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THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42 OPEN HOUSES, P. 45
RAISING THE BAR

Peter Gaum almost lost it all, but thanks to Irwin Eve from Occhiali and a Montecito investor, Santa Barbara is home to yet another likely international success (story begins on page 27)
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Village Beat
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Go to the Granada and see why Jose Maria Condemi defiantly defends the comedy Falstaff, p. 39
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5 Editorial Hiroko Benko and captivity of sea mammals; Santa Barbara panel discussion; conversations with doctors Naomi Rose and Lori Marino 6 Montecito Miscellany Royalty reality check; Katy controversy; The Fast & The Furious 7 back on track; Dare Wright documentary; Struthers shines on stage; Dan and Debbie Kass bid farewell; doctors new bust at museum; royal roost; SB Film Club soire; Carlos Gracida, rest in peace 8 Letters to the Editor Hyperbole and reality; Heal the Ocean and desilting; the good old days; reections on Village Fourth; B. Tony Zamojdas view of the Ukraine; wasting water; using water wisely; Blair Whitney wants a water law; the Blue Water Ball; puns about Pillsbury 10 This Week Adam C. Hall book signing; poetry club; take a hike with Montecito Trails Foundation and at Sedgwick Reserve; doll show and sale; music in the air; Spring Forward with MAD; Channel City Club lecture and luncheon; architectural review meeting; Montecito Association meeting; Sudoku workshop; MUS food drive; meet and train with MERRAG; orchid show; maritime museum fundraiser 11 Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 12 Village Beat Water ordinances 92 and 93 wont be lifted; historical landmarks; donations needed for May Madness; LEGO at Laguna 15 Seen Around Town An Affair to Remember; Festival of Hearts for H.E.A.R.T.s sake; the American Heart Association and Go Red for Women 23 Ernies World Ernie Witham wants to kick the buckets while he and wife bail out from their own personal water world 26 Sheriffs Blotter Reports about credit card fraud; medicine disposal; wires down and structure re 27 Coming & Going Peter Gaum, who operates Santa Barbara Baking Company and owns Debbies Delights, expounds on his latest venture, Santa Barbara Bar
28 Your Westmont The college cuts its water usage, and Muhammad Yunus impresses at Presidents Breakfast 32 Garden Gossip Lisa Cullen sprays advice around to preserve water from using mulch to avoiding fertilizing and pruning 34 Trail Talk Lynn P. Kirst details the joys of camellias and other natural treasures along the Descanso Gardens trail 36 Our Town The Santa Barbara Arts Fund gallery exhibit Obsession sets up shop March 8 with seven new artists on hand 37 Real Estate The Montecito housing market recently experienced a spike in inventory. Mark Hunt takes a long look at properties on the horizon. 38 Guide to Montecito Eateries The most complete, up-to-date, comprehensive listing of all individually owned Montecito restaurants, coffee houses, bakeries, gelaterias, and hangouts; others in Santa Barbara, Summerland, and Carpinteria too 39 On Entertainment On re about Falstaff at the Granada; Lisa Auerbach and so-called strange Dreammusik; at the museum with Catalyst Quartet 40 Public Notices 41 Movie Guide Latest lms, times, theaters, and addresses: theyre all here, as they are every week 42 Calendar of Events Variety of music at UCSB; Womens History Month and 1st Thursday; YouTube sensation Miranda Sings at the Lobero; Noises Off at the Garvin Theatre; a double-bill at Plaza Playhouse; CALM 28th Annual Celebrity Authors Luncheon; jazz at the Lobero; NECTAR and Yoga Soup; see the Oz at Campbell Hall; hula master Kealii Reichel 45 93108 Open House Directory Homes and condos currently for sale and open for inspection in and near Montecito 46 Classied Advertising Our very own Craigslist of classied ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 47 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer
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Editorial

