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ALLORA BY LAURA TO DISPLAY INFLUENTIAL IMAGES BY PHOTOGRAPHY LEGEND GUY WEBSTER, WHO SPENT HIS 50-YEAR CAREER CAPTURING ROCK & ROLL LEGENDS, AWARD-WINNING ACTORS, AND NOTABLE POLITICIANS (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 16)

Montecito By Design

Birgit Klein and Una Malan open upper village showroom and studio to show off their effortless, understated style, p. 20

Book Club

Join Montecito Library Book Club’s meeting December 14 and discuss Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, p. 24

Living Legend

Director Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World, Little Rascals, and many others) receives this year’s FestForums Living Legend award, p. 34

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5

Guest Editorial

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Montecito Miscellany

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Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard asks The Partnership for Resilient Communities how they pulled off the seemingly impossible Our Lady of Mount Carmel School gala; CALM luncheon; Deborah Richards’ new book; Dance Theatre of Harlem performance; Gwendolyn’s Playground fundraiser; firefighters on Ellen; Olivia Seltzer on NBC; Deborah Kalas releases book; Elaine Weiss celebrated; Oprah buys Jeff Bridges’ home; Sue Grafton’s home for sale; Catherine Deneuve suffers stroke; sightings INTRODUCING

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A collection of communications from readers Jennifer Buur, Gillian Christie, Rosalind Amorteguy Fendon, Sanderson M. Smith, Charles McClure, Steven Gilbar, Justin M. Ruhge, Paul Cronshaw, and Lawrence Dam

10 This Week in Montecito

A list of local events happening in and around town

Tide Chart 12 Village Beat

Montecito Association sees roundabout renderings; Summerland helistop denied by Planning Commission; Guy Webster photos on display at Allora by Laura; Birgit Klein Interiors opens in Upper Village; MERRAG welcomes new CERT graduates; Elayne Klasson publishes first book at age 72

14 Seen Around Town

MClub visits National Disaster Search Dog Foundation; World of Children event

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Community Arts Workshop undergoes renovations; Ready to Hang pop-up takes place on November 23

24 Library Mojo

Stream TV and movies on Kanopy; book club’s next selection; upcoming events

Ashleigh Brilliant ponders various forms of comestible kookiness

27 Brilliant Thoughts 28 On Entertainment

Launch Pad presents What Martha Did; Out of the Box Theater Company puts on American Psycho; FestForums; TEDxSB

29 Ernie’s World

Helping you achieve your goals has always been ours Congratulations to Steve Hepp for being named to the 2019 Forbes “Best-in-State Wealth Advisors” list.

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Pat and Ernie visit Weald and Downland Living Museum in Singleton, England

30 Spirituality Matters

Sarah Taylor does stand up at Yoga Soup; SBCC seminar; mindfulness retreat

34 Our Town

Penelope Spheeris receives this year’s Living Legend Award at FestForums Santa Barbara

41 Open House Directory 42 Calendar of Events

MAW fundraiser at Red Piano; Camerata Pacifica concert; Funk Zone Art Walk; Art From Scrap fiber arts show; Los Pinguos play at UCSB MultiCultural Center; L.A. Big Daddy’s SB Debut; Santa Barbara Symphony concerts; Santa Barbara Jewish Federation holiday shopping event; Sergio Mendes and Bebel Gilberto at UCSB

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Guest Editorial

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

A Blueprint for Public Service…

The Partnership for Resilient Communities

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wo weeks ago at the Montecito Association’s 34th Annual Beautification Day, the Partnership for Resilient Communities (TPRC) was selected as the 2019 recipient of the “Citizen of the Year” honors. The ceremony included last year’s winner Abe Powell of Bucket Brigade fame and 1st District County Supervisor Das Williams, along with MA officials.

Who Are the TPRC Players?

The TPRC core team consists of former Santa Barbara Fire Chief, Pat McElroy, as its Executive Director, who has never met a problem that he can’t solve by building the right coalition of public officials and private citizens; Joe Cole, a master at legal permitting and legal liability solutions; Gwyn Lurie and Les Firestein, the talented husband and wife team who led the global research for innovative solutions and discovered “Ring Nets”; Alixe Mattingly, the indefatigable, energized and articulate team member who created the messaging to inspire the community; Mary Rose and Suzanne Elledge, gurus at Land Use and CEQA environmental issues; and Brett Matthews, Elisabeth Fowler and Hollye Jacobs, who championed the $5 million private community donation effort.

The TPRC network has been widened to include a host of additional volunteer concerned citizens, creekside landowners, some 700 community contributors and county officials who all saw a desperate community need, adopted a focused plan of action, and executed it within a time frame no one thought possible.

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Incredulously, Partnership for Resilient Communities was conceived on the back of a napkin, 15 months ago, when a small band of private Montecito citizens gathered together informally at Cottage Hospital, while visiting friends and loved ones injured by the 1/9 mudslides and debris flows. The discussion of what our community could do to prevent a repeat catastrophe evolved into a plan to create a public/private partnership, structured as a non-profit 501(c)(3), to pursue ways to lessen the risk of future debris flows.

Repurposing the Community’s Resolve

From the start, the mission was clear: Prevent further death and destruction by doing everything possible to stop more boulders and debris from roaring down our canyons. TPRC recognized early on that tested and proven low-tech and environmentally sustainable solutions already exist in erosion-prone areas around the globe. TPRC founders quickly looked at similarly distressed communities in Switzerland and Japan. Volunteers met with geologists and disaster mitigation experts from around the world; identified advanced mountain monitoring/mitigation systems; and explored federal and state disaster grant opportunities.

The use of Geobrugg ring nets became the clear and unequivocal choice. In just 15 months, TPRC brought the Montecito community together to fund and install six massive nets in Cold Spring, San Ysidro, and Buena Vista canyons, the three highest risk areas in Montecito. These six nets more than double the capacity of the existing debris basins for a fraction of the cost of other measures that were considered.

Site Identification and Approval

Among the many remarkable accomplishments of the volunteer TPRC group was persuading private property owners along Buena Vista Canyon Creek, Cold Spring Canyon Creek and San Ysidro Canyon Creek to allow a netting system to be installed on their property. Property owner demands included guaranteed immunity from personal liability, protection from responsibility in the removal and maintenance of the nets, and freedom from involvement in the nightmare of the county permitting process.

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The school, which started off with 30 students and now serves more than 200, raised around $200,000 for scholarships from the socially gridlocked fête for 350 guests co-chaired

by Angela De Bruyn, Cristina Ricci, and Natalie Strahl.

The boffo bash also honored Eustacchio Guadagnini from the class of 1956, with him and his wife, Merle, sending their sons, Christopher and Silvano, to the Hot Springs Road school as well.

“The church and school have given me much happiness!” he declared.

