District Bounds – A local resident writes in about the intricacies of special districts and neighborhood bounds, P.10
Fast Food Folly – An op-ed on the new Fast Food Recovery Act and how it will impact our state, P.11
College Advice – Recent university grads share the lessons they’ve learned for incoming students, P.23
Talking Space – Tom Farr gives series of planetary talks at the Montecito Library, P.28
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The McEnroe Reading and Language Arts Clinic is teaching teachers how to teach reading, page 24
The Montecito Water District is warning the public to reduce water use before stricter measures must be put in place, page 6
This Montecito couple had water usage in mind for their garden and home design and have the award to prove it, page 32
Advisor to four sitting presidents, editor and political commentator, and author of Hearts Touched With Fire: How Great Leaders Are Made, David Gergen sits down to discuss leadership in the country’s past, present, and future (Interview starts on page 5)
Located in the prestigious Riven Rock enclave, this inspiring 4-bedroom (plus pool house) Montecito estate features a magnificent pool and spa, exceptional indoor/outdoor flow and is situated on a lush 1-acre parcel. Gorgeous park-like grounds with endless patios combine with a five-star pool and spa area to create the ultimate luxury experience. An abundance of natural light and spaciousness combine wonderfully in the interior spaces. The kitchen features a stainless-steel Viking range and fridge, large walk-in pantry, and a generous chef’s island with seating and a prep sink. The living room enjoys a fireplace and French doors that lead to the back patio - the perfect entertaining venue. The primary suite is a retreat, featuring mountain views, high wood-beamed ceilings, fireplace, large walk-in closet, and dual vanity ensuite bathroom with a spacious shower. Guests will always be welcome - this property boasts a full-service pool house that includes a kitchenette, full bath and expansive windows overlooking the backyard garden paradise. Majestic oaks, stone walls, rose gardens, citrus trees, ponds and multiple flagstone outdoor entertaining areas complete the serene outdoor setting. Convenient to local hiking trails, as well as shopping and dining at Montecito’s Upper and Lower Villages. Cold Spring School.
Editorial – David Gergen speaks with MJ’s Gwyn Lurie about his experiences in the Oval Office, leadership, and future generations
Village Beat – Residents are being highly encouraged to reduce water use plus one Montecito couple doing it right, and the Montecito Med Spa opens
Far Flung Travel – Chuck saw a sawwhet owlet and tells us all about it
In Passing – The musical and creative life of Nelson Huber is remembered
On Entertainment – Kostis Protopapas takes on Tosca , DakhaBrakha debuts, and other sights and sounds around town
Montecito Miscellany – A Red Feather Ball, Hospice Heroes, those making SB beautiful, opera on the Condor, Revels for the equinox, and others
Letters to the Editor – Living in Montecito’s special districts, a call for a pause on parklet changes, and the Queen by numbers
Tide Guide
Op–Ed – Bob Hazard discusses the Fast Food Recovery Act and its impact on California
Our Town – The Santa Barbara Foundation honors Ginger Salazar and Katina Zaninovich as Persons of the Year for 2022
Brilliant Thoughts – Getting to the heart of our metaphorical, cultural, and visual concepts of the heart Dear Montecito – Local alumni give their college do’s and don’ts for new university students
The Giving List – How the McEnroe Reading and Language Arts Clinic is helping both teachers and students understand literacy
Montecito Reads – Hollis waits for word from Cyrus after a scary encounter with a strange “friend”
Library Mojo – Tom Farr to give Space Talks, celebrating Banned Books Week, and the Library Van returns
Calendar of Events – Mary Firestone’s new book, Hidden City Studios at SOhO, a Chumash Inter-Tribal PowWow, SB-Kotor sister cities celebrate, plus more
Reel Fun – A look at the moving movie, Hold Me Tight, coming this week to the Riviera
The Optimist Daily – Electric aircraft are making progress and have a new supporter
Classifieds – Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales
Stories Matter – From the feminist power of skirts to the wild life of Peter Beard, these reads will spice up your equinox
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As an advisor to four U.S. Presidents, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, David Gergen had a front row seat to the highest levels of power and leadership in this coun try. As an editor for U.S. News and World Report, and a commentator on PBS and CNN, Mr. Gergen became a steady and rational voice on fast-chang ing political events. Now, as a Professor of Public Service and Founding Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Gergen plays what is perhaps his most import ant role as a teacher and mentor to America’s next generation of leaders who are, according to him, redefining what power and leadership look like.
In his recently released New York Times bestseller, Hearts Touched With Fire: How Great Leaders Are Made, Gergen puts forth a prescription for courage and character in public life, linking iconic examples from the past with today’s emerging young leaders to uncover fun damental elements of effective leadership. In this must-read book, Gergen strongly advocates for a passing of the torch to the next generation that is taking many different paths to leadership – often from the bottom up.
“We are no longer living in a world in which leaders are formed only in our nation’s most elite institutions, groomed in public life, and take charge from the start. Those days are gone and thank goodness for it!” Gergen writes.
I love this book. In a world of hyper bole and extreme partisanship, Gergen’s voice is calm, clear, compassionate, and inspiring. His ideas are based on a rich body of research, experience, and deep contemplation. And most importantly, on a strong, unwavering belief in and love for this country, and the urgency of what’s at stake.
I had a chance to speak with Mr. Gergen about his book in which he advocates for a period of national ser vice for young people. We discussed what he calls his short-term pessimism and long-term optimism, and his great sadness about the lost days of acrossthe-aisle friendships through which, not so long ago, leaders engaged with their philosophical counterparts to the great benefit of this country. For whatever it’s worth, this resonated with me person ally, as I believe that my partnership at the MJ with Tim Buckley, with whom I often disagree politically, makes me bet ter at my job and just generally a more empathic and open-minded human.
On October 11 at 7:30 pm, Mr. Gergen will be speaking at the Granada Theatre
David Gergen was advisor to four U.S. Presidents: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton
as part of UCSB’s Arts & Lectures series, opening its Thematic Learning Initiative this season: Leadership & Vision.
UCSB Arts & Lectures is providing free copies of Gergen’s book to the com munity that can be picked up at the downtown or Goleta libraries: thematic-learning.org/2022-2023.html
Leading From Within, one of our Giving List partners, will be hosting lead ership roundtables based on the book and event on Thursday, October 13: leading-from-within.org/events/leader ship-roundtable/
I hope you appreciate my conversation with David Gergen as much as I did:
“…Through our great good fortune, in our youth, our hearts were touched by fire. It was given to us to learn at the out set that life is a profound and passionate thing.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Gwyn Lurie: I really enjoyed your book, and I love the title, born out of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote.
David Gergen: Yes.
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Gwyn Lurie is CEO and Executive Editor of the Montecito Journal Media Group
In an effort to get an urgent and important message to the Montecito community, Montecito Water District (MWD) installed a road sign last week at the triangle on Olive Mill Road and Hot Springs with the rotating message: “Extreme Drought, Reduce Irrigation.” The goal is to get customers’ attention so that they will reduce water use now. The quickest, most effective way to do that is by cutting back on irrigation.
Despite the District’s improved drought resilience in recent years thanks to actions including completing a 50-year agreement with the City of Santa Barbara to share in desalina tion, customer demand is the challenge and currently, customer water use is too high, according to MWD General Manager Nick Turner . “We’ve planned and budgeted for water supply for the long haul, but right now we need to get demand under control or the District could be facing water shortages as soon as 2024,” Turner informed the MWD Board during a special meeting earlier
this month. “We’ve been in drought before, and we know what customer use can and should be. What remains to be seen is if customers will cut use voluntarily, or if the District will have to resort to stricter measures.” The desal agreement was finalized in 2020 and deliveries began in January of this year. Desalination secures approxi mately 35-40% of the District’s annual budgeted water supply, but nearly 60% of the annual water budget is still com prised of sources dependent on rainfall that are vulnerable to drought. With customer use trending more than 20% over budget for the second year in a row, the District is turning up the vol ume on its call to action: get water use back on budget.
Public Information Officer Laura Camp tells us the District has analyzed data that indicates that the increase in customer usage is taking place outdoors. While usage has climbed at Montecito Water District, flows to the two Sanitary Districts serving the District have remained relatively consistent. This points to a clear solution: reduce out door use by cutting back on irrigation.
When asked about a steep increase in new home ownership in the District, Camp said that within the last five years, approximately 1,628 water service accounts have had a change of own ership, noting that some of these new owners may not be new to the area. 290 of these accounts were randomly select ed and 12 months of usage data from before and after the change of ownership was analyzed, and usage was found to have decreased for 135 accounts, result ing in 3.63 acre feet (AF) less usage than the prior owner. Usage increased for 155 accounts, resulting in 4.09 AF more usage than the prior owner. The net increase from new owners of the 290 accounts was 0.46 AFY or less than
1 HCF. “The assessment demonstrates that water usage by new owners is highly variable, and that properties that change ownership likely do not have a signifi cant impact on water use,” Camp told us. “With 70% of single-family homes increasing their water usage, it’s clear that newcomers cannot be blamed.”
You read that right: according to District data, increased usage is widespread across more than 70% of single-family residenc es, which is the District’s largest customer class and greatest water consumer. In the Special Board Meeting held September 16, Directors again discussed how to get customers to reduce water use voluntarily
A new road sign will hopefully get the attention of Montecito res idents, who are being asked to cut back immediately on outdoor irriga tion
This year’s Red Feather Ball for United Way of Santa Barbara County had a decided ly Moroccan flavor with the theme Voyage to Marrakesh, a cosmopolitan city I have visited many times, includ ing the 70th anniversary of one of the world’s top hotels, La Mamounia, when it was owned by King Hassan II, and the 70th birthday bash of my late friend Cat Pollon, who took over the equally luxurious La Maison Arabe in the Medina.
The Merryl Brown-designed sold-out event, chaired by Merryl Snow Zegar, had 270 guests, raising around $350,000 with the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone as emcee and welcomes from Steve Ortiz, President and CEO, and Melinda Cabrera, Vice President.
A Middle Eastern musical trio – Jim Grippo on qanun, Andrea Fishman on riqq, and Eric Ederer on oud – added to
the fun bash’s authenticity.
Among the supporters deciding to Maroc around the clock were Anne Towbes , Mike and Nati Smith ,
Jennifer Smith, Michael and Nati Smith, and mother Anne Smith Towbes at the Red Feather Ball (photo by Priscilla)
Andrew Firestone standing with Emiko and Leo Hamill, Amber and Steve Ortiz, Sue Matsumoto, Mel Kennedy; Seated: Sue and Ed Birch, Abel Montañez, and Bob and Joan Hollman (photo by Priscilla)
Standing: John Raymont, Andria Kahmann, Pamela Fellows, Teresa Kuskey Nowak, Rick Oshay, Adam McKaig, Takako Wakita; Seated: Dora Foto, Joan Rutkowski, and Karen Knight (photo by Priscilla)
Stephen Erickson, Andrew Firestone, Chris Terrill, Tim Nightingale, Rick Oshay, Ben Pringle, and David Jackson (photo by Priscilla)
In Mark Hunt ’s article “Ins and Outs: Montecito and Her Many Special Neighborhoods” (Real Estate Issue, August 4, 2022), he correctly states not all homes in 93108 are within Montecito, or either of its two school or special districts.
Many Eucalyptus Hill homes are in the City of Santa Barbara. Eucalyptus Hill Improvement Association (EHIA) homes are NOT in Montecito, or in the Cold Spring School District (CSSD). These homes are within the City Boundaries and the assigned school is SBUSD Cleveland Elementary, with a 13-19% student proficiency versus 93-97% at CSSD or MUSD.
Much confusion exists in this area, where some of us vote in all eight Montecito Districts but are served by City of Santa Barbara.
West Montecito is the best of both worlds as a hybrid neighborhood with a foot in the doors of both Montecito and Santa Barbara.
I became a EHIA member in 1980 when I moved to a home on La Vista Grande within Eucalyptus Hill City neighborhood boundaries. In 1986 I then bought a nearby Montecito lot to build almost on the border.
Presently only half of planned devel opment ‘Vista del Montecito’ is in West Montecito and the other half in the City of SB. Some homeowners are EHIA members, others are Montecito Association (MA) members, some are members of both EHIA and MA neigh borhood groups.
In Vista del Montecito all properties are served by City, but half of us vote for reps in the eight Montecito spe cial districts. Half are within the CSSD Boundaries. All are within the SBUSD Secondary High School boundaries.
CSSD attendance boundaries differ from the county’s boundaries defining Montecito. Some homes around and
above Westmont College are within the City and are also served by one or more of Montecito’s eight special districts, including CSSD. Two adjoining residen tial properties can be assigned to different schools or water/sewer districts.
In the process of selling my home, I’ve found after interviewing several realtors, few have the experience, training, and knowledge of the area. Over my 42 years here I’ve welcomed countless new neigh bors who have multiple unanswered, or wrongly answered questions.
Locals depend on the Montecito Journal. Boundary Maps would be help ful in special Home editions, and timely with elections this November.
Denice Spangler AdamsDear Ms. Sneddon, Councilmember, District 4:
As one of your supporters, I implore you not to reduce or eliminate the out door restaurant seating on Coast Village Road in Montecito (CVR). Although it seems that the threat of the COVID-19 virus has diminished, I and many of my friends that live in Santa Barbara are still concerned about variants spreading and we will only continue to patronize restaurants if we can sit outside. The parklets provide a safe environment for us to dine. As you know, viruses spread more rapidly in the fall and winter and thus it seems irrational to now force restaurants to reduce or eliminate safe outdoor seating.
While a few retailers on CVR have been advocating for the elimination of the parklets on the theory that the few extra parking spaces will increase their business, I believe the opposite is true and that many of the retailers, and I know of two, have greatly benefited by the restaurant parklets since they attract
more people to CVR.
I believe that if restaurant seating is reduced it will hurt not benefit the CVR economy. Please thoroughly investigate other options before forcing the restau rants to tear down the parklets and discourage residents from eating at the restaurants on CVR.
Thank you. Robert C. ForstQueen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch in British history, died on 8 September 2022. Her state funeral was scheduled for Monday, 19 September, 2022.
Elizabeth became the queen on 6 February, 1952, at age 25. This year marked the 70th anniversary of the Queen’s accession to the throne of the United Kingdom. However, Elizabeth was formally crowned monarch on 6 June, 1953, at age 27.
I wanted to do something special to say farewell to Queen Elizabeth and after some investigation, I put together the fol lowing numerical curiosities in her honor:
– If Elizabeth’s birthday 21/4/1926 is split as 214 and 1926, 1926 divided by 214 yields 9, and 9 is the number of letters in Elizabeth [1].
– Elizabeth became queen on the 37th day of 1952 (6/2/1952). If 37 is split as 3 and 7, the product and the difference of 3 and 7 yield 21 and 4 respectively, the day and month numbers of Elizabeth’s birthday.
– The sum of the digits of 21/4/1926 and 6/2/1952 each equal 25, the age Elizabeth became the queen.
– Elizabeth became queen in 1952 on 6 February (6/2) and she officially got crowned in 1953 on 2 June (2/6). Interestingly, 6/2 and 2/6 are reverse of each other.
– If numbers 1 through 26 are assigned to letters A through Z, the sum of the letter numbers of Elizabeth’s full name, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, equals 327 and the prime
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factors of 327, namely 3 and 109, add up to 112. Elizabeth’s birthday always coincides with the 112th day of each leap year.
