San Ysidro Roundabout Construction Begins

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Martial Arts Maestro – Learn long-lost forms and the often-unknown nuances of martial arts from Master Yun, P.30 Student Film Fest – Westmont hosts its inaugural Montecito Student Film Festival at the end of this month, P.33

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SAN YSIDRO ROUNDABOUT CONSTRUCTION BEGINS

After years of waiting...the San Ysidro roundabout is on the way! Median islands to be installed. Vegetation to be removed. Flaggers directing traffic. Work crews pulling old pavement. But in which order? Will it be at night? Will they finish before school starts? Find out more inside (Story starts on page 5)

Camera Controversy

Questions and responses emerge regarding the cameras with unpermitted tags placed around the Montecito Hot Springs, page 8

Reed Retires

The Music Academy’s CEO and President Scott Reed announces his retirement in this exclusive reveal, page 10

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

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Village Beat – More San Ysidro Roundabout construction details come around, and Bettina to expand to a new Carpinteria location

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Letters to the Editor – Montecitans gives their take on the Montecito Hot Springs, the local name of the Miramar swimming deck, and the mysterious remnants of an old pier appear

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The Optimist Daily – Eli Lilly announces a cap on their insulin prices, making it more accessible for Medicare-enrolled seniors

Montecito Miscellany – Music Academy’s CEO Scott Reed to retire, a dream performance by State Street Ballet, Ruckus rocks, and more

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Our Town – CEO and President of Pacifica Graduate Institute, Leonie H. Mattison, speaks about Women’s History Month and her direction with PGI

Society Invites – It’s all about the notes not being played and showing the support one does at Montessori’s Golden Age of Jazz benefit soirée

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On Entertainment – Charles Lloyd is jamming at 85, UCSB Dance goes Full Circle, literary happenings, and SOhO beats

Message from the MA – The Hot Springs controversy is bubbling up again, and there’s a question of who owns them

Stories Matter – It’s March Madness with this list of page turners spanning thrillers to multigenerational tales

Brilliant Thoughts – From kings to leaders, these are the reasons and people we have followed through time

The Giving List – Dunn School began with trying to help fund a single Ukrainian student, and those efforts have now expanded into a full program for refugee scholarships

Mind-Body Matters – Get out of your mind and into your body and somatic wellness practices with these tips

The Martial Arts Master – Master Yun is preserving lost forms of martial arts that he is teaching to his growing group of students

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In Passing – Remembering the impactful life of Cate School Mesa’s first librarian and past archivist, Elizabeth Webb Woodworth

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Your Westmont – The inaugural Montecito Student Film Festival is Saturday, March 25, in Porter Theatre

Foraging Thyme – Keep warm and healthy with this celery root soup that gets its kick from a little orange zest

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Calendar of Events – Lights Up! goes Into the Woods, Fragments of solo cello suites, and Doña Perón dances to town, plus more

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

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

Village Beat

San Ysidro Roundabout Construction to Begin

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

Community members are invited to a meeting at Montecito Union School this Thursday, March 9, to learn about the construction staging for the San Ysidro Roundabout, which begins Monday, March 13. Here’s what you need to know.

The first phase of work will begin in the northwest corner of the intersection of North Jameson Lane and San Ysidro Road, as well as at the northbound on-ramp at San Ysidro Road and the overcrossing sidewalk by the ramp. The northbound on-ramp will close on Monday, March 20 – it was originally planned for March 13, but rain delayed the plans – and remain closed through early 2025 for roundabout and then freeway-widening construction.

Crews will remove old pavement, clear and grub vegetation, and begin grading for a new retaining wall. Utility companies will also continue work in the area and along North Jameson Lane. Drivers should expect flaggers directing traffic as needed for the roundabout project and utility work. Pedestrians will be able to use the detour on San Leandro Lane and La Vereda Road.

Throughout the construction, which will take place both during the day and over some nights, we’re told that drivers will have access through the intersection except in June and July, when the overcrossing over Highway 101 will be closed to enable roundabout, bridge rail, and on- and off-ramp construction simultaneously. The goal is to get the overcrossing reopened by the time school starts this fall. Also in June, expect the long-term closure of the northbound off-ramp, which will remain closed until early 2025.

Later this fall, work will occur along the northeast corner of the San Ysidro intersection. Near the end of the year, crews will finish up the roundabout by paving the median islands, but the on- and off- ramps will remain closed because of the impending freeway construction. Drivers can use detours at Sheffield Drive and Olive Mill Road.

In related news, the southbound on-ramp at Olive Mill Road has reopened, and crews there continue to work on drainage improvements, roadway base, and paving. Work will continue on a new architectural wall as part of the roundabout, and drivers should continue to expect to see flaggers as needed directing traffic.

These two roundabout projects are being delivered early due to regional funding and Measure A funds. Widening of the 101 freeway between Olive Mill and San Ysidro roads will begin construction later this summer and is expected to take approximately three years.

At the Montecito Association (MA) Land Use Committee meeting earlier this week, Executive Director Sharon Byrne reported that two individuals have appealed the widening project due to the removal of sound walls. The board of supervisors will hear both appeals on Tuesday, April 4. The Land Use Committee voted to further discuss the issue of the sound wall appeal at next week’s MA

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Construction staging has been released for the San Ysidro Roundabout; the northbound on-ramp at San Ysidro will close on Monday, March 20, and remain closed through early 2025 for roundabout and then freeway-widening construction

Board of Directors meeting.

To learn more about the roundabout staging, visit www.sbroads.com.

Bettina to Expand

Late last week, Bettina owners Rachel Greenspan and Brendan Smith announced on social media that they have signed a lease for a new location in Carpinteria, as part of a multi-tenant development project coming to Linden Avenue.

The new location will be more casual than the Montecito Country Mart location, and will be more of a “to-go” style restaurant, offering an abbreviated menu of pizzas, salads, desserts, and maybe sandwiches down the line.

The Bettina duo is approaching their five-year anniversary at the Mart this fall, and in that time have built a cult-like following of residents and visitors who pack the eatery each day for their naturally leavened pizzas – which are slow-fermented over 48

hours and blasted in a wood-fired oven to produce a characteristically blistered, puffy crust with a soft, chewy interior – dressed-up with inventive toppings, as well as pastas, main entrees, salads, desserts, and more. Earlier this year, the restaurant was also featured on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins & Dives.

The exciting new project at 700 Linden Ave. is being designed by DMHA Architecture and entails the redevelopment of an entire city block in downtown Carpinteria. Four existing buildings have been reimagined by stripping the buildings down, revealing original hardware and architectural foundations, and enhancing their features with new architecture and designs. The project is designed around an urban park and is aimed at appealing to local residents and businesses.

Bettina will join other eateries, lifestyle services, and retail tenants.

Rachel Greenspan and Brendan Smith, owners of Bettina in Montecito Country Mart, have signed a lease to be part of a multi-tenant project coming to Carpinteria on Linden Avenue

The project is being designed by DMHA Architecture, and entails the redevelopment of an entire city block in downtown Carpinteria. It will be a destination featuring eateries, retail shops, and lifestyle services, all built around an urban park. (Courtesy rendering by DMHA)

Kelly Mahan Herrick, also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond.

Letters to the Editor

Cameras at the Hot Springs: On Whose Authority?

you get the camera? If not, can you give me a little more info on where it was (how far up the trail)? We should be able to grab it today if it is still there. If you have it and would like to drop it off, I can meet you at my office downtown.”

In response to inquiries from Public Works on Feb. 21, Lt. Butch Arnoldi of the Sheriff’s Department wrote in an email: “The primary purpose of the cameras is to capture illegal activity of various types: Being in a ‘Posted Forest Closure Area,’ constructing pools and diverting water for the natural environment, vandalism to the existing private water system, etc... A concerned citizen was authorized to install these cameras and is responsible for monitoring the activity and forwarding that information to the affected agency.” It turns out, there were five cameras.

are likely to be wiped out by winter storms? The Chumash were creating pools at the Montecito Hot Springs long before the white man arrived on the scene. All over California, people create pools in creeks.

It’s hard to believe the sheriff would do something so outside the legal process. It’s not easy to get approval to put surveillance cameras on public land, and doing so requires proper noticing. But no notices were attached to the cameras explaining what the operation was about, nor was any contact information provided in case the public had questions. It’s hard to believe the Sheriff’s Department would have told the “concerned cititzen” to affix a tag to each camera stating it was from Public Works without having first consulted that department. It’s a serious crime to

On Feb. 16, 2023, a camera was placed facing a newly restored pool at the Montecito Hot Springs. The camera bore a tag that had printed on it “County of Santa Barbara, Public Works, Trail and Creek Monitoring in Progress, Do Not Tamper or Remove, Enforced by County Sheriff.”

The Dept. of Public Works wasn’t happy after receiving information about that camera. On Feb. 17, Lael Wageneck, information officer for Public Works, sent an email to me: “I forwarded this information to the sheriff and let them know it may be some type of peeping Tom camera. I asked them if the camera is in their jurisdiction or the forest service. I’ll let everyone know if I hear back from the sheriff.”

On Feb. 17, Alex Dorman of Public Works Water Resources Division, Flood Control District, wrote to me:

“It seems odd the camera has ‘Public Works’ and ‘County Sheriff’ logos and no contact information. The ‘Trail and Creek Monitoring’ label doesn’t seem like something associated with Public Works activities.”

On the 19th, Mr. Dorman wrote, “We have reached out to all County Public Works Departments and wanted to confirm this is not one of our cameras.” On that same day, Mr. Wageneck wrote to me: “Please feel free to remove the camera and bring it to us.”

On the 20th, he wrote: “Yes, we are concerned that someone would pretend to represent Public Works in order to record residents and visitors and discourage people from removing the camera. Thank you again for taking the time to let us know about this. We definitely want to know who is pretending to act on our behalf and why.”

On the 21st, he wrote to me: “Did

Regarding forest closure, does the forest service have the right to close off the whole Los Padres National Forest consisting of 1.9 million acres? The agency needs to realize that it’s attached to the forest, that it doesn’t own it. The nature in the forest was created by God for man’s enjoyment. An old New England saying is, “The forest is the poor man’s refuge.” Yes, the agency has the right to close manmade things like unsafe campgrounds, roads, and bridges. But it doesn’t have the right to close off all trails and cross-country travel. It’s important to note that in winter, other national forests more dangerous than our local forest remain open. People go snow camping, mountain climbing, ice fishing, and cross-country skiing in Sierra Nevada forests, and face the risks of avalanches and freezing to death. Even the Pacific Crest Trail in the High Sierra is open in winter. Our forest is very safe in comparison. The order itself may be unconstitutional. Those who enter a closed forest don’t lose their constitutional rights.

Also, is it such a bad thing to create a few relatively small pools that

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Millions to Benefit from Drugmaker

Eli Lilly’s $35 Cap on Monthly Insulin

On March 1, drug producer Eli Lilly and Company announced that the outof-pocket cost of its insulin will be capped at $35 per month. According to experts, the action could lead other U.S. insulin manufacturers to follow.

The adjustment, which Eli Lilly says is effective immediately, brings the pharmaceutical company in line with a provision of the Inflation Reduction Act, which in January imposed a $35 monthly ceiling on the out-of-pocket cost of insulin for Medicare-enrolled seniors.

President Joe Biden applauded the move in a tweet and urged other insulin manufacturers to reduce their prices. Last month, Biden highlighted insulin expenses in his State of the Union address.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) hailed the decision and urged other insulin makers to reduce their prices.

