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EVACUATION PREPARATION THE 10-MONTH-LONG STUDY OF THE DISTRICT’S FIRE EVACUATION PLAN IS COMPLETE, GIVING CHIEF KEVIN TAYLOR AND MONTECITO FIRE AN INFORMED APPROACH TO WILDFIRE RESPONSE (STORY STARTS ON PAGE 5)

La Fiesta del Museo

Fiesta kicks off at the Historical Museum’s fundraiser, back for the first time in two years, page 10

A Meditative Approach

The introspective works of indigo artist Toni Scott, including several new pieces, are on display at Silo118, page 14

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Village Beat – Details from the recent Emergency Evacuation Study, homicide victim named, and Jenni Kayne Home opens

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L etters to the Editor – Comments from Santa Claus Lane’s neighbors, praise for Sanctuary Centers, and hiking trails access Tide Guide

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Montecito Reads – After an awkward dinner party, Hollis takes a walk along the beach in Chapter 4 of Montecito by Michael Cox

Montecito Miscellany – Pre-Fiesta festivities, TVSB calls for content, a Local birthday bash for Richard, and more

Our Town – The meditative, meaningful, and indigo works of Toni Scott at Silo118 Ernie’s World – It’s the journey, not the destination – and this is not a fun way to get there

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Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco – Wow! Fareed Got it Wrong Again: Read the science. The Optimist Daily – Ways to participate in Plastic-Free July

Brilliant Thoughts – Old habits may die hard but here’s at least one way to fix them Dear Montecito – Stella contemplates calling Neverland home and what it means to grow up

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This Week at MA – The accelerating career of Jessie Montgomery, plus the weekly happenings

The Giving List – The Santa Barbara Symphony is turning 70 and continues to expand its impact

On Entertainment – Fiesta has arrived and here are some popular and alternative ways to celebrate Robert’s Big Questions – What does it mean to be lucky? A sciencedriven explanation in Part 1 of this two-part column.

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Calendar of Events – The Chicks in the Bowl, a garden concert, a casino medium, Latinx mural art forum, plus other happenings

Classifieds – Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales Mini Meta Crossword Puzzles Local Business Directory – Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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MFPD Approves Evacuation Study

Montecito Fire Protection District’s evacuation map was looked at closely as part of the District’s recent Emergency Evacuation Study that was approved last week

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

ast Friday, July 22, the Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors was given a presentation by Chelsea Richer of Fehr & Peers, a consultant company hired by the District to conduct an in-depth study of the District’s evacuation plan. The study took hundreds of hours over 10 months to complete and provided the District with a scientifically valid analysis of the evacuation challenges in Montecito. Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Taylor tells us the need for the study followed the devastating outcome of the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, which started on November 8, 2018, and caused 85 civilian fatalities, several of which occurred while people were evacuating the flames. “Paradise was the first community in California to conduct an extensive evacuation study over fifteen years ago,” Chief Taylor said. “Districts throughout California looked at their evacuation study as the gold standard, and it was what we all strived for. It served as the framework for every evacuation plan in the wildland/urban

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interface in California. Unfortunately, in the Camp Fire, given our new norm in fire behavior, we learned that that evacuation plan didn’t work. Several community members tragically lost their lives as a result of that fire, and we don’t want that here.” Montecito has been evacuated 10 times since the Tea Fire due to life threatening wildfire and debris flow events. According to Chief Taylor, these events provided the District with information that informed the existing Evacuation Plan, but the plan does not consider spatial analytical methods like spatial statistics, critical cluster optimization, and traffic simulations. The study included four key components: critical review of 18 evacuation after-action reports across California; a community survey with 118 Montecito resident responses; interviews with police and fire subject matter experts; and traffic operations modeling to identify locations where congestion accumulates on our roadway network. Information gleaned from the after-action reports indicated that

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Village Beat (Continued from 5) communication, messaging, and information sharing was inconsistent; destination shelters were unprepared and hotels lacked capacity for evacuees; re-entry into evacuated areas was inefficient and with inconsistent messaging. According to Richer, survey responses from residents in Montecito showed the most significant evacuation concerns include the ability to return home, transportation, and road conditions limiting evacuations, and knowing the destination of where they are evacuating to. Respondents showed a high evacuation knowledge and willingness to evacuate, as well as a high confidence in sheltering in place if told to. Five fire agency and law enforcement representatives were interviewed for the study, including four fire chiefs and one sheriff ’s deputy. The purpose of the interview was to better understand mass evacuation from an Incident Command/boots-on-the-ground perspective from various jurisdictions, in order to prepare a more comprehensive evacuation analysis for the MFPD. Interviews included questions that addressed advanced planning efforts, public information and noticing, and post-evacuation and recovery. Traffic operations modeling considered two separate wildfire scenarios

developed by staff using fire modeling software validated by recent experiences with wildfires on the front country of Santa Barbara County. Both scenarios included an afternoon evacuation order for three zones above Highway 192 with a corresponding evacuation warning for the three zones adjacent to the order zones. This level of order/ warning is considered standard for a wind-driven wildfire in our jurisdiction, according to Chief Taylor, who later told us it would be unlikely that the entire community would be ordered to evacuate at the same time during a wildfire incident. The modeling established evacuation flows that are realistic and take into account school traffic; the modeling works similarly to traffic apps that reroute cars when there is congestion. It concluded that there would be a spike in evacuation trips on top of heavy commuter traffic in Montecito during the first 30 minutes of evacuation, and congestion on local streets, back roads to Santa Barbara, Highway 101, and on freeway on-ramps. The modeling did not take into account three years of upcoming construction on two roundabouts and the freeway, which Board members voiced concern about. The study offers the District several recommendations, divided into

the categories of wildfire mitigation (strategies to help prevent wildfires, which the District is already employing), demand-side (strategies that influence when, how, and where community members evacuate), supply-side (strategies that influence the physical and operational roadway infrastructure that facilitate an emergency evacuation), education/outreach, and capacity building/coordination. “I’m so beyond pleased with the results of this report,” Chief Taylor said. “It validated what we anecdotally believed to be true. The study provides us a scientific analysis of existing conditions, now it’s up to us to look at it from an operational perspective, to reduce the stress on existing infrastructure.” Chief Taylor said that District staff will now utilize the study, which was formally approved by the Board of Directors, as a starting point on which to formally evaluate procedures related to evacuations. “Evacuation orders will be precise and based upon the current conditions, our messaging will be clear, concise, and consistent, and we will work with the Sheriff and California Highway Patrol even more as it relates to traffic control points,” he said, adding that the addition of a full-time Public Information Officer has been a positive move for community outreach. District staff will also look deeper

into the community’s evacuation zones, which was a recommendation in the report. Moving forward, the study may have an impact on increased density in Montecito; in August, Chief Taylor will be presenting to the Board of Directors regarding Senate Bill 9. To read the study in depth, visit montecitofire.com, and click on the packet for the Special Board Meeting that occurred on July 22.

Homicide Victim Named The sheriffs have released the name of the victim from the homicide on the 900 block of Park Lane in May – 96-year-old Violet Evelyn Alberts. As part of the coroner’s investigation, detectives worked to locate a nextof-kin for the decedent to no avail and transferred the case to the Santa Barbara County Public Administrator’s Office yesterday. Sheriff ’s detectives are continuing their homicide investigation. The cause of death is included in that investigation and is not yet available for release. Sheriff ’s detectives do not have any additional information available for release regarding the progress of their ongoing investigation. Anyone with information that would assist investigators is asked to

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Concern from the Neighbors

n the July 14 issue of the Montecito Journal, Joe Armendariz’s letter to the editor titled “Radical Status,” contained multiple inaccurate assertions related to the application for the Radis/Roots Cannabis retail store proposed location on Santa Claus Lane, as well as misinformation concerning existing businesses there. Mr. Armendariz fails to mention that he is a paid consultant for the Radis/ Roots applicants and has been lobbying on the applicants’ behalf for many months. He does not live or work on Santa Claus Lane nor in any of the neighborhoods near Santa Claus Lane – he is not a concerned neighbor. The misinformation that he stated includes: 1. He suggests that the opposition to the cannabis store at the proposed location is by a “disgruntled neighbor.” In fact, an overwhelming majority of the residents in nearby neighborhoods, as well as the majority of business owners along Santa Claus Lane, are strongly opposed to this location. There has been an opposition petition signed by over 200 nearby business, neighbors, and property owners which was sent to the Santa Barbara County staff. 2. He states that our property, next door to the proposed site for the cannabis store, has “no dedicated parking spaces,” which is not true. There is exclusive on-site parking on our property. Also, all business usage for each retail space has a legitimate, approved use, not only by decades of past history but also with an “As Built” development plan approved by the Santa Barbara County 18 years ago. 3. He states that Radis/Roots Carpinteria will have 22 dedicated onsite parking spaces. In fact, the