– Elizabeth died 140 days after her 96th birthday on 21/4/2022 and coinci dentally, the 140th prime number is 809, representing 8 September (8/09), the day Elizabeth died.
– Lastly, Elizabeth died on 8 September, the 220th day of 2022.
I hope you rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth. Amen.
Aziz Inan - a professor teaching in the electrical engineering program of the Donald P. Shiley School of Engineering at University of Portland. He can be reached at ainan@up.edu.
[1] A. Inan, “Happy birthday Queen Elizabeth,” Portland Tribune, April 21, 2019.
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California, which already ranks dead last in Chief Executive’s “Best and Worst States for Business,” just took another giant leap backward. On Labor Day, September 9, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law, a new, deceptively named “Fast Food Recovery Act.” This legislation has nothing to do with fast-food recovery. Instead, once again, the government of California has abandoned its faith in “We the People” and decided that “We the Government know best.”
Last January, California Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, a Democrat from San Diego and an American union leader, intro duced AB 257 on behalf of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), man dating that any fast food chain in California that has at least 100 stores nationwide, must adhere to minimum wage and work stan dards set by the 10-person, state-appointed California Council of pinheads.
The 10-member council, appointed by the Governor and state legislative leaders,
will include union representatives, social workers, fast food employees, and state officials who will decide when and by how much compulsory minimum wages for fast food workers should be raised. Fast food store owners can be forced to pay as much as $22 an hour for new workers starting next year, a 47% increase, increasing each year in sync with the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This year the CPI as of September 1 is running at 8.5% per annum.
In addition to granting authority to fix fast food wages, the state council can dictate benefit programs, working conditions, vacation and leave policies, overtime rules, and store hours, strip ping individual franchisee store owners or company-owned stores from making these previously free market decisions.
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. In California, effective January 1,
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For nearly 75 years, the Cancer Foundation has ensured that Santa Barbara residents have access to the highest level of cancer care possible, regardless of financial means.
As the leading supporter of the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center, our investments—made possible by your donations—impact lives every day.
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Ginger Salazar and Katina Zaninovich were honored as the Santa Barbara Foundation Persons of the Year 2022 at a luncheon on Wednesday, September 21, at the Santa Barbara Hilton.
Both women were enthusiastically wel comed and congratulated by the attend ees as they each spoke about their work in the community via a video presentation, and again at the podium upon receiving their award. They shared about how their families growing up were influential in leading them to do volunteer work as a natural course of life, and of course hon ored to be awarded.
Both have made years of contribu tions to our community. Salazar is cred ited with Montecito Union School’s organic garden and healthy lunch pro gram, and the building of the Lompoc
Community Track and Field at Huyck Stadium to provide the community a safe outdoor space to exercise and play. She currently serves on the Board of Directors at Cottage Health, the Santa Barbara Foundation, and the Towbes Foundation.
Zaninovich had a long career as a Registered Nurse working at the Visiting Nurse Association SB since 1982. She currently serves as a board member at Casa Dorinda, and Chair of the Board for the Central Coast Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.
As health and nutrition are key for both Salazar and Zaninovich, I asked them to expound on being healthy.
Salazar: The food we eat and physical movement are critical components of health. As I child, I was fortunate to have regular exercise built into my hobbies and have a
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Given the intense sunshine, there were so many umbrellas out at the Hilton’s Plaza del Sol for the 10th
annual Heroes of Hospice of Santa Barbara lunch that it looked like a Mary Poppins convention!
The bountiful bash for 260 guests, co-hosted by KEYT-TV anchors Beth Farnsworth and C.J. Ward, also fea tured local lifestyle strategist Jesse Brisendine, along with guest speakers William Peters, a leading authority on shared death experience, Rolf Geyling,
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Asaw-whet owl, that is. Sometimes they keep me up at night, and gratefully so. That repetitive tootoo-too sounding off two notes per second at the same pitch for up to 25 whistles in a row before taking a slight break.
Then those tiny, nocturnal saw-whets are back at it again teasing me with their distinct island serenade in the lower
campground, beneath the dense cano py of the eucalyptus grove in Scorpion Canyon on Santa Cruz Island. All these years and I’ve never even caught a glimpse of one. That was, until recently.
For all these years, all I’ve heard of these little owls are the adults, mostly males, too-too-too’ing to stave off any competition and defend their precious territories. Sometimes they mix in some whines, squeaks, and barks just to keep things interesting.
This past August and September, the calls have been of a different variety, but definitely saw-whet owls. This sum mer, a pair of adults had four saw-whet owlets tucked away in the eucalyptus grove, just between the lower and upper campgrounds. From late August into early September, the owlets’ incessant tssst calls have kept many campers and kayak guides on their toes and up at night. As evening approached, those tssst calls sounded off in different regions of the craggy canyon. The young sawwhets had dispersed, and their tssst calls were heard throughout the lower campground. Guides and campers were scrambling for headlamps to get a mere glimpse of these minuscule owls.
Saw-whet owls, although found throughout North America, have prov en to be one of the most challenging to see, let alone photograph. At seven to eight inches tall and around 2.5-5.3 ounces, saw-whets are small, but they have big, round heads. Their wingspans range between 16.5-18.9 inches wide. Their small size doesn’t deter them though from hunting all types of prey. Mice are on the menu. There’s no short age of them on Santa Cruz Island, but they supplement their diet with small songbirds and insects, also aplenty, on the largest, most biodiverse isle off the California Coast.
During the last week of August, usu ally at around 10 pm the tssst calls from the owlets grew really loud. There was no way I was going to sleep, so with my headlamp burning bright and a flash attached to my camera, I went owling for most of those nights. Those tssst calls lasted all the way until 5:30 am!
However, I did locate several sawwhets on the lower eucalyptus limbs of a tree that fell over last December during one of several strong winter storms. When I did find them, it was 11:30 pm. The owlets bobbed and weaved with their big heads from exposed perches. I noticed the juveniles had a cinna mon-colored tummy, with brown heads, yellow eyes, and a distinct white “V” between the eyes that ran down to the top of their beaks.
Maneuvering in for photos wasn’t sim ple while attempting to keep the noise level down to a minimum and maintain ing a visual on such a small subject in the dark. There was a lot of bushwhacking through thistle, coyote bush, and lemon ade berry. I literally had to follow those consistent tssst calls, sometimes having to stop and listen as they would fly short distances to the next branch and continue calling out until first light.
It’s always amazing seeing wildlife on the Channel Islands National Park. However, just when I thought I had seen everything there is to see of island fauna, one of North America’s smallest owls kept me in check. The truth is, I’ll never see enough.
Chuck Graham is a free lance writer and photogra pher based in Carpinteria, where he also leads kayak tours and backpacking trips in Channel Islands National Park
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A saw-whet owlet sees you before you see it...
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Among the many supporters were David Selberg, Charles Caldwell, Ellen Pillsbury, Mayor Randy Rowse, Charles Fenzi, Robin Himovitz, Gerd Jordano, George and Laurie Leis, Kate Carter, Marybeth Carty, Mindy Denson, Geoff Green, and Steve Ortiz
Social gridlock reigned at the Music Academy when Santa Barbara Beautiful staged its 58th annual award celebration with 200 guests at the Kuehn Court reception with wandering musical trou
badours Ted Hoagland, Chris Judge, and Collin Richardson
The awards celebration was staged in the Lehman Ballroom, emceed by ubiquitous KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri, with a welcome from SBB President Deborah Schwartz
The president’s award went to the newly restored Cabrillo Pavilion, the Jacaranda Award for Outstanding Community Service to Sue Adams, the Playa de SB Award for Environmental Stewardship to Foothills Forever, the Griswold Award for Philanthropy to John Woodward, and the Hugh and Marjorie Petersen Award for Art in Public Places to the Plaza Granada Mural.
Among the bevy of beautiful people turn ing out for the fun fête, co-chaired by Mark Whitehurst and Kerry Methner, were Gretchen Lieff and Miles Hartfeld, Kate Kurlas, Robert Adams, George and Laurie Leis, Peter and Gerd Jordano, former mayor Helene Schneider, Peter Schuyler, Frank Tabar, Fritz and Gretchen Olenberger, Buddy Gottlieb, Geoff Green, Nina Dunbar, and Caren Rager.
It was a case of high Cs on the high seas when Hiroko Benko, owner of the popular whale-watching vessel Condor
Express, hosted a two-hour opera cruise for 70 music lovers, the first in three years.
Featuring new Chrisman Studio tenor artist Kyle Rudolph from San Diego, and soprano Chelsea Chaves from Orange County accompanied by pianist Renée Hamaty singing works from Puccini, Verdi, Lehar, Mozart, and Andrew Lloyd-Webber, it was a most delightful sunset soirée
Among those noshing on the sushi and chicken satay were Howard Jay Smith, Patricia Dixon, Karl Hutterer, Victoria Hines, Erin Graffy, Michael Cook, and Maria McCall.
An evening of high note...
The Scottish bagpipes sounded loud and clear at the University Club when Susan Keller’s Santa Barbara Revels cel ebrated its seventh annual Equinox con cert celebrating the changing seasons.
The al fresco evening on the Sola Patio combined selections from three centuries of Spanish and Mexican music of the New World, in an echo of the Revels production last December of an early California show, with a preview of this
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Sue Adams, John Palminteri, John Woodward, and Nina Johnson (photo by Priscilla)
Allise Shingle, Isa Hendry Eaton, Adam Graham, Madeleine Dossin, and Etienne Droulez (photo by Priscilla)
Aboard the Opera Cruise are Lily Marx, Michele Neely Saltoun, Victoria Hines, Robert Blanchard, Victoria Frost and Eileen Mielko (photo by Priscilla)
Jody and Kate Kurlas, Robert Adams, Deborah Schwartz, and Courtney Jane Millet (photo by Priscilla)
Gary Simpson, Jill Nida, Sally Irving, and Michael Cook enjoying the extraordinary sights and sounds (photo by Priscilla)
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GL: I think about some of the great books about leadership and power, and what’s going on in this world. But how can we help people to understand the sense of urgency we face if the only people reading a book like this are those of us who are open to being inspired by these sorts of ideas?
DG: Well, you put the toughest ques tion first. Look, I think that if you’ve lived in California for the last few years with the fires and the raging tempera tures, and the water, and you don’t think we’ve got a problem, then we’re not going to reach you. And I think that we’re walking in our sleep if we don’t pick up on the fact that we’re in danger. And our institutions are in serious danger.
And it’s not to say we can’t recover. We’ve had tough times in the past and I think it’s really important to remember the great crises that we had in the past that almost sank the Republic, whether it was the early days of the Republic or the Civil War, or The Great Depression, or World War II.
We’ve had moments that have been almost as dark as this, when there was a sense of hopelessness at various times, and we eventually bounced back; and I mean, Abigail Adams famously wrote to her son, John Quincy, when he was a teenager, the tough times of adversi ty were what called people forward. It brought them out and they produced
great statesmen and noble leaders. I think we can be encouraged over the long haul. I’m discouraged about the near term. I think we’re in for some very rough passages.
Not helped by an economy that’s become vulnerable... Michael Porter at the Harvard Business School has done a study on American competitiveness that concluded in the last couple of years, that our underlying economy is actually quite strong, but that we’re endangered by our politics. Our economy is endangered by our politics.
GL: I often think about the Joseph Welch moment, in the Senator McCarthy hearings in 1954, when, having had enough, Welch, special counsel for the U.S. Army, asked Senator McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” That question really marked the end of the anti-communist Red Scare in this country. And I wonder if that could ever happen today when so few of our lead ers seem to feel shame or care about decency. Why do you have faith that this next gener ation of leaders will be any different?
DG: Because I think the next gener ation of leaders are coming to recognize that this is going to be their problem a few years from now and it’s going to be their climate, and it’s going to be their challenges to our democracy, and we could go down. I mean, I think we can go
either way at this point.
And you see it’s very important to recognize that this is not simply an American phenomenon, it’s a global phenomenon. The Freedom House, which does surveys on the degree of free dom in countries around the world, they do it on an annu al basis, whether people are moving toward more free dom or less freedom, more authoritarianism, and free dom has been in retreat after many years of growth. It has been in retreat every year for the last 16 years.
DG: It’s because so many more countries are giving up or feeling like capitalism isn’t delivering. They’re under pressure and they’re drifting toward authoritarianism. In many cases, the leaders get elected. Look at Brazil. Brazil’s going to have a very important election coming up and they started out with a guy, Bolsonaro, who is a Democrat. I mean, he pledged a democracy, and he’s now turned into an authoritarian. That same thing happened to Orbán in Hungary. He started out on the demo cratic side of the ledger, and clearly, we’ve seen that in at least one major instance in our own country.
GL: You point to courage and character as foundational for emerging leaders. But as we see today in so many of our elected leaders, and you just alluded to probably the most obvious example, that character is not always strong, and courage can be used wrongly and dangerously. How can we do a better job of building strong character in our children?
DG: I think our children watch care fully. They see what’s happening among adults and I’m running into a growing number of students who feel things are hopeless and that they can’t turn it around, but I do think there’s a minori ty that’s growing, that’s very talented, who are totally resisting the directions in which we’re going. They’re gaining power and then in their twenties and thirties, people can begin to make a sig nificant difference.
Look at what’s happened around the world with say, Greta Thunberg in Sweden or Malala in Pakistan, or women of color with BLM and the Me-Too movements. Who were in their twen ties and thirties. You can still mobilize.
Martin Luther King Jr. was pretty young when he mobilized. You can mobilize, but you’ve got to stick with it. You can’t have one time around the block and with 200,000 people. One of the reasons the conservatives are becoming so much more powerful is they’re 24/7 in their politics. They’re not weekend warriors.
This is something they believe in fervent ly and they keep pushing and pushing and pushing as they did on abortion, and eventually they got their way, and the people who oppose that have to get into the arena and stay in the arena and be patient about this because it’s going to be a long struggle to get these things done.
GL: One of my favorite cartoons is a MAD magazine picture of Alfred E. Neuman blissfully sitting in a tire swing that hangs from a branch, not realizing that the branch is not connected to a tree; he didn’t know what couldn’t be done, so he did it. And I think about your example of the Parkland students, and your Greta Thunberg and Malala examples…
DG: Yes.
GL: In a way it seems like, in some cases, ignorance or inexperience can be helpful. Because you can’t be preoccupied by obsta cles you’ve not yet come up against.
DG: I think what can draw a person in is experience. That you get in the arena, you get banged up and you realize this is tougher than I thought. And the higher up you get – we used to have a saying in the Reagan White House, the higher up the monkey goes the more you see its rear end – and that’s true about people getting into the arena. It’s pretty tough, sometimes. Man, it’s certainly not going to be handed to you.
…I think there are numerous exam ples now of young people who want to be helpful. They’re hungry for change. They’re voting significantly to the left. I don’t think they really fully appreci ate what socialism is, but they none theless understand that capitalism isn’t
in the cosmos.”
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working well for them, and then if they’re burdened down by debt too, then it becomes all the more problem atic whether you really can take a year or two years out, but I believe we ought to be helping young people prepare for their time in the arena… by coaching and mentoring young people and trying to help them with scholarships to get through school and that sort of thing.
