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It’s Chrismans time: Sarah and Roger honored with bronze plaques at Granada Theatre, p. 6

LETTERS, P. 8 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 23 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

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On the Water Front

Dick Shaikewitz, incumbent Montecito Water District director since 2006, provides his credentials and explains why he’s a candidate in the November election

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Chrismans at Granada; Legends gala; postage stamp; breast cancer gala; Shaun Tomson; Angels Foster Care; Table of Life; SB Symphony; Chaplin’s bar; Rotary Club; Jeff Bridges with Yoko; and bottle in space

Letters to the Editor

A plethora of posts from Journal readers comprising Shaun Tomson, Heigi Goppelt, Thomas Carlisle, David McCalmont, Steve King, Miriam Lindbeck, Michael Davenport, and Cori Hayman

10 This Week

CVA Board; memorial; wine dinner; documentary; fishermen; Public Lands Day; book signing; ballet fundraiser; Spirit awards; library lecture; water meeting; MBAR; knitting; New Yorker; Spanish; pancakes; treasure; book signing; barbecue; brain fitness; and art classes

Tide Guide 12 Village Beat

Here’s The Scoop owners selling business; Ca’ Dario opens on CVR; Sanitary District news; first responders; and Trails Foundation barbecue

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner reports on the SB Yacht Club annual fundraiser; Hospice heroes luncheon; and Casa del Herrero with tea

21 Microbubbling

Here’s to Mitchell Kriegman, who dissects the movie classic The Graduate as it relates to modern-day society, gender-bending, and generational changes

22 On Water

Cori Hayman, Ken Coats, and Brian Goebel reply to longtime Montecito Water Board member Dick Shaikewitz’s recent letter

23 Brilliant Thoughts

Mind over matter: Ashleigh Brilliant dissects the discussions and differences involving the words crazy, insane, lunacy, madness, and dementia

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Judith Ishkanian reflects on January’s debris flow, expresses concern about rushing contentious proposals, and vows to fight for her Sanitary Board seat

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Joanne Calitri catches up with Alan Koslowski, whose 70th birthday coincided with his “Finding the Moment” exhibit and a gala at SB Wine Collective

36 Montecito Motor Classic

Motor Classic founder Dolores Morelli Johnson discusses the annual event, which gets revved-up Sunday, September 23, from 9 am to 3 pm

38 Spirituality Matters

Healing Arts Faire; Pure Intent; book circle; Impact Hub with films; yoga class; Tantra Games; and soup’s on with Britta Gudmunson at Yoga Soup

39 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz interviews Beach Boy Mike Love and also previews Bill Waxman’s play The Sorrow Cart

Legal Advertising 42 Calendar of Events

Robben Ford; Profs at the Pub; Storm Reading; Teen Arts Mentorship; Hard Core Cider; David Massengill; Stow House Art; 1980s in the Bowl; and SB Revels

44 Arts & Lectures

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On The Water Front

by Dick Shaikewitz Dick Shaikewitz has served 12 years on the MWD ( often president); Central Coast Water Authority (chairman); SB County Special Districts (vice president); director, Liability section Statewide Water Insurance Agency

Between now and Tuesday, November 6 [election day], members of the water and sanitary district communities, and other interested parties, will present various opinions on the subject of water and waste management. The views expressed under the imprimatur of this column – whether they are by candidates for the water or sanitary boards of directors or not – do not necessarily reflect the views of the Montecito Journal editorial staff.

Why I am Running Again

, Dick Shaikewitz, am an incumbent Montecito Water District (MWD) director since 2006, holding a business degree from Northwestern University and a law degree from Washington University. I practiced law in Southern Illinois; primarily doing litigation. Montecito has been my home for 21 years. I served six years as a Montecito Association director. The Music Academy used to have a summer wine and food event; I helped with it and headed it one summer. For a number of years, I served as a director of the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute. For the last 19 years, I have been a non-commercial wine maker. Our group is called Los Cinco Locos. My own label is Domaine Jasminka. This year, we’ll produce 3,000 bottles. None is sold. We use it for family and friends, and give much away to charities and political organizations. While MWD director, and with my legal background, I informed the board of situations where I thought legal action might be needed. Through my efforts, the District collected substantial sums.

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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the Montecito Water District (MWD) customers were using water at an unsustainable rate of more than 7,000 acre feet of water a year (AFY). Five percent of our residential customers were using 25 percent of our residential water account. Due to the ongoing and unprecedented drought, conservation by our customers, and new State rules, we are now using about 4,000 AFY. As a Public Utility, the fixed expenses of the MWD do not change much, and if anything, they increase annually as do most expenses we face as homeowners. Our expenses for just over half as much water are about the same as they were for twice as much. Further, wages, energy, water, and chemical costs keep going up. The high water use in 2006-07 was not sustainable, so in 2007 the MWD Board adopted a tiered rate structure. The cost for using more water increased. When the drought continued in 2011, customer water consumption increased again to unsustainable levels, and with water supplies becoming more scarce, the board adopted allocations to help enforce conservation. Even though this was painful for some of our customers, it worked and continues to work today. But we had less money to pay bills, since most of our revenues are derived from water sales. To correct the significant drop in revenues, the board in 2015 adopted a water shortage emergency surcharge. Unfortunately, it is still in effect. The District is working on a new rate study, but whatever it’s called, more money is needed to pay the bills since customers are using less water. The three MWD Board candidates are personally nice people. But they were selected to run as a slate by a small group calling itself the Committee for Montecito Water Security (Committee) with a campaign fund of about $90,000. Eleven individuals account for almost $70,000 of this. That means they can spend almost $13 a person to try to persuade the 7,000 MWD voters to put them in office. Their platform naively proposes the development of expensive desalinated and recycled wastewater with questionable return benefits, and your water bill will go down. With my 12 years of experience on the board, I understand the water supply and cost problems better than those three. If I am retained as a director of your Water District, your water bill will have a much better chance of not being as high as the new MWD Board would make it.

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Monte ito Miscellany by Richard Mineards

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, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 11 years ago.

Donors Enrich Grand Granada

anta Barbara’s philanthropic dynamic duo Roger and Sarah Chrisman have joined a heavenly pantheon of donors who are featured on bronze plaques in the lobby of the venerable Granada Theatre. The tony twosome, who have given more than $6.2 million to the State Street institution over the years, join an esteemed list of $5-million-plus gift givers, including Jon and Lillian Lovelace, Debbie and Michael Nesbit, Sara Miller McCune, Michael and Anne Towbes, and the City of Santa Barbara. Sarah was chairman of the theater board for six years until 2015 and Roger, a former SB Yacht Club commodore, was designated an honoree at the first Legends gala four years ago, having donated the building’s digital projection system in 2013 and financ-

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LETTERS

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If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite H, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to jim@montecitojournal.net

Stepping Closer

would like to thank Dr. Edo McGowan for clarifying his position on recycled water with the residents of Montecito (“Water Warnings,” MJ #24/37). As quoted last year, he supports recycled water “as long as it’s done properly” (“It’s Where the Future Lies...” by Melinda Burns, Edhat and Independent, June 8, 2017). His words of caution in last week’s MJ, however, must also be heeded. We cannot ignore fundamental public health and safety in treating recycled water. For that reason, California has several laws and regulatory bodies, including the Regional Water Quality Control Board, in place to permit, regulate, and monitor recycled water operations and quality. Goleta, Oxnard, Ventura, Camarillo, and parts of the City of Santa Barbara use recycled water for irrigation on agriculture, parks, golf courses, and schools. Many communities throughout California, the nation, and the globe rely on recycled water for irrigation and drinking. The widespread and safe use of recycled water for irrigation has been in existence for decades. Montecito does not need to reinvent the wheel to pursue a state-of-the-art recycled water system for irrigation at the cemetery, parks, and golf courses that meets all public health and safety requirements and contains adequately trained personnel with appropriate water quality testing. Our neighbors have been recycling water for decades, and we can work with them to share their wealth of knowledge. We just need to start the process of building on this vast reservoir of experience and expertise across California to develop a proper recycling program. I am hopeful that Dr. McGowan would use his considerable public health expertise to join the Montecito Water and Sanitary districts in the pursuit of large-scale recycled water for irrigation, so that we may step closer to attaining water security and stop dumping 500,000 gallons a day of water into the ocean off Butterfly Beach. We must not let fear drive our decisions to move forward with sustainable, resilient, and environmentally sound infrastructure. Cori Hayman Montecito

From Boys to Men

In our current divided times, surfing can bring us together and make life better for young, fatherless boys.

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agement skills, she has made sure that the employees of the department are adequately trained and compensated. The people, who want to take over running this complex wastewater management and disposal of wastewater, seem to have no prior knowledge and experience of managing any water-related department. Dr. Ishkanian’s experience and over 12 years of hands-on dedicated service even during floods and severe drought is invaluable. She is also actively involved in the water recycling project. All aspects of her management skills seem to work harmoniously. For continued success, let us not interfere with her excellent work; if it is not broke, don’t try to fix it. Helgi Goppelt Montecito

Water Security Needed Shaun Tomson riding a wave in his distinctive and revolutionary style, was taken by Steve Wilkings, head photographer for Surfer magazine at a break called Off the Wall on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii in 1976, using a 1,200mm Century lens off a Nikon F3 body; manual focus at 200 meters

For the fifth year, I am surfing in the 100 Wave Challenge on [Sunday] October 7, 2018, at Mission Beach, San Diego. Along with 200 other surfers, I will be catching 100 waves to help provide in-school mentoring for over 800 fatherless teenage boys. Last year, with your awesome support, I raised $24,050. This year, I want to raise $33,000, and only you can help me do that. Please go to boystomen. gov website to learn more about the program and, of course, to donate to the cause. Shaun Tomson Montecito (Editor’s note: Shaun was the number one surfer in the world, circa 1977. He just returned from a trip to South Africa, where he was born, called the Positive Wave Tour to celebrate the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, coinciding with 50 years of pro surfing. While there, he and his group raised money for Ohlange School, the first school started by a black in South Africa; it was where Nelson Mandela voted for freedom in 1994. “Interestingly,” Shaun, who is my nextdoor neighbor, says in a side note, “the first donor to the cause was professor Paul Bradford and his Westmont class, who were studying in Singapore at the time!” It really is a small world, after all. – J.B.)

Let’s Not Kill Success

Dr. Judith Ishkanian has successfully managed the Montecito Sanitary Waste Water Resources for over 12 years. During this time, Dr. Ishkanian has made sure that our beloved Montecito wastewater is properly disposed of. Besides her excellent man-

Thank you for your extensive coverage of the upcoming elections for the sanitation and water boards. They deserve the attention of everyone in our community. I was shocked to learn about the list of Water and Sanitation District problems that threaten Montecito’s water supply. From the near total dependence on rainfall during this seemingly never-ending drought and in the face of climate change to the wasteful dumping of 500,000 gallons a day of water into the

ocean off of Butterfly Beach, to comparing the use of recycled water to spraying our community with Agent Orange, the list of inexcusable inaction on the part of the appointed incumbents is long. Their dysfunction in failing to plan for Montecito’s water future raises the costs of water and lowers property values for every homeowner and rate payer in Montecito. It was not that long ago that we were paying penalties just to keep our landscaping and fruit trees barely alive. The incumbents had their chances. They did not deliver. Thank you, Water Security Team (Coates, Hayman, Goebel, Newquist, and Barrett), for stepping up and giving the voters a choice for much needed change. You have my vote! Michael J. Davenport Montecito

Tax Returns

Brett Adams made some excellent parallels to his letter (“Pardonable Offenses,” MJ #24/36). Maybe this president in the back of his mind is including himself when Mr. Adams suggests the “best people” be overlooked when they get caught cheating on their taxes. Very smart for him to think this way, since he hasn’t released

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This Week in and around Montecito

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Coast Village Association Board Meeting The board of directors meets to discuss issues affecting Coast Village Road businesses and residents. When: 8:15 am Where: Montecito Bank & Trust Board room, 1106 Coast Village Road Info: www.coastvillageroad.com Memorial Plaque Unveiling The community is invited as Montecito Association and Montecito Community Foundation unveil a new plaque in honor of the victims of the January 9 debris flow. When: 5:30 pm Where: Corner of San Ysidro Road and East Valley Road Info: betsyturner123@gmail.com Santa Barbara Wine Dinner Series Savor the summertime with an evening of exquisite wines from local Santa Barbara vineyards paired with a tasting menu of regionally inspired cuisine prepared by Chef Denizot. Each dinner begins with a reception at 6:30 pm, followed by dinner in the dining room. Tonight: “Venetian Night: Evolution of Amarone” When: 6:30 pm Where: Belmond El Encanto, 800 Alvarado Place Cost: $120 per person Reservations: (805) 770-3530 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Documentary Screening Montecito elephant activist Kristina McKean co-hosts a screening of Love and Bananas, about the rescue of a blind Asian elephant. After waiting 2.5 years, actor/director

Ashley Bell and rescuers led by Asian elephant conservationist and TIME Magazine’s Hero of Asia, Lek Chailert, embark on a mission 480 miles across Thailand to rescue Noi Na, a 70-year-old partially blind elephant and bring her to freedom. Love and Bananas aims to ignite a new way of thinking about this species and shows what can be done to prevent the extinction of Asian elephants. The director, as well as the owner of the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand, will be at the screening. When: 7 pm Where: Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 East Cota Street Info & Tickets: https:// loveandbananas.ticketspice.com/ tickets SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 Fishermen’s Market Every Saturday, get fresh fish and shellfish at unbeatable prices straight from local fishermen on the city pier next to Brophy’s restaurant. Buy fish whole or have it cleaned and filleted to order. Rockfish, lingcod, black cod, live rock crab, abalone, sea urchin (uni), and more are available weekly, rain or shine. When: 6 am Where: Harbor Way Info: www.cfsb.info/sat National Public Lands Day Join for a volunteer workday that will focus on restoring areas of the trails network damaged last winter by the Thomas Fire and subsequent debris flow. The trail work this year will be at San Ysidro, Buena Vista, and Cold Springs Trails. This is the second trail workday focused on restoration in the areas devastatingly hit this winter.