Radia/Roots’ Cannabis Retail application and the plans submitted for the 5/23/22 Zoning Administrator hearing actually designate a total of 12 spaces for the many commercial and business uses at the site – including the cannabis store (employees, customers, and fleet of delivery vans). This limited parking would have to also serve another large retail store, an electric company that currently parks up to 12 large trucks used in that business and an architecture office as well as several other offices that are reportedly not related to the proposed cannabis operation, all located on this property. In fact, the application submitted states that the proposed cannabis store operations alone can have up to 56 customers and employees at any given time, again not including the fleet of cannabis delivery vehicles. That is a much higher number than the existing use. The author fails to acknowledge that much of the existing parking behind the building is actually on the railroad right-of-way with a short-term, no reasons needed for termination, lease from Union Pacific. 4. In an attempt to justifying the cannabis store, he states “for every $10 spent at the Radia/Roots Carpinteria store, $18 is projected to be injected back into the local community” with no mention as to how that would be accomplished. I realize anyone can say anything, but it should be incumbent upon this author to at least get the facts straight. With the significant increased intensity of use of a cannabis store, the increased traffic in an already packed location, inadequate parking that will impact coastal access, incompatibility with a child-friendly, family-oriented

beachside lane with an armed guard at the entrance and neighborhood security are the issues here. Let’s stay with the facts and the issues. Steve Kent for Preserve Access to Santa Claus Lane and Beach

Sanctuary Centers Support I’m writing to compliment Steven Libowitz on an excellent article in the July 21 MJ about Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara. This is an excellent nonprofit that has helped psychiatric patients in Santa Barbara for 46 years. I have been the Medical Director for the past 18 years and have helped Barry Schoer with his center’s patients for over 30 years. Many people who live in the area drive right past it and don’t even know that it exists. With our assistance, the cycle of patients going in and out of the hospital and living on the streets has been broken. We find the right medication and therapy while providing housing as patients do volunteer work and eventually go back to school and get paid jobs. Jackson Browne along with his friends, Jeff Bridges and David Crosby, have done fundraisers to raise money for the new building. More money is needed to help Sanctuary achieve its goals to provide more help to more people in the future. I play tennis with the Montecito Mafia every week and I know that many of my fellow players don’t know anything about Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara so I hope this article and my letter will encourage others to do more research and donate what they can. Eli Katz MD

and I appreciate the vistas of the surrounding foothills and coastline. Large boulders haphazardly placed, are blocking public parking along the road. It is both unreasonable and unfair to make it so difficult to access a recreational opportunity. I hope the ill-natured decision to prevent people from accessing the Hot Springs Trail will be overturned. Let’s keep public trails available to all, as intended. Sofia Hamrin

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Timo Nuñez impresses at La Fiesta del Museo (photo by Priscilla)

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iesta fever was palpable when the Santa Barbara Historical Museum hosted its La Fiesta del Museo, chaired by Sharon Bradford, for the first time in two years with 300 traditionally garbed guests helping raise 10% of the popular institution’s annual budget. A colorful variety of musical acts kept the fiesta fans entertained including Juan Zaragoza and the Mariachi Las Olas; guitarist Luis Moreno; Junior Spirit Layla Gocong, a fourth grader at Crane Country Day School; the Spirit of Fiesta Tara Mata,

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tous KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri included a stay at the newly restored Inn at Mattei’s Tavern in Los Olivos, which went for $4,500; a carriage ride for four in the El Desfile Histórico parade in August, snapped up for $5,000; and a fiesta fête for up to 50 guests at the muse-

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The Tenacity of New Art: Toni Scott at Silo 118 Gallery by Joanne A. Calitri

lacing her bright white 36”x36” square canvases on the floor, she meditates and pours a line of indigo paint in a circle. Yes, a circle in a square. She watches as the paint free forms to create what she terms a ‘Spiritual Plateau,’ a place of quiet and peace for her, thus titled, Meditation Circle #1, #2 and #3. These Meditation Circles are artist Toni Scott’s most recent works, on exhibit at the Silo 118 Gallery in the Funk Zone Santa Barbara, now through August 7. Partnering alongside the Meditation series are large-scale rectangular works on canvas from her Indigo Sacred Water Paintings series. The exhibit also features selected sculptural works inspired by African American sculptors and the work of European sculptor Charles Cordier, mixed media art from WASH(ED), and her Bloodlines Indigo Portraits. Together, the 17 pieces in the gallery reflect a minimalist quality that belies the years of emotional work Scott has laid claim to infuse her art with since inception. Let’s take a moment to consider one’s

experience of the actual mediums aside from revealing the artist’s intent and history, which can be found on her website. In the Meditation and Indigo Sacred Water Paintings series, the textural aspect of the indigo against the stark white canvas creates varying depths of application, gloss and matte, crevasses, and holes. The indigo medium gives movement to the design, a flow, a meditative interpretation. One is free to interpret… Is it a bird or a woman in flight? Is it the blue planet or a reflection of another? Do you feel peace or more questioning? Did you come for refuge or for answers? Many artists who use indigo are drawn to the medium for its historical and emotional inference, as well as its pliancy for interpretive design. Saatchi-represented artist Justine Johnson (from London) who mixes her own indigo, works with it because “…it colours everything, all emotion, our fragile planet, our universe.” [saatchiart.com/justinejohnson]. Renowned indigo artist Jordi Sarrate (from Barcelona) has his own unique process of use: painting in reverse with indigo-dyed textiles and acid-wash brush strokes to reveal the final form. Scott’s indigo shares their dialogue. She

Artist Toni Scott with her indigo art works at Silo 118 Gallery (photo by Joanne A. Calitri)

Curator and Silo 118 Gallery owner Bonnie Rubenstein with the art of Toni Scott (photo by Joanne A. Calitri)

describes her technique: “When I paint the indigo series, I lay the canvas on the ground for the connection with the Earth. A lot of the pieces are self-made, a mutual dance, the experience of seeing how the paint and water merge on the canvas, as no floor is even, and my process of moving the water along until it’s just so. I pour from the bottle, usually just let it drop, and sometimes use a spray bottle. Drying is by laying it in the sun not with a hair dryer, if I dry it fast, it dries on the surface and creates a different texture. Also, the works in the exhibit can be viewed vertically as hung, and horizontally.” The sculptural works in the exhibit bookmark a wall-sized piece from WASH(ED) – the sculptures, with their staid expressions and flawless beauty reflective of ancient African deities, contrast the dull patches crudely stitched together of a whitewashed civilization. Installation’s purposeful placement makes the obvious statement. Curator and owner of the Silo 118 Gallery, Bonnie Rubenstein shares about the selection of the works: “As often happens when you visit an artist’s studio, you see so much more than you ever imagined. Scott and I initially selected work that included abstracts, portraits, and sculptures. However, once we started the installation, it became obvious this really was an abstract show. Her use of indigo and white was telling her story in a new way. I hung eight indigo pieces, a red Bloodlines piece, and a large WASH(ED) piece – a

testimony to impermanence on cardboard, sewn together with sisal (twine), depicting the lack of sustainability and accountability on our planet as conditions deteriorate both physically and politically. To me the show reflects contemplation, beauty, and simplicity. One doesn’t have to know the history underlying Toni Scott’s gorgeous abstract work, but if you do, it gives it just that much more meaning and enhances your appreciation. Every piece embodies Toni’s desire to honor her ancestors, to be a protector of our planet’s resources, and to regard all humans as essential beings to be loved, nurtured, and respected.” Scott’s works here and at her studio equate with Nina Simone’s directive, “The artist’s duty as far as I’m concerned is to reflect the times. I choose to reflect the times and situations I find myself, that to me is my duty. You don’t have a choice, how can you be an artist and not reflect the times.” 411: toniscott.com silo118.com

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Fiesta and Fun at the Polo Fields It was a very in-tents occasion when Teresa Kuskey, the bubbly founder of the La Boheme dance company, and social gadabout Rick Oshay hosted their annual fiesta bash at the Santa Barbara Polo Club for 175 guests. The fun fête in a giant marquee featured Teresa’s colorful dancers, who led our Eden by the Beach’s popular Summer Solstice parade, performing at the polo match’s half time to the throbbing music of ubiquitous creatively costumed DJ Darla Bea with KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri as emcee. Among the hoard of gregarious guests were Drew Wakefield, Adam McKaig, Greg Gorga, Dana Hansen, Eduardo Villa, Richard and Amanda Payatt, Gretchen Lieff, Erik and Angelique Davis, Dacia Harwood, Lisa Osborn, and David Bolton. A boffo bash, indeed...

