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Who’s on the List? – Forbes releases its 37th Annual Billionaires List; see this year’s numbers and rankings, P.10 ‘a space of her own’ – New Westmont art exhibit highlights the capstone projects of six senior art majors, P.26

Gaviota Overlook – An anonymous donation nearly secures this Arroyo Hondo section but it still needs some community support, P.28 Taste the Music – Barbareño hosts a multisensory dinner with vibratory chairs, custom compositions, and unique dishes, P.31

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The Endowment for Youth Community brings guidance and support to African American students along the central coast, page 24

TYDES COMING IN

More details emerge about the Coral Casino at the latest Montecito Planning Commission meeting. Read more inside about its Tydes restaurant, plans for launching, and which areas will be open to the public (Story starts on page 6)

Changing Tracks

Union Pacific announces plans to clear the tracks of encampments, and the Hands Across Montecito team steps in to help those being affected by the initiative, page 5

Seymour Support

Jane Seymour speaks about Alzheimer’s awareness, past and new work, and keynoting the upcoming Women’s Initiative Inspire luncheon, page 12

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Hands Across Montecito – The Union Pacific plans to clear the tracks and Hands Across Montecito wants to help those camped along it find housing before it happens

Village Beat – Tydes Restaurant to be open to the public, water usage and more at the latest Montecito Association meeting

Tide Guide

Letters to the Editor – Looking to improve flooding infrastructure regardless of sound walls and keeping the hot springs clean

Montecito Miscellany – The Forbes billionaire list, USS Santa Barbara hits a polo party, Santa Barbara’s Rescue Mission hosts its Easter Feast, and more

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On Entertainment – George and Emily Get Married, Once on Center Stage, Rocky Horror at SB High, and Marley’s Ghost

Dear Montecito – Stella asks questions about asking questions as she works on the details of her thesis

Brilliant Thoughts – There’s a lot to listen to when it comes down to body talk and it entails Robert’s Big Questions – Moore’s Law leads to questions about exponential growth: Is it sustainable or are there limits?

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Our Town – Jane Seymour speaks about her involvement with the upcoming Alzheimer’s Women’s Initiative Inspire luncheon and previous awareness work with the disease

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Society Invites – Joanne goes for a brisk stroll with fitness icon Denise Austin on National Walking Day

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Your Westmont – Six graduating art majors shine in exhibit, upcoming talk about suicide in late medieval England, and musical concerts bloom in April

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Reel Fun – Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men pushes the limits on monotony and botany; see this psychological thriller at the Riviera

The Optimist Daily – Get better sleep with these tips about reducing electronics usage before bedtime

The Giving List – The Endowment for Youth Community is helping African American students achieve their goals beyond just helping them pay for college

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Celebrating Preservation – The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County receives a large anonymous donation for the Gaviota Overlook

Taste the Music – Barbareño hosts a cross-sensory concert and dinner that blends music and vibrations with flavor

Body Wise – Springtime is here and these tips will help your body make the most of the arriving warmth

Calendar of Events – UCSB Dance in the spring, Fiesta spirit in the Lobero, Chemical Brothers at the Bowl, and more

Classifieds – Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads

Mini Meta Crossword Puzzles

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

Hands Across Montecito With Railway Cleanout Headed Our Way, Hands Team Hits the Tracks

by Sharon Byrne

Two weeks ago, the Hands team was on a countywide conference call regarding the upcoming camp clearing by Union Pacific. Outreach teams should attempt to get everyone camping along the railroad tracks into shelter before the clearing. Shelter beds, of course, are scarce. PATH, the Rescue Mission, and the Salvation Army are the only providers, and they’re always full. We also find most individuals experiencing homelessness do not want to go into the shelters if there is a bed available because they find the rules too draconian, and shelter occupants too dangerous sometimes. The Hands Across Montecito team decided to hit the tracks early Monday morning. We don’t have a firm date on when Union Pacific is coming through, but it will be this month. We’ve experienced the effects of camp-clearings in other jurisdictions. When Goleta and Santa Barbara clear camps, we tend to see new people experiencing homelessness turn up in Montecito. Sometimes they only pass through. Sometimes they are here for a few days. Sometimes they establish a new camp in our area.

The Hands Team met in Sea Meadow, thanks to Jane Olson Andrea Hein, Ron Sickafoose, Joanne Moran, and I joined up with Christina and Casey from City Net. Deputy Brian Dickey met us on the tracks, and MFPD Assistant Fire Marshal Alex Broumand joined us at Olive Mill Rd. It was cold and foggy out.

The zone between Miramar Beach and Olive Mill was completely clear. No trash present, either, which is a huge win. As we moved up towards Butterfly Lane, we found a couple of camps and a lot of clear-cutting of brush by Caltrans. Most of the camps were being used, but no one was present. City Net had visited them before, as they come out Mondays and Fridays. We found one occupied camp, and someone was bicycling away from it, near the Olive Mill exit sign.

Jimmy Mercer was in the camp, visiting. We’ve been working with him to get housing for a while now. He loves cooking, and he really wants a kitchen. He was approved

Ron Sickafoose, Deputy Dickey, and Jane Olson on the Montecito railroad tracks

Christina, Casey, Deputy Brian Dickey and Assistant Fire Marshal Alex Broumand on the Montecito tracks

Joanne Moran, Deputy Dickey talk with James Mercer, while Assistant Fire Marshal Broumand checks the tent for fire hazards

Village Beat Tydes Restaurant to be Open to the Public

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

With a hopeful intention of reopening later this summer, the Coral Casino operations team was in front of Montecito Planning Commission last week – asking for amendments to two of its 92 conditions of operation of the Biltmore Hotel and Coral Casino Development Plan, which were originally approved in 2005.

The proposed amendments include reducing the number of hotel rooms at the nearby Biltmore Hotel from a maximum of 229 to 192, as well as allowing limited public use – 265 members of the public per day – of the existing second floor restaurant at the Coral Casino, currently operating as Tydes. In addition, the proposed changes to the CDP include eliminating use of the Coral Casino by Biltmore hotel guests and their guests, reducing the number of allotted monthly memberships to reciprocal clubs, and eliminating the seasonal membership allowance for Biltmore guests.

County staff reported to the Commission that traffic studies show that there will be a reduction in parking

community of 600 families limits a viable business model for an award-winning restaurant. “In order to have a thriving restaurant and provide stable jobs, we believe having more covers would be able to do that,” he said, adding that having

think we are making it a better club for members,” Medel said.

Medel summarized the improvements currently taking place at the Coral Casino for an impending reopening, including expansion of Fins, the Club’s take-out

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When it reopens, the Coral Casino seeks to be a members-only club with no access from guests at the Biltmore Hotel. Tydes, the Club’s second-floor restaurant, will be open to the public by reservation only

As of March 2022, Coral Casino is now under owner Ty Warner’s management instead of the Four Seasons. Warner’s team insists that the Biltmore – which is still under Four Seasons’ management and has been closed since March 2020 – will reopen, but there is no reopening date established at this time. Maintenance and upgrades to that property are also taking place now.

The Montecito Planning Commission voted 2-1 to approve the amendments, with Commissioners Bob Kupiec and Marshall Miller in support and newly-seated Commissioner Sandy Stahl in opposition. Commissioner Ron Pulice abstained from the agenda item. (Editor’s Note: shortly before press time, the approved amendments were appealed; we’ll have more in a future edition.)

The Coral Casino is located at 1281 Channel Drive in Montecito.

Montecito Association Meets

At a quiet Montecito Association Board of Directors meeting earlier this week, Montecito Water District general manager Nick Turner reported several happenings at MWD, including an upcoming town hall meeting next week to review and discuss a final draft of Montecito’s Groundwater Sustainability Plan.

Since the Montecito Groundwater Sustainability Agency was founded in 2018, data collection, analysis, and plan development has been underway.

Montecito GSA is completing the State’s required Groundwater Sustainability Plan to be submitted this spring, and includes the following key points: groundwater is an important local source of water that is heavily relied upon by our entire community, particularly during drought; extensive data gathering, analysis, and modeling conducted during GSP development shows that the Basin is in relatively good health; the plan reveals areas where additional information about the

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Basin is needed, and projects and management actions aimed at filling these data gaps are planned over the next five years; the Montecito GSA will continue to aggressively pursue grant funding as it has done in the past to minimize the financial burden of SGMA compliance on all stakeholders; the Plan was developed over the past several years through the hard work and dedication of many, including staff, expert consultant Dudek, Advisory Committee members, and engaged community members who made critical contributions.

Montecito GSA’s Sustainability Goal is to prevent undesirable results and optimize long-term use of the groundwater basin for the benefit of all stakeholders. This will be achieved through a collaborative, knowledge-based process informed by locally-defined quantitative criteria, ongoing monitoring and modeling, and incremental, data-supported management actions as needed to prevent seawater intrusion and ensure sustainable groundwater levels, storage, and quality. The current Plan Draft is available online at montecitogsa.com; anyone from the public can review the document and submit comments.

The Town Hall Meeting is Monday, April 17, at 5:30 pm at Fire Station #1, 595 San Ysidro Road.

Turner also gave an update on the water supply outlook for Montecito, saying it’s likely that the outlook is positive for the next three to four years, but water demand still needs to be kept in check.

“While water supplies are great now, it’s important to extend those supplies while we can,” he said, adding that the increase in rains and water availability may lead to the District’s opportunity to store water for drier years. Turner also reported that the District’s Smart Meter program is moving forward with equipment that has arrived and will be fully installed by the end of the week. Customers will be notified when the new program, which gives customers access to real time water use data, is up and running.

Lastly, the Waterwise Garden Recognition Contest is now in full swing. Entries are due by April 30 and can be made online at waterwisesb.org/ gardencontest. A Montecito resident won the award last year.

New Montecito Fire Chief David Neels reported that the District’s insurance rankings have been improved, thanks to training, communication, fire prevention, outreach, location of fire hydrants, and more. The improvement will help inform insurance companies of risk and could have a positive influence on residents’ insurance premiums. “It’s quite an accomplishment,” Chief Neels said.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi reported on crime in Montecito in the last few weeks. These incidents include mailboxes opened and mail missing in Riven Rock area and on East Valley Road; two drug overdoses at Lower Manning Park; and a traffic stop at Hermosillo and Coast Village roads revealing drug paraphernalia.

Montecito Association Executive Director Sharon Byrne reported that Union Pacific is doing a major camp clearing along the railroad tracks next week, and the Hands Across Montecito outreach team has been out in full force trying to get homeless people into shelters before the cleanup.

For more information on Association happenings and upcoming events, visit www.montecitoassociation.org. The next board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 9.

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Letters to the Editor

Sound Wall Considerations

Iwould like to add something to the comments on the recent Board of Supervisors’ decision regarding sound walls along the 101 corridor in Montecito, which meeting I attended. My concern is that in this conversation we are perhaps disregarding the “elephant in the room,” which would be the status of our creeks and their ability to handle significant rain events.

An excellent article in the Los Angeles Times (April 7), “Opinion: Catastrophic floods and breached levees reveal a problem California too often neglects” discusses just this issue. It is written by Jeffrey Mount (senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California’s Water Policy Center) and Brett Sanders (professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Samuel School of Engineering at UC Irvine).

A major point of the article concerns flood preparation efforts, which generally meet only the bare minimum of federal standards. Also, “official floodplain maps are either out of date or inaccurate.”

The article recommends that communities identify risks and take appropriate responses, including investment in flood management and aging, inadequate infrastructure. To finance such processes, they point to $700 million in one-time state

funding available for flood improvements.

Like Supervisor Das Williams, I would not like to think that anyone would lose life or property in a severe rain event just because of sound walls, or (maybe more importantly) because we did not investigate and fix all of what contributes to flooding.