Members of Congress and advocacy groups have put pressure on insulin manufacturers to reduce the price of the life-saving drug. The Rand Corporation, a public-policy think tank, projected that the average list price for a single vial of insulin in the United States in 2018 was $98.70.

The cap applies automatically to individuals with private insurance. Anyone without insurance who enrolls in Eli Lilly’s copay assistance program will be eligible.

Due to the pandemic, this program began delivering insulin to patients, regardless of their insurance status, for no more than $35 per month in 2020.

The limit applies to all of Eli Lilly’s insulin medicines, according to company spokesperson Kelly Smith. This year, the business would also reduce the list price of some of its medications, including Humalog.

David Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly, stated that the decision resulted from discussions between the firm and members of Congress on the price of the drug.

According to him, the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act resulted in a “split situation” in the United States, in which seniors benefited from a $35 out-of-pocket monthly cap, but persons with private insurance and the uninsured did not.

Around 8.4 million Americans with diabetes rely on insulin, as reported by the ADA. The insulin market is dominated by Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi, three pharmaceutical companies.

Three out of 10 diabetics who rely on insulin use an Eli Lilly medication, according to Smith.

Montecito Miscellany Reed to Retire

by Richard Mineards

Scott Reed, who has served as president and CEO of Montecito’s Music Academy for 14 years, is stepping down next summer, I can exclusively reveal.

The fourth president in the historic organization’s history, Scott, a UCSB graduate, has worked with the oceanside Miraflores campus for nearly 25 years, starting as an unpaid intern. He took over from NancyBell Coe when she retired and was chosen from more than 50 applicants after a seven-month nationwide search.

During his time leading the academy, applications have risen 34 percent and performance attendance has increased 38 percent, with the budget soaring 82 percent, reflecting a number of new programmatic achievements. He also oversaw projects worth more than $50 million.

The academy also forged a historic four-year partnership with the New York Philharmonic in 2014 and then the London Symphony Orchestra in 2018, including working with Sir Simon Rattle and conductor emeritus Michael Tilson Thomas.

“I am setting my sights on expanding my impact in the arts and beyond through the launch of my own fundraising firm,” Reed tells me.

“My passion for fundraising and experience with its ability to be a catalyst for positive change in the community and in the world is an inspiration for my professional and personal life.

“The Music Academy has allowed me to develop my skills in fundraising at the high-

est level and, in many ways, has prepared me for this next meaningful step in my career.”

The search for Scott’s successor has already begun.

“It will be an exciting one,” he adds. “Be assured that the process, led by our capable board, will be thoughtful and driven in a way that will ensure the Music Academy’s continued standard of excellence.”

I wish him all success....

A Dream Performance

State Street Ballet’s performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Granada was an enchanting show full of mishaps and mayhem.

The William Shakespeare work, with rollicking music written in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn – he composed the overture when just 17 – and inventive choreography by company founder Rodney Gustafson, transcended the two worlds of mortals and fairies, a whimsical and humorous homage to the transformative power of love with mischief, magic, and romance.

Much credit goes to Marika Kobayashi and Ryan Lenkey, and Deise Mendonça and Hernan Montenegro as the besotted lovers in the one-act ballet. Kaito Yamamoto as the mischievous fairy Puck was also a standout, along with Nerea Barrondo as Titania, Harold Mendez as Oberon, and the ever-entertaining Sergei Domrachev as Bottom, among

the talented cast.

The entertaining program also featured three opening contemporary works – Tango Rain, set to the sensuous Argentinian music of Astor Piazzolla, choreographed by William Soleau, co-artistic director, pulsating Fold by Kassandra Taylor Newberry, centered around a game of poker to the music of Gladiator film composer Hans Zimmer, and a charming pas de deux, Spring Waters, to music by Rachmaninoff choreographed by Asaf Messerer.

Causing a Classic Ruckus

Ruckus, a sextet of talented period instrumentalists, were going for

John Williams: A Cinematic Celebration

“E.T.,” “Star Wars,” “Jaws” — Five-time Oscar® and 12-time Grammy©- Award winner John Williams has been composing film scores for Hollywood’s blockbusters for more than 50 years. His collaborations with directors Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas, whose movies attained cult status, not least because of his unmistakable music, are legendary. Hear and watch these powerful cinematic moments come

Scott Reed, president of the Music Academy, prepares for retirement (photo by Priscilla)

Fold focused on a game of poker set to music by Hans Zimmer (photo by Andre Yew)

Our Town A Talk with Leonie H. Mattison, PGI’s CEO and President

by Joanne A Calitri

To celebrate local women of history, this column dedicates the month of March to them – their contributions, their stories, their inspiration, and opportunities to support.

As a Black woman born in Jamaica, West Indies, growing up in Queens, New York City, and deciding to make Santa Barbara home 15 years ago, Leonie H. Mattison, Ed.D., MBA is a story of courage and community, resolve and recovery, determination, and dedication, leading to her appointment October 2022 as the first Black and female CEO and president of Pacifica Graduate Institute (PGI) Montecito in its 46-year history. She is evolving its mission statement forward and created its first-ever Vision Statement to expand the traditions, the techniques, the power and advancement of depth psychology, through education, learning, training, and more.

A recipient of the 2018 Pacific Coast Business Times 40 under 40, she wears her

well-deserved awards with the dignity of a leader true to her values. She holds an MBA from Georgian Court University and an Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership from Argosy University, and volunteers at Rooted SBC and Central Coast Black Leaders Roundtable.

In her book The Thread: Six Steps to Intentional Transformation After Trauma or Crisis, she pioneered a six-step system called T.H.R.E.A.D.© (Think, Harvest, Release, Enlist, Adopt, and Design) positive outcomes from difficult situations, integrating Jungian psychology, pedagogy, and spiritual practices to transform lives, communities, and organizations.

Daily she connects with God through conversations and meditating on Bible scriptures, time with her three daughters and granddaughter, and walking her rescue dog. Her top-shelf book authors are Brené Brown, Joyce Meyer, T.D. Jakes, Myles Munroe, and John Maxwell, and favorite films, wait for it … Snake Eyes and Kill Bill.

This week, we are going in-depth with “Dr. Lee,” a woman making her-story part of women’s history.

Q. Let’s start with the importance of your position at PGI and its place in women’s history…

A. On Oct. 3, 2022, when I became the first Black woman to serve as President and CEO at Pacifica Graduate Institute, I was overwhelmed with joy. The idea that I would have the opportunity to lead this storied institution with a rich history of academic excellence, innovation, and service was a dream come true. Stepping into this role, I hope my tenure here will empower Black women to follow. With this visibility comes an immense sense of pride and gratitude for being given the space to expand my contributions to communities and transform lives. Positively impacting lives is what women’s history is about, and what PGI is about.

I have expanded the leadership team, with roughly half of our executive team members now women. Our interim provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Vice President of Enrollment, Senior Director of Alumni Relations, and yours truly are all women in executive leadership. Most of our world-renowned faculty, staff, learners, board of trustees members and alumni are pioneering women in leadership.

Professionally, I believe that this is a journey I could replicate for our community. In the Jungian sense, this is the triumph of that Middle Life journey, overcoming difficulties and

fully embracing the adult psyche. Many women we honor during Women’s History Month have done this, shaping their narratives by living their lives on their terms. They heard the clarion calls for rebirth and heeded them, pushing through the burden to experience the beauty.

That’s what I must do; on a greater level, it’s what we all must do.

Leonie H. Mattison, Ed.D., MBA, CEO and President of Pacifica Graduate Institute (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

Society Invites Montessori Center School Annual Benefit

by Joanne A Calitri

The Montessori Center School held its annual soirée benefit at the Santa Barbara Woman’s Club on March 4. The theme, “The Golden Age of Jazz, ” brought more gold lurex to this side of the Nile that could rival the rate of inflation. Men in pinstriped, wool zoot suits to tuxedos with bowler hats escorted their favorite sweethearts draped in yards of art deco-designed, gold lame dresses with layers of gold fringe, kimonos, and matching hairbands with feathers, the ’20s in 2023 did roar. Every detail was noted from the goldware place settings, program design, matching name tags, and white feathered balls with baby lights as table centerpieces.

Event Chair Morgan McDonald and her committee members Kathy Kelley, Conor Adler, and Amy Whiteford had started work on the event in the summer of 2022. Kelley shared, “It’s been 20 years

since we hosted an event at the Santa Barbara Woman’s Club. Our school fundraising theme for the 2022-23 school year is Stay Golden. In keeping aligned with all things golden, our auction theme, The Golden Age of Jazz, naturally lends itself a glamorous, Gatsby feel. We have a small but mighty committee of four, plus the additional support of our classroom parent representatives. Each year, our teachers work with their classroom parent representatives to create a student-led art project that is unique and one-of-a-kind, 12 in all, for the live auction. Our total fundraising goal is $100 thousand, which will rebuild a new Sports Court and support our general operating expenses.” Following cocktails and a warm welcome by Head of School Melanie Jacobs, dinner was served. The live auction was led by Geoff Green, CEO at the SBCC Foundation. His skills at upping the ante brought in more than $33K and an additional $30K for the cash call plea.

The event entertainment was magician Mark Collier, the MDance and Friends band, featuring local vocal extraordinaire Miriam Dance, a speakeasy lounge with blackjack tables, and whiskey bar.

Guests were parents, teachers, and friends of the school. Noted were board President Michael James Hey and Anne L. Shaw-Hey, Casey and Alex Fang, Brittany and Scott Sloan, Aniko and David Kim, Jessica Scheeter and Zach Gill, Robert and Faye Riskin, Katie Allen,

Dana Kabashima, and Megi Haydon; and Auction Committee/Room reps not already mentioned were Tara Ferguson, Dasha Russ, Raine Hahn, Sarah Anthony, Katie O’Keefe, Jen Press, Débora IglesiasRodriguez, Gabrielle Welder, Robin Deinhard, Aniko Kim, Josephine Lin, Amy Levin Toohey, Kristen Ritter, and Cheryl Eberharter David Kim donated specialty cocktails.

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like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey

Head of School Melanie Jacobs and board President Michael James Hey (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

David and Aniko Kim (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

Event Committee Kathy Kelley, Morgan Mcdonald, Conor Adler, and Amy Whiteford (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

Scott and Brittany Sloan (photo by Joanne A Calitri) Alex and Casey Fang (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

Zach Gill and Jessica Scheeter (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

On Entertainment A Dreamer in Sound

by Steven Libowitz

Charles Lloyd reported that he wasn’t in good shape when we connected by phone last week. But it wasn’t a physical issue ailing the octogenarian saxophonist-composer who back in the late 1960s enjoyed one of the first million-selling jazz albums. It was a spiritual sadness after hearing that Wayne Shorter had died overnight.

“We were good friends and colleagues,” Lloyd said, recalling an hourslong jam session the two participated in an L.A. hotel, when both bands they belonged to were in town at the same time decades ago. “He was five years my senior, but he was younger than springtime, a genius with a big imagination and a big heart.”

While Lloyd’s fame was not as sustained or extensive as Shorter’s, the jazz great has carved out a more than respectable career that has seen him play with jazz artists of all ages over the years – emerging from the hilltop home in Montecito he has shared with

his photographer wife Dorothy Darr for almost 40 years, with a new burst of creative energy at once contemplative and soulful.

