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THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 11 • MOVIE GUIDE, P. 41 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42
MONTECITO’S FRENCH CONNECTION Laguna Blanca junior Luisa Cameron credits Bénédicte Wolfe’s one-onone conversational style of teaching for her fluency in (and love of) the French language; so do a great number of Ms Wolfe’s other students, who range in age from 4 to 88 (story on p.36)
Chasen A Dream
Coast Village Walk welcomes women’s clothing boutique, Chasen, in former home of Montecito Sports, p. 12
Strike Up The Band
Drummer Jay Dee Daugherty and Patti Smith ready to rock the Granada on January 26, p. 28
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Gerald DiPego of Santa Ynez Valley pens new play 154 & Paradise, which takes Center Stage, p. 38 COVER: Bénédicte Wolfe (photo credit: CAMERONMEDIA/David Cameron)
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 On the Water Front Bob Hazard points out the elephant in the MWD room: rain or shine, Montecito has no affordable long-term remedy for water independence; he crunches numbers and mulls the options for a viable solution 6 Montecito Miscellany Tab Hunter documentary; Lex Sidon’s Grand Street; Roger Durling and the SBIFF; Katy Perry and John Mayer reunite; MAW members return from New York; George Lucas on the new Star Wars; grand Granada technology; the Peking Acrobats; Selma makers march; In Other Words at Camerata Pacifica; Juilliard String Quartet; Life Chronicles Father Virgil Award; and Prince Charles 8 Letters to the Editor Robert Bradley questions Charlie Hedbo cartoonists; Steve Lawrence on world leadership; Don Michel’s rhetorical questions; David McCalmont sounds off about Duke’s latest kerfuffle; Leslie Nelson’s world view; Bill Dalziel on Rosetta’s Pond; and Christine Merrick’s sunset 11 This Week Community workshop; seniors discussion with Greg Gunderson; Willi Paul book reading; The New Yorker discussion; contemplative yoga; Story Time; health and wellness at SB Public Market; Santa Barbara Music Club; SB Middle School open house; Winter Wine Classic; Crane open house; MBAR meeting; Eric Lichtblau book signing; scientific lecture; knitting and crocheting; introduction to Capacitar with Taran Collis; “Live Well” series; and Dance Fever showcase Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 12 Village Beat Montecito Union School Board discusses facilities in wake of Measure Q vote-down; Chasen opens on Coast Village Road in former home of Montecito Sports; Santa Barbara Coast Volleyball Club celebrates victory; and Santa Barbara Public Market hosts wellness events 14 Seen Around Town Lynda Millner has a whale of a time with Condor Express owner Hiroko Benko, attends SB Chamber Orchestra concert, and gets a strong impression with the Arts Fund Gallery and SB Printmakers 20 Purely Political John Burk chronicles heralded writer Bob Woodward at the Coral Casino and delves into the Pulitzer Prize winner’s history 23 On Entertainment Steven Libowitz tracks down musician Bill Frisell before his Lobero performance; Gerald DiPego’s new play takes Center Stage; SB International Film Festival approaches 30th year; and film focus 28 Our Town Joanne Calitri talks it up with the Patti Smith Band’s Jay Dee Daugherty, who chimes in about performing at the Granada 29 Notes from Downtown Is Jim Alexander a wise man or merely a wiseacre for delving into what would happen if Three Wise Women witnessed Jesus Christ’s birth? 36 Local People Luisa Cameron, a junior at Laguna Blanca High, puts pen to paper while chronicling French instructor Bénédicte Wolfe and Garden Street Academy 37 Music, Art, & Aging Dean Mars pays mind to Alzheimer’s disease, New Year’s resolutions, and shares healthy advice particularly for those 65 or older 40 Legal Advertisements 41 Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events Rod Lathim taking care of Business; Rubicon Theatre Company and Five Years; Winter Wine Classic 2015; Betty Oberacker among those at Faulkner Gallery; The Golden Dragon Acrobats at UCSB; Robben Ford at SOhO; Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet; and Patti Smith band rocks the Granada 45 93108 Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 47 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer
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ON THE WATER FRONT
by Bob Hazard
Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club
Creating Real Water Independence for Montecito
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fter 25 years of deliberation, Montecito still has no reliable and affordable long-term solution for water independence, rain or no rain. A group of community leaders has approached the Montecito Water District (MWD) and the Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) with a proposal to develop the preliminary design, engineering, and costing of a fully integrated state-of-the-art plant to be located on the existing Montecito Sanitary District site across from the Santa Barbara Cemetery on Channel Drive. The hope would be that the two special districts will work cooperatively on this preliminary project. Such a community-based study would target a design level of approximately 30 percent, which is the minimum amount of work that needs to be completed to apply for state funding and expedite potential emergency permitting.
The Current Situation
Montecito needs to generate its own guaranteed supply of high-quality potable water. MWD has attempted to solve the current water supply shortage by short-term purchases of imported water, mandatory rationing allocations, severe penalties for exceeding usage, and more recently, by a proposed “water shortage emergency surcharge” which will nearly double water rates for Montecito customers who have already reduced their water usage by nearly 50 percent. Successful conservation efforts have created a Gordian knot for MWD. The more water is conserved, the less sales revenue is generated. Reduced water sales of only $9 million have created an operating loss of $5 million, because income from water sales is insufficient to cover fixed operating costs. The current “pay more for less water” business model is probably not sustainable.
We Already Have The Location
MWD has already retained RBF as its consultant to study 10 sites for a desalination plant. This is puzzling because the Montecito Sanitary District already owns a workable site, saving land and acquisition costs of $5 to $10 million. MSD’s existing wastewater outflow line, which now discharges 600,000 gallons per day of treated wastewater into the ocean off Butterfly Beach, could be converted to a desalination brine discharge line, possibly saving another $6 to $10 million. Permitting and CEQA costs would be far less using the existing MSD wastewater facility upgrade than what it may cost using another proposed location. Re-designing the existing MSD plant would free five acres of existing publicly owned land that could be reclaimed for additional desalination use, or future plant expansion, with the potential of creating a new $5 million asset for MSD. Also noteworthy is the possibility that recycling water to a higher standard could attract low-interest state funding. And finally, an integrated facility could reduce both operating and energy costs.
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Fortunately, Orange County, San Jose, Santa Paula, Redondo Beach, El Segundo, and Wichita Falls, Texas, all provide useful models for the creation of a state-of-the-art facility in Montecito. Of particular interest is a new venture in Cambria, a coastal California town of 6,000 residents, which combined its existing water and sanitary districts into a new Community Services District to design, permit and build a small brackish water desalination and wastewater recycling plant in six months. The Cambria project was announced in May 2014 and was completed in December 2014, truncating the usual decades of environmental reviews, public hearings, and lawsuits into six months by obtaining emergency status and securing some permits during construction, but delaying others until after the plant is in operation. While Cambria’s water needs are very different than Montecito’s, Cambria has become a poster child for finding creative solutions to thorny problems.
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RBF, the consultant retained by MWD, has indicated that a stand-alone desalination plant could cost ratepayers $72 to $86 million. This is very expensive. By comparison, initial estimates from the discussions conducted by our community-based workgroup indicate that an integrated facility could deliver potable desalinated water at a base cost of $2,200 per acre foot ($5.05 per billable unit to ratepayers) and wastewater treated to a potable standard for $1,200 an acre-foot ($2.75 per billable unit), both quite affordable at a time when MWD water rates are climbing into the $5 to $10 per billable HCF (hundred cubic foot) range.
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e are being told that the provocative cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet in shameful attitudes are really no more than humorous expressions of free speech. But, what would the reaction of the Catholic community be if that weekly magazine were to show the pope sodomizing a little boy, or receiving oral sex from a little girl? The pope, as far as we know, has not himself engaged in such disgraceful activity, but some of his minions have. Would the Catholic community smile then at such depictions and refer to them as harmless expressions of freedom of speech? It’s not likely. Robert T. Bradley Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We’re not sure where you are going with this, other than to suggest the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and editors who were killed were responsible for the mayhem that ensued. The Christian world has, after centuries of reformation and rebellion, thrown off the shackles of punishment for “blasphemy,” “apostasy,” “heresy,” and other religious “crimes.” It’s about time the Muslim world did the same. The killers were cowards and those killed were heroes. – J.B.)
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Who is Making Decisions?
Over 40 world leaders show their support of the terrorist attack, and our president was enjoying playoff football. I do not have a problem with the president watching the games like many of us, but I do have a problem with the White House press secretary saying that he was not even in the loop. Josh Earnest said the White House took the blame but said Mr. Obama himself was not personally involved in the decision. What? The White House, the last time I checked, cannot make any decision. It is like a dog-and-pony show, or better yet a Howdy Doody show – or even worse, a really bad puppet show. Who is running our beloved country? How can John Kerry stay in India and not be sent to march with millions of people and world leaders? Let’s be clear, President Obama is our president, elected twice on the “Hope and change” motto. It just saddens me of the lost hope and unpleasant change I have seen.
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Steve Lawrence Montecito (Editor’s note: There are plenty of us in which “hope and change” once again stirs in our collective hearts; 2016 can’t come soon enough! – J.B.)
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Remind me, please, who are these people whose feelings we need to be so sensitive toward? Are these the people who cheered when airplanes flew into our buildings? Are these the people who are blowing up other people all over the world? Are these the people who riot and murder in response to cartoons in a Danish newspaper? Are these the people who riot and murder in response to an obscure book burning? Are these the people who settle disputes by decapitating others? Are these the people who consider the stoning to death of women to be appropriate punishment? Are these the people who engage in “honor killings?” Are these the people who consider “Jihad” to be a worthy modern-day pursuit? Are these the people who believe that nonbelievers deserve to be killed? Are these the people who enabled Osama Bin Laden to avoid justice for 10 years? Are these the people who consider Osama Bin Laden to be a hero and martyr? Are these the people who refuse to denounce and condemn terrorists and terrorism? Oh, well, in that case... Don Michel Montecito
Dunderheads at Duke
This is the result of average folks rising up and saying: ‘nuff, already. The Student Muslim Association at Duke persuaded the powers-to-be on campus to put forth a Muslim Call to Prayer every Friday at 1 pm over the campus-wide public-address system. In a day and age when Duke University is making it more and more difficult and uncomfortable to openly be Christian or Jewish on campus, less than a hundred Muslim students [thought] it was within their right and prerogative to disturb everybody 22 – 29 January 2015
who’s still on campus Friday afternoon with a religious cacophonous noise in a foreign language that means absolutely nothing to 99 percent of the people who are forced to endure it. Throughout the nation, more and more communities are placing restrictions on Christian churches that ring their chimes during the week as a means of giving the time to the neighborhood. It seems anymore that churches can only ring their bells before services on Sunday morning. Of course, the source for this angst and annoyance over church bells comes from mostly non- and anti-religious people who say these chimes are a constant and daily bother to their lives. America is under attack from Islamic “extremists.” More and more of these radicals are born and nurtured right here in America. While it’s true that all Muslims are not extremists and terrorists, it is true that all-known extremists and terrorists connected to this network of groups who wish to destroy Western Christian Civilization are Muslim. No Baptists, Jews, or Pentecostals among these extremists. Go back to the late 1930s and 1940s war years: We didn’t coddle and protect our domestic populations that naturally allied themselves with America’s enemies. A whole section of Yorkville – part of Manhattan on the Upper East Side – was a den of collaborators and sympathizers with Nazi Germany. We didn’t incarcerate most of the sympathizers, but we kept a sharp eye on the activities and movements of the collaborators, and did throw a number of these people in jail for good reasons. The leftists running Duke University are fully aware there’s a war going on. They just don’t think that America represents the good guys in this clash of civilizations. They despise Western civilization as demonstrated by traditional and exceptional America, and they align themselves with anybody and everybody who considers exceptional America as its enemy. But Duke also needs tuition money to stay in business while educating America’s rich kids, on American soil, for the revolution they hope will transform America radically away from what it historically was. This time they went too far, and
stepped in it. The stench awakened the patriots from their slumber just enough for them to rise up in protest against this nefarious assault on the very traditions that have made Duke the filthy-rich school that it is today. A small skirmish in a huge global battle. David S. McCalmont Santa Barbara
The Arm-In-Arm Army
One needs an ironic sense of humor along with a cool, clear head for the human race to transcend the critical mass reached last weekend. It was eye-popping to see 40 world leaders arm-in-arm marching the streets of Paris. According to CNN, approximately 3.7 million people in Paris and neighboring large cities in France showed up. Conspicuously absent was President Obama, who failed to send a U.S. representative, even though Attorney General Eric Holder was a stone’s throw away. It wasn’t an oversight. Obama is a peacemaker on the Yin side of the equation, which doesn’t allow for him to take sides in the collective viewpoint. Duality doesn’t exist in his reality, nor for all liberals; ergo, he lacks a “fire-in-the belly.” The revered Ronald Reagan had a competitive, “can-do” spirit found only on the Yang side. I miss the lack of leadership in America. The martyred Charlie Hebdo cartoonists succeeded beyond their wildest dreams with the jeering, outrageous caricatures lampooning everybody and everything from Pope Francis to the seventh-century Muhammad and his followers. One-sidedness was not their gig. Charlie Hebdo was part of the rarified 10 percent of humanity vibrating at Meta-Physical Chakras eight-10 (going back 5,000 years of ancient wisdom), who are born free of the fake physical world conjured up by the 90 percent of ordinary folks enslaved by the ego and stuck on merely one of the seven Physical Chakras, ranging in speeds from Fear (slow) at root all the way to Freedom (high) at crown. There is no time or space in this Third Dimension. It’s all illusion, proven by quantum physics over a century ago. All suffering, conflict, and fragmen-
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MONDAY, JANUARY 26 Book Signing and Lecture Eric Lichtblau, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, will discuss his book The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men at UCSB’s Corwin Pavilion. Relying on a trove of newly discovered documents and scores of interviews with participants in this little-known chapter of post-war history, Lichtblaus tells the shocking and shameful story of how America became a safe haven for Hitler’s men. Courtesy of The Book Den, copies of The Nazis Next Door will be available for purchase and signing at this event. The free, public occasion is presented by The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB. When: 8 pm Info: www.facebook.com/TaubmanSymposia
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appropriate lesson. When: 9 to 10 am Where: 260 San Ysidro Road Info: storytime@lagunablanca.org