The lack of sound walls did not stop Olive Mill Road from becoming a raging river in January 2018, flooding intersections at South and North Jameson, Coast Village Road, Virginia and Humphrey roads (among others) and pouring water onto the freeway. I was there, driving on S. Jameson (not flooded) trying to evacuate. But, after meeting flooded streets at all possible routes, I had to turn around and spend the night in the parking lot of All-Saints-by-the-Sea. And I was one of the lucky ones.

Pauline Paulin, South Jameson Road

Keep the Hot Springs Clean

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Montecito Miscellany

Who’s on the List?

by Richard Mineards

Forbes magazine has just released its 37th annual World’s Billionaires list, with 2,640 billionaires worth a total of $12.2 trillion ranked, down by $500 billion last year.

At Number One is Frenchman Bernard Arnault, 74, the owner of Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, and Tiffany for the first time with $211 billion, while Tesla magnate Elon Musk, 51, is in second place with $180 billion, and Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos, 59, is third with $114 billion, $57 billion less than 2022.

Local resident Larry Ellison, 78, is at number four with $107 billion for Oracle computers, Warren Buffett follows with $106 billion, and Microsoft’s Bill Gates, 67, at number six with $104 billion.

There are 150 newcomers including basketball ace LeBron James, 38, with $1 billion, golfer Tiger Woods, 47, with $1.1 billion, and fashion icon Tom Ford, 61, with $2.2 billion.

The list’s average age is 65, with the U.S. having the most billionaires – 735 of them, with a total net worth of $4.5 trillion. China is ranked number two

with 562, and India third with 169. As usual, our rarefied enclave is well represented with Google tycoon Eric Schmidt, 67, who bought the Solana estate from Bill and Sandi Nicholson, ranked 104 with $16.2 billion, and frequent visitor Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, 80, whose team trains in Oxnard during the summer, at 133 with

$13.3 billion. Rosewood Miramar owner Rick Caruso, 64, is listed at number 497 with $5.3 billion.

Beanie Baby tycoon Ty Warner, 78, who owns the San Ysidro Ranch and the Biltmore, is ranked 511 with $5.2 billion while mega director George Lucas, 78, who owns a sprawling beach house in Carpinteria, is ranked 534 with $5 billion. Mall magnate Herb Simon, 88, comes in at 852 with $3.4 billion.

Real estate investor and Santa Barbara Polo Club patron with his Antelope team Geoff Palmer, 72, is at 905 with $3.2 billion followed by former TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey, 69, listed at 1217 with $2.5 billion, and Hotel Californian

owner Bill Foley, 78, is ranked 1804 with $1.6 billion.

He shares the spot with Montecito’s Peter Sperling , 63, son of John Sperling, the founder of the online University of Phoenix.

USS Santa Barbara Bash

It was definitely a ship to shore moment when hotel magnate Pat Nesbitt and his wife Ursula hosted a boffo bash for the captain and crew of the newly commissioned USS Santa Barbara at Bella Vista, their scenic oceanside 20-acre

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Larry Ellison ranks number four on the Forbes billionaires list (Photo credit: Oracle PR, Hartmann Studios)

Scott Westbrook and Arlene Montesano Westbrook, Kevin McTague, and sponsoring hosts Ursula and Pat Nesbitt (photo by Priscilla)

Our Town

Jane Seymour Keynote Speaker at Upcoming Alzheimer’s Event

by Joanne A Calitri

The Alzheimer’s Association California Central Coast Chapter is hosting their annual Women’s Initiative Inspire luncheon on April 26 at the Hilton Beachfront Resort. Tickets are selling fast, as Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress Jane Seymour is the keynote speaker.

When I spoke with Katina Zaninovich, Board Chair and Alzheimer’s Women’s Initiative Committee Chair, about the upcoming luncheon she said, “We are thrilled to have Jane Seymour as our keynote speaker. She understands this disease on a personal level and has dedicated her professional abilities to spreading the word about education and the need for research. She walks the walk when it comes to fighting for a world without Alzheimer’s. Our chapter provides free care consultations, support groups, and education classes for individuals and families affected by dementia throughout the CA Central Coast. We have a 24/7 Helpline (800 272 3900) to offer confidential support and information. In this fiscal year, our chapter has served 2,000 families since July 2022. The Alzheimer’s Association is the largest nonprofit funder of Alzheimer’s research, and currently we have invested $320 million in more than 1,000 projects in 54 countries, spanning six continents!”

The luncheon event will honor Gerd Jordano and Anne Towbes as Founding Members of the Alzheimer’s Women’s Initiative (AWI). A second keynote speaker is Alzheimer’s Association Senior Director of Scientific Programs and Outreach, Claire Sexton, PhD, who will present on lifestyle changes that may reduce the risk of dementia, as well as research and new treatments.

Event Committee members are Sue Adams, Linda Alderman, Leigh Cashman, Carole East, Carol Fell, Gabriella Garcia, Rhonda Henderson, Penny Jenkins, Lauren Katz, Roseanne Masi Marquis, Robin Sonner, Betsy Turner, and Mary Werft. Funds raised by the Inspire Luncheon further the Alzheimer’s Association’s mission of ending Alzheimer’s and related dementia by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support.

How did Jane Seymour come to speak at the event? “As we were searching for a celebrity speaker,” Zaninovich explains, “we recalled the VNA PHorum event with Jane Seymour and her film about Glen Campbell. Our AWI committee member Leigh Cashman contacted Dr. Bordofsky who is the medical director of VNA Health and he put us in touch with Lailan McGrath, the VNA Health

Foundation Director. It just so happens she is a personal friend of Jane’s, and so she made the connection for us!!!”

I interviewed Ms. Seymour via Zoom as she was in Dublin at the time, and brought in Cashman to join:

Q. Is being a spokesperson on dementia a passion project for you?

A. Absolutely. I’ve had family members who’ve had Alzheimer’s and I’ve seen it up close. I had a character I played in Ruby’s Choice who had it. The script was written by a man who’s been working in that field for 30 years, and everyone who works in care homes and assisted living who has seen the film has said this is literally something every caregiver should watch. It’s an uplifting film with a lot of humor, but it very clearly shows you what happens to the person with Alzheimer’s, and to the family around them.

I’m passionate about it because I watched both my uncles who died from it – one was the keeper of the family memories, and maybe that is why. My aunt who loved him was determined he would not go into a home. She took care of him, and it literally killed her before he died.

And I had the privilege of being one of the producers of the Glenn Campbell film, I’ll Be Me. Glenn wanted to make a movie once he found out he had it. It was painful to see him get on stage as his disease progressed, but then this magical thing would happen – he could sing and play better than anyone.

Music, dance, and art are the last cognizant elements to go, so you can

Jane Seymour is the keynote speaker at the upcoming Alzheimer’s Women’s Initiative Inspire luncheon (Courtesy photo)

Society Invites Society Does National Walk Day with

Denise Austin

together—the inaugural daily walking distance recommended by the AHA. Indeed, my gear was packed! I’ve taught exercise, aerobic dance, and have been a dedicated runner for over 20 years. And yes – I’ve done Austin’s workouts online. Her routines incorporate the core principles of responsible physical training – body alignment, high-and-low-impact cardio, stretching, weights, and positive self-talk – offering everyone at any level a chance to reclaim a life of daily activity.

I left our town early, arriving at Manhattan Beach just before 9 am, super excited to meet and walk with Denise, possibly (I imagined) alongside a few hundred fans. While waiting for her to arrive I met so many interesting people in their 30s and up, who told me their stories of discovering Austin’s workouts, and how her regimen changed their fitness, outlook, mental health, and lives for the better. Some had worked out with her in the local LA gym back in the ‘80s – “that 20-minute abs routine really got me in shape!”, while others had dutifully followed her fitness TV shows. Most are now subscribing to her online workout platform.

by Joanne A Calitri

Asociety news reporter goes where the news is, and this week the spotlight is on fitness. Get those sneakers on kids! April 5th marked the annual American Heart Association’s (AHA) National Walking Day—and the start of your new exercise goals during April walking month.

To celebrate it in true California-Girl style is fitness icon and 40-year fitness industry pioneer Denise Austin – whose social media is calling on all locals of any ability to join her on Manhattan Beach, April 5, at 10 am. Why? For a brisk two-mile walk

We cheered her on as she arrived at the pier wearing brightly-colored magenta walking shoes and matching top, navy leggings, and zip front jacket. She greeted each one of us with a big smile and hug and posed for photo ops. At 10 am she gathered us together to warm up with her signature routine … a pinch me moment for everyone to be working out live with her. Following our warm-up, she led the way for our two-mile-plus power walk along Manhattan Beach’s world-famous oceanfront walkway The Strand. Throughout the walk, Austin touched bases with everyone, sharing stories. She had us increase the pace, add arm exercises, cheer people along the way who we saw working out, and

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Denise Austin led a walk for National Walking Day at Manhattan Beach (photo by Alex Jay)

Society’s News Correspondent Joanne A Calitri does National Walking Day with fitness icon Denise Austin (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

The fun fête, assisted by the local council of the U.S. Navy League, also consisted of a highly competitive three-a-side polo match with Air Force and Navy teams,

USS Santa Barbara (LCS32) Sponsor Lola Zinke, Commanding Officer USS Santa Barbara Brian Sparks, Dario Furlati (Ca’Dario), Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke, and Constancio Gomez (photo by Priscilla)

won narrowly by the Maritime marauders of Marlin Taylor, Patrick Uretz, and Jimmy Wright (9-8) with Santa Barbara Polo Club polo manager and announcer Melanja Jones calling the shots.

The new 70-crew, 418-foot-long littoral combat ship, the third vessel to be named after our tony town, was launched in 2021 after construction in Mobile, Alabama, at a cost in excess of $700 million. She was commissioned at the Naval Base Ventura County at Port Hueneme before sailing to her permanent base in San Diego under captain Bryan Sparks.

Host Pat, a former polo patron and president of the U.S. Polo Association, never actually served in the Navy, but studied in the Air Force as a possible astronaut before transferring to the parachute jumping program.

“That’s why I’m so short,” he quipped, referring to the inertia his body suffered from so many jumps.

Among the many eateries showcasing their wares at A Taste of Santa Barbara

Where possibilities become possible

Commander Paul F Richardson III, Pat Nesbitt, Paul Richardson IV, and Command Senior Chief Rose M. Thibodeaux (photo by Priscilla)

Via Vai, Lucky’s, the Rosewood Miramar, Ca’Dario, Los Agaves, Jeannine’s, Sol Wave, the Santa Barbara Polo Club, and Mier’s Ice Cream.

Joey Vergilis Joins KEYT-TV

Santa Barbara’s ABC affiliate KEYTTV has a new morning news anchor, Joey Vergilis, I can exclusively reveal. Vergilis, a graduate of Cal State Northridge with a degree in broadcast journalism, will be co-anchor on the am and midday newscasts with Alys Martinez

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Summerland estate.

Air Force and Navy Polo Teams with announcer Melanja Jones and Referee John Westley (photo by Priscilla)

sometimes be a functional artist with Alzheimer’s. We hope to find a drug to cure it, but in the meantime there’s nutrition and other support.

It’s our world story now because we are all living longer. Whether we have it or are the caretakers, the next generation will have to deal with it.

As a co-founder of the Open Hearts Foundation, your mission statement is to, “…inspire and empower people to turn their personal adversity into an opportunity to help others.” Kindly expound.

