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Parking Wars Bob Hazard offers three potential solutions to solve the lack of parking on Coast Village Road, page 10 Montesano Market New market to open its doors this weekend, offering elevated imported Italian products next door to the deli, page 12 Magic in the Forest Fairies, elves, and unicorns were out in full force for Santa Barbara Zoo’s 36th annual Zoofari Ball, page 6 ANNUAL GRANADA THEATRE LEGENDS GALA HONORS ALLEN SIDES, PALMER AND JOAN JACKSON, AND STATE STREET BALLET (STORY STARTS ON PAGE 5) 1 – 8 SEP 2022 VOL 28 ISS 35FREE The Giving List State Street Ballet has been presenting almostproductionsworld-classintownfor30years,page20SERVING MONTECITO AND SOUTHERN SANTA BARBARAJOURNAL www.montecitojournal.net

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P.32 Library Mojo – Historian and author Betsy Green to visit Montecito Library to present new book, Movies & MillionDollar Mansions

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P.23 Brilliant Thoughts – Ashleigh Brilliant explores the concept of motion and how humans have always been on the move

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P.12 Village Beat – Montesano Market opens this weekend, offering a one-stop-shop for all picnicking and artisanal food needs

P.40 Calendar of Events – DJ Darla Bea’s birthday bash, Tab Benoit plays the Lobero, Jackson Browne returns to the Bowl, and much more in this week’s calendar

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P.11 Montecito Reads – Hollis begins his new job and has his doubts, but tries to ignore them in chapter 12 of Montecito

P.35 Far Flung Travel – Chuck Graham hikes to the summit of Mount Langley in the Eastern Sierra on his search for American pikas

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T he annual Granada Theatre Legends Gala has become one of the most cherished events ever since its debut in 2015, and it’s easy to see why. The evening pays tribute to the trio of pillars that represent foundational aspects of the performing arts in town, an approach that has made the Granada such a smashing success since the grand re-opening of the historic venue follow ing a beautiful restoration and renovation completed in 2008. Each event honors one of the Granada’s presenting organizations, this year the State Street Ballet; an entertainer or other arts-related local, Allen Sides in 2022; and philanthropists who have supported both the venue and the arts in general in Santa Barbara, with Palmer and Joan Jackson receiving this year’s honor. The Legends Gala is also a rare opportunity to experience the Granada from the stage rather than one of the 1,300 seats, as the event puts patrons in seats around tables on the fully extended stage, with all of the activities and presentations taking place from a view only the entertainers normally get to see.

Over his decades-long career, the fivetime Grammy-winning sound engineer, producer, and speaker designer built and ran a number of extremely popular recording studios in Los Angeles, and engineered or produced albums for a wide array of artists from Green Day to Trisha Yearwood, Joni Mitchell, Ry Cooder, Stevie Wonder, Lady Gaga, and Count Basie, to name just a few. More recently, he’s turned his attention to creating. “I love any kind of music that’s great. It doesn’t matter if it’s a film score or a symphony or jazz or rock,” Sides said. “Capturing that sound faithfully, having them sound true and natural is what I do in the studio, and that’s also what my sound systems are designed to reproduce.”Gettingthe chance to upgrade the Granada system was a no-brainer.

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“I knew we could fix the audio prob lem,” Sides said, noting that getting the acoustics right in a venue that might veer from the London Symphony to Brian Setzer to Broadway musicals over the matter of a few nights is no easy task.

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Five-time Grammy-winning sound engineer, pro ducer, and speaker designer Allen Sides Granada Theatre Legends Gala returns to the stage (photo by Baron Spafford)

Sides will be recognized for designing and spearheading the spectacular new sound system installed in April at the Granada, a revolutionary new “point source” sound system from his Ocean Way Audio that is able to distribute 90 degrees of audio in both the horizontal and vertical directions, a cutting-edge approach that delivers a direct, high-qual ity stereo signal to every seat in the house. It’s a massive upgrade to the Granada that has already astounded both perform ers and patrons, and something Sides is proud to have produced for one of his favorite venues in Southern California.

Annual Gala Returns to the Granada Stage

Peter and Pieter Crawford-van Meeuwen (photo by Nik Blaskovich)

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Kevin Frank , owner of K. Frank, the men’s and women’s clothing store that once occupied State Street and moved with great success to Coast Village Road a few years ago, notes: “CVR parking is a sensitive subject but I’m supportive of reimagining the manner in which Coast Village Road operates. We can create an environment more conducive to outdoor dining as long as it is balanced by easier and more convenient parking for every business on the street. We’ve been bugging the city for years to help redesign and reimagine our medians, our traffic flow, and our parking situ ation. In the grand scheme of things, we can accept outdoor dining, but only if we can provide more parking spaces for retail shops than those removed to

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There is not a single person in Montecito who dines out regularly who does not enjoy gracious outdoor dining in the pleasant parklets at Ca’Dario, Lucky’s, Tre Lune, Jeannine’s, Coast & Olive, Renaud’s, Mesa Burger, Bree’Osh, and the Folded Hills Winery. They join the Honor Bar, Los Arroyos, the China Palace, Local, Oliver’s, the Montesano Deli, Starbucks, and Bettina, all of which offer outdoor din ing in one of the most outdoor-friendly climates in the world. There is also not a single resident of Montecito who is not concerned about the survival of an amazing array of some 70 boutique salons, jewelry stores, galleries, fashion emporiums, and retail shops along Coast Village Road, battered by a shortage of park Solution to the Coast Village Road Parking Wars: Who Wins? Who Loses?

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ing and the added traffic congestion created by an unwise City decision five years ago to close the southbound Cabrillo/Hot Springs on-ramp to the 101, diverting all departing city beach traffic through CVR to enter the 101 at Olive Mill Road. City Parking Summit at the Montecito Inn As reported in the Montecito Journal , Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse met with some 30 CVR businessown ers and restaurant patrons on August 12, 2022, in the Conference Room at the Montecito Inn to discuss the fate of parklets on CVR. The Santa Barbara City Council received a letter signed by 25 business owners and seven property owners on CVR requesting removal of parklets. City Councilmember Kristen Sneddon , whose District 4 includes Coast Village Road, has already con demned the parklets saying, “They served a really important function during the height of the pandemic and customers still love eating outdoors, but now the parking loss is severely impacting retailers and services along the corridor. Coast Village has unique impacts because of the tight, angled parking and there really are limited other options.” Sneddon was noticeably absent at the Montecito Inn meeting. Santa Barbara ordinance 6055, adopt ed on February 1, 2022, extending parklets on CVR expires on December 31, 2023. Without renewal, restaurants will be required to remove their popular parklets. Retail Owner’s View Retailers argue persuasively that more people are shopping post-COVID and that CVR shops and boutiques need more parking spaces and less traffic con gestion to succeed, especially in the late afternoon and early evening. In reality, the lack of adequate CVR parking pre dates the parklets and the COVID pan demic. Unlike State Street, Coast Village Road does not have the benefit of public parking garages.

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The duo of businesses, Montesano Market & Deli, offers breakfast and lunch including egg dishes, traditional piadinas, classic and Italian sandwiches featuring D’Angelo breads, salads, prepared deli salads, and more, with the market offering an array of imported Italian products.

The market will also offer charcuterie boards and utensils, as well as picnic baskets, canvas totes, and napkins –everything you need to build a great gift basket or pack a picnic basket for the beach. Russell says seating – both indoor and outdoor – will be available for eat

“We’ll have elevated grocery products for everyday use, as well as be a one-stop shop for beach picnics, charcuterie, and more,” Russell told us earlier this week at the nearly-completed shop, which is located in the former Letter Perfect space. From specialty canned and jarred toma toes and tomato sauces, pestos, olive oils and vinegars, pastas and risottos, olives, beans, relishes, and herbs, to chocolates, sweets, and cookies, the pantry items are plentiful. There is also a refrigerated sec tion that includes Italian butter, an array of cheese and cured meats, and more. The family-friendly shop also has a special kids’ shelf, featuring popular Italian kids’ products, as well as gluten-free pastas.

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by Kelly Mahan Herrick In April, Montecito restaurateur Gene Montesano – with the help of general manager Leslee Russell – took over a Coast Village Road staple: Montecito Deli. The new-and-improved “Montesano Deli” has brought fresh changes to the space and the menu, and this weekend, the market next door is set to open.

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The reimagined Italian/Jewish deli offers break fast, lunch, and to-go options (photo by Suzanne Lanza)

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Montesano Market is set to open this holi day weekend, joining the already-open deli on Coast Village Road (photo by Suzanne Lanza)

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(For sponsorship opportunities and ticket information for the 2022 Legends Gala, call Jill Seltzer, Vice President for Advancement, at (805) 899-3000 ext. 130, email jseltzer@ granadasb.org, or visit www.granadasb.org.)

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“The Granada represents Santa Barbara’s commitment to hosting worldclass performing artists,” said Jackson, who with wife, Joan, was coaxed by his son Palmer, Jr., the current Chairman of the Granada Board, to step out of the background to take a brief turn in the spotlight to recognize their significant and long-term support of the organi zation. “[Both] the elite artists from around the world who choose to perform at the Granada because they appreciate its state-of-the-art facilities and excellent acoustics, and our own local performing arts companies who shine on its stage.”

For Rodney Gustafson, founder and co-artistic director of fellow Legends hon oree State Street Ballet, the Granada rep resents not only an enviable venue to mount its annual production of The Nutcracker and other large works, but also a spirit of collaboration that has defined his dance company’s ethos from the start.

Those in attendance for the 2022 Legends Gala will get a tiny taste of the ballet company’s bounty through a high ly-produced short video retrospective of State Street’s history projected on the big screen at the back of the stage (complete with the Sides-created sound system) along with some of its dancers moving between and interacting with the audience.

“The Granada and so many of the arts organizations have been great partners to us,” Gustafson said. “I take great pride with the association we have with the Granada, the Symphony, the Music Academy, and Ensemble Theatre, col laborations that are critical to be able to set a high standard and create something really unique for this community, such as Carmina Burana at the Granada next month. We all have a lot of trust in each other. The Granada has been something of a starship in leading the way.”

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“We’re performers, so that’s what we’ll be doing,” Gustafson said.

Rodney Gustafson’s State Street Ballet is one of this year’s Granada Legends

“Now we have a system that sets the theater apart from any place of its size, which is what it deserves. The Granada is an amazing asset to have in the middle of Santa Barbara, where we’re so lucky to have such a high level of arts.”

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That’s a sentiment echoed by Palmer Jackson, whose family foundation has supported nonprofits throughout Santa Barbara County for four decades both financially and with service on multi ple boards ranging from Crane Country Day School to Cottage Hospital, sev eral museums, Direct Relief, The Santa Barbara Zoo, as well as the Granada and Lobero theaters.

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Gustafson and State Street Ballet will also be honored at the sixth annual Granada Legends gala later this month. (See separate story on page 5 for details.)

Gustafson also has values on inclusiv

“This is where I wanted to be when I retired from actively dancing.” Despite naysayers cautioning him it would be difficult to get established in town, Gustafson also had a clear vision for how State Street Ballet might fit on the crowded Santa Barbara cultural land scape. That included a formula based on a commitment to excellence. “To make a mark in the arts, especially in dance, you have to set a high bar,” he said. “I wasn’t interested in doing some thingThemediocre.”loftystandard started with the very first State Street performance where Gustafson featured four principal dancers from ABT, and was maintained as he built the company into a strong and highly-prized organization that produces several origi nal programs every year – including The Nutcracker at the Granada every winter –and also has an associated ballet school and tours throughout the region and elsewhere.