Auctioneer Tony Branquinho sold a cornucopia of items at Gatling gun speed, including a week in Bali, Indonesia, snapped up for $8,000, a three-day vacation at the Hyatt

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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

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y students, Alessandra Robles took first prize, and Dulce Perez (not present for the award) second prize for our school (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) at this year’s Beautification Day art exhibit. We are very grateful to participate in this annual event which

Mt. Carmel 7th-grader Dulce Perez took 2nd place with her image of four children holding hands

Alessandra Robles, a second grader at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, is this year’s Montecito Beautification Day art winner

This is Ms Robles award-winning poster

is a wonderful opportunity to showcase our school artists in the community.

For a separate talented Mount Carmel student notice, I just found out that Camille Martin, 4th grader, won her division in an art contest put on by the Santa Barbara Public Library.

Her original art will be featured on a limited edition library card.

Many thanks, I am very grateful for

Fourth grader Camille Martin, also a Mt. Carmel student, won her division in a Santa Barbara Public Library contest

these great kids to be recognized.

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This Week in and around Montecito

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Holiday Open House Join Porch as they ring in the holidays with festive decorations and treats, as well as an artist reception for Virginia McCracken, who will present her latest show, “This Chapter” When: 9:30 am to 5 pm; artist reception at 5 pm Where: 3823 Santa Claus Lane Info: (805) 684-0300

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: an addition on Camphor Place; addition to a building at Crane Country Day School; a new home, garage, studio, and gym on Hot Springs; a demo and addition on Santo Tomas Lane; and a remodel on addition on Glenview Road, among other items.

When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Fill the Foodbank Join the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County for the first-ever drive-thru

food drive!

The Foodbank is experiencing an extreme shortage of non-perishable foods, and they need the community’s help to stay stocked for the holidays. Bring your heavy cans and other non-perishable goods because you won’t need to get out of your car. Foodbank staff and volunteers will unload your donated food items. For those who would like to hang out, Foodbank items are available with a financial donation and Disaster Food Boxes will be for sale.

Most needed items include nut butters, whole grain cereals and pasta, canned tomatoes and sauce, canned meats, and tuna. The mail carrier food drive that usually happens around this time of year is not occurring this year, so this is the perfect opportunity to give. All transactions are tax-deductible based upon federal IRS regulations.

When: 9 am to 3 pm Where: 4554 Hollister Ave (Santa Barbara Warehouse) Info: Lskvarla@foodbanksbc.org Gifted Girls Symposium Parents and teachers are invited to hear Gifted Education Expert Dr. Linda Kreger Silverman address the unique social-emotional and academic needs of gifted girls.

What is the crisis with the gifted girl population? Girls with High IQs make themselves invisible, hiding their intelligence, typically by 2nd grade.

This makes it difficult to identify them and therefore difficult to appropriately support them academically, socially, and emotionally.

When: 10 am to noon; presentation followed by Q&A Where: The Unitarian Society Church Courtyard at 1535 Santa Barbara Street

Info: www.giftedgirls2019.eventbrite. com Book Signing at Tecolote Elayne Kasson, local author from Santa Ynez Valley, will be signing her new novel, Love Is A Rebellious Bird.

This tale of a sixty-year love affair examines the age-old question of why we love the people we do.

When: 3 pm to 4 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 East Valley Road Info: 969-4977 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 STEM Night at MUS Join for family STEM night in the auditorium. This event is designed to increase understanding and appreciation for the role these disciplines play in a child’s education, and to show how much fun experimentation can be.

Come enjoy some of the MOXI’s most loved interactive activities, as well as coding stations and much more.

When: 4 pm to 6 pm Where: Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road Info: www.montecitou.org TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Homelessness & Housing Learn about Homelessness & Housing from a panel of community experts. Panel includes Rich Sander (Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Alliance for Community

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“We are merely the stars’ tennis-balls, struck and banded which way please them.” – John Webster

Transformation); Cassie Roach (Program Coordinator and Senior Case Manager for the Safe Parking Program at the New Beginnings Counseling Center); and Rob Fredericks (Executive Director and CEO of the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara). Panel is moderated by Barbara Andersen, Chief Strategy Officer of the Santa Barbara Foundation.

This event is open to the public and applicable to organizations and community members countywide.

When: 5 pm to 7 pm Where: Santa Barbara Foundation, 1111 Chapala Street RSVP: Denise Lazaro at dlazaro@SBFoundation.org or (805) 963-1873 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Montecito Planning Commission Meeting MPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies and that issues raised by interested parties are addressed When: 9 am Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Carpinteria Birders Class Come explore the wonderful world of birding When: 6:30 pm to 8 pm Where: Carpinteria Public Library multipurpose room, 5141 Carpinteria Avenue Info: www.carpwithoutcars.org/carpin teria-birdwatching-classes/ Questions: John Callender, jbc@jbcsystems.com, or call (805) 455-0053 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 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 town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public.

When: 3 pm Where: First United Methodist Church, Garden and Anapamu Streets Cost: free SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Heal Your Mind, Heal Your Body Sudama Mark Kennedy is giving a workshop on the magic of energy medicine and advanced healing at the Summerland Center for the Arts, showing that indeed if you heal your mind you can have great success in healing your body. Mr. Kennedy, known as an intuitive healer, will present a group-healing seminar. As a healer and life coach, he has helped thousands of people heal themselves across the full spectrum of problems.

Through guided meditation and participation Mr. Kennedy asks attendees what they are experiencing in the moment and applies various modalities that he speaks about as he performs healings. People usually feel a lot better and experience subsequent reduction or elimination of symptoms including trauma, headaches, neck and backaches, and variety of symptoms. No machines, drugs, hypnosis, exercise, physical manipulation or pre-conceived beliefs are necessary with this holistic health approach.

Reservations are required and seating is limited.

When: 4 pm to 6 pm Where: Summerland Center for the Arts, 2346 Lillie Avenue Info & Tickets: (805) 770-3677 ONGOING MONDAYS Meditation in Movement Nurture your heart, soul, body, and mind with yoga teacher Dawn O’Bar who teaches every Monday at Montecito Covenant Church; childcare provided When: 8:45 to 9:45 am Where: 671 Cold Spring Road Cost: donations accepted Contact: anna@mcchurch.org

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anta Barbara County’s Deputy Director of Transportation Chris Sneddon was in front of the Montecito Association on Tuesday, giving a presentation on the roundabout slated for San Ysidro Road.

The current intersection includes traffic from North Jameson, San Ysidro, and the northbound entrance and exit of Highway 101. The new roundabout ties each flow of traffic into a single-lane roundabout, and breaks up the asphalt with discreet decorative elements appropriate for the semi-rural nature of Montecito.

Sneddon emphasized that the current intersection is extremely unsafe for pedestrians, which has been addressed in the new project. The plans include pedestrian access on every leg of the intersection, including crosswalks that connect with paved walkways through the medians or refuge areas, breaking up the expanse of asphalt into smaller sections for pedestrians to safely cross. The single lane roundabout also allows for bicycle accessibility, giving enough space for bicycles to traverse the lane, according to Sneddon. “The project is designed to keep the whole intersection moving slow, smooth, and without conflict points,” Sneddon said.

