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Miscellany
Peter Clark releases new album, Santa Barbara, a tribute to our town that includes such hits as “We Are Montecito 93108,” p. 6
Village Beat
New ADA access ramp installed at Montecito Hall, over four years in the making, p. 24
Moon’s Eye View
Lucidity Festival returns for its 8th year at Live Oak Campground with events for the whole family, p. 33
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Letters to the Editor
Talking taxes: Bob Hazard breaks down California’s tax rates compared to other states Peter Clark’s new album; Kenny Loggins and Janet Adderley collaborate; CAMA concert and dinner; Alito’s opens; art exhibit at Cabana Home; Lost Horizon opens; Goop’s new products; Bach concert at Trinity Episcopal Church; Rob Lowe’s regret; SVU makes history; Christopher Wilson’s book deal; sightings A collection of communications from local residents Dale Lowdermilk, Jeff Rypysc, Jean von Wittenburg, and Bob Roebuck
10 This Week in Montecito
A list of local events happening in and around town
Tide Chart 12 Village Beat
Johnny Was opens on Coast Village Road; new ADA ramp at Montecito Library; Natalie McCaffery receives highest Girl Scout honors; EF International Language School students host coastal cleanup in collaboration with Heal the Ocean
14 Seen Around Town
MClub hosts Santi Visalli as part of their Lunch & Learn event; Sansum Clinic’s visiting professor of surgery; Center for Successful Aging afternoon concert Photography by Spenser Bruce
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20 Coming & Going
Santa Barbara Boys & Girls Club’s sixth annual Rally4Kids; catch Maile Kai Merrick sing at SOhO on Friday night
23 Brilliant Thoughts
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Lucidity Festival returns to Live Oak Campground with Moon’s Eye View; Q Process Workshop; Darren Marc’s monthly kirtan; breath ceremony at Yoga Soup
33 On Entertainment
Lucidity Festival’s eighth year brings family-friendly events along with plethora other entertainment options; ETC presents Everything is Illuminated; SBCC puts on Significant Other; Out of the Box Theater Company’s Fun Home closes this weekend; dance acts around town; Mountainfilm on Tour at Sunken Gardens; short films at UCSB; Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable debuts; book talks in town
34 Open House Directory 35 Our Town
Butterfly gardening event at Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden
44 Calendar of Events
Jennifer Koh returns to St. Anthony’s Chapel; Westmont Orchestra’s annual Concerto Concert; Santa Barbara performance; The Gloaming at Campbell Hall; annual Santa Barbara Kite Festival; Capitol Steps performs at Lobero; David Archuleta visits town; UCSB hosts Anoushka Shankar; Augustin Hadelich returns to CAMA; UCSB Arts Walk
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Guest Editorial
by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an associate editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club.
Taxing Times in Montecito
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The ZIP Code List
Montecito is too often associated with Oprah Winfrey, large estates, and the fabulously wealthy. The wealthiest ZIP code in California is Atherton (94027) with a Median Household Income of $226,414 per year, followed by Palo Alto (94301 and 94304), San Francisco (94104, 94111 and 94129), Los Angeles (90067 and 90177), Portola Valley, Los Altos, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Newport Coast, Los Gatos, Pacific Palisades, Encino, and Belvedere-Tiburon. Montecito (93108) is ranked at #18 with a Median Household Income of $112,833, which is greater than the City of Santa Barbara’s $71,160, and twice the national Median Household Income of $61,372, but far from the most affluent in California, let alone the nation.
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The President’s tax reform lowered individual and corporate income tax rates. It increased the standard deduction to $24,000 for married couples and $18,000 for Head of Household. The mortgage interest deduction was capped at $750,000 instead of $1 million. It doubled the Child Tax Credit from $1,000 to $2,000 per child. The mandatory requirement to enroll in Obamacare was repealed. By capping the federal deduction for state and local income, sales taxes and property tax deductions at $10,000, Montecito homeowners with high incomes and expensive homes will feel the pain of losing their most important federal deductions in a high tax state. Overall, the Heritage Foundation using IRS data, estimates that the average American household can expect a $1,400 tax cut this year, and a family of four will get a $2,900 reduction.
California Taxes
California, New York, and New Jersey routinely compete for last place in the race to the bottom for the highest tax states, with California usually winning the bottom rung. State Income Tax: California holds the honor of the highest state income tax rate in America. Nearly half of California’s income taxes are paid by the wealthiest 1% of earners, for whom the top marginal rate is 12.3%, with an additional 1% charge on incomes over $1 million. Sales Tax: The Golden State has the highest sales tax in the nation at 7.25%. Adding local sales taxes jumps the combined sales tax rate to 8.55%. In some California cities, the additional local sales tax pushes the combined rate to over 10%. Gasoline Taxes: California has the 2nd highest gasoline tax in the country at 55.5 cents per gallon, exceeded only by Pennsylvania at 58.7 cents per gallon. California is the only state that taxes carbon emissions. It plans to eliminate all use of fossil fuels – natural gas, oil, diesel, and nuclear. California Property Taxes: Thanks to California’s famed Prop 13, California’s property tax rates are restrained. The state has an average effective property
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’ve just finished reading your touching (and accurate) tribute to our remarkable friend, Julian Nott (“He Landed Safely,” MJ # 25/13). In addition to being a “…physicists, thinker, inventor, and bon vivant…” Julian had a devious, some might say “twisted” sense of humor, which inspired me to write more than a few letters to the editor. Sometime in 2009, Julian discovered that I had founded an organization, which satirized and mocked “bureaucratic safety rules and regulations.” With his typical enthusiasm, he began to provide me fodder and feedback for arguments favoring the risk-taker. It wasn’t until years later that I discovered Julian held many, many, aviation and scientific records which could only have been accomplished by a world-class risk taker. One afternoon, we were discussing authors and “essays” which, over the course of our lives, had provided unusual levels of inspiration. I mentioned an article I once read in a weekly news magazine (back when they were still worth reading) that had praised the “adventurous spirit” and those who weren’t afraid to venture near the edge of safe havens and safe knowledge. I told Julian that the one-page essay had the word “dragon” in the title.
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To my amazement, he said the article that inspired me was called “Here Be Dragons,” written by James Lipton and that it was published in the November or December 1976 issue of Time. At first I thought Julian was pulling my leg, but later discovered that Lipton’s essay was indeed on page 17 of the December 6, 1976 issue. The third paragraph of that commentary reads as follows: Centuries ago, when a cartographer ran out of Known World before he ran out of parchment, he inscribed the words, “Here be Dragons” on the edge of the ominously blank terra incognita, a signal to the voyager that he entered the unknown region at his peril. But for some, like Columbus and Magellan, the warning seems not to have been a deterrent, but a goad. Julian said that warnings and restrictions inspired him, even more, to color outside the lines, and that the only “regrets” he’d ever have would be those (rare) times when he couldn’t locate any dragons. What a fabulous, “skidding-in-broadside,” ride you had my friend. Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Nice letter from you
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This Week in and around Montecito
FRIDAY, APRIL 12
(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, APRIL 11 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: a pool pavilion on San Ysidro Road; a new garage, pool, and deck on Court Place; demo and additions on Orchard Avenue; an addition on Monte Vista; debris flow repair and addition on Rockbridge, and other items. When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 pm to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, APRIL 12 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics. When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Amplify Adderley The Adderley Advance Conservatory presents: “Amplify Adderley at SOhO. Special guests include 2019 Teen Star Winner and ADDERLEY Rock Star Sophia Schuster, as well as journalist and TV News anchor, Alys Martinez of KEYT, who will be providing media coverage and MCing the event. Tickets include dinner and entertainment,
and can be purchased in advance. Proceeds to benefit the Adderley Schools scholarship program and the upcoming, May 4th and 5th production of Westside Story, at the Lobero Theatre. When: doors open at 5:30 pm, show begins at 6 pm Where: SOhO, 1221 State Street Cost: $60 per person SATURDAY, APRIL 13 Suminagashi: The Art of Japanese Marbling Join artist Kathleen Kaller for a fun and informative workshop on the ancient Japanese art of marbling. Learn to float special inks on the surface of water to create beautiful patterns on decorative items – wood eggs and paper bags for candy, gifts and/or floral arrangements – for Easter celebrations. Once the basics are learned, Suminagashi is a technique that can be used for a variety of fun and interesting projects. Continue to play with pattern and color at home – marbleize Easter eggs with your family, perfect a wood grain pattern with greys and browns, make wrapping paper or marbleize fabric for napkins, pillows and more. Students will create six marbleized wooden eggs, an assortment of marbleized paper bags, and receive a sweet ceramic bunny pot to hold their eggs and a small gift from Porch. Mimosas and nibbles will be served. When: 10 am to noon Where: Porch, 3823 Santa Claus Lane Cost: $65 per person Info: (805) 684-0300 Montecito Library Book Club Join for a lively discussion of this month’s title. New members always welcome. The selection for April is Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs. When: 1 to 2 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063
?Bunny Bungalow Kick off your family Easter festivities with the Bunny Bungalow at Rosewood Miramar Beach. Hop on over for a festive meet-and-greet and photo op at the Bunny Bungalow, open between from April 12 through April 18 and offering extended morning hours from April 19 through April 21. The Bunny Bungalow will be home to the resort’s resident Easter Bunny and is located next to the property’s openair bocce ball courts. Photo packages available for purchase. Walk-ups are welcome, but you can schedule an appointment by phone. When: noon to 5 pm, April 12-21 Where: Rosewood Miramar Beach Resort, 1759 South Jameson Lane Info/Reservations: (805) 900-8388 Art Opening at Porch The works of Santa Barbara artist Lloyd Dallett will be on display at Porch through April 28; tonight is the opening reception When: 3 to 5 pm Where: 3823 Santa Claus Lane Info: (805) 684-0300 SUNDAY, APRIL 14 Santa Barbara Kite Festival The Santa Barbara Kite Festival returns to our sunny skies in the Great Meadow on the west campus at Santa Barbara City College. This year’s festival is dedicated the local philanthropist Chad Dreier, who passed away earlier this year. The festival’s Kite Master Rakesh Bahadur is grateful for the years of support from the Dreier family. Over a dozen familiar kite flying events return to the Santa Barbara Kite festival this year. The festival’s most popular event- the “Children’s Tail Chase” will be entertaining families all day long. Several other family-friendly kiteflying contests also return including “Best of Fest,” “Best Ground Display (banners, flags display), “Youngest & Oldest Kite Flyers,” “Most Unique/ Unusual Kite,” “Funniest Kite,” and “Most Unflyable Kite!” Proven contests ready to fly include “Most Beautiful” (handmade & commercial), “Highest Flying,” and “Largest & Smallest Kites.” Skilled sport kite flyers will demonstrate their talents at sport flying. Prizes will be awarded to all contest winners including Best of Fest, Most Unique/Unusual Kite, Most Beautiful, and Highest Flying.