But I also believe we need one big fundamental new program that offers something to young people, and I’m a big proponent, you see in the book, of National Service. Having young people give a year back to their communities. Young people who have never met each other before, come from differ ent parts of town, who grew up with different zip codes, and have that kind of diversity. I think spending a year together, working on things, projects like Habitat for Humanity, can be enormously reviving. I’ve been on the board for Teach for America. I can say there are a lot of people who come through those classrooms who would never have been there had it not been for Teach for America and the charter school movement, the KIP program.
GL: How important do you think it is for our leaders to be well educated? Formally or otherwise.
DG: I don’t think it’s important at all that all leaders be well educated. I think that there’s room for different kinds of service. I quote Martin Luther King in the book, that you don’t need to have gone to an elite school to serve the country. What you need is what’s in your soul, not the diploma. I’m a deep believer that elite universities have a role and they have a serious role, and I’ve obviously benefited from that. I’m a product of affirmative action. I wouldn’t have gotten into the college I got into had it not been. In fact, I came from the South years ago and two older brothers got in, and I was able to get in. Affirmative action now is properly serving a new generation. Instead of whites it’s serving Blacks, mostly people of color, which is terrific. We need that.
GL: I’m going to push you on this edu cation piece for a moment. Because I agree with you. I don’t think you need to go to Harvard to serve, Peter Jennings never went to college, but he was self-educated. He was a voracious reader and he under stood history.
DG: Yes. I totally agree with that.
GL: History has, as you point out in your book, sped up so fast. How do you have confidence that this generation can ride this tidal wave of time if they don’t read?
DG: Well, curiosity is more import ant than a college education sometimes, because a curious person is the person who tends to be self-educated and edu
cates for life. That’s where you’ll find the readers, and I believe very strongly in the importance of reading, and… I was thinking what Truman said was: “Not every reader is a leader, but every leader is a reader,” and I think that’s very simple, but sometimes simplicity captures truth.
…this is not simply an American phenomenon, it’s a global phenomenon. The Freedom House, which does surveys on the degree of freedom in countries around the world, they do it on an annual basis, whether people are moving toward more freedom or less freedom, more authoritarianism, and freedom has been in retreat after many years of growth. It has been in retreat every year for the last 16 years.
GL: One of the four presidential admin istrations you worked for was the Clinton administration. And I remember Clinton, in a conversation with someone who had just become a grandfather, advised him to teach his grandchild to, “Get to know as many different kinds of people in life as possible.” You write in your book about the relationship then-Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill, had with President Reagan, and of course Ruth Bader Ginsburg had her famous relationship with Antonin Scalia… That’s not happening today, friendships across the aisle. Why is that?
DG: That’s right. The point was, in the past, Reagan and Tip for example, had a five o’clock deadline. Then after that they would take off their boxing gloves. That was the point you’re mak ing. That does not happen. I think that’s one of the great sadnesses of our time. That if you spend time with the other side, you’re regarded by your own side as a betrayal. You’re a traitor, and that makes life awfully difficult for peo ple, but again, I come back to the fact that over time, the people who stand up for principles are often celebrated. Look at the outpouring support for Liz Cheney or indeed look at Adam Kinzinger on the Republican side. Guy has given up his job. Given up his life on principle, and he’s going to do well in life. I’m not sure he’ll ever come back to Congress, but he’s going to do
Nelson Huber:
July 10, 1949 – September 18, 2022
Nelson Huber came here for one purpose: To make music. For him, music was a sacrament capable of healing us and lifting us out of the ordinary and into the sublime. The term sui generis – in a class by himself – does not even begin to describe him.
He tells the story of his discovery of music in the following way: At the age of six teen, he sat down at the piano and the music came rushing out of him. It was as if it was coming through him, not from him. His fingers just knew where to go.
Nelson lived for beauty. He collected crystals because their unique, timeless quality mirrored something ineffable inside him. He loved cultivating roses and luxuriated in their primal, delicate sensuality. When asked what he imagined heaven might be like he said, “An English garden in full bloom.”
One of his most cherished memories was falling asleep on a secluded beach in Hawaii, then waking up completely surrounded by giant sea turtles.
Nelson saw God’s face in manifest creation. Whether it was the thunderous drum of the ocean as it met the shore, or the flawless Fibonacci sequence of a nautilus shell, he saw what most others could not see. An exalted piece of music would make him weep with joy. A well-crafted film was like a Tarte Tatin, that magnificent French creation consisting of an upside-down fruit pastry that’s traditionally made with caramelized apples and puff pastry. Art fed his soul.
Though he loved Christ, he was fascinated by the Chinese philosophy of Taoism. In fact, he did his master’s thesis in choral conducting referencing Taoist principles. In particular, he was inspired by the notion that alignment with the natural order creates harmony and meaning. He was intrigued by the Taoist concept of wu wei – some times incorrectly translated as “non action.” What it really means is “the absence of superfluous action.” This was the secret of his gift. He instinctively knew the precise formula for creating music that transports the listener — not too much, nor too little.
Wherever he chose to play, he filled the space with a deep and penetrating light made of sound. His music lit the path so that we could find our way home.
As awe inspiring as his musical gifts were, his bold, spontaneous personality con cealed his shy, introverted nature. He identified with the Okapi, also known as the forest giraffe, a gorgeous, exotic creature that is essentially solitary. Although he was at home with solitude, he found profound joy in connecting with pure beings who seemed to recognize and love him unconditionally – most notably, his “niece” Lauren’s baby boy, Kasper, with whom he yearned to spend more time.
Nelson gratefully spent much of the latter portion of his life with his closest and dearest friend, Vicki Archer. She has been the truest and most loyal family to him, just as he was to her.
Though Nelson was an introvert by nature, he had many friends across the globe. You know who you are. He requested that some special colleagues be acknowledged:
Val Underwood, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival
Emma Lou Diemer, Marilyn Skiold, Josephine Brummel, Julie Neufeld, Gary Smith, Erin Bonski-Evans, Jacqueline Greenshields, Steven Thomson, Temmo Korisheli, Kristen Dittman, Mary Dombek, Christine Hollinger, Ed Thompson, and all of the wonderful, creative people with whom he shared a love of music.
On Sunday, September 18th, 2022, Nelson peacefully joined (perhaps to con duct?) the Heavenly choir of angels. We shall miss him along with his inimitable musical improvisations, and all that he brought to every occasion for which he was asked to play.
To truly understand Nelson’s tender heart, here are some of his final words:
“I feel the Cosmic Love falling all around me, through me and from me. I am one with It, as It is with me. At last, dancing.”
If anyone feels inclined to donate in his memory, he requested that the offering be sent to:
Irma Singer, HPAF Director of Finance
Nelson Huber Scholarship Fund
340 Old Mill Road, Space 266 Santa Barbara, CA 93110 hawaiiperformingartsfestival.org/donate
A memorial will be held for Nelson on October 1, 2022, at 1 pm at First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105
“Scientific inquiry shouldn’t stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.” – Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Contrary to what someone might think, a cardiologist does not collect cards – not even such collectibles as those my little Company produces. The word comes from the Greek kardia, meaning “heart,” which has given us such spin-offs as “cordial,” and the French and Spanish “Coeur,” and “Corazón.” Where I live, there is a local radio station called “Radio Bronco” featuring Mexican music, particularly songs. I don’t speak Spanish but have been told that practically every song of this genre is almost obliged to include the word “Corazón” – and as far as I can tell, it’s true!
The conventional symbol for a heart, of course, looks nothing like the ugly organ which spends its whole lifetime (and ours) pumping blood around our circulatory system. But that ubiqui tous symbol, which can be traced back to the 13th century, has always had romantic implications, although its use, along with “Diamonds,” “Spades,” and “Clubs,” takes us back to cards again. And those other three symbols bear even less resemblance to their namesakes than does the heart.
The symbolic connection with “Love” has however become very strong, as is highly apparent on any Valentine’s Day. But since the 1970s, a new relevance has been established between the symbol and the word “Love” itself. One of the very earliest usages was in a logo developed by an advertising agency, proclaiming that “I [heart] New York.”
But since antiquity, despite a very limited knowledge of anatomy (not till 1628 was the circulation of the blood discovered and revealed by the British scientist and physician, William Harvey) the heart has been considered a center of the emotions. This brings us to the god who personifies love, particularly of the romantic and erotic kind. Known in various cultures under different names, he’s most familiar to us as Cupid. But his image also takes a variety of shapes, from the sleek young boy called Eros, whose statue is the centerpiece of the structure in the “heart” of London’s Piccadilly Circus, to the chubby little angelic figure used everywhere by artists and cartoonists to connote the passion ate affection which might not otherwise be so readily symbolized.
But there is another important ele ment in this imagery, which apparently stems from Cupid’s mythological birth as the child of Venus, the Goddess of Love, and Mars, the God of War. From the Mars side of this ancestry, and the fact that in antiquity – and long after –the chief offensive weapon was the bow and arrow, it was somehow deduced that
Cupid himself, with the powers inherit ed from both parents, fulfills his role by shooting arrows into the hearts of those whom he wishes to attract to each other. Which reminds me of the verse (proba bly circulated by a haughty and possibly naughty pupil) about the two spinster ladies who were principals of a British girls’ boarding school:
Miss Buss and Miss Beale Cupid’s darts do not feel –How different from us –, Miss Beale and Miss Buss!
But the heart has, of course, come to have far more than amorous or anatom ical meaning in our language and litera ture. I need only cite a few well-known book titles to illustrate my meaning: Heart of Darkness (an excursion into evil in Africa); The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (not about the heart, but loneliness); Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (not concerned with the heart, or even the knee, but with Native Americans).
In essence, “Heart” is now equated with courage, drive, faith, and one’s deepest feelings. I can’t help remem bering (whether I want to or not) that, when Barry Goldwater, a Republican Senator from Arizona, was running for President against Lyndon Johnson, in 1964, his best-known slogan was “IN YOUR HEART, YOU KNOW HE’S RIGHT.” In one place where that slogan was prominently displayed, somebody had added, in equally large letters: “YES – VERY FAR RIGHT.”
But expressions about the heart, in its metaphorical sense, are all over our daily conversation. I hardly need to explain to you the meaning of such references to your coronary organ as: “Eat your heart out”; “Cross my heart”; “Follow your heart”; “To know by heart”; “To lose heart”; “With all my heart.”
Then there are the associations with religion, as in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to be found particularly in many Catholic homes.
But this is a subject which calls for going out with a song. And where could we find a fitting melody? Where else, but “Deep in the Heart of Texas.”
Happy new school year! From interviewing people for this column, I have learned a lot about what it means to be a young person, and I have learned a lot of what it means to be a student. In honor of the new academic year, this edition of Dear Montecito is for the new college students in our communi ty. Here are the top ten Do’s and Don’ts I have learned from interviewing Santa Barbara alumni!
1. Do take that random class.
This is one of the pieces of advice that was shared most often. Our college stu dents said they were often reluctant to be squeezed into a random elective, but that this somehow always became one of their favorite classes.
2. Don’t worry about gaining weight.
Freshman 15? More like… fresh shame… not cool! When you leave home, your diet and exercise habits are bound to change. As long as your body still feels good, don’t worry if you gain or lose some weight. This is a common experience among new college students and something I frequently hear during interviews.
3. Do go on exchange.
If you have the opportunity, take a semester to study somewhere else. Alumni often recall this as their best semester – not to mention how good it is for resumé building. According to college career advisors, going on study abroad programs demonstrates that you are confident and adaptable.
4. Don’t jump into a relationship.
Certainly one of the more controversial pieces of advice I have heard. Interviewees say that jumping into a relationship hurts your chances of finding new friends, and I tend to agree. Give yourself some time, and if it still feels right, you’re in charge!
5. Do put yourself out there.
Despite the suggestions to hold off on entering the dating pool, almost all college alumni say that new students should make an effort to be social, even if it makes you nervous. This can be a daunting task, so find an activity that makes you most comfortable. Are you the sort of person who wants to pair up one-on-one to study? Or would you prefer to invite a group of new friends to the movies?
6. Don’t wait to check your bank account.
For those of us managing our own money, interviewees say not to let anxiety build up around checking your bank account. It may feel safer to put this activity off, but you will feel a lot better knowing how much you are spending and how much you have in reserve. Make a routine to check your balance once a week, so you always know what your status is. College is a time to be developing a good relationship with money.
7. Do your assignments – on time!
It may be tempting to ask for extensions (and sometimes they can’t be avoided), but almost everyone I have asked says they’re not worth it. Professors and students agree that using extensions can cramp up the rest of your schedule. Instead, find strategies to get yourself motivated and start on your assignments early. If you’re having a hard time with organization, reach out to your skills center or ask an older student for advice.
8. Don’t be afraid to change your major.
Over 80% of students in the U.S. change their major at least once and for good reason: If it’s not working for you, time to make a change! It may be intimidating to swap out, but there are plenty of people available to help, including your advisor.
9. Do seek out counseling services.
Not all college counseling is created equal. However, our Santa Barbara alumni have reminded me that “when it works, it works.” If you need support, if you’re feel ing lonely, or if your mental health has begun to decline, find out who to contact on campus and send an email. You never know how much better you might feel.
Ashleigh Brilliant born England 1933, came to California in 1955, to Santa Barbara in 1973, to the Montecito Journal in 2016. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots,” now a series of 10,000. email: ashleigh@west. net. web: www.ash leighbrilliant.com.
10. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself.
One of the biggest regrets that interviewees express is the amount of pres sure they put on themselves. According to our alumni, GPA does not matter as much as you think it does. And if academics are really important to you, remember that you do not do your best work when you are overwhelmed. As mentioned above, counseling services and support centers are available at almost every college, but there are also lots of other good ways to deal with stress. Keeping a planner to organize deadlines, finding clubs or hobbies that interest you, and making sure you take time off from college work are all good strategies to keep a healthy work-life relationship.
There are a number of reading pro grams for students in Santa Barbara, including several administered by nonprofits. Tina Hansen McEnroe is absolutely clear about what makes the McEnroe Reading and Language Arts Clinic at the Gevirtz School at the University of California, Santa Barbara, stand out from all the rest.
“How are we different? It’s very sim ple, very straightforward, very honest, and direct,” she said. “The clinic is part of a great research university. We teach teachers how to teach reading. Nobody else does that.”
McEnroe Reading and Language Arts Clinic serves children in grades 1-8, who receive intensive, research-based instruction in skills and practices related to fluency, reading comprehension, and various forms and modalities of writing and presenting, encompassing various content areas with a particular focus on STEM-related disciplines. The clinic’s instructors are upper division undergrad
uates, graduate students, or professional teachers who are committed to working with families in strengthening the literacy skills of children, so the parents are in constant communication with instructors as the child continues to develop and strengthen their abilities to make sense of ever-more challenging texts.
The quality of the program is at a very high level because the teachers themselves are continuing their own education with cutting-edge researchbased methods that are the product of Gevirtz’s outstanding faculty.
“It’s our director at the clinic who is teaching the graduate students’ literacy course and teaching these teachers how to teach reading,” McEnroe said.
McEnroe, who co-founded the Reading and Language Arts Clinic with her hus band a dozen years ago, has a background in educational research herself, via an M.Ed. and two teaching credentials, one as a reading specialist, earned at UCSB. She can recall a time that ended in the early 1990s when the state had a program that provided ample funding for reading clinics throughout the state, and how
challenging things have been since.