Lloyd’s next hometown gig at the Lobero on Friday, March 10, celebrates his 85th birthday five days later as part of the theater’s 150th anniversary. Here’s an excerpt from our conversation:

Q. Does Shorter’s passing have you thinking of your own mortality?

A. We’re all just passing through. This is not our home – you can’t build a house on a bridge, and we could be called home at any time. So what I have to do is continue to live in the now and realize that I’m blessed to be a music maker in this lifetime. I’m aware of the temporality of so-called life on the planet, so I try to work on my character and work on my sound. I’ve got experience, but I still have that beginner’s mind, that Buddhist thing of being able to see the freshness all the time. I meditate and I try to stay out of folks’ way, and I like the quiet and solitude I have been blessed with here in the mountains where I can do my work. I’m motivated to continue to go deeper into my art form, which has been a quest all my life.

You’ve put together a special trio to play with for the concert at the Lobero. Some old friends in pianist Jason Moran and bassist Larry Grenadier, but also a new face in the great drummer Brian Blade, who has won Grammys during his time with both Chick Corea and Wayne Shorter.

It’s an amazing voyage to go on with Brian, who is probably the greatest living young drummer, an extremely sensitive percussionist. We’ve had mutual love and respect for each other over the decades but have never played together before. He’s flying in from Shreveport (just for the concert). It’s a very special formation, a holy group coming together for the night, which I think will be deep and quiet and sensitive. I’ve written lots of new music. Now it seems it will be dedicated to Wayne.

Playing at the Lobero has become almost an annual affair for you, and I know how much you love the history and acoustics. I’m imagining it has extra meaning to be playing there again.

I’m told that I played the Lobero more than any other artist, which really means something to me when you look at those photos in the green room of people who have performed there over the years. When I came out here (to California) from Memphis and New York, I thought that with the beauty of music, I’d be able to change the world. That was my dream … We’re more polarized than ever … but I’m still a dreamer in sound. So, I just try to bring forth some deep truths, these elixirs of the infinite, with love and gratitude and grace and humility, to share with

Charles Lloyd plays his 85th Birthday Celebration at the Lobero on Friday, March 10

(photo by D. Darr)

falsely represent a government agency, and even a sheriff’s deputy could be subject to disciplinary action if he did so. And if the operation were approved by a legal authority, why attach to the camera’s tags saying they’re from Public Works?

Concerning the closing of Los Padres National Forest, a lot of local residents are either practicing civil disobedience or are unaware of the order. It’s going to be hard to keep them away from their cherished trails. For example, on any given day, quite a few hikers can be found on Cold Spring Trail and the Ridge Trail. No signs are at the beginning of these trails stating the forest is closed. People who took the Ridge Trail to get to the hot springs may have ended up being photographed in a pool of hot water, or in the act of undressing, and may not have been aware of it!

It’s sad that some people think they have the right and power to disrupt the lives of people who are seeking the healing power of nature.

After the hot springs became popular, residents in the area have been unhappy with hikers parking their cars in the vicinity of the trailhead and have illegally placed rocks in the public right-of-way.

The cameras may be an effort to scare people from using the trail.

Those residents have a lot of clout. Their actions have led to restrictive parking at the trailhead (two-hour parking during weekends, and parking lot closure at dusk), as well as county rangers being placed there. Cold Spring Trail and the Ridge Trail haven’t been a problem to them, and backpackers can still leave their cars overnight at the trailhead serving them. These busier trails have no rangers stationed explaining the forest is closed.

There are a lot of unanswered questions.

Bryan Rosen, Montecito

Don’t Rename ‘The Raft’

As a member of a five-generation Montecito family who has now become an “old-timer” Montecito resident, I have had to adjust to my old familiar places having their names changed:

The Coral Casino, formerly always called just “the Casino,” is now called “the Coral;” Montecito Union School is now called just “MUS,” and the long-standing Miramar Hotel is now often referred to as “Rosewood.”

But please, please, please new Montecito residents, don’t start calling the future new Miramar Hotel “swim platform” –which has always been, until recently, in the sea in front of the Miramar Hotel each summer for at least the past 80 years – anything but its long-time name: THE RAFT. This is its name, and it carries a proud history!

Thank you,

Sally Bromfield

Hot Take on the Hot Springs

It is good that the MJ questioned local authorities about the cameras at the hot springs, but the responses were very inadequate in my opinion. It is still unanswered why hidden cameras with fake I.D. tags were placed in a national forest in an area where nudity is known to occur. The response mentioned vague issues about water diversion, debris flows, and people building soaking “tubs.” The only water being diverted from the hot springs is by the Montecito Creek Water Company. Some people have moved around rocks

at the hot springs to make a few pools. But those are only temporary in nature, as they are changed or obliterated when heavy rains come and large rocks are moved about. No damage is done to the environment by moving a few rocks to make pools.

Most of the article dealt with forest closure. It is high-handed and a power grab to order a public forest closed and is only the latest example of authorities using “health and safety” concerns to trample on people’s freedoms. The authorities are treating residents as children, and that is bad.

Clint Belkonen

Mystery on Butterfly Beach

I like to think of myself as a local history buff. I get my hands on as many local history books as possible and love reading about all the people and things that have come before me (I’ve got to thank Lost Horizons bookstore in the Upper Village for the constant supply of literature). It turns out that for an area with not too many people, plenty of surprising and fascinating things

have happened here, and many interesting people have called the South Coast home.

That’s why I was surprised when I visited Butterfly Beach on Friday afternoon, March 3, to see something I don’t recall ever reading about. The beach’s destruction thanks to the recent storm was quite shocking, but it did reveal what seems to be the remains of an old pier or dock amongst the rocks.

I was even able to get up close to one of the pylons, which appeared to still be anchored in the ground, though bent. It had a rusted metal coating, with wood sticking out the end.

Very curious, upon arriving home I whipped out my trusty The Days of the Great Estates by David F. Myrick. Though the book has no information on Butterfly Beach specifically, it does have a map of the area from 1899 behind the front cover.

Although it was a bit squished right inside the book’s binding, I was delighted to see a pier marked right in the spot I had been standing on the beach! I think the letters are “P.D.” I have no idea what that refers to, and none of the other piers on the map (both Stearns and the grouping used for Oil Drilling in Summerland) are marked by any letters at all.

The words “Country Club” also appear above the pier, and I recall reading that there were golf links located in the area back then, though most of the course was just sand. I tried to find more information on the Internet, but typing in things like “Butterfly Beach Montecito History/ photos” just returns TripAdvisor and Yelp reviews. I did stumble upon Brad Bayley ’s website “Santa Barbara Vintage Photography,” which provides many great pictures of the Biltmore and Montecito Country Club back when they first opened, but alas, none of Butterfly Beach.

Looking again at The Days of the Great Estates , but this time to the back inner cover, there’s a map of the area in 1937. By this year, it seems, the pier had vanished.

I thought I might reach out to the readers of Montecito Journal for more information. Does anyone know about this mysterious piece of Montecito’s past, that existed from at least 1899 but was gone by 1937?

Sullivan Israel

Location of the camera overlooking the hot springs

The mysterious pier pylons off of Butterfly Beach

Message from the Montecito Association

Who Owns the Creeks?

by Sharon Byrne

As a neighborhood association, we receive lots of questions, and some can be difficult to sort, particularly if they cross multiple jurisdictional lines. We encounter this often with Hands Across Montecito, when we work the area around the Hot Springs exit. In just a few steps on the tracks, you’re moving back and forth between the jurisdictions of the City of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, and the State of California.

After the 1/9/23 storm, we’re getting a lot of inquiries about the creeks, and who has jurisdiction and ownership? It’s proving tough to answer. Here are some examples:

The Hot Springs pools in the creek. In the pandemic, we began experiencing issues with water ownership, pool creation and destruction, late-night access, and trail damage from overuse and littering.

The Hot Springs have apparently always been a draw. Back in the 1870s, there was a hotel up the trail. It was destroyed in a forest fire in 1921. It later became an exclusive club, destroyed by the Coyote Fire in 1964, though the building’s foundation is still there. I hiked up there in the early 2010s, with a friend who grew up near it in the 1970s. She said it was never fenced-off. We found destroyed concrete basins and pipes from the Montecito Creek Water Company.

The Forest Service “owns” the land north of the debarkation point of the trail, owned by County Parks and Rec. The Santa Barbara County Land Trust figures in here, too.

The Jan. 9 storm wiped out the artificial pools created during the pandemic, a huge draw for day-tripping tourists keen to get the Instagram shot. Perhaps Mother Nature rearranged the Hot Springs back to her liking. The Forest Service closed all trails until March 15, both to avoid dangerous conditions and to give the trails time to recover from the storm. Within days of the 1/9 storm, there were reports of a young man who decided he was going to ignore the trail closure and build the pools back up.

Many people felt like that was illegal. What happened to “leave no trace” as part of appreciating and being in nature? Can anyone just move parts of a creek around as they see fit?

But who, if anyone, had jurisdiction?

Five years ago, there was a panel discussion on the geological changes that had occurred as a result of the Thomas

Debris Flow. One of the attendees was a senior California Fish and Wildlife officer who expressed strong opinions regarding homeowners who changed creek flow by building up walls to hem it in. One got the sense she thought we would get what we deserved.

Down on San Ysidro creek, neighbors around Ennisbrook noticed a large wall going up in the creek after the 1/9 storm. They were concerned this would divert creek water during high rain events and cause flooding in new places. They consulted with Santa Barbara County zoning and SB Flood Control, and were told that such a wall was neither legal nor would it be permitted. The neighbors filed complaints with county zoning. I called Flood Control and got the impression they did not have jurisdiction.

But doesn’t Flood Control maintain the creeks, in terms of ensuring they are kept clear to drain adequately? Didn’t the Ring Nets project have to go through extensive county emergency permitting to be installed?

Property owners adjacent to creeks report their property lines go into the creek. But do they “own” the creek? When a homeowner on Parra Grande Lane tried to shore up the back end of their property that disappeared into Montecito creek in the 1/9 storm, they were met swiftly by an armed officer of California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. A neighbor reported them. They discovered they needed to obtain a permit to work in the creek. I reached out to our contacts at California Fish and Wildlife, and here’s what they said:

“They will need to submit an emergency notification to us for this, so we can review it. People need to submit notifications to us 14 days after starting the work, so that we can review them and determine if there is any additional work to be done, such as restoration activities, or if too much work was done, we will require them to submit a regular standard streambed notification.”

It feels like California Fish and Wildlife is the ultimate authority on what you can and can’t do on creeks, at least in a state of emergency after a storm.

But we still haven’t found the definitive authority on creeks. Yet.

We’ll keep you posted as these issues evolve.

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March Madness 2023

by Leslie Zemeckis

Strangers in the Night by Heather Webb chronicles the heart-pounding love affair between Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner. Told from both Frank and Ava’s points of view, the book spans the whole arc of their tempestuous romance, from the slow burn, through the sizzle and the fireworks that ultimately blew the couple apart. This is a sexy read.

Cathleen Schine tackles early Hollywood and the pandemic with Künstlers in Paradise. Elevenyear-old Mamie escapes Vienna because of the Nazi invasion in 1939.

Along with her parents and grandfather, the family lands in Paradise, a.k.a. Hollywood. Among orange blossoms and an azure Pacific Ocean, the refugees hobnob with everyone who is anyone working in the film industry. Flash forward to the pandemic and Mamie’s aimless grandson, Julian, must lock down with his 93-year-old grandmother.

Over time, Mamie shares her stories with Julian, about her famous encounters with Christopher Isherwood, Arnold Schoenberg, and Greta Garbo herself. The book is about stories, the power of them, how sharing them is transformative, as it becomes with Julian, who ends up finding himself through Mamie’s stories.

