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Gary David Goldberg Gym – Diana Meehan writes in about her husband — and the gym being built in his name, P.10 David Neels Sworn In – Neels is inducted as the new Montecito Fire Chief at the most recent MA meeting, P.26

John Owen Lowe Tells – The younger Lowe speaks about his and his father Rob’s relationship in life and Netflix’s Unstable, P.39

Susan Read Cronin Reads – Tecolote Book Shop is hosting a launch party and reading for Cronin’s latest poetry book, P.38

Freedom 4 Youth launches its Girls Leadership Program for young women “at promise,” page 32

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The hammers are down and the art is up! After nearly 40 years in business, Diane and Ralph Waterhouse are ready to open a new art gallery in Montecito at the former Scoops store (Story starts on page 5)

With Wunderkind coming to the San Ysidro Village and Montecito Collective opening along CVR, Montecitans have two new hot spots for wearables and wares, read more about both on page 6

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In Business – Ralph and Diane Waterhouse open a new Montecito art gallery in the former Scoops site

Village Beat – Montecito Collective and Wunderkind are now open for business, plus details from the most recent Montecito Association meeting

Montecito Miscellany – Listening to a Stradivarius by the sea, SB Revels celebrates St. Pat’s, Max McLean, and more

Community Voices – Diana Meehan writes in about her husband, Gary David Goldberg, and his dream of Archer School and their goal to build a gym

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Letters to the Editor – Thoughts on Letters word limits and who should run for president in the upcoming election

Our Town – From play schedules to lodging and treatment, how Santa Barbara Humane oversees the animals it cares for

Society Invites – It’s a good cause adorned with bright taffeta, silk charmeuse, and lace designer gowns at this year’s Cottage Health Tiara Ball

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Dear Montecito – From AP biology in high school to monitoring sound pollution and whale patterns in the ocean, Clare Ogle has followed her passion for marine biology

Brilliant Thoughts – Ideas on eating and food–through history and across cultures–that are sure to satisfy your intellectual appetite

Ernie’s World – It has been a rainy season and Ernie makes sure to get his IKEA ark ready in time before the next deluge

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Robert’s Big Questions – The recent bank bailouts leads to questions and reflections on bank regulations in the U.S.

The Optimist Daily – It’s a dog’s life… but it just got a little better in Spain where a new bill was passed to improve the welfare of animals

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Far Flung Travel – Chuck finds a decaying whale while on a kayaking tour at Scorpion Anchorage on Santa Cruz Island

Stories Matter – From true-crime novels to historical reflections, these fresh pageturners are sure to welcome in springtime

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The Giving List – Freedom 4 Youth is launching their first Girls Leadership Program

Your Westmont – The college officially installs its new provost and dean on March 31, awards given at inaugural film festival, and baseball strokes 15 straight wins

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On Entertainment – Dark of the Moon world premieres at Rubicon, Colin Hay is at work, and the Lowes get Unstable

Poetry Beat – Susan Read Cronin reads her poetry and explores What’s Left at her upcoming Tecolote book launch

Reel Fun – Another 4K-restored Italian masterpiece, Una vita difficile, heads to the Riviera with a moving story and neorealist aesthetic

Calendar of Events – Tom Russell returns, pandemic poetry, the Moth Mainstage, and other local happenings

Classifieds – Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads

P.47 Mini Meta Crossword Puzzles

Photography: Spenser Bruce

In Business

Waterhouse Gallery Takes a New Stand in Montecito

After having contemporary, abstract, and fine art galleries color the town of Montecito, there’s another one on the horizon ready to captivate your senses. The Waterhouse Gallery, located at the Coast Village Plaza (1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 3, formerly the Scoops store), is where traditional contemporary works engage your art spirit, delight your eyes, and warm your heart.

The owners Diane and Ralph Waterhouse, longtime residents of Santa Barbara, have another art gallery under the same name in La Arcada Plaza – right in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara (1114 State Street, Suite 9). Waterhouse Gallery Santa Barbara opened its doors in 1984, and the Waterhouses are absolutely thrilled to open their new gallery in Montecito. As Diane expresses, “We are very excited about this new opportunity, and it is going to be an adventure.”

Indeed, the new art gallery will represent a variety of local and national artists whose paintings represent an array of genres, from landscape to figurative work, and many different styles and mediums to offer their clientele. With materials spanning acrylic, watercolor, pastel, and oils, you’ll find a wonderfully varied and striking collection in which to immerse yourself. What you’ll see in their gallery is a simple reflection of what they cherish in art. “We adore traditional contemporary work, and we show the kind of work that we love and that we would want to buy and have in our home.”

From Ralph Waterhouse being an amazing and profound painter himself, to Diane Waterhouse’s admirable acumen and artful eye supervising the gallery, one could say they make a formidable couple. “I have such a great love of paintings and artists. I love to hang exhibitions,” Diane recalls pensively. “We are a great team, and we work well together.” They’ve been in the art business for 39 years, which affords them a legitimate position in the industry, and in the art scene of Santa Barbara. In fact, Diane has been involved as a member of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Women’s Board for 13 years, and also served on the Santa Barbara Historical Museum board for two terms. She was a curator for the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Art Walk for many years, and fulfills the same function now for the “Artist’s Table,” an event whose goal is to help raise money for children’s better education. “I’m very proud and pleased to do it.”

Not only are Diane and Ralph Waterhouse the Santa Barbara Chapter Chairs for the California Art Club, they’ve also participated for many years in the art scene around Santa Barbara County and throughout California. They’ve been associated with the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where over the years they’ve advised young artists on the subjects of art and business. To this day, they are closely connected with the artists they represent. “A lot of artists approach us because we’ve been around for such a long time,” comments Diane. For instance, in 2006 they were able to bring many artists into their gallery for the first edition of the Great American Figurative Show Exhibition. As Diane explains of that theme-based event, “We were really one of the first.”

Over the years, the Waterhouses’ expertise and status in the art community have afforded them the privilege to be introduced to many extraordinary individuals, and to work closely, for instance, with Scott M. Haskins, Conservator of Fine Art in Santa Barbara, whose skill is in the careful restoration of paintings in need of resuscitation.

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Electricians are hard at work and the art is starting to be hung up at the new Montecito Waterhouse Gallery in the former Scoops store

Village Beat Montecito Collective Opens

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

From candles to Coast Village: Montecito Collective, a small business owned by 25-year-old Virginia Barlow and her partner Daniel Heald, has opened a space at 1250 Coast Village Road next to Warner Group Architects. The business was founded in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic and started as a retailer of candles. Two short years later, the business now has two brick-and-mortar stores; the Coast Village location joins the flagship store in downtown Santa Barbara at Paseo Nuevo.

“The goal was always to open a brickand-mortar store in Montecito, and when this space became available, we went for it,” Barlow told us earlier this week. When she was first getting the business off the ground, she would sell her luxury candles at artisan and farmers markets, and sold them wholesale to other retailers in order to build capital. “I knew I wanted to expand to clothing, and to offer a body-positive message in an industry that can be toxic,” she said.

The shop is anchored by the popular brand, Alo Yoga; Montecito Collective is the largest retailer of the brand in the

area, Barlow said. The “luxury-meets-performance” athletic brand offers yoga wear that is often worn beyond the studio, and includes leggings, shorts, pullovers, sports bras, and more. Other brands, all of which are ethically sourced and produced, include Pistols denim, Eberjey loungewear, Splendid, Varley, and Montecito

Collective’s own brand of biker shorts, sweats, hoodies, and more. “One goal is to offer affordable, long-lasting clothing that won’t shrink or pill,” Barlow said. The line is also made with organic cotton in small batches so there is no waste.

Barlow says the vibe of the store is casual and welcoming, with offerings that make women feel comfortable (a men’s section is coming soon). “The clothes fit our customers; they don’t have to feel like they have to be a certain size or shape to fit into them,” she said. Her own line is available in a range of sizes, but the tags aren’t labeled as such. “Women are so much more than the size of clothing they wear.”

The store’s inventory is continually changing, but customers will always find the elevated, everyday basics that are at the heart of the company. The shop also carries candles, as a nod to where the brand began. “I want to remember where we started,” Barlow said.

A Grand Opening celebration is planned for Friday, April 7, from 5 pm to 9 pm. The shop is located in the former home of Synergy Lending, which closed earlier this year after five years. Montecito Collective is located at 1250 Coast Village Road. Visit www.shopmontecitocollective. com for more information.

Wunderkind Opens in San Ysidro Village

Another new store has also opened in Montecito in the last month: Wunderkind

Where possibilities become possible

is the newest tenant of San Ysidro Village, located in the former home of Birgit Klein Interiors, next to Hogue & Co. Founded by Philip Manghisi, Wunderkind has a flagship store in Scottsdale, Arizona, which opened in 2022.

Wunderkind is German word which refers to a person who achieves great success while young. Manghisi says he chose the word as a nod to a former boss, who would often tell the young fashion enthusiast, who began in the fashion industry at age 19, that he was a “wunderkind.” “I took to buying like a fish to water,” Manghisi recalls, adding

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Wunderkind offers an array of designer clothing, shoes, handbags, and jewelry

The shop carries elevated, everyday basics from brands such as Alo Yoga, Eberjey, and Montecito Collective’s own line

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An Ongoing Court Trial

by Richard Mineards

Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow, 50, is used to being in the limelight, but her current appearance in a Utah courtroom – where she is being sued for $300,000 over a 2016 ski crash on the slopes of the Deer Valley Resort in Park City – must be quite a new experience.

Retired Soda Springs optometrist Terry Sanderson, 76, initially sued the Oscar winner for $3.1 million in 2019, claiming the Goop founder seriously crashed into and injured him when she was skiing “out of control” while on the slopes with her two children Apple and Moses, now-husband TV producer Brad Falchuk, and his two children.

But a local judge dismissed a number of the claims in May 2022, saying the incident was “clearly not a hit-and-run ski crash.” Paltrow countersued, blaming Sanderson – who has now lowered his claim to $300,000 – for the accident and is seeking symbolic damages of just $1, plus her legal fees.

Sanderson, now living in Salt Lake City, claims he was left with traumatic brain injury, broken ribs, and loss of enjoyment of life – but Paltrow’s lawyers say he is lying.

The trial, which has been live streamed, is expected to end this week. But it could be all downhill from there.

Conservative Think Tank Concerned Over Immigrant’s Visa

Beverly Eanne Lewis of Montecito, California, passed away at the home she so deeply loved on Thursday March 16th, 2023. Born Beverly Watson in New South Wales, Australia on January 1st, 1942 she lived a rich life. An accomplished Olympic athlete, Beverly spent many years winning local and international track and field competitions. Blessed with both inner and outer beauty, she enjoyed a successful career in modeling as well.

Beverly lived in Australia until meeting her future husband, Robert Lewis and moving to California. Robert, a motion picture director was filming on location in Australia where the two met and the rest was history. Beverly maintained her passion for sports, track and field in particular and fully dedicated herself as an official starter at regional and national events. Once focused on a goal her focus and commitment was unwavering as demonstrated by her many years serving as treasurer for her Home Owners Assn.

A beautiful, active and caring woman and resident of Montecito for over 40 years, we are deeply saddened by her passing and know she is in a better place. Beverly will be missed and remembered by everyone who had the pleasure of meeting her.

Prince Harry’s candor in his best-selling memoir Spare, and the publicity tour associated with the book in which he admitted taking cocaine, cannabis, and magic mushrooms, could now threaten his U.S. residency visa.

The Riven Rock-based Duke of Sussex, 38, is facing calls for his U.S. visa application to be released to see whether King Charles III’s youngest son admitted his drug use before emigrating to California with former actress, wife Meghan Markle, in 2020.

A conservative think tank is in the middle of a battle with Washington D.C. officials, who are staunchly refusing to publish any details, including texts and emails.

The D.C.-based Heritage Foundation has applied under the Freedom of Information Act to have Harry’s visa application released so U.S. taxpayers can see whether he declared his drug use.

Visa immigration law has harsh penalties for lying to immigration officials, including deportation and being barred from applying for citizenship.

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Goodwill Ambassador Visits Ukraine

British actor Orlando Bloom, fiancé of Santa Barbara singer Katy Perry, has visited Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.

It was the 46-year-old Lord of the Rings star’s first visit to the embattled nation since 2016 as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and he told the country’s leader to “go win” the war against Russia.

“It is encouraging in so many ways to see the remarkably stoic nature of the people of Ukraine,” he says...

Onstage at the G

Granada Theatre benefactors Roger and Sarah Chrisman hosted the first of a three-part series, Onstage at the G, with 85 guests dining at the cavernous locale with scrumptious food from the Catering Connection.

Previously the theater hosted Upstairs at the G in the McCune Founder Room, but the capacity was limited to 40, with the stage event accommodating up to 100 guests.

“We are having two other events in April and May and hopefully introducing more people to the theater,” says Caren Rager, the popular venue’s Chrisman Executive Director.

Kicking off the debut bash and definitely adding sax appeal was Portland, Oregon, jazz musician Jessy J and her four-piece band, who played as part of the upstairs series.

Among those on stage were Gretchen Lieff and Miles Hartfeld , Brooks and Kate Firestone , Palmer and

Gwyneth Paltrow is back in Utah court over ski accident (Photo Credit: MingleMediaTVNetwork)

Community Voices Building the Gary David Goldberg Gym as a Team

by Dr. Diana Meehan

Hollywood knew him as Gary David Goldberg, creator/producer of acclaimed TV series Family Ties, Brooklyn Bridge, and Spin City. Brooklyn knew him as a storied high school athlete.