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Parking is available on both west campus and the main campus. Kites, food, and beverage can be purchased at the festival. When: 11 am to 5 pm Where: West campus of Santa Barbara City College, 973 Cliff Drive Easter Crafts & Gifting Join the Rosewood Miramar Beach Resort and Little LAMMA (the bespoke children’s gifting service) for an afternoon of arts and crafts, a bunny petting zoo, face painting and more at the new Rosewood Miramar Beach Resort. Join Little LAMMA for buildyour-own Easter baskets; young guests can work with the team of expert shoppers to build and personalize their own Easter baskets with treats and trinkets. Events will take place next to the Bunny Bungalow, located next to the property’s open-air bocce ball courts. The fun-filled crafting will continue at the Bunny Bungalow from April 18 – 20 with Festive Afternoons, designed to created Easter fun for the whole family! When: 2 to 5 pm Where: Rosewood Miramar Beach Resort, 1759 South Jameson Lane Info: https://www.rosewoodhotels.com/ en/miramar-beach-montecito Rumi Poetry Study Group The beauty of the language and imagery of Rumi’s poetry is like a spring breeze, bringing the essence of love, wisdom and comfort to our hearts. Join for a lively and heart-felt study of Rumi’s poetry with Dr. Fariba Enteshari, the founder and executive director of Rumi Educational Center. Through her years of teaching Rumi to a wide variety of students, she has researched the beneficial and healing effects of Rumi’s poetry on the lives of her students. Born in Iran, she is fluent in Rumi’s native language and culture, allowing her to share with you the original melody and cadences of his language. Her diverse background will help the participants draw from many cultural and religious traditions, while developing their own personal voice for growth. When: 2 to 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Cost: $20 donation Info: rumieducationalcenter.org
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MONDAY, APRIL 15 Cold Spring School Board Meeting When: 6 pm Where: 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Info: 969-2678 TUESDAY, APRIL 16 Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 4 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 Transgender Diversities, The Basics This beginner’s training provides an intro to gender identity and gender diversity – training on differences between gender identity, sexuality, medical sex assigned at birth, and gender expression; includes experiential learning and media. All ages welcome. Patrick Lyra Lanier is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist specializing in LGBTQ populations and in Somatic Psychology. Patrick Lyra uses they/them pronouns, identifies as transgender and queer, and is the LGBTQ Program Manager of Pacific Pride Foundation – the largest LGBTQ Center between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Prior to working at PPF, PL taught preschool for ten years, beginning at Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center. When: 5:30 to 6:45 pm
Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: (805) 969-5063 THURSDAY, APRIL 18 Special Montecito Planning Commission Meeting MPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies and that issues raised by interested parties are addressed When: 1 pm (note day and time change) Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu
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SUNDAY, APRIL 21 Beachside Easter Brunch at Caruso’s
Celebrate Easter in style with the Beachside Easter Brunch at Caruso’s, located at the Rosewood Miramar Beach Resort. Chef Massimo Falsini has prepared a four-course, prix fixe menu that combines coastal Californian cuisine with the finest flavors of Southern Italy. Guest can look forward to a reception on the terrace featuring a vodka and caviar bar, live oyster shucking and Stephanie’s Sea Urchins followed by a robust roster of dishes. When: 11 am to 2 pm Where: 1759 South Jameson Lane Cost: $225 for adults and $110 for children 12 and under (excluding & gratuity) Reservations: miramar.easterbrunch@ rosewoodhotels.com •MJ
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outhern California-based clothing and accessory brand Johnny Was has opened its 15th store in California (44th nationwide), in the historic Costa Villa building on Coast Village Road. The boutique opened for business on Friday, April 5. “With our roots in Southern California and a brand DNA that seems well suited for Santa Barbara, opening a store in Montecito was a long sought-after destination for us and a natural next step for expansion,” said Rob Trauber, CEO of Johnny Was. “Montecito exudes color, architecture, culture, fashion, and natural beauty. The location really complements the relaxed vibrancy of our brand, and we’re so excited to be a part of the community there.” The clothing at Johnny Was consists of luxurious silk, velvet, linen and cotton fabrics, signature prints, and detailed embroideries that embody a relaxed lifestyle and bohemian elegance. Artfully constructed accessories include scarves, ornate handbags, jewelry, swimwear, and vintage belts. The brand is known for its worldly aesthetic and free-spirited style, with modern accents, colors, and textures
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VILLAGE BEAT Page 244 The Johnny Was brand features luxurious (washable!) silk, velvet, linen, and cotton fabrics, signature prints, and detailed embroideries that embody a relaxed lifestyle and bohemian elegance
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that cross generations. The two-story, 1,684 square foot Montecito store features hand-painted wall murals by artist Christopher Lord. The light and airy space, which was formerly home to furniture shop E. Madison, features a curated selection of custom embroidered dusters, jackets, blouses, kimonos, and bohemian style accessories. Established in 1987 in Southern California, the Johnny Was brand offers timeless clothes and accessories that reflect an effortless elegance and embrace a relaxed lifestyle. The brand includes a full line of fabrics, signature prints, and detailed accessories. In addition to the 44 stores located nationwide, various premium retailers also carry the brand. A Grand Opening party, hosted by Chynna and Billy Baldwin, will be held this Saturday, April 13, from 6 to 9 pm. A portion of the proceeds from the celebration will benefit the Partnership For Resilient Communities, the non-profit currently installing debris flow nets in areas affected by the tragic Thomas Fire
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Seen Around Town
A Photo Journey
by Lynda Millner
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he MClub held one of its Lunch & Learn events at the Santa Barbara Club with the iconic photojournalist Santi Visalli as the guest speaker. The dining room was full with over 50 guests eager to hear about Santi’s life and how he came to photograph famous folks all over the world including five presidents. Montecito Bank and Trust president and COO George Leis welcomed guests. MClub director Maria McCall told us that George has just been selected to be on the National Board of Directors for the YMCA. She then introduced the guest of honor, Santi Visalli. Santi has lived in Santa Barbara for 22 years with his wife, Gayla, who was a Reader’s Digest editor. Before that he traveled the world for 40 years with his camera for leading magazines, newspapers, and book publishers. He was born in Sicily before World War II and left in 1956 to go around the world with two friends. It took them three years. In the beginning Santi had to take his camera into a store to have the clerk show him how to load it with film. He is very much self-taught. He told us he was enthralled with American film like the Lone Ranger and John Wayne. “My heart throb at age seventeen was Doris Day. When I once got to work with her on a movie set she told me to come to her trailer at 3 pm. I imagined all sorts of things. When I arrived there was Doris with her mother whose hair she was going to cut. She thought it would be a unique picture.” Santi has worked with such directors as Federico Fellini. His photos have appeared in and on the covers of 50 magazines and newspapers worldwide including The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, and Life and on and on. He has created 14 coffee table books, which are cityscapes such as Miami, New York, Los Angeles and all published by the best in the business, Rizzoli. The books run over 200 pages
Guest lecturer Santi Visalli and vice president/ director of MClub Maria McCall at the Lunch & Learn event 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.
each taking over a year to shoot. Visalli always wanted to come to America and eventually wound up in New York, broke. His first job was as a dishwasher (one day) then a bus boy (two days) then promoted to a waiter. He told the owner, “I don’t speak English.” “Not to worry because the menu is in Italian and you’ll look good in a tuxedo.” In 1981 his exhibit, “A Love Affair with New York City,” broke attendance records at Nikon House in Rockefeller Center, attracting more than 11,300 visitors. As for gossip according to Santi, the artist Salvador Dali was the cheapest man. “I was with him for three days and he never once reached into his pocket.” Of all the presidents – Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and
SEEN Page 164 Montecito Bank and Trust president and COO George Leis with Anne Towbes and Santi Visalli at the Santa Barbara Club
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“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld
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Clinton – Nixon always did something for the camera. The others were more presidential. Santi tells of meeting the Pope. He said that he’s not religious but when the Pope grabbed his two hands in his he felt an electrical charge he’ll never forget. The silent star Rudolf Valentino was a gardener in Italy when he was discovered by actress Lillian Gish’s sister Dorothy. Santi taught Robert De Niro some Sicilian gestures for his part in The Godfather. Unfortunately we didn’t have time to hear all of the stories from memory lane. If you’d like to know more about the MClub, call Maria at 805.564.7362. They will be doing a Tauck tour of Sicily in September with host Santi Visalli going along to add to the experience.
Visiting doctor founder Dr. Ron Latimer with Dr. W. Charles Conway, guest doctor David Feliciano, and Dr. Kurt Ransohoff
A Musical
Sansum Visiting Professor
It was time once again for a visiting professor of surgery to visit Sansum Clinic for a week of teaching practicing Santa Barbara surgeons and physicians. Dr. W. Charles Conway, FACS is the new Visiting Professor of Surgery Program Administrator. Dr. Ron Latimer established the program in 2010 with the Department of Surgery and Sansum Clinic. Dr. Conway invited
Vicki Hazard, Sansum women’s council member Julie Nadel, and Bobbie and Eddie Rosenblatt at the doctors’ reception
David W . Feliciano, MD from the University of Maryland as Clinical Professor of Surgery and Attending Surgeon at The Shock Trauma
The Center for Successful Aging (CSA) held a private concert at the home of Dr. Guy Clark and his wife, Dr. Ramona Clark. The afternoon concert was limited to 30 people and included wine and a buffet. Legendary pianist Gil Rosas performed and if ever a house was built for music it was this George Washington Smith home and salon. There was a raised platform at one end of the living room with not one, but two grand pianos. The house was built in the early 1920s, the same time as Casa del Herrero by the same architect. Both houses survived the 1925 earthquake. Gil has had a long and illustrious career. When asked how many songs he knows, he replied, “Probably about 1,500, maybe more.” Even though he was known as King of the Piano Bar he plays classical as well. Some of his venues were the old Somerset Restaurant and the Olive Mill Bistro in Montecito. Also the Port Royal and Pierpont Inn in Ventura. His career spans 65 years and so do his fans. I remember he also played for many of La Belle’s runway fashion shows at various country clubs. When I walked out he always played the song “Linda.” The mission of the CSA is to prepare older adults and their families for the challenges and opportunities of aging through individual and peer counseling, education and senior support services. Executive director Gary Linker, PhD, heads it up and the board president is Bobbi Kroot. As for aging, 94-year-old Charles LoBue says, “Do it now. We expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that we can do or any act of kindness we can show to any fellow human being, let us do it now!” For information about CSA call 805.898.8080. A couple of their programs are pet therapy and the Careline Telephone Call program where a trained volunteer will make
Center/University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. He is also a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, Georgia, and Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, Maryland. CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Sansum Clinic Dr. Kurt Ransohoff welcomed the public who always get to come to a reception and lecture at the end of the teaching week. Dr. Ransohoff stated, “I’m not a surgeon but we want you to see what our new Ridley-Tree Cancer Center is like. We’ve occupied it for only one and one half years.” When the building was being constructed, Don and I came to a hardhat party to celebrate the last steel beam to be lifted into place high above our heads. Don lost two wives to cancer so he wrote their names on the beam, as did other folks just before it was lifted up. What a fabulous memorial! Dr. Ransohoff declared, “We are a small city with a big city level of care.” This program also allows surgical residents in training at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital the chance to interact with the icons, leaders, and outstanding teachers of the art of surgery. Dr. Feliciano explained that a level one trauma facility like Cottage Hospital is the best you can be and is a huge commitment. It means you have to be able to treat all kinds of trauma 24/7. It’s a big deal and very expensive to operate – having all those doctors and help on call round the clock. There are 180,000 fatal injuries a year
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so trauma systems, centers, and surgeons are an integral part of healthcare in the United States. Doctors have learned that if a patient is too injured, they need to have several operations, but not to try and repair the damage all at once. Dr. Feliciano remembered back in 1973 when he was a Navy Officer he called Cottage to see if they had an opening in the emergency department. When they asked for his qualifications and he told them, they said. “You’re not qualified,” and hung up. No wonder he so much enjoyed his week in our paradise and he’s qualified!
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tax rate of 0.813%, compared to a U.S. average of 1.192%. However, despite California’s Prop 13, actual property tax dollars collected are high because of the high value of homes and the high cost of construction in California.
Once again in 2018, for the 14th straight year, California ranked dead last in Chief Executive magazine’s annual Best and Worst States for Business survey of the nation’s CEOs. Repeatedly, California is hammered, ranking 50th in taxation and regulation, 35th in workforce quality and 26th in living environment, which includes cost of living, the education system, and state and local attitudes toward business. Comments from the CEO survey include, “While business remains good for the high-tech, entertainment, and tourism industries, California’s high taxes, thickets of regulations, and other policies have diminished the quality of life and made California unaffordable. This has crippled business in California, especially for those without strong political connections.” “California just doesn’t get it. At the rate they are going, who’s going to pay the bills for anti-business, leftist government? It’s a crazy environment for small businesses out there.” “Organized labor has more political influence in local and state government than in other states. State employees have reached a critical mass where they become a permanent lobby for growth in government.” One key indicator of a state’s business climate, according to Chief Executive Editor-in-Chief J.P. Donlon, is “whether your state is one of the 26 states that has a right-to-work law, which prevents employees from being compelled to join or pay dues to a union. Eight of the states in the top 10 ranking of the Best States for Business are right-to-work states. All 10 Worst States for Business are forced union states,” Mr. Donlon observed.
How California Compares
Alaska has no state income tax nor state sales tax. Instead, thanks to its oil and natural gas industry, each legal resident who has lived in the state for a full year receives an annual “Permanent Fund Dividend.” This year, each legal resident will receive $1,600, down from a peak of $2,072 in 2015, reflecting lower oil production. Average local sales taxes are a tiny 1.43%. Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, has no sales tax. Gas taxes and fees stand at a paltry 15 cents per gallon. Florida has no state income tax. It has an average state and local sales tax rate of 6.8%, well below that of California, and a relatively modest 41 cents per gallon gas tax. Florida’s property taxes are below the midpoint for the U.S. Notably, Florida is one of only two states to exempt cigars from all taxation, a reflection of its long history as a cigar-manufacturing location. Nevada is a no-income-tax haven for corporate and individual income taxpayers. Where does the Silver State get its money? Besides the gaming industry, much of it comes from sales tax – the average combined state and local sales tax rate is 8.14%. Gas taxes and fees amount to 34 cents per gallon. South Dakota has no corporate or individual income taxes. Average state and local sales taxes are 6.4%. Gas taxes and fees are 30 cents per gallon. Tennessee has no broad-based income tax and is phasing out its tax on stock dividends and interest income, known as the Hall Tax. While gas taxes are only 26 cents a gallon, the state and local sales taxes average a high 9.46%. Groceries are taxed at 5% by the state, plus local taxes. Texas has no income tax at all. Average state and local sales taxes are 8.17%. Fuel taxes are a modest 20 cents per gallon. Washington is one of seven states with no personal income tax. State sales taxes are 6.5% but city sales taxes can add another 3.9%. Fuel taxes are on the high side at 49.4 cents per gallon. Washington was the first state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, which is taxed at 37%; it also has the country’s highest liquor tax at $32.52 per gallon. Wyoming is the tax poster child for all other 49 states. It has no corporate or individual income tax, and its gas tax is well below the national average of 31 cents per gallon. The property tax is the ninth-lowest in the U.S. While some states with no income tax make up for lost revenue with higher-than-average sales taxes, Wyoming’s combined state and local sales tax rate of 5.39% is effectively the lowest in the U.S. Gasoline taxes are a modest 24 cents per gallon. At 2 cents per gallon, Wyoming has the lowest beer tax in the land. Generous revenues from taxes on mineral and energy extraction allow for low taxes. The fundamental question for taxpayers in California is whether its residents want to pay more taxes for a bigger government, or pay less tax for fewer entitlements and less intrusion. As Thomas Jefferson so wisely noted, “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” •MJ
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yourself in a health crisis. You might be healthy now, but what if you became very sick or injured in the future and important decisions needed to be made – decisions that would affect you? Who would you want to speak for you? How would doctors, nurses, and your loved ones know what kind of healthcare you would like to receive, unless you had made those decisions in advance? Join us for an Advance Directives Workshop for help completing your own MyCare Advance Directive. Get help completing your document so your healthcare providers and loved ones know what you would want, and what you would not want, in the event of a
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medical crisis, so they can honor your wishes. Space is limited. Registration is required in advance. Visit acp.sansumclinic.org where you can view informational and touching videos about why Advance Care Planning is important. Call (805) 681-7672 to reserve space at a community workshop. Free of charge. Open to the public.