Book Signing at Tecolote The public is invited to meet Santa Barbara resident and author Catharine Manset Morreale at a book signing for her debut novel, What She Gave Away, being held at Tecolote Book Shop. Manset Morreale’s pen name is Catharine Riggs. Manset Morreale has called Montecito and Santa Barbara home for most of her life – having grown up here as a part of a large tennis family. Her father, George Manset, was one of the organizers of Knollwood Tennis Club. The book is Riggs’s first work of psychological suspense. Set in Montecito and Santa Barbara, the plot centers around an outsider with a dark past and a bitter grudge who moves to Montecito, only to find herself enmeshed in the secrets of her boss and his hapless wife. When: 3 to 4:30 pm Where: 1470 East Valley Road #52 When: 8 am Where: meet at Lower Manning Park, 449 San Ysidro Road SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 State Street Ballet’s Gala Fundraiser Join the gala soirée, honoring beloved long-time supporter Arlyn Goldsby and benefiting State Street Ballet. The annual fundraising event has become one of the most entertaining and elegant in town, featuring cocktails in the garden, dance vignettes by talented dancers, and a spirited live auction. With the goal of having fun while raising funds for unique and innovative performances, tours, and outreach programs, one’s presence ensures the longevity and success of the performing arts in Santa Barbara. Table and advertising sponsorships available, black tie optional. When: 6 pm Where: Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore, 1260 Channel Drive Cost: $350 per person Info: contact@statestreetballet.com TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Spirit of Service Awards Luncheon The Rotary Club of Montecito will host its “Spirit of Service” Awards luncheon at the Santa Barbara Club

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and honor three local residents who have given back to the community. The Club will present a “Spirit of Service” award to Ellie Chenoweth, along with a special college scholarship in recognition of her community service initiatives after the devastating debris flow. The second “Spirit of Service” award recipient is Ashlee Mayfield, a tireless volunteer for Montecito Trails Association. The third beneficiary is John Abraham “Abe” Powell, founder of the Bucket Brigade. When: noon Where: Santa Barbara Club, 1105 Chapala Street Cost: $30 Info: http://spiritofserviceawards. com/ Lecture at Montecito Library Want to raise an emotionally healthy child? Ever wonder how it’s done in today’s world? If yes, join awardwinning author Maureen Healy, who has an active mentoring practice for highly sensitive children in Santa Barbara and speaks globally on the subject. Healy writes for Psychology Today and has contributed to the PBS program This Emotional Life. Her first book, Growing Happy Kids, has been translated into multiple languages. Join Healy and the Santa Barbara Public Library for an evening of inspiration, practical strategies, and new friends. Healy will provide real-life strategies to help children and answer audience questions. When: 5 to 6 pm Where: 1455 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 Water Meeting Join Water Board Directors Tobe Plough and Floyd Wicks for a review of the Montecito Water Crisis and recent progress. Meet the Water Security Team platform of candidates for Montecito Water District and Montecito Sanitary District and hear their plans for water supply

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improvements. When: 5 pm Where: El Montecito Presbyterian Church, 1455 East Valley Road Info & RSVP: info@ montecitowatersecurity.com THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

books, toys, and much more. When: 8 am Where: 965 Maple Avenue in Carpinteria Info: 684-3112 Book Signing at Tecolote Shannon Hogan Cohen will sign her new book, S.H.E. Share Heal Empower. The book unveils the stories of women across all ages and cultures, who courageously reached within to overcome extraordinary obstacles. When: 3 to 4 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 East Valley Road Info: 969-4977

Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics. When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

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Treasure Hunt in Carpinteria 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 antiques, collectibles, hand-crafted gifts, plants, and great bargains on gently used and vintage goods of every description, including jewelry, furniture, housewares, clothing, 20 – 27 September 2018

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Montecito Trails Foundation Annual BBQ Join to celebrate how far the trails have come since the Thomas Fire and debris flow. Everyone at MTF has been hard at work and thanks to donations, membership, and support, the trails are really taking shape! In lieu of the usual silent auction and fundraising event, the barbecue will be a community celebration. A hearty outdoor lunch, along with vegetarian fare, will be served by Los Padres Outfitters. Steve Woods will provide live country music. Kevin and Sheila’s Margarita Bar (which will also serve beer, wine, and soft drinks) and a raffle will round out the fun. An optional family-friendly hike on Ennisbrook Trail will be held prior to the celebration. When: hike starts at 10:30 am; barbecue at noon Where: Crane Country Day School, 1795 San Leandro Lane Cost: $40 for members, $50 for nonmembers; tickets will be $10 more at the door Info & Tickets: www. montecitotrailsfoundation.info

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ob and Ellie Patterson, owners of Here’s the Scoop on Coast Village Road, announced publicly this week that they are actively seeking new owners for their beloved gelato and sorbet shop. “This is a bittersweet decision for us,” Ellie said, “As we have never felt more connected to the community than we do right now.” The Pattersons have owned the shop for more than 14 years, originally opening in a different space at 1187 Coast Village Road in April 2004. The couple, who found themselves looking for a new chapter after the economic downturn impacted their high-tech careers, learned the art of making gelato and sorbet at domestic trade shows, followed by a long course in Milan. The Pattersons set out to open a shop dedicated to an excellent product, supportive of local produce purveyors and farmers. “We were doing the ‘farm-to-table’ thing before it was trendy!” Ellie laughed. The couple produces a variety of staple flavors, along with an array of seasonal offerings. They also make custom flavors for weddings and events, and are invited annually to participate in local school carnivals at Montecito Union School and Crane, at Earth Day, and at various other community happenings. Business has steadily increased over the years, and Bob and Ellie have become even more entrenched in the community, a notion that Ellie says is her proudest accomplishment. She recounts watching hundreds of local kids grow up over the years, including her own employees, three of whom have been married with Ellie and Bob in attendance. The sense of community deepened earlier this year, when Coast Village Road was shut down for more than two weeks following the January 9 debris flow. Here’s the Scoop was the first food establishment to reopen and helped welcome back residents when evacuations were lifted. The shop was recognized by country music star Brad Paisley, a longtime customer who made mention of it on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show when discussing the impact of the mudslide on Montecito. Months later, Paisley encouraged his fans to meet him at Here’s the Scoop the weekend of his benefit concert, bringing more attention to the business and Coast Village Road. “It was really incredible,

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Bob and Ellie Patterson are selling their Montecito gelato and sorbet business, Here’s the Scoop

and we still have people stopping in who saw all the press about us,” Ellie said. This summer, business has been strong, and the greater sense of community is palpable, said Bob. The Pattersons say their ideal buyer is someone who wants to become entrenched in the community, and carry on the traditions of the shop, including the costume contest the Pattersons host each year on Halloween, and the wall of kids’ pictures. The shop is equipped and health department-approved for the in-house production of the gelato and sorbet; the sale of the business includes the equipment, as well as hands-on training from Bob and Ellie to learn how to perfect the product. The Pattersons surmise that new restaurants in the building – Renaud’s, Kao Khang, and Ca’ Dario – as well as the opening of the Miramar in January, will only serve to boost business. Interested buyers should reach out to business broker Matt Olufs of Compass First, at (805) 886-2919. Ellie and Bob say the decision to sell is based on one thing: wanting to spend more time with their grandsons, Jack (3) and Finn (1). “We are missing out on too much and we need to be there,” Ellie says. The couple plans on moving to Ohio to be closer to the kids as well as their only daughter, Alex. “It’s just time,” Ellie said.

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Yacht Club Charity Gala

Some of the teachers (from Montecito schools) honored at the SBYC Regatta: Jacki Hammer, Vicky Harbison, and Jocelyn Tipple

he Santa Barbara Yacht Club (SBYC) got underway with their 14th Annual Charity Regatta benefiting Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care (VNHC) and celebrating our dedicated teachers. They were recognized for going 110 percent above and beyond the call of duty during the Thomas Fire and mudslides to continue their student’s education. They arranged alternate classroom sites, revised lesson plans, and supported children mentally and emotionally during this traumatic time for all of us. These teachers include Christine Gilbert, Nichole Hughes, Krista Munizich, Gretchen Tofflemire, Debra Tursick, Omar Espinoza, Patrice Warwick, Amy Campbell, Johanna Thorpe, Jacki Hammer, Vicky Harbison, Valerie Yoshimura, Mary Beth Lee, and Jocelyn Tipple. Way to go! The SBYC was founded in 1872 and is the second oldest yacht club on the West Coast of North America. I asked SBYC Staff commodore Francie Lufkin if she had ordered up the cruise ship that was anchored just off shore to add more atmosphere to the celebration. Of course, she replied, “Yes. No problem.” The Club was festive with steel drum music playing while guests drank sparkling wine and mimosas to go along with the brunch buffet. There were piles of savory and sweet pastries, gourmet deviled eggs, and several kinds of miniature quiche. Yum! The tables were centered with small black boards and an honored teach-

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er’s name chalked on. They didn’t forget an apple for the teacher as well. Commodore John Koontz reminded the group, “VNHC also went 110 percent above their duty and continued its compassionate and trusted care for the community.” VNHC president/CEO is Lynda Tanner with Rick Keith as executive director. The Yacht Club has raised $1.3 million for VNHC in the 14 years of the Regatta. These contributions help take care of 12,000 patients and families each year. After the opening ceremonies, participants headed out to their respective spectator boats, which headed out to sea so they could watch the races. I went aboard the Sonador thanks to

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and the 65-year-old SB Symphony receiving the honors at the impressive event, co-chaired by Joan Rutkowski and Stephanie Sokolove. After cocktails and canapés in the Miller McCune Founders Room, following free-flowing champagne in the lobby, the more than 240 well-heeled guests stepped on the cavernous stage for a three-course dinner accompanied by Fess Parker and Andrew Murray wines, and emceed by the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone. The handsome crystal awards, engraved with the “G” shield logo designed by Santa Barbara architect Roger Phillips, and featured in the theater’s lobby, were presented by Anne Towbes, Celesta Billeci, and Joan Rutkowski. Each presentation featured a short video produced and directed by Dana Morrow, screened on the Granada’s state-of-the-art digital cinema system, accompanied by entertainers including mezzo soprano Audrey Babcock, baritone Lee Poulis, pianists Kostis Protopapas and Debbie Denke, members of the Teen Sing choir, and musicians from the orchestra. Among the cascade of glamorously garbed guests were Palmer and Susan Jackson, Allen and Anne Sides, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Richard and Annette Caleel, Jonathan Fox, Brooks and Kate Firestone, Mary Dorra, Hal

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George Leis, Janut Garufis, and Fred Kass among the revelers at the Breast Cancer Resource Center gala (photo by Priscilla) Palmer Jackson presents 2018 Legends Awards to honorees Santa Barbara Symphony – Organization Kevin Marvin, executive director; maestro Nir Kabaretti; philanthropist Sara Miller McCune; Kenny Loggins, artist; with congratulations from Caren Rager, executive director of Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts (photo by Baron Spafford)

and Lisa Lloyd, Ed and Sue Birch, George and Laurie Leis, Morrie and Irma Jurkowitz, David Asbell, Virginia Castagnola-Hunter, Gary and Susan Gulbransen, Caren Rager, Bob and Sandy Urquhart, Hayley Firestone Jessup, Nir Kabaretti, Lynda Weinman, Gretchen Lieff, and Miles Hartfield. A legendary evening, indeed. Lady and the Stamp TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey gave Montecito first responders her

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seal of approval when she attended the unveiling of a new U.S. Postal Service stamp. It includes a firefighter in red, a

police officer in blue, and a paramedic in white, paying tribute to emergency personnel across America. The ceremony, with Oprah unveiling the stamp at the Montecito Fire Protection District headquarters on San Ysidro Road, also specifically recognized local responders during the catastrophic Thomas Fire that burned more than 280,000 acres locally and the deadly January mudslides. “We just want to say ‘thank you’ for living out loud what it means to be a hero,” Oprah declared. “Each of you represent the best of us.” Best Wishes Santa Barbara’s 21-year-old Breast Cancer Resource Center found a different venue to park its annual gala fundraiser, which had 210 guests and raised around $200,000 for the non-profit. The boffo bash is normally held at the Coral Casino, but because of the devastating mudslides in January, the tony beachfront locale couldn’t guarantee an opening date, so the Pink Lounge party was thrown at the Santa

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Barbara Auto Group on Hope Avenue, suitably draped in white organza, for the first time. “We obviously didn’t want to send out hundreds of invitations and then find we couldn’t use the location,” says executive director Silvana Kelly. “But this venue has worked out very nicely considering the circumstances.”

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Here’s to You, Mrs. Robinson

want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening, Benjamin Braddock? “Microbubbles.” Think about it. I want to remake The Graduate. I know that sounds sacrosanct unless, of course, you’ve seriously never heard of the movie due to generational discrepancies or have a lack of cultural references. But I think it’s a fine idea to remake the Dustin Hoffman/Anne Bancroft classic. It was directed by the hugely talented director, the late Mike Nichols. He was smart enough to hijack Simon and Garfunkel’s song and change Mrs. Roosevelt to Mrs. Robinson for the film’s theme. It was all about generational change, which is a pretty good way to describe what we are all going through now. As much as I’d like to think otherwise, I’m part of the generation being changed. I’m pretty sure this happens time and again throughout history with all the accompanying resentments handed not so gently from one “age group,” as they used to say in school, to the next. The generational change today turns the 1967 Oscarwinning movie on its head. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Hoffman’s Benjamin was a mild-mannered rebel who spent most of the movie suffering with his wealthy family and trying to get the guts to take the next step in his life. Today he comes across as a bit of a creep, living with so many options in life he can’t quite appreciate. Does Benjamin turn into one of those privileged powerful men we know about publicly – avaricious, insensitive, brutal, and yet desperate and boring? Is he one of those guys befuddled by the #metoo movement or worse, as the behavior that had seemed – at least to his male peers – acceptable becomes not so? “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming without shorts,” Warren Buffett famously said, more literally in this case than he intended. These are turbulent times for cultural tides, with eddies and whirlpools galore. Even quicksand. Surprisingly, when you watch the movie today you find yourself cheering for Anne Bancroft’s pivotal character, Mrs. Robinson, who we all thought was a villain and now comes across as a manipulative, emotionally shattered, yet intelligent woman who wants to 20 – 27 September 2018

believe she still matters. A new version tailored to life today would help sort through our confusing times. There’s a Zen quote about confusion: “If you are confused, that means you are about to learn something.” It’s not Mike Nichols’s fault that we turned out the way we did and made his movie an artifact of cultural change. A similar thing happened with Truffaut’s Jules and Jim, another classic from the ‘60s. My friend and filmmaker Ruth Charney recently staged a screening with director Larry Kramer, hoping to introduce a younger audience to the French film classic. When the movie was over, they were disappointed to find that the audience didn’t understand why everyone in the film was so neurotic. Actress Melissa Errico, famous for playing ingénues, has written eloquently about playing Daisy Gamble in On a Clear Day or Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and goes on about Kiss Me, Kate, the musical update of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew (that is now out-of-date) where the baritone gives a spanking to the female lead, crystalizing the iconic poster image for the show. She deals with these characters by playing against the victim profiling and finds untapped resources in the playwright’s own words to support her characters and find the thing we all want in characters of every gender: complexity. We look at characters differently in every age. I once did a study of the classic Winnie the Pooh characters for a Disney series I created, Book of Pooh, and discovered Eeyore of all people – er, donkeys – began as a worrier in the ‘60s, became a nihilist in the ‘70s, and today seems like a realist. The quickie solution – which turns out some interesting results – is to flip genders. But gender-flipping, as satisfying as it is to some and fun as it may be, doesn’t address the real issue. Male complexity is getting a beating these days. One of the most compelling #metoo movies you could make right now would be about the guy. Think back to The Graduate. Genderflipping their roles is fraught with even more disturbing ripples. At some point, you have to start fresh. Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson, I’m sure you would have an interesting take on what’s happening now. •MJ