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 Community Workshop Alliance for Living and Dying Well invites the community members to come fulfill their Five Wishes and complete their advance healthcare directives. Professional facilitators and trained volunteers will be present at this event to facilitate the process of completing advance health care directives. When: 10 am to noon Where: Montecito Covenant Church, 671 Cold Spring Road (Fellowship Hall) Registration: 845-5341 Senior Discussion Leaving a house after 30, 40, or 50 years is a daunting process. Greg Gunderson, owner of Gentle Transitions, will share the knowledge gleaned while helping more than 1,000 senior adults make the move when he conducts a moving seminar at The Samarkand, a faith-based, not-for-profit, continuing care retirement community operated by Covenant Retirement Communities. When: 10 am Where: 2550 Treasure Drive in Santa Barbara
Story Time at Laguna Blanca Children and families are invited to explore the magical world of storytelling, listen to stories, and enjoy some healthy treats. The storytelling is geared for kids 3 to 6, though children of all ages are welcome to enjoy the morning. In addition to reading books, each Story Time will have a different theme, and Laguna Blanca’s Librarian, Meredith Brace, will impart an age-
Registration: www.TheSamarkand.org or call 877-870-4136 Book Reading & Signing Bay area mythologist and entrepreneur Willi Paul will present the Santa Barbara roundtable “Mythic Roundtable: Tools and Inspiration for Creating New Myths” at the Granada book store. Writers, artists, mythologists, storytellers, teachers, and activists are encouraged to attend the event. Paul has produced 19 eBooks and more than 375 interviews with thought leaders in mythology, permaculture, and sustainability. When: 7 to 8:30 pm Where: 1224 State Street Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 Contemplative Yoga Weekend Nourish your body, heart, and soul with restorative and sacred healing practices. Peel away the layers of stress with yoga,
tai chi, meditation, and seasonal Ayurvedic meals. Taran Collis is a therapeutic yoga teacher, Ayurvedic counselor, and certified Capacitar practitioner at La Casa de Maria. When: Friday, January 23, 5:30 pm to Monday, January 26, 10:30 am Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: resident $475, commuter $325 Info: www.lacasademaria.org
SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 Health & Wellness Series Today is the first of two “Live Well” events at the Santa Barbara Public Market. The Public Market has partnered with two leading health and wellness experts, Dr. Izzy Lira and Nora Tobin, for the Live Well series. It will feature free low-impact group workouts (space is limited, first-come, firstserve!), healthy food samplings from Public Market merchants, as well as additional health and wellness programming, demos, and offerings from local vendors in their event space, The Kitchen. When: starts at 11 am; visit www. sbpublicmarket.com for schedule of events Where: 38 West Victoria Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music. A valued cultural resource in the community since 1969, these concerts feature outstanding performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public. When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu Street
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t their meeting on January 20, the Montecito Union School Board discussed the state of the current campus facilities for the first time since the failure of Measure Q, the $27,150,000 school bond measure that was on the ballot in November. In addition to much legally required work, the proposed upgrade project included a new cafeteria facility, outdoor deck and amphitheater, new classrooms, and much more. “This is going to be a multi-month conversation,” said superintendent Tammy Murphy, who came to the board asking them for guidance on whether several crucial campus issues can wait until the next bond measure opportunity in 2016. “Can these issues wait another two years?” Murphy asked the board. Murphy and architect Tyson Cline estimate the fire and safety issues, much of which is deferred maintenance, will cost upward of $19 million. “What I heard over and over from the community is that if the project did not include the cafeteria building, they would have voted in favor of the measure,” said board president Gwyn Lurie. Following the vote down, the district decided against a formal evaluation of voter behavior to better understand why the measure did not pass. “We have immediate needs for safety and security, and I’m very concerned that we haven’t fixed them yet. We need to fix them before the next bond opportunity,” said board member Peter van Duinwyk, who said campus security is the most pressing issue in his opinion. Murphy asked the board to approve a renewed contract with Cline and his firm, Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects, to look into three major
immediate issues at the school: the replacement of 100-year-old windows and doors, securing the perimeter of the open campus, and increasing the safety and traffic flow of the parking lots. The board, which will pay for immediate safety improvements through reserves, is tasked with figuring out how these enhancements will fit into a larger plan for the school. “We don’t want to spend a lot of money on things we are going to have to eliminate or redo later,” Lurie said. “You have to figure out the big picture before you can choose the small pieces,” said new board member Chad Chase. In addition to these potential improvements, the board was also briefed on two other internal projects proposed for this summer: the re-carpeting of 33 classrooms (estimated to cost $200,000), and the repaving of the basketball court due to drainage issues ($250,000), which was not in the original upgrade plan because the ball fields were to be moved to a different location on campus. “It really is a domino effect,” Cline said. The board voted unanimously to allow Cline and his team to draw up some proposals and possibilities, and come back to a future meeting with cost estimates. To see the board packet, visit www. montecitou.org.
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on behalf of the bears. If you’d like to know more, check out Asia.org. In decades past when the military was doing sonar tests, the whales left our area. Once the tests stopped, they came back. Hiroko’s late husband, Fred, was a fisherman when he decided that whale watching could be more lucrative. He’s credited with being the first on the West Coast to offer whale watching. He also designed the Condor Express. On our trip, we munched delicious breakfast rolls and bagels while going out and yummy sandwiches for lunch. The sea air might have had something to do with our appetites. Meantime, we saw one whale, some dolphin, and sea lions. But if you’re on a trip and don’t see whale or exceptional sightings, the captain will issue you “whale checks, good for a free trip on another open party excursion.” The trip is one half-day in the summer and winter, and two and one half hours for the coastal gray whale watching in the spring. Several of our local passengers had never been whale watching. Is that like living in New York and never going to the Statue of Liberty? Some of those enjoying the trip were a contingent from the Montecito Journal including Don and I, Jim Buckley, Richard
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Street Cred Former Opera Santa Barbara president Fred Sidon’s son, Lex, who co-owns a New York restaurant, has added filmmaking to his menu. The 81-minute movie, Grand Street, shot on 35-mm film five years ago on a 24-day schedule, chronicles a chance encounter between two drifting souls on the teeming streets of late night Manhattan, and got its first screening at the recent 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. “It has been a long road and is really two and a half years overdue,” says Lex, who is married to fashion designer Erin Beatty, co-owner of the popular brand Suno, which sells at Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. “I ran out of money several times on the way and raised funds on Kickstarter and from independent sources, including a college buddy. “In the meantime, I applied to ‘U.S. In Progress,’ a directors showcase for American indie films that takes place • The Voice of the Village •
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Lex Sidon debuts first film at Palm Springs festival
twice a year, once in Wroclaw, Poland, in conjunction with the American Film Festival, and once in Paris at the Champs Elysees fest. Six or seven selected U.S. directors show their works in progress to the top foreign distributors and international sales reps. They get a first look, and winners are awarded post-production services and other funds to finish projects. I received production costs worth more than $80,000, which, of course, was a major assist.” Lex also met a talented editor in Poland and the film was eventually re-cut by remote, he in Warsaw and Lex in New York. “It was a long process, but it ultimately got to the film’s real emotional core. Slowly I crept to the finish line until I could start showing it, eventually getting selected for Palm Springs. We were the only American film in the New Voices-New Visions category and sold out all shows, as well as being picked as one of eight must-see films along with Selma and Still Alice.” Lex’s star, Charlotte Riley, 34, flew out from London for the desert event along with her fiancé, top actor Tom Hardy. The film’s other co-star, Tom Byam Shaw, is also British, although both roles call for them to be New Yorkers. Lex is already working on his next film project, Draggers, an atmospheric drama set aboard a New England fishing boat, which will also star Riley, who is also co-producing. Star-struck Santa Barbara International Film Festival director, Roger Durling, has done it again! Although actors and other film crew attending the popular fest are invited many months before the nominations season, an impressive 24 Academy Award nominees will be visiting our tony town for the 30th annual festival which kicks off next Tuesday, January 27. Local resident Michael Keaton, who is receiving the Modern Master Award, received his first nomination for Best Actor in Birdman. Also receiving their first nominations were Cinema Vanguard Award recipients Eddie Redmayne 22 – 29 January 2015
Michael Keaton and Eddie Redmayne among impressive roster of Oscar nominees attending the film festival
and Felicity Jones for their performances in The Theory of Everything. Outstanding Performer of the Year honoree, Steve Carell, is also lauded for his turn in Foxcatcher, and Virtuoso honorees JK Simmons for Whiplash and Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl. American Riviera Award honoree Patricia Arquette also received her first nomination, while her co-star Ethan Hawke received his fourth Oscar nod for their performances in Boyhood. Other Oscar nominees who will be feted in Santa Barbara include Artisan honorees Sandra Adair for editing, Bill Corso and Kathrine Gordon for hair and makeup for Foxcatcher, Suzie Davies for production designer on Mr. Turner, Shawn Patterson for his song “Everything is Awesome” from The Lego Movie, Richard King and Mark Weingarten for sound mixing and editing on Interstellar, and four-time Academy Award winner Joe Letteri for visual effects work for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. A bumper crop, indeed... Together Again Former Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry and rocker John Mayer are further fueling rumors that they have rekindled their romance. Almost a year after they split, the dynamic duo have been spotted around Hollywood on romantic dates, including an openly passionate dinner at the oh-so-trendy Sunset Tower Hotel. The twosome ended their on-off relationship in February last year after first starting dating in 2012. They split briefly in March the following year. The pair were seen together at a friend’s home for dinner, but tried to keep a low profile, arriving and leaving separately. John, 37, and former Dos Pueblos High student Katy, 30, have also visited a therapist before giving romance another try for the fourth time, according to Us Weekly. Stay tuned... From East to West Ten talented fellows from the Music Academy of the West have returned
Music Academy of the West fellows with members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Manhattan
home after whirlwind 10-day visit to the Big Apple, part of the inaugural New York Philharmonic Global Academy Program, made up of concerts, rehearsals, and tutelage at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. “It was a resounding success!” says academy president Scott Reed, seen in the photo with actor Alec Baldwin, an orchestra board member and Marge Cafarelli, new academy board chair. Patrick Posey, vice-president of artistic planning and educational programs, says the residency experience – part of an innovative four year partnership – was summed up by violist Matthew Cohen. “In response to the question ‘On a scale of one to ten, how do you feel about your time here?’ He gave the
answer ‘Twenty.’” The academy’s summer festival will feature the orchestra at the Santa Barbara Bowl on August 3. Bravo!.. Lucas Laments He created the iconic double trilogy of epic space films that have earned nearly $2 billion since they first burst on to the big screen in 1977. But George Lucas, who owns a beach house in Carpinteria, has admitted he initially wanted to direct Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which will kick off the third trilogy in the sci-fi franchise when it bows in December. One of the reasons the 70-year-old
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hat do Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes, Hillary Clinton, and Obama all have in common? Answer: Award-wining reporter and writer Bob Woodward has either interviewed and/or written about them extensively. He gave an engaging luncheon talk at the Coral Casino last Friday which was part of the “Moral and Ethical Leadership in the American Presidency” speaker series conducted by Westmont College. Few, if any, reporters have earned the trust of political leaders, the admiration of public or the journalistic/ writing awards like Mr. Woodward (see a list below). Perhaps he is best known for his actions as an investigative reporter, along with Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post, in uncovering the Watergate scandal that was portrayed in the movie and book, All the President’s Men. Consequently, my wife and I felt lucky to obtain tickets early for this sellout event and what follows are some of the insights and impressions I gained from the talk. Pardoning Nixon. Richard Nixon resigned the presidency August 9, 1974, and Gerald Ford who assumed the presidency, pardoned him about 30 days later. Bob Woodward, like many at the time, was aghast and bitter about what appeared to be a despicable act. Many felt a “corrupt bargain” had been made where Nixon would resign in exchange for a Ford pardon. Many also believed (and Ford later concurred) that the pardon was the main reason Ford ended up losing the election to Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Dr. John Burk is a retired Santa Barbara dentist and a longtime Montecito resident Always writing: Bob Woodward at the Coral Casino luncheon
After numerous interviews with Ford, Woodward finally reached a moment 25 years later, something he described as “that moment all reporters wait for”: Ford revealed his heartfelt reason for issuing the pardon. It was because if Nixon was not pardoned, the legal process would have playedout over several years, dragging the country through more of the disgraceful behavior of the ex-president. By giving the pardon, the country was, “Free of Nixon” using Ford’s words. Woodward now admits that he, like many others, was wrong about Ford’s pardon, now viewing it as a healing act. Woodward then said because Ford had, “the courage and wisdom to see and do the greater good for the country,” he was given the John F. Kennedy, Profile in Courage Award in 2001 by Sen. Ted Kennedy. A final vindication for President Ford. Woodward used Ford’s pardon as an example of what is the essence of the job of the presidency, that is, “to find the next path for the greater good of the country” and “to determine what the next overriding idea for the country must be.” His view for what the next president must bring to the 2016
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28 Scientific Lecture After the electron, proton, and neutron, physicists discovered a bewildering array of new and exotic subatomic particles: even subsubatomic particles. How have they made sense of this veritable zoo? Join KITP particle and string theorist Jim Halverson at SOhO Restaurant and Music Club as he chronicles a century of confusion and triumph and gives us a peek at physicists’ latest ideas on Nature’s structures and patterns. When: dinner starts at 5 pm, presentation starts at 6 pm Where: 1221 State Street Info: 962-7776
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more time with his young daughter and wife, Mellody Hobson, who is chairman of the board of directors of Dreamworks Animation, so he decided to step back. “By the time she’s five, she’ll have her own career going, and being in school and talking about her friends and her homework,” he tells USA Today. “The fun, goofy time will fall into place in reality, as opposed to right now when she doesn’t have much else to do but hang out with her father.” George, who is also responsible for the Indiana Jones franchise, said he was looking forward to watching the
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Groovin’ on Space Age Music
Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than ten years.