Montecito knew him as the guy on local beaches walking five big black dogs – four Newfoundlands and a Labrador.

He was all of these; and a parent to two daughters, a friend, a mentor, and for 44 years, a partner to Diana Meehan – teacher/researcher, mother of those two daughters, co-founder of The Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles. Me.

Gary relished being alive. He savored sunsets, walking up the hill behind our house almost every night with one or more dogs to sit without words and look at the colors, and the light, and the close of day. He liked the froth and slurp of egg creams, the abundance represented by an extra restaurant entrée “for the table,” a clumsy tumble on the floor with a Labrador or Newf.

The way he lived, the immensity and authenticity, the density and audacity, the joy and fullness of waking in the morning, of walking on the beach at low tide, of welcoming friends to the house for dinner, all implied a momentum that would keep going indefinitely. He didn’t embrace change. He didn’t even recognize it.

“I like my pillow,” he once said to me.

“Good,” I said.

“Is it new?” he asked.

“Relatively, about six months.”

“Oh.”

“I got it when we changed beds,” I finally say.

“We changed beds? This is not our bed?”

“It is now.”

“Is this one wildly different?”

“Pretty different,” I nod.

“Oh. You know if we went from no

bed to this bed, I would have recognized the change.”

“You’re hopeless,” I said with a smile.

Gary never wanted to leave a party. Or a restaurant. Even a walk on Summerland beach. For him the journey was the destination.

When we moved to Montecito 15 years ago, we’d already made journeys together – from our first kiss in Greenwich Village in the ‘60s to the night we said goodbye to Molly, the canine movie star of Must Love Dogs (Gary’s passion project he wrote and directed) on this lavender-and-lemon ranch in Santa Barbara. Gary loved Santa Barbara long before many of his Hollywood compatriots discovered its magic.

We’d made the extraordinary journey of parenthood; the births of our daughters, their wakefulness as babes, dreaminess as adolescents, and their clear-eyed grace and strength as adult women we were proud to know.

We made the journey from Berkeley in the ‘60s when we found our beloved Newf, named Ubu, in a box of puppies by Sproul Hall, to Brentwood in the 90s when Gary founded UBU Productions and I taught at UCLA, to 1995 when I co-founded The Archer School for Girls, with Gary as the school’s biggest donor and my constant cheerleader.

Archer School itself has been a journey. It’s an extraordinary school, dedicated to teaching girls the way they learn best, even as it has had to fight from the beginning for its very existence while neighbors dedicated resources to prevent that from happening in Brentwood, Los Angeles. It was arduous, exhausting, and expensive. But Archer parents always supported us, some taking off work to petition our council members, raise money for lawyers, gather signatures from neighborhood supporters. Gary was one of those ardent supportive parents.

The second phase of Archer School’s

journey began in 2012 with the athletes. It’s based on the belief that every girl needs a chance to learn, to challenge herself, to compete. For many that means team sports. No small feat, because Archer has no gym.

The Archer School – with a student body of 500 girls now enrolled – is racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse, and has done incredibly well in team sports: volleyball, basketball, soccer, and track and field. With NO GYM, the girls have to be bussed to practice and some even change into uniforms in the hallways. For most schools, a gym is not a luxury, but a basic and necessary component. This has become even more true – as a society we’ve come to understand the linkage between sports and academic and social/emotional development.

What makes Archer extraordinary is not only the diversity of the student body (41 percent students of color, 157 feeder schools, 76 zip codes), nor the percentage of graduates who go on to college (100 percent) – many to elite “Ivies” or highly competitive public universities like UC Berkeley and UCLA. Nor is it accomplished alumnae (the oldest of whom is only 39) who are changing the world as NASA engineers, physicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, artists, and singers. It’s all of this, plus the fact that they are engaged in doing good work, supportive of one another, sisters. In other words, team players.

Gary – himself a gifted athlete and a father and partner to a co-founder of the school –invested a big piece of his fortune into making the Archer dream come true. Because he genuinely believed in the cause. He believed what his daughters said as pre-teens: Girls can do anything. Or maybe they said that because that’s what they’d been told from the moment they could talk.

In 2013, our daughters lost their father and I lost my life-long partner when Gary died from brain cancer. Because of his enthusiastic support and his passionate belief that sports are as important for girls as they are for boys, the Archer Board of Trustees decided that the gymnasium the school planned to build should be named the Gary David Goldberg Gym.

Archer started a campaign to raise money, the gifts were generous and welcome but not enough to reach our goal. But like a

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strong team, we can see the destination and are all working together toward the goal.

The 10-year anniversary of Gary’s death – the target date for our 37 million fundraising goal, is only four months away.

Gary’s pals from Brooklyn, with whom he never lost touch, are being asked to step up to help. His cousin, a Hollywood casting director, is contacting actors Gary championed over his long career; I’m reaching out to neighbors, friends, and family. And now

I’m wondering if Montecito, a community Gary fell and remained in love with until the very end, would join this team effort to support the incredible and deserving girls at Archer as they strive to reach this important goal? Thank you for your consideration. And… Go team!

Please give online at archer.org/gdggym or make checks payable to The Archer School for Girls (memo: Gary David Goldberg Gym) and mail to: 11725 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049.

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Letters to the Editor Letters Need Word Limits

Ithink it’s time to cede Bryan Rosen space as a columnist; there is no other way to describe his way-too-regular contributions on a single topic. Certainly, no one can doubt his passion for the Hot Springs Trail and its attendant issues, but his letters exceed the accepted word limit by hundreds; often they cannot be contained on a single page. Plus, letters from him are printed far too often.

Most newspapers maintain a 200-word limit for Letters to the Editor (New York Times is 150) – a BRIEF three to four paragraphs – and they limit how often letters from one person may be published –once every two months, especially if on the same topic. The previous publisher of the MJ never cared much about word limits or frequency in the Letters section, (nor did he refrain from printing letters that contained profanity and were signed “Anonymous.”) I had hoped that with change in leadership at the MJ readers would have seen a stop to these non-conforming journalism practices.

Diane Graham, Montecito

Picking A President in 2024

In reference to the article by Bob Hazard, “Picking the President in 2024,” I agree with Mr. Hazard that the presidential election in 2024 will be “a polarizing prizefight.” Whether it is between

Donald Trump and Joe Biden or Ron DeSantis or Gavin Newsom

I disagree with Mr. Hazard that it will be a more intelligent race between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom. The race for our next president isn’t about intelligence, it is about who can best run and govern America. When Trump was president he did a great job, in spite of the fact that Democrats, the corrupt media, and RINOs did everything they could to destroy him. Sadly today, Joe Biden has failed to be a strong, pro-American president. All you have to do is look at our out-of-control southern border, remember the bungled Afghan withdrawal, and observe how the leaders of Russia, China, and Iran are taking advantage of his weakness. On top of that, our economy is in shambles, with the highest inflation in 40 years because of reckless spending.

The question going forward; do we want a president who is strong, pro-American and can once again be respected by the rest of the world?

In my book, either Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis would fit the bill. Neither Biden or Gavin Newsom would. Biden has weakened America and Newsom has destroyed the once golden state of California.

In 2024, we need new leaders who love America.

Diana Thorn

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Our Town Talking TLC with SB Humane

The Chief Veterinary Officer holds a Masters in Shelter Medicine, and the clinic is staffed with licensed veterinarians. They perform up to 30 surgeries a day, do blood work in-house, sterilize equipment via autoclave, do health exams, and provide vaccinations.

Burns said that services for animals are provided whether the pet owner has funds or not. “Those who can pay are actually helping pay for those who cannot, and of course anyone can make a donation towards that.”

The cat shelter features music – which research has shown calms the cats – and pheromones released into the air which smell like a mother cat, so the cats instinctively feel safe. The cats’ cages are roomy and split-level, and have a doggie door so the felines can go outside.

We next toured the property where there are large open areas for individual dogs to run and play on a rotating basis. There is a recreation and skill learning plan, so dogs are both exercised and socialized. They go to the beach, to Home Depot, and other types of outings. The dogs have heated individual outside pens they go to only for sleep at night and feedings. Burns asked if I noticed any dogs barking. There was a friendly bark as we walked through, but not the expected chorus of barking from all the dogs. She mentioned this was because of the programs they have at the center.

Q. What is your role at SB Humane?

by Joanne A Calitri

This week we visited with Kerri Burns, CEO of SB Humane and her team of CFO Paige Van Tuyl, and COO Dori Villalon at the Santa Barbara location on Overpass Road. The four-acre property holds a veterinary clinic and surgery center, food, lodging and training of dogs, a cat hotel, and offers shelter during local disasters for pets like rabbits, chickens, and horses.

It is obvious this team loves animals and their job, as evidenced by the animals that are there. The tour started with the vet clinic where we were greeted by the dog manning the clinic; yes, seriously. Dogs are assigned to various tasks for socialization skills. This dog was great, smiling, attentive, and followed us around – it did appear he was managing the place!

A. My role is to establish and fulfill our strategic direction while being flexible enough to pivot and respond to the needs of animals and people in our community. I thrive on cultivating and engaging donors and community partners in our work. I report to and collaborate with a Board of Directors committed to governance and fiscal oversight. I provide leadership to our team of experienced animal welfare professionals who oversee day-to-day client and animal services at Santa Barbara Humane’s two campuses. And, I ensure the integrity of our work and commitment to Socially Conscious Sheltering.

How long have you been with the SBH?

I have had the honor of leading this organization for the past five years. I’ve been in the field of animal welfare and protection for more than 23 years, working across the U.S. and abroad. My experience includes leading disaster response and large-scale animal rescue efforts, nonprofit management, and shelter operations.

What do you want the community to know about SB Humane, and where it is headed? SB Humane is more than just an animal shelter. We play a key role in the overall

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Society Invites

SB Cottage Hospital Foundation’s Annual Tiara Ball

by Joanne A Calitri

The beloved annual Tiara Ball held by the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation (CHF) is as glamorous as it is dedicated to raising funds to continue supporting and expanding its latest health care services, and its top rank in the country – in 2020, Newsweek ranked the leading hospitals in 21 countries, listing Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital as #135 in the nation and #22 in California.

The elegant event – held on Saturday, March 25, at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara – sold out to over 400 fortunate ticket holders, some of whom were surgical residents and various specialty nurses that were gifted tickets by donors. The night hosted noted gents in their finest tailored Canali and Emporio Armani tux suits, and women in unique taffeta, silk charmeuse, and lace designer gowns, adorned in diamond, emerald, and ruby tiaras. I couldn’t help but wonder, with all the Vera Wang, Jimmy Choo, and Manolo Blahnik’s present, how down-to-earth the entire evening was, like a great night out with the friends you call family. Indeed, CHF honored its family of donors, sponsors, doctors, medical and surgical residents, nurses, health care providers, staff, volunteers and Board of Directors during the presentations by Board Chair Steve Zola, President and CEO Ron Werft, and event co-chairs, Heather Hambleton and Lisa Iscovich

Some of the accomplishment highlights mentioned were 2022-23 being the first year a Pediatric Residency program was offered, the inclusion of a Spanish level in the Virtual Care component, partnerships with other nonprofits and local universities like Westmont College, the naming of its new ER Trauma Center after Naomi and Ben Bollag for their generous funding, and a nod to Linda Yawitz – aka “Mama Bear” to the surgical residents –who sponsored their tickets. This year’s theme, Constellation of Caring, shined a light on one such star,

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Ginger Salazar, Hiroko Benko, and Jelinda De Vorzon

(photo by Joanne A Calitri)

Ben and Naomi Bollag and Mary and Ron Werft

(photo by Joanne A Calitri)

Lisa Iscovich and Heather Hambleton (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

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Dear Montecito

How Do Our Boats Disrupt Marine Life?

by Stella Haffner

The first time I spoke to Clare Ogle we were sitting across from each other in high school AP Biology. Four and a half years later, Clare is a graduate of University of Washington in Seattle, where she recently completed her major in marine biology with a minor in Arctic studies. She now puts that degree to good use as a program assistant with the Soundwatch Boater Education Program, an organization dedicated to whale monitoring and boater education. Last month, Clare and I met up as old classmates with a shared interest in biology to discuss her work at Soundwatch.

Q. How did you decide to study marine biology?

A. I have pretty much always wanted to study marine biology. I think second grade was when I decided I wanted to be a marine biologist, and I stuck with that!

Can you give us an overview of what Soundwatch does?

During the summer we go out on the water monitoring whales, which means taking data on their behavior, what they’re doing, how they’re traveling, what direction they’re going in. At the same time, we are also taking data on the boats near them. We’ll record the type of boat, how many boats there are, and what they’re doing. We also approach recreational boaters and talk to them about the appropriate regulations and guidelines for viewing the whales they’re boating around – just making sure everyone is doing their best to reduce the amount of disturbance going on around these whales. That’s really our main priority, reducing the amount of vessel disturbance that cetaceans in the Salish Sea are experiencing.

Since Soundwatch is covering both the boater education and research side of things, can you tell me more about the research you’re doing?

We are trying to understand the marine environment that whales are experiencing in terms of the amount of vessel disturbance. We take measurements of their behavior, noting things such as the group size, whether they’re feeding or socializing – things like that. And every time there’s an incident out on the water, that would be a vessel not complying with a regulation or guideline, we also record if the whales have any behavioral changes in response to the incident.