The real genesis of Open Hearts is my mother, a Dutch national who was in an internment camp, and after she got out, met my father. She could never really talk about it. My sisters and I got eventually her to open up, and she said, “Darling, everyone in life has challenges, we don’t get out of this world without challenge. What happens is a natural instinct to close up your heart, and if you don’t share with others, you’ll just be a long-playing record with a scratch that goes round and round, and you can’t get out of a recycling of the past. But if you can do the hardest thing, to accept, open your heart, and reach out in some way to help to someone else – you’ll have purpose, and that is the key to living. If you have a purpose, love will come into your heart, you’ll be lovable and open to receiving love.”

[Seymour then pointed to the dual open heart necklace she was wearing]

I designed and trademarked these two hearts for our foundation. After 9/11 we went into a world of fear and terror, and I wanted to find some way that the human condition and spirit be celebrated in the good it was doing.

If I have a mission in life, it’s to ignite the volunteer or the open heart in everybody to pay it forward. It’s why I’m here [speaking at the luncheon], I’m doing it for Lailan McGrath and for 70 people I know who are caregiving like she is.

Our thing is not supporting one specific charity, it’s about the people who are opening their hearts, taking a challenge, and using it as an opportunity to help others. We verify what they are doing and make sure they are good candidates with a full board. We find extraordinary foundations, tell their stories on our website and raise awareness and money for them.

My daughter Katie started a program to bring volunteering programs into mid-

dle school with other volunteers. Studies show it helps youth in terms of their own mental health issues. We have it in Marin County and will spread it nationally.

We also want to curate and put together volunteering opportunities online, to have a listing of foundations and a listing of people with their talents who want to volunteer.

That’s the mission of the Open Hearts Foundation and why I’m coming to the luncheon. It’s very much an Open Hearts theme.

If anyone is interested, my foundation’s annual gala is May 20th at the Calamigos Ranch Malibu, not far from Montecito, and there will be a benefactor dinner May 19 at my home.

What’s next for you?

I have my own series on Acorn TV called, Harry Wild. I’m playing an English professor in Dublin who quits in the first episode and realizes she’s quite useful with her knowledge of books and history at solving crimes. It’s humorous, irreverent, intelligent, literate, and doing really well. We are now doing series two and three concurrently. I’m also Executive Producer on it. It’s a three generational series, we’re all in it together. And I’m doing another movie about Alzheimer’s but can’t announce it yet!

What is an interview question you would love to be asked, and your reply to it?

[laughs…] Well, I’m a little on the spot thinking what that would be, but actually an interesting one would be, “If I were to come back and have my life over, would I want to do it as a woman or a man?”

[smiles…] A woman, yes, a woman. I’ve had a very good ride so far and I think I’d go in for another go. Men want to fight, women want to solve things. Women are very nurturing, multitask a lot, are very in touch with emotions, and I think now as women are being more respected in every profession, they have unique talents in areas that used to be predominantly male. For example, when I did the Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman series, many told me they became doctors because of that.

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A Marriage Made for Santa Barbara

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by Steven Libowitz

Rick Mokler is updating Our Town for our times and, well, our town too.

With George and Emily Get Married, the (now officially retired) longtime theater teacher at area high schools, who also later chaired the SBBC Theater Department, has taken the young lovers from Thornton Wilder’s 85-year-old chestnut, updated their professions to a recent med school grad and budding writer, respectively, and moved them from the fictional American small town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, to present-day Santa Barbara.

The couple’s relationship and family as they go through a wedding also examines love and marriage through a contemporary lens.

“I’ve always been interested in marriage just as an institution,” explained Mokler, who has performed more than a dozen weddings since earning a Universal Life Church license years ago. “Marriage has changed so radically that I thought it would be interesting to take a look at Act Two from Our Town and do a modern version of the exact same scene, which is something I used in classes all the time.”

Mokler said writing George and Emily started out as an exercise to stay occupied during COVID, but realized it could be something more.

“It’s a very gentle play, which just

seems right for now, when everybody is tired of angry, loud shouting plays. It’s got the same general tone as Our Town, but the situations are quite a bit different. It’s been a lot of fun.”

Mokler also turned Professor Willard, who delivers the town history in the original, into a feminist women’s studies teacher who gives a PowerPoint presentation on the history of marriage, which ends up being pretty funny. “The names are the same, but I changed their roles,” he said.

The cast features a whole host of longtime Santa Barbara actors, many of whom Mokler has known for decades, including two that he taught in high school more than 35 years ago. In a way, they’re part of his extended family life, which gives truth to the warm and gentle tone of the show.

“I’m one of the lucky ones who has a solid family and everybody’s doing well. I’ve been very fortunate and I have nothing to complain about. Maybe that’s why I love to have kind and gentle endings in my plays.”

With George and Emily, that involves a closing scene in which the entire audience is invited up on stage to join the wedding reception – set in the oak grove behind the Natural History Museum –as toasts are delivered and first dances take place.

“Everybody can enjoy baked desserts, sparkling water and champagne, and talk with the wedding party,” Mokler

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The interview concluded with Cushman asking Seymour for an opportunity to show her film, Ruby’s Choice, and that is going to be in the works!

George and Emily Get Married will be at Jurkowitz Theatre from April 12-29 (Photo by Ben Crop)

Dear Montecito Asking Good Questions

by Stella Haffner

Dear Montecito,

What do journalists and academics have in common? They know how to ask good questions.

As I begin to write my master’s thesis, I have been thinking a lot about the idea of the good question. After all, a thesis is itself essentially just a good question. And as I begin this process, I have noticed a few things; what is and isn’t a good question, what sorts of people ask good questions, and how they do it.

First, I needed to address my own misinterpretations of “the good question.” It took me a while to realize that good questions don’t have to be associated with intellectual prestige, they don’t need to be aesthetically clever, and they don’t need to be hard to understand. Sure, all these things may be true of questions posed by long-dead philosophers, but those questions need to survive on their own – those guys need pizzazz!

On the other hand, most of us are here to be the vehicles for our questions. So while I’ve learned that good questions don’t need to be associated with intellectual prestige, good questions are often associated with something else: good explanations.

That may seem trivial, but I think we can agree that the best questions asked by academics and journalists are those that thoughtfully encourage good explanations. Of course, this is easier said than done, particularly because it requires so much personal and interpersonal insight: Where is my knowledge limited? What would others like to know? How can I effectively convey my thought process?

Like a lot of good questions, the dissertation requires these peripheral questions that help structure a good explanation. It requires a high level of specificity but also a high level of clarity; balancing the details with the big picture. As I try to strike this balance myself, I think of other people who do it well: teachers.

I believe teachers are generally so good at explaining things because of their interpersonal insight. It allows them to not only address a central question (e.g. How does photosynthesis work?) but also all the peripheral questions (Are my students familiar with these words? How do I connect this to other big ideas? What about this will they find interesting?)

We can see that good questions big and small work together to help tease out the important information. It is also true that for journalists, researchers, and teachers alike, a familiarity with your audience is essential to employing good questions.

Something I appreciate about this column is that the Montecito Journal is, in a way, an intimate setting. You know that what you’re reading is coming from me, Stella. And you know that this column covers what young people are doing in Santa Barbara. You are reading this within that context. Therefore, the questions I ask and try to deliver to you are based on a key element of that context – our rapport.

Knowing your audience, however, does not guarantee successful communication. One of my own weaknesses is getting caught up in academic jargon, which I’ve been thinking a lot about while writing my thesis, because that is a weakness shared by many academics. Perhaps it is even an artifact of having spent too much time

wholly immersed in an academic discipline. Certainly, when you spend a lot of time studying something in detail, you are naturally motivated to use specific, targeted language to express exactly how you understand the thing in question.

In contrast to this, one of the most interesting things I have learned in graduate school is that if you really want to explain something to someone else, you have to sacrifice some accuracy and specificity for the sake of clarity. (The exception is when your audience is from your own field.) This should not be thought of as “dumbing it down.” You can’t expect to cram all of your background knowledge into a conversation with someone – though I am often tempted to try. The reality is that it wouldn’t be helpful, and in most cases wouldn’t be super interesting for them, either. Rather, I have found that the best approach is to build your questions and explanations within the context of the given discussion. For instance, medicine really interests me. I like talking to physicians and medical students. But even though a good portion of my undergrad was spent in cellular biology lectures, when a deep expert in biology is discussing something with me, I cannot appreciate all the minutiae because the subject is not my field. Luckily, I don’t have to be familiar with all the little details to appreciate the big picture. This is the advantage of talking to people who know how to put together good questions – they understand what to say and what to keep in reserve.

As a final note, a degree of confidence is helpful when building your own good questions and good explanations. I realized while writing this that, as in everything, there was a chance my ideas here simply didn’t make sense. Unfortunately, I also realized how crippling the irony would be if that were true. Oh dear.

Yours, Stella

It took me a while to realize that good questions don’t have to be associated with intellectual prestige, they don’t need to be aesthetically clever, and they don’t need to be hard to understand.

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

Sō Percussion with Caroline Shaw

Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part

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

Fri, Apr 21 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

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.

ARTEMIS

Renee Rosnes, Ingrid Jensen, Alexa Tarantino, Nicole Glover, Noriko Ueda, Allison Miller

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

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

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

Mark Morris Dance Group

The Look of Love

An Evening of Dance to the Music of Burt Bacharach

Sat, May 6 / 8 PM

Granada Theatre

An homage to the chart-topping songs of Burt Bacharach, this collaboration from Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson features original choreography, lush new arrangements and a live musical ensemble.

Event Sponsor: G.A. Fowler Family Foundation

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

Santa Barbara Debut

Nicholas Galanin

Let Them Enter Dancing and Showing Their Faces

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

FREE (registration recommended)

In this illustrated presentation, multidisciplinary artist Nicholas Galanin, who is of Tlingit and Unangax 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

Ada Limón

Why We Need Poetry

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.

Celebrating Mother’s Day

Laura Dern & Diane Ladd

Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life and Love

Wed, May 3 / 7:30 PM

UCSB Campbell Hall

Join acclaimed actor Laura Dern (Big Little Lies, Twin Peaks, Jurassic Park) and her mother, Academy Award-winner Diane Ladd (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Chinatown), for a deeply personal conversation on love, art, ambition and legacy inspired by their own heart-to-hearts.

Celebrating National Poetry Month!

24th U.S. Poet Laureate

Brilliant Thoughts Body Talk

by Ashleigh Brilliant

One piece of medical advice we’re often given is to “listen to your body.” It is also one of the most confusing and misleading. My body does not know who I am or where I live. It was designed by a proverbial “blind watchmaker” named Evolution over the course of untold eons.

My body has nothing to say to me, no matter how carefully I listen to it. For instance, when it yawns (which it seems to like doing in spasms) there is no clear message, but a dozen contradictory ones, ranging from intense boredom to deep contentment.

But let us get down to ground zero, so to speak, and ask what feet are saying. Of course, it’s not that simple – ask any foot specialist. Not only are there (usually) five different toes on two different feet – but those feet are separated from each other by two major body parts called legs, whose interests may be vastly different. Left legs and right legs are hardly on speaking terms.

Then there are the hands and fingers, the eyes and ears – mysterious twosomes born somewhere in the strange country called Symmetry.

But we have no corresponding duos in Front and Back—which would have been enormously convenient for mobility and safety. No rear-view mirror to warn us about what’s coming up behind.

Ears are specially peculiar, apparently designed for no particular function –and that’s just the outer visible part. No wonder so many people have hearing problems. We must not forget about noses, although – as a general rule – we have only one of them, albeit with two of those funny holes called nostrils.

Then there is the whole eating and eliminating apparatus, otherwise known as the digestive system, most of whose parts – from the mouth to the other end – are apportioned to us humans in the singular, while other creatures, such as cows, are endowed with several.

But that is only one of several systems in which we resemble cars, with their own systems of brakes, cooling, steering, and fueling. With us, there’s the blood supply, known as the “circulation,” the air supply, known as breathing, and the supply of intelligence, centered in a very unlovely two-sided organ called the brain, with a function known as thinking.