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“I always remembered the beauty of the area, and a sort of unique mystique about Santa Barbara that was very attractive me,” recalled Gustafson, whose time at ABT including working with many of the great est dancers and choreographers of the time, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alvin Ailey, George Balanchine, Rudolf Nureyev, and Jerome Robbins. He appeared in the films The Turning Point and Baryshnikov’s Nutcracker, and performed in several Live from Lincoln Center specials airing on PBS.

Yet State Street Ballet has actually been able to not only survive but thrive in town, not in the least because of Gustafson’s early commitment to create original work rather than buy existing productions, and not only in terms of choreography and costumes.

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That diamond has continued to sparkle through naming acclaimed choreographer William Soleau, who had already worked extensively with the company, as State Street Ballet’s co-artistic director in 2018. Together they have since elevated the com pany to a level where the dancers work an average of 30 weeks per season – a substan tial number for ensembles of its size in such a small city –, are on tour for as many as three months of the year, and receive rave reviews and sparkling reputations at home and on the road.

The State Street Ballet ity and internationalism – the current company of 20 dancers hail from states around the country as well as seven dif ferent countries including Brazil, Cuba, Japan, and Russia. “They’re all just amazing dancers,” Gustafson said. “It’s all part of creating a company that can compete with the big dogs in our business. In our own special way, we’re like a diamond in the rough.”

“Actually, I think we’re better known out of town than we are here at home,” Gustafson said. “It’s that old saying of ‘You’re never a hero in your own hometown,’ and it can be hard to build a reputation where you are based. Especially here where UCSB Arts & Lectures brings Alvin Ailey and the Joffrey among some of the great companies with household names.”

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What’s more, State Street has achieved its level of accomplishment with an ethos and mission for fairness that in many ways exceeds a lot of larger, more famous companies.“Iwanted a company that was inclusive and caring and one where the dancers were well treated,” he explained.

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That’s what we can choose for ourselves – and the sooner we do the sooner we will see the end of human misery as we’ve experienced it for millions of years. We can do this. I chose for myself and my progeny that we will do this. I chose this life-affirming path to the destructive one we are leaving. I sincerely hope you will choose likewise, so we can lubricate the transition to the oneness we all knowingly share.

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While bikes wouldn’t always be an appropriate mode of travel, the U.K. climate organization Hubbub asserts that around 50 percent of the journeys we take daily are less than two miles (3.2 kilometers) long. In other words, distances that are quite feasible by bike.

“Those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” - Winston Churchill

We are One by Rinaldo Brutoco This will be the last Perspectives column you’ll be reading for the time being. Personnel changes at the World Business Academy, and the incredible demands on my time as the Founder and CEO of H2 Clipper, Inc., has made it clear that I need to let go of this weekly column for now. I do so with some regret as I’ve genuinely enjoyed sharing my thoughts in this space for the last three years and hearing your reactions – the overwhelming majority of which have been positive. It is my hope that the demands on my time will be reduced in 2023, and that added editorial staff at the Academy will allow me to return to a weekly offering. But for now, it is time to bid adieu. I thought it best to end this current run of columns by reflecting on our human capacity to evolve into a type of being much more powerful, humane, and sustainable than what we have achieved to date.

Pinnacle Point

Keeping in mind how we defined homo sapiens as the “man/woman who knows,” and homo sapiens sapiens as “the man/woman who knows that they know,” we conclud ed that homo universalis was distinguished as the “man/woman who knows that they know, and what they know is that we are one.”

The most amazing thing about Pinnacle Point is how homo sapiens survived there, or perhaps even evolved there, largely sustaining themselves with marine animals, like shellfish that attached to the rocks and harvested at low tide, as well as plants with an abundant carbohydrate composition in the tubular root structure.

A new study from researchers at the University of Southern Denmark has determined what we already knew – cycling is much better for the environ ment than driving conventional internal combustion vehicles.

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Over the last 60 years, bike production has picked up speed – and certainly, during the pandemic, interest in cycling bloomed. That said, bicycling still only accounts for five percent of daily trips worldwide.

The technical definition of homo sapiens is “the man/woman who knows.” Homo sapiens evolved over tens of thousands of years, gathering high protein food off the rocks and carbohydrates from the plants plus the occasional wild animal that wandered by. The high protein diet and the resulting rise of symbolic expression are factors in the significant growth in brain power that developed in these survivors at the tip of Africa. Ultimately, these beings evolved into the species most of us are today: homo sapiens sapiens. “Homo sapiens sapiens” means the “man/woman who knows that they know.” We call this reflective consciousness – the ability to reflect on what we know in order to form new knowledge.

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“These include, but are not limited to, for example, proper bicycle lanes planning and construction, pro-bicycle education and culture, and policies to discourage car use through tax.” with all life on this planet, means that we are now conscious of our very consciousness. As such we know that all we lack is the will to create the habitat for our new species: a world that works for every sentient being. The choice is ours. We have the financial and technical resources today to create a civili zation where every single human is entitled to adequate food, shelter, clothing, education, medical support, with the absence of all physical violence particularly war – that would be heaven on earth. Creating such a civilization is the unavoidable work for homo universalis.

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The human species has evolved at least 32 times already. Homo erectus, homo habilis, homo heidelbergensis have all died off. Our most recent human cousin, homo nean derthalenis (aka Neanderthals), failed to migrate south to Pinnacle Point in adequate numbers beginning 170,000 years ago. They ultimately perished by the time modern humans moved north circa 40,000 years ago. Those Neanderthals that made it to Pinnacle Point on the southern tip of Africa were overwhelmingly outnumbered by the homo sapiens who fled there too. At Pinnacle Point, these survivors lived in caves until the end of the last ice age, about 40,000 years ago, with a full migration around the globe at that time. Every person alive, all 7.3 billion of us, is a direct lineal descendant of those hearty pioneers from Pinnacle Point. The few Neanderthals that survived, left every living human today with a few Neanderthal DNA genetic markers.

Most importantly, we know we are one with each other. This means all forms of personal violence (between individuals in the home) or collective violence (war) are unacceptable, as it is violence against ourselves. Our growing awareness of our oneness

Of course, the study authors are aware that not everyone lives in a cycle-friendly region. Still, an “urgent” expansion of cycling infrastructure where possible is imper ative, according to the report.

The bad news is we have choice. And this means we may choose not to evolve. The good news is that we now have a species with the consciousness to create precisely, those conditions of “heaven on earth” from our awareness of universal oneness. We can create a sustainable society that will regenerate the biosphere. We can create a global society where there is enough for everyone, where abundance is our heritage, and scarcity no longer has a hold on us.

Knowing that we know consciously that “we are one” means we inherently understand the unity of all things. We know we are one with the biosphere, so we can’t any longer permit our species to destroy it. We know we are one with every other member of human society. We know that we are one with the physical universe, so we can’t see ourselves as dominating nature but rather learning how we can best fit into this marvelously complex universe.

The study took a look at the bike-loving Dutch, and quantified just how much global carbon emissions would drop if everyone hopped on their bike as much as they do in the Netherlands to get from point A to point B. Dutch people cycle an average of 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers) per day. If this was prac ticed worldwide, the study suggests that annual global carbon emissions would drop by a jaw-dropping 686 million tonnes per year. We repeat: that’s almost 700 million tonnes! That reduction is more than the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the U.K., Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Australia. Grab your helmet and start peddling!

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The evolution of homo sapiens to homo sapiens sapiens, however, was only the last evolutionary “jump” of the prior thirty-two. We are now undergoing another evolution. What is far more fascinating is, like the Neanderthals, homo sapiens sapiens itself is now dying out. In the last half of the 20th century, a new species has been emerging. We can all be certain that, just like all prior species that have gone extinct, homo sapiens (which many of us were born as) is also headed towards extinction. For decades, my dear associate Barbara Marx Hubbard and I debated what the name of this new evolutionary species would be. We settled on homo universalis.

Besides the environmental benefits, there are plenty of health benefits for cyclists, too. Cycling is an effective way to positively improve health and wellness. Studies have shown riding a bike regularly can help ward off chronic diseases connected to a sedentary lifestyle. Those who cycle to work have a 45 percent lower risk of developing cancer, and a 46 percent lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease. It’s a stress reducer, and helps improve balance as well!

“Lessons learned from successful experiences in countries like Denmark and the Netherlands, particularly on the city level such as Copenhagen and Amsterdam, would be essential,” the study authors write.

That’s universal consciousness, and the human species will never be turning back to its prior isolationist framework.

Ashleigh Brilliant

On Move

By O line I remember from the many years I spent listening to radio comedy was this: “You know I think the world of you And you know what everybody thinks of the world these days.” Be that as it may, we can probably agree that, if anything is certain about what we call the World, it is the con cept of Motion. Nothing stays still in it for very long. In historical terms, it wasn’t until quite recently that we first had “moving pictures” and self-propelled vehicles. But people have always been on the move, even if they had to use the mobility-power of animals. Why all this shuffling about from place to place? Usually there has been some kind of attraction, emanating from Elsewhere – or the motivating force has been in the rear – some manifestation of fear or shortage or threat. But there’s been so much of this sort of thing that poets and song writers have been hard-put to find images of stability. Naturally rocks, particularly big, imposing ones, have frequently lent themselves to this kind of compari son, even though we are proverbially assured that a rolling stone gathers no moss – although this inevitably raises the question of why such an object should ever want to gather moss in the first place (or even in the second or third places). But for many generations, one of the most popular symbols of stability has been the Rock of Gibraltar, so widely known that it has been adopt ed, since the 1890s, by the Prudential Insurance Company as its own icon, and may (who knows?) be one reason why Britain has clung so unswervingly to possession of that isolated outpost, when almost all other vestiges of its far-flung Empire have found their own ways out of Nevertheless,it. we still have songs such as the one asserting: “In time the Rockies may crumble Gibraltar may tumble – They’re only made of Butclay Our love is here to stay.”

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– to which, one can only reply, “Tell that to the Divorce Court Judge.”

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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: leighbrilliant.com.www.ash ing lunch from the deli or enjoying market purchases.

Everyone who sails from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean has to go past that famous “Rock,” through the Strait named after it, and one phenomenon to which I can testify is that, no matter how rough the Atlantic crossing may have been, there is comparatively a pleasant calmness, once you have entered the “Med.” (This inspired me to write a song entitled “Atlantic No! Mediterranean Si!”) None of this prevents themes of travel and migration from being classic ele ments in much of our literature. One striking example is to be found in John Steinbeck’s novel (and subsequent movie) The Grapes of Wrath, with its unforgetta ble images of families forced out of their “dust bowl” homes in Oklahoma during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and moving westward toward the enticing “promised land” of California. (The “promises” were mostly of well-paid farm work, which, because of the consequent influx of aspiring workers, turned out to beIbogus.)myself, only a generation later, was in a way part of this Great Migration, though in my case it wasn’t half a conti nent, but a whole one – to say nothing of the Atlantic Ocean – which I had to cross, in moving from austerity-ridden, still bomb-wrecked, postwar England to the prosperous West Coast of America –where I have been living peacefully, if not particularly prosperously, ever since. But, in my own way, I re-lived the experience of being lured by false hopes of good jobs. In my case, it was teaching jobs, which, I’d been told were freely available to people like me with a new British University B.A. It turned out that those jobs also required a California teaching “Credential,” which needed actually going back to school for another year – followed by dismal months of traipsing about the state being inter viewed by school administrators, who weren’t necessarily looking for “outsiders” to teach their children. One interview er’s report stated that I had a “foreign” (meaning an English) accent. I finished up actually teaching English in Hollywood High School, where, how ever, it soon became apparent that I hadn’t yet found my vocation – which sent me back seeking higher degrees, and ultimately having to carve out a new career as a professional writer of epigrams – of which it may not surprise you that many are about moving. I’ll leave you with this sample: “You’ll never get anywhere else, if you don’t leave where you are now.”