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On Water

by Ken Coates, Brian Goebel and Cori Hayman

Correct and Proper?

n his recent letter to the editor, long-serving Montecito Water Board Member Dick Shaikewitz said: “So far, everything the [Water] District has done has been correct and proper.” (“On Recycling Wastewater,” MJ #24/37) We disagree. Let’s review what the water board has actually done during his tenure: • Implemented water rationing. • Set excessive penalty rates. • Threatened service cut offs. • Forced customers through an onerous appeal process to get relief from high bills caused by leaks and other inadvertent use. Indeed, Mr. Shaikewitz’s signature achievement while serving on the board for the past 12 years was to create an emergency, through years of inaction, that culminated in quotas and penalties. Where else has Mr. Shaikewitz’s inaction been costly for District customers? During his tenure, he has: • Ignored the advice of geologist Steve Bachman in 2007 to develop storage projects. • Failed to file the State-mandated Urban Water Management plan in 2010 and 2015. • Been unable to reach an agreement with the City of Santa Barbara on a desalination project. • Driven residents to spend tens of thousands of dollars or more on storage tanks and well drilling in the face of quotas and uncertain water supply. • Failed to cooperate with Montecito Sanitary District on a recycled water plan. With regard to recycling, Mr. Shaikewitz now claims that “times have changed.” But given that we are in the eighth year of drought, the only thing that has changed recently is that he must now defend his record of inaction before the voters. This is why, despite previously comparing using recycled water for landscaping to spraying our beautiful communities with agent orange, Mr. Shaikewitz now says he is waiting for a recycling recommendation from outside consultants. But we have all been waiting for Mr. Shaikewitz to lead on this issue for the previous 12 years. This is not misinformation or special interests at work; these are facts that every resident of Montecito and Summerland should find appalling. Rather than try to defend his dismal record, Mr. Shaikewitz and others have fabricated stories about our platform: that we are pursuing cityhood and privatization. We trust that members of the community will not be so easily fooled by these lies. We are not pursuing either of these objectives. As the last architect of penalties and quotas remaining on the board, Mr. Shaikewitz seeks to justify his re-election bid because his “years of MWD Board experience are needed to point out problems and solutions.” As his comments regarding agent orange make abundantly clear, Mr. Shaikewitz has excelled at looking for problems. But with his legacy of penalties and quotas, Mr. Shaikewitz has failed miserably at finding solutions. All the other board members who served with Mr. Shaikewitz during the era of inaction were voted out or had the good sense to resign or retire. It is correct and proper for the voters to retire Mr. Shaikewitz on November 6 and bring in a fresh team of problem solvers capable of bringing water security to Montecito and Summerland. We are that team. •MJ EARTHQUAKE RETROFITTING 50 + YEARS EXPERIENCE - LOCAL 35+ YEARS

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Swamp Dwellers React

My first reaction on Saturday [September 8], after the historic upset of 37-year-old Serena Williams by 20-year-old Naomi Osaka, and witnessing the childishness of Williams, and the churlishness of the United States Tennis Association officials toward their own U.S. Open Women’s Singles champion was: This isn’t right. A (young) woman of color (Japanese/Haitian ancestry) beats a veteran tennis woman of color (African-American). An outsider who doesn’t deserve to be in the same venue with the iconic insider bested the latter only because she was enabled by a racist and sexist umpire in the process. Of course, the blunt assault of racism and sexism doesn’t work well in this situation. Both players are women of color. Ah, but the chair was officiated by a Portuguese male, known for being a hard-ass and going by the book. Supposedly, this guy was ruling in behalf of a white male North American-European tennis patriarchy. There are oppressors and those oppressed everywhere. In the face of sheer dominance on court, the crowd jeers and boos the name of the young woman who dares to defeat their icon and deprive them of their sense of achievement and elation. Most of the crowd had not come to witness a competitive match, but a coronation. Most had come to witness, so to speak, Apollo Creed put on a clinic for the benefit of Rocky Balboa. Instead, Rocky thinks it’s “a damned fight” (as Creed’s handlers said in the classic film). It wasn’t only Serena Williams who was robbed of a major victory. The crowd reacted as if the audacity of Osaka’s superior performance plunged a dagger into the heart of their settled, comfortable life. First, Trump defeating Hillary. Now, an unknown outsider taking apart the beloved tennis mama. Elitism is becoming a contagious sickness across Western cultures. We are breeding an insulated class of

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Paying Your Way

Passing a neighboring mobile home park, I see friend Marcia on her front porch. Her little dog, Beau, starts barking when he hears me. Beau contentedly sits on my lap while we visit on the porch. Marcia has two teenaged girls and a 62-year-old husband. Girls are in school, husband works, and Marcia is a stay-at-home mom with a couple entrepreneurial ventures. They own a newer mobile home worth about $300,000. Simply curious, I ask, “What’s your health insurance situation?” “None, we stay healthy. If we need a doctor, we go to the med center.” I was a bit shocked and asked what would happen if someone had an accident or got really sick. She acknowledged that possibility and said they’d probably go bankrupt. I said it’s one thing to have no assets and no insurance, but if you have assets, you are exposed to collections. Moreover, I said society at large is made responsible if they are unable to provide for themselves. I said I don’t agree that should be the case, but it is. I asked how she would feel if her neighbors were reckless and irresponsible and got sick or injured as a result, and then demanded that she cover their expenses? I said this is exactly what is happening when people don’t buy insurance or otherwise cover their misfortunes: the state demands that someone else pay, including future generations. Mind you, this is a friendly conversation between friends. She said she never thought of it that way. She asked what she could do anyway? True enough, there isn’t anything we can do about the policies, but to every extent possible, it would be wise to protect your assets. Her

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Insanity Fair

A crazy old woman of Rhyde Ate too many green apples, and died. The apples fermented Inside the demented And soon she had cider inside her inside.

learned that poem from my father, who knew many similarly questionable classics. (Another was “It wasn’t the cough that carried him off – But the coffin they carried him off in.”) However, I must admit that I emended that first verse. The original said, “the lamented,” not “the demented,” and it began, “There was a young woman of Rhyde.” I had to make her old and crazy to fit with “demented.” And that is the major point of this essay: it is no longer socially, or medically, correct to call people crazy, even if they obviously are. The approved term today is “demented,” and the condition is no longer madness or insanity – it is “dementia.” It comes in kinds and degrees. It receives all sorts of pills, and other treatments. You can go out of your mind at any age, but the longer you live, the better your chances are of doing so. This, of course, is one of the penalties of longevity. And taking this idea to its logical conclusion, one shudders even to speculate as to the mental condition of those who achieve immortality. I am reminded of a successful 1980 South African Film called The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the standard of sanity is taken to be that of a tribe of Kalahari Bushmen who have had no contact with civilization as we know it. One day, they are confronted by a mysterious object that has fallen out of the sky. To them, it is a message from the Gods. To us, it is an empty Coke bottle. This object eventually causes so much dissention and consternation in the tribe that one Bushman is assigned the job of returning it to the Gods by throwing it off a great precipice which they know as “The Edge of the World.” This calls to mind another movie, a more recent American production, called Thelma and Louise, at the climax of which the two heroines do the same thing to solve their own problems – only in this case, what they throw off a precipice – into the Grand Canyon – is themselves, driving over it in a car – a very un-American deed. Americans are traditionally an optimistic people. Suicide is not considered a character20 – 27 September 2018

istic American way of dealing with life’s problems, but rather a symptom of insanity. But ironically even in America, the highest professional suicide rate is to be found among physicians, including psychiatrists – the very people in whom we place most trust to deal with cases of dementia.

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However, from an international perspective, it is the nation of Hungary that has long been known to have, proportionally, more suicides than any other country in Europe. Yet, it was the Hungarians who gave us such world-renowned medical men as Ignaz Semmelweis (a pioneer of sanitation whose ideas were however rejected by his colleagues, leading to his death in a madhouse); Hans Selye, whose reputation ironically rests on his studies of stress, which must be a leading cause of suicide; and Max Nordau, whose own claim to fame stems significantly from his work on the phenomenon of “DEGENERACY.” (Incidentally, among Nordau’s other crazy ideas, was his belief, half a century before it actually happened, that there could one day be a Jewish State.) But if we must associate suicide with insanity, look what has happened to religion. It used to be okay to die for your beliefs – that was crazy enough. But now it hardly counts, unless you take as many other people as possible with you, preferably innocent people whom you don’t know, and who have nothing whatever to do with your particular issue. What’s really insane is that we no longer even call such conduct crazy. It has become a new normal. We dare not stigmatize suicide bombers as lunatics – the worst we can say about them is that they are “fanatics” or misguided religious zealots. They have their own rationale for mass murder, and who is to say that blowing yourself up on behalf of a cause you really believe in is not as logical as getting yourself marked for life with tattoos, or jumping out of airplanes for fun, or listening to amplified music until you go deaf? If I had a case, this might be a good point at which to rest it. •MJ

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On Sanitation

by Judith Ishkanian Judith Ishkanian is president of Montecito Sanitary District.

Mud in Your Eye

ello, from Judith Ishkanian. Surely nobody expected Mother Nature to inundate Montecito with mud and debris nine months ago. But she did, and it has been a remarkable experience for Montecito residents ever since. According to the Sanitary District records, 10 percent of our population is off-line, whether because of total ruin, major repairs, disruption of business, or out of the area. Despite the tragic aspect of the months passed, perhaps we will remember, as well, a community united around a neighborly spirit, the volunteerism, and the heroic rescues. I do advocate that this unity of spirit continues through the next year, because anyone acquainted with the predictions of Emergency Services knows Montecito is not out of danger yet. Certainly, the Sanitary District is preparing for a return performance by Mother Nature. If, indeed, our seven-year drought ends this rainy season, we have no excuse to be surprised a second time. One of our clever crew has invented a device to block mud from inundating our manholes ever again. Our plant operators gave new meaning of innovation as they coped with the emergency. Go to our website, montsan.org, and click on the slideshow that recounts how our team dealt with the crisis. Also, click on our recent resolution reaffirming our policy on recycled water. Some people agree with the political dictum, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” I do fear this attitude is at work in our community in conflict with ongoing recovery efforts. Well-meaning though the persistent big thinkers may be, I do fear the unnecessary divisiveness caused by the introduction of controversial proposals. Yes, I am referring to Cityhood, Consolidation of Special Districts, and Private Investment in Public infrastructure. What’s the rush? Can it not wait until next spring? Apparently not. No sooner were the perfunctory “thoughts and prayers” uttered than the drumbeat for the “big three ideas” – all connected – ensue. Two months ago, I spoke during a Montecito Association meeting at the Public Comment opportunity and addressed this very thing. Most of the audience clapped vigorously after my three minutes were done. I had my say. Now, I am willing to fight for my Sanitary Board director seat that I was privileged to occupy for the last 12 years unopposed. I know that we need stability and continuity for the next couple of years. When the new water district Board of Directors takes the oath of office, is seated, and adjusts to the vast challenges the Water District faces, it may favor a different set of priorities than it does now. Yes, by the way, the “Campaign” owns the Water District now because two Incumbents stepped down. (The remaining incumbent would be a source for knowledge, if elected.) The Sanitary District needs to maintain its stability in the challenging environment we face as the community is being pushed to plan for its future before it has been made whole. Ten percent of our community may miss out on decisions it, as the injured party, is most urgently needed in the discussion. Panic and rush are signs of agenda-driven crisis management. We do not have to fall prey to it. Cityhood, with its dangerous pitfalls, needs sober consideration. Question: Do we really want to lose our coveted “semi-rural designation” that we have in the County, in favor of the inevitable “urban designation”? The “urban designation” is favored by developers, high-density housing advocates, and social visionaries. It invites eligibility for Federal Housing and Community Development (HUD) Grants. They would be buttressed by Statemandated legislation for their programs. We would not be able to “do what we want,” as State and Federal mandates would rain upon a new city. Revenue Neutrality is a term citizens will come to regret knowing. I have said how I feel about the ideas of these well-meaning visionaries. I will be forced, along with others to advocate for our Montecito to remain a semi-rural community under the protection of the County unencumbered by the debt burden of cityhood, consolidation, and privatization of public utilities. I will continue to advocate for time to heal before inviting the growth campaign into our midst. The stability of Montecito Independent Special Districts is the key to recovery. This is the key to true independence. If you agree, vote for me, Judith Ishkanian and our other incumbent, director Bob Williams, on November 6. Thank you. •MJ

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husband gets $800 in Social Security and $500 for a teenage child because he is an “elderly father.” I said, I don’t blame anyone for taking advantage of such benefits, but they also require others to pay for them. It’s a wholly unfair, redistributive scheme, popular with beneficiaries, but burdensome for everyone else. How should it be, then, she asked, in your libertarian fantasy land? Very simple, we each fully pay our own way through this life. We practice thrift, industry, savings, and investment. We insure ourselves against misfortune. If for any reason we fail, we must then be at the mercy of our family, friends, and society at large. Not because they are forced to help us, but because they desire to help us. Voluntary giving and nothing more. If that fails, we will be forced to admit our concern is false and hypocritical, and that we only care about others to the point we can force someone else to care for them. I can hear the disparaging remarks now, but remember, before you insist that welfare, education, and the like, should be society’s problem, you are allowing the state to forcefully take away your and other people’s property. A violation of the very protections we rightfully expect the law and the state to provide. Remember too, the state will keep a large portion of this plunder for itself and inevitably everyone will be taking far more money out than anyone can ever replace. Or, as Frederic Bastiat has stated: “The state is the great fiction by which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else. How can we identify and stop plunder?” he continues. “Quite simply,” he concludes. “See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law – which may be an isolated case – is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.” Steve King Carpinteria

5G is Coming

Did you know 5G is coming to Santa Barbara? Barring normal repairs, you’ve run into torn-up and blockedoff streets across town in preparation for its arrival. Now in Beta testing across the state and the country, 5G aims to be fully installed between late 2018 through 2020. Plans exist to deploy it around the world by 2025, even to the most remote regions on earth.

