‘Parents in Chains’– Every kid’s dream… their parents reading text messages out loud…except this time it’s ETC’s newest play, P.20
of Fired Clay – Cate
Martin’s journey through the world and into the cauldron of life, P.25
Montecito’s Friendship Center is making new friends – come join the fun at Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Art Center, page 12
Rhinestones, black ties, and Rosewood were in vogue when parents came together for Montessori’s Diamond Gala, page 14
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16 The Giving List – Once out of the hospital, brain injury survivors may still need support –Jodi House is here to help
Elizabeth’s Appraisals – An ornate old lamp tells of early lighting and the dangers of household appliances
Miscellany – The Little Mermaid, Dr. Gundry’s longevity lecture, Granada behind the scenes, a family’s final equestrian outing, and more miscellany
On Entertainment – Parents in Chains… just what the kids asked for, Steven queries yMusic, One805 supports L.A., and more
24 Brilliant Thoughts – One can only hope that Ashleigh’s musings will take you far – to Cape Town, actually
25 Dear Montecito – From sculpture and travel to running school foundries, Nathan Martin’s journey has been more than 360 degrees – it has been 2,000 at times
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Your Westmont – Condoleezza Rice talks global democracy, and an event about fire forges community bonds
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Robert’s Big Questions – Who is qualified to adjudge scientific research as relevant? Or “silly?” Maybe leave it to the experts…
28 Foraging Thyme – The touch of sun begs for a squeeze of citrus and this Cara Cara orange salad is just what the doctor ordered
31 An Independent Mind – An analysis of the deft diplomacy between Trump and Zelenskyy at their recent Oval Office meeting Community Voices – In light of recent lawsuits, Jeff Giordano has some questions on how tax dollars are used for County Counsel 33
Crime in the ‘Cito
36 Calendar of Events – 1st Thursday shenanigans, Hatlen’s dance affair, fly fishing in the Lobero, and other happenings around town
38 Classifieds – Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales
39 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
by Tiana Molony
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, county officials say Montecito’s hot springs have seen a surge in popularity. They attribute the increased foot traffic, in part, to social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, where posts have promoted the pools as a must-visit destination.
There were also reports of tour buses dropping off large groups at the trailhead. As more visitors flock to the springs, parking along East Mountain Drive near the trailhead has become increasingly chaotic – much to the frustration of nearby homeowners, who resorted to placing plants and boulders along parking areas to block visitors from parking there, which the county then instructed them to remove.
Tensions reached a boiling point last May when a group of homeowners/ residents reportedly tried to lead a demolition crew to destroy the springs in an effort to eliminate the congestion once and for all. In June, an altercation at the springs was caught on camera.
On March 4th, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to enforce parking restrictions at the Hot Springs Trailhead on Red Flag Warning Days. A “Red Flag Warning” is an alert issued by weather authorities to indicate that conditions are ripe for a wildfire to spread quickly and uncontrollably. The enforcements will also apply to high flood risk days, which are those following heavy rain days.
The county enforced something similar in Mission Canyon in 2012. During Red Flag Warning days, they set up
no-parking and tow-away zones near trailheads and posted signs to warn people. The idea was to keep roads clear for emergency vehicles and reduce the risk of human-caused wildfires.
Now, they’re looking to apply the same approach to the roads surrounding the Hot Springs Trailhead in Montecito, where the wildfire risks are just as serious, if not worse. The roads are notoriously narrow. County staff say parking restrictions exist but are difficult to enforce due to the trailhead’s remote location.
Supervisors are worried that increased visitor traffic on high-risk fire days poses a safety hazard. Car congestion could block emergency vehicles from getting through and prevent homeowners from evacuating in the event of a fire.
Supervisors hope that enforcement will minimize the risk of accidental wildfires, to which the Montecito mountains are certainly prone. According to staff, increased human activity on high-risk fire days increases the chances of accidental fires.
Orman Gaspar, a Montecito resident who has owned his property at Hot Springs Road for over 30 years, recalls the day of the 2008 Tea Fire. “I remember standing in my driveway looking up at the hills when the Tea Fire was just starting and the winds blowing 60 miles an hour,” he recalled. “And there was, you know, really no place to go. I just assumed that my house was going to be gone.”
During long weekends and holidays, county officials say there could be over 120 vehicles in the section surrounding the entrance of the Hot Springs Trail. “The last time I tried to hike that one I had to park so
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by Jeff Wing
Centennial Junior High School. Boulder, Colorado. 1973? What happened was this. In PE we were playing soccer (what the rest of the planet calls “football”) and a stocky little guy named Tony kicked the ball out of bounds. Tony was in my German class (please don’t ask), wore his stick-straight hair in bangs and kept to himself. He was about as athletically astute as I was, not to be mean about it. When he kicked the ball out of bounds that day, he did so with the flailing panache of a mime in overdrive. Tony gave it his absolute all, his foot barely grazing the ball, his unimpeded leg flying upward then at an ungodly angle. For one brief, shining moment he looked like a Rockette. His pronounced wheeze of effort and wildly windmilling arms completed the picture. As Tony settled into his dejection and embarrassment, another little guy on his team – a repulsive parasitic bully I’ll call Jerry, ran up to Tony and kicked him in the ass so hard it lifted Tony’s feet off the ground.
“HEY!!!” I was not a brave avenger sent by the gods to protect the defenseless. I was one of the defenseless. I was Captain of the Defenseless. But when the little jackass Jerry kicked Tony with all his angry strength, I saw red. Where did this come from? I think I know.
In third grade at Clarke Elementary in Cheyenne, Mrs. Petrie asked us all to bring in the recipe of our favorite treat. She would mimeograph the pages and make us all cookbooks of our classmates’ favorite foods. Is that what a book is? It seemed like a miracle. First our recipes were shared around the class. We all sniffed the xeroxes and got to reading.
I’d brought our Angel Food Cake recipe. My tastes today still run to the fluffy and bland. A kid in my class named Michael – a penurious farm kid from just out of town – brought in a recipe for “Breakfast Cookies.” Michael was my quiet buddy with always-mussed hair and a varyingly
worried expression. He wore the same checkered shirt every day, the hem shiny and frayed with wear. The cuffs on his oversized jeans came halfway back up his shins.
In the lunch line we waited in blanched sunlight and a girl in my class named Lisa told Michael that of all the ink-clumped mimeographed
recipes shared through our weekend assignment, his was the worst. “We tried your Breakfast Cookies and they were awful.” Tony looked down and away, horrified. Her macabre attack was an air horn in a stilled chapel. My scalding blood sprayed into my
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LONDON’S GROUNDBREAKING CHINEKE! ORCHESTRA MAKES ITS U.S. WEST COAST DEBUT!
Championing Change & Celebrating Diversity in Classical Music
Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor Aaron Azunda Akugbo, trumpet
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2025, THE GRANADA THEATRE, 7:30 PM
London’s trailblazing Black and ethnically diverse Chineke! Orchestra will perform a visionary program of works by Black composers, plus Haydn’s beloved Trumpet Concerto.
“Chineke! is not only an exciting idea but a profoundly necessary one. The kind of idea which is so obvious that you wonder why it is not already in place. The kind of idea which could deepen and enrich classical music in the UK for generations. What a thrilling prospect!”
PROGRAM: VALERIE COLEMAN: Seven O’Clock Shout
AVRIL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: A Sussex Landscape
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in E‑flat Major
BRIAN RAPHAEL NABORS: Pulse for Orchestra
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Symphony in A Minor
Sponsors: Edward S. DeLoreto • Mahri Kerley • The Shanbrom Family Foundation
Co-Sponsors: Deborah & Peter Bertling • Elizabeth & Andrew Butcher • Stephen Cloud
–Sir Simon Rattle
by Richard Mineards
State Street Ballet, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, made quite a splash with the world premiere of its latest highly entertaining production The Little Mermaid – based on the classic 1837 fairytale of Hans Christian Andersen – at the Lobero.
Choreographed by Artistic Director Megan Philips and Executive Director Cecily MacDougall the nautical adventure shows the principal character, delightfully played by Amara Galloway, relinquishing her mermaid’s tail for legs to be able to walk on land, but loses her ability to speak with Sign Language incorporated into the work.
The lighthouse keeper, played by Ethan Ahuero, is father to a beautiful daughter played by Bronwyn Waterfall, who is deaf and teaches the mermaid the art of signing.
The on-land location is Ireland rather than Denmark for the energized second act, with the show opening underwater with larger-than-life puppets of jellyfish and even a giant stingray designed by
Christina McCarthy of UCSB’s Dance and Theater Department.
Sorcha, the Sea Siren who gives the mermaid the ability to live on land, is menacingly played by Arianna Hartanov
There is even a new score composed by Charles Fernandez and played by the Opera San Luis Obispo Grand Orchestra under capable maestro Brian Asher Alhadeff. Kudos also goes to set designer Jane Hamor and costume designer Olivia Mason
The Little Mermaid was a “must sea.”
Local longevity specialist Dr. Steven Gundry was so oversubscribed at an
MClub lunch at the historic Santa Barbara Club that he had to speak twice – with 80 guests at his first performance and 75 at his second an hour later.
The cardiothoracic surgeon and four times New York Times bestselling author’s ninth tome The Gut Brain Paradox: Improve Your Mood, Clear Brain Fog and Reverse Disease by Healing Your Microbiomes is published next month.
A cum laude graduate of Yale University, over his 40-year career he has performed more than 10,000 heart surgeries, published over 300 studies, and developed patented life-saving medical technology.
Gundry’s groundbreaking eating protocols detailed in his bestsellers, including The Plant Paradox, has helped hundreds of thousands overcome chronic disease and achieve optimal health.
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Dr.Geoffrey Dudley Phillips, 77, of Montecito, California, died January of 2025 in Montecito. Geoffrey will always be remembered for his skills at stitching up a wound, carrying a tune and some of the BEST FÊTES Montecito knew in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s!
Geoffrey was born December 7, 1948, in Trinidad and Tobago, which was a British Colony until 1962. At a time when the U.S. welcomed immigrants, Geoffrey’s parents, Pearl and Austin Phillips, immigrated to New York’s Harlem when he was three years old. Pearl was a RN who worked at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago for over 25 years. Austin attended Meharry Medical College for two years, worked as a chemist for Zenith, and later for the National Safety Council. They moved to the South Side of Chicago where Geoffrey spent his formative years with his brothers David, a free spirit, the conservative Dr. Richard Phillips, Dirk who is still a Hippie, and their dog Cindy.
Growing up, Geoffrey played the trumpet at Englewood HS, loved baseball and especially “Mr. Cub,” Ernie Banks. He rode an Ariel Square Four Chopper, was inspired by the Black Panthers’ People’s Free Medical Centers and, through creative use of multiple casts on his “broken” arm that never seemed to heal, avoided being drafted into America’s war against Vietnam.
One day, whilst working outside on a Spiegel shipping dock on a bitterly cold Chicago day, he noticed that the white employees were inside warm offices and only Black and people of color were outside on the docks. After a lifetime experiencing Chicago’s brutal racism and
segregation, Geoffrey decided, even with dyslexia, he wanted more from life and chose to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a doctor.
Geoffrey enrolled in the University of Minnesota Medical School. Whilst attending university, Geof had a relationship with Jackie Thomson, who loved him dearly. After completing medical school, Geoffrey’s wanderlusts took him to California where he discovered Santa Barbara. The moment he arrived, he knew instantly that he’d found home.
Some five years after his relationship with Jackie, she contacted him and let him know that he was the father a beautiful five-year old daughter named Katherine!
Until the time he learned about Katherine, Geof was a sworn bachelor, but he embraced fatherhood as well as he could and returned to Minneapolis to meet his daughter. He took her to meet his parents in Trinidad where they retired. They were excited to see their first grandchild, and to have Katherine finally meet, “de Trini Tribe Nah!”
For 25 years Geoffrey was an ER surgeon at San Luis Obispo General Hospital, working 48-hour shifts and living life to its fullest.
Geoffrey also started the first ‘Urgent Care Center” (which he fondly called “Doc in a Box”) in the San Luis Obispo Area.
