; John Cleese surgery; Los Fiesteros Dance Club; Westmont’s orchestra; Oprah celebrates margaritas; and SB Symphony board elects Don Gilman A grand total of two missives comprising Janice Evans’s correspondence about “The Fallen 9000” by British artist Jamie, plus Dale Lowdermilk’s take on senator Janet Nguyen reportedly running for governor in 2018

10 This Week

Wiggly Storytime; Knit N Needle; poetry club; 10 West exhibit; Walk & Roll; library closing; Floyd the dog; prayer retreat; free dance classes; MA Land Use meeting; book club; Maureen Healy at library; Dr. Roger Dunham at SB Maritime Museum; The New Yorker; speaking Spanish; SB Strings; Barbara Ireland Walk; Japanese matcha; all about bees; author Melonie Mazman Hayden; SB Music Club; mindfulness retreat; MFPD schedule; art classes; brain fitness; Story Time; talking Italian; farmers market; and Cars & Coffee

Tide Guide

Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

12 Village Beat

Montecito YMCA campaign stretches to mid-March; furniture maker Jay Keefrider; vacation rental update; donations for May Madness treasure hunt; and Sheriff’s Blotter

13 Real Estate

Mark Hunt surveys the scene of Montecito’s new listings ranging from a Dawlish Place home for $2 million to Lilac Drive house with a price tag of $6.6 million

14 Seen Around

In the final of a two-part series, Lynda Miller traverses the Great Lakes comprising Mackinac Island and the Grand Hotel

16 On Charity

Sherry Lansing answers questions prior to the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara’s annual Women’s Philanthropy Luncheon on March 14

18 Our Town

Joanne Calitri’s eyes look skyward for stars in the galaxy with the LCO Astronomy Talk Series and SB Museum of Natural History

19 Ray’s Ramblings

Ray Winn steers toward all-electric, plug-in cars – their costs, tax breaks, “carbon footprints” – and exactly how much they benefit the environment

22 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz previews the Human Potential Movement with Dr. Jean Houston; Shane Thunder at Yoga Soup; Milton’s Secret in Goleta; Women’s Happiness Retreat; and the Writing Yourself Awake workshop

23 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant scrutinizes the ins and outs of in-laws, outlaws, and laws in general – with references from Shakespeare to Bonnie and Clyde

24 Beer Guy

Zach Rosen joins the fold by raising a glass to the Santa Barbara Beer Garden, on tape for Saturday, March 25

27 Ernie’s World

Who’ll stop the rain? Ernie Witham questions his own sanity upon navigating a 1,400-mile drive to Arizona while Mother Nature had the last laugh.

28 Your Westmont

The theater stages “Blood Wedding” March 2-4; Music Guild finalists compete for scholarships March 4; a March 7 talk explores Chumash traditions; and professor Lisa DeBoer examines church worship practices March 6.

30 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz chats with Isabel Bayrakdarian about The Cunning Little Vixen; Steppenwolf and Ojai Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball among Ojai entertainment; focus on film; and music at Cambridge, Trinity Backstage, and the Maverick

32 Garden Gossip

Lisa Cullen is blooming about the 72nd SB International Orchid Show, whose roots take hold at Earl Warren Showgrounds in mid-March; plus gardening tips

33 Fitness Front

Karen Robiscoe shapes up at Prevail Conditioning with president Chris Ecklund, coach Josiah Taylor, and Larry Nolan; plus Hayashida Studio in Goleta

38 Legal Advertising 39 Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events

SB Jazz Festival; Noche Flamenca and Soledad Barrio; A Flea in Her Ear; CALM authors luncheon; playing around at UCSB; Jim Messina; nature’s creatures; classical music; Arlington hosts the Beach Boys; and tap dancing at Granada

45 Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising

Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales

47 Local Business Directory

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ON THE WATER FRONT

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

Should MWD Get Back to Selling More Water?

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hanks to a miraculous three-month rainy season, both Lake Cachuma and Jameson Reservoir have recovered from dead pool status to half-full. The Shasta Reservoir, largest in the state, contains 4.3 million acre feet (AF), its highest volume since 1997, 20 years ago. The Lake Oroville Reservoir, with the well-publicized damage to its spillways, sits at 78% of capacity or 2.7 million AF. State water supplies are at their highest levels in 10 years. Northern California, with record rainfall and snowpack, fears flooding more than drought.

Although the drought is not over, there are small smiles of delight, and even a grin or two, curling the lips of local water managers. Last Thursday, Governor Jerry Brown announced that state officials are “getting ready to declare the drought over, but not lifting the drought declaration until the end of the rainy season.”

The Case to End or Modify MWD’s Rationing and Penalty Program Montecito Water District (MWD) customers, who pay the bills, are asking what the benefit is to them of all this rain and reservoir recharge. Should the MWD Board at least discuss the pluses and minuses of full or partial relief from mandatory water rationing and its associated penalty fees on either a threemonth trial or on a permanent basis?

Alone among all 430 water districts in California and an unknown number of municipal water suppliers, MWD is the one water provider in the state that still imposes mandatory rationing penalties to enforce what should be voluntary conservation.

Origin of the Rationing Ordinance and Penalty Fees In February 2014, MWD customers were told that the district faced an immediate water supply crisis. “Unless usage immediately decreased by 30%, the District could run out of water by July,” screamed a headline in a MWD bulletin. Rationing ordinances 92 and 93 established mandatory water restrictions and severe penalties for all customer classifications, including an arbitrary $30 penalty fee for each HCF (hundred cubic feet) billing unit over the allocated amount, followed by a $45 penalty per HCF for a second infraction.

Immediately thereafter, MWD purchased enough imported water to more than meet its needs and provide carryover reserves, but mandatory rationing and its penalty system has remained in place since 2014.

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The Case for Modification or Repeal As often happens, the unintended consequences of mandatory water rationing fees, intended to punish chronic water abusers, has expanded to financially punish MWD customers who are ardent conservationists. There are at least three major problems with the current rationing system: (1) The rationing allocation system has morphed into a “leak penalty.” Each month, MWD customers who have given up their grass and converted to drought-tolerant landscaping, have been occasional victims of broken sprinkler heads and aging water lines. Upon receipt of residential water bills that can contain thousands of dollars in penalty charges, on top of paying for leaked water, they look to MWD for recourse.

Leakers, who may be absentee owners, must pay a $115 non-refundable filing fee to petition the Board Appeals Committee for penalty relief. Armed with leak documentation, affected customers are paraded past the Leak Committee, begging for full or partial forgiveness. Relief, if any, does not happen until a subsequent hearing before the full board of directors (BOD), a process that may take several months.

(2) In 2014, annual allocations were converted to monthly allocations based on a one-size-fits-all approach. Currently, a MWD customer can be one HCF over his allocation in one month and incur a penalty, yet may be well under his annual or quarterly allotment. Thus, penalty fees are often inflicted on normally responsible users who are not really water hogs.

(3) Residential rationing allocations are based on an in-home water allocation of 6 to 8 HCF (hundred cubic feet billing units) per month, plus an outdoor landscaping allocation based on lot size. Each home on an acre parcel receives the same landscaping allotment of water. There are an estimated 1,000 homes with private wells that use well water for irrigation, but still get their full allotment based on lot size. Predictably, permit applications for new wells have risen dramatically, creating greater inequities and putting more stress on limited local

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WATER FRONT Page 264 People ask what I do when there’s no baseball. I stare out the window and wait for spring. – Rogers Hornsby

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by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News.

He moved to Montecito ten years ago.

Cassidy’s Curtain Call

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ho knew that former teen heartthrob David Cassidy’s concert at the Granada would be history in the making?

After nearly half a century, the 66-year-old former Partridge Family star has brought the curtain down on his roller-coaster career and calling it quits at year’s end.

Just 24 hours earlier at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, TMZ, the popular TV blog, reported Florida-based Cassidy appeared drunk during his show, slurring his words with long pauses and almost falling off the stage, which he denied.

But as People magazine revealed just hours later, the actor-singer, who used to sell out Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl in his heyday, had been suffering memory loss, with his family having a history of demen-

David Cassidy calls it quits

tia, which he sensed “was coming.”

Cassidy, who said he used to live in our Eden by the Beach for three years, has had numerous personal

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problems in the decades following his initial success when the popular TV series launched in 1970 making him, at one time, the world’s highest-paid performer at age 21, ranging from substance abuse to bankruptcy.

Only 300 tickets were sold for his Granada show, one-fifth of the theater’s capacity, with fans around me saying they’d traveled from Woodland Hills and other cities farther south, to catch the concert.

The last time I met Cassidy, the stepson of actress and fellow Partridge Family star Shirley Jones, was in a totally different milieu two decades ago when he was wearing top hat and tails in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, the colorful five-day race meeting where Queen Elizabeth rides down the historic course in an open carriage with other members of the Royal Family and had a horse racing.

Cassidy, who had sold more than 30 million records and won 24 gold and platinum records, explained he had been suffering from laryngitis as he sang his many hits, including “I Think I Love You”, “Could It Be Forever”, “How Can I Be Sure”, and “Rock Me Baby”, and even a rendition of the Cole Porter classic “Night and Day”.

After TV, he went on to have success of Broadway in the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and in 1996 moved to the gambling mecca of Las Vegas to star at the MGM Grand in the $75-million extravaganza EFX. A stellar career to be proud of, but a sad farewell.

Paperback Writer After working as a music writer for the past seven years, Santa Barbara journalist Mark Brickley has penned his first book, Postcards From Liverpool: Beatles Moments & Memories, which he has been working on for five years.

“It began with several articles I’d written about the Beatles’s legacy,” says Mark. “Whether I was profiling a local band or interviewing a nationally known act, almost every artist cited the Beatles’s influence or inspiration.

Beatles author Mark Brickley photographed in Penny Lane, Liverpool

“I’ve always loved the Beatles’s sound. Their ‘60s harmonies move together like parallel lines, and the power of their music hasn’t been diminished by the passing of time.”

Mark says his goal was to uncover rarely heard backstories about the Fab Four and include something new in every chapter the group’s fans might not have read or heard about, tracing their footsteps from the Grammy Museum to the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, Las Vegas to New York, and across the pond to London and Liverpool.

Mark, who worked for nearly 30 years in the county of Santa Barbara’s probation department, adds: “It’s been a great trip!”

My personal memory of the group dates back to 1964, when I was 11, seeing them perform and complaining about the extortionate price of a ticket: $1.50!

MOXI Moxie Social gridlock reigned when MOXI – The Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation had a 300-guest, pre-opening bash to show off the $25-million, 17,000-sq.-ft., three-story building that broke ground in October 2014, and is leased from the city for $1.00 annually for the next 50 years.

The museum, described as “a playground for the brain,” is expected to attract 100,000 visitors annually to its downtown location, just a tiara’s toss from Stearns Wharf, with its stated mission “to ignite learning through

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Sergio Villa, MOXI secretary; Jill Levinson, board president; director Noell and Dick Wolfe; mayor Helene Schneider, Steve Hinkley, MOXI president/CEO (photo by Priscilla)

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TO THE EDITOR

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

Remembering D-Day Remembering “The Fallen 9000” was British artist Jamie’s way of commemorating what the U.S. soldiers did on the beaches of Normandy 72 years ago

original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread, nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide.

Nine thousand fallen soldiers etched into the sand on Normandy Beach to commemorate Peace Day. What is surprising is that I saw nothing about this here in the U.S. An overseas friend sent it with a note of gratitude for what the U.S. started there.

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large percentage of our country doesn’t know of or care about Normandy. My guess is it has been removed from the text in history books, so we should thank God there are those who keep memories like this alive.

Not long ago, British artist Jamie, accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen soldiers into the sand. Titled “The Fallen 9000”, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of those who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6, 1944, during WWII. The

I was encouraged by news reports of California state senator Janet Nguyen being forcibly removed from the Senate floor for refusing to end her speech in which she criticized the late state senator Tom Hayden, a rabid left-winger and Vietnam-era protestor. Ms Nguyen was born in Vietnam and came here with her fam-

State senator Janet Nguyen is Dale Lowdermilk’s 2018 pick for California governor

ily after fleeing in the face of the North Vietnamese victory. Anyone who has to be dragged off the podium kicking and screaming, just because she opposes Tom Hayden, deserves our support.

I think Senator Nguyen should be our next governor and have tweeted her such: Senator Nguyen, Political courage is rare among Republicans. Please run for Governor!

Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: You forgot to mention that Hayden was also married to Jane Fonda when both were delivering their anti-America rants across the nation. – J.B.) •MJ

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This Week in and around Montecito

MONDAY, MARCH 6 Week of Free Dance Classes Join in for a week of free dance classes for kids and adults: hip hop, dance fitness, ballroom dance, salsa, and much more!

When: March 6 through March 12 (schedule is online) Where: Dance Fever studio, 1046 Coast Village Road Cost: free Info: www.sb.dancefeverstudio.com

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, MARCH 2

FRIDAY, MARCH 3

Wiggly Storytime Share short stories, songs, and interactive rhymes. Be ready to sit on the floor with your child and spend time being silly together.

When: 10:30 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

Walk & Roll Montecito Union School students, teachers, and parents walk or ride to school rather than drive.

When: 8 am Where: Via Vai, Ennisbrook, and Casa Dorinda trailhead Info: 969-3249

Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 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: William Blake (1757-1827): British visionary poet, illustrator, painter, and printmaker. A seminal figure in the Romantic movement.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 10 West March Exhibition A group show including nine abstract and contemporary artists: Iben G. Vestergaard, Madeline Garrett, Beth Schmohr, Rick Doehring, Stephen Robeck, Mary Dee Thompson, Sheldon Kaganoff, Kurt A. Waldo, and Pippa Blake.

Opening reception tonight! Exhibit runs March 1 through March 27.

When: opening reception is 5 to 8 pm Where: 10 West Gallery, 10 West Anapamu Cost: free Info: director@10westgallery. com, 770-7711

Library Closed in Morning All Santa Barbara Public Libraries are closed this morning for staff training; the Montecito library opens at 1 pm.

Floyd’s Memorial Join in for an animal abuse awareness and “day of action” in honor of Floyd, a one-year-old Chihuahua who was tortured and murdered by his owner.

When: 4 pm Where: Elings Park, 1298 Las Positas Road SATURDAY, MARCH 4 Centering Prayer Practice Retreat A mini-retreat day for Centering Prayer practice. There will be meditation walks, journaling, reflection, and prayer practice. Let by sister Suzanne Dunn, Jeannette Love, and Annette Colbert. Beginners welcome.

When: 9:30 am to 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031 TUESDAY, MARCH 7 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 8 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: Into the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides When: 1 to 2 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Raising Healthier & Happier Kids Maureen Healy is an award-winning author, popular speaker, and expert on children’s emotional health. Join as Maureen shares some of the causes of children’s happiness, as well as the tools you can use today to help highly sensitive children.