“It became very, very difficult for young women and men who went into education to real ly have that kind of thorough knowledge, the pedagogy in the language arts and literacy,” she said. “These kinds of classes went by the wayside. It turned into literacy teachers going, ‘Well I know how to read and write, so therefore I can teach.’”
Not so, McEnroe said.
“It’s a science and it’s an art,” she explained. “Every child is unique and different, and it’s really important to do a thor ough probe into what makes that child tick, what motivates that child. That’s the heart of teaching, and it’s not easy.”
The McEnroe clinic is designed to serve the community’s most vulnerable youth by supporting local schools who are facing multiple issues via an instruc tional framework that also aligns with both current and new standards (e.g., the California-adopted Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, and the new national reading assessment standards), which collectively inform K-12 education for post-second ary preparation. The clinic’s overarching framework addresses these standards by providing young students with opportuni ties to practice in-depth discussions about challenging texts and including hands-on, authentic experiences that support lan guage and literacy development such as the creation of a book publication.
Even before the pandemic, the need for literacy support had been growing, and the McEnroe clinic has stepped up, serving many more local youths with additional community support. But the need continues to grow.
“The crux of all education is read ing,” McEnroe said, explaining why the core of the clinic’s fundraising effort focuses on securing scholarships for students of lower-income families who attend public schools.
Fortunately, the formula is working, both on campus at UCSB and off-site at the Harding School on the West Side,
part of McEnroe clinic’s community out reach program and one of the clinic’s pri mary partners. In recent years, Harding students that have been part of the pro gram have shown marked increase in the desire to read, according to the school’s principal, and last year’s fourth-grade class scored higher in reading testing than any previous cohort.
In fact, it’s been such a success that Harding has asked the clinic to come to the campus to train its teachers, McEnroe said.
“They’re seeing what great work we do and the progress we make with their stu dents that come to us,” she said. “So we are going into the school this fall, teach ing their teachers how to teach reading, which we are very proud of,” she said.
McEnroe’s desire is that every young student in town could have the same opportunities.
“Everybody’s children should be able to catch up and excel in the language arts,” she said. “You can tell I’m super passionate about this. But it’s just so important.”
education.ucsb.edu/reading-clinic
The Tina Hansen & Paul V. McEnroe Reading and Language Arts Clinic Tina Hansen McEnroe, Founder and Associate Director (805) 893-7905 Tina Hansen McEnroe and her husband founded the reading and language clinic to provide literary support to local first- through eighth-grade students The McEnroe Reading and Language Arts Clinic is a research and teaching institute located within UCSB that serves the community’s most vulnerable youth
Take a sneak peek of Montecito by Michael Cox in this ongoing serialization of his yet-to-be-published book. This fictional story is inspired by “tales of true crime THAT HAPPENED HERE.” After a tense encounter with a “friend” of Cyrus, Hollis waits to hear more about the mysterious encounter. Chapter 21 is available online at montecitojournal.net and the QR code below.
face-to-face the following morning.
I woke to a BatSignal message the next day that delayed my learning further: “Need to postpone our meeting until Monday,” he wrote. “Headed to Napa to talk to my Vintner. Be on the lookout for more good news on the client front from Noah. In the meantime, I hope you and your family have a terrific weekend!”
I was dumbstruck; both relieved that Cyrus had not been murdered and mystified by his carefree indifference. Perhaps I was going insane after all. Regardless, it was Thursday, so now, I would have to let my mind run on concocted theories and explanations for four more days before I would get some sort of explanation for who Vlad was, why he was looking for Cyrus, why he accused Cyrus of being hard to track down, and so many other questions. If I was not already crazy, I might be soon.
By Monday morning, I was wound like a jack in the box. I had heard nothing from Cyrus over the prior four days – since meeting Vlad at the end of my driveway – and nothing from Noah or anyone else at ExOh. I made the kids leave early for school and then speed walked them; both infractions receiving Isabel’s ire. As soon as I got home from MUS, I hopped in the Subaru and took off.
When I got to Cyrus’s, the code to the security gate had been changed. I pressed the call button, and he answered. I had not spotted a camera the last time I was here, but this time it was unmistakable, blinking red daggers at me from its perch behind and above the keypad.
With over-the-counter medicines useless in treating my gastrointestinal issues, I resorted to sucking on hard ginger candies and drinking green tea mixed with a delicious sounding powder named slippery elm bark, recommended by the sympathetic folks at Montecito Natural Foods. For good measure, I bought a case of inexpensive sparkling water from Smart & Final; a good burp always seemed to help.
Just as with everything else, I wanted to tell Cricket about Vlad abducting me and the odd subsequent meeting with Cyrus, but I was still trying to decide if I was insane or not. Maybe this was yet another instance of my fog playing tricks on me. I didn’t know yet, and I didn’t want to alarm her until I knew. My hands shook most of the day as I busied myself with superficial work tasks and waited to hear from Cyrus. Clearly, I had felt physically threat ened by Vlad, but had Cyrus? If so, he had not shown it. I chastised myself for succumbing to cultural stereotypes of Vlad the Eastern European hitman. Just because he looked and spoke like someone from a mobster movie, did not make him a killer. And surely, with all of Cyrus’s wealth, whatever issues Vlad had could be solved with cash.
Try as I did, these thoughts did little to calm my mind or my G.I. tract. I picked up the kids from school at 3 pm and lingered, hoping to catch sight of Priscilla, Genevieve, or Cyrus, but came up empty. The BatSignal app was quiet, and I had received no emails. I settled into our family’s evening routine resigned to the fact that I would not learn more until I met Cyrus
Cyrus opened the gates, and I parked in my normal spot, beyond the garage, under the pin oaks. I rushed in; certain I would find Cyrus waiting for me in the library. But he was not there. He was not there ten, or fif teen, or twenty minutes later either. I began to pace the room. Had I made the whole thing up? A figment of my in the fog imagination? Either way, insanity seemed like the thinking man’s bet.
Thirty-five minutes after I arrived, Cyrus entered his own library punching away on his iPhone. He navigated to the cane armchair without looking up; I dutifully took my seat on the couch. After another minute of typing, his phone made the whooshing sound of a sent message and he put it down on the coffee table. “Did you have a nice weekend?” he asked.
The verdict was in: crazy. I stared back blankly. “Uh, sure. And you?”
“Lovely,” he said. “Genevieve checked Priscilla out of school early on Friday and met me at Auberge du Soleil for a wonderful Napa weekend.”
I nodded. I would probably find the straightjackets and padded rooms of the asylum comforting, I thought. If my memory of the events with Vlad had been correct, there was no way they could have affected me so deeply and Cyrus so marginally. I spent much of my weekend in a mental fetal position and Cyrus and family had gone off to a breezy vacation in Napa. I thought of those psychiatrist business cards my doctor had given me; the ones I had tossed like trash. I needed to retrieve them and set up appointments immediately.
But Vlad was not going to excuse himself from my head voluntarily. Crazy or not, I had to discuss this with Cyrus. So, I took a deep breath and dove in. “So,” I began, inserting a light chuckle just to emphasize that I was not overreacting or freaking out, “tell me about Vlad. He was quite a character.”
Cyrus smiled, leaned back in the armchair, crossed his legs and interlaced fingers behind his head. “Indeed, he is,” Cyrus said shaking his head as if he had so many great stories to tell and he was struggling to find the perfect one. “I’ve known Vlad for ages. Great friend; good man. Salt of the earth, as you Americans like to say.”
I nodded, trying hard to keep my forehead from wrinkling.
“He’s a drama queen though,” Cyrus continued. “Loves to give people the impression that he’s a gangster of sorts. A tough guy looking to crack skulls. You probably picked up on that.”
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You probably picked up on that? Even a man in the fog could recog nize Vlad as a mob movie body double. “Yes, a little,” I said. “He was… intense.”
“Yes, well, he was all teddy bear after you left. Broke out his phone to share photos of his youngest girl and his new puppy: a miniature chihuahua.”
Cyrus rifled through some papers, seemingly content to call the Vlad portion of our conversation over.
“What was he here to see you about?” I pressed.
Cyrus looked up; surprise mixed with a pinch of irritation on his face. “Same as everyone,” he said casually. “He wanted to get an update on ExOh.”
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“Oh,” I said. “Is he an investor?” I had not seen his name on any wires or checks.
Cyrus’s breezy manner grew a little stiffer. “He has contributed his
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interest in a prior deal, so yes, he is an investor.”
I nodded; enthusiastically, I hoped. “Was he excited by what he learned?” I continued.
Cyrus’s expression shifted again, this time toward impatience. “Of course he was.”
“Great to hear,” I said, faking my biggest smile. I was letting the old, skeptical, prove it Hollis have a little run of rope and he was enjoying the moment.
Cyrus took my smile as a sign that we were finally done and again shuf fled papers.
“Why do you think he had such a hard time finding where you lived?” I asked, ignoring Cyrus’s signals.
Cyrus looked full-on pissed off now; even from inside the fog, I under stood that. “How should I know, Hollis?”
I recognized that I was on shaky ground, but I could not stop; old Hollis had the microphone and would not give it back. “And how is your friend Abdullah, whoever he is?” I asked. “Good thing Vlad found him, right?”
Cyrus nodded, fidgeting with his papers yet again. “Abdullah is great,” he said. “I’m…,” he started then paused, rewording his response, “he’s a good man.”
Though I was not satisfied, I could not think of any more questions, and – taking advantage of the pause – new Hollis retook control. If I accepted Cyrus’s words at face value, I had simply fallen prey to the stereotype of Vlad-the-Eastern-European-gangster that Vlad himself was happy to per petuate. But even as that simple explanation provided cover for dismissing my paranoia, Cyrus’s cryptic good man comment about the stranger I knew as Abdullah gave me a strange shiver; it smacked of eulogizing.
Cyrus tossed a subset of the papers he had been examining across the coffee table to me. “I have good news,” he said. “I have an agreement in place to open an Entre Nous tasting room at the Montecito Country Mart. Those,” he pointed to the papers, “are the architectural renderings of the space.”
I dutifully picked up the papers and examined them one by one, though I was not sure why this was good news for me or for ExOh. Entre Nous was Cyrus’s hobby, not mine. “This looks terrific,” I said, sliding the papers back across the table when I felt I had given them the appropriate amount of ogling.
“Doesn’t it,” Cyrus said proudly. “So, we have a little work to do around this in order to make the deal final.”
My eyes opened wide.
“As you know, I have some Visa restrictions,” he waved his right hand in a circular motion, indicating that this was the same old story he had told many times before and was repeating it again in case I was too dim-wit ted to recall. “It’s time to bring ExOh into this wine deal so we can really expand operations.” He slid a second set of papers across the table to me. “I’m going to have ExOh purchase a fifty-one percent stake in Entre Nous. I have valued the wine operations at two million dollars – a steal for sure, but there is no reason for me to be greedy.”
I squinted. “Wait. You want to sell a piece of your winery to ExOh?”
“No,” he said, “I don’t want to sell a piece of my winery, I am selling a piece of my winery. The agreement is right here.” He slid a third set of papers my way. “Already signed by me and John Colton, so we just need your signature to finalize.”
I glanced quickly and saw Cyrus’s signature in blue ink and John Colton’s electronic signature. “And technically,” Cyrus continued, “it is a wine label, not a winery. Entre Nous doesn’t grow its own grapes, it buys excess grapes from other growers and markets the final product.”
Questions stacked in my head like a Jenga puzzle. Entre Nous does not even grow grapes? So, it owns no land and has no assets; it is pure market ing? What makes Entre Nous worth two million dollars? Who determined that valuation? Why isn’t John Colton’s signature in fresh ink like Cyrus’s? I knew I could not ask them all, so I settled on one. “What does your wine label have to do with ExOh’s Chinese Free Trade Zone License?”
Cyrus smiled but his eyes narrowed. “In time, I see ExOh as a retail trade
conglomerate,” he said. “Both an ecommerce enabler, through our Free Trade Zone License, and an owner – curator really – of the world’s finest brands. I would not suggest that LVMH or Richemont need to be shaking in their Cartier watches just yet, but we are coming for them. Oh yes,” he laughed, “we are coming for them.”
I realized I had just received a trial run of Cyrus’s latest investor pitch. As was becoming more and more common, it was high on vision, low on details. “Ok,” I said. “So, I… I just sign?”
“Yes,” Cyrus said. “That document is the Board of Directors resolution authorizing the purchase of Entre Nous.”
I signed.
“And this,” Cyrus said, sending a fourth set of documents my way, “is the lease on the tasting room space at the Montecito Country Mart.”
“Why do I need to sign this?”
“Because,” he said through another gritted-teeth smile, “ExOh – as the new controlling shareholder of Entre Nous wines – has agreed to pay the monthly lease and you, as the company’s CEO, need to execute the lease.”
Again, my chin fell, my head shaking side to side involuntarily.
“It’s stipulated in the Board of Directors resolution,” he added. “You know… the one you just signed?”
Doh! I thought, closing my eyes. With one ignorant stroke of the pen, I had agreed to value Cyrus’s wine hobby at two million dollars, to pay him one million in cash, and to pay for a lease on a tasting room. Was all this even legal? I did not know, and I had forfeited my time to research; the ink was already dry. “Of course,” I said, forcing a smile.
He returned my smile. Two smiling men, neither looking happy.
“As to the, uh, payment of one million dollars?” I asked.
“Right,” Cyrus said, handing me a slip of paper. “Wire the money to that account this morning.”
I looked at the slip. The account was at the Bank of Bermuda in the name of VIP Partners LLC. “VIP Partners?” I asked.
“Yes,” Cyrus said impatiently.
“That’s you?” I asked.
His eyes narrowed. “Obviously.”
“Of course,” I said, shaking my head dismissively. “The, uh, Miramar Bank and Trust has about four million dollars in it. Still a lot of money, but–”
“Don’t worry, Hollis,” Cyrus interrupted. “I’m a keynote speaker at the Central California Economic Summit next week. More money will be coming in soon.”
I nodded uneasily.
“The look on your face troubles me, Hollis.”
My eyes opened wide, trying to hide what I knew he saw.
“This isn’t about money. I assure you,” he said.
I nodded, aggressively this time, willing my face to appear enthusiastic and empathetic; two unfamiliar emotions. “I understand, Cyrus.”
“No, you don’t understand, Hollis.” He stood, circling behind the cane armchair, leaning his weight onto the chair’s back. “Ugh,” he grunted, giving the chair a shake, his hauntingly long fingers draping down the woven back ing like icicles off a roof. “I don’t need this headache. I don’t need to build another multi-billion-dollar business. God knows I have plenty already.”
He pushed off the chair and crossed his arms over his chest. “I’m sick of those skeptical eyes, my friend. Have you checked our stock price lately?”
I had, of course. It was hovering at around $30; three times my one-mil lion-dollar restricted stock grant. “Yes,” I said.
“Three million dollars’ worth of stock, am I correct?”
I nodded.
“So why am I constantly having to reassure you?”
I slowly shook my head side to side. “I … I don’t know.”
“Me neither,” he said.
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Local astronomy instructor and for mer NASA scientist Tom Farr will be teaching kids and families all about space. We will be learning about the sun and its eight planets (plus Pluto!), including our own planet Earth. We’ll also cover the leftovers of the solar system such as asteroids, meteors, and comets before traveling beyond our solar system to planets around other stars.
