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Biggest polo season in memory kicks off this Sunday; Gaviota grumblers reproach Brad and Angelina for “illegal” ATV activity; Timothy Busfield and Melissa Gilbert wed at SYR, p. 6

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 • MONTECITO EATERIES, P. 48 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 50

THE PLAY’S THE THING

It’s hard to imagine any town or city in the U.S. of comparable size that can match the sheer quality and quantity of stage performances Santa Barbara school kids are offering this weekend and next (story on page 26)

Curious Traveler

The Vasari Corridor – the Medicis’ hidden passageway from Uffizi to Palazzo Pitti – one of Florence’s best-kept secrets, p. 34

Spring Has Sprung

Festival Concert at Music Academy stars Montecito Union and Cold Spring Schools’ advanced musical students, p. 43

Defeating Alzheimer’s

World-renowned Alzheimer’s researchers and dementia experts announce startling progress at home of Fred & Joyce Lucas, p. 49

Cover photo: Alexander Fell is Tulsa and Elise Guerrand-Hermes is Dainty June in Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre production of “Gypsy” at the Lobero (photo by: Erin Dru)

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Montecito Miscellany

Polo season kicks off; Brad Pitt causes a local stir; Melissa Gilbert weds at San Ysidro Ranch; Armie Hammer visits his dad; OSB presents Don Pasquale; Girls Inc. fundraiser; State Street Ballet ends season; Transition House’s Mad Hatter lunch; Jennifer Koh impresses; Milt Larsen celebrates birthday; Granada Books to open; garden party at the Blankenhorns’; Michael Haber’s photography exhibit; SB Master Chorale concert; Jonathan Winters remembered; sightings

Letters to the Editor

Carolee Krieger stresses importance of getting SB out of Twin Tunnels project; Jan Hendrickson thankful for extended hours publicity; Cotty Chubb seeks out extra copy of paper; Peter LeVay curious about Olive Mill exit proposal; Maxime Brunell Marsha van Dongeren and Barbara Title curious about Bruce Savin

This Week in Montecito

May Madness; Cacti & Cocktails at Lotusland; Pups & PJs Pawty; MBAR and MA Land Use meetings; SB Rose Society monthly meeting; New Yorker discussion group; Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care Mother’s Day Luncheon; Garden Lovers Tour; Lotusland Mother’s Day Tea and Tour; ongoing events

Tide Guide

Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

Village Beat

MUS Carnival a success; Chef Jamie West joins Casa Dorinda; 14th annual Pearl Chase Society Historic Homes Tour visits adobes; second giraffe born this year; SBHS Alumni Association annual BBQ; Buddhist monk Robert A. F. Thurman speaks at Crane

Seen Around Town

Transition House annual benefit at Biltmore; One Hundred Committee of Girls Inc. luncheon; 10th annual Santa Barbara Police Activities League “Putting Kids First!” gala; Arts Fund’s “Big Splash” exhibit; Lynda to appear on Literary Gumbo TV show

Montecito Capitalist

David Stockman discusses new book, The Great Deformation

Coming & Going

 SBHS, Adderley School For the Performing Arts and San Marcos offer up stellar shows this weekend not to miss

Book Talk

Sarah Ruden’s most recent translation is of The Golden Ass, by Lucius Apuleius

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Why the Tea Party movement deserves some praise

On Entertainment

 Bernadette Peters makes SB debut; adventurous theatre around town; The Bad Plus and Brad Mehldau at Lobero; classical acts

Curious Traveler

Jerry Dunn’s secret discoveries to check out next time you’re in Florence

Sheriff’s Blotter

Thefts on construction sites increase; teacher harassed on internet; missing man found

State Street Spin

 Spirit of ‘76 Association seeks donations; former SBHS coach Bob Moore suffers stroke; Santa Barbara in the news; woman arrested at IRS building; bees abound in town

Our Town

MUS and Cold Spring annual Spring Festival at Music Academy

Your Westmont

 Ronald C. White Jr. to speak at Commencement; polo team honored; men’s track team conference champs

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Movie Showtimes

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Calendar of Events

 First Thursday; Bill Burr at Chumash; Ojai Storytelling Festival; Quire of Voyces spring concert; SB Music Club perform at Faulkner Gallery; Phil Alden Robinson speaks at UCSB; Erik Larson discussion; Andy Warhol exhibit performance

Real Estate

Mark Hunt lists four “Best Buys” sold in March

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Editorial



by Bob Hazard

Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

Montecito Water Rate Increase Hard to Swallow

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proposed 55% increase in the cost of your water bill stretched out over five years means that the average residential water user in Montecito and Summerland, who now pays $2,200 per year, would be paying $3,410 a year in 2018 for the same amount of water. The increase could be a whole lot more if Governor Jerry Brown successfully passes his Twin Tunnels water project, a state plan for drought relief that calls for the construction of two giant 35-mile water-diversion tunnels to re-route northern California water from the Sacramento River, under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, to southern California, at an initial estimated cost of $24 to $64 billion. The five Montecito Water District (MWD) Board Members – President Sam Frye, Doug Morgan, Jan Abel, Dick Shaikewitz and Darlene Bierig – plus Tom Mosby, the 23-year veteran who has served as MWD General Manager since 2008, have the unenviable task of justifying the consultant-recommended five-year water rate increase to a skeptical Montecito community. This would be the first water rate increase by the MWD since a modest 4% increase in 2008. Imagine you are an MWD Board member, charged with the responsibility of ensuring a reliable, high-quality water supply at an affordable cost for your 4,380 Montecito-Summerland users, 94% of whom are residential customers. If the proposed rate increase is approved, Montecito residents will most likely blame the added cost per year on poor management by MWD, or on poor planning for predictable capital expenditures. Especially hard hit will be big users whose payments reduce the costs for the rest of us. Oprah Winfrey will see her annual water bill rise from $124,000 a year to just under $200,000 a year, a bump of $76,000 a year. Senior citizens living at Casa Dorinda will see their collective annual water costs rise from $104,000 a year to $161,000, a bump of $57,000 per year for the same amount of water. Westmont College will see an increase of $50,000 in water costs. Even the deceased at the Santa Barbara Cemetery may be moved by a $30,000 increase, if the new rates are approved by the MWD Board. The facts are:

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The South Coast is enduring its second straight year of below average rainfall, following an above average year in 2011 when Lake Cachuma was full and overflowing. Cachuma is now about ⅔ full and sits more than 25 feet below spill level. Rainfall for the year that began September 1, 2012, is 55% of normal countywide. Last year’s rainfall was 58% of normal; but the two previous years were wet – 145% and 119% of normal. According to Rebecca Bjork, water resources manager for the City of Santa Barbara, it’s not yet time to roll out the “D” word, but two or three more years of dismally dry conditions could create severe drought conditions.

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Montecito-Summerland customers of MWD consume some 5,200 to 5,500 Acre Feet (AF) of water per year. Each acre foot is 325,851 gallons, or enough water to fill a football field to the depth of one foot. During normal water supply years, sources of water include 2,125 AF from MWD’s owned and operated Jameson Lake and Doulton Tunnel at a low cost of $80 per acre foot; 248 AF from wells that tap the four Montecito aquifers at a cost of $161 per AF; 2,651 AF from Montecito’s 10.3 % share of Lake Cachuma water at a cost of $520 per AF; and 616 AF from the State Water Project (SWP) added to the Cachuma Lake allocation. That’s a total of 5,640 AF, augmented by an emergency water supply bank of 1,479 AF in the SWP-owned San Luis Reservoir.

State Water Project (SWP)

Back in 1991, Montecito voters, coming out of four years of drought, approved a MWD purchase of a 9.5% share (equating to an annual water supply of 3,300 AF) in the coastal branch of the State Water Project, operated and maintained by the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA). SWP construction started in the 1950s, but the final 143-mile coastal connection to deliver water to central and south coast water members, was not finished until 1997. The first SWP deliveries to Lake Cachuma began in 1998. Initial cost projections for the south and central coast connections started as low as $270 million, but quickly ballooned to $595 million. Total SWP costs have been estimated by CCWA to be $1.76 billion, with the repayment of all capital costs, interest on the debt, and operations

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Monte ito Miscellany by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail before moving to New York to write for Rupert Murdoch’s newly launched Star magazine in 1978; Richard later wrote for New York magazine’s “Intelligencer”. He continues to make regular appearances on CBS, ABC, and CNN, and moved to Montecito six years ago.

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hank you to Bob Hazard for writing the two-part opinion pieces on Montecito’s water dilemma (Editorials MJ # 19/12 & 19/13)…but the 55% rate increase may be just the tip of the iceberg.  We know Montecito water customers are stuck with the fixed costs of bringing State Water to Montecito as a result of the 1991 bond measure passed by the voters here. But we aren’t stuck yet with the costs associated with the Twin (Peripheral) Tunnels project, mentioned in the article. Those costs, estimated from $20 to $69 billion, will be automatically prorated on our water bills. And, both the State and Federal governments have stated that the Tunnels will not provide any new water. If our Board of Supervisors, sitting as the State Water Project contractor with DWR, does not get Santa Barbara out of the Twin Tunnels project, Montecito’s share of the gargantuan bill, added to our already staggering fixed costs for the State Water Project hook up, could be the demise of our Water District. I would like to ask the Montecito Water Board to please consider requesting the Supervisors to get our County out of the Twin Tunnels project. Other local water agencies are having the same financial burdens and if enough request relief, I believe we can prevail. But, time is running short. The statewide organization I cofounded – the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) – has followed the whole process very closely and is prepared to do what it can to stop the Twin Tunnels. We are working with the ratepayers in San Diego and the City of L.A. who are beginning to balk as well. Please contact the Montecito Water Board and our first District Supervisor, Salud Carbajal and urge them to withdraw Santa Barbara from the Twin Tunnels project…we simply can’t afford it. Again thanks, Bob, and the Journal for your great work on this. It is not an easy subject. Carolee Krieger Montecito

Extended Hours on Tax Day

On behalf of everyone at Read ‘n Post, I want to say “thank you” to all staff at the Santa Barbara area media

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outlets that provided information about the late hours at our post office on tax deadline day, April 15. Hundreds of taxpayers took advantage of the opportunity to bring their tax returns to the post office at Read ‘n Post that day – many during the extra hours when we were open that night. As they mailed their tax returns, a large number of people mentioned that they saw or heard news about our late hours on television, radio or the weekly newspapers in our area. Your coverage was truly a service to the community! Again, we at Read ‘n Post are grateful to you, and we know many “last minute” taxpayers in the Santa Barbara-Montecito-Goleta area are equally grateful. Jan Hendrickson, Read ‘n Post Coast Village Road (Editor’s note: We have no doubt, however, that Montecito residents read about your extended hours in the Montecito Journal! By the way: your new shop looks terrific! – J.B.)

A Civil Exchange

Thanks for running the exchange between me and Mr. Iannelli (Letters to the Editor, MJ # 19/16 & 19/17). It’s been civil. I enjoyed the support I got this week, rebutting the rebuttal. I’ve always admired a gift for saying insulting things in the most polite way. Might you perhaps have an extra copy of the issue in which my letter appeared? I am not dissembling when I say that the only copy in my house was either used to attract dog waste or got recycled. No-one here seems to know. Cotty Chubb Montecito (Editor’s note: Just so you and all our readers will know: we always have extra copies of past issues at our office at 1206 Coast Village Circle. Readers are welcome to drop in anytime between 9:30 am and 4:30 pm to obtain one. – J.B.)

Unrewarding 101 Web Search

I have been doing a web search to find the proposed changes for the widening of 101 around the Olive Mill exit. It has been extremely unrewarding. The only proposed development

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FRIDAY MAY 10 Mother’s Day Luncheon In honor of Mother’s Day, Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care will host their 12th Annual Mother’s Day Luncheon at the Biltmore. Each year, the non-profit organization honors two mothers – one living, and one in memory – and celebrates their lives and acknowledges their contributions to the community. This year, VNHC will pay tribute to two special mothers of the Santa Barbara community, Barbara Ireland and

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SATURDAY MAY 4 Cacti & Cocktails at Lotusland Take advantage of this opportunity to see the cactus garden – and other gardens as well – in the late afternoon light. A PowerPoint presentation depicting the installation of Merritt Dunlap’s cactus collection to create what is now the Cactus Garden will be on display in the sunken drawing room of the Main House. Enjoy specialty cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. You may explore the garden on your own or request a docent-led highlight tour. When: 3 to 6 pm Cost: $55 members; $65 non-members Info and reservations: 969-9990 or [email protected]

SATURDAY MAY 4 May Madness Music Academy of the West presents its annual massive treasure sale. Items for sale include furniture, rugs, small appliances, kitchenware, garden accessories, fine linens, antiques, silver, crystal, china, art, collectibles, hardcover books, board games, music and movies, electronics, jewelry, men’s and women’s clothing, luggage, and sports equipment. Merchandise will be arrayed by type throughout the Academy’s grounds. Proceeds from the estate sale will directly benefit the Music Academy. Parking will be available on the Music Academy campus. Additional parking space and shuttle service will be available at Las Aves complex, located on the corner of Los Patos Way and Cabrillo Boulevard. When: Saturday, May 4, 9 am to 3 pm Where: 1070 Fairway Road Info: (805) 969-4726 Pups & PJs Pawty If your children love dogs and reading, here’s an opportunity for them to curl up with a good book and a friendly canine at All for Animals’ first ever Pups ‘n’ PJs Pawty. Kids get to dress in a favorite pair of

pajamas and enjoy milk and cookies while listening to some doggone great bedtime stories. Several registered therapy dogs will be joining in the fun, so there will be plenty of time to cuddle with a furry friend. All the dogs are part of All for Animals’ ARF! (Animals + Reading = Fun!) literacy program for children.  The cost is only $20 per child, which includes snacks, bookmarks and coloring sheets. For an additional $10 donation, your child will get a private 10-minute reading session with one of the ARF! dogs. All proceeds from this fundraiser will benefit All for Animals’ ARF! literacy program. Space is limited to 20 children. When: 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm Where: Curious Cup, 929 Linden Avenue Info: 682-3160

MONDAY MAY 6 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito When: 2 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu

LaVerne (Bebe) Browning. Daughters Kathy, Cynthia, and Mary will honor their mother, and local philanthropist, Barbara Ireland. Her most notable charitable contribution is through The Barbara Ireland Walk for Breast Cancer Research, an annual walk in collaboration with the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara, benefiting local cancer research. Also being honored in memory is LaVerne (Bebe) Browning, who passed away in 2011. Bebe was the mother of past VNHC Board member and past Chair of the Board, Charles Browning. Guests will enjoy a lovely lunch and have the chance to bid on a number of silent auction items and five live auction items, including American Idol finale tickets with a two-night stay at the Lowe’s Hotel in Santa Monica; a private cooking class for 12 people with Leonardo of Trattoria Grappolo, along with a private tour and tasting with Ron Melville at Melville winery and a one night stay at the Santa Ynez Inn; a trip to Vancouver including airfare and a three-night hotel stay; a private tour of The Reagan Ranch; a private dinner for 10 people at the Levine home, including a special case of red wine from Demetria Winery.  When: 11 am Where: La Pacifica Ballroom, 1260 Channel Drive Cost: $150 per person Info: www.vnhcsb.org

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Montecito Association Land Use Meeting The Montecito Association Land Use Committee is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road

Mother’s Day Tea and Tour Treat your mother, grandmother, or someone important in your life to a special afternoon at Lotusland Mother’s Day. Guests may explore the garden on their own or reserve a docent-led tour. Tea and refreshments will be served on the pavilion patio and main lawn throughout the afternoon. A confirmation and directions to the Visitor Entrance will be provided on receipt of your reservation. When: 1:30 pm to 4 pm Cost: $70 for members; $80 for non-members; $30 for children 5-12 Register: 969-9990

THURSDAY MAY 9 Santa Barbara Rose Society Local landscape architect Sydney Baumgartner will discuss the legendary Elizabeth de Forest at the Society’s monthly meeting; guests are welcome When: refreshments and socializing at 7 pm; program begins at 7:30 pm Where: Louise Lowry Davis Center, 1232 De La Vina Street Info: 963-8215 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker When: 7:30 pm to 9 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

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Art Exhibit Montecito artist Steve Gilbar displays his paper collages featuring Penguins (the books, not the birds) When: February through May, Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm Where: Gallery 827, 827 State Street Info: 969-9857

MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appt, just call Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850

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TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS Adventuresome Aging Where: 89 Eucalyptus Lane Info: 969-0859; ask for Susan

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FRIDAY MAY 10 Garden Lovers Tour Enjoy three of Santa Barbara’s most celebrated gardens: Lotusland, Casa del Herrero and Alice Keck Memorial Gardens. Lotusland and Casa tours will feature specially trained garden docents for those facilities. At Alice Keck Park, morning tours will be led by the garden’s original designer Grant Castleberg and Carol Terry, the well known City Parks caretaker of Alice for over 15 years; afternoon tours will be led by author and landscape architect Billy Goodnick and Virginia Hayes, garden writer and Curator of Lotusland. When: 8 am to 12:30 pm or 1 pm to 5:30 pm Cost: $50 includes docent-led tours, transportation between gardens, and free parking at the starting point Reservations: 565-5653; space is limited Info: www.sbpublicgardens.org

FREE IN HOME CONSULTATION

www.MontecitoKitchens.com Where: Cava, 1212 Coast Village Road When: 7 pm to 10 pm Info: 969-8500

MONDAYS Story Time at the Library When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memory enhancement exercises in a friendly environment When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: Jackie Kennedy, 969-0859

TUESDAYS Adventuresome Aging Program Community outings, socialization, and lunch for dependent adults When: 10 am Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $75, includes lunch Info: Jackie Kennedy, 969-0859 Boy Scout Troop 33 Meeting Open to all boys ages 11-17; visitors welcome When: 7:15 pm Where: Scout House, Upper Manning Park, 449 San Ysidro Road

WEDNESDAYS Story Time Stories read to little ones at Montecito toy store, Toy Crazy. All books are discounted 10% for purchase during story time mornings. When: 11 am to 11:30 am Where: 1026 Coast Village Road Info: 565-7696

THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at the Montecito Library

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Practice your Italian conversation amongst a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all, and informative, too! When: 1 pm to 2 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

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Pick-up Basketball Games He shoots; he scores! The Montecito Family YMCA is offering pick-up basketball on Thursdays at 5:30 pm. Join coach Donny for warm-up, drills and then scrimmages. Adults welcome too. When: 5:30 pm Where: Montecito Family YMCA, 591 Santa Rosa Lane Info: 969-3288

FRIDAYS Farmers’ Market When: 8 am to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Road Local Artisans Market When: 3 to 7 pm Where: La Cumbre Plaza, 121 South Hope Avenue Info: www.localartisansmarket.com

SATURDAYS Local Artisans Market When: 2 to 6 pm Where: “Food Walk” Market, 2330-2350 Lillie Avenue, Summerland Info: www.localartisansmarket.com

SUNDAYS Vintage & Exotic Car Day Motorists and car lovers from as far away as Los Angeles and as close as East Valley Road park in front of Richie’s Barber Shop at the bottom of Middle Road on Coast Village Road going west to show off and discuss their prized possessions, automotive trends and other subjects. Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Corvettes prevail, but there are plenty other autos to admire. When: 8 am to 10 am (or so) Where: 1187 Coast Village Road Info: [email protected] •MJ Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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by Kelly Mahan

Montecito Union Carnival

Devon Gura getting her face painted at the MUS carnival (photo by Medeighnia Westwick)

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US Carnival organizer Annabelle Abba Brownell says the annual event, which took place on Saturday, April 27, had a “tremendous outcome,” with a record number of attendees enjoying the carnival attractions and sunshine. Kids, and even some parents, sported their Dr. Seuss-inspired hairdos and face paint, while they played games, rode carnival rides, enjoyed baked goods and treats, and bid on auction items.

The MUS campus was transformed with countless activities and attractions, bounce houses and rides, and tents to purchase trinkets, MUS gear, and student-made goods via the Montecito Mustang Marketplace, which was introduced last year. The Marketplace is set up so students can showcase their skills and help raise funds for the school by offering goods and services. Offerings included balloon animals, handmade jewelry, artwork, sun catchers, painted flower

MONTECITO UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT A California Distinguished School 385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108 (805) 969-3249 • Fax(805) 969-9714

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MONTECITO UNION SCHOOL IS NOW REGISTERING K-6 STUDENTS FOR THE 2013 – 2014 SCHOOL YEAR!

Students who are being registered for Kindergarten must be age 5 by October 1, 2013. Children who will turn five after October 1, 2013 and before December 2, 2013 are eligible for a transitional kindergarten option.