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Harlan Coben is out with another page-turner with I will Find You. David is in prison for the murder of his young son, a fact he has learned to live with. Until his ex-sister-in-law, Rachel, shows up with a current day photo of David’s son. Could he be alive? Everything quickly unravels, as David knows his only chance at discovering the truth is to break out of prison and find his son. Hold on tight, this one is like hoping on a rocket.

Emilia Hart’s Weyward is an original debut. A story of three generations of women, with a touch of magical powers, and all are accused of witchery. Set in the countryside of England over many centuries, the women fight suppressive husbands, fathers, and in general most men who would rather see the Weyward women burned at the stake. The book is gorgeously and imaginatively written.

Ifell in love with The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch, an epic story along the lines of Doctor Zhivago. It is romantic, tragic, and spans generations of violent, romantic Russian history. It is a tale of who we are, and the search to find out who our parents were.

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What Have We Done is about three kids who bond during their time in a home for parentless teens. Reunited years later, they must solve who is trying to kill them before it is too late. This thriller will knock your socks off.

The Red Queen is the first in a new trilogy. Juan GómezJurado has written a by-the-seat-of-your-pants thriller with a dynamic duo you won’t easily forget. Antonio is a deeply damaged woman with a brilliant forensic mind who must leave her apartment to team up with Jon, a disgraced police officer in Bilbao, Spain, to solve a kidnapping. That’s all I’m saying. Get this book!

Stephanie Marie Thornton brings Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley to life in Her Lost Words. A mother and daughter, both brilliant wordsmiths in their day but who actually never knew each other, are brought together by Thornton’s impeccable research.

So many – if I forgot any, I’ll post them on my IG, which is @lesliezemeckis for the latest and greatest reads. Warning: April is just as big a literary month.

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Alisa Weilerstein, cello FRAGMENTS

Fri, Mar 10 / 7 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

Tickets start at $20

“A multimedia Bach show.”

The New York Times

Enjoy Bach as you never have before in this wholly original and immersive audience experience from Alisa Weilerstein. FRAGMENTS weaves music old and new in a dramatic journey that elevates the senses to provide an opportunity to go deeper into the music.

An Arts & Lectures Co-commission

West Coast Premiere

Ballet Hispánico

Doña Perón

Eduardo Vilaro, Artistic Director

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Choreographer

Sat, Mar 11 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre

“In Lopez Ochoa’s high-varnish, athletic style of contemporary ballet, gorgeously danced… you see not just a riveting story but a company having reached a new horizon.” The New York Times

Lead Sponsor: Jody & John Arnhold

Dance Series Sponsors: Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Bob Feinberg, Ellen & Peter O. Johnson, Barbara Stupay, and Sheila Wald

Wynton Marsalis Septet

Tue, Apr 4 / 7 PM (note special time) / Granada Theatre

“Jazz is a metaphor for democracy.”

Wynton Marsalis

The Wynton Marsalis Septet performs seminal compositions from Marsalis’ wide-ranging career, original works by his frequent collaborators and standards spanning the vast historical landscape of jazz.

Major Sponsor: Sara Miller McCune

Event Sponsor: Jody & John Arnhold

Jazz Series Lead Sponsor: Manitou Fund

Wynton Marsalis, trumpet Chris Crenshaw, trombone

Abdias Armenteros, saxophone Chris Lewis, saxophone & clarinet

Carlos Henriquez, bass Domo Branch, drum Dan Nimmer, piano

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Brilliant Thoughts Follow

by Ashleigh Brilliant

Some people are said to be born leaders. But we don’t hear so much about born followers. However, born or not, the followers are the vast majority of any population, and they need good leaders – although, in a time of crisis, a leader may emerge who will lead everybody in the wrong direction. The classic example, in modern times, is Adolf Hitler, who, in a few short years, took Germany from just recovering from defeat in World War I (in which he’d been a soldier) to a much more devastating defeat in the Second World War.

How did he do it? What made even otherwise sensible people want to follow him? The answer seems largely to lie in the hypnotic power of his speeches, which in turn were made more powerful by modern microphones and other technical developments. In particular, radio brought those speeches into people’s homes. And speaking in sharp, often angry, tones, he said what people wanted to hear – how Germany had been unfairly treated when forced to accept a surrender agreement, agreeing to pay a huge indemnity to the victorious Allies – even required to surrender her colonies.

And Hitler gave his listeners someone to blame – that eternal scapegoat, the Jews.

Another key to his success was a willingness to resort to violence, under the guise of a political party, whose members called themselves National Socialists, a title familiarly known as “NAZIs.” Its platform particularly appealed to certain sectors of German youth, who were organized into armed gangs, ruthlessly engaged in stifling opposition.

Every movement seems to need some form of holy writ, and in this case, it was a book written by Hitler himself, called Mein Kampf (“My Struggle.”)

But any successful establishment also needs something Hitler did not leave – a clear line of succession. That is, who will take the place of the leader when the leader goes, and who will take that successor’s place, and so on. Historically, it has been monarchies with definite rules about these matters which have survived longest. The British monarchy can trace itself back at least as far as 1066, when William the Conqueror came over the Channel from France, won the Battle of Hastings, and set up a new line of succession. There have, since then, been numerous disruptions, rebellions, and even a Civil War, but each new claimant of the Throne could assert his kingship by some rule or “right,”

including various Acts of Parliament. The Royal Family, of course, had its own family tree, defining relationships. These often crossed national boundaries, so that, for example, when Queen Anne died in 1707, her successor – and nearest relative, who became George I – was a German, from Hanover, who couldn’t even speak English. But this began the “House of Hanover,” which, although it changed its name to Windsor, when Britain was fighting Germany in World War I, is still the reigning British Royal Family. That family, however, has had its own succession problems, one of which involved a crisis precipitated by a scandal. When George V died on Jan. 20, 1936, his son Edward, the Prince of Wales, automatically became the King, and took the title of Edward VIII. But he was known to be involved with a woman named Wallis Simpson, who had divorced one husband and was in the process of divorcing a second. For several reasons, this was unacceptable to the British government, and Edward was forced to abdicate. In a famous radio speech of his own, he announced his abdication, and said he could no longer be the King “without the help and support of the woman I love.” He was on the throne for less than a year.

A very different kind of succession crisis occurred much earlier, in the Islamic faith. In fact, it involved the founder of that faith, and those who followed him. Muhammad died in what Christians call the year 632 A.D. He was the acknowledged leader of Islam. But a dispute arose among his followers as to who would be their next leader. This led to a split, which has lasted to this day, between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

Of course, I need hardly to tell you about the followers of Jesus, and along how many different religious paths the last two millennia have taken them.

But I hope you’ll allow me to have the last word on this subject, with one of my relevant epigrams:

“Follow me – It’s better for us to be lost together.”

Miscellany (Continued from 10)

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.

baroque at the Music Academy’s Hahn Hall when they played an all-Bach concert with flutist Emi Ferguson for Camerata Pacifica.

Exhibiting an extraordinary display of period instruments including theorbo, baroque guitar and bassoon, viola da gamba, and harpsichord, the musicians, led by founder Clay Zeller-Townson on baroque bassoon, explored Bach’s genius from multiple angles, bringing life to the colors and nuances of his popular music during the hugely entertaining 90-minute concert of preludes and flute sonatas.

The enlightening show represented three distinct stages and aspects of the German composer’s life.

Bach died at the age of 65 in 1750 in Leipzig, having composed more than 1,000 pieces of music including the Brandenburg Concertos and The WellTempered Clavier

Bach with bite....

A Toned-Down Crowning

After being asked to leave their historic home, Frogmore Cottage, just a tiara’s toss from Windsor Castle, Prince Harry and his former actress wife Meghan Markle have been offered alternative accommodations at Buckingham Palace by his father, King Charles III

The tony twosome moved into the 10-bedroom property, just a short distance from Queen Victoria’s magnificent mausoleum, in 2019 after it was given to them as wedding present by the late Queen Elizabeth, before leaving the U.K. one year later, after spending personal funds to totally renovate it.

In other royal news, KEYT-TV, the ABC affiliate, has asked me to provide my dulcet tones for commentary when Charles, who I got to know well when covering his polo playing exploits at Guards Club, Windsor, in the 1970s when I was royal correspondent on The Daily Mirror, is crowned at historic Westminster Abbey on May 6.

The pomp and pageantry of the occasion should be quite extraordinary with most of the crowned heads of Europe in attendance, but Charles, 74, has insisted on a much pared-down ceremony with just 2,000 guests. His mother’s coronation in 1953 had more than 8,000 and lasted four hours.

His Majesty wants the time reduced to

just 60 minutes with guests allowed to wear lounge suits rather than heavy and expensive ceremonial robes.

Although Prince Harry, 38, has said he won’t pen a sequel to his blockbuster controversial tell-all Spare, which has become the fastest selling nonfiction book of all time, he may pen a bonus chapter to be included in the book’s paperback version.

“Readers are eager to know Harry and Meghan’s feelings about the royal backlash they have suffered after the airing of the Netflix documentary and the publication of Spare,” a royal insider tells the New York Post’s Page Six.

Manhattan publisher Penguin-Random House isn’t commenting.

Stay tuned...

Los Romeros Rock Lobero

It was certainly a family affair when Los Romeros, a guitar quartet featuring family members – Celin, Pepe, Angel, and Lito Romero – performed at the Lobero, part of the CAMA Masterseries.

The family was celebrating its 60th anniversary and the historic theater its 150th birthday.

The dynasty settled in Santa Barbara after legendary Spanish guitarist Celedonio Romero left his native country in 1957 when his artistic freedom was jeopardized under the Fascist regime of Gen. Francisco Franco. In June 1958, Miscellany Page 264

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Bach creates a ruckus at Camerata Pacifica (photo by Tim Norris)

Los Romeros pulled many strings at Lobero concert (courtesy photo)

What is your top priority at PGI?

This is a time of transformation, progress, and onward expansion of the traditions, education, and advancements of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. On day one, I designed and embarked on a 100-day listening, learning, and connecting tour to build and gain trust as I sought insights on Pacifica’s points of pride, pain, possibilities, and priorities. I met with over 500 internal and external stakeholders through hybrid town halls, on-campus meetings, community dialogs, and an online survey. From my experience, people will champion what they help to create.

I have outlined the six themes that emerged from the data collected and reflections on those themes, which will be merged into a new strategic plan this summer and launched in 2024.

The top three research priorities we are launching this year are to address the mental health crisis, human justice, and climate change. Pacifica is poised to innovate solutions rooted in depth psychology to help sectors impacted by COVID-19 in Santa Barbara County and beyond.

My focus includes establishing a task force to engage workforce leaders to ensure our future programs meet industry demand and cultivating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture at the Institute.

We invite industry professionals, residents, nonprofit organizations, and government leaders to join our task force, and we need community funders for scholarships.

What is the most rewarding area of your work?

When I think about the complex changes that have been thrust to the forefront of our collective consciousness and after hearing concerns, innovative suggestions, and creative ideas, I believe PGI’s mission is more critical than ever.

I deeply appreciate the dedication of our faculty, staff, executive leadership team, the board of trustees, learners, and alumni who shared reflections on our academic programs and scholarly and creative endeavors. It is impressive to hear about the care and personalized attention our faculty, staff, and administration provide to unlock the intellectual capacity of our learners as they pursue meaningful career pathways.

I enjoy walking the campuses and eagerly engaging with learners, faculty, and staff, tending compassionately to each other’s souls.

There’s a Pacifica that exists today and an even greater Pacifica we can become. We can now shoulder the burden of that metamorphosis and find beauty.