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When people first step into the Montecito Library, they remark on how small and charming it is. Beneath its warm exterior, however, is a public insti tution that protects intellectual freedom, protecting your rights as a reader.
Please continue to exercise your ability to read widely and we will defend your right to do so!
Tom Farr, a Montecito resident and reg ular contributor to the Montecito Journal, has degrees in geology from CalTech and the University of Washington and worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1975-2020. He currently teaches Planetary Geology at Santa Barbara City College, hikes and runs local trails, and sails the Channel.
We invite you to attend any or all of the Space Talk series, the following Thursdays from 4-5 pm:
10/6 – Intro to the Planets
10/20 – Earth and Its Moon
11/3 – Mercury and Venus
11/17 – Mars
12/1 – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
12/15 – Pluto, Planets Around Other Stars, and more!
Library On The Go Van returns to Cold Spring
The “Man with the Van” is back for our monthly stop at Cold Spring School. This school year, the Van stop will be the first Wednesday of every month from 3:30-5:30 pm. We can’t wait to see our Cold Spring neighbors out in force and the glee that is expressed when the Library On The Go Van rolls up!
Space Talk series with Tom Farr coming soon
Stay and Play (Ages 0-5) – Tuesdays – Drop in anytime from 9-10:30 am
Knit ‘n’ Needle – Thursdays, 2-3:30 pm
Library On The Go Van at Cold Spring School – Wed, 10/5, 3:30-5:30 pm
Space Talk: Intro to the Planets – Thurs, 10/6, 4-5 pm
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Banned Books Week (September 18 – 24, 2022) is an annual event celebrat ing the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.
To raise awareness about the importance of the freedom to read, we offered kids a scavenger hunt throughout the library, learning about popular books that have been challenged. A patron, hearing discussion about the banning of books, asked, “Does Santa Barbara Public Library actually ban books?” The answer is a resounding, “No!”
Despite the small size of our collection, the Montecito Library is able to get almost anything you want. If a book you’re look ing for is not in the collection, we can help you put in a request to purchase it. We also have the Zip Books grant-funded program, which allows us to have items
How Books Change Lives: Invitation for Community Reflection – Thurs, 10/13, 4-5 pm
Poetry Club: Edgar Allan Poe – Thurs, 10/20, 2-3 pm
Space Talk: Earth and Its Moon – Thurs, 10/20, 4-5 pm
Montecito Book Club: On Girlhood, edited by Glory Edim – Tues, 10/25, 12-1 pm
See you at the library!
Kim is the Branch Lead of the Montecito Library. Questions or comments? Contact her: kcrail@santabarbaraca.gov
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In Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century, author Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell confesses to an “obses sion” with the garment, from rising and lowering hemlines and all that they say about the women that wore them throughout history. The book is beautifully illustrated. My favorite – two women in skirts, mountain climbing in 1908; proving, whatever men can do women can do better, and in skirts. It is a rich history of what women war from suffragists to soldiers, from Kahlo to O’Keeffe; fashion as power and a reflection of our times.
for Proceso, a center-left Mexican magazine critical of the political corruption. The killing was initially fobbed off as a crime of passion and a confession begot, through torture. Pérez was like a dog with a bone investigating human rights violations and government corruption. Corcoran has the same tenacity as she investigates a remarkable woman’s life and death.
W ho was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s inspiration for Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter? That is the premise of Laurie Lico Albanese ’s Hester . Isobel, a recently married young Scottish immigrant lands in Salem in 1829. Without any friends, Isobel takes up embroidery when her husband returns to sea, leaving her without money. She must stitch together a life in a ridged society with onerous rules of who one may be seen with. When she encounters handsome Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is love at first sight. Hawthorne is haunted by an ancestor who con demned several women in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to die. What follows is an enchanting tale of a strong woman sewing small, hidden red “A’s” into her work.
W ild: The Life of Peter Beard is a mesmerizing – as sometimes watching a train wreck is –account of a charismatic artist. Beard, a complex, oftentimes unlikeable man – selfish, intoxicated, womanizing – led a Lord Byron hedonistic-style life from his beloved Africa to Montauk, tearing it up on dance floors along the way and in the beds of model after model. In his final days he wandered off into the woods like a wounded elephant to die. Graham Boynton’s biography is a thorough portrait of this man, difficult to understand, but perhaps in these pages the closest we will come.
In a world increasingly dangerous for journal ists, the murder of Regina Martínez Pérez in 2012 stunned for its brazen and brutal violence, sending shockwaves throughout the journalist community. In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press, written by former AP bureau chief of Mexico and Central America Katherine Corcoran, chronicles the story of a brave woman’s attempted to expose drug traffickers and corrupt politicians. Pérez was murdered in her home in Veracruz. The story reads like a political thriller. Pérez made many enemies having spent several decades as a crime reporter
Cr adles of the Reich is a creepy tale based on “breeding homes” masterminded by Heinrich Himmler. Definitely a worthwhile read from Jennifer Coburn about three women caught in a terrifying scheme to give birth to the “master race” and how they come together to escape the baby mill.
“If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.” – Neil DeGrasse TysonLeslie Zemeckis is an award-winning documentarian, best-selling author, and actor. The creator of “Stories Matter,” professional female authors mentoring the next generation of female storytellers, co-sponsored by SBIFF.
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and avoid the need for stricter measures such as financial penalties. A year ago, the District established a 20% water use reduction goal to promote conservation. As with the Governor’s request for 15% less water use, response has fallen short. In spite of extensive customer messaging over the past year, the District has seen only a minor improvement in water conservation since 2021 and water use continues to trend approximately 25% over budget.
“What we need people to understand is that we have sufficient supplies to provide for the community’s health and safety needs under almost any condition, which is major progress,” said Board Vice President Ken Coates. “What we can’t support is excessive exterior use through unprecedented and extreme drought. Irrigation needs to be cut back.”
On the District’s website, montecitowater.com, customers can find a variety of resources to help with water conservation, and the District provides free on-site visits tailored to the needs of each property. To further support customers, the District is on schedule to roll out a Water Efficiency Plan by the end of the year, including incentives for mulch delivery, landscape conversions, and other water saving efforts.
See the following for a great example of a beautiful drought-resistant garden in Montecito.
Water-efficient residential gardens are beautiful, and earlier this month, Montecito residents John and Teri Keating were awarded the grand prize winner for their native garden. The 2022 WaterWise Garden Recognition Contest launched this spring to recognize beautiful, water-ef ficient residential gardens throughout Santa Barbara County. The Santa Barbara County Water Agency and participating local water providers encouraged residents to apply for the contest and enter into the running for an agency award and the countywide grand prize. A winner from each participating water provider’s service area received an engraved sandstone sign to display in their gardens. This year’s partici pating water providers were the Montecito Water District, Carpinteria Valley Water District, Vandenberg Village Community Services District, and the cities of Solvang and Santa Barbara.
On January 9, 2018, the Keatings’ prop erty exploded into flames when the debris flow rushing down San Ysidro Creek ruptured a 22-inch, 1,000-PSI main trans mission gas line that ignited the pilot light in their garage. It has taken over four years since the explosion to rebuild their home and redo the landscaping. The Keatings wanted to recreate a similar ambiance to their original water-wise landscaping while accommodating the new 80,000pound boulder that landed on their prop erty from the explosion. They also wanted to plant California natives, specifically California Bay trees, as their perimeter hedging in memory of their 40-foot-tall California Bay tree that was stripped away during the debris flow.
The Keatings love the peacefulness and serenity of walking through their creekside garden. They enjoy the beautiful blooms
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and fragrance of flowers, including cean othus, manzanita, Cleveland sage, and monkeyflower, and the bounty of their edible fruit trees. Their garden features supplemental irrigation and leak detector sensors. They installed two graywater systems, which divert laundry and show er water to irrigate their landscape. They prevent water leaks by using flow sensors that measure water use and automatically shut off irrigation when leaks are detect ed. They also have a master valve that keeps the irrigation pipes and faucets shut off unless the programmed control ler turns on the irrigation. John receives notifications of leaks and can control the irrigation system from his phone.
Other finalists for each participating water agency’s service area were Susan Clarke and Rand Clark of Santa Barbara, Anthony Lombardi of Carpinteria, Kurt and Joy Jonas of Solvang, and Marron and Camille Smith of Vandenberg Village. The winning gardens encom passed stunning displays of water-wise and native plants, high-efficiency irriga tion, and graywater systems.
Photos of each awarded garden can be seen at WaterWiseSB.org/ GardenContest. These home gardens demonstrate that water-wise, sustainable landscapes can be lush and colorful, provide habitat for wildlife, and are low maintenance. Many winners replaced their original lawns and now enjoy the added benefit of a lower water bill.
Dozens of people turned out last Thursday, September 22 to mark the grand opening of Montecito Med Spa on Coast Village Circle in Montecito. Owned by Karen Neary, MSN, RN, the med spa offers a discreet, luxurious space in which to experience the latest innovative techniques for facial and body enhancements, under the care and exper tise of clinical professionals. “We strive to provide the best cosmetic and aesthetic treatments using the latest technology, techniques, and trends in the industry in a nurturing and luxurious setting. We want to guide, promote, and ele vate everyone’s aesthetic needs while still enforcing safety and quality of service,
with the utmost discretion,” Neary told us during the grand opening.
With five treatment rooms, there is plenty of space to offer innovative ther apies including EMSCULPT NEO, Potenza RF Microneedling, Elite IQ hair removal, TempSure Firm cellu lite treatments, TempSure Envi treat ments, FlexSure body boost treatment, HydraFacial, Liquivida IV therapy, and an array of injectables including Botox, Xeomin, Juvederm, and others. These treatments target concerns such as aging skin, sun damage, unwanted hair, wrin kles and fine lines, cellulite, and more.
Neary and Aesthetic Nurse Giana Miller, who has been in the industry 19 years, are currently seeing patients, and offer complimentary consultations.
For more information, visit montecitomedspa.com, or call (805) 770-2028. The Spa is located at 1280 Coast Village Circle, Suite B.
“There is no greater education than one that is self–driven.” – Neil DeGrasse TysonKelly Mahan Herrick, also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. Teri and John Keating were awarded the 2022 WaterWise Garden Recognition Contest grand prize for their native gar den in Montecito Montecito Med Spa owner Karen Neary, MSN, RN (center), with Giana Miller, RN (left), and Jenn Andreoli
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The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, one of the world’s great orchestras, is directed by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, following her time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a Dudamel Fellow, Assistant Conductor, and Associate Conductor. British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason became a household name in 2018 after performing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, watched by nearly two billion people globally.
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Normally when Opera Santa Barbara’s (OSB) Artistic and General Director Kostis Protopapas signs a stage director for one of the company’s productions, he largely leaves the non-musical decisions behind.
“I hire directors that I trust and I let them run with it,” he said, a formula that has served Protopapas well over his six-year tenure in town following eight at Tulsa Opera.
Tosca is different.
The classic of the canon that has been called the most lethal of operas, a thrill ing melodrama that’s also astonishingly moving, Tosca is Protopapas’ favorite from Puccini, but he’s never conducted or produced it before. Getting it “right” is the goal.
“I’ve been thinking about how to do a good Tosca for 10 or 15 years,” he explained. “The opera is cinematic with a very compelling plot that moves really fast. The story is menacing, that’s how it works, and the music is absolutely fantastic, just relentless and beautiful.
You have to find the right balance to preserve both. That’s all to say I’m approaching Tosca with a great sense of responsibility to shepherd the pro duction very carefully and avoid any stereotypes or other traps of caricature or exaggeration.”
To helm OSB’s new multimedia pro duction that incorporates both video projections and film sequences behind the action taking place on the spare set and in front of the on-stage orchestra – which Protopapas called “an addition of abstraction” – he turned to Layna Chianakas, who stage directed last year’s El Amor Brujo/Il Tabarro
They share a vision of Tosca as an action story, he said.
“If this was a movie, it would be marketed as a thriller,” he said. “It has a great element of darkness and fear and it has to feel real. We aren’t doing our job unless you agonize along with Tosca, feel threatened by Scarpia, and get inspired by the idealism of Cavaradossi. That requires that the characters are believable, but not to where the realism goes to such an extent that the metaphor is missing.”
Star Greek soprano Eleni Calenos, who previously portrayed Puccini’s Mimí in La Bohème in 2018 and Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly in 2019 for OSB, is the title character. Scarpia will be played by bass-baritone Wayne Tigges (The Crucible, 2019), while tenor Adam Diegel, who sang “Nessun Dorma” for OSB’s 25th Anniversary Concert in 2019, is Cavaradossi.
“It’s really a dream cast,” Protopapas said. “They’re all such beautiful singers
and actors who can go through all the emotional states. I couldn’t be happier.”
Following Tosca’s single performance on October 1 at the Granada, the OSB 2022-23 season continues its commit ment to presenting both classics and con temporary with three company premieres at the Lobero: Rossini’s comedy La Scala di Seta (The Ladder Made of Silk) on November 13; Jack Perla’s 2015 drama An American Dream on February 18; and The Valkyrie, the second installment of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung in the 1990 streamlined version by Jonathan Dove and Graham Vick on April 23. Visit operasb.org.
UCSB Arts & Lectures caps off the opening week of its new season in a cul turally significant and community-ori ented way, hosting a Ukraine Fest in front of the Granada before Kyiv-based band DakhaBrakha takes the stage inside for its Santa Barbara debut on Thursday, October 6.
The free festival, which takes place during the monthly 1st Thursday Art Walk downtown, features appearances by dancers from the Ukrainian Art Center of
“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.” – Neil DeGrasse Tyson Eleni Calenos (Tosca) and Wayne Tigges (Scarpia) rehearse for their upcoming performance in OSB’s Tosca (photo by Zach Mendez)Sat,
Yours, Mine & Ours – Do we own our own stories? Is it misappropriation for someone else to write about our experiences without our input? Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize nominated 1996 play Collected Stories, which was inspired by the literary scandal revealed through a letter to The New York Times a couple of years earlier. Ruth Steiner (played by E. Bonnie Lewis), a professor and lauded writer of short stories, hires graduate student Lisa Morrison (Felicia Hall) to be her assistant. Morrison, who is also a writer, thrives in her new role and becomes Steiner’s protégé before turning into her rival upon the release of her first novel, which is based on Steiner’s life. The complicated issue of story ownership is at the core of the drama, which is being presented by Drama Dogs, the theater company co-created by Lewis and her director-husband Ken Gilbert Collected Stories has gone on to become an intelligent and engaging classic, a provocative piece that asks questions about consent, appropriation, and the ethics of taking artistic license. When it ran on Broadway in the late 1990s, the Times praised Collected Stories as an “engaging tale of aesthetics and ethics with intelligence and sharp, literate humor… Mr. Margulies has found fertile material in the struggles of the creative classes to reconcile the demands of ambition with the exigencies of life.”
