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Head of the class: Janet Adderley’s mom Velma, 88, secures Ph.D. from Rice University, p. 6

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P.10 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P.35 • IMPACT INVESTING, P.49

GETTING STRONGER OsteoStrong is a year-old operation launched by former Curves franchisee Yvonne Parsons that seeks to strengthen brittle bones and actually shows promise (without drugs) in reaching that goal (story on page 21)

The Honor Market

Coast Village’s newest one-stop shop for coffee, pizza, gifts, and more opens its doors, p.12

Men on a Mission

All-male touring choir Chanticleer performs with William Fred Scott on Saturday at Mission SB, p.22

Magical Margarita Trail

There’s plenty to do in Santa Fe, says Jerry Dunn, just don’t do it all in the same day, p.34

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SHOWROOM 5 Guest Editorial

In case of an emergency, who you gonna call? If you try 9-1-1 on your cellphone, Bob Hazard explains, it isn’t as easy as 1-2-3.

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Velma Bernice MacAfee Williams; Kathy Ireland’s Diamonds; Jeff Larsen publishes book; SB Polo Club sponsorship; Judi Weisbart becomes grandmother; DiversiTea luncheon; dinner for Mary Temple Grandin; CAMA and Camerata Pacifica seasons end; Rally 4 Kids; Chocolate de Vine; Glow in the Park; SB Symphony’s curtain call; and Quire of Voyces at St. Anthony’s

8 Letters to the Editor

Alice Green on batteries and Saturday Night Live; Richard Nordlund in praise of Jennifer Christensen; Michael Edwards hits the road; T.T.C. on minding one’s business; Eva Van Prooyen’s photographic memories; Jim Thomas supports Bruce Porter and Jennifer Christensen; and some amusing answers to an age-old question

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Menelli Trading art exhibit; Channel Islands advisory council; French talk; Horse Show & Tack Sale; Sunset Soirée; Moments in Time; Advanced Beekeeping; job fair; trunk show; MUS Board meets; Reaching for Stars at YMCA; knit and crochet; The New Yorker; photography exhibit; Plant & Flower; author Alice Rene; MFPD chipping schedule; art classes; Adventuresome Aging; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; Story Time; Pilates; Italian conversation; farmers and artisans markets; Bible study; and Cars & Coffee

Tide Guide

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

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12 Village Beat

Honor Market opens on Coast Village Road; MUS announces bond measure; Village Fourth grand marshal Dana Newquist; Laguna Blanca Citizenship Breakfast; nonprofit AHA!; and Spotlight, written by Silvia and Bella Molony, on Bishop Diego

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner chronicles the Amethyst Ball at Bacara; Mother’s Day luncheon with Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care; Spirit of Entrepreneurship Foundation awards; and Show Grounds Foundations

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22 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz interviews music director William Fred Scott prior to Chanticleer’s concert at Mission SB; Music at Trinity’s final concert of the season; six questions with musician James Hunter; goodbye to Red’s Bin 211; Zoos Line is it Anyway; Judi and Shari Zucker; films in focus; and cinematic Granada

24 In Passing

Montecito resident and South Korea native Walter Kim, who owned Milpas Liquor & Deli, passes away at 73

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Joanne Calitri explores “The Perfect Medium” exhibit, a Robert Mapplethorpe tribute, at the Getty Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art

49 Impact Investing

Dr. Peter Brill catches up with Tom Parker of Hutton Parker Foundation while discussing philanthropy and the notion of earning money while doing social “good”

50 Calendar of Events

The Lion King JR.; getting funky at UCSB; Mix’d Ingrdnts Dance Company; RedEye’s Block Party; Surf ‘n’ Suds Beer Fest; cantor Mark Childs; Hands on! At Lobero; Speaking of Stories on Center Stage; Do-Over Tour; SB Strings series; and UCSB Dance Company

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Guest Editorial

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

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Calling 9-1-1 on Your Cellphone? Good Luck!

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ontecito, we have a problem,” was the message delivered by City of Santa Barbara Fire chief Pat McElroy and Montecito Fire chief Chip Hickman to the Board of the Montecito Association with regard to calling the 9-1-1 emergency response system from a cell phone. A similar message was delivered to the Santa Barbara City Council and to the Montecito Fire Protection District last week.

The 9-1-1 service was created during President Lyndon Johnson’s presidency in 1967 to replace seven-digit dialing for emergencies. Each state developed its own system. California initiated 9-1-1 service in 1973, paid for by a few cents charge on your landline phone bill. Landline calls were directed to a series of “public safety answering points” (PSAPs), mainly California Highway Patrol (CHP) dispatch centers. There are now some 450 PSAP answering centers in California, handling roughly 55,000 9-1-1 calls per day.

Any 9-1-1 emergency calls from landlines located within Montecito are answered by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s office in Carpinteria. The landline number is automatically tied to the phone billing address by the system.

If the call is for a fire or paramedic service, it is immediately transferred to Montecito Fire Station 1 on San Ysidro Road. The caller’s name and address is already known and included.

Cellphone 9-1-1 calls are handled differently. Calls are routed to a Montecito cell tower or node and mainly sent to a CHP call center in Ventura. CHP dispatchers in Ventura are less familiar with the Montecito area. Worse, 9-1-1 cellphone technology does not use global positioning (GPS). The Ventura dispatch center receives the location of the transmitting cell tower, which may be two miles from the caller, but not the location or identity of the caller.

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Most Montecito residents expect a 9-1-1 response of “What is Your Emergency?”, but the reality for cell phone callers is that the initial response is more likely to be, “Where is your emergency?” Today, Google Earth can automatically identify the precise location of every Domino’s Pizza delivery truck, and tell you the time until delivery. Automobile navigation systems can locate you immediately, track where you want to go, and tell you how long it will take you to get there. The problem is that the 9-1-1 cellphone system cannot communicate with Google Map or any other GPS system.

In addition, cellphone 9-1-1 service is not equipped to receive smartphone text messages, photographs, or videos. Thirdly, the antiquated 9-1-1 cellphone routing may involve multiple transfers from the Ventura PSAP Center – first to the county sheriff in Carpinteria, and a second, if appropriate, to Montecito Fire.

Americans dial 9-1-1 some 240 million times a year. More than 80% (and growing) of these calls are made via cellphones. An inability to track caller location automatically can cause delays and create multiple incorrect transfers on an estimated 20% of the calls. A 2013 study by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) concluded that 10,120 lives could be saved each year if GPS capability, such as Google Earth or various other technologies, could be incorporated into the 9-1-1 system to identify and track the specific location of cellphone callers.

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My wife begins her daily walk at sunrise on Coast Village Road (CVR). One morning, as Marco was opening the Chevron Station at CVR and Butterfly Lane, a disheveled and distraught man emerged, running from the pedestrian tunnel under the 101, repeatedly screaming, “They are after me, trying to kill me! Help me! Help me!”

My wife immediately dialed 9-1-1 on her cell phone. It took repeated calls, including disconnects, to confirm her location and the need for help. After 26 minutes, a fire truck and an Emergency Paramedic unit from Montecito Fire showed up. Obviously, if a “killer” had actually been pursuing the frightened man, Marco, my wife, and the screamer could all have been murdered in the interim.

I subsequently learned that the Chevron station is in a particularly tricky location. Where should the cell 9-1-1 call have been routed? Because the station backs up to Highway 101, the call was routed to the CHP PSAP in Ventura.

The call should then have been forwarded to Santa Barbara Police because CVR is technically in the City of Santa Barbara, or to the county sheriff’s office

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Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News.

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Velma was the first AfricanAmerican female and one of three women to attend the Ph.D. program in the late 1960s and, through a series of snafus, her degree was denied.

“She took leave from her position on the mathematics faculty at Texas Southern University and began her matriculation in the fall of 1966,” says Janet, a Yale graduate, who founded her popular theatrical group, which now has branches in Pacific Palisades and Austin, in 1993.

“She was a conscientious student

Three generations! Janet Adderley, granddaughter Amelia, and Janet’s mom post-ceremony.

and completed all the required coursework, but she was unable to attain support from Rice professors to mentor her in all the aspects of writing and defending a dissertation.

“This was a period in our nation’s history when African-Americans were not given equal access, were discrim-

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Batteries Not Included

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was watching Saturday Night Live a couple of weeks ago. Julia LouisDreyfus was the host. One of her skits was a car commercial satire that surprised the hell out of me.

Why? The commercial shows Ms LouisDreyfus as the celebrity spokesperson for the Mercedes AA Class, which runs exclusively on... wait for it... AA batteries. Nine thousand, six hundred forty-eight AA batteries. Please watch this video; the visuals are priceless.

They include everything from a trunkful of spares to a sensor system on the GPS console that tells you when the batteries are dying, all the way to the closing line of “batteries not included.”

Then why was I so surprised?

Well, the spoof doesn’t necessarily show electric vehicles (EVs) in a purely positive light. But the show is all about satire, right? Right. But happily, Ms Louis-Dreyfus is a Santa Barbara resident; though originally from the East Coast, her husband, Brad Hall, grew up here, and they are both very active and involved in our community. Her most visible support goes to Heal the Ocean. She also seems informed of the challenges of new technologies; she and her husband own a Montecito beach house that was designed for the self-described “devout environmentalist” in a manner her architect David Hertz called “a complete high-end environmental correctness.” If your house was built using reclaimed or donated materials, and has rooftop photovoltaic, solar water heating, ample natural day lighting, sustainable hardwood flooring, and a thermal chimney (a retractable sunroof to draw hot air up and out of the home), you know the world of reduce, reuse, recycle.

What? An environmental activist participating in a piece showing potential limitations of a popular green technology? That’s why I love Saturday Night Live and [its] host that week.

It’s not that we at SOS California don’t support green technologies. On the contrary, our education about oil and gas production speaks so much to what we are about, providing the funding necessary to build the “bridge to our renewable future.” But our education also includes the sometimes hard truths about where we are in our journey toward that future, and the challenges to implement the emerging technologies.

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Alice Green Montecito (Ms Green is an environmental consultant and a member of the SOS California Board of Directors.)

Who is This Guy?

Thanks to Bob Hazard for his introduction to the two candidates running for our 1st District supervisor and to the Montecito Association for holding a candidate forum at the Montecito Union School. I learned something about the candidates, some good, some not so good. And then I received two Das Williams mailers at my home, and after considering Mr. Williams for the past few weeks I have to ask: who is this guy to tell me what he’s done for Montecito?

I have served on the former Montecito Architectural Review Board, and 12 years on the Montecito Association, 2 1/2 years as president, working with our 1st District supervisor, county staff, and county supervisors from other districts to make sure Montecito’s voice was heard. I never came in contact with Das Williams except to see if he could help with Montecito’s concerns with the highway 101 expansion. “Sorry, not interested” was his answer.

It’s pretty clear that he is running for Hannah-Beth Jackson’s California Senate seat when she is termed out in 2020, and he’s been raising money for that effort. Although he denied it at the Montecito Association forum, it’s a matter of record with the secretary of state. The fact is, he needs a job for the next four years; but do we need him?

Das says he’s going to balance the budget, but what is he going to do about the $700-million in unfunded pension obligations at the county? He just took a $30,000 campaign contribution from the County Fire Fighter Pac, and $15,000 contribution from the Service Employees International Union, so he’s hardly motivated to solve this problem, as it means alienating his donor base; a donor base he needs to capture the Hannah-Beth Senate seat in 2020.

We have great schools here in Montecito with wonderful teachers and attentive parents. As parents, we do a lot for our kids and love them very much. The kids participate in Cub Scouts or Girl Scouts, the YMCA programs and many other programs.

We trust the adults that volunteer for these programs, so it’s painful to

review what Das Williams did in the Assembly when he and three other Assembly members killed a bill in the education committee that would have given local school boards greater flexibility to more easily rid themselves of teachers in cases that involved sexual misconduct. Do you think that the $30,000 campaign contribution from the teachers union had anything to do with his behavior on one such act? The crime I’m referring to is too despicable to state here, but please go to www.cnn.com/2012/08/27/us/ california-school-crime-bill and see Anderson Cooper’s report.

Das Williams’s opponent is Jennifer Christensen, who is the Santa Barbara County investment officer responsible for managing a billion dollars of county money. She has an undergraduate degree from UCLA and an MBA and law degree from USC. Unlike Das, she has been a longtime resident of the 1st District, and I think she will do a very good job for our community.

Richard Nordlund Montecito

Signs on the Road

I was on my way up San Ysidro Road on a recent morning from Jameson Lane heading toward a cuppa Joe at Pierre’s, and I kept looking to the right side of the road in order to see

the speed sign posted there: the one that lights up and tells you how fast you are going. I was just about past it before I saw it, because of some trees – olive, I think – that are blocking a clear view of the sign.

At La Vereda, the sign was not visible, and it wasn’t until Monte Vista that I could see my speed dithering on the display. Really not enough time for a good assessment and adjustment, in my opinion.

This is in sharp contrast to the sign above MUS that is in blazing view from way back.

Perhaps a little tree trimming would solve this issue.

Michael Edwards Montecito (Editor’s note: Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and to the attention presumably of the Montecito Association and County Public Works! – J.B.)

Careful out There

Wow! The speculation and guessing of nosy neighbors can ruin a person’s life.

Be careful and considerate of what you stick your nose into. People buy and build all over the world to live in their space they pay for. They pay taxes just as you do and probably do

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(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) FRIDAY, MAY 20 Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council Come to listen, learn, and ask questions as the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council holds a public meeting at the Santa Barbara Zoo. When: 9 am Where: 500 Niños Drive Info: 893-6433 French Conversation Group The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System hosts a French conversation group for those who would like to practice their French language conversation skills and meet others in the community who speak French. Both native speakers and those who learned French as a second or foreign language will participate, and new members are always welcome.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

SATURDAY, MAY 21 Horse Show & Tack Sale Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center invites the community to its 26th Annual Student Horse Show & Tack Sale. The funfilled, Western-themed event showcases Hearts riders of all ages and abilities as they proudly demonstrate their equitation skills before a cheering crowd of supporters, family and friends.

Since 1985, Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center has improved the lives of individuals with physical, emotional, and cognitive challenges, illnesses or injuries, in Santa Barbara County through equine facilitated activities and therapies. The Horse Show is open to spectators free of charge. The community is encouraged to attend and cheer on dozens of riders of all ages as they demonstrate skills and achievements.

The highly anticipated annual event includes a special salute honoring U.S. veterans, a barbecue lunch ($10 for adults/$5 for children), riding demonstrations, barrel racing, pony express “cow” herding, games, a children’s area, horse parade, and several classes dedicated to Hearts’ students and their accomplishments. A VIP tent area for sponsors will also include wine tasting and hors d’oeuvres. Proceeds will benefit Hearts’ mission to inspire, strengthen, and motivate people of all ages and capabilities through equine assisted activities.

When: 9 am to 4:30 pm Where: 4420 Calle Real Info: 964-1519 Sunset Soirée Hillside House’s annual fundraiser will be in the beautiful gardens of El Mirador Estate in Montecito. Spend an early summer evening in the magical, famed gardens of the estate, made possible through the generosity of owner, Tita Lanning, to help foster the dreams and abilities of 59 exceptional people who live and learn at Hillside House.

John Tilson, wine enthusiast, will guide guests through a wine and food tasting.

A silent auction and raffle will be filled with gifts.

When: 4 pm Where: address to be released at time of registration Cost: $200 Info: www.hillsidehousesb.org Moments in Time Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation presents its 2nd Annual “Moments in Time” event, featuring a Great Gatsby theme. The occasion, which features hors d’oeuvres and dancing, auction, live music, and more, will take place at a grand estate in Montecito.

When: 7 to 11 pm Info: 962-7466

Opening Exhibit Menelli Trading Company on Coast Village Road has created a pop-up gallery in their new showroom. The first in a series of exhibits will celebrate the work of Hélène Webb. Hélène’s love of the sea and sailing spans her artistic career throughout various mediums including drawing, graphic art, cartography, oil, watercolor, painting, and sculpture.

The opening event this evening will include cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and the music of John Payne.

When: 5 to 7:30 pm Where: 1080 Coast Village Road

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Advanced Beekeeping If you have previously completed a beginner beekeeping class or have basic beekeeping knowledge, this class will hone your skills. You will gain more knowledge through presentations, discussion of seasonal issues, honey extraction, and field inspection of La Casa’s hives. Please bring your own protective gear, if available.

Led by Paul Cronshaw, who has more than 40 years of beekeeping experience and tends the La Casa de Maria bee apiary. He is president of the Santa Barbara Beekeepers Association. Co-sponsored with the SB Beekeepers Association.

When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $75; includes lunch Info: www.lacasademaria.org

Special Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 8:45 am Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249

MONDAY, MAY 23 Job Fair Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort is hiring housekeeping staff, restaurant servers, cooks, front desk agents, maintenance engineers, and managers.

When: 9 am to 5 pm Where: Reagan Room, 663 E. Cabrillo Blvd.

TUESDAY, MAY 24 Trunk Show Save the date for Julianne Boutique’s Adam Lippes trunk show. Hosted by the Julianne girls and Adam Lippes’s own Lauren Ostek, this is an event you won’t want to miss. Shop the pre-fall and fall collections before they hit stores, get one-onone styling advice, and enjoy refreshments.