There are many lessons we can take away from Women’s History Month. A crucial one is this: The integration of the

shadow and the clarity of the vision can unearth the positive legacy that follows sorrowful struggle.

What meaning does Women’s History Month 2023 have for you?

It is a time of leading, facilitating, and celebrating the power of transformational leadership. As women in leadership, we don’t have to carry the hurt of our ancestors’ trauma; instead, we can choose to heal and transform the pain we feel today into power tomorrow.

I believe that it’s so important for women to be in leadership roles, because it’s hard to believe you can become what you don’t see.

The National Women’s History Alliance 2023 theme is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.” It is our time to look back to honor, share, and celebrate with gratitude the stories of the many great women who fought and have left our communities a better place to live, work, and love.

2023 is also a time to be mindful that so many women in our country and worldwide still do not have access to the resources needed to thrive. I think we can think ahead on how we take action on behalf of others by lifting, opening doors, and making room at the table for women who cannot do that for themselves.

And the positive impact women bring to society?

Women can hear, discern, see, and do things others can’t do. Research has shown that when women are appointed to the C-suite, organizations innovate faster, become more profitable and socially responsible, and provide safer, higher-quality customer experiences, among many other benefits.

From my experience, women contribute greater diversity of thought, problem-solving, and experience to organizations where they lead or hold decision-making positions. These promote and facilitate better decision-making and can refine an organization’s performance and direction.

We cannot have healthy families, a well-rounded society, a progressive community, or a healthy organization if women are missing from the leadership table. A woman’s presence is a gift to the world! It’s time to unwrap and unlock more of these special blessings.

Each generation wants the next to take wisdom from what works and rebuild to transform into the next, as long as it’s not holding us stuck. My grandmother was raised in a generation that believed there was no place for her in a man’s world. My mother was raised in a prove-your-worth generation that asked how you make it in a man’s world. I grew up in a generation that says if they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. I love my children’s generation because they are challenging

the process. We have taught them that there is no more settling for less; we recognize that we need a conceptual shift where celebrating women who told our story isn’t just being dumped on those who are affected. It has to be the responsibility of the people benefiting from women’s achievements and those maintaining the system.

Did you have female mentors?

I am grateful for the many women who lifted me while they climbed. There are too many to mention! I admire those women who took the elevator and sent it back down to bring me up through mentorship, coaching, sponsorship, allyship, friendship, mirrors of light, and so much more. These women have taught me firsthand how to pay it forward while also bringing up those from behind and around me.

What are your tools for women with careers and families to carve out time for themselves?

I remind myself that it’s healthy to honor boundaries and replenish myself.

I value my mentors, my faith, my family, my close friends, and my community, who have been instrumental in helping me to navigate and overcome those small steps on the way to great outcomes. In a community, you feel inspired, supported, and empowered to walk through the shadows of the valley of arduous steps to achieve great success.

I value and practice loads of self-kindness, self-compassion, and self-love, which are important in this process.

Also, be aware if you are climbing alone – by the time you get to the top, a.k.a. the promised land, you will be too tired to impact lives. No woman is an island, and no woman should want to stand alone. Take time to create a community to inspire you to greatness.

Be OK with asking for help – therapy, coaching, faith, mentorship, or allyship.

In closing…

I want to acknowledge the power and opportunity of education to transform lives, careers, communities, and the world. We invite everyone to engage in

this work through our graduate degrees, certificate programs, and community engagement activities.

411: Since 1990, via Public Law 100-9 with resolutions, the U.S. president proclaims annually the month of March as Women’s History Month www.womenshistorymonth.gov

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Joanne A. Calitri is a professional international photographer and journalist. Contact her at: artraks@ yahoo.com

The Giving List Dunn School

by Steven Libowitz

Dunn School’s Kalyan Balaven, head of school for the private co-ed college prep boarding and day school in Los Olivos, had no idea of the floodgates that would open when he decided to find a way to help a student from the Ukraine who early last year was initially only seeking a few extra days to delay re-enrollment for the 2022-23 academic year.

“The war hadn’t started, but within those few days the invasion happened, and then her mother reached out again to talk with me,” Balaven recalled. “We get on a video call with her in Poland, with her little kids scrambling in the background, and she is telling me she’s lost everything. She and the kids got out, but her husband is still back there.”

All the student’s mom wanted was for Balaven to write a letter of recommendation from Dunn for her oldest daughter, who would try to attend somewhere closer to the family.

But Balaven refused.

“I told her, ‘No, I won’t give you a letter,’” he said. “I’ll figure out a way to fund her, so she can come back to Dunn.”

With the year’s financial aid fund already allocated, but given the extraordinary circumstances, Balaven began the unprecedented process of fundraising for a single student. When word got out, press coverage began, and as a result other Ukrainian students started to apply.

“They’d tell me their situation, just horrific stories, and I wanted to do what

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I could to help, and try to fund as many as possible,” he said.

Dunn expanded its efforts, reaching out even further to the larger Central Coast community, which eventually resulted in the creation of the Emergency Ukrainian Student Scholarship. The program enabled the school to welcome six Ukrainian students to campus for the current academic year.

But that wasn’t the end of it.

He’s also heard from two organizations. One in Cairo is run by a 1970s graduate of Dunn who had connected the school with African refugees in the 2010s. She told Balaven that her learning center was being shut down because contributions had been directed toward Ukraine.

“She asked if we could take some of her kids, and I told her, just have them apply. We’ll figure it out.”

At the same time, someone from a Santa Ynez Valley organization reached out about two refugee girls from Afghanistan who were in school in Iran but had to leave because the authorities discovered that their father had supported the American efforts. She asked Balaven if Dunn could take them on as scholarship students.

“I’m thinking, there’s already six students in the pipeline and this will make eight more behind them,” he said. “It’s like a domino effect from that one Ukrainian student. Now, I need to raise a lot of dollars for these kids. But I don’t know how to say no, because there’s this part of me where I can’t sleep if I have a kid asking me for help.”

Balaven said he was also worried that perhaps the community was exhausted from hearing about refugees and wanted to know what we’re going to do for the local kids. For sure, Dunn certainly wasn’t planning on being a refuge for the world’s refugees, but the truth is, Balaven said, helping them out also aligned perfectly with the school’s mission.

“The refugee program isn’t just about those kids,” he said. “It’s about arming all our students with the skills that they need, so that they can prevent refugee crises from happening. I don’t just want to raise money for these kids. I wanna raise money to create a lasting position at Dunn School in perpetuity, a position that oversees and helps support refugee students with strong

English language learning and also creates courses like refugee lit, looks at refugee narratives, and offers peace and conflict studies that understands the parameters and framework that create wars in the first place. It also covers environmental justice, because environmental refugees are a huge and growing problem.”

Balaven is proud that Dunn stands out among private and boarding schools in endeavoring to create the program. But he’s also aware of another domino effect that might come from his efforts.

“Schools in general try to keep up with the Joneses, they try to compete,” he explained. “My goal is to make Dunn a proof-of-concept school where you can support refugees, and you can create real learning outcomes for all our students in the process that are really powerful for the world they’re entering. If you really want to be a change-maker, the best result is to inspire schools with much larger endowments, even right in our backyard, to create a program like this to benefit all its students.”

It’s all in keeping with Dunn’s dedication to Whole Student Education, the guiding philosophy Dunn was founded on more than 65 years ago. Which is why Dunn student life focuses on an all-encompassing experience – emotional, mental, physical, and social – and its goal to help students find their moral core.

And it’s an evolution of the school’s extraordinary entrepreneurial spirit where the Latin motto translates to “Attempt not, but achieve.”

While it costs north of $90,000 to give a scholarship, including transportation and myriad other costs for a refugee student, donations of any size help.

“Every little bit goes straight to that effort,” Balaven said. “We’re working to supplant it with aid and local community efforts and funds from our gala, but ultimately there’s a hope that we can get the community behind it. Participation is more important than anything.”

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Celedonio made his U.S. recital debut at the Lobero, returning in 1959 with his three sons, Celin, Pepe, and Angel, each of them performing solo guitar works.

Two years later, the family performed together as The Romeros, the first guitar quartet on the international concert scene.

In 1990 Celin’s son, Celino, joined the quartet when Angel left to pursue a solo career and in 1996 Angel’s son, Lito, joined following Celedonio’s death that year.

The thoroughly entertaining evening featured works by Vivaldi, Granados, Barrio, Villa-Lobos, Tarrega, Boccherini, Bizet, De Falla, Albéniz, Iradier, Giménez, and founder Celedonio Romero.

Lang Lang Plays Again

two works – Schumann’s “Arabeske in C Major” and Bach’s 1741 fiendishly difficult Goldberg Variations, consisting of 30 pieces.

Lang Lang, 40, played the 80-minute-long work flawlessly accompanied by his usual dramatic flourishes.

An absolute joy to watch...

Harmonizing with Ladysmith Black Mambazo

After the Soweto Gospel Choir and Step Afrika! at UCSB’s Campbell Hall, courtesy of the Arts & Lectures program, it was time for the venerable Lobero, celebrating its 150th anniversary, to host Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a nine-member Durban-based South African male choral group, who have won five Grammy awards.

The highly entertaining troupe, founded in 1960 by Joseph Shabalala, sing in local vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube. They became internationally known after singing with Paul Simon on his 1986 album Graceland, which sold 16 million copies, which led to them performing on Saturday Night Live in New York.

It has been a long, long time, eight years to be exact, since Chinese piano legend Lang Lang has played at the Granada.

But it was clearly worth the wait as the man, described by The New York Times as “the hottest artist on the classical music planet,” mesmerized the sold-out audience at the concert, part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures series.

The 90-minute-long show featured

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With uplifting local harmonies, signature dance moves that would have put Radio City Music Hall’s Rockettes to shame, and charming onstage banter, the choristers, who feature two of Shabalala’s sons, were appearing the next day at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in the Big Orange, and in June head to London’s Barbican.

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A Gastronomy Gala

To Gala, a new Anacapa Street eatery, formerly known as Pacific Crêpes, where I would eat regularly when I first came to Santa Barbara in 2007 and churned out a column for the Santa Barbara News-Press, just a tiara’s toss away.

Now it has gone from a decidedly French theme to Spanish-owned by chef Jaime Riesco and his wife, Tara Penke, who spent two decades in Barcelona and still have a restaurant there.

Tara hails from our Eden by the Beach and moved to Spain, where she met Jaime after graduating from UCSB. Both spent nine months in Manhattan – Tara at Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s JoJo and

Jaime at Public.

In 2010, they opened the brunch-focused Picnic in Barcelona and seven years later decided to move back to Santa Barbara part-time, spending six months in each city. Eventually they moved here full-time when COVID scuppered their initial plans, opening their 50-seat eatery in the space formerly occupied by the Pigeon Cafe.

The name Gala is inspired by the wife of surrealist artist Salvador Dali and the

couple’s love of the Costa Brava town of Cadaqués where Dali lived.

On the night I tried out the eatery with my trusty shutterbug Priscilla , it was socially gridlocked as we noshed on the salmon gravlax toasties, shrimp croquettes, duck confit, and mushroom and oyster risotto accompanied by Santa Barbara County pinot noir and 2021 Lieu Dit from the Santa Ynez Valley.

Lemon pie and Basque cheesecake wrapped the delightful repast.

A nice new addition to our city’s dining scene.

‘Fore!’ Play

Actor Michael Douglas, who formerly resided in our rarefied enclave, has revealed his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones has invented a revealing forfeit when they play golf together.

The Oscar winner, 78, has been married to the Welsh actress for more than two decades, but says they keep things spicy when it comes to mundane activities such as playing a round or two.

