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Association of Music Merchants’ annual event goes virtual, P.33

Stories Matter

– Leslie Zemeckis’ reading recommendations for February, P.20

the giving list

Your Westmont

– Grounds manager Phil Baker retires after 46 years, P.27

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Casa del Herrero provides glimpse into 1920s Montecito, page 26

NEXT WEEK’S ZOOM MEETING WILL DISCUSS THE DESIGNS, CONSIDERATIONS, AND FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT OF SOUND WALLS AS THE HIGHWAY 101 WIDENING PROJECT ENTERS ITS FINAL COMMITTEE MEETINGS (STORY STARTS ON PAGE 6)

World of Pinot Noir

Global wine event makes triumphant live return to Santa Barbara in March, page 34

Under Construction

Montecito Water District replaces 100-yearold water main on East Valley Road, page 10

Creating Hope

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents worldrenowned violinist Joshua Bell, page 30

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Conversations – Philanthropy Revolution author Lisa Greer has advice for fundraisers trying to cultivate high-capacity donors

I n the News... – Montecito Planning Commission holds first meeting of 2022 and discusses SB 9; Highway 101 sound walls to be discussed over Zoom next week; and more local news

On Entertainment – Westmont Opera presents The Tender Land at Center Stage Theater; Molly Tuttle brings bluegrass to SOhO; SBIFF announces tribute honorees

The Giving List – Tours of Casa del Herrero have resumed, giving visitors a glimpse into Montecito history

Your Westmont – Longtime grounds manager Phil Baker retires, and the music department offers Aaron Copland’s opera The Tender Land

alendar of Events – From professional-surfer-turned-musician Donavon FranC kenreiter at SOhO to a Chaucer’s virtual book event with the author of The Rise, a look at what’s going on all around town

Our Town – National Association of Music Merchants’ annual event holds virtual two-day event and announces the return of the live conference taking place in June

Santa Barbara by the Glass – World of Pinot Noir is coming back live and Gabe Saglie gives five reasons why you will not want to miss this year’s event

Nosh Town – Claudia Schou highlights four recipes that use a Dutch oven, one of the most versatile pieces of cookware you can own

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

Local Business Directory – Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer Mini Meta Crossword Puzzles

Letters to the Editor –LeeAnn Morgan wants Brutoco for president, and Bryan Rosen notices parking injustices on East Mountain Drive Mixing It Up – Inspired by the orange blossoms beginning to flower around town, Ian Wickman creates a delicious concoction called A Bloom in the Air Tide Chart

Montecito Miscellany – Meals on Wheels serves two millionth meal; Ellen DeGeneres’ Game of Games cancelled after four seasons; Janet Adderley plans next production; and much more

Science & Technology – Tom Farr looks at what we know about climate change so far, and if the future can be predicted

Robert’s Big Questions – Robert Bernstein asks, why is that only the “little people” get tickets, fines, and criminal prosecution? Where is the justice?

Stories Matter – Leslie Zemeckis rounds up her favorite recent reads, from The Cicada Tree by Robert Gwaltney to The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco –Holistic Economics: No... Greed is Not Good The Optimist Daily – Endangered salmon returns to California streams after abundant rains

Brilliant Thoughts – Ashleigh Brilliant provides some examples of how women have changed the course of history Montecito JOURNAL

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CONVERSATIONS Lisa Greer’s Message to Philanthropy: Revolutionize As told to Daniel Heimpel

hile she had built a successful career, Lisa Greer wasn’t born into wealth. But when her husband Josh’s company, RealD, IPOed in 2010, she was instantaneously vaulted into the 1%. With the money came an opportunity for Greer to give back, and in seven figure increments. But like others whose lives are transformed by a “wealth event” of the magnitude she experienced, giving to worthwhile nonprofits brought a whole new world to navigate, and, of course, an onslaught of fundraisers. In her first book, Philanthropy Revolution, the Southern California native offers donors and nonprofit professionals an unfiltered window into the world of fundraising, and her quest to change the game, all infused with vibrant urgency. “There’s more cash in the system today than any time in U.S. history,” Greer says. “Banks have over $2 trillion since COVID began, and much of the U.S. population has more free cash available than ever before. “Nonprofits need to recognize that if ever there was a time that someone will ‘dip their toe in the water’ and think about giving to nonprofits, it’s now. Connecting with and activating those new donors is critical, and we need to do it by engaging those prospective donors in an authentic, respectful, honest manner – not by using the arcane and off-putting methods used today.” I recently had the opportunity to interview Greer. Whether you are a donor, fundraiser or otherwise in the social sector’s swirl, this book is a must-read. Below is a taste from our conversation: Q. In Philanthropy Revolution you spend a lot of time talking about how fundraisers can

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and must build authentic relationships with donors. What is your advice to fundraisers who are trying to cultivate high-capacity donors like yourself? A. During that first encounter, or even the second encounter, there can’t be anything that makes a donor feel like they’re an ATM or piggy bank. A nervous fundraiser is not an appealing fundraiser. I like to believe that most fundraisers are in the game because they love the mission. But a lot of fundraisers think that they need to be subservient to the donors. They also sometimes feel like they’re a different makeup of a human than a donor. So, they don’t think they should say anything about themselves. And I think that’s a big, big, big mistake. But I, as a donor, want to know why a fundraiser is at an organization. If we are first meeting, I want to know what appeals to them about the organization. Why did they decide that this is a place where they want to spend all their time and energy?

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Montecito Planning Commission’s First Meeting of 2022 by Kelly Mahan Herrick

t last week’s Montecito Planning Commission hearing, commissioners voted unanimously to appoint commissioner Ron Pulice as the chair of the Commission. While there was some discussion about Pulice’s current non-resident status – he currently resides elsewhere in the county – it was decided that Pulice would be able to finish his term. Commissioners Susan Keller and Marshall Miller were appointed First Vice Chair and Second Vice Chair, respectively. The Commission was briefed on SB 9, which allows the building of multi-family housing units in single-family residential zones as well as lot splitting via ministerial approvals only. SB 9 does not require that improvements be made to local infrastructure to accommodate more residents, including water and sewer infrastructure,

law enforcement and school capacity, road infrastructure, and more. These projects are also exempt from CEQA, which means no environmental review is required. As written, the State law allows for lot splitting of qualifying properties in single-family zones, with a minimum of 1,200 sq. ft. and no less than 40% of the original lot size. Two residential units (minimum 800 sq. ft. each) could then be built on each lot; the units could be a duplex or two separate homes, and require only a four-foot setback. Under SB 9, local jurisdictions may only impose objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards on an eligible project, and only to the extent that the standards do not physically preclude the construction of two units of at least 800 square feet. Santa Barbara City and Goleta have both implemented objective standards via emergency ordinances; these standards include prohibiting SB 9 building in very high fire zones,

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mandating that at least one of the units be used for “affordable” housing (a yearly income of $70K or less), and requiring that there be one off-street parking space available per unit. Goleta also added a provision that only an individual homeowner could apply for an SB 9 permit, and not a corporation, as a way to weed out developers, and has set very high impact fees. Members of the Commission and members of the public pushed for MPC to take action on setting objective standards to limit projects under SB 9. Director of Planning & Development Lisa Plowman explained that County staff did not have time to draft an emergency ordinance, and that the best time for the Commission to take action would be in February, when staff will present a three-year work program, which includes housing topics, for MPC review. She encouraged the Commission to prepare comments at that time; it will then be up to the Board of Supervisors on how to allocate resources in order to craft an ordinance that would impose objective standards. As of January 19, only one application for development had been received by the County under SB 9, which was a lot split in Eastern Goleta Valley. Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Taylor told the Commission he has serious concerns about SB 9, or any law or measure that increases housing density in high fire areas. Specifically, there are concerns about resident egress and fire vehicle ingress in an emergency on narrow, rural streets. The

MFPD is currently undertaking an $80,000 study to determine if the existing number of residents can evacuate effectively in a fast moving, wind-driven fire. The results of that study are expected to be presented to the MFPD board in April. The next hearing of the Montecito Planning Commission is scheduled for Wednesday, February 16.

Montecito Sound Walls Next week a meeting will be held via Zoom to update the community on the next planning steps for the Montecito segment of the widening of Highway 101. Project reps have begun initial planning review with the County of Santa Barbara as part of the Coastal Development permitting process, and preliminary feedback from the County includes a requirement from Flood Control to analyze if the proposed sound walls on the project would create a rise in flood waters. The flood risk will be analyzed using Recovery Mapping that was adopted by the County in response to the 1/9 Debris Flow. According to project rep Kirsten Ayars, sound walls are considered through a seven-step process; the first six steps follow federal guidelines for projects that use federal funds. These steps include identifying sensitive receptors, measuring existing and predicting future noise levels, identifying affected residences, reviewing

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A Bloom in the Air

is essay last week on the oppressive travesty of the California Utilities’ profit-grab to punish small-scale solar adopters is incisive, intensely angry, and wholly alarming. Not to mention using a great metaphor in “Jabberwocky!” (English majors always appreciate an apt literary reference to make a mockery of something so absurd as this “plan.”) So, thank you for your highly infectious outrage, Mr. Brutoco. We need it now, we need the Governor to “catch” it, and it needs to become the next “pandemic.” Please, do send your article to Newsom, from all of us. I’ll sign the petition. Let’s create one. LeeAnn Morgan

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

by Ian Wickman

ne of the things I love about Montecito this time of year is the incredible scents that start filling the air. Each week something new is wafting in the breeze. Today, as I walk out the door, a wall of jasmine greets me. Next, it will soon give way to the intoxicating aroma of orange blossoms that are now starting to appear. My dream is to develop a space honed to the movement of the seasons. Planting it in such a way that each time you visit, there is some flower blooming and filling the air with a beautiful aroma. Making the setting something dreamlike, those warm evenings filled with soft light, the bubbling of conversation with friends, eating and drinking into the night. Someplace to lose yourself in, even for a short time.

On Friday January 21, 2022 my friend and I took a hike up Hot Springs Trail. On the way to the trail, we witnessed two gardeners’ trucks jutting way out into East Mountain Drive, next to the first driveway off the southeast corner of East Mountain Drive and Hot Springs Road. Printed on the side was “Superior Landscaping.” When we came back about an hour and a half later, one of the trucks was still sticking out. On Tuesday, January 25, a truck belonging to Superior Landscaping was sticking out there again, and this time a gardener was nearby. He told me he parks there for four hours. He explained to me that the owner didn’t like the vehicle to be in the driveway. I suggested moving the rocks placed right next to the road. He replied the owner didn’t want him to do that. The rocks are clearly in the public right of way, and make it impossible for hikers to park off Mountain Drive. When a hiker’s vehicle sticks out, local residents have been calling the sheriff ’s office, and the vehicle is subsequently ticketed. But nothing happens to the gardeners’ cars. I asked the gardener what the address was since none was displayed. He explained it was a huge estate and that the main entrance was around the corner on Hot Springs Road. A sign said, “Deliveries and Service, Top of the Block, Right Turn First Gate.” I had met the gardener at the service entrance. The line of rocks placed next to East Mountain Drive begins right at the junction. Their presence makes it impossible for hikers to park while preserving parking for gardeners and other workers of the estate. Bryan Rosen

The Concept Aroma is sometimes neglected in a cocktail yet, the impact, when well executed, cannot be overstated. In any situation, the more senses we bring into play, the more potential it has, and the stronger the ending impression will be. It’s the details that can elevate merely a nice sip into a memorable experience. Think of when you catch the first hint of freshly baking bread, your favorite food, or the perfume of someone you love. It instantly affects us and can bring forth emotion or memories. Smells process through the limbic system, which is also tied to emotion and memory. That is why certain scents often evoke such strong reactions. By actively utilizing scent in cocktails, the experience is elevated and helps create memories. These memories are tied to time and place, sitting with good friends, sharing a sip, and laughing late into the night.

The Inspiration The scent of orange blossom is pure magic and immediately puts a smile on my face. It reminds me of spring, of bright days and warm evenings, yet also of traveling to far-off places. With the weather currently teasing us, mixing in some of these early, beautiful, warm days, I often lean towards

food and drink that are a little lighter. I like to utilize fresh herbs, bright citrus, and effervescence. I have a lovely local amaro from Ventura Spirits called Amaro Angeleno made from Valencia oranges and gentian. It is full of beautiful orange flavor, bittersweet bite, and light floral notes, per-

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Village (Continued from 6) potential noise abatements, determining financial reasonableness, and voting by affected property owners. Property owners are considered affected by a proposed noise abatement measure if their properties (adjacent to the abatement) are predicted to be impacted or benefited by receivers, or if the physical environment of their properties will be altered directly by the noise abatement measure. Alteration of the physical environment includes (but is not necessarily limited to) blocking access, interrupting scenic views, causing loss of visibility from the highway, creating shadows, and interrupting natural airflow. For noise barriers, the combined effects of acoustical and physical alterations of the environment are generally limited to 150 meters (500 feet) or less from the edge of traveled way of a highway. Property owner voting concluded in June 2021. The seventh – and last – step in the process is the Coastal Development Permit process. This process reviews project features, impacts, and compliance with coastal policies. Sound walls need to be consistent with local policy requirements, including updates since the Debris Flow, to be approved as part of the project. The opportunity for public participation in the Coastal Development Permit process is expected in spring and summer 2022 at Montecito Board of Architectural Review and County Planning Commission hearings. The Montecito portion of the project will eventually widen the freeway to three lanes in each direction between Sycamore Creek in the City of Santa Barbara up to Romero Creek in Montecito (west of Sheffield Drive). Also included are the reconstruction of the freeway bridges over Cabrillo Boulevard and a new southbound on-ramp (replacing the left-hand ramp removed years ago). Bridges will be replaced at Montecito, San Ysidro, Oak, and Romero creeks. Four new sound walls are included, and this design phase is also proposing to integrate some operational and safety improvements on the highway and ramps. Associated projects in Carpinteria and Summerland are currently underway, with the segment at Padaro Lane beginning construction last summer. One of the most discussed portions of the project includes the reconstruction of the Hot Springs Rd./Cabrillo Blvd. interchange, which includes a roundabout and the replacement of the left-side ramps with right-side ramps. The interchange will also bring back the southbound onramp at Cabrillo Blvd, which many residents and Coast Village Road business owners are eager to see. Due to the addition of another lane of the freeway, the median area through Montecito will get smaller, which will impact the landscaping and mature trees in the median. The sound walls will provide additional landscaping opportunities on the exterior areas of the freeway. The freeway bridges will feature a muted façade, arches, and timber railing on the barriers, to add to the design aesthetics; the design also includes natural materials such as cob-

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A one-mile stretch of East Valley Road is under construction as Montecito Water District replaces a 100-yearold water main

blestones, Santa Barbara sandstone, and native plantings. A map of proposed sound walls in Montecito is available at www.sbroads.com/ lane_train_solutions/phase4.aspx. A virtual community meeting to review and discuss how the Recovery Mapping relates to sound walls, options explored, impacts to proposed sound walls, and next steps is on Thursday, February 3, at 5 pm. The Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88556445470, Meeting ID: 885 5644 5470. Visit www.sbroads.com for more information on the project.