When: 6 to 7 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 THURSDAY, MARCH 9 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Lecture at Maritime Museum “Within the Minds of Submariners: A

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Cold War Saga Beneath the Pacific on the Spy Submarine” is the topic of a lecture presented by Roger C. Dunham, M.D., who served as a nuclear reactor operator aboard a spy submarine for several years, conducting espionage against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. When: 7 pm; members-only reception at 6:15 pm Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way Cost: free for members, $10 for non-members Registration: www.sbmm.org or call 456-8747 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road FRIDAY, MARCH 10 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The assembly 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 Benefit Concert Santa Barbara Strings’s Artistry of Strings benefit concert will provide support to nurture young string musicians and sustain their teaching artists. The artists appearing will be Mary Beth Woodruff, violin; Jane Chung, violin; Basil Vendryes, viola; Andrew Smith, cello; and Robert Cassidy, piano. An artists reception with wines and cheeses will follow the performance.

When: 7 pm Where: Hahn Hall at Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road Cost: $40 for adults; $10 for students Info: www.santabarbarastrings.org

SATURDAY, MARCH 11 17th Annual Barbara Ireland Walk for Breast Cancer

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The Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara presents a 5K, 10K, or 15K walk and run along Santa Barbara’s waterfront in support of local breast cancer research and programs. Join Barbara Ireland, her family, and hundreds of other champions of breast cancer as they rally at the Barbara Ireland Walk and Run for Breast Cancer. Everyone is encouraged to register either individually or as a team; the squad that raises the most money will have its name engraved on the Barbara Ireland trophy. All participants are invited to relax afterward in the post-event Spa Zone featuring massages, manicures, and more. All of the funds raised from event registration fees and pledges benefit local breast cancer research and programs at the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara with Sansum Clinic.

These programs include research, which makes cancer-fighting agents available in our community; genetic counseling, which provides patients with the chance to determine their cancer genetic risk and possibly have their treatment modified as a result; and navigation, which offers patients a consistent care coordinator during their experience with breast cancer.

When: 8:30 am Where: Chase Palm Park, 323 East Cabrillo Blvd.

Cost: $60 for adults, $20 for children

12 and under; participants who raise $100 or more will have their registration fees waived Registration: www.ccsb.org/irelandwalk2017 Enjoy Japanese Matcha Learn how to make a bowl of matcha, Japanese powdered green tea, and serve it to your guests in the spirit of appreciation and hospitality, the cornerstones of the Way Of Tea. Then visit the “Look Through the Heart” teahouse, ShinKanAn, for a demonstration given by the students of Sokyo Kasai. Advanced registration required.

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Village Beat

Montecito Family YMCA executive director Michael Yamasaki helps launch the annual campaign during the Save the Day super hero extravaganza

by Kelly Mahan

Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.

YMCA Annual Campaign

Lexi Kauffman, a member of the YMCA who utilizes the newly launched Adaptive Swim Program

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ontecito YMCA reps announced this week that their usual month-long annual campaign has been extended into mid-March, and as of press time the campaign had not yet met the half-

way mark. “We are trying valiantly to reach our goal,” said office manager and campaign organizer Lori West.

This year’s goal is $145,000; every dollar raised is used to place kids and families in need into YMCA programs

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In 2016, the YMCA provided more than $200,000 in financial assistance to families and individuals.

The Y launched its annual campaign on February 1, with a Save the Day super hero extravaganza. More than 50 attendees young and old enjoyed a dessert and coffee bar, dressing up in super hero costumes for a photo booth; the event was a pull to gain more campaign volunteers. It was supported

by CVS Montecito, Crushcakes, S.R. Hogue & Co., and Starbucks.

Speaking at the event was Rachel Kauffman, a Montecito YMCA member and the mother of a child with a learning disability. Kauffman and her family utilize a discounted membership at the YMCA, thanks to funds raised in the annual campaign.

Kauffman has been a member of the YMCA since she was a little girl, and five years ago, she and her family applied for scholarship after her art teaching career became less financially stable. “As an art teacher, there isn’t always funding for my position, so my income is not always stable,” said Kauffman, who sat down with us earlier this week. “Art is my passion, and I chose to pursue that, but it is difficult financially,” she said. Kauffman has worked at local schools including Peabody, Roosevelt, and Laguna Blanca.

Kauffman says the membership at the YMCA has helped her and her

family reach their highest potential mentally, physically, and spiritually. A master swimmer, Kauffman learned to swim at the Y decades ago, when she was a camp counselor in training. She hoped to pass her love of swimming onto two kids, especially her 9-yearold daughter, Lexi, who has a rare chromosome difference called Prader Willi Syndrome. Kauffman had Lexi enrolled in swim lessons at the Y and other locations from age 2 to age 8, but after seven years in the pool, Lexi was only able to swim half of a lap on her own. “It left me feeling depressed and hopeless for her,” Kauffman said.

Last year, YMCA aquatics director Amaris Guerra launched a new program: Adaptive Swim, which is funded in part by the annual campaign.

Guerra has been involved in adaptive swim lessons for the last 10 years as a swim instructor at another YMCA location, and says it was important for her to bring the program to the Montecito Y. Adaptive swim lessons are designed to provide community members with a mental or physical disability the opportunity to learn and improve swimming skills, maintain and increase physical fitness, achieve success, and receive recognition within an aquatic environment. The ultimate goal in these lessons is to get each participant “water safe,” and trained instructors teach skills such as floating, kicking, and front crawl, and help students gain comfort and confidence in the water.

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Also, there have been price reductions on some listings, and a bevy of new properties have come on the market.

It’s good to see new listings, especially when they come on in all price ranges, showing the variety of options one has when choosing to buy a home in Montecito. While no house may be a perfect match for a buyer, there are certainly options at all levels (more than $1 million, of course).

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Lynda Millner

The Great Great Lakes – Part 2

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Your humble correspondent at the cultural center for the First Nation people

he second largest of the Great Lakes is Lake Huron, with a surface area of 23,000 square miles. Like all the Great Lakes, it was formed at the end of the last ice age as the glaciers retreated. With more than 30,000 islands it has more shoreline than any other Great Lake.

We cruised the Georgian Bay to Manitoulin Island, the world’s largest freshwater island and home of the

Ojibwe people. At their church, we learned how their beliefs and customs intertwine with those of the Catholic Church. We attended a real powwow where they beat their drums and danced tribal dances in the full regalia.

The only rainy day of our trip was when we were in transit of the Soo Locks from Lake Huron into Lake Superior at Sault-Ste. Marie, Michigan.

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We visited the Valley Camp Ship Museum where we entered the holds that carried such cargo as coal, iron ore, and limestone. Those ships are huge – some 1,000 feet long.

Many of you may have heard of the ship, the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in 1975 and is a modern-day maritime mystery. This coal barge museum exhibits two lifeboats, which are the largest pieces of wreckage ever recovered. They floated ashore without survivors. Twenty-nine sailors perished on that stormy night.

From the Soo Locks viewing platform, you could then walk through the visitor’s center to learn about the four parallel locks, which pass an average of 10,000 ships per year. Four ships can transit at one time.

This was a day I’d been looking for-

ward to. I’d always wanted to go to the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. The Straights of Mackinac connect Lake Michigan to Lake Huron. Mackinac has no cars, only horse-drawn carts and carriages or bikes. We boarded one that held about 20 folks pulled by two large Belgian draft horses similar to the Anhauser Busch horses. Later we rode in an even larger one pulled by three horses. The carriage tours slogan: “I horsed around on Mackinac Island.”

Before the hotel, we saw Fort Mackinac, which was constructed by the British in 1780 (the oldest in Michigan), taken by the Americans in 1796 and reclaimed by the British at the start of the War of 1812. Today, 83 percent of the Island is a state park, second only to Yellowstone. As they say, “the cannon blasts, the rifles fire, the soldiers march, and history comes alive.” When we were there, the cannon shot and one of the tourists fell to the ground. Not to worry, she had merely stumbled. The oldest public building in Michigan and 13 other historic structures at the fort boast exhibits explaining everything military.

The Grand Hotel is one of those

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One of the prettiest houses on Mackinac Island

The canon guy at Fort Mackinac

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built by the railroads at the turn of the century, such as the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego. In 1904, there were 1,200 similar hotels like our own Potter Hotel – but being built of wood, they burned down and only 11 are left. The Grand brags the longest covered veranda or porch in the world at 660 feet and 157 rocking chairs. The dining room holds 1,000 guests, and we had a sumptuous buffet lunch there.

The Grand was built in 1887 with 200 rooms and opens from May

through October. It took only 93 days to build because the 600 workers were paid double and crews worked round the clock. The Grand had the first electricity in the area and the first elevator.

The two railroad companies and one shipping company who financed it were paranoid to get a return on the money. In 1887, there was no middle class, so they were appealing to the well-to-do.

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On Charity

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Lansing Sustains Stand Up to Cancer Leading lady Sherry Lansing, former teacher and ex-president of 20th Century Fox, now crusades against cancer

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was responsible for such film hits as Forrest Gump, Braveheart, and Titanic.

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Despite her 40 years in the film industry, and having a proud legacy over three Oscar nights when films she shepherded claimed Best Picture, Lansing was quick to reply when asked if she misses the whirlwind of Hollywood. “Never,” she said. “Not one single moment of it. But I still love movies and have friends in the business. I’m just going to enjoy the tradition.”

Q. You rose to first female president of 20th Century Fox at age 35, breaking the so-called glass ceiling for women executives. How did you move so quickly and what was it like to be the first woman to head a Hollywood studio?

A. My first job was reading scripts and synopsizing them for producers for $5 an hour. I literally did every job up the ladder, moving through the ranks, before I became president of Fox. It wouldn’t have been quite so unusual if I weren’t the first woman, because I had just followed linear path, done all the jobs, but that’s the only reason why it was on the front page of newspapers. If women were equal, it never would have received that same sort of attention. Many years later, when I was appointed as chairman/CEO of Paramount, it was only (reported) in the business section.

As far as what it was like, at the time it was thrilling. I just put my head down and did the work and tried not to think about shattering ceilings and instead focused on how best to do the job. That’s always to concentrate on the movie – make good ones that people want to see.

But you also need the movie gods to shine on you. You can make the best decisions and do all the hard work, but you also need the element of luck. But that goes for everything.

What are you most proud of from 40 years in the business?

That’s like asking which child you like best. It’s easy to mention Forrest Gump and Titanic because they won the awards. But the truth is, you love every picture and care as much and do the same work for the ones that are not successful. So, it’s the mov-

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ies themselves I’m proud of. I was involved in over 200 and they are my legacy. The movies last forever, and people talk about them for years if they’re good. But that’s just work.

What you’re proudest of is family and friends, because that’s what sustains your life.

What prompted you to walk away in the mid-2000s at the top of your game?

I always had a dream from the time I was young – instilled by my mother, who always gave back, with her time – that if I were successful and had reached a point where I was repeating myself that I’d devote a portion of my life to philanthropy.

In my early 50s, I started to notice that I wasn’t as passionate about movies; the highs were not as high and the lows were not as low. I saw my attention moving more toward spending my time in other places even though I still loved movies. I decided that I would leave by age 60 and start my foundation.

When I left the movie business, I felt like I just graduated from college, entering this whole new world of cancer research, stem cell research, and education. I had to study and learn all over again. Also, at 60, you start thinking about being closer to the end, and how you want to spend your time. I’d never gone on a vacation without spending at least four to five hours a day dealing with work. I’d never been able to, say, stay an extra day. I didn’t want to die at my desk. But finally I had a balanced life with more moments with family and friends. These last 10 years have been among the best in my life.

You had a tremendous track record.

What was your secret?

Be true to yourself. Be authentic.

When I chose movies, I would read the script, trust my instincts, and then apply fiscal responsibility. And I had the luck. I walked away when I didn’t have that same passion anymore.

How do you feel about what’s going on in the movie business, these trends perhaps even more toward tent poles and sequels?

I don’t bemoan it at all. The movie business was changing as I was leaving. I have huge respect for these movies but they weren’t the ones I grew up with or wanted to make – the ones with relationships and people talking to each other in human terms. But it’s a great day to talk because we’re celebrating phenomenal movies from this year (at the Oscars). They’re movies that are for adults and have something to say.

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Today, there are 450 bicycle parking spots for the help and 400 horses, which are sent away in the winter.

They require new shoes every two to three weeks after clip-clopping on the Mankinac roads every day.

Many movies have been filmed here, including Somewhere in Time. The town smells not of manure but of fudge.

For no reason I could ascertain (I kept asking), there must be a dozen fudge shops – not just chocolate but many exotic flavors. By the way, it’s Mackinac Island and Mackinaw City for no reason I could determine.

There’s only one great lake entirely in the United States and it’s Lake Michigan. It has a surface area of more than 22,000 square miles, making it the fifth-largest lake in the world. The name is believed to have come from an Indian word mishigami, translated to “great water.” It is indeed a great water. What was amazing was these great waters were totally smooth the entire trip. I couldn’t even tell I was sailing, even though they have storms as big as the Atlantic ones. The Great Lakes are indeed inland seas.

And then we debarked in Chicago, which no longer smells bad. Maybe the “good old days” weren’t so good.

As Hans Christian Andersen said, “To travel is to live.” If that is true, then we’ve done a great deal of living.

I hope you will too.

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Our Town

Professor Bildsten in action at his star lecture for the LCO’s annual event

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Hearing the Stars with Lars

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planetarium show, followed by Lars’s lecture, a reception, and a viewing of the night sky provided by the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit equipped with mega telescopes and computer programming on the museum’s side patio.

Luke Swetland, president and CEO of the SBMNH welcomed the attendees. Javier Rivera, Astronomy Programs manager, talked about the museum’s reopened The Palmer Observatory, the largest of its kind located between Los Angeles and San Francisco, whose dome telescope opening rotates a full 360 degrees.

Observations are digitally recorded for scientific data, used by local schools and compiled for its planetarium shows.

Todd Boroson, LCO president and observatory director introduced Lars and said, “Las Cumbres Observatory’s one-of-a-kind worldwide network of robotic telescopes allows scientists to make continuous astronomical observations and share it on an open network for the benefit of researchers everywhere. LCO’s internet-based artificial intelligence scheduler takes requests for observations from multiple sources, analyzes everything from competing requests to the weather at each telescope site, then directs individual telescopes to make the desired observations and compiles the results.

Studies include supernovae, exoplanets, and near-Earth objects.”

Lars began the lecture by reviewing basic laws of physics for sound waves and their known behaviors in oceans as the fundamental lead into their impact for star research. From there, he segued to the sun. Sound waves get shorter the closer they get to the sun’s surface and either jump through and leave the surface or reflect back down into the core and around again.

Solar flares set off sound waves on the opposing surface. Sound-wave speed rises as it goes to the sun’s core and then drops off due to the increase in helium at the sun’s center, which is heavier than hydrogen. This is how scientists explain that the sun is burning out.

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In 2009, the launching of the Kepler telescope into space to study the stars accelerated the database by recording the measurements of thousands of stars every 30 minutes for a fiveyear period – tens of thousands of stars across the Milky Way to be exact.

The data found many stars brighter and larger than our sun. By measuring how bright a star is over many years, scientists can directly measure its mass, radius, rate of rotation, and sometimes the magnetic field it possesses, and identifying stars that are in short-lived phases of their evolution. Lars briefed us on MESA, the Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics, founded by Bill Paxton.