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Mechanicthemed Gastro Garage will cater a portion of the Rally4Kids gala
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again in the parking lot behind Procore Technologies (6309 Carpinteria Avenue) in Carp, where they’ll receive the Rally Number they’ll place on their car doors. Then, while breakfasting on croissants, muffins, and coffee, each driver and navigator will be handed their playbooks with the ultimate destination of what will be a 150-mile winding course that takes them back home by 3 o’clock in the afternoon at the latest. If you want to join this crowd, you’ll have to pony up $1,250 per car, but it’s for one of the best causes in town. For that, you’ll receive an invitation to the drivers’ party the night before,
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Monte Wilson, co-chair of the upcoming Rally4Kids on April 27, promises lots of surprises during the rally and at the gala at Pat and Ursula Nesbitt’s Summerland estate
breakfast and lunch the following day, along with your instructions for the rally (neither speed nor the value of your car come into play), and two tickets to the gala later that night. I’ve been on three of these rallies and have had a great time on each. My favorite year we were in a convertible (it wasn’t mine) driving in the back hills of Malibu, and cranked up the volume as high as it would go before the bass vibrated us out of our seats. We played Madonna’s version of “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” and Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and sang along over and over again as loud as possible; we were completely out of key and a little out of mind.
During a conversation at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Coast Village Road, this year’s co-chair (and co-founder of the event), Monte Wilson, chronicled how the event came to be. Monte and his wife, Maria, were there from the start – in fact were critical – when Diana Starr Langley and Jim Crook met with Monte in an Airstream trailer in the Milpas Motors lot and proposed the audacious idea of creating a car “rally” as a major fundraiser for the Santa Barbara Boys & Girls Club. Diana and Jim knew that Monte, after having moved to Montecito, organized a “Cars & Coffee” get together similar to what he attended once a month in the Washington, D.C. area where he lived prior to his move. Who better to approach than him? Diana and Monte served as that first year’s co-chairs. “Last year’s rally was negatively impacted by the mud-and-debris slide of January 9, 2018,” Monte relates, as many rally goers were and are Montecito residents. Also affected by the mudslide were Monte and Maria, who excused themselves from chairing the event in 2018 (they did, however, participate), but “are back this year as co-chairs.” As far as the idea of a rally goes, “Its purpose is to take people places they’ve never seen before,” Monte
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Thursday, April 25, 2019 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Wolf Education & Training Center at Ridley-Tree Cancer Center 540 W. Pueblo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
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LETTERS (Continued from page 8)
too, my friend. Julian was a courageous and brilliant man well worth knowing, as all of us who’d spent any time with him can attest. – J.B.)
Thinking of Hanging It Up
I’ve been a business owner going on 18 years on Coast Village Road and would like to say a few things. It has been the worst year I have ever had and I’m not the only one. If you look around, you will notice many businesses closed. It’s very sad. I truly believe it is because of the closing of the southbound onramp to the 101. The traffic is horrendous and the parking is too. There is no parking anywhere; every spot is taken but there is nobody around. We can’t figure out where all the people are. Please don’t park on Coast Village Road unless you are shopping. My customers won’t drive here. If they do, they can’t find parking or because of the traffic; we are all suffering. What can we do? I’m ready to hang it up. Jeff Rypysc, owner Montecito Deli & Catering (Editor’s note: We wish we could offer more encouragement other than you should probably consider updating your home and business delivery service. Regardless, we hope you’ll stay here because you offer good food and reasonable prices and virtually no one does that around here any longer. – J.B.)
Missing MA
Welcome back to Montecito Journal, the special section (“Association Agenda,” MJ # 25/13) about and from the Montecito Association Director and President. Hope this will continue (again) as many years ago there was a special article, usu-
ally weekly, from the MA about happenings of interest in and around Montecito. Jean von Wittenburg Montecito (Editor’s note: So do we! – J.B.)
Look Before Leaping
I am writing to comment on the guest editorial by Bob Hazard (“The Water Wells of Montecito,” MJ # 25/12). Groundwater is certainly a valuable water supply for the Montecito Water District (MWD), which they estimate can supply 70 acre feet per month of water to its customers via MWD groundwater wells. This amount actually exceeds all of the water used indoors by customers, which is metered at an average 47 acre feet per month at the Montecito Sanitary District Wastewater Treatment Plant. This means that even in the worse conceivable water shortage, the groundwater supply can meet the critical indoor water needs of its customers. It also means approximately 15% of MWD water is used indoors (4.4 hundred cubic feet (HCF) per month for the average customer) and the remaining 85% is for outdoor use, primarily landscaping. As stated by Mr. Hazard, as the drought evolved, MWD instituted a water rationing program that provided a financial incentive for large water users to drill wells. For single family residential (SFR) the lowest monthly rate was charged for usage up to 25 HCF. Any usage above 25 HCF was charged at a significantly higher rate. This rate structure provided minimal incentive to conserve water for SFR parcels of less than several acres, which comprises the largest number of customers in
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the MWD. It also provided significant financial incentive for owners of large SFR parcels to drill wells in order to avoid punitive water rates. A distasteful alternative for those customers would be to let some of their landscaping die. In retrospect, a water rate structure similar to that of Goleta, Carpinteria, or Santa Barbara, which have more rate tiers, may have been more effective. Those structures engage all customers in water conservation and are less punitive. The MWD Board has approved a contract with “Dudek,” which will attempt to identify private wells and extraction quantities. This information is critical in developing an underground water bank recharged with MWD water supplies during wet or normal rainfall periods. Also the information will be important in allocating water rights between private well owners and the MWD, which has its own wells. Until this information is available and MWD’s groundwater rights have been defined it would be foolish for MWD to embark upon a groundwater injection program only to have that water extracted by private well owners with no compensation to MWD. Mr. Hazard suggests recharging the groundwater basin with water provided by an agreement with the City (backed by desalinated water), which costs ten times more than other MWD water sources. This would be a terrible waste of MWD customer funds. Which brings us to the question of how will MWD customers pay for the extremely expensive potential water supply agreement with the City and what do you do with that water when other MWD supplies are plentiful and much less expensive? Mr. Hazard’s suggested solution is to charge all property owners for the agreement costs and other water related infrastructure costs. However MWD customers already pay for infrastructure costs every month on their water bills as a “fixed charge” based on meter size. Costs for water treatment, operations, maintenance, etc. are paid by the “water rate” charge, which is based on the amount of water used monthly. This is an equitable system used by water agencies throughout California. The reason why the Montecito Sanitary
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Thought For Food
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ood has no educational value, no sex appeal, no ethical significance, and very little connection with underwear. Like us, it just sits there, waiting to be consumed by something greater than itself. The Great Alimentary Canal is part of the Universal Chain of Being, Nature’s Grand Design for recycling everything. But what would Food be without Ingestion – a process which has been going on since ancient times, without much discernable progress? True, we now have Professors of Nutrition, plus all kinds of off-beat gurus with special diets and culinary creeds – but have you noticed that they too suffer malfunctions, including those extremely debilitating indispositions called Getting Old and Kicking the Bucket? Nevertheless, food continues to be produced, bought, and sold, and in many circumstances, made quite a fuss about. There are Food Fairs, Food Fights, Hunger Strikes, Soup Kitchens, Food Pyramids, and numerous shrines devoted to Fast Food. Much less reverence is shown to Slow Food, although in certain cultures the snail remains a delicacy. Then there is that unique place called Home, which is sure to have some kind of facilities for the preparation of food prior to its insertion into the bodies of the denizens. This brings us to the practice called “Eating,” which (were its actual existence not a well-known fact) it would be hard to imagine a system more bizarre. What sane person could conceive of so grotesque a process, with intake involving one hole in the body – otherwise more properly used for communication – and the expulsion of waste, both liquid and solid, relegated to other distant apertures, often associated with both hygiene and hijinks. The actual substances which, in one form or another, can be eaten to support life, are all themselves forms of life. Yes, you read me correctly. Under this current biological regimen, life feeds almost exclusively on other life. And there is no escaping it. Even the most extreme gastronomical conscientious objectors, such as those known as Vegetarians or Vegans, cannot avoid all the guilt implicit in the maintenance of a functioning human frame. Quite apart from the visible world – in which such dissenters attempt to rationalize their compunctions by distinguishing between beings which 11 – 18 April 2019
are “sentient,” i.e. capable of feeling pain, and others further down on the neuro-totem pole (though who is to say whether plants have feelings?) – at the microscopic level, within our own bodies, life-and-death battles are ceaselessly going on between and among a multitude of micro-organisms, over which we have no control. To me personally, the sources of food are also of great importance. Knowing little of farms, dairies, and plantations, and not being a religious person, I reverently look upon my own chief source – our local supermarket – as my cathedral. There, along aisles lined with edibles, most of the offerings are concealed within carefully-designed packages – most of which, however, having yielded their contents, go on to a second life as a major ingredient of our collectable garbage – to say nothing of the carelessly cast-off portion, fated (as a sacrifice?) to litter our city streets. But let worshipful tribute be paid here to the Food Saints who have given us such miracles as spreadable butter, zip-lock bags, seedless grapes, mashed potatoes in a box, market baskets on wheels, and of course, that Holy of Holies: Sliced Bread. Nor must I fail to mention the foods which have sustained my own spirits through the most trying times – peanut butter, marmalade, and chocolate. I started eating at a very early age – a time which, so to speak, will always be among my dearest mammaries. When I was old enough to go to schools where lunches were served, my mother never trusted the amount I was given, and so always provided me with extra sandwiches and sweets in a little cloth bag, which we called my “Supplementary.” The result was an intermittent but life-long problem of weight-control. Of course, I knew I was hardly alone in this struggle, but I was never quite ready to join Mothers Against Over-Eating, or whatever such groups were called. But eaters, of whatever stripe, are thinkers too. And, when it came to writing epigrams, I found I had a ready market for food-related thoughts, especially if they had a philosophical twist, such as: “Instead of Past, Present, and Future, I’d prefer Chocolate, Vanilla, and Strawberry,” or: “Behind the big questions, like: What is life? are other important questions, like: What is for dinner?” •MJ
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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 12) A new wheelchair ramp was recently installed at Montecito Library, a project over four years in the making, and prompted by a Montecito Journal Letter to the Editor
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Library patrons and attendees at Montecito Association meetings have surely noticed the new ADA ramp that allows for better access to Montecito Hall and Montecito Library, which was completed in March. “It’s really exciting for us,” said senior library technician Kim Crail. The need for the ramp was prompted by a Letter to the Editor in this publication back in 2015, by a library patron using a wheelchair who found it difficult to access the library from the handicap spot in the parking lot. Until the new ramp was built, patrons using wheelchairs and walkers needed to traverse the entry driveway on the west side of the building, to gain access to a sidewalk in which there are no stairs. The Montecito Association and its Land Use Committee discussed several ideas for better ADA access; the finished project, which added a ramp on the back of the 119-year-old building, was designed by a County architect with the help of then MA Executive Director Victoria Greene. Because the building is owned by the County, land use permits and design review were not required. To celebrate the opening of the new ramp, the Friends of the Montecito Library, Montecito Association and
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Laguna Blanca Girl Scout Wins Award
Local Girl Scout and Laguna Blanca High School student Natalie McCaffery has received the highest Girl Scout honors, winning a Gold Award for her extensive Smart Farm program that she implemented at Laguna Blanca. Naturally drawn to the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Music), Natalie recognized the lack of healthy food choices among young students and their unawareness of where the food that they put in their bodies comes from. Seeking to combine her interests in both computer science and sustainable agriculture, she set out to begin her project, Smart Farm, which teaches sustainable agriculture and provides an emphasis on how our agricultural world is changing with breakthroughs in technology. Collaborating with leadership at Laguna Blanca, Natalie created and taught her own curriculum with measurable outcomes for the success of the program. At the middle school, she led ten quarter-long terms (2.5 school years) of activity groups with eight to nine students in each session, teaching them farming methods and encouraging students to consider the influence of technology on what we eat. Beginning her freshman year, she started a Farm Club at the upper school that manages three raised gardening beds, builds compost piles, and sustains the project. In the next phase of her project, Natalie will be building smart farm weather stations powered by Arduino boards to give students experience with components of computer science
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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Notice Inviting Bids Bid No. 3933 1.