October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. – Mark Twin

5G is the “Fifth Generation” of wireless technology. It transmits extremely fast, short, millimeter-length radio frequencies in the Gigahertz bandwidth. We are currently in 4G, which transmits longer, fast microwaves in the Megahertz bandwidth, allowing distant cell towers and fixed antennae to transmit to our devices. 5G promises to deliver blisteringly fast download speeds, usher in no dropped calls, with strong, reliable signals no matter where we are or how many of us are using our devices at the same time. It will connect each one of us to the Internet of Things (IoT), and will bring us Artificial Intelligence (AI), more human-like robots, self driving cars, and Smart Homes and Cities, for starters. The 5G compatible mobile stations (mobile devices), portable stations (desktop computers, routers), and appliances are currently underway. We all will be connected from the ground to the sky and back again to a central data/ information receiving and transmitting center. Because 5G’s waves are shorter than an inch, they don’t travel very far. Faster, shorter frequencies carry enormous amounts of data, but because they don’t travel, they need continuous boosting to reach us. Industry’s mega answer is to install in every city, neighborhood and rural area countrywide, close-up mini cell towers every 10 to 12 buildings, or every 1,000 feet. In Santa Barbara proper, that translates to several hundreds of mini cell towers all over town and many hundreds more in our neighborhoods. If your office or home happens to land at the 10-12 building mark, or at the 1000 foot mark, a cell tower will be installed there. The FCC has effectively stripped municipalities of their right to choose tower locations. Each tower will be carrying about one hundred ports and approximately one thousand tiny, “phased array” antennae. Phased Array antennae accelerate the waves into concentrated, narrow, steerable, high power beams to penetrate walls providing us with high-speed, efficient cell service, 24/7, indoors and outdoors. These antennae track each other so wherever you are, a beam from your smartphone will be aimed directly at a cell tower and a beam from the tower will be aimed directly at you. Santa Barbara is now placing the necessary transformer boxes, heaters, fans, and cable under the streets. The mini cell towers on the ground are being installed as new, fake lamp posts, or on existing lamp posts. The dummy posts look exactly like our normal street lights, except where the light would normally be, there is instead a solid canister, which houses the towers and antennae. On existing lamp posts, the tower canister is 20 – 27 September 2018

Coming soon to a street near you: the 5G “lamp” post. The first is on the 1100 block of State Street; second is at Carrillo and Anacapa.

added as an extension to the pole. These ground-level installations are only a portion of what is planned for 5G. Low-orbit satellites are now being launched into our skies by SpaceX, Boeing, and World View to name a few, with many thousands more on contract. SpaceX alone plans to deploy 12,000. As many as 20,000 satellites are currently applied for. Each satellite will have thousands of millimeter-sized antennae in a phased array, all working together to send narrow beams of energy to Earth all over the planet. Each beam from each satellite will have an effective radiated power of up to 5 million watts. This massive fleet will occupy our ionosphere over the entire globe. Why does 5G need satellites? These satellites will transmit the IoT to each of us and to every person on Earth. Over 1 trillion things will be active on 5G, let alone the millions of cell phones that will use it. It will also provide cell service to the underserved. These same satellites will simultaneously receive detailed information from each one of us just as the mini cell towers on the ground will do, along with all our devices. It is called Multiple Input-Multiple Output. I don’t know anyone yet who can’t wait for their bed (which will know when you rise and apparently a lot of other things), to tell the coffeepot to make the brew so you can awaken to its fresh aroma. Industry scientists say there will be no environmental or biological impact from 5G on any level, though as yet, none of the required impact studies have been done by the FCC. 20 – 27 September 2018

Independent scientists and physicians are strongly advising the FCC to do the required studies before they allow 5G to be fully deployed. The 5G beams have the potential to go through the body and will have an effective radiated power 10 times as high as that of 4G phones. These beams will overlap in a crowd. It is not clear yet how the low orbit satellites will affect our delicate skies electromagnetically. With mounting correlation and evidence, there is growing, serious concern that for our ever-intensifying technological dependency, our demand for highspeed conveniences, and for the goals of the industrial complex, significant collateral damages, Earth-wide, will not only continue, but will unmistakably escalate. Miriam Lindbeck Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Ms Lindbeck refers to herself as an EMRS – ElectroMagnetic radiation specialist – and building biologist. She invites questions, comments, and inquiries and can be reached at miriam lindbeck@sbcoxmail.com.)

are well-intended citizen-volunteers who have, in recent years, helped to make some progress. But these efforts have been slow, incremental, non-strategic, misguided and ineffective in many cases. These shortfalls, exhibited over a long period of time, have led to an unacceptable situation for the water and sanitary customers of Montecito and Summerland, especially as we head into the eighth year of an unprecedented drought and continue to see the appalling discharge of more than a half-million gallons of partially-treated wastewater into the Channel each day. The familiar saying about getting the same old results by doing things the same old way is as apt for the peril threatening our community as the classic warning that nothing is as expensive as poor management. With your support for this team in the coming election, creative approaches – undertaken by new players taking into account the best practices of other districts in California and elsewhere – will get the job done. The five candidates of the Water Security Team are seeking our votes on the basis of their substantial track record of accomplishment in the business and non-profit sectors as well as their commitment to the initiatives that are going to get us out of the danger we now face. In his recent essay in the Montecito Journal, Ken Coates,

leader of the Water Security Team, summarized these initiatives well: diversification of our water supply through local, controllable solutions (such as completion of the inexplicably delayed desalination agreement with the City of Santa Barbara), creative recycling of treated wastewater, better management of our existing groundwater, and further conservation efforts. This is the right focus, and what is needed now is the communal will to transform these initiatives into realities through election of the right Board members. As a couple, our support is for the entire Water Security Team because of its members’ abilities and the importance of bringing a critical mass of new talent to bear on the task at hand. Emblematic of this group’s promise is the track record of its leader, Ken Coates. By coincidence, over the past twenty years we have been Ken’s near-neighbor in Michigan as well as Montecito. As a result we have seen his sterling performance in leadership roles at such wide-ranging organizations as the Ford Motor Company and the Duke Cancer Institute as well as this area’s Direct Relief International and Sansum Clinic. For the benefit of our community, we urge you to join us in supporting Ken and his four colleagues on the Water Security Team. Bill and Pat MacKinnon Montecito •MJ

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Abel 15 years, Larry Wilson 12 years, and engineer Tom Mosby 16 years. Director Puddicombe passed away shortly after I became a director, but we had much guidance from the other three. This coming year, the MWD Board is expected to commit to spend about $1/4 billion of your water money which will have long-term impacts on rates and charges. These expenditures will include improving your water supply by the anticipated addition of desalinated and recycled wastewater (new water supplies); along with continuing to pay for the State Water Project and its possible contract extension; a possible local groundwater opportunity; Cachuma and Jameson Lakes’ water; and supplemental water purchases as needed. Our current general manager has been with the District three years, our engineer one year, the last two elected directors two years each; and if the committee is successful in getting all three inexperienced people elected, there will be no one with any long-term MWD Board experience. If you’re going to have surgery, do you want all new inexperienced doctors? If you’re going to enter into long-term complicated contracts and commit huge sums of money, I Guests at the Pink Lounge, which raised around $200,000 (photo by Priscilla) believe it’s important to have as many people as possible with years of experience who can see the problems and try to explain them with possible solutions to the others. I believe, in this case, that person is me.

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With diminished local water supplies, the MWD is heavily reliant on State and purchased water we receive from the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA). As MWD’s representative, I became a director of CCWA. MWD holds 9.3 percent of CCWA’s voting power. Some of the other members are the City of Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, Goleta, and Santa Maria. CCWA now has a $70,000,000 yearly budget. These other Districts had elected me chair, and I currently serve as vice chair. If I am re-elected to the MWD Board, in January I will again be chair. I also became MWD’s representative to the Santa Barbara County Special Districts Association (SBCSDA). Other member Special Districts including fire, water, sanitary, cemetery, vector, and airport elected me as vice president. Supporters of the Breast Cancer Resource Center at the Pink Lounge gala (photo by Priscilla) If I am re-elected to the MWD Board, next year I am in a position to be its president. Among other functions, SBCSDA elects two of the seven Santa Barbara A tony triCounty LAFCO members. umvirate – I don’t believe any of the three candidates ever attended a CCWA or Breast Cancer SBCSDA meeting or even know what they do. Resource Center execThe committee selected three candidates. In 2016, they were successful in utive director getting the two newest board members elected. In effect, they are attempting Silvana Kelly a 100-percent take over your Water District. Why? With five Directors, only with VIP supthree votes are necessary to pass any measure. Could it be that the 11 $70,000 porters (photo campaign fund contributors want to assure absolute total control of your by Priscilla) Water District – just like they own it? Please remember when you are voting that, without an incumbent board member, there will be no one to question the new board’s proposed actions, or to look out for you, the customers. Please vote for me, Dick Shaikewitz. •MJ

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Chef/owner Dario Furlati confirms that Ca’ Dario will be coming to Coast Village Road

Dario Furlati has signed a lease to take over the space currently occupied by Giovanni’s at 1187 Coast Village Road. Property owner Hank Hurst confirmed the news, saying he is looking forward to having Dario, his team, and his Italian fare at Coast Village Plaza. Ca’ Dario recently expanded to multiple locations in the last year, opening two booths at the Santa Barbara Public Market that serve pizza and pasta, as

well as Ca’ Dario Cucina Italiana in Goleta. “It was just a matter of time until we came to Montecito!” said Furlati earlier this week. His original flagship location, Ca’ Dario Ristorante on East Victoria Street, opened in 1997, after Furlati was involved in the opening of several Santa Barbara and Montecito restaurants, including serving as the executive chef at Pane e Vino in the upper village in the early 1990s. The nearby Ca’ Dario Pizzeria opened in 2014, offering a more casual atmosphere. The Montecito location will offer a selection of menu items from both the original restaurant and the pizzeria, similar in style to the Goleta location. Giovanni’s, which has been on Coast Village Road more than 30 years, decided not to renew their lease, which ends early next year. Furlati says he expects it will take several months for tenant improvements to be completed and hopes for a late spring opening. “It’s going to be great,” he said. Coast Village Plaza is located at 1187 Coast Village Road.

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At their meeting on September 17, the Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) Governing Board received a report from its Public Information Committee,

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which comprises board members Bob Williams and Jeff Kerns. The committee met on September 14 to discuss concerns regarding information that has been in the press and in paid ads that make it appear that Montecito Sanitary District has not been treating wastewater properly. At Monday’s board meeting, MSD staff provided information demonstrating the compliance record of the District in fully treating the community’s wastewater. MSD board members report that the wastewater treatment plant is fully functioning and meeting all requirements of the State Water Board issued NPDES permit. Members of the community are invited to come and witness the treatment process and see the “before and after” of the treated water. Interested individuals should call (805) 969-4200 to schedule a personalized tour of the wastewater treatment plant. The board also heard a report regarding an arrangement for water reuse that is being successfully carried out in the Carmel area. Director Williams and general manager Diane Gabriel recently visited the treatment plant site of a water reuse project that is operated by the Carmel Area Wastewater District and funded by seven golf courses in the Pebble Beach area. The golf courses are irrigated solely with recycled water created through a treatment process similar to the pilot project that MSD is undertaking. Each 18-hole golf course in California uses an average of 200,000 gallons of water per day for irrigation. In Pebble Beach, the courses are required to use recycled water as mandated by the State and their local water agency. The golf courses are not allowed to use groundwater and drinking (potable) water to irrigate. When asked by Director Kerns if such an arrangement could work in Montecito to serve the two private golf courses, Birnam Wood and the Valley Club, Gabriel stated that it could be a viable option for the community. MSD staff and board members Williams and Walter Owens will attend the Strategic Planning Committee meeting on Thursday, September 20, at the Montecito Water District, where the MWD will receive an update on the recycled water feasibility study, which looked at 27 different options for the reuse of wastewater in the community.

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At a special ceremony at Fire Station 1 last week, the United States Postal Service unveiled a commemorative Forever Stamp that honors first responders. USPS district manager Alfred Santos told the large crowd that he was moved to host

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Montecito Fire chief Chip Hickman with Bucket Brigade founder Abe Powell at the Forever Stamp unveiling

Montecito Firefighters with the new Honoring First Responders Forever Stamp

the unveiling in Montecito, following the Thomas Fire and January mudslides, and the exceptional work of first responders in our community. Following the singing of “God Bless America” by mudslide survivor Lauren Cantin, Montecito Fire chief Chip Hickman shared his thoughts about the recent disasters, saying that he has never been more proud of the Montecito Fire Department and nearby agencies. “Without the heroic actions of our first responders, the impacts could have been much worse,” he said. Speakers included Bucket Brigade founder Abe Powell and local celebrity Oprah Winfrey, who both expressed their gratitude to first responders as well as “second responders” – those who helped and continue to help mudslide victims. Special guests included local fire chiefs and members of the Sheriff’s Department, as well as additional emergency responders. The Honoring First Responders stamp features a symbolic scene that

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Let’s Hear it for the Boys Former world champion surfer Shaun Tomson is raising money for young, fatherless boys. For the fifth year, the Montecito resident is surfing in the 9th annual 100 Wave Challenge at Mission Beach, San Diego, on Sunday, October 7. Along with 200 other wave watchers, Shaun will be catching 100 waves to help provide in-school tutelage for more than 800 fatherless teenage boys under the Boys to Men Mentoring Network. Last year, Shaun, 63, raised $24,050 and this year is hoping to collect $33,000. As he says: “Stay stoked.”

Care and Share Alike There were decidedly shady things going on at the Biltmore when Angels Foster Care held its annual al fresco lunch on the impeccably manicured lawn with 200 guests, raising around $100,000 for the 12-year-old charity founded by Michelle Arntz. Despite taking place five months

later than usual because of the New Year disasters, the sun shone brightly and temperatures were in the 80s, necessitating the need for a tsunami of extra umbrellas to protect diners, not to mention the desserts. Michelle, who has just made way for Holly Carmody, was honored with the leadership award presented by Peggy Hodson, Michele White, Marsha Kotlyar, and David and Shannon Neels, while the community heroes award went to representatives of law enforcement, firefighters, health care professionals, paramedics, and military personnel. Radio host Catherine Remak conducted the paddle raise, while board chair Megan Orloff emceed and presented an award. Since the charity was founded, 245 children have been fostered, including 31 this year. Among the supporters trying to keep their cool were Monica Babich, Holly Murphy, Mindy Denson, Ivana Firestone, Karen Earp, and Gina Blankenship.