MESA is an open source for anyone worldwide to download source code, compile it, and run it for their own research or education purposes.

He concluded the lecture by fielding questions from more than 150 attendees comprising students from UCSB, SBCC, and like-minded community members.

After the lecture Javier escorted me to the “star party” on the outside patio where the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit – Chuck McPartlin, Pat McPartlin, Joe Doyle, Martin Meza, Tom Totton president, Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit, Chris Larson, Jurgen Hilmer, Erin O’Connor astronomy instructor for SBCC, and SBCC students Valeria Orellana Canales and Ugo Tsimaratos – had set up four amazing telescopes pointed at the four key directions for observing the night sky. It was amazing to have the chance to view our beautiful stars and planets in such detail. My personal favorite was Tom’s super telescope to view the Orion nebula, a mere 1,344 light years from Earth! His telescope was so large, in fact, there was a mini-ladder if needed to for viewing.

Guests swarmed the area and soaked up knowledge despite freezing temperatures. Indeed, a stellar evening was experienced by all. •MJ 411: www.lco.global 411: www.sbau.org 411: www.mesastar.org 2 – 9 March 2017

Ray’s Ramblings

MARTHA’S VINEYARD

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In Montecito

Hailing originally from Price, Utah, and growing up in Las Vegas, Ray, has been managing his own companies for many years. His extensive résumé includes program manager for Rover-Nerva nuclear rocket program, nuclear weapons testing, co-designing photo sensor imaging systems for Mars Viking LanderOrbiter cameras, co-inventing bi-polar accelerator for cancer treatment, and semiconductor related patents. He lives in Montecito.

Paying for Your Neighbor’s Car

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he dawn of the all-electric, plug-in car is upon us. Or is it? Forcing functions of the Federal and various state and local governments… primarily California… have determinedly thrown their financial, political, commercial, and environmental powers into the fray. You can see all sorts of little cars, and some big expensive ones, flying around with soccer moms and dedicated environmentalists peering from road to dashboard trying to get home before the battery runs out or to make sure they are involved in the car’s energy-management system to get the best mileage possible… all the while doing their bit for the environment.

At the root of this behavior is the belief that such maneuvers really are changing the dynamics of energy conservation and financial utility.

Sadly, many of the beliefs held by these owner/drivers as irrefutable truth are patently false, marginal at best, or simply unfounded. One widely held belief is that if you plug a car into the local electrical grid, you are somehow eliminating your “carbon footprint.” Of course, this is complete nonsense unless you are charging the thing from an equally unfairly installed solar array for which your neighbor helps pay for through generous tax rebates.

When one points out to electric car owners that about half of the electricity used to charge his vehicle comes from the burning of coal, and nearly all the rest comes from the burning of bunker oil and natural gas, their stare takes on the look of a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming Prius on a remote country road.

On the rare occasions I make this statement, I am battered with “So, you don’t care about the environment” attitude. Well, yes I do, but it is not typical of a green-minded person to look at facts, especially when they have just plunked down from $30,000 to a hundred grand for one of these cars. Or did they plunk down that much? I would like to put a bumper sticker on each of these cars that reads: “My Car Is Coal-Powered and My Neighbors Helped Pay for It.”

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It turns out that in California the combination of credits and rebates an EV (Electric Vehicle) owner gets on his car can currently cost his neighbors and fellow citizens up to a total of $12,500 ($7,500 federal plus $5,000 state), plus a rebate of another $2,500 for a home charging system. Let’s see now. If my math is right, that can total as much as $15,000 coming out of the pockets of those who choose not to buy an EV! Wow… isn’t that a 50% discount on a $30,000 car paid for by your neighbors? Of course, the total amount of tax credits, rebates, and other giveaways varies by vehicle and state and is ever changing with the political winds, and tax credits and rebates are likely to be rolled back soon.

No matter what the amount, is it fair to make someone else pay for half of your car… or even any part of your car? I happen to be one who thinks it is patently unfair for me, or any other citizen, to help pay for my neighbor ’s car. In particular, it is not fair for one citizen to get tax credits for a $30 to $100,000 car on the backs of ordinary people. At a price of $3 per gallon, the current rebates-credits amount to about 5,000 gallons of gas. At, say 25 miles per gallon, something more than 120,000 miles. Far less than half of people ever drive their automobiles that far before trading or buying another one.

I am reminded of a James Madison quote from my high school civics book. It reads, in part: “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which grants a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

Big Carbon Footprints

If the EV owners think there is no carbon footprint for an EV car, they are sadly mistaken. As stated above, the electricity generated in the United States

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comes mostly from the burning of hydrocarbons… coal, oil, and natural gas for the most part. Some comes from hydro, and a tiny fraction comes from solar and wind (don’t get me started on that), with the last two being the most expensive and inefficient sources of energy on the planet when faced with the issues of storage, intermittent supply, and government subsidies. Solar and wind, without government support (read: your taxes) would not be a good investment in the eyes of even the most liberal of financial investors; unless of course they get a big rebate, tax credit, or below-market interest loan for doing so.

I mean, why else would the governments choose to invest in something unless it loses money? They are hideously efficient in doing just that. Warren Buffet pronounced at a recent Berkshire-Hathaway shareholders’ meeting, that the only way to make money in wind and solar is with federal and state subsidies and tax credits and guaranteed low-interest loans (read: taxpayer burden). Otherwise, both are losing propositions… and he knows a bit about investments.

Another point, and it is not moot: it takes about 1.5 tons of coal to produce enough energy to make the battery for a typical EV (read: more carbon footprint).

The efficiency of the electrical grid for an oil or coal fired plant is roughly as follows: About 30% to 40% of the available thermal energy – at most – is turned into electricity at the plant. That is when the plant is operating at full power.

Some plants are better, and some are worse. When one factors the EPA requirements of effluent recovery systems, the conversion efficiency is on the low end of the range; such requirements reduce overall efficiency, as it takes energy to run those systems.

The problem with generating electricity is that the load on the facility varies wildly as seasons change, daylight saving time, time of day, and a variety of other factors. It is not possible to “turn off” a large power plant when the load is low. American consumers want what they want, when they want it. It must keep operating even when the power might not be needed at its full capacity.

At these times, the efficiency can get very low. In some locations, the overall efficiency can be as low as 20%. We will use 30% as an industry average.

The story does not end there.

Long-Distance Energy Losses

There are losses encountered in the long-distance transmission of electrical power and the condition of the line that nationwide amounts to about 7% to 10% to get to the substation. There is typically another 4% loss in the local distribution network and another 5% loss in the typical home charger unit for the vehicle. Thus, of the original BTU’s resident in the oil or coal or SANTA BARBARA

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In other words, the energy loss for the total system is about 75% for typical circumstances and up to 80% in the worst. In addition, the efficiency of the electric motor and drive train in the car is about 90%, so there is another 10% loss in getting the power to the wheels. This loss is due to the heating of the battery during discharge and the efficiency and friction factors of the drive train and electric motor of the EV. A heavy-footed driver can reduce this by another 20%. Bottom line, for the average driver, is that about 20% of the energy in the original fuel (coal, oil, gas) gets to the wheels of the car in the best of cases; the other 70% to 80% of the original energy is lost and directly attributable to the carbon footprint of the electric vehicle.

There have been many studies on the efficiency of hybrid-gasoline vehicles and the general consensus is that the hybrid is somewhat superior to an all-electric plug in automobile; not only from the standpoint of utility, but the fact that the entire fuel delivery system of the country does not have to be rebuilt. The hybrid has an extended range without charging, which is not only a convenience factor, but a safety factor as well. Think of the battery going dead in the middle of a dark country road with the family in tow or crawling along the freeway at 30 mph as the battery gives a final gasp. Have you ever been caught in a three-hour traffic jam? Make it to the next “service station” and you are in for a 1.5 to 5-hour wait to “fill’er up.” The good news is that the efficiency of well-to-wheels hybrid-electric is somewhat higher than the all-electric vehicle.

Need to Update Power Infrastructure

Many of the power plants in the United States are old and need to be updated. Many are quite polluting and the cost to retrofit them is enormous.

The combustion by-products in a hybrid automobile are, in many cases, less polluting than the coal and plants generating our electricity, because of high combustion efficiency, catalytic convertors, and other new innovations available to the modern combustion engine designer. In fact, a modern pure gasoline – non-electric – powered vehicle has about the same overall efficiency and about the same pollution as an all-electric when one takes into consideration all the factors.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the fuel efficiency of modern automobiles is between 14% to 30%. In the same range as the pure EV. Pure gasoline cars of the same weight as a Prius get close to 40 miles per gallon on the highway and cost substantially less to buy, and your neighbor doesn’t have to pony up 20% to 50% of the cost. Why take oil to make electricity and then send it hundreds of miles to charge up a battery when you can just run a modern gasoline engine car from the oil to begin with? The overall efficiency is about the same, and the total carbon footprint is nearly the same. Only governments can get away with engaging in this kind of silliness.

As to fuel costs, it depends where you live. If you live in Texas, gas is $2.00 (2016), in Santa Barbara, about $2.60. Electricity (residential rates) in Texas, about $0.12 per kwh; Santa Barbara, about $0.16 per kwh. The fuel costs per mile for either a lightweight EV or a lightweight modern gasoline car are within a few percent of each other for a similar location. And, you can get gasoline at any corner gas station.

With the current tax credits my neighbor gets, I can buy enough gasoline for about 120,000 miles of worry-free driving, even in my big Mercedes. In my grandkid’s Hyundai, I’d get about 175,000 miles.

Rather than put an additional large demand on the power grid of the country and the regional and local distribution networks, let the pure EV go away until the technology can be proven to be meritorious and worth the effort. After all, dozens of companies have been trying to make the EV a profitable and practical

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business since the late 1800s.

None have succeeded.

known technology that can be economically implemented, an increase in energy density might be as much as 5%, meaning 5% more miles per charge for a given battery size. Until then, perhaps the hybrid might be a better stepping stone. Remember that we the taxpayers invested $50 billion in General Motors for a 27% ownership. The bond holders lost most of their money, the stockholders (read mostly IRAs/teachers unions and other retirement funds) lost all their money, and the value of the government investment tumbled from the $50 billion investment to about $30 billion.

The taxpayers lost at least $12.5 billion on the investment. GM lost money on every Volt sold. That means the taxpayers lost money on every Volt sold. If the government had not invested in pure EVs, the total savings to the taxpayers would have been at least $35 billion dollars over all the various “investments.”

Boondoggles & Scams

The Tesla company has lost more than $1.5 billion in the last few years and has gone to the investment markets for several rounds of financing, including a recent late 2016 round of $1.5 billion. Even though they build possibly the best EV available, they currently lose about $16-20,000 on each car sold. The model 3 has been delayed three times, and was just recently delayed again. Insiders quietly report that battery production in the new multi-billion-dollar factory has had a number of delays, and the efficiency of the batteries is significantly lower than expected, and are subject to overheating, fires, and exploding.

Layoffs have already begun to occur, and a rapid-response technical team has been assembled to try to solve the problem.

Our government has already invested more than $18 billion taxpayer dollars in all electric cars. As a nation, we made investments in Fiskar, a foreign car company, of more than $500 million dollars for a car built overseas producing virtually no American jobs and costing $190,000-plus to produce each car. Each one was sold for about $104,000 and the total capital investment to deliver 200 cars was more than $1 billion, or about $5 million per car. It is now a defunct company, having gone the way of other government boondoggles such as Solyndra… which was a nearly $1 billion loss to the U.S. government and investors.

The Chevrolet Volt has had an investment of nearly $5 billion with about 114,000 delivered, with heavy recalls in the early years because of exploding batteries. Two of the battery manufacturers – who also got mountains of money from the government – have laid off most of their employees and two have gone bankrupt. We the taxpayers lost all of our money on the latter.

The government seems to have a surprisingly keen ability to invest in losing companies.

Maybe someday, a new high-energy-density battery will come on the scene, although the physics is not very hopeful or especially promising. With current

As a Side Note:

Today, the U.S. has about 310+ million people with an annual budget of $4 trillion and total (funded and unfunded) debt more than $125 trillion ($400,000 for each man woman and child). It takes about 5,400 times as many dollars and about 37,000 times more debt to “govern” about 3.2 times as many people as it did less than a century ago. Why? The answer is really quite simple. Today, the U.S., state, and local governments govern, or attempt to govern everything. It is all-pervasive. It has taken over much of the economy from its people. In 1940, about one of every 22 working-age persons – non-military – worked for one kind of government or another.

Today that number is about one in six. The masses of government workers produce little of value that can be worn, eaten, lived in, driven, or otherwise used for any practical purpose.

I also note, with some alarm, the recent “peaceful” protests with the attacking of persons, burning of automobiles, breaking of windows, and torching buildings which brings to mind another quote from John Adams: “Democracy will degenerate into an anarchy; such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes, and no man’s life, or property, or reputation of liberty will be secure.”

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Spirituality Matters

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

Houston in Montecito

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ean Houston, the 79-year-old pioneer of human and social development long regarded as one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement, is coming to town for two programs at Pacifica Graduate Institute this weekend. Dr. Houston met her future husband Robert Masters while participating in a U.S. government-sanctioned research project on the effects of LSD in the early 1960s, was a close associate of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead, and achieved a measure of unwanted fame as the center of Washington controversy 20 years ago when then-First Lady Hillary Clinton invited her to the White House and participated in “visioning” and role-playing game with Houston as spiritual adviser. But Dr. Houston shrugged off the issue and continued to combine history, culture, new science, spirituality, and human development into her inter-disciplinary perspective as a teacher and speaker.

It’s in that role that Houston will address new discoveries in quantum physics and how they both uphold and enhance classical myths and stereotypes in her Salon presentation “Emerging Myths, Emerging Archetypes: Everyday Life in the Quantum Universe” at Pacifica’s Ladera Lane campus from 7 to 9 on Friday night. Houston returns at the same hours on Saturday night for a special sneak-peek staged reading of Tonight in Dreamland, a new play-in-progress she is co-writing with Cheri Steinkellner, the 20-year Montecito resident who served as writer-producer on TV’s Cheers, The Jeffersons, and Who’s the Boss and

authored the plays Sister Act and Hello! My Baby.

Tonight in Dreamland, dubbed a quantum comedy, is about an astrophysicist, an anthropologist, and an actress who walk into a theater.

When a quantum shift causes their stages to converge and their audience to vanish, the two scientists and the actress must pool their collective resources – brains, hearts, and guts – to discover how they got here and why. Houston and Steinkellner will conduct a talk-back with the audience following the reading.

Admission for Friday’s Salon is free, while Saturday’s reading carries a $25 suggested donation. Both events are part of the institute’s new Retreat at Pacifica program that endeavors to expand its mission of tending soul in the world and its reach of transformational education through online seminars, residential workshops, and interactive conferences led by members of Pacifica’s faculty and other leaders in the arts, sciences, and humanities. Next up are seminars in Waking Up From Trauma: Cultivating Communities of Resistance with Joseph Bobrow, Oksana Yakushko, and Lolly Be on March 24-26, and The Creative Dance of Mindfulness and Depth Psychology with Juliet RohdeBrown and Radhule Weininger on April 9-12. Call 969-3626 or visit www.retreat.pacifica.edu/all-pro grams to register.