The album is like your own personal time capsule filtered through your life. Yeah, definitely. I first heard this stuff 50 years ago or more. That’s an amazing lens to be looking through. It’s a good chunk of time to have put in where I’m pretty much thinking about nothing else but music the whole time. So to play it now again, something has happened to it. At least I hope.
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Bill Frisell will be tuned into the Lobero on Monday, January 26
ill Frisell was waiting for a boarding call at an airport gate when he answered the phone earlier this week, and the location seemed quite appropriate given the title of his latest album, Guitars in the Space Age. Nothing seems more akin to the musical era than jet planes whisking us across the country, a concept that was just coming into its own in the late 1950s and early 60s, when most of the guitar-based music on the album was released. Frisell made his bones collaborating with John Zorn, but long ago branched out into ever-expanding circles of sound, delving into songbooks from Charles Ives to Bob Dylan, from rock and blues and Nashville country. This latest project re-imagines such classic songs of the era as the Chantay’s “Pipeline”, Duane Eddy’s “Rebel Rouser”, Link Wray’s “Rumble”, the Byrds’s “Turn, Turn, Turn”, and the Kinks’s”Tired Of Waiting For You”. Frisell returns to the Lobero Theatre on Monday night joined by longtime associate Greg Leisz on electric and pedal steel guitars, and his trio partners Tony Scherr on bass and Kenny Wollesen on drums. Q. You’ve done such a variety of music even over the last few years, often expanding boundaries and genres. What inspired you to make this album now? A. The Lennon thing was kind of a revelation for me. It happened by accident, but then I realized, “Wait a minute, this music has been around and a part of my life the whole way 22 – 29 January 2015
but I’ve never really spent time actually playing it. That got me thinking about all these other songs, all the guitar music that had got me going in the first place, things that had been around my whole life. It was sort of like a research project. For me, it’s not really nostalgia. Of course, I have associations with all of these songs in emotional ways, but mostly I’m trying to firm up the whole foundation of where I’m coming from and learn more. But it’s also been so fun to play that music! Doing the record is a beginning. It’s like a blueprint for what the possibilities are. The music has grown around that. Even when we play the songs from the album live, they’re not just set in stone the way we recorded them. They develop a lot and have opened us up. It feels fresh every time we play them. I was thinking the same thing – that it’s not really nostalgia but a way of moving forward by revisiting the past. So it’s like the opposite of nostalgia. That’s the mystery. That’s what I’m always hoping, that this is current music. When you really study what they were doing, and imagine those moments when you hear one of these songs for the first time... Imagine what Louis Armstrong would sound like if you’d never heard it before. The most radical outrageous thing you’ve ever heard in your life yet still accessible. I’m always thinking about that, trying to find that place, figure that out – when it’s brand-new but still so universal that everyone gets it. I think about that a lot.
How did you choose the songs? It was hard. The amount of great songs is just mind-blowing, so many songs are important, and it’s overwhelming how such long-lasting super-strong music was coming out at that time. Maybe that’s happening now and I’m just so out of touch... I picked things that were super personal to me. The Beach Boys song, “Surfer Girl”, was the first record I ever bought. Surf music was first thing that got me fired-up about the guitar. Others were tributes to a particular guitarist, Merle Travis or Duane Eddy,
or others who were important for the history of the guitar. I could do nothing but this for the rest of my life and never exhaust the possibilities. Given that, I’m wondering why you have two originals on the album. Were you just inspired by going back? I didn’t think of them as being any kind of major or epic works. I was just thinking of interludes. I’d like to think that I can write my own stuff that fits in, or brings it more into the future rather than looking back. I do like to bring more of my own music into this band, but it seems like we always end up with the covers. With all the different sounds of the songs, you only used one guitar. You’ve got lots. Why limit yourself? There just wasn’t a reason to switch around. I was able to get everything I wanted out of that one instrument. There can be too much emphasis put on the equipment. The sound comes more from what’s in your imagination than the guitar or amp or pedals. Would you talk about your partnership with Greg Leisz? You guys really seem to be in sympatico. He’s my guitar brother. We’ve been playing together for so long and in so
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Jay Dee Daugherty with The Loud Band circa 1973: (from left, front row) Kristian Hoffman, Jay Dee Daugherty, David Collert, and Kevin Loud (back row) Michele Loud, Lance Loud, and Delilah Loud (Photo courtesy The Loud Family)
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ay Dee Daugherty, an epic drummer and songwriter widely known for his work in the Patti Smith band, is returning to Santa Barbara on Tuesday, January 22, at the Granada Theatre, the first concert for the Patti Smith band here in 40 years. It has been quite the ride for his career since his days in SB, honing his chops on his drum kit at La Cumbre Junior High and forming the first “punkrock” bands in his teens with his childhood friend David Collert before punk evolved years later. In high school, they hung out with Lance Loud and played in his band, first called the Loud Band, then formally called the Mumps. As Jay shares in my interview with him, Lance’s band was the catalyst that got him to NYC in 1974 and the rest is “his-story.” In addition to being the iconic Patti Smith’s drummer for four decades, Jay has also gigged with Lester Bangs, the New York City No-Wave band Mars, Tom Verlaine, the CBGB’s house band Willie Nile, The Revelons with Fred Smith of Television, The Roches, The Beat, and the Indigo Girls Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum second album, Indigo Girls. As a member of Patti Smith’s group, he has been nominated twice for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He’s looking forward to a packed house at the Granada and performing with Patti and the band for all his family and friends here, his hometown. Q. You mentioned to me that you are excited to be doing a concert with Patti
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Smith in your hometown of SB. Share your feelings about performing where you got your roots and what this means for you. A. I’m lucky enough to be a Santa Barbara native and to have received all the blessings growing up in this paradise entails. One was getting to see all the major rock acts that stopped over between L.A. and San Francisco at Earl Warren Showgrounds in the 60s and 70s. I saw a great bumper sticker: “Yes, we’re old, but we had the best bands.” Right! It was an incredible education in music with substance. Teenage grandiosity aside, I never dreamt I would be able to make music and support the vision of an incredible artist like Patti. I always hoped we would play Santa Barbara one day; it only took 40 years! I saw Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young play at the UCSB stadium and heard former SB resident Crosby address the crowd: “In Santa Barbara High School, they told me I wouldn’t amount to a hill of beans. And here I am: a hill of beans.” I get it. It’s been a long trip to get back to the roots, practicing air drums to the console stereo in my parents’ living room in Mission Canyon to Rolling Stones records, and those first blissful moments of using my first drum set to play Them’s “Gloria” in a garage with my late friend, Swingin’ Dave Collert. I’m still playing “Gloria”! Returning to Santa Barbara to play for the first time is especially poignant after the tragedies I dealt with in 2014. My beloved wife, Christine, died trag-
ically here while we were on vacation last March. My old friend and musical conspirator David Collert passed away visiting New York City, and at the same time I spoke at his memorial at the Coral Casino in October, my brother Doug had a stroke in Nipomo and died shortly thereafter. I brought Christine’s ashes from Santa Barbara to New York, and David’s from New York to Santa Barbara. I don’t know if there’s such a thing as closure, but finally being able to play with Patti in Santa Barbara feels right and is connected to honoring the past and surrendering to the future. At La Cumbre Junior High, you played drums in the marching band and co-created the “punk” bands Weirdo Stud and King Tut and the Space Queers. At that time in your life, what/ who was your inspiration to play drums and where did you dream about going with it? Seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, like so many 11-year-olds, changed my life. It was bye-bye Boy Scouts, sports, and Go Karts, and hello puberty & rock and roll. Great timing, though I’d have to wait for the sex and drugs! Music just exploded then. There were so many great groups that put out so much so often. But I was initially influenced by the British invasion of The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, and especially The Who. Keith Moon’s style could never be duplicated, but it sure was fun trying! It was the perfect outlet for teenage angst and aggression, and individuation from our parents’ generation. Weirdo Stud was my first band, named after a paperback book of my girlfriend Colleen Patten’s dad. It was a rock and blues band featuring David Collert, a guitar prodigy who could hear anything once and play it, and friends Eric Neilsen on bass and Mike Hayden on vocals and harmonica.
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We turned up at the Pershing Park band shell a couple of times for selfstyled love-ins and were shut down by the bemused authorities. Mostly, we played at dances and church basements and one slightly scary place called The Greasy Slough Duck Club, near UCSB. We became disillusioned and David and I started a joke band in 1971 called the most ridiculous name we could think of: King Tut and the Spacequeers. He sang and I played guitar. We played the lamest songs we could think of, like “Judy In Disguise With Glasses” and a few Black Sabbath classics. There were some confrontational proto-punk shenanigans on stage, like insanely loud volume, cross-dressing and simulated sex acts with delicatessen items. Ahead of our time! In her book, Just Kids, Patti Smith talks about her band evolving into a rock and roll band with Lenny Kaye, Richard Sohl and Ivan Kral, “...It was time for the next step. We needed to find another of our own kind, who would not alter but propel, who would be one of us. We ended our high-spirited set with a collective plea, ‘We need a drummer and we know you’re out there.’ He was more than we could imagine. Jay Dee Daugherty... became part of our generation.” How did Patti approach you to be in the band and [what were] your initial feelings about it? If it weren’t for my high school friends Kristian Hoffman and Lance Loud, I would have never gone to New York City. Lance wanted to capitalize on his notoriety as the designated problem child in the PBS series, An American Family, often referred to as the first reality television show and deserving of its own article. I landed in NYC at the perfect time, just when it became “The Place Where It Was All Happening.” CBGB and Max’s Kansas City were just starting to have unsigned bands that oth22 – 29 January 2015
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consider myself a fairly liberal man when it comes to the battle of the sexes. My wife is certainly my equal (apart from bowling and spitting), and she’s my superior during real times of crisis (e.g., when the new drapes arrive and they’re a shade too light). However, I must not be the progressive man I think I am, because two women felt the need to send me the same holiday article about how the night of Jesus Christ’s birth might have gone differently if it involved three wise women instead of three wise men. Below is a copy of the seasonal message.
The iconic Patti Smith with her band (from left): Tony Shanahan, Jay Dee Daugherty, Patti Smith, and Lenny Kaye (Photo courtesy Columbia Records)
erwise couldn’t get arrested – The Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie, Television, and Patti. The first time I saw her play I was mesmerized, and the second time I realized that every performance was different and improvised, and that was mind-blowing. She didn’t have a drummer; it was a rock band waiting for a missing piece – me! It was a very small scene then, her boyfriend Tom Verlaine’s band, Television, had us open for them at CBGB, she saw me, and I patiently waited for an opportunity to sit in and after an agonizing wait while she auditioned, scads of other candidates got the chance to rehearse and a few days later was invited to join the band. A few weeks later we were gigging with Bob Dylan attending, and then recording an album, Horses, at Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios. It was beyond a dream come true. What, for you, are the musical keys that drive the compositions with the Patti Smith band? Every song evolves in its own way according to the writers. Patti increasingly writes complete songs on her own, but another way is that she might hear one of us might play a musical fragment that catches her ear, and that will get developed further and massaged into a song. Sometimes we come to her with a piece of music that has a skeleton structure or melody line, and she’ll make it her own. Because it’s rather difficult to demo a song from behind a drumkit, I make demos at home, play them for her, and if she likes it the band will rehearse it into shape. Everything is tailored to support her artistic voice and her vision of how a song should be. On Patti’s 11th studio album Banga, released June 2012, you wrote the song “Mosaic” and play a mandola. Tell us about the composition and your choice of the instrument. 22 – 29 January 2015
A mandola is a bigger and lower pitched cousin of a mandolin. There’s a lot of guitar players in this band! Like everybody else! If I want to contribute in the stringed world, another voice is necessary. Most of the music I’ve contributed, for what it’s worth, usually comes to me in the space between dreams and wakefulness, the hypnagogic state. I’ll wake up with an idea, fall out of bed, grab an instrument, and turn on a recorder quick before it disappears back into the song ether. We used my demo of “Mosaic” as the bed for that song, played live over it, and kept some of the original track. Like many drummers, I’m a closet guitarist. Besides the mandola, I added some acoustic and electric guitars, a boon I’m granted occasionally on some of my song contributions. I like my little guitar solo on “Trespasses”, but it does make one a little nervous to try and inhabit the same space as Tom Verlaine and Lenny Kaye. Can you mention the song highlights for this tour stop in SB? The sets are different every night, cooked fresh before we go onstage. We stay away from formulas and don’t let anything get stale, although there will probably a few songs people would expect to hear. This is not an oldies act, we do not play by rote or role. I’m playing for my life every time we go on. Patti is an incandescent presence onstage, even more so than the first time I saw her perform at Max’s Kansas City in 1974. She’s different every time you see her, but always on •MJ fire. She’s the real deal. 411: Patti Smith and her band Tuesday, January 27, 8 pm at Granada Theatre Presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures Tickets/Info: www.ArtsandLectures. UCSB.edu or (805) 893-3535
Three Wise Women would have asked directions, arrived on time, helped deliver the baby, brought practical gifts, cleaned the stable, made a casserole, and there would have been peace on earth. This seems like blatant sexism to me, and I for one am tired of men being portrayed as ignorant buffoons who have to get naked to count to 21. And I’m not alone. Two renowned national Men’s organizations – MASS (Men Against Stereotypical Sexism) and MWCFTKITRWTWH (Men Who Can’t Find The Ketchup In the Refrigerator Without Their Wife’s Help) – have combined resources and hired me to refute this holiday piece. So, I channeled my favorite chauvinist, Charles Bukowski, and came up with the following: Three Wise Women would have asked directions Only a woman would need directions even with a big-ass star pointing the way. arrived on time Only if there were no outlet malls along the way. helped deliver the baby Because they could never just stand back and watch a wondrous event without sticking their nose in it. brought practical gifts If you consider flowers or a candle more practical than gold. cleaned the stable If they were really wise, they would have persuaded Joseph to clean the stable by dangling the possibility of a Costco hotdog for dinner (my wise woman uses this method affectionately). made a casserole Probably gluten-free. and there would have been peace on Earth. Yeah, right. There aren’t a lot of examples to pick from, because for so long women stayed home to clean the stable and make casseroles, but a few “peaceful” names come to mind: Boudica, Golda Meir, Margaret
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. – Buddha
It’s difficult to determine whether Jim Alexander is a wiseacre or a wise man, particularly when it comes to analyzing how the evening of Jesus Christ’s birth would be a different story if Three Wise Women had been involved.