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Joan Rosenberg-Dent’s Finding Beauty in Unprecedented Times

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It’s that tactile part that first drew Rosenberg-Dent to working with clay long before she became a professional artist.

I start playing to see what will form,” said the artist who studied ballet for years in her youth and still sees dance as a backbone of movement in her work.

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Porcelain provided an even more refined appeal, Rosenberg-Dent said, because of its purity and clean white beauty. “The most magical part is that when it’s fired in very thin layers, you can see the light come through. It’s very magical.”

“I was in the studio one day feeling really blocked about where I was going to go next,” she explained. “I started tossing some clay around and it went splat on the

Rosenberg-Dent said visitors to the studio often show up to see the dancer sculptures, which have become one of her calling cards for years.

That translucent quality works well for a new series on time, the latest obses sion for the conceptual artist who makes her work out of visualizing the abstract, and Rosenberg-Dent has been posing a lot of questions for herself in contem plating creating the pieces.

“People love to choreograph their own pieces, pick out the dancers, put them on the table and arrange them in different ways. They interact with the dancers and it becomes their piece. I love that interac tion. I strive for that in my work.”

But now, more than a decade later, after having conducted private tours for visiting cruise ships, and done only virtual tours on YouTube during the pandemic, Rosenberg-Dent is excited to be returning to the tour for its 21st anniversary. That’s partly because, unlike some abstract art ists, the porcelain artist loves sharing the stories and process behind her creations.

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“But I felt like a duck out of water,” she said. “It didn’t seem like people wanted to see anything but paintings.”

“You’re free to just roam around, but if you would like me to walk you through and explain the pieces, I love to do that,” she said. “I want them to interact with me, and ask questions about the pieces. I want people to see what the clay is like, and I want them to feel it. So I’ll have everything available for that to happen.”

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Even as the focus changes, the process remains pretty much the same, RosenbergDent said, explaining that she fashions a “vocabulary” composed of a variety of parts, and covers an eightfoot table with hundreds of “Thenthem.

photo credit: Wm. B. Dewey by Steven Libowitz Montecito artist Joan RosenbergDent was an early participant on the Santa Barbara Studio Artist Tour, but quit after a couple of years due to being the solitary sculpturist on the self-guided driving tour of local studios. It wasn’t that standing out from her peers was a problem, as the porcelain artist has blazed a few trails as she has fashioned a career over decades in her studio, includ ing eschewing colorful glazes in favor of form and story, and turning many of her porcelain elements into wall hangings.

“I have loved clay since childhood much more than Crayons or a paint brush. I like the physicalness, the texture, the molding, the dimensionality because I can really feel what I’m doing, move it around, and manipulate it.”

“What is the shape of time? Is it circular? Is it linear? Time is always in essence on my mind. I’m driven by it and trying to manipulate time. Time shapes my life, but I shape the time in my life.”

“I have my shelves lined with them, either black, white, or gray,” she said.

But Rosenberg-Dent also works in much larger formats, particularly in panel wall hangings, which she hap pened upon accidentally.

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“It’s like I become the choreographer and my pieces become the dancers,” she said. “I’m very aware about the space around them, the relationship of one form to another, just like dancers are with each other. What drives me is the discovery. When finally the pieces come together, it’s this feeling of ‘Oh my gosh, this is it.’”

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Even though it felt like the tiniest of ah ha’s, it was gratifying to receive praise from a boss for the first time in a long time. The new Hollis – with his opinions, observations, and challenges largely kept to himself – was succeeding where the other had failed. All I had to do was keep it up.

“Good luck,” the lawyer said when I offered him the reduced rate, laugh ing as he hung up. The next lowest bid was fifteen thousand. Cyrus told me to offer ten thousand, 25 percent on signing, 75 percent on completion. Again, I held my objecting tongue. This attorney accepted, prompting Cyrus to regale me with a nugget of his business wisdom: “Never reveal your weakness, my friend. The odds are only against you if you acknowledge them.” I scribbled down this note, thinking it pithy and clever at the time. Meanwhile, with the ExOh bank account now open, investor funds began flowing in the form of checks and wires for amounts from 50 to 250 thousand dollars. I recognized all the names as Montecito and Santa Barbara residents. Within two weeks, our funding account had received two million five hundred thousand dollars.

Montecito JOURNAL26 1 – 8 September 2022

Chapter 13

The Wimbys were simply a classic power couple, each member serving their role to archetype perfection. Cyrus, the indomitable business tycoon turning all he touched to gold. Genevieve, the trophy wife with Michelinstarred hosting and culinary prowess. In another sufficiently enlightened marriage, Genevieve might have been the muscle behind the family’s for tunes. Alas, she married a man whose success rendered commercializing her skills moot; oh, to have such problems. Together, they were the stereo type that proved why stereotypes exist. Yet, despite these familiar notes, the Wimbys brought something that the Montecito community lapped up like a hungry cat. It was not their wealth, although they had plenty. It was not their globality, although that was one thing lily-white Montecito did lack. It was not their interests; horses, wine, and gastronomic delights were par for the course in Santa BarbaraWhenCounty.Ilookback on it now, I think that something was the Wimbys’ ravenous desire to share. Everyone in Montecito needed some degree of privacy, hence the ubiquitous towering hedges. But not the Wimbys. They were in a race to reveal it all; to meet, to learn, to cultivate. Everything they had was available for the asking, as if they had gotten it all for free.

As Cyrus explained this too me, I kicked myself for not getting an MBA at some point on my bumpy road. Surely some graduate business school would have made these concepts familiar. Instead, I was constantly behind and persistently asking for explanations. Cyrus was gracious in supply ing answers, but I would have preferred not needing his crutch. Maybe an executive MBA or a night program was in my future? Either way, as uncomfortable as the vulnerability was, it was thrilling to be learning new concepts for the first time in years. With a few of these new concepts feeling less foreign, it was time to see if I could put them on display for a friendly audience of two. That night, we were meeting Paul – my best friend and former CryptoWallet partner – and his wife, Jenny, for a bonfire and s’mores at Hammond's Beach. I was looking forward to the chance to catch up with Paul and toot my own horn a little. This is shameful to admit – Paul was my friend and he wished me well – but my fragile ego needed a chance to strut.

my stint in administration, I reasoned, and it was revelatory if not stim ulating.Iopened a new bank account, I filed forms with the California Secretary of State, and I updated the company’s registration with the OTC Exchange – the manager of the Pink Sheets, with which I was now intimately familiar. For each of these tasks, I signed my name and my name only on the literal and figurative dotted lines. The singularity of my role, and my exposure, shone bright. With it came anxiety and some sort of gastrointestinal issue. I was certain that these tummy troubles arose from gluten or dairy or gluten and dairy or maybe just carbs; I bought a tub of extra strength Rolaids.

The first time Cyrus instructed me to move money from the ExOh bank account, the request was for forty-nine thousand by wire transfer to a Citibank account in Hong Kong. He called me three times that morning to verify it had been sent, then waited on the phone as I clicked refresh repeatedly until the confirmation code appeared. The transaction took a total of fifteen minutes from send to receipt; no complications. The next day, he instructed me to move ninety-nine thousand. The next day, one-hundred-forty-nine thousand. The next day, two wire transfers of two-hundred-forty-nine thousand each.The next day, five-hundred thousand even. There were no complications or alarms with any of the transactions: Miramar Bank sent the money, and Citibank Hong Kong received the money. Just over one-point-five million remained in ExOh’s Miramar Bank account.“Splendid,” Cyrus declared. “Fantastic work, Hollis.” “What were those transfers for?” I asked. “Checking the plumbing,” he said. “Sometimes banks have difficulty talking to each other. Sometimes their wiring policies are different than promised. You always need to make sure that you understand exactly how the money moves long before you need the money to move. By then it’s tooWhilelate.” this was new to me, the explanation made sense. “So, the trans ferred money will fund growth of the business, right?” “Exactly,” Cyrus said, “you catch on quick, Hollis.”

Per Cyrus’s directives, I received quotes from four CPAs willing to per form the historical and current financial filings. Their prices ranged from nine thousand to sixteen thousand. “Go with the guy who quoted nine thousand but offer him six. And tell him two-thousand up front and the rest on completion.”

I called several dozen lawyers looking for someone willing to write an accompanying validation letter for the completed financials. All but three of them informed me that either they did not write those letters anymore or that they had been suspended by the OTC Exchange due to past client frauds and could no longer write such letters. I debated this shockingly low hit ratio and settled on two possible theses. Either I was asking these lawyers to do something shady, or the universe of lawyers was as disproportionately shady as the jokes and memes would suggest. I self-servingly accepted the latter thesis as more probable.Thethree attorneys who accepted my call also quoted a range of prices from twelve thousand to twenty thousand. Cyrus had me counter the lowest-priced attorney with an offer for six thousand, deliverable on com pletion. I considered objecting; in my experience, expertise is worth what it costs. But between Cyrus and me, I was not the one labeled as the busi ness tycoon. I decided to keep my unrequested opinion to myself as I had vowed to do when I started this experiment.

I had prepared for this evening the only way I knew how. Paul and Jenny were likely to ask softball questions, but what if they did not? It did not matter; eventually I would need to become an expert on ExOh in the same way I was an expert in C++ and binary algorithms. While Cyrus had shown

“Kai will use the money to pay ExOh’s Chinese employees and operating partners,” Cyrus elaborated. “Effectively, the corporate division in the U.S. – your division – just loaned money to the Hong Kong operations. It’s all within the ExOh umbrella.”

“You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” - Winston Churchill

Cyrus and Genevieve continued to host Montecito’s wealthiest at week ly dinner parties. Cricket and I were required attendees; Isabel and Trip were invited as well. In addition, both of my kids were riding horses with Priscilla on a weekly basis. It was as if the Crawfords had been adopted by a wealthy benefactor and my whole family was finally getting the life I had wished I could provide them; though, truthfully, I had never imagined I could provide them any of this. The wood-fired pizza oven was far more versatile than its name implied. Roasted chickens, salt-domed fish, steaks; as I should have understood from the beginning, it was simply a fancy, large outdoor oven. Desserts varied too: homemade ice cream, cookies, crème brûlée, rhubarb tart, and, of course, Key Lime pie. I asked for the recipe each time, though I knew she would not give it to me. “Family secret,” she repeated.Therewas nothing about Cyrus and Genevieve that Montecito did not already have. I saw Julia-Louis Dreyfus at the Montecito Village Grocery. I saw Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi walking Padaro Beach. I saw Oprah Winfrey at a candlelight vigil after the Montecito mudslides. I passed Jack Johnson carrying his surfboard down the Hammond's Trail. I saw Prince Harry riding his bicycle. I saw Kevin Costner at Oliver’s vegan restaurant. I saw Rob Lowe at Rincon. I saw one of the Baldwin brothers – I could never remember which one – so often that I caught myself saying hello as if we were friends. In a town of ten thousand peo ple, it took two hands to count the residential real estate listings priced at more than fifty million dollars. Anonymous people, whose wealth was measured in multiples of nine figures, walked up and down the sidewalks of Coast Village Road daily.