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Montecito Reads (Continued from 9) The next morning – Monday morning – was no better. Isabel had to be at school at 7:30 am for orchestra practice and Trip was content to enjoy an extra hour on the jungle gym before classes began, so we chugged our Cheerios and headed off into the day with the temperatures still chilly from the cloudless night. While I had been prepared to fill Friday’s walk with jibber jabber, regardless of feedback, I was not as loquacious this morning. The three of us trudged the mile toward school in relative silence until Isabel backhanded me with a question I should have seen coming and been ready to avoid. “Is mom going to have to go back to work?” she asked. If cringing were sport, I would have been an Olympian. “Mom already works,” I said, deflecting the real question. “You know what I mean, dad.” Isabel said, stiff-arming my deflection. Indeed, I did. Isabel’s question had been preying on me and was reinforced when I caught Cricket sitting at the dining room table that morning – sporting her reading glasses and a pencil tucked behind one ear – poring over our bank statements and stabbing at her calculator. It had not always been this way. When Cricket and I first met, she was a rising star at Ridley & Barnaby, a national Public Relations firm, while I was a promising but wet-behind-the-ears coder at QIR Resources. The year we got engaged, Cricket joined a few others and launched a boutique PR firm headquartered in Montecito. Cricket’s ascent went from rising to meteoric. She opened art galleries, clothing stores, and interior design shops; she worked with reclusive celebrities and ambitious politicians. She was amazing at her work and in short order became connected to everyone and everything that made this town move. But she did not love the work. Which is why, when I rebooted myself at CryptoWallet, she seized the opportunity to retire from Public Relations and follow her heart, becoming a full-time volunteer with the Storyteller Children’s Center, a preschool focused on Santa Barbara’s homeless children. Even in retrospect, this pivot seemed reasonable. After all, I was soon to be named to a fancy-titled position in a company with global aspirations. I was in on the ground floor; the sky was the limit. What could go wrong? Sure, I had been relieved of my duties at my prior two posts, but that was different, I told myself, and – accordingly – I would behave differently. It would not be easy – being a single income, no-safety-net family in one of the most expensive communities in American never is – but it was doable. We could have made it; we should have made it. But we had not, and, perhaps, it was time to pull the plug on this charade; the one with me cast as our family’s protector, provider, and All-American dad. How many times did I need to test the hypothesis to prove it false? What is more, the family had a perfectly capable – nay superior – replacement waiting in the wings in our very own Cricket. It was as if our family was a baseball team in desperate need of a hit, and instead of sending Ted Williams to the batter’s box, we elected to cast our fortunes with Hollis Crawford, a man whose last solid contact came in tee-ball. “No, honey,” I finally answered Isabel, determined to hide these honest questions behind a wall of false bravado. “I will work it out. Mom is good.” My hopeful answer did not lift Isabel’s mood, leaving the three of us to complete the remainder of the twenty-two-minute walk in complete silence. We said our goodbyes on the sidewalk in front of Montecito Union, both kids giving me glum waves before ascending through the school’s doors. I was initially grateful for the lack of a school assembly, but as I turned south to reverse the path home, I was struck by the intense and unabating melancholy of knowing that I had absolutely nothing to do. So, I walked. With my hands stuffed deep into my pockets, my head hung low, and

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my sneakers kicking up a whisp of dust, I headed down San Ysidro Road toward Highway 101 and the Pacific Ocean beyond. I thought I just might perform a one-man rendition of the most hackneyed Hollywood scene I could imagine by moping down to the beach, finding a place to sit, and tossing pebbles into the lapping waves all while an imagined soundtrack of Sade songs played in the background. As I reconsidered the previous night’s failure, it seemed obvious that I had allowed my hopes to outreach the bounds of reality. My meeting Cyrus the business tycoon at precisely the moment when I was most desperate for a second – scratch that – fourth chance was not the kismet that I dreamed it to be. The truth was that, despite the roller coaster ride, I was now in exactly the same spot I had been in before I met Cyrus. The same hopes, prospects, and options that I had considered as I drove too fast to the Spring Sing recital – meager as they might have been – still existed. Recognizing that, why did I now feel so much worse? What are you going to do? My inner voice asked on repeat. I had no answer. Before I reached the intersection of San Ysidro and Highway 101, my depressing reverie was interrupted by the wail of sirens. I assumed at first that the emergency vehicles would pass under me as I crossed Highway 101 on the overpass, but to my surprise, the source of the sirens was the Montecito fire department’s EMT truck, heading the same direction as me, straight toward the beach. Shortly after it passed, two Santa Barbara County cruisers joined the fray, all three vehicles headed toward the miniscule parking lot at the top of Miramar Beach. I kept walking, curious but not alarmed, the vehicles now too far out of sight for me to understand the nature of the emergency. I passed All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, crossed the railroad tracks and the gated entrance to the exclusive homes of Sea Meadow, and – just before smacking into the backs of the EMT truck and police cruisers – made a right turn down the bougainvillea-covered path known as the Hammond’s trail. At the end of this path was my favorite beach in Montecito: perfect for sad-faced pebble tossing. Shortly down the trail, I was passed by two of the fire department paramedics headed the opposite direction, back to the parking lot. Their walkie-talkies were buzzing, but the men themselves were in no hurry. Someone sprained an ankle and called an ambulance, the sarcastic twin of my inner voice chirped. The Hammond’s trail ended at a bridge crossing the Montecito Creek, which was truly a creek for only three or four months a year. The rest of the time it was a dry creek bed, occasionally backfilled with saltwater if the ocean tide was particularly high. I crossed the bridge, walked alongside a stunning beach-front home, and emerged onto Hammond’s Beach. There, one-hundred yards west from the mouth of Montecito Creek, just beyond the reach of the crashing waves on an otherwise empty beach, were four police officers standing around a body. I froze. This did not look like a sprained ankle. I jutted my head forward; something about the prone body exposed between the officers’ legs looked familiar. I took a few tentative steps toward them, my skin tingling with anticipation. The body appeared to be that of a man; a shirtless man in board shorts with the neoprene and Velcro of a surfboard leash still strapped to his ankle. Seeing the leash, I also recognized the surfboard laying beside him like a stretcher. But that wasn’t the familiar part. I took a few more steps, growing more confident and more horrified with each footfall. It was the alabaster skin. It was the shock of orange hair. It was Landon. Tune in next week for Chapter 5 to see what happens next

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ur plane from LAX to Charlotte was late. “We will begin boarding as soon as the arriving passengers are off the plane,” the gate attendant announced. “What’s the holdup?” I asked. Before he could answer, the scheduled departure time advanced by 30 minutes. “It needs to taxi to the gate... as soon as it actually lands.” We were at the last stop on the concourse. Apparently they did not buy enough chairs for all the gates. Nor did the A-, B- or C-rated restaurants deem it worthwhile to open anywhere nearby. Fortunately, the acoustics were good enough to hear every single crying baby, the woman relating her entire miserable life story to someone on her phone, and the rotund guy who cleared his throat approximately every three seconds. “Buck says you get the phlegm guy in your row.” “Yeah? Well I bet you get her.” My wife pointed at a woman dashing for the restroom. Her third dash in the last fifteen minutes. Pat and I like the aisle seat so we sit opposite each other on flights. It gives us easy access to the overhead bins in case we need more drugs, and we get to look down the plane to see what everyone is watching on their iPads. Sex, violence, and solitaire are trending. Our plane finally boarded, taxied halfway to San Diego, turned around, and took off. “We’ll still have like 30 minutes to make our connection to Manchester, New Hampshire, after we land in Charlotte.” Turns out that was 28 July – 4 August 2022

overly optimistic. “’Scuse us! On your left! Coming through!” I glanced back at Pat. She was staying in my wake avoiding dawdlers. We could only hope they hadn’t closed the door yet. “On your right. Oops sorry! Put some ice on that, should be fine.” Finally we rounded the last corner and I spotted our gate. Or rather, I spotted the large crowd in front of the gate. ‘Delayed Boarding’ it said on the sign. We had an hour. “Drink?” “Several,” Pat gasped.

…and we get to look down the plane to see what everyone is watching on their iPads. Sex, violence, and solitaire are trending.

Did I mention it was raining outside? And thundering and lightning. But finally our plane made it to the gate and after the wide-eyed passengers deboarded and ran to their next connection, we got settled in. “Can’t leave the gate,” the captain informed us, “until the lightning is at least seven miles away.” So, we sat and waited. It was freezing. Matter of fact, the side vents were pumping out visible cold air like you would see in a meat locker. Would we arrive in Manchester – where someone was now changing the arrival time of our plane

to “your guess is as good as mine” – in a cryogenic state? Across the aisle, Pat was turning blue, but the storm must have reached the seven-anda-half-mile mark because we started rolling. “Yay,” a few people yelled, their breath puffing out in front of them. We landed in Manchester at midnight. One lonely car rental guy was still there. After he gave us our key, he shut off the light. We drove to the Super Eight Hotel a few miles away. It was dark and eerily quiet. A woman stood outside smoking a cigarette in front of the “No Smoking Within 100 Feet of the Door” and “Masks Required” signs. There was a placard on the wall that said: Super Eight Superstart Breakfast, 6 to 10 am, reminding us we hadn’t eaten in hours. The attendant was a bit zombie-like. “Is there anywhere to get a bite around here,” I asked, instantly regretting my choice of words. There wasn’t. We dined on a bag of Cheetos from the vending machine. Next morning, I handed Pat a brown paper bag. “Breakfast,” I said. Inside was a bottle of water, a fruit cocktail

cup, and a granola bar. “COVID precautions, the unmasked guy at the desk said.” Pat went for the first shower. She came out thirty seconds later. “There’s no hot water!” I called the front desk. “Yeah we know. We called a guy. Should be here in an hour or so.” We were driving to the final destination, my hometown of Laconia, when the phone dinged. “Please leave a review about your stay at the Super Eight,” it said. Pat grabbed the phone. “Let me,” she said. “I insist.”