East Valley Road Construction As part of its Capital Improvements Program, Montecito Water District is upgrading approximately one mile of water main on East Valley Road. The work began earlier this month and is expected to be completed during this summer. Several Montecito residents have expressed frustration that the road construction is taking place just months after Caltrans completed repaving the area. Montecito Water District GM Nick Turner tells us attempts for coordination was not successful, as Caltrans was unable to delay the repaving and MWD’s schedule did not allow for beginning its project sooner. “I’d like the community to know, that while yes, we are tearing up what is essentially new pavement, we are replacing hundred-year-old water mains, which will hopefully not need to be replaced for another one hundred years,” he said, adding that Caltrans requires any utility

work to be followed up with repaving of the street to the center line. “At the end of this, the water main will be replaced and the road will be new.” Montecito Water District is now 100 years old, which means 20 miles or so is also 100 years old and needs replacement. Turner said the District will complete at least one major pipeline replacement per year, as there are also many miles of 80- or 90-year-old pipelines that need replacement. These projects improve water delivery reliability by helping prevent water outages and water loss experienced during main breaks. The main replacement is occurring from 8 am to 4 pm Monday through Thursday, and Fridays 8 am to 1 pm, on East Valley Road from Freehaven Drive to Orchard Avenue. While work is planned in efficient short stretches to minimize impacts, avoiding the area during construction hours when possible is advised. Drivers should expect minor delays. For more information, visit www.mon tecitowater.com.

Parklets To Remain Until End of 2023

Plan are in development. Some businesses will have to modify their outdoor dining areas, in order to accommodate a 20-foot lane on State Street for emergency vehicles. The current emergency authorization allowing for the temporary use of outdoor business areas on the State Street Promenade, on private property, and use of parklets in on-street parking spaces was set to expire on March 8. According to staff, the allowance for businesses to expand temporarily outdoors (adopted in May 2020) was a critical response to keep those businesses operational during the COVID-19 pandemic. The extension to continue to allow businesses to operate expanded outdoor facilities will help ensure their continued success, according to planner Jason Harris. More than 200 businesses have benefited from temporarily expanding the business areas outdoors. Over a dozen speakers were given a chance to speak at the meeting, which included many downtown restaurant operators and retail business owners. Most were in favor of the extension, with the exception of two retailers who said the parklets have a negative effect on retail businesses. One business owner on Coast Village Road said Montecito’s lower village is very different than downtown Santa Barbara, and should be considered separately. “We had a shortage of parking before COVID, and this has made it much worse,” he said, noting that the parklets along the road have reduced the number of parking spaces by 30. The Economic Recovery Extension and Transition Ordinance was passed unanimously by the City Council, with several of the them noting that the community at large want the parklets and outdoor dining to stay indefinitely.

Santa Barbara Unified in Need of Substitute Teachers The Santa Barbara Unified School District is making a public effort to attract and recruit more substitute teachers as COVID-19 continues to deplete staff across most places of employment throughout Santa Barbara. The district has raised its pay for substitutes, including $190 per day for daily subs, $210 per day for designated site subs, and $290 per day for long-term subs. More information and an application can be found at www.sbunified.org.

The Santa Barbara City Council has adopted an ordinance that will provide an additional 22 months, until December 31, 2023, for businesses within city limits –including on Coast Village Road – to operate expanded outdoor business facilities and parklets. The ordinance also authorizes the continued closure of downtown State Street to vehicles while regulatory changes and the State Street Master

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Montecito Miscellany Fifty Years of Providing Meals

José Ornelas, recipient of the two millionth meal, and volunteer Sandy Nordahl

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anta Barbara Meals on Wheels recently delivered its two millionth meal as it celebrates 50 years of delivering hot, affordable meals to seniors and homebound community members. “We’ve never missed a day since 1971, when we had just 18 clients and two drivers,” says Dan Kronstadt, co-president of the nonprofit’s board of directors. “Today, over 150 clients receive meals freshly prepared by the Valle Verde retirement community. “We have about 80 volunteers who make deliveries seven days a week – including every holiday – to people of all ages who are unable to shop and cook for themselves, yet want to remain independent.” José Ornelas, who has been a client since 2010, was the two millionth recipient. One of the volunteer drivers who regularly sees him donated a month of free meals to commemorate the milestone. In 2021, 288 clients received meals – some for short periods of time following an illness or hospital state, and others on a long-term basis. There are no age require-

ments to receive meals. Meals on Wheels’ youngest client is 24, and there are five who are over the age of 100. The Santa Barbara organization is one of 5,000 Meals on Wheels programs across the country. Back in 1971 two local women, Madeline Blickley and Lilla Burgess, saw a need and started a six-month pilot program through the Community Action Commission. Meals were prepared by the Sweden House restaurant, and the local American Red Cross arranged for volunteer drivers. The program’s future was uncertain until a cashier’s check for $100,000 arrived in the mail from an anonymous donor. Valle Verde took over the cooking 30 years ago. Food for thought, indeed...

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His lowest point was at the age of 28 when he decided to get sober, something that was “f---ing hard,” but served as another experience in life he is grateful for. “I have gratitude and profound humility for the gifts that I’ve been given, and worked for in this world.” Lowe began his career at 12 in 1976 with a role as an errand boy in a summer theater production of Sherlock Homes in Dayton, Ohio. He celebrates 32 years of sobriety in May.

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The Broadway run of the show Waitress may have ended prematurely because of COVID, but the American Theatre Guild’s touring production at the Granada served up a highly entertaining show. With music and lyrics by Grammy winner Sara Bareilles, the production, based on a 2007 comedy-drama film of the same name, is about a young woman trapped in a small town in the Southern U.S. with an abusive husband and unwanted pregnancy working at a local diner. Her only friends are her co-workers and the eatery’s curmudgeonly owner, until she finds a new love with her obstetrician, and a way out of her considerable rut by entering a pie-making competition with a $25,000 cash prize. Waitress is a delightfully poignant empowering slice of life served in gloriously entertaining fashion about the courage to follow your dreams.

Ellen DeGeneres, currently shooting the last season of her 19-year-long eponymous TV talk show in Burbank, has suffered another blow. NBC has cancelled her Game of Games after four seasons. It debuted on the Peacock Network in 2017 with an eight-episode order. The show features contestants playing a variety of quirky games that originated on the 63-year-old comedienne’s Warner Bros. series in the hope of winning $100,000. It had a 48-episode run and earned DeGeneres two primetime Emmy nominations in 2018 and 2019.

Janet Adderley, effervescent director of the Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre, lets me know the talented youngsters’ next production Pippin, based on the 1972 musical co-authored by Bob Fosse, will be performed in March at Theatricum Botanicum, an outdoor amphitheater in Topanga Canyon, a tiara’s toss or two from Malibu. Max Corden, 10, son of British late night TV host James Corden, and resident Santa Barbara Disney star, Dakota Lotus, will be starring in the principal roles. “James will certainly have a star-studded posse in attendance to see Max’s show,” says Janet. “Singer Adele is a dear friend and attended Max’s first Adderley performance when he was only five years old.” Her tony troupe is also partnering with Le Petit Cirque, a professional aerial youth circus company that has performed for the Dalai Lama and in venues worldwide, to create a truly spectacular show.

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Prince Harry is facing new humiliation from Buckingham Palace as officials are mulling ways to remove another one of his significant roles. The Duke of Sussex, 37, is set to lose his status as a Counsellor of State on top of the other titles and military ranks he has had to forego after stepping down as a working royal with his former actress wife, Meghan Markle.

Montecito actor Rob Lowe candidly discusses his four-decade career in a cover story for People magazine. The 57-year-old star of 9-1-1: Lone Star says he has never been happier personally or professionally, and not a day goes by where “I’m not thankful about it all.”

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Adding to His Collection Former Google honcho Eric Schmidt, 66, continues his real estate spending spree. Having splashed out $65 million for the late Microsoft tycoon Paul Allen’s 120 hilltop aeries in Beverly Hills, Schmidt has paid $5.2 million above asking to add a 1970s four-bedroom, 3,708-square-foot house on a .24-acre lot as staff or guest quarters near the former 12-bedroom,

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CONVERSATIONS Greer (Continued from 5) And it has been really shocking to me that almost every fundraiser I’ve talked to about this thinks I’m speaking another language. They’re like, ‘no, no, no, the donors don’t care about me.’ And I’m like, ‘yes, yes, yes, they do.’ They want to know that you’re a human being. And they want an authentic relationship, which is a very hard proposition if one person thinks that the other isn’t from the same species. Fundraisers are under enormous pressure to hit fundraising goals and you argue that they are missing an opportunity to make those authentic relationships. What is the role of the board and nonprofit leadership in making such a change? They need to realize that the methodology they’ve been using is arcane, that there are pieces of it that you can save, but that a lot of the ways that this is done were created a hundred years ago. And when you look at it like that, I can’t think of anyone who would say that’s a good idea. If you’re a fundraiser who is beholden to a board that is stuck in the dark ages, it’s really, really hard. But that’s why I think my book has been successful because any fundraiser on the staff side can go to their board and say, this is somebody who’s given seven

figure gifts, and this is what they think, let’s give it a try. You are very focused on engaging the next generation of donors. What are some straightforward ways nonprofits can engage millennials? A lot of these people have real money at 20 years old. That was not a thing before. That’s new. There were 618,000 millennial millionaires in the United States, as of two years ago. I’m guessing there’s about 700 to 750,000 in the U.S. today. The first thing that an organization should do is put a millennial with resources on your board. Get a freaking millennial on your board because you will learn from them. And if you get two, you get extra points. There is colossal wealth accumulated in Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs). Why are they good, bad and what do nonprofits need to know? We need to accept that DAFs are here to stay. There’s something about it that freaks people out, and they just can’t get their head around it, the same way they can’t get their head around a 25-year-old with lots of money. Their brains just turn off. In the last year, Fidelity opened no-min-

imum DAFs, so you can open a DAF with $25. Every nonprofit should give all their staff $25 to open a DAF so they can make a $20 donation and see how the process works. I have a DAF, in part, because it makes it really easy to give money. I can be sitting across from a fundraiser and pick up my phone while I’m talking to them. I say, ‘Okay, I decided, I’m going to give you a thousand dollars.’ And I immediately get a confirmation that I’ve requested that money and I immediately send it to them. So, they can leave that table and know that they’ve just got information that I’ve requested that money, and they can follow that through, and they love it. You have gone as far to write a book. You speak and continue to write prolifically about what you perceive as a tenuous moment in the sustainability of worthwhile nonprofits. What are you hoping to achieve? Have I told you about my vision of the ship? There’s this wealthy guy in L.A. who passed away and we were told by one of the nonprofits he gave to that his gifts were 60% of their annual revenue. And I thought, ‘So what if somebody else who’s responsible for 50%, 60% of an organization dies?’ Then, all of a sudden, I have in my head a weird vision. I can see the org chart of the top wealthy guys with their money going into, ultimately, let’s say a thousand different nonprofits. And that if one or two more of those guys go, then all those little guys at the bottom,

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they’re just going to not have a check, and they’re going to be done. They’re just going to disappear, and they won’t know what hit them. And I can’t allow that. What I see is us inching closer. I feel like I’m on a ship; there’s an iceberg in front of me and we are inching closer to the iceberg, and I just need to turn the thing to avoid disaster. I don’t need to turn it around. I just want it to not hit the iceberg. Daniel Heimpel is an award winning journalist, journalism educator and nonprofit leader. Heimpel is vice president at the Montecito Journal Media Group where he serves as executive editor of The Giving List, a magazine and website that connects effective nonprofit organizations with high-capacity donors.

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The Tooth of the Matter Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry has revealed her British actor fiancé Orlando Bloom’s most annoying habit. The singer, 37, says she finds it frustrating when the Lord of the Rings star, 45, leaves dental floss everywhere around their Montecito home from the side of the bed to the kitchen table. “Oh my God, he loves to floss,” she told the U.K.’s Heart Radio. “He has brilliant teeth. But he leaves floss everywhere!”