Thatcher, Solange Knowles. How’s that for sexist, Sweetie? Look, there’s no denying that men have ruled the world in the past and we’ve made a mistake or two (World War I and disco come to mind), but I’m not convinced women would’ve done better. If you need proof that women are just as messed up as men, all you have to do is turn on the Bravo! network. Having said that, I think women do deserve a chance at being in charge, and I’m certainly willing to give them a shot. I decided to conduct a survey of my many female friends and ask them what they’d change if they woke up tomorrow and it was suddenly “A Woman’s World.” Several wanted to abolish the NFL. Not a good idea if you ask me. Beer and potato chip sales would plummet, sending the economy (and me) into a deep depression. Two of them agreed that the bald eagle shows bad moral character and thought we should change our national bird to the titmouse. One of my female friends declared she’d change the expression “As American as mom, baseball, and apple pie” to “As American as mom, figure skating, and Vanilla acai parfait.” Many of my women friends surveyed thought something had to be done about parallel parking – either make all cars so they could do it automatically, or make parallel parking spaces six feet longer. Several thought grocery stores should have a shoe department. None of the females surveyed were happy with our current national anthem, and they seemed evenly split as to what song they’d prefer as our country’s official hymn, with Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman” getting 51 percent of the vote, and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” getting another 51 percent (women are notoriously bad at math). In contrast, most men believe our national anthem should be Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild.” Finally, 100 percent of women surveyed were a bit embarrassed to admit that they liked being referred to as “Sexy Pants.” Needless to say, and as a disclaimer, I’d like to state that all females in this survey were a product of my imagination and this piece was written tongue-in-cheek. Nevertheless, when my wife reads it, I’ll be eating Top Ramen for a month. •MJ
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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 22) Seated: Tom Cusak, Pat Gregory, and Carrie Ohly-Cusack with “Movies That Matter “evening commentators Reverend Mark Asman and Hal Conklin (photo by Priscilla)
On stage at the Granada Theatre is Hal Conklin, presenter of “Movies That Matter”, with the Reverend Mark Asman in an interview discussion about the movie Invictus (photo by Priscilla)
Looking forward to the movie based on John Carlin’s book Playing the Enemy are Kate Kurlas, Roger Chrisman, Sarah Chrisman, and Craig Springer (photo by Priscilla)
Dan Burnham, Roberta Griffin, Michael Annese, and Caren Rager enjoying the pre-reception before viewing the film Invictus and Nelson Mandela’s presidential leadership (photo by Priscilla)
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tation are the result of three-dimensional people living in a four-dimensional universe. Space/time continuum does exist only in the Fourth Dimension, where time actually slows down when one is moving at high frequencies. One doesn’t age and there’s only One Reality (i.e. Unity Consciousness). There’s a small window of opportunity, now that the world is at full attention. I can see two major bifurcated paths available to us: Plan A: Huge escalations in global warfare in retaliation of the attack on our freedom of speech and liberty (very déja vu). Shakespeare said: “There is no good or bad. Only our thinking makes it so.” Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Or, Plan B: Ordinary citizens of the world unite and band together, as now, in massive numbers, taking a leap of faith that if a critical mass of enlightened people all raise their voice together as one to shout: “Enough already! Give peace a chance,” that peace could actually prevail and endure if enough of us truly want it. Let’s choose wisely this time. Leslie Nelson Montecito
News from Rosetta’s Pond
Aunt Theda, the present steelhead matriarch of the pond, came out of a three-hour grok with our friend in the swing, and swam this song in the wake of her tale. “While searching with a mouthful of friends for that taste of my roar, the winds have blown open Huxley’s leg-
endary doors and beheld epiphanies galore. Got a glimpse of God’s lips puckered up with passion, Pulling open my chest and kissing goodbye the visiting sores. Gossip is, She’s usually OK with letting humans play with the stuff in Her store. Her mission with us almost completed, to rid our ponds of machinating whores. And with a full moon in flight, floating above the Butterfly sand, hand in hand we silently soar. Ain’t afraid to sigh no more. Ain’t afraid to cry no more. Wow! Ain’t afraid to die no more, no more, no more.” Aunt Theda’s sister Harriet Rosetta said in 1937: “Humans are strange living things.” Bill Dalziel Montecito Creek
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A drop in the bucket. Locally, our recent rainfall totaled 7.40 inches. It will take a lot more than a few storms to make up for the past 4 years.
Sunset at Butterfly
If you were around at sunset on January 9 and didn’t go down to the beach or at least outside, you missed one of Santa Barbara’s most glorious sunsets in a long time. The rows of billowing clouds were striated by gentle winds high in the sky. As the more red than golden ball of sun dropped below the horizon, the colorful display not only attracted hundreds of onlookers but also spurred spontaneous applause and gasps of wonder. It was a real treat. I took this photo with my iPhone and, though it doesn’t do it complete justice, should give you an idea of what it was like. Christine Merrick •MJ Montecito
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SEEN (Continued from page 16) SBCO executive director Kevin Marvin, Lisa and Dr. Richard Ross from the board
Karayan Wilbur with SBCO board member Don Lafler and Mahri Kerley at the supper club.
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Conductor and music director Heiichiro Ohyama performed Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, not often done in a single concert. Ohyama and the orchestra were thrilled to have a full house, the first time ever. They strive to perform a well-known repertoire including music written in this century. Conducting student Jeffrey Evans founded the SBCO in 1978. Since then, current and past musicians have been heard in many places like the New York Philharmonic, Saint Louis Symphony, Los Angeles Opera and Philharmonic, plus Pacific Symphony and our own Santa Barbara Symphony.
Best Impressions
Im-pres-sion (n): A mark produced on a surface by pressure. And so the
Arts Fund Gallery had a room full of impressions – works by 10 artist members of the Santa Barbara Printmakers who were awarded top prizes in recent universities, galleries, and printmaking organizations in our area. These artists are: David Graves, Yessy Kim, Ines Monguio, Jerilynne Nibbe, Patti Post, Karen Schroeder, Garrett Speirs, Don Zimmerman, Siu Zimmerman, and Pamela ZwehlBurke. They were gathered together for the opening reception of their exhibit. Among the patrons attending were Chris Emmons, and Bonnie and Jon Hendricks. The curator was Don Zimmerman, who is also president of the Printmakers organization. The artists are dedicated to producing fine art prints using etching, woodblock, collagraph, linocut, clay, lithography and
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solar plate processes. They put their marks on paper by hand and press printing focusing on a wide range of expressions and techniques. The exhibition opened with a reception at the Arts Fund Gallery, which is in the heart of the Funk Zone at 205-C Santa Barbara Street. I love the paint job on their building which looks like paint spilling over the sides of a can – truly clever. Brad Nack is the executive director of the Arts Fund, which was established as a nonprofit in 1983. They create, fund and administer programs
that foster the arts for the people of our county. You may know of them for their Teen Arts Mentorship Program that matches promising high school students with professional mentors in various workshops representing all the cultural arts. The gallery has been around since 2001. It has morphed into six professionally crafted shows per year. Gallery sales and private donations keep the wheels turning. This exhibit will continue through February, so call 965-7321 for the hours. Your support is much appreciated. •MJ
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Water costing $2,200 per acre foot (AF) translates to a cost of 3/5 of a penny per gallon, extremely inexpensive compared to the cost of commercially purchased bottled water. Half of desalination costs are spent driving seawater through reverse osmosis (RO) membranes to remove salt and other impurities. Cut energy costs to cut desal costs. Cut permitting costs, and desal costs come down even more.
Beware the State Water Debacle
Montecito residents made a bad bet in the 1990s, ignoring those who warned against relying on state water as an emergency provider in times of drought. In recent times, the State Water Project had a total of 29 million AF of available water and yet had promised a total of 154 million AF to various California users. Montecito and its fellow South Central communities possess only junior water rights. Last year, when needed most, the State Water Project delivered less than 10 percent of Montecito’s 2,900 AF allotment. Governor Brown wants MWD to double-down and help fund his new $24-billion Twin Tunnels project, which will not produce a single drop of new water, but merely reroute Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta water to agricultural farmers and the huge Metropolitan Water District, serving 1.4 million customers in Los Angeles and the users in Kern County. This is a highly questionable solution to meet Montecito’s long-term water needs at an affordable price.
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The Desalination Component
This month, the Orange County Water District voted to enter negotiations with a private firm to buy 56,000 AFY of desalinated seawater under a long-term water purchase/sales agreement. A Citizens’ Project Participants Committee was formed to work with the special districts on costing and funding. Montecito has insufficient wastewater to meet all its needs for water independence. Eleven desalination plants have already been built and another 16 are proposed along the California coast. Israel has transformed itself from a parched desert into a land of water surplus. Today, desalination plants in Israel produce 486,400 acre feet of water, or more than half that country’s total freshwater needs. In addition, Israel treats and recycles more than 80 percent of household wastewater, the highest recapture rate in the world.
A Positive Vision
What’s needed now is for all parties to craft and cost an innovative benchmark solution for a joint wastewater treatment and desalination facility on the Montecito Sanitary District site. Creating the benchmark is a 90-day process. Cindy Feinberg, incoming president of the Montecito Association, has proposed the formation of a new Water Security Sub-Committee, as an additional participant in the process. Environmental groups, such as Heal the Ocean, also deserve a seat at the table. A properly constructed model will serve as a benchmark to determine financial feasibility and the impact on ratepayers. As importantly, a fully costed solution provides a yardstick to compare alternatives, such as a joint effort with the City of Santa Barbara or Carpinteria. What is needed, in conclusion, is a broad coalition of people, receptive to new ideas, with a goal of guaranteeing a sufficient and reliable water supply for Montecito, rain or no rain, at an affordable cost. •MJ
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by Luisa Cameron
Learning French from Bénédicte (and always avoiding speaking English during a session) are twins Madeleine and George Nicks
Ms Cameron is a junior at Laguna Blanca High School. Her interests are writing, filmmaking, and everything French. Her grandfather was the late artist and best-selling author Barnaby Conrad.
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petite woman with engaging brown eyes smiles and greets me in French. “Bonjour!” she says, “Ça va?” We are in my dining room, and flashcards are spread out on the table along with board games, colored pencils, and CDs. I’m six years old, it is my second lesson, and I don’t really know the lady my parents have hired to teach me, but for some reason I feel comfortable with her and less nervous than I do around other adults. I shyly reply with the phrase she had taught me a week before, “Oui, ça va. Et toi?” “Très bien, merci, Luisa!” She responds, and we begin our lesson. I started learning French with Bénédicte Wolfe when I was a first grader. I am now 16 and grateful to say my lessons with her have made me a fluent French speaker. Having worked in education for over 20 years, Bénédicte is not your conventional teacher – she’s a mentor, a mother, a friend. Recognized around Montecito, her daily routine involves hopping from house to house, from student to student. Born and raised in Normandy, Bénédicte enjoyed her childhood in the French countryside until she moved to London at age 17 to study English at Hammersmith College. From London, she went to Paris, where she continued her studies and worked for a few years. Then, her desire to explore the world brought her to California in 1989. She started in San Francisco, moved to Los Angeles, and finally, in 1993, found a happy medium in Santa Barbara. “After living in many big cities,” says Bénédicte, “I wanted to be close to the ocean and surrounded by nature. I realized this was the perfect place to raise my two sons (Ben, 24, and Enzo, 22).”