In this way we’re trying to understand the way vessel disturbances are impacting whale behavior, and we have a couple different cetacean populations that we’re looking at, such as the Southern Resident killer whales, which are endangered and threatened in part by noise disturbance. We use this information, the data we collect, to learn how we can best reduce disturbance in the marine environment.

What happens once you’ve collected all of this data? Where does it go?

We basically have a master sheet of all our data. This is a big excel spreadsheet that has all the whale behavior data, all the vessel data, all the incident data and so on.

Jacqueline Duran

The Soundwatch crew

After studying marine biology, Clare Ogle joined the whale and ocean vessel noise-monitoring organization, Soundwatch

the late Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree, and her husband, the late Lord Paul RidleyTree for their vigilant financial support, to which everyone was asked to raise a glass. The program also told the story of a severe trauma patient who fully recovered and was present with her family.

Hambleton and Iscovich shared:

“We hope guests are touched by the inspiring stories shared at the event – stories of amazing patients, their compassionate caregivers and skilled professionals who help in their journey back to health. We are so fortunate to have a world-class teaching hospital in our community to help make

these stories of recovery possible, and we are grateful to the individuals who join us for this evening to share their perspective as patients and to those who support the event. It’s an unforgettable evening, and a tribute to the strength and generosity of our community. Our goal this year is to raise at least $500,000 to support Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital’s critical care services. Proceeds from the event will go toward the expansion of the SBCH Emergency Department (ED). Scheduled for completion later this year, the expanded emergency department will double capacity and offer a new care model to reduce patient wait times. The ED and Level 1 Trauma Center

at SBCH provides care for our community when they need it most – today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Since 2005, the Tiara Ball has raised $7,159,112 to care for thousands of children and adults who are critically ill or injured.”

The Co-Chairs were supported by their Committee Gina Andrews, Katy Bazylewicz , David Dietrich , Mari McAlister, Sue Neuman, Alex Nourse, Cathy Quijano, Robin Sonner, Magda Stayton, Esther Takacs, Betsy Turner, Mary Werft, and Margaret Wilkinson.

Noted guests and sponsors are Susie and Riley Bechtel, Christine and Reece Duca, Chivaroli & Associates Insurance Services, David and Anna Grotenhuis, Peter and Kat Halper , ProWest Constructors, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, Jelinda and Barry De Vorzon, Georgia Korbakis, Ginger Salazar, Greg and Tamara Faulkner,

Mary and Richard Compton, Hiroko Benko, Zola with wife Belinda, and Werft with wife Mary

411: For more information about the Tiara Ball and ways to support Cottage Health, visit www. cottagehealth.org/donate

SB Cottage Hospital Surgical Residents (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

Barry and Jelinda De Vorzon (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

Dr. Peter Nguyen and wife Sonya with Keilani and Cori Waxdeck (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

Stradivarius, Sunset, and the Sea

CAMA Women’s Board threw its second annual Sunset by the Sea at the Cabrillo Pavilion, where London-based luthier and co-founder of The Open String, Robert Brewer Young, 56, talked about the famed 17th century Italian violin and cello maker Stradivarius, whose instruments have sold for millions of dollars.

Young, who received traditional French training in violin-making studies in studios above New York’s Carnegie Hall, now uses 21st century science to manufacture Stradivarius-quality instruments using spruce, willow, and maple construction – woods also used by other legendary makers such as Guarneri, Amati, and Goffriller, among others.

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Montecito JOURNAL

“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” —John Muir

Susan Jackson , Chris Lancashire , Anne Luther, Kathryn Martin, Joan Rutkowski , Kristi Newton , Lynn Kirst, Nick Jackson and Lisa Presnell, Ruth Ann Bowe, Dana Hansen, and John Stegall

The appreciative audience taking in Jessy J and her band (photo by Priscilla)

Jessy J and her accompanying quartet playing Onstage at the G (photo by Priscilla)

Palmer Jackson, Jessy J, and Roger Chrisman (photo by Priscilla)

Brilliant Thoughts

Eaters and Eaten

by Ashleigh Brilliant

One of the ways we celebrate important occasions is by eating. Festivals, whether religious or secular, are times for joyful observance of something worth remembering, and tend to be annual, since the regular solar cycle makes a good periodic reminder.

I grew up in a Jewish family, but also in a Christian community, and each tradition had its own foods, prepared and consumed in special ways. Some legendary origins of these festivities go far back in historic time. A good example is the Hebrew holiday called “Passover,” which supposedly commemorates what we might call a Survival Epic, in which the nasty oppressors – in this case the Egyptians – were holding their Judaic victims in bondage – i.e. as slaves. But the Lord – who, of course, was always on the side of the Good Guys – and who had already inflicted nine terrible disasters (“plagues”) on their captors, apparently to no effect except to harden the heart of their leader, Pharaoh, still has one shockingly severe punishment up His sleeve. Somehow, in a single night, the oldest offspring of every Egyptian family, and even of their livestock, is to be struck dead. But the Jews, identified by a special mark on the doorposts of their dwellings, are to be spared, or “Passed Over.”

And somehow, tied in with all this, is a special dietary injunction to forego the use of yeast in the baking of bread (supposedly because, in the course of their hasty exodus, there would not be time for baking the traditional way). Hence the connection, which has lasted to this day, between the celebration of “Passover” and the eating of flat, dry, unleavened bread called “Matzo.”

Another very interesting example of how baked goods have (or may have) figured in History, or pseudo-History, has to do with events (or alleged events) leading up to the French Revolution. The Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, when told that many members of the peasantry were dying for lack of bread, is supposed to have responded “Let them eat cake.” Dubious History, but just the words to fire up a people to begin cutting off heads.

Of course, there is also a long tradition of people eating each other. This can be practiced to satisfy various needs, including hunger, religion, and even the quaint belief that the eater may thereby acquire any desired characteristics of the eaten. Believe it or not, there are no fewer than eight cannibal cookbooks currently available on the open market, some of them quite serious, others –so to speak – tongue in cheek. Of the latter category, I would recommend one called You

Are Who You Eat, by Ina Hillebrandt

But there are all kinds of people – from gourmands to gourmets – who specialize in eating. There are restaurant critics who

go around giving, or not giving, stars for the quality of the food and the service. And there are any number of jokes about patrons who complain about finding a fly in their soup. Such as:

“Customer: Waiter, what is this fly doing in my soup? Waiter: The backstroke.”

Then there are favorite foods, which, judging from the relative popularity of thousands of my epigrams, must, at least in our culture, include chocolate and peanut butter – with lines like these:

“If chocolate could teach, I would by now be extremely well educated.”

“Chocolate is great, but Love is greater – and the greatest of all loves is Love of Chocolate.”

“But after you have gone, I will still have Peanut Butter.”

“What is truly divine – apart from Peanut Butter?”

But the whole subject of eating is one which has fascinated the interest – dare I say, consumed the attention – of myself and my readers, with such Brilliant thoughts as:

“If forced to choose, I’d almost always rather eat than fight.”

“I’m very good at eating – Can you tell me where they need eaters?”

“The only way to make sure you get enough is always to have a little too much.”

“After breakfast, does anything matter but lunch?”

“What good is it if I talk in flowers, while you’re thinking in pastry?”

As for being at the other end of the food chain, look no further than:

“Didn’t you know? It’s always an honor to be eaten by a superior creature.”

Which calls to mind the Shmoo, a creation of cartoonist Al Capp in his comic strip Li’l Abner. Among the Shmoo’s adorable characteristics was the fact that it was delicious, and always enjoyed being eaten.

Ernie’s World

Where’s Ernie? Noah to be Seen

by Ernie Witham

It finally arrived! Freighter delays, they said. Lack of experienced labor. Cost overruns. Sound familiar?

But a giant truck pulled up in front of our condo today and delivered my IKEA easy-to-assemble, all-parts-included, fully-illustrated-plans-provided... ark. That’s right! I’m going to save the world from the great flood! Or, at least a few hundred people from Santa Barbara and their ark-broken pets.

I opened the box closest to me. It contained pre-addressed return labels, which I tossed to one side. Then I found the READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS

FIRST! tome, which was written in Hebrew with some terms translated into English, Spanish, and Japanese. I skipped that part, of course.

The second section advising MAKE SURE ALL 2,000,081 PARTS, VATS OF WATERPROOFING, BRUSH AND HEX KEY ARE INCLUDED BEFORE STARTING was also quite long, so I skipped that too.

I was in a hurry because I wanted to get started right away before the association dug up some kind of arcane rule against building nautical structures in the common area.

So, I turned to Illustration 1A-Hull Construction. “It showed a crew of men carrying Cypress Planks 0001 and 0002 to a designated “shipyard building area.” Crew? Shipyard? I felt that familiar “uhoh” sweat forming on the back of my neck. But it was way too early to be deterred. I needed astute advice. I called my wife, who was in her French class.

“Where are you?” she asked. In the background I heard several women shout out “Ou es-tu?”

“Desolé,” she shouted back to them. “Ou es-tu, Ernest?” She said into the phone, then she whispered. “The neighbor just called and said she can’t get out of the driveway. Matter of fact, she said she can’t even find her car.”

“Ou est sa voiture?” the women from the French class yelled out.

“I, ah, I’m starting on that secret project I was telling you about. Only I have run into a slight snag.”

Pat groaned, in French, I think. “I’m afraid to ask, but what’s the snag?”

“C’est le hic?” the French class yelled.”

“C’est le hic, Ernest? Est-ce petit?”

“Yup! And anyone that helps is guaranteed a seat. Hello? How about a window seat? Free cheese snacks? Hello?”

Several unsuccessful phone calls to family later... “Sorry, my back is out.” “Sorry, I’m going to be out of town for a long, long time.” “Sorry, I’m allergic to wood.” ... I decided to post it on social media. “Ark builders wanted. Must have strong back, own tools, and ability to read Hebrew. Please bring your own lunch.”

Though I didn’t get any actual commitments, I did receive a lot of encouragement and “thumbs-ups.” I even received a TikTok video of three teenagers doing an elaborate ark dance through a sprinkler.

My wife returned from her class. “Bonjour,” I said.

“I thought of something on the drive home.”

“Yeah? Great!”

If, I mean when, you get the ark built, and if, I mean when, we get the kinds of rains that will lift it off the ground and hopefully begin to float, who is going to pilot the thing?”

I looked at her in disbelief. “I always pilot my own arks.”

“Un-huh. Like the pontoon boat on Lake Winnipesaukee?”

“Hey, getting under the Weir’s Bridge was challenging for everyone that day.”

“True.”

“Any anyone could have gotten a little sideways in the channel with that current.”

“True.”

“And I didn’t hit that other boat very hard. Besides, this will be different. We’ll just float around for 40 days and 40 nights. I have already ordered an 85-inch high-def television, a thousand frozen burritos, 80 cases of beer, and some guacamole,” I beamed with pride.

“You might need a few other things,” Pat said. “Like generators, refrigerators, microwaves, portable lights, oars, life jackets, foul weather gear...” I held up my hand. “I’m not quite done,” she said.

“I am,” I said. Then I started looking for those return labels.

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

“Non petit,” I said, exercising my own mastery of French. “Muy grande! ”

“Au revoir et bonne chance,” Pat said. Which I think translates to goodbye, good luck, and call the relatives.

“Hey, what are you and the fam doing for the next oh, say, month or so? See I’m building this ark...”

“Ark! As in ark, ark?”

“Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.”

—Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Ernie Witham has been writing humor for more than 25 years. He is the author of three humor books and is the humor workshop leader at the prestigious Santa Barbara Writers Conference.

Robert’s Big Questions

Privatized Profits and Socialized Losses?

by Robert Bernstein

The recent failures, negotiated bailouts, and buyouts of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, First Republic Bank, and Credit Suisse are a reminder of how life is different for different classes of people.

“Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor” is how Michael Harrington described it in his 1962 book, The Other America.

Detroit was the fourth largest city in America in the 1950s. Manufacturing moved out of the U.S. and people were replaced by robots. A third of the city was abandoned and over half the population left. There were no bailouts for these people. In fact, it actually cost the city money to tear down the abandoned houses. It would have been cheaper to pay the people to stay.

After the stock market crash of 1929, President Roosevelt created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to prevent bank runs and panics during times of economic crisis. Each bank would pay insurance premiums to protect depositors’ accounts. To make this work, banks had to follow regulations regarding how much cash they had on hand to cover withdrawals. And they were restricted to certain types of investments.

As the memory of 1929 and the Depression faded, Republicans (and some Democrats) removed some of these regulations. What could possibly go wrong when you get to take risks as a bank to maximize profits, but you get bailed out if you fail?

We found out in the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. Part of that was the mortgage meltdown. Banks were making loans to people who could not possibly pay them off. They would bundle those loans into packages that would get sold off to other financial institutions. No problem, since there would always be a bailout to save whoever was holding the bad loans when it all came crashing down.

After that 2008 crisis, the DoddFrank Act was supposed to restore some of the regulation. But ten years later, banks like Silicon Valley Bank lobbied successfully to be excluded from those rules. Trump signed that deregulation. FDIC was supposed to be insurance. But over 93 percent of Silicon Valley Bank assets were not insured. The government promised to cover those assets, too, in the name of stabilizing the economy.

Twenty percent of Americans either have no bank account or are otherwise forced to use “alternative financial services.” The latter includes “payday loans” and other “services” that charge outrageous interest rates and fees.