Always dapper, Geof had a keen eye for real estate investing which made him a wealthy man.
An avid traveler, Geoffrey visited, the former Soviet Union, East Germany, Thailand, Tibet, London, Paris, Australia… A friend of his who lived in Papeete, Tahiti, recalled how he and his wife opened the blinds of their bedroom one morning and were shocked to see Geof walking by their window! His Montecito parties were legendary.
Sadly, in his late 50s, Geoffrey began to experience advanced dementia.
Though seemingly unable to communicate, those who loved him knew he was aware of our love for him.
Geoffrey is survived by his brothers, daughter Katherine, Katherine’s mother Jackie Thomson, his three grandchildren Phoenix, Prophet and Pharrell living in Minneapolis, his daughter Eloise and son Enoch Phillips in Montecito, his cousin – and Trinidad’s one time Ambassador to the U.N. – Dr. Marjorie Thorpe, his cousins Mabel and Maria Siles retired teachers living in N.Y., numerous cousins
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in Trinidad, his very close friends Bob and Christina Martin, Carol and Olaf Lang, Jewell Dennis and Diane Robin, who became his extended family, and all those who knew and loved him.
Most of us who knew and loved Geoffrey before his illness, including his family, were not informed by his guardian of his passing until after his funeral.
To provide closure, to celebrate the life of such an incredible man, to acknowledge those who knew Geoffrey when he was GEOF and kept him in their hearts all these years, there will be a CELEBRATION OF LIFE to be held at a later date in Santa Barbara. For updates, please write:
GeofWeLoveYou@protonmail.com
Geof, You’ll ALWAYS be in our hearts. GUZO TORK!
To those who knew Geof “back in the day,” we would be most grateful if you would send a short note sharing a “Geoffrey” experience and how, in a positive way, he affected your life. Any photos you have would be most welcome. Please send to the above email address or write:
Geoffrey Phillips Celebration of Life 4110 SE Hawthorne Ave #313 Portland, Oregon 97214
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The Kindred Collective at UCSB invites parents and caregivers of Black children to attend their free event, “Raising Liberated Black Youth,” on March 15, from 1-3 pm. This is a support program for parents and caregivers. Food and childcare are provided. Where: Pat O’Malley Fieldhouse and Community Room at Girsh Park, 7050 Phelps Road
Contact: darielle@ucsb.edu
Explore Ecology has announced five adult workshops, a Community Indigo Dye Bath, and Crafternoon Wednesdays and Saturdays starting in March. These classes are for ages 13 and older only. The classes are: two sections of Sewing and Mending, a Terrarium Workshop, DIY Compost Bin Workshop, Yarn Buddies – Crochet and Knitting Circle, and Recycling Spring Card Garlands. Crafternoons has Yayoi Kusama Flower
Pins, Claude Monet’s Water Lily Coasters, and Antoni Gaudi’s Towers.
411: https://exploreecology.org
The Ojai Studio Artists (OSA) are announcing the March 8th kickoff of their annual Second Saturday free tours of OSA artist members’ studios. The tours are all-ages-friendly, open to the public, and free, with registration online to get the artist studio location map and guide. Each Second Saturday will feature 10 artists in the Mira Monte area of Ojai. The March 8th artists are abstract painter Stephanie Hubbard; painter of faces Richard Negri; ceramic artists Sooz Glazebrook and Sandra Torres; sculptor Myra Toth; and painters of various media – Christine Beirne, Leslie Clark, Sharla Fell, Bruce Grabin, and Lisa Skyheart Marshall
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by Joanne A Calitri
Kathryn Westland , MPH, Executive Director of the Friendship Center (FC) held a healthy aging event at the Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center on Sunday, February 23, from 1-3 pm. The event was focused on bringing the FC’s programming and services to Carpinteria residents and their families in response to a need in the area. This meet and greet info session had tables with pamphlets and volunteers to answer questions, artwork displayed all around the outdoor patio and live music.
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At the event were Westland with her team – Board President Cynder Sinclair , Events/Marketing Justine Casady, and Program Specialists Mary Buck and Adriana Rosales. Also present were Carpinteria Council Member and Vice Mayor Mónica Solórzano, Lynda Fairly with her Arts Center Executive Director Kristina Calkins, Vice Chair Alan Koch, and Board Members Gregg Carty and Jaclyn Fabre, along with friends and family.
I asked Westland to take a moment and talk about how the move to the Carp Arts Center came about, and the grant she applied for to make it happen:
Q. Tell our readers about today’s event!
the heart of what we do at Friendship Center. The Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center is exactly that. It’s a beautiful, central location that defies traditional notions of dementia care. This space is all about making everyone feel welcomed and included, which perfectly aligns with our mission. We are also guided by a dedicated advisory committee, which includes some of the most dynamic and committed community leaders: Meg Jacquemin, Jena Jenkins of AgeWell, Phylene Wiggins, and City Council Member Mónica Solórzano. This program is truly a collaborative effort, and we can’t wait to see the positive impact it will have on our members, their families, and the community at large.
A. The event is open to the entire Carpinteria community to introduce Friendship Center as a new neighbor of sorts. Our dementia respite day program will open its first satellite site at the Carpinteria Arts Center on March 18, and we are now enrolling new members to attend this program, which will take place Tuesdays and Fridays from 9 am to 3:30 pm.
How did FC select the Carp Arts Center as a satellite?
While we regularly evaluate and see success with these elements in our Montecito-based program, Carpinteria is a new and unique market. One of the innovative aspects of this research phase is how we’ll measure the impact on the greater community. Dementia care is a public health issue that affects everyone, not just the medical system. Our goal is to guide the narrative away from focusing on what someone with dementia can’t do, and instead highlight what they can do, what they have done, and what brings them joy in the present moment. When considering a location for the Healthy Aging Hub, we wanted a space that reflected the essence of community, inclusion, and joy – qualities that are at
FC received a grant for the program…? The first year of this project is funded by the Center for Dementia Respite Innovation through the Alzheimer’s Association, an extremely competitive national award recognizing one-of-a-kind models of dementia respite care. It’s a research-based initiative where we will look at several key factors: how our program benefits families impacted by dementia, how respite hours allow caregivers – often a spouse or adult child – to tend to their own needs, and how quality of life improves for the person living with dementia by fostering a sense of belonging and purpose in their community. It’s important to note that the funds from this program are primarily being spent within Carpinteria, further supporting the local economy. We are so grateful for the warm welcome from the Carpinteria community and invite every resident to participate in any way they’d like.
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It was all diamonds and gold, Jimmy Choos and gowns, black tie and diamond studs arriving at the amazing Montessori Center School Diamond Gala fundraiser at the Rosewood Miramar Beach on Friday, February 28. From Porsches to limos, the valet was full as over 250 guests arrived to celebrate 60 years of their favorite school. Yet through all the glam, the warmth between parents and teachers, like one big family, was all around.
Commencing with a cocktail hour on the patio by the Grand Ballroom, guests took photographs on the Step & Repeat by Cherish Photography, lauded our town’s fave Spanish Guitarist, Chris Fossek, and bid on a full range of Silent Auction items that were primarily focused on health, wellness and, yes of course, wine and vacations!
The pre-formal dinner show were the Elevated Dreams aerialist performances that dazzled the guests with their grace, and rhinestone costumes, and a small caveat – the owner attended MCS.
Head of School, Vanessa Jackson, who is a MCS alumni and parent, provided the
welcome and opening remarks saying, “I attended MCS, and I am an MCS parent. My dad is here tonight, and my mom passed away last year. One of the auction items is a 1986 t-shirt from my mom who chaired the first MCS fundraiser.” She then thanked the parents, her faculty and staff, and the top sponsors, donors, and underwriters - UltraAnalog Corporation, the Do Family, the McCausland Family,
Jackson Medical Group Inc, the Fisher Family, the MacLeod Family, American Riviera Bank, Commmunity West Bank, Lucky’s Montecito, the San Ysidro Ranch, the Coral Casino Beach and Cabana Club, Caruso’s Restaurant, Bettina Pizzeria, StretchLab Montecito, the Optimist Montecito, and many more listed on two pages of the program!
Jackson introduced the tri-chairs, Kristin Khuri, Megi Haydon, and Kacy Cristofani. They thanked the parents and grandparents, teachers, Jackson and staff, saying, “You are the heart of our community at MCS.”
While dinner was served, auctioneer –MCS parent of four and former Board member – Tim Morton-Smith began the
daunting job of auctioning 18 items from vacations to student classroom artworks, by saying, “Bear with me, they really wanted Andrew Firestone!” Top auction bids were a parking space at the school to three lucky parents at $20,000 each, and the handmade engraved-mirrored artwork by the first-year of the MCS Spanish American class students at $10,000. Next was a short video of the students sharing about the school and teachers, followed by The Ask. With his skills and patience, Morton-Smith raised over $197,050. The MCS team will tally that in with the Silent Auction, the Heads & Tails game, ticketing, and after party tickets. From there with lots of cheers, the guests mingled and enjoyed dessert, as went to the After Party with dancing by DJ STUDIO.
Shout outs to the Auction Committee of Amy French, Ariana Arcenas-Utley, Caitlin Gude, Carly Daulton, Jenny Roberts, Karina Ballantyne, Katie Gerpheide, Kim Yeoman, Laura Gransberry, Lisa Lavora-De Beule, Pamela Powers, and Reagan Ullman; the schools newest Director of Community Engagement, Megan Stevens, who brings the latest tech savvy and socials to the team; and Forage Floral who donated the table floral arrangements – owned by the Redman Family with an aunt of a MCS student.
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by Steven Libowitz
Jodi House chose this issue to be the focus of this week’s Giving List column because March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month. The nonprofit, which has been around for more than 40 years, has launched its first-ever weeklong Brain Injury Awareness campaign. The effort includes developing video content around the voices of the organization’s members (aka clients), caregivers, volunteers, staff and board members to share through a social media and email campaign over the first nine days of the month.
But of course, every month is a time for awareness, and action, for those at Jodi House who have survived brain injuries. The Jodi House mission is to empower its members to not only survive, but also thrive to the greatest extent possible. To that end, all of Jodi House’s programming services promote independent living skills and social reintegration into our community at the highest potential level of functioning.
Jodi House steps in once medical professionals have finished their life saving
work in the immediate aftermath of a traumatic brain injury or stroke, offering support to survivors and their families who might otherwise be left to cope with the emotional, behavioral, and social effects of the injury on their own.
“Cottage Hospital is an amazing resource, and they do an amazing job,” explained Lindsey Black, executive director of Jodi House. “After the medical work, survivors get discharged from a hospital to an interim situation in an inpatient rehab center for an average stay of several months. But then you come out and might lack a lot of the resources and support you need for what is a lifelong recovery.
“It’s almost like they pat you on the back when you leave and say, ‘You’re lucky to be alive.’”
That’s where Jodi House comes in, as the nonprofit offers a range of classes and services for brain injury survivors of all kinds. Services include a day program, case management, vocational assistance, and support groups.
“We have a medical doctor on our board who tells us that she gets great peace of mind just knowing that Jodi House exists,” Black said. “Because while
she can provide care for these survivors and their families to a certain extent, as a medical professional, she isn’t equipped to help them with skills for daily living.”
While online help is also available, Jodi House’s services are offered largely at its downtown Santa Barbara location – a Victorian home in the former site of Chad’s Restaurant, a setting designed to feel residential and non-medical.
“We’re really about helping our members maximize their independence,” Black said. “The vast majority do not want to end up in assisted living or in a residential care facility. They want to stay in the community, in their apartments or their homes. So both our day programs and individual case management services are there to help bridge the gap in getting their needs met, helping our members work on their goals for recovery.”
Services can be as simple as assisting a brain injury survivor file a disability claim, because most are not able to return to work full time, and even navigating the process can be daunting if not overwhelming. Others want or need much more help, depending on their individual levels of ability or recovery.