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limate change has been in the news a lot, what with extreme weather, wildfires, and the recent international negotiations in Scotland. What I thought I could do here is go into the science behind what’s happening to the climate system and to leave the policy implications to my fellow citizens and their representatives; kind of like we had to do when I worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab where we were enjoined by law from advocating policy. The basic science behind climate change, sometimes called imprecisely “global warming,” is pretty straightforward, but the steps from observations and measurements to using climate models to predict the future are less so. Science is a repetitive process of making observations, coming up with an idea that explains those observations, and then testing that idea with more observations. If the idea fails to explain the new observations, then it’s back to the drawing board with a new idea to test. Non-scientists can get a little frustrated as they see scientists changing their ideas as new data become available. The response to the pandemic is a good example. Our understanding of climate change is also subject to updating as new observations and ideas emerge, but the basic mechanism is clear: certain atmospheric gases, which are transparent at the optical wavelengths the sun delivers to us, absorb thermal infrared wavelengths that are emitted by the warm Earth. As I discussed in my very first column, any body above absolute zero radiates electromagnetic waves at a wavelength determined by its temperature. Earth at “room temperature” radiates most strongly in the thermal infrared, at about 12 micrometers wavelength, far beyond our vision, although we can certainly feel the warm ground radiating its heat. The molecules of some of those optically transparent gases absorb electromagnetic waves in the thermal infrared range and that causes them to warm up. Those gases, the so-called ‘greenhouse gases,’ are carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, ozone, and some others. This effect was noted as far back as 1824 by Joseph Fourier, but it took until 1896 before Svante Arrhenius realized that we could have a problem if we increased atmospheric CO2 too much. Incidentally, the term “greenhouse effect” as applied to the warming of the atmosphere by the above gases is a misnomer – a greenhouse operates by blocking the movement of air, thereby minimizing convective heat loss, whereas the warming of the atmosphere by

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these gases is completely different. But the term, coined in 1901, has stuck. It’s also useful to note that having some CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere has kept our planet at a more comfortable temperature through most of its history; if we had no CO2, the Earth would be frozen. At the opposite extreme is Venus, where a thick CO2 atmosphere has caused a runaway greenhouse effect making it the hottest planet in the solar system. So what do we know from observations and measurements about the “greenhouse effect” in Earth’s atmosphere? We know that water vapor, CO2, methane, and ozone absorb thermal infrared waves and we can calculate the amount. We know water vapor varies a lot as water evaporates and rains, and that methane breaks down over a period of years from exposure to sunlight. But CO2 can last centuries, partly because it’s ‘well-mixed’ as climate scientists say: as soon as it’s released, it spreads out evenly in the atmosphere and it doesn’t break down. Another key observation is that the CO2 concentration in our atmosphere is increasing. That’s thanks to a forward-thinking scientist named C.D. Keeling, who set up a monitoring station high on the flanks of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. Since 1958, the CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa has risen about 25%. Methane has risen about 15% since 1985. The above observations and measurements have very little uncertainty, but the next set of observations have a little more. And here I use the term “uncertainty” in its scientific/engineering sense, where it doesn’t mean climate scientists don’t know the answer, just that they don’t know the exact number. The observations with a little more uncertainty are factors like exactly how much of the extra atmospheric heat the oceans absorb as well as how much of the excess CO2 dissolves in them. We also don’t have an accurate estimate of the CO2 budget: for example, we know that the source of most of the extra CO2 is fossil-fuel burning, but exactly how much? And how about the sinks like growing vegetation? We can make good estimates, but we’d like to have a better handle on the entire carbon budget. NASA has been flying a series of instruments called the Orbiting Carbon Observatory since 2014 to help measure CO2 globally.

Can the Future be Predicted? So, we come to the crux of the matter: how to predict the future. A lot of money has gone into this effort and a lot of progress has been made. One fallout that

we all benefit from is improved weather forecasts. While they’re short-term and not particularly helpful for long-term climate prediction, weather forecasts use similar computer models. You may not have noticed because it took a number of years, but weather forecasts have gone from a few days to commonly 10 days, with a fair amount of confidence, or “skill” as the forecasters say. Better observations of weather patterns have also helped. There are a couple dozen main climate models that have been developed by various national meteorological services, academic institutions, and other research organizations. In the U.S., the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), and Los Alamos National Laboratory are examples. The models themselves are incredibly complex as they try to solve for mass and energy movements throughout the three-dimensional atmosphere as well as their interactions with the ocean and land, including ecosystems. They generally break up these 3-D volumes into millions of cubes ranging both horizontally and vertically. The driving energy input is solar illumination and thermal radiation from the warm Earth. Obviously, these kinds of models must be run on supercomputers, which still require long run times to simulate even short periods into the future. Not every climate-related process is known with enough certainty to solve accurately. And that’s where many of the models diverge. For example, changes in soil moisture over time are hard to measure globally and hard to predict, so some models treat the soil like a simple bucket. A relatively new NASA satellite called SMAP is helping with measurements of soil moisture and a new experimental instrument mounted on the Space Station called EcoStress is trying to measure evaporation from soil and vegetation. Clouds are another major source of uncertainty in the models: high clouds tend to have a cooling effect as they reflect incoming solar illumination away, but the water vapor in lower-level clouds absorbs thermal infrared emitted by the warm Earth, thus warming the atmosphere. There are also feedbacks that could affect the simulations strongly, like the amount of snow-cover, which reflects solar illumination, and the possibility that methane could be released from arctic tundra as permafrost thaws out. A program to compare all these models, called the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) has been running for several years now by the World Climate Research Program. To try to evaluate the models, historical simulations are run from 1850 to the present. In that way, we’ve found that most of the models predict trends in global temperature pretty well, but are pretty bad at predicting how precipitation will change. Obviously, some models work better than others for some

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regions and for some scenarios and much of the work now is in trying to combine the best parts of each model to create better models. The various climate models are now being used to predict global and regional changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, given certain CO2 and methane emission scenarios – things like “business as usual” or elimination of all excess CO2 emissions are two examples. These can then be used by policy makers and the public to evaluate, with their inherent uncertainties, how the world may change over time. The primary source of science-based information on climate change can be found at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (https://www.ipcc.ch), to which thousands of scientists worldwide are contributing coordinated studies on different aspects of climate change ranging from the technical sides of the models to social and economic effects. Their 6th report was published last year and includes a Synthesis Report, an Executive Summary, and other products for non-specialists. An interactive atlas can be found at https:// interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch and regional fact sheets can be downloaded at https://www. ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#Regional. In terms of regional North American changes the models predict, it looks like we’re headed for somewhat warmer temperatures, with the strongest effect in Canada and Alaska. Precipitation is expected to remain mostly unchanged except for the western coast of the U.S., which will become drier with more extreme events, while Canada and Alaska will become somewhat wetter. The ocean is predicted to endure more intense and longer heat waves and acidification will increase, especially along the coasts. The state of California has run its own Climate Change Assessments; the 4th Assessment was published in 2018 (https://www.climateassessment.ca.gov). The Key Findings and Statewide Summary Report are good summaries, but many other technical reports are also available. As with the IPCC, the reports cover technical aspects as well as the effects on people and communities, infrastructure, and natural systems including agriculture and the ocean. Adaptation is also a significant part of the assessment. Anyone interested in knowing more should have a look at these reports, which not only tell us what’s happening now, but point the way toward policies and practices that can take us into the future. Tom Farr joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1975 and has helped develop the first geologic applications of imaging radar using aircraft, satellites, and the Space Shuttle. He has taught a class on planetary exploration at Santa Barbara City College for more than 10 years. He currently resides in Montecito

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Robert’s Big Questions Justice for the Little People? by Robert Bernstein

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he law, in its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread – the rich as well as the poor.” So wrote Anatole France in The Red Lily (1894). It is difficult to express the injustice of the legal system better than that one brilliant sentence. Wealthy real estate businesswoman Leona Helmsley was claimed to say, “We don’t pay taxes; only the ‘little people’ pay taxes.” As a Sierra Club hike leader I have found the greatest challenge of most hikes in our area is not the hike itself. It is the challenge of getting to the trailhead. In most cases this means driving as there is no public transit to most local trailheads. And this means a difficult search for parking at most trailheads. One exception had been the Hot Springs trailhead. Until about a year ago when it started getting quite difficult there. One day I saw tickets placed on cars on a street used for Hot Springs parking for many years. I asked a law enforcement officer what was going on. He asked which car was ours. I said we did not park here. “Then why do you care?” he asked. “Because I care about justice?” I replied, wondering if he would grasp this concept. I pointed out to him that local property owners had illegally placed boulders and plantings and illegal “No Parking” signs on the public right-of-way, which had been used for public parking for decades. I asked him if he would be ticketing them. The look in his eyes captured the Anatole France quote perfectly. It clearly never even occurred to him that wealthy land owners illegally blocking the public right-of-way deserved to be ticketed, fined, or charged with a crime. Only the “little people” get tickets, fines, and criminal prosecution. For much of the past year I have followed up with various elected officials and County staff to see if the public rightof-way can be re-established to allow parking at this popular trailhead. County Parks claimed that they manage the parks, but have nothing to do with how people are able to get to the parks. The elected officials claimed that a survey was needed to be sure that it really is a public rightof-way. When it turned out that it is, the next excuse is that the wealthy property owners might sue the County. For daring to enforce that the public land be used by the public and not by them? I was reminded of another example in the 1980s. At that time, President Reagan was illegally funding terrorists in Central America. Our local member of Congress 27 January – 3 February 2022

Lagomarsino was supporting this illegal behavior by his votes and also with personal fundraising. A group of us from the Central America Response Network held a peaceful protest outside his office at El Paseo. Santa Barbara Police came by and told us we had to leave because we were “trespassing.” I pointed out that Mr. Lagomarsino was in violation of a number of laws, including the Neutrality Act, written by George Washington. I asked if they could please arrest Mr. Lagomarsino. To their credit, they decided to let us “trespass.” But there was no way they would arrest someone who was funding the torture and murder of thousands of innocent people. Only the “little people” get arrested.

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Not to mention that refugees of this terror get placed in cages. Stealing needed meds from a pharmacy carries a stiff sentence. But inflating drug prices for obscene profit is legal? Why are bicyclists given tickets for riding on the sidewalk when county/city planners are to blame for providing no safe bike route? Why are homeless people jailed while no one went to jail for the 2008 lending/housing crisis? And why are people allowed to flip thousands of houses, making housing unaffordable? And the grandest scale example? The fossil fuel industry using our atmosphere as a trash heap. How do they get away with this Climate Crisis while “little people” get fined for littering? How will this change? There are a lot more “little people” than there are rich and powerful. Change will come when they unify, see common interests, orga nize, and demand accountability. Robert holds degrees from Physics departments of MIT and UC Santa Barbara. Career in designing atomic-resolution microscopes. Childhood spent in Europe and the East of the US. Passion to understand the Big Questions of life and the universe. Duty to be a good citizen of the planet.

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orry not sorry, but I have many excellent reads this month. Let’s start with The Cicada Tree, a debut novel by Robert Gwaltney with its melt-in-your-mouth prose, is a Southern gothic novel in the tradition of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner. I was enraptured with the story of eleven-yearold Analeise, a piano protégé living in Providence, Georgia in 1956 when a storm of cicadas descends. Analeise is obsessed with the rich Mayfield family and will discover the tangled secrets of both her family and theirs. A spine-tingling invasion of cicadas and great twists in this one.

12-year-old Eleanor as she is married off to an elderly farmer, through four other marriages, some worse than others. There is murder, wealth, loss, and abuse as lusty, stubborn Eleanor strives to take control of her life and destiny in a time when a woman had little, if any. And if Eleanor doesn’t get all she wishes for, she does get to tell her story in her way.

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The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks is a funny, ingenious novel, about Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath.” Set in 1364, the story follows

The Pages by Hugo Hamilton quite literally is a story told by the pages of a banned book that just manages to escape the Nazi book burning of 1933. The book is Joseph Roth’s Rebellion. Lena is the recipient of Rebellion, passed down from her grandfather. Leaving her husband and life in New York for Berlin to solve the mystery of a handwritten map scribbled in the book, Lena’s life will never be the same. Hamilton weaves together Roth, his characters, and Lena, which culminates in a violent end.

Women who inherited great fortunes is the subject of Laura Thompson’s Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies. From the 1700s through present day, Thompson explores the often great burden and danger of being a woman in possession, but having no agency over her wealth. Thompson reveals how husbands schemed, owned, and frittered away wives’ fortunes in a time when it was sport to kidnap and “ruin” young teen girls for their fortunes. This is a fascinating dive into women, wealth, and their quest for autonomy.

The Christie Affair The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont takes an imagined look at the true-life events of author Agatha Christie’s disappearance in 1925. Told from the point of view of Christie’s husband’s mistress, Nan O’Dea, it is a mystery with star-crossed lovers and social climbing, giving a superb homage to the master of the mystery herself, Agatha Christie.