WHEN: 7 pm, September 30-October 1 & October 6-8; 2 pm October 1, 2 & 8
WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, at the intersection of Chapala and De la Guerra streets
COST: $25, discounts available
INFO: (805) 963-0408 or centerstagetheater.org
Camerata Concerts Commence – “There’s a world of music on our stage,” proclaims the promotional email from Camerata Pacifica in describing its sea son-opening series of intense, passionate chamber music concerts. Indeed, there’s works by Russian, Ukrainian, and German composers, including a piece composed on the Jewish-Aramaic “Kol Nidrei,” collectively performed by En glish, American, Armenian, and Estonian musicians. The program opens with Prokofiev’s “Op. 94 D Major Flute Sonata, arranged for Oboe Trio” by Lera
Flowing Toward Freedom – The impact of the Montecito debris flows is still showing up more than four years after the devastating tragedy, including in some unexpected ways. When Santa Barbara writer Mary Firestone found herself preg nant and trapped alone in her bathroom when the mudslide washed away her home, surviving was the main focus, not imagining that her trauma was a gift in disguise. Yet even then, she was aware of a calming force, which served as the anchor for her journey to healing. Firestone’s new book, Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma , draws from both her own experienc es and her background in clinical psychology to fashion her integrative handbook for not only healing from trauma but awakening to even more empowerment, joy, and meaning from life. Stories of triumphant survival and interviews with experts bring to life a resource guide and holistic tool kit filled with pathways to healing, including reframing with language, energy, and movement practices, acu puncture, aromatherapy, breathwork, and more. Firestone, a great-grand daughter of Firestone Tires founder Harvey Firestone, talks about the book and her experiences at Chaucer’s this evening.
WHEN: 6 pm
WHERE: 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center COST: free
INFO: (805) 682-6787 or chaucersbooks.com
Hidden City Studios Showcase at SOhO – Although some of the biggest stars in music and podcasting have had record ings produced there, Hidden City Studios might be one of the secrets in Santa Barbara. Now, Elliott Lanam, a UCSB graduate who founded Hidden City in 2014 after interning at several local studios and has since received a Platinum plaque for his engineering work on “Roar” from Katy Perry’s Prism album, has put together a showcase at SOhO for some of the Santa Barbara musi cians he’s worked with in the studio. Tony Ybarra, Lindsey Marie, and Will Breman of The Voice fame will perform separate sets with a Hidden City house band before Lanam – whose credits include composing for Animal Planet and Shark Week, and several albums under his own name on which he played every instrument and mixed and mastered the discs – is joined by Brandi Rose to round out the night. Special performances, giveaways, and even a balloon drop round out the evening.
WHEN: 7 pm
WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $20 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or sohosb.com
Auerbach , featuring principals: oboist Nicholas Daniel , cellist Ani Aznavoorian , and pianist Irina Zahharenkova making her Camerata debut. Aznavoorian is the focus for both Bruch’s “Kol Nidrei” – played here midway between the Jewish High Holidays, although the composer meant the work as an interpre tation of a folk tune – and “Postludium,” from Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov , who has been a refugee from his country since the recent Russian invasion. Zahharenkova’s musical character is on display in the concert clos ing, Shostakovich ’s “Op. 67 Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano,” composed during wartime and featuring Tereza Stanislav , assistant concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
WHEN: 7:30 pm
WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $68 INFO: (805) 884-8410 or cameratapacifica.org
Peace, Love & Avocados – After 35 straight years, the COVID pandemic put a damper on the California Avocado Festival, Carpinteria’s largest annual event by far, and one of the largest free festivals in California. But Avo Fest is roar ing back to life this autumn with a full-fledged festival, albeit one that has been scaled back to two days and truncated to mostly feature local vendors. It’s all in celebration of the firm and fleshy fruit, which has a long history in the area as Santa Barbara County is the third largest avocado producer in North America. The weekend is marked by non-stop live entertainment, fab ulous food creations – both avo-based and otherwise – craft and art booths, and an Expo Tent that traces the importance of the avocado to the Carpinte ria Valley through the decades. More than 60 music acts will perform on the fest’s three stages, nearly all from the Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, and Ventu ra areas, including audience faves Mezcal Martini, The Rincons, Will Breman , The Upbeat, Jackson Gillies , Caught Red Handed, and Spencer the Gardener. Don’t forget to sample the avocado ice cream and sip on avo-flavored beer in the age-old tradition of one of the area’s most anticipated and well-attended festivals of the year.
WHEN: 10 am-10 pm, October 1; 10 am-6 pm October 2 WHERE: Linden Avenue between Carpinteria Avenue and Sixth Street in Carpinteria
COST: free
INFO: (805) 684-0038 or avofest.com
Montecito“Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.” – Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Bang the Drums Loudly –After a three-year pan demic-produced hiatus, the Chumash Inter-Tribal Pow-Wow is back on, marking a quarter-centu ry of the gatherings that celebrate traditions and connections that help strengthen Native Ameri can culture. The weekend of traditional dance, song, and drumming in honor of tribal ancestors remains open to the public to experience, moved from Live Oak Camp to an open space just down the road from the Chumash Casi no Resort. More than 300 Native American dancers and singers representing many of the tribes from the Western United States and beyond are antici pated to once again participate both socially and competitively. Activities in clude both a daily entrance parade and Gourd Dances, plus a special healing ceremony from 5-7 pm on opening evening to assuage the many trials and tribulations we’ve gone through since the last gathering. The new location means no on-site camping is available for the alcohol and drug-free event.
WHEN: 10 am-10 pm, October 1; 10 am-6 pm, October 2
WHERE: Corner of Meadowvale Road and Hwy 246 in Santa Ynez
COST: $5
INFO: (805) 688-7997 or santaynezchumash.org/powwow
Ivory Invasion! – As an outdoor activity, Pianos on State never paused for the pan demic, and now the dozen-plus painted keyboards will once again take their place beside the parklets and pedestrians along Santa Barbara’s version of main street downtown. The upright pianos, which have been individually decorated by local art ists to reflect their own original ideas, occupy downtown in October to spontaneous ly introduce music and art into people’s everyday lives as they stroll, shop, scurry to work, or secure dining spots – and they’re open for anyone to sit down and play. No tests, no qualifications, no questions, in fact there’s almost always nobody official around to even ask how it works – the keyboards are just there to admire or attempt to tickle its keys whether you’re an accomplished pianist or a brave newbie. Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative is the organizing partner of the annual installment, which this year stretches from below Ortega St. to above Victoria St., plus in front of the Lobero, out on Stearns Wharf, and even at the Santa Barbara Airport, which is more than a stone’s throw from State Street, but still officially within the city limits.
WHEN: October 4-23
COST: free
INFO: pianosonstate.com
SB-Kotor Sister Cities Celebration
– More than a decade of collabo ration between the sister cities of Santa Barbara and Kotor that has featured frequent cultural inter twining via exchange of musicians performing in California and the coastal town in Montenegro, has newly established the ME&US Fund. The mission of the new fund is to strengthen the civil and cultural ties between the two countries by im plementing educational, cultural, sports, artistic, and other socially engaged exchanges to further intertwine American values with Montenegrin culture. Today’s event features four musicians and two composers from UCSB De partment of Music and Montenegro, who performed at the KotorArt Festival in August, offering two original compositions, plus a short documentary film about the countries’ ties, performances by guitarist MILOŠ and Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro, and a presentation of the Montenegro-USA Friendship award to Santa Barbara Dr. Ichak K. Adizes
WHEN: 4 pm
WHERE: Music Academy, 1070 Fairway Road
COST: free
INFO: (805) 687-9278 or sbkotorsistercity.com
Rebecca Arguello
Ann Shelton Beth Chris Chapman Rick Delanty
Camille Dellar
Rick Garcia
Derek Harrison
Kerri Hedden
Ray Hunter
John Iwerks
Chuck Kovacic Beverly Lazor
Craig Nelson Sharon Schock Ralph Waterhouse
Puesta del Sol Santa Barbara, CA 93105
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U.S. 191 STATE STREET UNDERCROSSING PROJECT ATPSB1L 5007(084) Bid No. 3964
1. Bid Submission The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its U.S. 101 State Street Undercrossing Project (“Project”), by or before October 20, 2022, at 3:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly... The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.
If any Addendum issued by City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from City’s PlanetBids portal.
2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located on State Street between Gutierrez Street and Yanonali Avenue, and is described as follows: Removal, realignment and replacement of on concrete hardscape sidewalks with new safety lighting and fencing.
2.2 Time for Final Completion. The Project must be fully completed within 360 working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about January 2023, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.
2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $4,800,000.
3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A.
3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perfor m public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.
4. Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: http://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959 A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884 6155.
5 Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of 5% of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after City issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award
6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.
6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and are available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one half.
6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4.
7 Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in the Contract Documents.
8 Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code § 22300.
9. Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the base bid price) for each Subcontractor that will perform Work or service or fabricate or install Work for the prime contractor in excess of one half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.
10. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids.
By:ORDINANCE NO. 6082
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AUTHORIZING THE WATERFRONT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A FIVE YEAR LEASE AGREEMENT WITH ONE, FIVE YEAR OPTION WITH THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, FOR 5,563 SQUARE FEET OF WATER AREA LOCATED AT 139 CABRILLO BOULEVARD, COMMENCING UPON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ENABLING ORDINANCE
The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on September 20, 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.
(Seal)
/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC
City Clerk Services Manager
ORDINANCE NO. 6082
STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) )
COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. )
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on September 13, 2022 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 20, 2022 by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Randy Rowse
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTENTIONS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on September 21, 2022.
/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager
I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on September 21, 2022.
Bill Hornung, General Services ManagerSeptember 28, 2022 2) October 5, 2022
/s/ Randy Rowse Mayor
Published September 28, 2022 Montecito Journal
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ORDINANCE NO. 6081
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING THE 2022 2024 SALARY PLAN APPLICABLE TO UNREPRESENTED MANAGERS AND PROFESSIONAL ATTORNEYS AND THE 2022 2024 SALARY PLAN APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN UNREPRESENTED SAFETY MANAGERS
The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on September 13, 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.
(Seal)
/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC
City Clerk Services Manager
ORDINANCE NO. 6081
STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) )
COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. )
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on August 30, 2022 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 13, 2022 by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Randy Rowse
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers Alejandra Gutierrez, Mike Jordan
ABSTENTIONS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on September 14, 2022.
/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager
I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on September 14, 2022.
/s/ Randy Rowse Mayor
Published September 28, 2022 Montecito Journal
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The fol lowing person(s) is/are doing business as: IGEEKS SB, 522 West Canon Perdido, 44, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Christian C Martinez, 522 West Canon Perdido, 44, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 23, 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 statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, Coun
ty Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220002370. Published Septem ber 28, October 5, 12, 19, 2022
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Thyne Talent Agency, 205 East Carrillo Street, Suite 100, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. John J Thyne, 205 East Carrillo Street, Suite 100, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 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. 2022-0002361. Published September 28, October 5, 12, 19, 2022
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Yankee Solutions, 803 Portesuello Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93101-3930. Robert Cuellar, 3950 Via Real #272, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Paul E. Cuel lar , 803 Portesuello Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 931013930. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 20, 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. Jo seph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0002339. Pub lished September 28, October 5, 12, 19, 2022
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: VIP Smoke Shop, 124 E. Ocean Ave, Lompoc, CA 93111. Porterville Tool ShopInc, 124 E. Ocean Ave, Lompoc, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the Coun ty Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 13, 2022. This statement ex pires five years from the date it was filed in the Of fice of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the orig inal statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Hol land, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0002277. Published September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 2022
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Virtual Tours By Julia, 945 Ward Dr. #20, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Julia A Chrynko, 945 Ward Dr. #20, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 30, 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 orig inal statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Hol land, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0002235.
Published September 14, 21, 28, October 5, 2022
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Cat House Hotel, 1922 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. SBCAL Properties, 60 Via Alicia, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 30, 2022. This statement ex pires five years from the date it was filed in the Of fice of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220002154. Published Sep tember 7, 14, 21, 28, 2022
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 22CV03179. To all interested parties: Petitioner Deborah Susan Hillis filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a de cree changing name to Deborah Richards Hillis
The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe tition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes de scribed above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.
If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed August 26, 2022 by Narz ralli Baksh. Hearing date: October 21, 2022 at 10 am in Dept. 4, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published Sep tember 7, 14, 21, 28, 2022
CITATION FREEDOM FROM PARENTAL CUSTODY AND CONTROL (ABANDONMENT) (RE: ADOPTION): CASE No. 20CCAD00678. To Lisa Megan Sela and all per sons claiming to be the father or mother of Maria Luisa Sela . By order of this Court you are hereby cited and may appear be fore the Judge Presiding in Department 419 of the Superior Court of Califor nia, County of Los Ange les, located at Children’s Court 201 Centre Plaza Drive, Monterey Park, CA
91754 on November 14, 2022 at 9 am of that day, then and there to show cause, if any you have, why said person should not be declared free from the control of his/her (their) parental rights ac cording to the petition on file herein. You are hereby notified of the provisions of Family Code 7860 which provide the judge shall advise the minor and the parents, if present, of the right to have counsel present. The Court may appoint counsel to rep resent the minor whether or not the minor is able to afford counsel, and if they are unable to afford coun sel, shall appoint counsel to represent the parents. The petition filed here in is for the purpose of freeing the subject child for placement for adop tion. Filed September 22, 2022 by Sherri R Carter, Executive Officer/Clerk of Court by L. Melara, Depu ty. Published September 28, October 5, 12, 19, 2022.
CITATION FREEDOM FROM PARENTAL CUS TODY AND CONTROL (ABANDONMENT) (RE: ADOPTION): CASE No. 20CCAD00679. To Lisa Megan Sela and all per sons claiming to be the father or mother of Max Sela . By order of this Court you are hereby cit ed and may appear be fore the Judge Presiding in Department 419 of the Superior Court of Califor nia, County of Los Ange les, located at Children’s Court 201 Centre Plaza Drive, Monterey Park, CA 91754 on November 14, 2022 at 9 am of that day, then and there to show cause, if any you have, why said person should not be declared free from the control of his/her (their) parental rights ac cording to the petition on file herein. You are hereby notified of the provisions of Family Code 7860 which provide the judge shall advise the minor and the parents, if present, of the right to have counsel present. The Court may appoint counsel to rep resent the minor whether or not the minor is able to afford counsel, and if they are unable to afford coun sel, shall appoint counsel to represent the parents. The petition filed here in is for the purpose of freeing the subject child for placement for adop tion. Filed September 22, 2022 by Sherri R Carter, Executive Officer/Clerk of Court by L. Melara, Depu ty. Published September 28, October 5, 12, 19, 2022.
2022, it rose to $15 an hour for employers with 26 or more employees; $14 per hour for employ ers with 25 or fewer employees. However, local laws and mandates have pushed the minimum wages in California to the highest in the nation: $16.30 per hour in Sunnyvale; $16.20 in San Jose; and $16.07 in San Francisco and Berkeley.
In Los Angeles, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (Local United 11) colluded with deep blue City Councils in West Hollywood, Long Beach, Santa Monica, and Glendale to mandate an increase in the hotel industry minimum wage to $17.64 per hour for lodging establishments with more than 50 employees. The rationale is so-called “equity and fairness.”
I get it that a $7.25 per hour minimum wage, or even a mandated $22 minimum wage, cannot support a family of four in California. I get it that fast food owners and workers struggle with today’s inflation, just like the rest of us. But what I don’t get is a state solution where California has become the first state in the nation to mandate compulsory government control over not just one company or private business, but control over an entire segment of private industry.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said he was proud to sign a measure that “empowers our workers.” He meant he is proud to help the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the country’s second-largest union, which rep resents some 1.9 million government employees, health care workers, and janitors, hotel house keeping, and a few food service workers. In 2020, the SEIU announced it would spend $150 million on the election of Democratic candidates who favored a $15 per hour minimum wage.