Design elements for the project in addition to the pedestrian pathways include curvatures that encourage slowing through the roundabout, the elimination of conflict points at the intersection, increased landscaping, and a custom design for this location. The roundabout fits within the public right-of-way. “We are trying to keep traffic on the appropriate road it

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should be on. We don’t want people coming from Carpinteria to be on our neighborhood lanes,” Sneddon said.

Several members of the public spoke, including neighbor Juergen Boehr, who has been a staunch opponent of the project. “It doesn’t help the pedestrians, and it doesn’t help the kids,” he said. “I think it’s a hazard, and there are other things that can be done.” Additional public comments at the MA meeting included concern over ADA access, the aesthetics of the roundabout, lighting, signage for the Miramar, and traffic flow. “In terms of accidents, the roundabouts are safer for pedestrians than stop signs,” said Kirsten Ayars, a consultant on the project.

The funding is secured through the environmental and permitting phases of the project through Senate Bill 1; the County will apply for continued funding in the spring of 2020. The construction of the project will take place at the same time of the Highway 101 widening. The preliminary engineering design of the roundabout is complete, with the preliminary landscaping plan currently in the works, and the lighting plan yet to be determined. The Design Working Group, which includes two members of MBAR and two MPC commissioners, are currently reviewing the project, followed by the full board of MBAR and MPC, which is expected in the coming months.

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hen the founder of the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF) Wilma Melville was looking for a place and funding the banks all said, “You’re going to do what?” except Montecito Bank & Trust. It became a $30 million project and was open in 2010 for the business of training dogs to find live people in a disaster.

It was first founded in 1996 but was not the training center it became in 2010. Montecito Bank & Trust president George Leis is also the chairman of the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation.

Humans performing search and rescue are not as fast as a dog to get through the debris. What’s even more heart warming is the dogs who do the job. They are practically all rescue dogs, many of whom were returned to shelters because the owners couldn’t deal with their high energy level. Just the trait needed for rescue. They also need intense drive, athleticism, and focus.

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& Trust took a bus to spend the day learning about these miracle dogs at the 125-acre campus (doggie Disneyland) on Wheeler Canyon Road near Santa Paula. It’s a very classy place with a giant Search City.

When SDF executive director George Haynes asked my favorite thing of the day, I replied, “Search City.” Part of the dog’s training is to wend their way through a mountain of rubble, earthquake house, airplane wreck, train wreck, and wrecked cars to find a living person and there is one hiding in there. They are also exercised in a water treadmill and a regular

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In another conference agenda item, the MA board voted to send a letter to the Board of Supervisors regarding the 2019 Zoning Ordinance Package Amendments, asking the BOS to consider allowing a member of the Montecito Planning Commission to review future telecommunications applications. New FCC regulations aim to remove control over the placement of new cell phone antennas out of local jurisdictions, which could create aesthetic issues in the community.

During Community Reports, Montecito Union Superintendent Dr. Anthony Ranii reported that the campus is set to be awarded $300K in state funds to fix fire alarms on campus, followed by $150K to fix aging windows. “We are applying for five million dollars more, in order to take on a much bigger project to address our aging infrastructure,” he said, adding that the school’s infrastructure is 70 years old. The school is also looking to take on a large-scale solar project.

Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi gave an update on recent crime in Montecito in the last month, which included a DUI on Hot Springs at Coast Village Road, a vehicle burglary and petty theft on Danielson, theft of mail on East Valley Road, and a residential burglary on

Ashley Road.

The next MA meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, December 10.

Helistop Update

The Santa Barbara Planning Commission met on November 7 to hear from County Staff regarding Carpinteria Valley Farms owner Pat Nesbitt’s application for a helistop on his Summerland property. The hearing was a follow-up to a hearing in September, when three of four present planning commissioners moved to deny his application. The move required that County staff make the appropriate findings for denial and present them to the Commission at a future meeting.

Nesbitt, who originally sought permission for two landing pads on his property, has modified the request to one, seeking permission to land his private helicopter on an existing 10-acre grass field on his property, from the hours of 7 am to 7 pm. The helicopters would take the ocean route as opposed to the mountain route in order to avoid any potential disturbance to residences along the mountain route. Dozens of Carpinteria, Summerland, and Montecito residents have spoken at multiple meetings and hearings on the subject, the majority

of whom are in opposition to the proposal for a variety of reasons: noise pollution, precedence, insufficiency of the environmental document, lack of regulation on the flight path, the number of weekly flights, and the hours of operation.

County Staff identified several findings for denial of the project, including the fact that existing trails are located immediately adjacent to the property; the Summerland Community Plan states that “new development shall not adversely impact existing recreational facilities and uses.” According to the Staff Report, the proposed helistop would adversely impact the existing equestrian trail adjacent to the subject property due to the loud noise events caused by a helicopter flying overhead and during landing or taking off events at the site. “Noise events associated with helicopter traffic are percussive in nature and stand out against the existing ambient noise levels at the site. These loud and percussive noise events may startle horses being ridden on the equestrian trail and pose a safety threat to users of the trail. Therefore, the proposed project would not comply with the recreation policies of the Comprehensive Plan and this finding cannot be made,” reads the report. The site is also adjacent to a sensitive habitat, a recorded monarch roosting habitat, which

would be adversely affected by the noise impacts.

Commissioners Michael Cooney, Laura Bridley, and John Parke made the required findings for denial, essentially voting in opposition to the helistop project. Commissioner Larry Ferini opposed findings, and Commissioner Daniel Blough abstained. Mr. Nesbitt has until Monday, November 18 to appeal the decision to the Board of Supervisors.

As of press time, an appeal had not yet been filed.

Guy Webster Photos at Allora by Laura

Local artist, photographer, and art dealer Bobbi Bennett is once again partnering with Coast Village Road’s Allora by Laura owner Laura Dinning for a trunk show and reception. This time the event will feature the iconic photographic work of the late rockand-roll photographer Guy Webster, who passed away in February. “Guy was a dear friend of mine and mentored me throughout my career,” said Bennett, who originally met the famed photographer in Ojai nearly two decades ago.

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Stepping Out Records were broken when CALM – Child Abuse Listening Mediation – welcomed 330 guests to its annual Stepping Stones lunch at the Coral Casino raising a hefty $230,000,

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Speakers for the non-profit, which is just turning 50, were president and chief executive Alana Walczak and Dr. Andria Ruth, a graduate of Yale and Harvard Medical School, who is a pediatrician at the Goleta Neighborhood Clinic.

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Bobbi Bennett and her mentor, Guy Webster, at an event at Montecito Gallery several years ago.

The iconic photographs of Webster, who passed away earlier this year, will be on display at Allora

by Laura through November, with a special art reception on Saturday, November 16.

ed shooting album covers and billboards for groups such as The Rolling Stones, The Mamas and the Papas, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Doors, Simon & Garfunkel, and Chicago, and such film legends as Rita Hayworth, Dean Martin, Natalie Wood, Barbara Streisand, Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ted Danson, and countless other actors, musicians, and politicians. He was considered

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the primary celebrity photographer for hundreds of worldwide magazines.