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Bénédicte starts her day teaching high schoolers at Garden Street Academy, a private K-12 school that focuses on project-based learning. The school is located at the former St. Anthony’s seminary, next to the Mission: “I love the school, because the class size is very small, allowing every student to participate” says Bénédicte. “It’s rewarding because I can see the progress they all make.” Yet Bénédicte’s teaching is not limited to the classroom; she regularly brings her students into the school’s kitchen to experiment with French cuisine. It is not uncommon to hear her empha-
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Bénédicte Wolfe (back) and her star pupil Luisa Cameron (photo credit: CAMERONMEDIA/David Cameron)
sizing the importance of enjoying food and eating well while making tartes aux poireaux. “My goal is to spark the curiosity of learning in my students,” says Bénédicte. “I’m fortunate because all the people I work with are so motivated by a desire to learn French.” Her youngest client is four years old and her oldest is 88, a Casa Dorinda resident, proving that when Bénédicte is your teacher, age doesn’t matter. As for her teenage students, she helps them with their weekly homework, explaining what they did not understand in class, as well as giving them a chance for one-on-one conversation. They have a history of getting top scores on the French AP exam, as well as impressive results from the French SAT.
French Lessons
It’s Tuesday, the day of my weekly lesson, and Bénédicte arrives at my house with a special treat: croissants! We sit down to begin our lesson, happily eating the pastries. She pulls out a book from her bag and hands it to me. “Bonjour Tristesse – I think you will like it.” When I study with Bénédicte, I don’t feel like I’m studying. There are no monotonous tests, no repetitive workbooks, no meaningless exercises. Conversation is her preferred method of teaching, and it works. We talk about everything: old French songs, the food in Normandy, interesting verbs, books we’ve read, movies we’ve seen, my future goals, her funniest stories, the drama at high school... anything, as long as there’s
Enjoying a little Champagne during a French group get-together are (from left) Elizabeth Slaught, Kendall Conrad, Kimberly Hayes, Bénédicte Wolfe, and Carolyn Miller
no English. She helped me maintain straight As, receive a top score on the AP Exam, and she even connected me with a family in Biarritz, France. I’ve been able to travel there every summer to stay with this family; a dream come true for every young Francophile. One afternoon, I accompany Bénédicte to meet some of her students. Our first stop is the atelier of local artist Elizabeth Slaught. We are seated in Elizabeth’s studio, and she is showing us her new paintings. “Bénédicte is a very special person,” Elizabeth tells me. “She’s a devoted teacher, a fabulous friend, and not to mention one-hundred-percent French with great style!” Elizabeth first met Bénédicte when her daughter and son began taking French lessons in 2006. When her children left for college, Elizabeth kept Bénédicte as her own tutor, and that is when Bénédicte’s passion for teaching really inspired her. “Bénédicte always brings new challenges when she feels that I am ready for them,” comments Elizabeth. “We translate musical lyrics, read poetry, and I keep a journal written in French, which she corrects when needed. She integrates all forms of the language to test me, and I love it.” Since all three of us are interested in art, our conversation naturally turns to our favorite French artists: Manet,
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse. While we are talking, Bénédicte takes notes of new words and phrases for Elizabeth to remember. After a few hours, we say à bientôt to Elizabeth. We will meet again tonight, as it is the monthly meeting of Bénédicte’s French Club; the members of the club are a group of Montecito women who come together to speak French over a nice meal. But for now, we make our way to the next students. They are 11-year oldtwins and refer to Bénédicte endearingly as “Madame Wolfe.” George and Madeleine Nicks, fifth graders at Laguna Blanca School, started taking lessons with Bénédicte two years ago. “I like Madame Wolfe because she teaches at a good pace; she doesn’t go too fast or too slow,” says George. I watch as they laugh while playing their favorite French game, “Le Jeu de L’Oie.” Next on the agenda is learning a new song, then the trio might make crêpes. “My favorite French word that Madame Wolfe taught me is chauvesouris, which is a bat” says Madeleine. “Chauve means bald, and souris means mouse, so it literally translates to bald mouse!” Soon, Madeleine and George’s lesson will be over, and Bénédicte will say au revoir, taking her Mary Poppins bag of treasures with her. But don’t worry – she’ll be back next week with more knowledge to share. •MJ 22 – 29 January 2015
Music, Art, & Aging
by Dean Mars
This issue’s article was contributed by Rita Hortenstine, an advocate for persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers for 16 years. She is a governor Rick Perry appointee to the Texas Council on Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders.
The Alzheimer’s Factor
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ew Year’s marks the calendar for resolutions, and for millions of Americans, healthier habits are at the top of their list. Inevitably, for many, their resolutions fail even with the best strategized, disciplined intentions. However, for baby boomers, incorporating a heart-healthy program may be incentivized with a value-added benefit. A growing body of evidence suggests that what is good for the heart is also good for the brain. Because our brain is comprised of a vast and rich network of blood vessels that nourish the brain, controlling risks factors for vascular disease can also provide a doubling effect. Dr. Sandi Chapman, founder of the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas, Dallas, notes that though “the rapid advancement of technology has us living longer than ever before, for many, our physical health has outpaced our mental capacity.” 2014 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figure indicates that one in eight of those 65 years of age will develop Alzheimer’s, and that statistic increases to nearly one in two of those who are 80 and older. Whereas the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer’s is advancing age, Alzheimer’s is not normal aging. Every time we lose a key or forget a name, there is a silent fear of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The fact is, this disease will affect nearly everyone either directly or indirectly. Dementia represents the ultimate loss of both memory and normal life function. Research is indicating that the brain changes of Alzheimer’s may begin 20 years or more before symptoms appear. “With the aging of the world’s largest generation, this disease will grow to epidemic proportions, bankrupting our social services along with individual family finances. Adding to this news, despite the rapidly growing prevalence of AD and its related costs, which are expected to dominate medical care by 2030, progress in the development of Alzheimer therapeutics has been unacceptably slow” says Dr. Ken Kosik, co-director of the Neuroscience Research Institute UCSB. He adds, “currently over five million Americans suffer from AD, and that number is expected to more than double by 2050. There have been no new drug approvals since 2003. In total, only four FDAapproved AD drugs are on the market, and these drugs treat the symptoms of the disease but do not alter its course,” he concludes. “During this time, we are spending upwards of $200 billion per year to care for those afflicted with the disease.”
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Reworking Your New Year’s Resolutions On a positive note, 30 years ago we knew very little about Alzheimer’s. It was not until president Ronald Reagan penned his famous letter that Alzheimer’s became a household word. Consequently since that time, science has made important technological diagnostic advancements. Most importantly, many scientists and physicians are now working together to untangle the genetic, biological, and environmental factors that – over many years – ultimately result in Alzheimer’s. This effort will hopefully bring us closer to better managing and, ultimately, preventing this debilitating disease. Also, state programs are being put in place to assist people living with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. NIH (National Institutes of Health) has increased funding, albeit a minuscule amount. The fact remains there is little positive news and until the federal government decides to get serious about Alzheimer’s Disease and fund at the billion dollar levels, as with cancer, heart, HIV/AIDS and diabetes, progress will remain excruciatingly slow. Until that time, if you are 65 or older and reworking your New Year’s resolution, recommendation might include the following: • Maintain a heart-healthy diet, such as following a Mediterranean-type regimen that is low in saturated fats, high in omega-3 fatty acids (from fish), high in colorful vegetables and fruits, low in foods with sugar, and moderate consumption of wine • Maintain a regular physical activity program • Maintain brain and social engagement – additional studies suggest activities that are intellectually challenging and developing strong social networks – can maintain brain function better, even in the presence of brain disease • Reduce factors leading to heart and vascular disease such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, and tobacco use • Avoid high levels of chronic stress • Get restful sleep Mr. Mars heads up an art program at the Friendship Adult Day Care Center (89 Eucalyptus Lane; 969-0859) and suggests that his program “can be just the right tonic for mental stimulation, for providing social engagement to enhance optimum cognitive brain performance, and just plain fun!” •MJ
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many different situations. Doing this album with him was natural, because we both grew up during that same time period. There’s a huge unspoken understanding, which makes it a lot more fun. And I can’t end this without asking you about playing at the Lobero. It seems to be a favorite venue for you. I love that place. These old theaters are like musical instruments that should be preserved, and the Lobero is especially wonderful. So I’m very thankful that’s it still there.
Magical Realism in Paradise
It may seem like a regular intersection when you’re traveling on the San Marcos Pass toward the Santa Ynez Valley, but 154 & Paradise is actually a left turn. At least that’s what it represents for Gerald DiPego, the author of the new play by that name that has its world premiere at Center Stage Theater January 23-February 1. After four decades as a screenwriter whose credits include a slew of hits (Sharky’s Machine, Phenomenon, Message in a Bottle, Instinct, Angel Eyes, and The Forgotten) DiPego has re-focused his attention to writing plays. The transition came about gradually, after he moved up to the valley back in 1998. “I began backing away from film and writing short stories,” DiPego said over the phone late last week. “Then I tried a few theater pieces, and they were so easy to put on because I had a few actor friends who were happy to do it.” But the big impetus was signing up for an acting class – the first in his life – with Peter Frisch, the executive director of the Granada Theatre during its renovation and an experienced acting teacher and director with more than 150 plays and other productions to his credit. “I was much too shy for most of my life, too self-conscious for that kind of thing,” DiPego explained. “I observed acting all my life, but I didn’t know what I was doing when I’d read the narrations of my theater pieces. I thought maybe I should figure it out rather than just wing it. It’s been very freeing.” It also connected him with Frisch, whose Producing Unit company is mounting 154 & Paradise with Frisch at the helm. The story – which has been described as part Twilight Zone, part Six Characters in Search of an Author, and part 12 Angry Men – concerns the co-workers, friends, and family of a man named Henry who have all been summoned to an investigation of his accidental death at the intersection of Route 154 and Paradise Road. An investigator known as “Examiner”
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grills them, eliciting details about Henry’s life and death; the revelations are enticing and surprising, and eventually we learn how the characters and lives are intertwined. For DiPego, it was the simple structure that formed the original basis for the story. “It started with a physical image,” he explained. “I wanted to write a strong theater piece that could be staged so simply that it becomes all about the story and the people. I envisioned this semicircle of chairs facing one person who is investigating something. And while I playing around with that, there was yet another accident on the pass and I put it all together.” But even if it’s in another genre, 154 & State doesn’t actually represent that big of a departure for DiPego, as the play’s character and setting aren’t quite what they initially seem, a magical realism premise akin to his favorite of his films, Phenomenon. The author readily admits he’s inexorably drawn to the inexplicable. “It really does talk to me. I’ve been fascinated by that since I was a kid. I like surprises that aren’t built into our normal world. And I like that there are no rules and no boundaries.” Theater production does have its structure, however, even if it’s not as collaborative a medium as movies, where directors are notorious for making radical changes to a script, and even excluding the screenwriter from the set. “There’s always a collaboration, but it’s a lot more polite on the stage,” DiPego said. “Seriously, though, there’s so much more built-in respect for the word on the stage, and Peter has been great. If he finds his actors having trouble with a speech, he’ll ask if there’s any way I can trim it, or if his idea is okay. Nothing is being changed that I don’t approve of. It’s a very good system. It’s thrilling to see my vision come to life on the stage, but he’s working his magic, too.” The characters in 154 & Paradise undergo their own transformation as a result of their interactions, however unusual, which is another of DiPego’s favorite themes. “It’s about the power of human contact,” he said. “Each meeting, each intersection, every day, the people we come in contact with or interact with. It’s important. It carries weight. Sometimes we don’t realize that. We are all connected. Our contacts with other people are what I call in the play the sublime chance.” DiPego said he hopes that audiences take away the same lesson that Henry’s colleagues – who are portrayed by some of the region’s top actors including Rich Hoag, Leslie Story, Ivy Vahanian, Bill Egan, Kathy Marden, Ian Cummings, John Brindle, Edward Romine, and
Katherine Bottoms – are forced to consider: “We’re all responsible for ourselves, but there is a lot of power in our dealings with other people that we don’t even realize or understand. Even small, quick intersections can have a profound impact. “I want people to think about that. Think about tomorrow. Who are you going to meet? Who will cross your path? What will you say? What will you do?” If it all sounds like something that would make a good movie, don’t hold your breath. DiPego has no desire to write the screenplay version of 154 & Paradise. “I’m backing away from film and making my life more peaceful,” he said. “I may have already written my last one. My agent has a couple of scripts that might get placed. But I’m not writing movies anymore. I like writing plays as plays. And I know I’ll get to prose and short stories and novellas. But even when (making a) film is going well, there’s a lot more stuff going on that I don’t want to deal with anymore. I think I’m finished.”
SBIFF Unspools
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) turns 30 this year, and the milestone comes with the fest’s first expansion since its early years. An extra day has been added, but it also starts two days earlier, meaning opening night is this Tuesday, January 27 when the Arlington hosts the U.S. premiere of Desert Dancer, while the fest closes on Saturday, February 7, with the stateside premiere of McFarland, which stars Santa Barbara resident Kevin Costner, also at the Arlington. In between we’ll see and hear from a slew of Oscar nominees, including eight of the 20 actors and actresses, plus directors, screenwriters, and producers of 2014’s top films and new tribute to “Artisans”, the below-theline talent that rarely get recognized. Lots of locals are in on the act, mostly in the shorts and documentary areas, which are part of the more than 200 films that will screen over the 11 days, including at least one free screening every day, a new addition. We’ll have much more in next week’s issue, but for now it’s time to get online and pore over the schedule to make your plans for what to see and when, and the festival is sure to be as crowded as ever in marking three decades of celebrating cinema.