For any questions please call 969-3249 *In order to attend Montecito Union School, you must live within our district boundaries. Information for proof of residency can be checked by accessing the website under Headlines and Announcements at www.montecitou.org

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Acrobats entertained carnival goers (photo by Medeighnia Westwick)

Former San Ysidro Ranch and Ojai Valley Inn & Spa executive chef Jamie West joins the Casa Dorinda team as new executive chef

Tyler Transki after a session in the bubble machine at last Saturday’s Montecito Union School carnival (photo by Medeighnia Westwick)

pots, handmade soaps, manicures, fortune telling, trivia challenges, hand massages and more. “My own son and his friends participated in the Mustang Marketplace as student vendors and not only raised over one hundred and fifty dollars for the school, but walked away with a sincere excitement about learning more about running a business, as well as philanthropic satisfaction from donating to their school,” Brownell said. This year, Brownell said the “greening” of the carnival was a major goal of the organizers. Because of their efforts, 97% of the waste produced from the event was diverted into composting and recycling. “That is to say that from the entire carnival, only one trash can went into landfill. That is an incredible number!” Brownell said. The MUS Green Team worked with all the food vendors to eliminate waste, and spearheaded efforts with California Pizza Kitchen in changing their mobile kitchen practices. A regional director of CPK was at last Saturday’s carnival to see the greening techniques in practice. Other vendors also went “green.” Ruby’s Shaved Ice, based in Montecito, used compostable cups made out of corn. And Coast Village Road’s gelat2 – 9 May 2013

Volunteer mom Davece Pires gets into the Dr. Seuss spirit (photo by Medeighnia Westwick)

eria, Here’s the Scoop, agreed to serve cones instead of cups. The Look Book Nook, a used book sale with books donated by parents, was bigger than ever. “There is so much you can do to reduce, reuse, and recycle, with little effort and a whole lot of cooperation,” she said. While fundraising totals are still being calculated, it is expected the event raised over $100,000 to help fund various school enrichment programs.

Casa Dorinda Welcomes Jamie West

Casa Dorinda Retirement Community has hired celebrated local chef Jamie West as their new Executive Chef. Chef West joins Casa Dorinda with more than 30 years of culinary experience. He says his focus for the retirement community is to expand their menu with seasonal ingredients and introduce his signature dishes. “We are excited to have Jamie join us at Casa Dorinda. I have been a fan of his food since tasting it at San Ysidro Ranch, and I believe our residents are going to thoroughly enjoy the wonderful culinary creations that Chef West has in store for them,” said

Ron Schaefer, chief executive officer at Casa Dorinda. West served as the executive chef at the San Ysidro Ranch, Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, and the L’Auberge Del Mar Resort before joining Casa Dorinda’s team. “I am happy to bring my experience and enthusiasm to Casa. We will offer healthy choices developed in combination with our staff nutritionist along with some sinfully delectable dishes, because I believe food should be a fun and delicious experience,” he said. Located in Montecito on the historic Bliss estate, Casa Dorinda combines private medical care and a culturally rich environment to elevate retirement living. Casa Dorinda is a private LifeCare Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) owned and operated by the Montecito Retirement Association, a nonsectarian, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. For more information about Casa Dorinda, visit www.casadorinda.org.

Pearl Chase Historic Homes Tour

The 14th annual Pearl Chase Society Historic Homes Tour will visit six venerable adobes as well as several artists’ studios, one of which belonged to renowned cowboy artist, Ed Borein. The tour is scheduled for Sunday, May 19, from 11 am to 4 pm. The tour features six adobes representing Santa Barbara’s storied past. The adobes in the tour include Casa de la Guerra, El Cuartel, the ArellanesKirk Adobe, the Hill-Carrillo Adobe, the Lugo Adobe, and the GonzalesRamirez Adobe. In addition, the tour will visit the Spanish-Colonial Revival style El Paseo where participants will see Ed Borein’s studio, two apartments and the famous Rancheros de Visitadores mural. According to tour organizers, Santa Barbara saw a renewed appreciation of its Spanish Colonial past in the 1920s, and several prominent civic

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leaders set about preserving those adobe structures that had escaped regression into mud and straw with the advent of American clapboard and brick. One of the most influential Californio families built the Casa de la Guerra; it was the center of Santa Barbara’s social and political life. Accurately restored and plenteous in history and legend, it continues that role today with special exhibits and living history reenactments on the day of this year’s tour. El Cuartel, the oldest adobe in Santa Barbara and second oldest in California, is the only original part of the Presidio still standing. It became the home of retired Presidio soldier José Jesus Valenzuela and 100 years later housed the local Boy Scout Council. The Arellanes-Kirk Adobe is a private residence. The renovated and remodeled home contains the original adobe house belonging to Barbara Dominguez, whose marriage to Francisco Arellanes linked two historic Spanish families, hers dating back to the Santa Barbara Presidio; his to service with Hernando Cortés. Daniel Hill, a Yankee sailor who married Rafaela Luisa Ortega, built the Hill-Carrillo Adobe in 1825. Major Max Fleischmann, who presented it to the Santa Barbara Foundation, saved this relicario of the past from demolition in 1928.  A retired Presidio soldier built the Lugo Adobe. This humble abode was incorporated into Bernhard Hoffmann’s colorful and elegant Meridian Studios complex and served as an office for several renowned Santa Barbara architects. The tour will also visit two of the Meridian studios. The Gonzalez-Ramirez Adobe was occupied by members of the same family for nearly 100 years. The aged adobe was preserved and renovated in 1922. Today it is a private residence and bookstore offering rare publications. The popularity of SpanishColonial Revival architecture and a desire to rebuild Santa Barbara in a style closer to its historic roots inspired the 1922 El Paseo complex. The tour visits the long-closed studio of renowned cowboy artist Ed Borein as well as rarely seen offices and apartments. The mission of the Pearl Chase Society is to increase public awareness and encourage the preservation of Santa Barbara’s historic structures, gardens, and other resources. The Pearl Chase Society is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization. Tour tickets are $50 for members, $55 for non-members, and $75 for a ticket and a first-time-only member-

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by Lynda Millner

A Vintage Affair

Kendra Munoz, decorating chair Irene Chambers and Lana Marme in their mad hats Ms. Millner is the author of “The Magic Makeover, Tricks for Looking Thinner, Younger and More Confident – Instantly.” If you have an event that belongs in this column, you are invited to call Lynda at 969-6164.

Mad Hatter chair Pat St. Clair with Transition House Auxiliary president Missy Sheldon in the 1906 Maxwell outside the Biltmore

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ransition House ladies always get into the spirit of their annual benefit, The Mad Hatter Luncheon, by wearing all sorts of chapeaux from beautiful to gaudy, to original to retro. Speaking of retro, in the driveway of the Biltmore was parked a 1906 Maxwell vintage car. The Loggia room was bursting with fashion finery – a photographer’s

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delight. Transition House Auxiliary President Missy Sheldon reminded us, “This is the sixteenth annual Mad Hatter event,” and luncheon chair Pat St. Clair welcomed guests. Emcee Andrew Firestone, looking resplendent in his tux, said, “Transition House helps the homeless and fifty percent of them are children.”

Executive director Kathleen Baushke wanted us to know the funds from the benefit go to the children’s programs, such as licensed infant care, tutoring for the school aged, homework help and evening arts enrichments. There

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are special teen programs as well. “We have helped literally thousands of children,” said board president Jim Buckley. After lunch came a special treat – a show called “Hollywood Revisited,” brought to us by Greg Schreiner. He is a well-known collector of movie costumes, about 400 of them, as well as a concert pianist and curator of special collections at the Hollywood Museum. With him came three actors who wore some of the gorgeous costumes and gave us a musical

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Mad Hatter emcee Andrew Firestone with Kerrie Kilpatrick-Weinberg in her awarding winning chapeau

Becky Adams, Linda Hedgepeth and Wendy Clapp at the Transition House luncheon

Mary Anne Harrison with Mad Hatter judge Calla Gold

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review from the 1930s to the 1950s, Hollywood’s golden era. We also saw on screen the original actors such as Esther Williams in a Nolan Miller design, Jane Wyman wearing an Edith Head, Jean Harlow in Adrian, a Ricardo Montalban costume and a Ginger Roger’s creation that cost $25,000 back then. When Greg was asked if he altered the costumes, he replied, “Never. I adjust the women.” Hat judge Monique Littlejohn chose Kerrie Kilpatrick-Weinberg’s creation as “Best Vintage,” while judge Calla Gold picked Sue Dicicio’s as “Most Creative.” Her hat had origami cranes, a symbol of peace, dan-

gling in honor of International Day of Peace. For all you hat people, here’s a tip on how to go abroad published in a magazine by the “Miss Manners” of the 1880s: Cover your hat with brown paper to keep your ostrich plumes dry. My advice is never chew gum while wearing a veiled hat!

Finding Silver Linings

The One Hundred Committee of Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara just had their annual traditionally elegant luncheon at the home of Carol and Tom Wathen in Montecito. The evening prior there was a Godparents

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reception at the home of Stina Hans and Joel Kreiner in Hope Ranch. This was to thank and honor those folks who had completely underwritten the luncheon so that all the proceeds can be put towards scholarships for girls who can’t afford to attend Girls Inc. After libations on the terrace overlooking the ocean, we descended to the lower garden where a marquee had been set up for lunch. The tables were stunning with silver cloths centered with white and fuchsia orchids in silver vases. “This is our twenty-eigth annual,” co-chairs Ginni Dreier and Connie Pearcy reminded the guests. I can remember when the founding members gathered 100 women to give $100 each to Girls Inc. and the members prepared the lunch. Executive director Monica Spear referred to the theme of Finding Silver Linings, “Girls Inc. is the silver lining for thousands of girls.” Last year Girls Inc. gave $416,000 in scholarships, half of which was raised at this event. Hollye Jacobs, RN, MS, MSW, who is a nurse, social worker, child development specialist and author, was the guest speaker. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 and writes about her journey on TheSilverPen.

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Girls Inc. co-chairs Connie Pearcy and Ginni Dreier with guest speaker Hollye Jacobs and godparents’ reception hostess Stina Hans

Girls Inc. luncheon hosts Carol and Tom Wathen with board president Christi Sulzbach at the godparents' reception

com. She has also written a book, The Silver Lining: An Insightful Guide to the Realities of Breast Cancer, which will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2014. Hollye’s blog to family and friends went viral because her struggles can apply to anyone’s life. Resilience is a key word for Hollye and finding the silver lining no matter what the adversities. As she said, “The silver linings don’t take away the rain, but they do provide an umbrella.”

Outgoing board president Doug Dreier told us, “PAL’s goal is to support the youth of Santa Barbara by providing free activities and

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PAL honoree Richard Auhll and police chief Cam Sanchez at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum Courtyard

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April 27th

Thank You

Thank You

Thank You

Thank you to the following underwriters for making MUS 2013 Carnival a fantastic event!

Silver Corporate Sponsor: Montecito Bank & Trust

Bronze Corporate Sponsors:

American Riviera Bank * El Presbyterian Church - Family Ministries * Eye Society * Maps.com

Raffle Sponsors:

Toy Crazy * Kumon Learning * Rori's Artisanal Ice Cream * Sky High Sports

Family Sponsors Cat-In-The-Hat Donor $2500 ++

The Lorax * Tina Lyn (Enzo Jacobson) * Right Signature.com / Siegel Family

Blue Fish Donor $1500 ++

Michelle and John Kelly * Lizzie and Brent Peus * Mary and Jim Morouse * Jenean and Mark Cerami

Red Fish Donors $1000 ++ Doug and Lucia Engel * Glanville Family * Haskell Family Foundation * Craig and Susan McCaw * Stussy Family

Yertle Donor $500 ++

Babcock Family * Kotlyar Family * Jeffrey and Elizabeth Lovelace * Rice Family * Anne and Allen Sides * Siemens Family * John and Amy Steffen * Werner Family

Wocket Donor $100 ++

Benhayon Family * Lisa Blades * Burford Family * Catalfimo Family * Conk Family * Susan Crosby * Jim and Dagny Dehlsen * Early Family * Feinberg Family * Geyer Family * Betsy C. Heafitz * Gretchen and Jeffrey Horn * Alicia Journey * Lufkin Family * Emerson & Olivia McCafferty-Cable * Kristin and Brian McWilliams * Montgomery Family * Ron, Tammy, and Cole Murphy * Suzanne and John Murphy * Marsha Prudden * Raith Family * Julie and Martin Scheutz *Shefflin Family * Rosette and Dave Strandberg * Toye Family * Rhys Williams and Jamie Ruffing * David and Cristina Wood * Anne and Stephen Yungling

Wumbus Donors ($20 to $99)

Beth Bastian * Fuss Family * House Family * Kristin Horton * Kiledjian Family * Sally Jo Murren * Nishimura Family * Sheehy Family

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The season highlight in July and August will be the Bombardier Pacific Coast Open, which for the past three years has been won by Dallas tycoon John Muse with his Lucchese team, starring the world’s Number One player, Argentinian ace Adolfo Cambiaso. But this summer Cambiaso is contracted to play in Spain for the summer, so it remains to be seen if John can capitalize on his three-peat. Also back on the hallowed Holden Field is British financial magnate, Lyndon Lea, with his team, Zacara, named after his two children, Zachary and Chiara, who just won the 109-year-old Maserati U.S. Open Polo title for the second consecutive year at the International Polo Club in Wellington, Florida, with his team including Mike Azarro, Cristian Laprida and Facundo Pieres, who scored 12 goals in the 16-13 defeat of the Valiente team. And, for the sixth year, I will have the onerous task of judging the Kentucky Derby Day hat contest on Sunday, so I trust everyone will be wearing their toniest tȇte toppers to add to the mélange of magnificent millinery for me to choose from... Hazardous Heavyweights They are a dynamic duo heralded for their dedication to humanitarian efforts and known for being loyal environmentalists. But Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have now come under fire for allegedly causing environmental damage to the California coastline after I reported in this illustrious organ they were spotted riding all-terrain vehicles and quad bikes on the beach near their Santa Barbara home. Father-of-six Brad, who owns a coastal ranch near Gaviota State Park, was seen showing his large brood how to burn rubber as the family spent time having fun during Easter weekend. But their adventure-filled day has now been deemed “dangerous,” “irresponsible” and even “illegal” by

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residents of our Eden by the Beach, who say such two and four-wheeled vehicles are prohibited, according to Radaronline.com. “I’m not sure if it is illegal to drive on the beach in Santa Barbara County, but it is certainly reprehensible,” gripes one. “It is massively damaging to the environment and we’d hope the people who own houses on the shoreline acted more responsibly.” Mike Lunsford, president of the Gaviota Coast Conservancy, told the website that only lifeguards and other rescue vehicles are privy to maneuver those types of vehicles on the beach. “It’s a rare gem, the Gaviota coastline – and there’s not many places left in the world like it,” he says. “I saw the pictures. I wasn’t surprised, he probably didn’t know it was against the law. But he shouldn’t be doing it.” Stay tuned... Melissa in Matrimony She has already been married twice. So for her third marriage to actor Timothy Busfield, former Little House On The Prairie star Melissa Gilbert opted for something a little less traditional. The flame-haired actress, 48, complemented her russet locks with a stunning strapless scarlet gown to exchange vows at the historic San Ysidro Ranch last week. 2 – 9 May 2013

Actress Melissa Gilbert and Timothy Busfield tie the knot at the San Ysidro Ranch

In a wedding snap Gilbert – who dated actor Rob Lowe for six years – posted on her Twitter page, she is seen standing next to the 55-year-old groom in the gardens of the ritzy hostelry. Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner’s property has a history of hosting nuptials for A-list Hollywood couples. Montecito resident Drew Barrymore and her husband, Will Kopelman, conducted their rehearsal dinner in the grounds last year, and Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie enjoyed a romantic wedding night there. British actor Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh also tied the knot at the ranch, and John and Jackie Kennedy enjoyed their honeymoon there... Armie on the Up and Up Inveterate car collector and philanthropist Michael Hammer has been tooling around our tony town of late with his actor son, Armie, 26. Armie just returned from a PR event in Moscow, Russia, with Johnny Depp to promote Jerry Bruckheimer’s new Disney movie The Lone Ranger, which comes out in July. He plays the masked adventurer, the

Armie Hammer promoting The Lone Ranger in Moscow with producer Jerry Bruckheimer

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TV role long associated with Clayton Moore, while Pirates of the Caribbean star Depp plays his sidekick, Tonto. And it was just announced that Armie, who co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood’s 2011 film J. Edgar, is to make a movie version of the popular ‘60s TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. with Tom Cruise. Armie, who is married to E! TV hostess Elizabeth Chambers, will play Illya Kuryakin, originally done by Scottish actor David McCallum – now a regular on the hit CBS series NCIS –, while Cruise will be Napoleon Solo, a role originally played by Robert Vaughn, with Madonna’s ex, Guy Ritchie, directing... Philip as Pasquale Opera Santa Barbara closed its 19th season on a high and humorous note with Donizetti’s comedic masterpiece Don Pasquale, starring New York Metropolitan Opera veteran Philip Cokorinos in the principal role. Artistic director Joe Maria Condemi assembled an equally impressive cast to accompany the top bass-baritone, with soprano Zulimar LopezHernandez as the tempestuous love interest and tenor Javier Abreu, both Puerto Rican imports, as the eventual victor in the contentious marriage stakes of the 1842 work, the Italian composer’s 64th opera. Chicago baritone Michael Krzankowski and fellow baritone Efrain Solis rounded out the capable cast, with Francesco Milioto, making his OSB debut, conducting the orchestra. Josh Epstein’s lighting design and Stacie Logue’s costumes added wonderfully to the mix of this highly entertaining battle of wits production... Silver Linings Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara’s “Finding Silver Linings” 28th Scholarship lunch at the Montecito aerie of Tom and Carol Wathen attracted 260 guests and raised more than $200,000. Over the past nearly three decades the charity’s One Hundred Committee has been instrumental in raising over $3.5 million for scholarship funds for girls between four and 18 in the community. Montecito author and hospice nurse Hollye Jacobs, who survived a battle with breast cancer in 2010, spoke of her experience fighting the debilitating disease and the history of her popular “Silver Pen” blog, which she described as “a personal experience informed by professional expertise.” A book – which she describes as “part guide and part memoir” – The

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plans I have ever seen for the 101 through Montecito has been in your paper (I recall you writing about two different proposals). Could you possibly refer me to where I might be able to find information on these proposals? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Peter LeVay Montecito (Editor’s note: It should be no surprise that you are having difficulty searching for information on the Olive Mill interchange in the Caltrans Draft EIR documentation for the widening of the 101. There are no improvements specified in the Draft EIR at Olive Mill beyond adding a 3rd lane in each direction – no widening or replacement of the two overpass bridges, and no changes to the ramps. The reason cited was the historical lack of significant accidents or safety concerns at the Olive Mill intersections on the current 101. It is important to remember that both the Olive Mill interchanges and the Cabrillo Blvd interchange need an approved Caltrans EIR, followed by coastal permits from the City of Santa Barbara, not SB County Planning, nor the Montecito Planning Commission (MPC). It seems likely that City of Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider will negotiate with Caltrans for inclusion of an extra $5 to $50 million in added Caltrans project funding to widen the Union Pacific Railroad bridge underpass beyond the Bird Refuge and cemetery on Cabrillo Blvd. Her intent would be to create another car lane in each direction, a safer bicycle path and safer walking paths, which would all benefit Montecito residents. She wants the railroad bridge funding in exchange for her support for Caltrans to build a new right-hand southbound on-ramp at Cabrillo, which would reduce traffic on Coast Village Road. People leaving Santa Barbra beaches now enter the southbound 101 at Olive Mill, ever since the closure of the former Cabrillo left-lane on-ramp during the Milpas widening. The Montecito Journal and the Montecito Association both submitted written comments to the Caltrans

Draft EIR regarding the inadequacy of the Olive Mill ramps and bridges when new high-speed lanes are added through the incredibly narrow Montecito corridor. An additional case was made regarding Caltrans’ failure to address the more dangerous southbound 101 on-ramp at the San Ysidro interchange. A third major concern was the preservation of ocean view corridors and landscaping at the Sheffield exit. Negotiating with Caltrans for the necessary funding for restoring the entire Montecito corridor to its former Parkway look and feel as a condition for adding a 3rd lane should be Montecito’s highest priority in County Planning negotiations with Caltrans. We cannot live for the next 50 years with a dumpy concrete 101 that is a trash-strewn, weed-grown, potholed concrete monstrosity with rusted overpasses as our signature “Gateway to Montecito.” Beautification landscaping and hard-scaping will take money, community effort, and consensus. As to the Olive Mill interchange, there has been limited discussion with the City of Santa Barbara regarding a possible new roundabout to replace the 5-way intersection at Coast Village, Olive Mill and N. Jameson, which today offers stop signs near the Montecito Inn. There has been no organized effort to tie roundabout funding to the widening of the 101. The situation will become clearer when Caltrans presents its findings to SBCAG at their May 2013 meeting and we find out whether or not Caltrans will agree to allow left lane on-ramps and off-ramps to a widened 101, an exception they have consistently called unsafe. Montecito is in a weak negotiating position because it does not have a SBCAG seat and its MPC permit approvals are secondary to the City and County Planning Commissions. The case for gaining funding favors from Caltrans has been further weakened by numerous public and private remarks by Montecito residents that Caltrans consists of a bunch of big, dumb engineers, who do not care about local concerns, and who are both liars and not as smart as Montecito engineers. These kinds of ill-conceived and ill-timed remarks dampen the mood for cooperation.

The Montecito Journal has extensively covered the 101 widening debate giving a voice to the Montecito Community Coalition, the Montecito Association and to the Caltrans proposals presented to the community with numerous alternatives for public comment. – Bob Hazard) (Additional Editor’s note: More information on the various plans for the widening of 101 through Montecito can be obtained at the offices of the Montecito Association, 1469 East Valley Road; you can call their office at: 805-969-2026 during normal working hours. – J.B.)

Montenegro. Wasn’t aware that we had foreign royals here in Montecito! It’s an interesting family history, and has whet my appetite for a trip to Montenegro, a place that was not previously on my To Go list. Thank you! Barbara Title Montecito (Editor’s note: Well, Bruce, you didn’t say if you were married or not, but if you are not, there does seem to be a heap of interest in you from the ladies. Just saying… - J.B.)