Tune in next week for more Montecito.

himself to be a patient teacher, I needed to prove I could learn on my own. Google could not help. Amazon was useless. The Chinese websites were written in Mandarin. The only thing left for me to do was wear out my library card in a way I had not since college. The first time I visited the Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara County Library, I walked in and out, thinking I must have the wrong address. It was like a dollhouse model of a library, not the real thing. However, what it lacked in size, it more than made up for in service. If a book existed on the shelves anywhere in the County library system, I could request it, and request it I did. Within three days every book in the county that might possibly shed light on Chinese trade, was delivered to the Montecito branch for my leisurely pickup. When I imagined the great wheels of action required to deliver me these books for free, I felt guilty and vowed to make a donation to the library just as soon as a few of my ExOh shares hit the jackpot. I learned many things during this library research. Most importantly, I learned what a black hole ExOh and its investors were stepping into. I could not find a single document – academic, governmental, memoir, trade rag – that informed me how China’s import laws worked. Not that I doubted Cyrus’s tale of rules and special rules – All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others – but I wanted to understand it independent of his explanation. Unfortunately, I could not confirm his account, nor could I disprove it. This information void made me uncomfortable even as I understood why it existed. China – a communist country notorious for double stan dards and corruption – would have nothing to gain by creating a hand book documenting its hypocrisy. But if I could not verify the rules of the game, neither could anyone else, including the wealthy investors wiring ExOh tens of thousands of dollars daily and introducing Cyrus to their friends to further the money gathering machine. The old Russian proverb cautions to Trust but verify. All we had was trust. Trust was not good enough for the old Hollis Crawford; he demanded proof. But the new me refused to give in to the dream-killing nitpicking that the old me could not resist. As my family prepared for a celebration with friends, I put a thumbtack in my remaining concerns, vowing to revisit them in the future. For the rest of this day, I would bask in the rarified glow of professional success. Our destination, Hammond's Beach, was accessible only at low tide or by the same unmarked, bougainvillea-draped path that I had walked the day I stumbled upon Landon’s body: the Hammond's Trail. While only a quarter mile in length, the sum value of the real estate backing up to the trail would easily top a half-billion dollars. A few steps down the beach from the Trail’s terminus – just inland from where Landon was found – was the three-acre Shalawa Meadow, an ancient burial ground of the Chumash Indians, the first people of the Central Coast of California. The beach-front meadow was large ly unmarked, save for a small circle of stones and a single inscribed marker. To out-of-towners, the meadow might appear to be the aesthetic choice of property developers, providing a gracious oceanfront lawn in front of the small neighborhood’s seven- and eight-fig ure homes. That presumption could not have been farther from the truth. It took decades of vicious fighting from the Chumash peoples, environmentalists, and local preservationists to keep the meadow as a monument to those who lived on this land for at least ten thousand years before the white man barged in. For the locals, Hammond's offshore reef made it a favorite with surfers looking for a nice right-hand break that delivered consistent waves with the slightest of swells. Its relative remoteness also made it the least crowded of Montecito’s beaches, and the least patrolled by Park Rangers. Thus, it was the perfect spot for a bonfire. Paul brought shovels and starter logs; no need for traditional firewood as driftwood was easy to find along the ungroomed beach. Cricket brought her s’more-making paraphernalia: two dozen wood-handled roasting sticks and a s’mores assembly line process worthy of a patent. Jenny brought pre-dessert snacks and plastic wine tumblers and – thanks to Cyrus’s gener osity – I brought a few bottles of Entre Nous wine. The kids – eight in total once friends were included – played in the waves and tossed a football, while Cricket and Jenny set up a home base of blankets and food, popping the cork on a few bottles of wine. Paul and I dug the fire pits, taking care to line the edge of the holes with heavy rocks, and prepared the stacks of driftwood for the bonfire that was to come. With the work done, Paul and I helped ourselves to some of Cyrus’s wine and joined Jenny and Cricket on the blankets. They were laughing hysterically over something we probably were not meant to understand, so neither of us bothered to request an explanation. A smile overtook my face as the sun crept toward the horizon. I felt alive, embracing the world in a way wholly foreign to my memory.

“What do you think about all this, Cricket?” Paul asked. She lifted from her elbows and hugged her knees tightly. “I’m really proud of him,” she said. “Me too,” Paul said, lifting his glass. “Me three,” Jenny echoed. I raised my glass, acknowledging the toast. I am sure my face burned crimson, but with the sun racing to close the day, it was easy to hide. “We should start the bonfires,” I said.

“Please! I want to know,” Jenny begged. “Careful, Jenny,” Paul said. “When Hollis thinks something might be boring, you should heed his warning.”

“I don’t want to bore you,” I said, waving her off.

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“Wait! Finally,” Jenny said, stifling her laughter. “Tell us, tell us. What’s with this new mysterious job?” Cricket leaned back on her elbows, giving me a sly wink. As much as she was the spark, launching our family to fun and adventure, she was quick to remind me that I was the family’s emotional compass. When I was struggling, it brought everyone else down. There was only so much she could do to swim against my riptide. But lately, I could see my budding hopefulness reflected in her. We were closer. Touching more, laughing more, talking of our future without weighty caveats and provisos.

Paul and I lit the starter logs and watched the wood take the flame, as proud as if we had invented the concept of fire. With the lap of the flames visible, the kids ran in from the water, shivering and begging for warm towels and hoodies. Cricket and Jenny manned the graham crackers and Hershey bars while Paul and I threaded marshmallows onto the sticks. Trip dropped three into the fire and began to cry – exhaustion and low blood sugar doing their dirty work – before I stepped in and helped him complete his first successful s’more. Once the kids had their fill, they ran back to play, leaving us adults to enjoy the fires by ourselves. Eventually, with the sun long gone and the creep of chilly air battling the warmth of the flames, we put out the fires and packed up, heading back down the Hammond's Trail with lighter loads, fuller stomachs, and lifted hearts.

I proceeded with my own version of Cyrus’s spiel about the trading licenses, the lack of competition, the massive market opportunity, and my evolving role. “How big is your team?” Paul asked. “Small but growing.” I answered, intentionally vague. “Will you be traveling to China very often?” Jenny asked. “Yes,” I confirmed. “I’m looking forward to taking the whole family once things get off the ground.” My stomach tweaked at this comment; I dug a Tums from my pocket and popped it with a sip of Pinot.

On Entertainment (Continued from 24)

Steven Libowitz has covered a plethora of topics for the Journal since 1997, and now leads our extensive arts and entertainment coverage Painter Richard Schloss will speak at Chaucer’s Books on Wednesday, September 7

won’t have to travel far to see a good slice of the breadth of Rosenberg-Dent’s work this weekend, as she joins 27 other local visual artists in throwing open the doors to their studios, with the sculptor ready to offer a warm welcome for all comers.

First Thursday

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Shows about to close include 10 West Gallery’s Viewpoints, featuring work from 11 contemporary artists. Also, pick from performing arts choices including Pop-Up Opera from Opera Santa Barbara at the Museum of Art, and Hula Anyone per forming Hawaiian hula and Tahitian dance alternating with Hawaiian Lounge act The Coconuts on the 900 block of State.

With students about to swarm back to the seaside campus, UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum is opening its fall-winter exhibition, “Ishi Glinsky: Upon a Jagged Maze.” The show is the first solo museum exhibition of L.A.-based Glinsky, an early career survey of 25 works made over the past decade including painting, works on paper, and mixed-media sculp ture that draws from the traditions of the Tohono O’odham Nation as well as the North American Native arts of jewelry making, basketry, and weaving, among others, in order to honor Native Americans’ place in history and art movements. “Upon a Jagged Maze” is on view from September 1, 2022 through January 22, 2023.

Santa Barbara’s monthly 1st Thursday art, wine, and culture walking tour could have an additional attraction on September 1 of serving as something of an appetizer for the weekend’s Open Studio Tour. Or visitors can just simply set aside the one evening to indulge in viewing visual art, sipping libations, snacking on hors d’oeu vres and checking out the entertainment all around lower State Street and environs.

New exhibitions include Dos Arbolitos, featuring Oak Group co-founding mem ber Arturo Tello and fellow painter John Wullbrandt, at Santa Barbara Fine Art, and the opening of Sullivan Goss’ annual Fall Salon, spotlighting important works from D.J. Hall, Channing Peake, Bjorn Rye, Gordon Onslow Ford, and others.

“When it’s not too busy, I will extend myself to everyone. I’m an educator. I love to talk about my process, how things happen, the stories behind them. What could be more fun?” (Santa Barbara Studio Artists’ Open Studios Tour takes place over Labor Day weekend, September 3–5, with an open ing reception on Friday, September 2 at the Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden Street, which is also where vis itors can purchase passes and pick up maps and brochures all weekend. Tickets are $25, free for children under 12. www.santabarbarastudioartists.com.)Visit

Richard Schloss’ new book, Painting the Light

‘Upon a Jagged Maze’ at UCSB

Art Book Talk Mid-week in Mid-town Painter Richard Schloss, who has worked and exhibited in Santa Barbara since 1972, brings his half-century of experience to his brand-new book, Painting the Light. A member of Santa Barbara’s The Oak Group since its inception in 1986, Schloss nowadays has largely eschewed painting en plein air in favor of working in his studio on larger works. Schloss, who has had 35 one-person shows in the area, isn’t on the studio tour this year, but his work can also be seen in museums. Painting the Light serves simultaneously as a collection of the author’s paintings and an analysis of how light and atmosphere work in the landscape, employing nine landscape studies illustrating what hap pens when light enters our atmosphere to explore the effects from an artist’s perspective. Schloss will share insights at Chaucer’s Books on Wednesday, September 7.

Gustafson is grateful at the support State Street has secured from the community whether the company mounts a classic, veers briefly into something abstract, or creates new epic tales – not to mention the financial offerings during the pandemic, when, he said, so many similar companies were forced to shut their doors.

Rodney Gustafson, Founder and Creative (805)www.statestreetballet.comDirector845-1432

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State Street Ballet’s 2022-23 season begins with a reprise of Santa Barbara’s favorite collaboration Carmina Burana and includes a remounting of its Jungle Book plus a new take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream State Street Ballet

“We are healthy and in good shape, we are not down on our knees struggling to survive.”Additional funding, however, could pro vide opportunity for more growth and expansion, and allow the company to hire a live orchestra for more of its performances.

But State Street’s state has proved Gustafson’s vision 30 years ago wasn’t mere ly a matter of pie in the sky optimism. “I’ve always felt like I’m on a magic carpet ride, because even though I’m a very rational person, I ride my dreams. I believe you can make them come true if you have the right skillset and you throw your whole self into it.”

Along with presenting impressive productions here in town, State Street Ballet has an associated ballet school and tours throughout the region (photo by Andre Yew)

State Street Ballet’s 2022-23 season begins with Carmina Burana on October 15 (photo by David Bazemore)

“When someone tells me, ‘Wow, I wasn’t expecting how great this was, and thank you for creating this here in Santa Barbara,’ it’s the most valued feedback I can ever hear,” he said. “It means we’re delivering on the high bar I set a long time ago. We have a lot of humility as an organization, but we really do believe in making dances of very high quality.”

Q. What is an eSport?

A. It’s like many normal sports. As a kid we play football, we play soccer. As a pastime for many of us we play video games. The next tier of that – and to be able to play professionally and potentially make a living off of it – is an eSport. That itself is just a category of play, so if you’re doing eSports it means you’re playing on a competitive level. How did you get started in eSports? I have always loved competing, and I always found that I would jump between games as a kid. I wanted to be the best. When I first found out there was a video game club at SBCC during quarantine, I was like, “I have nowhere to go, I need some guidance, I need some people to talk to because I’m stuck in my house.” I met some people there and then it grew into a competitive environment. We wanted to play a “comp,” which is a category of game mode where you’re playing against other people to rank up and get a sense of where you fall against everyone else playing in the world. That competition really drove me to want to pursue it in other games and help people find an outlet if they want to pursue this later on in life.

What makes eSports an attractive area? What’s really cool about eSports is that it’s not too physically demanding, and it’s not like you need to buy a bunch of equipment for it. A lot of my guys get by on a gaming laptop. Some of them want

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From the shores of Scotland, Stella Haffner keeps her connection to her home in Montecito by bringing grads of local schools to the pages of the Montecito Journal to invest in themselves, and they’ll buy an actual computer and build it – I built mine. Then they’ll be able to enjoy the set up but also use it practically for school and Zoom. I think just how easily acces sible it is makes eSports really appealing because it’s like, “I don’t have to be 6’5 to play basketball” or “I don’t need to put on so much muscle to play football” or things like that.