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Holistic Economics No… Greed is Not Good

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by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

any people familiar with economic history are familiar with the huge influence that Milton Friedman commanded in our recent economic past. Friedman, an economist and statistician, had an outsized impact on nations around the world through his work heading up the “Chicago School” (referring to the University of Chicago where he taught and led a group of like-minded economists from 1946-1977 in redefining a post-Keynesian world), and through the advisory role he enjoyed with both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. With an illustrious career beginning in 1935 when he worked within Franklin Roosevelt’s Administration in the run up to World War II and stretched to 2006 when he passed away still showing himself as a Member of the Hoover Institute, Friedman is considered by many to be the most influential economist of the second half of the twentieth century. This guy had the ultimate resume for an economist, and maybe that’s why he got so very many things wrong. Ultimately his deepest held beliefs have been proven defective. What a shame, and more importantly, what a “detour” this guy created for advancing a more intelligent view of how a healthy economic society should function. This column isn’t going to focus on his erroneous justification for the “trickle down” economics of the Reagan-Thatcher era. Nor are we going to dwell on his morally questionable view that having too little unemployment was a bad thing. As harsh as those theories were, his worst theory did more damage than all of his other conservative, misguided theories combined, and is the one we’re going to focus on today. Remember the 1987 film Wall Street? There is a famous soliloquy where the major protagonist, Gordon Gekko, explains the mantra that “Greed is Good.” Here is what he says: The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed – for lack of a better word – is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms – greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge – has marked the upward surge of mankind. Where did that outrageous idea come from? Turns out, it was Milton Friedman in a 1970 New York Times Magazine article entitled “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits.” In it he articulates an economic theory which came to be known as the Doctrine of Shareholder Primacy. He basically says that the only legitimate purpose of business is to enhance shareholder profits. That it would be wrong, even morally defective, for a business organization to engage in any socially responsible activities as that is not enriching shareholders and therefore is the equivalent of cheating on your employer. In hindsight, Friedman couldn’t have gotten it more wrong. He may have greatly pleased his conservative political friends and given them the tools they’ve used since 1970 to create ever greater wealth disparity on the economic ladder, and ever greater depression of economic well-being to the bottom three quartiles of society. The idea that business is devoid of any broader social responsibility is just crazy for two reasons. First off, it is now widely accepted by the best business professors, and more importantly by the executives of our large “more profitable than their competitive peers” corporate executives that a mindset of “shareholder primacy” leads to lower returns to shareholders! As previously cited here, the work of JUST Capital over the last decade, contrasting financial shareholder returns of ranked JUST companies, demonstrates that the shareholder returns of peer competitors, who view their responsibilities to all stakeholders equally, return higher shareholder stock values. Secondly, no company exists separate from the society which gives rise to it. Companies which are smart enough to evaluate and serve the interest of all their stakeholders are less likely to be “blindsided” and far better run, and therefore produce superior returns. Think about it. If you understand that your employees have a “stake” in your business, you will treat them better and have far less turnover saving tremendous time and resources from the need to find and train new workers and compromises institutional memory. If you realize that your vendors have a “stake” in your business, they will align with you more effectively, in good times and bad, creating a profitable ecosphere for you both. If you realize your customers have a “stake” in your business, you will listen to them and honestly seek to understand how you can “serve” them, thereby making your sales efforts more successful. If you realize that the community (the city, state, nation, or the international marketplace) has a “stake” in your enterprise, you are likely to enjoy better community relations and greater customer support. Lastly, if you believe the very biosphere has a “stake” in your business you are less likely to land on the losing end of climate change! This view, seeing all these stakeholders as having a legitimate claim on your business activity, has a name. In contrast to “shareholder primacy,” in the West we call this approach “Stakeholder

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fter one of the driest years in recent memory, the heavy rains that flooded California in late 2021 were welcomed by farmers, urban planners, and a much-awaited guest — the endangered coho salmon. The profuse precipitation between October to December was well-timed with the November-to-January spawning season in the resource-rich Tomales Bay watershed north of San Francisco, allowing some fish to reach tributaries to the Lagunitas Creek, at least 13 miles inland in Marin County, reports The Guardian. Experts report seeing salmon in places they haven’t been in almost 25 years. Last year’s abundant precipitation is a blessing for the endangered fish, which are now laying eggs in nests where babies will soon hatch and spend most of their young lives. Once they reach maturity, the fish will swim to the ocean and eventually return to the same area to spawn.

Fish poop feeds world’s largest vertical farm

Almost the size of two entire city blocks, a sprawling new building under construction in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, will soon hold the title of the world’s largest indoor vertical farm upon its completion in 2023. What’s particularly striking about this vertical farm, however, is not its prodigious size but the fact that it uses a secret ingredient to fertilize the crops: fish. That’s right, the system created by Upward Farms, the Brooklyn-based company behind the project, taps into a centuries-old practice called aquaponics, combining aquaculture with hydroponics. As part of this production system, the company uses fish waste filtered from the aquaculture water to provide nutrients to the hydroponics-grown plants. This removes the need for synthetic fertilizer, which is often used by other vertical farms to boost crop yield. The fish and the greens are then sold for food. At a smaller facility in Brooklyn, the company is already seeing yields two times higher than the industry average without using intense optimization of growing factors used by other vertical farms, such as constantly regulating the humidity levels or the light color in the rooms. What Upward Farms has in common with other indoor farms, however, is the fact that it uses far less water and land to grow its organic greens than a traditional farm on arable land. Together with the aquaponic system, the unprecedented size of the vertical farm represents a huge step forward in making the industry grow.

Capitalism.” The Japanese version is called “Bushido Capitalism.” Kengo Sakurada, CEO of insurance conglomerate Sompo Holdings, introduced his recent book on Bushido Capitalism with this observation: “Determining the value of a company should include a metric of the worth it provides to society, not just its financial profit.” He says the optimum corporate goal should be to create “Sanpo-yoshi” which he explains, “translates as three-way satisfaction through business transaction: good for the seller, good for the buyer, and good for society. The focus is on multi-stakeholders.” At bottom, Sakurada argues, there is a need to create new measures of corporate value based on shared goals for the common good, that include companies, governments, and citizens alike. In a similar vein, no less a titan of American enterprise than Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, in his annual letters to CEOs and shareholders observed that stakeholder capitalism was paramount for modern business success. He wrote: “It is capitalism, driven by mutually beneficial relationships between you and the employees, customers, suppliers, and communities your company relies on to prosper.” In fact, he concluded in 2020 as follows: “In today’s globally interconnected world, a company must create value for and be valued by its full range of stakeholders in order to deliver long-term value for its shareholders. It is through effective stakeholder capitalism that capital is efficiently allocated, companies achieve durable profitability, and value is created and sustained over the long-term.” Right, greed is not good! Taking care of everyone through shareholder capitalism is, and that is holistic economics! Rinaldo, an entrepreneur, is the founding president and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital

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Mixing (Continued from 8) fect for a spritz or a fizz. Combining it with tangerine, fresh thyme, a bit of sparkling water, and a dash or three of orange flower water yields a beautifully refreshing, highly aromatic, and effervescent sip.

The Details There are many ways to bring an aroma forward in a cocktail. I often use them in conjunction to layer different scents and create depth. Scent is also a big part of taste. We want to make sure that it plays well with the rest of the ingredients, that it isn’t overpowering, and, if possible, that it layers and adds depth, not just one dimension. Several techniques to utilize are using aromatic bitters, muddling, garnishing with a purpose, and the use of carbonation. The simplest way to add scent is by using aromatic bitters. There are myriad craft bitters that are available with various aromas and flavors. I consider them a part of a flavor or scent library. Using a dash of bitters or layering multiple bitters is one of the quickest and easiest ways to add depth and aroma to a cocktail. Muddling is a technique whereby you gently mash an ingredient with the spirits you are using before shaking, stirring, or building your cocktail. This technique allows you to quickly infuse bright, fresh flavors and layers of aroma into a cocktail. You can muddle fresh herbs, citrus peels, fresh fruit, whole spices, etc. To muddle, you use a tool aptly named a muddler. It is a blunt instrument, often wood, to press against your ingredient to release its flavor components. It is very similar to the pestle in a mortar and pestle. It has one end that is rounded and the other that is flatter but has little square teeth on the bottom. To muddle, first, add your spirits to the shaking tin, then add your muddling ingredient. Next, before you add ice, use the muddler to repeatedly press and twist the ingredients against the bottom of the shaking tin to release those fresh oils or juice. Fresh herbs or citrus peels require a light touch, bruising them gently, not mashing them until they are in pieces. Muddling fresh fruit or whole spice requires more pressure to crush the spices or release the fruit juice.

Garnish can be purely decorative, but I find it is much more effective if it has an active role. This role includes tying the ingredients together, adding beauty, and adding aroma. Fresh herbs can add a light herbaceous layer to the sip. Often I will muddle and garnish with the same herb in a given cocktail. The best way to release those beautiful oils and increase the aroma of fresh herbs is to lightly bruise them before using them as garnish. This can be done by gently smacking them on the back of your hand or a quick slap between your hands. A citrus twist gently expressed over the top of the cocktail brings those bright oils to the front. The fresher the citrus is and zesting the peel immediately before expressing it helps get the most from them. The peel can also be gently rubbed around the rim of the glass to get more of the oil into each sip. Edible flowers are another of my favorite garnishes and a way to exquisitely perfume a cocktail. Finally, carbonated ingredients can also be used to elevate the aromas of a cocktail. When the bubbles from carbonation break the surface of the cocktail it sends tiny sprays into the air. This, combined with any aromatic compounds you have, will project the beautiful scent into the air to tickle your

nose and make it stand out just that little bit more as you sip.

A Bloom in the Air 2 oz Amaro Angeleno 3/4 oz fresh tangerine juice 1/4 oz fresh lemon juice 2 dashes of orange flower water (Fee Brothers – see note below about others) 1/2 dash Angostura bitters (4 - 5 drops) A fresh sprig of thyme Top with 2 - 3 oz of sparkling water and another dash of orange flower water. Garnish: Lightly bruised sprig of thyme

Directions Add the Amaro, tangerine juice, lemon juice, bitters, and sprig of thyme to a shaking tin. Gently muddle the thyme and then add ice to the shaker. Shake until chilled and lightly diluted, about five to 10 seconds. Double strain the cocktail into a highball with ice and top with sparkling water. Add an extra dash of orange flower water directly to the glass. Gently bruise the sprig of thyme and garnish. Note: Some orange flower water, especially for baking, can be much stronger and only a few drops are needed.

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by Ashleigh Brilliant

n the popular mythology of our culture, women have had a bad rap. The stereotypical images of the Mother-in-Law (never the Father-in-Law), the Dumb Blonde, and the Woman Driver – to say nothing of the Stage Mother, and the Spinster Schoolmarm – have been the butt of innumerable jokes. There has also been the legendary femme fatale, a compelling answer, in scores of detective stories, to the question “how can this be explained?” – “Cherchez la femme” – “look for the woman.” As a kind of getting even, it is true that, although powerless politically until quite recently, women, in many cases, have been responsible for the ruination of many an otherwise honorable man, thus sometimes changing the course of history. A vivid and tragic example was that of Charles Stewart Parnell (18461891), but for whose calamitous downfall, the whole of Ireland might by now have been one unified nation – a dream yet to be fulfilled.

As a kind of getting even, it is true that, although powerless politically until quite recently, women, in many cases, have been responsible for the ruination of many an otherwise honorable man, thus sometimes changing the course of history. In the nineteenth century, the island of Ireland was still a part of the British “United Kingdom,” and had been for hundreds of years. Since 1801, Ireland had sent its own “Members” to the British Parliament in Westminster, where they came to form a solid voting bloc, sometimes holding the balance of power between the main British political parties. Over the centuries, various movements had arisen in Ireland to wrest control from Britain. These were sometimes of a very violent nature, reminiscent of the successful breaking-away of the American colonies. As in that episode, France, when at war with Britain, attempted to take advantage of Irish discontent. The consequence was that Britain, after defeating the French, tightened its grip on Ireland, both militarily and economically, to the extent that any prospect of total independence was virtually out of the question. By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the best that even the most optimistic reformers could hope for lay in

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the Cause of “Home Rule,” i.e. some form of self-government, under the British Crown. Charles Parnell was a very unlikely leader of that cause. Most Irish were Catholics, but he was a Protestant. His fellow-countrymen were mostly landless peasants, while he stemmed from the small class of wealthy landowners. Nevertheless, by the sheer force of his intellect, and great personal charm, he rose to acquire such influence in the British political system that the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, who had long resisted the idea, was persuaded to take up the cause of Home Rule for Ireland. Meanwhile, however, a storm was brewing which was to destroy Parnell, and defeat all the efforts of Gladstone, who had declared, upon first becoming Prime Minister in 1868, that “My mission is to pacify Ireland.” And, of course, to uncover the roots of this disaster, we must be guided by the precept “cherchez la femme.” The femme in this case was a lady named Katharine, or “Kitty,” O’Shea. Coming from an aristocratic English background, she had been legally married, since 1867, to Captain William O’Shea, an eminent Irish soldier and Member of Parliament. But her meeting with Parnell in 1880 led to a long and very close relationship, in which they lived together, and eventually became the parents of three children. We are talking about Victorian England, an era in which it was vitally important that an adulterous affair such as this be kept from public knowledge. Captain O’Shea knew what was going on, and had it in his power, at any time, to expose Parnell. But, for various still-disputed reasons, he waited ten years – until 1890 – before bringing divorce proceedings. The divorce was granted, and Parnell immediately married Kitty. But divorce itself was then considered a scandalous matter, by every section of society – and this disgraceful affair not only had the whole nation in an uproar, but wreaked havoc on both Parnell and his cause. No respectable member of any Parliamentary party was going to support a leader who had so blatantly been living in sin. Parnell’s health broke down completely, he died the following year, at the age of only 45. His political convert, Gladstone, himself then in his late 80s, continued to try, but failed, to get a second Home Rule Bill through Parliament. The ghost of Parnell hung over the whole proceedings. No doubt, evidence in many such cases has included incriminating letters. My father had an abundance of witty wisdom, among which was this little maxim: “Do right, and fear no man. Don’t write, and fear no woman.” 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.