2.
Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its HSIP PEDESTRIAN CROSSING ENHANCEMENTS (“Project”), by or before April 25, 2019, at 3:00 p.m., through PlanetBids or at its Purchasing Office located at 310 E Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101 at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is uploaded to PlanetBids or delivered to the Purchasing Office. The digital time stamp on PlanetBids or receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. Bids that fail to upload to Planet Bids prior to the deadline will not be accepted. Bidders are encouraged to upload bids by 2:30 pm to Planet Bids.
DUE DATE & TIME: April 30, 2019 UNTIL 3:00P.M.
The Project consists of constructing ADA access ramps, curb extensions, rectangular rapid flashing beacons, traffic signal infrastructure (including but not limited to poles, foundations, conduit, cabinet installation, intersection rewiring, pull boxes, signal head installation), intersection lighting, bio-retention basins, permeable pavers, storm drain drop inlet, signing & striping, complete and in place. 2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 75 working days from the effective date of the Notice to Proceed. 2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $640,000 License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A & C10. 3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions. 4.
Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.
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Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.
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Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half. 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.
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Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.
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Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.
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Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.
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Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. Bidders are advised that, as required by federal law, the State has established a statewide overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal. This Agency federal-aid contract is considered to be part of the statewide overall DBE goal. The Agency is required to report to Caltrans on DBE participation for all federal-aid contracts each year so that attainment efforts may be evaluated. This Agency federal-aid contract has a goal of 8% DBE participation.
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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.
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Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on April 16, 2019 at 10:00 am, at the following location: State Street & Alamar Avenue intersection, for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is not mandatory.
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Bidders are advised that this project is a Federal-Aid Construction project and the Contractor shall agree to all requirements, conditions, and provisions set forth in the specification book issued for bidding purposes entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Attention is directed to Appendix B of the “Proposal and Contract” specification book for federal requirements and conditions, as well as documents required to be submitted with this proposal request. This project is subject to the “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.
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BID NO. 5741
Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at various intersections throughout the City of Santa Barbara. Major work (electrical and hardscape improvements) is at the following intersections: Alamar Avenue & State Street, Alamar Avenue & Puesta Del Sol, La Cumbre Road & Calle Cita, Willowglen Road midblock crossing, and Brenner Drive & Anza Drive. Project also includes minor work (signing & striping) at 11 other pedestrian crossing locations.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:
Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The Federal minimum wage rates for this Project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates. Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage requirements in the specification book entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of the “Proposal and Contract” specification books. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal Minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.
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William Hornung, C.P.M, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) April 10, 2019
Trash Liners for Various City Facilities The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.
The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.
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 electronically via PlanetBids. 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
Published: April 10, 2019 Montecito Journal
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5740 DUE DATE & TIME: April 26, 2019 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Janitorial Paper Supplies The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at
http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.
The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.
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 electronically via PlanetBids. 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.
2) April 17, 2019 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS
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“I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal!” – Jarod Kintz
________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager
Published: April 10, 2019 Montecito Journal
11 – 18 April 2019
Notice Inviting Bids FY19B Water Main Replacement Project Bid No. 5704
PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara
1. Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its FY19B Water Main Replacement Project (“Project”), by or before Wednesday May 22, 2019, at 3:00 PM., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. 2. Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at the below streets, and is described as follows: Install new various sized ductile iron and PVC water main. Reconnect services and fire hydrants following acceptance of new line.
Proposed Two-Year Financial Plan for Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021, Including Recommended Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2020 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara has scheduled Public Hearings to consider the Proposed Two-Year Financial Plan for Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021, including the Recommended Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2020. The Council will review departmental budgets, as well as proposed adjustments to fees and charges. All hearings will be held in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The dates and times are as follows:
Location
From
To
Medio Rd
Garcia Rd
E. Canon Perdido
Medio Rd.
E. Carillo Rd.
Milpas St
E. Carrillo Rd.
E. Haley St.
E. Haley St
Milpas St.
APS
Cota St
N. Soledad St.
Casitas Rd.
E. Montecito St
E. Yanonali St.
N Canada St.
N. Canada St
E. Gutierrez
E. Montecito St.
Jennings Ave
N. Milpas St.
N. Nopal St
N. Nopal St.
E. Yanonali St.
E. Gutierrez
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N. Milpas St.
E. Gutierrez
E. Haley St.
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Castillo St
W. Haley
W. Cota
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W. Haley St
Castillo St.
De la Vina St.
Fig Ave.
W. Haley St.
W. Cota St.
Oceano Ave.
Del Sol Ave.
cul-de-sac
Del Mar Ave
Barranca Ave.
La Marina Dr.
Las Ondas
Del Mar Ave.
San Miguel Ave.
Del Mar Ave
La Marina Dr.
Las Ondas
Ferrelo Rd.
Medio Rd.
Paseo Ferrelo
Paseo Ferrelo
Ferrello Rd.
cul-de-sac
Ferrelo Rd.
Paseo Ferrelo
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Paseo Ferrelo
Ferrello Rd.
cul-de-sac
Ferrelo Rd.
Paseo Ferrelo
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Treasure Dr.
Calle Real
Crescent Ave.
Treasure Dr.
Crescent Ave.
Tallant Rd.
Romaine Dr.
Calle Real
Baldwin
Calle Canon
El Caminito Rd.
W. Valerio St.
W. Valerio St.
Elings Park
Calle Poniente
Cabrillo St.
Bath St.
State St.
East St
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Monday, May 6, 2019, 2:00 p.m. - Budget consideration of Airport, Waterfront and Finance (Solid Waste); Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 2:30 p.m. – Budget consideration of Parks & Recreation Department (including Creeks and Golf Funds); Monday, May 13, 2019, 2:00 p.m. - Budget consideration of Library and Community Development Departments (including Planning & Development and Building Divisions)*; and Successor Agency; Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 3:00 p.m. - Budget consideration of Finance Department, General Government, City Attorney’s Office, City Administrator’s Office and Mayor & Council; Monday, May 20, 2019, 2:00 p.m. - Budget consideration of Fire and Police Departments; Wednesday, May 29, 2019, 2:30 p.m. - Budget consideration of Public Works Department*; Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 6:00 p.m. - City Council deliberations; Tuesday June, 11, 2019, 2:00 p.m. - Public hearing on proposed increases to Wastewater and Solid Waste rates (see separate mailed notice and instructions for filing protests); and Tuesday, June 18, 2019, 2:00 p.m. - Budget adoption.
Additional hearings may be added as needed. All public hearing dates and times are subject to change. Any changes will be posted on the City of Santa Barbara webpage located at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov. Members of the public are invited to attend, and interested persons desiring to be heard shall be given an opportunity to address the City Council during the public hearings at the above-referenced dates and times. Written comments are welcome and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. All hearings will be held in conjunction with special meetings of the City Council dedicated to the public review of the budget. A schedule of public hearing meeting topics, which is subject to change on short notice, will be available beginning on April 23, 2019, on the City’s website at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov. The City Council is scheduled to adopt the Two-Year Financial Plan for Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021, including the Recommended Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2020, on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, during the 2:00 p.m. regular City Council session.
2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 220 working days. 2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $5,000,000. 2.4 Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Wednesday April 24, 2019 at 1:30 PM, at the following location: David Gebhard Meeting Room, 630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. 3. License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A General Engineering Contractor. 3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions. 4. Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155. 5. Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents. 6. Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half. 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4. 7. Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.
Copies of the Recommended Budget will be available for public review on April 23, 2019, at the reference desks of the Central and Eastside Libraries, in the City Clerk’s Office at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, and on the City’s website at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov. For more information, contact the Finance Department at 564-5334. Copies of fee resolutions with proposed changes will be available for public review on April 23, 2019, in the Finance Department at City Hall at. www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/Budget. Click on Proposed Two-Year Financial Plan for Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021. *At least ten (10) days prior to the meeting, but no later than April 23, 2019, data, which was relied upon to support the changes to the fees and charges proposed in the fee resolution for the departments marked by an asterisk above, will be available to the public at the City Clerk’s Office at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA. Agendas and Staff Reports for City Council meetings are available 72 hours prior to the meeting in the City Clerk’s Office at City Hall and at the Central Library. These documents are also accessible online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CAP. Meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on City TV Channel 18 (broadcast schedule is available at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CityTV. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/Council/Videos. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to gain access to, comment at, or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator's Office at 5645305 or inquire at the City Clerk's Office on the day of the meeting. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements in most cases.
8. Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.
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9. Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.
/s/ Sarah Gorman City Clerk Services Manager April 9, 2019
10. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal. The amount of this contract will depend upon the budgetary funding available. By: ___________________________________ William Hornung, CPM, General Services Manager
11 – 18 April 2019
Date: ________________ Publication Dates: 1) April 10, 2019
2) April 17, 2019
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students the importance of computer science in the everyday, natural world around them,” Natalie says. “By teaching kids about agriculture and then challenging them with the task to integrate certain technologies into basic farming methods, students were able to discover – on their own – the miracles of interdisciplinary work and brainstorm ways that technology can better our world.” Natalie’s program will be sustained after her high school graduation in 2020 by the Farm Club at her school and the middle school science teacher that will integrate the curriculum into his classes. Her ultimate goal is to modify the curriculum so that it becomes versatile enough for other environments and demographics of society, so that it can be applied on a large scale. Her Girl Scout troop will also be learning how to teach the curriculum, and they will be implementing it into a local community in dire need of nutritional support on an upcoming Belize trip they’ve been planning for the last two years. “Teaching the next generation how to use modern technology to execute fulfilling tasks is a step in the direction of aiding our world’s problems, which in this case is hunger,” she says. To learn more about the program, visit www.smartfarmgold.org. She
Laguna Blanca student Natalie McCaffery has won top Girl Scout honors for her extensive Smart Farm project at the school
has also organized an Ag-Tech STEM event at MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation in Santa Barbara on May 19, where attendees will experience an abridged version of the curriculum and learn how agriculture and technology combine in a day of innovative learning.
Coastal Cleanup this Friday
On Friday, April 12, 300 students from the EF International Language School campus on Chapala Street will spread out to clean up ten South Coast beaches from Summerland to Goleta, in collaboration with Heal the Ocean. For the last four years, EF Santa Barbara has joined hands with Heal the Ocean in a massive coastal
cleanup to celebrate Earth Day, and now, the collaboration model has been picked up by other EF schools in San Diego and Honolulu. Also on April 12, EF Honolulu will be working on the Honolulu coastline with Hawaii-based Kokua Hawaii Foundation (founded by Kim and Jack Johnson), and in San Diego, EF San Diego will partner with the Adopt-A-Beach Program, funded by the California Coastal Commission’s Whale Tail Grand, and run by I Love a Clean San Diego (ILACSD) of San Diego County to tackle San Diego beaches. EF Santa Barbara School Director Kristen Reilly says it is the school’s vision to further introduce the beach cleanup model to other EF schools on the U.S. West Coast, including campuses in San Francisco and Seattle. After the April 12 Santa Barbara cleanup at noon on the EF campus, HTO Executive Director Hillary Hauser will join Santa Barbara City Councilmember Jason Dominguez and Reilly to salute the students, who will be celebrating with a barbeque party. EF International Language School is the world leader in language education and includes over 40 schools and offices in 53 countries. In 2018, EF Santa Barbara was nominated among the top four finalists to receive the prestigious 2018 ACCET Community Service Award for the school’s active role in the Santa Barbara community. •MJ
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integrated into agriculture. Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software, and the boards are able to read inputs (sensors, buttons, etc.) and turn it into an output using computer programming. Natalie worked with the Internet of Things club at her high school to develop a weather station that uses an array of sensors and circuitry on the Arduino board to evaluate a given land plot and its weather patterns to support agriculture. She plans to later implement the stations into her middle school curriculum, which has already directly educated and impacted 80 middle school students through the swoop group program. “A lot of students from my swoop groups have started their own gardens at home and are always eager to bring me food they’ve grown,” she says. “Seeing students interested in eating the produce and vegetables from our school garden is a step towards a healthier campus.” Not only did her project address the lack of an agriculture program at her school, but is also defied the stereotype that computer science can only take place in a lab. “I believe, especially for girls, that computer science is stereotyped as a field that requires sitting in front of a screen all day coding, and I wanted to prove this assumption wrong by teaching
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tures 17 tracks, with all music and lyrics written by him between 1992 and 2013, including “We Are Montecito 93108” with fellow jazz musician Maitland Ward, which features my column in this illustrious organ. “They’ve been inspired by items in everyday life,” says Peter, who moved to our Eden by the Beach in 1988 with his late wife, Dallas. This is his second laudatory recording to our tony town, having previously released The Songs of Santa Barbara in 1992 featuring selections dating back to 1926, including “Santa Barbara Earthquake,” “Goleta, My Goleta,” Oscar nominee Barry DeVorzon’s “It’s Christmas Once Again in Santa Barbara,” and “Viva La Fiesta!” featuring tenor David Gonzales. Proceeds from the CD will go towards Santa Barbara High School jazz scholarships. Kick off the Sunday Shoes Montecito rocker Kenny Loggins is broadening his résumé. Kenny and bubbly Janet Adderley, founder of the Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre, are collaborating on a summer stock production of the 1984 Herb Ross hit comedy-drama movie Footloose, starring Kevin Bacon and John Lithgow, with his band accompanying the talented youngsters.