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THURSDAY, MAY 26 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

FRIDAY, MAY 27 Photography Exhibit Carpinteria Arts Center hosts photography exhibit to be juried by Henry Rasmussen.

When: 10 am Where: 855 Linden Avenue Info: 684-7789

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Reaching for Stars: An Evening of Fine Dining Youth and Family Services YMCA hosts an evening of extraordinary cuisine in a lovely setting. Enjoy tantalizing dishes prepared

by Santa Barbara’s top chefs, paired with fine wines of the region. From passed hors d’oeuvres through the amazing five-course dinner, the chefs work in teams to create culinary masterpieces.

When: 6 to 9:30 pm Where: Santa Barbara Woman’s Club, 670 Mission Canyon Road Cost: individual tickets cost $200; sponsorships range from $1,000 to $10,000 Info: lynn.karlson@ciymca.org

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SATURDAY, MAY 28 Annual Plant & Flower Seventy-five vendor stalls will overflow with treasures and merchandise at the Museum Marketplace on the grounds of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History.

This popular monthly fundraiser features

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antiques, collectibles, hand-crafted gifts, plants, and great bargains on gently used and vintage goods of every description, including jewelry, furniture, housewares, clothing, books, toys, and much more.

This Memorial Day weekend event also features the annual plant and flower sale of donations to this museum benefit from more than 30 local nurseries. From orchids to cut flowers, garden and bedding plants, to hanging flower baskets, there is something for everyone.

When: 8 am Where: 956 Maple Avenue in Carpinteria Info: www.carpinteriahistorialmuseum.org Book Signing at Tecolote Ojai author Alice Rene will sign her latest book, The Other Side of Him. The book is a provocative look at how darkness can lurk under the most polished exteriors. The story brings to life the terror many people face when someone they know, or even a total stranger, decides to invade and control their life.

When: 3 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977

ONGOING Montecito Fire Protection District’s Fire Prevention Chipping Schedule Week of May 23: East Mountain, Irvine, Brooktree, Oak Creek Canyon, Ashley, and Ayala: Vines, grass, palms, succulents, and other small trimmings can be put in dumpsters that have been donated by MarBorg Industries. The dumpsters are placed at pre-identified locations within the participating neighborhoods during the week of the project. Participants are asked to stack larger shrub and tree limb materials at the edge of the nearest passable access road for free chipping.

For more information, call 565-8018.

MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS Live Entertainment Where: Cava, 1212 Coast Village Road When: 7 to 10 pm Info: 969-8500 MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memoryenhancement exercises in a friendly environment.

When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: 969-0859

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TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 THURSDAYS Simpatico Pilates Buff Bones Join Neela Hutton, Buff Bones instructor for a medically endorsed workout that combines therapeutic exercise, Pilates, functional movement, and strength training.

All levels are welcome. First class free.

When: 8:30 to 9:30 am Where: 1235 Coast Village Road, Suite I (upstairs) Info & Reservations: 805-565-7591 Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative, too.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Road Local Artisans Market When: 3 to 7 pm Where: La Cumbre Plaza, 121 South Hope Avenue Info: www.localartisansmarket.com SATURDAYS Montecito Bible Study All are invited for uplifting hymns and Bible reading; led by David Breed.

When: 6:30 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Cost: donation Info: 570-0910 or www.westcoastbelievers.tv SUNDAYS Cars & Coffee Motorists and car lovers from as far away as Los Angeles, and as close as East Valley Road, park in the upper village outside Montecito Village Grocery to show off and discuss their prized possessions, automotive trends, and other subjects.

Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Corvettes prevail, but there are plenty of other autos to admire.

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Honor Market on Coast Village Road offers pizza, coffee, dessert, and various retail items

n May 17, Coast Village Road welcomed its newest neighbor: Honor Market, located across the breezeway from The Honor Bar. “It is a natural extension and partner to the restaurant,” said corporate manager Steve Crompton, who has overseen both the restaurant and market openings.

The concept for the market has evolved over the last 14 months since the restaurant opened its doors February 2015. The market space already housed the kitchen where the bread for the restaurant’s menu items is baked on a daily basis, and Hillstone Restaurant Group, which owns the eatery, set to work rounding out the offerings of the “market,” encouraging diners to visit before or after a meal at the restaurant, or for a grab-and-go pizza dinner. “There is a little something for everyone,” Crompton told us during a sneakpeek at the space earlier this week.

The market offers a full coffee/ espresso bar, as well as baked goods (cookies, scones, et cetera), desserts

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including carrot cake and key lime pie (desserts are not currently offered at The Honor Bar), grab-and-go pizzas from 4 to 9 pm every day (available uncooked, par-baked, or fully cooked), and a full assortment of all the baked goods offered at The Honor Bar. “Now people who love our rolls and bread can take them home,” Crompton said.

There is also beer and wine (from The Honor Bar’s wine list) available “to-go,” and an assortment of various bottled specialty soft drinks.

The shop also has a wide assortment of retail items, which Crompton says is a thoughtfully curated array of the high-quality merchandise found in Hillstone restaurants. Think glassware, candle holders, serving pieces, cloth napkins, dish towels, and more, plus unique gift items such as coffee table books, novelties, artisanal food items, kitchen items, and more. “We have items that some of our long-term customers specialize in creating, making them part of the Hillstone family,” Crompton said.

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Kale pizza, one of Honor Market’s daily offerings.

Pizzas are available uncooked, par-baked, or fully cooked.

pm every day, with extended, yetto-be-determined morning hours on the weekends. The Honor Bar serves lunch and dinner everyday. Hillstone Restaurant Group, a family-owned and private company, is based in Los Angeles and has developed and operated restaurants for more than 38 years, based in various communities.

Additional restaurants in the group include R+D Kitchen, Rutherford Grill, Los Altos Grill, White House Tavern in Aspen, and many others, including Houston’s. Honor Market is the first retail-type shop in Hillstone’s fleet.

The market is the last ground-level space to be filled in Plaza Montecito,

Honor Market culinary manager Hannah Locke and general manager Helen McIntyre

developer Alberto Valner’s multiuse building which was unveiled in November 2014. The building is located at 1255 Coast Village Road.

MUS Announces Bond Measure

At a special facilities committee meeting last week, Montecito Union School board members decided to move forward with a November bond measure, to fund critical improvements at the school, according to superintendent Tammy Murphy.

“Based on what we’ve learned from last time, it’s a very different bond this

time around,” Murphy told us.

Looking to move forward from the failure of Measure Q, the $27,150,000 school bond measure that was on the ballot in November 2014, the school has completely revised the plans for campus improvements, focusing on critical infrastructure instead of adding square footage in the form of a multipurpose cafeteria and auditorium building. Instead, the board has spent the last two years focusing on the two oldest buildings on campus: one that is 90 years old and one that is 60 (the main building and the kindergarten building). Both structures need electric and plumbing work, as well

as ADA updating. “We’ve streamlined our efforts to address the two oldest buildings. These are health, life, and safety issues,” Murphy said.

The bond measure is not to exceed $16,100,000. “It’s a much pared-down bond,” Murphy reiterated.

Also in the plans: addressing the south parking lot, which causes traffic issues on San Ysidro Road during drop-off and pick-up most days. “We are reconfiguring the drop-off loop, and expanding onto the adjacent property, which we own,” Murphy said, saying that the property, which also houses a historic adobe, will not be used to house buildings, and the adobe will remain untouched.

Another facilities meeting is scheduled for next Wednesday, May 25, with a regular board meeting on Tuesday, May 31, where resolutions related to the bond measure will be passed.

For more information, visit www. montecitou.org.

Village Fourth Grand Marshal

At last week’s Montecito Association Board of Directors meeting, Village Fourth organizer Mindy Denson announced that Dana Newquist, who has organized the Village Fourth

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Santa Barbara Maritime Museum Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara Public Market Santa Barbara Sailing Center Santa Barbara Zoo Jenny Schatzle Shine Blow Dry Bar Signature Parking Simpatico Pilates Studio Six Flags Magic Mountain Sly’s Space.NK.apothecary Spark Creative Events Surf Happens Suzanne’s Cuisine Ken Switzer, Figueroa Mountain Farmhouse S.Y. Kitchen Tecolote Book Shop Tent Merchant The Tennis Shop of Montecito Twentieth Century Fox and Fox Broadcasting Unified Medicine Jill Padilla-Vaccaro, Artist Via Maestra 42 Via Vai Trattoria Claire Wiswall, PA-C Woody’s BBQ Your Cake Baker Zodo’s Bowling & Beyond

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Learning about wines and how to taste them is an art so is choosing the right glass for each wine.

You will learn why the shape of the glass matters!

Class will be held at Cielito Restaurant in La Arcada Courtyard 1114 State Street, Santa Barbara.

Each guest receives a Riedel tasting kit including four wine glasses, wine tasting with 90 points and above red and white California wines and chocolate/wine pairing.

Space is limited to 40 guests Participants must be 21 years or older

he Amethyst Ball – a longtime tradition in Santa Barbara—has come roaring into the 21st century. Instead of the big-band sound of old, this year was alive with rock music by The Alan Parsons Live Project. As the invitation said, “Rock The Bacara” where rock ‘n’ roll meets black tie. There was plenty of both, and the energy was palpable.

The Amethyst Ball given by the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (CADA) has been around since before someone in a hard hat was dreaming about the Bacara being built.

Thirty years! And why the name? The legend says the amethyst is a talisman against drinking. Diana was the Goddess of the Hunt and of the Moon and her neglect offended Bacchus, God of Wine. He swore his tigers should devour the first person his caravan met. This happened to be a beautiful virgin named Amethyst. As the ferocious beasts sprang upon her, she sought the protection of Goddess Diana through prayer and was turned into pure white stone.

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Bacchus saw the miracle and repented his cruelty by pouring the juice of the grapes as a libation over the petrified body of the maiden, this giving the stone a purple violet hue. Out of respect for the transformed nymph, whoever wears an amethyst is protected from the evils of intoxicating drink.

CADA’s mission statement is “Building a safer, healthier community by preventing and treating alcoholism and drug abuse.” As president and CEO Ed Stonefelt told the audience, “We have been an agency for 66 years. Last year we touched the lives of over 9,000 people in the county with our substance abuse prevention and treatment programs. CADA’s 23

Make a reservation for dinner after the class at Cielito (805)965-4770 and receive a complimentary appetizer with dinner!

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There was a record attendance at the ball this year, which helps with those programs.

The ballroom was transformed into a psychedelic wonderland of colored lights and sound. After dinner, it was auction time and show time. Andrew Firestone matched the energy bidding up a private concert with Eric Burdon and the Animals, a Bryant & Sons shopping spree, or fine dining with chef Bradley Ogden at Bacara’s newly reopened Wine Cellar Restaurant.

Among the many to be thanked were event chairs: Betsy Turner, Diana MacFarlane, Holly Murphy, Sue Newman, and Anne Smith Towbes. More thanks to Men’s Night (fundraiser) co-chairs Bob Bryant and Peter Hilf.

Alan Parsons is known worldwide and has won 11 Grammys, just to name a few of his honors. He lives on an avocado ranch in Santa Barbara with his wife, Lisa, and has a studio here as well. As Earl and Claudia Minnis said, “Thank you to The Alan Parsons Live Project for a rocking good time!” And a good time was had by all.

If you’d like to support CADA in any way, call (805) 963-1433

Mother’s Day Luncheon

To rain, or not to rain. That was the question! We were all wondering, as we enjoyed a mimosa on the terrace by the sea at the Biltmore Coral Casino.

The few drops brought out umbrellas, but ultimately the sun shown on the outdoor fashion show. Emcee Meredith Garofalo from KEYT and KKFX told us what the guys and gals were wearing from K. Frank Boutique as they strutted their stuff. This was all for Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care (VNHC) and their annual Mother’s Day luncheon.

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Andrew Firestone, a favorite auctioneer, did his stuff by raising more than $5,000 for a Costa Rica luxury vacation. As executive director Rick Keith said, “Andrew could auction a rusty bucket.” Then it was time to go into the ballroom for lunch.

Event chair Brenda Blalock introduced the “best boss in America, Lynda Tanner” and quipped, “I can now check off the job-security box.”

Lynda reported that the Men’s Night had netted $80,000 to underwrite the luncheon. Thanks went to lead sponsors Irma and Morrie Jurkowitz, Leslie Ridley-Tree, and Impulse Advanced Communications, which also gave a long stemmed rose to each mother there.

Catherine Remak from K-Lite took over the podium remembering a quote from Tina Fey, “Motherhood makes you so tired and so happy.”

She introduced Debby Davison’s son, Eric, who remembered his mom who recently passed away after a cancer battle. One of her favorite expressions was, “Life. What a ride!” As Eric said, “Today, I get to brag about my mom!”

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Dana Newquist, this year’s Village Fourth grand marshal

parade since the inception of the Village Fourth festivities two decades ago, has been chosen as the event’s grand marshal. “I’m flattered,” Newquist told us.

The popular annual event is approaching quickly, with Montecito Association’s committee working hard at organizing the parade, activities, food vendors, and more. Twenty years ago, it was Diane Pannkuk who came up with the idea of an old-fashioned community celebration

on the Fourth of July; she approached Newquist to help her manage the parade and its participants. “There were dozens of details for the committee that was forming at that time, including funding, advertising, and more,” Newquist said.

During our photo op, Newquist donned a Marine Corps fatigue shirt, in honor of the first-ever grand marshal, Jonathan Winters. “I’m wearing this to honor him, and I wear it knowing Jonathan is with me,” Newquist said. Lucinda Winters, Jonathan’s daughter, gave Newquist the shirt shortly after Winters’s death. “I consider being chosen as grand marshal to be a high honor,” Newquist added.

We’ll have more on the Village Fourth festivities in an upcoming edition. For more information, visit www.montecitoassociation.org.

Laguna Blanca’s Citizenship Breakfast

In celebration of their unit on citizenship and what it means to be a good citizen, Laguna Blanca Lower School fourth graders invited local community members who exemplify good citizenship and honored them at a special breakfast last Wednesday.

Guests of honor ranged from firefighters, to doctors, to dance and karate instructors. “There is something

Keynote speakers Sue and Ed Birch with Laguna Blanca fourth-grade teacher Donna Brown

so sweet about a child contacting a ‘grown-up,’ some they’ve never even met, to invite them to a breakfast to be honored for being a good citizen in our community,” said Laguna rep Tara Broucqsault.

During the breakfast, each student introduced his or her guest and shared inspiring qualities of their honoree.

They also shared ideas about what it means to be a good citizen, including donating to a charity, giving food to the hungry, donating clothes to a local

Goodwill, adopting pets that need a homes, being honest, obeying the law, helping others, and much more.

The keynote address was delivered

by Sue and Ed Birch, who shared with the guests how their organization, Mosher Foundation, supports non-profit educational, healthcare, and performing arts institutions in the Santa Barbara area. They talked about the importance of giving the gifts of

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Whenever she approached professors to become her adviser, they would avoid her, creating incredible excuses of time constraints and whatever.”

Despite the setbacks, Velma, whose optometrist husband, John, died three years ago, returned to teaching math at St. Thomas University and Texas Southern University, helping get her son, Marcus, now a cardio-thoracic surgeon, into Harvard and Janet to the Ivy League campus in New Haven.

Another sister, minister Yvonne Boyd, advocated on their mother’s behalf with the university’s current provost and dean, and after reviewing Velma’s history she was chosen to be

honored at last weekend’s ceremony, as well as creating a fellowship in her honor.

It also coincides, ironically enough, with the 50th anniversary of the integration of Rice, whose president, David Leebron, studied at Harvard with Marcus.

Most of the family, including Janet and Velma’s other two children, turned out for the historic and colorful event on the 104-year-old, 295-acre campus, along with four grandchildren and a great-granddaughter, and many of the university’s 6,621 students.

“It was a truly beautiful occasion, and my mother had tears in her eyes,” adds Janet, a Broadway and TV veteran. “The university righted a wrong

all these years later. It was a very powerful moment in our family’s and Rice’s history.”

Ireland Spring Kathy Ireland enters the diamond business (source: Wikipedia)

Former supermodel turned business mogul Kathy Ireland is a woman of many facets!

The Montecito entrepreneur, who lives just a tiara’s toss from my bijou retreat, is about to launch a new venture, Diamonds by kathy ireland in association with Paul Raps New York, to add to her reported $420-million fortune.

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AHA! stands for Attitude, Harmony, and Achievement, and was formed in 1999 following the school massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. “We wanted to help ensure that Santa Barbara was a place where no one felt left out and help protect our schools from school violence,” Freed explained. The nonprofit, which employees 20 staff members, brings state-of-the-art social and emotional programs to local schools, reaching 2,500 students each year. “Those students then reach out to an additional 6,000 students through peer programming,” Freed explained.