Sound in the Soup

Sound healing settles in for two separate events at Yoga Soup this week, starting with Shane

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Thunder’s 432hz Spirit Metacine event on Friday, March 3. Thunder uses alchemical gemstone along with Tibetan singing bowls, chimes, and drums, plus aromatherapy and guided meditation to take participants into a deeply meditative state.

His sound bath aims to cleanse and purge emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual blocks, all to restore and uplift body, mind, and spirit so that you will leave feeling more grounded, aligned, and balanced.

The 7:30 to 9 pm event costs $20 in advance or $25 day-of. More info on Shane’s website: www.artiste card.com/SpiritMetacine. (Note: Thunder ’s 432hz Spirit Metacine Soundbath will also be offered for the same fee structure from 2 to 3:30 pm on Saturday, March 4, at DiviniTree Yoga, 25 East De La Guerra Street in downtown Santa Barbara. Info at 897-3354 or www.sb.divinitree.com.)

A different sort of sound bath awaits at Yoga Soup with Language of Light Sound Meditation, slated for 8 to 9:30 pm on Thursday March 9, which features master sound healing facilitators Torkom Ji and Lynda Arnold (a.k.a.

Divasonic) combining forces to create a deep, resonate sound meditation experience. Torkom’s signature ambient electronic soundscapes and grooves are paired with Lynda’s ethereal vocal style, flute, and other sacred sound instruments to create an innovative yet spiritual electro-acoustic sound space. The session begins with setting intentions, breath work, and toning to warm-up the body, followed by the 45-minute to one-hour meditation with time left for grounding and feedback at the end. Bring mats, pillows, blankets, and eye masks for extra comfort.

The pair have previously appeared at Shakti, BhaktiFest West, Lucidity Festival, and Full Circle Church.

Cost: $25 in advance, $30 day-of.

Info on the facilitators at www.tor komji.com and www.divasonic.com.

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What Dreams May Come and executive produced the Emmy-nominated Homeless to Harvard – and was last month’s speaker at the Santa Barbara Consciousness Network event – will conduct a Q&A session following the free screening that’s co-sponsored by Youth and Family Services YMCA’s St. George Youth Center and Santa Barbara Teen Coalition.

For more on the film, visit www. miltonssecret.com.

Women’s Happiness Retreat

This all-encompassing three-day event takes place Friday to Sunday, March 3-5, at the Goodland Hotel in Goleta. The event is geared toward helping women elevate their health, quiet negative internal chatter, learn to meal plan like a ninja, improve platonic and romantic relationships, improve the home environment, reduce stress level, learn to meditate, honor their bodies, create lasting connections, and set goals that get one re-energized for a more beautiful life.

The retreat will focus on “The 4 Pillars of Happiness” – Create, Connect, Nourish, Love – with each of the hands-on workshops, presentations, meals, sweat sessions, and chill times connecting to at least one of the core four. Visit www.happinessretreatsb.com for staff list, more details, registration, and fees.

Snow-bound for Writing

Kimberly Snow’s winter Writing Yourself Awake workshop, which combines writing and meditation in order to deepen insight, remove blockages, and increase creativity – has one final session slated for this weekend, but it’s okay if you’ve missed the first two. The workshop, which serves as a benefit for Odiyana Institute, meets from 2 to 4 pm on Saturday, March 4, at 1524 Anacapa Street. Included are writing to prompts on Dharma subjects, as well as periods of meditation and discussion. Bring a notebook or laptop.

Info at www.writingyourself awake.com, which also has excerpt and links to Snow’s book Writing Yourself Awake: Meditation & Creativity. Snow, who has a doctorate and is a prize-winning playwright, teacher, and author of many books including In Buddha’s Kitchen, It Changes, and Writing Yourself Home, also teams with Jinny Webber to lead the seminar titled “Integration of Self in These Changing Times: An Exploration of Writing, Meditation, and Movement”, which will be held August 4-6 at La Casa De Maria.•MJ 2 – 9 March 2017

Brilliant Thoughts

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In-Laws and Outlaws

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onnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were notorious in the early 1930s as American OUTlaws.

However, they never became a married couple, so they never acquired any IN-laws. (And since, when you acquire in-laws, you automatically become one yourself, though they were outlaws, they never had the dubious distinction of being in-laws.)

But where does this “in-law” expression come from, anyway?

The answer is that this “law” is not the same as the criminal law that made Bonnie and Clyde outlaws. It refers to Canon Law, meaning the law of the Church – which, centuries ago, was more important than any other legal code. And one concern of Canon Law was the matter of “consanguinity,” meaning “common blood,” which, regarding relationships, determined who could marry whom. So, like it or not, when you get married, you become part of your spouse’s family, and in theory no member of that family can marry any other member, because you are all too closely related “in law.”

Of course, there are many other kinds of law, and many different ways of looking at it. For example, Kipling wrote in Recessional (rather contemptuously as it may seem to us today) about “lesser breeds without the law.”

He was contrasting the great British nation – then (1897) at the height of its imperial glory – with other supposedly inferior ethnic groups not yet within the legal embrace of true civilization.

But in general, every science and discipline has its own special “laws.”

For example, in chemistry, there is Boyle’s Law (which has nothing to do with boiling anything). In linguistics, there’s Grimm’s Law (which has nothing to do with fairy tales). In mathematics, there’s the Law of Averages.

And in economics (surprisingly for such an inexact science) you’ll find numerous “laws,” including the Law of Supply and Demand, the Law of Diminishing Returns, and Gresham’s Law (which says that “ bad” money drives out “good”).

And of course, covering all technical and scientific fields, there’s good old Murphy’s Law. The gloomy Murphy would never have won any award for positive thinking with his immortal edict that “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.”

Interestingly, though, we don’t seem to find the same craving for laws in creative fields such as art, music, and 2 – 9 March 2017

literature. Yes, there are “rules” – rules of harmonics, “rules” of color, even rules of scansion. But we all know that the essence of creativity lies in breaking the rules – though it does often help to first know what they are.

(And I’ve just broken a golden rule of grammar by splitting an infinitive.)

But when it comes to the law in general, my own chief sources of wisdom are Gilbert and Sullivan, and Shakespeare. W.S. Gilbert, the lyricist-half of that team, was himself trained in the law, and had a brief career as a barrister.

So, it is not surprising to find legal folderol popping up in many of his scenarios. For example, in Iolanthe the Lord Chancellor sings, with modest pride: The Law is the true embodiment Of everything that’s excellent – It has no kind of fault or flaw – And I, my lords, embody the Law. As for Shakespeare, he seems to have so much legal knowledge that scholars endlessly debate just how he may have spent those “lost years” of his life about which we know virtually nothing. But his view of the law was not necessarily a rosy one. In fact, in one of his most famous passages, Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy, note what comes in as number four in his itemized list of all the “whips and scorns of time” – i.e., the worst things about staying alive in this world: or who would bear the whips and F scorns of time, Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office...

THE LAW’S DELAY! Doesn’t that ring just as true today as it would have seemed four hundred years ago? But a privileged prince of Denmark was one least likely, in that social system, to be oppressed by the law. You can’t help feeling that it’s Shakespeare himself speaking, about the burdensome legal system as he must have personally experienced it. He (not Hamlet) must have hated all the legalities and bureaucracies (“the insolence of office”) which made his professional and personal life harder – as we still do today.

To that extent, in our hearts, we are all, like Bonnie and Clyde, outlaws.

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Beer Guy

by Zach Rosen

Zach Rosen is a Certified Cicerone® and beer educator living in Santa Barbara. He uses his background in chemical engineering and the arts to seek out abstract expressions of beer and discover how beer pairs with life.

Have a Beer in the Garden

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ow in its fourth year, the Santa Barbara Beer Garden is one of the area’s most unique events.

This brewtique beer festival is held in the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and takes guests through the different gardens while serving them one-off beers that were specially crafted just for the area in which they are served.

Musicians are placed throughout the various sections, and attendees peruse the gardens and beers while listening to music chosen to complement the area. The SB Beer Garden will be held on Saturday, March 25, from 1 to 4:30 pm.

This festival was developed in 2014 by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and myself. The concept is to host a festival that inspires the individual to simultaneously explore both beer flavor and the range of California landscapes, drawing attention to their senses and allowing them to drink in their surroundings. This

year there will be 14 breweries attending the festival and pouring everything from a gose to a Russian imperial stout.

Attendees will get to listen to a saxophonist in a redwood grove while tasting a Dark Tart Gruit by brewLAB. The sour herbal ale will grasp onto the coolness of the trees’ shadows and be contrasted by the throaty timbre of saxophone. Each beer is chosen and designed to reflect its surroundings, sometimes even using ingredients from the immediate area.

Telegraph Brewing is bringing a beer to be served on the Mission Creek Dam that was brewed with water from Mission Creek and spiced with redwood pine tips. The brewers from Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. have harvested yeast from different areas of the garden and are preparing a cask from this indigenous yeast, representing the microbial terroir of Santa Barbara.

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SB Beer Garden features 14 local breweries including M. Special

The biggest change to the festival this year is the inclusion of a series of small bites paired with a selection of these unique beers. The Black Sheep will be serving a marinated white anchovy and orange zest crostini alongside a special edition of Draughtsmen Aleworks Namu Biru, a Japanese rice lager, that has been dry-hopped with a range of American hops. The briny-acidic bite of anchovy and accent of orange zest will brighten up the citrus character of American hops and be sharpened by the clean finish of this lager.

The pairing will be served in the ShinKanAn Teahouse & Garden. The authentic teahouse was built in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949 and its garden is fashioned in the traditional Japanese-style with California native plants. This fusion of east and west styles makes the teahouse one-of-a-kind, and the beer reflects this melding of influences.

One of the brews for true beerdoes that will be at the event is a collaboration between Dan Reyes of CARP Homebrewers and myself. The concept was to produce a Belgianstyle wheat beer, or witbier (think Hoegaarden), that didn’t contain any spices.

Traditionally a witbier, also known as a white beer, is spiced with orange

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peel and coriander, though other herbs and spices are occasionally added to the brew. For example, Telegraph’s White Ale is also brewed with chamomile. Removing the spices from a witbier makes it similar to an Americanstyle wheat beer, but the two can be differentiated by the kind of yeast being used.

For this beer, the Wyeast 3942 Belgian Wheat yeast strain was used to give the brew a flavor that is more fruity ester-driven than an American-style wheat beer while lacking the banana-clove character of a hefeweizen, the Bavarianstyle wheat beer. German Huell Melon hops will accent the yeast esters with its aromas of honeydew and strawberry. This crisp, fragrant beer will be served on the sunny patio of the Discovery Garden, where the CARP Homebrewers will be there to teach guests about the beer ingredients and the brewing process. The Santa Barbara Beer Garden is the perfect opportunity for attendees to enjoy the outdoors while tasting unique brews and learning about California native botanics.

Visit sbbg.org/beer for tickets and more information. This event sells out early each year – so get your tickets as soon as possible.

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THIS WEEK (Continued from page 11)

ecological gardens, and landscaping.

She won the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show in London, receiving gold medals in 2005 and 2007 and receiving a Silver Gilt in 2003.

After rolling out its “Plant Bee Friendly” initiative with nine local nurseries last year, the Beekeepers Guild of Santa Barbara secured a grant from the Fund for Santa Barbara to continue its educational program for 2017.

While continuing to promote backyard beekeeping, the guild engages the whole community in growing plants that support bees. Kate will sign her book immediately following the talk. Many native, droughttolerant, and bee-friendly plants have been donated by local nurseries to be given away. Refreshments served.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: Unity of Santa Barbara, 227 E. Arrellaga Street Cost: free Info: beekeepersguildsb@yahoo.com Book Signing at Tecolote Melonie Mazman Hayden will sign Chekov in Queens.

When: 3 to 4 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977 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 SUNDAY, MARCH 12 Mindfulness Practice Retreat A half-day retreat with guided meditations from Radhule Weininger, M.D., Ph.D., or other facilitators. All levels welcome.

When: 2:30 to 6 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031 ONGOING Montecito Fire Protection District’s Fire Prevention Chipping Schedule Week of February 27: El Bosque, Bolero, Hodges, Periwinkle, Juan Crespi, El Dorado, Live Oaks, and Randall.

Vines, grass, palms, succulents, and other small trimmings can be put in dumpsters that have been donated

by MarBorg Industries. The dumpsters are placed at pre-identified locations within the participating neighborhoods during the week of the project.

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Participants are asked to stack larger shrub and tree limb materials at the edge of the nearest passable access road for free chipping.

For more information, call 565-8018.

Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca

Fri, Mar 3 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $30 / $19 all students (with valid ID)

MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850

“Soledad Barrio is a force of nature.”

The New York Times A leading flamenco touring company fronted by the Bessie Award-winning Soledad Barrio, this group of commanding dancers, singers and musicians seamlessly integrates all aspects of flamenco – dance, song and music.

MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memory-enhancement exercises in a friendly environment.

When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: 969-0859

Jelly and George

Celebrating the Music of Jelly Roll Morton and George Gershwin featuring Aaron Diehl and

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Tue, Mar 7 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $25 / $15 all students (with valid ID)

TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

Event Sponsors: Marcia & John Mike Cohen

Dorrance Dance

Back by Popular Demand!

Michelle Dorrance, Artistic Director Wed, Mar 8 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $40 / $19 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

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

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

Info: sbcarscoffee@gmail.com •MJ

FRIDAY!

Igor Levit, piano

Thu, Mar 9 / 7 PM / Hahn Hall Music Academy of the West $30 / $9 all students (with valid ID)

A Hahn Hall facility fee will be added to each ticket price

“Igor Levit goes where other pianists fear to tread.” The Observer (U.K.) Up Close & Musical series sponsored in part by Dr. Bob Weinman Program:

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ON CHARITY (Continued from page 16)

I am now addicted to long-form TV. There are so many outlets for it that I can’t keep up. My iPad is loaded. It’s never been a better time, because we no longer think of directors and movie stars as only doing major studio films. There’s been a lot of disruption. Now you have 12 hours to do a movie! I’m addicted.

Our film festival just took place earlier this month, and once again there was a panel on women in the film industry, which I always find a little double-edged. From your unique perspective, what is your take on women in business nowadays?

It’s one of those glass half-full or half-empty questions. When I left, there might have been more women than men running companies and studios. But it’s not true anymore.

And there are areas where there just hasn’t been enough progress: directors, cinematographers. I don’t have the answers. But I do know there should be equal opportunity for all. That simple. The bottom line is nobody should not get something if they’re the most qualified because of gender or racial bias. If that’s still happening, it has to change. It’s natural to choose people who are like themselves, but that just means more people of diversity have to infiltrate the process so we can have more representation of talent. That’s how diversity pans out.

I know cancer was a cause because of your family history. But otherwise, how do you make your choices in philanthropic work, and how to focus?

It’s like choosing a movie – it speaks to your heart. The cause finds you. I lost my mother to cancer and that’s why I’m involved in cancer research. I’m a former math and

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English teacher, which is why I’m interested in education. Still, you can’t do everything, just like with the movies. It becomes about getting others to support you, mobilizing forces, and getting your message across. And never give up, just like when you believe in a movie.