Meg and Dan Burnham, CAMA concert sponsors (photo by Nell Campbell)
Ellen and Craig Parton at Opal (photo by Nell Campbell)
Claude Case with Tish Gainey before the CAMA concert (photo by Nell Campbell)
Jock and Ellen Pillsbury celebrating CAMA (photo by Nell Campbell)
Kenny Loggins trying out acting? (photo by Leslie Hassler)
Footloose author Dean Pitchford is also involved in the project, which will raise funds for the Unity Shoppe. Janet has also asked Kenny to play plain-clothes detective Lieutenant Schrank in the troupe’s production of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story next month, with an 11-piece orchestra, at the Lobero. A whole new career trajectory for the 71-year-old singer-songwriter dubbed The Soundtrack King. CAMA Concert CAMA – Community Arts Music Association – hosted a centennial season subscriber dinner at Opal
Darryl Zupancic and Marta Babson with Michael Howe before the Royal Scottish National Orchestra concert (photo by Nell Campbell)
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just before the last performance of this season’s international series with the debut of the 128-year-old Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Danish music director Thomas Sondergard at the Granada. Kicking off with Symphony No.7 in C major by Finnish composer Sibelius, Russian-American pianist Olga Kern then showed her abundant keyboard skills with Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.” She was the first woman in more than 30 years to win the historic gold medal at the Van Cliburn International piano contest in Fort Worth, Texas. The hugely entertaining concert concluded with Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major. Among the tony torrent of music lovers walking the one block to the theater after the 55-guest repast were George and Judy Writer, Jock and Ellen Pillsbury, Carl and Patricia “The best education I have ever received was through travel.” – Lisa Ling
Perry, Mahri Kerley, Rick and Susan Feldman, Dan and Meg Burnham, Greg and Trish Geyer, Doug and Diana Morgan, and Caren Rager and Jim Lichtman. Hola Alito’s Just ten months after opening their new State Street outpost, Mollie’s, next to the Granada theatre in the former Tupelo Junction space, culinary dynamic duo Mollie Ahlstrand and her son, Ali, have launched another eatery, Alito’s, further downtown on the busy thoroughfare. However, unlike their former nosheteria on Coast Village Road which closed in August, known for its Italian cuisine, the new 100-seat eatery, formerly Cadiz, which closed last June after six years, will be offering highend Mexican food.
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Jennifer Koh, violin Shared Madness 2
Fri, Apr 12 / 7 PM St. Anthony’s Chapel “The recital by violinist Jennifer Koh seemed straight out of Brooklyn... But unique to Santa Barbara was the venue’s sense of spiritual remove, magnificently enhanced by a reverberant enveloping acoustic that gave Koh’s violin a lustrous aura.” – Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Featured composers include Philip Glass, Andrew Norman and Kaija Saariaho.
The Gloaming Sun, Apr 14 / 7 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall “A concert to blaze in the memory.” Sydney Morning Herald Deeply familiar and consistently surprising, The Gloaming merges Irish tunes and instrumental explorations, connecting the Irish folk tradition and New York’s contemporary music scene.
Presented in association with the UCSB Department of Asian American Studies and the UCSB Department of Music From France
Ballet Preljocaj
“[A] dark and splendid ballet… La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall) has a dark beauty, it is a masterly mise en abyme of the hypnotic power of images.” L’Humanité (France)
Angelin Preljocaj, Artistic Director La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall) Tue, Apr 16 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre Dance Series Sponsors: Annette & Dr. Richard Caleel, Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Robert Feinberg, Irma & Morrie Jurkowitz, Barbara Stupay Additional Support: Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Presented in association with the UCSB Department of Theater and Dance Sitar Virtuoso
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Anoushka Shankar
Alan Cumming
Wed, Apr 17 / 8 PM UCSB Campbell Hall “No one embodies the spirit of innovation and experimentation more evidently than Anoushka Shankar.” – Nitin Sawhney, producer and composer Six-time Grammy nominee and daughter of the late musical guru Ravi Shankar reflects on her journey so far; drawing on classical ragas in a cross-cultural dialogue that showcases the versatility of the sitar across musical genres.
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Spirituality Matters by Steven Libowitz “Spirituality Matters” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area spiritual gatherings. Unusual themes and events with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.
Letting Go (and Catching Sticks) at Lucidity
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y first experience at the Lucidity Festival came early on a Saturday afternoon, when I wandered into a workshop from Peace Sticks. The activity – led by brothers who make their home in Ojai – was a simple one: pass the sticks back and forth with a partner. Some of them were balanced ones that had been decorated, while others were likely accumulated on site. Didn’t matter. Neither did anything else other than getting in a groove tossing the “twigs,” adding spins as confidence grew, and, surprisingly quickly, using both hands to toss two sticks simultaneously with my partner. In a matter of minutes, I realized how connected I felt, wanting sympatico with my partner and his success to match or exceed mine, which – according to many personal growth paths – is one of the purposes of life. Lucidity? Yes! Peace Sticks are back for Moon’s Eye View, the second festival in the new six-year cycle, and the eighth Lucidity overall. A “World Ceremony” takes place at 4 pm on Friday, April 12, in the Water realm, which also contains the Pure Energy/Love stage hosting a plethora of silent disco DJs (another unusual way of being together). That’s also where you’ll find “Jailbreaking Our Minds,” a workshop on Vocal Tonight, featuring 108 Oms and other sound meditations, followed by a Balinese Water Purification Ceremony on Saturday morning into early afternoon. Insomniacs needn’t feel excluded, as off-hour activities in the realm include a Mayan Cacao Ceremony at 12:30 am Sunday morning, and Torkom Ji’s 432 Hz sound bath at the (ungodly?) hour of 4 am. (Spirit Metacine’s version takes place the following late night, a bit earlier at 2:45 am.) But that’s just one of the realms, not even the one that has actually has the word spirit in its name. At the Altar of Spirit, you’ll find a group healing meditation, “Channel Your Light Codes,” “Comic Mantra Meditation” (at the equally ungodly hour of 8:30 am on Sunday), “Chaos as the Catalyst for
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Change,” “BS-Free Spirituality & Communication,” and “The Art of Death.” Over at the Altar of Air, offerings include “The Power of Purpose,” The Sacred Seven “Connecting to the Ancestors,” and the choose-your-own-vulnerability sentence stem game “If you really knew me.” “Embodying Shakti & Shiva,” “The Ritual of Intimacy,” “Twerk Therapy,” “Ecstatic Communications,” “The Art of Sensual Play,” “Tending the Masculine Fire,” “Consensual Cuddle Puddle,” and “Intimacy Alchemy & Sacred Sexual Artistry” are just a few of the spicy titles for the seminars taking shape at the Altar of Fire. Other areas host drum circles, sound baths, cacao ceremonies, fireside sing-alongs, and sharing circles and tea ceremonies. But you don’t have to attend an official workshop to find connection at Lucidity, even if you show up alone. All kinds of healing arts are available for a fee and even for free, while kind words, non verbal exchanges, and hugs between strangers (or rather, soon to be ex-strangers) are common. And ecstatic dances are taking place on and off throughout the weekend. In short, just about every non-religious spiritual path can be pursued under the oaks, save for psychedelic medicine journeys (at least not scheduled ones). Even solitude and silence, if you can find the right spot. But why would you want to? (Lucidity Moon’s Eye View takes place April 12-14 at Live Oak Campground, 4600 Hwy. 154, about halfway up the San Marcos Pass. Call (805) 686-5097 or visit https://lucidityfestival.com for details. Also see my Entertainment column for more.)
Self-Growth Workshop is Q’d Up
Back down the mountain, the Q Process Workshop returns to Unity on Saturday, April 13, as – despite her husband’s departure as Unity’s minister – Rev. Denese Schellink, a Certified Q Coach, will once again lead the interactive workshop comprised of powerful exercises, multimedia presentations, and discussions to support participants in creating the life they desire. The Q Process poses the query, “What would your life be like if you lived from a deep place of peace, knowing that nothing and no one is against you?” – offering an approach that counters the concept that outer circumstances are holding us back or causing us pain. Details and registration online at www.santabarbarau nity.org/q-process-workshop-4.
Sing for Joy
Darren Marc’s monthly kirtan features Amy Bankoff on female vocals, Laura Tandy on violin, and other special guest musicians, helping out in the call-and-response singing of devotional music and chants that invokes the transformational power of sound vibration to still the mind and awaken the heart center. The $10 suggested donation can be offered at door for the 7-9 pm kirtan on Sunday, April 14, at 37 Colusa Drive. Visit www.awakenwith darren.com or www.meetup.com/Kirtan-Ascension-Sound-Journey.
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On Entertainment
The Lucidity Festival offers workshops and classes, in addition to three days of music and fun
by Steven Libowitz
Lucidity 2019: What a Little Moonlight Can Do
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o the uninitiated, the Lucidity Festival, which offers its eighth iteration this weekend, might still come off as a haven for hardcore drug users, a three-day escape for spaced-out revelers intent on leaving reality behind. But maybe that mistaken notion will finally be put to rest, as Lucidity was recognized as the world’s best family-friendly festival at the 2018 FestX Awards last December, reflecting Lucidity’s family-centric ethos that exists amid the nearly nonstop live and electronic music, workshops, experiential art, theatrical presentations, ceremonies, parades, and much more amid the tree-lined byways and open spaces at Live Oak Camp. “The award was validating for all the hard work we’ve been doing around creating safe space for children and families,” said Lucidity co-founder Jonah Haas, noting that each year the percentage of children in attendance has grown. The festival this year has also increased its services for people
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with special needs, becoming more “accessible and inclusive for everyone,” via the new Camp Cozy. “A safe container allows everyone to open up and explore their own imaginations in a community setting,” Haas said. Moon’s Eye View, the theme for Lucidity 2019, also provides a more holistic approach for such explorations in the second festival following the original six-year cycle that organizers later proclaimed as an exploration of the dream state. The new cycle is about awakening and experiencing the world as it is. “In the new story we’ve transitioned away from archetypal villages
to elemental realms,” Haas explained. “And while last year’s element was fire, this year is about water. It’s the perspective of the moon – looking at the Earth from a witness position. The moon also governs the tide and the waters in our own bodies, so the theme is also about confronting fear of the unknown and our other emotions. Seeing them as a witness, allowing them to be what they are, is part of the exploration.” More so than in previous years, those themes will be seen in the workshop content, and the festival’s aesthetic, and the narrative and conversation, Haas said. “There’s more cohesion in the curating.” Indeed, a glance at the schedule ((https://lucidityfestival. com/2019-lucidity-festival-schedule)
indicates a reorganization around the elements that finds each area more focused in the programming, with meditation in the Spirit realm, sexuality featured in Fire, and yoga and dance in the Movement Lab (which will encompass four official DJs from Santa Barbara Dance Tribe’s ecstatic dance community this year). The subtle shifts are also showing up in the music lineup, where the two main headliners, Emancipator and OPIUO, are big names within the festival circuit who have never before played at Lucidity. But the loud music will end a little earlier and the drumand-bass quotient has been cut back, meaning far fewer thumping beats intruding on sound baths and other
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quieter pursuits. “We’re looking at the soundscape from a more holistic perspective, and integrating the feedback from last year,” Haas explained. “So this year the main stage will have both electronic and live music alternating, and all of it is curated to be uplifting and melodic and easier on the ears.” (That would include Montecito’s own Glen Phillips, the singer-songwriter turned community songleader who is also making his Lucidity debut.) To be sure, there are still some areas of expansion, including Plant Medicine Way, which will host cacao ceremonies and presentations as well as lots of programming and vendors surrounding essential oils, elixirs, and hemp products. There are new acts, new art installations, new vendors, and new workshops every year. At the same time, the Santa Barbara community remains deeply involved, with Fishbon, for example, returning with its popular Pyrobar fire-spitting/tune spinning vehicle, audience-powered cable show-spoofing Steve TV and Fishbon Theatre, which adds the new So You Think You Can Shaman game show to the 4th Annual Lucid-Olympic Games, its other big mass-participation event. And, as always, Lucidity is a more than a bit amorphous, the festival adapting and flowing to meet the dreams and desires of the participants in the moment – perhaps even more flowingly than usual as the moon waxes through its half-moon phase mid-weekend. (Lucidity Moon’s Eye View takes place April 12-14 at Live Oak Camp,
4600 Hwy. 154 about halfway up the San Marcos Pass. Call (805) 686-5097 or visit https://lucidityfestival.com for details on two or three day passes or daily admissions, plus camping rules, and info on every act, artist and workshop presenter at the festival. Also see my Spirituality Matters column on page 22 for a few of the soul-stretching seminars on site.)