SEIU’s ability to unionize fast food workers has failed because the normal union message that greedy corporate owners like McDonald’s are stealing profits from exploited workers by setting wages and prices, does not apply in the fast food industry. Individual franchise agreements allow each franchisee, not the corporate franchisor, to set their own wage and prices based on local market conditions. The regulatory powers grant ed to the new government council eliminates this individual owner defense by mandating a government one-size-fits-all for fast food wages in all of California.
Most in California have no idea of what the Fast Food Recovery Act is all about. The industry has every right to ask why fast food restaurants, which employ 13 million work ers nationwide, were picked out for punitive state controls that apply to a single industry segment, but not all restaurants. Unless your family owns a fast food franchise or two, you could care less about this latest example of “California Scheming.”
As the great sage Forrest Gump wisely noted, “Stupid is as Stupid Does,” meaning there are no stupid people, only stupid behaviors. Forrest’s wisdom capsulizes the public indifference to what has been foisted on all of us by the
well in life because people have so much respect for him. And what better exam ple have we had in recent years than Queen Elizabeth? That again, there’s this quality of character, of honesty, of being straightforward, of being digni fied. The old school, I think, still has appeal to people even though we give a lot of attention to the extremists. I think we in the press ought to stop feeding off the extremists the way we do.
GL: You say in your book that the inter net has made it easier to gain power, but harder to exercise it…
DG: Yeah. Yeah, I do believe that and easier to lose it.
GL: Can you talk about what that means and how can leaders possibly play a role in uniting us if there is no agreed upon set of facts or place where we get our com mon information?
DG: It goes back to this old Moynihan quote about you’re entitled to your own views, but you’re not entitled to your own facts. This is a serious problem that not only are there bad actors who are pouring out disinformation, and it’s not just here at home; look what we’ve just learned about how the Russians were trying to interfere with the March on Washington by women, which was startling to see; you have these sewage lines of disinfor mation, that have overwhelmed us in so many ways. What has surprised me is how many people believe it… against and in the face of so little evidence. In fact, the evidence runs the other way.
I’m discouraged about that. It’s one place where I do think that a college education does make a difference. We do know that college educated people are much less likely to believe this than people who have not finished college. I mean, there’s a fair amount of evidence on that.
I don’t know how to get here to a more plain-spoken country. I do see signs that our people are working now on the idea of potentially a third party. Again, I think these problems are likely to get worse in the next few years than better, but I do think that we have a generation that’s waiting and that the torch is going to be passed. I think that’s inevitable.
GL: That’s your long-term optimism you talk about.
DG: It is. Well, it’s my great hope. It’s what gives me hope when I wake up in the morning, that this is going to turn out all right at the end of the day, but we’re not going to get there anytime soon.
GL: Let’s talk about one of the main problems, which is money, right?
DG: Yes. Yes.
GL: Money plays such an outsized and determinate role in becoming an elect ed leader in this country. How, without
removing money from the center of politics, can we hope to attract the best and the brightest to want to step into public service?
DG: I think it continues to be the case that when you’re deciding whether to run for office or not so much depends upon whether you have deep pockets or access to money. So many good people I know in the college level are chased off or they don’t want to do it. Let me give you an example. One stream of leaders that I talk about in the book, that I really have great admiration for, are the young men and women coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq and com ing back in their military uniforms. Many of whom have been in serious danger along the way. Now, I think by and large, those people remind me very much of the World War II generation that I thought was terrif ic, but I know talking to a lot of these vet erans, one of the main questions they ask before they jump into the arena is, “Can I raise the money?” They don’t want to spend six months, a year, a year-and-a-half of their lives running around, and there’s no ques tion in my mind that it’s not just a question whether individuals have more money, but I also find that people who’ve gone to elite schools tend to have more access to money.
…we need one big fundamental new program that offers something to young people, and I’m a big proponent, you see in the book, of National Service. Having young people give a year back to their communities. Young people who have never met each other before, come from different parts of town, who grew up with different zip codes, and have that kind of diversity. I think spending a year together, working on things, projects like Habitat for Humanity, can be enormously reviving.
GL: And if you have access to money, you have a net under you. So you know even if you’re not making a lot of money in Congress, or worse, on a city council, you’re still going to be able to have a good life.
DG: Exactly, and you’re going to be able to go on to a good life and continue to have a good life. You’re going to be in pretty good shape on that. But I look at a guy called Wes Moore.
GL: He ran the Robin Hood Foundation…
DG: That’s right. He ran Robin Hood, and he is a terrific young man. He’s never had much money in life and Cory Booker didn’t come out of money. It is possible, but it’s hard. It’s just very, very hard.
GL: Another problem is that good people find the mean spiritedness of politics today very hard to take.
DG: I know. It’s particularly hard. Now, you have activists show up outside your door in the morning with TV cam eras… because they disagree with what you’re trying to say.
GL: You write about how rising lead ers experience what you call crucibles. Or unexpected blows. Why is this important?
DG: Yeah. What we know about what we call crucibles, these are major, often unexpected setbacks. They come out of the blue sometimes and suddenly you just get knocked down by a heart attack or one of your children is badly hurt, or you lose a child, and these are moments of despair for a lot of people, and what we know from psychologists like Daniel Seligman, who is the father of positive psychology… he con cluded that there are actually three different kinds of outcomes. Some people who come away from a crucible never recover. They’ve got a cloud over their heads the rest of their lives. Life is dark and short; but there’s a second group that has resilience, and they basically get back to where they were before they got knocked down; but then there is a third group that not only is resilient, but grows in marginal purpose as a result of what they’ve been going through. You look at John McCain, having been a POW and had life almost squeezed out of him, he just took blow after blow, but he came back more determined than ever and played a different form of politics. He was willing to take the shot and go across the aisle and work with Democrats and it made a big difference.
I think most famously, both Roosevelts, Franklin and Eleanor, had crucibles. Franklin with his polio. Which was the most dreaded disease of his time. It was often thought that people who had polio were contagious. It was a real mark on them when you got it, and Franklin Roosevelt thought, well, he could even tually get up and walk again. After all, if he wanted to be in politics, the language of politics is out of running. You run for this, you run for that, and he couldn’t walk. But eventually he was reconciled to it and he became a completely different kind of a political leader than he had been before he was struck down.
GL: I think that’s so true, that we come out of these moments with greater humility. With greater empathy. But also, an under standing that in order to win, you have to be willing to lose.
DG: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I, gen erally speaking, try not to vote for any body who hasn’t been knocked down at
least once. You don’t want to be defeated two or three times, but one time is going to be quite salutary.
I, generally speaking, try not to vote for anybody who hasn’t been knocked down at least once.
GL: It was very good for Churchill.
DG: Very good for Churchill. It was very good for Bill Clinton. He went, ran for one term in Arkansas and he got his head handed to him, and he was out of power for a while, but it really woke him up and he was a better leader after that.
GL: I was recently asked who my greatest teachers were, and I said my greatest teacher has been failure.
DG: Yes. Yes.
GL: But today’s leaders aren’t really willing to fail. They seem first and foremost interested in holding onto power.
DG: Yes, and I think that is one of the evolutions that has taken place. That people used to do politics out of princi ple and now what’s mostly important to them is power, and they cling to power. They cling to the curtains.
GL: And so many leaders have, in effect, become a brand. Hemmed in by their own professed ideology, and they end up stuck there, not able to benefit from their own learnings, because they’re afraid that will be seen as a betrayal by their followers.
DG: Right. Right. I think sometimes in politics we obsess too much on the public policy issue and not on the larger reality, and we have fights about things which are not going anywhere, but it provides the basis for squabbling and sending out I need more money in order to protect this thing… I mean, I don’t have a lot of faith in what leaders promise during a campaign, because we’re living in a very volatile world now and life changes so rapidly in front of our eyes that believing there’s only one answer to a public policy problem is just nonsense; and what’s more important, is for leaders to have the char acter and the end detail, and the capacity and the willingness to face harsh realities, and then work within that. To be prag matic about it. The people who achieve the most in political life are usually those who are either center left or center right, but they’re not way over to the edge.
GL: You point to humor in your book as an important quality in great leaders. I agree with this, and I would add creativity to that. But we live in this time of political correctness and cancel culture. People are scared to go out on a limb with humor or
“I love the smell of the universe in the morning.” – Neil DeGrasse Tyson
year’s production, The Christmas Revels: A Scottish Celebration of the Winter Solstice, which will be staged at the Lobero Theatre in December.
Susan Lansing-Weller, the new musi cal director, brought together a diverse ensemble of special musical artists, including Marie Herbert and Rafael Vasquez-Guevara on violin, Ivan Law on cello, Luis Moreno on guitar, Gary Solt on guitar and mandolin, and Erin McKibben on flute and vocals.
The bagpipers, bringing back mem ories of Queen Elizabeth ’s funeral at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, were
Montecito actor Jeff Bridges says every thing in life became “hyper precious” to him amid his recent health struggles.
The Oscar winner, 72, was diagnosed with cancer of the lymphatic system in 2020 and was also hit hard by COVID19, which he previously admitted left him at “death’s door.”
However, Jeff now believes his two-year-
old “health adventure” has actually helped him look at life through a new lens.
“It wasn’t all bad,” he tells Sky News. “[There were] wonderful parts about being that sick that were kind of unexpect ed, feeling all that love coming towards me from my family and friends, and from people all over the world… Everything became hyper precious during that time.”
I’m glad to see Tina Brown , for mer editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker , is in agreement with my thoughts on Prince Harry ’s forthcom ing autobiography.
She feels that Harry and William’s unity at Queen Elizabeth ’s funeral made it a good time to “build bridges” and become more involved with the Royal Family.
Brown says the Duke of Sussex needs to “ditch” his Penguin-Random House upcoming memoir to regain his father, King Charles’ trust, on the U.K. TV show Lorraine
“If Harry doesn’t want to bin the book, then I can’t see a way forward,” she con cluded.
An old friend, TV host Piers Morgan, who replaced Larry King on CNN, has also expressed the same opinion.
Support for the British monarchy has soared following Queen Elizabeth’s funeral and over half of people now believe King Charles III will do a good job, according to a new poll.
Almost half of those surveyed by Ipsos last week said it would be worse for Britain if the monarchy was abolished, while less than a quarter said the country would be improved as a republic.
The poll of 1,073 adults found 47 percent saying the U.K. would be worse without a monarch, up from 42 percent who shared the same thoughts at the Platinum Jubilee in June.
Ahead of celebrating her half-cen tury this month, Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow is talking about set ting boundaries and embracing her aging body.
The Oscar winner, who celebrates her birthday on September 27, has penned an essay about her past and hopes for the
future published on the Goop founder’s lifestyle website.
Paltrow reflects on the regrets and misgivings that still keep her up at night, saying she hopes she has “learned from them all.”
“I have betrayed myself to keep the peace and have let people down by not being there when they needed me to be,” she writes.
Investment manager Emil Nazaretyan has joined the board of directors of the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara.
Over a career spanning 14 years, he has worked in portfolio management, trading, research, and investment man agement at firms in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.
Nazaretyan currently serves as a port folio manager at Mission Wealth in our Eden by the Beach.
Named to Pacific Coast Business Times “Top 40 Under 40” list for 2022, he previously worked as an asso ciate trader at Mercer Advisors, held banking and accounting positions at Wells Fargo and Conference Direct, respectively, and co-founded the start up Green Logic Asset Management, among other positions.
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Highland Bagpipers Moon Man and Clear Water Whitehead , and Caden Semenza The Highland Bagpipers playing (photo by Priscilla) Music Director Susan LansingWeller with Erin McKibben, Marie Herbert, Rafael Vasquez-Guevara, Ivan Law, Luis Moreno, and Gary Solt (photo by Priscilla) Bob and Patty Bryant, with Erin McKibben, Luis Moreno, Susan Keller, and Myron Shapero (photo by Priscilla)even with innovative thinking.
DG: Yeah. I know. I don’t want to get into this conversation because it’s too loaded. It’s too fraught within, but the way people are having to tiptoe in col lege. Men and women are having to tip toe around with a lot of the stuff that’s going on in their lives, because you can get nailed so easily. Yes. Yes, I agree with that, and it also is limiting on nuance. People are impatient and don’t want to wait around for the nuance. And often that’s where the truth is.
GL: You were an advisor to four U.S. presidents: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. Here’s the six-million-dollar question that I know you’ve been asked many times: who was your favorite and why?
DG: Oh, yeah.
GL: Only one of them is alive, so if you want to say Clinton it’s okay.
DG: There you go. I like that. You’re signed up… Well, the truth is it was easier in some ways with Clinton, and in retrospect it worked out fine. There were a fair number of body blows and you can see the scars on my back at some point from when I changed over, or least went to work for Clinton. Even though I was nowhere near as conservative as Reagan, I thought Reagan created a better envi ronment for political leadership. And Clinton was obviously very smart, and we’ve been friends for a long time.
GL: Well, this leads to my penultimate question. You’re advocating for the passing of the leadership baton to the next gener ation.
DG: Yes. Time to pass.
GL: Where does the experience and wisdom that comes with some age fit in... I assume you still think that there’s a place for that in leadership?
DG: Oh, yeah. I think what you want to do, if you want to have a really good team, you hire young people for energy and you hire older people for wisdom and you need both. I would be the last to argue that you want to come sweeping in with a group of 25-year-olds to run the country, but I also have great reservations about hav ing somebody who’s 85 years old run the country. I think that there are some individuals who do extremely well in life, into their seventies and eighties, and indeed later than that, but I think that’s a relatively small number. And recognizing that we live in an increas ingly complex world that’s made much more so by the internet, it makes a real difference to have somebody coming into power who understands the inter net, understands how to make it work versus somebody who doesn’t. I mean, I’m an ignoramus on the internet, but I insist on anybody I hire understanding it. It’s really important.
Men and women are having to tiptoe around with a lot of the stuff that’s going on in their lives, because you can get nailed so easily… and it also is limiting on nuance. People are impatient and don’t want to wait around for the nuance. And often that’s where the truth is.
I was just with the basketball coach at Harvard, came down to teach a class for me a couple days ago, and he used to work for Coach K, the Duke bas ketball coach. Coach K is now almost 70 years old, and what he has figured out, is that if he’s going to really com municate well with his players who are 19, 20, 21 years old, he needs a middle person somewhere. Someone who’s in their thirties or so to be an interpreter for him to the younger players and he needs that middle per son to also be an interpreter to K, to let him understand what’s going on in the heads of the younger people, and I think both are necessary. I don’t think there’s any single group, but I do think as a general proposition, someone who is really a great choice is a great exception at the age of 85 to be a choice. Most major corporations have a rule or standard basically that they expect people to step aside at 65, 67, and there’s a reason for that.
GL: Why’d you write this book?
DG: Because I’ve been teaching in this field for a number of years. I fig ure, I really ought to write this down and I’d like to pass it on, and maybe I can reach a larger audience, because I am a champion of change, but mostly I’m a champion of the younger gen eration and the idea that I think we owe it to them to do everything we can to prepare them for leadership, and I think they owe to us a load of responsibility, but the next few years are going to be ones in which we decide whether this will work or not. Whether this nation will stand or continue to be the beacon that it has been for people around the world, and I think it could go either way.