“The rules are, I have to whip it out if I don’t get it past the ladies’ tee, which I manage most of the time,” he tells London’s Guardian

“But there have been times when we’re playing alone, and I have to give her a little show because we are competitive. But only when I play with my wife.”

Thank goodness....

Tomson Receives Hero Award

My congratulations to MontecitoBased former world champion surfer Shaun Tomson, who is receiving the Community Hero Award in San Diego next month at the 25th anniversary Miscellany Page

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, it’s the power of using your voice.” — Michelle Obama

Pianist Lang Lang dancing along the ivories (photo by David Bazemore)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo sang their way through town (courtesy photo)

Diners enjoying the opening night at Gala (photo by Priscilla)

Owners of Gala, chef Jaime Riesco (right) and his wife, Tara Penke (photo by Priscilla)

Great service at Gala (photo by Priscilla)

Mind-Body Matters

Integrative Psychotherapy & Somatic Wellness Practices

by Rebecca Capps

From a somatic therapeutic perspective, stress, unexpressed anger, heartbreak, and grief are believed to be issues in your tissues that make up your internal state. The word “somatic” is derived from the root “soma,” which means “living body,” and your physical body can serve as a valuable guide when you listen to its messages. Somatic wisdom is listening to what the body says instead of solely relying on what the “logical” mind tries to concoct. As Marilyn Van M. Derbur states: “All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions stay in the body like small ticking time bombs — they are illnesses in incubation.” To prevent this from occurring, let’s explore a few somatic wellness practices that you may incorporate into your daily life:

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a powerful tool for cultivating somatic wellness; it is a practice

that involves bringing your attention to the present moment and observing your thoughts and emotional state without judgment. As the late Thích Nhat Hanh once said, “Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.” Mindfulness can help you develop greater awareness of how to come alive – in mind and body – so you can experience a greater sense of calm and mental freedom.

Take a moment to become aware of your experience here and now. Feel into your body; come into contact with the floor and notice your torso rising and falling. Take note of your emotions without trying to change anything — simply noticing with awareness. Cultivating awareness of your somatic experience means noticing any tendencies to numb or sleepwalk through life. It helps you recognize when you’re on autopilot and offers refuge through the breath.

Yoga

Yoga is another somatic wellness practice used for centuries to promote physical, emotional, and mental wellness.

Yoga combines physical postures with breathing techniques to help you connect with your mind and body. Building a yoga practice may help you improve your strength, balance, and feelings of stress –among many other benefits!

Modern culture is becoming increasingly disembodied; many of us sit at computers all day and stare at screens — existing only from the neck up. As a clinician who often conducts meetings online, I have learned building on a daily yoga practice has been an effective way to get grounded and reconnect with my body throughout the workday. It helps to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for relaxation and is a powerful tool for somatic healing.

Body Scanning

Body scanning is another simple yet powerful somatic wellness practice that systematically brings awareness to different body parts. It can help release tension and stress from your body and cultivate a greater sense of relaxation and well-being. To practice body scanning, find a comfortable position and focus on your feet. Slowly work your way up your body, bringing your attention to each part – noticing any sensations that arise. Is there any discomfort? See if you can be curious about this discomfort. Explore if it’s possible to be with your somatic experiences for several moments instead of ignoring or pushing them away. Tuning into your embodied experience through a simple body scan can help you observe difficult emotions in stressful situations, rather than reacting.

Breathwork

Breathwork is a foundational somatic wellness practice that involves conscious breathing techniques that can help regulate your nervous system and promote relaxation. There are many different types of breathwork practices, each with unique techniques and benefits. Some of the most popular types of breathwork include:

- Diaphragmatic breathing: This type of

breathing involves using the diaphragm muscle to draw air deep into the lungs. It can help reduce stress, anxiety, and tension in the body and improve overall respiratory health.

- Box breathing: This particular breathwork involves inhaling for a specific count and then exhaling for the same count. It can help improve focus, concentration, and mental clarity.

- Alternate nostril breathing: This type of breathing (a personal favorite!) involves inhaling through one nostril, holding the breath, and exhaling through the other nostril. It can help balance the nervous system and reduce stress and anxiety.

- Breath of fire: This is a rapid, shallow breathing technique that involves quick inhalations and exhalations through the nose to energize the body and improve mental clarity and focus.

Breathwork can be practiced alone or with the guidance of a trained practitioner and can be done in various settings, including at home, in a yoga or meditation class, or in a therapeutic environment, so find what works for you.

Whichever somatic wellness practice you choose, start with small, manageable steps, and be patient with yourself as you integrate these practices into your everyday life. With time and practice, you will build on a more peaceful state of being. As Elizabeth A. Behnke states, “There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it” – and we can begin again through each conscious breath and embodied choice.

Rebecca Capps, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Wellness Coach who specializes in the treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions. mindbodythrive. com; rebecca@mind bodythrive.com

Tai Chi and Qi Gong Classes with Master Yun

The Martial Arts Master

Master Yun Delivers a Kick of Health and Happiness

by Zach Rosen

Watch most Kung Fu movies and you’re sure to see the protagonist’s “master,” quintessentially depicted as the graying wise man, often cranky and whipping around a long beard. Meet Yun Chao Zhang, or Master Yun as everyone calls him, and he is nothing like those tired clichés, yet he is a master in the truest sense. Eternally youthful and bubbling with energy and enthusiasm for his art, Master Yun is a model of the many health benefits of regularly practicing martial arts. A practice that he has been helping spread locally since 2018 in his studio located at the Las Aves complex at Los Patos Way and E. Cabrillo St.

I first learned about Master Yun’s extensive and impressive martial arts background through writing an article on him and the studio opening for the Santa Barbara Sentinel. Soon after, I attended classes for several months. My first class was intimidating – of the 10 or so students, almost every one of them had been studying martial arts for 10 years or more, many of them having black belts in some discipline. Those feelings quickly dissipated as the warm and inviting

atmosphere filled the space. It also became clear that, even with years of experience under one’s black belt, each of us were beginners in comparison to Master Yun’s skill.

Master Yun began studying martial arts at the age of 6, after he received the rare honor of getting to study with the esteemed Master Wang Qing Zhai, a distant relative. By his teenage years, Master Yun’s dedication and skill led him to

touring solo with Master Wang. Over the years, he continued to receive international recognition at competitions, eventually being granted U.S. citizenship by Chinese officials so that he could help bring the rare forms he learned to the West.

Eventually, Master Yun settled in Ventura, where he would encounter Daniel Nash in 2016 after a chance meeting in a park. Master Yun dropped in on Nash and some others practicing and playing around with martial arts games. The group was instantly impressed with his skill and recognized his mastery of movement. Daniel, who has been practicing martial arts for more than 30 years, immediately asked to be a student – and together they opened the studio in 2018. “I always wanted the school to be like a community, like a family, not just something you do once a week and then forget about,” said Daniel.

And that sentiment has stayed true, even five years after opening. Longtime Montecitans and both students, Chris and Dori Carter, even proposed their backyard as a place to practice during the pandemic. The park next to the studio offered another refuge for students as well. Today, when a particular class has more students, they can still pop outdoors and take advantage of Santa Barbara’s splendor. After outings or public displays, they’ll often grab food together, and Dori mentioned that they have become friends outside of class, too.

Master Yun’s teaching style focuses more on practicing perfection of form and movement, and less on physical sparring; however,

he will regularly go into descriptions of how a particular move is used in a fight, or what purpose it serves, frequently using the (somewhat) willing Daniel as his punching bag to show its application. “That’s the thing. You’re always working towards perfection, as far from it as you actually are in the process. And once we finish, we start up right again,” said Chris. This makes the classes perfect for those looking to develop their strength, coordination, flexibility, balance, and just health in general. Seniors can attend and focus on improving their mobility and worry less about how well they can take a punch.

Master Yun originally focused on teaching three styles at the studio: Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Wu-style Tai Chi, and Shang-style Xing Yi. He has mastered many more styles than those and has begun offering additional styles, as the studio has grown and longtime students become more experienced. He has even expanded classes into the more-advanced weapons training, as well as a children’s Kung Fu class. Master Yun also now offers both a Chen-style Tai Chi and Praying Mantis Kung Fu class at UCSB’s Rec Cen on Tuesdays.

Check the wellness section of upcoming issues of the MJ, wherein Master Yun will be providing simple practices that you can do at home to hone your balance, dexterity, and flexibility that will not just benefit your own martial arts practice but help your health in everyday life. Visit

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In Passing Elizabeth Webb Woodworth: August 17, 1921 – February 20, 2023

Elizabeth ( Betty ) Webb Woodworth died of natural causes on Feb. 20, 2023, in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was born on Aug. 17, 1921, in Hamden, Conn., to Anne Pinkney Webb and Paul Webb. Betty was a people person who loved life, no matter the moment or the environment.

Betty’s early years were spent in Spring Glen and New Haven, Conn. She was the fifth of six children. Betty attended a Connecticut junior college and later earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago. In 1939, Betty met the love of her life, Stanley (Stan) Woodworth, at a fraternity party at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. During Stan’s Navy service, they had an extended courtship, became engaged, and married in 1943. Their first son, Stephen (Steve), was born in Stillwater, Okla., in 1945, while Stan was attending the Japanese Language School. In 1948, the family crossed the country to Southern California, where Stan had accepted a language teacher position from Curtis Cate, the founder and headmaster of a boy’s secondary boarding school in Carpinteria, Calif. The adventure began.

Betty’s new West Coast life on the Cate School Mesa became a 70+ year adventure. The family grew in number to five children. Betty became actively involved with the Junior League of Santa Barbara and the Music Academy. In 1957, Cate hired Betty as its first school librarian, a role she loved dearly and the initial source of her legacy on the Mesa. She became an avid hiker – on the trails surrounding Cate, on the beaches of the California and Oregon coasts, and various landscapes around the world. She thrived on her daily walks and accompanying social interactions with friends well into her 90s. And she loved to play Scrabble and Backgammon with whomever would take her on.

Betty and Stan traveled to many countries and took yearlong sabbaticals off the Mesa, living in France, Spain, Italy, and Greece. Betty relished her time abroad, immersing herself in each culture, and enhancing her culinary acumen. As a couple, Betty and Stan made enduring international friendships, such as with the Leredu family, whose bond has become multigenerational. Stan died on Bastille Day in 1989.

Betty was a devoted St. Joseph’s Catholic Church parishioner in Carpinteria. She also volunteered countless hours to the Carpinteria Historical Museum.

After acting as Cate’s librarian for many decades, she became its archivist and was a fierce champion of the history, traditions, and stories that impacted the Cate campus as well as the greater community. She retired as archivist after 48 years of service to Cate. However, she continued well into her mid-90s, to act as an unofficial hostess to a

variety of Cate events, activities, and volunteer efforts. A highlight for Betty was Cate’s centennial celebration in 2010. In 2015, she wrote and published a memoir entitled Sea to Sea, with the invaluable help of Gaby Edwards, a Cate teacher. Betty was admired and celebrated by many Cate School students over the years. Haluk Topaloglu, the family’s Turkish exchange student, is among those beloved Cate alumni.

When Betty left Cate Mesa at the age of 96, a new chapter began for her in Santa Barbara, where she took residence in assisted living communities. Betty enjoyed socializing and actively participated in Bingo, blackjack, and jigsaw puzzles. When the music started, she was always the first to hit the dance floor.

Betty will be dearly missed by all who knew her. She embraced her family, the Cate community and friends around the world in an open and transparent way that was welcoming, forgiving, and loving.