by James Buckley
A Sea Change Is In The Air
(from left) Hiroko Benko, Dr. Naomi Rose, and Dr. Lori Marino are about to discuss marine mammals in captivity during a break in the Southern California Marine Mammal Workshop held in Newport Beach.
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ince taking over the operation of the Condor Express, Hiroko Benko, widow of the recently deceased whale-watching innovator Fred Benko, has become even more active than she had been in seeking the protection of marine mammals and the preservation of a clean and (boy, do I hate to use this word, but it really is the only appropriate term in this context) sustainable ocean environment. A month ago, I traveled to Orange County with Hiroko to attend a panel discussion on the captivity of marine mammals; the forum was held at the Pacific Life building in Newport Beach. The Southern California Marine Mammal Workshop that took place on Saturday, February 1, featured William Billy Hurley, former chief zoological officer at the Georgia Aquarium and currently an officer-board member and immediate past president of the Alliance of Marine Mammals Parks & Aquariums; Dr. Frances Gulland a veterinarian with the Marine Mammal Center and member of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission; Dr. Naomi Rose, marine mammal scientist with the Animal Welfare Institute in Washington, D.C., and longtime member of the International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee; and Dr. Sam Ridgway, a pioneer in dolphin anesthesia and medical technology; he is credited as having been in 1962 the very first veterinarian to deal full-time with dolphins and other marine mammals. The panel discussion was moderated by Dr. Tim Ragen, who served as Scientific Program director for the Marine Mammal Commission and became, in 2006, the Commissions executive director. The discussion proved to be lively, informative, and yes, even entertaining. Among those in the audience and/or participating later was Dr. Lori Marino, a neuroscientist who, in 2001, co-authored a study offering the first conclusive evidence for mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins. Dr. Marino is currently featured in Blackfish, the documentary that turns a critical eye toward the marine mammal entertainment industry and that has begun to turn the publics attention toward what many regard as the negative consequences of keeping marine mammals in captivity. The public is shifting, Dr. Marino says during our short interview after the panel discussion. And the thing that SeaWorld doesnt take into account, she continues, is that when the coming generations that have seen Blackfish have children, theyre not going to bring their kids to SeaWorld. Its not just about this generation, but its about the generations to come. Dr. Marino, Dr. Rose, and others believe that because bottlenose dolphins and killer whales marine mammals are sentient beings, keeping them in small or even what to many would seem large enclosures amounts to a crime against the species. One of the clearest and most poignant memories I have growing up is of a visit to a place called Bensons Wild Animal Farm. It was across the state line
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Beware the ides of March. William Shakespeare
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by Richard Mineards
Richard covered the Royal Family for Britains Daily Mirror and Daily Mail before moving to New York to write for Rupert Murdochs newly launched Star magazine in 1978; Richard later wrote for New York magazines Intelligencer. He continues to make regular appearances on CBS, ABC, and CNN, and moved to Montecito six years ago.
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ormer royal chef Darren McGrady has revealed how the late Princess Diana duped TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey. Darren, who was the Princess of Wales personal chef at Londons Kensington Palace for four years after working for Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace for 11 years, recounts a lunch Her Royal Highness had with Oprah when Diana pulled a fast one. They were both eating tomato mousses and, after a few mouthfuls, Oprah, another famous dieter, put down her spoon and said, Diana, how do you stay so slim eating rich food like this? The princess replied, I just eat small portions and work out. But Darren, who now works as a chef in Dallas, Texas, explains: That wasnt quite the truth, though. Diana had him serve her a fat-free version of his tomato mousse, while Oprah was eating the full-fat dish chock full of mayonnaise, sour cream, and heavy cream. Diana never did tell her the truth, adds Darren. In other Oprah news, it seems her eponymous cable TV network, OWN, which has been beset with problems since its launch in January 2011, is on a roll. It has just scored its most-watched month in network history in primetime for February. According to TV By The Numbers, the network announced there had been a spike in traffic by 86% since last year, making OWN the fastest growing cable network for AfricanAmerican audiences aged 25-54. Tyler Perrys drama, The Haves and Have Nots, is cables most watched show on Tuesday nights and the number one original cables series for African-Americans. It also ranks as the top ten original primetime series on ad-supported cable nets, nearly tying OWNs Tuesday nights with cable channel TBS. Perrys comedy Love Thy Neighbor also gave a boost to OWNs ratings last month as Wednesday nights number one original series for African Americans. One of OWNs newest productions, The Tyler Perry Show, premiered last week...
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The Show Must Go On When the late Santa Barbara actor Paul Walker, who died in a tragic car accident aged 40 in Valencia, California in November, he was halfway through filming his latest movie, Fast & The Furious 7.
The late Paul Walkers popular film franchise lives on
For three months, producers have been re-writing the script, deciding in January to make the main character, Brian OConnor, retire in a way to explain his sudden absence from the storyline. Now, according to the Hollywood Reporter, producers will finally resume the action film next month, just a year ahead of its 2015 release date. The seventh installment of the successful series was scheduled to resume shooting after Thanksgiving, but Walkers death put that on hold. Director James Wan and writer Chris Morgan are using footage already shot and tweaked the existing script, so Walker would remain a part of the story but could be written out, allowing the franchise to continue
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Irreplaceable? Yes!
hen juvenile hyperbole comes to Montecito, the rest of society is in deep bleep. Those with education and class are supposed to lead the way, not descend into the pit of the lowest common denominator. Irreplaceable? Not unless they are the last two humans available. Robert Miller Montecito (Editors note: Jeez, it was just a headline (The End Of An Era MJ # 20/8), so I dont believe we deserve such ignominy. Besides, both Dana and Diane have been shepherding the Fourth of July parade and Manning Park goings-on for nineteen count em, nineteen years. The notion that such dedication can be easily replaced or replaced at all is unlikely in the extreme. If you are volunteering for one of those positions, please let us, or Diane, or Dana, or the Montecito Association know as soon as possible. Until such time as both
longtime Village Fourth organizers are in fact replaced, were sticking with their irreplaceable status. J.B.)
Desilting for More Water
In response to Steve Crosslands excellent question regarding the desilting of Santa Barbara County reservoirs (The Bright Side Of Drought, MJ # 20/8) to make room for more water, Heal the Ocean (HTO) would like to respond that its not too late, water or no. Through the Santa Barbara County Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) process, funds are available for such desilting right now, whether water has come back or not into the reservoir/dam in question. The $687 million drought-relief package from the State of California is managed in our county through IRWM, and Heal the Ocean is on the IRWM steering committee to work
on grabbing a big share of funds that upgrade water recycling. We do this with a focus on getting wastewater out of the ocean by high-tech recycling, but part of our job, which we take just as seriously, is to promote other water conservation, preservation, and increased production methods as well. The Twitchell Dam, which is mentioned in Mr. Crosslands letter, is right now on the IRWM Round III list for nearly $2 million to desilt, which HTO is supporting, and it is ready to go. Juncal and Gibraltar can be on this list, too; we will check into whether or not they have their engineering together this very week. Hillary Hauser Executive Director Heal the Ocean
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Quick comment on the cover article and picture this week on the wonderful Village Fourth, and picture of Diane and Dana. I certainly hope we can find someone(s) to take their place They did such a wonderful job, and that was one of the first community activities we encountered when moving up here. They will definitely be missed! Jean von Wittenburg Montecito (Editors note: As stated earlier, it wont be easy but lets hope there is at least one person out there willing to take it on. J.B.)
Russia sees this as an imperative and cannot allow a questionable political regime to be in control of Russian access to a warm-water port. Second, the current situation is analogous to Hitlers invasion of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia prior to the start of World War II. Hitlers excuse for the invasion was to protect the German population in the Sudetenland. And yes, we all know where that led... Third, the current stock market reaction to Putins invasion is for oil and gold prices to go up while stock prices go down, all of which promotes the Russian position. Putin needs increased oil and gold prices to help balance the Russian budget. Fourth, what better way to divert the Russian populations view from his owncorruptionand economic ills than by some military adventurism? Fifth, as for the EU, basically they are dependent on Russian oil and gas to fuel their industry and to keep their homes warm in the winter. Needless to say, Vladimir Putin has previously shown that he controls their energy spigot and is not above turning it off for political reasons. Sixth, the United States best answer to this situation would be to increase energy production to replace as much of the Russian energy flowing into Europe as possible, thereby increasing internal pressures within Russia. Ronald Reagan knew how to do that, but it would require leadership and meaningful increases to energy production here at home. Of course, we know that the current resident of the White House wont do this and has basically handcuffed himself to a position of impotence. B. Tony Zamojda Roanoke, Virginia (Editors note: Mr. Zamojda is Montecito resident Tom Mielkos cousin. J.B.)
Wasteful Water Use
Ukraine Impotence
A short analysis of the situation in the Ukraine from my point of view: First, we have to understand that Russia has to have a warm-water port on the Black Sea to allow it access to the Mediterranean and points beyond.
Thanks to Mike Wilson for his very sensible and well-informed letter (Water Supply Versus Demand, MJ # 20/8), about the mismatch between this areas drought cycles and our water supply on the one hand, and the Montecito Water Districts (MWD) consumption patterns on the other. The fact is that residents of this water district consume nearly five times as much water on average, as do the residents of Goleta. And it isnt because they are all living on the edge of dehydration. The districts current allocation plan only allows six hundred cubit feet (HCF) of water for indoor use per household per month for multi-family residents, but 25 HCF for single-family households, which means that even for indoor use and an irrigation buffer, residents here 6 13 March 2014
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are seen as wanting way more than they actually need to meet reasonable essential use standards. Add to that the external, non-essential use allocation, and MWD customers are getting a lot more water even with rationing than most households would ever think of using. Why do we need this much water? So we can have huge green lawns that dont fit into this ecosystem? So we can hose down our patios, run our washing machines all day, and have our cars always sparkling clean? The drive to spend money and resources on free-market water supply models of the kind a recent letter suggests implies that we must continue to have and use water at the level we currently do. But we dont, and we cant. We need to break our addiction to wasteful water use. The problem with free-market solutions is that they are not, truly, free. If we somehow could get a desal plant up and running tomorrow, that would have substantial costs, financial and environmental. Desal plants are energy intensive thats power that must be generated somewhere, and that still mostly means air-polluting coal-powered electricity plants. The trucks delivering that water to our reservoirs? Gas-powered and carbon-emitting. Santa Barbara already has much more smog than it did when I moved here in 1996. Should we continue to allow our air quality to decline, turning ugly and toxic, so that our lawns will stay a vibrant green? And the cost of desal-produced water is exorbitant, something that might not matter to wealthy Montecitans, but could be devastating for more middle-class residents of the district. The best free-market solution to the water problem is to invest in businesses that help us change our habits: landscapers who convert our properties to natural, beautiful low water, zero-scaped plantings (as opposed to the xenoscaping that lawns embody), and to high-efficiency machines that wash our clothes and dishes and us with minimal water use. Kick the water-wasting habit.Its easy, its financially sound, and it frees us from being the slaves of a climate we cannot control. Sincerely, Lee E. Heller, Ph.D., J.D. Summerland
torrent of water that could have swept away the most able-bodied among us. I presume it to be remnants of irrigation runoff? So for those who long for the song of a rushing river, I recommend you pull up a lawn chair and enjoy the soothing serenade of blatant waste. With all the respect I can muster, Joe Edwards Montecito
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First, if you havent already shut off all outside landscape irrigation, now is the time. The rain will take care of your garden for many days to come, and you can save precious water that will be wasted if your automatic system is still on. Given our current water shortage, it is essential that we pull together as a community to use water wisely. On Tuesday, we co-hosted a water conservation workshop with the Montecito Union School District, and will likely hold similar workshops in the near future. Representatives of the Montecito Water District (MWD), the Montecito Fire Protection District and the County of Santa Barbara all spoke and answered questions regarding the water shortage and the two ordinances recently passed by the MWD. It is important that you become familiar with those two ordinances. The first, Ordinance 92, addresses watering times and permitted types of water use, among other things. The second, Ordinance 93, imposes a district-wide, water-rationing plan that is intended to reduce overall district water use by 30%, and includes significant monetary penalties and the imposition of flow restrictors in certain cases. Please visit the Montecito Water Districts website at monteci towater.com to learn more about these ordinances. Sincerely, Ted Urschel, President Montecito Association
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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold. Charles Dickens
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MTF Hike Hike the new Franklin Trail with the Montecito Trails Foundation; an 800-foot elevation gain, 2.2-mile hike with spectacular views of the Carpinteria area and the Channel Islands. Dogs on leash are welcome. When: 8:20 am Where: meet at Carpinteria High School parking lot, 4810 Foothill Road Info: Jane 680-4405 or Dick 963-8858
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Book Signing Chaucers Bookstore is hosting a book signing for the launch for Adam C. Hall, the local author of The EarthKeeper: Undeveloping the Future When: 7 pm Where: 3321 State Street Info: 682-6787 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063
identication. Doll repair vendors will be available to repair your dolls.Proceeds from the show are donated to local charities. When: 10 am to 3 pm Where: 3400 Calle Real Cost: $5; children 12 and under free Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music. A valued cultural resource in the community since 1969, these concerts feature outstanding performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public. When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu Street Cost: free Info & RVSP: 564-6223 A MAD Night Under the Stars The Multimedia Arts & Design Academy at Santa Barbara High School is pleased to announce its second annual gala fundraiser at QAD headquarters in Summerland. Spring Forward is the theme of the event, which will be held the evening before clocks are set forward to begin daylight saving for 2014. The Spring Forward Gala is open to the public, and sponsorships are available starting at $1,000, with table sponsorships available for $2,500, $5,000, and $10,000. The event raised $75,000 last year, and organizers have set a goal of $100,000 for this years fest. All proceeds from the evening generated by a silent auction, a live auction, ticket sales, donations, group tables, and sponsorships will be used to purchase equipment that will allow MAD teachers to continue to provide hands-on, state-ofthe-art training and instruction to the more than 200 students currently enrolled in the academy. When: 6 pm Where: 100 Innovation Place, Summerland Info: Sheela Hunt, 698-3767 or www. madacad.com/gala
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Sedgwick Reserve Hike The rugged Santa Ynez Valley is the setting for a series of monthly interpretive hikes and nature activities open to the public on the 6,000-acre UCSB Sedgwick Reserve. Three hikes with varying themes such as geology, landforms, Sedgwick panoramas, plants, and animals or birds will be conducted, with hiking levels of Easy, Moderate, or Strenuous. These hikes are approximately two to three hours each and are followed by the opportunity to picnic with your own lunch at the reserve. In addition to the hikes, other activities such as a tour of the newly renovated old barn, the new observatory, the pond, and the new Tipton House, as well as a set-up for painters at the pond, and the use of a bocce ball court are all planned for those who dont want to hike and would like to just enjoy the reserve attractions while the hikes are being conducted. Reservations required. When: 8:30 am Cost: $10 per hiker, or $15 per couple or family suggested donation Info and RSVP: Sedgwick@lifesci.ucsb.edu or 686-1941, extension 3 Doll Show & Sale The 52nd Annual Santa Barbara Doll Club Show and Sale will take place at the Earl Warren Showgrounds, Warren Hall, in Santa Barbara. The annual show features dolls, teddy bears, doll clothes, shoes, etc. Show patrons may bring one doll for free