Jim and Stephanie Sokolove; with Janet Garufis, chair; Bob Bryant, patron and honorees Alison Hardey and Patrick Braid (photo by Priscilla)

On the Table Foodies were out in force at The Lark in the Funk Zone when the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County hosted a reception to commemorate its 7th annual Table of Life fundraiser October 6 at the beautiful Montecito estate of Jim and Stephanie Sokolove, who are leaving our rarefied enclave for the balmier attractions of Boca Raton, Florida, in December. The popular event will honor Alison Hardey, owner of Jeannine’s, and Patrick Braid of Village Cheese & Wine, which served more than 5,000 free sandwiches to first responders, for their inestimable help during the January mudslides. The charity’s CEO, Erik Talkin, who was celebrating his birthday, also introduced the Foodbank disaster box, which contains a week’s worth of freeze-dried food, which sell for $59 each, enabling another one to be

Angels Foster Care mothers (photo by David Cater)

Angels Foster Care Board members (from left): Michelle White, Holly Carmody (executive director), Meichelle Arntz, Megan Orloff (board president), and Davina Gomez (photo by David Cater)

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At The Lark restaurant for the Food Bank’s annual Table of Life event are host committee member Ann Daniel and Erik Talkin, Food Bank CEO (photo by Priscilla)

bought for low-income families. It has an expiry date of 2043! Lark executive chef Jason Paluska, for the fifth consecutive year, conjured up a delicious salad of sun-gold tomatoes and Sonoma goat cheese, which the guests, including Bob Bryant, Janet Garufis, Neil and Jill Levinson, Fred and Sarah Kass, and Judi Weisbart, tucked into. Strings and Things Santa Barbara Symphony’s 65th anniversary season, which kicks off at the Granada on October 20, promises to be a real humdinger. It includes a Stravinsky double bill, including The Rite of Spring, directed by the Ensemble Theatre Company’s Jonathan Fox with the State Street Ballet, and, for the first time on November 24, a Thanksgiving Holiday Pops concert with Broadway star Capathia Jenkins, followed on

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Nir Kabaretti, SB Symphony music and artistic director, Kevin Marvin, executive director, with board president Don Gilman (photo by Jennifer Zacharias)

SB Symphony board member Robert Weinman with Regina and Richard Roney (photo by Jennifer Zacharias)

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New Year’s Eve with its traditional Pops event, a homage to Motown, with conductor Bob Bernhardt. In February, veteran maestro Nir Kabaretti will be collaborating with

Camerata Pacifica in Beethoven’s Triple with accomplished cellist Ani Aznavoorian and, a month later, the popular film Amadeus will be shown with the SB Symphony Chorus sing-

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MTF Annual Barbecue

Montecito Trails Foundation will host its annual barbecue on Sunday, September 30, at Crane Country Day School. “It’s less of a fundraiser this year, and more of a thank you!” said Ashlee Mayfield, MTF board member. The Foundation has been hard at work restoring the Montecito network of trails since the Thomas Fire and debris flow; the barbecue is an opportunity to thank MTF supporters and trail enthusiasts.

In lieu of the usual silent auction, the barbecue will be a community celebration with a raffle, delicious food, and an emphasis on the trails. “We really wanted to engage the kids this year, so we are hosting a family friendly hike on Ennisbrook trail,” Mayfield said. Kids who participate will get their own raffle ticket to a special kids’ raffle. The hike begins at 10:30 am, with the barbecue starting at noon. Lunch will be served by Los Padres Outfitters, and Steve Woods will provide live country music. Of course there will be the famous Margarita Bar; beer, wine, and soft drinks will also be available. Maps.com has donated a large map that will outline the trail system along with denoting which trails are open and which are still damaged. “We are looking forward to communicating the progress of what we’ve done and

Montecito Trails Foundation Annual barbecue takes place at Crane Country Day School on Sunday, September 30

where we are going, and what the future holds,” Mayfield said. (We’ll have an update on major trail progress in an upcoming edition.) The event is chaired this year by

longtime MTF board member Barbara Cleveland. For more information, and to purchase a ticket to the barbecue, visit www.montecitotrailsfoundation. info •MJ

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lan Kozlowski, the 1970s film arts prolific-tarian, celebrated his 70th on September 11 in righteous fashion, with both a photography exhibit titled “Finding the Moment” and a star-studded “who’s who” sipping wine and telling tales at the Santa Barbara Wine Collective in the Funk Zone. The exhibit featured 25 never-before-released images from his trove, which are digitally sepia-toned and hand-printed by him. Here we find candid portraits of Nora Jones, Ravi Shankar, Jeff Bridges, Leonard Cohen, and other famed musicians, and there were three large wood crates of matted black-and-white prints from his Buddhist travels to Tibet, Cambodia, Cuba, Spain, and India to choose from. Kenny Loggins greets birthday boy Alan Kozlowski Like his peers Diltz and Seeff, these as a monk, a multi-instrument musiworks are more about the subject and cian and instrument collector, workmoment he decided to capture than ing for 35 years with Ravi Shankar, precise technical elements. and the owner of an award-winning Photography is one of Kozlowski’s film and television digital post-propaths, and his resume includes time duction house, Pacific Ocean Post in

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Jeff Bridges & the Abiders Band, sans Jeff, perform for Alan Kozlowski’s birthday party (from left): Bill Flores, Randy Tico, Jason Libs, Chris Pelonis, Laurence Juber, and Steve Postell

Santa Monica, which he sold late in the ‘90s to return to art. Clearly living to discover. No shame to fame, the “Koz” wearing his long-sleeve silk burgundy Nehru shirt with matching suede shoes and two prayer scarves, he affectionately held court talking with his friends and fans, with daughter Lily by his side. Blushing like a kid of seven with his trusty Leica camera in hand, Kozlowski took a photo here and there of the three-hour live music concert in his honor by musicians, most of whom he photographed. The gig started with a melodic set by Laurence Juber, the English-born guitarist of Paul McCartney’s Wings band. Setting the pace upward was the Jeff Bridges & the Abider’s Band of Chris Pelonis on acoustic guitar and vocals, Bill Flores on pedal steel and lap steel guitar, Steve Postell on an electric guitar, Randy Tico on bass, and Tom Lackner on drums – minus Jeff, who was en route to the John Lennon Tour Bus with Yoko and Ringo in New York City to raise funds for music education and No Kid Hungry. Pelonis tore a new suede shoe with his blues original, “Stranger In My House.” Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket) did his top five songbook hits, with backup singer Kate. Phillips looked out and said, “Hey, who’s up next?” as Kenny Loggins was in the house. Switching places, Loggins plugged in his acoustic guitar, and

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was joined with Maitland Ward on fender electric guitar, Jason Libs on harmonica and vocals, backed by Postell, Lackner, Flores, Tico, Pelonis, and Sven Holcomb. Loggins quipped, “What a great idea for a band,” and ripped up the dance floor with hits “Footloose,” “Conviction of the Heart,” “Love the One You’re With,” some Motown covers and audience sing-a-longs. Surprise shredding guitar solos by Postell, Ward, and Holcomb brought the gig to a fevered pitch. The band closed with Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” and “The Birthday Song” by The Beatles. Friends in the house to wish Alan happy birthday included John Kay (Steppenwolf) with wife Jutta Maue, musician Jonathan McEuen with artist wife Ksenia, musicians Anders Bergstrom (U.S. Elevator band), Ray Pannell and Robert Hart, Babcock Winery owners Bryan and Lisa Babcock, Traci Collins PR, owner of Lost Chord Guitars Kim Pelonis, Hale Milgrim, Diane Johnson, Jackie DeMoor, Laurie Kirby, artists Michelle Castle and Hayley Marie Colston, owner of SOhO nightclub Gail Hansen, John Lucchetti and Jacob Tell of Oniracom, Patricia Houghton-Clarke, and Michael De Rose. Libations were an enormous white birthday cake by Helena Street Bakery and wine by the venue. •MJ 411: www.alankozlowski.com MONTECITO JOURNAL

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1963 Ferrari 250GT Berlinetta Lusso Longtime Montecito Motor Classic member Orwin Middleton will showcase his rare 1963 Ferrari 250GT Berlinetta Lusso — only 350 were ever made

Montecito Motor Classic sponsor/member Michael Hammer with founder/chair Dolores Morelli Johnson enjoying Hammer’s 1972 Porsche 911 RSR. “We absolutely could not do this event without Michael’s incredible support,” Johnson said. In response Hammer noted, “I can tell you — this entire event happens because of Dolores Johnson.”

he 7th Annual Montecito Motor Classic (MMC) rolls onto Coast Village Road this Sunday, September 23. The show opens promptly at 9 am with an eye-popping stroll of historic and super-cars that will stay on display until 3 pm. Dolores Morelli Johnson, founder and chair of the Montecito Motor Classic, says, “This is one gorgeous car show. We have created a standard of expectation,” she boasts, that has attracted the attention and participation of Petersen Automotive Museum and other top collectors in the state. “As the lead sponsor since its inception seven years ago,” Michael Hammer adds, “I am extremely grateful how the community, PAL, SBPF, the Dragg Program, merchants, and vendors have come together to help the children of our community. My wife, Misty, and I,” he adds, “have to give special thanks to the amazing leadership, and truly to all of our volunteers of the Montecito Motor Classic.” Some of the cars creating buzz include:

1972 Porsche 911 RSR

Hammer has entered a 1972 Porsche 911 RSR in the Classic Car division. In 2001, this Porsche underwent a complete restoration, in which it was stripped to the bare chassis, and then carefully upgraded to RSR factory specifications. This 911 now has a 3.6 liter RS motor with 247hp, which is plenty of solidly engineered German muscle. The 911 has participated in the 2016 CF 200 Santa Barbara Rally, 2017 Copperstate 1000, the 2017 Boys and Girls club Rally, and the 2018 Copperstate 1000.

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1957 Porsche 356 Outlaw

Ol’ Yaller Mark IX

Ol’ Yaller Mark IX was built in 1963 by Max Balchowsky from scratch, after drawing up the plans on the floor Mark Alfano will showcase his 1957 Porsche 356 “Outlaw” in the 7th annual Montecito Motor Classic. The name of his car seems a perfect target for the event, which benefits the Police Activity League.

For those who love fast cars, Mark Alfano has one in the Classic division to admire: the 1957 Porsche 356 Outlaw. Recently finishing The 1 Rally and being shown at 2018 Quail Motorsport Gathering is this 1957 Porsche 356 Outlaw. The interior was restored by Harry Derohanessian using Euro Autolux leather with square weave and German carpets to keep as close to original as possible. This car being finished in Sterling Silver over red is true elegance; the car is not, however, just built for show – but mainly go! To give it the get-up-and-go, the car was restored by Hot Rod and Hobbies in 2013. It was upgraded with drivetrain and rear suspension from a 1983 911 SC. The transaxle had to be redone, and the firewall had to be moved slightly and custom shrouds made to get the seal around the engine. The brakes are front disc from 1978 911 SC

of his garage. It has a custom chassis and custom body work, all designed and fabricated by Max and his wife, Ina. It was fitted with a 401 Buick V-8 “Nailhead” engine producing 310 horsepower, enabling the car to reach 0-60 in under four seconds thanks to its low weight. Max famously bragged about spending only $1,456.72 on Ol’ Yaller II, a car in which he was able to outrace some of the best Ferraris. Balchowsky built several cars known as “Ol’ Yaller,” a name derived from the junkyard dog in the 1957 Disney film Old Yeller. The car was restored, and under the ownership of Peter and Lynda Shea was raced extensively in historic competitions, including at the Monterey Historics. The car came to the Petersen Automotive Museum as a gift of Peter and Lynda Shea after years of successful vintage racing, including a first-place finish at Petrini’s Wine Country Classic. It currently resides in the vault, clothed in its requisite yel-

It’s autumn, and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then. – D.H. Lawrence

Orwin Middleton remembers buying this car, a 1963 Ferrari 250GT Berlinetta Lusso, in November 1986 for the same amount as a new Corvette. Only 350 of this model were ever made between late 1962 and mid-1964 and the final model of the highly acclaimed 250GT series made between 1957 and 1964. The 250 GT Lusso and the iconic 250 GTO race car were the revisions following the 250GT SWB (Short Wheelbase Berlinetta) in its two forms of street car and race car versions. “Growing up, I always considered the 12-cylinder Ferrari as the epitome of all things automotive in beauty, performance, and general provenance,” Orwin says. “I hardly saw one except in Road and Track magazine or during a trip to places like Beverly Hills or Bel Air. Owning and driving a car like this are what dreams are made of to a car junkie like myself, and having it sitting in my garage is a total treat.”

The General

“The General” has a fantastic place in history. It was one of 11 “Command Cars” modified for General Patton. Built by Chrysler in 1942, it was shipped for use in his North African campaign. “The General” is much larger and heavier than a jeep and has a gross weight of 7,475 pounds. After WWII, it was purchased from Army surplus by an Idaho farming family who converted it to a farm flatbed truck. Later the family was contacted by restorers, who found the original back-end of the vehicle in the family barn. Rusted out, the components were shipped by rail to the West Coast for restoration and remounted on the original car. Because of its rarity, it took seven years to collect missing parts found in military shows and outings across the country. 20 – 27 September 2018

“The General” is believed to have been for Patton’s personal use and was mounted with a 30-caliber machine gun on the “shotgun” side of the front seat. That is where Patton normally sat as he preferred to actively stand on the floor of the front seat, hands on the windscreen and highly visible by the troops. It was also military-parade equipped with siren, red light, flags, and the stars of his rank. Patton’s greatest moment was with the 3rd Army – thus the steel powder-coated flags on the hood commemorate that period of his successful leadership.

First Responder Vehicles

Kids will love inspecting and investigating these vehicles. It will be a great experience for everyone. This year – as a salute to the first responders – there will be a special display of fire, police, and military vehicles, including: Montecito Fire Protection District: Type 6 Patrol: This agile engine is

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used for quick access. It holds approximately 250 gallons of water, and its chassis is built on a Ford F450 pickup truck. City of Santa Barbara Fire Department: Brush Rig – used for vegetation fires due to its ability to pump water while driving. Santa Barbara Police Department: 2010 Lenco BearCat: Although it weighs in at nine tons, the Bearcat can respond quickly and safely to high-risk scenarios. Its four-wheel drive and high clearance allows it to go through thick mud and over boulders. (Kids, especially, will love getting up inside of the tank-like vehicle and exploring this piece of machinery.) Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department: 1927 Vintage Dodge Brothers Paddy Wagon. Last seen hauling away the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Those sheriffs have a great sense of humor.