Bennett, who is working with Webster’s family, will have framed, gallery images of Mick Jagger, Sonny & Cher, Janis Joplin, The Beach Boys, and many more, all of which are limited edition and signed versions of the photographs. Bennett will also show some of Webster’s lesser-known landscape photographs. “He really was a genius in many areas of photography, and I’m honored to show these

pieces,” she said. Webster’s widow Leone and his daughter Merry will be at the show, which is this Saturday, November 16, from 5 pm to 8 pm.

The photographs will be displayed at Allora through the end of November, and will be available for purchase after the event. For more information, visit www.TheMontecitoGallery.com.

The reception will also feature the jewelry of Ali Grace, a New Yorkbased jewelry designer whose stylish earrings, rings, and charms are inspired by the modernity of rockand-roll. Grace has collaborated with musicians to create her jewelry, which Allora by Laura has been carrying the last several years. “It’s a wonderful marriage of fashion and rock-androll,” Dinning said of the collaborative art and jewelry show at her clothing boutique. “People of all generations can come and be inspired.” Grace will be at Allora Friday, November 15 through Saturday the 16 for a special trunk show that will culminate at the event.

The event is Saturday, November 16, from 5 pm to 8 pm at Allora by Laura, 1269 Coast Village Road.

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Klein has opened a new showroom and design studio in Montecito, located in San Ysidro Village. A grand opening event is planned for this Thursday, November 14.

“I have been coveting this space every since I moved here,” Klein told us earlier this week, during a visit to the showroom, which opened earlier this month. She and her husband moved to Montecito several years ago, and had visited the space when it was home to Julianne; the clothing boutique closed earlier this year. “I told my husband at that time, if I were ever to open a space here, this would be my dream,” she said. Klein has opened the space with fellow designer Una Malan, who is a popular fixture in the Los Angeles design community with two showrooms on La Cienega Boulevard, in the heart of the design district.

The Montecito showroom features custom furniture designed by the duo, as well as textiles, wallpaper, rugs, lighting, accessories, and more, all boasting the neutral, understated style Klein is known for. Both Klein and Malan studied design at the KLC School of Design in London, and then both brought their talents to Los Angeles where they’ve built outstanding reputations for their highend design aesthetic, and have often

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Pat Andersons ~ In Honor of Joseph Atwill ~ Monica Babich ~ Diane Baskin ~ Chaz Sportswear Lisa Colburn ~ Caryl Crahan ~ Cathy and Barton Clemens ~ John & Barbara DeGroot ~ Rachael Douglas, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services ~ Jeffrey & Monica Fried ~ In Honor of Talulah Froley ~ Gray and Gray Architects ~ George & Shari Isaac ~ Connie & Richard Kennelly Berna Kieler ~ Dr. Philip & Wendy Kistler ~ Thomas Kress ~ Marie Larkin ~ Susan Mezzio ~ Peter Morris ~ Dana & Andrea Newquist Richard Nordlund ~ Megan Orloff ~ Oliver and Espig ~ Craig & Marie Palonen ~ Shari Quinney ~ Rainbow Parrot Conservancy ~ Sandy Stahl Sybil Rosen ~ The RUNX1 Research Program ~ Seaside Wellness Gardens ~ Patsy Tisch ~ Anne Towbes ~ John and Christy Venable Patti & Nick Weber ~ Patty Rich Zucherman & Bubba

Community Sparks

The Badat Family ~ Cindy Feinberg ~ Michael Feinberg ~ Cindy and Cliff Ghersen ~ Hope Kelly ~ Peter Morris Jean M. Perloff ~ Peter & Susanne Van Duinwyk ~ Christy & John Venable

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The 501c3 Weekly

by Zach Rosen

Community Arts Workshop

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n the corner of Garden and Ortega lies an unmistakable workshop. A wide driveway gives way to two large buildings with high roofs. A distinct, bold steel gate designed by David Shelton makes a grand entrance to the space and provides a firm statement that this site is about the arts. The space is known as the Community Arts Workshop, or CAW, of course most in the community would identify it as the Santa Barbara Solstice Parade workshop. Each year at CAW, teams of artists toil away on their floats to help produce what is easily one of the city’s most celebrated and colorful events.

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The need for a space like CAW had long been recognized in the community, however it wasn’t until 2010 and an initiative by Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative (SBAC) that CAW became fully realized. Since then they have been providing affordable workshop spaces for artists and the arts.

Of course it is an ongoing process.

Over the past three and a half years they have undergone a fundraising initiative and some much needed renovations. The renovations allow for a more functional space that permits simultaneous use between different art mediums. Theater rehearsals and art classes can take place without disturbing exhibits and gallery settings.

While many of the renovations were to improve the structure and functionality of the space, others were more practical. Like installing some much needed bathrooms to replace the porta potties they previously used or soil mitigation because of the land’s previous life as a city motor pool. Last year the city extended CAW’s lease for another 25 years so the space is here to stay. And with four separate spaces that can host rehearsals, workshops, and gallery shows, CAW is open for use.

As Managing Director Casey Caldwell points out, the job is not done yet. To date they have raised about 75% of their capital campaign and are still seeking $700,000 in funding. Once their capital campaign is complete they will be able to finish the Ortega Street gate. Some of the remaining renovations are more functional like insulating and repairing the roof, or installing a heating and cooling system. This will also include repairs for the walls and parking lot as well as gardens and landscaping.

Proper lighting for both gallery and theatre is vital for the success of either and with more funding they will be able to install lighting systems that will allow these art mediums to shine.

CAW is already starting to benefit from the renovations it has undergone. Ready to Hang, a one-day pop up art show will be held at CAW on

Saturday, November 23rd, from 4 - 7 pm. The event is free to attend and during this show attendees will get access to all new works from a wide range of local artists. Don’t worry if you’re tight on wall space, every piece there will be exactly 12”x12” and no more than 5” from the wall. The idea began when Nathan Vonk, President of SBAC and owner of Sullivan Goss Gallery, and others were reminiscing on the parties that used to take place in the local art scene. Artists would bring their works and hang them on the wall for the evening. They wanted to bring back the spirit and camaraderie of those parties. To organize the event they brought on board local assemblage artist and master of the small, Michael Long. It is an open enrollment show and artists can submit up to four artworks. Casey mentioned that they have received tremendous feedback from the artists so far and are expecting a large number of submissions. Ready to Hang promises to be an evening full of cheer and art.

And with more events like this taking place in the space, CAW’s impact on the community will go beyond just Solstice, supporting local artists year round.

More information and artist applications can be found at sbcaw.org/hang.

Prospective artists can submit their works on Wednesday and Thursday, November 20 and 21, from 7 am to 12 pm.

•MJ

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“The astronomer has a starry map of the past; the astrologer, of our futures.” – Terri Guillemets

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LETTERS (Continued from page 8)

Before The Flood

I played a few holes of golf with you and Tom Mielko at Birnam several years ago. I don’t know if you are still accepting travel photos of the Montecito Journal for publication, but this place is significant because the entire site was moved piece by piece, to allow for its former location to be flooded when they dammed the Nile.