Focus on Film
It’s more than prudent to put other film screenings on hiatus during SBIFF, as any movie fan – cinephile or otherwise – will be more than sated during the 11-day festival. But that doesn’t mean they won’t be screening
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something right up until the eve of SBIFF. Cowspiracy, which examines the environmental impact that large-scale factory farming has on the planet, actually screens twice locally this week: 4 pm Thursday, January 22 at Antioch University’s Community Hall as part of the ongoing environmental film screening series, and again at 3:30 pm Saturday at the Montecito Association. Five Friends, which screens Saturday at 7 pm at Center of the Heart, is a timely film about male bonding that captures the intimate relationships of a 65-year-old man and his friends as they reflect on their lives together, support each other in personal struggle, and mine the depths of meaningful friendship. Covering such subjects as success, conflict, marriage, divorce, fatherhood, children and dying, the men reveal their fears and dreams to one another in a profound exploration of vulnerability and transparency. Sociologist Michael Kimmel intersperses commentary amid the storytelling in the documentary, directed by Erik Santiago. UCSB’s Pollock Theater hosts a Cinema Society-style evening featuring Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, a 2014 film that fell through the cracks, receiving no love from Oscar and middling reviews from critics. Based on the hit play of the same name by Richard Alfieri (who also wrote the screenplay), the movie tells the story of a formidable Florida retiree (played by the all-too-rarely seen Gena Rowlands) who hires a acerbic gay dance instructor (Cheyenne Jackson) to give her private dance lessons at her home, and discovers that the antagonistic relationship blossoms into a friendship as thepair learns tolerance and acceptance. Alfieri, director Arthur Allan Seidelman (who also helmed the original 2003 Broadway production), and associate producer Simon Miller will conduct a Q&A session with the audience following the free screening, which takes place Sunday, January 25 at 2. The Granada Theatre’s Elmer Bernstein Memorial film series curated by Paul Williams offers its second event on Monday at 7 pm. The Great Escape – the 1963 film set in a German POW camp that made Steve McQueen a star – screens on the theater’s new 4K digital system, after which Williams, the veteran hitmaker and singer-songwriter (“We’ve Only Just Begun”, “Evergreen”) who is also president of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers), will lead a discussion surrounding the impact of the music by the late film composer Bernstein, who lived for decades •MJ in Montecito. 22 – 29 January 2015
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discussed during the event. The mixer starts at 5:30 pm; proof of residency and/or a business card showing ownership on the road is required for entry.
Santa Barbara Coast Volleyball Club’s 14s team, which finished number one out of 56 Southern California teams during a recent three-day qualifier (photo courtesy John Stegall)
SB Coast Volleyball Club Celebrates Victory
Montecito volleyball coach David Rottman says he could not be more proud of Santa Barbara Coast Volleyball Club, whose “14s” boys team just finished number one out of 56 Southern California teams during
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Steve Ruggles of Montecito Sports, which closed last year after 39 years in business
and Butterfly Beach on his dog walks, says the transition from brick and mortar shops to online ordering about 15 years ago was tough, but the business kept up, and began fielding and shipping web orders, especially with UGG brand footwear, one of their most popular lines. Montecito Sports was an original tenant of the shopping center, joined by Antoinette Boutique and also the Read ‘N’ Post, before its relocation in 2013. Ruggles’s decision to close the shop after nearly four decades did not come easy and was due to a number of factors, he said. The center is home to Sakana, Occhiali, Blenders in the Grass, Antoinette, Vons Pharmacy, Starbucks, and now, Chasen. Chasen is open Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm, and Sundays noon to 5 pm. For more information, call 845-6186.
Coast Village Business Association Mixer
Next Wednesday, January 28, Coast Village Business Association (CVBA) will host a mixer at Montecito Inn. The event is open to Coast Village Road and Coast Village Circle business owners, as well as residents who live in the immediate area. The purpose of the mixer is to kick off the re-launch of CVBA, which over the past few years has been mostly inactive, due to lack of participation. A few new business owners have recently joined the group (Katie Gaspar of Gaspar Jewelry and Dani Leholm of Dani Boy, among others), in hopes of a resurgence. “This is the opportunity for residents and business owners to meet and bring back the Association,” Leholm tells us. The CVBA has recently launched a new website promoting the business district, which will be 22 – 29 January 2015
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PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 3, 2015, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider recommendations from the Historic Landmarks Commission that the following resources be designated as City Landmarks:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:
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Joseph Knowles Mural at 38 West Victoria Street (formerly known as 34 West Victoria Street along the 1200 block of Chapala Street), Assessor’s Parcel No. 039-610-014;
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You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. On Thursday, January 29, 2015, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, February 3, 2015, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Most Popular, click on Council Agenda Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.santabarbaraca.gov: Point to Government, point to City Hall, and click on Mayor & City Council; click on City Council Meetings, City Council Meeting Videos, and then click on the Video link for the meeting date. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange. /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager January 21, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Resilience Personal Training, 5681 Hollister Ave., Room 14B, Goleta, CA 93117. Kevin Long, 6261 Marlborough Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 14, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 20150000148. Published January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Her Grace, Barbra, Duchess of Guernsey; Her Grace, Virginia, Dowager, Duchess of Guernsey, 2707 Glendessary Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. David C. Agnew, 2707 Glendessary Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk
of Santa Barbara County on January 8, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 20150000079. Published January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OM Sweet Mama, 3952 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Aida Robana, 3952 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Richard Wayman, 3952 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 13, 2015. 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. 20150000134. Published January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2015.
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BID NO. 5370 DUE DATE & TIME: February 12, 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M. SEVEN NEW 2014 HYBRID SEDAN VEHICLES Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Heating & Air, 5700 Via Real #42, Carpinteria, CA 93103. Joseph William Clemens, 5700 Via Real #42, Carpinteria, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 14, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 20150000152. Published January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pirate Racing & Design, 4138 Vista Clara Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Wayne E Bloxham III, 4138 Vista Clara Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 7, 2015. 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. 20150000061. Published January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Golf Rite Products LLC, 929 Alston Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Golf Rite Products LLC, 929 Alston Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the
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County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 6, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 20150000040. Published January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: At Your Service Documents; Your Docs Served!, PO Box 1011, Nipomo, CA 93444. Tyler Gross, 937 Camino Caballo, Nipomo, CA 93444. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 2, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Deborah Sanchez. FBN No. 20150000012. Published January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sight Surgery International, 1485 East Valley Road Suite D, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Neurological Health International, 1485 East Valley Road Suite D, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 6, 2015. 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)
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by Miriam Leon. FBN No. 20150000054. Published January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Studio 8, 3 E De La Guerra, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Brent Sumner, 3 E De La Guerra, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 7, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 20150000070. Published January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AYM Arroyo Arabians, 1559 Edison Street, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. KLF Ventures, LLC, 1329 Cheyenne Lane, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 18, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 20140003518. Published January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Famous Bail Bonds, 836 Anacapa St. #2279 Santa Barbara, CA 93102. Famous Bail Bonds INC., 836 Anacapa St. #2279 Santa Barbara, CA 93102. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 5, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. Original FBN No. 2014-0001521. Original Filing Date: 5/22/2014. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Physiophyx, 1482 East Valley Rd #235, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Athletes for Athletes, LLC, 1482 East Valley Rd #235, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 9, 2014. This statement expires
five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2014-0003421. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Images by Valerie, 3940 Maricopa Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Valerie Villa, 3940 Maricopa Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 22, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0003542. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Chill Strategic Parnters, 619 Calle Rinconada, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Kathy Chil, Inc., 619 Calle Rinconada, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 18, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2014-0003520. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Keep U Safe, 107 Nopalitos Way Box 4815, Santa Barbara, CA 93140. Joel Ruderman, 345 Kellogg Way, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 12, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2014-0003459. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ambassador of Reigning Beauty & Relaxation, 513 Andromeda Drive, Vandenberg Village, CA 93436. Jeannette Marie Sackett, 513 Andromeda Drive, Vandenberg Village, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December
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22, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2014-0003546. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.
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 Mayra Andrade. FBN No. 2014-0003471. Published December 24, 2014, January 7, 14, 21, 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cinnies, 209 W. Haley St Apt #4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Katie Belanger, 209 W. Haley St Apt #4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 30, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2014-0003586. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 999 Spa, 5733 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117. Yong Liu, 5733 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 25, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 20140003326. Published December 24, 2014, January 7, 14, 21, 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Merci to Go, 1024-G Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. E & S Colling, LLC, 1385 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 16, 2014. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN No. 2014-0003493. Published December 24, 2014, January 7, 14, 21, 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dawn Family Partnership LP, 319 Loma Media Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Bolivar LLC, 319 Loma Media Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 4, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0003380. Published December 24, 2014, January 7, 14, 21, 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Enlightened Jewels and Gems, 649 Tabor Lane, Santa Barbara CA 93108. Julianna Marie Onstad, 649 Tabor Lane, Santa Barbara CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 4, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 20140003395. Published December 24, 2014, January 7, 14, 21, 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Labella, 528 Chiquita Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Maria Violeta Ros Labella, 528 Chiquita Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 18, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. Original FBN No. 2013-0001045. Original Filing Date: 4/1/2013. Published December 24, 2014, January 7, 14, 21, 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pacific Realty, 809 Tabitha Ln, Santa Maria, CA 93454. Mary B. Morton, 809 Tabitha Ln, Santa Maria, CA 93454. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 15, 2014. This
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fuel Depot; Hollister Fuel Depot; Turnpike Fuel Partners, 101 West
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 Getting Closer – Theater director and producer Rod Lathim’s autobiographical play Unfinished Business played in both 2012 and 2013 in local theater in its original one-act format. Now Lathim, who is also the general manager at the Marjorie Luke Theater, has re-worked and expanded the story surrounding his mother’s death seven years ago and the mystical experiences he encountered as she prepared to transition to the “next realm.” As restructured, the story is now told in two acts and on three levels, including the physical plane and two parallel ones, which Lathim termed “akin to a three-layered cake.” Lathim attributes the result as coming from a desire to dig deeper having “gained the courage and confidence to tell my story in much greater depth, with greater insight.” The new version has six new characters and a lot more humor, plus new scenic, sound, and lighting designs, and new costumes. What hasn’t changed is the actress who portrays Lathim’s
late mother: Ann Dusenberry, the Montecito-based veteran of TV and film. Also in the cast are a large array of local professionals, including Brian Harwell, Jenna Scanlon, Marion Freitag, Katie Thatcher, Solomon N’Dungu, Laurel Lyle, Leslie Gangl Howe, Jay Carlander, Cali Rae Turner, Luke Mullen, Laura Mancuso, and Dillon Yuhasz. As before, the entire audience sits onstage in an intimate, U-shaped formation around the action to enhance the sense of participation. And the audience is once again encouraged to stay after the performances for a moderated discussion with the author, cast, and representatives of area agencies focused on end-of-life services, where they can share feedback as well as their own experiences surrounding the death of a loved one. The talk-backs aren’t just academic pursuits; early discussions helped develop and reshape the play. WHEN: 8 pm today & tomorrow, 2 & 8 pm Saturday, 2 & 7 pm Sunday WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $29 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com
SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 RTC Takes Five – Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical The Last Five Years received its local premiere production in April 2013 through Elements Theatre Collective’s pop-up performances. Now the timeshifting show that defies standard structural and musical conventions from a get a more prominent thrust kicking off the new year at Rubicon Theatre Company (RTC) in Ventura. Brown is a three-time Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist (Parade, The Bridges of Madison County), with a long association with RTC. The story traces the relationship between Cathy, an aspiring actress, and Jamie, a successful novelist, over the course of five years, with the device that Jamie’s story move forward in time while Cathy’s is told simultaneously in reverse chronological order. The structure mirrors the relationship, as the pop musical about the two twentysomething New Yorkers rises and ebbs as they fall in love and try to hold on to each other when life leads them in opposite directions; the timeline intersects only on their fated wedding day. Louis Pardo, whose credits include the national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, co-stars with Ashley Fox Linton, who has portrayed Glinda in the Broadway national tour of Wicked and Cosette in Les Misérables. Rubicon resident artist Stephanie A. Coltrin, who won an Ovation Award for Miss Saigon in Los Angeles, directs. “(The musical’s) ingenious construct allows us to experience the highs and lows of crucial points of the marriage, so that we eventually understand what the characters themselves don’t realize,” Coltrin states in a press release. “That these two people were never in the same place to begin with.” Rubicon’s timing couldn’t be more perfect, as the movie version of The Last Five Years, starring Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick, is slated to open – perhaps ironically? – on Valentine’s Day. WHEN: Opens tonight at 7, continues Wednesday-Sundays through February 15 WHERE: 1001 E. Main Street (at Laurel), Ventura COST: $35-$64, discounts available INFO: 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 25 He’s No Edsel – A terrific two days for fans of the electric guitar in all of its guises from folk to inventive jazz begins tonight with the return of Robben Ford, the Ojaibased five-time Grammy nominee who can seemingly do almost anything he wants with the instrument. (Bill Frisell brings his Guitar in the Space Age project to the Lobero tomorrow night; see my interview in On Entertainment). Ford hasn’t achieved the household name status he deserves, but the roster of artists he’s plays with is as impressive as it is diverse: Jimmy Witherspoon, Miles Davis, Phil Lesh, Bonnie Raitt, Michael McDonald, Bob Dylan, John Mayall, Greg Allman, Keb’ Mo’, Larry Carlton, Mavis Staples, and Brad Paisley, among many others. In the 1970s alone, he joined The L.A. Express for Joni Mitchell tour for her legendary Court and Spark album, played alongside George Harrison on the Dark Horse tour, and made his first solo recording, The Inside Story, with a group of musicians who went on to become the Yellowjackets. In his career as a bandleader, Ford has taken on jazz, country (last year’s A Day In Nashville album) and rock, but has favored the blues, a genre he interprets widely, so it’s appropriate that tonight’s appearance at SOhO is with his current Ford Blues Band. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $28 in advance, $33 at door INFO: 962-7776 or www. sohosb.com
SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 Winter Wine-down – The California Wine Festival’s Winter Wine Classic 2015 returns to the Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort for a fourth year of festivities, during which locals and visitors get a chance in the off-season to sample nearly 100 classic California wines from some of the more elite winemaking masters in the state. The event, moved to Saturday evening this year, will include famous names from the wine world such as Bernardus Winery, Charles Krug, Heitz Wine Cellars, Chalk Hill, and PEJU, as well as artisan goldmedal producers Ahnfeldt, Beckmen, Grassini, and Tablas Creek, all of whom will pour their ultra-premium wines. Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association and the Wine Collection of El Paseo, a new collection of six tasting rooms in the Presidio neighborhood downtown, will make their debut at this year’s event. And as any oenophile knows, you need a little something to nosh on and clear the palette between tastings, so the event also offers a wide variety of delectable wineworthy gourmet morsels from the likes of Blush Restaurant, The Lark, Cielito, Olio e Limone, Finch & Fork, Enterprise Fish Company, Toma Restaurant, Holdren’s, and Rodney’s Grill. Also featured: a silent auction and cork pull fundraiser to benefit the FoodBank of Santa Barbara County. WHEN: 6:30-9 pm (VIP entry at 5:30) WHERE: COST: $95 (VIP $110) INFO: 886-5103 or www.californiawinefestival. com Betty, Davis & Company – Any opportunity to hear Santa Barbarabased pianist Betty Oberacker
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playing music by Bach should not be missed, especially when the program is as spicy as the Baroque master’s Italian Concerto, BWV 971. The composer employs one keyboard to replicate the contrasting timbres of orchestra and soloist, and Oberacker’s skill elicits the inherent emotional qualities. Next up are flutist Mary Jo Hartle and pianist Christopher Davis performing a duo by Aaron Copland, the great 20thcentury American composer whose work always exhibited a characteristic “Americana” flavor. Davis also joins soprano Deborah Bertling for three works chosen to illustrate the theme “Music – Words – Action”, including Vocalise No. 26 by Paolo Giuseppe Gioacchino Concone; Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise; and the aria from Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas brasilieras No. 5. The ambitious concert concludes with the Prémiere Rhapsodie of Claude Debussy, played by clarinetist Chad Cullins wth Davis. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu Street COST: free INFO: www. SBMusicClub.org Viva Cirque Ziva – Hot on the heels of another annual extravaganza of Chinese athletic feats from the Peking Acrobats at the Granada earlier this month, The Golden Dragon Acrobats are also returning, once again presenting Cirque Ziva out at the UCSB campus, after a run on Broadway. The Golden Dragons, from Cangzhou in the Hebei province of China, have toured the United States regularly since 1978 and are still run by founder
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MONDAY, JANUARY 26 Sax Appeal – The all-female sax quartet (actually there’s five if you count the drummer, who’s a man) may have started off as the Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet out of tribute to the Big Band saxophonist and pianist who was discovered after death to be a woman who had lived as a man for more than 50 years to climb the male-dominated world of jazz. But there’s no gimmicks now, as the Tiptons – they shortened the name following a six-year hiatus in 2002 – as the group expertly plies genres from horn section jazz to gospel, bluegrass, New Orleans-style second line, funk, and more with a sound that supported 10 recordings (though it has been more than six years since the last one.) The energy is infectious and the musician a marvel as the ladies perform original compositions and clever covers both popular and obscure. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com
Danny Chang, who created Cirque Ziva in 2011 as a theatrically elaborate show specifically for the American market. It’s a fast-paced, technically innovative production that showcases traditional Chinese acrobats, dance, and costumes, with both ancient and contemporary music. The event is part of UCSB A&L’s Family Fun Series, but don’t be fooled into thinking this is kiddie stuff – all ages will be amazed at the acrobatic feats. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $16 general, $12 children INFO: 8933535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB. edu TUESDAY, JANUARY 27 High Priestess of Rock – It’s been a while since Patti Smith played anywhere near Santa Barbara, so we’ll just have to believe the reports that say the great punk poetess still rocks with the passion and purpose she first displayed back in the underground scene in New York in the early 1970s.
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TONiGHT! The Brooklyn Rider Almanac THU, JAN 22 / 7 PM / HAHN HALL $30 / $9 UCSB students
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Up Close & Musical series in Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West sponsored by Dr. Bob Weinman
One of Rolling Stone’s 50 Greatest Live Acts Right Now
Patti Smith and Her Band TUE, JAN 27 / 8 PM / GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $35 / $18 UCSB students
It seems strange to think of Smith – who was very much an outsider in her early days – as a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, generally a more conservative institution (if not quite as reactionary as baseball’s). But there’s no denying her power and her influence over the years. Smith is touring in recognition of the 40th anniversary of her debut recording, Horses, which is now in the Library of Congress, but the singer-songwriter is still churning out the emotion, as Rolling Stone called her one of the 50 Greatest Live Acts Right Now. And why not? She still has the great Lenny Kaye – her original guitarist who also made a name as a producer (Suzanne Vega) – and longtime drummer Jay Dee Daugherty anchoring her band, and still plays rock ‘n’ roll like it’s her life’s mission. The ornate Granada may never be the same. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $35-$45 INFO: 8933535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu •MJ or 899-2222/granadasb.org
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“A street-hot rock & roll messiah.”
– Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
Michio Kaku
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind WED, JAN 28 / 8 PM / GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $25 / $15 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price
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Do You Mind? – Theoretical physicists aren’t always the most animated of people, preferring to keep their noses buried in books and research rather than out among the unwashed masses. Then there’s Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory, who has helped popularize science as the author of numerous international bestsellers and regular appearances on TV, radio, and film. Dr. Kaku’s work continues Einstein’s search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified theory that will summarize all the physical laws of the universe. But he also delves into the more immediately practical, predicting trends affecting business, commerce and finance based on the latest research in science. The San Francisco Chronicle has called Kaku “Mind-bending,” adding that he “has a gift for explaining incredibly complex concepts, on subjects as far-ranging as nanotechnology and space travel, in language the [lay person] can grasp.” Kaku will deliver the lecture “The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind” based on his 2014 book that posits that telepathy, implanted memories, downloadable consciousness, and more supposedly futuristic ideas might be right around the corner. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $25-$40 INFO: 893-3535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or 899-2222/granadasb.org
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One Earth Tour 2015: Mystery WED, FEB 4 / 7 PM (note special time) GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $35 / $19 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price
Hit Comedy Show of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
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The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour THU, FEB 5 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL Tickets start at $20 / $10 UCSB students
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canapés and comestibles donated by Fresco, were Hannah-Beth Jackson, George Leis, Rich Block, Harry and Judi Weisbart, Bob and Judy Egenoff, Willard and Jo Thompson, Debby Davison, Rolf Geyling, Craig and Laura Case, Salud Carbajal, and Dennis and Joanie Franz...
New concertmaster Jessica Guideri
The Peking Acrobats awe and inspire at the Granada
To say the audience was agog would be a major understatement. Adding to the enjoyment were Jigu! Thunder Drums of China, featuring players from the Shanxi Province. A true cultural experience....
On the March Montecito TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey and other stars from the movie Selma marched with hundreds at the weekend ahead of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to recall the civil rights struggles in the 1960s. Oprah, who co-produced the film with actor Brad Pitt, helped lead the march with the movie’s director, Ava DuVernay, actor David Oyelowo, who portrayed King in the movie, and rapper Common. They and others marched from Selma City Hall to the city’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, where civil rights protesters were beaten and tear-gassed by officers in 1965. “Every single person who was on that bridge is a hero,” Oprah told the marchers before they walked up to the bridge as the sun was going down over the Alabama River. She said they were seeking to remember King “as an idea.” “Selma was an idea and what can happen with strategy, with discipline, and with love.” The new film chronicles the campaign leading up to the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and the subsequent passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Law enforcement officers used clubs and tear gas on March 7, 1965 – Bloody Sunday – to rout marchers intent on walking some 50 miles to Montgomery, the state capital, to seek rights for blacks to register to vote. Words Play Richard Yongjae O’Neill was the undoubted star of Camerata Pacifica’s concert at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall when he led other members of the popular chamber group in 39-year-old Chinese composer Huang Ruo’s unique 30-minute work In Other Words. The South Korean violist, who has been nominated for a Grammy and appeared with many of the world’s
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major orchestras, also sang during the piece, which premiered three years ago in Los Angeles. Flutist and founder Adrian Spence, also played a didgeridoo, a 1,500 year-old instrument used by the Aborigines in Australia, accompanied by oboist Nicholas Daniel, José Franch-Ballester on clarinet, Ani Aznavoorian on cello, violinists Paul Huang and Agnes Gottschewski, Tim Eckert on double bass, and the multi-talented Ji Hye Jung on percussion. The musicians also left the stage to take their instruments to the side aisles for the vibrant intensive work inspired by Chinese folk music and a number of other elements, described by the composer as “dimensionalism.” Camille Saint-Saens’ Fantaisie for violin and harp in A Major, with harpist Bridget Kibbey, with other works by Sheng and Puts wrapped the thoroughly entertaining performance... Belgian Brosse Over at the Granada, it was time for the Santa Barbara Symphony, under Belgian conductor Dirk Brosse to shine with new concertmaster Jessica Guideri, who formerly worked at the Phoenix and Seattle symphonies, replacing Caroline Campbell after a two-year search. She amply showed her expertise in “Black, White and In Between”, one of more than 400 compositions the 55-year-old gent from Ghent has
Conductor Dirk Brosse leads symphony in Charlie Chaplin concert
written. Highlight of the show was Charlie Chaplin’s 1931 Oscar-winning silent screen classic, the black-and-white film City Lights and an 85-minute work arranged by Carl Davis to accompany it. The Little Tramp, who wrote the script, directed and starred, shone brightly at the Sunday matinee, which was co-presented with UCSB’s popular Arts & Lectures... Strings Attached
Prince Pottery It couldn’t be worse timing for Prince Charles. The long-waiting heir to the British throne has just started selling a line of expensive handmade English ceramic pottery with the brand name Isis, inspired not by the Islamist terrorist group, but the tranquil Isis river – part of the Thames – that flows though the university city of Oxford, at his Highgrove shop, just a tiara’s toss from his impressive eponymous pile near the market town of Tetbury in the Cotswolds. The name association with the Middle East jihadist group has also Juilliard String Quartet entrances at the Lobero (Simon Powis)
It has been five years since the vaunted Juilliard String Quartet last performed in our Eden by the Beach with a delightful performance at UCSB. They were back at the weekend with a sold-out concert, the second in CAMA’s Masterseries, at the Lobero featuring violinist Ronald Copes, who taught at UCSB for many years before becoming a member of the fabulous foursome. The show kicked off with Haydn’s String Quartet in G Major and concluded with Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Major, with a delicious filling of a contemporary work Vistas by Israeli composer Shulamit Ran. A show to savor.... Two of a Kind It was quite a crowd at Union Bank’s East Carrillo adobe for a reception to celebrate the third annual Life Chronicles Father Virgil Award that is this year going to tony twosome Peter and Gerd Jordano. The award will officially be presented to the couple at a major gala next month at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree. Among the guests, munching on
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caused problems with the popular PBS series Downton Abbey, where the Earl of Grantham’s beloved labrador also has the same name. Later in the fifth series, I’m told, the dog is diagnosed with cancer, but Hugh Bonneville, who plays the noble lord, says the plot line has nothing whatsoever to do with political matters... Sightings: George Clooney and supermodel Cindy Crawford’s husband, Rande Gerber, noshing at Tre Lune before mounting their highly polished Harley Davidsons en-route to Ojai...Oscar winner Jeff Bridges working out at the Coral Casino gym... Richard, Earl of Bradford, downing cocktails with travel writer Bill Tomicki at Tydes Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should e-mail him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the •MJ Journal. 22 – 29 January 2015
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a three-day Junior National Qualifier. “We’re ranked number one in the country,” he reports. Of the 11 kids on the team, eight of them are Montecito residents or students, Rottman tells us. “Many of them are younger than the competition they face; it’s a true Goliath victory,” said Rottman, who was an All-American outside hitter at UCSB in 1987-88 and led the Gauchos to the NCAA finals in ’88. The club was established three years ago, in an effort to consolidate local talent, teach proper fundamentals, compete with – and beat – the best teams in the country. In the inaugural season, Westmont College helped launch the club by providing much-needed practice time in their gymnasium. Since then, the club has expanded, with three teams (ages 12, 14, 16). “We are always looking for fresh talent, and the club provides a steady pipeline of volleyball talent to local high schools,” Rottman explained. “They end up ready to go as incoming freshman.” Interested parents and kids can email David at sbcvball@gmail.com.