Are you proud of the progress your foundation has achieved?

It’s a mixed question. There’s no doubt that people are living longer with cancer and lives are being saved.

But we’re not doing good enough until cancer is only a chronic disease.

I hope we go out of business at Stand Up to Cancer because that would mean cancer is cured. That’s the goal.

What can you tell me about Leading Lady, Stephen Galloway’s new biography of you that comes out next month?

I had no control over it. He’s a wonderful reporter and he did a good job. But I of all people can’t answer that question. I can tell you that it was a truly painful process.

He asked me to cooperate, and I figured if I did at last he’d hear my side of the story. It’s fair. It’s not a hit piece or a puff piece. He’s a good journalist. There were times I wanted to quit because he’s such a good reporter... but how can you talk about a book about yourself?

I’ve now read it twice and… (long pause) you have to read it yourself and tell me.

(The Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara presents A Conversation with Sherry Lansing at its 33rd annual Women’s Philanthropy Luncheon, 11:30 am to 2 pm on March 14, at the Four Seasons Biltmore. Contact Jilli Spear at 957-1115 or jspear@sbjf.org for ticket and sponsorship information.)

•MJ

WATER FRONT (Continued from page 5)

aquifers.

Technologically advanced water districts such as Irvine Ranch employ Google Earth to perform aerial scans of homes with low water usage and adjust allocations based on lot coverage, types of landscaping, and other factors. MWD could use such technology to more fairly allocate usage.

Penalty Revenues Offset Operating Costs Supporters of mandatory rationing and its penalty fees note that rationing ordinances are responsible for a 45% reduction in annual use over the base year of 2013. Without rationing, or its penalties, the City of Santa Barbara and other water districts are seeing voluntary savings of nearly 40%.

MWD Penalty Fees, Water Sales, and Operating Expenses MWD

Penalty

Water

Water

Operating

Fiscal

Fees

Sales

Sales

Expenses

Year

($ Millions)

(Acre Feet)

($ Millions)

($ Millions)

(Note 1)

(Note 2)

(Note 3)

(Note 4)

2012/13

N/A

5,945

$

10.6

$

10.9 13.9

2013/14

$

1.5 (4 months)

5,776

$

11.3

$

2014/15

$

3.4

3,331

$

6.8

$

15.5

2015/16

$

3.5

3,440

$

7.7

$

16.0

3.1 (Budget)

3,400

$

8.8

$

16.5

2016/17

$

Total

$

11.5

Note (1): Rationing penalty fees since their inception in March 2014 have extracted $11.5 million from the pockets of MWD customers. The District’s dependence on penalty fees to offset major increases in annual operating expenses is a dangerous precedent because it inhibits any attempt to do what is morally right by repealing or modifying rationing penalty fees.

Note (2): The five-year decline in water sales of 43% (5,945 AF to 3,400 AF) has changed the MWD business model from a seller of water to a collector of penalty fees and drought surcharges to defray steeply rising operating expenses.

Note (3): Despite water rate increases of 55% in the last five years, water sales revenue of $8.8 million in the 2016/17 budget year is still well below the $10.6 million collected in 2012/13, five years ago.

Note (4): MWD operating expenses have ballooned from $10.9 million in 2012/13 to $16.5 million in 2016/17, a 51% increase in operating expenses – for the sale of 43% less water.

No business can succeed when operating expenses are up by 51% on the sale of 43% less product. Obviously, what’s needed is a much closer look at both Cachuma operating expenses and MWD operating expenses, with a particular emphasis on controlling payroll costs, consultant costs, legal costs, pension costs, healthcare costs, and other variables.

When total annual operating expenses are divided by annual water sales in acre feet, water that cost only $1,840 per acre foot in 2012/13 now costs $4,867 per AF in the 2016/17 budget year, a troubling 165% increase. MWD cannot sustain this business model.

MWD’s Defense of the Status Quo Protectors of the status quo will argue that MWD needs the penalty revenue to pay for its operating costs. They will argue that the main culprit in increased operating costs is drought expenses, a supposition that needs more examination.

Those opposed to any modification or relief on rationing penalties will argue that no changes should be made until the release and approval of a Cost of Service/Rate Design Study launched in February 2016, but currently stalled until there is resolution of a Water Purchase Agreement with the City of Santa Barbara for desalinated water, which could take another year, if ever.

In my view, completion of the new Cost of Service/Rate Design Study is not a legitimate prerequisite to changing or deleting rationing penalties. Changes to rationing penalties should become just one more input to the Cost of Service/ Rate Design study in its task of proposing a legal framework to justify higher water rates.

The sooner MWD can cure itself of its unhealthy addiction to rationing penalty fees and emergency drought surcharges, the sooner it can develop a strategic plan to acquire and sell a reliable supply of local water that is independent of rainfall, at whatever is the proper price.

What are your thoughts? Input from Montecito Journal readers is encouraged.

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Ernie’s World

by Ernie Witham

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Driving Rain

W

hat did you do on the day billed as the stormiest in the last 20 years in Southern California? Stay at home with the heat cranked up? Binge-watched Netflix while noshing on leftover pizza and pinot noir?

Or maybe you just watched the news about mudslides, flooding, and high winds, wondering who would be stupid enough to go out on this drought-busting day.

Me, would be the answer.

See, I picked the “Storm of the century Friday” to begin a 1,400-mile road trip to Sierra Vista, Arizona, and back to see my favorite niece, Brandy, and her family. First scheduled stop: Los Angeles. My wife was already there, having gone down on Thursday to babysit our newest grandchild. I was going to buzz on down early

gritting his teeth. I felt sorry for him.

Then I turned up the heat and sped away at 17 mph.

Pat called. I pushed the speaker phone. “Where are you?” she asked.

“Somewhere near the Rincon, I think. I saw some surfers. Or it might have been the wreckage of a ship.”

She suggested I be careful, so I slowed to 16 mph and turned on the radio. In between a playlist that included “I Wish It Would Rain” and “I Can’t Stand the Rain”, they were telling people where to get shovels, sandbags and sump pumps.

Traffic settled into a rhythm, with most people following just close enough to see a shape in front of them. Not sure what the first guy was watching. Every now and then, someone would hit a huge puddle that would send waves of water high into

A woman at the pump next to me was dancing Friday, pick her up, and we were to head to Palm Springs for a day of balmy weather and hot springs, then to Phoenix for desert Day 2.

That was the way it laid out several weeks earlier, when weather underground was saying “sunny and warm, with a pleasant breeze.”

The first leg of my trip actually ended on Coast Village Road, a normally 12-minute drive from our place.

I had been driving for almost 45-minutes behind a semi, which was the only shape I could make out on the freeway in the wind-whipped torrential downpour. I would have followed him anywhere. If he had driven into the backside of the Santa Barbara Zoo, we would have both been sharing driving stories of the past with a couple of wet elephants and a group of lemurs.

I parked in front of an empty restaurant in Montecito and texted my wife.

“Thinking of turning around. Maybe you could take photos of the trip and email them to me.” No response. I decided to get back on the freeway and see if it was any better. Things had picked up. Traffic was now moving at 15 mph. I saw something weird ahead in the slow lane (slow lane, that’s a joke). It was a hulking shape that kept going in and out of focus.

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the air. I found myself in the fast lane (fast lane – that’s a joke), not exactly sure how I got there.

A car on the northbound side hit one of those flooded spots and sent a fantail of water over the little wall. It sounded like machine-gun fire hitting the windshield.

“The highway patrol, whose officers are probably all inside today, playing cribbage and backgammon,” the radio announcer suggested, “are warning drivers not to go out unless it’s absolutely necessary. Now for an old favorite, ‘It Never Rains in Southern California’.”

I got off at Kanan Road and got some gas at both Jack-in-the-Box (the Jalapeno Burger is not recommended for days when you cannot roll down your window) and Shell. The rain was coming sideways, so that even though the pumps were covered it made no difference. A young woman at the pump next to me was dancing. “I’m from Mississippi. I’ve been missing days like this.” I laughed, then made a mental not to go to Mississippi.

I finally arrived in Los Angeles after almost four hours. I transferred my luggage to Pat’s car and we headed for Palm Springs. “Drive slow,” I told her, as we entered the commuter-laden freeway at a now-whopping 8 mph.

Next time, I’m going to suggest Brandy come visit us.

•MJ

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at Westmont. For information about becoming a Guild member or any aspect of this competition, contact the Westmont Music Office at (805) 5656040.

Prior guild winners include William Ellzey (cello, 2016), Jonathan Wong (violin, 2015), Tim Beccue (cello, 2014), and Lalia Mangione (violin, 2013).

While the judges deliberate, Chyna Charbonneau, Erik Fauss, and Dr. Jeong-ah Ryu will perform Charles Martin Loeffler’s “Rhapsody for Oboe and Viola.” Wong, Sierra Farrar, and Wynston Hamman will perform a string trio piece. The Kairos String Quartet, which includes Andrea Larez, Erik Fauss, Mangione and Beccue, will perform Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4, Allegro Molto.

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

Theater Offers Passionate Blood Wedding

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he Westmont College Festival Theatre offers Blood Wedding, a tragedy written by Federico García Lorca, one of Spain’s most revered and controversial dramatists, March 2-4 at 7:30 pm in Westmont’s Porter Theatre. General admission is $12; $7 for students, children, and seniors. Tickets may be purchased online at westmont.edu/boxoffice.

“The bride has chosen well; the man of her future is a glass of clear water,” says Mitchell Thomas, professor of theater arts who directs the play. “But the muddy river of her past won’t stop flowing. Written in 1932, Blood Wedding dares to explore a seductive tale of passion and doomed love that speaks to any heart longing for true connection.”

Lorca was executed at 38 at the beginning of the Spanish civil war.

“His murder by militant and nationalist forces for his socialist leanings and suspected homosexuality was a tragedy, robbing world literature of a remarkable poet and playwright, and

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Thomas’s production includes a subconscious or shadow universe that expresses the undercurrents of longing, danger, love, and passion.

This creative storytelling device is set against the primary action of the play in its structured and enclosed world.

The ensemble features 15 student actors, including junior Anna Telfer (Bride), who was featured as Rosalind in Westmont’s production of As You Like It in the fall, sophomore Karly Kuntz (Mother), and transfer student Troy Chimuma (Leonardo).

“Blood Wedding is Lorca’s surrealist exploration into forbidden passion, identity, and societal structures that both support and cage its people — themes that Lorca knew very well,” Thomas says.

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The winner of the Guild Scholarship, who will be announced immediately following the event, will receive up to $10,000 in annual music scholarships funds (up to $40,000 over four years) to study at Westmont.

This year’s finalists are violist Cameron Audrus, a senior at Oak Park High School, singer Elaina Crenshaw, a music major at Ventura College, violinist Christina Dubell, a senior at Orange County School of the Arts, cellist Logan Hodgson, a senior from Sierra Madre, violinist Anna Stenzel, a homeschooled student in Illinois, and violinist Jenna Walters, a senior in the Berean Christian High School Independent Study Program in Knoxville.

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Lecture to Explore Chumash Traditions

Alan “Spirit Hawk” Salazar, a Native American storyteller and educator, shares his unique perspective in a talk, “Chumash Traditions: Storytelling and a Maritime Legacy,” on Tuesday, March 7, at 3:30 pm in Winter Hall, room 106. The lecture, part of Westmont’s Sustainability Speaker Series, is free and open to the public.

“As residents of the Central Coast, it’s important that we have a deeper understanding of this region’s Native American history and traditions,” says Michelle Aronson, Westmont’s sustainability and marketing coordinator. “I hope people will leave the talk with a new understanding of the Chumash Native Americans, their history, culture, and reverence for Mother Nature.”

Talk to Explore Church Worship Practices

Lisa DeBoer, Westmont professor of art history, examines various church worship practices in a talk, “Becoming the Body of Christ, or Not,” Monday, March 6, at 7 pm in Hieronymus Lounge at Westmont’s Kerrwood Hall. The Paul C. Wilt Phi Kappa Phi Lecture is free and open to the public.

Christians have commonly looked to biblical and theological sources to guide their worship practices, but ecclesiology, an appreciation of what it means to be the church, can also shape worship. “This broader view gives critical insight into the universal and corporate dimensions of Christian worship,” says DeBoer, who will draw from her 10-year study of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox practices.

Last October, the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts gave DeBoer the 2016 Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Non-Fiction for her book The Visual Arts and the Worshiping Church.

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field, in artistry and technique and yet still be down to earth. I grew up thinking you have to put on airs to be taken seriously, but diva doesn’t have to equate to attitude. That’s only like weights, shackles that slow you down, keep you from soaring to your destiny. Diva is about seeking perfection while never forgetting your humanity, your gratitude, and joy.

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Soprano Engineers Role Reprisal

B

ack when soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian won the Music Academy of the West (MAW) vocal competition in the summer of 1998, the winners didn’t get the cross-country tour afforded today’s champions. (The current pair, baritone Ben Lowe and pianist Madeline Slettedahl, will perform Saturday, March 11, back at Hahn).

But no matter. Bayrakdarian didn’t need the help.

Her career had already launched the previous year when she was named a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions the same year she graduated from the University of Toronto with a biomedical engineering degree, a fallback in case music remained just a hobby. A whirlwind of engagements

followed, including appearances at Lyric Opera of Chicago’s world premiere of William Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge, roles at San Francisco Opera, the Met, and elsewhere as well as concert appearances with top orchestras across the globe.

Bayrakdarian’s recordings include any number of operatic and classical roles, but also a high-profile spot as featured vocalist on the Grammyaward winning soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Now back in Santa Barbara as a full-time faculty member at UCSB just this academic year following two years as a visiting professor, Bayrakdarian revisits one of her favorite roles, as Vixen Sharp Ears in Opera Santa Barbara’s production of The Cunning Little Vixen on Friday,

Isabel Bayrakdarian stars as Vixen Sharp Ears in The Cunning Little Vixen

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

March 3, and Sunday, March 5, at the Granada. Opera Santa Barbara artistic director Kostis Protopapas conducts and Crystal Manich directs the new production sung in English and geared to appeal to both children and adults.

Bayrakdarian discussed Vixen and more in an interview last week.

Q. Before we get into Vixen, can we talk about your time at the Music Academy back in 1998? I know you won the vocal competition. What were some other highlights?

A. My first-ever performance opportunity in opera was here. I was only supposed to be a cover, but I got to sing opening night as Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Lobero. It became a role I had a lot of success with, eventually performing it at the Met and with the L.A. Phil. But the main thing was having Marilyn Horne as a mentor. She was the first diva in every sense – a legend – that I had the chance to work with. But at 22, I got the very good lesson from her that you can be the greatest in your craft, in your

You play a fox in Vixen, which you’ve sung several times before. How do you relate to the story and the character?

The opera is about trying to find the humanity in animals and the animalistic side in humans – the constant back and forth between the two worlds. The vixen is a spitfire.

She’s fun and real and free. I love portraying her! It’s the only role where you’re on all fours on stage.