“The nature of everyone’s injury is so different,” Black explained. “Our classes really run the gamut, including occupational therapy, speech therapy, a physical therapy class called posture instability – as well as yoga, meditation, tai chi, art
therapy, music therapy and many more. Members can come and go, can pick and choose what they want to participate in. It’s not one size fits all.”
Jodi House serves 150 brain injury survivors annually while also providing needed respite for their caregivers. All of the organization’s services are available on a sliding scale or free of charge for those who cannot afford it. No one is ever turned away because of the inability to pay. This past year, Jodi House introduced a financial assistance
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by Elizabeth Stewart
BCin Carpinteria has an ornate lamp, and it was, in the late 19th century, considered an exquisite newel post gas lighting fixture. In its day (1860-1880) it was as beautiful as it is deadly.
Firstly, let us talk about the symbolism of the design. Lighting in the late 19th century was novel and figural. A lamp was meant to evoke a classical, artistic feeling – the owner of this lamp wanted to impress, because to install the gas lines needed to produce light through this kind of lamp was expensive. Owners wanted to show off, especially if a lamp had a place of honor, as did this newel post lamp – rising magnificently from a stairway’s central post. This striking lamp would be seen directly upon entering a grand house, as (typically) stairs were placed opposite a front entryway.
BC’s lamp has iconography in the design. The central figure is a Classical Greek-style maiden who holds a handled urn from which sprouts a bouquet of lilies. The maiden is the ‘classy’ element, as she references high taste in Classical (Greek or Roman) art, which was just then being excitedly taken up and discussed in what would later be called the 19th century’s Neoclassical period. The lilies represent sleep and death; think of darkness, and how a lamp overcomes darkness. On the base of the lamp, in relief in the metal (which is called Spelter metal), is a motif of a vine of ivy. This symbolizes tenacious love (ivy clings!) and strong family relationships. All these elements “speak” within the symbol of an object that creates light.
We have considered beauty. Now let us consider the deadly nature of the gas lamp of the mid to late 19th century.
Edison’s bulb was invented in 1879 and slowly put gas lighting out of business, but not before gas lighting became a universal light source. BC’s lamp once had levers that were formed in the shape of a flower stem that could be turned on and off; these are the manual handles for the gas, which must be hand ignited and then (hopefully upon bedtime) quelled. The technical term for these levers is stopcocks. When someone “electrified” BC’s lamp, they wired the lamp so that a light bulb would be inserted in the uplifted lilies. Before that modernizing upgrade, the lamp had an original “mantle” where the bulb is now: the fuel (such as propane, white gas, coal gas, wood gas, natural gas) would have produced heat, and the mantel, ceramic mesh, encased the flame.
Now here’s how this lamp could kill. When lit in a poorly ventilated room, this lamp, which likely was fueled by natural gas, created carbon monoxide, serious heat, and soot –never mind the audibly nasty hiss of the gas. Carbon monoxide was responsible for deaths in the worst cases, but also caused hallucinations!
Lighting by means of gas was discovered when miners deep in the earth came across pockets of coal gas, and stored this in bladders. Inventors in the late 18th century experimented with this oddity in England. Gas produced by “gasification” of coal was the gas of choice for Great Britain in the 19th century; in the U.S. the choice was natural gas.
One of the famous arenas for gas light was the late 19 th century theater, from which we get our terms, “The Great White Way,” “In the Limelight,” and by the “Footlights.” The most famous theater to be gas lit was the Paris Opera House, completed in 1875, requiring 28 miles of gas piping, and changing the experience of both actor and spectator – not least due to the flammability of the costumes when exposed to the footlights!
Hundreds of theaters burnt down until footlights were meshed over, and so-named Gas Boys ran back and forth to adjust them for safety’s sake. By the
late 19 th century, the Savoy Theatre in London had had enough of actors on fire, and installed, as a first, incandescent lighting.
Other famous firsts for gas light in a city included New Orleans’ French Quarter, and in fact many cities became famous for their gas lit streets. Chapel Street in Lancaster became the first street (1806) to be gas lit, followed by Baltimore’s streets in the U.S., as well as a famous artist’s museum in that city – the Rembrandt Peale Museum. Imagine seeing art LIT for the first time (1816).
BC’s old – and now electrified –newel post lamp is not in the current taste and is worth $400; and should be sold to someone in the South restoring a vintage estate.
Elizabeth Stewart, PhD is a veteran appraiser of fine art, furniture, glass, and other collectibles, and a cert. member of the AAA and an accr. member of the ASA. Please send any objects to be appraised to Elizabethappraisals@ gmail.com
by Steven Libowitz
Hurricane Hilary heading up the coast to California when his own teenage daughter and several of her friends were due to drive back from a weekend in San Francisco was the impetus for prolific writer Jay Martel to create his latest play. But Parents in Chains – which has its official world premiere at Ensemble Theatre Company from March 12-30 at the New Vic Theatre – is mostly focused on the fretting of their six guardians, revealing the wide range of parental approaches through a series of messages exchanged over a text thread.
“All of us were concerned and consulting with each other on what the girls, who had grown up together, should do,” Martel recalled. “I’ve always been fascinated by how many different styles of parenting there are just within a couple blocks of where I live. Some parents still spank their kids, and others won’t even ever raise their voice. There are hovering helicopter parents, and ones who want their kids to be free range chickens.”
But an equal impetus is how texting has taken over our lives across the generations, even with the strong possibilities of miscommunication in the realm of nothing but words written with shorthand.
“Everybody had radically different ideas about how to deal with their daughters in this hurricane, and there were mixed messages in the thread over how to negotiate this one somewhat traumatic event” Martel said.
The play’s original conceit is that the entire story is told through the reading of texts, a cousin to the ever-popular Love Letters, although the actors in Chains won’t be chained to a podium. Martel – who served as a showrunner, producer and writer for the TV sketch show Key & Peele, and boasts Emmy, Peabody, WGA and American Comedy awards in his credits – created the script so that it’s both funny and heartfelt as well as dramatic.
Getting over the novelty of the format is what made it challenging to write, he said, but the format of having the actors read from phones or tablets is what allowed him to attract a series of veteran actors of stage and screen from Los Angeles to perform in the piece, which will have three different casts over its run.
“So many of them are my friends, and they’re much more likely to participate if it’s only a week and they don’t have to memorize pages of dialogue.”
Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue, etc.) will appear all three weeks, Melora Hardin (The Office, Transparent) is booked for two, while Montecito resident Jane Lynch (Glee, The Weakest Link), Joshua Malina (The West Wing), John Ross Bowie (The Big Bang Theory), Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom, The Crowded Room), Gina Torres (Firefly, Suits) and Matt Walsh (Veep) are among cast members performing for a single week. Veteran director of stage and screen Andy Fickman will direct the run.
Visit www.etcsb.org for details and tickets.
Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations, which chronicles the Motown hitmakers’ journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame through songs, played for nearly three years on Broadway and was nominated for 12 Tony Awards in 2019, winning for Best Choreography. A thrilling story of brotherhood, family, loyalty and betrayal that takes place during a decade of civil unrest in America is set to the beat of the group’s now classic rock/golden oldies hits, including “My Girl,” “Just My Imagination,” “Get Ready,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” and the title song.
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Ain’t Too Proud is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, and its Tony-decorated team includes Paul Tazewell, who just made history last Sunday night as the first Black man to win the Academy Award for costume design for Wicked. The jukebox musical’s Santa Barbara debut takes place March 11-12 at the Granada. Lights Up! Theatre Company having a go at Hadestown represents something of the completion of a circle for the musical created by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, who wrote the music, lyrics and book almost 20 years ago. Mitchell’s conception was to set the ancient Greek myth in a café inspired by New Orleans’ Preservation Hall above ground, and a hellish, post-apocalyptic industrial environment in the underworld, and to use the show to explore themes of climate change and the struggle between nature and industrialization. Mitchell brought the romantic retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in its concept album form to Sings Like Hell at the Lobero in 2010 before Hadestown went on to become a groundbreaking Broadway sensation, winning eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, in 2019. Lights Up is performing six shows of the Hadestown Teen Edition on March 6-9 at the Marjorie Luke Theatre, meaning we have yet to see a full version of the musical on one of our stages. Visit https://lightsupsb.com.
CJ Camerieri has done pretty well for himself since spending a single summer as a trumpet fellow at the Music Academy of the West in 2002. The Juilliard grad who also plays French horn, arranges, produces and composes, not only co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble yMusic in 2008, but is perhaps even better known as the brass player for Paul Simon (both on tour for the legendary singer-songwriter’s Stranger to Stranger and In the Blue Light albums) and Bon Iver, winning two Grammy awards with the latter.
But if Simon and the indie pop band have brought him a measure of fame in the pop world, yMusic has actually pioneered a configuration for chamber music that didn’t previously exist, blending trumpet, flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello.
“The entire ethos of yMusic was musical personalities over instrumentation,” Camerieri explained. “We wanted these six people to play music together (even though) when we started there was literally no music for the ensemble. We are super
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proud of the repertoire we’ve built through commissions and our own writing and it’s exciting for us to see this instrumentation become more and more popular.”
Indeed, yMusic has collaborated with a number of contemporary composers, including a long-maintained relationship with Gabriella Smith, the Berkeley native who has been called “a composer with an ecologist’s soul.”
“We feel like the luckiest group to have this relationship with one of the greatest composers alive,” Camerieri said. “We always look for someone who is going to push the boundaries of what has been done before, unpredictable, but in an approachable way. We want to bring our audiences in, not push them away – but to do so in a way that is completely new. Gabriella perfectly embodies this principle.”
yMusic has also broken new ground by collaborating collectively with Simon, Bon Iver, Bruce Hornsby, Ben Folds, John Legend, and The National, among other pop entities. Such pairings were part of the reason the sextet started the ensemble.
“We were growing frustrated with the way ‘classical musicians’ approached these sorts of collaborations,” Camerieri said. “They often acted as if the music was beneath them whereas we felt so privileged to be working with these important and culturally relevant artists. All of these artists approached us based on how much they loved our records of classical music. Their interests were perfectly coalescing around the sounds and textures we were most excited to create.”
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by Ashleigh Brilliant
If anybody asks you, “What Is the Southernmost point of Africa?” you would probably say “The Cape of Good Hope.” And you probably identify that location with the City of Cape Town, South Africa. But you would be a little off. Cape Town is located at a point which the earliest Portuguese explorers called the “Cape of Storms.” But their King, John II, after receiving their report, decided on a more optimistic name, because rounding that point signified a true opening of the route to the Far East. So it became the Cape of Good Hope and is more or less the site of the modern City of Cape Town.
But what about the real Southernmost point? That is actually a place called Cape Agulhas, which is some 90 miles south of Cape Town. I have been there, and I can tell you that the whole area has nothing particularly to recommend it to the visitor.
About Cape Town itself, however, I have a much more positive feeling. First, let me tell you how I got there. I was then a much younger and more adventurous person – and I had a wife, named Dorothy, who also loved to travel. We were living in San Francisco. But I had always wanted to visit Cape Town, ever since I’d learned at school that it was in one of the few geographical areas, apart from the Mediterranean itself, which had what was termed a Mediterranean type of climate – which I found particularly agreeable. The others were on the southwest coast of South America, and the southwest coast of Australia, around Perth – and, of course, Southern California.
But to me (as the storied shipping and cruise line Cunard used to say), “Getting there is half the fun.” And getting to Cape Town would not be much fun, if it just involved a couple of airplane flights. I thought it would be more interesting to go as directly as possible. Looking at a globe and stretching a piece of string from San Francisco to Cape Town, you could see that the most direct route would go right across the widest part of South America, more or less following the Amazon River, to its outlet at Belem, on the coast of Brazil. There would then only be the problem of getting across the South Atlantic.
So that was what we actually did – taking a German freighter down to Colombia, then connecting with a riverboat (which required more patience than we expected), and finally boarding another German freighter across to South Africa. The whole journey took something like three months.
Being a passenger on a freighter is unlike life on a cruise ship. We sat at the same large dining table as the Captain and the crew. But you can’t expect much in the way of entertainment. I spent many hours walking on a deck where my main companion was a large albatross in flight, who seemed to enjoy following the ship.