I’m discouraged about the next few years, but I draw hope from the qual ities, the personal qualities, the char acter, the integrity, the humility, the empathy, the kind of qualities we look for in our individual leaders. I hope that they will be the qualities we find in our next generation.
mom that cooked using whole foods. What I didn’t understand then, but do now, is how exercise and having a whole food, mostly plant-based diet can not only prevent disease, but also help our bodies heal. This understanding came about with firsthand experience helping one of my sons return to health and has become a bit of a mission for my husband and me.
I am grateful to be able to pursue this mis sion through our business, Kate Farms, that has proven you can do good and do well, by helping to get an organic garden and healthy lunch program going at my children’s schools, working to build the Lompoc Community Track & Field, and by serving on boards of nonprofits that all support getting not only food, but healthy food, into the hands of those facing food insecurity in our community.
Zaninovich: Growing up we never thought about being healthy. But we played outside ALL the time, rode our bikes everywhere. No devices existed and TV was just after you fin ished your homework before bed. My mother always had a vegetable garden, we didn’t have fast food in Delano in my teenage years and my mom cooked all our meals, including packing our school lunches. Our Croatian heritage meant a Mediterranean diet with lots of fruits and vegetables.
Now of course, with my nursing background, I think that the best thing we can do for our own health is quality sleep, a Mediterranean diet, some kind of movement, with walking being the cheapest and easiest, and having friends or some kind of social life and continued learning to keep our brains active.
Among the 300 attendees were Anne Smith Towbes, Sue Adams, Sybil Rosen, Steve Jacobsen, Dr. Mahdi Ashrafian, Scott DeVine, Tom Bolton, Karl Hutterer, Luke Swetland, Palmer Jackson , and Santa Barbara City Councilmembers Mike Jordan and Oscar Gutierrez
The program speakers were Chair and CEO of Montecito Bank & Trust Janet Garufis, President and CEO of Santa Barbara Foundation Jackie Carrera, Gerd Jordano, Lompoc Valley Community Health Organization Executive Director Ashley Costa , and Tammy Sims Johnson, the newly appointed Vice President of Philanthropic Services of Santa Barbara Foundation.
Thanks to event sponsors Santa Barbara Foundation, Montecito Bank & Trust, Noozhawk, Cox Communications, the Montecito Journal, and the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara.
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Southern California and bandura musi cian Siuzanna Iglidan, who sat in with John Legend at the 2022 Grammy Awards earlier this year. Ukrainian craft displays will include pysanka, painted eggs that have been decorated with bright and fiery designs, and traditional embroi dered Ukrainian clothing and traditional wreaths worn by women on their heads for weddings and other special occa sions. Sunflowers, the national flower of Ukraine, will be represented by the return of the six large “Sunflowers on State” sculptures. These were fabricated by local artists and painted in Impressionist style by students as an adjunct to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s springtime Vincent van Gogh exhibition. The Good Lion is also creating a “Sunflower” cock tail to sip during the festivities.
There will also be tables offering infor mation about Ukraine, its history, and current relief efforts, including the mas sive one mounted by Santa Barbara-based Direct Relief International.
The festival obviously has special res onance given the ongoing Russian inva sion of Ukraine, which marked its sev enth month last week. But the event is much more of a cultural celebration than protest or political gathering.
“The invasion has resonated around the world,” said Roman Baratiak, the former UCSB A&L Associate Director whose parents were natives of Ukraine,
concert, and the Ukraine fest, is a chance to dive deep into the country’s cultural beauty and mystique.
For more details on the festival, DakhaBrakha tickets, and information about UCSB’s A&L 2022-23 season of music, dance, lectures, and other events, visit artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.
who helped curate the festi val and will serve as emcee. “DakhaBrakha has been tour ing around the world to bring awareness to what’s happening, but they have always had a big following. I’m just very honored and thrilled that there’s this educational out reach opportunity because of the concert to be able to high light some of the beauty and uniqueness of Ukrainian cul ture.”
DakhaBrakha, whose name means “give/take” in Ukrainian, was founded in 2004 at the Kyiv Center of Contemporary Art by the avant-garde theater director Vladislav Troitsky, and the quartet’s shows con tinue to be staged with scenic effect even as the group began augmenting Ukrainian ethnic folk heritage with Arabic, Indian, indigenous Australian, and other Slavic cultures along with punk, hip-hop, trance, and other world music rhythms. Adding the three female singers’ intertwining voices provides a formula that has been described as a subversive musical tapestry.
For years, it’s been reported, DakhaBrakha ended its shows chanting “Stop Putin! No war!”, until what they had feared has now become reality. The
SOhO seems to have turned the corner on concentrating on local bands, instead booking more touring acts as the country continues to open up from COVID concerns. In fact, after the monthly show from Area 51 on September 30 and Hidden City Studio’s showcase the following night (see calendar), all four following acts at the downtown upstairs music club hail from out of town. Santa Barbara Acoustic’s series continues on October 2 with Brooks Robertson , a young fingerstyle guitarist who is apparently as dexterous with his instrument as Brooks Robinson was with a glove. Bluesy Nashville singer-songwriter Mike Younger – whose 2021 album Burning the Bigtop Down (2021) is the result of his battle to reclaim his lost recordings made with Muscle Shoals legends and members of The Band –performs on October 3, followed the following night by Skip Marley , reggae pioneer Bob’s grandson who is just now emerging as a touring artist.
October 5 brings Brass Against, a collective who cover and create music meant to inspire social and personal change, curating songs from ‘90s grunge and alt-metal in a heavy brass filled sym phony. The next night brings an artist even more provocative, Henry Rollins; the former Black Flag leader turned world-traveling spoken word artist acting as an acid tongue agent for change.
Elsewhere, the Bowl’s bountiful sea son continues with a pair of concerts by beloved surf singer-songwriter superstar and sometimes Santa Barbaran, Jack Johnson, on October 4-5. Welsh singer Tom Jones, somehow still “Sex Bomb”hot at age 82, delivers “Delilah” and more at the Arlington (which finally has a fantastic new website!) on October
5. The Arlington also hosts UCSB A&L’s concert with Texas country trou badour Charley Crockett, Americana Music Awards’ 2021 Emerging Artist of the Year, on October 2. Meanwhile, the Libbey Bowl in Ojai boasts new ly-minted Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Elvin Bishop, and ageless blues master Charlie Musselwhite on September 30, and the perennially popular powerful singer-songwriter-guitarist Ben Harper, who seamlessly blends the personal and political, on October 6.
On the tribute trail, Philadelphia-based Get the Led Out culls the bombastic and epic to the folky and mystical sides of studio recordings of Led Zeppelin, at the Lobero on September 30, while Queen Nation, who have been channel ing Freddie Mercury & Co. for nearly two decades and 150 shows per year, chug on in to the Chumash Casino one night later on October 1.
This weekend ushers in October and with it the influx of Oscar hopeful movies. Which also means SBIFF’s Cinema Society’s screening schedule soars into hyperdrive, starting Saturday with a double dip into new films fol lowed by a Q&A with the directors at SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre. The mur der mystery Decision to Leave, the lat est from writer-director Park Chanwook (Oldboy, Stoker, The Handmaiden) and Korea’s official submission for the Academy Awards, screens at 10:30 am. Amsterdam, the new ensemble period murder mystery comedy from fivetime Oscar nominee David O. Russell (The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle), stars a huge cast of famous names, led by Christian Bale and Margot Robbie. Amsterdam pre views at 5:30 pm, six days before its general release. The two screenings are among the Cinema Society events that are also open with limited seating for the general public. Tickets are $20.Visit sbiffriviera.com/cs.
UCSB A&L launches the new season with a free screening on September 29 of Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton , a white-knuckle look at the journey of the surf legend, who will be on hand at the Arlington less than three weeks later for a conversation with Rory Kennedy
“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.” – Neil DeGrasse Tyson Steven Libowitz has covered a plethora of topics for the Journal since 1997, and now leads our extensive arts and entertainment coverage See a performance from bandura musician Siuzanna Iglidan before the enthralling DakhaBrakha show A Ukraine Fest will be held outside of the Granada this First Thursday to accompany the Kyiv-based DakhaBrakha UCSB Arts & Lectures brings Texas country troubadour Charley Crockett to the Arlington on October 2Governor and his cronies in the labor unions as good for the fast food industry and its low-paid workers.
Castro’s Cuba and Chavez’s disastrous socialist takeover of control of private businesses in Venezuela in the name of “social equity,” have shown the world that government mandates and compul sory controls over private business deci sions don’t work. Private enterprise has consistently proven to be more respon sive to its customers, more resilient and better able to react more quickly than government-controlled industries.
It is shameful that Teen Vogue maga zine can get away with commenting that private sector capitalism is “an inhuman, anti-democratic, unsustainable, deeply exploitive system that must be disman tled,” a position echoed by democrat ic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and junior Senator and socialist Bernie Sanders from Vermont.
When politicians in power like Lorena Gonzalez, who has probably never owned a private business or worked in one, start making the most fundamental business decisions for owners, mandating policies business owners oppose, businesses either die or leave the state. In January 2022, Gonzalez resigned from the California State Assembly to assume a more lucra tive leadership role in the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO.
Of course! The Fast Food Recovery Act will have the exact opposite effect of its intended purpose. Expect widespread price increases in California’s fast food indus try. An estimated one-third of Americans consume fast food every day in the U.S., making it an appealing dining option at every income level from the homeless to the residents of Montecito mega-mansions.
Fast food restaurant owners have already endured massive entry-level wage increases, with the minimum mov ing from $7.50 to $15 per hour. When minimum wages spiral up, experienced employees also demand increased wages and benefits at every level. At the same time, food costs for meat, eggs, and other ingredients are up by double dig its over last year. Shipping and delivery rates are rising. Fast food has no other option but to inflate menu prices.
A reputed one in eight Americans has worked at McDonald’s, mostly as teen agers. Fast food industry success comes from serving high-quality food, sold at
affordable prices, with speedy service in clean stores at convenient locations. A reputed 70 million customers per day find comfort food in McDonald’s 22,500 stores, 13,194 of which are in the U.S. Nearly 10% of McDonald’s U.S. restau rants are located in California.
McDonald’s alone is the 4th largest employer of labor in the world. The com pany has more than 2.5 million employ ees worldwide. McDonald’s hires more than one million employees yearly in the United States. Over 93% of McDonald’s restaurants are franchised as independent ly owned small business owners, with a high percentage of family ownership.
Ranked by number of U.S locations, McDonald’s only comes in third in the fast food industry. Subway is the leader with 24,798 stores; Starbucks is second at 14,825. McDonald’s is 3rd at 13,914 stores, followed by Dunkin’ at 9,419; Pizza Hut at 7,456; Burger King at 7,327; KFC at 6,805; Wendy’s at 6,711; Taco Bell at 6,588; Domino’s at 5,876; and Dairy Queen at 4,406. Others include Arby’s (3,406 stores), BaskinRobbins (2,500 stores), Chick-fil-A (2,837 stores), Jack in the Box (2,195 stores), I-Hop (1,667 stores), Carl’s Jr. (1,063 stores), The Habit (328 stores) and In-N-Out Burger (380 stores).
The International Franchising Association, the National Restaurant Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, fast food franchisors, and a majority of fast food workers recog nize that the California partnership of government and union members rep resents a Newsom payoff to labor unions to encourage record union contribu tions to the November 2022 election for Democratic candidates.
Once the fast food industry loses con trol of its labor costs and menu pricing in California, Democrat lawmakers reason that other blue states will follow California’s example, filling Democrat party re-elec tion coffers and diverting voter attention away from unpleasant California realities such as the highest gasoline prices in the continental U.S.; rampant homelessness; increasing crime rates; and sky-high home prices and rentals.
Next to feel the compulsory hand of California’s government wage and work rules mandates will be the 90,562 hotels and motels in the United States, employ ing 1.6 million workers. “California Scheming” should send chills to both thoughtful liberals and conservatives alike. The question is: do voters care enough to do something about it?
New life motto: devour everything Vicky Krieps is in. You only need to see Mathieu Amalric’s most recent movie, Hold Me Tight, to adopt this new rule for yourself. And if Amalric’s name doesn’t ring a bell, his face will surely make you go “Oh yeah! That guy!” He was a Bond villain, after all. Though not as well-known as a director here in the U.S., Hold Me Tight proves he really should be. But heck, bet ter late than never, right?
I had recently been on a mini French film kick (one of which was Olivier Assayas’ film Late August, Early September starring Amalric) so I was perfectly ready to give myself over to this. And really, it didn’t take much.
Hold Me Tight is a beautiful movie about memory, loss, and finding ways to cope. It opens on a woman leaving her two young children and her husband as they sleep. But as the movie breathes, we soon begin to question the reality of what we’re watching. We enter into a world of fragmented mem ory, time, and space where Amalric refuses to hold our hands, leaving us to put this emotional puzzle together on our own. But
it doesn’t feel forced, nor is it overly confus ing. We begin to wonder at what lengths would we go to cope with loss. What are we really witness ing? Are these memories? Is this another reality? And what really has been lost?
But to say too much will ruin the experience. You’ll simply need to see the movie to figure that out.
So, for the love of Vicky Krieps, go to the Riviera and see this movie! A free-flow ing piece, where nearly every frame is filled with emotion. It has turned out to be one of my favorites of the year.
Hold Me Tight will be playing at The Riviera from September 30 - October 6.
Christopher Matteo Connor is a writer and filmmaker. When he isn’t writing, watching movies, and working on projects, you can be sure he’s somewhere enjoying a big slice of vegan pizza.
Conventional fuel for transport (air travel, in particular) is one of the most signifi cant contributors to CO2, making the electrification of travel high on the list of priorities in terms of fighting climate change. Air Canada, Canada’s largest airline, demonstrated its commitment to this goal by agreeing to purchase 30 ES-30 electric-hy brid aircraft currently being developed by Heart Aerospace in Sweden.
As lithium-ion batteries power this aircraft, they will generate zero emissions and yield significant operational savings and benefits. Per the agreement, Air Canada also obtained a $5 million equity stake in Heart Aerospace.
Air Canada’s introduction of the ES-30 will allow the airline to serve heavily fre quented regional and commuter routes in a sustainable way. It will also be quieter, have improved operational parameters, and have a smaller environmental footprint than conventional aircraft.
Even if the reserve-hybrid generators need to be employed, they will be stocked with sustainable aviation fuel. When fully charged (which should take about 30 to 50 min utes), the ES-30 is expected to have an all-electric, zero-emission range of just over 124 miles. With power supplemented by the generators, this distance goes up to just under 250 miles, and up to almost 500 miles if the load is restricted to 25 passengers.
Bob Hazard is a guest columnist of this paper and a former president and CEO of two of the five largest hotel franchise chains in the world
“Air Canada has taken a leadership position in the industry to address climate change. The introduction into our fleet of the ES-30 electric regional aircraft from Heart Aerospace will be a step forward to our goal of net zero emissions by 2050,” declared the President and Chief Executive Officer of Air Canada, Michael Rousseau, in a statement. “Already, Air Canada is supporting the development of new technolo gies, such as sustainable aviation fuels and carbon capture, to address climate change,” he added. “We are now reinforcing our commitment by investing in revolutionary electric aircraft technology, both as a customer for the ES-30 and as an equity partner in Heart Aerospace.”
The regional aircraft is projected to enter service in 2028.
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