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exchanges planned for this year. When: 5 pm (wine) and dinner afterward Where: Music Academy of the West, Lehmann Hall, 1070 Fairway Road Info: Tickets $75 per person; call Denise at 687-9278, email sjldenise@cox.net or visit sbkotorsistercity.com
TUESDAY MARCH 11
Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito. When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road
THURSDAY MARCH 13
MERRAG Meeting and Training Network of trained volunteers that work and/ or live in the Montecito area prepare to respond to community disaster during critical rst 72 hours following an event. The mutual self-help organization serves Montecitos residents with the guidance and support of the Montecito Fire, Water and Sanitary Districts.This month: Disaster Medical Operations When: 10 am Where: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro Road Info: Geri, 969-2537 Cost: $12 adults; $10 seniors and students; free for kids with adult Info: www.sborchidshow.com
MONDAY MARCH 10
Lecture & Luncheon Channel City Club presents Sung Won Sohn, Ph.D., is Smith Professorof Economics and Director of Institute for Global Economic Research at California State University Channel Islands. He also serves on corporate boards including Forever21, Western Alliance Bancorporation,and Claremont Graduate University. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard Business School, Dr. Sohnwas Executive V.P. & Chief Economic Ofcer of Wells Fargo Banksbefore joining Hanmi Financial Corporation, a commercial bank in Los Angeles in 2005. Earlier he served as senior economist on the Presidents Council of Economic Advisors in The White House, responsible for economic and legislative matters pertaining to The Federal Reserve and nancial markets, and has been a tenured professor at Pennsylvania State University System. In 2012, The Wall Street Journal ranked him third among the ve best forecasters in the country, one of the most prestigious honors in the economics profession.In 2002, he was named toTIME magazines Board of Economists andBlue Chip Publication chose him the most accurate forecaster for the Western States. When: 11:30 am check-in Where: Reagan Room at Fess Parkers Doubletree Resort, 633 East Cabrillo Blvd Cost: $35 for members, $40 for nonmembers Info & RVSP: 564-6223 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 E. Anapamu Street Cocktails & Conservatives Complimentary appetizers and Happy Hour-priced drinks will be available at an informal gathering for those wishing to share thought-provoking ideas with conservatives who are Republican, Democrat, or Independent. When: 4 pm to 6 pm Where: Caf Del Sol, 30 Los Patos Way RSVP: 259-7191
WEDNESDAY MARCH 12
Sudoku Workshop Learn new tips and tricks to help improve your Sudoku game. No prior experience with Sudoku puzzles is necessary. Puzzles and pencils will be provided. All ages and levels welcome. When: 4 pm to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063
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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 TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS Adventuresome Aging Where: 89 Eucalyptus Lane Info: 969-0859; ask for Susan WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS Live Entertainment at Cava 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: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 TUESDAYS Adventuresome Aging Program Community outings, socialization, and lunch for dependent adults When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $75, includes lunch, plus one time fee of $35 Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 WEDNESDAYS Brain Fitness for Successful Aging Series Learn how to rewire your brain, combat stress and fatigue, and keep your brain strong and healthy. When: 10 am to 12:15 pm (optional power walk), January 15th through February 19th Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $150 for the series, snacks provided Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at the Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among 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 MJ
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SBMM Annual Fundraiser The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) will celebrate its 11th annual benefit; the theme, Harbor Treasures and Tastings, focuses on the culinary delights of Santa Barbara and features sample tastings from more than 30 of the finest purveyors of wine, spirits, beer, and gourmet cuisine. Competing participants will be awarded prizes by our Honorary Celebrity Judges Christine Dahl, Chef Michael Hutchings and Arthur von Wiesenberger. Local purveyors include Chucks Waterfront Grill, Marmalade Caf, Spices N Rice, Commercial Fishermen, and Olivos Del Mar. This year, the SBMM is honoring long-time museum volunteers Andrew Cooper, David Denniston, Ron Godar, Brooke Sawyer, and Lorelei Snyder. Silent and live auction items include a private tour for four of the Reagan Ranch, use of the maritime museums Fourth Floor for the Fourth of July Fireworks, and private cruises aboard the Condor Express and the museums 95-year-old agship, Ranger. Music will be provided by Rock Shop Academy. Proceeds will help support the museums educational and curatorial programs. Each year, up to 8,000 tricounty students visit the SBMM to learn more about our local maritime history and culture. When: special admission starts at 5 pm; general admission 6 pm Where: 113 Harbor Way Cost: $100 per person for general admission, which include sample tastings from more than 30 restaurants and caterers, wineries, breweries, and distilleries. Patron tickets are $200 per person with special admission (featuring special champagne tastings and appetizers) Info: (805) 962-8404, ext. 115, or www.sbmm.org.
THURSDAY MARCH 13
Food Drive at MUS To benet Santa Barbara Foodbank, donations can be left in the schools parking lot in the morning during drop-off. Items needed include baby food, cereal, pasta, peanut butter, rice, soup, and canned goods. When: 8:15 to 8:30 am Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker When: 7:30 pm to 9 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road
FRIDAY MARCH 14
69th Santa Barbara International Orchid Show This show is the oldestand oneof the largest orchid shows in the country, with more than 50 exquisite garden exhibits and almost 40 vendors from around the world displaying rare, unusual, and exotic orchids for sale. Sunset Magazine recently featured it in its Best of the West section. Visitors will be immersed in an experience for all the senses, including: exhibits and oral arrangements by top local, regional, and international growers; an extensive sales area, including vendors from all over the United States, South America and Asia, offering thousands of blooming orchid plants for sale; an art display juried by the Santa Barbara Art Association; live demonstrations and lectures on orchid culture and related topics; and open houses at nearby orchid nurseries running concurrently throughout the weekend. When: 9 am to 5 pm, today through Sunday, March 16 Where: 3400 Calle Real
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tunity to cut back on his or her water usage; the water supply is limited, and we have to cut back on use, he said. Diane Black, Montecito Planning Commissions secretary, explained that projects currently being considered by both the Montecito Planning Commission and Montecito Board of Architectural Review will be subject to review by the Montecito Water District. Applicants currently in the process who have received an intent to serve from the district will continue to be served. Remodels, additions, and rebuilds, will be looked at on a case-by-case basis; applicants are encouraged to talk to MWD before submitting applications. Parcels not currently served by the district will not be served at this time, Black said. Information and ideas for being more water wise can be found online at www.montecitowater.com and www.WaterWiseSB.org. espite the recent rains, Montecito Water District (MWD) general manager Tom Mosby tells us Montecitos water situation remains dire. Mosby says it is highly unlikely that Ordinance 92, Montecitos water-shortage emergency declaration, and Ordinance 93, Montecitos water-rationing ordinance, will be lifted anytime soon. The board and I are looking into next year and the future, he said. And the bottom line is that we are still running out of water. The last storm brought about 9.4 inches of rain to Jameson Lake, where MWD sources about 15% its water. The 9.4 inches were absorbed into about 25 feet of gravel where the lake has receded, Mosby explained. The total rainfall at Jameson brought 180 acrefeet of water; Mosby was hoping to get 500 acre-feet. There was very little recharge, mainly because the lake is already so dry, he said. Mosby added at least 1000 acre-feet at Jameson are needed in order for Montecitos water situation to improve. Lake Cachuma, which provides over 50% of Montecitos water, is still at only 40% capacity. Gibraltar Reservoir, which serves the City of Santa Barbara, has a water level of 32%. This winter remains among the three driest winters in 100 years of rainfall record-keeping in the county; 2013 was the driest calendar year on record across most of California.According to County Public Works director Scott McGolpin, The primary benefit from such storms is to reduce water use by allowing residents and growers to stop irrigating. It also prepares the soil for future runoff and recharge of groundwater. Water conservation is still highly encouraged countywide. MJ Garden Gossip columnist Lisa Cullen says the rain brought enough water to Montecitos gardens to last through March. Everyone can and should turn off their automatic irrigation controllers and leave them off for a while.No one should have to turn on their irrigation till April, she said.Hopefully, we will get another storm and can keep our irrigation systems turned off until May or June. Last week Mosby, water engineer Karl Meier, and MWD board president Darlene Bierig were in front of the Montecito Planning Commission discussing the drought, and the recently approved water-rationing ordinance. Mosby said by April, it is expected that 300-500 flow restrictors will be placed on meters where customers are exceeding their allocations. We are giving everybody an oppor
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An Affair To Remember co-chair Pat Andersons, Opera SB general director Steven Sharpe, and event chair Sandy Urquhart
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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.
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Hearts given by the Friendship Center was a valentine hoedown. Bandanas and boots abounded at Fess Parkers, along with folks spouting country accents. A strolling cowboy troubadour with his trusty guitar had guests singing country songs along with him. This event benefits H.E.A.R.T. (Help Elders At Risk Today). The cocktail hour was not only to meet and greet, but guests had to check out all the hearts that had been decorated by local artists and celebrities for the silent auction. Jeff Bridges, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Rona Barrett were among them. Just a few of the many others were James Dow, Steven Gilbar, Rod Lathim, Judi Weisbart, Janet Wolf, Marcia Meier , Gerrie Shapiro , Linda Shwartz, Jack Hewett, Ruth Simpson, and Linda Swenson. Art students made all the hearts given out as favors to each guest. Heart wrangler Sharon Morrow and her heart posse tirelessly organized, photographed, and prepared the papier-mch heart art for the event. After a lunch of Western grub, board president Marty Moore and executive director Heidi Holly welcomed all the cowboys and girls.
Heidi has been with Friendship Center for 25 years. Under her leadership, theyve come a long way and now have another center in Goleta besides the one on Eucalyptus Lane. Heidi told the audience, The late Andy Granatelli received the Big Heart Award ten years ago. Today Dana Newquist accepted a proclamation in Andys honor from state senator Hannah- Beth Jackson. Emcee and auctioneer Gail Rappaport joked, I was young when I started here 15 festivals ago. She kept the bidding lively for the weekend in them thar hills of San Francisco, that is or a wine-tasting tour down in the Valley, Santa Ynez, that is, and more. Friendship Center provides day care for those in need, helping their caregivers get a break. No one is turned away. As Alicia Lancashire said, Friendship Center gave my dad purpose in his life. My heart is filled with gratitude for the incredible work they do every day for our loved ones. For information, call 969-0859.
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Union Bank, the presenting sponsor. She was inspired to take on the task because of her mothers too early demise from stroke and congestive heart failure. Because of research in the last ten years, many deaths are now preventable. Her committee was Laura Capps, Liz Crandall, David Edelman, Jill Fonte, Janet Garufis, Dawn Garner, Mary Lynn Harms Romo, Kira McDonald, Laura McIver, Lisa Rivas, Dawn Sproul, and Jennifer Zacharias. Union Bank regional president George Leis told the group, We sold hearts at the banks and raised $33,000 for heart research. Emcee was KEYT news anchor Shirin Rajee, who told us, One in three women dies of a heart attack and one in 30 dies of breast cancer. Macys is the national sponsor for AHA and has contributed $46 million to the Go Red for Women movement since 2004. The appreciation award went to Lisa Dosch, and the affiliate appreciation award went to Sansum Clinic. Dr. Kurt Ronsohaff accepted while joking, When I heard I was a passion 6 13 March 2014
speaker, I thought, thats not going to happen especially in front of 500 women. The passion speakers were Marlys Boehm, Will Bowden, and Sarah Jaimes, two of whom had heart conditions. They all said, Make a choice while the choice is yours to make. The Lifestyle Change award went to Sylvia Miller who said, I dont advise having a heart attack to learn good ways. She now lives a healthy lifestyle and with good food has lost weight without dieting. The keynote speaker was Diana Jordan, who is a comedian and motivational speaker. Oprah calls her one of the funniest women on the planet. I just want to heal the world one laugh at a time, Diana explained. She told how her mother was still smoking while on an oxygen machine and joked to her that she might be cremated if she kept on. AHA board president for the Central Coast Joseph Aragon, M.D., said in the program, Go Red For Women is a movement started by women, for women. Im grateful that you have made the choice to support Go Red, and I hope you walk away today with a renewed commitment to your heart health. And we did. MJ
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Dare to be Great Montecito realtor Brook Ashley, the godchild and only heir of the acclaimed photographer, Dare Wright, has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to make a documentary of Dares extraordinary life. Brook is the daughter of a 102-yearold OBE-winning producer Donald Seawell, who first brought the Royal Shakespeare Company to the U.S. and goddaughter of the legendary actress Tallulah Bankhead. I was born into an eccentric New York City theatrical family, explains Brook. My mother was a stage actress who played Tallulahs daughter in The Little Foxes, and my father was a theatrical attorney and producer in London and New York. I starred on Broadway at the age of seven and acted on stage and television throughout my childhood. Tallulah was one of my incredible godmothers and the other was the ethereal and captivating model, artist, photographer, and childrens author, Dare Wright.
Dares first book, The Lonely Doll, made The New York Times bestseller list. It was illustrated with her haunting black-and-white photographs of Dares childhood doll Edith, whom Dare had dressed and pony-tailed to look just like herself, and two teddy bear friends. She went on to write and photograph nineteen more successful childrens stories, and I spent much of my childhood at her apartment, helping her invent and set up scenes for the Lonely Doll books. Although she was stunningly beautiful and had dozens of suitors, Dare never married, and I filled the role of the child she never had. She was my own fairy godmother and dressed me in fanciful costumes, and took my suggestions for her books with absolute seriousness. Wright, who photographed Bankhead, painted Greta Garbo and bantered with English playwright Noel Coward, initiated a new genre of childrens literature and enchanted newspaper writers by giving interviews in a cocktail dress she had sewn from an 18th-century church robe, says Brook. The part of her that never grew up the lonely child inside the outwardly seductive woman meant that she could write without being patronizing, because she never lost a childs capacity for wonderment. Wrights estate, which included
Brook Ashley launches campaign to raise funds for documentary on herglamorous godmother, Dare Wright
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more than 25,000 photographs and negatives, along with the rights to her books, artworks, and intellectual property, are now about to have their close-up in a documentary tentatively titled A Lonely Doll The Dare Wright Story. The film, which Brook is making with her husband, John Ogilvie, will encompass the full arch of Wrights story from artistry and innocence to fame and unimaginable tragedy, and is based on a memoir she has written. The Kickstartercampaign runs until March 28, and the full goal needs to be funded to make the documentary. Brooks Kickstarter address is: www. kickstarter.com/projects/349559654/ a-lonely-doll-the-dare-wright-story. Welcoming Lynn Santa Barbara Historical Museum has found a new executive director, I can exclusively reveal. Lynn Brittner, former head of the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum in Ignacio, Colorado, has 25 years of museum management experience. Prior to assuming her position, she was registrar and collections manager at the Georgia OKeeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and curator of collections at the School of American Research, also in Santa Fe. During her 13 years at Southern Ute Center, Lynn initiated, sustained and opened a new $38 million, 58,000-sqft state-of-the-art museum facility to conserve and promote the history and culture of the Ute people. We are delighted to have Lynn on the team, says museum president, William Burtness. She will bring a fresh perspective and understanding of the challenges faced by cultural institutions such as ours. Lynn was chosen following a nationwide search that yielded more