Talk show host Thom Hartmann has advocated for years that the U.S. Postal Service can and should provide basic banking services. It would earn a small profit for the USPS, and it would allow the poorest Americans access to true banking. Oh, but that would be called socialism.

It is worth looking at some details of the Silicon Valley Bank failure. They claimed they were investing in a “conservative” manner with various bonds. Well, they are “conservative” during a time of low interest rates. Not so much when interest rates rise and they lose value rapidly.

As recently as April 2021, Richard Clarida, a vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, said that low interest rates were expected to remain for years to come. My primary degrees are in physics, and I have never taken an economics class. But I correctly predicted the failure of the stock market bubble of the late 1990s and the mortgage meltdown. It is not rocket science to see when pieces of paper are valued far above what they are supposed to stand for. Any reasonable person could also see that interest rates would eventually rise to historic norms.

Even a casual investor knows to diversify their holdings so that they can weather changing financial conditions. Yet Silicon Valley Bank had essentially no diversification at all. Meanwhile, their CEO Greg Becker was paid over $10 million a year. Much of it was tied to the high “return on investment” before everything fell apart. Yes, the CEO was incentivized to maximize risk in order to maximize his income. Literally, throwing darts to choose investments would have produced a better outcome, and saved $10 million a year.

I will point out another regulation problem: “Regulatory capture.” The fact that there is a revolving door between regulators and those who are regulated. Bernie Sanders pointed out that CEO Greg Becker was on the Federal Reserve Board.

I might be OK with bailouts in a well-regulated industry that fell on hard times. But, only if the little people get them, too.

Throughout the season, this master sheet is being updated, and at the end of the season we produce a couple of different reports. Right now, we’re working on our annual report that we produce with NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), working on analyzing that data and producing information that can help support policy decisions. All the reports become available for the public to read on our website.

What made you want to be involved with an organization like Soundwatch?

I have always been interested in whale behavior. I think they’re such smart and complex creatures. In the last couple of years, I’ve become more interested in how anthropogenic activities can influence those behaviors and what effect that can have on population health. The summer before my senior year of college, I was up here taking a class and at the end of the course we had to do a field research project. My co-researchers and I ended up doing a study on how vessel disturbance influences harbor seal behavior, and that was just such an exciting project to me. I really loved doing it, so that definitely made me more interested in vessel disturbance specifically. Because of that, Soundwatch was kind of the perfect internship for me to do post-graduation. And I really love it. It’s the best job I’ve ever had, definitely.

What is something you learned at Soundwatch that you wish the public knew about marine mammal welfare?

I think it is not widely known what an impact vessel disturbance can have on whale behavior. I definitely was not that aware of it until I started taking classes in college and thinking more about it. It might not seem like boats create that much noise to us because we’re listening above water, but underwater they’re producing so much more noise and all of these species are really very sensitive to that noise. It’s really important for these marine mammal species to be able to communicate and, in the case of killer whales, echolocate underwater. Vessel disturbance can disrupt that.

How would you describe the impact of this on marine mammals? What is the threat of noise pollution?

It depends on the species, but in general it can impact their ability to communicate and for killer whales specifically it has been known to impact their foraging behavior. The Southern Resident killer whales are an endangered population here in the Salish Sea. They’re facing a number of threats, but noise disturbance is one of those main threats. The fact that this noise pollution can impact their ability to forage successfully is especially concerning when they’re also facing reduced prey availability as well as a number of other threats.

Is there anything else people need to know?

I would really love people to know about Soundwatch, but I think it’s just great for people to know and generally spread awareness about the appropriate regulations and guidelines that need to be followed when you’re out on the water. Here in the Salish Sea, both in U.S. and Canadian waters, it’s important to highlight the Be Whale Wise guidelines, which are additional measures boaters are encouraged to use in order to reduce their impact on marine wildlife when getting underway. When you’re going out boating, or doing any recreational activity on the water, you need to be doing your best to reduce the amount of disturbance you’re creating in that environment because it’s the whales’ home –we’re the ones who are going out there to have fun; we’re the ones who need to make sure we’re maintaining the best possible environment for the whales.

From the shores of Scotland, Stella Haffner keeps her connection to her home in Montecito by bringing grads of local schools to the pages of the Montecito Journal

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

Wynton Marsalis Septet

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

Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

Chris Crenshaw, trombone

Abdias Armenteros, saxophone

Chris Lewis, saxophone & clarinet

Carlos Henriquez, bass

Domo Branch, drums

Dan Nimmer, piano

Major Sponsor: Sara Miller McCune

Event Sponsor: Jody & John Arnhold

Jazz Series Lead Sponsor: Manitou Fund

Danish String Quartet

The Doppelgänger Project, Part III

Thu, Apr 13 / 7 PM (note special time)

UCSB Campbell Hall

Schubert: String Quartet in A minor, D. 804 (“Rosamunde”)

Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D. 703 (“Quartettsatz”)

Anna Thorvaldsdóttir: Rituals ( U.S. Premiere, Arts & Lectures Co-commission ) Schubert (arr. Danish String Quartet): Gretchen am Spinnrade , D.118

The Danish String Quartet returns with the third concert in its Doppelgänger Project, pairing Schubert’s “Rosamunde” Quartet with a newly commissioned work by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdóttir.

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. Special Thanks

“Their command of the score is absolute… impressively cohesive.”

The New York Times on Doppelganger, Part II

Sō Percussion with Caroline Shaw

Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part

Fri, Apr 21 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

ARTEMIS

Renee Rosnes

Ingrid Jensen

Alexa Tarantino

Nicole Glover

Noriko Ueda

Allison Miller

Sun, Apr 23 / 7 PM (note special time)

UCSB Campbell Hall

Founded in 2017 under the banner of International Women’s Day, ARTEMIS is a powerhouse ensemble of modern jazz masters, each a composer and bandleader in their own right.

Event Sponsor: Luci & Rich Janssen

Jazz Series Lead Sponsor: Manitou Fund

Sō Percussion offers an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam.” The New Yorker

Caroline Shaw’s remarkable ear for melody and Sō Percussion’s playful sense of rhythmic invention come together in this strikingly original music that dissolves the boundaries between classical and pop.

“A killer line-up of players… they all converge on this extremely cosmopolitan, sleek, rhythmforward, modern sound.” NPR

Works by Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion, Eric Cha-Beach, Angélica Negrón and Nathalie Joachim

Santa Barbara Debut

Village Beat (Continued from 6)

that at the age of 20 he joined the buying team at Jeffrey New York, helping to select merchandise for the then-leading designer retailer. He went on to join Elyse Walker, buying for both women’s and men’s designer product for over four years. Now he is the founder of his own retail store, which offers designer women’s ready-to-wear collections, luxury shoes and handbags, jewelry, and more.

Looking to amplify the following he’s built in Scottsdale, he sought a location in Montecito to bolster summer sales, as business declines in Arizona during the hot months. “I knew that summer would be challenging there, and I wanted to open a satellite type of store in a more temperate climate,” he explained. “A family friend had mentioned Montecito, and when I saw this space become available, I jumped at the chance.”

The 869-square foot space is beautifully curated to feature brands including Alaiah, Chloe, Dries van Noten, Stella McCartney, Gabriela Hearst, Bottega Veneta, and more. Jewelry designers include Hoorsenbuhs, Irene Neuwirth, and Loree Rodkin, among others. “I pick every single thing that is featured in this store. I like to think of it as ‘uncomplicated luxury,’” Manghisi explained. “I don’t like things that require an explanation. I like beautiful, well-made clothes that you are going to have for a long time.”

Wunderkind is open Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm, and Sundays by appointment. The shop is located at 525 San Ysidro Road. Visit www.shopwunderkind.com for more information.

Montecito Association Meets

At a rescheduled board meeting last Wednesday, April 22, the Montecito Association Board of Directors met to discuss the upcoming Board of Supervisors meeting in which the Board will consider two appeals of the widening of Highway 101 related to the removal of sound walls from the project.

The Montecito Association Board voted to send a letter to the Board of Supervisors for their April 4 meeting. The letter will include comments from neighbors affected by the decision to remove the sound walls, as well as solidarity with Montecito Planning Commissioner Marshall Miller, who believes that drainage in the area of the freeway through Montecito needs to be addressed structurally so that sound walls could be an option in the future.

Also at the meeting, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi reported on crime in Montecito for the last several months. These incidents include an attempted break-in on Miramar Lane; two separate incidents related to intoxicated subjects at the Rosewood Miramar; a trailer and umbrella stolen from the Farmers Market

stand in Summerland; domestic dispute on Ortega Hill Road; confrontation at Santa Barbara Cemetery during a funeral; DUI on Highway 101 at Padaro Lane; grand theft on North Jameson; vehicle pursuit ending in Summerland in which there was a toddler in the backseat of the vehicle; shoplifting in the Upper Village; criminal threats on San Ysidro Lane; jewelry theft on Ten Acre Road; spray painting in Hammond’s Meadow; and unlawful entry at a construction site on East Valley Road.

The meeting marked the last MA meeting for Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Taylor, who retires this week after more than eight years of service to the Montecito community, and 35 years in the fire service.

The Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors appointed David Neels as Fire Chief on Monday, March 27. Neels began his firefighting career in 1989 in San Luis Obispo County while earning his bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. In 1998, he joined Santa Barbara County Fire Department as a firefighter paramedic. During his 21 years with Santa Barbara County Fire Department, he progressed through the ranks to Engineer, Captain, and Battalion Chief. In November 2019, the Montecito Fire Department hired Neels as a Battalion Chief. He was promoted to Division Chief of Operations in January 2021. Neels has worked with state Incident Management Teams for over 15 years, responding to major emergencies across the Western United States. In addition to his role as Montecito Fire Chief, he currently serves as an Incident Commander for the Santa Barbara County Type 3 Incident Management Team. Chief Neels grew up in the Santa Ynez Valley and currently lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and three children.

Chief Taylor told the MA Board of Directors that he was grateful for the phenomenal partnership with the Association, and Chief Neels said he looks forward to continuing the relationship with the Montecito Association moving forward.

Next month’s Montecito Association Board of Directors meeting will be held in-person for the first time in three years. For more information about location, visit www.montecitoassociation.org.

A Historic Win for Animal Rights:

Spain

Passes Law Against Domestic Animal Abuse

Earlier this month, Spanish legislators unanimously approved a bill to improve the welfare of domesticated animals. The bill was accompanied by a modification of the penal code that will result in harsher punishments for anyone who abuses these animals.

Ione Belarra, Minister of Social Rights and secretary-general of the Podemos Party remarked that, “It is a very important day because Parliament has definitively approved the first law on animal rights (since the restoration) of our democracy.” Podemos is a party that is on the far left of the Spanish political spectrum.

She went on to say that the law “will put an end to the impunity of people mistreating animals” and that it represents “progress which corresponds to the sensitivity of our fellow citizens who want, for the most part, to protect” animals.

Dog owners will be required to undergo “mandatory” training under this rule, and it will be against the law for them to leave their pets alone for more than 24 hours at a time.

In addition to this, it makes the sterilization of cats mandatory, with the exception of cats kept on farms. Animal rights organizations have emphasized the significance of birth control in order to reduce the number of cats that are abandoned.

The reform of the penal code that comes along with the law increases the penalties for mistreatment, which can land offenders in prison for up to a year and a half if the abused animal requires veterinary care. If the animal does not require veterinary care, the penalties remain the same as they were before the law.

This penalty will be increased to two years if the animal is killed, and it could possibly be increased to three years if the circumstances are particularly severe.

The bullfighting industry will not be impacted in any way by the legal reforms.

The regulation also strengthens the oversight of pet breeders.

Since the beginning of the year 2020, the country of Spain has made it possible for estranged couples to share legal custody of their pets, because pets are now regarded as “living beings endowed with sensitivity” rather than merely “things” or “possessions.”

Several nations in Europe have already made changes to their legal systems to reflect the recognition that animals are sentient beings with lives of their own.

“They’re art magicians,” claims Diane. Whether damaged from fire, flood, or smoke, precious paintings find their rescue in the team from Fine Art Conservation Laboratories. Thus, Diane and Ralph Waterhouse have both developed an essential and heartfelt connection with their surroundings. “We’ve met so many incredible people and developed wonderful relationship with our artists over time.”

So, what to expect in this new delightful art gallery? To fall in love with paintings that will charm your soul. “Choose with your heart, it has to touch you and make you happy,” mentions Diane. Besides being overcome by feelings of emotion, what else will you experience in the gallery? Expect to be surprised, and to encounter conversation-spurring figurative paintings, landscapes of local scenes – from Butterfly Beach and the Historical Santa Barbara County Courthouse to Arroyo Burro Beach. “It is interesting that the locals love local scenes – and the tourists love the local scenes too,” points out Diane. As they open their Montecito art gallery on April 1, 2023, the couple can’t wait to meet and greet people, as Diane reflects. “I think it is exciting when somebody buys a painting for the first time, and I say you will always remember this day. When something is touching your heart,” she added, “you should have it, because otherwise you’ll regret it in the long run.” In short, if you like it in the gallery, then you’ll love it in your home.

A word to the wise – you should surely meet the owners for their grand opening, and then be introduced to the incredible artworks and, just possibly, the painters themselves, who will be available to speak with you in person. “We always look, we always keep our eyes open for really wonderful talent,” Diane says. For now, let’s celebrate the venue of their artists Nancy Davidson, Derek Harrison, Ray Hunter, and Thomas Van Stein

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.