Montenegro Vacation

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The sea of mountains in your photograph of Montenegro (MJ # 19/17) are as mesmerizing as the Montenegrin man standing at their peak. I now know where my next vacation will be. Merci. Maxime Brunell Paris, France 

Wants More On Bruce

I was in Montecito this week from Colorado and read Bruce Savin’s wonderful letter about the heritage and King of Montenegro. I just had to email and thank you for such a wonderful letter and gorgeous authentic photos of him on top of Mt. Lovcen. Your Montenegrin resident is amazingly authentic and how wonderful for their/your Montecito sister city. How did you come across Mr. Savin, such authentic photos, the outfit and of Mt. Lovcen? Mr. Savin sounds very interesting and I would love to read more about him, his background, what brought him to Montecito and what is he currently doing there. Thanks again. Marsha van Dongeren, Owner, Glassmat Erie, Colorado (Editor’s note: Mr. Savin, as he wrote, is a part-time resident of Montecito and lives here half the year and spends the other half in Kotor, Montenegro, where his relatives are from. As for his Montenegrin costume, it is presumably a family heirloom. – J.B.)

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Just wanted to say how much I loved the piece on Bruce Savin and

As for the Montecito Journal, again, leaving it to history (the history that lends itself to the future) to decide the wisdom behind W’s decision to invade, occupy and necessitate another American cut-n-run (Letters to the Editor, MJ # 18/17), may I ask: how many steel bits must be absorbed by flesh to finally come to the conclusion that it was G. W. Bush that brought the car bomb to Iraq?  As for W’s statue outside his library in College Station, Texas: can we can create the perfect similar statue with a 3-D printer and hand it over to Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army, as was Saddam’s fate?  Matt McGoughlin Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Our opinion on all this is: President Bush had a difficult decision to make when Saddam Hussein proved to be intractable when it came to the then No-Fly Zone. President Bush made the fateful decision based upon the best information available at the time. When no WMD were found, he should have pulled out after arresting Mr. Hussein. His big mistake wasn’t that he ordered the invasion of Iraq; it was not acknowledging that the intelligence he received was faulty. But, as we’ve stated: history will be the judge. – J.B.)

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Montecito Capitalist by Jeff Harding 

Mr. Harding is a real estate investor and a principal of Montecito Realty Investors, LLC. He was formerly a real estate lawyer in Santa Barbara. He also was financing director of a homebuilder. He has many years of experience in business cycles related to real estate, investments, and finance. He writes the blog, The Daily Capitalist (www.dailycapitalist.com) You can e-mail him at [email protected].

Crony Capitalism in America

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verything you think you know about the Crash of 2008 and the subsequent bailouts is wrong, at least according to former Reagan Office of Management & Budget (OMB) head, David Stockman. David, my new best friend, was here recently to discuss his recently released book, The Great Deformation, a revisionist economic history of America’s love affair with crony capitalism. The original title of the book (which I thought more fitting) was to be The Triumph of Crony Capitalism. Stockman takes apart the notion that much of America’s economic history since the early 1900s was a rollicking laissez-faire free market that led to our economic problems. Instead, he says, economic policies of the government and the Federal Reserve have been the cause of our booms and busts. In a nutshell, he says our leaders panic during a bust and bail out their cronies, who are loath to suffer the inevitable consequences of those policies and their own bad business decisions. Those bailouts then lead to another boom and bust, etc. Yeah, yeah, I know: when Lehman went down our economic leaders put on somber faces and declared that we were on the verge of Great Depression 2.0. We were faced, they say, with our top five banks going under and pulling the entire world down with them. Had the Fed and the Treasury not stepped in and bailed them out,

we would have suffered terrible economic consequences, so they said. Bollocks, says Stockman. I agree. In the first 50 pages or so, Stockman eviscerates that argument. Stockman, ever one to turn a clever phrase, calls it the Blackberry Panic of ’08. That refers to the panicky messages

Former OMB Director David Stockman takes an interesting look at the policies in Washington since FDR’s New Deal and how they have sown the seeds of our crony capitalist economy that went back and forth between Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, NY Fed president Tim Geithner, and the heads of the remaining Big Five (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan). In fact, there was no Great Depression 2.0 on the horizon: the collapse of these banks would be limited to the canyons of Wall Street, and on their demise new banks would have popped up to take their place. I know there will be many skeptical readers out there who have read the various books about the crisis and would conclude that Paulson and Bernanke were heroes. I read those

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too. I would challenge your thinking on this and ask you to read Stockman’s book. He doesn’t just make assertions, rather he backs up his statements with facts, something, he points out, that neither Paulson nor Bernanke bothered doing at the time (thus the “panic”). Had these gentlemen done a minimum of research into the finances of the so-called “Too Big To Fail” financial institutions, especially AIG, they would have found a different picture. Instead, they panicked. And they panicked Congress into funding a massive giveaway to Wall Street. As Stockman says, “Not a single page of professionally competent analysis and justification for the Wall Street bail-

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outs was presented to the president or any of the leaders of Congress at the time.” The problem was, and still is, that these folks mistake Wall Street for Main Street, the real economy that actually produces things and provides jobs. As Stockman points out, “What was going down hard was not the American economy, just the stock prices of Goldman and the other big banks.” Folks, these guys should have gone down. This is the essence of capitalism, one of the fundamental reasons it works: businesses pay for their mistakes by going bankrupt. These Wall Street speculators made very bad bets fueled by the Fed’s cheap money and government policies that made bad lending practices the foundation of a huge bubble. And then, when the bubble burst and they saw that their leverage ratios of 30:1 were a horrible mistake they cried out for a bailout. What happens when you do that? Do these institutions reform their practices? No, they continue their same old risky behavior knowing that if they fail again, they will be bailed out again. I’ve been following the investment trends of these banks and they are still doing what they were doing before the crash. The other day I saw the first new securitized pool of Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS—remember the subprime crisis?) offered since 2008. No, they don’t learn from their mistakes, and that is why you can never bail them out. Economists call this “moral hazard.” As Stockman said, “During a few short weeks in

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September and October [2008] American political democracy had been fatally corrupted by a resounding display of expediency and raw power in Washington. Every rule of free markets was suspended and any regard for the deliberative requirements of democracy was cast to the winds.” For Stockman, the Panic of ’08 is just the iceberg’s tip. Crony capitalism, he says, has deformed American capitalism to give rise to a new financial class that benefits from the boom-bust Fed monetary policies, yet has left the middle-class stranded in a stagnating economy. It is a financialization of the economy and has concentrated political and financial power in the Wall Street elite. You can think of it as a bifurcated economy where the richest men in the Forbes billionaire lists include far too many people who ply Wall Street rather than Main Street. These Wall Streeters have captured the Fed and our government. At every downturn, at every bust, the Fed steps in to rescue the financial markets from the consequences of their previous loose monetary policies and the financial gambling it spawns. This happened in 1987, 1998, and 2001. It happened again in 2007-2008. It’s happening again now. When markets collapse, the punters never see the previous years of Fed easy monetary stimulus or their own risky investment behavior. Rather they only see that whatever markets they invested in are going down. Their first call is to the Fed, which again opens the money sluices to bail them out and sow the seeds for another boom-bust cycle. The book doesn’t stop at 2008. Stockman takes an interesting look at the policies in Washington since FDR’s New Deal and how they have sown the seeds of our crony capitalist economy. Especially interesting is his take as an insider on the failure of the Reagan Revolution. It’s not a pretty look at the sausage factory. Our financial problems of today (huge deficits and federal debt, over-promised benefits, and the death of sound money) didn’t happen overnight. Stockman presents a challenging look at how we got here. Read the book; it’s that important. If you think you violently disagree with his analysis and conclusions, at least you will be challenged by some provocative ideas about how things work. We are all affected by what the Fed and our government does. It impacts our economic and financial wellbeing. In my extensive research and writing on these matters I have come to the conclusion that whatever our financial leaders say, especially at the Fed, the opposite is usually true. These days, it’s not good to be complacent; The Great Deformation will shake you out of that complacency. •MJ 2 – 9 May 2013

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The Lugo Adobe is one of six stops on the 14th annual Pearl Chase Society Historic Homes Tour (photo credit Kip Bradley)

sbzoo.org. The Zoo now exhibits Masai giraffes, as part of a regional giraffe management program with other West Coast zoos including those in Los Angeles and San Diego. This allows the zoos to maximize the genetic diversity within the species, while minimizing distances giraffes have to be transported. Audrey and Betty Lou arrived in Santa Barbara on March 10, 2010. The Zoo’s male giraffe Michael, who arrived from Parc Safari in Quebec, Canada, in January 2012, is considered very valuable genetically. Audrey gave birth to one other calf, Daniel, who made headlines for his unexpected appearance in January 2011. Unknown to anyone, she was pregnant when she arrived at the Zoo in March 2010 and gave birth just short of her third birthday, which is extremely young for giraffes. She refused to nurse, so Daniel was handreared by Zoo staff. Daniel died in August 2012 during recovery from anesthesia for a procedure to treat an abscess and infection in his lower left jaw. The Santa Barbara Zoo celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The Zoo is located at 500 Niños Drive. For more information, visit www.sbzoo.org.

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A second giraffe at the Santa Barbara Zoo has given birth, just ten days after a male calf was born. Betty Lou, a five-year old Masai giraffe, gave birth to “Sunshine” in the Giraffe Barn on April 28 after about two hours of labor. Zoo Director Nancy McToldridge tells us the calf stood up after 40 minutes, and after a medical exam on Monday, the calf was determined to be female. “Though she looks dainty, she is quite the fighter,” says Sheri Horiszny, Director of Animal Programs. Sunshine clocked in at six feet tall and 133 pounds. “The birth was easy and uneventful and both mother and baby are doing well,” said McToldridge. “We look forward to sharing this new arrival with our guests, but she needs a few days to bond with Betty Lou, meet the other giraffes, and adjust to being on four gangly legs.” Audrey, the Zoo’s other female Masai giraffe, gave birth to male calf “Dane” on April 18 after about two hours and 15 minutes of labor. He appears to be nursing normally and debuted on exhibit last Tuesday, April 23. The new calf will not be on exhibit for several days. “Betty Lou is being a very attentive mother, and is exhibit2 – 9 May 2013

“Sunshine,” Santa Barbara Zoo’s newest addition. The baby giraffe was born weighing 133 pounds, and is six feet tall.

ing more protective behaviors than Audrey did, so barn visits are limited to Zoo staff for the near future,” Horiszny tells us. Audrey and the other new calf Dane are also off exhibit. “They are beginning a period of introductions to the new addition, which are difficult to predict,” adds Horiszny, “especially given Betty Lou’s protective behaviors.” Michael, the Zoo’s male giraffe and sire of both calves, is on exhibit. The new calf’s name was selected by the Dreier family, sponsors of the Zoo’s giraffe herd. The public can help the Zoo welcome these two longnecked arrivals by becoming a Foster Feeder sponsor of the giraffe calf. A donation of $50 helps with the cost of feeding the growing giraffe family. New giraffe Foster Feeders receive a baby photo of the calf along with a certificate, giraffe fact sheet, and recognition on the Zoo’s Foster Feeder board. For information, visit www.

Thurman Speaks at Crane

Scholar, author and former Tibetan Buddhist monk Robert A. F. Thurman spoke to parents and community members on Tuesday, April 23 at Crane Country Day School, in honor of Earth Day. “We are our environment – this is our reality,” said Thurman who urged listeners to change their lifestyle. “If we reduce the energy we use, the need will be reduced.” His suggested lifestyle changes included driving a hybrid, taking public transport and considering where food is bought, commenting, “You all live here but your stomachs are in Nebraska.” Thurman told the attendees that children must be taught that what they do matters and that one person can make a difference. “Everyone has power,” said Thurman, who added in closing, “There is no nothing. Every small thing matters.” Robert Thurman is a scholar, author,

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former Tibetan Buddhist monk, cofounder with Richard Gere of Tibet House in New York City, a close personal friend of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, and father of five children. He is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. Signed copies of Thurman’s latest book, Why The Dalai Lama Matters, can be found at Tecolote in the Upper Village.

Alumni BBQ at Manning Park

The Santa Barbara High School Alumni Association will host its 37th annual Alumni BBQ at Lower Manning Park in Montecito this Saturday, May 4th, at 11 am. The Alumni Association was formed following SBHS’s centennial in 1974, and every year the group awards thousands of dollars of scholarships to graduating seniors. SBHS alumni Owen Aylesworth and Helen Cornell are the only two remaining members of the original group; they now serve on the board of directors. The annual BBQ originally started as a dinner at the Miramar Hotel, and later moved to the Elks Club. The group is rich with history; there are over 4,000 living members and 1,260 members who are now deceased. The oldest member ever was Miss Pearl Chase, class of 1904. There are alumni members from almost every state in the union and other members live in China, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, Australia, Saudi Arabia, France, Chile and New Zealand. Each year, the Alumni Association Board chooses two graduates who have made names for themselves in the field of public service. This year’s “Distinguished Alumni” are R. Brian Nelson (’67) and Ugo Peter “Butch” Arnoldi (’69). Past recipients include Peter and Gerd Jordano, Mario Borgatello, Dr. Sey Kinsell, Caesar Uyesaka, and many others. This year the alumni association will be awarding 38 scholarships of $1,000 each to graduating seniors. This will bring the lifetime total to 717 students and $678,465 in scholarship grants. For more information about the Association and the BBQ, visit www. sbhs.tierranet.com.  •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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No Business Like Show Business

by James Buckley

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kay, this should be your weekend to try to attend three different Broadway plays, all of which are currently on stage in Santa Barbara, and all of which can be seen for ridiculously cheap ticket prices. The first is, of course, the absolutely insane and hopelessly, helplessly hilarious Monty Python’s Spamalot. One would have to say that, along with a sterling cast (I hesitate naming names for fear of leaving someone out, but, in addition to last week’s aforementioned standouts – Mary Cusimano as Lady of the Lake, Emilio MadridKuser as Sir Galahad, Clayton Barry as Patsy, and Jordan Lemmond as King Arthur) – one must also point out Emma Robins’ superbly authoritarian “Historian” in what is an extremely challenging role, Aaron Linker’s turn as the endearing yet cowardly Sir Robin, Diego Ochoa, who pleads as “Not Dead Fred” that he feels “just fine” when the plague cart comes around to plop him onto it (for a farthing, as I recall), and Malcolm McCarthy’s flagrantly promiscuous Sir Lancelot. If you haven’t seen this show yet, you must get thee to the Santa Barbara High School Theater (but don’t be surprised if this weekend’s shows are a sell-out, so get there early!). Tickets are $10; $5 for students, and $25 if you’d like a seat right up front and would also like to throw a little extra into the Performing Arts pot at the high school. Shows scheduled this week are on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7 pm, May 2, 3, and 4, with a special “Good-bye to Seniors” matinee slated for 2 pm on Sunday, May 5. Call 888979-3667 to make reservations.

“Gypsy” At The Lobero

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We are big fans of producer-directoracting school phenom Janet (“Love you madly”) Adderley, a Texas-born whirlwind whose Adderley School For the Performing Arts has been preparing talented children for stage and acting futures since 1993 in Pacific Palisades and in Santa Barbara for the past seven years. She’s the lady that re-introduced How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying to Santa Barbara audiences at the Lobero two years ago (and Oliver! last year), starring kids as young as six years old, with some leads not yet in their teens. Janet and her daughter Alana work with youngsters up to the age of 17, and pluck their leads from the School For The Performing Arts – when the • The Voice of the Village •



Cast of Monty Python’s Spamalot prepare to take on their quest for the Holy Grail this weekend

Adderleys feel they are ready – to dance, act, and sing in a full-on stage production with their Youth Ensemble Theater. This year’s big show is Gypsy, the Jule Styne musical that features lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, including nowclassic songs such as “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Together, Wherever We Go,” “Rose’s Turn,” and the especially memorable (PG version of) “Let Me Entertain You.” The book was written by Arthur Laurents, who also wrote the book for West Side Story. As for parents wondering how teens and pre-teens could be in a show about a stripper, Janet says, “It is really not about a stripper; it’s about a young girl who grew up in the theater world. It’s a story of a girl who grew up to become a burlesque dancer. It’s really,” she stresses during a short phone call from her studio in Pacific Palisades, “a musical about a mother and her two daughters. It is,” she concludes, “an intimate look at the delicate, complicated relationship between mothers and daughters and in the end, the redemptive power of forgiveness.” Janet raves about some of her young performers, such as 13-year-old Camille Umoff as Mama Rose, who sings the bring-down-the-house Ethel Merman gut-buster “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.” Alexander Fell, so effective as the Artful Dodger in last year’s Oliver!, is Tulsa. MUS student Dawson Fuss is Clarence the Clarinetist; Elise Guerrand-Hermes is Dainty June. “In January, we put

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4th Parade Re: July 4th-Summary: Like all committee members, I was very preoccupied by the Parade and helping as needed. Diane Pannkuk was controlling activities at Lower Manning Park. I was extremely fortunate to have had John Venable volunteer to shoot the video. He captured the entire event. That video would suggest that King Arthur may want to relocate to Montecito; Jonathan Winters has! How fitting to have the Grand Marshal be our Mr. Winters leading the parade with a grin rivaling the Cheshire Cat! This being our First Annual, many areas of organization need fine tuning, addition or deletion. As a whole, however, it was an out of the park HomeRun! This kind of event is the thread that pulls the community together and gives citizens their sense of belonging. As Chair of the Parade, I was very lucky to have had the help of my committee members: Laura Motley, Susan Jackson, and Julie Teufel. The committee set a goal to have an old fashioned, home-spun, get-everyoneinvolved parade and especially our animal friends. The parade evolved into a magical menagerie of maniacal madness. I believe that we accomplished all of our goals and are now ready to attempt the second annual with similar goals and refined organization. Our goal will never be perfection; perfection usually lacks fun! Respectfully submitted, Dana Newquist Montecito P.S. your characterization of Jonathan (Editorial, MJ # 19/16) was “spot-on.” (Editor’s note: Wow, can it really have been 17 years since that first Village Fourth Parade & Celebration? MJ was less than a year old then, so has also been part of the event from the get-go, as have both you and Diane. So, the “geteveryone-involved” part of the committee’s idea has worked beautifully. – J.B.)

Random Observations

Ian Thompson’s letter (“Dubya’s Coloring Books” MJ # 19/17) is childish and petulant. Satire and sarcasm works only as a coefficient of its relation to truth and reality. George W., contrary to popular belief, earned pretty much the stations in life he aspired to. His father moved away from the home orbit of Connecticut in order to prove his worth on his own. Yes, his family primed the pump with initial seed capital to underwrite the move. But many people start out with initial advantages similar to George H.W.’s but don’t have much to show for it down the line. George H.W. turned his five talents into a hundred talents. In turn, 2 – 9 May 2013

George W. was offered a similar five talents and made good with what was given him. Kickstarter is a “kick-ass” website. I may try to use it in the near future! Summer at the Music Academy of the West is by far the most significant musical training ground in the United States of America – or anywhere, for that matter. Is it possible to get through one issue of MJ without a reference to John Cleese or Monty Python? I suppose that’s almost like asking Nick, Barney and Starshine to lay off lampooning Wendy McCaw and/or the News-Press! It can be done, though. Your almost invisible pithy quotes at the bottom of the page should be printed in large, bold letters at the top of the page. Even if she wasn’t Greek Orthodox, Lana Marmé would still be one of the classiest ladies in Montecito. Signing off now: gotta go down to Western Animal Supply’s selfserve dog wash. Someone told me the dogs come in and wash themselves. This I’ve got to see! David McCalmont Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Well, your wish not to read any more about Monty Python will not come true for at least one more issue. I attended Santa Barbara High School’s Monty Python’s Spamalot opening night (Friday, April 26) and must tell you: the show was a smash, a smash I tell you. It was so good, so much fun, so entertainingly exhilarating in so many ways that when the final note to “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life” was sounded, the audience rose en masse and as one to offer a sustained and heartfelt standing ovation to the high-schoolers’ efforts. And, this wasn’t one of those “Oh well, the people in front of us are standing, I suppose we should get up off our seats too” kind of standing O’s. Oh no. As if on cue, everybody – and I mean everybody – got up, all at nearly the same time to applaud loudly and vigorously. Hats and helmets off to the entire cast and particularly to director Otto Layman for producing an outstanding production. As for Western Animal Supply’s selfserve dog wash, we’ve heard nothing but kudos and enthusiasm for what’s going on down there. Perhaps the dogs aren’t exactly washing themselves, but we know from interpreting their barks that they would if they could. They certainly have insisted that their owners – “guardians” if they’re from San Francisco – take them there! The dog wash has become quite a Funk Zone meeting place. All they need now is some good old-fashioned wine tasting and the social scene would be complete. – J.B.)