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Hello, Dolly!, the iconic production by New York composer Jerry Herman with stars like Carol Channing and Ethel Merman, is still going as strong as ever after half a century with Emmy and Golden Globe awards winner Sally Struthers as the principal character. Struthers best known for her work in the TV series All in the Family is perfect with her effervescent, overthe-top personality, wowing the audience at the Granada for the Theater League production of the ten-time Tony Award-winning show, which went from Broadway to being made into a Hollywood film under Gene Kelly with Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau five years after its debut, netting three Oscars. Vincent Scassellatis 1890 period costumes were superb, as was Tony Triano as Horace Vandergelder, the miserly Yonkers store owner and object of Dolly Levis attentions, but the choreography by Bob Richard really made the colorful and entertaining show swing. Carol Channing, 93, who I last saw in the role she originated in San Francisco in the 1970s, has really got some swell competition... Au Revoir Dan and Debbie Kass opened the doors of their Montecito aerie, Chateau Sur La Mer, for the last time when they hosted a dinner and concert by Kenny Loggins and his Blue Sky Riders for AHA!, a charity that organizes after-school programs for teenagers.
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Ninety-four percent of all MWD accounts are single-family residences. Most of the water used in Montecito goes to watering landscapes. Commercial landscapes in Montecito such as golf courses are managed by professional irrigation staffs with training. However, many of the residential landscapes in Montecito are managed by someone without (or with minimal) professional irrigation training. Water is being wasted with landscape watering by automatic irrigation systems that are old or incorrectly set up. MWD needs to take a proactive approach to reducing residential landscape water demand by providing professional guidance and assistance on landscape water conservation measures to water customers. Five percent of single-family residential water district accounts use 25% of the water in Montecito. The first step would be for Montecito to target a list of highest-use residential water customers and require a mandatory irrigation evaluation with a professional water district staff person trained in irrigation evaluation. This water district staff member would meet with the person who is responsible for the irrigation system and adjusting the watering schedule at that property. The MWD staff person would create a report listing all the actions that need to be taken to have the irrigation system working at a level of standard efficiency. Such operating criteria include use of the most efficient irrigation equipment, proper operating pressure, minimal runoff, all sprinkler heads and drip systems in proper working condition and without leaking or overspray, and a scheduling management process or smart irrigation controller to adjust the irrigation schedule according to the weather. The MWD would enforce this, and if the property does not adhere to all recommendations, fines and flow restrictors would then be an option. Rebates and project cost-sharing for irrigation improvements could be considered as an incentive for property owners. A program to compensate owners who voluntarily replace lawns with drought tolerant Santa Barbara native plants could be instituted as done in many other
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California communities. Without professional irrigation assistance and planning, properties and owners are not going to know and do all that is possible to reduce irrigation demand. There needs to be a level of responsibility and accountability to which Montecito holds properties for irrigation efficiency and adjusting watering schedules. Montecito needs to look at water conservation as a water supply and pay for water conservation as it would any other new type of water source. Water conservation is the cheapest new source of water Montecito has, and it has this source of water in extreme abundance because of the over-watering of landscapes that is currently occurring, as well as the amount of runoff from sprinkler systems. The cost of hiring irrigation-knowledgeable staff to evaluate irrigation systems at residential properties is extremely cost-effective compared to purchasing additional emergency water supplies that might be currently available in this drought (a market that at the time of this writing has no available extra water for the water district to purchase, at all). An appropriate staff of full-time irrigation inspection professionals should be brought up right away; the staff cost will pay for itself. Montecito needs to enforce a waste of water law. Any runoff of potable water from properties needs to be followed up on by water district staff and fines issued if repairs and runoff are not abated. Examples of these types of water-conservation measures and water district water-conservation programs are abundant throughout the state and in our own county. Sincerely, Blair Whitney Montecito
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scheduled forApril 5 at the Montecito Country Club. Channelkeeper works to protect the local waters through science, education, advocacy and law with their work being focused on the channel as well as watersheds ranging from the Ventura River to the Gaviota Coast (visitwww.sbck.org.)As part of a family that lives the lifestyle that we do,I am passionate about keeping our water clean, making a difference, and getting involved. Its going to be an inspiring evening with 220 guests, including many of our friends, environmental leaders, business owners and public officials from Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties. This year, we are having a band and its going to be fun with some dancing and an exciting honoree-keynote speaker! SBCK will be honoring Dr. Wallace J. Nichols in recognition of his pioneering work to protect the worlds oceans and to inspire others to make a deeper connection with nature. Dr. Nichols is a scientist, ocean advocate, community organizer, author, and dad. His is a uniquely experiential brand of activism, encouraging individuals to encounter the oceans directly, to build personal and emotional connections to get their feet wet. His message is simple yet profound: live like you love our blue planet.
Nichols is a Research Associate at California Academy of Sciences and co-founder of Ocean Revolution, SEEtheWILD, Grupo Tortuguero, and LiVBLUE. His research and expeditions have taken him to coasts and waterways across the globe, where he continually finds that the emotional connection to water rather than financial gain is what keeps his colleagues and collaborators working hard to understand and restore our blue planet. J has authored and co-authored more than 50 scientific papers and reports, and his work has been featured on NPR, BBC, PBS, National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, Outside Magazine, Scientific American and New Scientist, among others. Lately hes been working on the Blue Mind Collective, merging the fields of neuropsychology and aquatic exploration to foster a deeper appreciation of the emotional and cognitive benefits of healthy waterways and oceans. I watched a TED talk he did and was mesmerized. His approach is creative, unique, and poetic! He can be seen on YouTube, and I think you will find him captivating. His love of the ocean is deep; he inspires, and I felt as if he was sharing a piece of his heart. You might recognize him from his Gap or Nautica ads, but its his mag-
ical mind that will have a profound impact on you. Its a time when so many of us want to do something, and Js message is powerful and compelling; he inspires us to dream and make this world a better place. He has a Blue Marble Project, which is a global effort to remind everyone of the fragility of our planet. He will be handing our guests at the event each one of the marbles, the concept being if you hold one at arms length, you can envision the size of the Earth from a million miles away in space. The idea is to have one of these unique marbles passing through the hands of every living soul with the message of gratitude, and ponder to whom to pass it on. The Blue Water Ball begins at 5 pm on April 5. Please call (805) 563-3377 for more information. Carla Tomson Montecito
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The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and trauma complications from being repeatedly poked in the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry
Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch.The gravesite was piled high with flours. Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded. Born and bread in Minnesota, Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times, he lived to be a crusty old man and was considered a positive roll model for millions. Doughboy is survived by his wife, Play-Dough; three children: John Dough, Jane Dough, and Dosey Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father, Pop Tart. The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes. Please rise to the occasion and take time to pass this informationon to someone else who may be having a crumby day and kneads a lift. Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara (Editors note: We were saddened to read of Mr. Doughboys passing, but thank you for forwarding this to us; we have duly informed Doughboys distant cousins, Michelin Man and Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. J.B.) MJ
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The historic JuarezHosmer Adobe on San Ysidro Road is the subject of an appeal by the Pearl Chase Society, which is contesting the Historic Landmarks Advisory Commissions January approval to demolish and rebuild the structure, rather than rehabilitate it. The owners maintain the current condition of the adobe is unsafe and not salvageable. The adobe is one of four historic landmarks in Montecito.
year of putting together the resources to rehabilitate the structures, it became clear the buildings were in worse shape than originally thought. She says the owners brought three architectural experts onto the property, who deemed the structures unsafe and unsalvageable. In December 2013, the owners came back to HLAC with more proposed changes to the property, stating the structures were in such poor shape, that they would rather demolish and rebuild them. The structures decayed due to lack of maintenance, water damage, and pest infestation. HLAC agendized the item to January, when the HLAC board moved to allow the
owners to demolish and reconstruct the adobe, while restoring the other structures on the property. The motion passed 5 to 3. Pearl Chases Hattie Beresford told the MA Land Use Committee, We feel that HLAC made a terrible mistake. Pearl Chase is asking the Board of Supervisors to require that the owners get a second opinion on whether the adobe can be rehabilitated, using an expert who has experience in restoring fragile adobes. Beresford and Kellam de Forest cited the Montecito Community Plan in their discussion; the plan, which was written in 1995, states the JuarezHosmer Adobe shall be preserved as
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a historic landmark and not be torn down. The adobe represents two periods of Montecito history. These tangible, visible remnants of our past are so important, Beresford said. We know its in horrible shape, but we want due diligence. We are aware of the concerns, and we want to work with Pearl Chase to come to an agreement, Hay said. The owners and Pearl Chase Society are working behind the scenes to find suitable experts to weigh in before the April 22 hearing. The Land Use Committee is expected to formulate a position on the appeal and report to the full MA board in April.
Donations Sought for Annual May Madness Sale
This years May Madness, the annual treasure and estate sale benefiting the Music Academy of the Wests full-scholarship program, will take place from 9 am to 3 pm on Saturday, May 3, at the Music Academy of the West. Now in its 38th year, May Madness is organized by the Womens Auxiliary of the Music Academy, a volunteer organization that supports the academy year-round. Donations are now being accepted for the popular event. Sale items include furniture, rugs, small appliances, kitchenware, garden accessories, fine linens, antiques, silver, crystal, china, art, collectibles, books, board games, music and movies, jew-
elry, mens and womens clothing, luggage, sports equipment, and cars and other vehicles. Donations should be brought to the music academy, located at 1070 Fairway Road in Santa Barbara, between 11 am and 3 pm on these days: Tuesdays and Thursdays, through March 13; Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, from March 18 through April 17; Monday, April 21, through Friday, April 25. Contributed items should be clean and in good condition. Obsolete electronics, large kitchen appliances, architectural salvage materials (windows, doors, stoves, etc.), sofa beds, metal bed frames,box spring and mattress sets, and rugs more than 16 feet long will not be accepted. Donations can be dropped off in the lower parking area at the Music Academy (follow the signage upon entering the campus). Clothing donations may also be delivered to The Rack, the music academys on-campus resale apparel shop, during regular business hours. The Rack is open 12 to 3, Tuesdays through Saturdays. For clothing donation inquiries, call 969-0190. To arrange the pick-up of a large donation item, call 695-7950. For vehicle donation information, call 695-7916 or email srodriguez@musi cacademy.org. For more information, call 969-4726. Founded in 1947, the Montecitos Music Academy of the West is among the nations preeminent summer
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again. Not all that easy, you know. Want to switch places and see how well you do? Thats better. Great. As long as you are satisfied. Now, wider. Wider? I grumbled. Then I gave her what I thought was the appropriate response. Fortunately, she could not hear me because of the wind or read my lips because of my hooded outfit plus, of course, the natural muting effect of the torrential downpour. Keep going! she yelled. I dug the shovel into the mud and continued trenching, reminding myself how much we needed the rain, how swell it was to be a homeowner, and how good a little hard labor was for the body and spirit, though my
eeper, my wife yelled. Im trying, I yelled back. Deeper, she yelled
spirit was a bit dampened, as was my derriere. Its working! she yelled. I watched the steady stream of water come out of the plastic spout, through my new trench and over my athletic shoes. Back East, I had rain boots, but in Southern California you never need them well, almost never. Our condo is designed so that it has an open-air atrium in the middle. This provides a lot of natural light, which the ferns love almost as much as we do. There is a drain that runs from the atrium, under the entire condo and empties out into the landscaping, where it is quickly absorbed. That is, unless we have some kind of rare event like rain. I went into the house. My wife was looking out the sliding glass doors into the atrium, which was now only two inches deep with water. At about four inches, it enters the house on this side of the atrium and my office on the other side. Neither of
these two locations makes for a good riverbed. One time, shortly after we moved in, we put some new plants in the atrium and filled in around them with redwood bark. It looked very nice. But one thing you dont think about because bark usually just sits on the ground looking beautiful is that it floats. So, when we had one of our first downpours, all the bark floated gaily to the drain, where it blocked it completely. I remember my wife and I watching the water rise and thinking, Huh, maybe bark wasnt such a good idea. When the water hit the threeand-a-half inch mark, my wife said: Probably ought to do something. Such as? Bail? Which was a great idea if there had been someplace to bail to. I ran into the garage and dumped the garbage can onto the garage floor something my wife did not discover for several days grabbed two saucepans and headed into the atrium. It was now pouring harder than I had ever imagined rain could pour. I was drenched in seconds. But I scooped saucepan full after saucepan full of water and bark into the trash container. In five minutes, it was halfway
full. The rain seemed to gain momentum. I couldnt have been wetter if I was standing in the ocean. I hefted the garbage can, discovering how heavy rainwater actually is, then I dragged it out of the atrium over the step from our sunken living room across the entryway to the front door, where I tipped the can over so the water drained out the door and onto the front steps. Its getting higher, my wife said. She grabbed two more saucepans and we both waded into the atrium. In less than five minutes, it was half-full again and I repeated the routine to the front door. This went on for a half hour before my wife said, Seems to be letting up a bit. Half an hour later, the atrium was down almost to normal, and we both drank ourselves into oblivion. The atriums been fine for quite some time now because, well, we havent been getting those kinds of storms. This gave the landscaping an opportunity to fill in around the outside spout. Was that thunder? my wife asked. The light in the atrium darkened. Do you want to trench or make the drinks? I asked. Martini? she answered. Dry, I said. Very dry. MJ
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in Hudson, New Hampshire (I was a Massachusetts boy). Upon leaving this animal farm, I looked for one brief moment directly into the eyes of a large Mountain or Silverback Gorilla. He was sitting on a cement bench in a glass cage that couldnt have been more than 10 x 10. He looked directly at me for less than a second before averting his eyes, almost as if he didnt want me to know how embarrassed he king of his Tilikum (on the right) is the killer whale connected to the deaths of three trainers and featured in Blackfish; the orca on jungle habitat was to have the left is Taima, the first killer whale to have been born in ended up living in this tiny, captivity and who died in 2010 at the age of 20 (photo credit: unkempt enclosure for who Dr. Toni Frohoff) knows how many long and lonely years. I couldnt have been more than six years old at the time, but that gorillas look haunts me to this day. I can still feel the ineffable sadness behind those intelligent eyes as this once majestic animal purposely and quickly turned away and stared straight out, avoiding the gazes of the departing crowd, including mine. Taking a self-aware creature out of its natural home by force and placing it against its will and its nature into an enclosure for our amusement has become a moral and ethical issue for our times.
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director of the Santa Barbara Marine Mammal Center, will serve as moderator/emcee. The main thing Ms Benko wants to stress is that the forum is not intended to be an anti-SeaWorld harangue. And she says it is not a debate. It will be a discussion, she says. I have much respect for SeaWorld. They really made children aware of what marine mammals are and how smart they are. But, times are changing and we have to reexamine how we care for these emotional animals, she adds. The panel discussion is scheduled for Wednesday, March 26, at the Maritime Museum, and is set to run from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. Admission is free, but seating is limited, so an RSVP will be required. If youd like to attend, you are urged to call (805) 699-6679 or go online to: condorexpressevent@gmail.com to confirm a space. See you there.
A Short Interview with Dr. Naomi Rose