And we are supposed to listen to all this, and somehow make sense of it. Maybe we should start with something relatively easy, like listening to our teeth and fingernails and toenails. One of my epigrams makes somewhat the opposite statement. It says that:

“Nothing is more quiet than the sound of hair going gray.”

Unfortunately, the loudest sound that emanates from the body is something called “Pain.” It can come from almost any part, and sometimes (alas!) from several parts at once.

But how are we to listen to that body part called “hair”? So numerous and widespread, and for the most part painless, “hair” tends to cluster in certain areas, some of which are very sensitive. But “hair” also has a habit of dropping out, dropping off, or however you want to put it – abandoning us; rarely to be tempted back. Indeed, this “baldness” is a strange phenomenon, particularly being related to age, gender, and even to ethnicity.

And what about skin, that most ubiquitous body organ? I don’t know how to hear mine, especially because some parts are much more visible (or audible?) than others. That must be why your dermatologist doesn’t usually wear a stethoscope. But, as some great epigrammatist once remarked, “My biggest problem with my skin is trying to control what’s inside it.”

Which brings us to the expression

“Flesh and Blood,” a commonly used term distinguishing the human from the non-human. It also indicates a close relationship. Among its many applications, we find in Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, a whole plot hinging on a promise to pay a debt with “a pound of flesh.” In the play, the Merchant, Antonio, has contracted with a Jewish moneylender named Shylock – upon default of his debt – to pay Shylock a pound of his own flesh, specifically from the region of his body nearest to the heart. The heroine, in this case, turns out to be Portia, a friend of Shylock’s daughter Jessica – i.e. of his own flesh and blood – who successfully argues in Court that the contract talks about flesh, but says nothing about blood, creating a condition impossible to fulfill.

If only our own flesh-and-blood children, and their friends, were always so eloquent!

Robert’s Big Questions Exponentially Moore?

by Robert Bernstein

Intel Corporation founder Gordon Moore died on March 24. Moore helped pioneer the development of the silicon chip at the heart of our modern electronic world. But his greatest contribution may have been “Moore’s Law” – his observation in the 1960s that transistor counts on a chip were increasing exponentially, the count doubling every two years.

(Computer scientist Niklaus Wirth pointed out that inefficient software bloats at the same rate, wiping out the gains!)

With Moore’s death, we might ask if Moore’s Law is near death, too? I was in the industry for decades and my trade journals regularly predicted an imminent end to Moore’s Law.

Conservative economist Herb Stein pithily said in 1986, “If something cannot go on forever it will stop.”

In order to pack more transistors on a chip, the transistors have to get smaller. Transistors and other chip components are essentially “printed” through a form of lithography on the silicon wafer. Material is deposited and material is etched at different stages. But it involves shining light through a mask, like using a stencil to make a sign. The wavelength of light is about a millionth of a meter (one micron). That was once seen as a limit of how small things could get.

But that limit was passed by using ever shorter wavelengths of “light,” starting with ultraviolet. Moore’s Law has repeatedly dodged death by a series of such innovations. But, surely, there is some hard limit? Current chip features are indeed now just a few atoms across. Atoms would seem to be a hard limit. But, not necessarily.

It may be possible to create multiple layers to chips, expanding from two dimensions to three – thus allowing more transistors on a chip without the transistors getting smaller.

is that it actually speaks to a series of revolutionary innovations strung together, each using new technology. What will come next? Quantum computing is one possibility. Another is to use biotechnology to grow computing devices, rather than manufacture them in fabs.

Are there bigger cosmic issues at stake? In 1725, Basile Bouchon invented punched paper tape to semi-automate the monotonous setting up of the day’s silk loom. Moore’s Law can actually be extended back that far, looking at processing power over the decades since.

Ray Kurzweil is a prolific inventor and futurist who believes that Moore’s Law is even more true than Moore realizes. On my first visit to Intel about 20 years ago I watched a video debate between Kurzweil and Moore. Moore said his “law” is not really a law of physics and it will soon run out. But Kurzweil has argued that it can be traced back over the entire history of the universe. Notably, the evolution of living things has been characterized by an exponential rise in complexity of biological information processing over a span of hundreds of millions of years.

Kurzweil argued that if this law has held for so long, it is reasonable to project it a few decades into the future. Doing so would mean the creation of information processing systems that far exceed what our own brains can do. Kurzweil suggests various ways that this might transpire.

It may happen through the printing of ever more transistors (or their equivalent) on a chip. It may happen through genetic alterations of humans. It may involve symbiotic connections of brains and devices. We are already seeing this, for better or worse. Kurzweil acknowledges things could go very wrong. But he also shows a path to a wonderful future that we can be a part of.

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

But, such technology reminds me a bit of the world of experimental particle physics. As we probe ever-smaller scales, we need ever-higher energies; meaning ever-larger particle accelerators. In the case of computer chips, the smaller the transistors, the bigger and more expensive the fabrication facility, or “fab.” The cost of building those specialized facilities rises exponentially with each new generation.

A new fab can cost $20 billion. Only a handful of companies can afford that. 90% of the world’s most advanced chips are made in Taiwan. None are made in the U.S. Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act is meant to bring at least some of this business back to the U.S.

What is notable about Moore’s Law

Kurzweil refers to “The Singularity” where these systems themselves innovatively design new systems. This could actually exceed current rates of exponential technological growth. In the words of the Eagles’ Don Henley and Glenn Frey, “This could be heaven or this could be hell.” I plan to write more on this in the future.

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/ questionbig

Reel Fun

‘Enys Men’

by Christopher Matteo Connor

Have you ever been stuck in a rut? Doing the same thing day in, day out. The same rituals, the same tasks, the same autopilot life? Now imagine that – but you’re on some uninhabited island off the coast of England where your only friends are a group of rare flowers. If you weren’t on your way to Looney Town before, you’ve got a first-class ticket now.

That’s essentially Enys Men in a nutshell. That’s not totally fair. There’s more to it than that! Mark Jenkin’s latest feature is a slow, experimental folk horror ‘70s period piece about a woman tasked with studying a group of flowers on a remote island. It’s just her, the flowers, a red jacket, and the dwindling supply of gas for the generator. And let us not forget the ghosts of years long gone! Or are they simply a figment of her tormented mind? Who’s to say?

Enys Men is a challenging film, one that foregrounds images, feeling, mood, sound, and texture over any sort of narrative. Jenkins does not give the audience much to go with and leaves it up to us to create any sort of meaning out of what we’re watching. For some, that’s a recipe for a frustrating night out at the movies. For others, it’s an engaging experience worth having.

The film is purposefully tedious, as if Jenkins is provoking the audience’s impatience. How much are they willing to take? But, there is a tension in the narrative repetition. When the same things happen over and over again, there is a feeling that something is bound to snap. What are the consequences if a daily ritual isn’t correctly observed? The dread and foreboding is palpable, and brings to mind the insanity-inducing isolation of The Shining, or even the more recent film, The Lighthouse

And to be sure, there is a snap – a moment where the stasis morphs into instability; into borderline lunacy. Soon enough, our protagonist is no longer alone. She’s visited by miners with coal-caked faces, a lone priest, ghostly girls dressed in 1800s fashion. Are these visitors ghosts? Are these memories? Past or parallel lives? A buzzing, otherworldly rock, a sort of paganistic monolith, beckons to her. Is the natural world trying to claim her? Does the

lichen that begins to grow on the flowers she’s studying, and that begins to grow on her scarred body, signify something greater than a nightmare? These are the questions presented to the viewers. But it’s wholly up to us to engage and answer them.

Maybe it’s because Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles recently made quite the cinematic stir when it topped Sight & Sound’s “Greatest Films of All Time” critics poll, but I couldn’t help but see some parallels between the two films. Both films center around a middle-aged woman and her daily life, where she dutifully repeats the same tasks, day in and day out. Both films have a real dedication to monotony. And both lead to a sort of catharsis. Except Enys Men is more like Jeanne Dielman meets The Wicker Man The woman’s calendar is counting down to May Day, after all! So if that’s your bread and butter, then this is the flick for you.

Enys Men is an unconventional horror that leans hard into the aesthetics of ‘70s cinema, to the point where it really does look like some uncovered film from that period. The dedication to craft is extremely impressive. So if you go gaga over film grain, and the aesthetics of film and ‘70s cinema, you just might love this. But beware; for many, boredom is the scariest thing of all. And this will surely push the limits. I, for one, find it inspiring to see that movies like this can be made and screened in theaters. There is hope yet!

Enys Men is showing at the Riviera Theatre for three days only: April 14th – 16th Fri: 9:45pm / Sat: 9:45pm / Sun: 8:45pm

How to prevent before-bed screen use from completely ruining your sleep

We hear it again and again: Avoid device screens before bedtime to sleep properly. Jade Wu, PhD, a board-certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist and author of Hello Sleep, says you can use screens at night without disrupting your sleep with a few adjustments to your daily routine.

Get as much light as possible during the day

Dr. Wu’s first piece of advice is to get enough daylight. Melatonin, a hormone that governs sleep, rises at night and falls in the morning and throughout the day. Your brain releases melatonin at night, making you sleepy. Light, whether natural or artificial, tricks your brain into thinking it’s sunlight and suppresses melatonin production, keeping you awake.

Dr. Wu says the brain needs a large light contrast between day and night to keep your body clock on track.

Turn up the lights at dinnertime

Dr. Wu also recommends increasing light exposure around dinnertime to mitigate the detrimental effects of late-night screen use. She suggests turning on your lights a couple of hours before nightfall if you’re a device addict.

A brief burst of intense light two hours before bed is the goal of inducing sleep. If you can, watch the sunset or prepare or eat in the kitchen with bright lighting.

Be mindful of how you use your screens

Even if you follow the previous two measures, streaming a show that makes you nervous – like a real crime series that raises your heart rate – may disrupt your sleep. Dr. Wu believes screen content is as important to your sleep regimen as light exposure.

One more thing: Using numerous devices at once can overwhelm your eyes with extra light, suppressing melatonin, and hyper-stimulating your brain. Dr. Wu thinks media multitasking makes it tougher to relax for sleep, so if you must use a screen, limit it to one.

Wear blue-light-blocking glasses

Research suggests that blue light at night is the biggest threat to circadian rhythms. Phones and tablets generate blue light, which lowers brain melatonin production more than orange and red light. Dr. Wu adds that not all light frequencies stimulate the brain and upset the circadian rhythm.

She recommends blue-light-blocking eyewear. They can prevent blue light from disrupting sleep and maintain melatonin production.

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.

You want a strong day-to-night contrast, so don’t wear blue-light-blocking glasses all day unless your doctor advises it.

The Giving List Endowment for Youth Community

by Steven Libowitz

The Endowment for Youth Committee (EYC) is one of the oldest nonprofits serving the needs of African American students and the greater Black community on the Central Coast, with a history that dates back 37 years. The heart and soul of the nonprofit has always been the EYC Scholar Program, which is geared toward young African American, Black-identifying students – from grade six through college undergrads – who want help in maximizing their personal potential.

The program targets engaged youth who have a vested interest in enhancing their lives, and are committed to both academic success and serving as exemplary stewards of positive community impact. The program offers participants the opportunity to broaden their resources and create sustainable pathways to higher education, as well as mentorship aligned with achieving their goals.

Last year, the organization provided approximately $25,000 in scholarships and other financial support for gradu-

ating high school seniors to help them achieve their post-secondary educational aims. Awards for the upcoming academic year, which continues to be administered in collaboration with the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, have yet to be finalized.