There’s a wonderful freedom in that, being literally grounded. You can let go so much when you are playing an animal. They’re instinctive and just do what they want.

In every role I sing, I try find something in me that can resonate with the character, so we can become one, as opposed to me just pretending. With Vixen, it’s very easy.

Her logic, her sense of humor, her reactions – they’re all natural to me.

She starts off as a cub and goes into teenage years with lofty ideas about equality. You get to live her development. Then she falls in love but not without making the fox work for it. She doesn’t just give herself.

It’s beautiful. That self-awareness of growing up, that level of self-discovery of her own strength is incredible.

There’s a beautiful arc to the role.

It’s a very physical role. How do you prepare?

If you have an ego, you can’t do it. You can’t worry about how you are holding yourself or look to the audience. Animals don’t care about things like that... I have to prepare physically on top of musically. A month before, I do serious cardio exercises to make sure my hearts and lungs are fit, and make sure I’ll be all right and not overly exerted when I’m running around so I can still hit my high notes. There aren’t that many because it’s an animal role, and the center of gravity is closer

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to earth. That was a revelation for me... but it’s challenging being on all fours and singing. You can’t have the posture, the physiology you want to use in proper singing for support. If you’re bending or twisted, you can’t have that same support as you do standing and singing.

How is this production different than other places you’ve sung it – New York, Florence, and Japan?

While they’re all different, the common denominator is having the belief that the animal world is so much richer and lusher than the dreary human world. But we make it that way! The animals believe in the cycle of life, they just accept it. They don’t even question it. But humans lament their age – they’re already dying while they’re still alive, while animals just live day by day. You see that in every production. What changes are the colleagues, who each bring different energy. This is a wonderful group, cast perfectly. It’s nice to have my two colleagues from UCSB on stage with me. So it feels like home, which is very different from the other times. I’m not feeling nervous because this time it feels free.

Pardon my asking, but with your résumé, what the heck are you doing at UCSB, anyway?

It was time. I was offered an opportunity to teach about eight years ago and I ran away. I just wasn’t ready. But now, because my career started early and I was able to sing at top opera houses and make wonderful recordings, I reached the point in my life where my barrels are full. I have received so much. I couldn’t take any more.

I had to give back so I could accept more of what life has to give me.

My way was to teach. And once I decided that, everything aligned...

UCSB is a great place to be. I could go on and on exalting the virtues.

I love it. It’s a slice of heaven just to come to work every day. It’s not work. But singing never felt like work for me. It’s a passion and such a source of joy.

Do you think you ever might use the

engineering degree?

My education is now so outdated – it’s been 20 years. I’m prehistoric.

Forget about it!

Other Outings to Ojai

Steppenwolf, the 1960s and ‘70s rock band still led by now Montecitobased singer John Kay, rock Ojai’s Libbey Bowl on Saturday night, when they’ll be sure to play such classic rock songs as “Born To Be Wild”, “Magic Carpet Ride”, “Rock Me”, “Move Over”, “Monster”, “Hey Lawdy Mama”, “Straight Shootin’ Woman”, and “The Pusher”. Stolen Thunder and ISMS open the 6 to 9 pm show for Steppenwolf, which has sold more than 25 million albums in its 50-plus years. Info at (888) 645-5006 or www.libbeybowl.org/ event/john-kay-steppenwolf-2.

That same night is also when the 27th annual Ojai Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball takes place just down the street at the Ojai Art Center. If the timing works, you can saunter over for the traditional New Orleans Second Line Band Parade beginning at 7:30 pm in front of the Art Center, and then return for the main event, which carries the theme “Through The Crystal Ball… Past, Present & Beyond” celebrating the brilliant light of discovery via gazing into the future while keeping one eye on the mysteries of the past. The fun features dance music from the Ojai Mardi Gras Band with special guests, plus Wild Stallion DJ with John Riddell, imaginative sets and decadent decorations by the “Art Fools” collective of artists, sculptors, painters, and hangers transforming the center into “magical mystical mayhem.”

There’s also a costume contest, the traditional bead throw and the annual coronation of this year’s Royal Couple, queen Kimberly FouchéLevine and her real-life husband Michael Levine as king. Cajun snacks and a no-host bar round out the offerings. Tickets cost $25 in advance, $30 at the door.

The fun continues noon to 3 pm on Sunday with a Fais-Do-Do: Cajun Dance Party, a family-ori-

ented musical event with Mark Parson & Crowfoot with free Cajun dance lessons and a face painter.

Admission is $5 for adults, free for kids.

Visit www.ojaimardigras.com or call 646-7843.

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Trinity Backstage now produces concerts at the downtown church only once per quarter, but Saturday’s gig with Henry Hipkens follows the monthly show at the Cambridge Drive Concert Tippi Hedren’s most famous role Series with Teresa Tudury and James was back in 1963 when she starred in Hurley on Friday. Tudury’s began The Birds, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s performing her original songs in San most memorable movies. Now 87, Francisco nightclubs by age 15 and later Hedren, who is still active, having worked as a character actress on stage appeared in a film and on an episode and screen in Los Angeles, both giving of TV’s Cougar Town in 2013, will be her sultry voice an edge of experiences on hand for a post-screening Q&A and drama tempered by wit that’s capawhen the famous film adapted from ble of transfixing audiences. Hurley Daphne du Maurier’s short story possesses a smooth voice, masterful is shown as part of UCSB Pollock guitar playing, and offers blues-based Theater’s Expanded Hitchcock series songs that add swing jazz to the mix. at 2 pm on Saturday. Film prof Ross Show time is 7:30 pm. Call 964-0436 or Melnick moderates. visit www.cambridgedrivechurch.org.

The Pollock screens Thank You For Nashville-based Hipkens plays Playing, a documentary that follows what has been described as “gypsy one family’s unusual response to the jazz meets great standards, a la Cole discovery that the young son has Porter or Hoagy Carmichael,” all of cancer. After the diagnosis, video which sounds pretty promising for the game programmer Ryan Green and Trinity Backstage coffeehouse atmohis wife documented their emotional sphere that recalls the 1960s and ‘70s. journey in the form of an unusually Saturday’s concert at Trinity Episcopal beautiful and poetic video game. Church starts at 8 pm. Info at 962-1970 The film follows the family over two or www.trinitybackstage.com. years through the creation of “That Boston “folk-rock goddess” Catie Dragon, Cancer” as it evolves from Curtis’s quarter-century career is a cathartic exercise into a critical- coming to close, at least the road-tourly acclaimed work of art that sets ing portion save for rare benefit conthe gaming industry abuzz. Thank certs and private events. Her Final You For Playing, which was called Outing tour has a date on Wednesday “unimaginably intimate” by The New at Tales From the Tavern at the Yorker and “profoundly moving” by Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez, when Indiewire, will be shown at 7 pm we’ll hear selections from 25 years Tuesday, followed by a discussion of songs plus ones from her new between director David Osit and disc, the aptly named While We’re professor Alenda Chang.

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5 Reasons Not to Miss the Orchid Show

missioning world-class horticulturists and landscape architects to design elaborate gardens. Exotic orchids became the rage, with mass plantings of Cymbidiums and other unusual species adding prestige to Montecito estates. The first Santa Barbara Orchid Show, organized by the Santa Barbara Horticultural Society under the direction of Bert Kallman, took place in 1945 at the Montecito Grange Hall.

2. The Grand Exhibits: All the local Orchid houses (and others from around the world) go all-out displaying their finest orchids.

Some of them have been nurturing specimens for decades, saving their best for the show. The heady fragrance greets you when you walk in the grand hall. Breathe it in. This is a oncea-year opportunity to see the best of the best of the orchid world.

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inter is nearly over and spring beckons. That means it’s time for the Santa Barbara International Orchid Show! In its 72nd year. This is an event I never miss, I mean never. Last year, I actu-

ally delayed a trip up to my mother’s so that I could go to the Orchid Show.

Fellow orchid lovers understand; their hearts are already pitter-pattering in anticipation.

Perhaps you are frightened you may catch the dreaded orchid fever (for which the only cure is to go to the SB International Orchid Show). Your fears are valid; this show is addicting and here are a few reasons why: 1. The Montecito Connection: Orchids in Montecito took root at the turn of the century, when wealthy industrialists came to the area’s burgeoning spas and resorts to escape harsh, eastern winters. Many visitors stayed on, building estates and com-

3. International Orchid Show Market: Admittedly, this may be my favorite part of the show. The finest orchid growers from the U.S., Tokyo, Ecuador, Brazil, Thailand, Columbia, and Hawaii make their rare and unusual plants for purchase. And unlike buying orchids from a chain store, you can talk to the grower and find out what will do best in your garden location. They will tell you what to buy and where your new orchid will thrive. Growers want you to succeed, and the prices are pretty sweet too.

4. Visit the Orchid Doctor: If a favorite orchid isn’t looking, it’s best or if you want to own a few orchids and have questions on where to start, the doctor is in! Bruce Kidd, the Orchid Doctor, is available throughout the weekend to answer all of your orchid questions.

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Weeding: After the rains, your garden likely needs a good weeding.

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Insider tip: Get to the weeds before they go to seed or else you will be helping them propagate. A circle hoe is the perfect tool.

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FITNESS FRONT

by Karen Robiscoe

(from left) Instructor Larry Nolan with Senior Core Conditioning class participants Josiah Taylor and Carell Jantzen

Ms Robiscoe is a certified fitness trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and conventionally published author of short fictions, essays, and poetry. Her chapbook: Word Mosaics, is available online at Fowlpox Press. E mail Karen at chickenscratch@cox.net, or visit http://charronschatter.com

Conditioning at Prevail Conditioning Prevail Conditioning strength and conditioning show (from left): Irene Revenko, Mark McClenathon, Jim Waccholz, Anne Chen, instructor JB Quigley (touching shoulder of) Terry Meher, and (far right) Sue Collisson

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ach client at Prevail Conditioning gets to choose from among a select group of eminently qualified instructors, trainers and coaches to design a fitness regimen. From NCAA champions and Kinesiology masters to Olympic Lifting Club coaches and certified nutrition consultants, the background of every staff member at Prevail Conditioning speaks for itself.

Whether you’re training for an elite athletic competition or just a local 5K, there is almost certainly someone at Prevail Conditioning to fit your needs and criteria.

“I was looking for people who were like-minded,” president Chris Ecklund says when asked how he chose his team. He says he was looking for “people with a strong work ethic, who valued teamwork, integrity, and professionalism, combined with a desire to learn. You could say,” he notes, “it was an easy concept, but finding a staff that met those requirements took quite a while.”

It was a process he was willing to undergo.

A self-proclaimed “Jack-of-alltrades,” Chris wasn’t shy about sharing his personal motto: “Hard work beats talent, and talent doesn’t work hard.” He laughs wryly and observes that the people who really put in the work and consistent effort are oftentimes those who rise to the top and accomplish things. “I never felt like I was the best at anything in my life,” he confesses, “whether it was academically or athletically, but I found if I worked hard enough I was still able to edge out others.”

The club is located at 417 Santa Barbara Street, and features 3,800 sq ft of space dedicated to performance enhancement training, making it the largest space of its kind available in the Santa Barbara area. Incorporating a two-lane, 25-yard acceleration track, four Olympic lifting platforms, 2 – 9 March 2017

six squat racks, and 4,000 pounds of free weights, Prevail provides an array of supervised services on the turf-covered, 600-sq-ft movement area. Personal, group, and performance training are available, as well as yoga, physical therapy, nutritional guidance, and massage.

“The impetus for opening brick and mortar was twofold,” the Westmont grad says, explaining the transition from independent contractor to business operator. Co-owner of the club is his life-long friend Peter Blumert, and both agree on Prevail’s mission. “First and foremost, it was important to provide a great team atmosphere; a place where everybody worked together for the betterment of the athlete, and secondly, the existing locations for training clients weren’t really interested in going in the strength-and-conditioning direction.”

Small Class Sizes the Norm

Offering classes ranging from Youth Performance to Core Conditioning for Seniors, it was difficult to decide which activity to participate in when deciding what to sample, but the latter seemed a good place to start. Led by NSCA-certified strength and conditioning coach Josiah Taylor, the recent inclement weather rendered the usually small class even smaller. A bonus for the attendees, since this guaranteed the personal attention given to each class member was substantial.

Underscoring what longtime member Larry Nolan observed: “The class size allows me a lot of one-on-one time with the trainer. They tailor the exercises to your needs and restrictions.” As a person who has suffered two herniated discs, he’s in a position to know. “I like that it’s science-based.

They’re very competent here at Prevail. More than competent. Peter’s

wife is a bobsled bronze medalist from the 2008 Olympic Games, and she often lends a hand. I mean, where can you get that kind of instruction? I’m a huge fan.”

As am I. The class begins with walking warmups, stretching, and resistance-band work and transitions to a unique circuit that focuses on upper, lower, and corrective exercise patterns. As the title of the course suggests, almost every exercise performed brings the core into play. From leg lowers that stretch the hammies and work the lateral obliques, to anti-rotation presses on the Kaiser Functional Trainer, the cable/air pressure machine ensures that pecs, triceps, and core are well-exercised.

Add in carries with kettle bells, and body weight exercises such as glute bridges with resistance bands, and it is almost like play. As native Santa Barbaran Carell Jantzen notes: “It’s always fun. Yes, we work on balance and core strength, but it’s always fun.”

“The culture Peter and Chris have created is very community-based,” Josiah adds. “That’s what attracted me to work here. It’s important,” he adds, “because when it comes to coaching, it’s not just about telling people what to do, or giving them the best workout; it’s about building a relationship with them. You don’t find that in a lot of gyms, but you find it at Prevail.”

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To examine the quality of instruction away from Prevail Conditioning’s nexus, I signed up for an evening Strength and Conditioning class staged at an affiliate of Prevail, Hayashida Studio in Goleta. Headed by Certified

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Strength and Conditioning specialist JB Quigley, the one-time collegiate coach was also a member of the U.S. association of weightlifters, and his experience showed in his good-natured but focused instruction of the group.

Combining many different disciplines into one arduous hour, we warmed up with press ups, pigeons, and downward dog yoga movements, progressing to plyometric box jumps, explosive med ball throws, elevated split squats, and linear crawls with mini bands, and that was just for starters.

Class-goer Jim Waccholz admits he enjoys the company of his fellow classmates “almost as much as the guidance the trainer provides on form and the variety of exercises.” While cyclist Anne Chen points out: “It’s functional training, so it translates really well for me as a cyclist. When I’m coming back from an injury, I’ve always found Prevail classes to be instrumental in my return to my favorite sport.”

Quigley sums up his view with this astute observation: “A person’s movements dictate what they can or can’t do. Everyone has an imbalance in their musculature. Everyone. They often start at a place where they sweat the most, and get initial results, but then they get hurt and stop going.

Prevail uses exercise science to build routines that may take a little longer than that quick fix, but the results they get are long-lasting—and people can do the exercises for their whole lives.

Well into their nineties.”

That’s incentive enough to drop into Prevail and check out the conditions of their one-of-a-kind training. Prevail Conditioning, 417 Santa Barbara Street, (805) 364-2399; open from 6 am to 8 pm.