Q. Will there be a SeaWorld twenty years from now? A. In twenty years, were not going to have orcas in captivity. Theyre going to phase them out. Its a small number (there are just fifty-four captive orcas in the world), and its very clear theres a problem; the public wants them out. Certainly, theres a minority that still support SeaWorld and think Shamu is great, but they are now in the minority. So, as far as SeaWorld is concerned, theyre gone. Theyre not going away that fast, but who knows what can happen? As someone pointed out, it wont be Blackfish that sinks SeaWorld; itll be Blackstone. The industry isnt listening right now, but they are going to have to. When it really starts affecting their bottom line, they are going to have to come to the table. Whatll SeaWorld look like going forward then? Well, if they dont have killer whales, theyll still have all the other animals, including dolphins, and sea lions, and fish, and theyll have all their rides, and theyll have Antarctic penguins,
so they certainly can survive without marine mammals such as killer whales, whose welfare has been compromised significantly. Couldnt or even shouldnt there be some of these animals held for research? There is a way of doing it thats more expensive, and more troublesome, but theres a way of doing it that you dont have to keep marine mammals in captivity forever. I also think there is some research that is simply not worth doing if we have to compromise the welfare of an animal and make it suffer. Thats an ethical consideration, and I dont think we should be doing that. So, you believe there has been a real change in attitude among the general public? Yes. Weve got school groups that are canceling their field trips [to SeaWorld]; weve got musical acts that are canceling their gigs; weve got just recently a local SPCA in Orlando, Florida, that has stopped promoting SeaWorld tickets They gave away free SeaWorld tickets whenever you adopted a pet. Theyre not going to do
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that anymore. These are things that are a sign of the zeitgeist. All of this brings them to the table, which is up on Capitol Hill. SeaWorld is a big business with many employees and investors. Do you really believe theyll voluntarily stop promoting their killer whale shows? They can either voluntarily do it or they can be legislated out [of business]. Those are the only two options. And, no, I dont think they are going to do it voluntarily. They will die with their boots on, unless they wake up one morning and experience a revelation.
them, go the way it has started to go with great apes and elephants and other animals. That is, to focus on the individual as an autonomous sentient being and to start to phase out this anachronism. Id like to see them stop captive breeding, and see them establish sanctuaries, and see them focusing on rehab. How and when did you become interested in the subject of marine mammals in captivity? About twelve years ago, I did a study with my colleague Diana Reiss at the New York Aquarium with two bottlenose dolphins. We were able to show that these two bottlenose dolphins were capable of recognizing themselves in the mirror. It was a very famous study (in 2001). We were on [The Tonight Show with] Jay Leno, we had cartoons in The New Yorker, and one of the things that happened was that the two dolphins we worked with and they were still quite young died. They were transferred to another facility and they died. I began to think what it would be like being a self-aware being and living in a concrete tank, and what it would be like having no control over your life. It is slavery. I began to realize I didnt want to contribute to this any more. At the time, I was beginning to look at offers to study self-recognition in other animals. I could have pursued it but decided it didnt matter. I think we know enough to know they didnt belong there, and I didnt want any part of it. Speaking of being part of it, you were a big part of Blackfish. I think Blackfish has made a huge impact, and I think its made an impact because it is just an empirical story. A lot of the captivity industry wants to paint that documentary as being an overly emotional piece of propaganda. If anything, SeaWorld is promoting a lot of propaganda of their own. My feeling is that its an empirical study of what happens to Orcas in captivity. They did a really good job of not sensationalizing it. MJ
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LEGO at Laguna Blanca
On Saturday, March 1, Laguna Blanca School kicked off its LEGO at Laguna program with an open house at the Lower School campus. Lagunas
Lower School students are getting an early introduction to robotics through the program, a new learning initiative being implemented at the school. The goal of LEGO at Laguna is to provide students with a fun and interesting way to learn about science, technology, engineering, and math. Developed as an introduction to building and robotics for elementary students, the LEGO robotics concept is a hands-on approach and curriculum, which will support the students math and science studies, and provide additional learning opportunities with social studies and communication skills. Its our goal to bring more handson learning into classrooms to fuel creativity and innovation, said Andy Surber, Head of Laguna Blancas Lower School campus. Through LEGO at Laguna, were not only giving our young learners the chance to tinker and to learn by doing, but were also exposing them early to computer sciences, which provides foundational learning for a wide variety of careers. According to Surber, the course will create a solid foundation for students who choose to pursue co-curricular opportunities like Lagunas Middle School Coding Club and Upper School Robotics Club. Laguna Blanca Lower School science instructor Clara Svedlund will
LEGO enthusiasts Fiona and Charlotte attended the kick-off for LEGO at Laguna, a new learning initiative being implemented at Laguna Blanca
head up the LEGO at Laguna program, which will be incorporated into students curriculum for each grade. Designed for grades K-4, LEGO at Laguna will engage students in hands-on technology experiments that focus on science, mathematics, social studies, and language concepts. Students will build LEGO models featuring working motors and sensors; program their models; and explore a series of cross-curricu-
lar, theme-based activities. Students will also follow an intuitive, easy-to-use software program through which they can quickly and easily learn how to write and download programs to their LEGO creations, while learning the basics of programming, engineering, and constructing. For more information about Laguna Blanca School, contact Joyce Balak at 687-1752 x210. MJ
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Tuesday, 25 February 2:45 pm Deputy Messmore filed a report that he picked up four morphine injection pins and two boxes of other medication from the Montecito Fire Department on San Ysidro Road. The medicines were expired and removed from the districts paramedic unit.
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Monday 3 March, 12:40 pm The Montecito Fire Protection District received a report of wires down on Sycamore Canyon Road. Upon arrival, they found a eucalyptus tree that had fallen across high-tension wires. Residents were also reporting smoke and a possible structure fire in the area. Montecito Fire upgraded the response to a structure fire. Simultaneously, the City of Santa Barbara Fire Department received a 911 report of a structure fire in the 1900 block of Sycamore Canyon. A full structure fire response was initiated. The address was later determined to be 651 Circle Drive. City Fire units found a detached garage well involved in fire. Crews from Montecito and Santa Barbara City made an aggressive attack on the blaze, confining it to the building of origin. The garage sustained major structural damage and near-total loss of contents. An electrical failure was suspected. It was unknown if the two incidents are related. Southern California Edison remedied the power outage. MJ
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eter Gaum is the founder and creator of the now ubiquitous at least locally Santa Barbara Bar. Gaum is owner of Debbies Delights (which he bought some ten years ago from David Gronsky, who had bought the company from its founder, Debbie Saucedo). Peter has also run the Santa Barbara Baking Company for 20 years. Peter grew up in a small southern town in Germany, and arrived in the United States in 1988 to attend graduate school at UCSB and then to teach. Thats where he met his wife, Janet; their son, Alexander , was born in 1990, recently graduated from Yale and currently works for a law firm in New York City. Their son developed a series of medical complications at birth that resulted in large financial obligations to doctors and hospitals, Peter explains during a lengthy morning conversation at Tre Lune on Coast Village Road. In order to meet these [obligations], he continues, we opened a German bratwurst and pretzel stand at UCSB. Peter expanded the concept to Paseo Nuevo, and in order to save money, we produced pretzels and rolls for the stands, and they established a small wholesale bakery in 1992: the SB Baking Co. We started from nothing and built it up, and were able to merge in 2004 with our main competitor, Debbies Delights, he says. The rest of our conversation follows: Q. How did Santa Barbara Bar come about? A. When the recession hit in the middle of 2007, within one month of that, many of my costs doubled and tripled. Prices just went crazy. And, that was just before the crash, but we knew something bad was coming and we couldnt react fast enough. By the fall of 2008, we had lost at least thirty, forty of our customers through bankruptcy. Which meant we didnt get paid. That was terrible. Our profit margins are around eight percent, so we had to produce millions of dollars to make up the losses. We were in a precarious situation. So, how did you get out of your situation? I talked about it with my buddy, Irwin Eve of Occhiali, who I play golf with. He told me that one of his customers [a foreign national who recently moved to Montecito] might be interested in buying into 6 13 March 2014
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a business here locally. He gave my phone number to this person; we got together and eventually made a deal. He became a partner in the company, helped to stabilize us financially, and incidentally saved thirty-five to forty jobs locally. He also gave us the ability to launch our Santa Barbara Bar. Balance Bar is one of the great success stories locally. Was that what inspired you to create Santa Barbara Bar? It wasnt intended to be a bar originally. We tried to make new desserts for some of our customers Cottage Hospital, UCSB, they are always looking for something new and different so I just played around with some seeds, some nuts and fruits, put them together and it tasted really good. After some time, I thought maybe it could be one of those nutrition bars. Okay, you began putting this stuff together. How exactly is it done? We were trying to make a [bakers] half sheet so they could be cut into squares. We tried to make something healthy and low-glycemic that was good for patients and the employees. With that in mind, I developed this product. At first I thought it was ridiculous to think I could launch another bar, so I got together with Jim Wolfe, who was the CEO of Balance Bar, which
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estmont is responding to the California drought by continuing to conserve water and by making additional cutbacks in consumption. Were committed to maintaining a sustainable campus and conserving resources such as water and power while complying with all county ordinances and expectations, said president Gayle D. Beebe. The Montecito Water District (MWD) has declared a water-shortage emergency, directing all customers to decrease water usage immediately by 30%. Westmont is taking steps to exceed the 30% reduction. Last year, the college voluntarily consumed 20% or 6,800 hundred cubic feet (HCF) less than its allotment. Conservation efforts will help Westmont nearly double this amount and decrease consumption by 12,000 HCF below the reduced allotment for 2014. To achieve this goal, Westmont is irrigating only with non-potable water (not from MWD) and is significantly reducing the amount of watering on campus. The Westmont Campus Life and Student Life offices are educating students about the importance of water conservation, as well as installing new shower timers in each stall, holding competitions on conserving water among the residence halls, showing videos with tips for saving water, and encouraging stories about conservation in the student newspaper.
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Were prepared to continue conserving and to make even more cutbacks should the drought persist, Beebe said. Well do our part to be a great neighbor. Westmont began cutting back its water consumption years ago by installing low-flow showerheads and toilets, using drip irrigation, and planting drought-tolerant vegetation. From 2003 to 2013, the colleges annual water usage dropped nearly 17,000 HCF or 31%. Westmont is responding to the California drought by continuing to conserve water and by making additional cutbacks in consumption.
Yunus Inspires at Presidents Breakfast
At the Westmont Presidents Breakfast on February 28, Muhammad Yunus told inspiring stories about using microcredit to end poverty, captivating a packed room at Fess Parkers DoubleTree by Hilton Resort. Known as the banker to the poor and the father of microfinance, Yunus believes that credit is a basic human right. Banks wont go anywhere near the so-called unbankable people, he said. The banks say that poor people arent credit worthy. We have to make banking an inclusive institution. It should be traditionally accepted as a human right, because it changes a persons life.
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Its very simple: You need a dollar to catch a dollar. If you dont get the first dollar, you wont catch the next one. And that never happens for millions of people. The breakfast included several upbeat songs from the Westmont College Choir and an invocation from Westmont alumnus Father John Love of Saint Marks University Parish. George Leis, representing lead sponsor Union Bank, John Ambrecht, chair of the Westmont Foundation, and president Gayle D. Beebe also addressed the crowd. Beebe asked, What allows millions of people over thousands of years to see abject poverty and simply accept it as a given? What causes a solitary individual, who has mastered complex economic theories, to feel utterly helpless and unable to meet immediate human needs, and yet decide one day to do something to help? He noted that Yunus time as a Fulbright Scholar in the U.S. shaped his life and spoke about the importance of providing global education for students at Westmont. Yunus, who earned a Nobel Peace Prize, the U.S. Presidential Medal and the U.S. Congressional Medal, created Grameen Bank in 1976. Focusing on lending to women, who represent 97% of the borrowers, the bank has achieved a high payback rate, more than 98%. Although other banks have called Yunus success a fluke, he has replicated the achievements around the world, including in the U.S., in New York and Los Angeles. There was always an explanation
why it couldnt be done, he said. Because our minds are made up, if you see an exception, you reject it. You think that what you see and what you know is the perfect knowledge that you have. He stressed the significance of educational institutions in this process. Its important what we teach our students, so we can keep their minds open, he said. Its not a place where we seal the mind up. Yunus jokingly said he looks to conventional banks for advice, and then does the opposite. They give to the rich, and we give to the poor. They give almost only to men, so we have focused on women. They want to work in the city center; we make sure we go to the remote places. The word grameen means village. He said that providing affordable loans and creating new business brings him excitement. Money is a very powerful incentive, but I disagree that money should be the only incentive, he said. Making money generates happiness; the more money you make the happier you get, and the more successful you feel. So, to make other people money is a super happiness. Yunus has also excelled in other business areas, creating cataract surgery clinics, nutrient-filled yogurt for Bangladeshi children and opening Haitian restaurants that serve locally produced foods. Anytime I see a problem I create a business to solve it, he said. Since there are lots of problems, I create lots of business. And behind each business Ive created, there is never the intention of making money for myself. Instead, Yunus creates self-sustaining business models where the money generated is put back in. The Westmont Foundation and local businesses have sponsored the Presidents Breakfast for nine years, promoting discussion of significant issues in the community. This years lead sponsor is Union Bank. Gold sponsors include Axia, Chronicle Family Offices, Davies, Hub International, La Arcada, Lindsay and Laurie Parton, Matt Construction, Northern Trust,and V3 Corporation, with special thanks to Rabobank. Noozhawk is the media sponsor. MJ 6 13 March 2014
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Obispo and Los Angeles. In the meantime, we found some smaller distributors who offered to take the bars on their routes, so we were placed in three, four hundred stores at this point, all still in California. We also sell the bars on our website and we have developed quite a following all over the country. We were then able to sign up with UNFI, the largest national food distributor in the country. They deliver most of the food, for example, to Whole Foods. They took you on because of the successful local launch? No. We presented the product to the head buyer, who is back in Providence, Rhode Island, and he loved the taste. It was very compelling to him. He thought they could take us nationwide. We met with them in October 2013, but we didnt want to go nationwide immediately because we felt we didnt have an infrastructure built up, so we asked them to go first in the thirteen Western states. Just this week, we delivered to their distribution centers in the Western United States. You are telling me that UNFI, the largest national food distributor in the United States, was able to made a decision that quickly? Yes. They either like it or they dont, and they liked it. Did you have to offer incentives in order to get your product into various places? Yes. You have to offer free fills sometimes at first, discounts at first to get it into any chain, along with periodic discounts. What kind of shelf life do these bars have? They are good for about twelve months. What is the biggest challenge you face
going forward? The biggest challenge is to gain name recognition, so that people will break their habit and go into a different bar from the one they ordinarily pick up. And you do that how? We support sales with demos. We physically go to places and give out our bars. When they taste them, they begin to buy them. But, just telling them this is a great-tasting bar everybody says that. Having people try it just once is our biggest challenge. It does take time. I heard about Santa Barbara Bar for at least six months before I tried one. I would usually go for a Tenth Tee or Balance Bar. Thats exactly right. People dont realize that in any advertising, you need to read an ad five or six times before you recognize and begin to consider the product. It takes a couple months of someone seeing the ad before they try it out. And, if you stop the ad, the consumer doesnt see it anymore, and you go out of business before the customer had the chance to try your product. So, we do a lot of demos. It is very expensive, but it is the most effective way of getting people to try our bars. We get lots of feedback from parents, telling us how their two- or three-year-old kid will now grab one of our bars rather than a candy bar or pizza. I think that is phenomenal feedback. The other feedback we get is that it truly holds you over for a while. As a golfer who nearly always walks the course, I can attest to the stamina your bar offers. Why is that? Our bar is typically heavier (45 grams), and we dont use any refined sugar or sugar alcohol. Thank you, Mr. Gaum!
MJ
Santa Barbara Bars feature a deceptively simple design and come in three different concoctions: Coconut Almond, Peanut Chocolate Cherry (our particular favorite, pictured here) and Cranberry White Chocolate
started in Carpinteria but was sold to Kraft Foods. I showed him my initial product and he loved them. He thought we may be on to something. So, I started reformulating it, trying to make it commercially viable. I found a cold packer we cannot make the bars in our facility here; you need big machinery, you need huge space, because it is not worth it to make a thousand bars at a time. You have to make hundreds of thousands of bars at a time to be financially feasible. Without our investor (who prefers to remain anonymous for the purposes of this article), we could not have launched Santa Barbara Bar.
Who came up with the name, the packaging, the logo, the look? First, it took us about five months to find a name; we went through hundreds of them: Imagine Bar, Perfect Impression Bar, Santa Barbara Seed Bar, but we settled on Santa Barbara Bar because we thought the image of Santa Barbara would help sell the bar. We did a kind of nationwide survey and people all over the country reacted similarly: [the name Santa Barbara brought forth responses of] healthy, natural lifestyle, active, good food, fun place, lots of sunshine, so we said, Okay, this name vibrates with people and allows them to fantasize about all these different things while having one of those bars. That may be helpful, we believed. Then we began to think about the design of the packaging. At first, we thought we had to have palm trees, dolphins, or maybe the Mission, but the more we got into it the more comical it seemed. It almost looked like a municipal flag, it was a little hokey, so we hired a designer, Hanna Boone, who also works for Nike in Portland, Oregon. She came up with this very simple, European look. When the bar is displayed in a store alongside hundreds of other bars, it has to distinguish itself. At first we thought it had to be complicated and fancy with lots of colors, but mainly 6 13 March 2014
because of my own European background, I decided to have it clean, more modern and to go away from what everybody else does. So, we collaborated on it, but the execution of what the packaging looks like was done by Hanna. She deserves full credit for that. We wanted to be a bar for all ages and all groups; we didnt want to specialize just in athletes, or surfers, or bike riders; we wanted to be not only in natural food stores but also in convenience stores. We want to be in hotels, in coffee houses, markets, gas stations, sports outlets, on golf courses. With all that in mind, we wanted to create a design that allows us to go into all those places. The feedback so far has been phenomenal. Weve called your bar ubiquitous, as it seems to be practically everywhere here in Santa Barbara, including at all the golf courses. Did you begin to sell Santa Barbara Bar locally at first and then move out to a broader region? We launched in May of 2013 locally here in Santa Barbara. Many of my bakery customers were willing to take it on. And then? From there, we went to San Luis
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Brand-New Bust Brothers George, Bill, and Bob Burtness unveiled a bust they commissioned of Dr. William David Sansum, the founder of the Sansum Clinic, at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Their father, Hildahl Burtness, was a physician at the clinic for 53 years and worked with Sansum from 1930 to 1948. The bust will be placed on permanent display at Sansums multi-specialty site on West Pueblo Street. The cocktail reception evening also featured lectures on medical innovation by my Journal colleague, historian Erin Graffy, and Sansum internal
medicine specialist Dr. Erno Daniel, one of the first in Santa Barbara certified in geriatric medicine, both of whom contributed to the museums journal, Noticias. He has been with the clinic for 36 years. Among the guests at the unveiling of the Sue DiCicco sculpture were Eleanor Van Cott, Jack and Julie Nadel, Eric and Nicole Neal, Rick and Susie Ponce, Kurt and Nancy Ransohoff, Gerry and Barbara Rubin, George and Julie Rusznak, John and Constance Thayer, Thomas and Carol Beamer, Silvana Kelly, Ronald and Beverlie Latimer, Lowell and Shirley McLellan, and Jim and Chris McNamara... Royal Roost Revealed Socialite and philanthropist Betty Stephens was in fine form when she celebrated her 82nd birthday in the McCune Founders Room at the Granada Theatre, which had been artfully transformed into Bettys Royal Roost nightclub, harking back to a Manhattan society hangout of the 1940s. Betty, a lover of great parties as well as a lifelong fan of famous crooners like Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, and Frank Sinatra, says: My vision is an elegant nightclub setting in which stylish and interesting adults
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dress up to go out, hear great music and dance, dance, dance the night away. Vocalist Nancy Osborne, who has featured with such bands as Nelson Riddle, Ray Anthony and Tex Beneke, and toured nationwide in productions of Cabaret, Gypsy, and My Fair Lady, performed the cabaret with accomplished musicians from City College, including Lito Hernandez, Andrew Martinez, James Watson, Michael Evans, Jason Bray, Scott Lillard, Steve
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Kristy Newton, Lindsey Fisher, Betty Stephens, Helene Schneider, and Craig Springer enjoy the Royal Roost nightclub (photo by Priscilla)
Hannah Beth Jackson, Betty Stephens, Tim and Diane Brown celebrate Bettys birthday (photo by Priscilla)
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Mark Butterfield, Patricia Freund, Phoenix Hall, Sean Ingoldsby, Regina Mayid, and KEYT anchor, Victoria Sanchez, were among the Tinseltown tinted guests... Rest in Peace On a personal note, I mark the passing of Carlos Gracida, who died at the age of 53 in a tragic polo accident at the Everglades Club in Wellington, Florida. Carlos, who taught princes William and Harry how to play, as well as Kaminsky and Joi Stephens. Bettys grandchildren, John, Ryan, and Alexandria, helped man the bars... Vanity Fair in the Funk Zone If your invitation to Graydon Carters annual Vanity Fair Hollywood Oscars bash got lost in the mail, the place to be was the Santa Barbara Film Clubs pulsating soire at Reds in the Funk Zone, hosted by Brian Howie and Elizabeth Castillo. Nearly 60 guests celebrated the soldout 86th annual Academy Awards event, being photographed on the red carpet by honorary snapperazzi Miguel Chavez and quaffing creative Oscar-oriented cocktails while watching the glamorous, glitterati gala night, artfully hosted by Montecitos Ellen DeGeneres pizzas and all on a giant screen. Brigette Ginter, Donna Heath, Elizabeth Godfrey, Justin Tuttle,
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Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798 ike the Ancient Mariner, Montecito looks over miles and miles of beautiful blue water, and yet we are running out of our most precious resource, water. According to the Montecito Water District, there needs to be a 30% reduction in water usage immediately or the district will run out of water before the end of summer 2014 (www. montecitowater.com). Those of us who were around for the drought of 1986-91 can attest to the challenges and changes one must make during a long-term dry spell. The good news; something can be done about it. Although a 30% reduction may seem daunting, it can be done. If even some of these recommendations are followed, it will help to safeguard your landscape while reducing water consumption.
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What I am about to tell you may seem radical, but if you want to preserve your landscape, you need to start now. Over the next few weeks Im going to talk about many different ways to conserve water in the landscape, in the meantime, here are a few things to get you started:
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Plants Can Be Trained to Use Less Water
Lots of Mulch
The easiest and simplest thing to do for your garden right now is to mulch. I dont mean a few inches of mulch; I mean lots and lots of mulch. Where you have orchards, pile it a foot or two high (Im not kidding); in garden beds, pile it on as high as you can (4-6 inches) without compromising the plants. Dont cover the crown of the trees and plants or youll smother them. Even bare areas
Ever seen a slice of a redwood tree and remember how the rings are of different widths? In nature, plants grow when there is water and go dormant when there is drought. They have a self-preserving mechanism for survival just like all of us. Right now, while the weather is cool, cut your irrigation in half. If you water twice a week, cut it down to once a week. This will only work if you have accomplished the first step (lots of mulch on the ground). Do not cut back the time you are watering. Better to water longer and less frequently, thus encouraging the plants roots to dig deep.
to fertilize your plants, then cut off their water supply. Plants should not be fertilized when they are dormant (not growing). Since we are cutting their water, the plants need to pour all their energy into staying alive.
Do Not Prune
Like fertilizing, pruning encourages new growth. This is not what we need or want right now. Drought increases stress on plants and trees, and pruning will just give them more stress.
Lawns
Drip Irrigation
Convert all planting areas to drip irrigation. Drip irrigation is efficient because it gets the water to where it needs to go. If you have sprinklers, convert to drip.
Do Not Fertilize
We fertilize to encourage new growth. What a betrayal it would be
This is a tough one. In the last drought, the watering of lawns was forbidden. On this subject, there is good news and bad news. First, the bad news: you may lose your lawns. The good news (well sort of good news): they are easy to get back and if you like the green look of a lawn, there is a non-toxic lawn paint that gives the appearance of green without care. (I wasnt kidding when I said this was radical). The sod you get from sod farms is dyed, so why not dye your lawn and save all that water? If you do decide to retain some lawn there are ways to do it, but that will be a subject for another column. Until next time, fill your garden with joy (not water). MJ
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TRAIL TALK
by Lynn P. Kirst
The Restful Trails of Descanso Gardens