“That scholarship piece is a big part of who we are, something we’ve been doing consistently for the whole 37 years,” said Guy R. Walker , who served as president of the board since 2015 before handing over the reins to his former mentee, Warren B. Ritter II , in the fall of 2022.

But the Endowment for Youth Committee’s responsibilities go beyond distribution of scholarship monies. Under Walker’s leadership, EYC broadened its scope to include influencing the community and the culture beyond scholarships, to serve more fully as advocates for African American youth.

“That’s everything – from what’s going on in the classrooms and schools, to advocating for those young people socially and culturally,” said Walker, who remains an active board member. “You hear a lot about social justice these days, but unfortunately our community tends

to often be on the short end of the stick in that area. So an important role that we play is to ensure that we’re aligned with young people and trying to support and be advocates for them.”

It’s not enough to just serve as role models, Walker said.

“That initiative is connected to our role in the broader community in terms of helping them understand what the challenges are in our (African American) community. Part of the reason we have these problems is that the majority community doesn’t necessarily understand these issues. So a role we end up taking on is making sure that we’re dialoguing with the community to help them understand, point out where they’re blocking or aren’t being inclusive, and where they’re missing out on opportunities, because these young people come back and really help uplift the community as a whole.”

Whether the Black youth community is being blocked or excluded tacitly or overtly doesn’t matter, Walker said.

“Either way, you’re really more a part of the problem than a part of the solution. ECY sees itself as a torchbearer for the broader community in terms of illuminating that it’s in the interest of the entire community to ensure that these young people have a better pathway.”

Walker said a third pillar of the organization, one that hasn’t yet fully materialized, is to serve as a repository for historical, data-driven information about the African American community. “There are questions that often come up, such as what is the status of the community? What is the employment rate of Black folks in the commu -

Endowment for Youth Community is one of the oldest nonprofits serving the needs of African American students and the greater Black community on the Central Coast

nity? What is the employment rate of young Black people in the community, or the graduation rate of young Black people? You have to go through so many different sources to try to pull that information together, and while it impacts young people, it’s not directly a young people’s initiative. It’s important to understand the graduation rate and what that means in terms of future employability.”

The point is to be a more complete center for the youth in the countywide community, and being better equipped to assist youth in achieving their goals, beyond helping to pay for their college.

“We want to be a resource and a database to help the community, perhaps securing an internship with our community partners, or providing direction on where they can turn to get a job. We do have relationships with some of those businesses, so that’s the direction we’re heading. Ideally, we would have 20 to 25 of those kinds of partners.”

All of that, of course, takes administration, outreach, and other efforts to extend EYC’s reach and impact. Which in turn requires an influx of financial resources for the nonprofit.

“The reality is that we are probably the largest endowment on the central coast in terms of people of color – in the neighborhood of the high six figures,” Walker said. “My goal would be that we get to a seven-figure endowment within the next five years. That would allow us to do so much more.”

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Your Westmont

Art Museum Offers ‘a space of her own’

by Scott Craig, photos by Brad Elliott

Alarge crowd packed into the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art to see the stunning capstone projects of six senior art majors on April 6. A Space of Her Own – which features art projects ranging from paintings to prints, and from photography to sculptural installation – will be on display through May 6 at the museum.

“I’ve been impressed by the students’ craft and dedication to making art that not only is technically beautiful, but captures concepts that are evocative and important for our time,” says Nathan Huff, associate

professor of art and chair of the department. “The title, ‘a space of her own,’ connotes the distinct spaces that these six women have carved out in their artistic practices and in the conceptual ideas for art. The works in the exhibition depict interior domestic spaces in first light, vast mountainscapes, and the grit and labor of a western ranch. Other times the works document spaces for female skateboard culture, playful sculptures that delight in sensory overload and material exploration, and drawn studies of anatomical differences as a way to honor the beauty of each other.”

The exhibition celebrates the careers of Annika Britton, Moriah Chiang, Callie Guthrie, Ella Jennings, Ashley

Rosenbaum, and Morgan Sailer

“I am so proud of these art majors who have created sophisticated bodies of artwork with strong technical skill, meaningful concepts, and deeply personal investment,” Huff says. “These self-directed projects explore themes of identity, caretaking, and the wonder of the natural world – honoring labor and landscape, and the importance of spaces both metaphorical and literal that help us understand one another.”

The show, which also features oil paintings, large scale charcoal drawings, watercolors, fiber textile installations, printmaking, and photography, is generously sponsored by Ken and Francie Jewesson. The museum is open weekdays from 10 am – 4 pm and Saturdays from 11 am – 5 pm.

Talk Examines Medieval Suicide and Care

coming up in May, I’ll be using examples from medieval English historical and legal records as well as literary narratives about suicide to think about the cultures of care around them,” she says. “The talk will appeal to those interested in history and literature, but also those invested in mental health and healthcare more generally.”

McNamara, who has taught at Westmont since 2017, specializes in medieval literature, the history of emotions, death studies, law, and politics in Middle English literature, and sociolinguistic approaches to literature. She graduated from Baylor University before earning a master’s and doctorate from the University of Oxford. Prior to coming to Westmont, she taught at UCLA and Oxford, and previously held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Sydney.

Westmont Downtown: Conversations about Things that Matter is a free lecture series sponsored by the Westmont Foundation. The foundation also sponsors the annual Westmont President’s Breakfast in early March.

Music Abloom in April

The Westmont Music Department is ending the spring semester with a flurry of concerts, all are free and in Deane Chapel on lower campus.

The Composer’s Concert, highlighting new works by Westmont student composers performed by both fellow students and the composers themselves, is Friday, April 14, at 7 pm.

Rebecca McNamara, Westmont assistant professor of English, speaks about care and compassion for those struggling with suicide or affected by the trauma of suicide in late medieval England in a Westmont Downtown Lecture on Thursday, April 13, at 5:30 pm at the Community Arts Workshop (CAW), 631 Garden Street, in downtown Santa Barbara. “Care in Times of Crisis: Suicide and Emotions in Medieval England” is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Ample free parking is available. For more information, please call (805) 565-6051.

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Tenor Sibongakonkhe (Sibo) Msibi – a senior international student from Swaziland who earned a fellowship to the Music Academy of the West’s 75th anniversary Summer School and Festival in 2022 –performs his senior recital on Sunday, April 16, at 3 pm. Later that evening, the String Chamber Concert is at 7 pm.

Eben Drost will lead the Jazz Concert on Wednesday, April 19, at 8 p.m.

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.” – Thomas Jefferson

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encouraged us to invite other walkers to join in. At the midpoint we stopped again for some stretching and a group photo, then continued to the finish line where Austin took another group photo with all of the finishers. She thanked and wished each a great day. Comments heard included, ‘I didn’t know doing a power walk would be so easy’ to ‘I feel great, let’s get brunch!’ Everyone left feeling energized and positive, for certain!

When she found out I was doing a news report on her National Walk Day stroll in the Montecito Journal, her face lit up – “Omg, MONTECITO!” Turns out she’s a big fan of Montecito and the Rosewood Miramar Beach Resort.

A native of San Pedro, her CV highlights include having a 10-year TV fitness show on ESPN, 14 years on Lifetime, and workout videos – leotards-to-leg warmers in that Jane Fonda fitness epoch – selling upwards of 25 million copies. Denise has been twice appointed to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition; holds a BA in PE from California State University [with a minor in exercise physiology]; publishes her own magazine, Fit Over Fifty; and recently collaborated with women’s comfort brand Easy Spirit to design fitness shoes.

Last year Austin broke through yet another beauty barrier – ageism – when she was selected by Sports Illustrated Swimsuit to walk the runway at their Miami show in 2022. There she joined her daughter Katie Austin, SI Rookie of the Year. Denise writes, “When I had the opportunity to walk the runway with my daughter for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, going for fast WALKS was my go-to!! I bumped my daily walk up to 45 minutes, and really saw the results!!”

Let all who read this be inspired to get out, get fit, and enjoy the positive vibes that accompany tuning yourself up. Fitness is not a destination, it’s a way of life. We are born to move, so find your groove and have fun!

The invite Austin extended on her social media and website says it all: “It’s National Walking Day and I’m here to kick it off, along with Easy Spirit’s workout shoes walking challenge!! Get up and walk every day this month for 20 minutes ... that’s it! Just a little bit of walking goes a long way. It’s great for your mind and your body! I hope each of you join me in this challenge and pay it forward – challenge three of your friends!!”

National Walking Day – launched by the American Heart Association in 2007 –takes place on the first Wednesday in April. Studies show brisk walking for thirty to sixty minutes per day can help prevent type II diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and help with weight loss.

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Celebrating Preservation of Landscape

Land Trust Receives Anonymous Donation for Gaviota Overlook

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by Hattie Beresford

In 1960, the Brothers Four sang, “Once there were green fields, kissed by the sun. Once there were valleys where rivers used to run….” (Many of you know the tune.)

While the song is about a lost romantic love, in another, more literal sense, it could be considered a mourning for the loss of the landscape, as well. The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County is working to reverse that loss. Thanks to an anonymous gift of $500,000 to the Trust, fully two-thirds of the funds needed to obtain 48 acres of rolling hills adjoining Arroyo Hondo Preserve has been attained.

The purchase of Gaviota Overlook comes at a time when community needs for access to nature are overlapping with the growing support for conservation of the rural and natural landscape. Today, with the pressure to move toward fields of cement or asphalt and forests of densely packed housing, it is more important than ever to preserve the spaces that soothe the human soul and help to retain our connection to nature.

The rolling grassland of the Gaviota Overlook property will add a new, unique habitat to Arroyo Hondo, benefiting local plants and animals and extending preserved wildlife corridors. It will also provide more space and trails to explore, and it will enhance the outdoor programs for over 26,000 local children from Santa Barbara County schools, and the thousands of others who visit the Preserve each year.

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Looking west from the Arroyo Hondo Creek to the hills leading to Gaviota Overlook (photo by Hattie Beresford, 2020)

Henry Chapman Ford, Santa Barbara’s first resident artist, painted the Gaviota Pass in 1875, preserving forever its original appearance

spaces is borne out by the popularity of paintings of the local landscape. From Santa Barbara’s first resident artist, Henry Chapman Ford, to today’s pantheon of local artists, the beauty of the landscape has provided both subject and inspiration.

The list of artists is extensive and their plein air portrayals uplifting and soulful. We don’t want them to become members of the Ash Can School.

While the beautiful Gaviota landscape is a living picture, the preservation of the natural environment has additional important consequences. Meredith Hendricks , Executive Director of the Land Trust, says, “With conservation management of the property, the climate benefits are enhanced, and the community will experience firsthand a practical approach to stronger local economies, food supply chains, and a slew of other public benefits.”

The Land Trust knows that people and wildlife need more room to breathe and thrive. By accepting the calling of stewardship over the natural flora and fauna, they plan to preserve landscapes which support all denizens of the natural world. In the wake of this bounteous gift, there is hope that a swift upswell in community support will secure the rest of the funding ($210,000) needed to acquire Gaviota Overlook. Perhaps, soon, we can sing, “Now there are green fields, kissed by the sun….”

To help the Land Trust for Santa Barbara Count raise the remaining $210,000 needed to protect Gaviota Overlook forever as part of Arroyo Hondo Preserve, please go to www.sblandtrust.org

Early Women Illustrators

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Victorian attitudes about roles in society prevented women in nineteenth-century England from pursuing a formal education, however, an interest in plants was considered a socially acceptable pastime.

This exhibit sheds light on women who used their skills in writing and drawing to make meaningful contributions to the emerging science of botany.