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merican composer Aaron Copland was inspired to write his opera The Tender Land when he saw Walker Evans’ famed Depression-era photographs and read James Agee’s “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.” Now, Westmont Opera is presenting the rarely seen 1954 work as its 2022 production at the Center Stage Theater, representing the school’s return to live opera performance for the first time in two years. Tender Land – a three-act piece about a rural farming family whose eldest daughter is about to graduate and is experiencing restlessness fueled by two worldly drifters who are hired to help with the harvest – also represents a second consecutive collaboration between music director Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of music and worship at Westmont, and stage director

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Casa del Herrero, or the “House of the Blacksmith,” evokes Montecito in the 1920s and ‘30s (photo courtesy of Matt Walla)

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aura Bridley comes by her affinity for Casa del Herrero honestly. A native of Montecito, Bridley has a lot of memories of connection with the land and structures in the community that channeled into a career in city planning that has included positions with the Architectural Board of Review, the Historic Landmarks Commission, the City of Goleta, and County of Santa Barbara. Bridley worked with Lotusland on the gardens’ original Conditional Use Permit in the early 1990s, and soon after began her association with the nearby estate known as Casa del Herrero. The process of preserving the estate began when she met George Bass who was looking to act on his mother’s wishes to preserve the family’s Montecito estate as a house museum and public gardens. Based on her experiences as a planner

seeing modern buildings replacing older ones, Bridley shared that desire to keep things intact. “It went from a private home to a foundation so it could be saved and not sold,” she said. “Otherwise it’s like a new buyer would want to remodel it, which is usually what happens in Montecito.” Instead, Casa del Herrero, or the “House of the Blacksmith,” still evokes Montecito in the 1920s and ‘30s, when original owner George Fox Steedman hired architect George Washington Smith to design the estate, springboarding the architect’s trajectory as an emerging expert in Spanish colonial design. As one of the finest examples of Smith’s Spanish revival architecture, Casa has earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places and status as a National Historic Landmark. In the early 1990s, Bridley drafted Casa del Herrero’s CUP, helping to shepherd the estate through the process, a task made far easier by her experience with the much

more controversial Lotusland conversion, whose path made Casa’s that much easier. Bridley became Casa’s first executive director, a position she has returned to repeatedly on an interim basis to fill in when subsequent directors left. And apparently Bridley’s passion for the historical place knows no bounds, as she has again taken on the role since the sudden departure of the latest ED last fall. So once again, she’s singing Casa’s praises. “Casa del Herrero is unique in that every single thing there is still intact,” she said. “It’s not just the architecture, but all the original pieces of furniture that the family brought from mostly Europe and every tile that they got from Portugal, Liberia, and Spain is still there. That’s really unusual for historic house museums. It’s like a time capsule.” Bridley also proudly boasts that all the artifacts also remain: the drawings that George Steedman did in consultation with George Washington Smith, including his notebooks that are in the workshop or the archives, the furnishings purchased specifically to fit in the Smith-designed spaces, and so much more. “The experience is astounding the moment you walk in the front door, which itself came from Europe,” Bridley said. “The main foyer ceiling came from a 14th century monastery. So many components of the house itself, not just antiques, were imported. How cool is that? And the extent of the art – it’s like a vault. Casa has the same caliber in its decorative arts collection that the Hearst collection does.” But Casa’s appeal extends beyond antique buffs, Bridley said, because the estate is

also a living exhibit of the early era of great estates in Montecito, one that is fast disappearing as movie stars and Internet billionaires snap up and modernize the great properties of the past. “It’s really important to preserve these historical sites because our history informs what we are today,” she said. “The ambiance, the creativity, and the quality of Casa Del Herrero helped define the community of Montecito. That is still what people who come to Montecito are seeking. Seeing and understanding our past helps people to understand and inform how we maintain our built environment today.” Much like Lotusland, visitors can see all of this firsthand by booking a tour, although the nature of indoor buildings call for much smaller numbers. Casa del Herrero is currently showing the exhibition “Channing Peake – To Mexico and Beyond” through March 26, featuring several drawings made by the internationally celebrated California artist who worked as an apprentice at Casa in the early 1930s before venturing to Mexico later in the decade. Casa’s variety of educational programs welcomes educational field trips from classrooms or after-school programs, while the estate also hosts a few special events every year, including the popular Christmas at the Casa every December. Meanwhile, February marks Casa del Herrero’s annual membership drive, which offers several levels for potential donors, from the Forger’s Guild at $75 to the Director’s Circle at $5,000. Income dropped a bit last year as COVID caused cancellations of tours. “We started tours again this week and are excited to welcome people back again in 2022,” Bridley said, adding that every dollar goes to maintain the estate in its exemplary condition. That includes hiring a new executive director, something Bridley – a former nine-year President of the Montecito Association who is currently Chair of the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission – hopes happens soon. “I’m working really hard to get fired,” she joked. “We really want to get a new executive director in place to breathe new life into Casa in 2022.” Casa del Herrero, 1387 East Valley Road, Montecito. Laura Bridley, interim executive director. Phone (805) 565-5653 or visit www.casadelherrero.com.

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Turning Love of Westmont into a Field of Dreams by Scott Craig

or more than half a century, the hulking figure of Phil Baker ’71 has traversed Westmont’s campus. As the longtime grounds manager with a familiar goatee and wide mustache, he has created breathtaking gardens and stunning athletic fields. He quietly retired last summer, preferring a tri-tip luncheon with a few dozen co-workers and family at Westmont’s Physical Plant to a formal dinner. “His faithful attention to detail and desire for quality make our athletic fields unrivaled for a small college — frankly, even a large one with more resources,” says Dave Odell ’89, Westmont’s athletic director. In fact, several professional sports teams and recognizable athletes have trained on these fields. “Phil’s passion arises from a desire to provide all student-athletes with an experience rivaling any in the country,” says Elijah Ontiveros, assistant baseball coach. “He dedicated his career to maintaining this standard of excellence.” “Westmont boasts one of the most beautiful campuses around,” Phil says. “Ruth Kerr’s vision that became Westmont was spectacular. I had the honor to work with wonderful groundskeepers who cared as much as I did in maintaining and developing what Westmont has become.” “Phil loves Westmont, so he was committed to working as hard and long as it took to make the campus beautiful,” says Randy Jones, director of campus planning. “He was always open to new ideas to improve the landscape.” Phil played basketball at Pasadena High School under the coaching of George Terzian ’58, a two-time Westmont MVP basketball player. “He was influential in my development during high school after my father died of cancer when I was 15,” Phil says. “He was a very strong Christian man and had the most positive attitude when coaching high school athletes. He convinced me to work hard and to be stronger than my opponent.” After playing a season at Pasadena City College for Jerry Tarkanian, now a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Phil got a scholarship to play at Westmont with help from Coach Terzian. He transferred to Westmont in 1968 and became a standout on the basketball team his final two seasons, winning co-MVP in 1969-70 and averaging a double-double of 15.7 points and 10.7 rebounds per game his senior season. “Westmont’s influence on my life came from the relationships I built,” Phil says. “Students were free to share their Christian life with one another and reached out to those of us who struggled. I was not a good student, and studying was hard for me. I was 27 January – 3 February 2022

Phil Baker retires after 46 years as grounds manager (photography by Brad Elliott)

not born into a Christian family, so much of what I experienced was foreign to me. God blessed me with a solid core of Christians on the basketball teams, the professors who taught my classes, and my many friends who influenced me throughout my life.” After graduating, he remained involved at Westmont, working out in the weight room and spending time with professors and athletes who stopped by. He worked for a local landscaper and an avocado orchard company before applying to the grounds manager position at Westmont. He started June 12, 1975. “I didn’t bring any special talent with me,” he says. “I just worked with men who worked hard like I do and went for a 46-year ride. We got to develop many new buildings and new gardens. New ideas, newer equipment, new influences from different people all contributed to the beautiful campus that surrounds us today.” “With his profound and passionate love for his work, for excellence, for the students — and particularly for student-athletes — Phil has shown up and applied every fiber of his being every day to his calling,” says Tom Beveridge, director of physical plant. Phil inspired Odell when he was a student-athlete who played in just eight games his first basketball season. “I was pretty introverted and struggled to figure out life away from home,” Odell says. “I would go into the weight room to work out, and Phil would be in there squatting 1,000 lbs. — that’s only a small exaggeration. He was pretty introverted too, so there wasn’t a lot of conversation. But I learned the importance of adult interactions for new students. My limited relationship with Phil helped me transition to independence.” Phil met his wife, Becky Stockin Baker ’83, when she worked for him one summer as a student. They’ve been married for nearly 37 years. All three of Phil’s children, Cameron ‘03, Elizabeth ’08 and Dusty ’11, graduated from Westmont. “All my work was for the college and for the Lord,” he says. “I love Westmont. I loved all that I was part of for the 51 years I was

affiliated with the college. I love the people who work there.”

Celebrating a Classic American Opera Westmont presents Aaron Copland’s great 20th century American opera The Tender Land January 28 and 30 at 7 pm at Center Stage Theater in Paseo Nuevo. Purchase tickets, which cost $15 for general admission, $10 for seniors or military, at the Center Stage box office at centerstagetheater.org. Please visit the Center Stage website to view the latest COVID-19 requirements. “This personal, poignant coming-of-age story still resonates today,” says Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of music and worship, who directs the music. “The themes include redemption, community, and faith as Midwestern farmers strive to honor their family and accept changes in the midst of challenging times.” Copland was inspired to write The Tender Land after viewing Depression-era photographs of Walker Evans and reading James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Horace Everett wrote the libretto for the opera. The entire Westmont College Choir will perform in the production, best known for “The Promise of Living.” Westmont alumna Christina Farris Jensen ’09 serves as stage director after her successful collaboration with the music department last year on the video presentation of The Elixir of Love. “We’re delighted to

Tenor Sibongakonkhe Msibi (photography by Brad Elliott)

work with Christina again and benefit from her connection to the college and her passion for opera,” Shasberger says. The cast includes junior tenor Sibongakonkhe Msibi, an international student from Swaziland, who earned a fellowship to the Music Academy of the West’s 75th anniversary Summer School and Festival in 2022. Other cast members include Joy Sturges (Laurie Moss), Emma Daniel (Ma Moss), Abbie Carter (Beth Moss, Sean Ryan (Top), Nathan Carlin (Grandpa Moss), Isaac Siebelink (Mr. Splinters), and Brianna Campbell (Mrs. Splinters). Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

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by Steven Libowitz THURSDAY, JANUARY 27 Sunshine Superman – For a while nearly 20 years ago, Donavon Frankenreiter was one of the satellites in surfer/singer-songwriter Jack Johnson’s expanded universe. Like Johnson, Frankenreiter was a globe-traveling professional surfer, one who turned pro at the age of 16, before trading chasing waves for churning out riffs. Frankenreiter’s self-titled debut was released on Johnson’s Brushfire Records back in 2004, playing with the label’s owner, A.L.O. and the ilk on stages. But while Johnson quickly rose to superstar status, Donavon F, although the purveyor of a prolific catalog of recordings, has mostly stayed within the confines of the clubs and small theaters. So once again audiences will get a chance to hear his philosophical and whimsical words tied to laid-back soulful singer-songwriter grooves at SOhO, a perfect container for his traveling trio. Get there early to hear Christina Holmes, an alt.folkie who lives in the coastline town of Narragansett, Rhode Island, plays guitar, bass, djembe, and piano, and gave her latest album the intriguing title of The Beautiful Struggle. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1221 State St., upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $22 in advance, $25 at the door INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com FRIDAY, JANUARY 28 Virtual ‘Veneno’ Chat – The 2020 Spanish biographical limited television series Veneno tells the epic story of Cristina Ortiz Rodríguez, or “La Veneno,” a transgender icon and media personality who rocketed to fame in mid-1990s Spain following an appearance on a popular late night talk show. The series’ eight episodes flip back and forth across decades, detailing Rodríguez’s complicated childhood in the 1960s, her later renown as a sex worker in Madrid, and her rise to public fame on TV. Critics have hailed Veneno’s emotionally stirring narrative that is told in a variety of striking visual styles and tones and pays tribute to an iconic life. Veneno star Daniela Santiago joins Jennifer Tyburczy (Feminist Studies, UCSB) in a virtual discussion of the show as part of the UCSB CarseyWolf Center’s Global TV series. The miniseries streams on HBO Max. WHEN: 2 pm FRIDAY, JANUARY 28 En-Chan-ted Evening – Tonight’s CAMA International Series concert marks a number of milestones with local connections. It’s the first concert for the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Granada Theatre since the historic 100th anniversary event in March 2020 - a concert celebrating a century of the landmark partnership between the organizations. On top of that, the L.A. Phil will be led by Elim Chan, the exciting 35-year-old conductor with an astonishing resume despite her relative youth who has been praised for a unique combination of “drama and tenderness, power and delicacy.” Chan is also returning to the Granada, as she plied the podium back in the summer of 2018 conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in the first year of the collaboration between the LSO and the Music Academy of the West that winds up with a wondrous three-program series at the Granada in March. Among the works that night was the West Coast premiere of “Sleep and Unremembrance” by Elizabeth Ogonek, who was serving as MAW’s composer in residence. Ogonek’s “Cloudline” is one of the pieces on tonight’s CAMA-L.A. Phil program, spicing up the main fare of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37, with Musical America’s 2021 Recording Artist of the Year pianist Igor Levit as soloist and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 in A Major, “Italian,” Op. 90. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $45-$125 INFO: (805) 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org