In the forest, the taller tree grabs the light. In the wild roaming herds, often the dominant beast leads until age and agility forces a replacement with a younger, stronger specimen.

In the human race, brute force and size has been overshadowed by smarts of various descriptions to win over any competition, whether in sports, business, government, and life in general.

data and unfortunately laughing all the way to the bank.

This same truth can be traced to why obviously simple issues like drought, the drug war, useful education that focuses on reading, writing, and arithmetic, wildfires, ample healthy food supplies, and the list goes on, cannot be solved, yes solved, inexpensively and thoroughly. Conflicts caused by unseen third parties intend to perpetuate these issues when entry level engineering and dedicated individuals left undistracted can create solutions.

So how do we as individuals, business owners, members of a community, leaders, address the conflict makers? As a start point, know that humans are basically good and seek to survive. Only a small percentage have slipped far away from a center of personal ethics. Next, know that most people can get along. This does not mean they have to agree but can be reminded of their inherent integrity to grant others the respect to be themselves.

Now, spotting those who are creating the conflict becomes more obvious.

Investigation is critical. Keep pulling the strings until you find the sniveling runt at the bottom who has been instigating the conflict. They may drive a fancy car, have fancy degrees, be hiding behind some fame or fortune, but whatever the veneer, they will be like

a mosquito, not to insult the little bug, but they’re blood suckers and cannot survive without sucking the life from those they embroil in their conflicts.

The next time you find yourself captured in an unresolving conflict, take a step back, re-assess your priorities, and know with certainty that all conflicts can be resolved unless some nasty individual is perpetuating the problem who has yet to be discovered. Pull back the veil and expose the source, then move on with your life and enjoy the freedom to know and use this truth.

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Flawed Ideas

Elizabeth Warren is an intelligent person. She released her “How I will pay for everything” plans as U.S. President. I find it difficult to comprehend why she thinks her socialist plans make an ounce of financial (or common) sense.

In understandably limited writing space, it’s impossible to elaborate much. I encourage readers to do their own research. You have every right to disagree with me.

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The Cause of Conflict and the Solution

I read your Journal cover to cover – thank you for adding a breath of fresh air.

I had to share this with you all; too many of us are tired of the incessant conflicts and there is a solution: For thousands of years, conflict has existed with all life forms. In the ocean, usually the bigger fish wins.

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Before, conflict was a means to an end. Today conflict is the ends, and often mean. Left-Right. RedBlue. White-Yellow-Black. Rich-Poor.

Privileged-Forgotten. Fat-Thin. OldYoung. College-Street Smarts. As a dyslexic conservative, who likes the color blue, it is quite upsetting. But then again, today’s conflict is intended to upset, an ancient trick to create distraction, introversion and self-destruction.

So, let me make a truth perfectly clear.

All conflicts today are the result of an unseen third party, who is likely profiting from the resultant conflict. It is covert. It is deceiving. It is always based in ill-intention and extreme self-interest. It feeds both sides of the conflict with false and misleading • The Voice of the Village •

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Santa Barbara Reads

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“It’s wonderful to see yourself in literature, but it’s also important to be generous and to see other people in literature.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz We’re just wrapping up our 2019 Santa Barbara Reads, which culminated in community talks with author Benjamin Alire Sáenz and programs exploring the themes of his book Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets to the Universe.

Originally from Mexico, Sáenz has made his way as a published poet, novelist, painter, and college professor at the University of Texas at El Paso in the bilingual MFA program.

He shares with students about the pain inherent in the writing process, “The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection…” – Carl Jung

“If it doesn’t hurt, it’s not going to matter.”

On whether he was nervous pitching this coming-of-age love story between Latino teenagers to publishers, Sáenz wryly said, “Homosexuals are not scary. And neither are Latinos… We’re just people.”

Ari and Dante is the first YA title chosen for SB Reads. More than 1,000 students received a copy of the book at school, where the novel is being taught in classrooms. Hundreds of high school students were able to hear Benjamin speak at their school.

One student told Benjamin, “I didn’t think I liked books, but I like yours.”

Fans of his book are looking forward its film adaptation and sequel.

Montecito Library Book Club

Our December selection is Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land. It’s a memoir about a single parent who worked as a housekeeper and relied on government assistance to support her daughter.

Land’s book details the struggles of the working poor in service to the wealthier classes, depicting how one can feel like “a nameless ghost” in their homes.

Interestingly, Land has since hired a housekeeper, which she had sworn she would never do.

If this book interests you, please check it out and join us for our book discussion on December 14 at 11 am.

All are welcome!

Upcoming Special Events

Friends of the Montecito Library Holiday Party (at Montecito Community Hall) Wednesday, December 11, 5-7 pm Folksongs of the Winter Holidays with Folksinger and Autoharpist Adam Miller Thursday, December 12 at 10:30 am See you at the library!

•MJ

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EDITORIAL (Continued from page 5)

The Permitting Process

The permitting process involved emergency environmental approval from not only Santa Barbara County, but also the Army Corps of Engineers, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the California Water Quality Control Board, the U.S. Forest Service among others without a formal EIR. Even emergency approvals can generally take up to four years. The multi-talented Partnership team, with considerable cooperation from the county, won approvals in a record eight weeks – from November 1 to December 21.

How Did TPRC Do It?

According to the articulate and gracious Alixe Mattingly, TPRC adopted the following strategies: • We held dozens of stakeholder meetings to get community feedback.

• The owners of the canyons believed in us and gave us their permission to build these nets on their properties.

• Montecito Trails Foundation and other environmental groups have been positive partners.

• The County government issued emergency permits and funded our performance bond with the California Department of Fish & Wildlife.

• Dozens of residents and many of our largest community institutions wrote over 100 letters of support during our permitting process.

• The Santa Barbara Foundation was behind us every step of the way and the Montecito Bank & Trust was invaluable.

• The Montecito Journal believed in us when many were skeptical.

• Over 700 local residents and foundations donated more than $5 million, in contributions ranging from $10 to $300,000. Our budget goal has always been $5.4 million.

• Six ring nets have been installed on-time and within budget, and in compliance with all permitting requirements, without any adverse incidents.

Degree of Difficulty for the TPRC Effort

Can a single individual, or even a community team of volunteer concerned citizens with no office space, no organization structure, no chain of command, no full-time workers, and no funding, design, fund and implement a technologically challenging program of substantial complexity? The selection of Pat McElroy as Executive Director, with his long history of community service and his well-earned reputation and respect from county officials, allowed an “Impossible Dream” to be turned into a “Singing in the Rain” saga of success.

The Future: What’s Next for TPRC?

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system. A new challenge is to determine the optimum mix of ring nets and debris basins to provide the maximum community protection at the least cost.

The Randall Road Debris Basin Project

Two weeks ago, 1st District County Supervisor Das Williams; Tom Fayram, County Water Resources Deputy Director; and Jon Frye, County Flood Control Engineering Manager, took a well-deserved bow for their role in debris flow mitigation. The county proudly announced the receipt of FEMA grants for a new debris basin on East Valley Road, a mile east of the Upper Village, where a newly renovated bridge spans San Ysidro Creek. The planned added debris basin is estimated to cost some $20 million, where FEMA pays 75% of the cost while the county picks up the remaining 25% share.