Cape Town proved to be even more worth a visit than we expected. First, it is spectacularly beautiful, spreading up from the harbor to a great steep plateau called Table Mountain, the top of which could be reached by a cable car.
Because of its convenient location as a stopping-place, Cape Town has traditionally been known as the “Tavern of the Seas.” The inhabitants are a mixture of races. But, at the time we were there, the whole country was still governed under a system called “Apartheid,” or “Apartness.” Nelson Mandela, future President of the country, was still in prison.
Apartheid’s general purpose was to keep the “White” and “Non-White” races apart. This did not apply in the big department stores and on the streets. We did once, however, see it in practice in an odd way.
My wife had a maritime ancestor who had died at sea but was buried in Cape Town. After seeking – and failing to find – the headstone in the oldest local cemetery, we had been directed to a small office of what was called the Cape Cemeteries Board. Its furnishings consisted of a single table with a line down the middle; one side labeled “Whites,” and the other “Non-Whites.” It was manned by just one official, who, after consulting some files, couldn’t help us.
Concerning Hope, my own big one had been to travel north, up through the middle of Africa, to Cairo. But a letter came saying my application for U.S. citizenship required my urgent return. I’m still waiting for another chance to fulfil that Hope.
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.
by Beatrice Tolan
My friend Joan Curran and I were walking up State Street on a Tuesday afternoon when she called out, “Hey Nathan!” Sitting cross-legged on the curb was a casually clad guy with softly curled blonde hair and an array of beaded jewelry. As I squatted down to the pavement to behold his work, I immediately picked out a favorite – a daisy ring with a turquoise-beaded band. Though the ring is long-gone, my friendship with Nathan Martin remains today.
Martin is an artist at heart, enjoying beading and block printing, but is primarily a potter. For 10 years Martin has honed his ceramic craft, living in the studio at Cate School and continuing throughout college. His dedication to pursuing the arts led him to become the Sculpture Technician at Pomona College, running the woodshop, metal shop, and assisting with corresponding classes. His winding journey would take him from Santa Barbara to places like Japan, India, and the Philippines.
Though Martin’s current pursuit is the arts, he has a deep love for the sciences. He started at Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University as a computer science major, but soon became dual-enrolled at Cleveland Institute of Art to sate his artistic desires. Martin recalls the Institute’s four-story building dedicated to crafts, including glassblowing, ceramics, and metal casting. “I would walk out with a huge smile on my face. I have never been within such a bubbling and creative space.”
Though he was “having the time of [his] life” at Cleveland Institute of Art, Martin had an itch to transfer. “I always
thought, ‘I don’t really love being in Ohio.’” COVID made that decision for him, cutting his time short and bringing Martin back to Santa Barbara.
Martin picked up a job at Art Essentials, but as is the plight of any artist working in an art supplies store, Martin’s paychecks went right back to sender. “I need to make some money back. I was spending way too much money there.” After one of his first shifts, he had an idea. “I went down to the Tuesday farmers market with a piece of 9”x11” black felt and put some [jewelry] haphazardly out.” Joan and I had run into him in his shop’s infancy, but as he realized the potential, he quickly developed a tiny market-side shop.
On top of earning money from his craft, Martin was discovering a newfound
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Condoleezza Rice, the 66th U.S. Secretary of State, shared insight into the Russia-Ukraine war as well as China and other international hot spots, while sprinkling wisdom about democracy, education, and her childhood in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, at the Westmont President’s Breakfast on February 28. More than 700 early-morning attendees enjoyed the sold-out event, now in its 20th year at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort.
President Gayle D. Beebe presented the Westmont Leadership Award to Rice before the two engaged in an hour-long conversation on stage.
Opening on the Russia-Ukraine war, Rice said with 200,000 Russian soldiers dead and 600,000 injured, it’s time for this war to end. “The Russian army went into this war with five days’ provisions and their dress uniforms for the parade into Kiev,” she said. “And here we are, three years later, and everybody’s still sucking it out. Ukraine needs to – as a secure, independent, sovereign country – now get back to rebuilding itself, rebuilding its democracy, because it’s losing people.”
In her book, Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom (2017), Rice examines the institution of democracy and several countries that have confronted many of the same stressors we face today. “Democracy’s genius is its openness to change, but its stability comes through institutions that embody constraint,” she writes.
At the breakfast, she stressed the extraordinary ability of the U.S. Constitution to sustain change for nearly 250 years. “Americans think the Constitution is their personal protector,” Rice said. “But my friend said, ‘You Americans, you think just because you have rights you have to exercise them.’ That would be us.”
Rice, who last served in the U.S. government in January 2009, has had time
to reflect on her foreign policy successes as well as the countries that continue to pose a challenge to the U.S., including Afghanistan, where she said the U.S. lacked sufficient patience.
“I wonder why we become so impatient with others as they’re trying to make this democratic transition,” she said. “It’s really hard to say to human beings, ‘Put aside tribe, put aside family. You’re not going to care about your interests through these abstractions called institutions.’ That takes some time. I think the Afghan people are paying a terrible price, and especially Afghan women are paying a terrible price. All they wanted to do was educate their girls.”
Rice, who shared that her great-grandmother learned to read because she was a slave master’s daughter, said oppressors always go after education. “You keep people from reading, then you can keep them from pursuing their own horizons,” she said. “You deny them that ability to really exercise freedom in a way. That’s what the Taliban did.”
She expressed concern about the United States, noting that democracy depends on an educated citizenry. If children can’t read by the third grade, they’ll likely never read. “There are too many poor kids stuck in bad schools who can’t read,” she said. “It’s a national disgrace.”
Rice warned about China’s technological progress, stating that the United
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by Robert Bernstein
Have you heard the one about taxpayers funding a $3 million shrimp treadmill? It is a brain virus spreading through the MAGA world – to validate the utterly lawless vandalism of our government by Trump and his unconstitutionally appointed hit man Musk
MAGA people apparently never heard of “Google,” which when prompted yields the real world facts of the Shrimp Treadmill. These shrimp earn millions of dollars a year for the fishermen who harvest them. The Shrimp Treadmill was a creative instrument to help understand their decline. The researcher spent $50 on it.
Republican Senator Proxmire infamously handed out “Golden Fleece” awards for such supposed government waste. Until he gave one to researcher Ronald Hutchinson, who fought back all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court sided with Hutchinson that Proxmire could not hide behind immunity when he willfully maligned Hutchinson.
The scientific merit of research is not decided by disinformation on social media or by a senator who probably does not even know how a ballpoint pen works. There is a reason why Congress sets up agencies with professional expertise to decide actual merit.
One such agency is the General Accounting Office (GAO) – an independent agency that tracks government spending and identifies possible spending mistakes or actual fraud. Every year they offer recommendations to Congress on how to fix these problems.
One problem is fraud in Medicare and Medicaid. Not by actual citizen patients, but by criminals who set up fake “medical offices” which are just postal boxes from which scammers send out fake bills to the government. Medicare is well aware of this practice. It can easily be controlled by hiring more agents to track down this fraud and arrest the criminals. Guess which party has repeatedly cut the number of agents?
Another massive loss of income to the government is from uncollected taxes. Guess which party has repeatedly cut the number of agents who find and collect this money? Yes, the party of Trump and Musk.
Civilized countries like France solve the health care fraud problem through socialized medicine. Health care workers are directly employed by the government. No billing, hence no place for fraud.
Back to the “silly” science issue. What would you make of a short research paper “On the electrodynamics of moving bodies”? Would you give it a moment’s thought of being important? That was Einstein’s first paper on relativity theory. The theory that gave us nuclear power and weapons and eventually GPS.
Just as important, it gave us a radically new understanding of the very nature of the universe we live in. The idea of spacetime, the formation of matter and energy, the existence of black holes and our place in the universe. Could you have surmised all that from the title?
The most important science is pure science, not the tech that goes into making the newest iPhone. When COVID struck, most people were unaware of how a vaccine could come out in record time. It is because back in 2013 Obama began investing $150 million in mRNA research. If the current vandals were in charge, that obscure research would have been trashed. When COVID hit, the vaccine was already almost ready for creation and deployment.
Did Obama know anything about mRNA? Of course not. But he appointed the best people to his science panel and heeded their advice.
Subsidies let Bell Labs do pure research. They gave us the transistor. Sputnik was a wake-up call for the U.S. to invest in space research and science education; an investment that yielded modern communications, computer and artificial intelligence industries.
But without the Cold War push, the U.S. got lax. Republicans killed the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC).
Investing is about having a diverse portfolio. Not every research program leads to a practical return. But without investing in a wide range of research, failure is assured.
Trump wants to return to the 19th century world of coal and conquest. We must move forward with visionary investment in research and the technology of the future: Sustainable transportation and energy. Quantum Computing. Fundamental physics and biology. And the Next Big Thing that no one yet has heard of.
Robert Bernstein holds degrees from Physics departments of MIT and UCSB. His passion to understand the Big Questions of life, the universe and to be a good citizen of the planet. Visit facebook. com/questionbig
far away that it would have been a hike to get to the hike,” said Chair Laura Capps about the parking situation.
The county set aside $25,000 for the enforcement plan from its contingency funds, which are typically used for unexpected expenses. The funds would be used to cover the Sheriff’s estimated overtime costs during red flag warning days, which county staff estimated to be about 20 days this year.
Firefighters and police officers showed up at the Tuesday meeting to express their support for the enforcement measure. “This project is something we are very supportive of, and we have been leaning in with our partners from the county, state, and federal agencies on making changes,” said Montecito Fire Chief David Neels.
The enforcement measures will be in effect as a pilot program through 2025, with potential adjustments based on their effectiveness. After a few red flag warning days have passed, the county plans to report to the board in six months for a status update.
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program focused on diverting brain injury survivors from becoming unhoused or placed in an institutional setting, and they introduced a Women’s Group and Caregiver Support Group.
The nonprofit is one of only a dozen sites statewide that receives funding from the California Department of Rehabilitation to provide services to brain injury survivors.
“They know we’re good at filling the gap and care and completing the continuum of care for brain injury survivors,” Black said. “And they also know it’s far less costly for the state to have people be able to stay in their community than to have them end up at an assisted living facility. But private support lets us do that much more.”
That includes providing emotional support both from its licensed staff and other instructors, as well as the members themselves, with everyone doing their best to help the brain injury survivors deal with the aftermath of their injuries.
The supervisors hope this measure will open future discussions about enforcement on other frequently populated trailheads in the county. “I’m eager to learn from this example how we can address other places,” said Third District Supervisor Joan Hartmann
The supervisors thanked Supervisor Roy Lee, who oversees Montecito, for bringing the item to the board. “The fact that the community is behind this, I think really shows me that you’ve nailed it,” said Chair Capps to Supervisor Lee.
Tiana Molony is a journalist who writes for the Montecito Journal Media Group, LLC. She has also written for Backpacker Magazine, Mountain Gazette, and the Santa Barbara Independent.
“One of our brain injury survivors recently told me that we have to slow down sometimes and acknowledge that brain injury is sad,” Black said. “There’s often a mourning period that goes on for a lifetime, because unlike a developmental disability, our survivors often remember who they once were, and the things that they used to be able to do that they can’t anymore. Jodi House is a safe and supportive place for people to come as they are, not who they once were. It’s a community, almost a family where people are accepted for who they are. For someone struggling with depression and isolation, it’s so helpful just being together with people.”
But the focus is mostly on moving forward with as upbeat an outlook as possible, Black said.
“It’s about empowerment and positivity, moving ahead together, not as who you were yesterday, but embracing who you are today, the new normal,” she said. “How do we get you living your best possible life?”
by Melissa Petitto
Citrus season in California is always a time I look forward to, and the Cara Cara orange is hitting the farmers market right now at Somers Ranch. This tangy and oh so sweet citrus is a vibrant red orange color, has a berry/citrus like flavor, and boasts so many incredible health benefits. Most of us associate citrus with vitamin C and yes, the vitamin C in Cara Cara oranges does strengthen our immune systems and helps ward off infections, as well as helps stimulate collagen production, which keeps our skin firm and supple. The Cara Cara orange is also a good source of potassium, which is critical for your body to function, helping your heart beat properly, and may even reduce the risk of having a stroke. The gorgeous color is not just enticing to the eye, but also contains an antioxidant that gives the oranges their pink color, and is found in other red and pink fruits. That antioxidant is lycopene –associated with reducing the risk of heart disease, prostate cancer, and macular degeneration. High in fiber, this citrus also aids in digestion and keeping us regular. Let’s make something delicious with these beauties.