The gallery will be open on Saturday, April 1st, at 11am and the reception will be held from 3 pm to 6 pm at 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 3. The Waterhouse Gallery will be open from that date forward, every day from 11 am to 5 pm. We hope to see you there.

quality of life for animals and people in our community by nurturing and supporting the human-animal bond. We provide access to low-cost or free veterinary care and safety net programs, such as affordable dog training, emergency boarding, and pet food – all to help keep animals and families together. Our impact extends beyond our campuses when we accept animals from overcrowded shelters to provide them with veterinary treatment and placement. We also work with local volunteers to support feral cats in our community.

Another important fact – since there is some understandable confusion – is that we are not associated with or funded by any national animal welfare group. SB Humane is an independent 501(c)(3) organization, separate from County Animal Services, and has been part of the community for more than 136 years. We don’t receive tax dollars, so our programs and services are supported solely by contributions and grants from the local community.

Our future reflects the needs of our community – attainable, affordable veterinary resources; behavioral training and support for owned and shelter animals; and diverse outreach strategies to reach all residents of Santa Barbara County.

What is the average number of animals per month available for adoption.

Last year, 1,666 animals were adopted from our two campuses with an average length of stay of just 11 days. This success can be attributed to our experienced animal care and veterinary teams who ensure animals are evaluated on an individual basis, and that their medical and behavioral needs are promptly addressed.

Of the animals adopted, how many return again?

We take a conversational approach to adoptions and recognize that every person and every animal has unique needs. Instead of adoption applications, we work with adopters to explore which animal may best fit their interests, abilities, and lifestyle. Our nine percent adoption return rate is well below industry standards and not something we spend a lot of time worrying about. Instead, we establish relationships with our adopters, so they feel comfortable letting us know if an animal isn’t the right match. They give us the opportunity to keep working together and they share valuable information about the animal that helps us with the next placement.

After animals enter SB Humane, according to your website 80% are shipped to another organization. Where do they go, and do those organizations euthanize them?

We don’t transfer animals to other organizations that euthanize animals.

SB Humane is a lifesaving destination shelter and a valued partner of under-resourced agencies who transfer animals to us to alleviate overcrowding. Last year, we accepted 622 animals from other shelters and provided them with veterinary care, socialization, training, and placement into new homes. These transfer animals joined the 978 surrendered animals we received from owners who could no longer provide care or who suffered personal life changes that prevented them from keeping their pets.

As a Socially Conscious Shelter, we ensure every unwanted and homeless animal in our county has a safe place to go. Because we accept every animal in need, we receive animals that may be suffering from life-threatening or debilitating medical conditions and animals whose aggressive behavior poses a safety threat to our shelter team, other animals, or the community. Last year, these animals made up three percent of the animals we received, and in these cases, we perform responsible euthanasia.

How long has SB Humane been practicing Socially Conscious Sheltering policies?

Socially Conscious Sheltering is a shared set of values that guide us and help us communicate our commitment to the highest standards of care for animals and the community. The tenets emphasize integrity, transparency, and public safety.

I introduced Socially Conscious Sheltering to Santa Barbara Humane in 2019 because it reflects how we approach our work and ensures we are all aligned.

Current staff-to-animal ratio?

We are fortunate to have a staff-to-animal ratio that provides each animal with

one-on-one daily nurturing, exercise, and enrichment, and a level of service that far exceeds industry standards. While we are an open-admission shelter, we admit owner-surrendered animals by appointment, and we strategically schedule incoming transfers to ensure we can maintain our commitment to the animals already in our care. Currently, our two campuses have eight Animal & Client Care Specialists, Shelter Supervisors, and Shelter Directors. We have a Manager of Animal Behavior and a Manager of Volunteer Engagement. We are fully staffed seven days a week.

Who manages accountability for how the animals are sheltered and cared for, e.g., is there a third/independent organization/inspection process?

This is a great question and one I introduced at a recent meeting of California animal welfare leaders. Unlike some states, Colorado for example, California does not have a licensing and inspection program to oversee public and private animal shelters and rescues, boarding facilities, and breeders.

I’m committed to continuing the conversation about a regulatory program in order to protect animals from harm.

In the meantime, and at SB Humane, our operations are guided by the Association of Shelter Veterinarians Guidelines for Standards of Care in Animal Shelters and the American Veterinary Medical Association. I’m fortunate to have a leadership team that includes a Chief Veterinary Officer who holds a Masters in Shelter Medicine and a Chief Operating Officer with more than 30 years of experience in the field.

Who manages the SB Humane TLC Fund, and decides where the monies go?

All animals should be able to access the veterinary care they need. Nationwide, the skyrocketing costs for veterinary care prohibit many dogs and cats from receiving important treatments and procedures to help them live healthy, pain-free lives.

The TLC Fund was established at Santa Barbara Humane to provide low-cost and free veterinary care to animals in need countywide, whether they are part of a loving family or waiting at the shelter for a home to call their own.

This fund made a difference in the lives of nearly 4,000 local pets in 2022, a 78 percent increase from 2021. Recipients include animals transferred from overcrowded shelters to Santa Barbara Humane for more comprehensive medical support, local pets whose care is simply beyond their owners’ means, and shelter animals whose health is essential to their overall well-being and their adoption opportunities.

This particular program is funded by local donors and foundations, and through a generous allocation from our Board. Our veterinary and leadership teams work diligently to maximize the impact of these funds on a case-by-case basis, and we are always searching for new funding opportunities to ensure no pet or owner is turned away for a service Santa Barbara Humane is able to provide. Community members are encouraged to give to the TLC Fund during their clinic visit or through a designated giving page on sbhumane.org/give. There are many other opportunities to financially support our organization through annual donations, planned gifts and donor-advised funds.

411: https://sbhumane.org

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

Far Flung Travel Greatness

though, a Santa Ana wind had developed, which is predictable in the fall and winter months. As I laid in my tent, the eucalyptus trees gently swayed above lulling me back to sleep. At the time I didn’t think much of it, but it all made sense the next morning, the forces of nature converging on the wave-battered, cobbled shoreline.

by Chuck Graham

As I do most days after leading a kayak tour at Scorpion Anchorage on Santa Cruz Island, I took a stroll with my camera after everyone had left the island and returned to the harbor in Ventura.

As small waves crashed on the deserted, cobbled shoreline, I noticed something odd approaching the beach just before

sunset. It was a dead, badly decomposed whale. As soon as the carcass was lodged and resting on the cobble, several ravens immediately landed and began to feed. This was January 3, the first week of 2020.

After observing the unlikely scenario, I didn’t think much of it. Nature has its own way of doing things.

I was the only guide on the island and the campground had few active campsites, so it was very quiet in Scorpion Canyon. In the middle of the night,

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

The next morning several guides came out on the Island Packers boat, which was full of passengers. When it arrived, I was up the canyon in the corral where we keep our kayaking gear. I was preparing for the day’s guided trips when one of the guides ran up and while catching his breath said, “There’s a huge great white at the beach!!”

We ran back down to the beach, but the great white was gone. The boat butted up against the pier and offloaded passengers, but Scorpion Anchorage was abuzz with the great white sighting.

With the whale carcass on the beach and the late evening Santa Ana wind conditions, the extra push from those winds forced an onshore wind event at Scorpion Anchorage. Those winds pushed the morning incoming tide further up the beach than normal, enough to where the tide was washing onto the whale carcass. It was forcing the oil from the blubber to leak out into the anchorage, and that’s what lured the great white to the carcass.

When the boat butted up against the pier to offload, visitors witnessed an extremely rare wildlife spectacle. The great white was an estimated 18-footlong female. She was almost beaching herself to get to the whale, but when the boat pulled in with everyone screaming in excitement, the great white did a 180-degree turn and swam toward the

boat. When she got to the boat, she rolled on her side revealing her female parts. She then brazenly slapped her powerful tail on the bow of the boat, and then swam off before vanishing.

Well, everyone cancelled their kayaking trip for the day, no big surprise there. However, we as guides had to do something about that dead whale. It would continue to attract predators. We managed to gain permission from the National Park Service to remove the whale from the beach. We tied a line around the whale’s tail, ran the other end of the line out to the Island Packers boat, and they pulled the whale off the beach, away from the island and out into the down coast current. Problem solved.

That day was beautiful on the island. There was no wind. It was comfortably warm. It was super glassy. The water was gorgeous, a combination of blue and green and glistening in the afternoon sun. Visibility underwater was incredible. With no trips to guide, myself and two other guides, Hector and Marc, were thinking the great white would come back to feed. So, we jumped in our kayaks and paddled out to the carcass. We sat there for several hours hoping for her return. The gulls and fish were enjoying their pelagic bounty, but that mega fish never returned.

It was time to get on the boat and head back to the mainland. I thought about all the times paddling around the islands in areas loaded with seals and sea lions and I’ve never seen a great white. Some of those conditions I was paddling alone in deep, dark waters cloaked in fog. I thought about how many great whites I probably paddled past or paddled over.

Funny after all these years, the one place I frequent the most at the islands with no reliable food source, and the biggest great white I’ve ever seen shows up under unusual circumstances. Nature is on its own schedule, and mostly is unpredictable.

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” —Anne Bradstreet

Paddling around the island, we discovered a whale carcass

An unexpected sight for visitors on a day trip to Santa Cruz Island

An unexpected sight for some, a good meal for others

Chuck Graham is a freelance writer and photographer based in Carpinteria, where he also leads kayak tours and backpacking trips in Channel Islands National Park

© 2022 Elijah Burton

Stories Matter Springtime Reads

by Leslie Zemeckis

Where Yellow Flowers Bloom: A True Story of Hope through Unimaginable Loss by Kim Cantin is honest, heartbreaking, and inspiring. Cantin and her daughter survived Montecito’s 2018 debris flow, but her son and husband did not. In vivid detail she recalls that night, and the subsequent months as she recovered and desperately sought the remains of her son, Jack. It is a story of survival, community, and sometimes putting faith in what isn’t known.

Kara Thomas’s new thriller Out of the Ashes is a page-turner. When Samantha returns to her childhood home decades after her family was murdered and the house set on fire, she finds herself at the center of a new investigation. A prison inmate claims he was at her house that night and saw a man carry her baby sister from the home. Sam begins piecing together her past, but she doesn’t know who to trust, as everyone seems to carry a secret they don’t want revealed. This one is clever and you won’t see what is coming.

Homecoming by Kate Morton, set in Sydney, Australia, is an epic story spun across many decades. The story starts in 1959 with a tragic unsolved murder. Many years later, Jess, a journalist living in London, returns to Sydney after her beloved grandmother Nora suffers a serious fall. At her grandmother’s house she discovers a true crime novel about the 1959 murder, only to learn it involves her family. What follows is the exploration of motherhood, secrets, and how and if we can return home.

Rachel Beanland’s historical fiction The House Is on Fire takes place in 1811 in Richmond, Virginia. When a shocking fire engulfs the city’s theater, dozens are killed. Beanland tells the story through the eyes of an enslaved man, a runaway woman, a widow, and a young apprentice working for the theater – over four days that threaten to light the community on fire when a slave rebellion is falsely rumored to have been responsible for the tragic accident.

Actor Paterson Joseph has long been obsessed with Charles Ignatius Sancho, a Black trailblazer from the 1700s who was born on a slave ship and lived in London. Joseph wrote and starred in a play about Sancho, who became the first Black person to vote in Britain. Drawing on Sancho’s personal diaries, Paterson has crafted a brilliant debut novel with The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho. After escaping his childhood oppressors, Sancho must learn to navigate a fast-changing world. Jauntily written, it is both a heartbreaking and amusing tale, one that needs to be brought to life and celebrated.

Alex Larman’s follow up to his The Crown in Crisis is the brilliant The Windsors at War. The book starts in 1940 as London is bombed during the Blitz. The reluctant new King George finds his mettle tested like never before; not even when his brother Edward abdicated the throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Larman follows an excellent cast of characters, including the traitorous Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Winston Churchill himself from 1937 to 1947. A brilliant storyteller, Larman once again proves himself an impeccable researcher and an insightful chronicler of a complicated family and turbulent times.

Nancy Cunard was a gorgeous socialite and daughter of the wealthy Cunard shipping line family. In Anne de Courcy’s Magnificent Rebel, Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris we follow along with Nancy and her numerous lovers through the jazz age cafés and clubs of Paris as she becomes a poet and muse to many artists, including Ezra Pound and Man Ray. Both Nancy and the City of Lights shine in this biography of a remarkable woman during a remarkable time.

Author Renée Rosen returns with the hard struggle and rise of Estée Lauder in Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl. Rosen introduces a fictional character, Gloria, who is befriended by Estée just as the young Lauder is beginning to peddle her products to salons across Manhattan. Gloria doesn’t know what she wants out of life, but Estée does – and is willing to sacrifice so much to become one of the most powerful women in the beauty industry. This is a fun romp through 1940s Manhattan.

Leslie Zemeckis is an award-winning documentarian, best-selling author, and actor. The creator of “Stories Matter,” professional female authors mentoring the next generation of female storytellers, co-sponsored by SBIFF.

The Giving List Freedom 4 Youth

by Steve Libowitz

Freedom 4 Youth’s Director of Development & Advocacy Dylan Griffith and Executive Director

Dr. Billi Jo Starr knew immediately what they wanted to highlight in this week’s Giving List column focusing on the nonprofit, whose mission it is to uplift and empower youth – those impacted by the criminal justice system – to build safe and compassionate communities. Their chosen Giving List highlight? That would be the new Girls Leadership Program launched this year at La Cumbre Junior High School, which establishes two new beachheads in the organization’s efforts. Fourteen years ago, Dr. Billi Jo Starr – a Santa Barbara High School alum who later earned a PhD in Education from UCSB – brought a Toastmastersstyle curriculum to local juvenile detention facility Los Prietos Boys’ Camp. That groundbreaking precursor became Freedom 4 Youth. Now a new program at La Cumbre Junior High is the nonprofit’s first initiative that takes place at a school, and also the first one designed and offered exclusively to girls.