ETC’s Everything is Illuminated Sheds Laughter and Light
Part road movie-style buddy comedy and part dramatic exploration of family and national history, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated has found audiences as a novel and 2005 movie that represented Liev Schreiber’s writing and directing debut. Now Ensemble Theater is presenting the Southern California premiere of the theatrical adaptation of the story of a young Jewish-American writer – also named Jonathan Safran Foer – who, spurred by an old photograph, travels to the Ukraine to seek out the woman who may have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. What makes it an absurdist comedy is that he hires Alex, a young Ukrainian tour guide whose family business (with his own grandfather) is as tour guide, to help him find the village. As might be expected, the histories become entwined, leading to some dramatic reveals. “It’s a tricky thing,” explained ETC’s Jonathan Fox, who is directing what is only the fourth production of
the theatrical work. “It’s a story where comedy and darkness go side by side, moving from a funny road trip with three weird characters in a car to taking a darker turn as they witness the ghosts from their histories.” The quirky title itself has many meanings, including one that might have had Alex uttering the phrase instead of “Everything became clear” because he learned English from a thesaurus, Fox said. “But [the title] resonates differently throughout the story, not just in the word ‘illuminated’ but also ‘everything,’ which pops up a lot and means many things. It’s a journey of discovery for both characters – things get illuminated.” But one of those things might not be the objective truth that the Jonathan character seeks, Fox said. “One of the themes is whether there is such a thing as historical truth or accuracy. It shifts a few times, with questions of who is telling the truth. What are the facts? In both the novel and the adaptation, there is an attempt to be ambiguous, because history itself is open to interpretation.” That’s among the reasons why what would seem to be a very personal story becomes one with universal implications. “We’re always dealing with scapegoating and xenophobic attitudes, when really, as Jonathan says in the play, we’re all the same species,” Fox said. “It’s a very touching story at heart that speaks about our culture throughout history.” Jeremy Kahn makes his ETC debut with Everything is Illuminated, reprising the role of Jonathan that he played in last year’s production at Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, while
company comic veteran Matt Wolpe (The School for Lies, The Liar) portrays Alex, cast, Fox said, because of his “expert comic timing that is crucial to the role.” Everything is Illuminated runs April 13-24 at The New Vic.
SBCC Students in Search of an ‘SO’
Three years after Ensemble produced Joshua Harmon’s 2012 laughter Bad Jews, SBCC is taking on the critically acclaimed playwright’s 2015 work Significant Other, which is about a single gay man who discovers that finding Mr. Right is much easier said than done and winds up having even more difficulty supporting his close group of female friends as each lands a mate. The New York Times called the piece “A tenderly unromantic romantic comedy, as richly funny as it is ultimately heart-stirring.” Katie Laris directs the April 10-27 run at the Jurkowitz Theatre on the SBCC campus.
Fun Home Sob Story
Fun Home, the coming-of-age musical based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, won five Tony Awards five years ago, including best musical, so I expected good things in its Santa Barbara debut from Out of the Box Theater Company. But no amount of advance preparation could have prepared me for the avalanche of emotions I experienced as the story of Bechdel’s childhood and adolescent relationship with her closeted gay
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Tell us how the Butterfly Garden event came about. Some members of the public have commented to us, while we are working in the garden, that they were unaware that this was a Butterfly Garden. So, Janet Rogers came up with the idea to help promote the Butterfly Garden with an educational event. The SB Parks and Recreation Department gave us the OK so the event was created.
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free, public event on butterfly gardening was launched for the first time on Saturday, March 30 at the Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden in the Butterfly Garden area. Janet Rogers and Jo Bardsley coordinated the event with Linda Baity, the Coordinator for the Master Gardener Program of Santa Barbara County at the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE). There was much to learn about and lots of free take home information pamphlets, seed packs for planting, and potted milkweed seedlings with gardening handouts. Specific plants are known to attract and feed California butterflies that migrate on the Pacific Northwest coast into our town. The migrations are continuous based on the genus of the butterfly, from laying their eggs through to adult butterflies. While the Texas area has an abundance of butterfly migrations, they typically cannot make it over the Rocky Mountains to the west coast. As local native habitats diminish, the volunteers hope that the informational event and their presence in the garden during the week can help our California butterfly populations. The entrance to the butterfly garden area is at Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden on the Arrellaga Street side, and then to the right. There is signage. Although the area may look sparse, the plants are deliberately arranged for butterflies to lay their eggs, be caterpillars, go through all their stages, feed, and for cross pollinators. Since all public parks in Santa Barbara are pesticide-free, thanks to the efforts of Estelle Foster, Executive Director of Pesticide Awareness and Alternative Coalition, the volunteer gardeners have a little more work to do manually to control weeds and undesirable grasses in the area, and do a terrific job. The event was well attended for over two hours, and one lucky child, 15-month-old Christopher, was noted to have a butterfly land in his hair while he planted a milkweed seedling with his mom, Vanessa Atyabi, who said, “One of Christopher’s favorite activities is to play in our native plant butterfly garden. After seeing the event on Facebook, we were happy to hear from the Master Gardeners about how to attract more butterflies and how to save our milkweed. Christopher even got to be a landing pad for two butterflies!” Indeed the cutest attendee of the day. I met with the lead volunteer of the 11 – 18 April 2019
Volunteer Trudy Adair-Verbais with milkweed seedlings and planting information
Christopher, with a butterfly in his hair, and his mom Vanessa Atyabi, at the Master Gardener Butterfly event Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden
Butterfly Garden, Donna Grubisic, for some background details: Q. How did you get interested in butterfly gardening? A. I was one of the Master Gardeners that helped design and plant the
Butterfly Garden at Alice Keck Park in 2008. The vision of a Butterfly Garden there began in 2005 by a team of UCCE Master Gardeners, including Bob Ledbetter, Helen Fowler, Lynn Kirby, and myself in collaboration with the staff of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Working with Santos Escobar, Director of Santa Barbara City Parks and Recreation, we obtained the necessary approvals for the project and identified a suitable plot at Alice Keck Park. Landscape Architect Grant Castleberg helped develop a garden design that incorporates nectar plants for butterflies and food plants for caterpillars.
Is this the first butterfly gardening event at Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden? Yes, this is the first year holding this event at the Butterfly Garden. We plan to have this annually so we hope this is a success with the public. I think Mrs. Alice Keck Park would be pleased in how we are showing off part of her Memorial Garden! 411: UC Master Gardeners Program provide volunteer service to the Santa Barbara community by not only maintaining the beautiful Butterfly Garden, but also educating visitors about how to select and care for plants that will attract butterflies and other beneficial pollinators to their own gardens. Please feel free to stop and ask us questions anytime. Our workdays in the garden are the second and fourth Tuesday of each month from 9 to 11 am. •MJ
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Verdi, Requiem In a spirit of community collaboration, Verdi’s Requiem will see Maestro Nir Kabaretti conducting the Symphony alongside local community choirs and soloists Colleen Daly, Harold Meers, Krysty Swann and Luca Dall’ Amico. This powerful Requiem combines the drama of opera, the thrill of outstanding symphonic writing, and an abundance of virtuosic solo moments. In the words of Johannes Brahms, “Only a genius could have written such a work.” Artist Sponsors Selection Sponsor
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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 30) Mara Abboud, Treesa Robinson, and Nina and Eric Phillips at the opening of Alito’s (photo by Priscilla)
Greg Huron, SBPD Chief Lori Luhnow, Luci and Rich Janssen, and Bea Molina with son Rey Molina (photo by Priscilla)
Sheriff Bill Brown, Diana Starr Langley, Mollie and Ali Ahlstrand, Gail Kvistad, Catherine Gee, Chris Lancashire, and Nina Johnson (photo by Priscilla)
Tatiana and James Fenkner, Ryan Comperatore, Patrick Braid, and Taylor Roberts celebrate the new restaurant (photo by Priscilla)
Fred Brander, Melissa Laine, Alito’s owner Ali Ahlstrand, with Wendy McCaw and Arthur von Wiesenberger (photo by Priscilla)
Philip Gasteier, Jerry Huffman, Mindy Gasteier, and Don and Carol Schireson at the newly opened Lost Horizon
‘We have had four brothers, Eduardo, Victor, Julio, and Juan Carlos Carranza, working for us as chefs for many years,” explained Ali. “Two of them are running the kitchen at Mollie’s, which has been a great success, and the other two, led by Eduardo, are running the kitchen at Alito’s, so it has worked out well. The menu is based on food their mother cooked for them while growing up in Mexico City.” The restaurant has undergone a complete makeover by Santa Barbara interior designer Eileen Dill and welcomed nearly 200 guests for the opening bash, including Ginni Dreier, Fred Brander, sheriff Bill Brown, Rebecca Brand, Wendy McCaw, Eric and Nina Phillips, Mara Abboud, Christopher Lancashire and Catherine Gee, Diana Starr Langley, mayor Cathy Murillo and Arthur von Wiesenberger. Book Bash Tony twosome Jerry Jacobs and
Chef Eduardo Carranza, Irene Robles, Nina Johnson, Julio Carranza, Kate Schwab, Mayor Cathy Murillo, and Bob Stout (photo by Priscilla)
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Angela Perko celebrated the opening of Montecito’s latest lively literary lair, Lost Horizon, in the upper village with a bijou bash. Dozens turned out for the fun fête at the San Ysidro Road store, which shares space with Diane Stewart’s fine art emporium. Among the bibliophile bunch were Mahri Kerley, owner of Chaucer’s, Mary Heebner, Susan Bush, Nancy Gifford, and Karen Drown. 50 Shades of Goop Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop website often sets tongues wagging. And the Montecito resident is set to shock again as she is now selling kinky lingerie on her lifestyle website, with a $786 leather bra and knickers set promising to fulfill bondage, discipline, dominance, and submission fantasies. “This set is prepped for full speed ahead,” says the blurb.
Susan Bush, Jerry Jacobs, Nancy Gifford, and Mahri Kerley celebrate Lost Horizon
“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein
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Cabana Home owners/ hosts Steve and Caroline Thompson with honored multidisciplinary digital media artist George Legrady with his wife, Olivia Harris (photo by Priscilla)
Peter and Stephanie Smillie, artist George Legrady, Lisa Foley, and Ann James (photo by Priscilla)
Sheri Mobley and Royce Woodbury alongside of color lenticular medium “Garden in Paris” (photo by Priscilla)
Sally Terrell and Mimi DeGruy admiring the artist’s floral lenticular photographic print (photo by Priscilla)
There’s also a whip, described as “a leather flogger,” equipped with 16 tails of leather, “handmade in England and perfect for play.” Lashings of fun... Focus on Legrady It was all about accentuating the negative when Cabana Home, the interior design store, just a tiara’s toss from the Funk Zone, hosted a reception for Santa Barbara artist George Legrady. Legrady, 69, described as a multidisciplinary digital media artist, had 13 of his interesting works, based in Transylvania, Athens, Greece, and Montreal, on display. The works, photographic negatives on metal, have been shown in many international galleries including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, MOCA in Los Angeles, and
the San Francisco Museum of Art, with his unusual art in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Whitney in New York, and the Smithsonian in Washington. Among the art lovers turning out for the bash, hosted by Steve and
Caroline Thompson, were Gerald Incandela, Robyn Geddes, Mary Ellen Tiffany, and Dawn Moore, daughter of Lone Ranger actor Clayton Moore.
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Notice Inviting Bids Conveyance Main Project Bid No. 3960 1.
Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for Bid No. 3960, the Conveyance Main Project (“Project”), by or before May 9, 2019, at 3:00 p.m., through PlanetBids or at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office or successfully uploaded to PlanetBids prior to 3:00 p.m.. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office or the digital time stamp on PlanetBids will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. Bids that fail to upload to PlanetBids prior to the deadline will not be accepted. Bidders are encouraged to upload bids by 2:30 p.m. to PlanetBids.
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Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located in the City of Santa Barbara, California approximately in Yanonali Street, Calle Caesar Chavez, Salsipuedes Street, Ortega Street, Olive Street, Sola Street, and Garden Street ,and is described as follows: the Work generally consists of construction of approximately 2.2 miles of 24-inch diameter potable water pipeline, a pressure reducing valve vault, pipeline appurtenances, paving, electrical and instrumentation equipment, and other miscellaneous work. 2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 300 calendar days from the effective date of Notice to Proceed. 2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $8,600,000.
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License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): A or C34. 3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.
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Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.
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Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of five (5) percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.
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Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half. 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.
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Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.
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Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.
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Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.
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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.
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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.