Yield: 4 Servings
6 cups wild baby arugula
3 Cara Cara oranges
1 just ripe avocado, pitted, peeled and cut into chunks
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
¼ teaspoon sea salt
2 tablespoons hemp hearts
¼ cup roasted salted sunflower seeds
¼ cup roasted salted pumpkin seeds
Dressing
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon maple syrup
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
½ teaspoon Maldon sea salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Directions:
1. Place arugula in a large serving bowl.
2. Peel and cut the oranges into segments. Keep the peel and the juice that accumulates from the segments. Squeeze the peel into the bowl releasing any juice as well.
3. Add the avocado, rice wine vinegar, and sea salt to the arugula and gently massage the avocado into the arugula.
4. Add the orange segments to the salad. Do not toss yet.
5. Measure out ¼ cup of the juice, and add to it the Dijon mustard, maple syrup and whisk to combine. Slowly drizzle in the olive oil and whisk to combine.
6. Pour a little of the dressing (you might not need it all!) on the salad, as well as the hemp hearts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, Maldon, and pepper and gently toss. Serve immediately.
passion for astronomy while taking courses at SBCC. “It reignited my science brain,” he regaled. Transferring to Pitzer College, Martin found himself gravitating towards geology and archeology classes, explaining that “if astronomy is the study of the stars, then geology is the study of here.”
His studies of rock deepened his love of working with the earth. “Once you fire clay, it’s permanent; but metal, you can always melt it down. How many shapes has the copper in your phone been in before?”
Martin’s interests couldn’t fit into one major, and thus was The Art of Life major born. His senior thesis was so experimental –heating up copper to an unprecedented 2,000 degrees to create a 30-pound crystal – that his professors thought it impossible.
Sculptors typically use the more forgiving bronze rather than copper, but on his thesis date (and 24th birthday), Martin turned his 2,000 degree mission into seven hours of “performance art.” Folks gathered around to watch Martin throw copper plumbing pipes into the fire, changing its color from red, green, to white. He even shoved a shop vacuum’s nozzle into the “volcanic soup,” a wild spray of flames and embers flying over him. The thesis came to its crescendo when Martin had a mere three minutes to pour the liquified cooper into its final orb shape – but miraculously, his thesis prevailed.
It was such a success that a friend from Cate, having kept up with Martin’s experiments, called to see if he wanted to go to the Philippines to continue metal casting and 3D printing. What started as one month in
the Philippines ended as eight months visiting more than eight countries in Asia, assisting a month-long wood-fired pottery workshop in the mountains of Kyoto, Japan, and another in the ever-bustling India.
After his odyssey, Martin was visiting friends at Scripps College when he ran into the Sculpture Technician at that time. Though one usually needs an MFA, he felt that Martin’s experience teaching abroad –and his wizardly thesis – could land him the job. And land the job he did. Now, he runs two state-of-the-art facilities. A casual after-lunch task includes preparing a classroom for 18 students and melting down one hundred pounds of aluminum at 1,400 degrees for them.
Martin’s career journey is proof that the best way to find where you belong is to follow your passions, even if they don’t fit neatly into a major or a job description box.
Find him on Instagram at @nathan_ loves_clay and follow along as he shares his passion for process and materials.
Mariposa Series on March 10 at Hahn Hall, the ensemble will offer the Santa Barbara premiere of Smith’s new work “Aquatic Ecology,” described as an invitation to the listener to commune and connect with the fragile beauty of the natural world threatened by climate change. The piece consists of raw and processed field recordings of underwater environments, from coral reefs to tidepools, freshwater marshes to the open ocean, that are blended with yMusic’s acoustic performance.
Asked to describe Aquatic Ecology, Camerieri noted “We haven’t started rehearsals yet but I do know you’ll be in for a treat as she’s such a genius composer.”
Four of the other five pieces on the program – the whimsically titled “Three Elephants,” “Whosay,” “Cloud,” and “The Wolf” – are drawn from yMusic’s latest album, a self-titled work that represents its first full recording of the ensemble’s own compositions. It was actually at Simon’s urging the ensemble – specifically on an off night from his farewell tour that featured yMusic – began to create its own music.
What stands out is that they do it together.
“From a popular music perspective, there is nothing compelling about a group writing music together,” Camerieri said. “But in the classical composition world what we do is super unique. We start with nothing and do all of the writing with everyone in the room together. It often starts with someone asking, ‘What was that sound you made while you were just warming up? or ‘What happens if you….?’ Then we are off to the races. We are proud to say we’ve finished every single idea we’ve started.”
The entire Mariposa program will be a sea of change from what the trumpeter played over the summer at Miraflores in 2002, back when contemporary music didn’t receive much attention here. But MAW still had an impact.
“I have wonderful memories from my time (including) playing a lot of chamber music which has been a cornerstone of my entire career,” Camerieri said. “The lessons learned that summer have proved invaluable. I am so excited to be back for the first time in over 20 years.”
Visit https://musicacademy.org/mariposa/#ymusic.
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For the past three years, the nonprofit One805 has staged a big boisterous benefit bash in late summer at Kevin Costner’s surfside Summerland spread to raise a big percentage of its funds. The money is earmarked for all the first responder organizations throughout Santa Barbara County to help with equipment, mental health services and more. But when the twin Palisades and Eaton fires devastated multiple areas of Los Angeles in January, the organization didn’t want to wait until September to support – in the way they know best – the firefighters based just 90 miles away.
Rock for First Responders, slated for March 8 at the Granada, will be a much more intimate affair but perhaps even more eclectic. While Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Alan Parsons and Toad the Wet Sprocket – the quartet of local rock stars known for their ceaseless devotion to community causes – will be a big part of the show, the concert also boasts rare Santa Barbara appearances by Entertainment Page 354
head and I saw stars. I remember this. Someone can say that?!
I looked sideways at Tony, his eyes brimming, and I crushed my beige circular milk ticket in my shaking right hand. Passerby would have seen a stick figure with a lazy eye and crewcut, seizing up. I was just about paralyzed with hatred. It made me lightheaded with rage rage rage helpless helpless unliberated rage. It all burst inside me very suddenly, a painfully concealed firework. Lisa’s beribboned hair and self-satisfied little face with its cheekbones and haughty forehead – if she’d taken a shot at my mom’s Angel Food Cake recipe at that moment I would’ve squealed like a fruit bat and lunged. I trace a lot of my deeply buried anger to that episode with Michael and Lisa.
As for justice – no. Tony would never know what my instincts on his behalf cost me, and would later taunt me for my crummy grades in German. I almost had to laugh. The soccer thing with Tony and Jerry would disabuse me of the notion that a crooked universe invariably self-corrects. Even if it does, the three billion years the organic process takes to majestically unfold is no help in the immediate aftermath of poor decision-making.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Align Sports Recovery and Chiropractic, 1520 State Street, Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Inda Spine Chiropractic Corporation, 1520 State Street, Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 28, 2025. 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. 2025-0000247. Published February 27, March 6, 13, 20, 2025
I yelled reflexively at Jerry, Tony scurried away, and two big guys, Bill and Sandy, suddenly appeared like djinns on either side of the weasel-faced little Caesar; bodyguards in a mob movie. A feral punishment was headed my way as inexorably as a plummeting grand piano. “Huh,” I chirped. “Are these your bodyguards?” I didn’t offer it as a challenge. I was numbly waving my antennae around, a stunned shrimp staring through his stupid eyestalks at the approaching cuttlefish.
“Yeah, we’ll see you later,” Jerry said. The three of them turned and walked away. My predicament slowly emerged from the murk of my pea brain with a commiserating grimace. “What’re we gonna do, Jeff?” My asymmetric puff of Brillo hair tried to stand on end and couldn’t.
Last class of the day was Geography with Mr. Clements. He was a tall, fasttalking guy with close-cropped blond hair and a mouth like a fish, through which he would sometimes offer indecipherable exclamations. I still remember on the first day of class he’d yelled pedantically “Fifty percent just don’t! Get! The message!” A non sequitur that hangs in the mudroom of my memory – a poster I can’t take down.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mindrite Mental Wellness & Counseling; Mindrite, 1187 Coast Village Rd, STE 1-360, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Mindrite A Marriage & Family Therapy Corporation, 1187 Coast Village Rd, STE 1-360, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 20, 2025. 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. 2025-0000483. Published February 27, March 6, 13, 20, 2025
After Geography, I went down to the bike racks and Jerry, Bill, and Sandy were there by my bike, a blue Raleigh ten-speed. Jerry had his little paws clamped on it. I unlocked it and tried to pull it away from him. He was glued to it like a lamprey, and after two timid tugs I wrenched at it in exasperation. Then came the wonder – a beige blur that landed on my right cheekbone and felt like a baseball wrapped in a thin layer of dough. Hunhh! Was that … was that a POW! Holy cow! Am I being POW! POW POW! I was being punched in the face like in the movies! But there was no audible crack of fist meeting face, like on Gunsmoke or Bonanza. It sounded like someone hitting a couch cushion with a tennis shoe. The sense of brute reality almost POW POW! POW! There was something sanctifying about it. To this day I wonder if I was wearing a half-smile of revelation that Jerry mistook for insolence. I didn’t ask. The next day I walked into my math class (on whose teacher I had a mad crush) with a cheek so swollen I could see it with my right eye. A tiny crystal of anger lodged in my clockworks then and began to grow and vibrate with a recognizable and nourishing frequency.
That day in third grade I had clapped back at Lisa, to little effect. “Well-Lisawe-tried-your-cake-and-it-was-terrible!” I’d bleated before I knew I was saying it. “Ha ha ha!” she brayed triumphantly. I still see her head thrown back, her fists on hips like Pippi Longstocking. “My recipe wasn’t for cake, liar!”
Jeff Wing is a journalist, raconteur, autodidact, and polysyllable enthusiast. He has been writing about Montecito and environs since before some people were born. He can be reached at jeff@ montecitojournal.net
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sundgot-Smith Counseling, 5266 Hollister Ave, Ste #212, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Sundgot-Smith Counseling A Marriage and Family Therapy, 5266 Hollister Ave, Ste #212, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 3, 2025. 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. 2025-0000308. Published February 20, 27, March 6, 13, 2025
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lindas Glow, 1211 Coast Village Road Suite #7, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Linda J Bailey, 1211 Coast Village Road Suite #7, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 6, 2025. 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. 2025-0000351. Published February 20, 27, March 6, 13, 2025
The April 6, 1977, issue of the Oxnard Press-Courier reports the passing of Carol Spoor Sutter of 808 Hot Springs Road, her residence for the last 23 years of her life. Born in Chicago and educated in Massachusetts and New York, her interests included sailing, theatrical direction and productions, and volunteer work in hospitals. She was a member of the Little Town Club and Coral, and of the Valley Club of Montecito. She was also founder of several yachting organizations.
Lastly, Carol Spoor Sutter was the great-granddaughter of Maj. William Russell – co-founder of the Pony Express. Younger readers, this was an early, hay-fueled incarnation of today’s email.