John and Peggy Maximus Gallery

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Open Wednesday–Monday 10:00 AM–5:00 PM

Members of the pea family grow in the grassy verges of the trails in Arroyo Hondo (photo by Hattie Beresford, 2020)

Mike Beresford on the trail in Arroyo Hondo during the height of COVID. A welcome respite, and we were happy to wear the requested masks when encountering others on the trail. (photo by Hattie Beresford, 2020)

Hattie Beresford has been writing a local history column for the Montecito Journal for more than a decade and is the author of several books on Santa Barbara’s historic past

for a housing voucher in January, but the date for him to actually get on the housing list has been pushed back to May. Jimmy is getting up there in age, and is quite polite. He’s been out on the streets for decades. We’d love to complete the journey of getting him indoors.

Assistant Fire Marshal Broumand expressed concern about the clear-cutting by Caltrans, resulting in piles of dead wood. Caltrans is attempting to make it more difficult to camp on their rightof-way by foliage removal and fencing. They’ve erected a lot of new fencing in Santa Barbara along the freeway. After spending millions on repeat camp-clearing, they felt that making their right-of-way less receptive to camping was a smarter use of funds. Several trees went down in the aftermath of the seemingly never-ending atmospheric storms and high winds since the beginning of the year. The issue is that wood, if left here, will dry out in the summer months and become a fire hazard. We just had a fire at the Hot Springs exit, a repeat campsite.

As we neared Butterfly Lane, we saw a camp that burned recently

There was another live camp nearby, and the inhabitants had excavated some of the site, quite close to the freeway wall. We’ll have to alert Caltrans to that.

We enjoy working with Deputy Brian Dickey. He climbs over fences and goes to inspect a camp for us first, to make sure it’s safe to approach.

One of the individuals we worked with just moved into the Salvation Army Hospitality House. We’re excited for him! We met him in January, by the cemetery, and he got himself clean and sober, as the county had no treatment spaces available for him. We’re really proud of him, and as he’s quite young, hopeful about his future.

We sure appreciate our Montecito volunteers. We’ve recently welcomed Beth Sullivan, the Executive Director of the Coast Village Improvement Association, to the team. It’s inspiring to see Montecitans out doing outreach, putting their hands directly on this problem, and helping solve homelessness here. It truly takes a village, and we’ve got a great one in Montecito!

Sharon Byrne is the Executive Director of the Montecito Association

Piles of dead wood on Caltrans right-of-way adjacent to the 101.

Deputy Dickey and Fire Marshal Broumand climbed a fence to inspect a camp adjacent to the 101

Taste the Music

Barbareño Hosts a Cross-sensory Concert and Dinner Experience

by Zach Rosen

Barbareño has already proven themselves on the plate – crafting dishes that blend central coast tradition with colorful flavors and engaging plating. Their ingredient choices highlight the abundance of the area while emphasizing the locale in which they are served that seemingly captures the laid-back yet sophisticated style of Santa Barbara. But the upcoming event, Taste the Music, which will be held on Sunday, April 16, is an opportunity for them to serve up a type of technologically-infused gastronomy that is scarcely offered in the area.

This four-course dinner that is part art, part concert, and all creativity, is not just for the culinary curious but the sensory-adventurous as well – featuring a kind of immersive edible experience that one would find at innovative spots like Vepsertine in L.A. or Bompas & Parr out of London. The dinner, which will be seated communally, will be served alongside a custom musical composition that incorporates a haptic element (think vibrotactile motor in cell phones) into each seat.

The dining design has been conceived and executed with a level of expertise rarely seen in our culinary scene. Taste the Music is a collaboration between Chef Preston Knox of Barbareño, multi-instrumentalist and professor Samuel Shalhoub, and Dr. Alexis Story Crawshaw, who holds two PhDs –one from the Media Arts and Technology Program at UCSB with a Cognitive Science Emphasis, and the other in musical composition from the Ecole Doctorale “Esthétique, Sciences et Technologies des Arts” at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. The vibrotactile dining space was designed in partnership with the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science, & Technology (SBCAST). Guests will get to dine their multi-sensory way through four unique courses that are tied together by one theme. “The whole dinner is poetically motivated by springtime and the different themes of the dish touch upon different ideas around spring. Those ideas are manifested in the choice of ingredients and foods, but also in how musically the pieces are structured,” says Crawshaw.

The first course, Movement, incorporates the idea of water and is centered around seared ahi. Smoked leeks embrace its roasted notes while carbonated fennel layers in a sparkling herbal accent. “The focus of the first dish is on spice, acidity, minerality, and salt. So, the music is calibrated in a way to bring those aspects out – we use a lot of high frequencies for the acidity and the salt,” says Crawshaw.

As they developed the menu, their decisions were informed by what academia and research papers have reported on these cross-

ing of the senses but was also largely driven by what they were personally noticing, with the ability to adjust a seasoning here or a chord there as they tasted, listened, and felt their way through the trial runs. “It’s not like we play one song per dish. It’s not quite a medley, but it has different chapters or movements to each. There’s a suite of different moments so that it really yields different characters out of each dish.”

Crawshaw mentions that many of the electronic sounds they incorporated into the pieces were actually recorded in Barbareño. Of course these clips have been abstracted and modified digitally, so think less clanking pots over a tape recorder and more the hum of the kitchen hood becoming a subtle sustained drone throughout the harmony of a piece. “The second course, New Growth, is based around the golden ratio. Samuel has this piece called ‘Spindle Pestle’ that’s constructed using the golden ratio, so I added lyrics and melody to that,” explains Crawshaw. This rhythmic element revolves around mushrooms and spirals of romanesco florets sitting atop a base of miso brown butter and black garlic.

Each course brings its own set of surprises and one will have to attend to see what unfolds – or vibrates, or crunches, or fizzes – along the way. There will be two opportunities to experience the dinner with the first seating from 5 – 7 pm and a later one from 7:30 – 9:30 pm. Visit www.barbareno.com/ music for tickets and more information.

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Taste the Music is a cross-sensory journey through four courses, sound, and haptic experiences (photo by Sarah Cadwell)

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Body Wise The Promise of Springtime

by Ann Brode

This past winter was particularly long, cold, dark, and rainy. We bundled up and tucked in. Our muscles tightened to generate heat and our bodies shivered to generate more heat. Unfortunately, this natural way of getting warm can become a holding pattern that hangs on long after you’ve warmed up. In other words, months and months of curling, scrunching, and cozying may be responsible for the tension you feel in your jaw, neck, and shoulders right now.

Here are three ways to release the hold of winter – and open up to the promise of Springtime.

Get in sync with the season: The opposite of scrunching down is lifting up. Just as the life around you is bursting forth, what if you invited your body to come into its fullness? As you walk around, eat with friends, or work at your desk, why not unfurl your spine and broaden your smile a little? Stretch and shake a bit to dislodge the dust of winter. Notice how reclaiming your full space delivers an upbeat message to body, mind, and spirit.

Remember to put the spring in your step: If you’re just plodding along, avoiding the mud and puddles, the spring in your step gets short circuited. Not only does this slow your momentum, it takes a lot more energy as well. Why not add a bit of bounce the next time you walk across a parking lot or hike a mountain trail? Notice how reclaiming the fullness of your gait generates energy and enthusiasm.

Change your outlook: Every once in a while, take an aesthetic break to bask in the bounty of Nature. Feast on the deep greens and bright colors around you. Drink in the verdant hillsides –full of lupine, mustard, and poppy. Relish the sounds of returning songbirds and running creeks. Savor the scent of orange trees and pittosporum. Notice how focusing on these sensory pleasures cultivates faith, hope, and joy.

The uplifting, rejuvenating pleasure of Springtime is actually wired into your physiology. Let me explain. When winter comes along and the days get shorter and colder, it sends a signal to your pineal gland to produce more melatonin. When the days start getting longer and warmer, melatonin backs off and serotonin levels perk up. To give you an idea of how this affects your experience, melatonin is the hormone that helps your body naturally slow

down and physiologically prepare for a good night’s sleep. Serotonin helps you wake up, feel motivated, and get on with the day. Here’s a little visualization to help you experience this winter-tospring dynamic:

Close your eyes and imagine a cold, gray winter’s day with rain or snow on the way. Doesn’t your body just want to hunker down, be still, and take a nap? Then, think about a warm spring day with bees humming and a scent of jasmine in the air. Now, does your body feel more like opening up, moving around, and singing out loud?

Just spending more time outdoors enjoying the sensual delight of bright colors, intriguing scents, and new life, delivers a dose of the pleasure hormone dopamine. And, this year, the abundance of rain has given us a dopamine high that’s truly extraordinary. The mountains have gone from parched dull grays to lush dark greens. Wildflowers are exploding. Creeks are flowing. Bees are buzzing; birds are nesting. The overwhelming feeling is of abundance and renewal.

It seems apt that Springtime is associated with regeneration and optimism. As sap rises and flowers bloom, so does your energy and creativity. The verdant hillsides and return of songbirds—these wonders trigger hopefulness. The longer, warmer days lead to expansive thinking and playful curiosity. Creative ideas seem possible, doable, intriguing. Seeing life return reminds us of the wisdom of the natural world and our potential for new beginnings.

Because this past winter was so intense and challenging, the arrival of Springtime in all its glory is an occasion to celebrate. Why not channel the surge of energy and frolic a bit? Let the promise of Springtime be an inspiration to explore beyond, commit to a cause, or take a chance on romance. Feel the abundance and share your goodwill, and your good feelings. After all, this is one of the truly enchanting times of year.

result of the hot springs pool construction. It is patently illegal in California to obstruct creek flow. The damming of the stream bed attracts hordes of people bathing in this water creating an unsanitary health hazard as there are no restroom facilities near the illegally constructed pools. I have seen trash, including toilet paper and human excrement, along the stream bed banks.

This precious land, purchased by our community to preserve nature, has become a disgusting environmental health hazard putting our community and nature in harm’s way.

The hot springs pool construction must stop to preserve the balance of nature in this sensitive environment and end further destruction by selfish party-goers who care nothing about the harm caused by their actions.

Sincerely,

Cheryl Trosky

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Ann Brode writes about living consciously in the body. She is the author of the book A Guide to Body Wisdom. Visit bodywisdomforlife.com for more information.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Vox Geekus, 606 Alamo Pintado Rd STE 3-107, Solvang, CA 93463. Michael A White, 3681 Sagunto St #204, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 20, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2023-0000751. Published April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bird’s Wood Finishing Co., 2416 De La Vina St., Apt 7, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Sergio Ocampo, 2416 De La Vina St., Apt 7, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 23, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2023-0000491.

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“One man with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson

said. “That’s how the play ends, as a love letter to long-term relationships.”

Visit www.theatregroupsbcc.com for more information and tickets

Out of the Box’s ‘Once’ Falling Quickly into Place

Like every musical Out of the Box produces, Once is near and dear to company founder Samantha Eve’s heart. But its plot – the charming tale of an Irish busker musician ready to give up on his dream, the Czech immigrant in adoration of his songs, and their being drawn together by their shared love of music –might mean even more to Eve.

“I was blown away by the love story –not the romance, but with music, with art,” she explained. “As an artist, musician, and performer, what really spoke to me is feeling lost in your art, but also feeling like it’s the only way that you can communicate with the world because the thing that you have in common with everybody is your ability to share your emotions and your feelings through your art.”

The Santa Barbara native grew up immersed in youth theater programs in town before heading East to study musical theater at New York’s famous Tisch School. She returned to town with no thoughts of creating her own company here, but noticing the lack of contemporary musicals being mounted, ended up founding Out of the Box. Over the years, OOB has brought more than 20 shows – Eve herself isn’t sure of the exact count – that might otherwise have never been seen here, including Reefer Madness, Carrie, Fun Home, Next to Normal, Lizzie, Bonnie & Clyde, and Heathers

Once is one of the most decorated musicals ever mounted by OOB. The original won eight Tony Awards including Best Musical in 2012, while the 2007 movie it was based on claimed the best song Oscar for “Falling Slowly” by co-stars Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová – who not only composed, but performed the film’s original songs. The show’s accolades did not disqualify it for the company’s affection, Eve said.