The program, which is in every high school in Santa Barbara and one junior high school, helps build life skills such as responsibility, communication, teamwork, effective relationship skills, and more. Thirty-five students from each school meet once a week with several highly trained facilitators, who lead the groups. The leaders serve as role models and mentors to the students, which are of every demographic. Students are encouraged to join AHA! after learning about the program, or they may be referred to the program by a teacher or administrator.

Freed’s goal is to reach the other three junior highs in the area, Goleta Valley, La Colina, and La Cumbre; AHA! is already in SB Junior High.

The program exists entirely on grants and donations.

This weekend’s awareness event will be held Saturday and Sunday, 9 am to noon, at Berkshire Hathaway’s Montecito South office, Calcagno & Hamilton, located at 1255 Coast Village Road, suite 102B. For more information, visit www.ahasb.org.

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Serendipitously, this examination of OsteoStrong, a new health-related franchise opened just a year ago by former owner (for 11 years through 2011) of the Santa Barbara Curves franchise, Yvonne Parsons, appears in print during May, the aforementioned OW&P month. So, celebrate, go running, jumping, hula-hooping, bicycling, weight-lifting, mountain climbing, heck, join your local theater group and lead its dance troupe in a frenzied half-naked, modern dance ritual.

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Great Scott: Music Director on a Mission

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Chanticleer comes to town Saturday night as part of its Mission Road tour

hanticleer, the dozen-member strong male choir from the Bay Area, returns to town for a stop on its quadrennial Mission Road tour of the California missions this Saturday night, May 21. The ensemble will perform its new program of Bolivian and other South and Central American music at Mission Santa Barbara at 7 pm under the leadership of William Fred Scott, the Grammy-winning choir’s fifth music director since its founding in 1978.

Scott – the former director of choral music at Atlanta’s Westminster Schools, artistic director of the Atlanta Opera (1985-2005), and the associate conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (1981-1988) – talked about his new post and the upcoming program over the telephone from San Francisco last weekend.

Q. What attracted you to take over as music director?

A. I fell in love with them 20 years ago when I first worked with them as a guest and never fell out during their searches for music directors, I would come out to San Francisco and put together a touring program, or even just listen to what they were doing on an advisory capacity. The timing was right two summers to come on full time. What I love is the level of music making is unlike any I have ever known before. I’ve worked with great orchestras and ran my own opera company for 20

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years in Atlanta. We did good work.

But there are things these 12 men can do in terms of working diligently to uncover what a piece means, and what it should sound like, and elements of sound and structure, where they go more deeply into things than anyone else I know. And I love the repertoire. It’s not just the old music.

We have new works that commission, so there’s a wide variety of music we get to learn and perform.

We also have male sopranos and altos. That’s very unusual. Most of the choral groups around America use females. But it’s part of our DNA. We sing the early music the way they did it. It provides a particular sound that’s very appropriate and it’s become our trademark sound.

How have you effected change in your brief tenure so far?

It would be churlish to me to suggest I had a big agenda coming in.

They were really good long before I got here and will be long after I leave.

So it’s about maintaining standards and continuing to investigate new pieces of music. For me, what’s most important is to achieve that really beautiful sound, especially now when we’re so geared toward Pitch Perfect and Glee and the a capella movies, where there’s a brashness and marketing quality to the sound, when no matter how loud or soft we sing, the sound is always polished and blended. That’s what we’re always working together to do.

Your current tour brings you back to the California Missions, this time with a new batch of music from Bolivia and Central America. What can you tell us about the program?

We’re doing all religious music that grew out of our invitation to sing at a Baroque festival in Bolivia.

Chanticleer is famous for unearthing treasures of music that was written for the California and Mexican missions, and musicologists seek us out. Unlike with European composers, who had opportunities for publishing, these pieces were written for single occasions and then put away in a drawer, because people writing for a church in Bolivia in the 1700s has no outlet.

Many of them were performed once or twice and haven’t seen the light of day since. Polish priest Piotr Nawrot – who discovered these works, thousands of manuscripts, and had been a fan of ours since seminary – told us that it would be one of the great pleasures in his life if we would come sing some of the music that we had never seen before. I fashioned a program that represented some of this great music from Bolivia, as well as music from elsewhere in Central American and in California missions. It’s a very special program.

There must be a special challenge singing music with no reference points beyond the score.

Yes, and we love it. Most of what anybody does in Western music has by now been found, and you can

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hear it on a recording or at least on YouTube. But here the men and I have to make decisions. How loud does it need to be? How fast should we sing it? How do we discover the composer’s fingerprint and add that to what we know about basic singing techniques? The pieces come alive as we’re rehearsing.

There is one that’s addressed to a butterfly that is flying toward the flame of passion, which is the missionary zeal of the Jesuits. On the page, it looks rather simple and not terribly interesting in terms of melody lines or chord structures. But once those 12 men started singing those lines, it came to life in amazing ways. It’s hauntingly beautiful. And it’s thrilling to have these sorts of opportunities.

What else should we look for?

The four villancicos, which is the Spanish word for carol, commemorating Saint Ignatius de Loyola, are not only religious but also folkloric, so we have added percussion instruments – an organ, guitar, and bassoon which is how we think they were originally performed. And there is also a mass

by Padilla for two choirs – quartet and octet – all a capella, which is just heavenly. So, you have both the noisemaker quality and the serenity of the mass.

Chanticleer’s 40th anniversary is coming up in two years. Anything special planned yet?

We started our existence with a quiet candlelit concert in the little Mission Delores, the original one. I think it would be marvelous if we could re-create that concert with some of our best friends and invite some of the old members to join us. But that’s all I can tell you now.

Sounds of Ceremonious Resounds

Santa Barbara’s Adelfos Ensemble served as a sort of local version of Chanticleer from its founding in 2004 as a men’s a cappella choir before transitioning to a mixed-voice choral ensemble six years later, two years after Temmo Korisheli took over direction of the group from Dr. Michael Eglin, who among other positions serves as composer-in-residence with Quire of Voyces. (Korisheli is also assistant music director at All Saints by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Montecito.) Adelfos’s broad repertoire spans more than a millennium, from ancient chant and Renaissance motets to folksong arrangements and contemporary works.

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Church’s organist-pianist Thomas Joyce. The free concert takes place 3 pm at 1500 State Street. Call 965-7419 or visit www.trinitysb.ladiocese.org/ Music/music-events.

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Soul-stirring British modern soul man James Hunter, 53, who came to prominence a decade ago with his U.S. debut People Gonna Talk, which earned a Grammy nomination and a legion of fans including Van Morrison and Allen Toussaint, is back with Hold On!, his first collaboration with Daptone Records and producer Gabe Roth (Sharon Jones, Amy Winehouse, Booker T. Jones).

Out on the road behind his fourth album of taut compositions played with reverence but not blind allegiance to ‘60s soul – nearly 50 original songs in total – Hunter talked about his career and the record prior to his appearance Tuesday, May 24, 8 pm at the Lobero as an added show in the Sings Like Hell Series.

Q. You took an unusual path to music, working on British railroad, things most of us never do. How did that affect what you do now?

A. Some of it was character-building. When I was with the new works gang, it was quite grueling. The main thing was working with some old fellows I hope were a good influence on me. They basically finish the lessons your parents started, polish how you behave. I should have paid a little more attention than I did (laughs).

How did you adopt soul/R&B as your style? Why did it get inside your blood?

I had a mate who worked on the railway who used to travel. In Chicago, he met Howlin’ Wolf and stayed at his house. He had a marvelous collection of records, which he subjected me to a few times. I think I was drawn because it’s music made for a different generation who’d been through a bit more. Older stuff can be more

British musician James Hunter performs at Lobero on Tuesday, May 24

interesting because of the events that shaped their lives. I’ve always had a sneaking affection for the generation that fought in the war.

You have a very authentic sound, which I don’t think you can sing believably without having lived that life, at least a little bit.

I don’t know. I think you can fake it. It’s only a style of music. It’s best not to mystify it too much, attach too much significance to it. It’s just a method of execution. The directness and relative simplicity is what gets to me. The music is tougher and prettier at the same time. To find both components in the same piece of music is usually what I look for.

You also write your own songs, though.

Is there a centerpiece on the new album, a song that unified it for you?

I’ve got two favorites. “This is Where We Came In” is a song I always wanted to write. And “Free Your Mind” is a sentiment I’ve always wanted to express, an attack on religious bullying. I’d never before found a way to

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In Passing Walter Kim

family. He volunteered at his grandchildren’s school, he took the kids on many Disney trips and cruises, and one time he took the kids to Disneyland in Anaheim every day for a whole week, from the time the park opened until the electric light parade at closing time.

Walter lost his battle to cancer in Santa Barbara on April 20, 2016. He was diagnosed with stage-four liver cancer in 2013; he was a fighter and he vowed to do everything he could to try to beat this horrible disease. Countless radiation treatments, chemo, trips to UCLA and to the Santa Barbara Cancer Center, never complaining or feeling sorry for himself. Even in his final888.737.28 days, he still managed to comfort those around him by telling his wife, who never left his side, to turn her frown upside-down and smile. He had a talent for rolling his eyebrows up and down independently of each other, and this always made the family laugh and oftentimes he was too nauseous and weak to talk, but he was always ready with a fist bump and a thumbs-up when you went to visit with him at his bedside. He stayed with us as long as he could, so that the family had ample time to say their goodbyes and tell him how much they loved him.

He is survived by his wife, Naomi, his daughter Susan, his future son-in-law Jonathan Kenney, his granddaughters Sasha Gordon and Natasha Gordon, his sister-in-law Karen Hoh (who also never left his side in his final days), and too many nieces and nephews to mention.

He loved his wife, he loved his daughter, he loved his grandchildren, and he loved his family, friends, and his country, the United States of America. He was a proud citizen. His favorite quote was “Life’s short… play hard!” He was a wonderful man, and he will be missed.

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ontecito resident Walter Kim was born on December 7, 1942, in Seoul, South Korea.

He was the youngest of four children, and lost both his parents at a young age. He moved around from relative to relative and despite some suffering and heartache, he managed to survive and attended Hanyang University. After graduating, he moved to the United States to be closer to his older brother, Ray Kim, who lived in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was there where he met his lovely bride, Naomi Kim. Walter knew that he was so fortunate to be able to live in the United States, and he decided to make the best of this awesome opportunity that he had been given. He worked three jobs: as a busboy in an upscale hotel, a taxi-driver, and ground crew at the airport for Continental Airlines. He saved up his money and moved to Guam with his wife to open a clothing store. His wife Naomi was a very talented clothing designer, and together they worked side by side during the day, while Walter maintained his job at Continental Airlines and worked the graveyard shift at night.

Walter and Naomi left Guam in 1978 and moved to La Jolla, California, where they endeavored to give their only child, Susan Kim, a better life in the United States. Walter was a very thoughtful husband and a wonderful father. In 1980, Walter moved his family to Santa Barbara, where he purchased the Miratti’s Liquor store at 314 N. Milpas Street, he changed the name to Milpas Liquor & Deli, and he became well-liked by all who shopped there. He worked there with his wife and family on average of 16 hours a day. He was always greeting his patrons with a warm smile and handshake. All who knew Walter, loved him.

He retired from the liquor store business in 1990 and decided to pursue his love of fishing and RVing. He loved his adopted country and he was a proud American. He vowed to travel to different parts of the United States to try different cuisine, and he did it, traveling to Texas to try Texas barbecue, and then to Louisiana to have some tasty jambalaya. But his favorite road trip was from Santa Barbara to Alaska: he would take his wife and his grandchildren to Alaska for the whole summer and stop along the way and visit all the tourist spots, and see and taste all that each city had to offer.

Walter made friends wherever he went. He especially loved to go to Costco.

He’d go up and down all the aisles and purchase various items for the whole

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not want strangers looking into their haven. Mind your own business and I’m sure all will be able to live a peaceful existence.

T.T.C. Montecito (Editor’s note: We can’t quite figure out what your letter is referring to, but the guessing around here is that it has something to do either with last week’s letter (“Out with the Old” MJ #22/19) or with short-term rentals. In either case, a clarification is probably in order, but thank you for taking the time to write. – J.B.)

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I’m going through old photos today and found these treasures!

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Eva Van Prooyen Carpinteria (Editor’s note: Eva, thanks for the memories! Readers should know that Ms Van Prooyen – who is now a successful Montecito-based family counselor – was the very first, and easily the best ever, waitress I hired when my wife and I opened and ran Cafe Au Lait in La Cumbre Plaza [from 1989 to 2001).

Eva also served as babysitter for our two children and became my business partner and managing editor for the Santa Ynez Valley Journal, which we sold nearly 10 years ago. Although our advertising was somewhat wordy –

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what else is new? – those News-Press ads proved effective (that’s Eva as our “well-balanced” waitress). The food at Café Au Lait was terrific and our coffee was the best. Recalling it all makes me smile, too. – J.B.)

Sheriff Thomas’s Take

With the recent announcement that the Santa Barbara County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association is backing Bruce Porter for 3rd District supervisor and Jennifer Christensen for 1st District supervisor, I thought it would be appropriate to add my two-cents’ worth.

Having the backing of the men and women who protect us every day is a powerful message. The Deputy Sheriffs’ Association is a local association, not a local chapter of a national union like the SEIU. These men and women live and work in our community and dedicate themselves to doing what most people would not do: putting their lives on the line so we can live in a peaceful community. Bruce Porter shared that experience in his role of an Army officer who saw his share of combat and experienced the pride of leading men and women in peace and in war. Jennifer Christensen has led in a different but important way in being a steward of our county’s funding.

I have lived in the 3rd District for 43 years. I was privileged to work in and lead the Sheriff’s Department for 30 years and was the County Fire chief for three of those years. I know public safety. I have publically supported both Republican and Democratic supervisorial candidates.

My sole basis for support was that they commit to ensuring that Santa Barbara County kept public safety as its first priority. Bruce Porter and Jennifer Christensen made that commitment from day one.

I used to remind supervisors that when counties and cities were formed, the citizens’ first priority was to hire and elect their law enforcement leaders and ensure that their jurisdictions

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were financially secure. You can do the same in this important election. Please support Bruce Porter for 3rd District supervisor and Jennifer Christensen for 1st District supervisor. Our personal safety and financial well-being may well count on it.

Jim Thomas Solvang (Editor’s note: Mr. Thomas is now retired, but headed up the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department for many years.)

Home to Roost

(The following has been making the rounds on the Internet; we got a few belly laughs out of it and thought it was worth taking up some print space to share with our readers.)

Q. Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

A. Donald Trump: We will build a big wall to keep illegal chickens from crossing the road. We will have a door for legal chickens.

John Kerry: We will trust the chicken to tell us whether it crossed the road or not.

Chris Christie: We need to waterboard that chicken to find out why it crossed the road.

Rand Paul: It’s none of our business why the chicken crossed the road.

Nancy Pelosi: We will have to wait until the chicken crosses the road to

see what it says.

Carly Fiorina: Hilary Clinton lied about why the chicken crossed the road.

Brian Williams: I crossed the road with the chicken.

Ben Carson: This isn’t brain surgery... it wanted grain.

Sarah Palin: The chicken crossed the road because, gosh-darn it, she’s a maverick!

Barack Obama: Let me be perfectly clear, if the chickens like their eggs they can keep their eggs. No chicken will be required to cross the road to surrender her eggs. Period.

Hillary Clinton: What difference does it make why the chicken crossed the road?

George W. Bush: We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road.

We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or against us.

There is no middle ground here.

Bill Clinton: I did not cross the road with that chicken.

Bernie Sanders: That little chicken will pay 80% income taxes no matter what side of the road it’s on. She’s got to help finance free college even for those that just want a four-year vacation.

Al Gore: I invented the chicken.

Al Sharpton: Why are all the chickens white?

•MJ

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Weekly Spirituality “Weekly Spirituality” 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.

ment to join in the jam, and/or to hike and explore the land, or watch the sunset from high above the city.

Sign up and/or learn about future events online at www.meetup.com/ Conscious-Conversations-In-Nature.

For the Relating Games, Soup’s on

In the Spirit

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amra Rutherford and Simon D’Arcy’s monthly Authentic Relating Games evenings – inspired by the Game Nights held in San Francisco, Austin, and Boulder

by Authentic World – first took shape at private gatherings before moving to Ayni Gallery for its first public event. But the series of group encounters featuring fun and interactive exercises that explore ways of seeing, connecting, and appreciating ourselves and others on deeper levels quickly outgrew the now-shuttered space and moved over to Yoga Soup, where it has found a happy home.

Rutherford, the founder of Inner Life Explorations, is a life coach, while husband D’Arcy is a leadership coach, social artist, and founder of Next Level Culture. Together they have made Authentic Relating Games a monthly must for dozens.

The next games night takes place from 7 to 10 pm on Friday May 20 and features looking “Behind the Mask” as its theme. “Revealing our authentic experience to other people is a big part of creating a connection with both ourselves and others,” reads the invitation. “As humans, we often sense inherent tension between conformity and authenticity. Because we evolved to live in groups rather than as solo individuals, we have a biological need to fit in and be accepted by the group.

We attempt to conform to group values and behaviors to ensure our survival. We may attempt to fit in

by wearing certain clothes or adopting popular attitudes, and we may dampen our expression and hold back our in-the-moment impulses.”