She was so looking forward to this – a homespun movie about a small Texas town and the charming lil’ movie theater there. Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Timothy Bottoms. I was 12, and this was a movie my mom and I could see together Small town wisdom and subtle turnings of the heart. Wait –what the heck kinda small town IS this, anyway? These heartland teens are preoccupied with ONE THING. And is that Cybill Shepherd in her birthday suit? My mom grabbed my wrist and dragged me out like a protesting Raggedy Andy. I hurt my neck trying for one last glance at the screen. Ow.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT:
The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business
Name(s): VONS #3326, 163 S. Turnpike Road, Santa Barbara, CA, 93117. 1918 Winter Street ABS LLC, 7 Corporate Drive c/o Legal Department, Keene, NH 03431. This statement was originally filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 5, 2024. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), filed January 29, 2025. Original FBN No. 2024-0002119. FBN 2025-0000291. Published February 20, 27, March 6, 13, 2025
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT:
The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business
Name(s): Albertsons #3171, 1500 N H Street, Lompoc, CA, 93436. 1918 Winter Street ABS LLC, c/o Legal Department, 7 Corporate Drive, Keene, NH 03431. This statement was originally filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 5, 2024. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL),
by Jeffrey Harding
As Trump said, the meeting was great TV.
There was a crowd in the room at the meeting in the White House with President Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It was diplomatically nice-nice until the fireworks broke out.
I’ve been around a long time and I can’t recall when world leaders revealed what they were actually thinking in a public meeting. It’s like those cartoon speech balloons where in one bubble they say one thing but another balloon emanating from their heads shows what they are really thinking. In this case the thought bubble merged into the speech bubble.
I watched the meeting four times. In addition to Trump and Zelenskyy there were lots of aides and reporters in the room. Reporters were able to ask questions, pointed questions. That’s when things broke down and Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance started arguing. In some ways the shadow of Vladimir Putin was there.
The scene was supposed to be nice, a triumph for Trump. Trump came up with the idea that if we are going to give them military support we should get something in return. “Hey, let’s grab their rare earth minerals.” Trump as we know only sees things transactionally. So do all countries, but his quid pro quo wasn’t about foreign policy goals but rather getting tangible stuff. He likes to win.
OK, I get it. Trump trashed Ukraine and U.S. support during his campaign. Now that he is president he needs cover (a mineral deal) to walk back his earlier campaign ramblings.
Whatever Trump’s view of Putin and Ukraine is, we know he wants to be revered as a leader and peacemaker among Great Powers. Especially so since he is the leader of the greatest power of the Great Powers. We also know he craves attention and approval. And, because he suffers from narcissistic personality disorder (formerly known as megalomania), he does think he’s the smartest guy on the planet and can handle Putin and save what’s left of Ukraine. We’ll see.
He has one overriding fear though. The one thing he doesn’t want to happen
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ride the Bark Bus, 546 Asilomar Way, Unit 104, Goleta, CA 93117. Jonathan D Eymann, 546 Asilomar Way, Unit 104, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 5, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that
is to be the president that “lost” Ukraine to Putin. Rolling over to Putin shows weakness which is bad for one’s legacy. The meeting, however, was shocking and shameful. On both sides.
I am a fan of Zelenskyy, a brave and capable wartime president who lives with the war every day and night of his life. I think he’s done well for his country. But he isn’t perfect. Because he’s been in the trenches for the past very difficult three years he forgot to be a diplomat and politician at the meeting. Lindsey Graham told Zelenskyy before the meeting to not bait Trump. Apparently, Zelenskyy wasn’t listening.
On the other hand, Trump has been a skillful politician but not a diplomat. His bluntness and self-aggrandizement have never been associated with diplomacy. I see him as a one-dimensional person. You put those two together and pow! I put much of the blame on Zelenskyy. Every foreign leader knows what Trump is and he was so warned going into the meeting. Zelenskyy’s goal was to get our support. Signing over minerals was theater. By the time the war ends and we come for the minerals the deal will be renegotiated anyway. Sign the damn agreement say “thank you America and Donald Trump” over and over and walk away. Trump will be happy and you’ll get money, arms, and support. It’s a start. Instead he lost sight of the big picture and got into an argument with Trump. You don’t argue and demand more now. As Trump said, “You don’t have the cards.”
Putin has a messianic vision to restore Imperial Russia and he’s sacrificing his youth to do it. His invasion of Ukraine destabilizes a world of powerful and dangerous heavily armed nations. World War II proved that dictators have to be stopped at the beginning. Since 1945 NATO and other defense treaties have done a pretty good job of avoiding calamity. Ukraine needs us, Europe needs us, and NATO needs us. A destabilized world is a riskier world. Ukraine must win this war.
Volodymyr, let the dust settle, rethink the goal, swallow hard and apologize, and sign over the minerals. More U.S. and EU military and monetary support will eventually bring Vlad to the table and the war will end. You don’t trust Putin but what’s your option other than to trust us?
this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2025-0000326. Published February 13, 20, 27, March 6, 2025
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fountain Square of Lompoc; Tharon Lompoc LLC, 1420 W North Ave, Lompoc, CA 93496. Tharon Lompoc LLC, 5967 W 3rd St Suite 360, Los Angeles, CA 90036. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 16, 2025. 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. 2025-0000148. Published February 13, 20, 27, March 6, 2025
by Jeff Giordano
The recently litigated AMR lawsuit – where the County lost the (generally speaking) impossible-to-lose Preliminary Injunction – spent $900K in legal fees and then settled, such that we now have the privilege of paying 35% more for ambulance service. This got me to wondering: Who manages our litigation, and what cost-benefit calculus, if any, do they bring to the task?
For complex litigation, and sometimes even not-so-complex litigation, County Counsel (CC) Rachel Van Mullem farms things out. In the AMR case, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman was engaged, and in a baffling case with our Water Districts, we are using the Miliband Water Law firm. In the Toro Canyon oil spill the County fought an unfightable Public Record Request made by our own DA. In the end, they couldn’t hide the ball (I could have told them this for free!) and paid $750K in fines. Educated Guess: The $750K fine could have been paid before engaging international megafirm WilmerHale (for this?) to the shocking tune of $500K. Ultimately, WilmerHale was “out,” and mega-firm Perkins Coie (Huh?) handled the settlement.
Perhaps it’s not fair to Monday Morning Lawyer, but it certainly is fun. For example, last year the County asked for a re-hearing in the Crandall case which held that Federal law reigns supreme and that while Cannabis can be imbibed in CA, it can’t legally be cultivated or transported. In January, the County lost, again – this time before the full appellate court. Fact: Per Crandall, Cannabis licenses violate federal law. Question: Will the County use tax dollars to appeal in an attempt protect to Cannabis/Growers? Let them pay! Wrong!
Another puzzling case involves the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA) that represents eight local Water Districts, including Montecito and Carpinteria. CCWA contracts for 100% of the State Water that becomes available
to them (47% of our water comes from the State) so, logically, they decide the deal specifics. But with typical hubris, our County – the only one that attempted this across the entire state – tried to inject themselves into the process.
In CCWA’s last round of State Water contract amendments – designed to modernize the antiquated methods used to lease/buy water – the County inserted itself into the ratification process. This was done back in April of 2021, when our Supervisors passed Resolution 21-23 – a resolution which imposed conditions that undermined the very purpose of the amendments. Does the Board ever get legal advice BEFORE making these obviously litigious decisions?
Our Water Districts are independent agencies, yet the County thought they knew “best,” so in 2021 CCWA sued. Shocking Fact: In 2023, the County quietly rescinded their silly Resolution but – incredibly –never pursued a settlement. Now, the litigation – and what I’m guessing are $800K in fees – marches forward; because the districts believe the County will try to interfere in the future. And, of course, Water Districts are making their wealthy lawyers even wealthier (Yes, costs are passed on to us!) and the County is doing what it does best – overseeing needless and very costly litigation. Question: Does the County do anything that remotely resembles a cost benefit litigation analysis? What are they seeking?
Much like the heavy-handed culture that defines P&D, it seems to at least a few that a similar philosophy exists in our CC department. Fighting our own DA, battling our Water Districts, getting embarrassed by AMR, and using resident tax dollars to preserve Cannabis profits for 70 Growers. Well, let’s just say these are questionable decisions. In the end, this is not all about Ms. Van Mullem. It’s about how our Board manages CC. Advice: Spend less on globally expensive lawyers and loss-leader litigation and more on what ails us!
Jeff Giordano, SB County resident
SATURDAY & SUNDAY ... FROM 9 am TO 6 pm 3090 EUCALYPTUS
ORDINANCE NO. 100
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MONTECITO WATER DISTRICT
ADOPTING AN ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES PROCEDURE FOR CHALLENGES TO RATES, FEES, CHARGES, AND ASSESSMENTS
BE IT HEREBY ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MONTECITO WATER DISTRICT (“DISTRICT”) AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. AUTHORITY
This Ordinance is authorized by the District’s statutory authority to adopt rates, fees and charges for its services, to impose assessments on real property, and to establish rules and regulations governing such rates, fees, charges, and assessments [Government Code Sections 53759.1 and 53759.2. Water Code Sections 30523, 31007, and 31025]
SECTION 2 EXHAUSTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES FOR CHALLENGES TO RATES, FEES, CHARGES AND ASSESSMENTS ON REAL PROPERTY
A. Scope
The duty to exhaust administrative remedies imposed by this section extends to:
1. Any rate, fee or charge subject to articles XIII C or XIII D of the California Constitution;
2. Any assessment on real property levied by the District; and
3. The methodology used to develop and levy such a rate, fee, charge, or assessment.
B. Hearing
“Hearing” as used in this section means the hearing referenced in paragraph of subsection D of this Ordinance
C. Duty to Exhaust Issues
No person may bring a judicial action or proceeding alleging noncompliance with the California Constitution or other applicable law for any new, increased, or extended rate, fee, charge, or assessment levied by the District, unless that person submitted to the Board Secretary a timely, written objection to that rate, fee, charge, or assessment specifying the grounds for alleging noncompliance. The issues raised in any such action or proceeding shall be limited to those raised in such an objection unless a court finds the issue could not have been raised in such an objection by those exercising reasonable diligence.
D. Procedures
The District shall:
1. Make available to the public any proposed rate, fee, charge, or assessment to which this section is to apply no less than 45 days before the deadline for a ratepayer or property owner to submit an objection pursuant to paragraph 4 of this subsection D
2. Post on its internet website a written basis for the rate, fee, charge, or assessment, such as a cost of service analysis or an engineer’s report, and include a link to the internet website in the written notice of the Hearing, including, but not limited to, a notice pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 4 or paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 6 of Article XIII D of the California Constitution.
3. Mail the written basis described in paragraph 2 of this subsection D to a ratepayer or property owner on request.
4. Provide at least 45 days for a ratepayer or assessed property owner to review the proposed fee or assessment and to timely submit to the Board Secretary a written objection to that rate, fee, charge, or assessment that specifies the grounds for alleging noncompliance. Any objection shall be submitted before the end of the public comment portion of a Hearing on the rate, fee, charge or assessment
5. Include in a written notice of the Hearing, a statement in bold-faced type of 12 points or larger that:
a. All written objections must be submitted to the Secretary of the Board by the end of the public comment period at the Hearing and that a failure to timely object in writing bars any right to challenge that rate, fee, charge or assessment in court and that any such action will be limited to issues identified in such objections
b. All substantive and procedural requirements for submitting an objection to the proposed rate, fee, charge, or assessment such as those specified for a property-related fee under California Constitution, article XIII D, Section 6(a) or for an assessment on real property under California Constitution, article XIII D, Section 4(c)
E Board Consideration; District Responses
Before and/or during the Hearing, the Board of Directors shall consider and the District shall respond in writing to, any timely written objections. The Board may adjourn the Hearing to another date if necessary to respond to comments received after the agenda is posted for the meeting at which the Hearing occurs. The District’s responses shall explain the substantive basis for retaining or altering the proposed rate, fee, charge, or assessment in response to written objections, including any reasons to reject requested amendments.
F Board Determinations
The Board of Directors, in exercising its legislative discretion, shall determine whether:
1. The written objections and the District’s response warrant clarifications to the proposed rate, fee, charge, or assessment.
2. To reduce the proposed rate, fee, charge or assessment.
3. To further review the proposed rate, fee, charge, or assessment before determining whether clarification or reduction is needed.