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‘The Rise’ of Kobe – The death of the L.A. Lakers basketball superstar Kobe Bryant in a senseless helicopter crash still reverberates two years later. But it’s the early days of Kobe – Bryant is one of a handful of sports stars whose first name suffices – that interested Mike Sielski, a longtime sports columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer who AP named the best in the country back in 2015. In The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality, Sielski chronicles the oft-forgotten and lesser-known story of the point guard’s early life. In researching and writing The Rise, Sielski had access to a series of never-before-released interviews with Bryant during his senior season and early days in the NBA, which captured Kobe’s thoughts, dreams, and goals from his teenage years. Sielski talks about the book – which has received acrossthe-board praise since its publication earlier this month – with Chaucer’s events coordinator Michael Takeuchi, himself a former sportswriter, as part of the bookstore’s virtual author discussion series. WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: Zoom or YouTube COST: free INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com WHERE: Zoom COST: free INFO: https://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/global-tv/ SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 The Maria Monologues – Near the end of her life, the famed opera singer Maria Callas gave an interview to Mike Wallace of TV’s 60 Minutes, an event that turned into a struggle as Callas attempted to keep the talk focused on her art, her work, and her career, while Wallace wanted to deflect the discussion to the singer’s scandalous personal life, specifically her complicated relationship with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Shelley Cooper uses the interview as the springboard for her one-woman show, La Divina: The Last Interview of Maria Callas, allowing glimpses into the extremely complex and tormented Callas while also performing parts of seven opera arias, including “O Mio Babbino Caro,” “Habanera,” and “Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore” from Puccini’s Tosca, the diva’s signature piece. Cooper and La Divina, which won the 2021 Orlando Fringe Critic’s Choice NAMBA Performing Arts Center tonight. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 47 S. Oak Street, Ventura COST: $20 INFO: (805) 628-9250 or https://www.nambaarts.com SUNDAY, JANUARY 30 The Martin Chronicles – While his subsequent releases have all been very worthy listens, Martin Sexton’s stripped down 1996 debut album Black Sheep remains the quintessential recording in his catalog, as often happens with singer-songwriters. That could be because I was among the lucky dozen who caught his Santa Barbara debut at SOhO that year, witnessing the cherubic Sexton solo scatting and soaring through a series of searing and heart-stopping songs that include “Glory Bound,” “Diner,” “Freedom of the Road,” “Love Keep Us Together,” “Candy,” “Gypsy Woman,” and “Can’t Stop Thinking ‘Bout You.” Sexton’s new EP, the pandemic influenced 2020 Vision, showcases his soul-marinated voice over a series of personal and patriotic songs in keeping with his theme of exploring both the heart of America and his own. And while Sexton’s songs have appeared in such TV series as Scrubs, Parenthood, Masters of Sex, and in numerous films, it’s his solo shows that are compelling, as he fills the room despite being armed only with his flexible vocals and guitar prowess. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1221 State St., upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $30 in advance, $35 at the door INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

“The year changes, and in that change we believe that we can change with it.” R. Joseph Hoffmann

27 January – 3 February 2022

Joshua Bell, violin Peter Dugan, piano

Thu, Feb 3 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $45 / $15 UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

“One of the most imaginative, technically gifted and altogether extraordinary violinists of our time,” (The Washington Post) Joshua Bell performs a program of Schubert, Beethoven, Bach and Ravel.

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Fri, Feb 4 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $40 / FREE for UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

Nine-time Grammy winner and Pulitzer Prize recipient Wynton Marsalis returns with the legendary Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, comprising 15 of the nation’s finest soloists, ensemble players and arrangers.

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Dreamers’ Circus Tue, Feb 8 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $20 / $10 UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option Rooted in the traditional folk tunes of Northern Europe yet unmistakably contemporary, Dreamers’ Circus treats audiences to an unexpectedly lush concoction of jazz, classical, traditional Scandinavian music, and more.

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Sibongakonkhe Msibi plays Martin in Westmont Opera’s production of The Tender Land

young casting, which fits for us. And it’s also exciting that there’s a crossover kind of singing – not musical theater, not pop music by any stretch, but colloquial in many ways. So it takes a different sort of approach from the singer, and maybe a little bit of training, which is great for our students. Copland wrote The Tender Land with the intention of it being presented on television, but it actually premiered at New York City Opera, and never ran on TV. So in some ways I’m imagining that the black box stage at Center Stage works well for your production. MS: Well, we’re there partly for more controllable circumstances with the reality of COVID, taking a tiny step back toward full theater with the set more like a soundstage. A small venue is also good for college-age singers who don’t yet have the development of voice to fill a large hall, where it’s more healthy for them in terms of

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their growth dramatically and the scope and range that they can access. Following up, last year’s production of The Elixir of Love was performed at Center Stage, but filmed and only viewable for audiences on video. What did either of you learn from that experience that might inform this production? CFJ: One of the joys for me in returning to Westmont again is to direct some of the actors that I worked with last year. Their growth dramatically has been wonderful to witness, and it’s partly due to the fact that they were acting for the video camera, which is much more direct. You can’t hide anything; you’ve got to be in character 100 percent of the time because the camera sees what the live audience might miss. You can’t break character even for two seconds. So now going back into live performance, they’re stronger actors and singers because of that experience.

Christina, last year you set Elixir in a circus. I can’t imagine anything so out-of-the-box for Tender Land. CFJ: No, there’s no way you can set it anywhere other than the 1930s Midwest, so it’s a fairly traditional set. But Michael and I agreed on a concept to address the issue of fences, using the ones that are around the family Moss’s property in an interesting way to visually show the emotional status of the characters, when the outsiders are included in the community, when are they ostracized, how those fences move and how that is relevant in our culture today. The idea is to honor Copland but also make the opera visually, emotionally, and culturally relevant for today. This opera was actually quite a challenge for me to stage because of the beauty of its simplicity. A big portion of the opera is conversation, rather than the big arias of Puccini, and adding grand movement didn’t seem honest. So at the beginning of rehearsal, I just gave the students bookends for the beginning and end points and then I watched them do what they felt was right, and then we created something together that was much more believable because it came from their own bodies. Tender Land is a farm and Dust Bowl story, but it’s also a coming-of-age story. Does that 80-year-old tale resonate today? MS: All of the stories are intertwined and Copland doesn’t take an easy path. Issues of graduating from high school, falling in love, how to deal with outsiders, what does community mean. He just presses more questions implicitly into the drama like the questions at the end of a chapter in a textbook: “What do you think about what happened?” “How does that relate to your life?” There are questions about who is most faithful to the family structure, how you make choices, bigger questions than just the timely dramatic ones. Issues of self-actualization and faith and who we trust and how we make judgments. Those things are pretty universal and way older than 90 years and they’ll be with us for a long time to come. Michael, while the opera itself hasn’t turned into a classic, Copland himself made a symphonic version that does get its share of play. What’s the thrust? MS: It has the resonance of the great American music that we hear in Rodeo or Billy the Kid or Appalachian Spring, but it’s also got some traces of his edgier early writing, in the intensity and the underlying anxieties which really propels the dramatic essence of the piece. But there are beautiful moments: “The Promise of Living,” which affirms the hope of the piece, and the Western hoedown “Stomp Your Foot.” The duet between Martin and Lori that happens on the porch is unassailably beautiful and romantic, moments of anxiety and dissipation and music that laces them together, and decision-making that are really powerful in the music. The Westmont Orchestra played the symphonic version last fall so

“It is far more difficult to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page.” R. Joseph Hoffmann

they’re acquainted with the music, and the Westmont choir is singing in the production too. We’ve really tried to inculcate all of our students with the essence of this music. (Junior tenor Sibongakonkhe Msibi, an international student from Swaziland who will be a fellow at Music Academy of the West’s 75th anniversary festival this summer – Westmont’s first – portrays Martin in The Tender Land.) Christina, I’m going to save my piece on Michael’s retirement for later in the year, but how is it for you to be collaborating on his final opera production at Westmont? CJF: It feels like I’m kind of completing the circle that began when Michael mentored me in my first-ever director job in my senior year at Westmont, but beyond that, it is such an honor to be entrusted with this piece that he has wanted to do for a number of years. I hope that it comes off well for Westmont but especially for him, that the product and the process has been something that he is proud of, something that he can feel good about retiring, setting it down, leave it here and say “Well done.”

Tuttle’s Bluegrass Throwdown SOhO has secured a bit of a booking coup for the end of the month in Molly Tuttle, the singer-songwriter-guitarist who became the first woman to win the International Bluegrass Music Awards’ Guitar Player of the Year awards in 2017 and repeated in 2018, when she was also named the Americana Music Association’s Instrumentalist of the Year. After releasing a well-received covers album and EP during the height of the pandemic, Tuttle – who guested on Béla Fleck’s recent bluegrass double disc My Bluegrass Heart – returns to her bluegrass roots with her forthcoming album, Crooked Tree, her debut for Nonesuch. Due out April 1, the record, which sprung from her banjo-playing grandfather and music-teacher father’s bluegrass, was produced by Tuttle and Jerry Douglas and features collaborations with Douglas, Billy Strings, Sierra Hull, Old Crow Medicine Show, Margo Price, Dan Tyminski, and Gillian Welch. Crooked Tree has already been cited as one of the most anticipated guitar albums of 2022 by Guitar.com on the strength of pre-release live videos for “She’ll Change” and the title track. Tuttle will be joined by her new band Golden Highway, which features Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (fiddle), Dominick Leslie (mandolin), Shelby Means (bass), and Kyle Tuttle (no relation, banjo) for the SOhO show on January 31.

Ring That Bell at the Granada After a couple of months’ hiatus due to the calendar and concerns about COVID,

27 January – 3 February 2022

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Cathy Park Hong Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning Thu, Feb 10 / 7:30 PM UCSB Campbell Hall $20 / FREE for UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option

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UCSB Arts & Lectures’ 2021-22 Creating Hope series resumes next Thursday, February 3, with a recital from violinist Joshua Bell, one of the most celebrated artists of his era. The recipient of a number of enviable accolades from the coveted Avery Fisher Prize to six Grammy nominations, Bell serves in a variety of roles from chamber music concerts to concerto soloist performances to conducting as the music director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Returning once again to the Granada stage, Bell will perform with a relatively new partner in pianist Peter Dugan, with whom he collaborated for At Home With Music, a pandemic produced national PBS broadcast and live album released on Sony Classical last year. No slouch himself, Dugan was a 2021 featured recitalist and lecturer for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, Symphony, and serves as pianist and host of NPR’s From the Top. The program includes Schubert’s Sonatina in D major, Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 7, Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin, and Ravel’s Violin Sonata No. 2.

SBIFF’s Acting Accolades Announced The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has rounded out its list of tribute honorees for the 37th annual fest in early March, with the announcement that Benedict Cumberbatch, whose portrayal of Alan Turing in The Imitation Game earned him an Oscar nomination, will receive the Cinema Vanguard Award for his performance in current Oscar favorite The Power of the Dog, while previous Academy Award winners Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) and Nicole Kidman (The Hours) get the fest’s highest honor, the Maltin Modern Master Award, for careers currently capped by their portrayals of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos. Official Oscar nominations voting doesn’t start until January 27, but as always you can expect a majority of the 14 actors receiving tribute honors from SBIFF to be among the 20 nominee names revealed on February 8. The film slate for the fest should be announced soon. Stay tuned. Steven has covered a plethora of topics for the Journal since 1997, a now leads our extensive arts and entertainment coverage

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Joshua Bell at the Granada on February 3 (photo credit: Benjamin Ealovega)

27 January – 3 February 2022

Amanda Nguyen “Hopeanomics” and How Social Entrepreneurs are Transforming Grassroots Activism Wed, Feb 16 / 7:30 PM FREE Virtual Event (registration required)

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Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Tales of Hope on the American Landscape Thu, Feb 17 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $25 / $10 UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option Renowned journalists and authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have co-written the bestselling books Half the Sky, A Path Appears, Tightrope, China Wakes and Thunder From the East.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, during the afternoon session of the meeting, which begins at 2:00 p.m. via a virtual meeting through the Zoom platform. The hearing is to consider a Request for Initiation of a Specific Plan and a General Plan Amendment, and designation as a Community Benefit Project, for the property located at 3237 State Street (APN 051-112-019).The federally-owned property is in the process of being transferred from the Department of Indian Health Services (IHS) to American Indian Health and Services (AIHS) for use as a community health clinic. The 2.51-acre site is currently zoned RS-7.5/USS (Residential Single Unit, 7,500 sf minimum lot size/Upper State Street Area Overlay) and has a General Plan land use designation of Parks and Open Space.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until the date and time indicated below at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for: BID NO. 5941 DUE DATE & TIME: FEBRUARY 23, 2022 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. WINDOW REPLACEMENT AT DAVIS CENTER Scope of Work: Replace the windows at the Louise Lowry Davis Center to match sample installed on site. The Louise Lowry Davis Center is a designated historic building, thereby project requires strict matching to samples shown and no product substitutions will be considered. Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted. If further information is needed, contact Caroline Ortega, Sr. Buyer at (805) 564-5351or email: COrtega@santabarbaraca.gov A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on February 8, 2022 at 10:00 a.m., at the Louise Lowry Davis Center, located at 1232 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. Bids will not be considered from parties that did not attend the mandatory meeting. All attendees are responsible for bringing, wearing a facemask on-site, following current CDC and Santa Barbara County Public Health social distancing guidelines. FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code. BONDING Bidder shall furnish a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order, a cashier’s certified check, or bond payable to the order of the City, amounting to ten percent (10%) of the bid. Bonds must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Note: The bid security must be uploaded as part of your PlanetBids submittal AND the original bid security of the three (3) lowest bidders must be mailed or delivered to the Purchasing Office in a sealed envelope and be received within 3 City business days of the bid due date and time for the bid to be considered. Please note that the Purchasing Office is closed every other Friday due to a compressed 9/80 Flex schedule. Friday closures dates can be found on the City’s online calendar: https://www.santabarbaraca.gov/cals/default.asp?utm_source=City&utm_medium=Calendar&utm_campaign=CharmsBar Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. PREVAILING WAGE, APPRENTICES, PENALTIES, & CERTIFIED PAYROLL In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code § 1773.2, the Contractor is responsible for determining the correct prevailing wage rates. However, the City will provide wage information for projects subject to Federal Davis Bacon requirements. The Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rates of wages and employer payments for health, welfare, vacation, pensions and similar purposes applicable, which is on file in the State of California Office of Industrial Relations. The contractor shall post a copy of these prevailing wage rates at the site of the project. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and its subcontractors hired to pay not less than the said prevailing rates of wages to all workers employed by him in the execution of the contract (Labor Code § 1770 et seq.). Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5. There are penalties required for contractor’s/subcontractor’s failure to pay prevailing wages and for failure to employ apprentices, including forfeitures and debarment under Labor Code §§ 1775, 1776, 1777.1, 1777.7 and 1813. Under Labor Code § 1776, contractors and subcontractors are required to keep accurate payroll records. The prime contractor is responsible for submittal of their payrolls and those of their subcontractors as one package. Payroll records shall be certified and made available for inspection at all reasonable hours at the principal office of the contractor/subcontractor pursuant to Labor Code § 1776. The contractor and all subcontractors under the direct contractor shall furnish certified payroll records directly to the Labor Compliance Unit and to the department named in the Purchase Order/Contract at least monthly, and within ten (10) days of any request from any request from the City or the Labor Commissioner in accordance with Section 16461 of the California Code of Regulations. Payroll records shall be furnished in a format prescribed by section 16401 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, with use of the current version of DIR's “Public Works Payroll Reporting Form” (A-1-131) and “Statement of Employer Payments” (DLSE Form PW26) constituting presumptive compliance with this requirement, provided the forms are filled out accurately and completely. In lieu of paper forms, the Compliance Monitoring Unit may provide for and require the electronic submission of certified payroll reports. The provisions of Article 2 and 3, Division 2, Chapter 1 of the Labor Code, State of California, are made by this reference a part of this quotation or bid. A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently licensed to perform the work and registered pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5 without limitation or exception. It is not a violation of this section for an unlicensed contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. CERTIFICATIONS In accordance with California Public Contracting Code § 3300, the City requires the Contractor to possess a valid California C17 Glazing contractor’s license at time the bids are opened and to continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and certifications required to perform the work specified herein. CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. _______________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