Tulips and cherry blossoms are at their springtime peak at Descanso Gardens
The Japanese Garden includes classical elements of Asian design and traditional plantings, such as maple, bamboo, and flowering plum trees
y first memory of visiting a botanical institution was when my mother took me to Descanso Gardens in La Caada, a suburb of Los Angeles located about six miles west of Pasadena. I couldnt have been more than four years old, and my strongest memories have nothing to do with the trails or plants found there. What I remember most vividly were the ducks that swam in the Center Circle pond near the entrance. In those days, a coin-operated dispenser stood nearby a no-nonsense, gunmetal gray box on a pole with a handle that made a satisfying ratcheting sound as you turned it after dropping a nickel into the slot. Out would pour a handful of dried corn kernels, the perfect size for tiny fingers to grasp and toss into the pond, where the green-headed mallards waited to lunge after their prize. Growing older, I came to understand that Descanso Gardens is especially famous for its camellias, the largest collection of these beautiful flowers in all of North America.
A museum and travel professional, community volunteer, and lifelong equestrienne, Lynn Kirst is a fourth-generation Californian who grew up in Montecito; she can often be found riding or hiking the local trails
Visiting Descanso on an elementary school field trip, as well as on a Girl Scouts outing, left me with hazy memories of towering camellia trees blooming under a canopy of oak forest. Knowing that early spring is the best time to see the legendary camellias, I recently made a return visit to Descanso Gardens. Although the majority of the camellia flowers had not yet shown their colorful petals, it was obvious by the tens of thousands of buds about to burst open that this year will be as spectacular as any other. And given that it had been decades since my last visit, there were other interesting discoveries as well, which prompts me
Visitors are dwarfed by the nearly 13-foot tall vertical garden attached to the exterior wall of Descansos Sturt Haaga Gallery. A special commission by Los Angeles-based artist Linda Hudson, the vertical garden is planted with California native plants.
Three young ladies resting on a bench amid Descansos oak forest
to recommend a visit to this urban oasis with its mix of dirt trails and accessibility-paved paths especially at this time of year when the camellias are in bloom, along with roses and tulips. Encompassing 150 acres in the San Rafael Hills, Descanso Gardens was originally part of the 42,000-acre Rancho San Rafael land grant, made in 1784 to the Verdugo family. But its T V V
transformation into a public garden began when this much smaller parcel was purchased by E. Manchester Boddy (1891-1967), an enterprising man who arrived in Los Angeles in 1920 with his young family, sent west to recuperate from the effects of mustard gas suffered during World War I. Boddy named his property Rancho del Descanso, which can be translated as Ranch of Rest (or Repose). In 1942, Boddy purchased between 60,000 and 100,000 camellia plants (the number varies) from two Japanese-owned nurseries. By swooping up entire inventories at once but paying for them on installment, he was able to instantly establish significant plantings, while giving both Japanese families some much-needed income during their World War II internment. Entering Descanso Gardens today, one first encounters a cluster of buildings gift shop, caf, special event rooms, etc. that seem homey due to their Craftsman-style architecture. In fact, these structures were built in 1982, designed by noted Santa Barbara architect Barry Berkus (1935-2012). From here, a network of trails provides access to the different areas of the garden, which also include a lilac garden and Japanese 6 13 March 2014
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Dozens of camellia species are on display at Descanso Gardens when the Pacific Camellia Society shows blossoms submitted by its members
garden complete with teahouse and koi swimming under arched bridges. In addition to its towering camellia trees (which still number in the tens of thousands), Descanso Gardens is known as the home of several types of ceanothus (such as Sierra Blue and Mountain Haze) and roses (Chrysler Imperial, Charlotte Armstrong, Queen Elizabeth to name but a few) that are now commonly found in nurseries across the nation. They are the results of noted horticulturist Walter Lammerts (1904-1996), who joined the Descanso Gardens staff in 1945, and hybridized these and many other varieties. Judging by the people enjoying the trails at Descanso Gardens, which ranged from young couples pushing baby carriages at a leisurely pace to seniors out for serious workouts with their hiking boots and poles, it is a treasured oasis of nature just minutes from a major metropolis. The only thing missing was the corn kernel dispenser, and I only saw one lonesome mallard in the pond.
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Saturday, March 8 Sunday, March 9 Pacific Camellia Society Show Descanso Gardens 1418 Descanso Drive La Caada Flintridge, CA (818) 949-4200 Camellia growers from throughout Southern California submit hundreds of blossoms for display and judging during this two-day show, complementing the camellia forest in full bloom throughout the gardens. Directions and further information can be found at www.descansogardens.org. Sunday, March 9 10 am Los Padres Trail Riders Tack & Tog Sale Earl Warren Showgrounds Santa Barbara This annual event is as much a social occasion as a chance to buy, sell, and trade a wide variety of equestrian tack and supplies. Silent auction and bake sale. Potential sellers and buyers can get more information at www. lptr.org. MJ
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Our Town