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Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on April 18th, 2019 at 12:00pm, at the following location: David Gebhard Public Meeting Rm, 630 Garden St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference will be disqualified from bidding.
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Specific Brands. Pursuant to referenced provision(s) of Public Contract Code section 3400(c), City has found that the following specific brands are required for the following particular material(s), product(s), thing(s), or service(s), and no substitutions will be considered or accepted: Item: Gate Valve Plug Valve Pressure Reducing Valve (PRV) PRV Strainer Pressure Gauge Pressure Transmitter
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“Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.” – Lewis Mumford
11 – 18 April 2019
Notice Inviting Bids (REVISED) TUNNEL ROAD PUMP STATION REHABILITATION Bid No. 3935
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Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its Tunnel Road Pump Station Rehabilitation Project (“Project”), by or before May 15th, 2019, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 East Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.
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Project Information.
2.1
Location and Description. The Project is located at 1501 Tunnel Road, Santa Barbara, California, and is described as follows: Upgrades to Tunnel Road Pump Station including; three new vertical turbine pumps and pump cans; piping, valves, and accessories; electrical equipment including motor controls, service gear, conduit and wire, lighting, and accessories; site work including buried piping, paving, entrance gate installation; roof replacement; installation of City- furnished process control panel; painting and protective coatings; modifications to the existing hydropneumatic tank; and associated demolition. Upgrades to Tunnel Road Reservoir including; exterior painting of the reservoir, new inlet piping and accessories; new tank mixing system; associated electrical and instrumentation, and control items.
2.2
Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is 350 calendar days.
2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is $1,800,000. 3.
License and Registration Requirements.
3.1
License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): A.
3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions. 4.
Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms, and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, California 93103, at (805) 884-6155.
5.
Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.
6.
Prevailing Wage Requirements.
6.1
General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.
6.2
Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no lessthan the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.
6.3
Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.
7.
Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.
8.
Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public ContractCode section 22300.
9.
Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.
10.
Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.
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Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on April 25th, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., at the project site for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory.
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Specific Brands. Pursuant to referenced provision(s) of Public Contract Code section 3400(c), City has found that the following specific brands are required for the following particular material(s), product(s), thing(s), or service(s), and no substitutions will be considered or accepted:
Item:
Required brand:
Reference:
Ductile iron pipe fittings
Sigma Napco
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Tank mixing system
PAX
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Motor Controls/Starters/VFD’s
Rockwell
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Magnetic Flow Meters
PAX
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Pump Motors
U.S. Motors
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Transfer Switch
ASCO
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Peristaltic Metering Pump
Watson Marlow
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Diaphragm Metering Pump
LMI
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Item:
Required brand:
Reference:
Fire Hydrant
James Jones
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Pipe Joint Restraint
EBAA Iron
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Pipe Saddles
James Jones
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Pressure Gauge
Rosemount
Section 3400 (c)(2)
By: William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) April 10, 2019
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Date:
2) April 17, 2019
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says. “And,” he added, “to doing dumb things they hadn’t done since high school or before.” Checkpoints are where rally goers clock in and where they are required to “do something.” In past years, those checkpoint challenges have included free throws in a basketball court, bean bag tosses, a “Michael Says” (Michael Baker is the Boys & Girls Club President), a play on the schoolyard “Simon Says,” a giant slingshot contest, and many other such fun curiosities. “We try to keep it kind of whimsical at the checkpoints,” Monte explains, “but that’s where you earn the points. “There’ll be a lot of curves and a lot of fun and you won’t need a classic or a fancy car.” The wildflowers should be spectacular. He does note that they have a fair amount of electric cars this time around. I (your humble editor) will be driving my 2006 Honda six-speed manual transmission Civic SI (look for the JRNLJM license plate). There will also be at least one pickup truck and other stalwart vehicles, including a red VW Beetle. Speed is not important. It’s not a race, and in fact a speeding ticket automatically disqualifies the driver and the car. Every driver has to place his license in a sealed envelope at the beginning of the rally, and if the seal
is broken, that means you got a ticket and you are out of the running. “We set the target for sixty cars,” Monte says, “and there are now sixty-four; there’s probably a space for a couple others, and I want to get in everyone I can.” He says gala goers should be prepared for some surprises, most of which he refuses to let on what they are, but does reveal that they’ll have Gastro Garage catering the cocktail hour and dessert. “They wear welding helmets and do all their cooking with blowtorches,” he says, laughing. Entertainment will be a complete surprise and “people will have a lot of fun with that.” Outside the Nesbitt place, every rally car will be parked and on display “in all their bug-splattered glory,” says Monte who pleads with drivers not to wash their car until after the gala. Where will the money go? “That’s the thing we’re most proud of, the impact the club has had on these kids,” he says. “One of the biggest challenges for many of them,” he adds, “is how to get to the club. Because of the rally, we were able to buy two vans and can now pick up many of them and bring them home again. Those hours after school before the parents get home,” he warns, “are the most dangerous for at-risk kids.” The money raised over the years
has allowed them to open a new club in Buellton, and this year in Solvang they’ve been able to bring organized events to schools and are hoping to open a club there. The funds have allowed the club to also make the kitchens better and to offer hot meals. “And now,” Monte says, “we have been able to keep all the clubs open on Saturdays, for homework, games, digital labs, etcetera.” If you want to register your car for the rally, or simply want to buy tickets to the “A European Affair” gala, which takes place at Pat and Ursula Nesbitt’s Summerland estate and costs $250 per person, go to rally 4kids.org or call 805-681-1315. There is probably room for two more entries.
Maile Kai at SOhO
Twelve-year-old Maile Kai Merrick, along with Sofia Schuster, sang solo, and the entire Adderley choir joined in and recently sang “Somewhere” from West Side Story in honor of Jim Dougherty’s 80th birthday at the Lobero. But you’ll get to hear the remarkable Maile Kai and Sofia sing again at SOhO this Friday, April 12 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. It’s called Amplify Adderley and it will be the very first fundraiser for The Adderley School, “dedicated to helping children realize their potential on stage and in
Maile Kai Merrick sings at SOhO on Friday April 12 and again at the Lobero as Maria in West Side Story on May 5, at 2 pm matinee
life, regardless of their parents’ ability to pay tuition.” Cost is just $60 for the show and dinner. Proceeds will go to scholarships and to help underwrite the upcoming production of West Side Story, at the Lobero on May 4 and 5. (Sofia will be playing Anita in West Side Story May 5 at 2 pm and will star with Maile Kai [Maria] the same day). KEYT’s Alys Martinez will emcee the SOhO event that features not only Maile Kai and 2019 Teen Star winner Sofia, but also American Idol contender Jackson Gillies. Tickets to the April 12th, SOhO event can be purchased here: https:// squareup.com/market/the-adderleyschool-for-the-performing-arts/item/ amplify-adderley-ticket. Tickets to the May 4 and 5 Adderley Conservatory production of West Side Story at the Lobero Theatre can be purchased at the Lobero box office or online at lobe ro.org. •MJ
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SEEN (Continued from page 16) Pianist Gil Rosas with Bobbi Kroot CSA board president at the musical
CSA executive director Gary Linker with the musical hosts Dr. Ramona Clark and husband Dr. Guy Clark
a daily phone call to seniors 55 years or older to keep them connected and to be sure they are okay. There’s a
free Senior Day at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Wednesday, April 17, 2019. •MJ
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A benefit for Noah’s Anchorage • St. George Youth Center My Home • Support and Outreach Services
20th Anniversary Santa Barbara Women’s Club, Rockwood Thursday, May 2, 2019 6 - 9:30pm Time’s running out! Secure your sponsorship or buy your ticket today! Visit ciymca.org/rfs Contact Valerie Kissell for more information at 805.569.1103 x32 or at Valerie.Kissell@ciymca.org
My Home continues the care for youth as they become young adults but still need critical support services as they pursue educational or employment opportunities.
Street Outreach Services provide on the street assistance to youth and young adults who find themselves living on the streets or being at-risk of homelessness. Noah’s Anchorage is a safe haven for at-risk and homeless youth and provides programs to end the cycle of homelessness.
A huge thank you to our sponsors so far! Secure your sponsorship, and show your support for Santa Barbara’s at-risk youth. Entrée Marilyn and Steven Gutsche Student Transportation of America
Mixers Jettie Edwards Claudia and Ed St. George
Grand Cru Lynn and Roger Karlson
Aperitif Dr. Yolanda Garcia Dr. Yonie Harris Don and Valerie Kissell Sue and Tom Richards Marsha and Al Roberson Carolyn and Bob Williams
Tasting BB&H Benefit Design Dessert Doyle-Morgan Structural Engineering, Inc. Montecito Bank & Trust Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Foundation
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cian Johann Sebastian Bach’s 334th birthday was celebrated in grand style with an entertaining concert at Trinity Episcopal Church. Although Bach died in 1750 his music is as popular as ever, with soprano Adriana Ruiz and tenor Grey Brothers, accompanied by flutists Jane Hahn and Judy Goldwater, Patrick Lindley on harpsichord and piano, Thomas Joyce on harpsichord and organ, and Andrew Saunders playing viola da gamba. The all-Bach program featured ten works, including the Easter Oratorio and his chromatic fantasia and fugue in D minor. Bach with bite...
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Premature Release Timing is everything! And according to Montecito actor Rob Lowe, 55, he now wishes he’d better timed the release of his sex tape back in 1989. The West Wing vet told Marc Maron on his WTF podcast he believes the tape would have helped his career had it been made 20 years later. Rob was embroiled in the scandal when he was sued by the mother of a 16-year-old girl he made an X-rated movie with in 1988. Later on, the father of two – sons Matthew, 26, and John, 24 – claimed he didn’t know the teenager was underage. Reflecting on the incident today, Rob joked his biggest “f--- up” was the footage being released too soon. “I was one billion percent ahead of the curve.” The actor settled the lawsuit and didn’t face any criminal charges... Rising to the Top Montecito TV mega producer Dick Wolf’s show, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, has just made history after being renewed for a record 21st season. The NBC series is now the longest running live-action series in primetime history. SVU was previously tied with
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An old friend and colleague Christopher Wilson, a longtime chronicler on the Royal Family for London’s Daily Mail, is morphing into quite an author. Christopher, writing under the nom de plume TP Fielden, has enjoyed enormous success with his charming Miss Judy Dimont mystery series of books, including Resort to Murder, A Quarter Past Dead, and the Riviera Express. Now he has signed a new threebook contract to write a World War II series set at Buckingham Palace, a building he knows well. The principal character, Guy Harford, is a painter, an assistant private secretary to the monarch – and a spy. A superb writer, not to be missed, it is to be hoped the Hallmark TV Channel is taking note... Sightings: Veteran TV host Regis Philbin noshing at Pane e Vino... Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman checking out the Rosewood Miramar... Actor Dennis Franz shopping at Vons
Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@ verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbarseen.com or call 9693301. •MJ
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its predecessor, the original Law & Order, as well as the beloved Western Gunsmoke for longest running live action series. The current record for all primetime – live action and animated – is held by Fox’s The Simpsons, currently in its 30th season.
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funeral home-owning father unfolded at Center Stage on opening night last weekend. After holding back tears during the first act, I excused myself to a quiet spot in the parking lot and just bawled my eyes out during the intermission, sobbing almost uncontrollably ‘til it was time to return. I can’t quite explain why, other than perhaps note that the scenes when all three Alisons – the child at play, the adolescent experiencing freedom, and the adult Bechdel observing and narrating, often in song – appeared simultaneously acted as a catalyst. Something about the acceptance and integration of the parts from the past delivered via easily accessible music unleashed the floodgates within. But of course that was just my access point to the piece that has many avenues of entry for the audience. Whatever the byway, Fun Home is not only perfectly cast but tautly directed (by OOB founder Samantha Eve), and features one of the most organically embodied performances I have ever witnessed in Paige Mobley, who plays the adolescent Alison. Fun Home is funny, dramatic and endlessly emotional, at least for this viewer, who remains grateful for opportunity to access some of his own darker corners with compassion through the experience. The musical closes with three final performances this FridaySunday, April 12-14.
‘Fracture,’ Fiesta and Other Dance Dimensions
UCSB senior BFA dance majors Colin Sneddon, Madeline Takemori, Sergio Barrientos, Johnny Cox, Jasmine Agredano, and Luis Gomez are the choreographers for Fracture, the annual Spring Dance Concert, at UCSB Hatlen Theater April 11-14. The material ranges from pure movement invention to cult/group dynamic behavior and meditations on loss of memory through the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease. Christina McCarthy directs the concert that also features a piece by New York choreographer Doug Elkins, who had a residency at the Lobero Theatre last fall with DanceWorks. State Street Ballet reprises Ballroom, features several signature pieces from the company’s repertoire – new co-artistic director William Soleau’s “Five By Gershwin” and “Nuevo Tango,” plus “B.A.N.D.,” Robert Sund’s tribute to the Jazz Age – along with world premieres of “Stand By Me,” by Kassandra Taylor Newberry, and Soleau’s “The Ring,” a solo danced by Anna Carnes, and Laurie Eisenhower’s (of Eisenhower Dance Detroit) Lawrence Welk-inspired “Bubbles.” “Ballroom” performances 11 – 18 April 2019
are on Saturday night, April 13, and Sunday afternoon, April 14, at the Lobero, where the first show will be preceded (with VIP tickets) by an onstage class with ballroom dance instructor Derrick Curtis of BASSH fame. The world-renowned French dance company Ballet Preljocaj performs “La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall),” the newest of choreographer-company director Angelin Preljocaj’s evocative renderings of fairy tales, at the Granada on Tuesday, April 16. Based on a Chinese folk story, the piece for 10 dancers immerses the audience in a fantastical world through its choreography, evocative sets and an electro-fusion score by Air co-founder Nicolas Godin.