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You are invited to attend this public hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s office by sending them electronically to clerk@santabarbaraca.gov. This meeting will be held by teleconference as authorized by Government Code §54953(e)(1)(A) to promote social distancing and prioritize the public’s health and well-being under Santa Barbara County Health Office orders to the general public. Councilmembers may participate electronically. The City of Santa Barbara strongly encourages and welcomes public participation during this time. On Thursday, February 3, 2022, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, including the public hearing to consider this Initiation request, will be available online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CAP. The Agenda includes instructions for participation in the meeting. If you wish to participate in the public hearing, please follow the instructions on the posted Agenda. (SEAL) /s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager January 11, 2022 Published January 26, 2022 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1284 Account, 1284 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Teresa McWilliams, 1542 Ramona Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 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. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220000174. Published January 26, February 2, 9, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Evoke Design Studio, 638 W Ortega St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Evoke Design Inc, 638 W Ortega St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on

“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool.” — F.M. Knowles

January 6, 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. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220000032. Published January 26, February 2, 9, 16, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Villa Fontana Apartments, 503 Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA , 93101. Berti Fontana, LLC, 4581 Via Benditat #B, Santa Barbara, CA 93110; PFH Holdings, LLC, 503 Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA , 93101; Carole Fontana, LLC, 241 Middle Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Alex Pananidas, 503 Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 17, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0003396. Published January 5, 12, 19, 26, 2022. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Golden Ginkgo Wellness, 32 E. Micheltorena St, Santa Barbara, CA , 93101. Jacquelyn L Sugich, 236 West Victoria St #3, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 27, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0003446. Published January 5, 12, 19, 26, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: North Star Legal Advisors, 145 Santo Tomas Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Jonathan L Blinderman, 145 Santo Tomas Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 10, 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. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0000068. Published January 19,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Marstrand Property Services; Marstrand; Marstrand Property Management, 230 California Street, Santa Francisco, CA , 94111. John A Morais, 2531 Borton Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 8, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0003300. Published January 5, 12, 19, 26, 2022.

27 January – 3 February 2022

Our Town

Annual January NAMM Roundup: Virtual Mode 2022

The free downloadable resource road map on digital music royalties from the MLC organization

Brian Hardgroove interviews Jenni Odgen, COO of 4D Fun (screengrab by Joanne A Calitri)

By Joanne Calitri

ne can hear it in the streets from Atlanta to L.A.: We miss NAMM, the National Association of Music Merchants’ annual event held every January in Anaheim. Fret not guitar freaks, Lugwig lovers, jamming DJs, audiophiles, technos, and recording rascals, for Shure due to an abundance of caution, the NAMM show moved to June 2022, with tickets available now. In lieu, NAMM held a virtual two-day event on January 20 and 21, highlighting digital tech and artist issues that rapidly progressed due to lockdown, such as 4D Fun’s volumetric performance recording direct to NFTs managed by the artist; MLC’s info on digital music royalties; SoundExchange on equitable pay and support of artists; FarPlay’s fast and safe ultra-low-latency realtime internet audio software; music engineering advice with Grammy winner Emily Lazar; new gear from Martin Guitars, Shure, Donner, Pioneer DJ, Mackie, Casio, and a few artist interviews. For our town’s musicians, producers and retailers, here are the top notes with links: 4D Fun COO Jenni Ogden and CEO Paul Vowell presented their company’s tech and NFT platform for artists, in an interview with NAMM presenter and producer-engineer-musician Brian Hardgroove (Public Enemy), who also was recorded by them. Vowell explained they provide a doorway to the virtual future that allows artists to pass through without risk and be able to control their outcome. How it works: After capturing the artist performance live in 3D in their studio, they mint the performance as an NFT with a smart contract via blockchain, a non-amendable agreement written in code where the artist knows what is sold and when. The sale or auction of the NFT goes immediately to the artist’s wallet. 27 January – 3 February 2022

NFT resale percentages are set up by the artist, similar to splitting the door fee at a venue, such as investors selling tickets to view the NFTs as concerts globally. The contract is on the blockchain and fully transparent, there is no opportunity to amend it, and eliminates the auditing process by artists to find money. They suggest buyers of such NFTs are early cryptocurrency owners interested to have their crypto buy things, instead of just being investments. Ogden compared that to a record label contract where the artist gets paid after all the recoupable expenses are taken out of their percentage. 4D Fun say they are a disruptive technology company, using a state-of-the-art A.I. driven volumetric capture stage with 32 cameras recording a live 3D artist performance against a green screen. To secure the performance assets they mint it as an NFT. They are launching their platform to view these performances, called SCENEZ, to be released on Steam. The first show will be free to view and has over 100 performers. https://4d fun.io SoundExchange CEO Michael Huppe presented similar sentiments regarding equitable royalties, and the importance of musicians to manage and monetize their value, versus relying on outdated systems where money does not make it to the right person. He cited the Broadcast Radio industry, which “…takes in hundreds of billions of dollars in advertising by playing music it does not pay for. If a band has members that are citizens of both the U.K. and other countries, only the U.K. musicians will get paid when their songs get played on the radio there, in the U.S. none get paid.” Serona Elton, a professor at the University of Miami and Head of Educational Partnerships with the MLC (The Mechanical Licensing Collective), gave a full-on presentation outlining the complexities of copyright, rights man-

agement, and an example of the flow of revenue and copyright for streamed and downloaded music. Free resources are at https://themlc.com/ digital-music-royalties-landscape. Forbes columnist Steve Baltin interviewed Grammy winner Emily Lazar about music recording. She made history with three Grammy nominations in the 2021 Album of the Year category, the most ever received, for her work with Coldplay, Haim, and Jacob Collier. Her recording studio, The Lodge, is open to all musicians from ten listeners on Spotify to major bands. Lazar’s advice: “If I can say anything to the music makers and creators out there, both behind the scenes and the artists themselves, which during the pandemic crossed over, I understand the idea of just throwing it on your phone. However, let me just say your production value deserves tape, it deserves analog equipment it, and it deserves the best possible treatment you can have. It’s worth it to buy a great mic, record on a real console, to make an actual effort to get the quality to happen, to understand the importance of sound, analog, and quality. Artists are undoing themselves by putting things out before they’re finished. As an artist, it’s really important how you say it, and what you say, it’s the only thing you have actually.” She has a nonprofit called We Are Moving the Needle to help women in the recording industry with scholarships, mentorships, equipment, and a youth program. www.wearemovingtheneedle.org and www. thelodge.com Farplay, a new software for real-time internet audio, is free along with a Beta version of its Premium software – visit https://farplay.io to download. The software features a simple-to-use interface, unlimited sessions, a visual latency monitor, real-time adjustments, separate broadcast outputs from live monitoring, peer to peer audio sent directly between participants, and uncompressed audio on a multi-platform of MAC, Windows, and Linux. Premium features are professional grade recording with multi-channel options and persistent sessions. We were most impressed with the live demo of individual musicians playing together seamlessly over 400 miles apart. Shure has budget podcast microphones,

the MC7X and the MV7 with both USB and XLR outputs for use with computers and professional interfaces. For budget home studio recording there is the MV88+ Stereo UDB Microphone, a digital stereo condenser mic for recording of multiple instruments and vocals in both mono and stereo. Use it with the ShurePlus MOTIV™ Desktop App. https://www.shure.com/en-US Fred Greene, vice president of Martin Guitars, continues acoustic models introduced in 2020 with a new SC-10E, SC-13E Special and SC-13E Special Burst for 2022. The SCs have a linear dovetail neck joint which allows for access all the way up the neck, and intonation can be adjusted from the inside, in addition to a truss rod. https:// www.martinguitar.com/body-sc.html Pioneer DJ just launched the DDJ-Rev7, 2-channel professional DJ controller for Serato DJ Pro, their first motorized platter controller; and its smaller version, the DDJRev1, with scratch bank, for use by professional DJs as a back-up and for beginners. They also showed the XDJ-RX3, a standalone all in one DJ system for mobile DJs, home DJs to build skills, and venues needing to power DJs, with a high-resolution, ten-inch touch screen to browse collections and preview songs, multiple pad loads, gate cue, fx modes, and two mic input ports. www.pioneerdj.com Mackie announced seven products: the CR Stealth Bar, a desktop PC soundbar with Bluetooth; the Onyx Go wireless clip-on microphone for smartphones with CR-Buds earphones, paired with a mobile content app for sound recording; the EM-Wave, an ultra-compact wireless microphone system that utilizes encrypted transmission with 7-hour battery time for content, video, and podcasting; the ThumpGo, a portable battery powered loudspeaker with Bluetooth streaming and wireless control; the Thrash 1300W loudspeakers (PA system) with Titanium compression drivers and high performance woofers; the Element EM-91C condenser microphone and the MC-40BT wireless over-ear headphones, with built in micro phone and 30 hours use per charge. https://mackie.com Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist. Contact her at: artraks@yahoo.com

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FOOD & WINE Santa Barbara by the Glass Calling All Pinot Lovers:

Premier Wine Event Makes Santa Barbara Comeback

WOPN will feature several intimate sommelier-led seminars this year, most of them comparing the merits of pinot noir wines from different growing regions across the world

World of Pinot Noir, a global wine event spotlighting pinot noir wines, returns as a live in-person event in Santa Barbara this year, after the annual celebration went virtual in 2021

by Gabe Saglie

The Wine

inot noir buffs from all over the world have their eyes – not to mention, their taste buds – set squarely on Santa Barbara. After a COVID-driven virtual-only experience last year, and a truncated live event at the pandemic’s onset in March of 2020, the World of Pinot Noir (WOPN) is making a big in-person comeback. WOPN (pronounced “whopping” by insiders) will take over the Ritz-Carlton Bacara for three days – March 3 through 5. Even for novice admirers of Burgundy’s most famous little grape, this event is a must. WOPN was launched in 2001 to spotlight Central California pinot noir wines, though it quickly grew to become a global pinot event of record. It has always drawn a crowd – close to 3,000 consumers preCOVID – not to mention a cavalcade of famous pinot noir producers, wine personalities, and media. And while it hosted the thirsty in San Luis Obispo for years, it moved to Santa Barbara in 2014, a move that squarely stoked its sex appeal. As it makes its triumphant live return – a welcome sign not only for pinot noir lovers but also for those of us ready for any clues to our collective post-pandemic bounceback – safety and health protocols rank high. Attendees will need to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test, and creative solutions include expanding the event’s outdoor footprint at Bacara as well as retooling the way food is set up and doled out. Most importantly, though – the very special WOPN experience. Here are my top five reasons to take part in the 2022 World of Pinot Noir.

A no-brainer – the pinot noir is the big draw here! But we shouldn’t undersell the fact that this is not just pinot, it’s the best pinot on the planet. I’m counting no less than 150 wineries on the roster for WOPN’s three-day run, and producers from across the globe. Plenty of Santa Barbara’s own backyard faves, of course: Brewer-Clifton, Dierberg, Foxen, Paul Lato, Sea Smoke, just to skim the surface. Other California greats, too, like Eden Rift, Calera, Three Sticks, and Landmark, and Oregon heavyweights, including The Four Graces and Elouan. The access to standout international pinots will be a real treat for a lot of us, too: Amelia from Chile, Alta Pavina from Spain, and Louis Latour from Beaune, in the heart of France’s famed Burgundy region. So on world-class pinot alone, WOPN delivers.