The county intends to purchase eight homesites. The one home not totally destroyed has already been purchased by the County for $4 million. The other seven totally destroyed homes will be purchased for the fair market value of the land only.

The new Randall Road Debris Basin will have an undisclosed capacity. It will sit alongside the San Ysidro Creek Channel north of East Valley 192 and Randall Road, upstream of the East Valley Road bridge and underground culvert. A debris basin is simply a large hole adjacent to the creek channel, large enough to capture boulders, trees and large debris while allowing water to pass downstream. Design work is scheduled to be completed in the Spring of 2021 with construction beginning in the Summer of 2021 with completion in the Fall of 2021.

The new Randall Road debris basin proposed by the county will feature a slotted basin channel that will allow year-round passage of fish and animals. This new design feature was already in place in Gobernador Canyon in Carpinteria on 1/9 and worked quite well.

Debris Basins Plus Ring Nets

Debris basins are essentially man-made scooped-out holes in the ground, normally positioned behind low earthen dams designed as catch basins to collect rocks and debris. During storms, the water runs either over the dam or through a hole in the bottom of the basin which can become blocked by the accumulated debris. Elevated ring nets allow wildlife to pass under the nets in dry times and allow water to flow under and through the nets in periods of high intensity rainfall, leaving behind the trapped trees and boulders.

No one can ascertain which is more effective on a cost/benefit scale – new debris basins or more ring nets. Both help make the Montecito community safer, but even with wider creek channels, two or more ring nets on each creek and an added debris basin, flood control experts cannot promise that new mitigations could prevent the massive damage should a repeat of the 1/9 concentrated deluge strike Montecito in the next five-year period.

“The TPRC always worked in close support with County Flood Control, Public Works, the County CEO and the County Board of Supervisors. We always felt that TPRC was just adding ‘bandwidth’ and community resources to an agency under tremendous stress,” notes McElroy.

Should the TPRC Talent Be Saved and Hoarded?

Doers, not talkers, are the most precious commodity in any community. The team at the Partnership for Resilient Communities, led by Pat McElroy, are exhausted from performing a modern miracle. The hard lessons they learned are an asset to Montecito that needs to be retained, not wasted. As importantly, their positive relationships with the county levers of power, built upon mutual respect and mutual trust, are invaluable. TPRC is recognized as a force that increases community resiliency and protects homes, saves lives, saves businesses and protects the residents of Montecito and our precious semi-rural lifestyle.

Why would we dismantle it and throw it away?

What Option Does Montecito Have to Retain the Experience of the TPRC?

Is there any community appetite to retain the TPRC talent by creating a new Montecito Floodwater Management District to work in partnership with Montecito Water, Montecito Sanitary, Summerland Sanitary, and the County of Santa Barbara?

Our community has an abundance of intellectual brainpower. The Partnership for Resilient Communities has shown us a way to harness and use that intellectual capital. The lesson learned is that if you want to solve big problems in an imaginative manner, put together a technologically savvy and politically astute Montecito Think-a-Thon to generate innovative solutions. Don’t lose this asset.

Let the discussion begin.

•MJ

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Brilliant Thoughts

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by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara since 1973. No children.

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To Eat His Own

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gastroenterologist is a doctor whose techniques nowadays include inserting an endoscopic light down into people’s intestines.

One member of that elite community recently wrote a book about his work, entitled, The Tunnel at The End of The Light. If I may say so, the whole process of eating, digestion, and elimination is one that needs to have more light thrown on it – but not necessarily by me – and certainly not here.

What does fascinate me, though is that, with only one kind of human body to feed, we have such a vast variety of foods, culinary techniques, cultural rituals, and oddball eating practices. To start the ball of strange personal gustatory preferences rolling, I am reminded of this classic quatrain: I eat my peas with honey, I’ve done so all my life.

They do taste rather funny – But it keeps them on the knife.

But for comestible kookiness, we might as well go back to the beginning – all the way to the story of the Garden of Eden, with its concept of Forbidden Fruit, linked inseparably with the supposedly essential sinfulness of our nature. History is also haunted by the cannibalistic idea that you acquire the characteristics of whatever (or whomever) you eat. And somehow this got carried over into Christianity, with the symbolic consumption of the Savior in the form of bread and wine.

But it is not only eating, but not eating, i.e. fasting, which is featured in the practices of many religions and cults.

The purposes can vary, from wanting to purify yourself, to protesting on behalf of some cause. Jews fast on a Biblicallyordained “Day of Atonement” – deliberately afflicting themselves.

In recent history, there have been some famous “hunger strikes.” If the persons fasting are in custody, the authorities are presented with a perplexing dilemma – whether to let the prisoners starve themselves to death, or to feed them by force. A century ago in Britain, when faced with hunger-striking “suffragettes” demanding votes for women, Parliament invented a special solution, in the form of an Act which permitted hunger-striking women to be released, but then rearrested when they were strong enough to go back to prison. This piece of legislation (1913) became known as “The Cat-and-Mouse Act.” There’s no telling how the whole 14 – 21 November 2019

game might have turned out, because the outbreak of World War I in 1914 had the effect on both sides of calling the whole thing off. And at the end of the War (1918) women actually got the vote, both in Britain and the U.S. The subject of food is one which can be as boring as a grocery-store shopping-list, or as thrilling as some of the epigrams on which I have built my own dubiously impressive career.

Such original thoughts as the following (which somehow also all have to do with human relationships) have apparently captivated the fancy of sizable numbers of people — some of them not even personally known to me: “I WANT YOU, HAPPINESS, AND CHOCOLATE— BUT NOT NECESSARILY IN THAT ORDER.” “WHAT GOOD IS IT IF I TALK IN FLOWERS, WHILE YOU’RE THINKING IN PASTRY?” “BUT AFTER YOU HAVE GONE, I WILL STILL HAVE PEANUT BUTTER.” “EVERY TIME I THINK OF MY MOTHER’S COOKING, I GET A LUMP IN MY THROAT.” It is startling to consider the gigantic spin-off industries which our obsession with eating has generated. Think of the plumbing industry, with its endlessly inter-connected sewers. Think of the millions of dentists, whose children many of us have helped put through college. Think of the garbage industry (now fashionably referred to as “re-cycling”) whose exponents seek ever wider and deeper areas, on earth and beyond, in which to dump our candy wrappers.

Without eating, the exploration of the Universe would no doubt by now be on a much faster track. We would probably be in contact with worlds whose inhabitants have long ago outgrown the ghastly system in which all life feeds on other life.

In the meantime, however, we are stuck with the questionable delights of regularly pushing organic material through one orifice into our bodies and pushing it out through others.

And what is it all for? Nobody really knows. And to add to the mystery, not only humans, but a wide variety of creatures share these behaviors. Yes, insects eat and sleep – but for some reason, the latter state is instead designated “torpor” – a condition which I fear may befall some readers, if I don’t stop here.