Shoot, Get Shot, Repeat

I studied medicine at USC and did some rotations in the big L.A. County hospital across the street from the campus. In an ER rotation, we got a gut-shot mom who was doing nothing more that walking to her car while carrying her groceries and encountered a crossfire. We lost her. She was a single mom with three youngsters. Then I did a rotation at Rancho. Here I met Saul (not his real name). Saul was 21, shot in the neck and paralyzed from the neck down, living on a machine that did his breathing. Saul was from a gang, had been shot at least once each year since he was 13. I never did find out how many people he shot. The point I want to make here is that the system is, in large part, to blame. Paul gets shot. He goes to a County clinic or hospital at taxpayer expense; he is patched up and out on the street

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again in relatively short order. Let’s see now: first shot at 13, paralyzed at 21. Shot at least 9 times, patched up and back out on the line. Who sends him back out on the line? Paul turned into a very expensive patient for the County. He was, after all, there at County expense. His attitude was such that he would swear at the nurses and staff, throw tantrums, refuse to take his meds (he could legally do that), crash, wind up in the ICU, get stabilized, return to the ward, have another tantrum, refuse his meds, wind up again and again in the ICU, at no small expense and then we would see him back on the ward, swearing at the nurses and spitting at the staff. What’s the answer? Dr Edo McGowan Montecito (Editor’s note: We sure don’t know, but hope that someone with frontline experience, such as you, would have, if not answers, at least some ideas! – J.B.) •MJ

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Silver Lining: An Insightful Guide to the Realties of Breast Cancer, which took Hollye three months to write, is being published by major New York imprint Simon & Schuster next year. Among the guests at the bash, cochaired by Ginni Dreier and Connie Pearcy, were Annette Caleel, Jane Burkemper, Thomas Rollerson, Victoria Hines, Jelinda DeVorzon, Starr Siegele, Sandi Nicholson, Erin Graffy, Mindy Denson, Perri Harcourt, Mollie Ahlstrand, Arlene Montesano, Tanya Thicke, Janet Garufis, Patti Connors and Kathy McCarthy... Dream On By State Street Ballet ended their season on a particularly creative note with “Dream On By,” a world premiere featuring the music of Paul Simon, wonderfully choreographed by New Yorker Peter Pucci. Featuring memorable classics like “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Loves Me Like a Rock,” the work brimmed with energy, color and exuberance. The second piece, “Works by Robert Sund” – who worked on the ballet’s Beauty and the Beast –, featured songs and music  by the late Patsy Cline and Duke Ellington, while “Pistolero,” choreographed by SSB dancer Samantha Bell, was a fast-paced piece to music by Juno Reactor. The eclectic show wrapped with “Yoruba,” choreographed by Autumn Eckman and inspired by music from the acclaimed Afro-pop group, Zap Mama. It was an adventurous program by executive director Rodney Gustafson and clearly worked well, given the packed Lobero Theatre. Earlier, Robert and Margo Feinberg hosted a Biltmore-catered reception for the troupe at their Montecito estate attended by Arlyn Goldsby, Barbara

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Burger, Jill Dexter, Alex Nourse and Gary McKenzie... Crazy Caps Millinery madness reigned at the 16th annual Mad Hatter lunch “A Vintage Affair” at the Biltmore, a benefit which raised around $50,000 for Transition House, a non-profit which supports homeless families with children. The event, featuring a fulsome fashion flock of fascinating feathered fascinators, was chaired by Pat St. Clair and emceed by the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone. Entertainment was provided by “Hollywood Revisited,” a tribute in costume and song by Greg Schreiner, a cabaret pianist, who owns around 400 pieces from Tinseltown’s biggest films and is curator of special collections at the Hollywood Museum. Among them were outfits worn by the likes of Mitzi Gaynor, Ginger Rogers, Maurice Chevalier, Esther Williams, Anne Miller, Jane Wyman and Joseph Fiennes, designed by legendary names like multi-Oscar winner Edith Head, Adrian and Nolan Miller, who formerly lived in my historic Hancock Park building, The Ravenwood, just a tiara’s toss or two from Paramount Studios where I would tape my pieces for Entertainment Tonight and The Insider in the Mae West studio, most appropriate given her old apartment, where she lived for 51 years, was just down the hallway from my own. The hat contest was won by Kerri Kilpatrick-Weinberg for best vintage topper, while Sue DiCicco garnered the prize for most creative hat... Koh Captivates Violinist Jennifer Koh is justly recognized for her intense, commanding performances, delivered with dazzling virtuosity and technical assur2 – 9 May 2013

Jennifer Koh wows at Hahn Hall

ance. And it was certainly there for all to see when the Grammy-nominated virtuoso, who debuted with the Chicago Symphony at the tender age of 11, performed a simply dazzling concert of Bach and Bartok at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall, part of the UCSB Arts & Lectures series. Koh, 36, who won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1994, debuted “Bach and Beyond,” a six-year, three-recital series that explores the history of the solo violin repertoire from Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas to works by modern-day composers and new commissions in 2009. This concert, part two, also featured New York composer Phil Kline’s “Dead Reckoning,” which Koh specially commissioned for the series. It was written after Hurricane Irene and Kline drew inspiration for the partita from birdsong he heard after the damaging storm. Other works were Bach’s Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, Partita No. 1 in B Minor and Bartok’s Violin Sonata, which was also heard when German violin great Christian Tetzlaff performed at the Lobero in January. Koh will be back in two years time to complete her wonderful trilogy... Happy Birthday, Milt! Milt Larsen, owner of the Magic Castle in Los Angeles, threw quite a bash to mark his 82nd birthday at his Santa Barbara aerie on TV Hill.

Arlene and Milt Larsen celebrating with mayor Helene Schneider (photo by Priscilla)

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“My wife, Arlene, decided I needed a party to celebrate the occasion,” says Milt. And so it was with more than 80 guests, including Andy and Dolly Granatelli, Paul Orfalea, mayor Helene Schneider, Richard and Elizabeth Sherman, Nina Terzian and Diana MacFarlane, gobbling up the Magic Castle chili as they were serenaded by the Ulysses Jazz Band. “Someone once said: ‘Getting old sucks, but, considering the alternative, it ain’t bad!’” quipped Milt, who was a longtime writer on the Ralph Edwards’ TV show Truth or Consequences and founded his magical hotspot near the Hollywood sign in 1963...

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been closing at alarming rates, it is refreshing to note of one opening in our tony town. Granada Books on State Street, in partnership with its sister non-profit, Pomegranate Arts, is creating a community space to instill the love of reading and showcase local talent starting June 20. “The 1,700-sq-ft walled courtyard behind the 3,000-sq-ft store will serve as an outdoor performance venue to host literary events, instrumental and vocal concerts, and spoken word performances,” says founder Emmett McDonough, who has come out of a 17-year retirement from his former position as head of a staffing company. The closing of Borders and Barnes & Noble in 2011 prompted him to partner with longtime friend, Sharon Hoshida, who worked at UCSB for 37 years, to launch the store. “An independent bookstore helps define a community through its encouragement of reading and learning,” he adds. I couldn’t agree more... Everything’s Coming Up Roses

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he Board has selected Lynda Nahra as “Rotarian of the Month”. In the club for thirteen years

she currently serves on the board and as Membership Chair. Lynda is a leading volunteer in the non profit community, serving as a trustee of the Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation, a board member of Partners in Education and a member of the Executive Leadership Team of the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women annual event. Lynda is president of Pacific Western Bank’s Central Coast Region and oversees all operations from Thousand Oaks to Paso Robles. She serves as a board member for the California Bankers Association as well as the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington. Ms Nahra was recognized nationally by U.S. Banker magazine as one of the Top 25 Women to Watch in Banking, and honored locally by the Tres Condados Girl Scouts as a Woman of Distinction. The Montecito Rotary Club celebrates its 60th year of community service. The club is a part of the worldwide membership of business and professional men and women and meets every Tuesday for lunch at the Montecito Country Club. The RCM supports both local and international humanitarian projects. For information about attending a luncheon or joining the Rotary Club of Montecito, please call club president Murray Ray at 689-3692.

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BOOK TALK 

n.o.t.e.s. from downtown by Shelly Lowenkopf

In Transition

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here are enough risks associated with translations to make us wonder why a competent writer would even bother. Jokes, dialect, local politics, and social conventions in the original text wait for the unwary translator like Improvised Explosive Devices. Often – perhaps too often – the translator with an academic background can’t resist the temptation to explain too much. After all, explanations and theories are two of the academics strengths. Sarah Ruden has significant academic credentials in addition to her strength as a poet. We have only to consult her risk-taking translation of Vergil’s Aeneid, which came out after Robert Fagles’ soaring rendition, to appreciate her daring and her reach. Her most recent translation takes us back to a little known work that is probably the first entire Latin novel on record, The Golden Ass, written in the early years of the first century of the Common Era by a writer named Lucius Apuleius. The Golden Ass is an early variation on the sorcerer’s apprentice theme, focusing on Lucius, a young man whose interest in spells, incantations, and transformations leads him to apply the wrong formulas. Wrong formulas lead to wrong transformations, which pretty well sets the story in motion. Lucius is turned into Equus Africanus, the African wild ass, better known as a donkey. In narrative filled with hijinks and narrative mischief that at times resembles a pre-Marxist picture of exploited working classes, Lucius as donkey wanders from region to region in Thessaly, a geographical area in ancient Greece, working for a number of disagreeable and outright abusive owners. The Golden Ass was written at a time when Greek and Latin literature flourished in many genera, each with strict conventions and goals, much along the lines of specific promises our contemporary genres have to promise, then deliver upon, if they are to hold onto their readers. Translator Ruden is obviously fond of the author, saying of him, “He could whip out a homily based on Homer, spoof recent book fashions, stuff his narrative with incidents and personalities familiar from Plautus, Rome’s greatest purveyor of farce, and execute hit-and-runs on every other genre in the ancient eastern Mediterranean.” True enough. Ruden’s translation reads like a shrewd blend of David Foster Wallace, P.G. Wodehouse, and Elmore Leonard. Ruden is particularly skilled at

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Shelly Lowenkopf blogs @ www.lowenkopf. com. Lowenkopf’s latest book is The Fiction Writer’s Handbook. His short fiction, which has appeared widely in the literary and commercial press, is featured in Love Will Make You Drink and Gamble, Stay Out Late at Night, due in 2013.

bringing to her translation a number of the devices and narrative personalities found in the original Latin. Rendered as it is in the Ruden version, the storyline is funny, accurate, and stylistically skillful, relaying a sense of how Latin and Greek must have sounded at the time. “Okay,” the narrator begins, “let me weave together various sorts of tales, using the Milesian mode as a loom, if you will. Witty and dulcet tones are going to stroke your too kind ears – as long as you don’t turn a nose up at an Egyptian papyrus scrawled over with an acute pen from the Nile.” Book One is the set-up, in which a character who is to become the principal narrator tells of his experiences in overhearing the story, reminiscent of the narrative format several hundred years later in Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness. Lucius is introduced to a family friend, Milo. By Book Two, Lucius is enjoying the sexual favors of a mischievous slave girl and is warned of the possibility of Milo and some of his family being witches. Wishing to become a witch himself, Lucius is entranced and entrapped by his own eagerness to mess with the darker arts. By Book Three, the transformation is under way; so is the bawdiness and the inventiveness of the story. In the same manner that The Canterbury Tales will in nearly fifteen hundred years hence provide an anthology of stories told by various characters arranged according to their social rank, The Golden Ass allows for a number of characters to insert their own short stories into what becomes Lucius’s travails on his way to finding restoration to his human form. A number of these are bawdy in nature, my favorites among them “The Tale of the Wife’s Tub,” “The Tale of the Jealous Husband,” and “The Tale of the Murderous Wife,” the titles themselves giving clues to their narratives. The Golden Ass is a welcome departure from the more formal and scholarly-sounding novels to come along later. Imagine a writer as inventive as Michael Chabon taking off on Horatio Alger.  •MJ



There’s A Beer Drinker Born Every Minute

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guess it all started when a brave man ate the first oyster. Soon after, a Neanderthal mother, trying to get her Neander kids to eat anything green, looked at an artichoke and said, “Let’s dip the leaves in mayonnaise and scrape them with our teeth” (some scholars might argue that Neanderthals only had Miracle Whip, but it’s recently been confirmed that they had mayonnaise as well). Years later a person drank a glass of sour milk and said, “Yum, buttermilk.” Thereafter a drunken cowboy took the most sensitive and tender parts of a male turkey to a potluck and told everybody they were rocky mountain oysters, which is a bigger and more egregious misrepresentation than sticking a feather in your cap and calling it macaroni. So it comes as no surprise to this writer that some bozo would eventually come up with the horrifying idea of brewing elephant dung beer. This elephant dung craze started last year with elephant dung coffee (by the way, I’m not making this up). They advertised it by saying, “Don’t worry, the coffee doesn’t actually taste like feces, but rather like an earthy and smooth blend.” This sounds like something my wine enthusiast friends might say – “This elephant dung coffee is complex and buttery, with jammy, chewy tannins, and a hint of diaper pail.” Elephant dung coffee debuted at a whopping $1,100 per kilogram. I say whopping, but I really don’t know if that’s a lot of money or not because I’m American, and real Americans don’t know a kilogram from a mammogram, from a candy gram, from a graham cracker. In April of this year, Sankt Gallen, a Japanese brewery, decided to take the elephant dung “trend” one step further by brewing elephant dung beer. Hmmm, I’ve heard of Pooh bear but never poo beer. The beer is a coffee stout made with elephant dung coffee beans. It debuted on April Fool’s Day and it sold out within minutes, confirming the well-known P.T. Barnum quote, “Beer drinkers are morons.” I happen to be a big moron... I mean beer drinker, but I wouldn’t drink elephant dung beer on a dare (unless the dare was backed up with a steak dinner and movie). I also refuse to drink pig sweat beer, Rhino barf beer, and Moose pee beer – otherwise known as Bud Light. The elephant dung beer is named “Un Kono Kuro,” which would make a good name for a Japanese rock ‘n’ roll band. Actually, “Un Kono Kuro”

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by Jim Alexander

Mr. Alexander is a former beer brewer, whiskey distiller, wine maker and currently recovering coffee drinker

I happen to be a big moron... I mean beer drinker, but I wouldn’t drink elephant dung beer on a dare is Japanese for “More gross than gopher spit wine.” I’m joking. I have no idea what “Un Kono Kuro” means. I read that the beer’s name is a pun on “unko,” the Japanese word for “crap,” but I don’t know for sure. I think I took Japanese at San Marcos High School (it was the ‘sixties, so who can remember) but all my memory can dredge up is “Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto” and “Konnichiwa, my name is Yoko.” The elephant dung beer process starts with getting elephants to ingest coffee beans. How do you get an elephant to eat coffee beans? Good question – maybe by offering more National Geographic TV time, or promising peanut butter Häagen-Dazs for dessert. After the elephants are convinced to eat the coffee beans, the beans are “naturally refined,” and according to the press release, the off-kilter process engenders the beans with a special quality. One moron... I mean elephant dung beer drinker, was quoted as saying, “For some time after I could still feel as if my body was saturated with the warm scent.” Personally, I think the guy’s full of “unko.” Research indicates, and I can only imagine how proud the parents of these researchers must be, that during digestion, the enzymes of the elephant break down the coffee protein. Since protein is one of the main factors responsible for bitterness in coffee, less protein means almost no bitterness. Now, if only we can get an elephant to digest Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner. I read two whole articles about dung beer, and I still don’t understand why they had to get coffee beans involved. It would seem both simpler and better to make elephant dung beer by first getting the elephants to eat hops and malted barley, but what do I know, I’m just a writer, and a moron. Sayonara.•MJ 2 – 9 May 2013

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Praise For The Tea Party

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t is rather ironic that in a nation in which citizens are supposedly responsible for governing themselves – the “We The People” mentioned in the preamble to our Constitution – the government, especially at the federal level, has become so consequential in American life. There is hardly a facet of our lives that is not controlled or regulated by the government. The air we breathe, the food we eat, the size of the sugary sodas we drink in New York City, and countless other intrusions of government may be found throughout the nation. Obviously, all this government activity must be paid for, and nowhere is the reality of this fact more clearly in evidence than in Washington, D. C., the stage where America’s cultural conflicts and struggles about financing the intrusions of our federal government are played out. For decades, the federal government has expanded its reach, while the demographics of its people have changed profoundly. We live longer, and we allow more people from around the globe to join the American family. Although the reach of government has expanded considerably and the demographics have changed beyond description, our economy has not grown sufficiently to accommodate these changes. In the face of all this, those we elect to represent us have demonstrated a glaring inability to either reduce the size and scope of government and/ or to devise a plan to pay for the government that has been created. As a result, the federal government is forced to borrow roughly fortythree cents of every dollar that is spent, just to pay its bills.

While there has been occasional recognition of the magnitude of the federal debt, that recognition was not sustained until somewhere around 2008 when the American Tea Party movement was launched. In addition to sending members to the Congress who understood and articulated the significance of the deficit, the Tea Party movement has

brainchild of someone in the Obama administration. The rationale for this concept was that members of Congress would have difficulty fashioning a series of budget cuts and, therefore, the cuts should be triggered automatically. This rationale could not be more accurate. While many of us can agree that the federal government spends too much, it is substantially more difficult to reach agreement as to where the cuts should take place. This is primarily because every member of Congress has constituents that support some government program and don’t want it cut.

While many of us can agree that the federal government spends too much, it is substantially more difficult to reach agreement on where the cuts should take place

been instrumental in framing the national debt in moral terms as well political considerations. Nothing has been more illustrative of the deep divisions within the American population and the dysfunctional nature of our elected officials than the debate about how to resolve the fiscal crisis. Of particular significance has been what is called “sequestration.”

To further complicate the problem, sequestration lends itself to the worst kind of political demagoguery. This has been very much in evidence on the part of officials within the Obama administration, as virtually every member of the president’s cabinet predicted dire consequences within their agency as a result of

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When Congress began to seriously address the nation’s fiscal problems, and especially the national deficit, the many problems within the Congress and the lack of leadership on the part of President Barack Obama quickly became clear. Sequestration requires $85 billion in spending cuts in just about every government agency and program between March 1 and September 30 2013, and more cuts in the ensuing years. It appears that sequestration is the

the implementation of sequestration. The most widely publicized result was the closure of the White House to student tours, an action that was doubtlessly motivated by the desire to trigger a negative reaction among the electorate. In this same vein, the Department of Homeland Security released thousands of incarcerated illegal immigrants, with the claim that the Department could not afford the expense of keeping them. Although the American people have known all along that our system of governance is broken, nothing underscores that reality more than the debate about fiscal concerns, accentuated by a president who seems to be engaged in an endless campaign and who has no hesitation about placing blame on others for his leadership failures. Fortunately, more Americans are growing impatient with the president and his tactics. When an acclaimed journalist such as Bob Woodward becomes critical of some of the president’s actions, it is fair to say that the honeymoon for Obama is over, and that is as it should be. California has a host of very serious problems. We need decision makers who recognize the seriousness of the problems and who have the courage to make hard decisions. Currently, that courage is sorely missing. •MJ

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On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to Montecito Journal for over ten years.

Broadway’s Bernadette by Steven Libowitz Peters at the Granada

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ou can more or less trace a good portion of the history of Broadway musicals over the last generation or two via the career of Bernadette Peters. On stage since the age of three, she’s won two Tony Awards, been nominated for five more, and originated a number of iconic roles. But Peters has also been a star of TV and film throughout her career, and finds time to perform in concert or cabaret between all the other bookings. Somehow, it’s only now that she’s making her way to town for an appearance at the Granada Theatre on Saturday, May 4, during which she’ll perform songs from her numerous shows and beyond backed by a ninepiece orchestra. We caught up with her via telephone last weekend to talk about her Santa Barbara debut. Q. What can we expect to hear in concert here in Santa Barbara? A. Well I have a nine-piece band and I do all kinds of things. Of course there’s a lot of Sondheim and Rogers & Hammerstein. Peggy Lee’s “Fever.” I might do “Shenandoah” and “Wish Upon a Star.” I just added the two songs from Follies, the last show I was in, “Losing My Mind” and “In Buddy’s Eyes.” And I also just added “Send in the Clowns,” which was in the revival of “A Little Night Music,” which I hadn’t sang since the show closed. Also, “The Way We Were” as a tribute to Marvin Hamlisch, who passed away recently and I hadn’t done any concerts for him yet. It’s always songs that come into my head, and scream ‘sing me!’ and they don’t get out until I start singing them. It calms me.

What is it about the Sondheim that appeals to you? He’s the whole enchilada. He writes the music and lyrics. He just writes incredible things. Every song feels like he’s the actor in every show, because he get so deep inside. Every show has its own writing personality. “Sunday in the Park with George” was about Seurat, the pointillist painter, so the notes are very staccato – (sings) bapbap-bap. He also writes for the character. That’s why it was difficult to imagine singing “Send in the Clowns” outside of the show. Then I realized I can bring all that information with me... But Sondheim has a reason for every note that he writes. If the character is angry, that’s part of the song. Or longing – you can hear it in the

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roles when I was younger. The show echoed a bit of my life, and then our lives were echoing the show. Can I ask what’s happening with Smash, the series about a Broadway show? How accurate is it to your experience? I’m having a great time. It’s not all that like Broadway, because they were taking everything that could possibly happen, and putting it all in one production. Usually those things are spread out, only one per show. But it’s getting more accurate recently. It’s too bad, though, because it’s coming to a close with a two-hour finale at the end of the season just when it was getting onto something. That’s TV. Broadway, TV and movie star Bernadette Peters makes her Santa Barbara debut Saturday, May 4 at the Granada

music, too. Whatever the emotion. It makes it very easy to interpret, even though the music itself isn’t easy.