To counter the potential numbness created by conformity, Friday’s Games Night will play with taking off our masks, loosening our grip, and “welcoming the real.” Expect to veer between laughter and tears as you take whatever emotional risks you wish to play at successively deeper levels.

Admission is $15 in advance, or $20 on the day of the event, and you must check in by 6:45 pm to secure your spot. Details online at www.yogasoup.com/authentic-re lating-games-2. Learn more about the games at www.authenticworld. org/games-night.

Only Natural

A new Meet Up group called Conscious Conversations In Nature is holding its fourth event and second “Mingle” from 5:30 to 8 pm Thursday, May 19, at Conscious Consults/Bjorklund Ranch, 1900 N. San Marcos Road. Commencing with communing on the private ranch located on sacred land with a gorgeous view, the evening includes a mini discussion on consciousness followed by a series of exercises for the group to interact and get to know one another. Then there will be time for mingling amid live music, drinks, and snacks. Guests are invited to bring musical instru-

Also on Thursday, Noell Grace and Ejé Lynn-Jacobs team up to lead SpiritSings, Santa Barbara’s now public inspirational singalong. The monthly events tap into the joy and connection that arises via gathering together to sing out and open up to the presence of love. The lyrics of the simple, uplifting songs and chants – nearly all composed by Grace – are projected behind the singers, but are easily learned for the largely call-and-response format. Each month features a guest artist or two – on Thursday it’s Wayne Marshall, Chloe Conger, and Japanese flutist/percussionist Alan Roth – and a break for munching and mingling. The location is the cozy living room at the Arden Light House, 318 Arden Road.

Donation for the 7-9 event is $10. Call Noell at 403-1063 or visit www.meetup.com/Santa-Barbara-InspirationalSingalong-Meetup.

Crave the Cave

Alan Roth, who moved to Santa Barbara just a couple of months ago but has quickly connected to the healing and self-growth community, returns to Salt Cave, 740 State Street, for a Zen Chakra Journey Benefit Concert on Friday evening at 6. The event is a powerful, interactive, mystical musical sound experience employing Zen Japanese Shakuhachi Bamboo flutes, Shamanic drumming, and group toning. Get an idea of what’s in store at

Roth’s website, www.ChakraBreath. com, where you can listen to his new Fields Beyond the Known CD in its entirety. Roth also conducted a Reiki/ ChakraBreath™ energy session at Salt Cave last week, which will be offered again on Wednesday, May 25.

Admission is $35 on Friday; $25 on May 25.

Dream Realized

Shamans Dream – Craig Kohland’s multi-faceted music collective that was one of the headliners at last month’s Lucidity Festival – is back in town to serve as the inspiration for ecstatic dance and movement at this week’s Dance Tribe set for 11 am to 1 pm on Sunday at Gustafson Dance. 2285 Las Positas Road. Driven by the healing rhythm of the drum and “the creative expression of the sacred,” Shamans Dream has produced some of the key albums used in the yoga and ecstatic dance industry over a 20-plus-year career. Admission to “Tribe” is $15 at the door. Details at www.sbdan cetribe.org.

Kirtan Call

Later that same evening, Santa Barbara Mantra Lounge Kirtan – whose events normally take place on Saturday nights in Montecito – hosts a special Sunday night edition starring Gaura Vani & Visvambhar of the Juggernauts at Santa Barbara Yoga Center, 32 East Micheltorena St. The group, which has performed at festivals including Burning Man, Lollapalooza, and Bhakti Fest, offers grooves, harmonies, and exotic instruments and rhythms. Show time is 7:30 pm and admission is $20 at the door. Visit www.facebook.com/ events/627627790737553.

•MJ

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proposed the idea of a full-scale, student-run production, no one could say no. Head of school Dr. Riken and Ms Combs were on board to facilitate this idea.

They aptly named the group Spotlight. No one could have imagined the undeniable talent and passion for music that laid within these Bishop students who participated. Ali also thought the idea could help draw more talented students to Bishop, in that they may not have the opportunity to exhibit their skills at a larger school. It’s wonderful that everyone at Bishop can tryout and showcase their talents and not feel intimidated. It’s a great way to shine in the spotlight.

Since its inception last year, Spotlight has nearly doubled in size since its first show. It took Ali, who directed and produced the show along with the cast members, many months to make

the shows successful productions. The audience can see and feel that these teenagers have put their heart and soul into every aspect of these productions. They are all involved in every aspect of the show from production, to stage design, to performing, and even the costumes.

Junior Isabella Molony, along with other talented students, was able to sing a solo as well as perform. It’s been said by viewers that the caliber of the show was tantamount to a Broadway production. What Bella loved most about being involved in Spotlight was being around students who share her passion for the arts. Spotlight has given Bishop students such as Bella the opportunity to discover a talent they might not have known they had within themselves. The energy and enthusiasm just seems to grow within each student in the program.

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COMING & GOING (Continued from page 21) says he discovered that prolonged use of such medications caused symptomatic breaks in the femur; a counter-indication if there ever was one.

Via research, he learned that a Dr. John Jaquish – whose mother had osteoporosis but didn’t want to take the medication but who also couldn’t exercise – came up with his theory of osteogenic loading (OL) which called for brief but regular intensive resistance exercises. Dr. Jaquish’s father was a NASA engineer and apparently worked on the problem through the space program dealing with the loss of bone density experienced by astronauts. Together with his father, the two designed what became the bio-density machine.

“They did it so you could have force impact to irritate the bones to a degree that it would naturally stimulate an adaptive response,” explains Yvonne.

“The theory,” she continues, “was that by irritating your bones, it would stimulate mineral growth and make your bones stronger. It’s based on a principal that’s hundreds of years old, called Wolff’s Law, which is if you put enough pressure on the bones it will stimulate the adaptive response to increase the minerals to make the bones stronger.

“Your body stops making those minerals when you reach thirty years of age,” she says. “And unless you

do something as you get older, then you are going to develop osteoporosis.

That means you can no longer get up, run around, go golfing, can’t go on cruises...”

Even more interestingly, from the point of view of those of us who still work and find ourselves short of time, 15 minutes, once a week, is all that is required. “It’s isometric, and it’s not complicated,” Yvonne says.

The Routine

I, your not-so-humble-but-aging correspondent, has been coming in for the past six months, so I know of what she speaks. My goal was to add 15 or 20 yards to my drives during golf outings. Here’s the routine: You arrive and immediately get on a whole-body vibration plate for a minute or two to get your body ready to stimulate the adaptive response. Periodically, someone will test your balance and agility. Then you get on the machine.

There are four different “exercises” (though I am reluctant to call them that, as they just take less than a minute and simply require maximum exertion for five seconds.

It sounds goofy, but after just six months, I do in fact hit the ball further. “The whole idea,” Yvonne explains, “is to overload your mus-

cles and fatigue the bone so that it cries out for more resources and releases minerals to make the bones stronger.” She says one can get that running, jogging, playing tennis, or swimming, “but as we get older, it becomes more difficult.”

The four “exercises” are: a chest press, leg press, core pull, and vertical lift (for spine and hips). When you complete the four, you go back on to the vibrating plate and then lay down on a relaxing vibrating massage bed for six to 15 minutes (depending upon availability and time schedule of next client). Before you go, you’ll receive a force production report that tells you where you are compared to other people in your age group, and, of course, how you are progressing. They’ll also e-mail the results if you want.

You are in and out in fewer than 20 minutes.

The cost?

There is a $79 initiation fee and a charge of $79 a month thereafter.

Yvonne asks clients to commit to a year, but there is no dropout fee and you pay month to month. “There’s no other stuff,” Yvonne says. “We don’t sell supplements. We don’t try to get you to do anything other than get healthy. And, though we ask that you make a one-year commitment, there is no cancellation fee.

You don’t have to buy out anything.

When people ask if we want them to sign up for a year, I tell them, ‘No, I want you to sign up for the rest of your life, but we’ll start with a year.’

“We’ve seen the results. We know it works. Within a year, you should show from three to up to a fifteen-percent increase in your bone density,” Yvonne says. “It’s not going to take a year to see results in core strength; it’s not going to take a year to see results in balance and agility; it’s not going to take a year to see improvement in your muscle and joint pain,” she says. “But it takes about a year to begin to move out of osteoporosis.”

Menopausal women may lose five to ten percent bone density a year, “But,” says Yvonne, “we can stop that loss and begin to reverse the pattern. We put the brakes on it.”

If you’d like to learn more, you are invited to call OsteoStrong at (805) 453-6086. Or, drop by their outlet at 2277 Las Positas Road in Santa Barbara. They are open from 9 am to 5 pm, seven days a week.

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About a dozen years ago, B’nai B’rith cantor Mark Childs introduced me to the joys of opera. I say that with a fond memory of Mr. Childs first explaining the plot • The Voice of the Village •

He won’t be singing Puccini, but B’nai B’rith cantor Mark Childs will perform with his cantorial seminary classmates and the congregation’s choir on Sunday, May 22

of Puccini’s La Boheme and then describing Rodolfo’s love for Mimi and the love he also has for his one fine possession: his coat. Mark explained that Rodolfo was going to give his dying lover, Mimi, the only thing worth anything that he owned but before doing so, sang an aria devoted to the coat. As Childs sang, he held his coat in a loving embrace and tearfully sang goodbye to the garment.

That was it for me. I became, if not an opera lover, at least a Puccini lover. I cannot yet sit through a performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly without bawling like a baby. Perhaps because as a young sailor I was stationed in Japan, but, when Cio-Cio-San rhapsodizes over the new and happy life she foresees for her and her son with Lieutenant Pinkerton’s return, I can’t hold back the tears.

Anyway, I credit Mr. Childs for the revelation of the power and passion of opera, and so announce gladly that, though he won’t be singing anything by Puccini, if you’d like to hear him in a Jewish vocal concert of a new piece by composer Bob Remstein, joined by his cantorial seminary classmates from Hebrew Union College in New York City and the Congregation B’nai B’rith Choir, you are invited to Temple B’nai B’rith at 1000 San Antonio Creek Road. Seats ($36; $10 for students) and can be purchased online at www. cbbsb.org or by calling 964-7869. The performance is scheduled for Sunday, May 22, beginning at 7 pm.

•MJ 19 – 26 May 2016

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do that and get it rhymed up. I like it partly because a song like that would never have been written in the prime days of soul.

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You just started going under the bill of The James Hunter Six. Why the switch?

I always wanted a band name, but couldn’t think of anything that didn’t sound hokey. In a dressing room, I saw album cover from Ramsey Lewis Trio. Why not name the band after how many of us there are? I like that it sounds a little jazzy, because we’ve got a couple of jazzers in the band, a little tinge of that element.

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It’s notched us up a gear. Not only does he have the sound, he knows how to get the best out of the arrangements to get the effect we want. He’s the first producer we’ve had worthy of the title.

On Saturday May 21, Sings Like Hell also hosts the return of Jimmer Podrasky, the former frontman-songwriter for The Rave-Ups, who remain popular more than 20 years after their music appeared in such films & TV shows as Pretty in Pink and Beverly Hills 90210. After going through some hard times, Podrasky released his first recording in 23 years, the aptly titled solo album The Would-Be Plans. New York-based anti-folk hero Hamell on Trial opens. Both shows start at 8 pm.

Tickets cost $39.Call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com.

A Farewell to Red’s

Red’s Bin 211 was an early arrival in the Funk Zone. The wine bar-loungetapas joint served as an anchor for the burgeoning neighborhood, acting not only as a favored watering hole but also presenting local talent representing a wide variety of musical genres, from jazz trios (Luis Munoz woodshedded the core of his latest band responsible for his acclaimed new CD), rock bands (Tina Schlieske and her Graceland Exiles visited several times), blues shows, singer-songwriters, and much more, as well as Oscar-viewing bashes, open mic comedy workshops, community events, and private parties. Just last Sunday afternoon, Red’s hosted “Hair of the DAWG”, with signature Mack Daddy Bloody aka Top Dog Bloody Mary drink specials, topped off with a give back: sending 10 percent of bar sales to DAWG, Dog Adoption & Welfare Group, the no-kill animal shelter.

But tonight, the joint shuts its doors forever, following a blowout bash, featuring free admission as always, and tunes spun by popular DJ Darla Bea, who will be sure to send Red’s into the long, dark night with something special to commemorate its

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Zoos Line is it Anyway, the Santa Barbara Zoo’s mash-up of TED Talk-like presentations and “Whose Line...”-style improv, has slated the second of its postponed shows from April for this Saturday and it looks like the evening is going to be all wet.

That’s because the scientists involved are humpback whale expert Dr. Rachel Cartwright of Cal State University Channel Islands and jellyfish specialist Nate Jaros of the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, who will each undergo brief discussions about their work with moderator Dean Noble, himself a former improv performer who now serves as marketing director at the zoo. The talks set up the improvised skits in which the pros riff on the info they’ve just heard in scene formats suggested by Noble with help from the audience.

Saturday’s improvisers are IMPRO Theater regulars Jo McGinley, Stephen Kearin and Brian Lohmann along with guest Mike McShane, who starred in the original British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

The performances are then judged by a panel of local celebrities based on originality, content, and humor.

Doors open at 7 pm for the 7:30 pm show, which will also feature a raffle for two pair of Zoo Brew tickets, representing the final opportunity to purchase tickets to the popular annual garden beer party festival fundraiser (outside of scalpers, whose listings at double the original price have caused quite a ruckus on the zoo’s Facebook page) that sold out in minutes last weekend. Zoos Line tickets can be purchased online at www.sbzoo.org/ event/zoos-line-anyway or call 9625339.

Double-Energy Twins Take on Alzheimer’s

Twins Judi and Shari Zucker, longtime Montecito residents who sport similar swinging blonde ponytails all over town, have previously published six books based on their own lifetime experiences with a nutritious, plant-based diet using whole foods, dating back to their 1979 debut published while they were still in high school, How To Survive Snack Attacks...

Naturally! Now the UCSB grads (ergonomics) and former media specialists for General Mills have a new book out, The Memory Diet, which addresses the possible prevention of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The book introduces a powerful, plant-based diet of leafy greens, vegetables, berries, nuts,

beans, and whole grains that they believe can slow down or even eliminate cognitive decline. The more than 150 healthy recipes are all free of white sugar, processed ingredients and gluten and based on the Mediterranean Intervention Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) Diet. The book also shows how to cook these foods the correct way, avoiding errors that could negatively affect brain health, accelerate the aging process, and/or cause memory decline. The Zuckers will discuss the diet and sign copies of The Memory Diet at 7 pm on Wednesday at Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center. Call 682-6787 or visit www.chaucersbooks. com.

Focus on Film

VAXXED - From Cover-Up to Catastrophe caused quite a stir at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this spring when festival founder Robert De Niro personally booked the controversial movie about the widely debunked link between the MMR vaccine and autism, only to retreat and cancel it the next day following massive protest. No such attacks have yet emerged here in Santa Barbara, where the film is scheduled to play for a full-week theatrical run at the Riviera Theatre beginning Friday.

VAXXED traces investigation into a purported conspiracy by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conceal and destroy data on their 2004 study that showed a link between vaccinations and autism, echoing Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 research paper that showed the link.

That study, published by the British medical journal The Lancet, was retracted in 2010, and Dr. Wakefield had his medical license revoked. Wakefield is co-writer and director of the film, leading to questions concerning the documentary’s accuracy and intent.

Producer Del Bigtree will be on hand for a free Q&A session following both the twilight and prime-time screenings on Saturday, which is likely to be well-attended since the subject has been the focus of passionate debate on both sides of the issue both at local events and on social media.

Lights, Camera, Flash Mob

Dust off your dancing shoes and get ready to join the Gaucho Street Dance Flash Mob for the Reel Loud Film Festival. A short rehearsal to learn the “easy and awesome” GSD Flash Mob Dance takes place Sunday afternoon from noon to 2 pm in Theater Dance West 1502 to prepare for the one-time-only promotional performance at noon next Saturday, May 27. Email Kel.forman@gmail.com for

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details on the dance. But no moves are necessary other than the ones to bring you to Campbell Hall at 6 pm that evening for the Reel Loud Film Festival itself for the 24th annual onenight event that consists primarily of silent short student films with live musical accompaniment, plus an art show, musical guests, and a variety of acts between film screenings, which range from dance to stand-up comedy to a cappella performances. Details at www.reel-loud.com/ReelLoud2016/ festival.html.

Cinema in Granada Style

Through The Lens: Where Dreams and Love Collide, Network Medical’s 2016 annual fundraiser, screens The Drop Box, the 2015 documentary about a Korean pastor who takes in and raises unwanted babies dropped in a box at his house in South Korea. Director Brian Ivie, a film student at USC who financed his project on KickStarter and began the project by flying to Seoul, South Korea, on his Christmas Break, shares the remarkable plot twist of how the hundreds of abandoned babies and the movie changed his life forever. The film, currently streaming on Netflix, has also raised more than $2 million for orphan-care charities around the world. The San Marcos High School Jazz Band provides preshow music at 6:30 pm before the event begins at 7 on Thursday evening, May 19, with screenings of winners in the Love Triumphs short film competition, featuring three-minute movies that convey some aspect of that theme. Preferred seating costs $10, while general admission is free.