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areed Zakaria is a man deserving of considerable respect. He is not only a great columnist, television host, interviewer, and pundit, but he is also an opinion maker. The general public listens to him. So do kings, potentates, politicians, and major corporate executives all over the globe. Hence there’s no joy when we are compelled to call him out. That said, Fareed has been making a number of major miscalculations that require rebuttal. On his July 24th broadcast on the subject of “tackling climate change,” Fareed once again propounded his view that nuclear energy is a major potential contributor to climate change remediation. Wrong. He also argued strongly in favor of burning more natural gas in power plants. Also, problematic. And finally, he offered a few other pleasant but ineffectual ways to heal the biosphere like planting more trees (a good idea, but woefully inadequate to remediate the climate crisis) and creating incentives to buy electric cars (a good idea – particularly if they are hydrogen fuel cell electric cars). Frankly, Fareed’s staff is not doing enough scientific homework to inform his policy recommendations. They must pay more attention to the science of climate remediation than to the lobbyists and other pundits in the East Coast intelligence “bubble” who have clear economic agendas which further imperil our wounded biosphere. Fareed is simply too important an interpreter of public policy to allow this scientifically deficient view for how to deal with climate change to persist. Burn more natural gas. Really? While it halves the CO2 pollutant compared to coal, burning natural gas produces 100% more CO2 than hydrogen consumed in a fuel cell which has zero polluting emissions if the hydrogen is produced from renewable energy. The entire world is embracing this idea. McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Boston Consulting, and all major European governments have concluded that “green hydrogen” (hydrogen made from renewables) is the “game changer” that is ready for immediate deployment. This isn’t a technology of the future. Neither are fuel cells which have been around for over 100 years and are now being produced in mass quantities all over the world in various sizes. Green hydrogen powering fuel cells, where the only byproduct is pure water vapor, is widely accepted as the replacement right now for fossil fuels in cars, trucks, buses, locomotives, electricity generation, the making of “green steel” and “green cement.” Sorry Fareed, but it’s hard to believe your staff hasn’t informed you better about the science of climate change. Burning natural gas is not a way to reduce greenhouse gases! Burning more natural gas only makes things worse. We must get on with remediating climate change at once with 100% green alternatives that are ready today. Let’s move with urgency as Germany, France, and Spain are doing, working to convert their economies over to hydrogen. So much for the misguided belief that burning more fossil fuels in any way helps with climate change – it doesn’t make sense on its face. Secondly, by pushing the nuclear option, Fareed is simply echoing the nuclear lobby’s position without critical independent thought. The only beneficiaries of the campaigns to extend the life cycle of existing plants and trying to build new ones, are the handful of giant companies that control nuclear energy globally. The nuclear industry never rests in its attempts to capture more government money. No matter the risk to the public. No matter the lack of economic or environmental merit. Remember, the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown of March 2011? It has still not been stopped! The Japanese government’s most recent estimate is that it will take at least 40 more years to clean up the pollution from that “incident.” Candidly, that’s a wishful assessment given they have not yet found a way to: 1) stop the reaction from continuing underground; and 2) are continuing to leach millions of gallons of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean in addition to the 1.25 million tons stored in massive tanks above ground, with no way to remove the highly radioactive tritium. The Japanese “solution” is to dump it directly into the ocean. Let’s also remember that scientists estimate that a vast area around Chernobyl will remain un-inhabitable for several hundred years or longer. The nuclear industry likes to say, and Fareed likes to parrot, that very few people have been killed in nuclear accidents. That’s because they only count radioactive deaths form direct exposure. As the residents of Hiroshima learned in the years after 1945, the direct deaths are only the beginning of the death toll as multiple varieties of cancer and other health impacts emerge over ensuing decades. In 2014, the World Business Academy published a definitive whitepaper as an open letter to the noted climate scientist James Hansen addressing this question, entitled “Nuclear Power: Totally Unqualified to Combat Climate Change.” To this day not

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Plastic Free July: Learning About Plastic Waste and Taking Action

Captain Fanplastic teaches young pirates about plastic pollution

he “Captain Fanplastic” initiative is a primary school program aimed at teaching young children in South Africa and the Netherlands about plastic waste and the “R’s” that go with managing it: refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose, and recycle. The program, which is the brainchild of Cape Town-based behavioral design agency SoapBox, was launched in 2018. Since then, it’s been integrated into over 20 schools in South Africa and the Netherlands. On top of in-person programs, the program is also supplemented with e-books, audiobooks, and an e-learning platform, all geared toward educating children that plastic is a treasure — not trash. The program uses storytelling to educate “little pirates” on the impact that plastic waste has on oceans, then they use visuals to show how both marine and land animals suffer because of plastic waste. The next steps involve arts and crafts using repurposed plastic and lastly, a treasure hunt to collect plastic treasure on the beach. Captain Plastic facilitator Yanga Gceya believes that educating as many little pirates as possible through the program “has the potential to really change ocean pollution, change any kind of pollution that we see because… children… will be the new custodians of their environment… at every corner of the world.”

Seven strategies to jump-start a zero-waste lifestyle 1. Shop with reusable containers and bags: Grab a few and leave them in your car or purse so you are ready to load them up with groceries. 2. Make things from scratch: DIY initiatives for food condiments, personal products, and more are one of the fastest ways to cut down on waste! 3. Buy items with the least packaging: Avoid “convenient” food packaging and opt for non-plastic packaging when possible. Buy in bulk to cut down on extra packaging, and try to purchase “naked” bars of soap, shampoo, body lotion, etc. 4. Wean yourself off disposable products: Research what reusable alternatives are available for things around your house. 5. Create a zero-waste kit to carry around: Be ready for anything by keeping reusable eating utensils on hand. 6. Compost your food scraps: If there’s not already a composting system in place where you live, install a home composter system and watch your food waste turn into healthy soil. 7. Strive for progress, not perfection: Assess what is available to you based on where you live, work with what you have, and be proud of the progress you’re mak ing in reducing your waste! a single conclusion, or even one of its 42 footnotes, has been challenged, even by Professor Hansen. Among other conclusions, it found that: “Nuclear power plants are not ‘carbon free.’ They do not emit carbon… as they split atoms… but… Significant amounts of fossil fuel are used indirectly in mining, milling, uranium fuel enrichment, plant and waste storage construction, decommissioning, and ultimately transportation and millennia-long storage of waste. There is plenty of carbon in that footprint that is rarely acknowledged, computed, or mediated. “In addition, [the industry] obscures the fact that nuclear power plants’ radiation footprint is far more lethal than the carbon footprint of any other industry. Additionally, the industry’s rhetoric masks the astronomical costs for thousands of years of storage that could be better invested in rapidly developing renewable fuels with a zero-carbon footprint like solar, wind, geothermal, and ocean thermal energy conversion, which don’t carry harmful, let alone lethal, side effects.” The same paper pointed out that it would take decades of construction just to refurbish or replace the existing nuclear “fleet” now operating beyond safety margins, that this would cost many billions of dollars that might otherwise be spent on less fraught clean power technologies, and anyway, there aren’t even enough trained personnel in the world to build an adequate number of new plants to make any appreciable impact on climate change. And, we still have no known method for safely storing the high-grade nuclear waste that will remain toxic for thousands of years. That’s real environmental pollution that lasts a thousand years. Please Mr. Zakaria, read the science.