You’ve been singing his songs and many others for a number of years. Do they evolve over time for you, maybe take on deeper meaning or a new angle as the years go by? Oh yeah. If it’s written well, it just has depth. You want to go revisit the places again in your head. The dramatic songs especially for me. “No One is Alone” (from Into the Woods) – that’s really changed for me. It means one thing, but it goes so much broader than that. To know that people think like you do. It’s comforting but also a part you have to be aware of. How is it for you to be the lone singer on stage in concert as compared to a full ensemble in a Broadway musical? I like both. In a musical you’re playing a character, which has its own challenges. But in concert it’s so much fun: you get to choose what you’re going to sing, and how you want to do it. With me, there’s no fourth wall. I’m always talking right to the audience. We’re all in this room and going on this journey together. I look right at them. And talk. A lot. Is there one song, or a particular show, that’s a favorite? Something that when you look back brings you particular satisfaction? Gypsy was amazing. It’s like I was doing the best therapy for myself every night. It was so incredible for me. Because I played the mother, but some of my family was with me on the road, and I understudied those other

You turned sixty-five in February, which just doesn’t even seem possible. How are you with that number? (Laughs) It really does make me laugh when I hear it. I guess I’m OK with it. I don’t think about it, but when someone asks me I just start laughing. It just seems far away from me, which is good. But how do you keep in such good shape, your voice and more? You have to work at it, vocalize, and don’t abuse your voice, no smoking and drinking and staying up late. You have to exercise. Everyone nowadays understands the necessity of exercise to keep things going and working and moving. So I run, I do intervals on the treadmill, and I lift weights. What haven’t you done in your career: a Broadway role, a song, a movie part that you’d still like to? I’d love to do something dramatic, maybe go into a more classic piece that makes you think. There are these great new plays that open in New York all the time and I’d love to be in one of them. Or maybe a revival of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O’Neill. I want to keep evolving as a performer and an actress and be as true as I can to my interests. I’m just always interested to see what the universe will bring me next, and I’m always surprised. Do you have any plans to return to Broadway soon? I don’t. It’s a big commitment to do eight shows a week. So it has to be irresistible. It has to be something that I just know I have to do. Bernadette Peters performs at the Granada at 8pm Saturday, May 4. Tickets

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cost $50-$98. Call 899-2222; or visit www.granadasb.org.

Here in My Car

What with newcomers Elements Theatre Collective’s frequent pop-up professional performances, and Out of the Box Theatre Company’s commitment to bringing modern musicals to town, theater in Santa Barbara has never been more adventurous. And now even the more traditional outlets, like SBCC’s Theater Group – the longest-running producers in town, although they just moved into refurbished digs this season – often leave the tried and true path. Case in point: SBCC’s current production of Becky’s New Car, Steven Dietz’s 2008 play, which breaks a couple of conventions. The protagonist is going through the typical midlife crisis, but in this case, she’s a woman who instead of buying a new sports car herself strikes up a relationship with a wealthy man who walks into her dealership to buy nine new cars. Gender role-switching aside, what’s even more unusual about Becky’s New Car is that the play doesn’t just break the proverbial theatrical fourth wall – it blows it down Jericho-style. Not since The Mystery of Edwin Drood have audiences been so involved in participating and shaping a play on stage. In fact “New Car” actually begins with Becky handing a roll of toilet paper to someone in the crowd and asking them to drop it in the bathroom on their way out, while other viewers are asked onto stage later to help her get dresses and pack a suitcase. “She develops a very intimate relationship with the audience,” explained director Katie Laris. “They become her support group on her journey. She confides in them in a way she can’t with anyone else because her friends and family aren’t available. So the audience becomes her companion and friend. It’s a sweet relationship.” It takes a special kind of actor to handle the spontaneity inherent in unscripted audience responses, and Laris said she found hers in Leslie Gangl Howe, the veteran of innumerable local theater roles. “She’s so comfortable with herself. I’m not at all worried what’s going to happen. Even if the audience doesn’t respond, or goes overboard and tries to hijack or rewrite the play, I know she’ll handle it. But it will be a completely different show every night.” Meanwhile, Out of the Box is set to open Next to Normal, a musical that takes on the rather unusual subject of mental illness. The 2008 piece by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey did win both three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, but delving into the story of a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the 2 – 9 May 2013

effect that her illness has on her family isn’t the typical song and dance fare. But don’t tell that to OOB’s founder/ director Samatha Eve. “People have this concept of musical theater that it should be mindless entertainment, and that only straight plays can deal with serious topics,” Eve said. “We’re out to prove everyone wrong on that score. You can have a powerful show that deals with important topics respectfully and is still fun to watch.” Indeed, OOB’s track record includes Assassins, about the successful and would-be killers of American presidents; Reefer Madness, an adaptation of the cult film; and most recently Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, which chronicled in song the exploits of the post 19th century expansionist president. But to Eve, it’s not the mental illness hook that really draws the audience in Next to Normal. “It’s a huge factor but really it’s more about family relationships,” she explained. “How they deal with the crisis and their love and devotion to each other. When I first read it, the ties they have to each other just leapt off the page.” Eve didn’t mention whether she’s had personal experience with mental illness in her own family, instead suggesting, “Everyone has a friend, or a friend of a friend, or a family member, and it affects everyone. What they do to stay together, how they cope with troubling times, that’s what appealed to me. But there is a lot for anyone to connect to. There’s the teenage daughter who feels ignored, and the husband who is aware their marriage wasn’t all roses and diamonds to begin with. You see him hold on and try to fix her and help her, and that can become stifling for the wife who is trying to maintain her own sanity and keep it going.” The music itself is also a big selling point for the show, Eve said. “Every song is really different. They all have a different energy. Some are parody big Broadway songs with tongue in cheek references, while others are just acoustic guitar and a country-folk feel. There’s one scene at the top of Act II when (the daughter) is tripping on cough syrup and other medications she found in her mother’s bathroom while her mom is having an out-ofbody experience during electroshock therapy. It’s very contemporary musical theater.” But Next to Normal is not all doom and gloom, Eve said. “There are some moments with a lot of humor when it’s funny. In one song (the mom) is listening to the doctor drone on about possible side effects and it turns into this ‘My Favorite Things’-type moment, with the lists and warnings. And there are others that are hopeful and funny. But it is a pretty heavy 2 – 9 May 2013

Jazz trio The Bad Plus plays the Lobero with pianist Brad Mehldau on Friday, May 3

story. There’s no happy ending with a bow tied around it. Just some relief that’s really lovely with a message that being next to normal is enough.” Out of the Box’s Next to Normal opens Saturday and plays through May 12 at the Center Stage Theater, upstairs in Victoria Court. Tickets cost $25. Call 963-0408 or visit www.cen terstagetheater.org or www.outofthe boxtheatre.org. SBCC’s Becky’s New Car continues through May 11 at the Jurkowitz Theatre on campus. Tickets cost $12-$23. Call 965-5935 or visit www.theatregroupsbcc.com.

The Bad Plus and Mehldau

The opportunity to hear the wildly adventurous pianist Brad Mehldau, who is remarkably accomplished at both formal jazz structure and innovative improvisation, playing with his trio is reason enough to head to the Lobero Theatre Friday night, May 3. But there’s also a bonus: the multiheaded monster known as The Bad Plus. The Minneapolis-born group, also a piano trio, ply much of the same ground as Mehldau, but also burst through the confines of conventional jazz to deconstruct other genres and rebuild them in their own image. The Bad Plus will also return to the area less than five weeks later to perform at the Ojai Festival at the request of 2013 artistic director Mark Morris, with whom they have collaborated on a new adaptation of “The Rite of Spring” called “On Sacred Ground.” Bassist Reid Anderson gave us five quick insights to TBP’s ethos in a phone interview while he waited to board a plane in New York. 1) On how coming from the Midwest, surrounded by nature rather than buildings, has informed the music: “I think there is something about the soil of where you come from. Whether it’s cultural or just the way it imprints itself. I can’t say it’s the wide open space or the cold lonely winter that you can hear in the music. But we do feel connected in this sense of being from that part of the world. It even extends to the sense of humor

that we all share, that helps us understand and tolerate each other. It shows up in the music too.” 2) On how having no leader, which is unusual in jazz, has worked for the trio: “We all trust and respect each other’s musicianship. And we believe in group music. This is the music we want to make. And it’s ours. You can’t replace one of us and have it be the same band. It’s about the group dynamic. Music could use more fans of collective responsibility. That’s partly why we got together.” 3) On covering rock songs like Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” The Pixies’ “Velouria,” Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man”: “It was important to have a dialogue with popular culture and be honest as far as our own life experiences. We grew up playing rock; it was our doorway into music. And we’re still fans. And even before TBP, we thought it would be great to go hear a jazz band and they suddenly break into a song by the Police. So why not do it ourselves?” 4) On the balance between making music that’s heady and experimental versus accessible: “It’s a collective aesthetic. We believe in a pop sensibility, which is another way of saying it’s intended to reach an audience. But we give that a lot of free rein and don’t restrict ourselves because of it. Intention is important, and even if it’s free, our goal is to connect with the audience. Some jazz musicians don’t care if people get it or not. But with us,

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we believe in it and think you will too, and that goes a long way.” 5) On delving into electronic music on the latest album “...”, which Reid vowed in a 2009 interview would never happen: “I don’t want to be held to a box just because I painted it. It felt like the right moment. We try to evolve organically, and I’ve been getting more into electronic sounds. I really like synthesizers and drum machines, but the use of electronics is pretty subtle. It’s just an expansion of the sonic palette because we like the challenge of trying to bring things into our music. We posed that question at the outset. But it was important to be able to perform the songs live without the electronics. We didn’t want to travel with a big bank of keyboards.” Tickets for The Bad Plus/Brad Mehldau Trio concert at the Lobero Theatre Friday night, May 3 cost $40-$50, with limited $10 student rush tickets. Call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com.

Classical Corner

The Ventura Music Festival has grown significantly in stature since its humble beginnings nearly 20 years ago to the point where it actually kicked off the 2013 events more than two months ago, when first Latin jazz master Tito Puente and then classical icons Academy of St. Martin in the Fields performed at Ventura High. The proper festival, however, gets going this weekend, with eight days of music – classical and more – bringing a few big names and several up and comers to the seaside town just 30 miles south. The Count Basie Orchestra is one of the highlights, but Kyrgyzstani pianist Eldar Djangirov, classical guitar Petrit Ceku (who won the 2012 Parkening International Guitar Competition), Chinese pianist Haochen Zhang (Gold Medalist of the Thirteenth International Van Cliburn Piano Competition) and L.A.-based a cappella pop-jazz sextet M-Pact also deserve attention, not to mention the ever-popular Tea & Trumpets presentations. Get details, tickets and more online at www.venturamusicfestival. org or call 648-3146. •MJ Enjoy the big band sounds of the Count Basie Orchestra at the 19th annual Ventura Music Festival on Sunday, May 5

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the curious traveler 

by Jerry Camarillo Dunn, Jr.

“The Curious Traveler” received the 2011 gold medal for Best Travel Column from the Society of American Travel Writers, in a competition organized by the group’s western chapter. For Jerry’s latest book, see www. myfavoriteplacenatgeo.com.

Florence for Cognoscenti

The Vasari Corridor (at right) enabled Medici rulers to come and go through a secret passageway, above the heads of commoners (and potential assassins)

Florence still looks like a Renaissance city cradled in the Tuscany hills, its high point being Brunelleschi’s famous cathedral dome

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and maintenance costs over the life of the project. Today, MWD is saddled with an automatic annual payment of $4.9 million out of a 2012-13 operating budget of $12.5 million for the fixed capital and maintenance costs of SWP. That means that even in years when MWD does not use a single drop of SWP water, it must still pay 39% of its operating budget for its share of the fixed costs to finance, build and operate the dams, pipes, reservoirs and aqueducts of the SWP coastal branch. $114 million of debt for the current SWP will be repaid in 2022, with the remaining $481 million paid off by 2035. If Governor Brown’s Twin Tunnels Project is started prior to 2035, the new Twin Tunnel capital and maintenance costs will be added to any remaining SWP fixed annual costs, without a chance for MWD to opt out of its 9.5% voting share of the project, according to Dick Shaikewitz, chair of the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA), and Ray Stokes, CCWA Deputy Director.

Landscaping

Seventy percent of Montecito water is used outside the home to keep our lush landscaping green and healthy. While both the City of Santa Barbara and Carpinteria use reclaimed water for landscaping, Montecito lacks the pipes and infrastructure to move recycled water from treatment plants to homes, golf clubs and agricultural users for irrigation use. MWD says that an investment in the design, construction and operating costs to deliver recycled water for landscaping does not pencil out in competition with other capital improvement needs.

Aging Infrastructure

MWD has a need for a long-term capital program to replace its 23 miles of aging, pre-1930 water pipelines. Capital reserves of at least $1.8 million per year are needed to fund this pipeline program.

Conservation

The rate increase in 2008, which penalized large users in an effort to encourage conservation, worked well. From a record 6,500 acre feet consumed in 200708, water usage at MWD steadily declined to 5,300 acre feet in 2011-12.

Debt Covenants

Fixed costs of SWP have siphoned off $4.9 million of MWD’s $12.5 million annual operating budget, reducing available funds for additional capital improvements. Add in the fact that in 2010-11, revenues were not sufficient to fully fund operating costs, and $1.3 million had to taken from reserves. In 2011-2012, another $1.1 was taken from reserves, and it appears another $1.3 million will have to be taken from capital and debt service reserves in 2012-13. The expenditure of reserves for operational shortfalls puts MWD in the dangerous position of not having sufficient reserves to comply with its bonded debt covenant for a 1.25 debt service coverage ratio.

Effect of Proposed Rate Increases

By the fifth year (2018), the proposed 55% rate increase would be generating an additional $6.6 million in new revenue each year, providing the recommended (1) $1.8 million annually for a capital repair and replacement program; (2) $1.8 million annually for unanticipated changes in revenues or expenses; (3) $2.0 million in working cash reserves, equal to two months of operating costs; and (4) $1.2 million for interim repairs to the Ortega Reservoir.

Rate Increase Rollout

The MWD Board of Directors plans to meet in late May or early June to review the proposed 2013-14 MWD budget and make rate increase recommendations. Board approval would be followed by at least a 45-day notice to customers and property owners in the District for a public hearing in the latter part of August or early September in accordance with Prop 218.

MWD Options

There are numerous fairness issues to be addressed: How do you justify a proposed 55% rate increase on both fixed meter charges and water consumption charges? Isn’t this a double indignity? How will rate increases be allocated between different classes of users? Will agricultural users be priced out of business? Will heavy users bear a more significant share of added costs? What would be the effect of two or more above-average rainfall years on the MWD budget? Can the MWD and other agencies opt to drop out of the State Water Project, or its successor, the Twin Tunnels Project, before or after 2035? How could big water users, like the Santa Barbara Cemetery, the Valley Club or Birnam Wood, be tied into the Santa Barbara recycled water treatment infrastructure? What is the role of the now idled Santa Barbara Desalination Plant, as a viable option for potable water in the event of a prolonged South Coast drought? Would a merger of Santa Barbara Water, Montecito Water District, 2 – 9 May 2013

Carpinteria Water and Goleta Water produce economies of scale and lead to lower water rates? Is a 55% rate increase proposal merely a stalking horse for a lesser rate increase that would make the Montecito community feel relieved? Capital projects are usually funded with new bond proceeds. Why fund them with net revenues when interest rates are so low? Stay tuned for a lively and spirited community debate on the need for a capital repair and replacement program on a “pay as you go” basis versus accumulating more bonded debt before a 55% rate increase becomes a reality. •MJ

SHERIFF’S BLOTTER

compiled by Kelly Mahan from information supplied by Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department

Construction Thefts in Montecito

Friday, 5 April, 7:35 am – Deputy DeOrnellas was dispatched to Ramona Lane on a theft report. The residence is under construction, and the owner of the construction company reported that when he arrived on the property that morning, someone had forced entry onto the property, into his storage trailer, and into the residence. It appeared a chain that was attached to the chain link gate at the entrance to the property had been cut. Another lock was cut on the trailer, and $7,500 worth of tools were stolen. A pry tool had been used to gain entrance into the home, where several boxes of new furniture were missing. The deputy was able to pull latent finger prints off an exterior door. The print was submitted to forensics and the case was forwarded to detectives. At least ten other similar reports were filed with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department the same week. Construction sites on Pimiento Lane, Ridgecrest Drive, Green Lane, San Ysidro Road, Oak Grove Drive, San Leandro Lane, East Mountain Drive, Hot Springs Road, and Santa Clara Way were burglarized. On many of those properties, locks on service gates were cut and entrance was gained to garages and trailers. Lieutenant Kelly Moore says construction crews and contractors typically leave their equipment on site to avoid having to haul it each day, but an increase in these types of thefts should be motivation to not leave tools on unsecured properties, even if they are locked in trailers or garages. Reports were taken in each of these cases; the stolen tools range in cost from hundreds of dollars to multiple thousands of dollars.

Harassment at School

Friday, 19 April, 5:07 pm – Deputy Maupin was dispatched to the home of an employee who works at a school in Montecito. The woman said that while on campus earlier in the day, a teacher told her he was sorry about what had been posted about her online. She asked him what he was talking about, and he said there were postings on Craigslist which bad mouthed the employee. The woman went home to investigate, and found multiple postings about her, including name calling and a picture of the car she drives. She said she did have a verbal confrontation with a parent who had falsified her address; the woman’s kids were then unable to continue to attend the school. A report was taken.

Missing Man Found

Sunday, 21 April, 8:37 pm – Deputy Scherbarth responded to a housing community on San Ysidro Road to speak to a woman who wanted to file a missing persons report. The community’s security personnel directed the deputy to the woman, who said she was unable to locate her husband. The security personnel had already conducted a check of the property and were also unable to locate the man. The couple had lunch at their residence earlier in the day. At around 2 pm, the couple’s daughter called her mother, and after chatting for a few minutes, asked to talk to her father. The woman tried to find the man to give him the phone, but he was nowhere to be found. When he did not return for dinner, she called a friend to tell her what was going on, and the friend came over and helped search the residence, where they found the man’s wallet and watch. His car was not in his parking spot. A BOL (Be On the Lookout) was dispatched, and the deputy left. At 9 pm, the security personnel called to say the man had been found in the Jacuzzi. The oncoming shift personnel had walked through the pool area and found the man in the Jacuzzi, suffering from a medical episode. The man was conscious and alert, and was transported to Cottage Hospital. He was removed from the missing persons report.  •MJ

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her through intense dance training, and inundated her with Shirley Temple movies to help her repress her French regality and discover her inner American razzle dazzle,” Janet says with a laugh; Elise’s dad is from France. Rickie Lee Benedetto plays Louise, Jacob Pelto is Herbie, “a matinee idol with a crooner’s satin voice. Other standouts,” says Ms Adderley, “are Montecito’s Chloe Babcock as Baby June, and Grace Blankenhorn, as the other Dainty June,” who Adderley calls, “a brilliant young performer with megawatt star power.” A last-minute change has Santa Barbara Teen Star finalist Julieanna Bartling – with just a week’s worth of rehearsals – cast as Mama Rose in the Sunday matinee (Janet usually works with two complete casts). Show times are 2 and 6 pm on Saturday May 4 and again at 2 and 6 pm on Sunday, May 5. Reserved seating: $25 for adults, $15 for children 12 and under. Call the Lobero at 805-9630761 for tickets and more information.

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Up at San Marcos High School, they’re presenting Thoroughly Modern Millie with Cold Spring School grads Jason Hahs as Jimmy and Maddy Marquis as Dorothy Brown. Another Montecito resident, Alisa Deen, plays a “Speed Tappist” and “New Modern” in the ensemble. The musical is accompanied by San Marcos High School’s award winning Jazz Ensemble – under the musical direction of SMHS’s music program director Michael Kiyoi. The play – the story of a “thoroughly modern” young woman during the Roaring ‘Twenties whose goal is to marry rich but whose fate is probably something else entirely – is directed by David Holmes, with musical direction under Carolyn Teraoka-Brady. Choreography by Jessica Hambright, sets and light-

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Emily Libera is Millie Dillmount in the San Marcos High School musical production of Thoroughly Modern Millie

ing overseen by Theodore Michael Dolas, costume design by Marian Azdril and technical director is Brad Spaulding. Shari Pulcrano-Childs, a San Marcos mom, tells us that “in the lead role of Millie is Emily Libera, who recently made her appearance on the Lobero stage in the role of Elle in Legally Blonde. Emily is a ‘Royals Got Talent’ co-winner (with Jason Hahs).” She also received the honor of opening for the band Switch Foot at the Granada Theatre for the “Kids Helping Kids” event. Millie’s love interest, Jimmy, is Jason Hahs. Audiences have seen Jason performing with his band, Misfit Toys, alongside Nick Ehlen (Trevor Graydon) in the “Battle of the Bands” event. Miss Dorothy Brown (Maddy Marquis), Mrs. Meers (Melissa Marino), Muzzy Van Hossmore (Sarah Peka), and Mrs. Flannery (Karlie Mack) round out the featured performers. “The student cast is taught all aspects of play production, writing press releases, bios, and ad sales,” notes Shari. Apparently a scene in the film version of Thoroughly Modern Millie was filmed at the Hammond’s Estate, so we have yet another Montecito connection. Thoroughly Modern Millie runs from Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, May 2, 3, and 4, and again on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday May 9, 10, 11 beginning at 7 pm each night, at San Marcos High School Theater, 4750 Hollister Avenue (at Turnpike). Tickets ($14 adults; $12 students and seniors, and $5 for Royal card holders) can be purchased by calling the SMHS business office at 805-967-4581, extension 212, online at www.shopsmroyals.org, or at the door.  •MJ 2 – 9 May 2013

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ring Ethel Merman and Jack Klugman, Chip and Kim Blankenhorn – whose daughters, Grace and Lily, are part of the cast – hosted an “Everything’s Coming Up Roses!” garden party at their exquisite new home in Hope Ranch. Guests quaffing the Babcock wines and noshing on the canapés from Edie Robertson and Jennifer Scholl, included Olaf and Eva Hermes, Rob and Judy Egenolf, Kim and Tammy Hughes, John and Betsey Moller, Maryann Edgecomb and Laura Ciel. Silent auction items included VIP tickets to concerts by Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges and Depeche Mode, and a walk-on part in a Disney TV show. If Gypsy, a story loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, is as good the ensemble’s last production Oliver!, it should be a cracker!...