How does the practice schedule for an eSport compare to other sports? It just depends on our players. Thankfully this summer not a lot of people had classes, so we were real ly able to push singular practices with coaches. Each player would have time with their coach and go through their own “VOD’s,” which is just their videos and recordings. They go through that, then they would have a team practice where they all play together, with a coach watching everyone’s perspective to see what’s going on. They also have “scrims,” scrimmages, so like with foot ball or basketball, we’ll play against other teams from UCSB, CalPoly, CSU. We’ll practice with other teams who are also competing at a higher level. What do you think people misunderstand about eSports? I think what’s really difficult, just playing video games in general is oh, you know, “You’re rotting your brain,” etcetera, etcetera. There are definitely healthy doses of playing games and, as with any hobby, you’re not going to want to be playing video games for the entire day. A 16-hour day isn’t healthy, it doesn’t give you any good benefits, strategies, and also wouldn’t start making you more comfortable with yourself or being with yourself; social things are a part of this as well. What we try to do is our best, manage our time wisely, and push off from that. I also run into the idea that these games are conditioning us to think that violence is acceptable. We hear that violence in games gets correlated to shootings and things like that. But it’s like playing football or basketball. That’s what we always try to bring it back to, that it’s just like physical sports. This is just our hobby, this is what we do. And there’s a lot of inten tionality that goes behind it.

Do you believe there’s a connection between violent game narratives and vio lent crime or that’s just something you run into as a misconception? It’s just something I’m running into. I don’t think so. I think there are a lot of things that go into that – you know, causation, correlation – I think it’s com pletely different, especially with the games we play. A lot of them are not super real istic. A lot of them are cartoonish. Like we would never correlate that. As a kid we might play a game where an alien or some thing is shooting lasers. I’m not correlating this to real life. This is an escape for us, this is what we do as a pastime. What do you have to say about the psy chology of eSports? I think because of how easily accessible it is, eSports can become a very toxic thing. Because you can see yourself grow ing. But at certain points in any sport, you will plateau, and that is the most gut-wrenching feeling because it’s like: “Can I be any better than this? Is this real ly all I can do?” Eventually a really positive mindset can become a really unhealthy mindset, where you’ll dedicate hours and hours to practice, becoming your harshest critic. This is why we have coaching; we all progress and make strides, and moves, and waves in our specific niches. But we don’t think that everyone is going to be a super star overnight, so a lot of it requires you to take a breather, go outside, go enjoy yourself – know that there’s more that you have to offer. But if this is something you want to do, you need to practice it in a healthy, positive mindset.

The Psychology of eSports

Leader of SBCC’s eSports Club Brian VillanuevaArizmendi

By Stella Haffner

P art of the joy of producing this column is learning about spheres that are foreign to me. I have written before on how I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions; instead, I use the journal here to try new things, to give me the kick in the backside that I need, to go out and ask people what I want to know. This week, we’re heading into foreign territory with the help of Brian Arizmendi Villanueva, leader of SBCC’s eSports Club. The 21-year-old and Applied Technology major entered the world of video games when he was young, and his passion grew from there. With years of practice and exposure to outsider opinions, Brian’s understanding of eSports has developed into the perspective he shares with us today.

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Research, Research, Research Before moving here from Chicago 13 years ago (for the three reasons of “December, January, and February”), Green had a business writing about older homes, researched more than 80 homes, and wrote the book Discovering the History of Your House and Your Neighborhood, teaching people how to do their own research. She treated the research and writing of her book as her “Covid project” and was able to accomplish much of the research online, including the use of movie magazine databases, archived newspapers, and Santa Barbara Public Library’s incredible Edson Smith Photo Collection. One thing that makes movies inter esting to study, notes Green, is that one often gets a chance to see what life was like a hundred years ago – how these older movies are the closest thing to time travel. Please join us for her fascinating presentation.

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Silent Films Green will give her presentation about the movie studios (including of Montecito “Flying A”) that traveled from the Hollywood area to film more than 60 movies here. The chapter for each movie contains a lively synopsis, behind-the-scenes info, and photos from the movie and location where it was filmed. She took particular joy using humor to describe all of this, which comes through in her writing. Only about 14% of the silent movies still exist, sadly, in part because they were not thought of as an art form, but rather a sold product that would be replaced with next year’s product. Films were made on cellulose nitrate, a very flammable material that made storage difficult. Occasionally, some one in Iowa will find a reel in their closet. Montecito Estates

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September Montecito Library Events: Local History Talk: The Gilded Age of Silent Movies Filmed in Montecito Mansions w/ Betsy Green - Sat, 9/10, 1-2 pm Stay and Play (Ages 0-5) - Tuesdaysdrop in anytime 9-10:30 am Knit ‘n’ Needle - Thursdays, 2-3:30 pm Poetry Club: Robinson Jeffers - Thurs, 9/15, 2-3 MontecitopmBook Club: Pure Land by Annette McGivney - Tues, 9/27, 12-1 pm See you at the library!

A scene from a 1911 religious film titled The New Faith, filmed on the Gillespie estate, El Fureidis

In addition to discussing each of the films, Green includes a chap ter with descriptions and photos of each location, including El Fureidis, Bellosguardo, Piranhurst, Arcady, Riso Rivo, the Miramar, Santa Barbara Country Club, All Saints-by-theSea Church, Bartlett Polo Field, Las Fuentes (The Crocker-Sperry Ranch), Spanish Town, and others. The estates back then were much big ger than now so they could film one part of a movie in one spot, then notice other locations on the property that would be good for the next film. Often the peo ple at the estate, and Santa Barbarans in general, would hang out and watch the filming going on. That was just an accepted thing because in the silent days, it didn’t matter if people were talking in the background. (One exception to allowing bystanders was a movie called Purity, which had unclothed people run ningSomearound.)ofthe time when they were making movies, the mansion owners invited their friends over and they would have lunch and invite the actors to join them.

Historian and author Betsy Green

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Symphony president Kathryn Martin announced the society now boasts 134 members, with 86 percent of subscrip tions being renewed and the symphony now being its strongest position finan cially in nine years. Janet Garufis, symphony chair, also announced a series of seven intimate concerts in private residences curated by Kabaretti, including violinist Gilles Apap, pianist Alessio Bax, jazz saxophone legend Ted Nash, and multi-Grammy nominated violinist Philippe Quint, with tickets at $5,000 for the full series, and $3,500 for four home concerts. Among the musical mavens turn ing out were Fred and Nancy Golden, Mashey Bernstein, Barbara Burger, Brooks and Kate Firestone, Karen Drown , Chris Lancashire , Marilyn Gilbert, Todd Aldrich, Gillian Launie, Arthur Swalley , Robert Weinman , Nancy Schlosser, and Palmer Jackson. All Fore the Best Mallets were changed for golf clubs when the Santa Barbara Polo Club’s Polo Training Center hosted its fourth annual golf tournament at the Montecito Club with a record 80 participants raising $20,000 for the Carpinteria-based facility.

Andreas Geck and Alan Busteed performing with singers Todd Aldrich, Marilyn Mazess, Gaja Kabaretti, and Kate and Brooks Firestone (photo by Priscilla)

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A rt historian Alexander Alberro, PhD presented his research on Kinetic, Op and Participatory Art at Mid-Century at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on August 31. He has writ ten about this topic in his 2017 book titled, Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art. He is a Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor at Barnard College and Columbia University.

On a fundamental level, kinetic-op art is defined as art that depends on physical, implied, or perceived motion for effect. Many kinetic artists collaborate with phys ics, optics, and cybernetic technos, who remain unnamed, to make this work.

ment. Keep in mind that Duchamp cites Seurat as his most important predecessor for his motorized works, the same way Seurat mobilizes the spectator, in the realization of the art object. My area of expertise is con temporary art, and in order to understand it I had to go back 150 years to these earlier movements that led to a situation where a lot of work is participatory and requires the spectator to bring it into being. Did the artists have directives for the spectator?

Kinetic art arguably started with Duchamp’s “Bicycle Wheel” in 1913, Gabo’s “Standing Wave” in 1920, and MoholyNagy’s “Light-Space Modulator” in 1930. One finds the largest kinetic art nod to Alexander Calder’s 1941 “Arc of Petals,” due to his use of natural forces to elicit move ment in his mobiles. Jean Tinguely used found junk with attached motors for his sculptures, and art that self-destructed. He is most famous for his art collaboration called “Homage to New York” in 1960 at MOMA, and his “Méta-matic” drawing machines that created infinite sequences of drawings. Optical (Op) art, kinetic’s baby, logisti cally started with Vasarely’s black and white checkerboard patterns of optical illusion in 1957-59, giving birth to larger movements of op art in France. One also finds the values of kinetics in the canvases of Monet, Manet, Degas, Warhol, and Pollock. No matter how one laser cuts the pie, like Tamara Kvesitadze’s “Ali and Nino” 2007 (Man and Woman) two eight-meter-high moving metal sculptures that become one when they pass through each other, Alberro postulates that kinetic and op art only work with the role of the spectator. So, is it art if the spectator is not there?

Film is kinetic movement. What was the main purpose of creating kinetic and op art? It was to factor in the fourth dimension – i.e., time – in art. There was a belief that factoring in time in art would enhance the spectator’s engagement with the artwork.

Studies of physiology, especially as they per tain to the retina, and topology, especially as they pertain to the relationship between objects and spectators in space, proliferated in art practice during these years.

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The modern period begins with Manet, the experiments of the 1860s, and pho tography/cinematography. The art after photography takes on a new raison d’être; it adjusts to the challenges photography posed to the art world. Prior to photog raphy, an artist could make a photo-real istic image, and that would be considered art. After photography, that no longer would be enough to say it’s art, and this is something even today Western artists have to work through. I have to explain that we need to sepa rate the figural from the literal. The fig ural is the metaphor, the classical tropes, that which is more than what you have, a rose can stand for love, a rose can figura tively have another meaning, and in fine arts that is exactly what happened. The literal is where a rose is a rose, and oil paint on a canvas is oil paint on a canvas, not a landscape of a province in France. What one has in these experiments in the mid-twentieth century is this attempt to literalize artist production. Kinetic art and op art are not that differ ent from Minimal or Conceptual Art, it’s a literalization of the artwork so that kinetic art is against metaphor, it’s about move ment itself, it is not about movement to generate an allegory to something else. Op art is about optical responses to art. Once the classical fine arts media of painting, sculpture, and drawing reverted back to the literal and that the literal is a fundamental part of art experience, then photography, which was literal, could by the 1960s finally be considered as some thing that belongs in the context of fine art museums, galleries, and discussions.

Here is my Zoom interview this week with Alberro in his NYC Faculty office: Q. Why is the spectator a key element to creating kinetic and op art?

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A. We can start with Seurat’s art, because the dots on the canvas move to make forms only in the retina/eye of the spectator, so there you have movement from what is on the canvas to what the spectator sees; he mobilizes movement in the production of the picture. For Degas’s images of people that were moving out of frame, or Manet’s paintings, these are a representation of move and Optical Art Alexander Alberro

What is relevant about this type of art in 2022? Many artists today work in the legacy of kinetic and op art. There is much art that moves today. Video and film, for instance, would not be recognized as art without the kinetic turn in the mid-twentieth century that I describe in my book, Abstraction in Reverse. Ditto for much installation art. MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, and many other major modern art museums have excellent holdings in kinetic and op art.