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MY WORST HABIT – AND HOW I GOT RID OF IT: (Warning: some readers may consider this disgusting.) by Ashleigh Brilliant

used to pull or bite bits of skin from certain areas of the backs of my hands. Sometimes I would then just flick them away, but often I would chew and actually eat them. Those abused hand areas naturally became tough and red and ugly, and sometimes people would comment on this. My mother, with her gift for pulling no punches, called me a “cannibal” – but nothing deterred me for long, and nobody really did anything about it. (Remarkably, even today, this practice is apparently considered so nasty that I can’t find it included in any list of bad habits.) It began sometime in my teens. But, incredible as it now seems, I didn’t find a way to rescue myself until I was well into my early thirties. So, what finally made the big difference? The answer seems to have been a combination of moving into a new environment and enjoying an unaccustomed atmosphere of freedom. What I’m referring to is the “Hippie” milieu of San Francisco’s HaightAshbury district, where I moved after my last teaching job – (one so good, on board a “floating university,” sailing around the world, that it spoiled me for any other). Having been a student or a teacher for a large part of my life, my whole personality responded gleefully to the relative lack of restriction and controls which I found, for a regrettably brief period in the 1960s, among the people who were known as Hippies. Indulgence in then-still illegal drugs, like Marijuana, was an essential feature of this scene. But my own style of participation was to set up a kind of “soapbox” in Golden Gate Park, just where Haight Street began, and every afternoon, I mounted this platform, and used a portable microphone to address an “audience,” assembled, in various postures of relaxation, on the grass, which sloped down towards me, making the whole area (officially the eastern end of Alvord Lake) a kind of natural amphitheater. For subject matter, I simply talked about whatever was in, or on, my mind, from world affairs to what I’d had for breakfast. There was, of course, no censorship, and this seemed the perfect opportunity to employ the entire world as my personal counsellor. There were various problems I’d long felt bedeviled by, including my relationship with my parents, and with the inamorata with whom I’d broken up some time previously, after we’d been together for four years, but whom I could not seem to get over (and, to some 28 July – 4 August 2022

extent, never have). But there was also that personal very bad habit of mine, of skin-picking, which I had never really discussed with anyone before. So, instead of telling nobody, I now told EVERYBODY! I spared no details. I didn’t ask for help or advice, just (as the then-popular expression went) let it all hang out. After that climactic revelation, I can’t claim that I experienced a dramatic overnight cure. But, over the next few weeks, my symptoms did gradually diminish, until I found I had simply lost the desire. If only there were such an answer for all bad habits. But my particular case required the very unusual combination of circumstances I have described. Nowadays, however, there are all kinds of methods for dealing with all varieties of unwanted behaviors. You are probably familiar with the Alcoholics Anonymous mantra, boldly stating that “My name is –––– and I am an Alcoholic.” But this is usually declared only in closed meetings, and only to other Alcoholics. Much more open have been the techniques used to help smokers give up their nicotine habit, though these methods also tend to involve sufferers helping each other. Thanks to such remedial opportunities, smoking in public is no longer the major issue which once afflicted society. But it must be said that these kinds of problems seem to multiply with the remedies. For example, who could believe that, for Americans of an earlier time, one great social evil was public spitting? A particularly bad habit which I had to witness and live with was one suffered by my wife, Dorothy. In the later years of our long marriage, she became a terrible HOARDER. I shudder to think of it now. But, having begun this piece with something vile, let me conclude with a reminder that it’s OK to kiss a nun, so long as you don’t get into the habit.

Ashleigh Brilliant born England 1933, came to California in 1955, to Santa Barbara in 1973, to the Montecito Journal in 2016. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots,” now a series of 10,000. email: ashleigh@west. net. web: www.ash leighbrilliant.com.

Dear Montecito Growing Up in Neverland by Stella Haffner

hen I started this column, I knew essentially what I wanted to do. For new endeavors, what you want to do is largely defined by what you can do. And for me, that meant speaking to, about, and for Montecito’s young alumni. Along the way, I learned that good newspapers strike a balance between the news and the olds, as it were. With support from readers and friends, the Dear Montecito column has been defined by the new generation reflecting on the past. In pursuing this goal, a curious if rather predictable theme popped up. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like Montecito.

Returning home is remembering our childhood and reuniting with people who knew an old version of us. Considering myself something of an arm-chair detective, I wondered: What makes this place so special? What is this feeling we seem to experience when we return home? There were many possible culprits. We have good food, good weather, and good company. Our town is a highly coveted getaway spot, whether that means a work-break vacation or a permanent pilgrimage out of L.A. Our easy beach access and boutique organization are traits that make Montecito unique. But it is more than this. It is also true that for young people, anywhere that is home feels like Neverland. In many ways, growing up is something that happens away from home. It happens when we leave the nest and strike out a new place for ourselves. Returning home is remembering our childhood and reuniting with people who knew an old version of us. I think we hear time and again in this column how special Montecito is because this town’s unique qualities intensify the feeling of returning to Neverland. We are reminded of this especially during the summer when empty nesters are brought together with children and grandchildren and our favorite local teachers have more time to enjoy the community they are a part of. But between the familiar faces and the leaves that never change color, Montecito represents a little pocket of time, a place of stability and consistency

for many of its young alumni. But to say nothing changes here wouldn’t be accurate. Both the landscape and culture have changed dramatically since my time at MUS. Whether the influx of celebrities who want their own slice of Neverland – it’s almost cheaper than Botox, after all – or the political tidal waves that ripple into our small community, we are more than familiar with all that has changed. In honor of graduation season and in honor of Dear Montecito’s two-year anniversary, I have been reflecting on what the idea of change means for this column. What I have observed is the Neverland effect. Our identities cannot keep up with how fast we grow. Kindergarteners think that middle school students are old. And middle school students think that high schoolers are old. As of this summer, most of my friends have graduated college. Yet, many of us still think of ourselves as the youngest generation. This is the Neverland effect. A classic case of the new olds still thinking they are the news – while becoming increasingly anxious that they are, in fact, old news. I cannot resist that egregious little pun any more than I can turn back the clock, so before I become entirely uninhibited, I must sign off. Until next time, Stella

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omposer-violinist Jessie Montgomery is no stranger to Santa Barbara, having performed several times in the intimate Mary Craig Auditorium at the downtown Museum of Art with the Catalyst Quartet, the Grammy Award-winning string foursome from the Sphinx Organization she spearheaded from 2012-20. But that was before George Floyd, and the Black Lives Matter-spurred reckoning with racism and a lack of inclusivity that led to a huge upswell in commissions and performing opportunities for Montgomery. Her ability to compose and play music that incorporates influences from Black musical culture to incisive social consciousness to opportunities for improvisation made her one of the more highly sought-after classical musicians of our time, one whose orchestral works alone were programmed in 2021, including many major ensembles, at a rate 20 times

higher than it had been a few years earlier. Her versatility as a composer and dedication to maintaining her commitment to teaching even as her schedule forced her to resign from the Catalyst also put her squarely in the forefront of the Music Academy’s own awakening and reckoning about being more inclusive regarding artists of color, which just two years later finds Montgomery as the most fascinating of the 2022 Mosher Guests Artists. Montgomery will be at the Academy for a week coaching and rehearsing with select fellows for a concert on August 4 in a program comprised of five of her works – “Prelude for Solo Cello,” “Rhapsody No. 1, Duo for Violin and Cello,” “Voodoo Dolls,” and “Source Code” – plus piece by colleagues Paul Wiancko (“American Haiku”) and Inti Figgis-Vizueta (“Placing Ceremony”). She’ll also lead the chamber music master class on August 1, which will focus on some of the recital works. Montgomery, who grew up on the Lower East Side and

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Upcoming@MA July 29, August 3 & 5: This year’s fellows-driven Picnic Concerts are proving so popular, there’s three within a single week! July 29’s event, dubbed “Summer Music” after the breezy work by Samuel Barber, also features pieces from Chopin and Ravel, including two that are piano duos. A pop-up on August 3 titled “Souvenir de Florence” for Tchaikovsky’s string piece, covers a stylistic range with a tango by Piazzola for harp and flute and Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, before the series concludes August 5 with more of Copland’s concerto flanked by pieces from Kodály and Hurel. (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; free-$40)

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Saturday, July 30: After a three-week hiatus, the Academy Festival Orchestra returns to action with the penultimate concert of the season featuring Stéphane Denève conducting a masterpiece from one of his countrymen in Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2” plus Rachmaninoff ’s Symphony No. 3. It’s the Academy debut for Denève, the Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Brussels Philharmonic, and Principal Guest Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, who should give the fellows, and us, a good workout. (7:30 pm; Granada; free-$100) Monday, August 1: The finals of the annual Duo Competition bring five

pairs of instrumentalists – each including a collaborative pianist – performing sonatas, duos, or concerto movements in competition for a prize package that includes a commissioned world premiere they’ll get to play next year back at Hahn Hall. The panel of judges boasts the great Jennifer Koh, the prolific violinist-composer who knows a thing or two about collaborating. (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; free-$55) Tuesday, August 2: The final X2 concert of the year features guest composer Christopher Cerrone’s Don’t Look Down – the solo faculty-only piece on a program rounded out by rarely-heard works by Oskar Böhme and Adolphus Hailstork plus a string quintet by Schubert. (7:30 pm; Lobero; free-$55) Wednesday, August 3: Contests come to a close with the most venerable one, the Marilyn Horne Vocal Competition, back to a weekday afternoon for the first time in years. Each of the singers and vocal pianist fellows on campus this summer gets a chance at the grand prize of premiering a commissioned piece next year, although there’s something of a reward just being evaluated by and receiving feedback from a panel boasting Grammy winning singers Sasha Cooke and Ana María Martínez along with Martin Katz, the 1964 MA alum and 1999 Distinguished Alumni Award winner who will teach a legacy vocal master class on August 5. (12-5:30 pm with a 30-minute break at 2:30 pm; Hahn Hall; free-$55)