California Highway Patrol: Challenger: This was the patrol vehicle temporarily caught up in the debris flow on Olive Mill Road seen by thousands on a video that went viral. The Montecito Motor Classic will be flying the flags of all five branches of the military. “It’s important to honor those who serve our country so bravely,” says Johnson. ••• Sunday Schedule: 11 am: Judges convene to decide the winner of the children’s model car contest. Noon: Teen Star finalists lead the singing of the national anthem; immediately followed by Monte Wilson’s interview with the Motor Classic honoree Dana Newquist. Wilson is founder of Santa Barbara Cars & Coffee and hosted the TV show Car Life on the 101. Dana, aficionado of all things automotive, is currently president of the Santa Barbara Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) and a board member of both the Murphy Auto Museum

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and the Barker Foundation. Over the years, Dana has been involved in numerous local car shows, including the Montecito Motor Classic and the Father’s Day Show at the Santa Barbara Club. 12:45 pm: The parade of show trophy winners. 1:30 pm: Monte Wilson and Dolores Morelli Johnson present the trophies. Among the awards, one will be named in memory of Archie McLaren, a committee member who passed away this year. It will be presented by MMC members Dana Newquist and Andy Tymkiw, who noted, “We were immensely fortunate to have Archie’s enthusiastic participation in the Montecito Motor Classic. Beyond his incredible knowledge and appreciation of art and design, fine motor classics, and a passion for central coast wines... Archie McLaren was a man that understood ‘community.’ We will present this award in commemoration of his friendship and spirit.” •MJ

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Spirituality Matters Healing Arts Faire

here are so many modalities that can modify the body, mind, and spirit, and scores if not hundreds of practitioners offering their services in town. How is one to negotiate the maze? Word of mouth works best, of course, but for those who would rather sample on their own without having to make a large commitment of time or money, the Healing Arts Faire at The Center of the Heart might be just the thing. The Center for Spiritual Living’s periodic event offers the opportunity to experience energetic healing, psychic readings, massage, as well as a wide variety of other modalities in brief, inexpensive sessions. Mini-treatment sessions in such areas as Energy & Chakra work, Color readings, Angel & Tarot Card readings, massage, Intuitive readings, and even the hard-to-find John of God Crystal Bed healing, are available for as little as $20 for 15 minutes. Full sessions are also available for additional cost. The faire also features a variety of merchandise booths offering wares for healing or decoration, clothing and more. A portion of proceeds from the noon to 5:30 pm event on Saturday, September 22, will be donated to women and children’s charities around Santa Barbara.

Pure Intent Workshop

Coming next weekend to Center of the Heart is a one-day workshop that attempts to answer the question, “What would my life look like if I could summon and receive everything I desire?” The problem, as posed, is that for many people the present moment is obscured by the fog of uncertainty – we don’t know what’s coming because we haven’t chosen and summoned what we truly desire. When that issue is compounded with the effect of our fears robbing our power and immobilizing our lives, it’s no wonder that we are afflicted by self-doubt and low self-esteem. But according to the workshop,

by Steven Libowitz that’s not how it has to be. Instead, there’s the theory that we are intended to have a superlative life experience. Pure Intent is a 4½-hour workshop that defines the uniquely personal processes of simply observing our desires. We discern what brings us joy, summon our choices, align our vibration to receive, and upon receiving what we summoned, refine the next desire that arises. Workshop leader Mark Sawicki is an author and facilitator who has pursued metaphysical knowledge for more than 29 years. In 1995, he began the study of the Science of Mind with Dr. Maureen Hoyt at the Granada Hills Center for Spiritual Living, where he eventually served as board president. In 2004, Mark studied Reconnective Healing with Eric Pearl and was a certified Level 3 practitioner for seven years. Sawicki began working on the idea of the Pure Intent workshop in 2014, and in 2016-17 transformed his years of accumulated knowledge into a 240-slide PowerPoint that includes video, animation, and custom graphics. While the workshop is designed for those unfamiliar with personal demonstrative creation, it may also provide fresh insights for the adept and experienced practitioner. Admission to the 10 am to 4:30 pm (with breaks) workshop on Saturday, September 29, costs $90 if registered before this Saturday, September 22, or $125 afterward or at the door. Get more information and register online at www.pureintent.com/workshops. Center of the Heart, a Center for Spiritual Living, is located at 487 North Turnpike Road, across from SBCC’s Wake Center. Call (805) 9644861 or visit www.centeroftheheart. com.

Guided Book Circle Begins

I Am the Word: A Guide to the Consciousness of Man’s Self in a Transitioning Time has proven popular and transformative for a number of people ever since the book was

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first published at the beginning of the decade. Said to be channeled from “Ascended Masters” through author and medium Paul Selig, “The Word” is said to provide a concise and immensely powerful program in self-awareness that can ease negative complexes and align one’s existence with its highest purpose. Now, Patricia Diorio, a local psychologist who has studied and practiced the book for years, is set to offer a public book group to continue her work in the field, delving deep into the tome that provides to-thepoint psychological and existential insights, along with self-development exercises and affirmations to strip away residual fear, self-doubt, and self-sabotaging habits that impede success. Diorio, the creator, executive producer, and co-host of the Get Conscious Now! television show that runs on public access in Santa Barbara and has been syndicated in more than 20 markets across the U.S., will host a free introductory evening from 6 to 7 pm on Tuesday, September 25, at the Impact Hub, the first book circle and discussion group at the co-working facility in its history. The regular ongoing circle begins the following Tuesday, October 2. “(The book) is not simply thought-provoking information that reaches deeply into the recesses of our souls,” Diorio says in her invitation. “It is vibrational. Reading this book and working with the powerful intentions it offers actually lifts the vibrational frequencies of our bodies. The experience is palpable and real. The guides provide to-the-point psychological and existential insights, along with self-developing exercises and affirmations, which begin to strip away residues of fear, self-doubt, and self-suffocating habits. “If you are spiritually curious, adventuresome, and sincerely interested in a life-changing experience as a successful creator of your reality, then this group is for you.” The circle takes place at Impact Hub’s State Conference Room, 1117 State Street. Free.

Also at the Hub

Impact Hub is partnering with Conscious Good Films to present a recurring documentary film series focused on community, consciousness, and global awareness. The series kicks off with May I Be Happy, a heartwarming, feature-length documentary intended to broaden awareness about the practice of teaching mindfulness to youth. Through poetic cinematography and sequences of teachers leading mindfulness practices with kids from different backgrounds – from elite private schools, to public schools, and

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juvenile detention centers – the film brings awareness of the benefits of mindfulness as a way out of violence and suffering, and as an attainable solution for younger generations. Interviews with teachers and leaders in the field of mindfulness research and education, including Dr. Dan Siegel and Vinny Ferraro, offer insights into the growing practice of mindfulness in education. General admission to the 6:30 to 9 pm screening on Thursday, September 27, at Impact Hub’s Chapala Event Center (1221 Chapala St.) is $10; members pay $5. (The Hub also offers meditation every Monday, yoga every Tuesday and Edgu, a movement meditation, every Wednesday, but you have to be a member. As the 1980s AmEx commercial put it, membership has its privileges.) Call (805) 284-0078 or visit https://impacthubsb.com

Yoga for Equinox

Divinitree Santa Barbara, which has new owners, is ringing in the new season with a free community yoga class and more at Leadbetter Beach this Saturday, September 22. Divinitree’s Bridget Bottoms leads a Community All Levels Yoga class at 10:30 am on the lawn to the right of the end of the parking lot – the last patch of grass when you’re facing the beach. A celebratory potluck picnic follows the class at 11:45 – bring snacks and drinks to share as well as reusable cups, plates, and utensils – and at 1:30, people can join in such activities as surfing, stand up paddle boarding, swimming, slacklining, practicing acroyoga, or just continue to hang out and connect. The following evening brings a special Fall Equinox Detox back at the downtown studio, where Natalie Dawn Sampila leads a three-hour celebration of our bodies, calling awareness to our own natural healing abilities through yoga, Ayurveda oils, marma therapy, sweat, kriyas, pranayama, chanting, meditation, and even some laughter. The session is designed to help uproot deeply seated toxins that can lodge in the body and become locations for disease to set in. Breaking up the ama and moving it out through diet, teas, and sweat leave the body replenished and stronger. Sampila has been studying Ayurveda since 2004 is certified by Ayurvedic Institute of America. Sattvic (clear nourishing food) refreshments will be served after the session, which takes place 6:30 to 9:30 pm on Sunday, September 23, and costs $40 general, $35 DiviniTree members ($5 discount by September 20). DiviniTree is located at 25 E. De La Guerra St. Call (805) 897-3354 or visit http://sb.divinitree.com. •MJ 20 – 27 September 2018

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Beach Boys Keep Putting out Good Vibrations

obody who lives and breathes and can hear music needs an introduction to the Beach Boys, the band of brothers and cousins that more or less put Southern California on the musical map with a surfeit of surf hits followed by pop songs and, later, Pet Sounds, perhaps the greatest pop album of all time. Fifty-seven years after they formed, the Beach Boys are still going strong, albeit with lead singer Mike Love the only remaining original member. We’ve seen them at the Santa Barbara Bowl, down at the Ventura County Fair, over at the Arlington, and – this Friday, September 21, at the Granada, the glitzy jewel of downtown. Love, who lived on the Mesa for almost 20 years starting in the mid1970s, talked about the Beach Boys and the lifestyle over the phone from the road – where else would he be? – earlier this week. Q. What is it that makes this tour different from all the rest, save for the special one that reunited you with Brian Wilson? Do they blur into each other over the years? A. Not really, especially recently. The anniversaries make them special. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Michael’s Catering; Santa Barbara Bakeshop; Waterside Catering; Waterside Enterprises, 22 W. Mission Street Suite G, Santa Barbara CA 93101. Michael Hutchings, 1035 Miramonte Drive 3, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 5, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2018-0002450. Published September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 2018. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Geek Out-N-Go, 2989 Eucalyptus Hill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Brennan James Lucas, 2989 Eucalyptus Hill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 10, 2018. 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. 2018-0002492. Published September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 2018. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rancho Siempre, 1066 Toro Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Philip H. Miller, 1066 Toro Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Anne M. Sweeney, 1066 Toro Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 27, 2018. 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,

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Last year, it was the Wild Honey anniversary, and we did 185 performances. This year, we’re lazy bums, only doing 165. But no matter what, we continually upgrade and update the show. We’re releasing a Christmas album, and it’s got a lot of my family on it. My son Christian – who tours with us – sang on it, and three of my other kids, and they did an amazing job on those Christmas carols. Speaking of Christian, how is it to have him in the band with you all year? I know him from volleyball at the beach. It’s really great. He was with us for a while but then he decided he wanted to stay in town and play volleyball at East Beach. Now he still competes, but he’s been touring with us for years. He sings lead on “God Only Knows” and gets a standing ovation almost every night. It always feels like my cousin Carl is with us when we do that song. You guys have survived the death of both Dennis and Carl, and it seems like you’re just as strong as ever. Why do you think the Beach Boys have been so enduring? Honestly, it’s back to the basics.

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Granada hosts Mike Love and the Beach Boys on Friday, September 21

Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than 10 years.

We started as a family of singers. The Wilsons on my mom’s side were way into music. I grew up in a household where you couldn’t escape it if you wanted to. Brian and I would get together and sing Everly Brothers songs together. And that was the beginning of the basis of everything we do, which is the love of harmony. It creates such a wonderful warm feeling, especially when you combine it with the songs that Brian and I wrote together. The subject matter, the beautiful chord progressions, and that harmony through it all. We didn’t do it to be famous or rich – nobody paid us originally. We’d just be singing in the living room or the car or the locker room at school. I believe it’s that love of harmonizing that transcends time and appeals to multiple generations. It’s the secret ingredient of Beach Boys music that has made it last for so long. I imagine 100 years from now, our songs will still be played. Some of them will always be part of our culture. How does what you just said land on you – that songs you created will actually live on for centuries? I don’t think about it when we’re doing it. But we’ve always tried to write lyrics that accentuate the positive. Even if something negative happens – like in “The Warmth of the Sun,” where someone you love doesn’t feel the same way – it’s a drag and a big disappointment. But at least you felt something, which was like

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the warmth of the sun. I wrote those words to the haunting melody from Brian. Same with “In My Room” and “Surfer Girl,” but we also had the flatout fun songs, too. All of them strike a chord and people can relate on whatever level. How about for you? How do you relate to these songs after more than half a century? What keeps you going? When you’ve had a hand in creating the songs, and then get to re-create them night after night, what could be better? What keeps us on our toes is that the chord progressions and harmonies are complex, and you have to be engaged to do them. There is a real art to harmonizing together the way we do and you have to pay attention, which keeps it interesting artistically. And emotionally it’s wonderful to see how the music you’ve done originally just as a family hobby continues to be enjoyed by people and makes them feel good. So, it’s really a blessing. Earlier this month, the choreographer that did DANCEworks here in town used several snippets from “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” mashed up with other music as part of the soundtrack for a new piece he created. To me, it’s great that other creators realize the brilliance of some of your music, how much went into those songs. Yeah, I remember we did 25 takes of just this one section on that song when we were recording it. I started calling Brian “The Stalin of the Studio” because he was really something. Are you guys getting along okay these days? Yeah. There’s been a lot of myth and inaccuracies and mischaracterizations over the years about the band, but I put a lot of those to rest in the book

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Heroes honoree Marybeth Carty and George Leis from Montecito Bank & Trust with Teddy Bear executive director Lindsey Leonard at the Hospice event

VNHC executive director Rick Keith with president/CEO Lynda Tanner and Regatta chair Francie Lufkin and commodore John Koontz

owners Tim and Louise Casey and took pictures. But not being a good sailor, I confess, I got off. There was still the Beer Garden or volleyball games to play. You could also visit the Maritime Museum next door. Upon returning from the race, there were regatta awards, raffle winners, and the day ended with a barbecue. Almost 400 folks enjoyed the fun in the sun. Besides Francie and John, to be thanked is their committee: Marilyn Goodfield, Shari Guilfoyle, Teresa Koontz, Lailan McGrath, Easter Moorman, Suesan Pawlitski, Judy Rawles, Jenny Roberts, Nick Sebastian, Beverly Toole, Brittany Avila Wazny, and Gail Young. There were also dozens of sponsors to be thanked. To learn about all the programs and help related to VNHC, call (805) 9655555. Ahoy to the Yacht Club until next year’s Regatta.