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Please discuss the collaboration of these artists with scientists. Artists and scientists collaborated more than ever in the mid-twentieth century. There are plenty of earlier examples of such collaboration in art history, from Leonardo to Georges Seurat. But the pursuit of a literal art object in the mid-twentieth cen tury led artists to science and mathematics.

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Joanne A Calitri interviewing Alexander Alberro, PhD at his Columbia University Faculty office in New York City over Zoom (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

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The initial impetus for the participa tory art movement is the understanding that the spectator plays as much of a fundamental role as does the art. The art is produced in a triad of the artist, the object the artist creates, and the object the spectator realizes. As Duchamp said, the artist offers molasses, the spectator realizes the sugar. It is what I call the aesthetic field, all need to be operative for the aesthetic to be real ized. It is a very different notion than the idealistic aesthetics of the Enlightenment Period where the aesthetic object can be produced and exists regardless of the spec tator. What happens in the modern period is that belief is seen to be faulty and the spectator is fundamental to the art. What is the importance of the period to photography as art?

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Solution #1: Provide Permanent Garage Parking on the Bottle Shop Liquor Store Site at 1200 Coast Village Road and the Former Cava Restaurant Site (LongTerm Parking Solution). Net Gain: at least 60 new parking spaces. The Bottle Shop Liquor Store at 1200 CVR, a former gas station at the corner of Coast Village Road and Middle Road, would be a convenient, centralized loca tion for added parking. Sitting next door at 1212 CVR, the nowclosed Cava restaurant, was once the office for a repurposed motor court. Still looming behind the now-closed Cava is the two-sto ry former motor court room block. Work with each of the three (or more) real estate parcels; consider emi nent domain to acquire the sites. Follow the lead of the Price Building on the same north side of CVR at the gate way to Montecito. The removal of the former ARCO gas station was bitterly opposed by some in Montecito. Now we are blessed with an architectural gem, that perfectly complements the historic Montecito Inn. With its wine tasting parklet at street level, retail shops on the ground floor, and residences and offices on the upper levels, the Price building adds charm to the Montecito character and lifestyle.

Restaurant Owner’s View Diners prefer outside seating. More restaurant seating brings more foot traf fic to local shops. Removing the parklets would free up only 28 parking spaces, a pittance of the new parking spaces needed. Mandating the removal of some 253 highly desirable outside restaurant seats would devastate restaurants, reduce street foot traffic, threaten retail survival, and contribute lower property taxes, sales taxes, and hotel taxes to the city coffers.

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accommodate the restaurant parklets. The current parklet arrangement is detrimental to our business.”

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Envision a similar architecturally-pleas ant building on a new scraped site, done in the same soft-style of mixed use as the Price office building, with retail on the ground floor (i.e., the Bottle Shop, a Cava-type restaurant, and other tax-pro ducing retail); an underground level of parking accessible from Middle Road and CVR; a second floor of public parking; a 3rd floor of either public parking or res idential, and a high-end rooftop restau rant, similar to the San Ysidro Ranch Stonehouse Restaurant, side-by-side with the Plow & Angel, with possible rooftop dining views of Butterfly Beach.

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The Best CVR Parking Solutions According to Bob Ludwick , President of the Coast Village Association, “Coast Village Road is comprised of approx imately 55 buildings, more than 25 restaurants, as many as 70 retail estab lishments, and 600 residents, with a large number of employees and diverse workers from bus boys to title insurers. Everyone’s livelihood is at stake. The urgency for change depends on how alarming the crisis is from your point of Ludwickview.” adds, “We have 192 public parking spaces along CVR. We’re going to lose four more to the Olive Mill roundabout when it comes in. When pri vate parking is counted, including access to Coast Village Circle, the number of parking spots climbs to 300 or more.” Why waste time choosing who the City wants to punish? – restaurants, retailers, or customers. They all need more parking. CVR needs 40 to 80 new parking spaces now . Solve that prob lem… and keep the popular parklets that have brought new energy, new excitement, and new satisfied custom ers to the Coast Village Road dining experience.

Solution #2: Double Deck the Private Parking Lot Behind CVS Pharmacy: 1282 Coast Village Road (Northside Parking). Net gain: 35 to 40 new parking spaces. In the ground level parking lot behind the CVS pharmacy (not the side parking next to Los Arroyos Mexican Restaurant) there are currently 30 ground-level park ing spaces loosely laid out, with five spaces reserved for Fidelity National. Add a second deck, financed by the City from CVR tax abatements, to accommodate another 35 to 40 new parking spaces, to reduce the valet park ing congestion at Lucky’s, Los Arroyos, and Coast & Olive. Fund the project through creative city tax abatements or fees, or both.

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“Why waste time choosing who the City wants to punish? – restaurants, retailers, or customers. They all need more parking. CVR needs 40 to 80 new parking spaces now. Solve that problem… and keep the popular parklets that have brought new energy, new excitement, and new satisfied customers to the Coast Village Road dining experience.”

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Solution #3: Double Deck the Private Parking Deck behind Angel: 1221 Coast Village Road and the 1224 Coast Village Circle Office Building (Southside Parking). Net gain: 25 new parking spaces Add a second-story parking deck behind Angel at 1221 CVR and the office building at 1224 Coast Village Circle. Create 25 new CVR level park ing spaces above the covered parking structure for the 1224 office tenants. Provide an innovative city financing package based on tax abatements.

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Between an entrepreneurial Santa Barbara Mayor in Randy Rowse, inti mately familiar with the restaurant business, who for 37 years owned the Paradise Cafe; Santa Barbara Downtown Manager Brian Bosse; Bob Ludwig, Rob Miller, and Thorn Robertson, officers of the “shop-local” Coast Village Association; Danny, Jim, and Jason Copus, owners of the Montecito Inn and the Coast & Olive Restaurant; Gene Montesano, Jimmy Argyropoulos, and Herb Simon, owners of Lucky’s, Tre Lune, and the Montesano Deli; Janet Garufis, chair of the Montecito Bank & Trust; 50 or more entrepreneurial bou tique shopping professionals; plus great architects; there is ample brainpower and innovation to solve this small park ing problem with a win/win solution for both restaurants and shops, especially if the City solicits the advice of John Price, owner of the Price Building at the Olive Mill entrance to Coast Village Road as to how to fast-track site acqui sition, design approval, and regulatory review to substantially lower approval and legal costs to the City. Today and Leave a legacy in Montecito for future generations.

Restaurants on CVR face shrinking profit margins. Food costs have skyrock eted. Labor costs, if restaurants can find hospitality workers, have doubled with mandated government wage increases and added benefits to attract young peo ple who refuse to find jobs.

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Additional information about FEMA’s proposed action, including maps showing the potential impacts on floodplains, may be obtained by writing the FEMA Region IX Environmental Officer at FEMA, 1111 Broadway, Suite 1200, Oakland, California 94607, or fema rix ehp documents@fema.dhs.gov. All requests should be received within 15 days after publication of this notice. 31, 2022 Montecito Journal THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE WATERFRONT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE AMENDMENT ONE TO LEASE AGREEMENT NO. 26,738 WITH SANTA BARBARA YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION, INCREASING THE PREMISES, CHANGING THE MONTHLY LICENSE RATE AND INCLUDING A UTILITY FEE, COMMENCING UPON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ENABLING TheORDINANCEabovecaptioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on August 23, 2022 The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

/s/(Seal)Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager

Thewasteproject staging and stockpile area on land would be in a Special Flood Hazard Area as depicted on the FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) Number 06083C1391J, effective date September 28, 2018. The FIRM shows that the project area lies within Zone AE, an area that has a 1 percent probability of flooding every year and where predicted floodwater elevations have been established

ORDINANCE NO. 6079 AN ORDINANCE OF

/s/Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on August 24, 2022.

ORDINANCE NO. 6080 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING A FIRST AMENDMENT TO RESTATED AFFORDABILITY CONTROL COVENANT IMPOSED ON REAL PROPERTY WITH THE TURNER FOUNDATION SINCE 1958, FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1502 1522 SAN PASCUAL STREET, AND AUTHORIZING THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE SUCH AMENDMENT

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ORDINANCE NO. 6080 STATE OF CALIFORNIA )) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

AYES: Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Randy Rowse NOES: None ABSENT: Alejandra Gutierrez ABSTENTIONS: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my Hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on August 24, 2022./s/Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on August 24, 2022. /s/Randy Rowse Mayor Published August 31, 2022 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: H S Cot tages LLC, 346 Hot Springs Road, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. H S Cottages LLC, 360 Hot Springs Road, San ta Barbara, CA, 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 22, 2022. 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 state ment on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220002098. Published August 31, September 7, 14, 21, 2022

ORDINANCE NO. 6079 STATE OF CALIFORNIA )) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Phleb Mobile Phleboto my Services, 219 Oceano Ave, 2, Santa Barbara, CA, 93109. Juan Cambron Pe rez, 219 Oceano Ave, 2, San ta Barbara, CA, 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 18, 2022. 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 state ment on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220002076. Published August 24, 31, September 7, 14, 2022

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on August 16, 2022 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on August 23, 2022 by the following roll call vote: AYES: Councilmembers Eric Friedman Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Randy Rowse NOES: None ABSENT: Alejandra Gutierrez ABSTENTIONS: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on August 24, 2022.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on August 23, 2022 The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The fol lowing person(s) is/are do ing business as: RD Homes, 590 E. Gutierrez St. Suite B, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103. Reed Floors INC., 590 E. Gutierrez St. Suite B, San ta Barbara, CA, 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 23, 2022. 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 state ment on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220002113. Published August 31, September 7, 14, 21, 2022

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PLANT INTAKE PUMP SCOUR PROTECTION (PHASE 2) SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA HMGP 4344-385-107

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/s/Randy Rowse Mayor Published August 31, 2022 Montecito Journal

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Veteri nary Performance Dentist ry, 5662 Calle Real #461, Goleta, CA, 93117. Torben Corp., 5662 Calle Real #461, Goleta, CA, 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 5, 2022. This state ment 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. Hol land, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0001958. Published August 24, 31, September 7, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The fol lowing person(s) is/are doing business as: The Seahorse Club; Sound Vision Buzz, 27 W Anapamu St Num 163, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Lifestyle Concierge Services LLC, 27 W Anapamu St Num 163, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 9, 2022. This statement ex pires 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 state ment on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220001977. Published August 17, 24, 31, September 7, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Revision Aging, 800 Palermo, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105. Scott E Schonzeit, 800 Palermo, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105; Lindsey East, 800 Palermo, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 26, 2022. 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 state ment on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220001886. Published August 17, 24, 31, September 7, 2022

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) intends to provide federal financial assistance under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program to the City of Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara County, California, to stabilize and protect the Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant intake pump platforms on the ocean bottom. The proposed action would mitigate impacts from coastal storms and earthquakes by reinforcing the existing platforms Pursuant to Executive Order 11988 (Floodplain Management) and FEMA’s implementing regulations at Title 44 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 9, FEMA hereby provides interested parties with a notice of its intent to carry out an action affecting a Thefloodplainpurpose of the proposed action is to reduce seismic hazards and scour damage from coastal storms. The proposed action at the underwater intake platforms would consist of the following activities: 1) demolition to remove and dispose of sheet piles and pea gravel, and temporary stabilization; 2) cleaning of the platforms and core hole drilling by divers; 3) placement of filter fabric, armor stone, and grout bag formwork on and around the perimeter of the platforms; 4) filling of grout formwork with grout; and 5) removal, stockpiling on shore, and disposal of construction