“Somehow it still has this energy of being kind of an underdog musical, where

you don’t hear a lot about big national touring productions of it, and it’s not really in the popular consciousness.”

Eve said that’s also due to the complexity of the casting, which calls for five of the actors to play their own instruments onstage. That’s also why it has taken this long for OOB to get around to producing what will be the Central Coast premiere of Once.

“It requires such multi-talented artists, people who can not only act and sing as in a typical musical, but also play four different instruments and pull off Irish and Czech dialects. It’s just insane.”

Eve said the cast – that includes actors both local and from elsewhere – features musicians who have played instruments for musicals but have never been on stage singing in a role; and others who went to school for musical theater but never played instruments on stage before.

“It’s been cool to watch the cast connect. They all have such different backgrounds, but they’ve really bonded. And they have created a little jam band on their own to play through Irish folk songs after rehearsals so they can perform a half-hour pre-show out on the patio before curtain.”

For Eve, bringing Once to Santa Barbara is another offering that she hopes connects with audiences who either know the show or are eager to discover it.

“I thought this was going to be something that everybody would recognize, but when I started mentioning it to people, they had no idea what I was talking about,” she said. “But that makes it more charming because the show itself feels like a struggling musician. It captures its own energy.”

Once runs April 14-23 at Center Stage Theater. Call (805) 963-0408 or visit www.centerstagetheater.org

Horror Show at SBHS

Santa Barbara High School is the first of the local public schools to mount their spring production, leading the charge with the ever popular The Rocky Horror Show, the stage musical from which the 1975 cult film was adapted, running April 14-22 at the school’s theater. New theater department director

Gioia Marchese chose the deliberately kitschy rock ‘n’ roll sci-fi gothic thriller as perhaps the polar opposite of last fall’s serious drama, The Crucible. We’re told the production will focus on individual expression and pure fun, with performances full of spectacle and surprises, and an expansive array of opportunities for the audience to interact. And befitting the film’s cult classic appeal, there will also be a late-night show at 10 pm on April 21. Visit www.sbhstheatre.com for details and tickets.

Making More Music with Marley’s Ghost

After a bunch of years, most bands either turn into a shell of what they used to be or fade away entirely. But unlike the famed Dickens character they were named for, Marley’s Ghost has both deepened its roots-Americana-pop approach and expanded its vocabulary over the decades. That’s the sort of thing that a while ago led L.A. Weekly to praise the band for “deftly dashing across decades of American music to create a sound that’s steeped in tradition but never bogged down by traditionalism.”

While only Montecito-based multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Jon Wilcox and newish Ventura drummer Bob Nichols currently live locally, the group still plays regular gigs at SOhO whenever the timing permits in a schedule dominated by summer festivals. We caught up with Wilcox – who also recently released his latest solo project featuring former Santa Barbara concertmaster/Transylvania Mountain Boy Gilles Apap, and locals

Bill Flores, Jesse Rhodes, and Rebecca Troon – in advance of the next Marley’s show on Sunday, April 16, this one as part of the SBAcoustic series at the music club.

Q. It seems that somehow the Ghost is getting even more eclectic, based on the last couple of albums. What’s that about?

A. Well, we all have different tastes and are happy to play across the spectrum. I love our unaccompanied a cappella stuff and our gospel songs the best, but we’ll also be playing reggae, ‘70s country pop songs, New Orleans stuff, lots of Western swing, and R&B. I love the harmonies, but now that we have a drummer and a piano player, we’ve got a lot more instrumental flash than we used to, so we can do more. And we’ve got a few originals.

The last two records also focused on particular genres, albeit with that Marley’s approach of pushing all the boundaries. Yeah, it’s come to that recently, partly because we’re working with Larry Campbell as our producer, both in Nashville and Woodstock. [Campbell was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene, and the Woodstock Mountains Revue, and has toured in Bob Dylan’s band among many others.] We think working with him we’re kind of playing above our head, and he is such a brilliant musician that he makes us better. It’s like a real tutorial. Doing the thematic thing just fell into place because we could do a lot exploring the various dimensions of a certain style.

You guys are spread all over the West Coast and even in Virginia. What keeps the band together?

It’s the affection among us, the wide taste in music and the beautiful blend of harmonies that started the whole deal. Things ebb and flow, but we’ve always got that.

Once runs from April 14-23 at Center Stage Theater (Courtesy photo)

The style-spanning Marley’s Ghost comes to SOhO on Sunday, April 16

(Courtesy photo)

The Rocky Horror Show runs from April 14-22 at Santa Barbara High School

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

Sports West including sideline reporting, hosting a weekly sports show, producing, editing, and directing.

A native of Ventura County, he also appeared on the station’s Friday Football Focus a couple of times growing up.

Welcome to the ‘hood...

Watching ‘The Children’

nuclear reactor in rural England, a married couple’s lives are further disrupted by the mysterious appearance of a long-lost colleague, delightfully played by Linda Purl with the two retired nuclear engineers wonderfully acted by Michael Butler and Nancy Travis

The play, written by Lucy Kirkwood and directed by Jenny Sullivan , was a hit on Broadway and in London’s West End, and in 2019 London’s Guardian newspaper, edited by an old Cambridge Evening News colleague Alan Rusbridger , placed the play third on a list of the greatest theatrical works since 2000.

Kudos also go to scenic designer Sam Vawter and lighting designer Michael Rathbun

Inspired by the events in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011, the two-hour production – which runs through April 23 – is anything but child’s play!

An Evening with Wynton

World renowned trumpeter Wynton Marsalis , bandleader and composer, who I’ve seen many times on the Granada stage courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures, was back at the historic venue after a tour of Asia with the Wynton Marsalis Septet.

Marsalis, 61, artistic director of Jazz at the Lincoln Center and director of

Jazz Studies at Manhattan’s Juilliard School, performed a delightful 75-minute concert with trombonist Chris Crenshaw , Abdias Armenteros on saxophone, Chris Lewis on saxophone and clarinet, Carlos Henriquez on bass, drummer Domo Branch , and pianist Dan Nimmer including classics like Duke Ellington’s “Take the ‘A’ Train” and “Caravan.”

Californian drummer Jeff Harrington, a mainstay of the state’s jazz scene, also joined in for a couple of sets.

Nine-time Grammy Award winner Marsalis, whose Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, was in his element playing original compositions and standards spanning the history of jazz music.

Afterwards, major Granada donors joined him and his tony troupe in the McCune Founders Room to celebrate his return.

A Mission to Easter Feast

Santa Barbara’s Rescue Mission hosted its annual Easter Feast and for the 16th year, where I offered my volunteer services as more than 300 needy homeless

tucked into a chicken, ham, and macaroni and cheese dinner.

David Fletcher, head of food service, cooked 160 pounds of ham, 160 pounds of chicken, 100 pounds of potatoes, 75 pounds of asparagus, 75 pounds of broccoli, and 100 pounds of yams to make the feast – along with ice cream and pumpkin pie for dessert.

Mission president Rolf Geyling says, “It is a great feeling for everybody here to be part of the community. We have a lot to be thankful for.”

The organization serves 2,000 people annually with its $2.5 million budget.

Court Appearance Across the Pond

Prince Harry, who just announced he will be attending his King Charles’s coronation, made a surprise appearance at a London court for his phone hacking case against the Daily Mail, joined by other bold-faced names like Sir Elton John and model-actress Elizabeth Hurley

The Riven Rock-based Duke of Sussex, 38, did not have to attend the initial hearing, but while in the U.K. stayed at Frogmore Cottage, his former five-bedroom residence a short drive from Windsor Castle, before his father reportedly evicted him.

Harry, who has also been told he can stay there if attending May’s crowning, did not see the monarch during his visit, but did retrieve possessions from his former home to ship back to our rarefied enclave.

90 Years of Laughter and Love

Comedy legend Carol Burnett, who celebrates her 90th birthday later this month, says she still feels “like I’m 11.” “But it sure went fast,” the Montecito funny lady tells People magazine, as she

Ensemble Theatre Company’s latest production The Children at the New Vic confronts the three-member cast with a stunning moral dilemma regarding the older and newer generations and environmental accountability.

After a tsunami wreaks havoc on a

Montecito

“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”

– Thomas Jefferson

KEYT-TV’s newest anchor Joey Vergilis (Courtesy photo)

The Children targets environmental responsibility (photo by Zach Mendez)

A&L partners and Jazz Series Lead Sponsor Michael Hurley and Nora McNeely-Hurley with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (photo by Isaac Hernandez)

Wynton Marsalis returns to town (photo by David Bazemore)

Marsalis and crew on stage at the Granada (photo by David Bazemore)

Easter Feast and an opening prayer (photo by Dale Weber)

Just a few plates filled with the hundreds of pounds of food served for the Easter Feast (photo by Dale Weber)

graces the latest cover.

“I’m glad because I’ve got all my parts –got my hips, I got my knees and I’ve got my brain, so I’m happy about that.”

On her actual big day, April 26, NBC will air a pre-taped star-studded retrospective in her honor called “Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter and Love.”

Local Mom Starts New Instagram Account

Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow has set up a kinky Instagram account dedicated to sex as her controversial lifestyle platform Goop branches out.

The Oscar winner, 50, has established an @goopsex account on the site that has so far focused on how lovers can tease each other with ‘edging’ and instructions on how to achieve the perfect orgasm.

Her wellness platform, valued at around $200 million, told members of the launch of the kinky feed.

“An important pillar of this is how we feel about our sexuality,” says Paltrow. “We have created a new Instagram channel for those who want to further our education in this area @goopsex.

The site is described “as a place for the pursuit of pleasure covering sex, intimacy, and relationships.”

Opera SB on Tokyo TV

Japan’s primary broadcaster NHK spotlighted Opera Santa Barbara in an extensive news segment on its Lobero Theatre production An American Dream on the treatment of legal American residents of Japanese heritage after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Tokyo TV crew was in our Eden by the Beach for several days during the filming.

Clearly a yen for good opera...

Birthday Boy Meets World

Actor William Daniels, who used to split his time between his Montecito and L.A. homes, celebrated his 96th birthday with his former Boy Meets World cast members.

A former president of the Screen Actors Guild, Daniels, who played on the ABC sitcom from 1993 to 2000, met his co-stars Will Friedle, Rider Strong, and Danielle Fishel on a panel at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo 2023.

The Emmy winner’s wife of 72 years, Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, was also guest at the three-day event as she co-starred on the show in seasons four and six.

Watercolorist Gets Big Break with Gift Shop Snacks

King Charles, whose coronation is at London’s Westminster Abbey next month, has launched a new range of Sandringham-branded cookies and confectionery in packaging adorned with one of his own watercolors.

The boxes and tubs, costing $7 to $10, are all decorated with His Majesty’s pictures of imposing Sandringham House, built in 1870 for the future King Edward VII as a gift from his mother Queen Victoria.

The range of snacks and treats is being sold at the visitor’s center gift shop on the 20,000-acre estate in Norfolk in the east of England.

The selections include candies, chocolate bars, gingerbread cookies, and clotted cream fudge.

Orange You Glad You Tanned

Santa Barbara singer Katy Perry has revealed a crucial tanning mistake while filming her “California Gurls” music video in 2010.

The former Dos Pueblos High student, 38, shared she had to spend “so much extra money on color-grading” on the iconic video when she appeared in Vogue’s Life in Looks segment.

“Rarely do I get spray tans, and typically you’re meant to get them the night before,” says Katy. “Well, I didn’t have time, so I got one the day of my music video.