Jambo, Jambo Local photographer Michael Haber’s first trip to Kenya last year with his three children had quite a profound effect on him. Michael, who has shot commercial campaigns for the likes of The Gap, Old Navy and Target, spent two weeks in the bush with his daughters Sophie, 17, and Ruby, 15, and son, Henry, 11, and has produced a 101page black and white coffee table tome Jambo, Jambo, which accompanied the opening of his exhibition at the Hangar, with many of the shots, on which Sophie, a Santa Barbara High student, collaborated, decorated in tribal style by local artist, Trevor Gordon. “It is a moving documentary of still lifes,” says Michael, as friends, including Tipper Gore and Craig McCaw, perused the exhibits. “Traveling to Africa changed my life,” he admits. “It was there that the harmonious co-existence of wildlife 2 – 9 May 2013

Master Chorale Impresses Santa Barbara Master Chorale, under artistic director Steven Hodson, put on quite a show with Antonin Dvorak’s “Stabat Mater” at the First United Methodist Church. The 1877 two hour-long sacred work by the Czech composer, written to mark the death of his daughter, Josefa, was in very capable hands with soloists Tara Victoria Eisenhauer, soprano, Danielle Marcelle Bond, mezzo soprano, Benjamin Brecher, tenor, and Emil Dorian Cristescu, bass. It made for a most enjoyable afternoon... Remembering Jonathan As a memorial for the late Montecito comedian Jonathan Winters is being organized at the Lobero later this month, Palace Grlll owners, Michael and Sandy DeRousse, remember one particular visit Jonathan made to their popular eatery. “He came in with his wife, Eileen, and, after being seated, he immediately got up, took one of the water pitchers and went from table to table filling the glasses,” says Sandy. “He wouldn’t leave the table until the guests looked up and realized who he was. It was a wonderful evening for everyone!”

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Hey Let’s Raise the Flag for Spirit of ’76! Spirit of ‘76 Association is seeking donations to provide a permanent place for the huge American flag that normally hangs on the backside of the Lobero

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here is a relatively new but already beloved tradition in town: the display of Santa Barbara’s largest memorial flag. Since 2002, the 40 feet by 60 feet flag has been hung with care on the backside of the Lobero, and it is funded annually by an outpouring of community support. From a piggy bank donation of a young patriot worth $5.00 to $1,500 from an anonymous citizen, all

kinds of Santa Barbara families and individuals have contributed annually to the Spirit of ’76 Committee who create this annual flag display! Paul Lamberton, a familiar face about town and the President of the Spirit of ‘76 Association, is seeking the community’s support to provide a permanently secure place for this flag. “When the flag is hanging on the Lobero wall, it is like a gigantic sail

and this puts a lot of pressure on the building structure.” Paul explained, “And we do not want either the flag to tear away or to damage the building.”  So, a contractor was hired to create a support system, which will be installed in the theatre wall for this flag. The Spirit of ’76 committee is hoping to raise $8,500 in the next four weeks, to put this in place. Since the Lobero will be starting its renovation in June and closing down, the committee wants the funds and the fixings in place in order to display the flag during the last two weeks in May though Memorial Day.  In this town,  $8,500 should be easily come by, right? Give this some thought, and then give this hardworking committee some pocket change to get this thing in place.  A gift donation can be made at spiritof76sb.org or PO BOX 30054, Santa Barbara, CA 93130, or call Paul directly and tell him how you can help out at 805-284-5245.

Hey Dons! How ‘Bout a Pep Talk for Coach Moore?

Who remembers playing volleyball under SBHS coach Bob Moore (also taught La Cumbre)? I heard from friends that this fine gentleman has suffered a major stroke and is currently at Central Coast Nursing/Rehab off of upper State on Via Lucero. His speech is limited but boy-oh-boy I hear he has been delighted that some of his former players and students have been dropping in and would love to see and or hear from any others.  If he ever motivated or coached you, then think about how he would be just tickled to have you swing by to motivate or coach him at this critical juncture. Let’s rally around this coach, and give him a pep talk, team!

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Santa Barbara’s name has recently found its way into print in more ways than one. The Los Angeles Times has a wonderful endearing story about Westmont Coach Kirsten Moore who tragically lost her husband, and then gave birth to their first child two months later. The support of the extended Westmont family is a very uplifting story. Read the story • The Voice of the Village •



here: http://www.latimes.com/ sports/la-sp-plaschke-westmont20130331,0,2860809,full.column Time magazine’s Joel Stein has dropped Santa Barbara’s name a few times, most recently (March 4) he referenced our Coffee with a Cop. Then, away over in The Moscow Times, we find local Dennis Jerrard writing about matters of religion and the future of Russia – fascinating read.

Dangerous Nail Clippers

Did you catch this one? Local news at the beginning of March reported that it took four officers to respond to a threat at the IRS building. Story goes that the security guard there had ordered a 33-year-old woman to cease using her nail clippers (yes, you read correctly) as they are considered a weapon (yes, you still read correctly. Perhaps security was looking to the TSA as the defining gold standard of implements of mass destruction under three inches). Understandably, she got into a tiff with the guard, probably questioning how cutting someone’s nails down to the quick could pose a security risk. At any rate, in annoyance, she threw the two-inch item down, intending to retrieve it later. So the guard then called to have the woman arrested because it is a misdemeanor to throw objects at a federal building (your tax dollars at work here). The police who acted quickly and in force to this call of distress, however, declined to arrest her, and returned her clippers on the condition that she would not return (your tax dollars at waste here).

Santa Barbarians are Buzzing About

Bees! I think it all started with the art exhibition at Lotusland inspired by bees and bee culture. (If they say it’s none of your beeswax, they were wrong! One “bee-scape” was entirely fashioned from beeswax.) Then choreographer Robin Bisio had a wasp infused dance number performed there last week. Now buddy Mo McFadden relates that she was walking back from Three Pickles and heard a buzzing sound coming from the orange tree in the small yard next to the Presidio’s El Cuartel. In no time at all a yellow tape was installed to keep the public out of harm’s way.  Soon after, the Lobero building across and down the street on Canon Perdido had yellow tape on the steps leading to the second story due to a bee swarm. And come to learn there had been another bee swarm a day before a few blocks north of there.  So honey, be forewarned to stay out of swarm’s way. •MJ 2 – 9 May 2013

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through a door and found ourselves outdoors, just below the Boboli Gardens near the Palazzo Pitti. Along a wall grew espaliered trees that produce bitter oranges – the same kind, said Lucia, that are seen in Boticelli’s famous painting of “Spring.” And so our walk through the secret artistic world of the Vasari Corridor ended with a graceful transition to natural beauty and the rest of Florence’s wonders.

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from the University of Florence. From her purse she took a key and turned it in the lock of an unmarked door. And there we stood in the Medicis’ secret passageway. (Talk about insiders.) About twelve feet wide, the corridor stretched for one kilometer, making it a serious contender for “World’s Longest Museum Room.” Along the walls hung paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries, and a huge collection of self-portraits by famous artists as recent as the 20th century. The exhibition began with pictures of the Medicis and hundreds of their friends. “Sort of like the Facebook of its day,” explained Lucia, in charming English with an Italian lilt. She told us that the corridor was often jammed with a parade of Medicis and friends, along with servants – who often lugged the royal family on their shoulders. We entered the part of the corridor that crosses the river and overlooks the shops lining the Ponte Vecchio. Lucia explained that the bridge was originally occupied by butchers, who used to toss their refuse into the river. The Medicis disliked the resulting smell and in 1665 kicked the butchers off the bridge, decreeing that below Medici feet there would only be men working in precious materials: gold,

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silver, gems. Jewelers’ shops fill the bridge to this day. On the walls, portraits depicted serious men posed against dark backgrounds, with light illuminating only their faces and formal white collars. Lucia pointed out a 17th-century portrait of Carlo Dolci. “He looks just like the man who owns Florence’s famous ‘Perche No’ ice cream shop,” she exclaimed. “A true Florentine face!” Among the artists’ self portraits, a few set themselves apart from murky tradition. I was knocked out by Albrecht Durer’s portrayal of himself at age 27, painted in crystalline detail with shoulder-length blond surfer hair and a knowing expression that implied a quite modern sense of irony. Anthony Van Dyk sported his namesake beard. Twentieth-century painter Marc Chagall, who yearned to have at least one painting hang in the Uffizi, donated his self portrait. We paused briefly by a grated window to gaze down into the corridoradjacent Church of Santa Felicita. Formerly the window had been a doorway, opening to a private balcony that enabled the Medicis to attend Mass without mixing with commoners (or assassins). The tour ended when we walked

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materials, colors, textures, workmanship, and sublime creativity. The museum, in the basement of in a private palace built in 1289, displays company founder Salvatore Ferragamo’s artistically varied, impeccably made shoes. Ferragamo left Italy in 1914 to join his brother in Boston, working there briefly in a cowboy boot factory. He moved west to Santa Barbara (!) and then Hollywood, where he became known as the “Shoemaker to the

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Okay, you ask, what’s a manly man such as myself, all biceps and testosterone, doing here in a museum devoted to women’s shoes? My answer: Growing increasingly fascinated. Salvatore Ferragamo made shoes as art – and isn’t art what Florence is all about? A manifesto: We must commend artworks that are successful within rigid formal constraints. Take the sonnet, an inflexible verse pattern (fourteen lines, ten syllables per line) within whose limitations a great poet can do nearly anything (see Shakespeare). The same idea applies to a shoe, whose constraints are inescapably dictated by the size, shape, and comfort of the human foot. Yet an artist who has “sole” can vary a shoe’s design unendingly through

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Stars.” Troubled because women’s shoes were so often uncomfortable, he studied anatomy at USC, and this led him to design a patented metal rod within the sole to support the arch. Ferragamo also invented cork wedges, design classics on view at the museum. Other exhibits included Judy Garland’s 1938 platform sandals, designed with gold straps and bands of colored suede. As an Audrey Hepburn fan, I enjoyed seeing red high heels that her feet had actually touched. But Ferragamo’s most remarkable client was Indira Devi, the Maharani of Cooch Behar. In the 1930s, the Indian princess would order as many as one hundred pairs of shoes at a time, even sending Salvatore Ferragamo her personal gemstones – rubies, emeralds, and diamonds – to add sparkle to his creations. If you decide to join the Ferragamo client roster, the boutique next door to the museum offers reproductions of classic footwear, along with current styles. On my visit, a special exhibition hall was devoted to Marilyn Monroe, and frankly I expected a load of fluff. Instead, the show offered a penetrating look at Marilyn’s public image and private self (via handwritten diary entries that were surprisingly smart, pithy, and poetic).

I learned that her poses were often based on great statues and paintings, which she studied in art books and also learned from photographers who were well versed in classical art. In one inspired exhibit, a wall-size projected image of Boticelli’s famous 1486 painting, “The Birth of Venus,” faded back and forth with a photograph of Marilyn standing in an identical pose. No doubt the museum’s other special exhibitions are equally in depth and well done.

Fiesole

When I was a student at Stanfordin-Italy in the 1960s, we lived in a “villa” (actually a former monastery or nunnery, I was never quite sure) on the road to Fiesole. This tiny town in the hills above Florence has been famous for its scenic views and the elegant villas of wealthy Florentines since the 14th century. But the area was settled even before Roman days by the fabled Etruscans, who arrived about 600 B.C. I figured that the place to start my visit was the Etruscan section of the town’s archaeological museum – but I got waylaid by bowls of fresh pasta being served in the museum café. My window table overlooked an ancient Roman amphitheater and hills studded with cypress trees and

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olive groves. All this made me think, “Okay, this is how Italy is supposed to look!” Over the years, the same timeless view has lured everyone from Boccaccio to Marcel Proust and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Etruscans were master artists, and in the museum I delighted in seeing Etruscan urns and a large fragment of a bronze she-wolf, all unearthed in the Fiesole area, as well as carved sandstone funeral columns, elongated votive statuettes, and a tiny bronze owl. (The invading Romans later “borrowed” the Etruscans’ expertise in metallurgy.) Under atmospheric clouds, I wandered around the 3,000-seat Roman theater and past walls and sunken baths from the 1st century A.D., partly overgrown (as respectable ruins should be). After a few days spent elbowing my way through the tourist throngs down in Florence, Fiesole gave me some breathing space, a quiet pause among green hills, and a sense of ancient days. So there you are – three places to visit that will rank you among the “insiders” of Florence. You can thank me by raising a glass of Chianti when you go.

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year take advantage of our sports leagues, our leadership council and the many classes and opportunities at the Twelve35 Teen Center.” There are also scholarships to many camps around town. Especially honored was board member Richard Auhll, who because of his expertise was an invaluable treasurer. He was also a donor of his time and treasure, auction items, tables he sponsored and a yearly Christmas party with all proceeds going to PAL. Incoming president John Von Donge said his folks taught him “to leave the campsite better than you found it” and Doug Dreier has. Police Chief Cam Sanchez suggested, “Bid big (on the live auction)!” Paddles were raised and then it was dancing time. If you’d like to become involved, call 962-5560 or check out www.san tabarbarapal.org.

Arts Fund co-curators Catherine Gee and Nancy Gifford at the opening of the “Big Splash” exhibit

also surfers: Blakeney, Rick and Ben. In this exhibit the gallery was able to bring two young vibrant painters together with two established seasoned artists. Surfs up until May 18 at the Arts Fund at 205C Santa Barbara Street at Yanonali – open for free Wednesday through Friday from 1-5 pm and Saturday 11-5 pm.

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The Funk Zone is getting funkier – or at least busier. The Arts Fund, which has been there for years, is now right in the middle of this creative area of our town. The night of the opening of their latest exhibit “Big Splash,” there were at least two other nearby galleries having openings too. The curators Catherine Gee and Nancy Gifford told me, “After seeing the work of these four artists, we decided it would revolve around water and named it ‘Big Splash.’ Then the paintings had to be big.” And they are. The artists are Benjamin Anderson, Rick Stich, Blakeney Sanford (daughter of winemakers Richard and Tekla Sanford) and Cayetana Conrad (daughter of the late Barnaby Conrad, also an artist). Cayetana shared, “My dad was so happy I was to be in this show.” A water theme particularly suits three of the artists, 2 – 9 May 2013

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Westmont’s national champion men’s polo team poses for photos April 25

by Scott Craig (photos by Brad Elliott) Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

Lincoln Scholar to Speak at Commencement About 4,000 are expected at Commencement on Carr Field

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onald C. White Jr., author of The New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln: A Biography, will speak at Commencement May 4 at 10 am. Pastor Rick Warren has canceled his appearance at Westmont following the death of his 27-year-old son. Edward and Suzanne Birch, leaders in the education community and active volunteers in local organizations, will receive the Westmont Medal. The class of 2013 includes 305 graduates; 106 will receive academic honors. Golden Warriors, who graduated in 1963, will march in the procession and celebrate their 50th reunion. Commencement is free and open to the public, but no parking is available on campus. Guests must park their cars at Santa Barbara City College and use Westmont’s free shuttle service to campus, arriving at City College no later than 9:30 am. White’s topic, “Abraham Lincoln’s Sermon on the Mount,” reflects his work as a Lincoln scholar and author of numerous books about the 16th president. USA Today said, “If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. Lincoln.” The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, History Book Club and Barnes & Noble honored this Lincoln biography as a Best Book of 2009. It also won the coveted Christopher Award in 2010, which salutes books “that affirm the highest values of the human spirit.” White’s other works include Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, a New York Times Notable Book, and The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. He has lectured at the White House and been interviewed on the PBS News Hour. White graduated from UCLA and

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Author Ronald C. White Jr. speaks at Commencement May 4

Princeton Seminary and earned a doctorate in religion and history at Princeton University. He is a fellow at the Huntington Library and a visiting professor of history at UCLA. He is writing a biography of Ulysses S. Grant, which Random House will publish. “Dr. White was my professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, and I’m delighted to welcome him to Westmont,” says President Gayle D. Beebe. “His works on Lincoln make a significant contribution to our understanding of this important president. “Ed and Sue Birch, our Westmont medal recipients, continue to be significant members of the Westmont community who are also widely involved as local volunteers and leaders,” Beebe says. “We honor their commitment to education, to serving others and to making Santa Barbara a better place for all.” Edward E. Birch, president and CEO of the Samuel B. and Margaret C. Mosher Foundation and trustee of the Margaret C. Mosher Trust, has distinguished himself during a 35-year career in management. He served as chairman of the board of Pacific Capital Bancorp (2004 to 2010), as executive vice president of Westmont (1993 to 2001), and as vice

chancellor of UC Santa Barbara (1976 to 1993), with a stint as vice president, business units, for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He has been a Westmont trustee since 2003. His community service includes board membership with Cottage Health Systems, the Channel City Club, the Community Arts Music Association, the UCSB Foundation, the Statewide Board of the UCSB Economic Forecast Project, and the Advisory Board of John Hopkins University. He graduated from the State University of New York, earned a master’s at Ohio University, and completed a doctorate in education at Michigan State University. Suzanne Birch has an extensive background in education, serving as a teacher, head of lower school and counselor at Laguna Blanca School, as a computer instructor for the Santa Barbara County Education Office, as supervisor of student teachers at UC Santa Barbara, and as an educational instructional specialist for IBM. She has devoted time to the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Marymount School, the Non-Profit Support Board, Opera Santa Barbara, Laguna Blanca School, All Saints Parish School, the Cancer Center Children’s Group and Westmont. She earned a master ’s degree in counseling at Ohio State University after graduating from the State University of New York. This year ’s graduating class includes Tugce Canitez, two-time NAIA Player of the Year and member of the national champion women’s basketball team. Fellow teammates Jillian Wilber, Larissa Hensley and Gracie Boelsems will also graduate. The parents of Nick Davis, who was killed in a motorcycle crash near campus January 8, will attend Commencement to receive Nick’s diploma. The Class of 2013 includes four Monroe Scholars, Samantha Gardner of Los Alamitos, California; Daniel Gee of Temple City, California; Kacie Kyne of Ridgway Colorado; and Wesley Zuidema of Ontario, California. The Monroe Scholarship honors top students with full-tuition scholarships. Gee also earned the 2013 Faculty Scholarship Award for the highest cumulative GPA.

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Event Honors National Champion Polo Team

About 60 people attended an on-campus reception April 25 to honor Westmont’s national champion Men’s Polo Team. The team won its first national title, beating Colorado State 19-16 in the U.S. Polo Association National Intercollegiate Championship April 13 in Brookshire, Texas. President Gayle D. Beebe, Reed Sheard, vice president for advancement and information technology, Angela D’Amour, director of campus life, professor Curt Whiteman, polo team faculty sponsor, coach John Westley and team captain Patrick Uretz all spoke at the event. Players David Samaniego, Tony Uretz, Ky Koebele, Jake Bergman and Taylor Longo were also in attendance.