“We’ve always wanted to start programming in the schools because obviously there’s a big connection between the schools and the justice system, and the school-to-prison pipeline,” Starr said. “We want to interrupt that stream and stop kids from getting pushed out of school or disconnected. This new program is a way for us to start doing the work that we’ve been doing at the boys’ camp – this time at a school; and for girls.”

She said Freedom 4 Youth’s Girls Leadership Program grew out of a pilot for girls on probation that was funded by former Santa Barbara County Supervisor Janet Wolf years ago. The La Cumbre effort successfully launched through the support of the Women’s Fund, and was created through a memorandum of understanding with Santa Barbara Unified School District for this academic year.

It’s a long overdue outreach for the nonprofit, Griffith said.

“There is a huge lack of gender-specific programming both within school settings and juvenile justice settings, and the narrative is that most of the time boys are considered the problem,” he said.

“So when new programs are created, normally it’s something like ‘let’s do a boys group’ or figure out how we can get more boys involved. The girls get left out of the equation. What we’re doing at La Cumbre is about addressing that lack and filling that gap for the girls.”

Twenty-eight girls have been participating in the Girls Leadership Program this year, young women identified as “at promise” – Freedom 4 Youth’s preferred term for young ladies who may have had run-ins with the law.

“We don’t identify anyone as ‘at risk’ because we find that the children that are facing a lot of challenges in school or challenges in the community are actually the most gifted ones, in that they’ve been through so much,” Starr explained. “We come from a strengthbased perspective, so ‘no deficit’ language is important because we believe that the youth that we work with are incredible and amazing and so gifted and brilliant. They have smarts that you can’t learn from a book – life smarts. We see so much potential and we’re here to just empower and uplift them.”

The Girls Leadership Program has been doing that via weekly two-hour sessions that meet either in a classroom or onsite at a partner’s location to immerse the participants in growth opportunities. The nonprofit has collaborated with SBUSD, the participants’ parents and many other organizations in town. At Solid Foundations the girls did a self-defense class and learned to build things with power tools. They attended Lucy Firestone’s empowerment and mindfulness workshops. They visited the cosmetology school at Santa Barbara City College and toured UCSB. The program also brought in Planned Parenthood to offer insight and tips into fostering healthy relationships with others and their own bodies, and hosted a career panel – “a badass powerhouse group of women,” Starr said – featuring a lawyer, a mental health professional, a professor, and a business owner, among others.

“Every week is really focused on communications, career skills, education and/or social emotional learning,” she said. “And we get them off campus as much as possible because we believe in space-based education – being out in the real world. It’s about exposing these

Freedom 4 Youth’s mission is to uplift and empower youth impacted by the criminal justice system to build safe and compassionate communities

girls to see what they like, and walking them through the steps of the process with lots of individualized attention and engagement so they get connected to the community.”

The pilot program has been very well received by the girls – who have told the leaders they’re going to miss meeting in person during this week’s spring break – as well as their parents and the La Cumbre administration, Starr said. While it’s too early for a full objective assessment when the program finishes in June, the organization has been more than pleased with the girls’ progress.

“We’re focused on the process. For us, success looks like healthy relationships amongst the participants in the program, openness, willingness to participate, excitement about the program, and wanting to continue engaging with us, which is definitely happening,” she said.

“According to the school, there’s been a lot more engagement as well, including a willingness to talk through any issues that come up, which is huge. We see their confidence improving, along with everything else.”

Freedom 4 Youth is looking to continue and even expand the program over the summer, which will require funding to secure two vans for transportation. And the organization is also exploring the opportunity to train some of the eighthgrade junior high students to serve as mentors to their younger peers, crystallizing the theme of leadership. The nonprofit also will provide ongoing tutoring, mentoring and addressing the basic needs of the program youth and their families, Starr said, adding, “The program doesn’t stop at the school.”

Meanwhile, other junior high schools are interested in creating similar programs on their campuses.

All of that takes a lot of additional funding and resources, Development Director Griffith said.

“There’s a large level of need in the community’s schools,” he said. “Much more than we even have close to the capacity to do right now.”

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Your Westmont

Denu to Be Installed as Provost, Dean

committees and boards, Denu has taught undergraduate and graduate students on five continents. As a professor and a scholar, she seeks to model a life of service outside the academy.

Denu earned a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology at the University of Florida, a Master of Social Work from Temple University, and a Bachelor of Arts in sociology at Vanguard University.

Festival Awards Student Filmmakers

by Scott Craig, photos by Brad Elliott

Dr. Kimberly Battle-Walters

Denu will be officially installed as provost and dean of the faculty at Westmont on Friday, March 31, from 10:30 – 11:20 am in Murchison Gym. The event is free and open to the public.

“We look forward to coming together as a community to thank God for His faithfulness and celebrate Kim on this special occasion,” says President Gayle D. Beebe.

The ceremony, featuring faculty in full regalia, will include comments by Albert Tate, founder and lead pastor of Fellowship Church in Los Angeles County and the author of the book, How We Love Matters: A Call to Practice Relentless Racial Reconciliation

Later in the day, Tate will speak about his recent book on the ongoing work of racial reconciliation in the church in a free, public lecture from 1:30 – 2:30 pm in Page Multi-Purpose Room.

Denu, who grew up in South Los Angeles, became the college’s new provost in August after 25 years of executive leadership experience in Christian higher education. An ordained minister, she previously served as interim director at the District Church in Washington, D.C.

Previously, Denu worked as vice president for educational programs for the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (2019–2021), overseeing study abroad, programming, interfaith work, leadership development, planning for academic conferences, specific grants, budgets, and support services for chief academic officers.

She spent much of her career (1997–2018), at Azusa Pacific University, most recently as vice president and chief diversity officer. She served as special advisor to the president and provost, vice provost for undergraduate programs/special assistant to the president, vice provost for faculty support and special assistant to the president, associate provost, faculty moderator and director of the senate, and a faculty member in the sociology department (1997–2008), advancing to the rank of full professor.

A two-time Fulbright scholar, she has conducted research projects in South Africa (2002) and Ethiopia (2018–2019; her husband’s native country). She has published on topics such as African American issues, women and family matters, leadership, welfare reform, and international relations. She speaks on these subjects at various national and international forums and conferences. In addition to serving on local and national

Easter @ El Montecito Presbyterian Church

Maundy Thursday Service

Thursday, April 6, 5:30 p.m.

Dinner & Communion, Fellowship Hall

Good Friday Service

Friday, April 7, 12:30 p.m.

Sanctuary

Easter Sunday Worship Gathering

Sunday, April 9, 10:00 a.m.

Sanctuary Children's Church for ages 0-12

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The curtain may have closed on the inaugural Montecito Student Film Festival, but there is still a buzz about the spectacular young filmmaking talent in our community. For about five hours, cinephiles filled Westmont’s Porter Theatre to screen 20 student films on March 25.

In the end, Westmont sophomore Campbell Ralph of Fox Island, Washington, won the Ettinger award for best editing in Dawn Patrol. Westmont sophomore Cole Anderson of San Diego won the Audience Award for Called Upon the Water. UC Santa Barbara’s Jeff Peepgrass won the Jury Prize for Sick Joke. Westmont junior Tamia Sanders of Pearland, Texas, won the Wendey Eley Jackson Award for Best Documentary for Before There Was Columbine

Baseball Hits 15th Straight Win

Westmont baseball (25-5) extended its winning streak to 15 games by taking two doubleheaders against Bethesda University on March 24-25 at Russ Carr Field. The Warriors, ranked 12th in the NAIA, have completed four straight series sweeps, and the fifth this season.

The Warriors host Jessup in two double headers on March 31 and April 1, both at 11 am. Saturday’s game will be followed with a Senior Day celebration, honoring the team’s 15 seniors.

Award-winning filmmaker Tamia Sanders

Westmont’s new provost Kimberly Denu

Shane Hofstadler of Vista was the conference Baseball Player of the Week

Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

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On Entertainment A New Moon Rises at Rubicon

ductor for An American in Paris and Mary Poppins on Broadway), musical direction by Broadway veteran Brent Crayon, and arrangements by renowned guitarist and composer Dillon Kondor (Jesus Christ Superstar Live, Kennedy Center Honors with the cast of Hamilton.) Recently retired Rubicon co-founder James O’Neil returns to direct the premiere of the developmental production of Dark of the Moon: A New Musical, which runs April 1 and continues through April 16. Visit www.rubicontheatre.org or call (805) 667-2900.

Colin Hay: Song Man Still at Work

by Steven Libowitz

TV and film writer-producer

Jonathan Prince – whose adaptation and book for the world premiere of a musical based on Dark of the Moon opens at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura this weekend – wasn’t going to let anything stand in his way; least of all the discovery that several big theatrical icons had previously tried – and failed –to turn the once-popular 1945 Broadway play into a musical.

“It was daunting to have the guy who represents the owner of the rights to the play tell us that Marvin Hamlisch had failed, Jerome Robbins had failed, and Bob Fosse had also failed,” Prince said, noting that he had to “audition” his concept to even get the chance to produce it. “Maybe my having never done a musical before is part of what helped.”

Indeed, Dark will be his first foray into the genre. But Price has made his name writing and producing over 200 hours of television, mostly with strong musical themes. Consider his Emmy-winning NBC series American Dreams, created in the wake of – and inspired by – meeting Dick Clark of American Bandstand fame. Not to mention Price’s HBO series Off the Record, plus pilots developed with Mick Fleetwood, Stewart Copeland, and Broadway composer Andrew Lippa But Dark, which was originally written as a dramatization of the centuries-old European folk ballad “Barbara Allen,” has been a part of Price’s life since he acted in a teenage production of the classic as a

sophomore at Beverly Hills High School – a production that featured a live bluegrass soundtrack.

“It’s a straight play about witches and humans the writers turned into an allegory of the Hollywood blacklist era, like Twilight meets Romeo and Juliet with two ill-fated lovers,” Prince recalled. “But unlike most fairy tales, and in a twist on Disney, it’s the male witch who gives up his power to be with the girl.”

Prince never got the image of the bluegrass band on stage out of his head. Years later when he was ready to try his hand at a musical, he took that idea one step further, conceptualizing a dual score with a bluegrass-folk sound representing the humans juxtaposed against a rock and soul vibe for the witches.

“The music reflects the prejudices of each group, how fear and intolerance get in the way. How the young lovers are able to come up with something in the middle is fascinating,” he said.

Prince’s version gives more empowerment to an important female character and tones down the indictment of the church that was part of the original play, “solving the problem” that has kept the piece from finding its audience in modern times.

But it’s the musical aspect that truly highlights the show’s startling evolution, and the writer is joined by an all-star team in executing his vision with music and lyrics by multi-platinum songwriters Lindy Robbins, Dave Bassett, and Steve Robson, choreography by Tony Awardwinner Christopher Gattelli (Newsies), musical supervision by Brad Haak (con-

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Colin Hay has had a lot of time to adjust to life as a former rock star; about seven times as many years as Men at Work actually existed as a recording act. The lead singer and co-songwriter of the Aussie band was as surprised as anyone when the quintet rose to the top of the charts in 1982-83 with its debut album Business as Usual boasting the smash hit “Down Under.”

The song and album both hit No. 1 on the charts in the U.S. and U.K. in the same week, making Men at Work just the fifth act to do so. Business as Usual ended up spending 15 weeks atop the Billboard chart, setting a new record for a debut album before being finally knocked off by Michael Jackson’s Thriller, which still holds the record as the best-selling album of all time. Men at Work also won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1983, while such singles as “Be Good Johnny,” “Overkill,” and “It’s a Mistake,” and “Who Can It Be Now?” also resonated with rock radio. But two records and three years after Business as Usual’s run, the Men disbanded over personnel issues, leaving Hay to embark on a solo career as a singer-songwriter who has never come close to capturing the kind of success Men at Work (MAW) commanded.

“What happened to us was an extraordinary phenomenon, something that I realized as time went on was very rare and remarkable,” Hay said over the phone from his home in Topanga, the same place he’s been living since a couple of months after leaving Australia for the L.A. area back in 1989. “I have very fond memories of that time, but there was a certain amount of angst that goes along with it because while we were on top of the world, it wasn’t a particularly cohesive and happy band by that point. It was unfortunate – and in retrospect unnecessary – but that’s usually what happens to men who find it very difficult to communicate with each other on any real level.”

Instead of ruminating and regretting, Hay set about creating more music, which was the whole point when he first formed the band as an acoustic duo. Hay has cut out a sizable niche market for himself as a singer-songwriter whose albums embrace the melodic spectrum – from the danceable anthems that blew up MAW to more pop-oriented, introspective songs.

Now, 35 years and more than a dozen studio albums since Men at Work folded, Hay released his latest effort hot on the heels of the pandemic covers album I Just Don’t Know What to do With Myself. As the title song of the new original work suggests, “Now and the Evermore” also came from contemplating the implications of a virulent worldwide disease during the COVID crisis, and the result is perhaps his most personal record to date.