“When you get a tan the morning of your music video your color changes gradually throughout the day. So, I just kept getting oranger, and oranger, and oranger.

“We had to spend so much extra money on color-grading this video because in one part of the video I’m this color orange, and then I’m this shade of orange in the next part.”

All very ap-peeling....

Guille Gil-Reynoso Joins Board

Guille Gil-Reynoso, an area communications professional and women’s empowerment advocate, has joined the board of directors of the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara.

Born in Mexico, Gil-Reynoso earned a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, before working as a landscape architectural designer

in San Diego and George W. Girvin Associates in our Eden by the Beach.

After holding marketing and administrative positions, including the Santa Barbara Channels, she joined the Santa Barbara Foundation, eventually becoming Grants Program Manager. She currently serves as advancement and communications manager at the Cate School in Carpinteria.

Suzanne Rheinstein Remembered

On a personal note, I mark the passing of top interior designer and

philanthropist Suzanne Rheinstein , who split her time between her home in L.A.’s Hancock Park and her hideaway in Montecito.

A native of Louisiana, Rheinstein, 77, owned a store, Hollyhock, and was a board member of the Garden Conservancy.

She won the Albert Hadley Award for Lifetime Achievement and wrote three volumes with top coffee table tome publisher Rizzoli, her last being, A Welcoming Elegance

Sightings

Rocker Adam Levine tooling around the ‘hood in his vintage Ford Bronco...Warbler Katy Perry shopping at Wendy Foster... Actor Ashton Kutcher and wife Mila Kunis enjoying a gondola ride in Venice.

Pip! Pip!

Opera SB and An American Dream were in the Tokyo TV spotlight (photo by Zach Mendez)

Guille Gil-Reynoso joins Scholarship Foundation board

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Calendar of Events

by Steven Libowitz

THURSDAY, APRIL 13

Nordic Schubert sandwich – Tonight is the night for the Danish String Quartet’s return to town for the third concert in its Doppelgänger Project. The ambitious four-year effort, co-commissioned by UCSB Arts & Lectures, pairs world premiere compositions with chamber music masterpieces by Schubert. The classic “String Quartet in A minor, D. 804, ‘Rosamunde’” gets the Doppelgänger treatment tonight as the DSQ bookends the classic with their own arrangement of Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118,” with Anna Thorvaldsdóttir’s “New Work for String Quartet” in the middle – the latest composition by the award-winning Icelandic composer praised for creating captivating musical landscapes at once grand and personal.

WHEN: 7 pm

WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus

COST: $15-$45

INFO: (805) 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

SATURDAY, APRIL 15

Spirit of Fiesta Auditions – Local young dancers dedicate countless hours often over years anticipating the opportunity to someday vie for the honor to represent Old Spanish Days as the “Spirit of Fiesta” and the “Junior Spirit of Fiesta.” They tirelessly prepare – at the many local studios that instruct students in the multicultural dances of Spain, Mexico, and early California – to compete in the annual event where the Spirits are chosen. Today, 22 talented young dancers ages 16-20 (Spirit) and eight to 10 (Junior Spirit) are one step closer to their dream as they take their turns on the stage of the historic Lobero Theatre, where Fiesta itself began back in 1924. The pageantry of Old Spanish Days Fiesta will be on full display nearly four months before the festival begins, and the community is invited to share the excitement of the day and watch the talented dancers perform. The show culminates with the announcement of the 2023 Spirit and Junior Spirit of Fiesta. WHEN: 2-5 pm

THURSDAY, APRIL 13

Dance ‘Vitality’ – UCSB Dance Department’s spring concert, VITALITY , features choreography from five senior dancers, plus works by faculty members Christina McCarthy , Monique Meunier , and alumna Amanda Tran . McCarthy, who also directs, collaborates with the UCSB Percussion Ensemble for her premiering piece that is centered on the connection between the dancers and musicians on stage and their shared choreography – fluctuating between chaotic darting movements and synchronized fluid passages – while Meunier’s new “cíclico” is a pas de deux for guest dancers Jasmine Perry and Fabrice Calmels . Tran reprises her 2017 work Forbes 6 , which the choreographer says, “indulges in hedonistic and misogynistic behavior to achieve personal happiness.” Intriguing titles from the student choreographers, which represent the culmination of three years of dance curriculum include Jessie Chin ’s “In Flux,” Emily Eckert ’s “A Beautiful Mess,” Nina Lopez ’s “Sacred Heart,” Madeline Josa ’s “Latrodectism,” which is the illness caused by black widow spider bites, and Mia Griff ’s “Yuanfen,” a Chinese term for the belief that two or more people are brought together by fate or chance.

WHEN: 7:30 pm, April 13-15

WHERE: Hatlen Theater

COST: $17 general, $13 students & seniors in advance, $2 additional day-of INFO: (805) 893-2064 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu

FRIDAY, APRIL 14

Chase-ing Talks About Town – The Pearl Chase Society inaugurates the Kellam de Forest Speaker Series to honor the legacy of its late founding member, a Santa Barbara native and Hollywood hero who devoted the last three decades of his life to preserving the history and aesthetic of the city his parents helped design after the 1925 earthquake. De Forest, who was born just a year after the quake and died in 2021, spent a lot of intervening years in Los Angeles where he did historical research for writers and producers in the early days of network TV, working on such shows as Twilight Zone, The Untouchables and All in the Family as well as such films as Chinatown and All the President’s Men. The series, which will take place on the second Friday of each month appropriately kicks off with a presentation about de Forest’s life and times by Rick Closson, the retired pharmacist and local historian. On May 12, Cheri Rae discusses the historical importance of the series host site of the Carrillo Recreation Center, and the social work done there by Pearl Chase and others, while the June 9 event features Douglas Woods, author of California Casa, conversing on Spanish Colonial Revival style, de Forest’s favorite. Refreshments will be served after each event.

WHEN: 6 pm

WHERE: Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 East Carrillo St.

COST: free

INFO: (805) 403-7053 or www.pearlchasesociety.org

WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $19

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

‘Beethoven Dreams’ – Santa Barbara Symphony artistic director/conductor Nir Kabaretti has come up with a dreamy program for Beethoven buffs that includes the West Coast premiere of Ella Milch-Sheriff’s staged monodrama The Eternal Stranger, based on a dream by the composer in which he imagined himself transplanted to Jerusalem. Continuing the SBS-ETC collaboration, Ensemble Theatre Company artistic director Jonathan Fox helms the staging of Stranger starring actors John Connolly and Nitya Vidyasagar, which Milch-Sheriff composed in 2020 to mark Beethoven’s 250th birthday. Ukrainian-born American pianist Inna Faliks, a former prodigy known for both commanding performances of standard piano repertoire and genre-bending interdisciplinary projects, makes her local symphony debut as the soloist for Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 4,” whose “Symphony No. 4” closes out the concert. For further insight, Sunday’s performance will be preceded by a pre-concert “Conversation with Kabaretti.”

WHEN: 7:30 pm tonight, 3 pm tomorrow

WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street

COST: $35-$175

INFO: (805) 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org

SUNDAY, APRIL 16

Bowl Begins with Chemistry and Juice – Get ready for a whole lotta rhythms, words, and melodies in the great outdoors as the new season at the Santa Barbara Bowl already boasts 28 concerts on the schedule being announced by the second week of April. Tonight’s opening salvo features The Chemical Brothers, the UK-based Grammy-winning electronic music duo of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons that has exploded from an underground electronic act into one of the most renowned and in-demand live acts in the world. The Bros’ mind-bending, fully immersive audio-visual live show has headlined festivals around the world and will bring catalog classics and new songs such as pandemic hit, “The Darkness That You Fear,” for musical mayhem on Milpas St. Up-and-coming UK club sound DJ duo Overmono opens the show… French Kiwi Juice, aka FKJ – the moniker of Vincent Fenton, who has risen from his early days running rudimentary one-man bands to headline major venues across the globe and entice such superstars as Carlos Santana to guest on an album – commands the stage at the

Montecito

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” – Thomas Jefferson

Boleros are back – Tres Souls, the stars of the third concert in the ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! Season, is a Los Angeles-based Trío Romántico dedicated to reviving the nostalgic boleros of the 1940s-1960s, stylized during the Golden Era of Mexican cinema. The members of Tres Souls – Rocio Mendoza , Roberto Carlos , and Jesus Martinez – are all accomplished musicians and singers, each having inherited the knowledge and importance of heritage music through their immediate families and prior generations. The trio follows in the footsteps of other trio romanticos such as Eydie Gormé Y Los Panchos, Los Tres Reyes, and Los Tres Ases while interspersing more modern musical influences that can be heard echoing throughout the diaspora of Los Angeles. Tres Souls released their first album, Boleros Made in LA , in 2019, and are an audience and critical hit in the Southland. LA TV station ABC7 has praised the trio for “capturing the hearts of Angelenos, one ballad at a time.”

WHEN: 7 pm tonight-Sunday

WHERE: Isla Vista School, 6875 El Colegio Road (Friday 4/14); Guadalupe City Hall, 918 Obispo Street, Guadalupe (Saturday 4/15); Marjorie Luke Theatre at Santa Barbara Junior High, 721 East Cota St. (Sunday 4/16)

COST: free

INFO: (805) 884-4087 ext. 7 or www.facebook.com/VivaelArteSB/

Bowl for the second show of the season three days later.

WHEN: Chemical Brothers, 6:30 pm Sunday, April 16; FKJ, 7 pm Wednesday, April 19

WHERE: Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St.

COST: $55-$95 (Chemical), $41.50-$71.50 (FKJ)

INFO: (805) 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 & THURSDAY, APRIL 20

Book Debuts from Montecitans – Timothy James Bottoms, part of the famed Bottoms family that has called Montecito home for many decades, is best known as an actor who enjoyed stardom with The Last Picture Show and The Paper Chase early in a career that has spanned more than five decades. Now semi-retired at 71, Bottoms has penned The Pier: A Fisherman’s Story, a memoir that serves as a coming-of-age story loosely based on his childhood memories of fishing at Stearn’s Wharf, as well as a love letter to Santa Barbara. Hear Timothy talk tall tales and more at Chaucer’s Books on April 19… While Bottoms sought the spotlight as part of his chosen profession, Kim Cantin had no interest in fame, but the January 9, 2018, Montecito debris flow brought death and devastation to her doorstep – as well the world’s attention when her husband David and teenage son Jack were swept away, while daughter Lauren was miraculously rescued from being buried deep in the mud. Cantin’s new book, Where Yellow Flowers Bloom: A True Story of Hope through Unimaginable Loss, recounts that harrowing night and its aftermath, with the author learning to follow her intuition and opening up to spiritual guidance and synchronicities. Through tenacity and perseverance against insurmountable odds, Cantin affirms that her husband and son are still with her, and shares her story of hope as yellow flowers grow in a place that they shouldn’t, helping her see the beauty where there should be none. Cantin signs copies at Chaucer’s on April 20.

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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KNIFE SHARPENING SERVICES

EDC Mobile Sharpening is a locally owned and operated in Santa Barbara. We specialize in (No-Entry) House Calls, Businesses and Special Events. Call 805-696-0525 to schedule an appointment.

TILE RESTORATION

Local tile setter of 35 years is now doing small jobs only. Services include grout cleaning and repair, caulking, sealing, replacing damaged tiles and basic plumbing needs.

Call Doug Watts at 805-729-3211 for a free estimate.

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1279 Coast Village Road, Montecito

join us for brunch saturday and sunday 9AM-2:30PM and for lunch fridays 11AM-2:30PM reservations via OpenTable or by phone 805-565-7540

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bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado

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choice of cheese (burger patty is vegan)

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choice of hash browns, fries, mixed greens, Caesar, fruit salad

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