Men’s Track Captures First GSAC Championship

Warrior Ben Kingsley of Ventura recorded 34 individual points in the GSAC Championship

Westmont Men’s Track and Field won its first GSAC Championship in program history April 27 with sophomore Ben Kingsley of Ventura recording a team-high 34 points in individual events. Kingsley had three conference championships in the shot put, discus and hammer. First-year student Tyler Moore of Murrieta tallied 32 individual points and eight more as part of the 4 x 100 meter relay. •MJ 2 – 9 May 2013

our town (Continued from page 43) A proud Ron Zecher at the piano with his band, featuring sax player Henry Urschel (far left)

Drummer Tyler Herzog with the MUS Band Rachel Clark directing the MUS Orchestra opening the Spring Festival, with Pam Herzog accompanying on the Grand Piano

Rachel Clark and the MUS Orchestra taking a bow following their performance

voices in six parts, they sang two Renaissance period songs, the African American pre-Civil war pieces, “Elijah Rock” and “Soon I Will Be Done,” and their traditional closing piece, “My Love is like a Red, Red Rose.” The MUS and CSS combined choruses completed the show with uplifting pieces by Cole Porter, “Another Op’nin,’ Another Show” and “Get Happy” as arranged by Mac Huff, with student singer solos. Everyone left feelPam Herzog with the combined MUS and CSS choruses

ing great and jazzed about the talented kids in our schools. Pam exclaimed, “It is such a wonderful night of uplifting music and collaboration between the schools.” We all agreed! •MJ

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and accompanied by Pam, performing “A Beethoven Lullaby,” “William Tell Overture” and “Dragon Hunter.” The MUS and CSS combined bands changed the pace to swing with “Born to Be Wild,” “Bossa Blue,” “The Simpsons,” “Stompin’ at the Savoy,” “Time after Time” and “Don’t Stop Believing,” with Ron at the piano and Jocelyn conducting. Solos by saxophonist Henry Urschel were smooth and graceful. Henry has been study2 – 9 May 2013

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PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Design Studio, 1482 East Valley Road, Suite 3, Montecito, CA 93108. Maureen Hemming, 318 Por La Mar Circle, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Ashley L. Ramsey, 866 Oak Grove Court, Ojai, CA 93023. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 16, 2013. 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) by Joshua Madison. Original FBN No. 2013-0001244. Published May 1, 8, 15, 22, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Allora By Laura, 1269 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Laura Dining, 4569 Via Clarice, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 17, 2013. 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) by Melissa Mercer. Original FBN No. 2013-0001284. Published May 1, 8, 15, 22, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Beach Shack, 2262 Ortega Hill Road, Summerland, CA 93067 (PO Box 1134 Summerland, CA 93067). Donald L. Hedden, 2386 Banner Avenue, Summerland, CA 93067. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 25, 2013. 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) by Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2013-0001378. Published May 1, 8, 15, 22, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: A U T O R E PA I R M O N E Y. COM, 1463 Twinridge Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Goldman Marketing Inc,

1463 Twinridge Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 3, 2013. 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) by Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0001088. Published April 24, May 1, 8, 15, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Pest Control, INC, 211 West Mission Street, Santa Barbara, CA 931012820. Santa Barbara Pest Control, INC, 211 West Mission Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2820. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 19, 2013. 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) by Gabriel Cabello. Original FBN No. 2013-0001298. Published April 24, May 1, 8, 15, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Michael’s Catering; Waterside Enterprises; The Santa Barbara Bake Shop; Waterside Catering, 205 W. Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Michael Hutchings, 1035 Miramonte Drive #3, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 17, 2013. 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) by Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 20130001275. Published April 24, May 1, 8, 15, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Mentalfrosting, 5304 Star Pine Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Hasan Sadiq, 5304 Star Pine Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 10, 2013. This statement expires five

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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) by Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2013-0001167. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nerds To The Rescue, 3433 State Street, Ste E, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Techease Computer Solutions, LLC, 3433 State Street, Ste E, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 28, 2013. 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) by Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0001014. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ITSWEB, 1035 Orilla Del Mar, Unit C, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Brian D. Skelton, 1035 Orilla Del Mar, Unit C, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 11, 2013. 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) by Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0001201. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Clearing House, LLC, 1917 Mountain Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The Clearing House, LLC, 1917 Mountain Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 3, 2013. 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) by Gabriel Cabello. Original FBN No. 2013-0001081. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Age Well; Age Well Fiduciaries, 1406 Garden Street #11, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Courtney Desoto, 1730 Narrows Court, Oxnard, CA 93035. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 5, 2013. 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) by Gabriel Cabello. Original FBN No. 2013-0001113. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Pops Association, 535 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Santa Barbara Pops Orchestra, 535 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 4, 2013. 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) by Melissa Mercer. Original FBN No. 2013-0001097. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Vintage Trailers, 204 Boeseke Parkway, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Brainstorm Gardens, LLC, 204 Boeseke Parkway, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 29, 2013. 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) by Melissa Mercer. Original FBN No. 2013-0001023. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Helena’s Healing Touch: Massage Therapy, 1187 Coast Village Drive, Suite M, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Elena Arguello, 2011 Oak Avenue, Apt 8,

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ORDINANCE NO. 5617 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING THE GRANTING OF EASEMENTS FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES IN AND UNDER THE CITY-OWNED PROPERTY AT CHAPALA AND YANONALI STREETS, AND AUTHORIZING THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE AGREEMENTS WITH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY, VERIZON CALIFORNIA INC., COX COMMUNICATIONS CALIFORNIA LLC, AND CROWN CASTLE NG WEST INC., TO GRANT EASEMENTS RELATED TO THE CITY-OWNED PROPERTY AT CHAPALA AND YANONALI STREETS The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on April 23, 2013. The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

(Seal) /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5617 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on April 16, 2013, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on April 23, 2013, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco, Frank Hotchkiss, Grant House, Cathy Murillo, Bendy White, Mayor Pro Tempore Randy Rowse

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Mayor Helene Schneider

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on April 24, 2013.

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 24, 2013.

/s/ Randy Rowse Mayor Pro Tempore



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PUBLIC NOTICES Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 5, 2013. 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) by Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2013-0001105. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Chief Sweep Chimney Service, 1197 Tyndall Street, Santa Ynez, CA 93427. Ashley Lauritson, 276 Riverview Drive, Buellton, CA 93427. Richard Lauritson, 1197 Tyndall Street, Santa Ynez, CA 93427. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 22, 2013. 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) by Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2013-0000959. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: GN Device Group, 1381 Danielson Road, #B, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Greg Nitka, 1381 Danielson Road, #B, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 5, 2013. 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) by Gabriel Cabello. Original FBN No. 20130001103. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Kevsteele Photography, 2976 Glen Albyn Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Kevsteele, LTD., 2976 Glen Albyn Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this

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is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0000968. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Labella, 528 Chiquita Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Maria Violeta Ros Labella, 528 Chiquita Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 1, 2013. 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) by Hector Gonzalez. Original FBN No. 2013-0001045. Published April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1415426. To all interested parties: Petitioner Adjovi Mawufemo Dagbovie filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Rachel Adjovi Dagbovie. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 12, 2013, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: May 22, 2013 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1416435. To all interested parties: Petitioner Aryeh Fink filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Ahnriel Rean. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should

not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 12, 2013, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 12, 2013 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1416458. To all interested parties: Petitioner Virginia Rubsam Ramsey filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Virginia Townsend Rubsam. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 12, 2013, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 12, 2013 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1415998. To all interested parties: Petitioner Katherine Eileen Villar filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Katherine Villar Newell, and the names of children Kane James Villar to Kane James Newell; Laird Newell Villar to Laird Newell; Raden Jo Ann Villar to Raden Jo Ann Newell. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be

heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 12, 2013, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: May 22, 2013 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1415927. To all interested parties: Petitioner Jake Stevan Tursick filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Jake Evan Tursick. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 11, 2013, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: May 22, 2013 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1415958. To all interested parties: Petitioner Frances Inez Hill filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Frances Hill Mallery. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 11, 2013, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: May 29, 2013 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15

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CAVA  $$ 1212 Coast Village Road (969-8500) Regional Mexican and Spanish cooking combine to create Latin cuisine from tapas and margaritas, mojitos, seafood paella and sangria to lobster tamales, Churrasco ribeye steak and seared Ahi tuna. Sunflower-colored interior is accented by live Spanish guitarist playing next to cozy beehive fireplace nightly. Lively year-round outdoor people-wat­­­­­ching front patio. Open Monday-Friday 11 am to 10 pm. Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 10 pm. China Palace  1070 Coast Village Road (565-9380)

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Little Alex’s  1024 A-Coast Village Road (969-2297)

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Lucky’s (brunch) $$ (dinner)  $$$ 1279 Coast Village Road (565-7540) Comfortable, old-fashioned urban steakhouse in the heart of America’s biggest little village. Steaks, chops, seafood, cocktails, and an enormous wine list are featured, with white tablecloths, fine crystal and vintage photos from the 20th century. The bar (separate from dining room) features large flat-screen TV and opens at 4 pm during the week. Open nightly from 5 pm to 10 pm; Saturday & Sunday brunch from 9 am to 3 pm. Valet Parking. Montecito Café  1295 Coast Village Road (969-3392) Montecito Coffee Shop  1498 East Valley Road (969-6250)

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Montecito Wine Bistro $$ 516 San Ysidro Road 969-7520 Savor Santa Barbara’s bounty: local organic produce, free-range poultry and meats, local seafood and wines. Chef Victor’s seasonal farm-to-table menu focuses on California cuisine provided by area farmers’ markets. Many vegetarian and vegan options. Full Bar, sommelier-selected wine list and artisan (organic when possible) liquors. Open at 11 everyday. Pane é Vino  1482 East Valley Road (969-9274)

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Plow & Angel  $$$ San Ysidro Ranch   900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700) Enjoy a comfortable atmosphere as you dine on traditional dishes such as mac ‘n cheese and ribs. The ambiance is enhanced with original artwork, including stained glass windows and an homage to its namesake, Saint Isadore, hanging above the fireplace.  Dinner is served from 5 to 10 pm daily with bar service extending until 11 pm weekdays and until midnight on Friday and Saturday.

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Stonehouse  $$$$ San Ysidro Ranch 900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700) Located in what is a 19th-century citrus packinghouse, Stonehouse restaurant features a lounge with full bar service and separate dining room with crackling fireplace and creekside views. Chef Matthew Johnson’s regional cuisine is prepared with a palate of herbs and vegetables harvested from the on-site chef’s garden. Recently voted 1 of the best 50 restaurants in America by OpenTable Diner’s Choice. 2010 Diners’ Choice Awards: 1 of 50 Most Romantic Restaurants in America, 1 of 50 Restaurants With Best Service in America. Open for dinner from 6 to 10 pm daily. Sunday Brunch 10 am to 2 pm. Trattoria Mollie  1250 Coast Village Road (565-9381)

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Tre Lune  $$/$$$ 1151 Coast Village Road (969-2646) A real Italian boite, complete with small but fully licensed bar, big list of Italian wines, large comfortable tables and chairs, lots of mahogany and large b&w vintage photos of mostly famous Italians. Menu features both comfort food like mama used to make and more adventurous Italian fare. Now open continuously from lunch to dinner. Also open from 7:30 am to 11:30 am daily for breakfast. Via Vai Trattoria Pizzeria  1483 East Valley Road (565-9393)

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Delis, bakeries, juice bars Blenders in the Grass 1046 Coast Village Road (969-0611) Here’s The Scoop 1187 Coast Village Road (lower level) (969-7020) Gelato and Sorbet are made on the premises. Open Monday through Thursday 1 pm to 9 pm, 12 pm to 10 pm Friday and Saturday, and 12 pm to 9 pm on Sundays. Jeannine’s 1253 Coast Village Road (969-7878) Montecito Deli 1150 Coast Village Road (969-3717) Open six days a week from 7 am to 3 pm. (Closed Sunday) This eatery serves homemade soups, fresh salads, sandwiches, and its specialty, The Piadina, a homemade flat bread made daily. Panino 1014 #C Coast Village Road (565-0137) Pierre Lafond 516 San Ysidro Road (565-1502) This market and deli is a center of activity in Montecito’s Upper Village, serving fresh baked pastries, regular and espresso coffee drinks, smoothies, burritos, homemade soups, deli salads, made-to-order sandwiches and wraps available, and boasting a fully stocked salad bar. Its sunny patio draws crowds of regulars daily. The shop also carries specialty drinks, gift items, grocery staples, and produce. Open everyday 5:30 am to 8 pm. Village Cheese & Wine 1485 East Valley Road (969-3815)

In Summerland / Carpinteria Cantwell’s Summerland Market 2580 Lillie Avenue (969-5893)

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Jack’s Bistro  $ 5050 Carpinteria Avenue (566-1558) Serving light California Cuisine, Jack’s offers freshly baked bagels with whipped cream cheeses, omelettes, scrambles, breakfast burritos, specialty sandwiches, wraps, burgers, salads, pastas and more. Jacks offers an extensive espresso and coffee bar menu, along with wine and beer. They also offer full service catering, and can accommodate wedding receptions to corporate events. Open Monday through Friday 6:30 am to 3 pm, Saturday and Sunday 7 am to 3 pm. Nugget  2318 Lillie Avenue (969-6135)

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Padaro Beach Grill  $ 3765 Santa Claus Lane (566-9800) A beach house feel gives this seaside eatery its charm and makes it a perfect place to bring the whole family. Its new owners added a pond, waterfall, an elevated patio with fireplace and couches to boot. Enjoy grill options, along with salads and seafood plates. The Grill is open Monday through Sunday 11 am to 9 pm Sly’s  $$$ 686 Linden Avenue (684-6666) Sly’s features fresh fish, farmers’ market veggies, traditional pastas, prime steaks, Blue Plate Specials and vintage desserts. You’ll find a full bar, serving special martinis and an extensive wine list featuring California and French wines. Cocktails from 4 pm to close, dinner from 5 to 9 pm Sunday-Thursday and 5 to 10 pm Friday and Saturday. Lunch is M-F 11:30 to 2:30, and brunch is served on the weekends from 9 am to 3 pm. Stacky’s Seaside  2315 Lillie Avenue (969-9908)

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Summerland Beach Café  2294 Lillie Avenue (969-1019)

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Tinkers  2275 C Ortega Hill Road (969-1970)

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Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row Bistro Eleven Eleven  $$ 1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard (730-1111) Located adjacent to Hotel Mar Monte, the bistro serves breakfast and lunch featuring all-American favorites. Dinner is a mix of traditional favorites and coastal cuisine. The lounge advancement to the restaurant features a big screen TV for daily sporting events and happy hour. Open Monday-Friday 6:30 am to 9 pm, Saturday and Sunday 6:30 am to 10 pm. Cielito  $$$ 1114 State Street (225-4488) Cielito Restaurant features true flavors of Mexico created by Chef Ramon Velazquez. Try an antojito (or “small craving”) like the Anticucho de Filete (Serrano-chimichurri marinated Kobe beef skewer, rocoto-tomato jam and herb mashed potatoes), the Raw Bar’s piquant ceviches and fresh shellfish, or taste the savory treats in handmade tortillas at the Taqueria. It is located in the heart of downtown, in the historic La Arcada. Chuck’s Waterfront Grill  $$ 113 Harbor Way (564-1200) Located next to the Maritime Museum, enjoy

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some of the best views of both the mountains and the Santa Barbara pier sitting on the newly renovated, award-winning patio, while enjoying fresh seafood straight off the boat. Dinner is served nightly from 5 pm, and brunch is offered on Sunday from 10 am until 1 pm. Reservations are recommended.    Enterprise Fish Co.  $$ 225 State Street (962-3313) Every Monday and Tuesday the Enterprise Fish Company offers two-pound Maine Lobsters served with clam chowder or salad, and rice or potatoes for only $29.95. Happy hour is every weekday from 4 pm to 7 pm. Open Sunday thru Thursday 11:30 am to 10 pm and Friday thru Saturday 11:30 am to 11 pm. Los Agaves  $ 600 N. Milpas Street (564-2626) Los Agaves offers eclectic Mexican cuisine, using only the freshest ingredients, in a casual and friendly atmosphere. Serving lunch and dinner, with breakfast on the weekends, Los Agaves features traditional dishes from central and southern Mexico such as shrimp & fish enchiladas, shrimp chile rellenos, and famous homemade mole poblano. Open Monday- Friday 11 am to 9 pm, Saturday & Sunday 9 am to 9 pm. Miró  $$$$ 8301 Hollister Avenue at Bacara Resort & Spa (968-0100) Miró is a refined refuge with stunning views, featuring two genuine Miro sculptures, a top-rated chef offering a sophisticated menu that accents fresh, organic, and native-grown ingredients, and a world-class wine cellar. Open Tuesday through Saturday from 6 pm to 10 pm. Olio e Limone Ristorante  $$$ Olio Pizzeria $ 17 West Victoria Street (899-2699) Elaine and Alberto Morello oversee this friendly, casually elegant, linen-tabletop eatery featuring Italian food of the highest order. Offerings include eggplant soufflé, pappardelle with quail, sausage and mushroom ragù, and fresh-imported Dover sole. Wine Spectator Award of Excellence-winning wine list. Private dining (up to 40 guests) and catering are also available. It is open for lunch Monday thru Saturday (11:30 am to 2 pm) and dinner seven nights a week (from 5 pm). Next door at Olio Pizzeria, the Morellos have added a simple pizza-salumi-wine-bar inspired by neighborhood “pizzerie” and “enoteche” in Italy. Private dining for up to 32 guests. The Pizzeria is open daily from 11:30 am to close. Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro  $$ 516 State Street (962-1455) Savor Santa Barbara’s bounty; local organic produce from the farmer’s market, free-range poultry and meats from local ranchers, local seafood, wines from the Santa Barbara & Lafond Wineries and an international wine list. Happy Hour Monday – Friday 4:30 to 6:30. Lunch & Dinner Every Day. Breakfast on Sat. & Sun. Rodney’s Steakhouse  $$$ 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard (884-8554) Deep in the heart of well, deep in the heart of Fess Parker’s Doubletree Inn on East Beach in Santa Barbara. This handsome eatery sells and serves only Prime Grade beef, lamb, veal, halibut, salmon, lobster and other high-end victuals. Full bar, plenty of California wines, elegant surroundings, across from the ocean. Open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday at 5:30 pm. Reservations suggested on weekends. •MJ

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reception featuring special guests Francisco Lopera, M.D., Kenneth Kosik, M.D., and Sylvia Rios, M.D. took place at Joyce and Fred Lucas’ Montecito estate on April 12. Dr. Lopera came all the way from Colombia for this reception, as well as the Alzheimer’s Dementia Conference, held at the Montecito Country Club, and the Brainwave Symposium, which took place at UCSB. All three events were sponsored by the Central Coast Alzheimer’s Association. The speakers discussed a new clinical trial that has researchers hopeful that they may be able to prevent Alzheimer ’s disease. For thirty years, Dr. Francisco Lopera has been tracking an extended family in Antioquia – half of whom have a gene mutation which leads to Alzheimer’s disease at about age 45. There are about 5,000 people living in a number of small villages that make up this extended family – and many are 3rd or 4th cousins who don’t know they’re related. Until about two years ago, Dr. Lopera was working in relative obscurity. His only outside collaborator for this long period of time was Dr. Kosik. But recently, this project became of national interest as a place where a trial could be implemented which could potentially lead to a prevention of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Kosik said that it may not feel as if much progress has been made in the war against Alzheimer’s – but from a scientific point of view, understanding of the disease is quite deep. “We know some genes that are involved, some proteins that are involved, and we know a lot about what’s going on in the brain,” he explained. One of the big developments is that we can now visualize plaques in a living person. A low level of radioactivity can be injected and when a person goes into a scanner, physicians can see labeling of the plaques by the radioactive compound. This technique allows presymptomatic detection. With these developments, there have been challenges. About 4-5 years ago, pharmaceutical companies came up with drugs based on the Amyloid Hypothesis – that amyloid plaques collect in the brain and are responsible for the disease. Drugs were developed to wash out plaques in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. While the ideas looked good, the drug trials failed. Scientists regrouped and what emerged from these unsuccessful drug trials was the thought that we need to treat people earlier – before they get symptoms.

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Patti Teel is the community representative for Senior Helpers, providers of care and comfort at a moment’s notice. She is also host of the Senior Helpers online video show. www.santabar baraseniors.com. E-mail: [email protected].