She is survived by her sons, Stephen Davis Woodworth (married to Robin), Scottsdale, Ariz., and Peter Webb Woodworth (married to Beverley), Vista, Calif.; and by her daughters, Susan Slade Johnston, Santa Barbara, Calif., Anne Allcott Parkford, Santa Barbara, and Elizabeth Ives Hansen (married to Brooks), Carpinteria. In addition, she is survived and loved by 12 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Stanley Davis Woodworth; her parents, Paul and Anne Webb; her brothers, Peter Webb and Charles Webb; and her sisters, Mary Webb, Helen Mulvey, and Anne Haas.

Betty nourished people around her with love and kindness. A memorial mass will be held on Saturday, March 18, at 11:30 am at St. Joseph’s Chapel in Carpinteria (Ash and 7th St.). A celebration of Betty’s life will be at Cate School Chapel on Sunday, June 4, 2023, at 10:30 am, followed by a reception. In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made in Betty’s honor to the Woodworth Family Music Fund at www.cate.org/donate or to Hospice of Santa Barbara at www. hospiceofsantabarbara.org.

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For nine years, Shaun, 67, has participated in the 100 Wave Challenge as an ambassador, an event I have covered annually in these pages.

The organization, founded in 1996, helps youngsters growing up without a father or a positive male mentor in their lives.

In San Diego County alone, more than 12,000 boys and men have participated in the program from 1996 to 2019. Currently, it serves more than 800 boys on a weekly basis at 35 school locations.

Kaganoff on Board

Former policy analyst Tessa Kaganoff, who went on to direct prospect research at UCLA, has joined the board of directors of the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara.

A native of Goleta, Kaganoff received a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Vassar College before earning a master’s degree in public policy at Duke University and an MBA at UCLA.

She began her career as a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, where she conducted qualitative research across a number of areas, including education, the arts, and defense.

Her community service efforts have included volunteer work and board service on behalf of Upward Bound House in Santa Monica, Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles, and B’nai B’rith, among others.

Tade Made Deputy Director

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum has a new deputy director, Jessica Tade Tade, who holds a Ph.D. in art history from UCSB, has worked for more than a decade for organizations either promoting the arts or providing access and opportunity to the community. Among other positions, she has served as the director of communications and marketing for the Santa Barbara and City College foundations, and as executive director of Casa del Herrero, the Montecito National Landmark, and historic house museum.

In addition to her professional positions, Tade had an outstanding record of community service and volunteerism.

She has served on the board of directors for the Santa Ynez Valley Foundation and was a commissioner for the Historic Landmarks Advisory Commission and the Human Services Commission of Santa Barbara County.

Sightings

Oscar nominee Colin Farrell shopping for gourmet chocolates at TwentyFour Blackbirds... Oscar winner Jeff Bridges with actor Christopher Lloyd and director Guillermo del Toro lunching at Olio e Limone... Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow buying silver pieces at the Santa Barbara Antiques Show at the Earl Warren Showgrounds. Pip! Pip!

From musings on the Royals to celebrity real estate deals, Richard Mineards is our man on the society scene and has been for more than a decade

“Feminism is for everybody.” — Bell Hooks

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Your Westmont Montecito Home to Inaugural Student Film Festival

by Scott Craig, photo by Brad Elliott

The inaugural Montecito Student Film Festival showcases the impressive work of undergraduate students from California colleges and universities with screenings on Saturday, March 25, in Porter Theatre. A jury of industry professionals and special guests will judge and award the top prizes, while polls determine the winner of the Audience Award.

“Montecito has a robust cultural history and is surrounded by people in the film industry,” says Wendy Eley Jackson, executive producer of the festival who teaches Documentary Filmmaking, Screenwriting, and Creative Writing in Westmont’s theater arts and English departments. “We’d love for those who live, work, and play here to come out and see what the students have done. You don’t know where you’re going to find your next Nora Ephron or Aaron Sorkin, and I believe our students at Westmont are equally creative.”

Jackson, CEO of Auburn Avenue Films, serves on the boards of two large national film festivals: the Atlanta Film Festival and BronzeLens. “I’ve submitted to and been a part of many film festivals as a judge, director, writer, and producer,” she says.

Last fall, students interested in the festival began meeting with Jackson. Seniors Bailey Lemmon and Wesley Yowell produced the festival, which will screen about 17 short films running an average of 23 minutes. Three of the four students in Jackson’s documentary filmmaking course will submit movies. “One student created a film on surfing and its impact on mental health and well-being, and another documented the creation of a band,” Jackson says.

Junior Tamia Sanders created a film about a forgotten school shooting 19 months before the Columbine High School massacre. Sanders’ aunt attended Pearl High School near Jackson, Miss., during the 1997 shooting, one of the first major rampage shootings in modern history. “The most moving part of making ‘Before There Was Columbine’ has been knowing how much these events have shaped and developed my life, even though I was not directly affected,” Sanders says. “My aunt, who was 17 at the time and didn’t receive counseling or therapy, talks about how the shooting changed the way she operates and thinks. It’s heartbreaking for me, because this event didn’t have to happen. In the film she says, ‘You may have survived it, but you still have to survive it.’”

Sanders remembers being in high school after the shooting at Stoneman

Douglas High School and seeing the dramatic increase in security measures at her Texas school. “The film is dedicated to the survivors,” she says. “So many times the narrative emphasizes the shooter.”

Jackson has challenged Sanders to have uncomfortable conversations. “I’ve noticed that her films are inspiring because they tackle weighty subjects,” Sanders says. “I can’t wait for people to see my project. It’s been on my heart for a long time, and I had no way of getting this story out. It’s kind of surreal.”

Festival organizers are accepting films in every genre or topic and have sent invitations to undergraduate filmmakers throughout the state, including USC, Chapman, UC Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College.

“Filmmaking has the capacity to create, impact, and explore different themes of how people live, as well as the internal and external conflicts that characters may have,” Jackson says. “The creative expression seems to bring out the best in many of these college students. It’s an escape. Seeing their visions come into fruition and debut at the Montecito Student Film Festival is spectacular.”

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Student filmmaker Tamia Sanders

our hometown folks, and maybe meet in a place where I touch other people on the journey.

Visit www.lobero.org for tickets and more information

A Full Circle of Dance

UCSB Dance Company’s 2023 company consists entirely of female or non-binary dancers, which wasn’t a conscious choice but simply the result of having no male senior dance majors on campus this year. But rather than fighting against what is, Artistic Director Delila Moseley decided to double down.

“I just decided to go with it, and create a program with all female choreographers,” she explained. “No point in trying to cover it up.”

The result is an evening called Full Circle, featuring dancer creators who each have ties to the UCSB department over a span of several years. The program includes three commissioned works for the UCSB Dance Company, plus four

pieces that are remounts of successful works. Each of the new works covers vastly different territory and scope, not a surprise given Moseley’s cryptic construct for the choreographers.

“I didn’t really give them any directive. I just explained the idea of Full Circle coming back to UCSB and trying to express art from a female point of view.”

The Letter, by Christina McCarthy, a graduate of the department and now a multi-disciplinary artist and faculty member at UCSB, uses the entire 16-member company and focuses on the power of language and how what we say to one another can create division or deep connection. “There are fabulous costumes that she created herself, and set pieces that support the story,” Moseley said. “It’s very active, told through the dancers’ dramatic actions and facial expressions.”

Luna , choreographed by Madison Olandt , is danced to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and centered around

the complexity of the divine feminine in human form, described by Moseley as “a performance art piece – dance, but with lots of other elements that grew out of workshop mode where the dancers create movement and then she molds it together.”

Gianna Burright ’s still untitled piece features music by local composer/singer-songwriter Sio Tepper , and explores love, dreams, relationships, nightmares, joy, and ordinary experiences, asking the question, “How did we end up here?”

Moseley said that by the end of the performances, which take place at Hatlen Theater, March 9-11, she hoped the audience would be “impressed by the dancing, moved by the choreography, inspired by the different levels of artistry and aspects of creative energy.”

Visit https://theaterdance.ucsb.edu/ for tickets and more information

Book ’em: Authors on a Mission

Next up in UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Conversation with Pico Iyer series is Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Kidder , the literary journalist whose works have captured acclaim as eminently readable writing from a champion of the heroism of everyday life. Kidder, whose previous books Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Soul of a New Machine , will talk about his new book, Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People , about a doctor who made a big difference by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community. With Iyer as inquisitor, the Tuesday, March 14, conversation at The New Vic will likely dig deep into Kidder’s role in amplifying the efforts of unique individuals who transcend cynicism and create hope, as well as his motivations and inner pursuits.

Heading over to the harbor, California native and longtime Santa Barbara resident Janet Dowling Sands will share her book On a Mission: The

Real Story of the California Missions, Their History, Impact, and Legacy , at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum on Thursday, March 16. The illustrated presentation will explore how the missions were inextricably linked to global maritime history and prehistory, including the latest research on the origins of California’s indigenous people, whose ancestors came to the Americas thousands of years ago.

On the Beat: Sounds at SOhO

A quieter dinner set followed by a post-table clearing dance jam … SOhO’s latest edition of Master of Hawaiian Music brings a trio of highly accomplished island-based musicians to the club this weekend. Grammywinning 12-string specialist George Kahumoku Jr. and fellow slack key and lap steel guitarist Sonny Lim will be joined by ukulele master Herb Ohta Jr. for the Saturday, March 11, show…. A sumptuous singer-songwriter soirée at SOhO on Tuesday, March 14, brings headliners Renee & Jeremy, purveyors of “hush indiefolk” originals and covers that transform classic songs such as “Whole Lotta Love,” “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” and Tears for Fears’ “Shout” into meditative mantras. Opening is Rich Jacques , whose latest album is titled Joy Follows Like A Shadow That Never Leaves , the second part of a quote from Buddah. ’Nuff said.

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

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Full Circle celebrates the breadth of UCSB Dance’s past and present performers (photo by Stephen Sherrill)

Foraging Thyme

by Melissa Petitto

What a couple of weeks it has been in our beautiful town – rain, snow, and high winds! With the weather, I am still in the winter mode of craving warming and comforting foods and was drawn to the inconspicuous beauty of the celery root, bulbous on the bottom with bright greens on top. The farmers market this week is still teeming with winter vegetables, even though we are all wishing for that elusive spring to arrive.

Celery Root, Celeriac, Knob Celery, and Turnip-Rooted Celery are all names for the same super-healthy root vegetable that is related to celery and native to Italy. Its herbaceous, celery flavor is subtle and teeming with health benefits. You may eat it raw or cooked and its versatility is considerable – slaws, soups, salads, and stews all lend well to this root vegetable. Celery root is an antioxidant-rich vegetable and is a great source of Vitamin B complex, Vitamin C, and Vitamin K – making it a natural way to combat inflammation. It’s high in dietary fiber, which makes it great for gut health. It contains high levels of Potassium and Vitamin K that help to regulate blood pressure and prevent the buildup of calcium in blood vessels. Celery root is also a good source of minerals, such as phosphorus and manganese. Let’s get in the kitchen and make something delicious!

Celery Root Soup

Yield: Serves 4 to 6

2 tablespoons Miyoko’s Creamery vegan butter, salted

2 tablespoons olive oil

2 each leeks

2 each shallots, peeled and finely chopped

1 teaspoon dried thyme

1 teaspoon garlic, minced

2 each celery root, peeled and roughly chopped (save tops for garnish)

6 cups vegetable broth

1 tablespoon orange zest

1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

in half lengthwise and then cut into halfmoons. Wash thoroughly to remove dirt and sand.