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The Events The Grand Tastings on Friday and Saturday ($125) will be the biggest draws – a landscape of pinot producers, side by side, pouring their best; the events run 2:30 to 6 pm each day, with a VIP option that gets you in a half hour earlier ($200). The Opening Night Reunion Party ($125) on Thursday night will be a best seller, too: an indoor/outdoor event that has well-known sommeliers doing the pouring and sets the festive tone for the weekend ahead. Among more intimate, limited-seating events are the West Coast Blind Tasting Challenge ($100) on Friday morning, that compares 12 pinots AVAs stretching from Oregon to Santa Barbara, and the Secret Gems

of Burgundy tasting ($175) on Saturday morning, that’ll feature preeminent labels from the birthplace of all things pinot. I’ll see you at Friday afternoon’s tasting – Explore Pinot Noir from North to South ($100) – that’ll feature Sonoma’s Patz & Hall and Santa Barbara’s Fess Parker in a head-to-head (or, palate-to-palate) comparative battle; this two-hour seminar runs noon to 2 pm and features gourmet bites by Bacara’s culinary team, making this the ultimate lunch.

The Meals Speaking of food, it’s very much designed to match the wine. There are two lunch options on Saturday, for example, including the Maggy Hawk Luncheon ($125), featuring one of the top pinot makers in California’s Anderson Valley, and the Santa Lucia Highlands’ 30th Birthday Celebration Luncheon ($100), commemorating this proficient AVA from Monterey County. The dinners offer plenty of wow factor and star power: the two options on Friday include the Kosta Browne 25th Anniversary Dinner ($300), a five-course fête featuring the famous label’s winemaker, and The Village Burgundy Dinner ($275). Pull up a seat on Saturday, too, at either The Grand Cru Burgundy Dinner ($500), featuring some of the very best vintages Burgundy has ever produced, or the Toasting the New SLO Coast AVA dinner, a five-course sustainably sourced feast in honor of what’s about to become California’s newest AVA. Suffice it to say, come hungry (and thirsty)!

The People The roster of winemakers and somms at WOPN is a real who’s who of wine personalities, and the ability to mingle with them, and to gleam insight from, is unparalleled. In many ways, this will also be a post-pan-

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demic reunion of industry leaders, adding to the upbeat vibe of this event. But I’m most looking forward to mingling with fellow consumers, wine lovers like me who are emerging from their Covid cocoons, thirsty and curious, and ready to embrace an event that’s bringing awesome wines directly to me. Lots of clinking glasses – what a beautiful sound!

The Locale It bears tipping the hat to the Ritz-Carlton Bacara. To those traveling to WOPN, it’ll serve as Santa Barbara’s red carpet, a snapshot of the notable hospitality for which this pretty corner of the world is famous. For locals, it’ll be an excuse to return to one of the area’s best resort hotels and a setting defined by sweeping views of the ocean, the islands, and the mountains – a reminder, really, of how lucky we are to live where we do. And, did I mention the wine? WOPN also features an Online Silent Auction, a chance to nab rare bottles, with proceeds earmarked for nonprofit groups and scholarships “that help further educate and enlighten the world about the storied pinot noir grape,” according to organizers; it opens to the public in late February. Want all-access? The Weekend VIP Passport ($1,800) gets you into most of the weekend’s high-profile experiences. Want to splurge? You can stay in one of Bacara’s Luxury Ocean View Suites for three nights (March 3 through 6) and nab Weekend VIP Passports for two, all for $8,400. Find out more and get your tickets at WOPN.com. See you there! Gabe Saglie has been covering the Santa Barbara wine scene for more than 15 years through columns, TV, and radio. He’s a senior editor with Travelzoo and is a leading expert on travel deals, tips, and trends. Gabe and wife Renee have 3 children and one Golden Retriever named Milo

27 January – 3 February 2022

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27 January – 3 February 2022

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FOOD & WINE Nosh Town Let’s Go Dutch

By Claudia Schou

f you’re craving hearty stews, meaty braises, or golden fried chicken, then maybe it’s time to buy a Dutch oven, a most versatile piece of cookware with the deep interior, heavy bottom, and tight lid that will take your winter meals to new and tantalizing heights. Enameled cast-iron, these heavy-duty pots are all-purpose: they can sauté, simmer, braise, sear, fry, and even bake bread and pizza. Their weight keeps low temperatures even during long cooking times; their tight-fitting lids keep moisture in. Dutch ovens are ideal for soups, stews, and braises that marinate and tenderize tough cuts of meat, yielding the classic “fall off the bone” tenderness that can’t be obtained using other cooking methods. Some of the best meats for browning and braising include fatty beef short ribs, beef chuck, pork shoulder, lamb shanks, and oxtails. Seafood, poultry, and various fowl make superb stews and soups. On many occasions I have enjoyed memorable home-cooked meals produced with this sturdy home appliance at friends’ homes. I had experienced the awe and ecstasy of first smelling and then tasting from a Dutch oven, but never had a strong desire to purchase one. Was I truly content with relying on a slow cooker or did I simply feel that if I splurged, I’d feel naggingly obligated to produce gourmet meals with it? A new wave of Omicron had me reconsidering my desire to keep my meal making simple. On a recent visit to Williams-Sonoma at La Cumbre Plaza, I casually browsed the selection. There was an abundance of sizes and color options to choose from by a handful of reputable brands – from Le Creuset and Lodge Blacklock to Finex and Staub (priced from $199 to $580, with lifetime warranties). I carefully selected a 5.5-quart Staub (pronounced stobe) vessel with a modern design and earthy hue. I also discovered an impressive collection of Staub – including a beautiful tagine for one-pot cooking – while shopping for pantry essentials at Field + Fort. With an inaugural recipe in mind, I went to work: Poulet Vallée d’Auge, a rich and creamy poultry recipe named for a rural region in Normandy known for its apples. Both rustic and gourmet, it’s essentially a chicken casserole with a cream sauce made with apple brandy, caramelized apples, leeks, and shallots. For this recipe, an amiable butcher at Gelson’s recommended a

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pack of quartered raw chicken that could be used for frying or stewing. At home, I fried the apples in butter, removed and set them aside; I added olive oil and butter to the pot and browned the chicken parts in batches, then minced and sautéed the shallots and leeks. The recipe doesn’t require confidence but rather a certain level of skill, particularly when using a lighter to flambé the leeks and shallots. After the blue-yellow flames flicker out (and the alcohol burns off ), an ambrosial aroma permeates the air. Apple cider is added and brought to a boil, then the chicken stock, chicken, caramelized apples, a couple of bay leaves, and fresh thyme are added to the pot and simmered for 25 minutes. During that time you sauté cremini mushrooms, set them aside and then whip together a crème fraîche (with egg yolk) mixture then gently fold them into the chicken stew, producing one of the most extraordinary dishes ever created. Here are a few delectable recipes published in Bon Appétit for your Dutch oven adventures.

Poulet Vallée d’Auge Ingredients 8 Servings

5 tablespoon unsalted butter, divided 3 firm, tart apples (such as Pink Lady or Braeburn; about 1 lb.), peeled, cored, quartered 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 3½–4-lb. chickens, quartered Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 leek, white and pale-green parts only, halved lengthwise, sliced crosswise ¼” thick 2 shallots, finely chopped ¼ cup Calvados (apple brandy) ¾ cup apple cider 4 sprigs thyme 2 bay leaves ½ cup low-sodium chicken broth ½ pound cremini mushrooms, trimmed, halved ½ cup crème fraîche 1 large egg yolk Preparation 1. Heat 2 Tbsp. butter in a large, heavy pot over medium heat. Add apples and cook, turning occasionally, until golden in spots, 10-12 minutes. Transfer apples to a plate and set aside. 2. Increase heat to medium-high and add oil and 1 Tbsp. butter to pot. Season chicken with salt and pepper and, working in batches, cook until browned, about 5 minutes per side. Transfer chicken to

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another plate; set aside. 3. Add leek and shallots to pot; cook, stirring often, until softened, about 4 minutes. Remove pot from heat, add Calvados brandy, and ignite with a long match or long-reach lighter. After flames die down, return pot to heat and add cider. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until slightly reduced, about 3 minutes. 4. Return reserved chicken to pot and add thyme, bay leaves, and broth. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, cover pot, and simmer, adding reserved apples back to pot halfway through, until chicken is cooked through, 20-25 minutes. 5. Meanwhile, heat remaining 2 Tbsp. butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and cook, tossing occasionally, until browned and softened, 6-8 minutes; season with salt and pepper. Transfer mushrooms to a plate. 6. Whisk crème fraîche and egg yolk in a small bowl. Using a slotted spoon, transfer chicken, and apples to a baking sheet and remove pot from heat. Whisk crème fraîche mixture into cooking liquid in pot. Gently mix in chicken, apples, and mushrooms. Do ahead: Chicken and apples can be cooked one day ahead. Cover and chill. Cook mushrooms and finish sauce just before serving.

Citrus and Chile-Braised Short Ribs Ingredients 8 Servings

8 5-6” English-style bone-in beef short ribs (about 6 pounds) Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 medium onions, chopped 2 heads of garlic, halved crosswise 4 celery stalks, chopped 2 medium carrots, peeled, chopped 2 tablespoons tomato paste

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1 teaspoon coriander seeds 1 teaspoon cumin seeds 6 chiles de árbol, or 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, plus 1 chile, for serving 4 sprigs oregano 4 wide strips orange zest, plus some thin strips for serving 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice 2 limes, halved ½ cup fresh cilantro leaves with tender stems Preparation 1. Season short ribs with salt and pepper. Place on a rimmed baking sheet and chill, uncovered, at least 2 hours (ribs are even better if you can do this a day ahead). 2. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Heat oil in a large, heavy pot over medium. Working in batches, cook short ribs until evenly browned, about 5 minutes on each side. Transfer to a platter; pour off pan drippings between batches. 3. Wipe out any burned bits from pot, but leave the golden-brown pieces (doing this will keep the finished sauce from tasting bitter). Place onions, garlic, celery, carrots, tomato paste, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, and chiles or red pepper flakes in pot; season with salt and pepper and stir to coat. Increase heat to medium-high and cook, stirring often, until vegetables are softened, tomato paste is slightly darkened in color, and spices are fragrant, 10-12 minutes. 4. Add oregano, wide strips of orange zest, 1 cup orange juice, and 6 cups water to pot, scraping up any browned bits; season with salt and pepper. Add ribs with any juices accumulated on the platter, making sure they’re completely submerged. Cover pot and braise ribs in the oven until meat is tender and falling off the bone, 4-5 hours. 5. Carefully transfer ribs to a platter. Strain braising liquid into a large bowl, then

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return to pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until reduced by half (it will be thickened but still saucy). Return short ribs to pot and turn to coat. 6. To serve, drizzle short ribs with remaining 2 tablespoons orange juice and squeeze limes and crush remaining chile over. Top with cilantro and thin strips of orange zest. Do ahead: Short ribs can be braised 5 days ahead. Let cool; cover and chill in strained braising liquid.

Indian-Spiced Chicken with Chickpeas

Golden and fragrant, this dish is a meal on its own, or it can be served with steamed basmati rice or warm flatbread. Ingredients 6 Servings

1 tablespoon vegetable oil 6 bone-in chicken legs (thigh and drumstick), skin removed Kosher salt 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 2 large onions, thinly sliced 4 garlic cloves, chopped 1 1/2 tablespoons grated peeled ginger 2 teaspoons ground coriander 2 teaspoons ground cumin 2 teaspoons ground turmeric 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 15-ounce can chickpeas, rinsed 2 cups (or more) low-sodium chicken broth 5 ounces baby spinach (about 8 lightly

packed cups) 1/4 cup Greek yogurt 1/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves with tender stems Preparation 1. Place a rack in lower third of oven; preheat to 325°. Heat oil in a large heavy pot over medium-high heat. Season chicken with salt. Working in batches, cook chicken, reducing heat as needed to prevent over-browning, until golden brown on all sides, 8-10 minutes per batch. Transfer to a plate. 2. Add butter and onions to drippings in Dutch oven; season with salt. Cook, stirring often, until onions are soft and golden brown, 10-15 minutes. 3. Stir in garlic, ginger, coriander, cumin, turmeric, and cayenne. Cook, stirring constantly, until spices are fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in chickpeas and 2 cups broth. Return chicken and any accumulated juices to pot. Add more broth if needed to cover chicken about three-fourths of the way up. Bring to a simmer. Cover pot and transfer to oven. Braise chicken until fork-tender, 45-55 minutes. Do ahead: Chicken can be made 3 days ahead. Let cool slightly, then chill, uncovered, until cold. Cover and keep chilled. Rewarm before continuing. 4. Using tongs and a slotted spoon, transfer chicken to a platter and cover with foil to keep warm. Add spinach to pot, cover, and remove from heat. Let stand until

spinach is wilted, 5-7 minutes. 5. Stir yogurt into cooking liquid. Season with salt. Return chicken to pot. Warm over low heat (do not boil or yogurt may curdle). 6. Transfer chicken to a large deep platter. Pour spinach and chickpea sauce over. Sprinkle with cilantro.

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1/2 cup butter, cubed 1 medium red onion, chopped 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms 2 garlic cloves, minced 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper 2 tablespoons tomato paste 1 carton (32 ounces) chicken broth 2 cups whole baby clams, drained

1/2 pound uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined 2 cups lump crabmeat, drained 2 cups heavy whipping cream 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese 2 green onions, thinly sliced Preparation 1. In a Dutch oven, heat butter over medium-high heat. Add red onion and mushrooms; saute for 4-5 minutes or until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the flour, salt, and pepper until blended; add tomato paste. Gradually whisk in broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 5 minutes. 2. Add clams and shrimp; return to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 5-10 minutes longer or until shrimp turn pink, stirring occasionally. Stir in crab and cream; heat through (do not boil). Serve with cheese and green onions.

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