“I think most people my age were contemplating our own mortality and what that meant in the wider scheme of our lives,” he said. “I thought about my parents and my family growing up, which is why things about my childhood came through where I was imagining the thing might be more horrendous than it actually turned out to be. It came back to those feelings of thinking if you love someone, you should tell them, and if there’s something you have to express, maybe this is the time to do it.”

The album’s theme is bookended by its closing track “When Does the End Begin?”, while songs such as “The Sea of Always” and “Undertow” mine some of the same territory. Hay describes finding common ground with his Topanga neighbor Michael Georgiades , who co-wrote several of the songs.

“We were just sitting around in his living room, and without even really consciously thinking about those things, that feeling of time – a melancholia came over us. ‘Wait, a minute ago we were 28, and now we’re nearly 70, or even older. How did that happen?’”

Hay-riders can find out when the singer-songwriter and his band play songs traversing the time span, including a few Men at Work favorites when Hay returns to the Lobero Theatre on

Jake David Smith as John the Witch Boy and Ava Delaney as Barbara Allen in the sexy, soulful developmental world premiere musical Dark of the Moon (photo by Chris Jensen)

Colin Hay will play the Lobero on April 5 (photo by Adam Bauer)

Poetry Beat

The Poetic Art and Life of Susan Read Cronin

by Zach Rosen

Life may imitate art but for many of the artists I know, the two are pretty melded and hardly an imitation – they are their art, and the art is them – and this seems true for Susan Read Cronin and her collective body of work as well, including her newest book of poetry, What’s Left.

Cronin is most known for her bronze sculptures that have adorned galleries, museums, and private collections for nearly thirty years. Her bronzes are often themed with a whimsical style and subject matter, sometimes pulling from storybooks and childhood, and often incorporating wordplay into them. This playfulness can be found throughout her artworks but also dashed into her life – e.g. her sons are named Read and Wright.

This theme can be seen in her bronze exhibit, Fables, Foibles and Fairy Tales , that traveled to various venues and nearly 20 museums, including the Solvang-based Elverhøj Museum of

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History & Art last year. In the sculpture, Giddy Up , a hare rides the shell of a tortoise, its ears whipping back from the thrill of the ride.

Her poetic works are formed from the same whimsy as her art works. Some poems play with lore – like “William Tell’s Daughter” or “How Hansel and Gretel Affected My Housekeeping Skills as a Child” – while others explore Cronin’s sentiments of youth, love, and married life, as in “Unborn,” that includes the memorable line:

I am a piñata. You are the prize.

While always playful, there also tends to be an underlying heart and a raw love for her subject matter. In the bronze work, To Have and to Hold , a lanky hare embraces a large carrot as if caressing a lover, staring longingly into its root. The poem, “A Labor of Love,” details a partner’s willingness to cook breakfast for their significant other… but also all the ensuing questions of them on how to do it. One will often

find that her work simultaneously celebrates somber and beauty, such as in “Nothing to Hold”:

When an astronaut cries in space his tears float off his face.

Will my tears float away the same way, too, when you are gone – there being nothing left to hold them here?

Poetry is not her first foray into the literary world either. Over 20 years ago, she produced a foldout book called Bronze Casting in a Nutshell that included illustrations from her father A.D. Read, a cartoonist. This wee treatise details the metallurgical art process in 15 simplified steps along pages that accordion out to unfold a story about casting a bronze nutshell sculpture.

What’s Left is her third poetry book and is split into three main sections of poems: THE FIRE, JUST B., and LEFT – each one being introduced with its own short two-line (or less) poem indicative of Cronin’s reductive style. The section LEFT is introduced with:

If I left, there would be no one left on the left, right?

The intro poem for THE FIRE section comes from her poem, “The Fire.” And fire has had an influential role in her life, mov-

ing to Montecito right before the Thomas Fire. It was also a fire at Cronin’s Vermont home in the mid ‘90s that led her to pursue bronze casting as a creative outlet during the years of rebuilding it took to recover.

Once again, it was disaster – this time on the global scale – that formed the opportunity for her creativity to shape What’s Left. “I’ve been quietly writing poetry and memoir as a sideline on and off for years,” she says. “It was the gift of the COVID lockdowns that inspired me to mine my inventory of pages to see if there was anything in there worth pulling out and reworking.”

For those who wants to hear What’s Left, Cronin – along with former Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Laure-Anne Bosselaar – will be at Tecolote Book Shop this Saturday, April 1, from 3-4 pm where they will be hosting a book launch party accompanied by some refreshments, revelry, and readings from Cronin’s new book.

Zach Rosen is the Managing Editor of the Montecito Journal. He also enjoys working with beer, art, and life.

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Reel Fun

Wednesday, April 5. Lazlo Bane –the L.A. alt-rock band that covered Men at Work’s “Overkill” with Hay as guest vocal on their 1996 debut –opens the show.

Father and Son Exchange Lowe Blows on Netflix’s ‘Unstable’

the often tongue-in-cheek repartee between the real-life duo.

That’s because Unstable was inspired by Rob and John Owen’s well-documented instances of exchanging playful banter on social media, where Lowe the younger frequently trolls his far more famous father, poking fun at Rob’s perhaps self-serving posts touting his projects and conquests.

Unstable isn’t the first time the two Lowes have worked together, as John Owen scripted several episodes of Rob’s series 9-1-1: Lone Star, and played opposite his father in both the 2015 sitcom The Grinder and the 2019 film Holiday in the Wild, portraying Rob’s son in the latter. But this is the first time they’ve done a scripted show they co-created, let alone something that touches upon their real-life dynamic.

“We have a great relationship now, but I do so very much enjoy giving him a very hard time,” John Owen Lowe said in a phone interview last month, shortly after his debut starring vehicle, Grace Point , had its world premiere at SBIFF. That film’s plot was strongly influenced by John Owen’s earlier experiences struggling with substance abuse issues, and while the situations in Unstable are made up, the tone rings true, he said.

“Just like Unstable, the movie was something that’s very close to me. Apparently, I like to keep things personal,” he said. “It’s a comedy about our dynamic and how I like to keep him humble. It was very, very fun to make, and cathartic in many ways. If you like watching a grown man-child be brought back down to reality by his uninterested son, you’ll love it too.“

‘Una vita difficile’

by Christopher Matteo Connor

Life for cinephiles everywhere just got a little easier now that Dino Risi’s long underseen film from 1961, Una vita difficile AKA A Difficult Life, has finally made its way stateside for the first time ever, after being overshadowed by Risi’s followup masterpiece, Il Sorpasso. And even better, it features two of Italy’s greatest stars of the silver screen: Alberto Sordi and Lea Massari!

The film spans two decades, from the end of WWII to the burgeoning years of the economic boom. The years of the Vespa and when “Made in Italy” caused people to salivate uncontrollably over their Bialetti Moka coffee pots. Sordi plays an ex-resistance fighter so dedicated to his anti-establishment ideals that they threaten to compromise his relationship with Massini, who he falls in love with after she permanently incapacitates a Nazi to save Massini’s life. Now who wouldn’t swoon over that?

There’s just so much to love with this film. An early entry into the Commedia all’italiana (or Comedy, Italian Style), it deftly balances the tragic and comic, which, as those of you with Italian relatives know, is a balance they excel at. One minute you’re laughing with Nonna over dessert and coffee, the next she’s crying over a stale cannoli. Okay, that’s a stereotype. But don’t worry, I can say it. I’m Italian!

had to survive in a post-WWII Italy. Is Sordi’s character a stand in for filmmakers and producers clinging to the past to the point of self-sabotage? Cling too long, and maybe you’ll end up a fool. But at the same time, it’s also about being fiercely loyal and refusing to give up on your ideals. There’s gotta be a balance, right?

Wow, two Italian movies two weeks in a row. Now this is what I call La Dolce Vita! So who’s up to be transported to the Italy of the ‘60s? A flick at The Riviera and post-movie pasta at Tre Lune? Say no more!

Longtime Montecito actor Rob Lowe and his village-raised actor/ writer/producer son John Owen Lowe have teamed up to co-star as a fictional TV father and son on a new Netflix comedy series. Unstable , which debuts on the streaming service Thursday, March 30, is about the dynamic between Ellis (played by Rob), a successful – if exceedingly eccentric and extravagant – biotech engineer and entrepreneur, and his introverted, socially-awkward son Jackson (John Owen). Naturally, the jittery Jackson arrives at his dad’s firm to try to rescue Ellis from crashing. The series, which was co-created and executive produced by the Lowes and Netflix veteran Victor Fresco ( Santa Clarita Diet ), contains quite a few kernels of truth; at least as far as exploring the complicated relationship between fathers and sons, if not

Previews and promo videos for Unstable are available on YouTube and elsewhere, and offer some rapid-paced father-son repartee with lots of give and take. “There’s not a whole lot of acting,” John Owen says in one video, looking at his dad. “Your hair’s a little different. And we say ‘I love you’ on the show.” “That’s acting,” Rob replies without missing a beat.

All eight episodes of Season 1 will be released simultaneously when Unstable premieres March 30. Fasten your seatbelts.

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

At the risk of getting too academic, it’s hard not to see the movie as a comment on the trend of “pink neorealism,” a period of time in the ‘50s where Italian films seemed desperate to capitalize on the neorealist aesthetic, while putting well… a nice little pink bow on it. They were light romances and comedies with the backdrop of war-torn Italy, rather than moving social films about the working class and marginalized who

Christopher Matteo Connor is a writer and filmmaker. When he isn’t writing, watching movies, and working on projects, you can be sure he’s somewhere enjoying a big slice of vegan pizza.

A 4K restoration of Una vita difficile will play at the Riviera on March 31-[TBD]

John Owen Lowe, seen here in Grace Point, joins his father once again to play his son (courtesy photo)

Rob Lowe and his son will be featured in the upcoming Netflix series Unstable (photo credit: David Shankbone)

Using traditional techniques and Renaissance geometrical methods to recreate the harmonic properties, Young makes brand new instruments that have similar properties to those made in the 17th century. Since the 1990s he has provided the new inexpensive instruments to schools in New York and institutions for the blind in Manhattan and Calcutta, some that come in kit form for just three dollars!

To make his point, Lisa Lee – a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and a Fulbright Scholar who is currently

on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music – played a Stradivarius violin made when the maker was just 23, and another instrument completed in the style just 72 hours earlier with the help of Cambridge University’s engineering department.

To the untrained ear there seemed very little difference in sound.

“But once children get these instruments, the success rate at school rises one hundred and fifty percent,” Young declared.

The fun fête, co-chaired by Sue Adams and Musette Profant , and emceed by Mignonne Profant , attracted 75 supporters including Barbara Burger , Frank McGinity , Nina Dunbar , Robert and Christine Emmons , and Deborah Bertling , who has been president of the women’s branch for four years and in June takes over as president of CAMA – the Community Arts Music Association –from Robert Montgomery .

Entertainment was provided by the Santa Barbara Strings with violist Mary Beth Woodruff, violinists Isabelle Kim and Zahra Clark, and cellist Evan Perez

An event with many strings attached...

St. Patrick’s Day Revelry

Just 96 hours after St. Patrick’s Day at Dargan’s, the popular Ortega Street Irish pub was bustling for the Santa Barbara Revels 15th annual Vernal Equinox pub singalong with guitarist Josh Jenkins and the group’s song leader, flutist Erin McKibben

The only thing “Dublin” more than Ireland’s capital city was the volume of

rain that fell, easily doubling normal rainfall – and even hailing!

“It’s an amazing turnout considering the really terrible weather,” said Susan Keller, Revels founder, who described the event as “an evening of music making and merriment.”

As well as free drinks, guests received a songbook complete with Irish ditties, sea shanties, favorite folk classics, and

beloved traditional tunes to help celebrate the first day of Spring…

An evening of high note and many in between...

The Lewis, the Max, and the Granada

Award-winning actor Max McLean, 69, was a true tour de force performing the Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis in an entertaining one-man show at the Granada.

McLean is known for his adaptations of books by the Irish author who died in 1963 at the age of 64. C.S. Lewis is memorialized in Poet’s Corner in London’s historic Westminster Abbey –the venue for King Charles III’s coronation in May.

The Panamanian-born actor, writer, and producer, who in 1992 founded his New York-based production company, the Fellowship for Performing Arts, captured the magnetic personality of Lewis, who held academic positions in Miscellany Page 424

Joan Crossland, Musette Profant, and Sue Adams, co-chairs of the event (photo by Priscilla)

Emcee Mignonne Profant, luthier Robert Brewer Young, violinist Lisa Lee (photo by Priscilla)

Josh Jenkins, Susan Keller, and Erin McKibben (photo by Priscilla)

SB Revels hosted an evening of Irish tunes and other ditties at Dargan’s (photo by Priscilla)

Happy couple listening to the tunes on St. Patrick’s Day (photo by Priscilla)

Pamela Vander Heide displays the Stradivariusquality violin (photo by Priscilla)

English Literature at both Oxford and Cambridge universities. McLean’s astonishing eloquence and self-deprecating wit ventured deep into the soul of one of the most influential thinkers and theologians of the past century.

No wonder the show was titled, C.S. Lewis on Stage: Further Up and Further In

Piazza in the Theater

Opera Santa Barbara’s latest production The Light in the Piazza at Center Stage Theater, this year’s annual showcase of the Chrisman Studio Artist Program, was an absolute gem.