The idea developed to begin a trial in Antioquia. There is no other group in the world that has as many people who are destined to get Alzheimer’s. The mutation can be identified by testing their blood. Those who have the mutation get the disease like clockwork in their mid to late 40s. Two years ago, Dr. Kosik linked Dr. Lopera’s group with The Banner Health Center in Arizona. An impartial group of scientists evaluated every single drug that was put on the table for an upcoming clinical trial in Antioquia. The pharmaceutical company Genentech proposed the medication that was ultimately chosen. The drug is an antibody that attacks the amyloid and will wash it out. Banner Health, Genentec and the group in Colombia will be implementing one of the very first prevention trials in history. In other words, they will be treating people before they get the disease. Dr. Rios will be the Deputy Medical Director under Dr. Lopera when this drug trial kicks off toward the end of this year. Dr. Kosik said that in addition to the trial in Antioquia, two other prevention trials are taking place. The Dian Trial has identified people that have a mutation that leads to early onset Alzheimer’s in our own country. It is being funded by the Alzheimer’s Association. The drawback is that it includes a much smaller number of people. The A 4 trial scans brains of people as they get older. In this trial, if people are asymptomatic but have plaques collecting in their brains, they will take a drug to see if it can prevent them from getting Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Kosik said that it is a tribute to Dr. Lopera and the rest of the team that the drug trial in Antioquia will take place. He stressed that the only way to ever take care of this insidious disease is to keep doing the research. “Even if the trial fails we still gain because a hypothesis has been proven wrong.” He praised the Alzheimer’s Association for striking a wonderful balance between the research and the caregiver side of the illness. To listen to my radio interview with Dr. Kosik, visit www.youngatheartra dio.com •MJ

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Thursday, May 2 1st Thursday – The mid-spring edition of the downtown art-and-culture happy hour gathering features, appropriately, bicycles, flowers and other nature scenes and plenty of entertainment, both al fresco and indoors. Boisen’s abstract impressionist lush oils on canvas hang at Fast Frame, while some examples of the far better known scenic painter Andrew Wyeth are now up at Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery, perhaps the most exciting exhibition in the gallery’s history. Plum Goods hosts local artist John Baran, who trained as both a landscape architect and painter which translates into natural landscape capturing striking patterns of light, color and texture. At Jane Deering Gallery, there’s a sneak preview of the upcoming Nathan Hayden exhibit “Go Innocent

Into the Forest My Children” before the gallery closes at the end of May for seven months. “Shared Visions” is an exhibition of paintings by members of the Plein Air Artists of the Central Coast group, on view at Divine Inspiration. As always, there’s both visual and performing arts at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, where photographer Brigitte Carnochan will sign her new book Floating World, which pairs the human form with botanical studies inspired by Japanese women’s poems while Quire of Voyces, the SBCC-based a cappella vocal ensemble, performs in Ludington Court to preview this weekend’s concerts at St. Anthony’s Seminary (see below). Elsewhere in live entertainment, ArtBark International takes over Marshall’s patio to present a lineup of dance, physical theater, music, magic and improvisation from local Santa Barbara performers

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Ojai Storytelling Festival – Now in its 14th year, the weekend-long festival is truly a family event. And by that we don’t mean only that there’s something for kids. Sure, there are some performances geared especially for the little ones, but the majority of the programming is targeted for adults. Yes, telling stories is how you get the wee ones to sleep, but there’s so much more to the arts, as attendees have discovered over the years. These are yarns that are more like tiny theatrical tales, real life sagas of love, hope, courage and wisdom told by some of the most revered spoken-word artists in the land. And let’s not forget that behind nearly every great movie, play, song or even work of visual art lies some sort of story, a way for humans to connect in the here and now and down through the generations. This year’s tellers include Diane Ferlatte, who serves as the emcee; father of family stories Donald Davis; Bil Lepp, a five-time champion of the West Virginia Liars Contest; Carmen Deedy, who talks of growing up Cuban in the deep south of Decatur, Georgia; Motoko, whose repertoire includes Asian folktales, Zen tales, comical tales from rakugo (a Japanese traditional style of storytelling) and funny mime vignettes; Michael Reno Harrell, whose style has been described as being “like a breakfast of butter and molasses on a warm biscuit… Southern, easy and sweet”; and John McCutcheon, a singer-songwriter with 27 albums to his credit who also tells nonmusical tales. On Saturday night, the fest turns bawdy with an adult-only segment called “Naughty Tales,” which features Antonio Sacre and Harrell sharing some spicy tales in a coffee house atmosphere under a tent. The OSF also offers plenty of music, including doo-wop ensemble Street Corner Renaissance and locals Cindy Kalmenson, who will open “Laughter Night” on Friday, and Alan Thornhill, a brilliant country troubadour with a golden voice. WHEN: Friday through Sunday WHERE: Libbey Bowl and environs in downtown Ojai COST: varies; admission ranges from free for some events to $165 for a full festival pass INFO: 646-8907 or www.ojaistoryfest.org  

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Friday, May 3 Drive to Minnesota – Singer-songwriter Bill Isles was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota, which also just happens to be the original home of one Robert Zimmerman. But unlike Bob Dylan, Isles still lives in the small city on the shores of Lake Superior, where he still regularly writes and performs. But he also tours, the last half-decade or so with his wife, fellow singer-songwriter Kate, who he met when she came to the CD-release concert for his first album after hearing an interview on the local NPR station. It’s likely they’ll play the song that describes their history together, “Public Radio (A True Story),” when the duo – who favor simple and sweetly melodic tunes accompanied by acoustic guitar and fiddle – perform tonight at the monthly Cambridge Drive Concert series in Goleta. Opening is Randall Lamb, a California folkie whose similarly straight-forward songs – that, in his own words, “don’t stray far from three chords and the truth” – have been recorded by the folk duo of Steve Werner and Fur Dixon. WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Drive COST: $10 with advance reservation, $12 at the door INFO: 964-0436 or www.cambridgedrivechurch.org  including Ajde, DramaDogs, Got Country?, Honeysuckle Possums, Montino Bourbon and Nicole McKenzie Improv Group. Accordean de Monde plays Latin American music including cumbia, merengue, tango and more at the SBMA corner (Anapamu & State), while farmers’ market favorites Sidewalk Affair play at the Sojourner Café. Contemporary Art Forum’s show presents Lisa Coons & the Collected who will play several works for violin and cello that explore the creative exchanges within, between and among compositions that skirt the boundaries of classical, rock, jazz and academic music. As for the bicycles? The annual CycleMAYnia: Velo Vogue bicycle fashion show hits Paseo Nuevo Mall featuring local, national and international fashion designers and retailers incorporating the latest trends in bicycles, clothing, accessories and gear. And at 7:30pm, the Bike Moves costume ride along State Street features a Bike Prom theme. WHEN: 5-8pm WHERE: State Street and environs between Cota and Micheltorena COST: free INFO: www.SantaBarbaraDowntown. com Burr on the bill – If a burr is a thing found on plants that is rough, prickly, sticks or clings, Bill Burr was born to go into comedy. The stand-up, actor and podcast host has lots of issues, mostly with people who have issues. As he writes on his own website, “I enjoy annoying people who are doing things that I feel aren’t that important. I relate to dictators. I don’t agree with what they do. But I get it. I love my dog. I hate bankers. I have issues with women. In my head, I’m a great

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guy.” Burr has done Conan, Letterman, Chappelle and soon-to-be-Leno-successor Jimmy Fallon. He’s had his own HBO and Comedy Central specials, and since 2007 has hosted a weekly podcast called “Monday Morning.” Now’s your chance to see and hear him live. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: 3400 East Hwy. 246 COST: $15$35 INFO: (800) CHUMASH or www. chumashcasino.com

Saturday, May 4 Quire of Voyces – The vocal chorus founded in 1993 to rediscover the sacred a cappella choral music of the Renaissance and modern age celebrates its 20th anniversary with its spring concert entitled “Songs of Remembrance” as Memorial Day approaches, featuring a world premiere and another rarely heard gem. C. Hubert H. Parry’s “Songs of Farewell” opens to program before Quire of Voyces offers the first public performance of Michael Eglin’s Requiem, including his shimmering “Lux Aeterna.” WHEN: 7pm Saturday, 5pm Sunday WHERE: St. Anthony’s Chapel in the Garden Street Academy 2300 Garden Street COST: $20 general, $15 students & seniors INFO: 965-5935 or www.sbcc. edu/music The Three B’s – The Santa Barbara Music Club pays tribute to three B’s of classical music, except only the first one is who you think. Violinist Nicole McKenzie and pianist Betty Oberacker perform Beethoven’s “Spring” Sonata in F major, Op. 24, a treasured

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Monday, May 6 Larson’s ‘Life’ – Erik Larson, the best-selling author of In the Garden of the Beasts and other historical page turners, will give a peek behind the scenes of his creative process in a talk titled “Breathing Life into the Dead.” Widely acclaimed as a master of narrative nonfiction, Larson has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Beasts, The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck and Isaac’s Storm. His works have been called “utterly compelling” and addictively readable, making the nonfiction books read like thrillers set against grand historical tableau. Larson will discuss the process of bringing history alive, as well as the odd and funny things that happen while conducting research in several far-flung locales. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $20 INFO: 8933535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.ed classic with soaring lyricism and sparkling freshness, to open this afternoon’s free concert. Then the focus leaves classical Europe for contemporary America, as Oberacker teams with Steven Schneider in a piano four hands presentation of works by two of the most important American composers of the twentieth century: Samuel Barber’s Souvenirs, Op. 28, and Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to “Candide” (arrangement by Charlie Harmon), a forceful rendition of the master composer’s original Broadway score. WHEN: 3pm WHERE: Faulkner Gallery, Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: www.sbmusicclub.org Theater of wonder – Has another baseball movie come close to affecting so many hearts and evoking an avalanche of

emotions as Field of Dreams? The 1989 fantasy-drama about an Iowa corn farmer – played by eventual Montecito resident Kevin Costner – finding his personal salvation as Shoeless Joe Jackson and other members of the 1919 Chicago ‘Black’ Sox show up after he plows under his fields to put up a baseball field touched a universal chord and earned several Academy Award nominations. Get the lowdown behind the creation of the film as Phil Alden Robinson, who directed the movie based on his adaptation of a W. P. Kinsella novel, conducts a thorough Q&A session at UCSB as part of the Carsey-Wolf Center’s Script-to-Screen series. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Pollock Theater COST: $5 INFO: 893-5903 or www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/ pollock/script-screen  •MJ

Wednesday, May 8 Warhol’s World – Whatever Andy Warhol’s faults are, the New York pop artist perhaps most famous for being famous certainly influenced many others, and his reach continues more than 25 years after his death and all the way across the country. In celebration of a gift of more than 100 photographs by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UCSB art history undergraduate Breanne Lewis has organized “Fame and the Mundane: Andy Warhol’s Photography,” an exhibition of selected Polaroids and prints at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB. The show is currently on display through May 12, and now pianist Victoria Kirsch and sopranos Suzan Hanson and Shana Blake Hill will perform an eclectic evening of music inspired by the iconic artist in the gallery. Touching on themes from Warhol’s life and artistic sensibilities – from the longing for glamour and fame to urban living – the concerts feature arias and duets from the American songbook, interspersed with often humorous excerpts from the artist’s diary entries and musings in “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again.” Much of the music is from the heyday of Warhol’s output, with selections by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman and others. Kirsch – who creates exhibit-based concerts at local museums, including the USC Fisher Museum where the Warhol piece premiered in 2009 – has quite a few local connections: she’s worked with Opera Santa Barbara, served on the vocal faculty of the Music Academy of the West from 1987 to 1992, and has a master’s degree in collaborative piano from UCSB. WHEN: 8pm COST: $35 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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Real Estate 

by Mark Hunt etc… the list of variables in home chosen as “Best Buys” that ultimately

Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. They live in Montecito with their daughter Sareena, a sophomore at SBHS. His family goes back nearly one hundred years in the Santa Barbara area. Mark’s grandparents – Bill and Elsie Hunt – were Santa Barbara real estate brokers for 25 years.

A “Best Buys” Background

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n this column, I have been featuring a variety of Montecito properties on the market in various price ranges that I believed were solid deals at any given time. I want now to share the process I use to evaluate those properties, and then report on the results of last month’s sales, comparing my “Best Buy” picks as a percentage of the homes sold.

To begin with, Montecito is a unique area, in that there are many variables that go into the makeup of a property’s value in the marketplace. Street, location on street, size of home, amenities, lot size, direction of exposure, privacy, views, schools, parking, style of home, condition, floor plan, proximity from ocean or foothills, walk to town or remote, beachfront, creekside,

options and prices seems endless. For nearly two years, I’ve been applying my analysis to every home that hits the market in Montecito, and have determined what homes were priced well at that moment, not based on previous sales or other factors, but when compared to what is available on the market publicly each week. It turns out I’ve been pretty good at choosing winners. In the month of March, for example, out of the 18 homes that closed escrow in Montecito, 15 of them were from my Montecito “Best Buys” picks list. What follows are some of the homes

closed in March of this year.

781 Lilac Drive Closed escrow in March for $2,195,000.

Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home on Lilac Drive is a wood-and-glass wonder

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Built in 1967 and designed by Dan Liebermann, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright at the Taliesin Fellowship, 781 Lilac Drive is constructed of wood and wrapped in glass, with perfectly mitered edges offering a seamless transition between the exterior and the interior. The main living area offers an open floor plan, flanked by glass on either side opening to a massive wood deck, which carries around the entire lower level. Also included in this listing was a detached 100-sq-ft bonus studio with deck hidden amongst the oaks, a 2-car garage and 2-car carport with an attached 2-room, 1-bath studio.

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1010 Cima Linda Closed escrow in March for $2,850,000.

One can almost see the curvature of the earth from this ultra-modern home on Cima Linda

This mid-century modern home is on .7 acres and features a total of 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms. The property features head on ocean views, a pool and multi-level entertainment patios, surrounded by lush landscaping and private access from front or rear of property. This property had been featured in the past when listed at $3,500,000 and higher. It is on a very special view promontory that sits up above the street and is very private in both the front and back yard.

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850 San Ysidro Road Closed escrow in March for $5,500,000. This single-level Spanish Hacienda is situated in the heart of Montecito and sits on a 2+/-acre parcel with

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pool, pool cabana and tennis court, in one of Montecito’s best locations, just a short distance from the San Ysidro Ranch and the upper village.

The folks that purchased this estate on San Ysidro Road now live in the very heart of Montecito

356 Woodley Road Closed escrow in March for $9,125,000 This is a Jack Warner-designed contemporary built in 2000 on a coastal hilltop setting. The lot at Glenview: cleared, trimmed and hedged with plans for guesthouse and court. The house: indoor-outdoor living featuring light-filled interiors and views of the ocean and mountains. It is a private 7,200-sq-ft masterpiece on

2.5 gated acres with air-conditioning, 5 bedrooms, 2 offices, covered entertainment terrace, pool, water features and gardens. •••

This Woodley Road home represents two and a half acres of contemporary living on a Montecito hilltop

If you are not working with an agent currently, and if you are considering buying or selling a current home in the area, I would be happy to give you a price evaluation. You can reach me at [email protected] or call/text 805-698-2174 – Visit www. MontecitoBestBuys.com to see the current best buy picks on the market. •MJ

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Montecito Neighbors… can you help? My sister’s three sweet Chihuahuas need a home. Sadly, due to a traumatic brain injury my sis requires nursing care. (black and white) Izzy: 5 yr female Deerhead. (smaller brown with little girl) Miley: 5 yr female Deerhead(pic with without child) Max: 6 yr male Applehead. If they can stay together, that would be wonderful. We will also consider individual homes if keeping them together is not possible. Thank you for reading our ad and for your consideration. [email protected] or (661) 301-0400 TRAVEL ADVENTURE

Scenic Vintage Railcar Daytrips!

Explore the hidden gems of the Central Coast: superb scenery, diverse wildlife and railroading history from S.B. to San Luis Obispo roundtrip from 10am-5pm. Call for summer schedule or go online: store.goletadepot.org 680-0397. Some trips include music and chocolate! Fares: $69-$102. A program of the South Coast Railroad Museum.  INVESTING OPPORTUNITY

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Stressed? Anxious? Feel relaxed & calm Biofeedback training is fast & effective Tina Lerner, MA Licensed HeartMath & Biofeedback Therapist The Biofeedback Institute of Santa Barbara (805) 450-1115

JAZZ PLUS plays music that seniors love. Music from the 40’s and 50’s. Blues, swing, Dixieland and New Orleans Style Jazz. Our band will help make your party a huge success. Call Len 969-3966

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PIANO LESSONS Kary and Sheila Kramer are long standing members of the Music Teachers’ Assoc. of Calif. Studios conveniently located at the Music Academy of the West. Now accepting enthusiastic children and/or adults. Call us at 684-4626. 1st two PIANO LESSONS FREE! References, degree, & 30 years experience. Sign up now for summer. www.martismusic.com, [email protected], 805-220-6642.

HEAL TRAUMA GENTLY A safe, effective way to heal PTSD, trauma from war, accidents, abuse and loss. DANI ANTMAN Certified in Somatic Experiencing www.daniantman.com 805 770 2294

WRITING FICTION? Best-selling author and longtime instructor for Adult Ed and SB Writers’ Conference will critique your manuscript. Excellent references (check Amazon books & Google). Duane Unkefer [email protected]

Therapeutic Massage Enhancement of Health Fitness and Relaxation Camille Suetos R.N. w/over 20 yrs. as Professional Massage Therapist 805 698 3467. Mobile Senior discounts available.

Let it shine! I will polish your silver or brass. Call (805) 729-5067. Reliable cleaning and childcare services. (2) ladies, bi-lingual with excellent Montecito references. 805 302-5200, Anna Marina.

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I buy/sell rare records. 50’s/60’s, Jazz, Classical LPs. Excellent condition only. Cell 818-631-8361. Inquire: [email protected]

PET CARE- twice daily feeding, exercise & clean-up. Plants & mail included. $22/day. $18/1 visit. 565-3409.

Spring Into Action InHome Physical Therapy Build strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and stamina to prevent falling. Josette Fast, PT-over 32 years experience. 722-8035 www.fitnisphysicaltherapy.com

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PET SERVICES

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Estate Moving Sale Service-Efficient30yrs experience. Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030. REAL ESTATE SERVICES

Nancy Hussey Realtor ® “…This Deal Would Have Never Happened Without You.” ~Client 805-452-3052 Coldwell Banker / Montecito DRE#01383773 www.NancyHussey.com SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL

CARMEL BY THE SEA vacation getaway. Charming, private studio. Beautiful garden patio. Walk to beach and town. $110/night. 831-624-6714  Room for rent in Goleta- $775/mo. Newly remodeled home. Quiet, peaceful neighborhood. Daytime 805 451-5206. [email protected]

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Award Winning Green Builder. Design, manage project any size. Know all costs & save. 30yrs. Call Debra & Jack 805 6890129 [email protected] Expert Finish Carpentry 30yrs experience. Hourly rate, materials at my cost. Doors, windows, casing, base/

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Estate British Gardener Horticulturist Comprehensive knowledge of Californian, Mediterranean, & traditional English plants. All gardening duties personally undertaken including water gardens & koi keeping. Nicholas 805-963-7896

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SOME BUNNY NEEDS YOU! Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter is located at the Santa Barbara County Animal Shelter, 5473 Overpass Rd, Santa Barbara, Ca. www.bunssb.org Adopt /Volunteer/ Donate with us, and help give abandoned & stray rabbits & guinea pigs a better life.   Help Save Threatened Shorebirds! Coal Oil Point Reserve is looking for volunteers to help protect Western Snowy Plovers on Sands Beach. We are looking for volunteer docents to spend 2 hours a week on Sands Beach, teaching the public about the importance of protecting the snowy plover habitat. The Snowy Plover Breeding Season starts in March, and we need your help! Interested parties should call (805)893-3703 or email copr.

[email protected]. Next training date: Saturday, March 2, 9AM-12PM Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center employs the power of the horse to enhance the capabilities of children and adults with special needs in Santa Barbara. Join our volunteer team and make a difference in someone’s life. To lean more, visit www.heartsriding.org 964-1519. Do you love Reagan history? The Reagan Ranch Center is seeking volunteers who would be interested in serving as docents for the Exhibit Galleries. Docents will have the opportunity share the history of President Reagan and his “Western White House.” For more information or to apply, please contact Danielle Fowler at 805-9571980 or [email protected].

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1525 Las Tunas Rd $8,795,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Gated, French Provencial style 5bd/7ba estate on 1.3 acres. www.MontecitoProperties1525.com

New Green Built Estate $7,900,000 Hurst/Wilson 805.680.8216/705.7620 Newly built 5bd/4.5ba estate + guest house in the heart of Montecito. www.2084EValley.com

1880 E Valley Rd $18,800,000 Tim Dahl 805.886.2211 This distinguished estate in the heart of Montecito features 6 beds, 7 baths. Luxury amenities include world-class gardens, horse facilities, 80 ft pool, gazebo spa, game room, putting green & more. www.TimDahl.com

715 Ladera Ln $5,400,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Ocean view, gated estate, 3bd + office/den on 4+ acres. www.MontecitoProperties715.com

6 Ac View Estate Site $4,750,000 Joe Stubbins 805.729.0778 Gated 6 ac estate site with ocean, island & mtn views. All utilities at site & includes plans.

Unique Mediterranean! $3,985,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Montecito Mediterranean w/ character! Has pool w/ rock slide, 4bd/5.5ba. www.DanEncell.com

Stunning Views $3,950,000 Jason Streatfeild 805.280.9797 3,972sf 3/3 impeccably remodeled & expanded Mediterranean on 11.46 acs. 2224Gibraltar.com

129 W Mountain Dr $3,575,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 4Br/3.5Ba Spanish Villa w/ Ocean & Mtn Vws & Appx 6+ acs. www.MontecitoProperties129.com

Incredible Views, 22 Acs $3,500,000 Lacy/Mermis/St. Clair 805.455.7577 Best VIEWS of coast line on 22 acres. Building pad with existing 3/2 guest house/garages.

Montecito Contemporary $3,250,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Gated & private resort-like estate. 3 bed/3.5ba plus office on 1+ acre w/ pool. DanEncell.com

1210 Shoreline Dr $3,150,000 Scott Williams 805.451.9300 Fabulous 3bd, 2.5ba 3080 SF home across from Shoreline Park & views of the ocean/coastline.

703 Park Ln $3,125,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Traditional Montecito home on 1 ac, 5BR/6Ba, sep studio. www.MontecitoProperties703.com

706 Rockwood Dr $2,889,000 Scott Williams 805.451.9300 Remodeled 3198 SF 3bd/5ba home plus 363 SF exercise space & 2 lots. www.BuySantaBarbara.com

Riviera Jewel! $2,850,000 Josiah Hamilton 284.8835 “Beckman Mansion”, built in 1887 has 5 beds, 4.5 baths & amazing views! www.TheHamiltonCo.com

Spirit of the Riviera $2,750,000 Josiah Hamilton 284.8835 4 Bed/ 3.5 Bath. Spanish Colonial Revival, ocean & island views. www.TheHamiltonCo.com

Montecito Shores Condo $2,695,000 Joyce Enright 805.570.1360 Ocean views from this top floor 2bd/2ba move-in ready condo. Near the beach, Biltmore & more.

Riviera Retreat! $2,499,000 Jake Ralston 805.455.9600 Riviera - 4 bds/3.5 bth, 1 acre, sweeping mtn views, gourmet kitchen & 1,000 SF great room.

Spectacular Ocean Views $2,450,000 DeLorie/Salvione 805.570.9181/570.7812 Spectacular Ocean & Island View Home 5bed/3bath HomesDressedToSell.com

Rural Sophistication $2,300,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 3Bd plus den, 3Ba, sep studio w full bath. Ocean & Mtn views. www.MontecitoProperties693.com

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175 Miramar Ave Easter Team Located in the Montecito’s Hedgerow area is this 4 bedroom, 4 bath French Normandy style home.

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