by Joanne A. Calitri
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Artists Obsessed
SB Arts Fund Obsession exhibit artists (in no particular order) Dorothy Churchill-Johnson, Rafael Gaete, Stafford Taylor, David Cooley, Susan Venable, David J. Diamant, and Christopher Rupp
he Santa Barbara Arts Fund (SBAF) Gallery exhibit Obsession will open on March 8, in conjunction with the Funk Zones first 2nd Saturdays Art Walk, where 15 venues in the zone will showcase work with a festive flair. The seven participants are a frappe of established artists with new-to-the-scene ones: Dorothy Churchill-Johnson, Rafael Gaete, Stafford Taylor, David Cooley, Susan Venable, David J. Diamant, and Christopher Rupp. Guest curator Nancy Gifford chose the concept of obsession and the artists working in various mediums to depict what she calls an endearing lunacy that links their particular love of minutia. After attending the exhibits preview, I am happy to report what makes the show strong is experiencing the delightfully detailed work in a broad range of mediums, all of which creates a transcendental experience an appreciation for each artist to go to such depths and give us a doorway into his or her fixations. From geometric abstractions in ink on paper (Taylor) to the repurposing of pill capsules in an op-art fashion (Rupp), the show easily is anti-minimalist. Rupp is Instructor of Art and the Collections Manager of Westmont Museum of Art, Westmont College, Montecito. He created a 36 x 76 installation depicting a Labrador Retriever and Boston Terrier, made of 4,500 green and yellow gelatin pill capsules glued to the gallery wall and titled Mans Best Friend, II specifically for this exhibit. Rupp said his inspiration came as a result of reading an article about prescription drug use in the United States stating that 80%
Renowned art critic Peter Frank (NYC), visiting Santa Barbara, stops by the Arts Fund Obsession exhibit and met SBAF executive director Kai Tepper and guest curator Nancy Gifford (left)
of the U.S. population takes at least one prescription medication each day and a large portion of those 80% take more than one each day. My work is based largely on humor, he said. I hope that people will see the work and smile or laugh initially, but then think about the conceptual framework a bit further. I think it has a more significant message beyond the initial humor aspect. Artist Venables medium is copper wires, from 15,000 to 100,000 per piece, that she twists and ties into place. There is a soft wave-like flow to each, with the surfaces in complementary colors that are dreamy. Said Venable: From the very beginning of my masters work at UCLA, it was clear to me that I was interested in using atypical materials in a nontraditional way to create original works of art. For me, a million pencil lines build to a whole that is much more than a few pencil lines.I am using the copper wires to create three-dimensional drawn lines. Indeed. Taylors rendered pen drawings are a rare find. One piece titled Meticulous Recollections, 10 x 12, took him fifty to eighty hours over two decades, using pens from different years. For him, the drawing medium of black and white presents a map of the micro/macro aspects of life. I am detail oriented but pragmatic and always look for the opportunity to create something from nothing, said Taylor. To the right of Taylors pen are Churchill-Johnsons large-scale oils on canvas, Red Dot, which is 48x 60; Country Meets Mid-Century Modern, 72 x 96; Polyester Print, 60 x 48; and Buttons 3, 24 x 24.
Westmont College professor Chris Rupp installing his work, Mans Best Friend, II
She quipped that, members of my family used to refer to me as the autistic savant of pen and ink. To pursue realism in art requires a certain amount of attention to detail. Now that Ive switched to oil painting, my work is built up with many layers of thin glazes over a red under-painting and requires hours of labor. Turn opposite in the gallery and get lost in the surrealist fantasies of artist Diamant. He likens his creativity to his Zen muse: During the creation of these pieces, numbers dont ever come into my head. I dont count. It is a compositionally balanced visual aesthetic I am going for, and the piece lets me know when it is done. The six pieces on display are titled 81Moodheads, divefly, flyclimb, dontclimb, flydivefly, and flyanddive. They are all hand-drawn with pen, ink, and paper and then scanned into the computer where color is added and printed on metal. Cooley laughingly admitted to his obsessive works, explaining With the work that Im doing now, I feel the paintings have to be clean, as in the lines need to be straight, the pattern needs to be spot-on and perspectives need to be right; otherwise, the effect might be lost, and the viewers eye will most likely go directly to the
error. In my piece What Lies Ahead, (acrylic and resin on panel), there are 3,968 spikes of paint. And for Deep Seeded, each raindrop has 17 squares, 15 different shades of teal, 1 white square and 1 panes grey. Theres about 360 squares altogether in the rain. A newcomer to exhibiting, Gaete presents oils on canvas that are an equal on the walls. His work is a dizzying combination of colors and strokes to create abstract shapes, and Gaete is among kindred spirits on the road less driven. I have an obsession for painting on big canvas, an obsession for working with the best materials to get a very good quality piece of art, but obsessed especially in trying to give the painting the sensation of space or three-dimensional, he said. But the most important part of my creative process: I obsessively stay in front of the painting, looking at it for a long period of time before painting something. The unique varying energies of the repetitive patterns on the walls of the SBAF are well worth the visit into the obsessed. 411: SB Arts Fund Obession Exhibit: artist reception Saturday, March 8, from 1 to 5 pm; exhibit through April 5. MJ 6 13 March 2014
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Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. They live in Montecito with their daughter Sareena, a student at SBHS. His family goes back nearly one hundred years in the Santa Barbara area. Marks grandparents Bill and Elsie Hunt were Santa Barbara real estate brokers for 25 years.
he past few weeks saw increased inventory in the Montecito housing market (finally). We jumped from approximately 100 homes for sale at the end of December to about 112 homes for sale in late January, up to about 125 homes for sale as of February 21. Last week gave way to a number of new listings in a variety of price ranges, so our brokers and agents tour offered many properties to tempt waiting buyers. While it is still often difficult to find recent comps for properties (comparable recent sales prices to help determine value of current listings), mainly due to low volume of recent sales, one can stick to the age-old real estate adage: if you can afford it and if you love it, then its worth it. That said, I still take the time to evaluate properties against one another to help determine values, and here are a few worth mentioning:
with adjacent office or studio. There is a two-car garage and off-street parking for a number of guests. The home is on a small, shared lane off of Toro Canyon Road just a short distance up from East Valley Road so its convenient to town and freeway access, yet rural and private without being remote. Carp/ Summerland schools.
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1151 Glenview Road $2,400,000
This Mediterranean-style home features four bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms in just over 3,800 square feet, as advertised. The home includes a long, shared lane to a private drive and motor court. Ive not been in this home, but as advertised, inside there is a formal dining room, a large kitchen opening to a family room with fireplace, a spacious living room with fireplace, an upstairs master suite with ocean and island views, a separate guest house with fire- Sparkling pool and spa add to appeal of this home at place, large bathroom, and walk- 1151 Glenview Road in closet. There are vaulted ceilings, French doors and picturesque views throughout. The property is situated on approximately one acre with a pool, tropical landscaping, fruit trees and a grassy yard. The location offers both privacy and convenience to Montecito shops, restaurants, beaches, and is in the Cold Spring School District.
This home is in a prime location on East Mountain Drive between Picacho Lane and San Ysidro Road, just two blocks from the San Ysidro Ranch. Turn into your long, private, gated drive and arrive at your new home, with off-street parking for many guests. This remodeled home offers a stunning master suite with lavish bath that encompasses the entire upstairs, offering ocean views. There are three bedroom suites on the main floor, as well as This comfortably elegant living room is just one of the a formal living room, dining attractions of the home at 1445 East Mountain Drive room, kitchen, and paneled den with bar. There are a total of six bathrooms as advertised. Outside, the ocean and mountain views impress, as does the swimming pool and entertainment patio with stone fireplace, and sitting areas. Homes in this area range from fixers for $3 million+ up to $15 million and more. A home up the hill a few houses away closed escrow this past week for $12,750,000. For more information on these properties contact your realtor, or if you are not working with someone, please feel free to call, text or e-mail me directly: Mark (805) 698-2174 or Mark@villagesite.com. For more best buy listings, see my website www. MontecitoBestBuys.com. MJ
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Perched on a knoll with ocean and mountain views, this well-designed home, set on more than an acre, has generous proportions, an open floor plan, extensive patios, and park-like gardens. The sophisticated home offers four bedrooms and four bathrooms, plus an office, and three fireplaces. There are formal living and dining rooms, and an You may not be able to see Russia from this hilltop home impressive great room. in Summerland, but you can see the Channel Islands and What caught my attention a good stretch of California most is the two-room master suite with two view decks. This home is ideal for indoor and outdoor entertaining, with newly added built-in barbecue and fire pit. For association details, log into www.SummerlandHeights.org. While this home is in the 93108 ZIP code, the schools are Summerland and Carpinteria. Enjoy sweeping ocean-island views from this stylish three-bedroom three-bath contemporary home on two-plus private acres with a pool and spa. Designed by noted architect John Kelsey, this home has approximately 3,500 square feet of living space. Beyond the The John Kelsey-designed 3,500-square-foot home on views, other selling points are a Toro Canyon Road also boasts views that seem to go on modern kitchen, formal dining forever 6 13 March 2014
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Jacks Bistro $ 5050 Carpinteria Avenue (566-1558) Serving light California Cuisine, Jacks 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) $$
Luckys (brunch) $$ (dinner) $$$ 1279 Coast Village Road (565-7540) Comfortable, old-fashioned urban steakhouse in the heart of Americas biggest little village. Steaks, chops, seafood, cocktails, and an enormous wine list are featured, with white tablecloths, fine crystal and vintage photos from the 20th century. The bar (separate from dining room) features large flat-screen TV and opens at 4 pm during the week. Open nightly from 5 pm to 10 pm; Saturday & Sunday brunch from 9 am to 3 pm. Valet Parking. Montecito Caf 1295 Coast Village Road (969-3392) Montecito Coffee Shop 1498 East Valley Road (969-6250) $$
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) Delis, bakeries, juice bars Blenders in the Grass 1046 Coast Village Road (969-0611) Heres 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. Jeannines 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 Montecitos 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) $$
Padaro Beach Grill $ 3765 Santa Claus Lane (566-9800) A beach house feel gives this seaside eatery its charm and makes it a perfect place to bring the whole family. Its new owners added a pond, waterfall, an elevated patio with fireplace and couches to boot. Enjoy grill options, along with salads and seafood plates. The Grill is open Monday through Sunday 11 am to 9 pm Slys $$$ 686 Linden Avenue (684-6666) Slys features fresh fish, farmers market veggies, traditional pastas, prime steaks, Blue Plate Specials and vintage desserts. Youll 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. Stackys Seaside 2315 Lillie Avenue (969-9908) Summerland Beach Caf 2294 Lillie Avenue (969-1019) Tinkers 2275 C Ortega Hill Road (969-1970) 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 Bars 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. Chucks Waterfront Grill 113 Harbor Way (564-1200) $$ $
Montecito Wine Bistro $$ 516 San Ysidro Road 969-7520 Savor Santa Barbaras bounty: local organic produce, free-range poultry and meats, local seafood and wines. Chef Victors 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 Vino 1482 East Valley Road (969-9274) $$$
Plow & Angel $$$ 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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by Steven Libowitz
ensemble. But its not facile writing. You can hear his passion. But it makes no sense to compare. Verdi himself obviously wasnt trying to top himself, he didnt want to write another Travatore. So why wonder about the difference? It just is. Its like having a house thats Baroque and ornate, and selling it to buy a mid-century modern house. Thats the fun, its in the change. No explanation necessary. Thats the power of this piece, and a wonderful lesson. He ended his career with something so wonderful and fresh one of the youngest-feeling operas ever written, and its by an old man. How did you arrive at the casting decisions, starting with baritone Todd Thomas, who last appeared with OSB as Baron Scarpia in Tosca in 2006? Hes a wonderful singer who excels at both dramatic and comedic roles, and I wanted someone a few people would remember. The rest are singers I work with throughout the year at houses around the country. Many are doing the role for the first time. I chose people who are great singers and actors, but also work well together because it really is an ensemble piece. I need a great team even more than great individual singers. What, do you think, should the audience take away from Falstaff? There are several themes: jealousy, anger management, emotion so strong that you stop seeing things clearly. True love trumps all. But the biggest is forgiveness. Theres an amazing feel at the end; everyone celebrates without any grievances and grudges. Its a wonderful lesson that despite what happens and theyre all sorry for a different reason they all come together at the end. I wish the world would work like that. (Opera Santa Barbaras Falstaff performs at 7:30 pm Friday, March 7 and 2:30 pm Sunday, March 9 at the Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street. Tickets cost $28 to $188. Call 899-2222 or visit www. granadasb.org.)
Im not sure why it happened this way except maybe for the timing, having it postponed for two years. Originally, the concept had been to explore Aznivoorians Armenian roots, Auerbach explained. I collected everything Armenian I could find history, art and music library, folk music, even instruments. Normally, I do a lot of research and then forget all about and compose. But when (the premiere) was postponed, I stopped (writing), too. In the interim, she researched more deeply into Armenian history, delving into music she heard as sad and lamenting. But she also received a commission for a requiem mass to commemorate the destruction of Dresden, a massive piece 90 minutes long, dealing with death and sorrow.
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Todd Thomas (Falstaff) and Melody Moore (Alice Ford) in a scene from Falstaff at the Granada
pera Santa Barbara Artistic Director Jose Maria Condemi is a peaceful man by nature. At rehearsals, his direction is assured and firm, but also calm and measured. But challenge him on Falstaffs worth even from a devils advocate viewpoint and the fire comes out. Verdis witty romp the final opera from the composer, and only his second comedy, written entirely for his own joy during his 80th year is a musical take on Sir John Falstaff, Shakespeares portly knight from the Merry Wives of Windsor, as he tries to seduce two married women hoping to raise both his financial situation and improve his love life. OSB mounts its very first Falstaff this coming weekend with Condemis production that premiered in San Jose last year, one that uses a set design based on a wine barrel, in deference to the title characters penchant for food and drink. The stage directors passion for the opera came out early in an interview conducted late last week. I think its a great piece, one of the best in the repertoire, he said. It should be known better. People who love opera dont even know it very well, so its not as popular. But it should be. Q. Falstaff isnt one of Verdis most famous works, but you love it. Why? A. Its a comedy. And it really works. Theres lots of physical comedy, like trying to get an overweight older man into a laundry basket and throw it down to the river. Thats a lot of fun. Its written for an ensemble, which is always a perk. There are individual numbers, but its the ensemble pieces that make it powerful. The music is wonderful. Its very different from anything else that Verdi wrote. Its fast-paced, lighthearted, with a great heart but not heavy-handed. Hes had great success writing more dramatic 6 13 March 2014
Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for over ten years.
material, but this he wrote as a retirement project, many years after Othello. I cant try to get what he was after, but evidently he had all the success he wanted, all the money he needed. He didnt have to prove himself. He just wanted to write a comedy. Its a wonderful lesson in what a brilliant mind can do, even in his 80s. The history is pretty interesting in that Verdi resisted writing Falstaff for a long time because of his age. But he was also freed by not having a commission, so he didnt have to worry about pleasing the singers or the venue. He wasnt bound by anything he had done before. He didnt have to follow his own established guidelines. It sounds and feels very different than anything else he wrote. He wasnt trying to reinvent himself; he just did, because hed done everything he wanted to do. Its like taking up a different hobby when you retire. He was very invested in Falstaff he created a masterpiece, but at same time he was not attached. He was motivated by joy. Critics at the time werent sure what to make of it, questioning the absence of big traditional arias and choruses. And it still isnt as popular as his famous pieces, right? Those critics are stupid. It actually has a lot of melodies... The trick of Falstaff is that its sophisticated, its for the discerning listener. Theres lots of
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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5310 DUE DATE & TIME: March 19, 2014 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. VEGETATIVE FUELS MANAGEMENT 2014 A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on March 11, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. in the Parks Conference Room located at 402 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, CA. Please allow 1 hour to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Maps will be provided only at pre-bid meeting. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-61 Limited Specialty License /D-49 Tree Service or a C-27 Landscaping Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess the above-mentioned licenses and be otherwise deemed to be qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. The City of Santa Barbara requires that all pruning and tree work shall conform to ISA and ANSI pruning standards and performed by or under the immediate supervision of an ISA certified arborist. This arborist shall be on site at all times. A list of Certified Arborists/Certified Tree worker by name and ISA Certification number shall be supplied at the time of bid submittal. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager
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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO PROPOSERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that professional service proposals are being requested by the City of Santa Barbara, Public Work Department, Engineering Division for the following project: Request for Proposal No. 3726 Request For Proposal To Provide Environmental Coordination and Biological Monitor Services During the Construction Phase for the Mason Street Bridge Replacement Project, Project No. 7880 (Bid No. 3588) Proposals must be received by the Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93102 on the date and time indicated: DUE DATE AND TIME: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2014, UNTIL 3:00 P.M. The proposal must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms, and conditions contained in the Request for Proposal (RFP) package. The RFP package containing all forms, specifications, terms, and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for an RFP package. Proposers are hereby notified that any professional service agreement issued as a result of this request for proposal may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code Chapter 9.128, and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: La Casa de Maria Retreat and Conference Center, 800 El Bosque Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Immaculate Heart Community, 5515 Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90028. This statement was led with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 13, 2014. This statement expires ve years from the date it was led in the Ofce of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on le in my ofce. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 2014-0000431. Published March 5, 12, 19, 26, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CINEMACAMERA; Harlequins Theatrical Supply, 17 W. Gutierrez Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Peter F. Mahar, 109 N. Nopal Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Sara H. Mahar, 109 N. Nopal Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was led with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 19, 2014. This statement expires ve years from the date it was led in the Ofce of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on le in my ofce. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original
FBN No. 2014-0000487. Published March 5, 12, 19, 26, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Center For Spiritual Renewal, 888 San Ysidro Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Immaculate Heart Community, 5515 Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90028. This statement was led with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 13, 2014. This statement expires ve years from the date it was led in the Ofce of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on le in my ofce. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. Original FBN No. 2014-0000429. Published March 5, 12, 19, 26, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Riviera View Cottage, 1072 Garcia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Virginia Rubsam, 1072 Garcia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was led with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 18, 2014. This statement expires ve years from the date it was led in the Ofce of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on le in my ofce. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. Original FBN No. 2014-0000463. Published February 26, March 5, 12, 19, 2014.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Stillpoint Sanctuary, 230 Sierra Vista Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Andrea Read, 230 Sierra Vista Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was led with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 24, 2014. This statement expires ve years from the date it was led in the Ofce of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on le in my ofce. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. Original FBN No. 2014-0000537. Published February 26, March 5, 12, 19, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Spitre Aviation, 300 Moffett Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93117. Spitre Flight School, INC., 300 Moffett Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93117. This statement was led with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 19, 2014. This