Heroes of Hospice

Hospice of Santa Barbara (HSB) hosted its sixth annual Heroes of Hospice Luncheon at the Coral Casino. It was a perfect venue for the theme “Jewels by the Sea.” A welcome reception was held on the terrace with waves crashing below. One of the reasons we all live in paradise! This luncheon was to honor individuals and groups in our community

Cottage president/CEO Ron Werft and Teddy Bear board chair Rick Schuette at the Heroes of Hospice luncheon

whose work has advanced Hospice’s mission to care for anyone experiencing the impact of a life-threatening illness or grieving the loss of a loved one. The Partnership Award went to Cottage Children’s Medical Center Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation (TBCF), which help care for children and their families. TBCF provides financial assistance for critical needs such as rent assistance and family support groups. The Ambassador Award went to Marybeth Carty, who advances their mission. She has spent 25 years in board leadership and service positions and is the executive director of the Natalie Orfalea Foundation. The Legacy Award was given to

Montecito Bank & Trust for its community employees who volunteer 5,200 hours every year. The bank has donated $1 million annually to non-profit organizations. The Volunteer Award went to Organic Soup Kitchen, which among other programs, hand delivers nutrient-dense soups weekly to cancer patients undergoing treatment at Cottage Hospital and Ridley-Tree Cancer Center. Beth Farnsworth and CJ Ward were the masters of ceremonies who joked when the room was noisy, “We work in a studio with no people.” HSB CEO David Selberg welcomed and noted that the group has reached new heights in the amount of people they help. They are also partnering with Neighborhood Clinics. Sheriff Bill Brown thanked HSB for helping 900 people since our disaster, and they have counseled nine out of 13 families that lost loved ones. The keynote speaker was Jesse Brisendine, who began his talk by graphically describing an attempted teen suicide who tried to stab himself with a knife and then admitted it was he! Jesse pointed out, “Teen suicide is up and Hospice is needed more than ever. There are all the school shootings, bullying, plus addiction to social media.” Jesse told us that 17 percent of teens have considered suicide and it’s the second leading cause of their deaths. All that HSB does is free of charge. If you’d like to donate or get more, call (805) 563-8820.

Two for Tea

HSB staff Becca Solodon, Gisselle Madrigel, CEO David Selberg, Kendall Klein, and Tessa Boyce at their Heroes luncheon

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Casa del Herrero gave a tea in the blue and white garden to say “thank you” to its big donors. As executive director Jessica Tade said to them, “We couldn’t do it without you.” The event could have been in another era when hats and gloves were de rigueur. There was fine china, savory finger sandwiches, and trays full of sweets. Did those ladies take off their gloves to eat? I’ve been a docent at the Casa for 18 years, and it still surprises me how many people in Santa Barbara have never heard of it. The Casa is one of our four local National Historic Landmarks, which include the Courthouse and the Mission. The Casa was a private home owned by

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Elizabeth Storm McGovern with Casa del Herrero board president Meghan Stoll at the donor tea

Erin Goligoski, whose husband is on the Casa del Herrero board, with guest Francie Lufkin at the Casa tea

one family – the Steedmans – who built it in the early 1920s. What’s even better is they left all the furnishings when it became open to the public. It feels like a real home, not a museum. We still have family members serving on the board. It is an 11-acre estate with house and gardens that is still intact. Many of you have driven by without realizing what’s behind the gate and landscaping just a block from the Upper Village in Montecito at 1387 East Valley Road. Board president Meghan Stoll reminded me, “The next big event is the annual Christmas party the first Saturday in December. The last two years it has sold out before the invitations were mailed.” The house looks especially festive with all the holiday decorations. So if you’re interested, call (805) 565-5653 for information. If you’d like a docent-led tour, call the same number for a reservation. Nichole Takida will help you. See you at the Casa! •MJ 20 – 27 September 2018

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Santa Ynez Valley – with 85 singers in total and 100 musicians on the heaving stage. The eclectic season ends in May with Romeo & Juliet, with works by Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, and Santa Barbara Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein. Among the tony torrent of music lovers getting the news from Nir and executive director Kevin Marvin at the New Vic, as well as joining a reception on stage afterwards, were Christopher Lancashire, Robert Weinman, Karen Drown, Dan and Meg Burnham, Joan Tapper, Adele Rosen, Barbara Burger, Paul Munch, George Konstantinow, Mikki Andina, and Mashey Bernstein.

Raise the Bar Following a brief revamp, the Montecito Inn space that was formerly home to Frankland’s Crab & Co., is now a design-cktail lounge, Chaplin’s Martini Bar. The new concept by chef-owners Phillip Franklin Lee and Margarita Kallas-Lee, offers a speakeasy reminiscent of those that were fashionable when the upscale getaway on Coast Village Road was originally built. “We were consistently told by locals that they missed the previous bar that once occupied the space,” says Phillip. “Therefore, I wanted to restore what many felt was absent, but with my spin. A place you’d want to get dressed up for, but where cocktails and conversation are ultimately your only focus.” In addition to the libations, which are priced between $12 and $15, a limited selection of snacks are available each evening, including jumbo shrimp, steak tartare, and local oysters. Hostelry co-owner Danny Copus collaborated in the design of the bar, which has wood-trimmed booths in tufted jet-black leather, ebony oak planking, and brown maple edges, with the room anchored by a coffee-colored oak bar. Club Hub Montecito’s Rotary Club has been showing its largesse. In partnership with the City College Foundation, the club has handed out ten $1,250 scholarships to high-performing City College students. “For more than 25 years, the rotary club has provided scholarships for students in the vocational and career technical services at City College, with the total amount provided during this time exceeding $100,000,” says club treasurer John Glanville. “The new scholarships cover a range of vocational endeavors including a variety of medical studies, automotive and marine diving technologies, 20 – 27 September 2018

cosmetology, journalism, computer systems, and theater arts.” Ono? Oh, Yes Montecito actor Jeff Bridges, 68, has been busy in bed with John Lennon’s 85-year-old widow Yoko Ono and his wife of 40 years, Susan, didn’t mind a bit. The Oscar winner joined former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, 78, and the Japanese singer recreating the bed-in inspired by Ono and Lennon’s famed Vietnam War protests in 1969, to support New York City public schools. The tony triumvirate were joined on the steps of City Hall in Manhattan by the Big Apple’s mayor, Bill de Blasio. The event was part of the 5th annual Come Together: NYC. The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus rolled out in 1998 with the intention of continuing Lennon’s legacy of promoting unity through art, was also involved in the celebrations. Lennon was famously murdered outside his home, The Dakota, near Central Park in 1980. Mumm’s the Word A champagne bottle has been designed to enable wealthy tourists traveling to space to drink the bubbly in zero gravity. Future space tourists will be able to enjoy their view of Earth from orbit with a high-tech bottle of Mumm champagne, says the company. The unique bottle, a collaboration between the champagne house and designer Octave de Gaulle, a relative of the late French president, is being released this month under the name Mumm Grand Cordon Stellar. It will be tested on a specially equipped Airbus A300 Zero-G plane – nicknamed the Vomit Comet – in Reims, the heart of France’s Champagne country, which creates 20-second bursts of weightlessness. It is aimed at the forthcoming wave of suborbital and orbital space tourism promoted by private operators such as Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin. Sightings: Actor Billy Baldwin noshing at Lucky’s...Rocker Kenny Loggins checking out SOhO...L.A. Lakers assistant coach Bill Bertka at the Mesa Cafe Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and 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. •MJ

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I wrote last year, Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy. And at some point, there will be a documentary on my life and I’ll be able to accurately depict what was going on, so there’s no conjecture and falsehoods. But Brian chose to leave the touring band back in 1964, so the die was cast back then. That’s when Glen Campbell was with us for six months until we got Bruce Johnston (who lives in Montecito). So, we’ve gone our separate ways for decades.

Now that you mention it, I have to go back to touring. You mentioned you do more than 150 shows a year. Even bands in their 20s get tired of the road. How the heck do you handle it? It’s the hardest part of what we do, but it’s about lifestyle choices. We don’t do anything to harm our voices. And I’ve been doing transcedental meditation (TM) since I learned it from the Maharishi back in the 1970s. He stayed at my old house on the Mesa one time back then too. It gives me the energy and clarity and positivity to keep going, and I put it to use in the performance. That’s been my secret. If I didn’t do it twice a day, I would not be able to do what I do. Speaking of which, you put out a solo album last year, Unleash the Love, with references to TM. Do you get a chance to sing any of those in the concerts? Yeah, we’re doing “Unleash the Love” and also “Getcha Back” on this tour. You’ll hear them at the Granada.

New Play for CartCarrying Members

Bill Waxman’s The Sorrow Cart was supposed to have its world premier last winter at the Center Stage Theatre. But the Thomas Fire and Montecito mudslide scuttled those plans, as actors had to evacuate their homes and Santa Barbara turned into a ghost town. By the time things cleared, some of the actors had moved on, and other issues arose, so the original musical had to wait nine months to make its debut. But those troubles are nothing compared to those suffered by the subject of the work – America’s homeless population, which continues to soar amid tough economic times. The original inspiration for creating the play grew out of Hurricane Katrina, explained Waxman, who lives in Simi Valley but has been associated with Santa Barbara’s DIJO Productions as an actor, director, and playwright. He helped displaced people from New Orleans get settled in California as a homeless liaison in the schools. “That really opened my eyes about the issue,” he said. “And since then, it’s only become more of an epidemic.

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There are over half a million homeless people in the U.S., nearly the population of North Dakota. I wanted to do something where I could make a difference, that would make people aware of the plight and difficulties through their eyes and words.” So, Waxman wrote the The Sorrow Cart – the name comes from the shopping carts favored by many street people – including the book, music, and lyrics as a series of vignettes. each highlighting a different aspect of the plight of the homeless. “I’d get an idea for a story that needed to be told, create the character, and then come up with a song,” he recalled, adding that it took about 18 months to complete the project. “They’re a combination of stories ripped from headlines, plus things I observed myself and others from people I talked to. It all coalesced in my head to tell the whole story.” Among the topics addressed are hunger (with the song “Cheesburger and Fries”), the “failure of society to acknowledge their existence” (“Don’t Notice”), and writing home to tell the parents this is where life has lead (“Dear Mom and Dad”). A story about finding love on the streets came just as Waxman was finishing the script. The conceit tying the stories together is that they’re being told as part of a TV news report about homeless roundups and other efforts to help them. “The play shows the dichotomy between the reporting on the situation and how it actually is,” Waxman said. That’s where members of the cast come in, as Waxman has landed K-LITE radio personality Catherine Remak to join DIJO regular Ed Giron, an actor who is also the host of the radio show Community Matters on KZSB, as the reporters. Santa Barbara actors George Coe, Richard Lonsbury, Phil Moreno, Van Riker, and Waxman’s daughter, Alison, plus Heather Terbell, Claudia Kashin, and Audrey Brecher are among those portraying the homeless folks sharing their stories. “It has not been an easy road [since the fire],” Waxman said. “But now, we have a group of actors who are committed and ready to grow with the show.” Step one is on Friday, September 21, at 8 pm, when The Sorrow Cart premieres at the Center Stage Theater, when all proceeds from the show – tickets are $20 general, $15 students, $10 military – will benefit The Soldiers Project to assist in aiding homeless veterans. “I’m just mostly wanting to raise awareness,” Waxman said. “I hope this is as affecting and engaging as I intend it to be. We’ll know if it resonates after the show, and maybe we can take it someplace else.” •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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Profs at the Pub – What’s the point of living in a college town if there aren’t going to be interactions beyond arts offering and the usual students on State Street sort of thing? Meaning, some face time with the intellectuals, a discussion or two that has meaning beyond the moment. Introducing Profs at the Pub, an engaging, free speaker series featuring UCSB professors at some of the Santa Barbara area’s favorite watering holes. Dishing next is dean John Majewski, who will discuss “Hamilton! The Musical as History” at around 6:15 pm out at Draughtsmen Aleworks in Goleta, not too far from campus. Majewski, the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts as well as a history professor (since 1995), earned his Ph.D. from UCLA, where he won the Allan Nevins Prize in American Economic History for the best dissertation on an American subject. His areas of specialization include American economic, social, and legal history as well as Southern history and the U.S. Civil War, and he wrote the book Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Imagination of the Confederate Nation back in 2009. Go ahead and feel good about downing a few cold ones during the talk, as a portion of beer sales from a “karma tap” for the event will support UCSB alumni. WHEN: 6:20 pm WHERE: 53 Santa Felicia Drive, Goleta COST: free INFO: www.eventbrite.com or email: lauren.cain@ucsb.edu

Storm Reading Returns – The pioneering theatrical production that featured a character who lives with a visible disability was created and debuted right here in Santa Barbara at the Lobero Theatre back in 1988. Now, 30 years later, the groundbreaking play presented by Access Theatre that went on to inspire audiences worldwide for nearly a decade is coming home and back to life to mark the major milestone. Storm Reading’s central character is Neil Marcus, who portrayed himself during the play’s six-year run that spotlighted his relentless pursuit of living life in an artistic and poetic way. The production toured through 20 states as well as Canada and England, and was performed as part of the NBC TV special From the Heart at the Kennedy Center with Access Theatre honorary board member Michael Douglas. Back in the day, Maria Shriver interviewed Marcus on The Today Show, and Linda Wertheimer featured him on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. At tonight’s celebration, Marcus, fellow actors Matthew Ingersoll and Kathryn Voice, director/ producer Rod Lathim of Access Theatre, and special guest Anthony Edwards gather to look back at the impact the play had on audiences and at its sustaining message that art holds the transformative power to heal body and mind. Hosted by Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation, the