With music and lyrics by Adam Guettel and a book by Craig Lucas, the show was based on the 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer and the 1963 movie starring Olivia de Havilland. The Light in

the Piazza tells the story of a wealthy Southern woman and her daughter who falls in love with a young man during a vacation in Italy in the 1950s.

The 130-minute show opened on the Great White Way in 2005 and ran for 504 performances.

Georgia Jacobson as the haughty matriarch and Ariana Horner Sutherland as the daughter were a joy to behold, as was Kyle Rudolf as the handsome beau Fabrizio.

Tim Accurso, director of the Chrisman Studio, did excellent double duty as pianist and conductor with the four-piece Opera Santa Barbara Orchestra with violinist Steven Zander, harpist Ellie Choate, cellist Jacqueline Greenshields, and bass Neil Gerber

A hugely illuminating hybrid of opera and musical theater...

Home on the Malibu Market

acquired the Hotel Cerro – a 65-room hotel in downtown San Luis Obispo with the only rooftop pool and bar in the city.

This comes just a month after opening Courtyard by Marriott, a 122-room hostelry on State Street, formerly the La Quinta Inn, in February.

Hotel Cerro will join the Autograph Collection Hotels, part of Marriott Bonvoy’s portfolio of 30 extraordinary brands, with design and branding updates to begin immediately.

This represents the third collaboration between Marriott International and StonePark Capital on California’s Central Coast.

The company currently owns five hotel projects on the Central Coast representing 365 guest rooms. After opening their first hotel in 2019 in San Luis Obispo, the dynamic duo have been eager to increase their investment in the area.

The project represents the third collaboration between StonePark and AZUL Hospitality, whose team will be taking over operations of the hotel, restaurant, and spa.

Rosewood Miramar owner and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso is selling his Malibu Beach home for $39 million.

The real estate tycoon, 64, purchased the two-story, five-bedroom, eight bathroom 7,264 square foot property with three terrace decks overlooking the Pacific in 2008 for $11.3 million and did a total renovation taking it back to the studs.

It was originally on the market in February 2021, for $40 million. The house was used as a proof-of-concept for the design of the Rosewood Miramar using a Cape Cod architectural style.

The property also boasts a pair of twocar garages and a theater.

StonePark Takes on Hotel Cerro in SLO

Santa Barbara property dynamo Andrew Firestone and his business partner Jess Parker, who own the investment company StonePark Capital, have

Sightings

Montecito rocker Adam Levine celebrating his 44th birthday at Disneyland with his former supermodel wife Behati Prinsloo... Actress and game show host Jane Lynch noshing at Tre Lune... Oscar winner Jon Voight at the RitzCarlton Bacara.

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 15 years

Montecito

“Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” —Neltje Blanchan

Tim Accurso, Kostis Protopapas, and Amy Marshall (photo by Priscilla)

The Light in the Piazza cast taking a bow (photo by Priscilla)

Olivia Barker, Lexy Gersch, and Dawn Wehde enjoying the show (photo by Priscilla)

Hotelier Rick Caruso puts Malibu Beach home on the market for $39 million (courtesy photo)

Max McLean impresses as author C.S. Lewis (courtesy photo)

Actor, Producer and Entrepreneur

Danny Trejo

A Life of Crime, Redemption and Hollywood

Wed, Apr 12 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

“Danny’s incredible life story shows that even though we may fall down at some point in our lives, it’s what we do when we stand back up that really counts.” – Robert Rodriguez, American filmmaker

Danny Trejo’s long and multifaceted acting career almost didn’t happen. Learn from the man himself what it took to become a movie star after spending most of a decade in some of California’s toughest prisons.

Justice for All Lead Sponsors: Marcy Carsey, Connie Frank & Evan Thompson, Eva & Yoel Haller, and Zegar Family Foundation

Indigenous Multimedia Artist

Nicholas Galanin

Let Them Enter Dancing and Showing Their Faces

Wed, Apr 19 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

FREE (registration recommended)

“Expansive, embracing and grappling with many facets and complexities of what it means to be Native American today.” The Art Newspaper Multidisciplinary artist Nicholas Galanin, who is of Tlingit and Unanga descent and a citizen of Alaska’s Sitka Tribe, explores conceptions and misconceptions surrounding Indigenous identity.

Justice for All Lead Sponsors: Marcy Carsey, Connie Frank & Evan Thompson, Eva & Yoel Haller, and Zegar Family Foundation

24th U.S. Poet Laureate

Ada Limón

Why We Need Poetry

Celebrate National Poetry Month!

Tue, Apr 25 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

Tickets start at $20 / FREE for all students (with valid ID)

“A poet whose verse exudes warmth and compassion, Limón is at the height of her creative powers.” Los Angeles Review of Books

The first woman of Mexican ancestry to be named U.S. poet laureate, Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry. Her latest, The Hurting Kind, was named one of The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2022.

Poetry Contest: Prizes include your poem published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a copy of Ada Limón’s The Hurting Kind, a $50 Chaucer’s Books gift certificate and a $500 A&L ticket voucher. Submissions due Fri, Apr 14 at 5 PM

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Calendar of Events

by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, MARCH 31

Voctave’s Evocative A Cappella – The 11-member, Central Florida-based a cappella group Voctave was formed seven years ago by several performers from the Voices of Liberty, a group that performs at the American Adventure pavilion at Walt Disney World’s EPCOT theme park. As do many of its fellow vocal groups that sing without musical accompaniment, Voctave delivers intricate arrangements of familiar songs — from Broadway, jazz standards, and Christmas music to the Disney catalog itself — mostly arranged via blending classical group choral techniques with barbershop and gospel. Unlike most others, though, Voctave boasts an extremely wide vocal range of five full octaves. That’s the sort of thing that makes them perfect for both the Santa Barbara Choral Society and the Music Academy of the West, who are teaming up to bring the group to The Music Academy’s Hahn Hall for two shows today. The main event serves as a fundraiser for the Society in honor of its 75th anniversary and director JoAnne Wasserman’s 30th at the helm, with The Choral Society joining Voctave for a couple of numbers, and the concert followed by a gala next door at Lehmann Hall. But the 11-member vocal group is also performing a family-friendly concert at 11 in the morning, when all tickets are just $10, with 7 to 17-year-old children admitted free with a ticketed adult. Reason enough to lift up your voices and rejoice.

WHEN: 11 am & 6:30 pm

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

COST: Free-$10 at 11 am; $75 concert only, $150 with gala tonight

INFO: (805) 969-8787 or https://musicacademy.org/calendar

SATURDAY, APRIL 1

The Mason Digs in Line – Minnesota-based pop-folk singer-songwriter Mason Jennings has been making albums since his self-titled one-man band solo debut album in 1997, which was recorded on an analog four-track in the basement of a rented home. Even then his flair for simple yet catchy melodies, intimate lyrics,

FRIDAY, MARCH 31

Russell Returns – Singer-songwriter

Tom Russell has been a frequent visitor to Santa Barbara as a performer since at least 1996, when Russell and his then musical partner guitarist Andrew Hardin performed the second concert in the first season of Sings Like Hell, the innovative subscription series at the Lobero that captivated fans for more than 20 years. (Others in that remarkable initial six-show season included Peter Case, Richard Thompson, Dave Alvin, and David Lindley, all of whom returned to the venue several times over the years.) But Russell’s time in town goes back almost another 30 years, as he graduated from UCSB in the late ‘60s with a Master’s Degree in Sociology of Law and Criminology – skills that would help inform the keen observation of human behavior that has served him well over his half-century career. After honing his craft in such musical hotbeds as Texas, San Francisco, and New York City, Russell has released more than three dozen albums, cementing his place as a proven purveyor of American cultural and literary lineage, from folk and cowboy musical traditions to more updated slices of Americana. His craft is so well-regarded that several of his songs have been covered by a boatload of country heroes including Johnny Cash, k.d. lang, Guy Clark, Joe Ely, The Sir Douglas Quintet, Nanci Griffith, Katy Moffatt, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Iris DeMent, and Alvin, his Lobero mate of 1996-97. Now in his mid-seventies but still going strong, Russell returns yet again to the Lobero as part of its historic 150th anniversary season.

WHEN: 7 pm

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

COST: $35-$75

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

SATURDAY, APRIL 1

Bass-y Brass Goes for Baroque – With its second concert, the Santa Barbara Chamber Players broadens its horizons to expand on its promise to not only give local musicians an opportunity to perform orchestral and chamber music for the hometown audience, but also to bring in guest artists and take on unusual repertoire to continue to provide professional-level performance opportunities for the young rising stars of tomorrow and inspire new fans in the community. Tonight’s concert features Gene Pokorny, the Chicago Symphony’s Principal Tuba, performing Lalo Schifrin’s “Concerto for Tuba,” which encompasses baroque, 20th-century music and American jazz in a single piece that Schifrin composed for Pokorny in 2017. Also on the program: Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, which the composer said, “commenced in a spirit of humor and continued in deep seriousness,” and Aleksandr Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia, a symphonic poem conceived as a soundtrack to a tableau vivant, a now largely forgotten art form in which actors posed motionless in a set lit to resemble a painting.

WHEN: 7:30 pm

WHERE: First Presbyterian Church, 21 East Constance Ave.

COST: $16 general, free for K-12 students

INFO: https://sbchamberplayers.org

and mining of literary and historical themes with a deep tenor’s voice was apparent. But Jennings took quite the left turn back in 2020 when he made a record with Painted Shield, a synth-based group boasting Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard and drummer Matt Chamberlain, and self-described blind, nonbinary, Black keyboardist-singer Brittany Davis. The experience in trading the organic sounds of earlier work for something more digital and driving prompted Jennings to return to his folk roots. Jennings says Real Heart, his 14th album, is a love letter to songwriting inspired by the world of Nick Drake, John Fahey, and acoustic Led Zeppelin. But the album also makes room for nuanced layers of horns, strings, and piano, even as its initial recording process recalled his debut as it took place at his lake house outside St. Paul. Hear what it sounds like within the cozy confines of SOhO when Jennings plays the music club tonight.

WHEN: 6 pm

WHERE: 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court

COST: $20

INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

TUESDAY, APRIL 4

Writing Through the Apocalypse – Faced with the confusion and isolation created by the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly three dozen writers and poets from all over the world began writing together on Zoom every week back in March 2020. Writing Through the Apocalypse, Pandemic Poetry and Prose, which was published in February, collects 63 of their essays and poems in a single volume compiled and edited by Marcia Meier, the award-winning Santa Barbara writer, developmental book editor, writing coach, and publisher of Weeping Willow Books. Now, in celebration of National Poetry Month, Chaucer’s Books is hosting 10 of the local authors for a special reading of their contributions and more from the volume. Will the group keep gathering and writing together now that the pandemic is officially “over?” Ask ‘em tonight.

WHEN: 6 pm

WHERE: 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center COST: free

INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com

THURSDAY, APRIL 6

The Irresistible Flame of Storytelling – Speaking of Stories (SOS) – the local series that featured actors theatrically reading short stories on stage at theaters –sadly ceased to exist several years ago. Fortunately, The Moth – that storytelling

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The Wonder of Wynton – Even though it’s early, 2023 already has the makings of a banner year for jazz in Santa Barbara, what with the superstar trumpeter-composer-arranger Wynton Marsalis heading back to the Granada Theatre just 14 months after his last appearance. While that February 2022 date featured the more-or-less annual visit from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra – which Marsalis leads while serving as both managing and artistic director – tonight’s concert is a more intimate affair as the nine-time Grammy Award-winning legend returns, leading his septet in a concert focusing on joyous music. The new edition of the Wynton Marsalis Septet that was originally formed in 1989 has indeed taken new form, bringing on some of jazz’s biggest rising stars, while showcasing Marsalis’ inclination to combine familiar musical friendships with his passion for discovering new talent. The current group boasts Abdias Armenteros on tenor and soprano saxophones, Domo Branch on drums, Christopher Crenshaw on trombone, Carlos Henriquez on bass, Chris Lewis on alto sax and clarinet, and Dan Nimmer on piano, who together will explore Marsalis’ latest original compositions as well as standards spanning the vast historical landscape of jazz music.

WHEN: 7 pm

WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street

COST: $46-$131

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

phenomenon that inspired both SOS and the series’ rebirth as periodic weekend events featuring local writers and actors performing their own written pieces at Center Stage – is not only thriving but has set up permanent annual residency at the Lobero. The latest edition of The Moth Mainstage continues its celebration of inspiring, harrowing, and/or courageous tales; narratives that will interweave the brilliant and the absurd through five hand-picked Moth Mainstage all-stars who will share live stories of experiences they lived through. As always, each story is true and every voice authentic, providing the show’s delicate dance between documentary and theater, and creating a unique, intimate, and often enlightening experience for the audience.

WHEN: 7:30 pm

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

COST: $76-$96

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

THURSDAY, APRIL 6

Let’s Talk About Sex – Local authors Vanessa Marin – who is actually a sex therapist – and husband Xander didn’t begin their life together as experts in sex. The married pair even visited a couples counselor to figure out why, after the initial excitement, they were a bit disappointed in their ongoing sex life. Now, after figuring out that communication is the key, the Marins produce a popular podcast and well-attended online course work, boasting more than a quarter-million followers on Instagram. Two months ago, the couple published Sex Talks as a guide to “creating the sex life of your wildest dreams just by talking about it.” Subtitled “The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life,” the book shares how to get started with what can be a sensitive subject…and much more. Hear about the talking tips and techniques when the couple discuss the book at Chaucer’s tonight.

WHEN: 6 pm

WHERE: 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center

COST: free

INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com

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