statement expires ve years from the date it was led in the Ofce of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on le in my ofce. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 2014-0000498. Published February 26, March 5, 12, 19, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWL: The following person(s) has(have) withdrawn as partner(s) from the partnership operating under: Olivares Clean Team, 1307 N. Dejoy Street, Santa Maria, CA 93458. Lucia O. Limon, 200 W. Richard Street, Santa Maria, CA 93458. This statement was led with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 4, 2014. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on le in my ofce. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Deborah Sanchez. Original FBN No. 2013-0003547. Original ling date: 11/25/2013. Published February 26, March 5, 12, 19, 2014.
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Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)
EVENTS
by Steven Libowitz
UCSB Music Its the end of the quarter as we know it, and that means concerts galore from the universitys various musical groups and student ensembles. To kick things off, Paul Bambach leads the University Wind Ensemble, which usually performs a variety of 20th-century classics along with other compositions specically designed for wind instruments, with clever arrangements (Thursday, March 6 $10 general, $5 students, free under 12)... UCSBs Chamber Choir and Womens Chorus pair up next, teaming the top vocal ensemble with a dynamic group comprised of music majors and nonmajors from a variety of backgrounds. Michel Marc Gervais conducts (Friday; St Anthonys Seminary Chapel, 2300 Garden Street)... Next, its the ever-popular Middle East Ensemble, which continues the celebration of its 25th year with dances featuring new choreographies for Armenian and Suez Canal-region dances, a Persian dance, and a group Arab cabaret dance, and a solo dance by Elvan, plus, of course, director Scott Marcus leading the musicians and vocalists in a carnival of music from the Arab world (Saturday)... The UCSB Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Players get their turn on Monday, conducted by Christopher Rountree... Wednesday brings Carnivle: A Celebration of Brazilian Jazz and Percussion featuring the UCSB Jazz and Percussion Ensemble performing with special guests Tka, the Goleta-based guitarist/singer/composer, and the Afro-Brazilian Ensemble. Matt
Wright directs ($10 general, $5 students; free under 12)... Scott Marcus also directs the India Ensemble, whose concerts feature a collaboration of musicians, vocalists, and dancers in a celebration of music from India, including arrangement performed on the sitar and tabla, along with vocal presentations of traditional Indian songs (Thursday, March 13)... The series comes to a close next Friday, March 14, with the Gospel Choir, with Victor Bell directing a concert of traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African-American religious traditions. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB campus (unless otherwise indicated) COST: $15 general, $7 students, free children under 12 (unless otherwise indicated) INFO: 893-3261 or www.music.ucsb.edu
SATURDAY, MARCH 8
Keep CALM with Words CALM 28th annual Celebrity Authors Luncheon has booked another impressive slate of writers for its signature fundraiser that pairs national book celebrities with local authors for a benet for the nonprot dedicated to reducing child abuse and family violence. Tim Conway the seven-time Emmy Award-winning actor/comedian best known for his roles with Montecito resident Carol Burnetts famed variety show and in the TV series McHales Navy who recently published his rst major book, a memoir titled Whats So Funny? headlines a panel that also features Lian Dolan, Meg Gardiner and Margrit Biever Mondavi. Andrew Firestone serve as emcee while Starshine Roshell and Tom Weitzel interview the authors on stage. A bakers dozen local writers will man tables for book signings, including Montecito-raised Teddy Steinkellner, whose Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga is a funny and touching memoir of his days in school. WHEN: 10 am WHERE: Fess Parkers DoubleTree Resort, COST: $150 INFO: 969-5590 or www. calm4kids.org/events/authors-luncheon
the estate of Anya Fisher, who was the subject for its rst show featuring work by a living artist. Oak Group founding member Michael Drury, a native Santa Barbaran whose commitment to plein air painting began when he met Ray Strong in 1970, exhibits works from his collection of scenes painted of high deserts of the Great Basin, the wild coast of California, western Santa Barbara County and the west coast of Ireland, at Pacic Western Bank. Brooks Institutes Gallery 27 offers Commence, Connect, Collaborate, which features photographic partnerships between Lindsey Ross & Nic Georges (Cache-Cache), Sarah Fretwells multidimensional NGO project Truth Told and 29 Palms, Ricardo Rodriguezs interactive projects, and a selection of work from Multimedia Beast, a visual collective of nine photographers. At Divine Inspiration, its Mike Riders solo show, Tales From Three Cities, in which he paints Santa Barbaras cityscapes, harbor and beachscapes, is paired with scenes from his travels abroad to see daughters in Nicaragua and Ethiopia and hes donating proceeds from sales to their respective charities there... In performing art, Marshalls Patio hosts ARF! (Animals + Reading = Fun!), an innovative literacy program that gives disadvantaged rst and second grade students an opportunity to improve their reading skills, while inspiring them to become life-long readers by reading aloud to specially trained therapy dogs. To coincide with Dr. Seusss birthday and Read Across America Day, ARF! and its therapy dogs will host a Dr. Seuss Story Time every half hour. The bands performing at Paseo Nuevo Center Court are part of an after-school music program, SBYMA, which gives children the opportunity to play music at local events, restaurants, and fundraisers. And the Museum of Contemporary Arts Forum Lounge features Kyle deCamps Urban Renewal, a meditation on perception, public policy, and the signicance of the buildings we live in from a childs rigorously unsentimental point of view. The multimedia show nds Bessie, played by deCamp, mapping her experience of growing up in Chicago during the chaotic 1960s, caught in the crosshairs of power and history. WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaradowntown.com/ about/1st-thursday
THURSDAY, MARCH 6
Making History Womens History Month gets a nod from 1st Thursday at a couple of locations this month. At City Hall Gallery, Mayor Helene Schneider kicks off Pursuit of Passion: Early Santa Barbara Women Artists, an exhibition that celebrates the adventurous and talented but often unrewarded early women artists of Santa Barbara. And CASA Magazines Gallery marks the occasion with Sisters, featuring poetry, music, dance, nibbles, and a book signing for Aging Wisely: Facing Emotional Challenges from 50 to 85+ Years by Viola Mecke... Elsewhere, Sullivan Goss celebrates its 30th anniversary with an exhibition of imaginative modernist paintings from
FRIDAY, MARCH 7
From YouTube to The Lobero YouTube sensation Miranda Sings the brainchild of comedian, actress, and singer Colleen Ballinger is taking the Internet show on the road. The talentless, egotistical, and quirky character who has captured a web audience 60 million views strong with comically bad performances, misguided discussions of current events, and rants about her critics will do comedy, music, magic tricks, dramatic readings of hate mail, plus show never-before-seen videos. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Lobero Theater, 33 E. Canon Perdido Street COST: $40 and $25 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com Texas Two-step Laundry & Bourbon and Lone Star is a comic double-bill by James McClure that pretty much always gets played that way and together offer a side-splitting snapshot of life in mid-70s Maynard, Texas. Theyre both tales of husbands, wives, war, love, and honor that hold up surprisingly well. Both plays address the issues of war damage and resistance to change with a lightly satiric touch and lots of salty language. Jordana Lawrence directs a cast that includes Chloe Clements, Erika Leachman, Karen Urrutia, Carter Hampton, Donal Ross, and
FRIDAY, MARCH 7
More Noise Just when you thought it was safe to open a can of sardines and relax, here comes another take on Noises Off, Michael Frayns physical farce about the backstage antics and anxieties of a touring theater company. The 1982 Broadway hit, never before presented in the Santa Barbara area, gets in a third production of a whopping four (Rubicon Theaters closed less than two weeks ago) in less than a year and the one thats closest to home when the Theatre Group at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) opens its version tonight. (One of the reasons for the glut is the rights were just released after being on hold for more than a dozen years; the show is slated to be revived on Broadway next year). Montecito actress Ann Dusenberry stars as Dotty/Mrs. Clackett, the forgetful middleaged actress/put-upon housekeeper always struggling to keep her plate of sardines straight, while a bunch of usual SBCC suspects (Jon Koons, Ed Lee, Sean Jackson) are also part of the Rick Mokler-directed ensemble for this riotous romp both on and behind the stage, as the woefully inept theatre troupe attempts three times, no less to perform a sex comedy titled Nothing On. WHEN: 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday 7:30 pm, 2 pm Sundays, tonight through March 22 WHERE: Garvin Theatre, 800 block of Cliff Drive COST: $12-$24 INFO: 965-5935 or www.theatregroupsbcc.com
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CLloyds Labor of Love Charles Lloyd playing jazz at the Lobero is nothing new. The Montecito-based master of the saxophone has been performing at the venue for many years, often using the concerts as an opportunity to try out new approaches to his art. Tonights show, however, reprises Sangam, the great trios from recent past as Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain and Eric Harland, the drummer from his New Quartet, re-team to explore the Eastern enthusiasms that have been part of Lloyds palette for even longer than he has lived in town. Sangam itself means many things: conuence, a meeting place, a gathering or coming-together, which goes a long way toward dening the collaboration between the artists. The groups self-titled album, recorded live at the Lobero, was The Wall Street Journals favorite jazz album of 2004. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theater, 33 E. Canon Perdido Street COST: $40 & $50 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com Justin Stark. WHEN: 7 pm Friday and Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays, today through March 16 WHERE: Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue COST: $15 general, $12 seniors and students INFO: 684-6380 or www. plazatheatercarpinteria.com balloons, face painting, and craft-making parties for the kids. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: UCSBs Campbell Hall COST: $15 general, $10 children INFO: 893-3535 or www. ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
Theoretical Physicist and Best-selling Author
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Knocking on Heavens Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
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SUN, MAR 9 / 3 PM UCSB CAMPBELL HALL $15 / $10 children (Best for ages 4 and up) Bursting with imagination and fun, Oz is a heartfelt tribute to the magic that only live theater can provide.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12
Hula, Anyone? Grammy-nominated Hawaiian music superstar and hula master Kealii Reichel has won 28 N Hk Hanohano awards (the islands own version of the Grammys) and sold more than a million albums in Hawaii alone but has never before performed in Santa Barbara. His local debut features not only his intoxicating music, hypnotic chant and mesmerizing hula and a sweet voice the Seattle Times called as sweet as the Hawaiian sun all representing the best of traditional and contemporary Hawaiian music and dance but also a full entourage of singers, hula dancers, and guitarists for the complete island experience. Come early for a free pre-concert hula lesson with Hlau Hula O Pualaninaaualiioha of Camarillo outside of Campbell Hall. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSBs Campbell Hall COST: $32-$45 INFO: 893-3535 or www. ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu MJ
SUNDAY, MARCH 9
Oz, in The Flesh While watching the iconic lm The Wizard of Oz can be an annual family tradition, the original musical might be a bit too scary for younger kids (some of us still have nightmares thinking about ying monkeys). American Family Theaters musical stage version of L. Frank Baums story should pose no issues. Watch your favorite characters come alive on stage as Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, are carried by a cyclone away from their home in Kansas and transported over the rainbow to the wonderful land of Oz. Joined by the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy follows the yellow brick road to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, encountering witches, the Haunted Forest, and magical shoes. The show is part of the UCSB Arts & Lectures Family Fun series, so arrive early for
Author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
MON, MAR 10 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL $15 / $10 UCSB students This inspiring human rights advocate and author of a highly praised new novel, Radiance of Tomorrow, will share his story and shed light on critical issues related to children and war.
Grammy-nominated Hawaiian Superstar
Kealii Reichel
WED, MAR 12 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL Reichel performs intoxicating music, hypnotic chant, and mesmerizing hula. Be transported to the islands by his soothing vocals and entourage of enthralling performers. Event Sponsors: Sue & Brian Kelly
SATURDAY, MARCH 8
Healing with NECTAR NECTAR, the professionallevel artists forum that highlights current and emerging social themes through both performance and education, is readying its 15th installment since the quarterly collaborations began in October 2009. Tonight, the artists, dancers, musicians, and others will explore and investigate the meaning, nuances, and implications of Healing, as each offers his or her own interpretation. Founder Cybil Gilbertson will perform a solo dance piece, while fellow Nectar regulars Melissa Lynn Block (dance and spoken word), Dylan and Friends (visual art and sculpture), Susan Shaberman (solo dance), and Nicole McKenzie Improv Group are also on the program. Newcomers include Brooklyn Melton, an SBCC faculty member who will present a new dance solo about the healing surrounding the unexpected death of her grandmother, and watch for a new collaboration between local and out-of-town dancer/ choreographers, including Stephen and Misa Kelly. As always, a portion of the proceeds are earmarked for a thematically linked nonprot; this time its Santa Barbara Street Medicine. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Yoga Soup, 28 Parker Way COST: $12 general, $5 children 12 and under (available at the door) INFO: 965-8811 or www.yogasoup.com 6 13 March 2014
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I Stole Your Dad
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Composer and pianist Lera Auerbach returns to town Friday at Hahn Hall with a new piece titled Dreammusik
For about a year I was completely immersed in this very dark, very tragic world, Auerbach recalled. When I came back to writing (Dreammusik) connected to Armenian history, I felt I couldnt go on it because of that immersion in tragedy, I couldnt write another requiem-like piece. It wasnt right for me at the time. Also, Ani had a baby and I dont think she was into an Armenian requiem, either. I kept sketching, but my heart wasnt in it. So Auerbach began to develop another idea, one on the opposite side of the spectrum, a work filled with humor.
That had a lot of appeal for me, both because there isnt a lot of humor in classical music, and also because it was about as far away (from the requiem) as could be. And there was also Anis idea of what themes she heard in my recent opera, Gogol, and I decided to experiment with both at the same time, and just see which one took hold. Soon enough, Auerbach realized the comic piece wouldnt work for the ensemble, but choosing Aznivoorians ideas created more trouble completing Dreammusik because of her closeness to the cellist theyve been
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friends since living in the same dorm their first year at Juilliard. Just like a surgeon cannot operate on relative, because while he wants to do his very best but it clouds his judgment, she explained. I think this happened to me here because I wanted to write the perfect work for the perfect occasion for my friend. In the end, Dreammusik became a larger work than anticipated, nearly 35 minutes, the result of Auerbach finally surrendering to the process. Writing music for me is like dreaming, she explained. At its best, the piece writes itself and has its own wishes, its own life, its own faith. When it happens organically, it uses the composer for the creation. You dream it up. When youre inspired, its like being in the alpha state just before falling asleep, and anything and everything is possible. The piece is like that. Its almost a journey. Indeed, Auerbach said, Dreammusik doesnt follow traditional concerto form with three or four movements. There is the juxtaposition of a single voice against many with the small ensemble representing the orchestra but its more like what happens in a dream. As has been her method over the last several years, Auerbach also completed a painting while composing Dreammusik, the result of what she calls creative procrastination. Working in more than one art form is very important to me, and literature and visual arts have become as important as music. It allows me to balance my life, to approach the same things from a different point of view... Its my composing technique not to do less but more, but in a different form. (Camerata Pacifica premieres Dreammusik and plays works by Thomas Ads, Benjamin Britten and Brahms at 7:30 pm Friday at Hahn Hall, 1070 Fairway Road. Tickets are $48. Call 884-8410 or visit www.cameratapacifica.org.)
Repeating and Michelle Stuart: Drawn from Nature. While violinist Jessie Montgomery admitted the members havent actually seen any of the artwork, this pairing is also entirely understandable on a metaphoric level, as the quartet plays very organically, and is certainly worth a repeat visit. Sonically, Catalysts program, called American Voices, includes Philip Glass String Quartet No. 3 Mishima, Charles Ives String Quartet No. 1, Samuel Barbers String Quartet Op. 11, and short pieces by Montgomery, one of her former teachers Joan Tower, and jazz great Paquito DRivera. Montgomery recently talked about the upcoming concert over the phone. Q. How did the quartet choose these particular pieces for the program? A. As a classical quartet, we play a lot of European music. But were also an American string quartet, and in figuring out what the quartet is and stands for, its important to bring out and celebrate these American masters as much as possible. What does American classical music sound like? What is our identity? How does it reflect on and separate independently from European traditions? This year, we wanted to focus on 20th and 21st century music, to make sure we represent as close to our contemporaries as we can. Glass, for example, is one of the most popular American composers in contemporary history. We wanted to highlight his relationship to the moving image, which is part of our American identity in film, and Mishima was written for film. In the future, we are considering Catalyst Quartet at the movies to do a program entirely of Korngold, Glass and Schoenberg, with others who worked in Hollywood. Its another point of identity. Where do the other pieces fit in? The Ives is based on hymns and patriotic songs from the late 1800s and early 1900s. He wrote them all in there, a swarm of songs with Ives take on top of it all, his technical genius filling out the form. The Barber is so different, but they were so close chronologically in their careers. Barbers music is so lyrical and expressive, where Ives is guttural, gutsy, and in your face, almost manic. Its exciting to play them back to back... My piece, Strum, is light and fun, and based on folk idioms, with lots of pizzicato and playful interaction. Its become a staple in our repertoire. I guess its a bit of a crowd-pleaser. DRivieras has a Latin, jazzy flavor, of course. And Towers is very different from other pieces. She wrote In Memory in 2001 for a friend of hers who had just passed away. But right after she completed it, 9/11 happened. Its very intense and dramatic, 6 13 March 2014
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When Catalyst Quartet made its Santa Barbara debut at the Museum of Art late last winter, the string quartets appearance tied in with the then-current exhibit Myth and Materiality: Latin American Art, which made a great deal of sense, since Catalyst was formed with winners and alumni of the renowned Sphinx Competition, an annual event designed to identify and champion outstanding young string players in the black and Latino communities. This Tuesday, the ensemble returns to the venue to perform works by American composers, complementing the exhibitions Alice Aycock drawings: Some Stories Are Worth
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looking more at how inequality has played out. How our attempts have fallen flat, how far from the ideal. But Im not political either, so Im not trying to make a statement. Its cultural observations, so its a big challenge. I have to ask: as a minority quartet that mostly plays in educational settings and urban environments, how does it play with older, white audiences like we have here in Santa Barbara? Well, we have to work, of course, and we enjoy all of our audiences, including the more traditional ones. We dont want to alienate anyone... We had a nice rapport (last time in SB). They were warm and inviting. It was a memorable concert. They seemed to be most intrigued by the pieces that we wondered if theyd enjoy at all, and were especially taken by Gabriella Lena Franks Leyendas, which was our newest, most eclectic, wild piece. So that was very gratifying. Audiences also surprise themselves when they realize they can get and enjoy new music. We program in a way we hope highlights each piece in its best light, so they come to it in an open perspective. Apparently, youre very informed in Santa Barbara. The audience that night was really into it. (Catalyst Quartet performs 7:30 pm Tuesday, March 11, at the museums Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State Street. Tickets cost $19. Call 884-6423 or visit www.sbma.net.) MJ
Catalyst Quartet, slated to perform Tuesday in Santa Barbara, strikes a pose
one movement without any real pauses. The mood goes all over the place, mostly very heart-wrenching, and it came to represent (the terrorist attacks, too). Its very beautifully written and we like representing another female composer. Speaking of your compositions, youve been commissioned to compose, produce, and perform Banner! a tribute to the
200th anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner, later this year. Congratulations, of course. But what an awful piece of music to have to work with. (Laughs). Yeah, I know... In collaboration with Sphinkx, the idea came about that in doing a tribute... I could use Banner as a reference, maybe with direct quotations, but mostly focusing on it as a bridge to as many cultural influences as possible without
sounding kitschy or like a blurred patchwork. Im going to attempt to reflect the styles as seamlessly as possible. Really, its just another perspective on American art music. It will reflect as much of my musical background as I can get in there to celebrate cultural diversity reflected in music. How far have we come in these ideas of equality and justice for all? Im not a patriotic person, per se. Im
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6 13 March 2014 Vol 20 Issue 9

The best things in life are

The Voice of the Village

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42 OPEN HOUSES, P. 45

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ELEGANT OCEAN VIEW MONTECITO ESTATE

Saturday, March 15th, 2014

Harbor Tastings & Treasures

Food, Wine, Beer & Spirits

Christine Dahl Michael Hutchings Arthur von Wiesenberger

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$200 - Patron admission - 5:00pm $100 - General admission - 6:00pm

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