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Strings Theory – Guitar virtuoso Robben Ford is one of those strange cases of a massively talented musician and performer who somehow nevertheless seems to fly well below the radar of pop culture. Ford has recorded more than 35 albums under his own name and with various bands, not to mention his yeoman session and sideman work, which included hundreds of concert appearances with and album recording sessions by Miles Davis, George Harrison, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Barbara Streisand, Charlie Musselwhite, KISS, Ruthie Foster, Warren Haynes, Jimmy Witherspoon, Larry Carlton, Brad Paisley, Gregg Allman, Phil Lesh, and Rickie Lee Jones, to drop just a few names. His latest album, Into The Sun, is deservedly one of his personal favorites as it, in the words of a rapturous Guitar Player Magazine review, “explores the breadth of Ford’s sophisticated, visionary writing and playing, creating a new chapter in his brilliant musical history.” Then there’s the fact that Ford, who lives in Ojai and teaches locally at times, also offers masterclasses across the country and around the world. Fortunately, we only have to mosey on down to the historic, acoustically satisfying Lobero Theatre to hear the fivetime Grammy nominee play. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $39 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 Stow House and Scenery – The Goleta Valley Art Association’s 14th annual Stow House Art Festival – a 200-plus member group that regularly exhibits works in a variety of media in the Multipurpose Room of the Goleta Valley Public Library – takes to the great outdoors for its yearly festival on the grounds of Rancho La Patera. The free, fun day-long event for the whole family offer the opportunity to meet and talk with the local artists and see and buy their newest works, as well as enjoy live music from the Santa Barbara bands Shepherd’s Pie and Tom Henderson, and chow down on delicious food catered by ARCatering. As in previous years, longtime member painter John Williams will demonstrate his techniques for creating classic landscapes on site at the lush, tree-filled, historic setting adjacent to Lake Los Carneros. WHEN: 11 am to 5 pm WHERE: 304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta COST: free INFO: (805) 886-0020 or www.tgvaa.org

evening features a staging of selected scenes from the show, as well as screening of scenes from the television version. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $25 general admission, $15 students ($125 VIP tickets include priority seating and a pre-show reception) INFO: (805) 9630761 or www.lobero.com Mentorship Milestone – The Teen Arts Mentorship Program was initiated in 1993 with just a three-year grant, but the in-depth arts enrichment and career development program designed to expose teenaged artists to career paths in the visual, performance, multimedia, and literary arts has proven so successful and compelling that it has only grown in importance and popularity since. Working in small groups of a handful or two creative professionals from within the community, students develop specific art-making skills, learn exhibition techniques, and build strong portfolios, resumés, and professional networks to bolster college applications. The expanded program includes more than 15 year-round classes, a new fall session for film and performance arts, and outreach to 25+ schools, and an expanding branch of services to underserved North County communities of Santa Maria, Lompoc, Orcutt, and Guadalupe. Nothing special is being planned to mark the 25th anniversary, other than the regular opening of the actual exhibition at The Arts Fund Community Gallery that is a big part of the program. The new show – which has its opening during the monthly first Friday Funk Zone Art Walk – will feature work by 28 student artists from the summer workshops, which included Printmaking: Identity &

Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. – Nora Ephron

Portraiture with Barbara Larson, Mixed Media & Collage with Rafael Perea, What’s Next?: Career & College Prep with Jamie Dufek, and Collage & 3-D Construction with Susan Tibbles. WHEN: Opening Reception 5 to 8 tonight; exhibit on display through October WHERE: 205-C Santa Barbara Street COST: free INFO: 965-7321 or www. artsfundsb.org SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 Cider Rules – Who needs another alcohol and appetizers event? The town’s got plenty of ‘em. Wine and dine festival? Eh, there’s seemingly one every weekend. Beer bash by the beach? Plenty of suds in the ocean’s foamy waves. But until now, there’s never been an afternoon devoted exclusively to an even more niche market, the hard-core hard cider fans. Enter the Hard Core Cider Tour, which makes its Santa Barbara debut at Elings Park today just as the calendar turns to autumn, when the mind already leaps to thoughts of fresh-pressed apples picked from local trees, at least for this New England native scribe. Guests can enjoy unlimited 2-oz. samples from some of the world’s top craft hard cider makers, savor mouth watering food from local food trucks (apple fritters, anyone?) although that’s sold separately, groove to live music from Georgetown Band (which features the astonishing singer Lois Mahalia and brothers), and even let your inner kid out with jumbo lawn games (I’m still kinda mad my parents never consented to lawn darts or Slip ‘n’ Slide). Among those serving are our very own Santa Barbara Cider Company, plus The Good Cider 20 – 27 September 2018

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Twin Tumbles on Tin Roof – Alliteration addicts could also call tonight’s show at the Santa Barbara Bowl “Eighties is Enough” as the lineup features three icons of the era via original members of Culture Club, the B-52s, and Thompson Twins. The hits will be rolling down from the lower Riviera venue in decades bashing delight, as the British boys sandwich the all-American quartet for four hours of fun. Boy George – who notably was perhaps rock’s first openly gay front man – and his 150-million-albums-selling band will more than likely sing “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me”, “Karma Chameleon”, “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya”, et cetera; all the original 52s (Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland, Cindy Wilson, and Ricky Wilson) are slated to rock out with “Rock Lobster”, “Dance This Mess Around”, “Private Idaho”, and of course, “Love Shack”; and Tom Bailey should be belting out “Hold Me Now”, “Doctor! Doctor!”, “Lay Your Hands on Me”, and “King for a Day”, though he’ll be backed by his all-female band featuring Charlotte Raven on vocals and keyboards, Amanda Kramer (The Psychedelic Furs/Information Society) on vocals and keyboards, and Paulina Szczepaniak on electronic drums, and will likely also delve into his brand-new solo album. The groove will definitely be in the heart and the hooves. WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. COST: $44.50 to $204.50 INFO: (805) 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com

USA, Bristols Cider House, William’s Orchards, Brooks Dry Cider, See Canyon Cider Company, Anna’s Cide, Tin City Cider Co., and many others. Plus, you also get a Signature Keepsake Mason Jar to take home to remember your fun time with fermented Fujis. WHEN: 1 to 4 pm WHERE: Elings Park, 1298 Las Positas Road COST: $40 general admission in advance, $50 at the door INFO: (805) 569-5611 or https:// hardcorecidertour.com/events/santabarbara Folk Icon Returns – Tennessee native David Massengill was a member of the latter part of the original Greenwich Village folk scene in the mid-1970s, when he walked the same streets and played the same storied coffee houses as Bob Dylan and Dave Van Ronk. Forty years later, he’s still hanging around lower Manhattan, but now he’s also occupying a pivotal role in keeping the American folk music tradition alive. Although it’s been more than a decade since Massengill released a new album (2007’s Dave on Dave), several of his songs remain

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in the vernacular, particularly “On The Road to Fairfax County”, recorded by then-fellow New York City denizens The Roches and later by Joan Baez, and “The Great American Dream” and “My Name Joe”, the latter about an illegal immigrant restaurant worker. Massengill may be better-known as a music educator who presented his “Taking the Dull out of Dulcimer” workshops at festivals and music gatherings all over the place, while he’s also a specialist in the field of melding traditional and contemporary music styles. It’s been years since the troubadour has headed our way, and given that the singer-songwriter enjoys at best a cult audience, tonight’s show takes place in the only true remaining “coffeehouse” setting, the intimate quarterly concert series known as Trinity Backstage. That intimate space is where you can hear Massengill play what The New York Times called “serious and idiosyncratic... and ambitiously allegorical” songs. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State Street COST: $10 INFO: 962-1970 or www. trinitybackstage.com •MJ

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Revels Equinox – Santa Barbara Revels is all about celebrating the seasons, most prominently with the annual Christmas community show at the Lobero every December. But the other seasons are also getting their due, with the organization’s annual autumn equinox event, Concert in Celebration of the Changing Seasons, featuring its vocalists and instrumentalists singing and playing a delightful and diverse selection of music. Today’s offerings, which mark Revels’s own year-to-year transition, range from the lively and joyous tunes of Alta California dance music from California’s Rancho period highlighted in last year’s The Christmas Revels, to a preview of the Celtic sounds of this December’s “An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice.” Music director Erin McKibben – whose husband Nick Jurkowski is the new executive director of Santa Barbara Revels – has assembled an ensemble of guitars, flute, harp, cello, violins, and voices for the occasion, which also features a courtyard reception with the artists during intermission. WHEN: 5 pm WHERE: Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, 1535 Santa Barbara St. COST: $25 in advance or $30 at the door INFO: (805) 364-4630 or https://santabarbararevels.org/??

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by James Buckley

Suicide of the West Commentator and author of Suicide Of The West; How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy Jonah Goldberg is scheduled to speak at UCSB on Sunday, October 7

ational Review editor, Los Angeles Times columnist, speaker, Fox News commentator, author, and teacher (for nearly a year he taught English to Czech citizens after the breakup of the Soviet Union), Jonah Goldberg is a product of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Jonah’s father was Jewish; his mother Christian; Jonah was brought up Jewish. Some may remember his mother, Lucianne Goldberg, and her presence on newscasts in the early ‘90s as the woman who encouraged Linda Tripp to record Monica Lewinsky’s conversations, as well as being the person who advised Ms Tripp to warn Monica to keep the blue dress. Mr. Goldberg is scheduled to speak at Campbell Hall on Sunday, October 7. The following is a severely edited version of our hour-long-plus conversation via cell phone: I in SaintMalo, France, and he in Washington, D.C., where he lives. Q. You were born in 1969 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. How did a nice Jewish boy end up a conservative rather than an Upper West Side liberal? A. My parents were conservative, and I didn’t think of myself all that political until I got to college. My dad was a journalist, and one of his favorite things to do was to take his sons out for long walks and tell them how bad communism was. So, I got a lot of education out of him. He gave up grad school in Eastern European History, but he was a voracious reader. You’re one of the few conservative speakers who remains relatively unmolested on campuses. You can give a talk without students (and others) breaking windows and setting police cars on fire. What explains that? I used to arouse more hostility from

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people, but I’ve tried to move away from that kind of stuff. The Ann Coulter-Milo Yiannopoulos method of [confrontational speaking] I just feel is counterproductive. You get people who start arguing that anything is justifiable as long as you get the right people upset. I think conservatives have moved away from trying to convince people and that’s a real problem. When National Review ran its anti-Donald Trump screed during the Republican primary season, I believe you lost a lot of readers. The writers seemed to imply that the nation would be better off if Hillary were elected. Did you feel that way? Do you still feel that way? With all due respect, I think you are completely wrong. That issue appeared before the Iowa caucuses. We were, in effect, endorsing the field against Trump. It’s been retroactively turned into a Never Trump issue, but it wasn’t. If you look at the contributors to it, lots of those people went on to endorse Trump and support him and defend Trump to this day. Some don’t, but the problem at the time... and I’m very proud of that issue. I think that the gist of it was absolutely right. I didn’t write for it, because most of the senior editors didn’t; we let the editorial speak for all of us, but there are people at National Review who are pro-Trump and there are people at National Review who are anti-Trump. I would say most of them are Trump skeptical. But I don’t think anybody has written in the National Review the words “Better to vote for Hillary.” I didn’t vote for Hillary. I didn’t vote for Trump either. I said in Suicide of the West, that if it came down to my vote, I would have voted for Donald Trump. But, what I wasn’t going to

do was endorse his character or his tactics or lie about him. Is there any way you would or could support President Trump? Is there anything he could do or say that would garner your support? Support him? What does that mean?... ...Say something nice or approve of something he’s done?... I’ve approved lots of things that he’s done. I like, I think literally, every judicial appointment he’s made. I like the tax cuts, certainly on the corporate side, less on the personal side, but I still like them; I like the deregulatory stuff; I like moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; I like defunding the PLO. I mean, I can give you a very long list. But, what I will not do is say that he is the world’s greatest negotiator; I will not say that he is a decent man or a man of good character; I will not say that he hires the best people; I will not say that he acts presidential, because he does not. And, I will not say that he is 6-3 and 230 pounds, which is what he claims. (Editor’s note: For the record, Donald Trump is six-foot-two and weighs, well, probably considerably more than 230 pounds.) You made some great points in your earlier book, Liberal Fascism, published some 10 years ago. Do you feel the observations you made at the time have been substantiated in light of what has developed – Black Lives Matter, Antifa, Democratic Socialism, for example – over the past decade? I think I was absolutely right on the history and on the political taxonomy. That said, I also think the book was something of a spectacular failure in that part of my point was to get people to stop using the word “fascist,” because they were using it wrong; they were pointing it in the wrong direction and if anything, people have been hurling the “F” word more, not less, since that book came out. The thing that breaks my heart about the current moment we’re in is that my point was that in the AngloAmerican tradition of what it means to be a conservative isn’t a blood-andsoil conservatism, the likes of which they had in Europe. We conservatives are defenders of a radical revolution in terms of the Enlightenment and in terms of the American founding – so therefore, what we are conserving is something very different than what someone who wants to restore or maintain the monarchy, or clericalism, or whatever. One of my concerns these days is [certain conservatives] are embracing the old European model of what it means to be a conservative in the first place.

October, baptize me with leaves! – Rainbow Rowell

Another thing I’m unhappy with about the book (Liberal Fascism) is that I’m one of the people who elevated the importance of Saul Alinsky to conservatives. I did it to point out what a bad influence he was on American politics and how dangerous his ideas were. What happened was that in the ensuing 10 years, a lot of conservatives started to develop what you could call “Saul Alinsky Envy” and began using Alinsky-like tactics themselves. But isn’t the reason for using what you call “Alinsky-like tactics” to fight fire with fire, to use political tactics that have proven effective? Maybe, but one of the reasons I have a higher standard for the right is that the modern American conservative movement is the only reliable faction in American politics – with the exception of some libertarians – that as a matter of dogma, fundamentally defends the American founding, our founding principles, free-market capitalism, and all the rest. Let’s talk about your book, Suicide of the West; How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy. What is it you hope to impart to your audience at UCSB when you speak there? One of the things I’ll stress is that, while I had lots of differences with Barack Obama, one of the things he was right about was that if you could pick a time to be born, and you didn’t know if you were going to be born black or white, rich or poor, you would want to be born right now, in the United States of America. One of the core arguments I make in the book is that we don’t appreciate how unbelievably fortunate we are to be born in this country in this time. For thousands of years, the average human being lived on less than $3 a day everywhere around the world. We only started to get rich once, in terms of the average person, in all of human history, about 300 years ago. It started in one place: England. It moved to Holland, then the United States, and right now we are living in the greatest moment of poverty alleviation in all of human history. And we should have some gratitude for this. ••• Jonah Goldberg is scheduled to speak at Campbell Hall on the UCSB campus beginning at 7:30 pm, Sunday, October 7. Tickets are $25 for the general public, $5 for UCSB students with ID. Tickets are available by calling (805) 893-3535 or online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu. This speaking engagement is sponsored by Montecito residents Susan and Craig McCaw. •MJ 20 – 27 September 2018

an evening of reﬂection, healing and entertainment

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7:30 at the Lobero

performances by local artists tickets: lobero.org Photo: John Lengsfelder

Opus Archives and Research Center has given more than a dozen grants to local artists to conceive and perform their creative expressions around the Thomas Fire and mudﬂows. These soulful performances will span multiple mediums including dance, music, photography, drama, poetry and video. This evening of reﬂection promises to be an eclectic and entertaining showcase of some of Santa Barbara and Ventura’s best artists.

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