•MJ

NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND PENDING ACTION BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO APPROVE AN EMERGENCY PERMIT

Notice is hereby given that an application for the project described below has been submitted to the Santa Barbara County Planning and Development Department. This project requires the approval of an Emergency Permit by the Director of the Planning and Development Department.

Case No. 19EMP-00000-00003: The project consists of a debris flow prevention and mitigation system that will be located in three canyons north of the community of Montecito in Cold Spring Canyon, San Ysidro Canyon, and Buena Vista Canyon. The project involves 6 previously installed Geobrugg flexible debris control nets, two in each creek, to remain for one year and associated maintenance and removal.

The basic debris flow protection system consists of a steel ring net engineered to resist the velocities and dynamic and static pressures unique to debris flows. Support ropes are installed into channel banks and transfer debris impact and pressure loads from ring nets to the ground. Excessive energy is absorbed by net braking elements in the wire support ropes.

The net design calls for a minimum elevation of three feet above the water surface of the low-flow channel to allow for natural stream processes and wildlife use. This space between the water surface and the bottom of the net will be maintained except during high-flow or debris flow events.

Two nets would be installed in Cold Spring Canyon (APNs 011-010-027, 011-010-028), two nets would be installed in San Ysidro Canyon (APNs 151-180-019, 007-020-003) and two nets would be installed in Buena Vista Canyon (APN 007-020-009).

The nets are pre-fabricated to specification for each location. A biologist will be onsite to conduct wildlife surveys, monitor for permit compliance, and provide oversight of construction and maintenance work.

Maintenance of the debris nets may be necessary if damaged and in need of repair. Annual and post-event inspections will be conducted. Minor maintenance can typically be done using tools and materials transported by hand and foot. The need for removal of accumulated debris will depend on frequency, intensity, and the amount of precipitation experienced in the surrounding watershed.

Intense and localized rainfall events as occurred on January 9, 2018 have potential to mobilize soil and debris. The debris retention system will be monitored. Should the nets accumulate sufficient material to block the channel, equipment will be mobilized to the location via aerial transport once stream flow has subsided sufficiently to allow safe access.

When the watersheds are re-vegetated to pre-Thomas Fire levels, estimated in approximately five years depending on natural drought and vegetation re-growth cycles, the net systems will be removed entirely, generally by helicopter, under the supervision of biologists. The project is zoned RMZ40, RMZ-100, and RMZ-320 (Resource Management Zone, 40-320 minimum acre parcel size), located in Montecito creeks and canyons in the Montecito Community Plan Area, First Supervisorial District.

At this time it is not known when the pending approval may occur. To receive additional information regarding this project including the date the Emergency Permit is approved, and/or to view the application and plans, please contact Ciara Ristig at 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, by email to cristig@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or by phone at (805) 568-2077.

Anyone interested in this matter is invited to submit public comment in support of or in opposition to the project. All letters should be addressed to the County Planning and Development Department, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. To ensure there is enough time to receive and review comments before a decision on the project is made, please submit your comments by Monday, November 19, 2018. You may also submit a public comment by contacting Ciara Ristig at (805) 568-2077, by email to cristig@co.santa-barbara.ca.us or FAX to (805) 568-2030.

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n the surface, What Martha Did might seem a strange choice for Launch Pad, UCSB’s innovative model of new play development that serves as a high-tech lab for playwrights-in-residence, UCSB theater students, faculty, and guest artists.

The darkly funny drama about regret, facing the truth, and finding forgiveness features largely middle-aged characters, a bit of a stretch for the late teens and early 20s students performing most of the roles. But on the other hand, the format allows the playwright – successful stage and screen actress Enid Graham turned author for whom Martha, her fifth play, will be her first to see a full production – a chance to dig in deep and have a full slate of collaborative artists in watching the piece come to fruition via the workshop to stage production.

“I have learned so much from them, maybe even more than they have from me,” Graham said over the phone from Philadelphia where she was to begin shooting a new series for HBO the following morning before returning to UCSB for the previews and performances this weekend. “And they get a chance to stretch into roles they normally wouldn’t be able to get.”

What Martha Did takes place at a family gathering to commemorate the 25th anniversary edition of family member Martha’s celebrated book of essays. All except Martha, that is, who killed herself soon after the book’s publication. Her family continues to struggle to reconcile the Martha they knew who wrote so brilliantly about the joys of living with the hidden one who ended her life, along the way

by Steven Libowitz

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

wrestling with taking stock of their own early dreams vs. the people they have become before a surprise guest throws a wrinkle into the whole thing.

Brian Harwell joins UCSB theater professor Julie Fishell, a colleague of Graham’s from her days at Juilliard, as the two professional actors in the cast of mostly students, all directed

by Launch Pad founder Risa Brainin.

Graham, who was once nominated for a Tony and has worked steadily as an actress for film and TV series, talked about the story, its birth and her motivations as a writer last weekend.

Q. How did you start writing? It’s not like you were hurting for roles.

A. I was invited to join a fiction writing group after my second son was born and I fell in love with it. But then I realized I should write plays, something I’m more familiar with… It’s wonderful to be an actor, but you’re always interpreting someone else’s work, and trying to understand the idea behind the production and how you fit in. And it’s a powerless position where you have to wait for someone to hire you. As a writer, I love that I can create anywhere or anytime, and

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Day of the Living Museum

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he man was using a hatchet to make a spoon out of a log.

“That’s the way it used to be done,” he told us. “People needed things to do indoors when it was cold and damp.”

I zipped up my raincoat. “That’s why we have Netflix.”

We were visiting the Weald and Downland Living Museum in Singleton, England, a large outdoor museum of houses, barns, and villages from the 1300s to 1800s that had been moved there from all over Southern England. The sun poked out from behind a huge cloud. I took a quick photo of the spoon guy.

Back in Santa Barbara it was eighty degrees and sunny. Alan and Adrienne loved it. They were staying in our house. We were staying in their house in Sussex.

“What’s the weather app say?” I asked Pat. “Fifty degrees.”

“Not bad, what’s the high?”

“That is the high.”

“Any chance of rain?”

“Yup.” “When?”

“Every day we are here.”

We walked along the gravel path of Weald and Downland to a thatchedroof “Poplar Cottage” built in the 1600s. Upstairs was a bedroom (called a solar) with a romantic view of the thatching above. “Probably had running water… when it rained.”

“Don’t say rain,” Pat said. “I forgot my raincoat. You’d probably lend me yours though, right?”

“I’d love to, Dear, but, ah, the zipper is stuck.”

“So much for the age of chivalry.”

There was also a cradle in the bedroom. “Wonder how long it takes to whittle a baby spoon with an axe?”

“About the same time it would take to thaw out after breastfeeding.”

We continued on to a one-room

schoolhouse. It contained a painting of Jesus, a map of the British Isles, and a movable chalkboard that said: “Children should be seen and not heard.” I think the chalkboard in my grade school said the same thing.

Our next stop was a medieval cottage that had once been in the village of Hangleton, probably built in the 1200s. Inside was a large open room with an oven and a hearth, both of which, in my opinion, should have been working on a day like today.