Info at 899-2222 or www.granadasb. org.

The Granada’s own film series screens three classic movies in as many nights starting on Monday, May 23, with Around the World in 80 Days.

The David Niven epic, screening as part of the Summer Classic Movies, clocks in at just under three hours, but feels shorter due to the action and witty dialogue. Mel Brooks’s early triumph Blazing Saddles lights up the Granada on Tuesday night, with the writer-director’s screamingly funny satirical take on Westerns, featuring fart jokes and more that should really soar with the new digital projection and sound system. On Wednesday, the Reel Cool Summer Series continues with Shrek, the original animated funny fairy tale about an ogre forced from his swampy home only to finally find love with fellow ogre Princess Fiona, which should have spawned the slogan “Green is good.” Tickets for each screening are $10 general admission, $20 reserved seating in the loge.

Info at 899-2222 or www.granadasb. org.

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Your Westmont

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

Exhibition Highlights Local Artists Marilyn McRae’s “Candy Box” (recycled magazine paper, 2013)

The Westmont Observatory is open to the public Friday, May 20

and 11 am to 5 pm on Saturdays. It is closed Sundays and college holidays. For more information, please visit www.westmontmuseum.org or contact the museum at (805) 565-6162.

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ennifer Frias, associate curator of the Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside ARTSblock, juries Westmont’s annual exhibition featuring Tri-County artists May 19-June 18 at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. A free, opening reception for “Joie de Vivre,” which translates to exuberant enjoyment of life, features 18 local artists on Thursday, May 19, from 4 to 6 pm at the museum. The museum will announce the winner of the $1,000 Lorry Hubbard Best of Show prize, first honorable mention, second honorable mention, and the Art Council third honorable mention awards.

More than 115 artists entered the juried show, submitting 263 pieces.

Frias accepted 32 pieces, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, and photography by the 18 artists.

Frias, who attended UC Irvine, earned a bachelor’s degree from UC Riverside and a Master of Fine Art from Cal State Fullerton. She has organized exhibitions such as “SECOND WAVE: Aesthetics of the 80s In Today’s Contemporary Art,” which focused on the influence of artistic styles and movements of the 80s and its resurgence in art today. In 2010, Frias co-founded Sixpack Projects, organizing events and exhibitions at phantom gallery venues in Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire.

“The entries in this year’s exhibition truly captured the spirit of its title, ‘Joie de Vivre,’” Frias says. “This opportunity presented artists with the means to convey their own unique interpretation of the theme while using multiple techniques and media to elevate the visual experience.”

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Viewing Features Jupiter, Mars, Moon

Jupiter, Mars, and the moon will be on the celestial menu at the public viewing of the stars on Friday, May 20, beginning at 7:30 pm and last-

ing several hours at the Westmont Observatory. The observatory opens its doors to the public every third Friday of the month in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit, whose members bring their own telescopes to Westmont for the public to gaze through.

There will be a near-full moon, so Thomas Whittemore, Westmont physics instructor, will bring a moon filter and hang it on Westmont’s eightinch refractor telescope.

“We will be able to see many of the ray-like patterns on the moon without squinting,” he says. “These structures are impact ejecta, and they often spread across the moon far from the impact sites.”

Whittemore says Mars will be in the night sky, but not high enough for Westmont’s telescopes to capture the richness of the beautiful planet. “Our club, however, will likely focus in on Mars as the night goes on,” he says.

“Mars will be better for viewing as the summer goes on.”

Jupiter will be high in the sky and Whittemore says barring overcast skies, we should be able to discern considerable detail on this planet.

The Keck Telescope is housed in the observatory between Russell Carr Field and the track and field/soccer complex. Free parking is available near the baseball field.

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“Joie de Vivre” artists include Garrett Speirs, Bri Stanley ’15, Marjorie Shipp, Leslie Lewis Sigler, Jill Sattler, Joan Rosenberg-Dent, Alexis Jean Moore ’16, Marilyn McRae, Cynthia James, Stephanie Jamgochian, Annie Hoffman, Keaton Hudson ’14, Britt Friedman, Katie Curry ’12, Cody Cammbell, Lillian Bleuze-Nelson, Beverly Decker, and Rosemarie C. Gebhart.

The exhibition is sponsored by Peter and Becky Adams, Diane Dodds, and David Reichert, and Lorry Hubbard.

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Magical Art & Mobile Margaritas in New Mexico

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very spring I drift to New Mexico like a tumbleweed in the wind, spend a few weeks, and report back. This year, I made two new discoveries: an astonishing art installation in Santa Fe underwritten

by Game of Thrones author and local resident George R.R. Martin; and the “Margarita Trail,” a tequila-fueled pub crawl where you can sample dozens of variations on the classic southwestern cocktail, presumably not on the same night.

Conceived and Directed by Rod Lathim

The House of Eternal Return

2pm Saturday, June 4, 2016 Marjorie Luke Theatre 721 E. Cota Street • Santa Barbara Purchase tickets at Lobero Theatre Box Office (805) 963-0761 www.lobero.com

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Standing in line for the grand opening of the House of Eternal Return, a vast art and entertainment space in Santa Fe, I suddenly realized that the gently rounded and white-bearded man in front of me was George R.R. Martin. To transform an old bowling alley into an arts venue, the fantasy writer had ponied up $3.5 million – and yet he stood waiting in line just like everybody else, with a lack of self-importance that made me like him immediately. (Even though Martin earns $15 million a year from Game of Thrones and the novels they’re based on, he drives an old Mazda, lives in a modest house, and prefers simple Mexican food to fancy cuisine.)

Inside the venue stood a full-size Victorian house, the kind you’d see at Disneyland. It had carved griffins and shingles shaped like dragon scales (perhaps a nod to Martin’s fantasy fiction). A full moon cast soft light, windows glowed. I went in.

The resident family appeared to have departed hastily, leaving a TV show playing in the living room and food in the kitchen. I began to sense something not quite... right.

Something skewed, something off.

That’s when I happened to open the refrigerator door. (Visitors are encouraged to explore.) Before me stretched a passageway radiant with pure white light; imagine a scene in a Spielberg movie. I stepped in and entered a parallel dimension, another world.

Or, more properly, many worlds.

More than a hundred local artists, builders, and computer whizzes had created a phantasmagoria, a whirl of set pieces where I could wander around as if in a wacky, but delightful, dream.

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Scary rabbit with author’s wife, Merry

I climbed into a tree house in a forest festooned with glowing vines. My eyes popped in a room done up like a Cubist painting with crazy colors and angles. I sidled up to a luminous green mastodon with Day-Glo pink teeth and played his ribs like a xylophone.

I peered into a Star Wars-style space pod. I cowered at a huge spooky rabbit, with smoldering eyes and a white robe, guarding a cave of purple light.

I took secret passageways. And in one room, I threaded a matrix of laser beams surrounding a glowing pyramid that I sat down to contemplate.

(Hmm, perhaps I’m not the only child of the Sixties.)

Wandering from one strange, magical space to the next, I grew pleasantly lost. Time melted, and I figured I might as well just surrender and enjoy whatever came next. There was no docent to guide my visit, no “right” way to explore. Was the House of Eternal Return a play-land for children, an art installation for sophisticated adults? The creators designed it to be whatever you want it to be.

Around every corner, you find an artistic surprise or transcendent wonder. And when you leave and return to everyday reality, you’re reminded that you could just keep looking at the world this way.

Margarita Trail

I had a good idea what to expect from a margarita infused with jala-

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Brilliant Thoughts

by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara with wife Dorothy since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

Weather or Not

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espite what Mark Twain is supposed to have said, there are many things you can do about the weather, (besides complain). In fact, according to some respected scientists, we have all been doing something about it for some time. Poisoning the air in urban areas was just the beginning. Now, we are assured that human activity is actually changing the climate of the entire planet. Whoever thought that feeble critters like us could really have such a serious effect on Mother Nature!

But while these changes are happening over years and decades, we ourselves have to go on living with the day-to-day weather people on our local TV channels. (Some of them are called meteorologists – though the demand for urgent knowledge of meteors is fortunately quite limited.)

They are apparently chosen more for their looks than for any weather-related erudition – especially the females of the species. They perform a sort of chanting dance in front of their swiftly shifting displays, which reminds me of the safety-instruction pantomime usually performed by airline attendants when you are about to take off.

I generally find the charts, maps, diagrams, and symbols which are flung at us during these daily rituals more confusing than enlightening, especially since they all flash by so fast. (“Weather,” after all is only one of a number of so-called “news” categories, including “sports” and “traffic,” which all have to be squeezed in between the commercials, which of course are the true life-blood of the station.)

Another interesting fact I have observed about our weather, is that, according to most television reports, looking North, it all stops at the Canadian border, and, looking south, there is no weather to speak of in Mexico, either.

But I can personally assure you that there definitely is weather in Southern Africa – because one of my happiest memories of a trip Dorothy and I once took to that relatively remote part of our planet was of listening to a weather forecast on the radio, shortly after our arrival by sea in the lovely city of Cape Town.

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done during our months-long journey thither: Swaziland, Transvaal, Botswana, Zululand, and Mafeking.

They all really existed – and they all had weather!

In England, when I lived there, the BBC seemed to be as much concerned with the weather at sea as on land – and the daily shipping forecast on the radio contained a list of names of regions going all around the coasts of the British Isles, which we heard so often, in the same order, that they became a kind of mantra: Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Shannon, Rockall, Hebrides, Fair Isle... there were 31 of them. We scarcely knew just where some of these areas were, but the names came to exert a sort of hypnotic fascination.

Weather, however, is not merely a matter of people and places. It involves masses of moving air, falling water (“precipitation”), rising water (“evaporation”), and all kinds of weird phenomena from tides to rainbows. And since ancient times, it has had profound effects on human history. Who can forget the revolution which was called off because of rain? (Sorry, I seem to have forgotten it, but there must have been at least one – perhaps several.) And think of all the battles which never happened, because it was just too hot to go out and fight. And few New Worlds would ever have been discovered were it not for a form of propulsion based on wind pushing against cleverly contrived sheets called sails.

More recently, whole invasions relied on the predictions of weather pundits (which in some cases, I’m sorry to say, proved scarcely more reliable than examining the entrails of animals.) The notorious Spanish Armada, for whose defeat we give so much credit to sea dogs such as Sir Francis Drake, was really a victim of some ill winds. Even today, the launching of a rocket to outer space can be delayed or scrubbed because of unfavorable conditions in that thin layer of weather that we call our atmosphere.

So, though we seem to have mastered the art of producing “climate-controlled” inner spaces as voluminous as a shopping mall or a football stadium, the great world outside our puny portals remains as untamed as the rest of the universe.

We still have a little work to do on the weather.

•MJ

Coup De Grace

by Grace Rachow Ms. Rachow says that every drop of rain is a precious gift from the sky, but sometimes it takes awhile to see the rainbow.

When It Rains, It Pours

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ecause I’m a wimpy Santa Barbaran, I wasn’t happy with the pouring rain as I left for a meeting a couple Friday’s ago.

To make matters worse, my husband had left his van parked behind my car in our narrow driveway.

So I hopped in the van, put the seat forward, and off I went.

A few minutes onto the freeway, I heard a thump at the right rear of the vehicle, but I continued down road, intent on getting to my meeting on time.

There were more odd noises. In the rear-view mirror, I saw a piece of tire fly off into the oblivion.

The rain came down and the traffic zoomed by, but it could’ve been worse. I could’ve slammed on the brakes, as many people do when they

to come back on Monday.

Twenty dollars sounded like a real bargain, but Bernie wrote an estimate, including a four-wheel alignment and a collision diagnostic calibration. The grand total was $655.73.

“Are you kidding me… to replace a little piece of plastic?”

I crossed out the pricy alignment, and because there had been no collision, I was pretty sure I didn’t need the calibration. I told Bernie I’d be back on Monday for the small plastic bit. And I wasn’t paying more than $40 dollars for parts and labor.

Off I went to the big box store where my husband had purchased the tires that were on the van. Somehow, I’d lived my whole life without ever buying tires on my own.

But I’d seen it done. You go in,

I saw a piece of tire fly off into the oblivion see rubber flying. That is a recipe for rolling your vehicle, especially on a rainy day.

I exited, found a safe place to park, and called AAA. I wondered where the heck the spare was. I figured the tow truck guy would know. But he didn’t, either, so we Googled it. Sure enough, it was exactly where Google said it was.

I was off and running in about 10 more minutes. Unfortunately, there’d been some body damage. The right rear bumper had somehow come apart from the van, and it definitely needed expert attention.

So, off I drove to my husband’s favorite body shop. He has been going to this same place for more than 30 years, and I felt confident that they could quickly reattach the loose bumper, and I could be on my way to the tire store.

Of course, I’d forgotten that bodywork is seldom easy.

In the old days, the standard course of action was: bang it to fit and paint it to match. But now that vehicles are covered in streamlined plastic parts, it seems that that slightest jostling of the structure requires spending a great amount of money for the replacement of barely damaged plastic parts. I feared that would be the case this time, too.

Bernie, the body shop guy, discovered that a small $20 part had gone flying when the tire disintegrated.

They’d have to order it, and I’d have

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this nation. – Henry Ward Beecher

you ask what they have in stock, and then you get that. If they have more than one choice, you pick the one that sounds best. You can Google tire reviews, but no matter how diligent you are, you end up buying what the tire place has available, and it always seems to work out okay. What could possibly go wrong?

I paid and left the van with them, and when I returned, I discovered I had three brand-new tires.

However, the tire guys could not get the destroyed tire off the wheel, so they couldn’t put the fourth new one on.

I made them refund the mounting fee for that final tire and took it to a pro tire shop (I Googled it), where they had great fun making fun of the inept guys at the big box tire store.

The pro tire guys were so gleeful, they didn’t charge for mounting, and they gave me a great price on a full alignment On Monday, I went back to the body shop to see Bernie. He replaced the missing plastic bit. My husband’s van was back in good shape – and with four brand-new tires!

Yes, my husband was a little upset with me for making automotive decisions without him. However, I’m pretty sure he will never leave his van parked behind my car again.

This all goes to prove that behind every rain cloud, there really is a silver lining. If you don’t see it at first, just Google it.

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Adam Firestone and wife Kate with honoree Kate Firestone and husband Brooks, with Ivana and Andrew Firestone at the VNHC Mother’s Day event

Debby started in the news business in Florida, then Los Angeles at KTLA. Bob Smith recruited her to Santa Barbara as main anchor. After 16 years, she retired in 2006. She gave lovingly of her time to many local charities and was an emcee for this luncheon for four years.

Kate Firestone was the remembered living mother and her two sons, Adam and Andrew, spoke about her. Adam joked about his “shy and retiring” brother. Kate was born in Calcutta, where her father was the Dean of the Anglican Cathedral. Early on, Kate had an aptitude for ballet and had a seven-year career with

the English Royal Ballet, traveling around the world. Brooks saw her at a performance in New York at the Metropolitan Opera House and was a stage door Johnny for an hour, hoping to meet her. She went out with him but wasn’t ready to settle down.

Brooks never gave up and pursued her around the world. And the rest is history—marriage, four children, and a winery.

When Kate took the mike she exclaimed, “This is definitely better than an Oscar.” She complimented her sons on their choice of who would be the mother of their children. A grand and giving lady, indeed.

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Join us in the Captivating Casa Gardens for an Art Exhibition and Sale, Showcasing the Fine Work of Santa Barbara Area Artists.

VNHC fashion show guys Jason O’Hearn, Fernando Leer, Mark Linehan, Steve Brillhart, Chris Haskell, and Michael Erickson with attitude

Gals from the VNHC fashion show: Meredith Garofalo, Kim Schizas, Suzette Chafey, Pamela Dillman Haskell, Lynda Tanner, Sofia Mendoza, Barbara Irvine, and Robyn O’Hearn

On any given day, VNHC touches lives: more than 20 people borrow free basic medical equipment from their Loan Closet; more than 300 people receive trusted care at home from home teams; more than 150 people receive hospice care with dignity and compassion at home and in their Serenity House. To learn more, call Rick Keith at (805) 690-6222.

Spirit of Entrepreneurship

The Spirit of Entrepreneurship Foundation (SEF) awards ceremony is a highlight of the year for ladies in Santa Barbara who have started their own businesses. Contestants vying for an award were all gathered at the Bacara for drinks and dinner with their friends to cheer them on.

The judges came from out of town,

and no one knows the winners until they are announced after dinner by mistress of ceremonies Lynda Weinman (Lynda.com) and board chair Cathy Feldman. There were 30 contestants and 10 awards in 10 different categories. And the winners were: agricultural/wineries Morgan Clendenen, winemaker; emerging business Norah Eddy Salty Girl Seafood; green/social Randee Disraeli, Kanoloa seafood; health Robin Walker, core fitness training; hospitality/tourism Sherry Villanueva, Funk Zone Lark, Lucky Penny, et cetera; media/communications Kristie Cooper, Pilates Anytime video on demand; nonprofit Nathalie Gensac, after-school arts academy; professional services Judy Hawkins, Ruby Road Leadership; retail Mahri Kerley, Chaucer’s Books; and science technology Andrea Neal, Blue Ocean Sciences.