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nacaya Products, LLC, 123 Natoma Avenue, A, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Nacaya Products, LLC, 123 Natoma Ave nue, A, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 22, 2022. 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. Hol land, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0002096. Published August 24, 31, September 7, 14, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Spas, 925 Spring Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103. Santa Barbara Spas & Pool Service, 925 Spring Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 2, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby cer tify that this is a correct copy of the original state ment on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, Coun ty Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0001943. Published August 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 22CV03021. To all interested parties: Petitioner Wayne Edward Bloxham III filed a petition with Superior Court of California, Coun ty of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Wayne Edward Pool. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter ap pear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hear ing. Filed August 23, 2022 by Narzralli Baksh. Hearing date: October 10, 2022 at 10 am in Dept. 5, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published August 31, September 7, 14, 21, 2022

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

Browne Back to the Bowl – Most performers at the Santa Barbara Bowl have opening acts to warm up the audience for their main set, but it would seem sacrilegious whenever Jackson Browne makes one of his near annu al appearances at the amphitheater nestled into the lower Riviera. Even a three-hour time slot doesn’t seem long enough to delve into one of the few significant singer-songwriters from Southern California in the ’70s still mak ing new music in the 2020s. (It boggles the mind to realize that it’s been more than half a century since Browne debuted with Saturate Before Using , which contained the still-performed songs “Doctor My Eyes” and “Rock Me On the Water.” Even then, Browne was praised as an artist with “the soul of a poet and the stance of a troubadour,” while Rolling Stone presciently predicted that the record “laid the groundwork for future heart-and-soul excavations.” That promise was fulfilled less than two years later with the still sensuously stirring Late for the Sky album, in the middle of a partic ularly prolific period when he put out six albums in a span of eight years. The pace slowed in the 1980s-1990s, and dwindled to only one album every six years or so in the 2000s-2010s, mostly records critics declared didn’t measure up to his classics. But last summer’s Downhill from Everywhere comes off as evidence of a reinvigorated Browne, sounding more present and purposeful than he has in years, and showing he’s still a master at unit ing personal and political issues and underscoring all with the same subtle yet unyielding urgency that has characterized his career. Browne, who turns 74 next month, always seems inspired when he performs in Santa Barbara, SEPTEMBER 2

Darlapalooza for Labor Day – Celebrate the nearly ubiquitous Santa Barba ra DJ Darla Bea ’s birthday with a 1990s party in the open air in downtown Santa Barbara. Sport your best flannel and rock out to four hours of music from the decade with the aptly-named Flannel 101 tribute band playing alt. rock hits and Darla diving in to spin throwback jams during band breaks. The Mosaic locale Courtyard Takeover happens in the al fresco plaza ad jacent to Crush Bar & Tap where the stars shine while buildings block any blustery breezes. Anyway, the flannel, friends, and frenzied dancing should keep you warm enough.

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WHEN: 6-10 pm WHERE: 1129 A State St. COST: $10 INFO: https://djdarlabea.ticketsauce.com

Pick up the Tab – Swamp blues guitar ist- singer-songwriter Tab Benoit has built a three-decade-long career on a simple foundation – putting his gritty, soulful Delta blues guitar licks and singing in the forefront and not allow ing commercial consideration or cur rent trends to lure him into watering down the sounds. Benoit also doesn’t rely on any effects and his set up is also unadorned with just a guitar and Category 5 Amplifier so that what you hear from his fingers comes through clean. A Grammy nominee, Benoit has also received five Blues Music Awards, including being named BB King Enter tainer of the Year twice, and been inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. Dating back to 2002, he’s also used his music and his energy to bring attention to Louisiana’s coastal erosion issues through his Wetlands project, and a few years ago he launched his own imprint, Whiskey Bayou Records.

Special guest JD Simo is a Chicago-born, now Nashville transplant who has a similar approach, as Simo likens himself to a one-man crusade dedicated to keeping music real, raw, and honest. The songwriter, guitarist, and pro ducer has worked with artists as diverse as Jack White, Tommy Emmanuel, and Grateful Dead founder Phil Lesh’s Phil & Friends, and last year released perhaps his most original and rawest effort yet, Mind Control WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $39-$106 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

Going Goo Goo – The alternative rock band Goo Goo Dolls rose to promi nence in the 1990s after trading their trashy punk rock approach for jangly pop, scoring more than a dozen Top 10 singles including such hits like “Name” and “Iris,” and selling millions of records and earning four Grammy nomina tions. “Iris,” which topped the chart for 18 weeks, is still remarkably popular having amassed nearly one billion downloads on Spotify. Staying together consistently for over three decades has helped to make the band one of the more influential alt-rock bands in the land. The latest album, Chaos in Bloom , Calendar of Events by Steven Libowitz recorded in Woodstock, New York, and released just last month, is also the first produced by frontman Johnny Rzeznik , and blends their signature stadi um-ready choruses with sharp societal commentaries and observations, while simultaneously searching for optimism in the world. Blue October opens their concert at the Bowl.

WHEN: 7 pm September 1-2 & 6-7, plus 1 pm September 3 WHERE: UCSB Studio Theater, 552 University Rd. (Building TD East 1101) COST: free INFO: (805) 893-2064 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu

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WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. COST: $45-$155 INFO: (805) 962-4711 or www.sbbowl.com

Naked Shakes’ Modern Lovers – UCSB Theater’s Naked Shakes, was found ed back in 2006 by Irwin Appel as a vehicle for presenting classic works by Shakespeare in a bar ren physical space sans sets and props, instead putting the focus on the Bard’s words, the actors’ performances, and the audience’s imagination to evoke location and setting and bring the time less stories to life. And what tale could be more timeless than Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s magnificently romantic and tragic indictment of warring factions that not even boundless love can conquer? Not only have people of all ages related to the story about two people from very different backgrounds falling head-over-heels in love, so too have other artistic creators who have followed the Bard’s path of adapting the trage dy to updated situations, such as West Side Story, which has itself enjoyed several versions, including last year’s hit movie musical. Now, Appel is directing a Naked Shakes’ production of Romeo and Juliet cognizant of the story’s role in facing the current challenges of our spectacularly divided times. “Can love heal our divisions and our wounds?” Appel asks, noting that applying contemporary music, costumes, and iconic elements to Shakespeare’s language will produce a bare-staged version “filled with energy, heart, and passion” with the goal of having the audiences “discov er how absorbing, dynamic, and thrilling Romeo and Juliet can be”... and perhaps lift the plague from all of our houses.

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“The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities.” - Winston Churchill

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Smart Beats from Down Un der – EDM is not in short sup ply in Santa Barbara these days, but New Zealand’s Baynk, an electronic produc er whose infectious tropical house and future bass tracks mix live instrumentation with atmospheric synths, appears to have what it takes to stand out. Baynk, born Jock Nowell-Usticke in 1996, started taking piano lessons at age five, switched to saxophone and guitar and, while studying chemical engineering at college, developed an interest in recording his own material. The producer is both humble and ambitious, writing on his Facebook page that he started out “making surf-bro edm and is quickly learning (and) expanding my listening across multiple genres (and) generations to try to educate myself and make better music. It’s still a work in progress and obviously room for improvement.” Still, Pitchfork’s review of his latest EP, Adolescence, called the concept record about the immediacy of youth and romantic first experiences Baynk’s most meticulous work to date (that) revels in eccentric, distinctive details while adhering to tradition al pop structures (with) ... digital sounds (that) are drenched in reverb and slapped with sidechain…. This is dance music for headphones, club music for late-night walks.” Headphone won’t be necessary when Baynk, who boasts more than a quarter-billion collective streams, brings his Adolescence tour to SOhO, with guests Cosmo’s Midnight and Two Lane. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $21 in advance, $26 day of show INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com especially at the Bowl, not far from where he once shared a beach house in Montecito in his 20s. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. COST: $46-$91 INFO: (805) 962-4711 or www.sbbowl.com 805.705.5133 | patricia@villagesite.com

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However it’s described, Hayes’ music has led to duets with Aimee Mann, having his songs covered by the Be Good Tanyas and touring with Anais Mitchell perform ing songs from Hadestown, before it was an award-winning Broadway show (including an astounding Sings Like Hell show at the Lobero). His songs have appeared on NPR, NBC, and HBO. Still prolific despite nearing his mid50s and raising a couple of children, Hayes released his ninth album, Be Like Water, in November 2021, and brings his band back to Santa Barbara to play SOhO tonight.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $20 in advance, $23 day of show INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

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Great Lawn to celebrate International DogWithDay.pet owners paying $250 to enter, all proceeds benefited the local animal shelter, Santa Barbara Humane – which has two campuses in Goleta and Santa Maria – with judges looking for personality, spirit, beauty, tricks, andThetalent.first-prize winner won a twonight stay for two guests, including the winning dog, at the beachside hotel. It also included dinner for two at Caruso’s, in-room dog amenities, and another din ner for two at the newly opened Japanese eatery AMA Sushi. The pampered pooch party raised $6,000 for Santa Barbara Humane. The Show Must Go On Social gridlock reigned at the historic Santa Barbara Club when the Ensemble Theatre Company marked its 43rd sea son with a Curtain Up! gala for 150 guests, raising more than $200,000 for productions at the New Vic.

WinnersTournamentare Corey Kliman, Mia Bray, John Hillis, and Ritchie Bay (photo by Priscilla)

Participants Corey Kliman with Nemo; Monica Williams with Daisy Mae; Deborah RichardsHillis with Bentley; and Libby Aubrey with Porter (photo by Priscilla)

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“We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.” - Winston Churchill went

Pup Party Billionaire Rick Caruso’s Rosewood Miramar went to the dogs when dozens of canines invaded the tony hostelry’s

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Despite harsh reviews from critics on both sides of the Atlantic, Meghan dethroned Joe Rogan as the streaming site’s most popular podcast. In other Sussexi news, the tony two some have added a seven-year-old rescue beagle, Mia, to their Montecito menag erie to join their other Labrador canine. She was one of 4,000 dogs rescued from a breeding facility in Cumberland, Virginia.Pawsfor thought, indeed...

The Montecito-based Duchess of Sussex also hit out at those who criti cized her for being “ambitious” when she started dating Queen Elizabeth’s grandson, Prince Harry , during a wide-ranging discussion on the new episode of her long-awaited ‘Archetype’ podcast on Spotify. And Meghan, 41, recited the experi ence involving the fire in autumn 2019 during a conversation with close friend, tennis great Serena Williams, 40. Talking about her guests, the former Suits TV star said: “They’ve all in some way bore the brunt of labels we’ll be pick ing apart, and, of course, I know a thing or two about labels myself.”

John Muse with more winners: Monica Williams, Lisa Amador, and Dan Walker, SBPC Director (photo Priscilla)by Marci Priscilla)LandeBossum,Richards,Williams,ClubJeffMonicaMindyWinter,Denson,Williams,Scheraga,“TheMan”RhysDeborahAndrewandChuck(photoby

Judges Fidel,Gutierrez,OscarRickPaigeVanTuyl,andDavidNeels(photobyPriscilla)

First Place winners are the Havenpoo Breed Ellie and Bobnoss with their pet parents Corey and Tracy Kliman (photo by Priscilla)

Bob Weinman and Eve Bernstein at the Santa Barbara Club (photo by Zach Mendez)

The Montecito Motor Classic, to be staged at the Santa Barbara Polo Club in October, has been postponed until next year, founder Dolores Johnson informs“Ratherme.than compromise the qual ity of the event with challenging market headwinds and the increased cost of hosting the event, we have decided to postpone it with the hope that we may see the cost of doing an event like ours become more favorable in the future,” says“OurJohnson.intent is to hold the classic in the spring of 2023.”