4. To proceed with the Hearing, to continue it, or to abandon the proposed rate, fee, charge or assessment
SECTION 3. CEQA FINDINGS
The Board of Directors finds that adoption of this Ordinance is exempt from CEQA because: (i) it is not a project within the meaning of Public Resources Code, Section 21065 because it has no potential to alter the physical environment; (ii) and pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), the so-called “common sense” exemption, for this same reason.
SECTION 4. SEVERABILITY
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance or its application to any person or circumstance is held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance or its application to other persons and circumstances. The Board of Directors declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof despite the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional and, to that end, the provisions hereof are hereby declared to be severable.
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its adoption [Water Code Section 31027]
SECTION 6. PUBLICATION
The Secretary of the Board of Directors shall give published notice of this Ordinance [Water Code Section 31027]
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of the Montecito Water District this 25th day of February 2025
AYES: Coates, Goebel, Hayman, Plough, Wicks NAYS:
ABSENT: ABSTAIN:
ATTEST:
Nick Turner, Secretary
APPROVED:
Ken Coates, President
States needs to sustain technological superiority. “Americans will need to work harder and work faster to win in transformational technology,” she said.
While recognizing the benefits of globalization, Rice cautioned that we have to stop ignoring those who’ve been left out. “The good news is that they’re finding their voice in institutions, not outside them,” she said. “We’re in for a wild ride, but we have to do something about so many people being left out. Let them find their voices in institutions.”
Despite global concerns, Rice continues to be optimistic about the future, expressing confidence in our democratic institutions, our collective American story – and because of amazing, globally-minded college students like the ones she teaches at Stanford.
“They think if they’ve Googled it, they’ve researched it,” she said. “They come to me and say, ‘I want to be a leader.’ Well, that’s not a destination or a job search. Before you solve that problem, how about you understand it? And my other favorite is, ‘I want my first job to be meaningful.’ No, nobody’s first job is ever meaningful.
“It takes time to develop talents and have experiences – and they’re going to be great. And because of them we will continue to be the most innovative and creative country on the planet.”
The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art hosted a powerful, heartful, outdoor event February 20 that included stories, poems and live music about the significance of the 2008 Tea Fire. At the center of the gathering in Westmont’s formal garden was an installation, Glowing Embers, created by local artist Ethan Turpin and Jonathan PJ Smith, co-owner of the Environment Makers.
A string quartet premiered “Agua Quemado” (Burnt Water) as the sun set
The two used multiple video projectors to make the pine trees, which were scarred in the Tea Fire, appear as though glowing with fire from within.
The event included testimonials from President Gayle D. Beebe, Montecito Fire Marshals Alex Broumand and Aaron Briner and poetry by English professor emeritus Paul Willis. The museum commissioned an evocative string quartet piece from Daniel Gee, Westmont director of choral activities, who directed the premiere of “Agua Quemado” as the sun set.
Turpin says his installation evokes what it’s like to stand in a place where fire has passed through just a few hours ago. “So perhaps, it’s a bit like going back in time to contemplate a patch of the Tea Fire and things the Westmont community learned and can share with new generations of students,” he says. “And it’s a way to empathize with people going through wildfires down south in L.A.
“We create these art experiences of fire, which are safe simulations of being there as it burns, so that we can confront this reality of our landscape together. Wildfires get our attention when they break out, but attention shifts. Getting together to think and talk between fires gives us time to learn and take wise action. Fire is a part of the nature we are attracted to here, so I think that addressing its striking beauty and also its risk actually can make us safer as individuals and as a community.”
He says events like this collect and bolster community, helping us become resilient together. “Many people told me they were struck by the way the visual of the embers became brighter and brighter as the dusk light faded to darkness,” he said. “This gradual transformation became more intense as the trees appeared to smolder and people told their stories of survival and growth.”
Rabbi Chaim invites the local Jewish community to join their Chai Club. Their site explains, “The Chai Club is a growing group of caring people who want to give our community in Montecito a place where we can connect with other Jews; discover more about our heritage; and celebrate our Judaism in a warm, loving, and non-judgmental atmosphere. Chai means life. The Chai Club consists of individuals committed to the health and stability of enhancing Judaism in Montecito by donating monthly to Chabad.”
411: https://tinyurl.com/ChabadChai
While the Santa Barbara International Orchid Show has drawn in crowds for 70+ years, its evening affair, Orchids After Dark, lets you take in these floral spectacles in a whole new light. Satiate your Orchidelirium this Saturday, March 8th, from 6-9 pm with dazzling lights, DJ beats, and a cash bar plus everyone’s favorite exotic flower. A Kokedama Workshop to make your own orchid arrangement will be offered at 7 & 8 pm. Don’t miss this unforgettable night of fun and flowers.
411: General Admission: $35; GA + 2 Drink Tickets: $55; GA + Workshop: $80 https://sborchidshow.com/orchids-after-dark
Care Facility Suicide / 300 Block Hot Springs Road
Monday, February 17, at 09:36 hours
Deputies responded to a care facility where an investigation revealed an apparent suicide, with subject pronounced deceased at scene. Next of Kin was notified.
Tampered Mail / Loureyro Road
Wednesday, February 19, at 16:42 hours
Reporting Party (RP) called in to report one of her mail packages had been tampered with. There was nothing missing from the package, however the outer protective box the package had been sent in had been removed. Inside the protective box, the RP found parcels of mail that had been tampered with. None of the mail was theirs, however, it belonged to several neighbors. The mail was collected, sorted and placed into individual bags by name and address. Follow up to be conducted by patrol.
Suspects on Property / 1300 Block East Mountain Drive
Wednesday, February 19, at 23:46 hours
Deputies responded to a video alarm activation in the back yard. RP stated there were two suspicious individuals with flashlights wearing dark clothing on the property. Upon arrival, deputies searched an unlocked guest house and the rest of the property, but did not find any indications of burglary or foul play. The owner of the property was contacted and was asked to email the security camera footage of the two suspicious individuals. Follow up to be conducted by patrol.
Burglary Break-in / Santa Rosa Lane
Thursday, February 20, at 19:03 hours
Deputies responded to an alarm activation at the above-mentioned address. Upon arrival, a perimeter check of the residence was conducted. While searching the residence exterior, an unlocked door and an additional door with broken glass were discovered. A K9 unit responded to the scene, and deputies conducted an interior search of the residence. Multiple rooms were found to have been ransacked, and the locked master bedroom door had been kicked in. After concluding the interior search, forensics responded to the scene and conducted their investigation. The homeowners responded as well and, after performing a preliminary walk-through, concluded that nothing of significant value was missing. It should be noted that the residence was equipped with multiple exterior security cameras, and the homeowner will send the footage in the following days. In addition, interviews will be conducted with the immediate neighbors.
Among those paying rapt attention after the mushroom soup and grilled salmon lunch were marathon-running bank boss Janet Garufis, Dana and Andrea Newquist, Brenda Blalock, Hiroko Benko, Bob and Mary Gates, Maria McCall, Anne Luther, Marjorie Peyton, and Stephanie Stevenson
Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry’s high life is getting even higher!
The former Dos Pueblos High student, 40, has announced she is heading into outer space as part of the historical Blue Origins all-woman crew alongside Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos’s fiancée Lauren Sanchez and CBS anchor Gayle King this spring.
It will be the 11th flight as part of the Blue Shephard program.
Lauren, who brought the mission together, expressed her excitement over the upcoming flight in a video shown on Instagram.
So far 52 people have experienced traveling 62 miles above Earth to the Kármán Line, which is the recognized spot that separates the planet’s atmosphere from space.
Among those who have participated are Bezos himself and Star Trek actor William Shatner
Security was paramount at the Granada when Israel’s Batsheva Dance
Naharin, with set design by Gadi Tzachor and lighting design by Avi Yona Bueno
It was a captivating performance featuring music by the Kronos Quartet and Laurie Anderson, “Metamorphosis: Two” by Philip Glass and “Madre Acapella” by Arca.
It was a shared passion of deep sorrow and beauty unfolding on the Granada stage.
$3.5 million Santa Fe, New Mexico, home with classical pianist wife Betsy Arakawa wife, 64, was a longtime resident of our rarefied enclave living on his 25-acre estate Piranhurst, just a tiara’s toss from Westmont College.
Company performed as part of UCSB’s popular Arts & Lectures program.
A small number of protesters were present, carrying disparaging placards.
More than 18 Santa Barbara police officers were stationed in and outside the theater and guests had to go through metal detectors placed in the lobby.
The 11 Tel Aviv-based dancers performed a 70-minute intermission-free show MOMO, choreographed by Ohad
Just 48 hours later and without all the heavy security on display, I watched returning pianists Beijing-born Yuja Wang and Icelander Víkingur Ólafsson in an 85-minute Granada A & L concert with works by Berio, a four-hand work from Schubert, Cage, Nancarrow, John Adams, Arvo Pärt, and Rachmaninoff, the show concluding with his “Symphonic Dances” for two pianos.
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A TV crew from the U.K.’s top a.m. show Good Morning Britain descended on Maison Mineards Montecito to interview me about my near neighbor Meghan Markle’s new Netflix lifestyle series With Love, Meghan which is scheduled to launch this month.
Now similarities have been made between the title and that of Baywatch star Pamela Anderson’s new culinary show Pamela’s Cooking with Love – which also shares a similar title to the direct-toTV movie, Cooking with Love Stay tuned...
Actor Gene Hackman, 95 who died under suspicious circumstances at his
The imposing property was eventually acquired by the late Texan billionaire Harold Simmons and is now owned by his widow Annette. Hackman won two Oscars in his 60-year career, which included films like The French Connection in 1971, No Way Out in 1987 and Get Shorty in 1995.
Jelinda DeVorzon, wife of music Oscar nominee Barry DeVorzon , described Hackman as “a charming gentleman and great actor.”
Former Montecito supermodel Kathy Ireland has been sharing what she misses about her late friend, Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor.
Speaking with People magazine on what would have been the Cleopatra star’s 93rd birthday Kathy, 61, says one of her abiding memories is reading the Bible with the actress.
“We talked about business and life, and we’d study the Bible together. She loved that and I loved it. It was such a gift.
“They are some of my favorite memories of Elizabeth. We would go through the Old Testament, the New Testament and bring them together. It was really special.”
Taylor, 30 years Kathy’s senior, started their special relationship in the early 2000s.
More than 115 guests turned out for the venerable Granada Theatre’s annual “l Love Your Theater” open house when supporters were allowed to see the “innards” of the 2,000-seat auditorium with wine and canapés on the capacious stage which a week earlier had hosted the historic London Symphony Orchestra, part of CAMA’s international program.
Jon Fowler, Head of Audio, and Carlin Das, Head Electrician, gave demonstrators, with pianist Debbie Denke playing in the warmup room, and wardrobe head
Jane Hatfield giving a tour of the capacious dressing rooms, while Dan Lyon, Stage Coordinator, gave guests a bird-eye view of the rigging and stage.
“It gives an interesting perspective for those who’ve only viewed it from the balconies and the orchestra,” says Granada president Caren Rager
No wonder billionaire hotelier Rick Caruso is smiling!
His tony oceanside hostelry the Rosewood Miramar has once again received its Triple Five-Star designation – one of only 14 properties in the world.
This the second year the Montecito property has been recognized in the 2025 Forbes Travel Guide Star Rating list.
The coastal retreat also earned fivestar designations for its Sense spa and its Michelin-awarded restaurant Caruso’s.
Last weekend, terminally ill mother Traci Glynn from Atascadero trav -
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A lifelong horse owner and experienced rider Traci, 42, who was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, enjoyed one more ride with her family thanks to the ranch and the Dream Foundation.
“All I want is special time in a setting that I know will fill my heart and provide an opportunity to create some fun happy memories together,” says Traci.
The Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara has received 3,299 applications for financial assistance during the 2025 academic year.
The applications are currently under review and awardees will be announced in April and May.
Last year the foundation awarded more than $7.1 million to 1,787 students throughout Santa Barbara County.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle downing oysters at Clark’s... Michael Douglas and friends noshing at Olio e Limone... Actor Chris Pratt getting his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond.
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Hootie and the Blowfish – the whole band will be headlining, not just lead singer Darius Rucker, who has a solo gig at the Bowl later in the year – and Macy Gray, who had a smash hit with “I Try.”