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SEF emcee Lynda Weinman, lifetime achievement award winner Sara Miller McCune and SEF board chair and CEO Cathy Feldman

EWS board members Keith Mautino and Linda Rosso with president Debby Aceves and CEO of EWS Scott Grieve

The 2016 Rock Star: Life Achievement Award went to Sara Miller McCune who began publishing journals at age 24 and is still going strong 50 years later with SAGE Publications. As Lynda noted, “ This evening is about the spirit of people who create something from nothing.”

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tions. Since they own the liquor license, that helps greatly with funding.

CEO of Earl Warren Showground is Scott Grieve, who says, “For more than 55 years, EWS has been an integral part of the culture in the Santa Barbara community. It is totally a self-funded agency that relies on revenues generated by facility rentals, usage fees, and self-promoted events.

No tax dollars are taken from the State.”

EWS was originally developed as the permanent location for the Santa Barbara National Horse and Flower show, as well as to attract and sup-

Foundation Fair Party

There is a foundation that works to support the Earl Warren Showgrounds (EWS) called the Show Grounds Foundations. It was founded four

years ago when the state-owned facility had their funds cut. Every year, the foundation has a kick-off party for the Santa Barbara fair, serving what else but a Santa Maria style barbecue?

Attendees get to try out the carnival rides before the public gets in.

Debbie Aceves is president and her board is: Laura Dewey, Brad Emerson, John Rowe, Art Najara, Linda Rosso, Keith Mautino, and Ed Sand. Their main mission is to promote public awareness of the 19th District Agricultural Association, which manages EWS. They also conduct fundraising and catering concession opera-

port additional events. In 1950, the current site was selected. The State of California used funds from the horse show association, purchasing 136.5 acres of land. To gain the city’s support, the District gave 82 acres to the City for a community golf course and 10 acres for construction of Adams Elementary School. Today, the site has 34 acres of multi-use property. The equestrian facility was completed in 1958 and the exhibit building in 1959.

Scott invites you to consider Earl Warren Showgrounds the next time you or your company need a venue at a reasonable price.

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Bartiromo. “From [the] mine to finger, to have the integrity that these diamonds are true quality, and that they’re done with the utmost quality and integrity is a good thing.”

She says clients are highly driven by value and often searching for instant gratification.

“They want to make every dollar count,” she adds. “The diamond is something that you can pass on, it’s lasting. That’s important.”

Kathy graced the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue for 13 consecutive years. The 25th anniversary edition in 1989 remains the highest-selling issue of all time.

Promise Kept

Jeff Larsen debuts first novel

Montecito’s Jeff Larsen, an award-winning advertising executive and screenwriter, has just published his first book.

Los Angeles: The Promised Land unfolds through three unrelated stories, written as reformatted screenplays for the novel Borderland, Grounded and Down Track.

“Reviews have been overwhelmingly positive,” says Jeff, who splits his time between our rarefied enclave and the Big Orange.

“All three stories have more than enough gunplay. action, decadence, corruption, twists and turns, relationship interaction and, yes, even romance to please anybody.”

Jeff is now working on a potential sequel for one of the screenplays.

“But the novel potential exists and, of course, it would be a longer project.”

Club Head Santa Barbara Polo Club has landed its biggest sponsorship deal in its 105year history.

From left: Harry Weisbart, Erin, Adam, and new grandmom, Judi Weisbart, with baby granddaughter, Evelyn Rose

Engel & Völkers, the international real estate company based in 37 countries, has just signed a five-year contract to rename the lush Carpinteria equestrian facility the Engel & Völkers Stadium and on June 12 will be hosting its eponymous polo classic.

“With Gulfstream, Maserati, and now Engel & Völkers coming on board, this is a major coup for the club,” says Texas promoter Charles Ward, who landed the lucrative deal.

As an added plus, Christian Völkers, one of the business’s founders, who usually hosts his socially gridlocked summer White Party at his estate on the Balearic island of Majorca, will stage it here, as his home is undergoing major renovations.

It will coincide with the Maserati Silver Cup, horsepower of a very different kind.

Oh, Baby Santa Barbara event planner extraordinaire Judi Weisbart had an event she certainly hadn’t planned for when she had to skip the inaugural Jonathan Awards Hope and Laughter gala at the El Encanto, honoring the late Montecito comedian Jonathan Winters, who died in 2013.

At the last moment, her Seattlebased daughter-in-law, Erin, who is married to her son, Adam, gave birth to her first grandchild, Evelyn Rose, weighing eight pounds, six ounces.

“It was totally unexpected, and Erin actually gave birth in the front passenger seat of their car as they were rushing to the hospital,” laughs Judi. “My son was quite traumatized by it all, but everybody, fortunately, is well!”

Meanwhile, the 186-guest soirée,

presented by Crescend Health and co-chaired by Julie Kessler Solomon and Alex Smariga, went ahead in the tony hostelry’s ballroom, raising $50,000 for mental health initiatives, including $1,350 for an oil art work “Umbrella Dancers” by Jonathan, who won Grammy and Emmy awards in a career spanning six decades including TV shows and more than 50 films, including the star-packed 1960s comedy It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, while suffering his own mental issues.

“Who knows, Dad in due course might be known more for his art than his comedy,” mused his daughter, Lucinda Winters Nash, as the first three Jonathan Awards recipients, Lillian Lovelace, Zev Nathan, and Suzanne Riordan, were announced.

Among the tony throng at the boffo bash, which included a silent auction with trips to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and treatments at the El Encanto spa,

were Kurt and Nancy Ransohoff, Lanny Ebenstein, Murray Ray, Mark Magid, Janet Garufis, Sybil Rosen, Danny and Mary Vickers, and the ubiquitous Geoff Green.

Performers from Selah Dance – Bianca Salazar, Colin Sneddon, and Jeff Schult – entertained.

Tea of a Kind The Coral Casino had a decidedly Middle Eastern theme when the AntiDefamation League threw its annual DiversiTea lunch, with 220 guests raising around $118,000 for local education programs.

The oceanside bash, co-chaired by the tony triumvirate of Anne Smith Towbes, daughter-in-law Nati Smith and Meghan White-Skinner, featured

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Dan Meisel, ADL Regional Board chair, presenting ADL Education Awards to honorees Jamie Persoon, principal Canalino Elementary School; Liz Barnitz, principal El Camino Elementary School; Shawn Carey, principal Dos Pueblos High School; and Eric Berg, past ADL Regional Board chair (photo by Priscilla)

At the third ADL program regarding bullying and cyber-bullying are Eric Peterson, SB County Fire chief, with Joyce Dudley SBCDA, John Crombach, SB Police chief, and Pat McElroy, fire chief (photo by Priscilla)

From left: Lyn Muse and Santa Barbara Polo Club president, John Muse, Cam Gittler of sponsor Engel & Völkers, and Texas promotion dynamo Charles Ward (photo by Jordyn Stewart)

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Family women welcoming guests are Meghan White-Skinner, Anne Smith Towbes, and Nati Smith, who served the Anti-Defamation League as the DiversiTea luncheon committee chairs (photo

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three education awards to Liz Barnitz, principal of El Camino School, and Shawn Carey, principal of Dos Pueblos High, both in Goleta, and Jamie Persoon, head of the Canalino Elementary School in Carpinteria.

The event also featured a fashion show, with clothes from Diani, Allora

by Laura, Chicken Little, Blanca, and Ell’noir, emceed by district attorney Joyce Dudley and Santa Barbara fire chief, Patrick McElroy.

Among the fashion flock were Janet Garufis, Holly Murphy, Harry and Judi Weisbart, Belle Hahn Cohen, David Edelman, Barbara Tellefson, David Ortiz, and Barbara Greenleaf.

Grandin Granada Lynda Weinman and husband Bruce Heavin hosted a pre-talk dinner in the McCune Founders Room at the Granada for Mary Temple Grandin, a world-renowned autism spokeswoman and a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, widely celebrated as one of the first individuals to publicly share insights from her personal experience.

The sold-out UCSB Arts & Lectures event featured 69-year-old Grandin’s Gatling gun style of delivery and insights into her invention the “hug box,” a device to calm those on the autism spectrum.

Attendees included Monica

Babich, Allan Ghitterman, Nancy Koppelman, Heather Sturgess, and Sara Miller McCune.

A fascinating evening .

Behind the Maisky

Cellist Mischa Maisky and pianist Lily Maisky enthrall at the Lobero

CAMA – the Community Arts Music Association – wrapped up its master series season at the Lobero with the Santa Barbara debut of acclaimed cellist Mischa Maisky with his daughter, Lily, accompanying him on the piano.

The Latvian-born 68-year-old, with a glorious shock of wildly styled white hair, kicked off the entertaining show with Beethoven’s sonata No. 2 in G Minor and Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango, concluding with Bruch’s Kol Nidrei and English com-

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poser Benjamin Britten’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in C. Maisky, now based in Waterloo, Belgium, site of the famous 1815 battle between Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington, for nearly three decades, has the distinction of being the only cellist in the world to have studied with both Mstislav Rostropovich and Gregor Piatigorsky.

It is to be hoped he’ll return to our tony town sooner rather than later.

Flute Loops Over at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall, it was the turn of Camerata Pacifica to wrap up its 26th season where Irish founder and flautist Adrian Spence announced they were ending their lunchtime concert program after many years while continuing their popular evening performances.

“Next year, there will be a great deal of construction happening on campus and the noise, right next to this hall, will have too great an impact on our music,” he explained, as audible groans emanated from the audience.

But it was certainly a wonderful farewell with Samuel Barber’s String Quartet in B minor with violinists Giora Schmidt and Agnes Gottschewski, violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill, and cellist Ani Aznavoorian.

In the second work, Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, the talented quartet were joined by another violist, Robert Brophy, who also plays with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which was in our Eden by the Beach recently at the Granada.

A glorious end to the lunchtime tradition.

Rally Tally Hotel magnate Pat Nesbitt’s sprawling Summerland estate, Bella Vista, played host for the third year as the finishing post for the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County’s

Having signed in and receiving his “Rally 4 Kids” car decal is participating driver Jack Bianchi (photo by Priscilla)

Rally 4 Kids featuring a record 75 entries, that had raced from the nearby QAD headquarters on a 175-mile route that ended at the Carriage Western Arts Museum.

The popular event which attracted 320 guests, that featured a tsunami of Porsches, Ferraris, Mercedes, and even a humble 1967 VW Beetle convertible, again included some Amazing Race elements, with drivers and their navigators having to hula hoop at the Santa Barbara Bowl and sort out motorcycle conundrums in Solvang.

“When you think we started with just 30 cars three years ago, it is truly amazing,” says Diana Starr Langley, who co-chaired the rally with Monte Wilson, which expected to raise more than $300,000.

“In the last two years, we’ve raised nearly half a million dollars and we’re now open on Saturdays, offering free van service to pick up children who have no way of getting to our clubs, as well as providing them with healthy dinners at no charge.”

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Just 24 hours earlier, around 150 guests gathered at a Montecito estate, next to TV talk-show host Oprah Winfrey’s sprawling property, for a driver-navigator kick-off bash, including Michael Hammer, Peter Hilf, Christopher Lancashire and Catherine Gee, Justin Fareed, Michael Baker, Charles Ward, Ursula Nesbitt, Ron MacLeod, Ginni Dreier Nina Terzian, Dana Newquist, Jill Dexter, Tom Parker, and Kate Kurlas. Chris Eberz and navigator Lark Cobb in a 1954 Studebaker, won the rally for the second consecutive year, with Karen Kahn and Roy Hildestad in a 2013 Porsche 911 cabriolet as runners up.

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The thoroughly entertaining performance featured three works by Cardiff, Wales-based Daniel Brinsmead, including his heartfelt setting of Love Bade Me Welcome, which was written for the singers last year.

The 28-year-old composer will be joining the choir in Wales in July, when they perform at the esteemed Llangollen International Music Festival, which is marking its 70th anniversary this year with competitors from more than 50 countries.

The St. Anthony performance also included works by Byrd, Clausen, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Daniel Gee, Orlando Gibbons, John Tavener, Elgar, Holst. Parry.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 41) Here’s the Glow-down Inveterate art and car collector Michael Hammer opened the doors of his Aladdin’s cave headquarters in Carpinteria for a pre-reception to promote the third year of the Glow In The Park event at Elings Park in September, which benefits Doctors Without Walls - Santa Barbara Street Medicine.

The popular event, with emcee Andrew Firestone, features colorful tethered hot-air balloon rides and Hollywood U2, a tribute show to the world-famous Irish rockers.

“It’s the first time Michael has done this for a nonprofit,” said board member Mindy Denson, surveying the world-class art and the myriad cars, including a 1962 Roll Royce Silver Cloud convertible, a McLaren, and a rare Porsche.

Standing out among the tony torrent of guests, including Julian Nott and Anne Luther, Fred Brander, Maria Long, Scott and Michelle Gauthier, Sandi Nicholson, Perri Harcourt,

Rape Crisis Center executive director Elsa Granados with winners from the Chocolate de Vine event, including chocolatiers from Renaud’s, Stafford Chocolates, and Lele Patisserie (photo by Rachel England)

Jamaica, Spain, and Las Vegas on offer, along with a pearl bracelet from Gaspar, the Coast Village Road bling emporium.

One of our tony town’s sweeter events.

Host/sponsor Michael Hammer and Dr. Jason Prystowsky, DWW-SBSM medical director (photo

by Priscilla) “Glow in the Park” supporters Mikayla Sroda, Coco Gauthier, Scott Gauthier, Michelle Gauthier, Chris Denson, Michael Krammer, and Mindy Denson (photo by Priscilla)

Ken Rife, director of operations, Blue Star Valet Service; Father Jon-Stephen Hedges; and Julian Nott, champion balloonist (photo by Priscilla)

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and Mark Alfano, was Jon-Stephen Hedges, a Greek Orthodox priest based in Isla Vista, who was splashed across the news recently when he was allegedly randomly attacked by a 22-year-old UCSB student Paul Gusman, who was high on drugs and is now being held in jail on $200,000 bail.

Hedges was carrying a pair of boxing gloves around his neck, presumably in readiness if it should happen again!

Fruit of the Vine The Rape Crisis Center threw its eighth annual Chocolate de Vine event at Carpinteria’s Rincon Beach Club attracting 200 oenophiles and chocoholics, raising around $50,000 for the worthy cause.

Ten chocolatiers, including Brasil Arts Cafe, Renaud’s, and Lele Patisserie, featured their delicious creations, and eight vineyards, while Santa Barbara city council member Cathy Murillo emceed and fellow councilor Gregg Hart served as auctioneer with trips to Montego Bay,

Curtain Call Santa Barbara Symphony, under maestro Nir Kabaretti, closed out its 63rd season at the Granada on a high note with classical guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas playing a 1999 concerto by the late and local Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein, who left us in 2004 at the age of 82.

The work, For Two Christophers, dedicated to American classical guitar virtuoso Christopher Parkening, was deftly played in his orchestral debut by the talented New York-based Spaniard, who has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The concert opened with Carl Maria von Weber’s Overture to Der Freischutz and wrapped with Anton Bruckner’s monumental and superb Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major,

Ramon Araiza takes the Lobero stage (photo by Stephanie Kao)

Romantic, nearly one hour in length.

Five days earlier, Ramon Araiza, who gives entertaining Behind the Music talks before each concert, had the Lobero stage to himself and a Steinway grand for The Muses, The Mud, The Music & Your Mother, a well-attended symphony fundraiser.

The performance, featuring mother love, disinterested love, betrayed love, forbidden love, and unrequited love accompanying piano works by Rameau, Scarlatti, Schubert, Bonis, and Chopin, was followed by a reception on the theater’s terrace.

Sightings: Oscar winner Michael Keaton strolling at the El Encanto...

Actress Eva Longoria at the Santa Barbara Polo Club...Rocker Dave Crosby noshing at Olio e Limone Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings, and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3828 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3828 for the Arroyo Burro Creek Restoration at Barger Canyon – Civil Contract will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 31, 2016 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office.

Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “Arroyo Burro Creek Restoration at Barger Canyon – Civil Contract, Bid No. 3828".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, and equipment necessary to complete the civil construction work. The scope of work generally includes mobilization, bonds, insurance, tree removal, demolition of on-site features, creek channel excavation, grading and compaction of excavated material, construction of new streambed and grade control structures, salvaging and placement of willow stakes, and connection to an irrigation main as shown in the Plans. Permanent erosion control, irrigation installation, and planting will be completed by others. The Engineer’s estimate is $700,000. Each bidder must have a Class A Engineering License to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 9:00 AM at 3780 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Andrew Grubb, Project Engineer, 805-564-5404.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard.

Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

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.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

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No contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project (submitted on or after March 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code section 1771.1(a)].