“It’sunclaimed.certainly the best-ever charity event we’ve hosted,” says Rhys Williams, president. “You cannot beat the location and the helpfulness of Ty Warner’s staff.” Polo player Santi Wulff won the prize for longest drive with Shannon Falcon hoisting the women’s award. Will Busch got closest to the pin. Among those enjoying the salmon and steak dinner, while being entertained by Maitland Ward and George Friedenthal, were polo club president John Muse, club manager David Sigman, Andrew and Amza Bossom, Nigel Gallimore, Dan Walker, Cat Smith, Jesse Bray, Jeff and Naima Scheraga, Chris and Mindy Denson, Chuck and Margarita Lande, Jeff Hall, Mia Bray, Paige Beard, Pat Nesbitt, Piers and Bayne Bossom, Will Busch, and Melanja Jones Vroom Vroom

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Former actress Meghan Markle has used the first episode of her new pod cast to fire a new broadside at the Royal Family as she claims she was forced to continue engagements on a tour of South Africa despite being left in tears when her son Archie narrowly escaped a fire in his bedroom.

Local businesswomen and philanthro pists Eva Rhodes and Elizabeth Farnan Rodrigues have joined the Dream Foundation’s national board of directors, helping raise awareness about the organi zation’s mission of fulfilling final dreams for terminally-ill adults.

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Limiting her social media usage during the past month has improved Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s mental health. After spending time relaxing at her Montecito estate, the Oscar winner, 49, says she spent less time online making her less uneasy and more present.

Among the supporters turning out were Dana White, Nancy Schlosser, Robert Weinman , Eve Bernstein , Simon Williams, Joan Rutkowski, Sybil Rosen, Dan and Meg Burnham, Janet Garufis , Meredith Baxter , Mary Dorra, Lynn Kirst, Peter and Gerd Jordano, Mercedes Millington, George Konstantinow and Helene Segal, Kathryn Martin, and Stefan and Christine Riesenfeld Logging Off

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“When I got off the phone for a week or so, I noted good changes in my mental state, more presence, less anxiety,” she added.

Rhodes is currently Vice President and banker for the Santa Barbara office of J.P. Morgan Private Bank, where she works closely with families, executives, entre preneurs, and foundations to achieve their financial goals. She earned her B.A. in economics and German literature at UCLA, and Master’s in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics.

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Susan Van Abel chaired the fun f ê te that featured the ubiquitous Chris Fossek on classical guitar, singer Linda Purl , who starred in the Rosemary Clooney play Tenderly last season, watched by her husband former Dallas actor Patrick Duffy , and Constance Jewell Lopez , who will be starring in the new season production of Oscar Hammerstein’s Carmen Jones , based on Bizet’s opera and set in World War II. She was accompanied by William McDaniel , the play’s music director, onOtherpiano.upcoming productions, artistic director Jonathan Fox revealed, include a new version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol , Selling Kabul , The Children, and Seared “These are proof and verification that there is nothing like live theater,” he enthused.Otherattractions included live paint ing by Ruth Ellen Hoag , a Sleuth set photo opportunity and a silent auction featuring a Manhattan get away for two, including tickets for two Broadway shows, a stay at the Belmond El Encanto, and a two-night trip to Hermosa Beach.

It is hard to believe it is now 25 years since Princess Diana’s life was snuffed out in a tragic car accident in Paris aged just 36. I had been sailing with friends in Penobscot Bay in Dark Harbor, Maine, when I returned from a dinner party to find 80 calls on my host Marshall Field heir Maldwin Drummond’s answering machine.Thefirst one was from NBC anchor Tom Brokaw asking me into the studio to talk about the death of the Princess of Wales who I had last spo ken to two months earlier at a socially gridlocked reception at the New York auction house, Christie’s, to promote the sale of her evening gowns for charity, an event I covered for ABC Network News and CNN.

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La Mere, I learned, sources produce from farmers markets and breads from local bakers. Her beef is grass fed, from Grass Run Farms, while poultry and seafood is supplied by Harbor Meat & Seafood. A few years ago, she purchased property in Inverness, California, boast

German put the raw seafood selections on ice: beautiful scallops served in their shells, light ly bathed in ponzu; iced jumbo shrimp served with a spicy pink cocktail sauce and fresh shucked oysters served separately on an oversized platter of crushed ice cradling stainless steel sauce cups filled with gin ger mignonette, sesame chili sauce and sake lime sauce. He used his oyster knife swiftly to unhinge the mussels, ocean spray waft ing in the air.

Across the table, I busily chopped bright ly colored heirloom tomatoes and basil for the bruschetta. All of the produce is locally sourced and incredibly flavorful. I sliced, and then I chopped, repeated. The large metal bowl was only half-full. In this fast-paced environment – where timing is everything – camaraderie and teamwork are crucial to your success. But even under tremendous pressure, the environment was ripe for improving and perfecting your culinary skills. At one point, Adriana asked for my knife and then proceeded to cross-chop a bunch of basil precisely into green threads. Then she turned the blade upright and used the back side to scrape the cutting board’s contents into a bowl, advising me, “Use the backside of the blade to scrape the board, otherwise you will damage the blade.”

By Claudia Schou

There was no shortage of towels in our kitchen, which made it easy to wipe a plate with a damp towel or use a dry one to pull puff pastry out of the oven. I used clean towels to wipe off my station before starting the next course, keeping it clean and clutter-free, sans my knives, a pair of kitchen shears, a peeler, and a box of rubber gloves. Our entire culinary team wore masks during food prep.

The team huddled around the event menu that was posted on a corkboard in the center of the room. It consisted of a cheese and fruit board, a raw seafood sta tion, tray-passed ornamental appetizers, and a few seasonal desserts. I was assigned to the cold dishes. A large amount of raw food and herbs were stored in a cooler for mise-enplace. Adriana showed me which items to assemble first, beginning with a large cheese and fruit board. It consisted of an assortment of imported cheeses, a goat cheese torte, bouquets of hand-rolled breadsticks, fresh baked baguettes and ciabatta, gluten free crackers, quince paste, dried fruit, toasted pecans, cit rus and fennel-marinated olives, and a pre-assembled assortment of fragrant fruit cascading from an Champagneurn. bottles were chilled. The corks of red wine bottles were removed so the wine could breathe. An ornate drink dispens er was filled with freshsqueezed cherry lemonade.

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I next assembled savory ingredients for Adriana to grill: Soft, light golden flour tortillas oozing with a melted blend of brie, dried cherries, and caramelized onions, garnished with mango. Adriana summoned me to the deep fryer, filled with baby red potatoes that had been halved and scooped out to form little cups. “Let these cook for another five minutes, remove them from the fryer and let them cool on this wire rack.” Then she went to the oven and removed the piggy pot pies – beer-braised pork belly slices enveloped in a parmesan pepper crust – and replaced them with a sheet of garlic ginger chicken skewers. Decorative sauce vessels filled with Asian chili peanut dipping sauce sat nearby on the counter.

This summer I did what most prac tical women who love to shop for fashion and dine out do when their pocketbooks grow slimmer than a Raymond Carver story: I got a second job! Feeling a bit adventurous, I applied online for a position cooking for a local company named Pure Joy Catering. To my surprise, I received an email 20 minutes later offering me kitchen duty on several event dates. I selected one and was quickly confirmed to cook at an author’s book release party in Montecito. I’m an amateur at best, but I did earn three culinary certificates from Le Cordon Bleu, certain that my training in Savory Nibbles, Korean Barbecue, and Holiday Dessert Baking would come in handy someday. Could this be the day? I’ve spent years in hospitality – in and outside the kitchen. So working in catering isn’t too much of a stretch. Besides, I have everything a new cook needs to survive in the culinary world: sharpened knives, an apron, almost new slip-resistant flats (bur ied in the back of my closet, under some boxes), and a copy of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential As far as I was concerned I had nothing to lose, except, maybe, a few fingers. So I packed my knives (a paring knife, bread knife, and nine-inch chopper) and Le Cordon Bleu blue ribbon apron in my swanky Coach handbag, and drove up Mountain Drive to my destination, which was a beautiful Mediterraneanstyle home with an active vineyard and plenty of space to throw a party. A three-car garage had been transformed into a makeshift kitchen, with a portable grill, deep fryer, front-loading stor age bins and coolers, coffee and tea stations, and a table dedicated to garde manger. The catering team was made up of former hotel culinary all-stars who joined Pure Joy when health restrictions were lifted on outdoor events. Each one had their own specialty and expertise: Dane, the team’s charismatic, adrenaline-charged captain, is a project manager whose timing and execution is impeccable; Adriana, a companionable, masterful chef who worked at Rosewood Miramar before joining the team last year; and German, a jovial yet determined line cook who previously worked at Ritz Carlton Bacara. Serving the food platters and cocktails were two delightful (and hungry) college students, Conner and Jessica Perhaps bringing Santa Barbara’s culi nary talent together is part of Pure Joy’s business plan, and what drew Pure Joy’s owner/executive chef Lynette La Mere to a life in catering.

Guests noshed on beer-braised pork belly slices enveloped in a parmesan pepper crust (photo credit: Willa Kveta)

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Dried cherries, caramelized onion, and mango garnish made these brie quesadillas a popular choice (photo credit: Willa Kveta)

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ing three beehives and 60 fruit trees, which she someday hopes to utilize for her business, her staff said.

Salmon Tartare in Crisp Red Potatoes

Cut potatoes in half, and hollow out the center with a small melon baller. Cut the very end of each half off to create a flat surface, so that the potato cup can stand upright on a plate. Bring water to a boil in a medium-sized pot. Once water is boiling, carefully add potato halves, and boil for two minutes. Drain potatoes, and place them on a cloth to dryIncompletely.asmallbowl, combine salmon, shal lots, capers, Dijon mustard, and dill. Gently stir to mix thoroughly. Place tartare mixture in the fridge until ready to serve. Fill a shallow saucepan with about an inch of a neutral oil (ideally vegetable oil or rice bran oil). Heat the oil on medi um-high until bubbling. Place fully-dried potato halves into the oil in batches. Fry each half until crispy and golden brown, and then remove and place on a rack or paper towel. Sprinkle salt and pepper over halves and allow to cool. Once potatoes have cooled to room temperature, use a spoon to fill them with the tartare. Add a small dollop of crème fraiche on top as garnish.

A few minutes later, I emptied the bas ket of crisp baby red potatoes onto the cooling rack, and returned to my station to prepare the second half of the recipe: salmonSalmontartare.tartare is a classic dish of fresh raw salmon, herbs, and (instead of lime juice, for this recipe) zesty capers to pro vide a lemony tang and salty, savory flavor. I carefully sliced the salmon filets lengthwise, cut each slice in half then chopped the slices into tiny cubes. Next, I stirred the cubes together with the capers, shallots, Dijon mustard, and strands of dill. By this time the baby potato cups were cooled, and I began to spoon the tartare into them. At that moment Dane alerted the cooks it was time to send out the final course: dessert. The servers gathered around while Adriana and I prepared the dessert. Adriana fried up some cinnamon-doughy churros that were paper-wrapped and served out of a cigarette box with tasty dip pots filled with dulce de leche, Belgian dark chocolate, and milk chocolate. Before that, she had handed me a butane torch and pulled a tray of lemon custard tarts in handmade crusts from a food warm er. I used a spoon to sprinkle sugar over the tarts and brûléed them one by one. As the granules bubbled up, the caramelized sugar transformed into a hard glaze that remind ed me of the shimmery-delicious lip gloss my older sister Lisa wore in the ‘seventies. I continued to brûlée, humming occasionally to the Olivia Newton-John song “Have You Never Been Mellow” streaming in my head.

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Lemony capers and a dab of crème fraîche make this salmon tartare recipe extra special (photo credit: Willa Kveta)

Claudia Schou is a high-heel enthusiast, boot camp novice, and fancy recipe collector. Loves Flannery O’Connor and Breakfast with The Beatles. Formerly at California Apparel News, Orange County Register, and L.A. Times Community News.

Makes 20 individual bites

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