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backbone of the organization for decades. It starts with outreach that extends many miles away from the concert hall and across all age groups. That’s because a good deal of the Symphony’s time and attention goes toward youth education, largely reaching those who may never spend a day as a professional musician. The Symphony starts working with kids as young as third grade and it has programs that take them all the way to college, serving nearly 10,000 students every year. The wide-ranging education programs are a staple in the community, said Dr. Nick Fuentes, the Symphony’s new VP of Community Education and Enrichment, noting that the first step in Next season will see a series of preliminary talks the continuum is the Music Van, which with Nir Kabaretti before the Sunday concerts has been bringing an introduction to the (photo by Zach Mendez) Symphony and its instruments to the county’s third-grade students since 1978. it’s not about the pins or other gifts of “We go to 55 different schools across gratitude subscribers and donors earn, the county, ones that don’t have their own Martin said. music program, places where kids wouldn’t “It’s really that more people are believnormally receive exposure to orchestra ing in the impact that our Symphony instruments,” he said. “Every student gets orchestra can have and expressing how to see and witness the demonstration and much they want Santa Barbara to have then they get an opportunity to handle one that does more than just concerts,” and play nearly every instrument in the she said. “It feels very personal.” entire symphony orchestra. It’s a goal for The organization is the strongest it’s us to be as inclusive as possible and create been in its history because everyone access for everyone.” involved, from the artistic, management, The Symphony also runs three dif- and governance sides, is in alignment ferent ensembles for different levels of about vision and direction, and willing to young players to practice and perform put the time in, she said. together, building both musical and rela“Nir (who made Santa Barbara his tionship skills. permanent home), the board president, “Ours is the only music education pro- and I have all committed to being here gram in the region that’s tied to a profes- for five years to provide that continuity sional symphony orchestra,” said Martin. for the community, which is something “That means our maestro [Kabaretti], I’ve never seen before anywhere else. It who is performing in Florence right now, feels really good to be working so hard on is also thinking about the curriculum of behalf of the community – and that word our youth ensembles. They get to attend comes up in every single conversation we the Symphony concerts. It’s all part of have. What does the community need? leveraging the fact that we have nine Where are the opportunities? Where is months’ worth of musicians available to the unmet need? How can we bring joy? us to benefit local kids.” How can we bring connection?” The 70th anniversary has also sparked a new initiative for donors, reducing the Santa Barbara Symphony minimum gift for the Prelude Club from 1330 State Street, Suite 102 $100 to $70, lowering the bar to be part (805) 898-9386 of those honored for their support. But thesymphony.org

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On Entertainment

Robert’s Big Questions

by Steven Libowitz

by Robert Bernstein

Finding the Off-beat Flavors of Fiesta

iesta isn’t only about music, food, dance, and arts and entertainment reflecting Santa Barbara’s Spanish cultural past and present, there’s also a pretty healthy dose of rock and roll, pop, and more in outdoor locations around town. Most notable are the twin Mercados at De La Guerra Plaza and Mackenzie Park, both returning for the first time in three COVID-complicated years. While Area 51 seems to be MIA after countless years at the midtown marketplace, most of the regulars are back for the evening events that follow dance performances all day long. At the Plaza, that includes False Puppet, Doublewide Kings, Tony Ybarra, Mezcal Martini, the Roosters, and Spencer the Gardener, along with relative newcomers Jackson Gillies, Flannel 101, and Molly Ringwald Project, the latter of which might have blown the roof off at Chase Palm Park at their Concerts in the Park show in mid-July, that is if there was one. The more family-friendly Mackenzie Park, which is also bringing back the carnival with rides and games, will boast the likes of Dusty Jugs/Rincons, Chill Point, Vibe Setters, Heart and Soul, Soul Kool, and Grooveshine, among others. As always, admission is free. Meanwhile, still in July, the Westside gets into the unofficial Old Spanish Days spirit 5-8 pm on Thursday, July 28, with its pre-Fiesta social business mixer Tardeana con Mariachi co-presented by Opera Santa Barbara, the Greater SB Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and Westside business owners. Besides making connections old and new, attractions include dinner, drinks, and live music by Mariachi Orgullo de Mexico in the heart of the Westside at La Bella Rosa Bakery’s parking lot at 1411 San Andres Street. Heart and Soul will also serve as the musical entertainment for the final official pre-Fiesta event La Recepción del Presidente, which includes dinner and dances by both the 2022 Spirit and Junior Spirit of Fiesta at the Carriage and Western Art Museum on Sunday, July 31. Then it’s on to La Fiesta Pequeña at the Old Mission on Wednesday, August 3 (and the rehearsal night on August 2 that’s become a massive popular if unofficial preview); Celebración de los Dignatarios (aka DIGS!) featuring small bites, premium bars, and local breweries and wineries at the Santa Barbara Zoo on August 4; Las Noches de Ronda at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens, and the Fiesta Stock Horse Show at Earl Warren Showgrounds, both Thursday-Saturday, August 4-6; the horse-crazed parade on August 5 and kids parade on August 6, and, 28 July – 4 August 2022

well, all the other trimmings of the city’s biggest annual event. Visit sbfiesta.org/events-calendar or call (805) 962-8101 for more details and a full list of events. Viva!

Film Threads: ‘Scilla and Savings on SBIFF UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Hot Fun in the Summertime free film screening series presents The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the 1994 Australian road comedy that became a certified cult classic about two drag queens and a transgender woman (Terence Stamp!) journeying across the Australian Outback in an old tour bus. Showtime is 8:30 pm Friday, July 29, at the County Courthouse Sunken Garden before the site goes dark for a week in favor of Fiesta. SBIFF has announced that prices for its Cinema and State Street passes for the 2023 fest – which finally moves back to a mid-winter week-plus on February 8-18 – are not increasing despite the insane inflation in America. Even better: you can still get 25% off regular pass prices on six different options (though not the $6,000 Concierge Pass, understandably) in SBIFF’s annual early bird special through this weekend (July 31). Visit sbiff.org.

Venturing to Ventura There’s no better bang for your buck than the Ventura County Fair, the massive oceanside 11-day event that finally returns to Seaside Park August 3-14. Activities include everything from 4H competitions to crafts show, exhibit halls, belly-busting fair food, art shows, and a huge carnival as well as a bevy of classic rock and country acts. Entry to the concerts – al fresco in the grandstand, a big plus as the pandemic persists – costs absolutely nothing more than the price of admission, a mere $15 per day, $10 for kids and seniors. The lists of headliners include several that have played local venues just in the last couple of years, boasting country’s Martina McBride and Clay Walker plus KC & The Sunshine Band, The AllAmerican Rejects, Cheap Trick, and the perennially popular Beach Boys, who have a bunch of Montecito and Santa Barbara connections. Visit venturacountyfair.org for everything related to the fair, which carries the smart tagline of “A country fair with ocean air.”

Steven Libowitz has covered a plethora of topics for the Journal since 1997, and now leads our extensive arts and entertainment coverage

Can You Learn to be Lucky? Part 1

Dr.

Richard Wiseman is a U.K. magician, skeptic, and psychology professor who set out to answer the title question! The result: The Luck Factor book, which I highly recommend! Soon after he began his research, the producer of a popular TV science program asked him to collaborate. They put out a short piece on the program inviting viewers who felt especially lucky or unlucky in life to call the station. They wanted people who were planning to participate in the U.K. national lottery. Wiseman created a survey to quantify “luckiness.” Millions of people called and they took the first 1,000 callers. They completed the survey and told Wiseman the numbers they had picked for the lottery. Wiseman quickly noticed that the self-described lucky and unlucky people picked different numbers! After pondering the ethics, Wiseman bought his first ever lottery ticket based on the lucky people’s numbers. What do you think happened? Your answer will be quite revealing. It turned out that Wiseman won nothing and the lucky and unlucky people won totally at random. Being lucky did not give some psychic superpower to divine winning lottery numbers. But luck really is a thing. Lucky people do very well in life, finding endless lucky opportunities. Unlucky people never seem to get a break. Wiseman wanted to find out how luck worked. For ten years he studied 400 diverse people in depth. What was it that made some people lucky and some unlucky? He first considered that people who were smarter were luckier. He gave his subjects intelligence tests and there was no difference between lucky and unlucky people. He gleaned Four Principles of Luck that lucky people used and that unlucky people missed. Principle One? Creating and noticing chance opportunities. He gave his subjects a newspaper and asked them to count how many photographs were inside. On average, the unlucky people took two minutes for the task. The lucky ones took just seconds. Why? Because the second page of the newspaper had a bold message taking up half the page: “Stop counting. There are 43 photographs.” The unlucky people were so busy counting, they missed it. They also missed a second message offering $250 if they saw it! In contrast, lucky people stay relaxed and open. Lucky people go to a party open to talking to any interesting person