2. In a heavy-bottomed stock pot over medium heat, add Miyoko’s butter and olive oil. Once melted, add the washed leeks and shallots and sauté for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring occasionally until lightly caramelized and tender.

3. Add in the dried thyme and garlic and stir until fragrant, for about 30 seconds.

4. Add in the celery root and stir to combine, allow to cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.

5. Add in the broth, turn the heat up to high, and bring the mixture to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes, or until the celery root is tender and falling apart. Remove from the heat.

6. Working in batches, add the mixture to a high-powered blender or Vitamix, and purée until smooth and creamy. Stir in the orange zest, salt, and pepper.

7. Serve topped with washed celery root leaves as garnish.

Melissa

Petitto, R.D., is an executive chef and co-founder at Thymeless My Chef SB, was a celebrity personal chef for 16 years, just finished her 10th cookbook, and is an expert on nutrition and wellness.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Calendar of Events

by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, MARCH 10

Flower Power – The 2020 Santa Barbara International Orchid Show had already been completely installed – not only at its most beautiful but also at the point of greatest expenditure – when it had to cancel just as the COVID pandemic closed things down. After two more years of cautious closures, the show is finally coming back live to the Earl Warren Showgrounds, with the 75th annual event sporting the appropriate title of “Orchids – The Adventure Returns.’’ Once again, visitors will have the chance to marvel at the highly sculptured displays in the Exhibit Pavilion, browse the Art Show featuring paintings and photographs of the plants and more, delight in the beauty and aroma of the expansive floral arrangements, learn about care and feeding of the precious plants from the potting demonstrations and other workshops, and even buy an orchid, or several, to take home in the Vendor Hall. The Santa Barbara International Orchid Show is one of the oldest, largest, and most prestigious of its kind in the United States, reflecting the rich agricultural and orchid-growing history of Santa Barbara County. Visitors from near and far come together to gape at the grand orchid displays featuring the exotic flowers installed by local, national, and international artisans and orchid enthusiasts.

WHEN: 9 am – 5 pm Friday, March 10 to Sunday, March 12

WHERE: Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 N. Calle Real COST: $20 per day, or $30 for a three-day pass

INFO: (805) 687-0766/www.earlwarren.com or https://sborchidshow.com

SATURDAY, MARCH 11

Raitt on! – The mid-career success of the great Bonnie Raitt has been one of the more gratifying ascensions in pop music history, as the daughter of Broadway star John Raitt, a remarkably talented and dedicated blues singer and guitarist, took nearly 20 years and a series of critically acclaimed roots-influenced albums to finally rise above her niche audience. That was in 1990, when her aptly titled Nick of Time, became a major hit, topping the Billboard album chart, and taking home the Grammy Award for Album of the Year as well as claiming the Best Fe-

THURSDAY,

Lights up on the Woods – Two years ago, Lights Up! Theatre Company took on Something Rotten!, the 10-time Tony-nominated musical spoof of Shakespeare that also paid tribute to dozens of Broadway musicals. This weekend, the teen theater conservatory ventures three more decades into Broadway history to present Stephen Sondheim’s beloved musical saga Into the Woods, the multiple Tony Award-winning work that is considered one of Sondheim’s great masterpieces as it incorporates and interweaves a bunch of favorite fairy tales. Ostensibly a simple tale of a baker and his wife’s quest to have a child, the musical finds both great emotional depths and clever wordplay as their journey takes them deep into the woods, where they encounter various forms of mischief, magic, and mystery. That’s where their path and lives intersect with Red Riding Hood, The Wolf, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White, a pair of lovelorn princes and, of course, a witch who connives and conjures spells to get in their way. What makes the musical even more enduring is that it goes beyond the expected tales to explore the idea of what happens when you actually achieve your “happily ever after.” Which is not a bad thing at all for teens raised in the Internet billionaires/unicorn era to consider.

WHEN: 7 tonight & tomorrow, 1 & 7 pm Saturday

WHERE: Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Junior High, 721 East Cota St.

COST: $25 to $35

INFO: (805) 963-0761/https://luketheatre.org/event or www.lightsupsb.com/tickets

SATURDAY, MARCH 11

Cellos Suites in Fragments – Alisa Weilerstein has a sterling pedigree as her father Donald is a veteran violinist who held down the first violinist of the renowned Cleveland Quartet for 20 years, and a 2006 Music Academy Distinguished Alumni Award winner more than half a century after he was a violin fellow at Miraflores. Alisa’s mother, pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, is the director of the Professional Piano Trio Training Program, coordinator of Piano Chamber Music at the New England Conservatory, and a soloist and chamber musician who plays around the world. But cellist Alisa is even more accomplished, a highly sought-after soloist known for consummate artistry, emotional investment, and interpretive depth who was recognized with a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship back in 2011. Fragments, her latest endeavor, is a groundbreaking, multi-year project for solo cello that weaves together the 36 movements of Bach’s solo cello suites with 27 newly commissioned works. The resulting collection is divided into six “fragments,” each an hour long and blending five to six composers, as individual movements from a single Bach suite are thoughtfully integrated with selected new works to create a new emotional arc. Enhanced by special lighting and scenic architecture, the music is performed without pause and without a program, making for a wholly original and immersive audience experience. As one of the organizations commissioning the work, UCSB Arts & Lectures has been awarded the U.S. premiere of the first piece in the project, which takes place tonight in the cozy confines of Campbell Hall.

WHEN: 7 pm

WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB Campus

COST: $30 to $40

INFO: (805) 893-3535 or https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

male Rock and Pop categories. The album was not remotely a sellout, but rather a smoothing out of rougher edges over a terrific collection of songs that sounded like a road-weary autobiography. Her subsequent albums have plied the same territory, refining her appealing combination of grit and pop polish. Last month, a solid 33 years since her breakthrough, Raitt shocked the pop world again by claiming three more Grammys, including the most coveted of all, in Song of the Year for the title track of her 18th studio album, Just Like That. At 73, Raitt shows no signs of scaling back. Tonight at the Chumash’s Samala Showroom will probably be one of the most intimate rooms she’s played in the area in decades. WHEN: 8 pm

WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 E. Highway 246, Santa Ynez COST: Call the box office for availability

INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino.com

Nature in 16 Strings – The Santa Barbara Music Club continues to create exciting and ambitious programs for its 2022-23 season of free biweekly, classical chamber music concerts well into its second half-century. Today’s event features the acclaimed Emergence String Quartet performing 10 short and intriguing works by regional composers, all with the theme of exploring our natural environment as various pieces reflect the Sespe wilderness, the shoreline, flying creatures, and trees and bees, among others. The Emergence is a Los Angeles-based foursome that includes British first violinist Kerenza Peacock – who has solos with the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic, and led the Pavão String Quartet – along with second violinist Maya Magub, violist Karen Long, and cellist Virginia Kron. In a virtual travelog of South Coast nature spots, the quartet will play David Campbell’s “21st Century Entanglements” (2020), Pauline Frechette’s “The Sacred Mountains of Ojai” (2017), Greg Haggard’s “Sespe Suite” (2022), Leslie Hogan’s “String Quartet No. 4 (2022), Ashley Hoyer’s “Emergence” (2021), Raul Kottler’s “Fragment of a Nebula” (2020), Karen Goulding’s “A Hive for the Honeybee” (2022), Jim McCarthy’s “For All That’s Left” (2022), Laura Mihalka’s “Gibraltar Road” (2020), and Peacock’s “The Whispering Tree” (2022).

WHEN: 3 pm

WHERE: First Congregational Church, 2101 State St.

COST: free

INFO: https://sbmusicclub.org/

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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

MARCH 9

Exploring Eva via Ballet – More than 70 years after her death, Argentine politician, activist, actress, and philanthropist María Eva Duarte de Perón remains a fascinating figure in South American culture. Back in 1978, the Tony Award-winning Evita explored Perón’s life and legacy via a rock opera-inspired Broadway musical. After 52 years, Ballet Hispánico has focused its first-ever evening-length work on Eva Perón, creating an empowering portrait of one of the most spellbinding women in South American history via movement and music. Doña Perón employs live music to look at the divergent legacies that made Eva Perón a popular icon, considering whether she was a voice for the people, a deceitful actress, or something in between. Ballet Hispánico’s acclaimed choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa explores these diverging legacies and more, a Latina choreographer reclaiming the narrative of the iconic Latina figure. Now the largest Latinx cultural organization in the United States, Ballet Hispánico and Ochoa have received raves for the production, with The New York Times noting, “In Lopez Ochoa’s high-varnish, athletic style of contemporary ballet, gorgeously danced … you see not just a riveting story but a company having reached a new horizon.”

WHEN: 8 pm

WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State St.

COST: $41 to $71

INFO: (805) 899-2222/www.granadasb.org or (805) 893-3535/www. ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

SUNDAY, MARCH 12

Viva Violetta – One of today’s most extraordinary artists, soprano and Music Academy of the West alumna Nadine Sierra, who attended the summer festival as a vocal fellow in 2007, stars in a touchstone soprano role as the consumptive heroine Violetta in La Traviata. Sierra scales the mountains to portray the self-sacrificing courtesan — one of opera’s ultimate heroines — in Michael Mayer’s vibrant Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi’s beloved tragedy. Tenor Stephen Costello is her self-centered lover Alfredo, alongside baritone Luca Salsi as his disapproving father. Italian maestro Daniele Callegari wields the baton on the podium for the encore presentation of the Met Live in HD production at Hahn Hall, the same stage Sierra sang on live as a fellow.

WHEN: 2 pm

WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy campus, 1070 Fairway Road

COST: $28 ($10 students, Community Access; free for youth ages 7-17)

INFO: (805) 969-8787 or www.musicacademy.org

SUNDAY, MARCH 12

Cinema Classics on the Keys –Just a week before the Santa Barbara Symphony pays tribute to composer John Williams in its upcoming pair of concerts at the Granada, veteran pianist Bryan Tari returns to the Lobero not only to reprise his arrangement of Star Wars themes, but also offer his take on memorable movie music. Tari will perform his arrangements of songs and themes from some of the greatest films of all time, including a medley of Godfather themes arranged for piano Lyric soprano Jessica McKenzie joins Tari for today’s show, singing soundtrack songs in what promises to be a delightful family event for those looking to escape into a world of magical cinema rhapsody.

WHEN: 3 pm

WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St.

COST: $14 to $36

INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

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Kit Peterson & Sue Irwin, 805.689.5535 LIC# 02008932 / 01413354

• $4,995,000

Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233

LIC# 01209514

2BD/2BA • $1,395,000

Daniel Encell, 805.565.4896

LIC# 00976141

• $5,995,000 Anderson / Hurst,

1903 COYOTE CIR, MONTECITO 3BD/2½BA • $3,750,000

1556 MIRAMAR BEACH, MONTECITO 2BD/3BA • $9,995,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

126 LOUREYRO ROAD COTTAGES, MONTECITO 6BD/5BA

1220 COAST VILLAGE RD#303, MONTECITO

CREEKSIDE

LIC#

279 SANTA ROSA LN, MONTECITO 3BD/3BA + 1BD/1BA GH • $5,575,000 Sina Omidi,

LIC#

43 SEAVIEW DR, MONTECITO 3BD/2BA • $3,195,000

4187 CRESTA AVE, SANTA BARBARA 4BD/6BA + 2BD/1BA GH; ±2.54 acres • $22,500,000 Thomas Schultheis, 805.729.2802 LIC# 01847740

999 ROMERO CANYON RD, MONTECITO 5BD/6½BA • $18,900,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247