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Jane and Norm Haberman at Muzzy Speedway with Pat and David Tisdale (photo by Priscilla)

David Catalfimo of JP Morgan with MOXI opening event co-chairs, Nancy Sheldon and Alixe Mattingly; and Jay Crews, JP Morgan sponsor (photo by Priscilla)

Naomi Levinson, Barbara Burger, and Paul Munch with Neil Levinson on the rooftop of MOXI (photo by Priscilla)

interactive experiences in science and creativity.”

The impressive building, which has received considerable financial support from Montecito resident, Dick Wolf, creator of the long-running TV series Law & Order, as well as innumerable spinoffs, is bristling with hand-on exhibits, as well as giant Plinko board that ascends through two stories, a 24 foot long guitar where you can pull a few strings, and, on the roof terrace, a most ingenious grand piano with the strings plucked by pendulums swinging in the wind.

The intriguing design was first envisioned by the late Santa Barbara architect Barry Berkus with the

work carried on by the AB Design Studio, and the tactile exhibits by the award-winning museum-planning firm, Gyroscope Inc. Montecito photographer Santi Visalli has an exhibition of black-andwhite prints showing the museum’s construction since its inception.

Among the heaving throng attending the bustling beano were mayor Helene Schneider, Alixe Mattingly, Bruce Heavin, Barbara Burger, Jeff Jacobs, David Selberg, Richard and Annette Caleel, Randy Weiss, Carole Ridding, Randy Solakian, Joyce Dudley, Paul Munch, Frank Hotchkiss, Randy Rowse, Morrie Jurkowitz, Richard Weston-Smith, Karna Hughes, and Barbara Ben-Horin.

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Opera-tunity It certainly won’t be a trial when baritone David Kravitz makes his Opera Santa Barbara debut in Leos Janecek’s 1924 work The Cunning Little Vixen at the Granada on Friday, March 3.

Kravitz, who plays the role of the forester, once clerked for Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman member of the Supreme Court, who retired in 2006 after 25 years in the role.

He then served in the same capacity for U.S. Court of Appeals judge Stephen Breyer and later served as deputy legal counsel for the governor of Massachusetts before deciding on a full-time career in music.

A career of high note.

Big Man on Canvas Artist and photographer Gerald Incandela celebrated his 65th birthday with a Mad Max party at the imposing Summerland aerie he shares with art aficionado George Schoellkopf.

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The Jazz Experiment are John Adair, jazz guitarist; Craig Springer, sax and soprano sax; Craig Snider, keyboards; Frank Fabio, bass guitarist; and drummer David Grossman (photo by Priscilla)

Jill Finsten, George Schoellkopf, and Gwen Stauffer

of food, including George’s heavenly home-made English trifles.

Among those helping Gerald mark his Medicare moment were Beverley Jackson, Ceil Pulitzer, Larry Feinberg and Starr Siegele, Gretchen Lieff, Gwen Stauffer, Tab Hunter, Allan Glaser, Trish Reynales, Robyn Geddes, Guy and Patty de Gramont, and Annie Bardach.

Patron-izing Behavior Granada executive director Craig Springer and David Goodman, director of the Jurkowitz Center for Community Engagement, showed off their musical skills to the Premier Patron Society at the Benchmark, the popular State Street eatery, across from the theater.

Former SB Symphony director David on drums and Craig on saxophone, joined a tony triumvirate of musicians with John Adair on guitar, Frank Fabio on bass and Craig Snider on keyboard, entertaining the likes of Dan and Meg Burnham, Richard and Annette Caleel, Morrie and Irma Jurkowitz, Gretchen Lieff, and Stephanie Sokolove.

At the same time, in honor of Black History Month, the film 42, the story of athlete Jackie Robinson, was being

the left hip replaced.

“I’ve also got an artificial knee and lenses in both eyes,” he added. “I’ve got a hearing aid and I think it’s nine dental implants, not to mention a hair transplant. I’ve become virtually bionic.

“I don’t really see how I’m going to die. That would be rather nice. Life gets more interesting, and I certainly enjoy it more as I get older.”

Entering the Benchmark are Morrie and Irma Jurkowitz with Annette and Richard Caleel (photo by Priscilla)

screened at the Granada as part of the popular film series, Movies That Matter with former mayor Hal Conklin.

The film follows the racial integration when Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945 to his historic 1947 rookie season, when he broke the color barrier and became the first professional AfricanAmerican player in major league baseball.

Gold Rush If you couldn’t make Graydon Carter’s Vanity Fair fête at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, the University Club was the place to be when the 55-year-old Los Fiesteros Dance Club threw a bustling Oscars bash.

The venerable institution was

Fans Patricia Dixon, Howard Jay Smith, Sharon and Dana Morrow, Arnold, Joann Younger, Barbara Burket, Vicky Vincent, Jessica Levy, and Pam Grossman (photo by Priscilla)

Gretchen Lieff, Kirsten Springer, and Stephanie Sokolove relaxing with conversation and listening to the sounds of The Jazz Experiment (photo by Priscilla)

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Shooting from the Hip Former Montecito funnyman John Cleese is more the Bionic Man. The 77-year-old comedian, who rocketed to fame in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, says he is foregoing high-kicking and fancy theatrics after having a second hip replacement.

Known for his striding civil servant from the Ministry of Silly Walks and goose-stepping hotelier Basil Fawlty, John told the BBC he recently had his right hip done, 18 years after having

Baseball is where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, and stealing is legal. – Jim Murray

decked out in red carpets, Hollywood Walk of Fame stars, and endless images of the Academy Awards trophy, as 80 glamorously garbed guests from the club, which hosts five or six events annually at various locales, including the Montecito Country Club and the Santa Barbara Yacht Club, cut the rug to Ventura band Pier 101.

Among the tony torrent of terpsichorean twosomes were David

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 12) Lexi has been involved in the Adaptive Swim Program since November 2016, and takes a weekly swim lesson from instructor and lifeguard, Rob Dwyer, who Kauffman says has risen to the occasion with his patience, style, and various engaging techniques. “Rob listened to what I had to say about her skill level, what I wanted her to work on, and what strategies work best with her. His knowledge and interest in special education only increased his ability to teach and inspire my daughter,” Kauffman said. Lexi can now swim six laps at a time, she said. “I am so grateful she is making such huge strides. The fact that this program exists is everything to us,” she added. Three other kids are currently enrolled in the program.

“I am happy and hopeful for the first time in a long time,” Kauffman said. Donations to the YMCA can be made in-person or via mail at the Montecito Family YMCA, 591 Santa Rosa Lane, Santa Barbara, or by calling (805) 969-3288. For more information on the annual campaign or to make an online donation, visit www. ciymca.org/montecito.

In Business: Keefrider Custom Furniture

Three years ago, notable Los Angeles furniture maker Jay Keefrider, along with his wife, Sirie, packed their bags and headed to Santa Barbara, where they have quietly been making a name for themselves by building meticulously handcrafted furniture for Montecito and Santa Barbara homes. With a workshop located in the up-and-coming Lagoon District of downtown Santa Barbara, the couple, along with their shop dog Tallulah, pride themselves on building heirloom quality pieces, and they are quickly becoming a fixture in the local business community.

Keefrider Custom Furniture founder Jay Keefrider landed his first job in a woodworking shop as a teenager in Philadelphia, and he went on to study furniture design at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Georgia. After receiving his BFA, he packed up and headed west, where he started his own furniture workshop, Cotterpin Design, in Los Angeles in 2001.

According to the couple, the business thrived, and evolved from a custom furniture shop to a more extensive business that included designing and building a variety of other projects, including custom built-in work and finish carpentry in homes and businesses, art installations, display rooms, custom-sourced and installed architectural millwork, television and movie sets, and more.

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pieces out there.”

For more information, www. keefridersb.com. The shop is located at 434 E. Haley Street, Unit C, call 617-3342.

Vacation Rental Update A recent Keefrider product: a three-piece, black walnut coffee table with inlaid wood and tempered glass. This table is available for purchase during First Thursday festivities on Thursday, March 2.

self missing the days in which he was working face-to-face with clients, rather than being behind the scenes running a growing business. An opportunity arose to switch gears when Sirie, a molecular biologist, accepted a post-doctorate position at UCSB. “We cannot imagine living anywhere else now,” Jay told us during a recent visit to the workshop, which houses the business, dubbed Keefrider Custom Furniture, a new iteration of Cotterpin Design.

Once married and in Santa Barbara, Sirie, also an artist at heart, began spending more time with her husband in the shop and has learned the art of woodworking. She gave up her career in academia after 15 years as a research scientist, in order to help support the family business. “I am constantly in awe of Jay’s creativity and skill. He is the best teacher, and he is always coming up with new ideas and techniques,” Sirie said.

The couple specializes in custom dining and coffee tables, beds, builtin cabinetry, and much more, using a variety of wood including locally sourced walnut, maple, mahogany, and exotic woods. Their woodworking runs the gamut from designing a piece from scratch, to replicating a piece from a photo, to repairing or modifying existing furniture pieces, to making a piece that matches a specific design already present in a client’s home. “It’s really important that we visit our clients’ homes, to get a feel of the environment and space in which the furniture piece will be placed,” Jay said. Custom pieces take anywhere from three to eight weeks to create, with the ultimate goal of making clients’ visions come to fruition. “It’s our number-one priority that our clients are happy,” Jay said.

The Keefriders hope to inspire others to surround themselves with quality, handmade furniture, which will last for generations. “Furniture is a tactile object that you interact with every day. Why not invest in something functional and beautiful, that isn’t going to end up in a landfill?”

Jay said. “We love to think that when we’re gone, we will have left our mark, and there will still be Keefrider

An SB Board of Supervisors (BOS) hearing originally scheduled for March 21, to discuss the Short-term Rental (STR) ordinances, has been postponed due to the need for additional review time, according to senior planner Jessica Metzger. Once another date has been determined, staff from the Long Range Planning Division of the Planning & Development Department will present their findings and potential solutions to the issue of shortterm vacation rentals. In December, the BOS spent multiple hours hearing from dozens of residents who voiced their opinions about the issue.

Montecito Planning Commission, Santa Barbara Planning Commission, and the Montecito Association support a ban on STRs; the BOS is seeking more information on alternatives to a ban.

May Madness Donations

Earlier this month, the Women’s Auxiliary of the Music Academy of the West began accepting donations for Montecito’s largest treasure hunt: May Madness. The Women’s Auxiliary has selected Evie Vesper to organize this year’s event, which will take place Saturday, May 6, from 9 am to 3 pm. Vesper, who also chaired the event in 2015, and has been a member of the Women’s Auxiliary since 2013.

Now in its 41st year, the massive treasure and estate sale is a benefit for the Music Academy’s full-scholarship program. The scholarships enable 140 Fellows from around the world to study in Santa Barbara each summer.

Thousands of items for sale at May Madness will include furniture, area rugs, small kitchen appliances, kitchenware, garden accessories, fine linens, antiques, silver, crystal, china, art, collectibles, board games, CDs and DVDs, jewelry, men’s and women’s clothing, luggage, sports equipment, and many other treasures.

Tax-deductible donations are currently being accepted and should be brought to the Music Academy campus, located at 1070 Fairway Road, Wednesdays through Fridays, between noon and 3 pm. In March, the donations days expand to Wednesdays through Saturdays. In April, they will expand further to Tuesdays through Saturdays. In May, donations will no longer be accepted.

Contributed items should be clean and in good condition. Large elec-

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tronics, large appliances, architectural salvage materials (windows, doors, et cetera), sofa beds, futons, metal bed frames, box spring and mattress sets, Christmas decorations, books, records, VHS and cassette tapes, nonflat screen TVs, exercise equipment, office furniture and chairs, stereo equipment, and rugs over 16 feet will not be accepted. Donations can be dropped off in the lower parking area at the Music Academy (follow the signage upon entering the campus). To arrange the pick-up of large donation items, please call the May Madness Hotline at (805) 695-7950. Learn more at musicacademy.org/madness.

Sheriff’s Blotter

Wednesday, February 22, 5:30 pm – The Santa Barbara Police Department issued a “be on the lookout” for a white 2012 Mazda sedan that was recklessly evading in the 400 block of Santa Barbara Street. The vehicle was driving at a high rate of speed, running stoplights, and failed to yield.

A sheriff’s deputy spotted the suspect vehicle a short time later heading southbound on Highway 101 near the San Ysidro off-ramp. Due to traffic and public safety concerns, deputies were not able to pursue the vehicle at a high rate of speed and lost sight of it when it exited the freeway in Summerland. California Highway Patrol officers responded to assist with the search.

At approximately 6:15 pm, a resident in the 3200 block of Padaro Lane called 911 to report an abandoned vehicle in her driveway. CHP officers responded to the residence and confirmed it was the suspect vehicle, which had also been involved in a vehicle collision in Summerland.

Sheriff’s deputies responded, including two K-9 teams. After several hours of searching, at approximately 8:30 pm, a K-9 team located a male and a female suspect hiding underneath a house in a crawl space in the 3000 block of Padaro Lane. The two suspects were pulled out of the crawl space at gunpoint and arrested.

Erica Rogers of North San Diego County (23 years old) and Jacob San Nicholas of Santa Barbara (30 years old) were arrested and are in custody at the Santa Barbara County Jail.

Both had warrants out for their arrest.

Rogers was booked on charges of possession of narcotics and possession of drug paraphernalia, as well as several felony warrants. As of press deadline, she was being held on $170,000 bail.

San Nicholas was booked on charges of felony evading, the sale of methamphetamine, sale and transportation of a controlled substance, and possession for sale of a controlled substance, as well as a violation of probation. He was being held without bail.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 5485 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 5485 for the Wastewater Main Rehabilitation and Repairs FY 17 will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 P.M., Thursday March 16, 2017 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office.

Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “Wastewater Main Rehabilitation and Repairs FY 17 Bid No. 5485".

The work generally includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a sewer main rehabilitation and repair project. The work includes and is not limited to the repair of damaged sanitary sewer main pipelines utilizing traditional open trench excavation methods (point repairs); trenchless repair methods (spot lining and top hats); rehabilitate 6-inch, 8-inch, 14-inch, and 15- inch diameter sanitary sewer main pipelines utilizing cured-in-place pipe liner (CIPP), folded and formed PVC pipe liner, and/or spiral-would pipe liner methods; perform pre-rehabilitation and pre-repair sewer main cleaning; pre- and post-rehabilitation and repair CCTV inspections per PACP standards, as outlined in the project contract documents, complete and in place. This work includes and is not limited to mobilization, bonds, insurance, and traffic control. The Engineer’s estimate is $1,600,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for TUESDAY March 7, 2017 at 10:00 AM at 630 Garden Street, Public Works Main Conference Room.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Bill Wheat, Project Engineer, 805-560-7581.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard.

Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

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 the Department of Industrial Relations.

In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, 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 within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority 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 race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

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William Hornung, C.P.M.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:

BID NO. 5512

BID NO. 5513

DUE DATE & TIME: March 28, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

DUE DATE & TIME: March 28, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Westside Community Center HVAC Replacement

Westside Community Center Roofing Replacement

Scope of Work to include removing existing old rooftop HVAC units and replace with new rooftop units at the Westside Community Center

Scope of Work to include providing a new roofing system for the remaining roof area of the Westside Center in coordination with the removal and installation of various roof mount HVAC equipment.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on March 15, 2017 at 9:00 a.m., at the Westside Community Center, located at 423 W. Victoria St., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

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.