with no fixed goal. They build networks of friends who in turn may lead to the perfect job or perfect life partner. At a typical party, you are just “two handshakes removed” from 4.5 million people! Lucky people maintain those contacts. Unlucky people fall into habitual ruts. They take the same routes and talk to the same types of people. Lucky people seek out new experiences, new places to go, and new types of people to meet. Lucky people talk to strangers in line. Some go out of their way to meet new people by forcing themselves only to talk to people wearing a certain color at a party! Or play a dice game to choose a new experience from visiting the zoo to taking up skydiving! Most great discoveries were made by luck. Better to maximize lucky opportunities than control everything. Being in the right place at the right time means being in the right state of mind. Unlucky people tend to be anxious and fearful, creating a vicious circle. These emotions make people less aware of opportunities. Making them less lucky. Lucky people are more trusting and willing to think the best of new people they meet. Principle Two? Listen to your gut feelings and hunches. And find ways to boost your intuition. Imagining visiting an old man in a remote mountain cave. He asks you to list each option you are facing and how you honestly feel about each one. Don’t use logic or numbers. It is OK later to compare your feeling with evidence. But don’t dismiss your feelings. Write a resignation or breakup letter but don’t send it yet. Just see how it feels. He also suggests meditation. Don’t ruminate on your options. Rather, clear your mind for ten minutes or go for a hike. Afterwards, your intuitions will be fresh. Luck matters. One instance of bad luck can mean a life of disability or bankruptcy. One instant of good luck can save years of hard work. In Part 2 I will discuss Principles Three and Four of The Luck Factor!

Robert Bernstein holds degrees from Physics departments of MIT and UCSB. Passion to understand the Big Questions of life, the universe and to be a good citizen of the planet. Visit facebook.com/ questionbig

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FRIDAY, JULY 29

by Steven Libowitz FRIDAY, JULY 29 Check Out The Chicks Now – Nearly 20 years after the then-named Dixie Chicks refused to back down while being mercilessly blacklisted, insulted, and threatened following Natalie Maines’ off-hand remark in England on the eve of the Iraq War about being ashamed that President George Bush was from Texas, both the band’s music and story remain powerfully moving and instructive in our even more divided times. Still walking their talk in 2020, the 13-time Grammy Award-winning musical trio took the bold step of shortening their name to The Chicks, spurred by the renewed awareness of the racist/Confederate connotations of Dixie following the murder of George Floyd. What The Chicks also did during the pandemic was put out their first new album in more than 15 years, one whose title alone, Gaslight, continues the intrigue and features more music boasting harmonies of aching beauty blended with unabashed bravery. Not only does tonight’s show offer a rare chance to catch this trio of conquering queens of country music, the bonus is an opening set from Jenny Lewis, the singer-songwriter-keyboardist contemporary of The Chicks whose long career has had her remain a cult favorite through the bands Rilo Kiley, the Postal Service, Jenny & Johnny, and a solo career. WHEN: 6:30 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. COST: $95-$195 INFO: (805) 962-4711 or sbbowl.com SATURDAY, JULY 30 No Joshin’: Groban and Giants of Jazz – In a quirky and inspired bit of billing that might even have given programmers of 1970s free-form radio pause, classical crossover singer-songwriter superstar Josh Groban is returning to the Santa Barbara Bowl as headliner with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band serving as opening act. Finally getting the chance to perform selections from his 2020 album Harmony, the multiple-platinum selling artist Groban is employing his operatic vocals, classy band (with longtime musical direction by Santa Barbara native Tariqh Akoni, who is now also the head of A&R at the new Santa Barbara Records label) plus orchestra and choir in a wide-ranging set that features his covers of Frank Sinatra’s “The World We

FRIDAY, JULY 29 Performing Amidst the Plants – Santa Barbara Botanic Garden continues its evenings of outdoor concerts known as the Summer Serenade Series with seating on the Island View lawn outside the Pritzlaff Conservation Center in the foothills above town. Tonight’s guest is the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble of professional musicians who live in Ventura County and perform under the baton of founding artistic director Dr. KuanFen Liu. CHICO, as the ensemble calls itself, is on the brink of launching its 20th season. The musical theme for this evening is “Love songs both sad and ecstatic,” and features “Parto, Parto,” (“I am leaving”)” from Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, K. 621, and J.W. Kalliwoda’s “Heimatlied” op. 117 (Homeland) in addition to many other selections. Soloists include soprano Patricia Lathrop-McPherson, pianist Miriam Arichea and clarinetist David Singer, the latter the former principal clarinetist of the Grammy Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra which has performed at the White House for presidents Carter and Clinton. Blankets and picnics are encouraged and dogs are permitted. WHEN: 5:30-7:30 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Road COST: $25 general, $10 youth INFO: (805) 682.4726 or sbbg.org

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Medium Hot in the Valley – Theresa Caputo, star of TLC’s Long Island Medium, the popular reality TV series that ran from 2011-19, returns to one of her more popular venues at the Chumash Casino Resort for a fourth time. Caputo’s “The Experience” features Caputo performing psychic readings live from among chosen audience members. Despite significant doubts about her powers from Inside Edition, paranormal investigator Massimo Polidoro, and noted parapsychological-paranormal-psychic debunker James Randi, Caputo clings to her claims of being able to bring messages from the dead, and remains perennially popular. Caputo has authored three books, There’s More to Life Than This: Healing Messages, Remarkable Stories, and Insight About the Other Side from the Long Island Medium; You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Life-Changing Lessons from Heaven; and Good Grief: Heal Your Soul, Honor Your Loved Ones, and Learn to Live Again. When Long Island Medium stopped airing, Caputo launched her weekly podcast, Hey Spirit! with Theresa Caputo, which features fans, guests, and surprise celebrities who call in to receive her psychic readings. WHEN: 8 pm tonight & tomorrow WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom, 3400 Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $79-$129 INFO: (800) CHUMASH or chumashcasino.com Knew (Over And Over),” Sting’s “Shape Of My Heart,” and Robbie Williams’ “Angels” among others. Violinist-singer Lucia Micarelli and singer-songwriter Eleri Ward serve as Groban’s guests. The penultimate concert in the two-month tour will be opened by Preservation Hall Jazz Band, currently celebrating its 60th anniversary, although the legendary New Orleans ensemble is mostly populated by its next generation of players in bridging traditional and contemporary jazz styles. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. COST: $51-$205 INFO: (805) 962-4711 or sbbowl.com Latinx Mural Art Forum – The Latinx Arts Project/Carpinteria (Proyecto de Artes Latinx/Carpinteria) – a grassroots organization working to celebrate the small California beach town’s unique Latinx history that includes 27 years in the mid-20th century when Carpinteria was segregated – is aiming to create three murals that address the past, present, and future of the community in hopes to give an accurate depiction of the town’s history, honor those who lived it, and celebrate its harmonious future. Launching a series of public events, tonight the once-segregated Alcazar Theatre (then known as the Plaza) hosts an artists and muralists panel; a screening of Voces de Old Town Carpinteria, a 15-minute documentary by Brent Winebrenner, who will introduce the film; and announcement of an open call for entries and prize money for Ventura and Santa Barbara County artists to participate in the mural project. The panelists include local artists Adriana Arriaga, Ralph D’Oliveira, Ruth Ellen Hoag, and Lisa Kelly, moderated by Ryan P. Cruz. WHEN: 6-7:30 pm WHERE: Alcazar Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria COST: $10 suggested donation INFO: latinxartsproject.org TUESDAY, AUGUST 2 & THURSDAY, AUGUST 4 You Like Ukes? – Is the ukulele becoming as ubiquitous in the United States as the guitar? Well, no, that’s a bit of an overstatement, but the instrument once considered a toy or a novelty not only has quite a sizable organization in town, the Santa Barbara Ukulele Club, dedicated to growing the community of local players who congregate on a regular basis to practice and play, but is having two of its biggest stars coming to our area just two days apart. First up, Taimane Tauiliili Bobby Gardner – better known by her first name, which translates as diamond in Samoan – is a jewel of a composer and performer who first made waves as a teen in Hawaii after Don Ho discovered her, studying with Jake Shimabukuro, and releasing her first album at 16.