Proceeds will benefit first responders of both Santa Barbara and L.A. counties, including mental health support for the firefighters in the southland in their struggle against the toll of constant exposure to trauma. The southland-specific fundraising will be similar to what One805 has created here, including the announcement of an additional $500,000 grant to their local mental wellness fund.
“They’re our neighbors and they look after us and we look after them,” explained One805 co-founder Richard Weston-Smith. “We sent 20 strike teams down to L.A. to help fight the fires, and many of them were working 48 hours on, four hours off. And when they can’t save a house, they feel terribly guilty. One firefighter was tasked with recovering human remains, which is about as grizzly a thing as one could do. So we want to give a little mental wellness assistance to our fellow first responders in L.A. who don’t have access to what we have here.”
A portion of the proceeds are headed for Music Cares, the charity that directly supports musicians in need, Weston-Smith said.
“The musicians that support us so selflessly allow us to raise all the funds to do what we do. So many of them lost not just their houses, but their livelihood, because their musical instruments, recordings, computers and more were also destroyed in the fire. Altadena has a big musician’s community, and many lived in Palisades. We want to give back to the musicians, too.”
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Fervent folkies Gillian Welch and her musical and life partner David Rawlings were frequent visitors to the Lobero Theatre back when the singer-songwriter series Sings Like Hell was still a thing – the duo began making their astonishing moving records right around when SLH was hitting its stride in the late 1990s. But we haven’t seen them around these parts for a while. So it’s a treat that Welch and Rawlings, whose harmonies are as evocative and haunting as their deeply personal songs, are headed back to town for a March 9 concert, albeit at the much larger if equally elegant Granada. The “modern masters of American folk” – called “protectors of the American folk song” by Rolling Stone (no going electric à la Dylan in A Complete Unknown for this duo) – took home for a second time in five years the Best Folk Album Grammy for Woodland last month. Visit www.granadasb.org.
Steven Libowitz has covered a plethora of topics for the Journal since 1997, and now leads our extensive arts and entertainment coverage
Irish champion flutist and multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Séamus Egan formed Solas as something of an Irish music supergroup way back in 1995, and the idea was quickly validated by Solas’ almost instant popular and critical success, including the Boston Globe hailing the band as “the finest Celtic ensemble this country has ever produced.” There have been a few personnel changes over the years, and in 2017 Solas decided to go on a break. Now Séamus, original fiddler Winifred Horan , longtime accordionist and concertina player Mick McAuley , guitarist Eamon McElholm and new vocalist/banjo player Moira Smiley have reformed Solas for a 30th anniversary tour, which kicks off its California swing at the Lobero on March 12.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 7
Going Up – Johnny Irion’s Santa Barbara based rock band U.S. Elevator is readying a new rock recording due later this year, hot on the heels of Irion’s thematic and largely acoustic album Sleeping Soldiers of Love, which came out last fall. The new album’s first single, “Let Me Take Your Foto,” is a collaboration with internationally acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson – whose power pop-punk song was co-written in 1979 by a then 16-year-old Crewdson and bandmate Eric Hoffert, and recorded by The Speedies when they were a part of the New York underground rock scene. Check it out along with more of Irion’s iridescent tunes in the band’s return to SOhO on a bill with Chico’s favorite sons, aka The Mother Hips.
WHEN: 9 pm
WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State St., upstairs in Victroria Court COST: $30
INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com
SATURDAY, MARCH 8
‘Awakenings’ at St. Andrew’s – DEI and “woke” may be verboten expressions in the power corridors of D.C., but the Santa Barbara Music Club is
THURSDAY, MARCH 6
1st Thursday – Talia Van-Son’s The Repurpose of Life, now at Art & Soul (1323 State St.), was created with the concept of breathing new vitality into discarded objects, in the process weaving together history, imagination, and artistry. Each piece aims to tell a story of resilience and beauty, redefining what is seen, valued, and reborn… In Celebration of Color, at Benchmark Eatery (1201 State St.), Lisa Trivell’s collection of paintings are works that have been printed on aluminum for indoor decor and outdoor installation. The venue also features “RejuvenArt” talk and a video presentation of Trivell’s Moving Art that combines art and meditation at 7:30 pm… Paintings by Pitcher and Perko populate the walls in the first two galleries at Sullivan Goss (11 E. Anapamu St.), and these two popular and prolific painters prove themselves yet again. Pitcher’s The Miramar Affair, the artist’s first solo show at the gallery in four years, features his return to the Montecito beach and environs for commissioned and additional works, while Perko’s The Storytellers also focuses on people that have struck her fancy… Local oil painter Nancy Freeman’s abstract exhibition gets the honors at the quarterly 1st Thursday show from CPC Gallery (36 E. Victoria St.), where visitors can also enjoy live Bossa Nova and Spanish-inspired music by guitarist David Patt, while sipping on complimentary tastings of Stolpman’s locally sourced wine… One of the periodic pop-up opera performances by Opera Santa Barbara brings music to the atrium from 5:30-6:15 pm at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State St.)… Santa Barbara stalwart string man Tony Ybarra fronts a trio for the monthly after-hours gathering with free wine at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum (136 E. De La Guerra St.) in the courtyard, while you can partake of the latest exhibitions, J. Walter Collinge: Pictorial Santa Barbara and Beyond and The Chair indoors… SBIFF’s Santa Barbara Filmmaker Series showcasing shorts by local filmmakers this month screens Tess McCormick’s Not Just Water, an exploration of the importance of ocean enjoyment for all children tempered by unequal access to ocean spaces.
WHEN: 5-8 pm
WHERE: Lower State Street and side streets
COST: free
INFO: (805) 962-2098 or www.downtownsb.org/events/1st-thursday
THURSDAY, MARCH 6
Dance Dimensions – Dream, by Christina McCarthy – who created the astounding puppet’s for State Street Ballet’s enchanting The Little Mermaid (which premiered last weekend at the Lobero) – employs puppets, pillows and poignancy to inhabit the world of unexpected and fantastical experiences; those that visit us in our dreams and comprise our waking lives. McCarthy’s Dream is one of three works making world premieres as part of UCSB Dance Company’s latest program, Refractions: voices in light & dark. The concert also features the pre-professional company’s Artistic Director Delila Moseley’s Maenad, a meld of contemporary and balletic forms exploring different aspects of the female followers of the god Dionysus in Greek mythology. Curio, by PhD candidate and Selah Dance Collective director Meredith Ventura, is inspired by the radical cabaret dances of the 1920s and 30s that influenced early modern dance. Four earlier works by dance professors and current/former company members will also be performed. These include Sky Pasqual’s intriguing Are We There Yet?, which finds three dancers twining and unfurling through a floating enclosure of silk.
WHEN: 7:30 pm March 6-7, 2 & 7:30 pm March 8
WHERE: Hatlen Theater, 552 University Road
COST: $13-$18
INFO: (805) 893-2064 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu
only too happy to celebrate the accomplishments of women composers of the 19th-21st centuries in today’s free concert. The all-female affair dubbed “AWAKENINGS: A Concert Celebrating the Voices of Women in Music” begins with Exigencies , composed and played by current SBMC president pianist Leslie Hogan with cellist Virginia Kron . The five-movement suite includes pieces titled “Elegy,” “Atmospheric Rivers,” and “The Year of Broken Bones” – descriptors of her experiences over 18 recent months. Violinist Nicole McKenzie and pianist Erin Bonski round out the afternoon with works by Lili Boulanger, Cécile Chaminade, Grażyna Bacewicz, and Ruth Crawford Seeger, the famous folk singer Pete’s stepmother and the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in composition.
WHEN: 3 pm
WHERE: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 4575 Auhay Dr. COST: free
INFO: or https://sbmusicclub.org
TUESDAY, MARCH 11
Crossing the Canyon – The documentary film Facing the Falls chronicles international disability rights advocate and entrepreneur Cara Yar Khan ’s quest to shatter the stigma against people living with disabilities by putting aside her aggressive muscle-wasting disease to embark on a 12-day expedition through the Grand Canyon. In this story of fear, hubris, courage, and perseverance against the odds, the expedition team grapples with the remote wilderness and comes face-to-face with their individual demons and insecurities. Director Celia Aniskovich and producer Liz Yale Marsh join co-producer and UCSB Film & Media Studies professor Wendy Eley Jackson for a post-screening discussion.
WHEN: 7:30 pm
WHERE: Campbell Hall
COST: free
INFO: (805) 893-3535 or https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12-THURSDAY, MARCH 13
‘Choose Hope’ Symposium – Santa Barbara-based Nuclear Age Peace Foundation teams up with Soka Gakkai International for a two-day gathering honoring the legacies of David Krieger and Daisaku Ikeda, the two organizations’ founder and president emeritus, respectively. Both passed away in late 2023. Annie Jacobsen, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Nuclear War: A Scenario,
FRIDAY, MARCH 7
Uptown Downbeats – NEA Jazz Master and Grammy-winning trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis’ Uptown Jazz Orchestra (UJO) has grown into one of the premier large ensembles in the world since its founding in 2007 to preserve such jazz music traditions as riff-playing, spontaneous group improvisations and collective New Orleans instrumental polyphony. Marsalis, the younger brother of Wynton and Branford, has also released eight of his own albums and served as an in-demand producer of acoustic jazz recordings. The UJO presents traditional, classic and modern compositions with authenticity, winning plaudits both for its recordings and frequent live performances.
WHEN: 7:30 pm
WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St.
COST: $41 & $52 ($106 VIP tickets includes premier seating and a pre-show reception with drinks and hors d’oeuvres)
INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.org
delivers the 20th Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future, followed by a panel of experts exploring key challenges in nuclear disarmament and global security. On March 13, a series of thought-provoking panels will delve into topics including nuclear deterrence, the vision set by the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, nuclear justice, the intersection of nuclear and climate activism and more. These panels will feature leading diplomats, academics, and advocates in the field.
WHEN: 6-8 pm, Wednesday; 10 am-5:25 pm, Thursday WHERE: Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: free
INFO: www.wagingpeace.org/choose-hope-symposium-2025
THURSDAY, MARCH 13
Reeder’s Digest – Don’t confuse Dan Reeder’s latest album Smithereens with the great New Jersey power pop band of that name (“Behind a Wall of Sleep”), as the singer-songwriter favors sharp, cheeky lyrics and timeless folk versus crunchy rock songs. Reeder’s new release, his fifth on Oh Boy Records (John Prine’s label), features a full 27 tracks resulting from his DIY approach – which includes building his own instruments and microphones, and even designing his album art. The cult hero, who now lives in Germany and counts Phoebe Bridgers among his fans, slides into SOhO for a rare stateside show where he’ll be accompanied by his daughter Peggy WHEN: 8 pm
WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State St., upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $29.50
INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com
SUNDAY, MARCH 9
Focus on Film: ‘Fly’ Away – The Santa Barbara date for the Fly Fishing Film Festival tour has expanded to a full day of celebrating fly fishing, art, conservation and community at the Lobero Theatre, including a free “Save Santa Barbara Steelhead” symposium. The day includes a sale of gently used fly-fishing gear, an art demonstration by Grace Fisher and artists from her foundation, and a town hall gathering which empanels Chumash members, the state’s Department of Fish & Wildlife, and reps of local environmental organizations to discuss saving the steelhead trout – once a vital part of our local Chumash Tribe’s culture but today threatened with extinction. Then the fishing films take over the theater, with beautiful screenings of stories from rivers around the world.
WHEN: 8 am-10 pm
WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: free-$26 ($85 VIP tickets)
INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.org
Celebrate Lloyd’s 87th birthday and historic 20th Lobero concert as he brings together an impressive trio of musical titans for the first time. The three of them share Southern roots and each brings a unique perspective and contribution to America’s indigenous art form — jazz.
Xavier Mortimer (top French magician), Ronn Lucas (a major world headliner), Dan Birch (high-tech “Lord of Illusions”), Eriko Trevensolli (three-time Merlin Award winner for Best
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