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. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California A-General Engineering Contractor OR B-General Building Contractor OR C-20 Warm-Air Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning contractor’s license. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

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

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

____________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: March 1, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bissell Chiropractic Sports Medicine; Bissell Clinic, 1470 E. Valley Road M, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Bissell Chiropractic

Clinic Inc, 1470 E. Valley Road M, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 15, 2017.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I

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A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on March 15, 2017 at 9:00 a.m., at the Westside Community Center, located at 423 W. Victoria St., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

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.

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. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-39 Roofing Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

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

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

_____________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: March 1, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

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. 20170000484.

Published March 1, 8, 15, 22, 2017.

F I C T I T I O U S

B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Concensus Designs; East Beach Press, 3756 Torino Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Douglas Gillies, 3756 Torino Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

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This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 1, 2017.

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

FBN No. 2017-0000341.

Published March 1, 8, 15, 22, 2017.

statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 15, 2017.

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. 2017-0000483.

Published February 22, March 1, 8, 15, 2017.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DWD Builders; DWD Services 140 Tiburon Bay Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Daniel William Drown, 140 Tiburon Bay Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 24, 2017.

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

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2017-0000253.

Published February 22, March 1, 8, 15, 2017.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Frankland’s Crab & Co; Monarch; Scratch Bar & Kitchen, 1295 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Phillip Douglas, LLC, 16101 Ventura Blvd. #255, Encino, CA 91436.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 16, 2017.

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

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2017-0000493.

Published February 22, March 1, 8, 15, 2017.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 805 Ghost, 315 Meigs Road Ste A267, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Jeremy Byrn Delbianco Mulkey, 414 W. Figueroa St. Unit H, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Engel & Voelkers Montecito; Engel & Volkers Montecito; Engel & Voelkers Santa Barbara; Engel & Volkers Santa Barbara; Engel &

Voelkers Santa Ynez; Engel & Volkers Santa Ynez, 1323 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Miramar Montecito Holdings Inc, 1323 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 30, 2017. 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. 2017-0000301.

Published February 8, 15, 22, March 1, 2017.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cake Santa Barbara, 27 W. Anapamu Street #101-383, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Daven Allison, 712 Chelham Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Jill Padilla Vaccaro, 706 Chelham Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Kimberley Marie Zuffelato, 418 Montgomery Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 9, 2017. 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. 2017-0000072.

Published February 8, 15, 22, March 1, 2017.

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was posted by Witherspoon on Snapchat, as she assured guests, “There is no watering-down problem.”

She didn’t say if they were skinny margaritas, but hopefully they were as just one of the Mexican cocktails is nine Weight Watchers points – and most devotees have around 25 points total a day.

Ken and Elsbeth Kleen Clements, John and Terri Keating, David and Nancy King feeling the beat (photo

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Los Fiesteros Dance Committee for the Oscar party are Marti de Correa Garcia, Nancy King, Elsbeth Kleen Clements, Gil Garcia, Ken Clements, David King, and (not pictured) Lorne Everett (photo by Priscilla)

Dance Committee members Lee and Barbara Wotherspoon, with Oscar contenders Bob and Annette Bletcher, Toni Santaella, and Steve Strickholm (photo by Priscilla)

Dancing stars Erin Graffy and her husband, Jim “Diego” Garcia, on the red carpet (photo by Priscilla)

and Nancy King, Tom and Patricia Foley, John and Joan Calder, Ray and Annabella Stauffer, Scott and Lisa Burns, Lorne and Jennifer Everett, George and Alice Krebs, and Hans and Maria Loesche.

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Don is the One Dr. Don Gilman, an internationally recognized author, speaker, trainer, and executive coach, has been elected vice president of the Santa Barbara Symphony board of directors.

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The Sound of Music Academy Westmont College’s orchestra, under maestro Michael Shasberger, was in fine form at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall as its neared the end of its spring tour.

The talented students, who played at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., just four days earlier, wrapped up the tour at First Presbyterian Church at the weekend.

The eclectic program included St. Martin’s Chorale, Variations on a Theme by Haydn by Brahms, Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s captivating Scheherazade.

A delightful musical confection.

Winfrey’s Wrinkle Former TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey might be filming her new movie A Wrinkle in Time in the antipodes, but she didn’t forget to celebrate National Margarita Day. The 63-year-old media magnate made her work day in New Zealand a little more fun by whipping up a big batch of the tequila-based drinks for the cast, including actress Reese Witherspoon, and crew.

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Gilman, who was named to a threeyear term, currently serves as executive director of the Institute for the Advancement of Critical Thinking and heads the Gilman Consulting Group, which specializes in executive coaching for leaders of high tech companies.

An alumnus of Westmont College, UCSB and Pepperdine University in Malibu, his most recent book Oursmarting V.U.C.A. has just been published.

“Don’s leadership experience and deep ties to our community have led to him playing a key role on the board and will help propel the organization forward in the years ahead,” said Arthur Swalley, board president of the symphony, which is celebrating its 64th season.

Sightings: Former Oscars host Billy Crystal noshing at Olio e Limone...

Singer Katy Perry doing her fruit and veg shopping at the weekend farmers market...Oscar winner Michael Keaton revisiting the Stonehouse at the San Ysidro Ranch 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.

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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 3 Farce, Free & Frisky – Contemporary playwright David Ives has been responsible for a lot of laughs in the theater over his career, including with the short plays series that has been visited at least twice by SBCC theater department.

But the hilarity hit new levels with his 2006 adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear, a giddy piece about an insurance executive whose wife suspects him of having an affair. When she lays a trap for him at the disreputable Frisky Puss Hotel helped by a friend who is married to a jealous Spaniard, bourgeois respectability becomes a brouhaha involving a set of garters, a revolving bed, a missing medical prosthesis, two women in French-maid outfits, and other elements that mark the play as a great screwball comedy. Frequent SBCC player Sean Jackson, whose campus credits include The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Noises Off!, Present Laughter, and Avenue Q, co-stars opposite Addison Clark, who last appeared at the Garvin in In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play.

Several other SBCC regulars complete the cast assembled by director Michael Gros for maximum levity. WHEN: Previews March 1-2, opens March 3, and runs through March 18 WHERE: SBCC’s Garvin Theatre, 721 Cliff Drive COST: $14 to $26 (previews discounted) INFO: 965-5935 or www.theatregroupsbcc.com SATURDAY, MARCH 4 Keep CALM and Read – Famed Montecito author Fannie Flagg, whose latest book The Whole Town’s Talking

came out last year, serves as one of the panelists for CALM Auxiliary 31st annual Celebrity Authors Luncheon. Also featured are Dianne Dixon, Craig Johnson, and Kate McDermott, with the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone once again serving once as emcee, and Hank Phillippi Ryan and Tom Weitzel returning to the stage as interviewers. Susan Gulbransen, daughter of CALM founder Claire Miles, will be a guest interviewer.

Flagg, a one-time actress who found her literary catalyst at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, is most famous for penning both the book and Oscarnominated screenplay Fried Green Tomatoes. Dixon is a double-Emmy nominee for her TV scripts whose debut novel The Language of Secrets also received awards, while Johnson is the New York Times-bestselling author of the Walt Longmire Mystery Series, which is the basis for Longmire, the hit Netflix drama. Food writer McDermott is an award-winning self-taught home baker known for her “Art of the Pie” workshops that last year turned into award-winning first book, also called Art of the Pie. Ten local writers, including Montecito Journal columnist Erin Graffy de Garcia, will also attend the event and be available for book signings, though won’t be interviewed on stage.

As always, proceeds benefit CALM’s programs that help prevent child abuse, and treat children and families who have suffered from violence. WHEN: 10 am (book sales/signing), luncheon at 11:45, interviews begin at 12:45 pm WHERE: Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort, 633 E Cabrillo Blvd. COST: $150 INFO: 969-

THURSDAY, MARCH 2 Jazz Festival Redux – It’s been years since the Santa Barbara Jazz Festival brought swing, bebop, and pop jazz to West Beach for a weekend. Now, an event management company is looking to bring back the vibe via a threeday extravaganza taking place in multiple venues around town, including downtown clubs and nightspots in The Funk Zone and The Lagoon District. Launching tonight with a screening of One Note at a Time at the Sandbox, the fest will also visit the James Joyce, Figueroa Mountain Brewery, SB Taproom, Seven Bar & Restaurant, SB Cast, The Bobcat, M8RX and Paseo Nuevo Mall, the latter the starting point for a Second Line Progression that will work its way crosstown to the Sand Box for a day-long fete mostly starring local bands and players with a smattering of touring acts. Among the other highlights are a visit from Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, starring the funkified saxist who has served as a sideman to the Rolling Stones, and drummer Gregg Bissonette, whose credits range from Maynard Ferguson’s big band to David Lee Roth’s group. Check out the fest’s online site for details and ticket packages. WHEN: Today through Saturday WHERE: COST: $10 to $39 (SOhO events extra) INFO: www.nightout.com/events/santa-barbara-jazzfestival-redux/tickets

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FRIDAY, MARCH 3 Barrio Bailar – Santa Barbara is rife with flamenco music and dancing, and not just during Old Spanish Days. But it’s rare that we are the beneficiaries of a visit from as accomplished an outfit as Noche Flamenca and Soledad Barrio, hailed by critics for their transcendent and deeply emotional performances. Led by Barrio, a Bessie Awardwinning dancer acclaimed for her “smoldering, do-or-die flamenco passion” (The New York Times), the group of commanding dancers and musicians have earned accolades the world over, lauded for embodying the essence, complexity, and mystery of flamenco. One perhaps the world’s leading authentic flamenco touring company, Noche Flamenca offer a truly communal spirit, giving all aspects of flamenco – dance, song, and music – equal weight as they seamlessly integrate each component into a vitality-filled experience.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $30 to $45 general, $19 students INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

5590 or www.calm4kids.org/events/ celebrity-authors-luncheon Self-reflexive Perspective – Anne Washburn’s 2012 play Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play – which comments on popular culture and what it means to have live theater as part of a society – received a Drama League Award nomination for Outstanding Production and was praised

by The New York Times as “downright brilliant.” The UCSB Department of Theater and Dance stages the play that is essentially about survival, as eight actors come together to tell a story that speaks volumes to the uncertain nature of the future and human survival mechanisms.

The work, which honors both current popular cultures and theater’s ancient Greek roots, poses the questions of what will endure when the cataclysm arrives, when the grid fails, society crumbles and we’re faced with the task of rebuilding.

Tom Whitaker, who recently played The governor/innkeeper in the Chinese premiere of Man of La Mancha in Beijing, directs a student cast featuring Cordelia Watson, Cooper Bruhns, Zach Macias, Amanda Lawson, Maddie Martin, Taylor Tuers, and Jeremy Scharf. WHEN: 8 tonight and March 7-11, plus 2 pm tomorrow and March 1112 WHERE: UCSB Studio Theater COST: $17 general, $13 children & seniors INFO: 893-2064 or www.theaterdance. ucsb.edu Messina with the Kid – Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Jim Messina was incredibly seminal singer-songwriterproducer in the emerging folk-rock/ Americana genre, holding down founding spots in Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and Loggins & Messina. Messina

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penned such memorable classics as “Kind Woman”, “Your Mama Don’t Dance”, “My Music”, “Thinking Of You”, “Angry Eyes”, and “Peace of Mind”, among others. The Santa Ynez (and onetime Montecito) resident plays periodically in town, almost always with a former colleague sitting in; tonight it’s Doobie Brothers guitarist/ multi-instrumentalist John McFee. The concert is a benefit the Sansum Diabetes Center, and appropriate features as opening act Jackson Gillies, the San Marcos High School student who was diagnosed with diabetes at age 3, but has faced his health challenges through music, culminating in his winning the Santa Barbara Teen Star USA competition at the Arlington Theatre last February (a reign that lasted through last weekend). WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $60-475 ($125 VIP ticket includes priority seating and a reception with the artist) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8 Back in Our Beach Berg – Fifty-four years in, The Beach Boys show no signs of scaling back on their seemingly endless tours that bring their patented California surf sound to fans across the globe. Having played the Santa Barbara Bowl, the Chumash Casino, and the Granada Theatre within the last four years, the band turns now to the Arlington Theatre, the only other sizable venue in town. Led by founding member and singer-songwriter Mike Love, once a longtime Santa Barbara resident, and Grammy Award-winning singer and keyboard player Bruce Johnston, who joined The Beach Boys in 1965

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SUNDAY, MARCH 5 Beauty and the Bizarre – Photographer Anand Varma and bat scientist Rodrigo Medellín come together to deliver a National Geographic Live multimedia presentation subtitled Hummingbirds, Bees, Bats, and Zombie Parasites. Medellín is an influential scientist, educator, and adviser who has won numerous awards for his conservation work and is the subject of The Bat Man of Mexico, a BBC documentary narrated by David Attenborough, while Varma uses his lens to tell the story behind complex scientific issues, including harnessing the beauty of iridescent hummingbird feathers and exploring visually the science of honeybees and the hidden world of parasites. Their back-to-back presentation is meant to change the way we see some of nature’s most beautiful and strange creations. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $25 general, $15 youths 18 & under INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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and still lives in town, the Boys are back to offer their heavenly harmonies on such hits as “I Get Around”, “Surfin’ USA”, “Barbara Ann”, “Help Me Rhonda”, “Fun Fun Fun”, “Sloop John B”, “California Girls”, “In My Room”, “409”, “Little Surfer Girl”, “Kokomo”.

“God Only Knows”, “Caroline, No”, “Don’t Worry Baby”, and “Good Vibrations”, among others. Missing is the chief singer-songwriter-producer Brian Wilson, the sole survivor of the original three brothers, who rejoined the band for the 50th anniversary tour which visited the Bowl, but will instead play that venue on May 28 as part of his final tour performing the boundary-busting and still mind-blowing Pet Sounds album.

WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1317 State St. COST: call INFO: 963-4408/www. thearlingtontheatre.com or 800-7453000/www.ticketmaster.com Dance on Tap – Fronted by Michelle Dorrance, a MacArthur “Genius” Award Fellow, the Bessie Award-

winning troupe Dorrance Dance has won critical accolades and popular acclaim for “blasting open our notions of tap,” as The New Yorker put it.

The company pushes tap dance’s tradition rhythmically, aesthetically, and conceptually, employing street, club, and experimental dance forms in a new, dynamically compelling context for the tap vernacular. A favorite of the 201415 dance series, Dorrance returns to the Granada via UCSB to perform a new program featuring “SOUNDspace”, which explores movement as music, and “ETM”, which stands for electronic tap music and blends acoustic and digitally produced sounds. The New York Times raved about program: “Dorrance makes full use of tone, timbre, volume, tempo, and, of course, rhythm, constructing patterns that lock together thrillingly.”

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $40-$50 INFO: 899-2222/www. granadasb.org or 893-3535/www.

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