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SATURDAY, JULY 30 Schlieske at SOhO – Midwest rock star turned Santa Barbara singer-songwriter Tina Schlieske, who still splits her time between the South Coast and her old Minneapolis haunts, settles into SOhO for a club date well worth attending. Schlieske has fronted a diverse array of rock bands, from the wildly popular Minneapolis Americana group Tina and the B-Sides to a duo act called the Graceland Exiles with her sister Laura here in town, and plays everything from classic rock to R&B, punk, jazz and rootsy acoustic music, frequently crossing boundaries and genres. Check out her Facebook page for heartwarming and foot-stomping house concert recordings produced during the pandemic, and check out her show at SOhO with Laura, as usual, along for the ride. WHEN: 8:30 pm WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or sohosb.com She’s put out four more discs since then and among her accolades is being featured in Guitar World Magazine as a Top 10 ukulele performer, doing a TED Talk on her technique, and having her NPR Tiny Desk concert garner more than a million views. WHEN: 8:30 pm Tuesday, August 2 WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $25 in advance, $28 day-of INFO: (805) 962-7776 or sohosb.com Two days later, we get another show from the always scintillating uke virtuoso, Shimabukuro, the one-time prodigy who came to fame through absurdly fast-yet-singular cover song videos that barely portended his future prowess. Shimabukuro’s fervent imagination continues to spur him to innovate with the ukulele in visiting jazz, rock, blues, bluegrass, folk, and classical to take the tiny instrument to points previously thought impossible. We’ve seen him at SOhO, UCSB’s Campbell Hall, and the Santa Barbara Bowl, and tonight Jake journeys to Ojai for a show at the Libbey Bowl. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Libbey Bowl, 210 S. Signal Ave., Ojai COST: $39-$79 INFO: (805) 272-3881 or libbeybowl.org/calendar

SUNDAY, JULY 24 Leo’s Licks at the Lobero – The famed solo acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke has built a long and fruitful career through a fingerpicking style that draws on blues, jazz, and folk music to deliver syncopated, polyphonic melodies. Considered one of the most impressive acoustic guitarists to emerge in the 1960s, Kottke brought a unique sound and virtuosic flourishes to the instrument that find his fingers racing across the strings with uncommon speed, in the process developing a deep, churning groove that can at times sound like several people playing at once. All of that brought him to the attention of John Fahey’s manager, helping to launch his recording career. While 1975’s Chewing Pine was the last of his albums to reach the U.S. Top 50, he has maintained a sizable cult audience through nearly non-stop touring including myriad folk festivals around the world; he also gained an international cult following thanks to his performances at festivals the world over. Kottke is still innovating as evidenced by 2020’s Noon, his third collaboration with Phish bassist Mike Gordon and first in 15 years. Kottke continues to book gigs at the Lobero whenever he’s on the road, still attracting full houses to hear him play well into his 70s. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $40 & $ 50 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com 28 July – 4 August 2022

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Eden by the Beach in 2004. “We must be willing to look for ways to overcome the stereotypes and tell new stories which might be more immediately accessible to the younger generation,” says Burlett, a longtime volunteer at Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter (BUNS), a rabbit and guinea pig rescue organization. Bravo!

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American automotive designer, author, and photojournalist Peter Brock will be the honoree this year at the Montecito Motor Classic at the Santa Barbara Polo Club in October, I can exclusively reveal. Brock is best known for his work on the Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe and the Corvette Stingray. His accomplishments have been honored with numerous Lifetime Achievement awards and he has just been inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame 2022.

Bon Anniversaire Mineards It wasn’t quite the exotic Moroccan city of Marrakech where I had been scheduled to celebrate the 19th anniversary of my half century, but our rarefied enclave’s newest eatery Local on Coast Village Road served as a suitable replacement locale to celebrate. I joined good friends, animal activist Gretchen Lieff and her fiancée Miles Hartfeld, and my trusty shutterbug

Priscilla at the bustling hotspot, as friends, including Wayne and Sharol Siemens, and Sharon Bradford stopped by. And when our waiter brought out a slice of chocolate birthday cake adorned with a single candle, Local’s patrons all joined in a hearty rendition of Happy Birthday! A fun evening...

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Episodic Earnings Kevin Costner, 67, is the highest paid actor on TV earning $1.3 million per episode for his Paramount Network hit show Yellowstone. Right on the Carpinteria resident’s heels, earning $1 million per episode, are Sylvester Stallone in Tulsa King, Montecito actor Michael Keaton for Dopesick, Harrison Ford and Helen

Mirren in 1923, and Jason Sudeikis in Ted Lasso, according to Variety. Costner has starred in 40 episodes of the neo-Western drama, which debuted in June, 2008. It is the highest rated show on cable TV.

A Call for Comedy Freedom Former Montecito funnyman John Cleese, 82, has slammed woke culture for having a “disastrous effect” on comedy. The former Monty Python star and Cambridge University graduate, says he doesn’t believe comedians have the right to be funny anymore, blasting today’s cancel culture as “the death of creativity.” Cleese, appearing at the Freedom Fest in Las Vegas, says the current crackdown on jokes which could be perceived as offensive is deterring young comedians. “I think it particularly worrying at the moment because you can only create in an atmosphere of freedom, where you’re not checking everything you say critically before you move on.”

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On a personal note, I remember Mark Fleischman, former owner of the legendary Manhattan club Studio 54, who has died at the age of 82 by an assisted suicide at the Dignitas Clinic in Zurich, Switzerland. Fleischman, who I had known for many years having been an habitué at the club in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, before my get up and go got up and went, suffered from undiagnosed degenerative brain illness for six years which left him, in his own words, “more or less a vegetable” in a wheelchair. His deal with the previous 54 owners, included passing on to them ownership of his Madison Avenue-based Executive hotel, which Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager then renamed Morgans, the start of their hostelry empire, which came to include the Paramount and the Royalton. Fleischman, who was also co-owner of the Century Club in Los Angeles, lived an immensely colorful life, and I admired his personal courage in dying on his own terms.

Sightings Singer Katy Perry filming a Dolce & Gabbana commercial in Capri, Italy... Local rocker Adam Levine celebrating his eighth wedding anniversary with wife Behati Prinsloo in Maui... Writer T.C. Boyle checking out The Honor Bar... Pip! Pip! Be safe, wear a mask when necessary, and get vaccinated.

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Jenni Kayne Home Opens Lifestyle guru Jenni Kayne has opened a second store in San Ysidro Village,

located adjacent to her original apparel-focused Montecito store. Kayne has created a line of home goods in the same welcoming palette of timeless neutrals and grounded earth tones for which she is known; the store features furniture, including couches, beds, benches, outdoor furniture, credenzas, cedar stumps, and chairs, as well as textiles including pillows, blankets, and towels, and tabletop items

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The shop, which is just steps from the apparel store, offers an array of décor and furniture in Kayne’s welcoming palette of timeless neutrals and grounded earth tones

such as plates, utensils, and décor. Kayne has also partnered with a few other home brands to offer in-store, including Crow Canyon, Olive Atelier, and Victoria Morris. “Our product and Jenni’s aesthetic is such a blank canvas,” said general manager Casi McCarthy. “We hope that Montecito residents and visitors will stop in and discover the elevated essentials designed to create dream homes.” The store is the third brick and mortar to offer Jenni Kayne’s home products. It’s located at 525 San Ysidro Road in

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3517 PADARO LN, CARPINTERIA 4BD/3½BA; PadaroLaneHome.com • $16,500,000 Kathleen Winter, 805.451.4663 LIC# 01022891

4343 MARINA DR, SANTA BARBARA 3BD/3BA; ±2.42 acres • $14,995,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

1439 IRVINE LN, SANTA BARBARA 5BD/6½BA; ±1.41 acre • $13,500,000 Deborah Samuel, 805.570.6680 LIC# 02119798

1333 SANTA TERESITA DR, SANTA BARBARA 4BD/4½BA • $4,995,000 Spechler & Beck RE Group, 805.689.2717 LIC# 00552664 / 01488548

7 MONTE ALEGRE DR, CARPINTERIA ±10.01 acres • $4,250,000 Bartron Real Estate Group, 805.563.4054 LIC# 01005021

2260-2262 SAN MARCOS PASS RD, SB 3BD/3½BA + 1BD/1BA; ±41 acres • $3,950,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

1071 E MOUNTAIN DR, MONTECITO 2BD/2BA + 1BD/1BA GH • $3,850,000 Daniel Encell, 805.565.4896 LIC# 00976141

1405 ALAMEDA PADRE SERRA, RIVIERA 3BD/3BA • $3,495,000 The Easter Team, 805.570.0403 LIC# 00917775

239 RAMETTO RD, MONTECITO 3BD/2BA • $3,450,000 Daniel Encell, 805.565.4896 LIC# 00976141

1293 SPRING RD, MONTECITO 3BD/3BA • $3,250,000 Patrice Serrani, 805.637.5112 LIC# 01764713

29 SEAVIEW DR, MONTECITO 2BD/2BA; MontecitoShoresCondo.com • $3,175,000 Kathleen Winter, 805.451.4663 LIC# 01022891

5110 COTTAGE DR, CARPINTERIA 4BD/3½BA • $2,295,000 Yolanda Van Wingerden, 805.570.4965 LIC# 01308141

585 SYCAMORE VISTA RD, MONTECITO 4BD/2BA • $2,195,000 Patrice Serrani, 805.637.5112 LIC# 01764713

1790 GLEN OAKS DR, MONTECITO ±1.15 acres • $1,695,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

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