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Jarrett J. Krosoczka, the author and illustrator whose works include the popular Lunch Lady and Jedi Academy comic series, was a 2019 National Book Award finalist for Hey, Kiddo, his moving graphic memoir about growing up in a family grappling with his mother’s heroin addiction. Krosoczka will talk about the story of how an art class and a sketchbook saved his life at 7 pm on Thursday, April 11, in the Faulkner Gallery. National Geographic’s best-selling Blue Zones author Dan Buettner and photographer David McLain spent two decades studying the world’s happiest, healthiest and longest-living people from the Silk Road to the Mayan ruins, the Great Barrier Reef and the jungles of the Amazon. Now they are sharing the secrets to living longer and better lives through a variety of media, including an illustrated lecture at UCSB Campbell Hall at 7:30 pm on April 15.
Acid Aspirations
Bestselling author and longtime Montecito resident T.C. Boyle’s most recent book is another ultra-timely novel that fictionalizes a story surrounding an important topic. Outside Looking In explores the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-altering possibilities, beginning with the early years of LSD, from its first synthesis by Albert Hofmann in 1943, to the time when it broke free of strictly psychiatric use in the Harvard-based experimentation of the 1960s that later gave rise to the substance being outlawed. With psychedelic drugs once again being used clinically, Boyle’s book provides an entry point both informative and entertaining. He will talk about it in a Parallel Stories Lecture at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, April 17, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Mary Craig Auditorium. •MJ
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C ALENDAR OF 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)
FRIDAY, APRIL 12 ‘Sunrise’ at Sunset – The Westmont Orchestra spotlights three of its talented students as concerto soloists in its annual Concerto Concert that also the U.S. premiere of the complete “Uilleann Sunrise” composed in 1997 by Australian Sean O’Boyle. In the concert’s first half, orchestra concertmaster and senior violin performance major Sierra Farrar solos in the third movement of Violin Concerto No. 3 in D Major by Saint-Saëns before juniors Junia Work (violin) and Logan Hodgson (cello) perform movements of concertos by Edouard Lalo and Josef Haydn. The O’Boyle piece that follows is a tone poem that “depicts the sunrise on a beautiful coastline somewhere in the world, complete with a rising and falling storm, the scattering of birds and the tranquil ocean,” says Westmont professor and conductor Michael Shasberger, who had led the orchestra in working with the composer for the past year in preparing the parts and rehearsing the piece. Given Santa Barbara’s recent weather and 300 days of sunshine, perhaps the piece will “feel right at home” when it’s played right around the time sunlight fades at the first downtown performances, tonight at 7 pm at Santa Barbara Community Church. The concert, which will be repeated Sunday at 3 pm at First Presbyterian Church, concludes with the final pieces of John Williams’ score for
the original Star Wars film, including the triumphant “Throne Room and End Title.” WHEN: 7 pm tonight, 3 pm Sunday WHERE: 1002 Cieneguitas Rd. tonight, 21 East Constance Ave. Sunday COST: $10 general, students free, tickets at the door INFO: (805) 565-6040 or email music@westmont.edu SATURDAY, APRIL 13 Symphony’s Collaborative Concert – The Santa Barbara Symphony’s special 65th anniversary season has its most massive performances of the year with Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. The famed 19th-century Italian opera composer’s only masterpiece not intended for the stage, the requiem was written in memory of his friend, the celebrated writer, hero, and patriot Alessandro Manzoni, and debuted on the first anniversary of Manzoni’s death in the San Marco Basilica in Milan. Soloists Colleen Daly (soprano), Natascha Petrinsky (mezzo-soprano), Harold Meers (tenor), and Luca Dall’Amico (bass) will be joined by a number of local choruses from across the county – including the Santa Barbara Choral Society, the Santa Barbara City College Choirs, and the North County Chorus – both to comprise the large choral contingent required for the piece, and to reflect the composition’s intent via including the community. The performance also aims to capturing the
FRIDAY, APRIL 12 Shared Madness, the Sequel – Violinist Jennifer Koh’s multiple programs performing and expanding upon well known solo violin music in the old-meeting-new repertoire projects Bach and Beyond and, separately, Bridge to Beethoven, both of which had complete cycle performances here in town, are fascinating events showing the versatility and vitality of the classical realm, especially in the hands of such a vibrant violinist. But even those terrific concerts were exceeded by Koh’s latest ambitious project, Shared Madness, in which she commissioned short works from her friends across her musical community – including such contemporary-music luminaries as Philip Glass, David Lang, Bryce Dessner, Andrew Norman, and Kaija Saariaho – which they gifted to her to be performed in order to repay the benefactors who helped her purchase a new violin. Koh played about half of the 30 pieces in a performance at St. Anthony’s Chapel under the auspices of UCSB Arts & Lectures that drew a rave review from Los Angeles Times’s Mark Swed, who loved both the performance and the “venue’s sense of spiritual remove, magnificently enhanced by a reverberant enveloping acoustic that gave Koh’s violin a lustrous aura.” Tonight Koh returns to the hall for the remaining works that explore the relationship between the violinist and the instrument, updating Pagannini’s own examination of the meaning of virtuosity in the 21st century in the much-anticipated Shared Madness, Part 2. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: St. Anthony’s Chapel at the Garden Street Academy, 2300 Garden Street COST: $35 INFO: (805) 893-3535 or www. ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
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SUNDAY, APRIL 14 Twilight A-Glow – Irish supergroup The Gloaming chose an apt name, as the quintet’s oeuvre involves musical transitions in the merging and enhancing traditional Irish music’s rich, soulful tones with modern hues of jazz, contemporary classical, and experimental music. By combining sean nós (old style) singing and instrumental explorations over a backbone of spare minimalism, The Gloaming cleverly comes off as both deeply familiar and consistently surprising. Even its membership spans generations and the globe as the group is comprised of Irish fiddle master Martin Hayes, Hardanger (Norwegian violin) innovator Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh, singer Iarla Ó Lionaird, New York pianist Thomas Bartlett, and Chicago guitarist Dennis Cahill, who together carve new paths connecting the Irish folk tradition and New York’s contemporary music scene. Making their Santa Barbara debut less than two months since the release of their third self-titled album – which was produced by Thomas Bartlett of Sufjan Stevens and St. Vincent fame – will bring songs inspired by historical events, love poems, bittersweet accounts of loss and emigration and, of course, songs about drinking and devilment. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $25-$40 INFO: (805) 893-3535 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
spirit of Verdi’s values by honoring the memories of those loved and lost in our local community as furnished by the public via a donation campaign, as The Symphony will recognize the memorial at the start of the concert, which will end with a moment of silence. WHEN: 8 pm tonight, 3 pm tomorrow WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $29 & up ($20 for ages 20-29, $10 all students) INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org SUNDAY, APRIL 14 Try to Catch the Wind – The annual Santa Barbara Kite Festival is a family-oriented affair that takes over the gorgeous ocean-view Great Meadow on the west campus at Santa Barbara City College with more than a dozen kite flying events bursting with color and wonder. The festival’s most popular event, the Children’s Tail Chase, is as fun as it sounds, while other family-friendly kite flying contests include Best of Fest, Best Ground Display (banners, flags display), Youngest and Oldest Kite Flyers, Most Unique/Unusual Kite, Funniest Kite and even – for the aeronautically challenged – Most Unflyable Kite. Among the other contests with coveted prizes are Most Beautiful (handmade and commercial), Highest Flying, and Largest and Smallest Kites, and the trick-filled Sport Flying. Food, craft, kite, and other vendors round out the attractions that take place whatever the weather conditions, “windy or calm”. WHEN: 11 am-5 pm WHERE: 973 Cliff Drive COST: free INFO: https://www.facebook.com/ events/1982548555395894/
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TUESDAY, APRIL 16 On a Mission to Sing – Although he’s just 28 years old, pop singer David Archuleta has been performing publically for nearly two decades, dating back to when he won the children’s division of the Utah Talent Competition at age 10 back in 2001. Archuleta became the Junior Vocal Champion on Star Search 2 when he was just 12, and five years later finished second on the seventh season of American Idol, which launched his recording career. His self-titled debut album, released just before his 18th birthday, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling more than 750,000 copies in the United States alone. Six albums (including two Christmas records) later, and following a two-year break in 2012-14 when he a served as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chile, Archuleta is still at it, performing his pop songs that won him more than 44 million votes on Idol and still serve to thrill his fans. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $44 ($134 VIP Experience tickets include a pre-show reception meet and greet/photo, attendance at the soundcheck, a signed photo and VIP gift) INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 Four More Years – Augustin Hadelich, who in recent years has firmly established himself as one of the world’s great violinists, as noted by his being named “Instrumentalist of the Year” for 2018 by Musical 11 – 18 April 2019
MONDAY, APRIL 15 ‘Step’ it Up – Long before the nation found itself laughing out loud at the TV programs The Daily Show, Bill Maher’s Real Time, and The Colbert Report, the Washington, DC-based comedy troupe Capitol Steps has been giving audiences laugh cramps with their bipartisan political lampooning. Begun as a one-off for senate staffers to blow off steam by satirizing their bosses, the troupe found itself in such high demand that they now have multiple companies, including one that travels the country poking fun at the very people and places that once employed the founders. Using fresh new lyrics on topics ripped from the headlines overlayed over well-known popular songs, the equal opportunity parodist Steps offer “an oasis of good-natured ribbing in a fiercely partisan world” – as the Washington Post put it. Although “putting the Mock in Democracy” might seem off-base in the post-truth Trump Era, the troupe embodies the adage that laughter is the best medicine as it still manages to tackle both sides of the political spectrum and laughter, or possibly groans at the impossibly stretched puns and plays-on-words, in songs about topics that might otherwise bring tears or shouts of outrage. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $35-$45 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com
America, returns to CAMA for the fourth consecutive year following his riveting most recent performance of the Britten Violin Concerto with the St. Louis Symphony at the Granada Theatre last season. This year’s offering comes as part of CAMA’s Masterseries, and pairs the virtuoso with pianist Orion Weiss, a 2000 alumnus of the Music Academy of the West, who is also no stranger to these parts (Weiss will also be part of the MAW opening night gala celebrating Jerome Lowenthal’s 50th anniversary as an acclaimed faculty artist on June 14). Hadelich will once again employ the “Kiesewetter” Stradivarius violin for a program featuring works by Beethoven, Debussy, Brahms, Eugène Ysaÿe, John Adams, and Francisco Coll. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $39-$49 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com UCSB Arts Walk – Visit galleries and studios on campus, watch preview performances and behind-thescenes rehearsals, and participate in programming designed to highlight the
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artistic creativity and talent of the UCSB community in the second annual event. Among the highlights for Arts Walk guests are a guided tour from UCSB Librarian curator Chizu Morihara of “In Her Own Image,” an exhibition presented in conjunction with UCSB Reads that explores and celebrates female comic book creators and their works; an open rehearsal of the UCSB Chamber Choir, an oboe masterclass, a performance by members of various student ensembles; a special exhibit showing samples of student work in composing video game music and the chance to play the games to hear the original scores come to life; a screening of The Feminist on CellBlock Y, with a post-film discussion led by convicted felon Richard Edmond-Vargas; performances by UCSB Dance students in outdoor spaces; and interactive playwright showcase stations that will give guests the unique opportunity to work with student playwrights to compose novelty pieces on the spot. WHEN: 4:30-8 pm WHERE: UCSB campus COST: free INFO: www. library.ucsb.edu/artswalk •MJ
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 Ragas from Ravi’s Daughter – Six-time Grammynominated sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar, whose father Ravi revolutionized the instrument over many decades of devotion, returns to town for a cross-cultural musical dialogue that showcases the versatility of the instrument in a classical Indian setting. Shankar’s show comes on the heels of a new record, Reflections, that as its title indicates takes a look back at her journey so far, and anticipates an unreleased score from the film Shiraz, drawing on classical ragas in the world music overview. Shankar’s first local show in three years features a larger ensemble that includes Ojas Adhiya on tabla; Pirashanna Thevarajah on mridangam, ghatam, moorsing; Ravichandra Kulur on flute; Danny Keane on cello and piano; and Kenji Ota and Archana Prasanna on tanpura. It’s further evidence that the Shankar legacy will be formidably represented far into the future. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $25-$40 INFO: (805) 893-3535 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
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