Public Market Hosts Wellness Series
The next two Saturdays (January 24 and 31), a health and wellness series will be held at the Santa Barbara Public Market. The Market has partnered with two local health experts, Dr. Izzy Lira and Nora Tobin, for the Live Well series. The events, which are free and open
Tobin. The Public Market is located at 38 West Victoria Street. For a full schedule of events, or more information about Live Well at the Public Market, call (805) 770-7702 or visit sbpublicmarket.com. For more information about Dr. Lira, visit doctorizzy.com, and Nora Tobin’s information can be found at noratobin.com. •MJ
to the public, will feature low-impact group workouts (space is limited; first-come, first-serve), healthy food samplings from Public Market merchants, as well as additional health and wellness programming, demos and offerings from local vendors in their event space, The Kitchen. This Saturday, January 24, the event kicks off with a workout in the courtyard led by Dr. Lira at 11 am (sign-ups begin at 10:30 am). From noon to 3 pm, an expo will take place in The Kitchen, and merchants will sample healthy food bites. From 2 to 3 pm, chef Leslie Thomas will demonstrate some healthy cooking skills. The following Saturday will be similar programming, featuring a yoga workout and cooking demonstration with Nora
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93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY
SUNDAY JANUARY 25
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1398 Oak Creek Canyon Road 985 Park Lane 848 Park Lane 2225 Featherhill Road 2796 Bella Vista Road 603 San Ysidro Road 1445 South Jameson Lane 2170 Ortega Ranch Lane 1154 Hill Road 1424 East Valley Road 298 East Mountain Drive 895 East Mountain Drive 1497 Isabella Lane 280 West Mountain Drive 1053 Camino Viejo 2850 Torito Road 115 Coronada Circle 180 Hermosillo Road 1362 Plaza Pacifica 1032 Fairway Road
1-4pm By Appt. 1-4pm 1-3pm 1-4pm 1-3pm 1-4pm 2-4pm 1-4pm 1-4pm 1-4pm 1-4pm 2-4pm 12:30-3:30pm 1-4pm 1-3pm 1-4pm 2-4pm 1-4pm 1-4pm
$13,650,000 $11,375,000 $8,848,000 $6,995,000 $5,850,000 $4,995,000 $4,950,000 $4,295,000 $3,295,000 $3,200,000 $3,195,000 $2,395,000 $2,350,000 $2,200,000 $2,195,000 $1,995,000 $1,749,000 $1,499,000 $1,150,000 $995,000
6bd/6ba 6bd/10ba 5bd/7ba 8bd/7.5ba 6bd/5.5ba 4bd/4.5ba 5bd/6.5ba 4bd/3.5ba 4bd/3.5ba 3bd/3ba 5bd/4.5ba 3bd/4ba 3bd/3.5ba 4bd/3ba 4bd/3ba 3bd/3.5ba 2bd/2.5ba 3bd/2ba 1bd/1.5ba 2bd/2ba
Cecilia Hunt Frank Abatemarco Louise McKaig Bob Lamborn Tomi Spaw Barbara Neary Diane Randall Maureen McDermut Andrew Petlow Brian King Daniela Johnson Linos Kogevinas Paul Hurst Hutch Axilrod Ann Harkey Andrew Templeton Michael Phillips Ashley Anderson Pamela Taylor Bonnie Jo Danely
895-3834 450-7477 637-4774 689-6800 698-7007 698-8980 705-5252 570-5545 680-9575 452-0471 453-4555 450-6231 680-8216 637-6378 564-1921 895-6029 969-4569 618-8747 895-6541 689-1818
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WINTER DANCE FESTIVAL January 31st at 6pm. Raffle tickets, General Dancing, Spectacular performances and Life band. $15- All seats general admission For more information and tickets call (805)512-0332. www.sb.dancefeverstudio.com ESTATE SALE Estate Sale, January 25’15, 12 Noon to 3PM: 1787 Fernald Point Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Furniture – contemporary and antique: loveseats, “easy” chairs, side tables, dining chairs, rugs, framed paintings/prints/ mirrors, lamps/pairs, crystal chandelier- 8 arm. Kitchen appliances, glassware/wines, china sets, china /crystal serving dishes/ casseroles, bed comforters/quilts – all sizes. Men/ladies dress and sports clothing. Sportswear/gear – scuba, ski, camping/golf. Information: call 805 896-4313. COLLECTIBLE WANTED Old Comic Books wanted. Collector seeks old comic books like Spider-Man, Hulk, Batman, Fantastic Four, and X-Men. Cash paid. Call Tom 617-331-1784. SPECIALTY ITEMS FOR SALE Handbags, excellent condition & classic, unusual apparels. 563-2526, call for appointment. HOUSE/PET SITTING SERVICES HOUSE & PET SITTING SERVICE -Client references. Responsible. Great with all pets. 805-451-6200 ESTATE MANAGEMENT SERVICES Now available, a proven, trustworthy, innovative experienced facilities professional. Inquiries will be kept strictly confidential. Call 805-681-0600 (or) info@renewablecommunity.org. Estate Manager Available Now Extensive Experience Please call 805-964-1891 POSITION WANTED
WEBSITE DESIGN SERVICE Bluefire Design Web Design, Logos, eCommerce Elda Schaffield, 805-895-2255 http://BlueFireDesign.com info@bluefiredesign.com CHILDREN SERVICES Nurturing & Reliable Expert Nanny 7+ yrs professional nanny experience w/ teaching certification in Waldorf Early Childhood Education, CPR/First Aid, creative, patient, cheerful, kind, excellent references. Available now for live-out, full time or part time position. Call Crystal: (310) 383-1124 Crystalsoufer@yahoo.com SPECIAL/PERSONAL SERVICES Everyone has a story. If you would like to preserve your past, pass along your hopes and dreams, and provide inspiration for younger generations, allow me to attend while you reminisce. Together we will create a written account that will become a cherished legacy for your family. Lisa O’Reilly, Personal Historian, 684-6514
AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE MONTECITO ESTATE selling 2003 garaged, regularly-serviced, infrequently-used (under 6,000 miles annually) Mercedes ML55 AMG (sports performance package) Sport Utility 4D in excellent condition. New: 67.6K. Current Blue Book: $14,800. First $11,500 takes it. Brilliant silver. Charcoal leather/ wood interior. Power sun roof. 5-speed transmission. 342 hp. AMG wheels w/ high performance tires. Roof rack. GPS. Bose sound system. Privacy glass. Many safety features. Has every other option offered, too numerous to detail. Ph: 805.455.9418. 2008 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet, First Owner & Fully Loaded, 9K mi., Triptronic Transmission, Silver paint, Cocoa brown interior & convertible top.. $82,500 . Call 818-679-3419
PR SERVICES Marketing and Publicity for your business, non-profit, or event. Integrating traditional and social media and specializing in PSAs, podcasts, videos, blogs, articles and
REAL ESTATE SERVICES Nancy Hussey Realtor ® Are You Talking Real Estate? Meet Nancy And Find Out Why She Is Called
2012 Mercedes GL550. First owner. Blue ext. Tan int. 10k mi.,$55,500.00 Ruben 818-679-3419
PHYSICAL TRAINING/COACHING
Start the New Year Healthy! Experienced trained personal chef & certified health coach has 2 days each week becoming available. I will cook delicious fresh meals in your home to help you reach your individual health goals. Excellent references! Valeska (805) 448-0768
$8 minimum
722-8035 www.fitnisphysicaltherapy
press releases. Contact Patti Teel seniorityrules@gmail.com
HEALTH SERVICES Eating Disorder Therapy Get Help now for Bulimia, Anorexia, and Disordered Eating. For information call 1 800 560 8518. Adolescent & Adult Programs La Ventana Treatment Programs Santa Barbara 601 E. Arrellaga # 101, Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Private Physical Therapy in the comfort and convenience of your home, place of work or gym. Over 34 years experience. UCLA trained. Josette Fast, PT
Fit for Life Customized workouts & nutritional guidance for any lifestyle. Individual/ group sessions in ideal setting. House calls available. Victoria Frost, CPT,FNS,MMA. 805 895-9227.
“America’s Best Realtor®” 805-452-3052 Coldwell Banker / Montecito DRE#01383773 www.NancyHussey.com HOUSING WANTED Responsible & pleasant author desiring a studio or 1-bd for $850/mo in a peaceful environment. Will take care of your property/pet if you travel. Call Susan 805-845-3036
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Need Help? Organize your home, office or life. Run errands, grocery shop, pay bills, make appointments, Drive you, pet care & companionship. $25/hr. Excellent, local references. Sandra 636-3089.
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STEVEN BROOKS JEWELERS Custom Design Estate Jewelry Jewelry Restoration Watches I will take in trade or purchase your gold and platinum jewelry, watches and silver items. 805-455-1070 sbjewelers@gmail.com
COMMERCIAL SPACE AVAILABLE Therapy office available for rent, part time, in Montecito, Upper Village. Office is in suite of 3 offices, including a waiting room, 2 restrooms, and front and back entrances (2nd story location). Hours flexible: Please call Barbara Palomarez, MFT, for details: (805)565-0682. SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL CARMEL BY THE SEA vacation getaway. Charming, private studio. Beautiful garden patio. Walk to beach and town. $110/night. 831-624-6714
Estate Moving Sale Service-Efficient30yrs experience. Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030. COMPUTER/VIDEO SERVICES VIDEOS TO DVD TRANSFERS Hurry, before your tapes fade away. Now doing records & cassettes to CD. Only $10 each 969-6500 Scott. BALLET CLASSES
ESTATE/MOVING SALE SERVICES THE CLEARING HOUSE, LLC Recognized as the Area’s Leading Estate Liquidators – Castles to Cottages Experts in the Santa Barbara Market! Professional, Personalized Services for Moving, Downsizing, and Estate Sales . Complimentary Consultation (805) 708 6113 email: theclearinghouseSB@cox.net website: theclearinghouseSB.com
22 – 29 January 2015
Private ballet lessons with former principal dancer. Beginners (fitness/stretching) thru preprofessionals with coaching for auditions. Susan.manchak@gmail.com 805 451-2304 www.susansballet.net
TUTORING SERVICES PIANO LESSONS Kary and Sheila Kramer are long standing members of the Music Teachers’ Assoc. of Calif. Studios conveniently located at the Music Academy of the West. Now offering lessons in your home for children and adults. Call us at 684-4626. STONEWORK SERVICES Travertine, Limestone, Marble, Soapstone and Saltillo Pavers repair and refinishing. We work on floors, counter tops, showers etc. Over 25 years experience. Many references in Montecito. Reasonable rates. For a free consultation, contact PIERRE HANNON at ECOSTONECARE. State lic # 810 987. Fully bonded and insured. Ph: 805 218 6237 Email: pithannon@gmail.com Website: www.ecostonecare.com WOODWORKING/CARPENTRY Finish Custom Carpentry. Furniture, cabinets, restoration, doors,
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come let it come in my time, so children can live in peace. – Thomas Paine
windows.. Ca Lic#911243. (805)696-8507. Cristian. FINE CABINETS AND FURNITURE by Montecito Resident David Krouse. 310-991-9204 ARTIST REQUEST Used Nespresso Pods Wanted For Local Artist Do you drink Nespresso Coffee? I want your used coffee pods. I’m a local artist and I use these colorful pods in my creations. Save them for me and I will pick them up from Carp. to Goleta area. Creative purposeful recycling (upcycling) at its best! Thanks so much! Evelyn email me at pods.nespresso@ gmail.com http://pods-nespresso.com/.
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875 Knollwood Dr $14,900,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 5BD/10BA French Country Estate on 2.76 acres (assr) with Ocean & Mountain Views, Pool & Spa.
860 San Ysidro Rd $6,350,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Exclusive & private 3BD/4.5BA on 2.8 acres (assr) in one of Montecito’s most coveted locations.
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1389 Oak Creek Canyon Rd $3,495,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 6± ac (assr) in A+ Montecito location. Dramatic ocean & mtn vws. Water meter in-ready to build!
999 Camino Medio $2,595,000 118 E Islay Street $2,495,000 20 Alisal Rd $2,495,000 Team Scarborough 805.331.1465 Ken Switzer 805.680.4622 Jan Banister 805.455.1194 Hope Ranch 3BD/2BA w/ exquisite finishes on 1.05 acs (assr). Authentic & spectacular restoration of this Upper East 4BD/2.5BA New quality custom 4BD/4BA with panoramic views, privacy, and www.999CaminoMedio.com beauty near downtown. quiet. www.20AlisalRoad.com
1850 Gibraltar Rd $2,449,000 The Brothers Gough 805.455.1420 Move-in ready 4BD/3½BA Craftsman-style pool home with captivating mountain & ocean views.
895 E Mountain Dr $2,395,000 Scarborough/Kogevinas 805.331.1465/805.450.6233 Contemporary Hideaway on 2 acs, (assr) Ocean Vus in Montecito. 3BD/4BA - 3rd bed is detached.
720 Ladera Ln $3,795,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 2641 Dorking Pl $1,995,000 1045 Ocean Vista Ln $1,995,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Ken Switzer 805.680.4622 Located on a picturesque private lane in Montecito. The home has undergone a beautiful renovation with meticulous Les Arbres - An inspired 3BD/3.5BA Ocean View Villa on 0.46 acres Complete privacy, big views from this 5BD/5.5BA, 4400SF hm on 1 ac attention to detail. 5BD/4½BA, pool, lawns, oaks, ocean & mountain views. www.MontecitoFineEstates.com (assr) in the heart of SB.
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