No contractor or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project (awarded on or after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority 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 race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

PUBLISHED: May 11 & 18, 2016 Montecito Journal

William Hornung, C.P.M.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3804

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3829 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3829 for the Arroyo Burro Creek Restoration at Barger Canyon – Landscaping Contract will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 31, 2016 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “Arroyo Burro Creek Restoration at Barger Canyon – Landscaping Contract, Bid No. 3829".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, and equipment necessary to complete the landscaping work. The scope of work generally includes mobilization, bonds, insurance, installation of erosion control fabric, tree salvage and relocation, revegetation, and installation of an irrigation system as shown in the Plans.

Grading will be completed prior by others. The Engineer’s estimate is $260,000. Each bidder must have a Class A or C27 License to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 10:00 AM at 3780 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Andrew Grubb, Project Engineer, 805-564-5404.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard.

Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

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.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

January 1, 2016: The call for bids and contract documents must include the following information: • No contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project (submitted on or after March 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code section 1771.1(a)].

• No contractor or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project (awarded on or after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5.

• This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority 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 race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3804 for the ZONE 3 PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, June 2, 2016 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “ZONE 3 PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE PROJECT, Bid No. 3804".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Repair various streets by performing asphalt dig outs to repair failed areas, tree root repair, asphalt cold milling and asphalt hot mix overlay and final traffic striping and marking to City Streets, construct miscellaneous concrete repairs, construct concrete access ramps, retrofit existing access ramps, perform traffic control, notifications and postings The Engineer’s estimate is $2,300,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Eric Goodall, Project Engineer, 805-897-2664.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

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.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

Effective March 1, 2015, Senate Bill 854 requires the City to only use contractors and subcontractors on public projects that have been registered with the State of California Department of Industrial Relations. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority 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 race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

PUBLISHED May 11 & 18, 2016 Montecito Journal

William Hornung, C.P.M.

• The Voice of the Village •

William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: May 18 and 25, 2016 Montecito Journal

19 – 26 May 2016

Our Town

by Joanne A. Calitri

Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist. Contact her at: BeatArtist8@aol.com

Mapplethorpe Exhibit and Smith at the Getty

I

t comes as no surprise in the unexpected wake, literally, of musicians and artists who have died in 2016, that passing back for another glance is the artist Robert Mapplethorpe [1946-1989]. Like the release of David Bowie’s Blackstar album depicting his death, Robert established his art foundation in New York City and final exhibit tour in 1989 titled The Perfect Moment, because for the first time in his career, he would show all his portfolios, X, Y and Z, together, 150 images created late 1960 to 1988.

After he died, the Foundation chose the Getty Research Institute as the permanent home for more than 1,900 photos, letters, and other objects that belonged to him, and where the photo collection of Sam Wagstaff, Mapplethorpe’s beloved mentor and partner, also reside.

Mapplethorpe’s transparent non-disclosure regarding any conflicts he was experiencing himself were voiced through his art, most of which was lauded during his prime, while uneducated art critics and press focused on one small X portfolio. Recompense has arrived in two concurrent retrospective exhibits titled, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium at the Getty Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). His creative partner and life-long friend Patti Smith joined the mix with two sold-out performances about their lives together at the Getty Center Auditorium and added a personal essay to the Getty Research Institute’s publication on Mapplethorpe. Concurrently, there is a documentary movie of his life, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures by directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.

Mapplethorpe’s black-and-white people photographs were part of the portrait curriculum taught at Brooks Institute of Photography when I was faculty there. Having read Smith’s book, Just Kids, which she signed when I covered her concert at the Granada last year, it was fitting I attended Smith’s performance, the Mapplethorpe exhibit at the Getty, and the LACMA VIP docent tour on Easter Sunday. Here are the highlights: The Getty Museum did a superb gallery layout of his works. The subdued and correctly angled lighting made it comfortable to view the photographs behind glass. His works were appropriately sectioned: early years, nudes, flowers, celebrities, 19 – 26 May 2016

self-portraits, and the infamous X portfolio. No one skipped past any part of the gallery, and there was much circling back to favorites, which are for the educated, his nudes, and his black-and-white flower series. In counterpoint, LACMA had more of his early sketches, jewelry, collages, art installations [untitled Altar 1970], Polaroids, memorabilia, ticket stubs, model releases, photoshoot schedules, rare color flower photographs, a film of him during a photo session with a male model, and a 13-minute 16 mm film of Patti titled Still Moving [1978].

The photography prints noted as originals or reprints, are jewels of gelatin silver printing, with a few dye diffusion prints, and all are labeled “Gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art”. The Getty is exhibiting 137 prints; LACMA 162.

Mapplethorpe discovered photography when Sandy Daley gave him her Polaroid camera for letting her film him. His first male model, David Croland, introduced Robert to art curator Sam Wagstaff who gave him his first Hasselblad camera and from there his professional art life began.

Mapplethorpe was persona non grata in art until meeting Wagstaff; they became partners – Robert the artist and Sam his mentor.

An Evening With Patti Smith was April 30, at the Getty Center Harold M. Williams Auditorium. The stage was set with a podium, guitars, stools, and a black baby grand piano. Smith entered with her longtime musician collaborator, Tony Shanahan, to an overwhelming applause. Compared to her hard-edged rock concert with our town’s Jay Dee last January at the Granada, she looked calm and peaceful.

As expected, Patti gave an unabridged and free-flow performance where she shared moments of their life as best friends, lovers, and co-supporters of art. They were 20 when they met by chance in Brooklyn.

Patti basically supported them with a job in Brentano’s and then Scribner’s bookstore, while Mapplethorpe worked tirelessly on his art. They lived at Chelsea Hotel in 1969, which she calls their “university.” Through his love and friendship of her, he financed her annual Rimbaud birthday events that launched her career and her first single, and took the jacket photographs for all but one of her albums. She talked about Robert’s

Patti Smith with Tony Shanahan tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe at the Getty Center

journey in photography, his meeting, and collecting photographs with Wagstaff.

She started humbly with a poem she wrote for his memorial booklet, titled “Reflecting Robert” and passages from her book, Just Kids, with additional sidebars of their time together. The large movie screen behind her changed photographs to complement her readings, sometimes out of sequence, to which she quipped, “Memory is like cubism, it doesn’t matter if the photographs are out of order.”

Songs she performed included

“Wild Leaves” – a song she wrote for Robert’s 40th birthday. Patti closed the tribute singing “Because the Night” and dedicated it to Robert.

What is the perfect moment and the perfect medium? It seems Mapplethorpe and Patti’s life in art gives us both the question and the answer.

411: Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium on exhibit through July 31, at both the Getty Center: www.getty.edu and LACMA: www. lacma.org •MJ

A benefit concert providing support to nurture young string musicians

S A N TA B A R B A R A

STRINGS

CHAMBER MUSIC C O N C E RT

Mary Beth Woodruff Founder & Artistic Director, violin Ani Aznavoorian Principal Cello, Camerata Pacifica Robert Cassidy Director of Piano Chamber Music, Santa Barbara Strings, piano

Program includes music of Debussy, Faure, Messiaen, and Ravel SUN, MAY 22, 7 PM, HAHN HALL 1070 FAIRWAY ROAD, SANTA BARBARA TICKETS: $20 | UNDER 18 TICKETS: $10 santabarbarastrings.org This benefit concert is presented thanks to the generous support of Dr. Bernard Gondos.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. – Mark Twain

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ORDINANCE NO. 5748

ORDINANCE NO. 5749

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING A TEN-YEAR AGREEMENT WITH TWO CONSECUTIVE FIVE-YEAR OPTIONS WITH RAYNE SANTA BARBARA, INC., FOR SALT BRINE CONVEYANCE AT THE EL ESTERO WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, EFFECTIVE JUNE 9, 2016

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 28.12 (ZONE MAP) OF TITLE 28 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO ZONING OF ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NUMBER 051-240-008

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

May 10, 2016.

May 10, 2016.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

California.

(Seal) (Seal)

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5749

ORDINANCE NO. 5748 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on May 3, 2016, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on May 10, 2016, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on May 3, 2016, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on May 10, 2016, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on May 11, 2016.

on May 11, 2016.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on May 11, 2016.

May 11, 2016.

/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

Published May 18, 2016 Montecito Journal

Published May 18, 2016 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Maple & Stan, 210 Las Alturas Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

Devin Terrill, 210 Las Alturas Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara

/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

County on April 28, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2016-0001267. Published

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May 18, 25, June 1, 8, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Stables, 1374 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Rebecca Atwater, 1374 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA

93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 9, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland,

• The Voice of the Village •

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5459 DUE DATE & TIME: June 8, 2016 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Sodium Hypochlorite Backup Dosing System Scope of Work for this project includes repairs/replacements to the existing disinfection dosing system by replacing the piping and associated equipment necessary to dose sodium hypochlorite to the chlorine contact chamber.

An OPTIONAL pre-bid meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 10:00 a.m., at El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant, located at 520 E. Yanonali Street, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Contractor is responsible for any conditions that would have been discovered if they had attended the pre-bid meeting.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977.

There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bidders are hereby notified that 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 Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). 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. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California General A Contractor’s license. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

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. Published: May 18, 2016 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2016-0001374. Published May 18, 25, June 1, 8, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Salon Du Mont, 1470 East Valley Road #C, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Yazmin Carrera, 4515 Chaparral Drive, Carpinteria, CA, 93013. This statement was originally filed with

the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 15, 2014. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis, filed May 3, 2016.

Original FBN No. 20140002396. Published May 18, 25, June 1, 8, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Buena Painting, 1314 Chino Street, Santa Barbara, CA

19 – 26 May 2016

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5457 DUE DATE & TIME: June 9, 2016 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Installation of New PVC Thermoplastic Membrane Roofing for Airport Building 122 Scope of Work to include removal of existing roof and installation of cover board, fasteners, roof membrane, flashings, walkways and sealants for new roof.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on June 2, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., at Airport Building 122, located at 302 Moffett Place, Goleta, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977.

There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bidders are hereby notified that 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 Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). 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. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C39 - Roofing Contractor’s license. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

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. Published: May 18, 2016 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

93101. Marco A Espinoza, 1314 Chino Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 9, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2016-0001364. Published May 18, 25, June 1, 8, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are

19 – 26 May 2016

doing business as: 805 Greens, PO Box 267, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Jeremy Delbianco Mulkey, 414 Figueroa St. Unit H, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 9, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 20160001383. Published May 11, 18, 25, June 1, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: M8RX, 409 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Events SB LLC, 418 Chapala St. Suite A-D, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 3, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2016-0001309. Published May 11, 18, 25, June 1, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Norcal Electric, 520 Farnel Road Suite F, Santa Maria, CA 93458.

Brian Mauro Construction, INC, 1335 Greeley Road, Bakersfield, CA 93314. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 21, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania ParedesSadler. FBN No. 20160001209. Published May 11, 18, 25, June 1, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Corral Solutions; Payment Fusion, 820 State Street, 3rd Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Axia Technologies, LLC, 820 State Street, 3rd Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 28, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 20160001266. Published May 11, 18, 25, June 1, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Sea Urchin, 6 Harbor Way #122, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

Christine “Shelli” Stone, 5815 W. Camino Cielo, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 2,

2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 20160001296. Published May 11, 18, 25, June 1, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Majestic Commercial Residential Clean Up Services, PO Box 1036, Buellton, CA 93427. Alejandro Moreno, 420 Dogwood St., Buellton, CA 93427; Esmeralda Moreno, 420 Dogwood St., Buellton, CA 93427.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 11, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2016-0001078. Published May 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CORT, PO Box 50842, Santa Barbara, CA 93150.

James Witmer, 2231 Calle Culebra, Summerland, CA 93067. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 27, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2016-0001262. Published May 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Salon Du Mont, 1470 E. Valley Road Ste C, Montecito, CA 93108. Warren Butler, 3739 Brenner Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Lilibeth de Dios Caplinger, 140 Morgan Lane, Carpinteria, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 26, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2016-0001244. Published May 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ACUHERB-YING, 626 E. Main Street, Santa Maria, CA 93454. Xiaoyuan Hu, 8406 Temettate Dr., Santa Maria, CA 93454; Yingti Xu, 8406 Temettate Dr., Santa Maria, CA 93454.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 14, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Deborah Sanchez. FBN No. 20160001124. Published April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bhutan Eco-Valley Excursion U.S.A, PO Box 31146 Santa Barbara, CA 93130.

Kunleg Tshering, 3969 Via Lucero #209, Santa Barbara CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 6, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 20160001022. Published April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 2016.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01409.

To all interested parties: Petitioner Nery Reyes filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Benji Adrian Lopez to Benji Adrian Sanchez. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Filed April 13, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: June 1, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It doesn’t mean to stand by the president or any other public official. – Theodore Roosevelt

Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01350.

To all interested parties: Petitioner Isaiah Klein filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Isaiah Mbira Ram Klein to Yitzhak Bira Vanara. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Filed April 5, 2016 by Terri Chavez.

Hearing date: June 1, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01350.

To all interested parties: Petitioners Elizabeth Foscue and Bryan Boyd filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing names from Elizabeth Ellen Foscue to Elizabeth Ellen FoscueBoyd and Bryan Frederick Boyd to Bryan Frederick Foscue-Boyd and name of child from Caroline Mary Foscue Boyd to Caroline Mary Foscue-Boyd. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Filed April 12, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: June 15, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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peño juice, so when mixologist Lawrence Archuleta slid mine across the bar at Amaya, I looked around for a fire extinguisher. But the cocktail didn’t make smoke blast out of my ears. It was spicy but not fiery, a tasty variation on the standard margarita.

“I use a local blend of natural lemon and lime juice, a little cane sugar, Grand Marnier, and a special Tanteo Blanco tequila infused with jalapeño,” Lawrence explained. “It has a southwestern taste that adds a lot to a margarita.”

Sometimes, he told me, a bartender has to give his customers a little schooling about what a margarita is made of, and how it’s supposed to taste and look. “People are used to that bright-green neon margarita mix they get in the supermarket or at bars in other cities besides this one.”

(Lawrence is the proud 10th generation of his family in Santa Fe.) “You want to get people out of their comfort zone, have their taste buds go wild with something new! And they always like that something.”

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Lawrence Archuleta’s post at the Amaya is one stop on the new “Santa Fe Margarita Trail.” Sure, this idea was a creation of the local tourism folks, but it has genuine claims to authenticity. Here’s a history lesson so short you could write it on a cocktail napkin: In early Mexico, locals offered the Spanish conquistadors fermented agave juice. It tasted awful – but the invaders discovered that distilling the juice twice yielded the palatable liquor we know as tequila.

They shipped it up El Camino Real, the main route from Mexico City to Santa Fe, which gives the city bragging rights as the first tequila importer in the New World. Every margarita on the trail is made with 100-percent agave tequila.

The recent margarita boom in Santa Fe started at Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen, whose bar serves two hundred (200!) kinds of margaritas. And it’s only one of 30 bars and restaurants along the trail.

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Impact Investing Tom Parker: A Key Player in Town

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any people ask: Is impact investing practical? Is it really possible to do social good and make money at the same time? Well, we have a perfect example of how well it works right here in Santa Barbara. To answer these questions, we talked to Tom Parker.

But first, who is Tom Parker? A thoughtful man with a quiet intensity and a good sense of humor. He is also chairman of the board for the Hutton Companies and president of the Hutton Parker Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in Santa Barbara. He is a third-generation Santa Barbara native and has won numerous awards, including Philanthropist of the Year and Santa Barbara News-Press Lifetime Achievement Award among many others.

You can get a sense of Tom, who worked in the Hutton companies at all levels, from the things he says.

“I had a belief – clear to me early on... my father worked every day of his life. Hard work and knowledge drove me. Couldn’t expect other people to make money for me.

The money I made came from hard work.”

Q. What does hard work have to do with success of foundations, and where should a foundation focus its competency?

A. In a private foundation, you do the work of giving money away.

When I came to the foundation, the belief was that the principle or corpus in the foundation should not be used to help with its mission. The expectation was to give the corpus to Wall Street to manage. I never believed that Wall Street was going to perform that well. If I wasn’t bringing value, might as well go to Las Vegas and gamble. This isn’t how I was successful, so why should I be passive here? I decided I was going to do it differently.

I decided I was going to use the corpus to lend directly to nonprofits.

I could charge them a lower rate for the loans than banks. The foundation benefits by making the income from the interest and the nonprofits benefit because the lower interest rate lets them keep more of their money for other purposes.

The same idea also works for real estate. If I use the corpus to buy buildings and rent to nonprofits at reduced rates, I created value to 19 – 26 May 2016

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in Carpinteria. Montecito Fire became the ultimate responder because it is the closest emergency service provider, even though there was no fire. A 26-minute response time by the wrong emergency responder is not acceptable service today in Montecito when GPS tracking technology is available to every smartphone user.

Montecito Fire Protection Response Times

the foundation in terms of rent and appreciation on the property, and the community benefits because the nonprofits pay a smaller and stable rent.

Doing Good

By Doing Good

Normally, foundations use 5% of their money for grants. Tom uses 5% plus 50-60% of his corpus. So, he is able to use 55 - 65% of his assets to do social good. By investing directly to help nonprofits, he 1) creates synergy because they occupy contiguous space; 2) lowers rent; and 3) creates stability by keeping the rents stable.

Through his real estate efforts, he has been able to reduce the rents of nonprofits $1.5 to $2 million per year. That can be equated to making a grant in that amount.

Tom believes that to come up with these ideas, it required breaking out of the mode where “someone is going to make money for me.” To be successful using the corpus of foundations and trust funds, their owners and managers have to want to be open and want to use their energy and assets. They have to go beyond what is simple and comfortable.

Tom says most people in foundations are trained as a foundation sector to buy stocks and bonds with their corpus. The stockbrokers and private equity managers who sit on the investment committees advocate it.

So, how well does this impact investing work to protect or enhance its assets? Three local foundations in Santa Barbara, including the Hutton Parker Foundation, all had about the same level of assets in 2000. Now, 15 years later, Hutton has doubled its assets while the other two have shrunk to 50% and 66% of their former value.

And according to Tom, the IRS is on the side of this movement toward employing the corpus. They have done everything to convince the foundation members to do this and made it clear that if they invest for a charitable purpose, investment committee members’ concern for expenditure responsibility is reduced.

Other Venues

Tom has many other areas where he believes impact investing could be utilized, such as: community banks

Montecito Fire seeks to provide a 7-minute response time 90% of the time after the receipt of a transferred 9-1-1 call to its dispatch center. They allow one minute for their call center to service the call, two minutes to turn out the appropriate equipment and, four minutes or fewer of travel time. Their response goal cannot be achieved if there is a 10-minute delay, caused by confusion between a cellphone caller, an answering center in Ventura, and finding the appropriate emergency service responder.

Montecito trail users with cellphones are often the initial callers who spot wildfires in the drought-ridden, highly combustible, front-range vegetation.

Delayed response could rapidly transform a small chaparral fire into an uncontrolled wildfire, compromising home and life safety in Montecito. Emergency search and rescues in remote areas depend upon rapid response to improve survival rates. Rapid response is also critical in traffic accidents on the 101, or in response to a potential spill of hazardous materials on roadways, or the railroad corridor through Montecito.

Paramedic calls are also extremely time sensitive. This year, 300,000 people in the U.S. will collapse from sudden cardiac arrest. The clock is ticking on the paramedic’s ability to resuscitate the patient in time to prevent brain damage.

Seconds count: delayed 9-1-1 service is unacceptable.

Enhanced 9-1-1 Service

The FCC ordered the implementation of “Enhanced 9-1-1” in 2000 in two phases. Phase 1 calls for the routing of cell phone 9-1-1 calls based on the receiving nodes or towers. That is our system now. Phase 2 will route cellphone 9-1-1 calls based on the actual physical location of the cellphone caller through the use of GPS technology. Phase 2, Enhanced 9-1-1, is what Montecito and Santa Barbara need now; the FCC has a soft mandate to install Enhanced 9-1-1 by the end of 2021.

The problem of funding and installing Enhanced 9-1-1 service is more than technical expertise. We live in California – fragmented and decentralized with endless jurisdictional disputes in solving water issues, fire issues, public safety, or emergency medical. It is difficult to incorporate technological innovation into a fractured marketplace where government agencies are the main buyers.

Worse, the FCC hasn’t enforced the installation of Enhanced 9-1-1 because wireless carriers don’t always want to spend the money.

There are temporary patches such as the “Rapid SOS” app, where cellphone users have the ability to transmit location data off their smartphone to a selection of pre-loaded emergency dispatch centers, but this solution can be cumbersome – and the data loaded in the cellphone may not be accurate if a cellphone owner travels out of his home area. The better answer is a system-wide 9-1-1 fix.

Trust the Canadians

Bell Canada has installed Enhanced 9-1-1 service throughout the Canadian provinces, allowing 9-1-1 call centers to incorporate use of GPS in accurately locating the position of the caller and routing the 9-1-1 call. Called “e9-1-1 emergency service,” Bell Canada charges cellphone users 40¢ per month in Quebec, and up to 75¢ per month in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Canada has some 28 million cellphones, serving a population of 36 million people. If Canada can fix its 9-1-1 system, why can’t California, with a population of 39 million, do the same?

Perhaps our government leaders and decision makers could turn the task of designing and implementing an enhanced 9-1-1 system over to a group of kids, all under age 25, with a single mandate: solve the problem in 12 months or fewer. I am confident that a timely solution would be found.

•MJ that make money from guaranteed loans while the foundation owns stock in the bank; opportunities in solar energy, and donor-advised funds that can participate since they circumvent the investment committee of the foundation.

When asked if what he did could be called “impact investing,” he answers in the affirmative: “Absolutely I would,” he says.

True heroism is remarkably sober... the urge to serve others at whatever cost. – Arthur Ashe

Impact investing has tremendous potential to help communities. Our own explorations at the Sustainable Change Alliance have found numerous other companies that bring social good and profit to communities.

If you want to learn more about impact investing, visit www. s u s t a i n a b l e c h a n g e a l l i a n c e . o rg / impact-investing/ for details on our Friday, May 20, conference.

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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)

ENDING THIS WEEK SOPA’s Roar – Santa Barbara School of Performing Arts’ The Lion King JR. – a one-hour adaptation of the mega-hit movie and Broadway musical created especially for the strengths and skill level of middle school students – stars actors from various Santa Barbara schools, including Marymount of Santa Barbara, Mount Carmel, Notre Dame, Crane School, and Harding. Austin Escamilla and Tommy Miller direct, while Santa Barbara musical stalwart Dauri Kennedy serves as musical director.

Missed opening night? Hakuna matata – the production has three more performances still to go. WHEN: 6:30 pm May 20 and 2:30 & 6:30 pm on May 21 WHERE: Notre Dame School auditorium, 33 East Micheltorena St. COST: $15 general, $10 children under 12 INFO: 708-8897 or www. sbsopa.com THURSDAY, MAY 19 Funk on the Launchpad – Idris Goodwin’s We Want the Funk: A Rustbelt Lullaby on the One! – featuring a charismatic laid-off auto worker who decides to trust in the idea that economic depression and cultural oppression can be overcome by creating music – gets a world premiere Launchpad workshop preview production at UCSB this week. Directed by Launchpad founder and artistic director Risa Brainin, professor and chair of the Department of Theater and Dance, Funk takes place in the Midwest in the early

1970s shortly after the fourth-largest auto company has laid off more than half its workers. Chuck, one of the workers, can’t play any instruments, but has harbors big dreams and a belief that “the funk” can bring prosperity if only his band of misfits can hit the big time. Goodwin, spokenword artist, playwright, rapper, and writer who is in residence at UCSB, has a deep connection to hip hop and its rhythm and lyricism dating back at least to one of his first plays, How We Got On, which featured three teens coming of age in the early days of hip hop. We Want the Funk strikes new territory that stretches his ambitions and vision – precisely one of the purposes of Launchpad, an initiative that brings playwrights of national stature to UCSB work side-byside with students, faculty, and guest artists to create and shape new plays.

The format allows for extended time to develop plays without the pressures of tight deadlines and impending criticism, and indeed the performances are staged as a “preview production,” meaning the author works and develops the play in front of an audience. WHEN: tonight through May 27 WHERE: UCSB Hatlen Theater COST: $17 general, $13 students & seniors INFO: 893-7221 or www. theaterdance.ucsb.edu FRIDAY, MAY 20 Dance Mash-up – Mix’d Ingrdnts Dance Company, an Oakland-based troupe that blends a variety of dancing styles from ballet and house to hip hop and break dancing, will perform

SATURDAY, MAY 21 Downtown Block Party – RedEye’s Block Party marks its fifth year with the area debut of Canadian electronic/rock duo Bob Moses. The pair, crowd-pleasers at last month’s Coachella Music Festival, finds fans among both the dance and indierock communities – they’ve also played at Bonnaroo and Lightning In A Bottle and kept the party on the playa going at sunrise during Burning Man. Bob Moses’s 2015 album Days Gone By contains both brooding dance floor burners and moments of reflective, downbeat repose; it was named as one of the top albums of 2015

by KCRW, Dancing Astronaut, Resident Advisor, and even Ellen DeGeneres, who personally invited the duo to perform on her show. Also performing are the popular electronica producer/festival DJ Lee Burridge, who will be playing his first Santa Barbara show in 14 years; the female DJ Kittens, a former dancer mentored by Usher who brings a balance between low-grinding electronic beats, heavy rap, and future beat music; Santa Barbara’s own Traveler, and others. Plus live art, lawn games, “bingo blitz,” “flash ink parlor,” food trucks, and frozen cocktails. It all takes place in and around Eos Lounge, the popular party palace just a block off State Street.

(Burridge also performs Friday night at Eos). WHEN: 2-9 pm WHERE: 500 Anacapa St. COST: $20-$35 INFO: www.nightout.com/events

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by Steven Libowitz

SUNDAY, MAY 22 My Cantor… The Doctor! – Mark Childs of Congregation B’nai B’rith marks both a quartercentury as a cantor at the temple and his new status as Doctor of Sacred Music, Honoris Causa, with a gala concert of Jewish vocal music.

Childs arrived in town back in 1991 as a newly ordained cantor and quickly ingratiated himself not only with the congregation but among music and culture lovers in the entire community via frequent appearances at any number of locations and a driving force in interfaith relations, using music to bring together faith communities in Santa Barbara. The now D.S.M., who will be joined by a full choir as well as his seminary classmates from Hebrew Union College and, will also premiere a new piece by composer Bob Remstein that was commissioned for this event. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Temple B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road COST: $36 general, $10 students INFO: 964-7869 or www.cbbsb.org

“In Between the Seams” at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center. The all-female, mixed-race company, founded by Samara and Jenay, has a mission of counteracting the objectification of women, through dances that exemplify freedom, confidence, and empowerment. Using a diverse combination of movement and poetic prose, Mix’d Ingrdnts produces a multi-genre performance that goes beyond boundaries to broaden understanding of the importance of human connection, in the process redefining street dance by creating community and generating a new vision for female dance performers.

Mix’d Ingrdnts will also hold a free workshop on Urban Dance from 3-4 pm on Friday in the MCC Lounge (email Sepideah.Mohsenian-Rahman@ sa.ucsb.edu for reservations). WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: MCC Theater, SBCC campus COST: free INFO: 893-2064 or www.mcc.sa.ucsb.edu/events SATURDAY, MAY 21 Surf ‘n’ Suds (South) – The Surf ‘n’ Suds Beer Festival stages its first event of the season in our sister city to the south. The Ventura fest features more than 55 craft breweries pouring nearly 150 different beers, a Wine Zone, Surfboard Shapers, a plethora of food trucks – all to a live entertainment soundtrack from Cross Cut Band 805, After the Smoke, and DJ Hecktik. The Surf ‘n’ Suds Beer Festival was voted the No. 8 Beer Festival in the United States by Beeryeti.com, and took the same slot in LA Weekly’s picks for top Beer Festivals of the Summer. And now there are a bunch of brewers new

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to the fest, including Coney Island Brew Co., San Tan, Eureka! and Ventura’s own Barrelhouse 101. The beer festival with a surf twist reprises the whole thing all over again come August 31, when it moves north to Carpinteria State Beach. Both fests benefit the California Avocado Festival’s Youth Scholarship Foundation WHEN: 11:30 am to 5 pm WHERE: San Buenaventura State Beach, 901 San Pedro St, Ventura COST: $50 general admission, $65 VIPs (entrance one hour early) INFO: 448-7070 or www.surfbeerfest.com SUNDAY, MAY 22 Hands On! Music Festival – Normally, it’s the members of the Santa Barbara Symphony who handle the instruments while members of the general public take in the sounds. But this afternoon, community members of all ages are invited to experiment with orchestral instruments from the Music Van, dance on a massive keyboard, and enjoy other musical fun at the first-ever “Hands On!” Music Festival. The free celebration also will include music-oriented crafts with Santa Barbara Museum of Art staff, entertaining musical software, a photo booth, and a short program featuring instrumentalists from the Santa Barbara Symphony’s Junior Orchestra – on the plaza in front of the Lobero Theatre.

The event will be followed by the final concert of the 2015-16 season from the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, comprising 70 musicians ages 1218 from Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, back inside the theater.

WHEN: noon to 4 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: free 19 – 26 May 2016

SUNDAY, MAY 22 Locals Only – The next chamber music concert in Santa Barbara Strings’ series of benefit performances teams the music education organization’s founder and artistic director, violinist Mary Beth Woodruff, with Camerata Pacifica’s principal cellist Ani Aznavoorian (fresh off their season-ending concerts last weekend); and pianist Robert Cassidy, director of SB Strings Piano Chamber Music. The estimable trio will perform Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, Fauré’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, a movement from Messiaen’s Vingt regards sur l’enfantJésus, and Ravel’s Piano Trio at Hahn Hall on the campus of the Music Academy of the West. Proceeds go to support Santa Barbara Strings’ programs, in which young musicians train through three levels of progressive string orchestras and can also participate in chamber music ensembles with their peers. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1070 Fairway Road COST: $20 general, $10 youths under age 18 INFO: 6887423 or www.santabarbarastrings.org

INFO: 898-8785 or 963-0761/www. lobero.com Literary Potpourri – Speaking of Stories sums up its season with a special Sunday-only grab-bag of words, including a new story by author Christina Winn (Arco, read by Meredith Baxter), a classic bit of humor from P.G. Wodehouse (Uncle Fred Flits, read by John Fink), Sylvia Short reading Enemies by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer, and Anne Guynn taking on Beautiful People by Charles Beaumont, a story that inspired a 1952 episode of The Twilight Zone. Note the special times for these performances, and remember to join the performers after the show for complimentary cookies and milk (or, maybe, a glass of wine) to toast the stories and the conclusion of another season. WHEN: 2 & 6 pm WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall

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COST: $28 general, $18 students and military, $18 Early Bird Special (matinee only, and must be purchased

by Friday) INFO: 963-0408 or www.

CenterStageTheater.org WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 School Dance Downtown – The UCSB Dance Company leaves campus for a midweek pair of concerts in the black box theater known as Center Stage. Delila Moseley directs the student company in a program featuring choreography by guest artist Cherice Barton, faculty members Nancy Colahan, Valerie Huston, Christina McCarthy, and Jerry Pearson, and Dances for Isadora by Jose Limon. WHEN: 8 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $23 general, $18 students INFO: 963-0408 or www.

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Seven Days in May – Back in the 1960s, that phrase referred to an American political thriller movie about a plot to violently overthrow the United States government starring Burt Lancaster and longtime Montecito resident Kirk Douglas. Now, it’s the descriptor for the Do-Over Tour, featuring comicactors Adam Sandler, David Spade, Nick Swardson, Rob Schneider, and special guests, that serves as a promo for the Netflix premiere of Sandler’s latest film, The Do-Over, in which he and Spade fake their own deaths in an attempt at a new life, only to discover unexpected danger with their new identities (Swardson also appears). The tour kicked off Thursday in San Francisco, plays the Santa Barbara Bowl tonight, and concludes in Connecticut on Friday, May 27, the day the Steven Brill-directed film starts streaming on Netflix. Will we see a preview of the film’s zany antics? Standard stand-up comedy sets? Something entirely different? Who knows? WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $64.50-$134.50 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com

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inside the house.”

I sipped my margarita and smiled. What goes better with a spicy cocktail than an even spicier story?

Quick Guide

House of Eternal Return: Admission details: https:// meowwolf.com

As a serious working journalist, I had a job to do... gathering more liquid intel.

I stopped by the newly restored La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda, a classic hotel on the Plaza, to sample its margarita, a traditional style varied with two kinds of tequila. Other lounges in the hotel offer their own takes on the cocktail, including the rooftop Bell Tower bar and its aptly named Bell Ringer margarita, garnished with a wheel of jalapeño.

My next stop: Santacafé, a restaurant where Santa Fe’s movers and shakers move and shake. It occupies the 1862 Padre Gallegos House. I sat at the bar during lunch hour and sipped their trailside offering, the Chipotle Margarita (Silver tequila, Triple Sec, fresh lemon-lime mix, pineapple juice, chipotle pureé, garnish of chile flakes).

My lunch of light, crispy calamari

with a four-chile lime dipping sauce was a perfect match for the complex margarita.

But what I enjoyed just as much was the ambience of the historic adobe house. Set in the floor behind my bar stool was a transparent panel through which I could see an old, deep well lined with stones. When I asked bartender Stephanie Galassini about this, she told a colorful, and maybe even true, story.

Back in the 1800s, Padre Gallegos had church services in the front part of his house, she said, and a brothel in the back. Not surprisingly, he had been defrocked by Santa Fe’s archbishop. “So he became a politician,” said Stephanie. (Perfect!) “The padre had enemies and wanted to make sure nobody poisoned his water.

So,” she said, pointing to the panel in the floor, “he had his well dug

Margarita Trail: Go to the Santa Fe tourism bureau’s excellent website at www. santafe.org and click on Things to Do. You can buy a $3 “Margarita Trail” Passport at any tourism office or participating bar.

It includes all recipes, entitles you to a $1 discount on margaritas, and can be stamped at the participating establishments (maximum two per day) to earn trailthemed gifts.

•MJ

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