The village itself died due to an economic change. And because of Black Death.

“Don’t touch anything.” I suggested.

“Too late,” Pat said. She waved her hand in front of my face. “But I won’t touch you if you give me your raincoat.”

“Wow, just like our vows: ‘Til Black Death do us part.’”

We continued on. I walked well behind Pat so I could keep my eye on her. We discovered an old barn from Cowfold. It had been dated by dendrochronology (tree-ring dating). The trees used in the construction were felled in 1536. Across from the barn was a field with a cow with large horns. It stared at us chewing slowly and deliberately.

We took turns mooing at him. He was unimpressed. So we headed for our

final village stop, a watermill from the 1600s that was still in operation.

It grounds corn using two millstones powered by a waterwheel.

“The water comes from a pond above us,” the operator told us. “The water ends up in the pond just below us. At night, we pump all the water from the lower pond back to the upper pond for next day’s tours.”

“We were early recyclers,” his partner said.

We headed for the parking lot.

The other thing we exchanged with Adrienne and Alan was our cars. They joked about Americans driving on the wrong side of the road. But at least, for the most part, our roads had two sides. Many of the roads we took to get to Weald and Downland were the width of one car.

“How are your toes?” Pat asked.

When I drove they curled under in sheer terror.

“Better. How is your neck?” Pat climbed into the passenger seat and moved her head toward the middle of the car, as far away from the foliage as possible.

“A little stiff. But I guess the folks that lived in all these old villages would have loved to have a car to get around.”

We pulled onto the road. A tour bus came right at us. “Maybe,” I said. •MJ

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Spirituality Matters

by Steven Libowitz “Spirituality Matters” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area spiritual gatherings. Unusual themes and events with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.

The Divine Mess: Laughter is the Best Medicine

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arah Taylor has been acting since high school, but was always interComedian and ested in the serious roles. She Reiki Master Sarah Taylor didn’t get into performing stand-up hosts The Divine comedy until many years later, right Mess Show around the same time her own strugat Yoga Soup gles led her to investigate Buddhism. on Saturday, “It was very odd, because I had a November 16 real pull to just sit and practice for long hours, but also to dive into the comedy clubs in L.A. and hone my act,” Taylor recalled. “It was quite a wild ride.”

At a certain point, being pulled in two directions became too much, and Taylor – who had been teaching meditation and doing energy healing work for more than a decade – stepped back from the clubs to focus on her rapidly unfolding spiritual path.

Four years ago, she decided to see about putting the two fields together. The result is “The Divine Mess,” an event where higher consciousness and comedy collide, which makes its Santa Barbara debut at Yoga Soup this weekend. The idea, she said, isn’t actually all that strange.

“All the Buddhas and awake masters have a joviality and a comedic joy about them. That was also happening for me as I continued on my spiritual path. As those things that are not part of our true nature began to fall away. I just felt lighter and lighter and laughter just kept feeling more natural.”

As befits a spiritual stand-up, the show avoids any kinds of -isms that are popular with unevolved comics, and no bits that talk down to anybody or any segment of society. It’s more about poking fun at ourselves, Taylor said.

“We’re laughing about the frailty of humanity and the ridiculousness of our egos. The laughter is a moment of total presence and surprise, and those ‘aha’ moments of spiritual realization often seem like finally getting the cosmic joke, laughing at the idea that you ever thought you were separate from the universe or didn’t appreciate your radiance.”

But spirituality isn’t actually the subject of her set. Most of her jokes and routines are just regular comedy that she performs in front of non-seeker audiences in the clubs. “It’s a great way to test out the material to make sure it’s actually funny,” she said.

Still, “The Divine Mess” – which Taylor performs in yoga studios, retreat centers, and the like with fellow spiritually-minded comics opening with 10-minute sets (in this case, locals Victoria Charters and Madalena “Maddy” Fossatti) – does have one major difference with her typical act. The event doesn’t end when the laughter dies down, instead coming to a close with a 15-20 minute guided meditation featuring healing Reiki energy led by Taylor, who is a certified Reiki Master.

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Montecito’s Thomson Sanctuary, which is both a private home and a gathering place created with the intention of supporting and enhancing members of the community’s journey to inner transformation, next hosts Goddess in Action, part of The Awakening of the Goddess Series, on Saturday, November 16. The women’s empowerment gathering features daughter-mother team Ragan Thomson and Dr. Nancy O’Reilly working with women to help them find their internal value and create success that matches the individual soul. Participants will be connected with other working women and receive the encouragement and support needed to bring the inner Goddess into action and enhance your business life. Those in attendance will learn to lead your business from the feminine energy, and be surrounded by other women who are seeking a meaningful and supportive connection, receive coaching by Thomson in learning to remove any obstacles on the way and say “yes!” to making money the way you want. Participants will also enjoy the breathtaking rose garden, walking paths through a reflective hedge maze, and the opportunity to connect with your inner self at a deeply soothing meditation garden.

More than a networking event, Goddess in Action is women coming together to create lasting and impactful forward movement within themselves, their businesses, and their community. Goddess Circle, Goddess in Action and Goddess Retreat are a progressive series of events, each of them designed to guide you deeper into the process of Awakening of the Goddess. Women can start anywhere in the cycle. Thomson: is a Transformational and Spiritual Life Coach while Dr. O’Reilly is a Clinical Psychologist and International Philanthropist. Email info@raganthomson.com, visit https://raganthomson. com/goddess-in-action-networthing-boutique.

Mindfulness Retreat & Cultural Workshop

The next full-day mindfulness meditation retreat from the Santa Barbara Buddhist Meditation Meetup deviates a bit from the usual full-day retreat format to include more emphasis on sharing the hows, whats and whys of Thai Buddhist culture. Those curious about such questions as why the monks light incense and candles at the American Buddhist Meditation Temple, explanations of the number of Buddha statues seen around monasteries, the purpose of chanting, how to practice eating meditation, or why the monks wear orange robes, will have a chance to hear the answers. The 8 am to 4 pm event on Saturday, November 16, takes place at American Buddhist Meditation Temple, 1251 Orchid Drive. Visit www.meetup.com/Santa-Barbara-Buddhist-Meditation.

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The event also premiered a new video by local photographer Isaac Hernandez, whose work is often featured in this column, while the ubiquitous Geoff Green emceed.

Among the supporters were Merryl Brown, Laura Capps, Judy Egenolf, Lucy Firestone, Janet Garufis, Belle Hahn, Diana MacFarlane, Alice Van de Water, Barbara Ben-Horin, Das Williams, Monica Babich, Alixe Mattingly, Valerie Montgomery, Nancy McGrath, Susan Gulbransen, Nancy Ransohoff, Stephanie Sokolove, Adele Rosen, Michael and Nati Smith, and Maryan Schall.

Shine On English author Deborah Richards, a Santa Barbara-based equine therapist, recounts the nightmare when her daughter and stepdaughter began to experiment with drugs in her new book Shift & Shine.

After escaping an early abusive marriage, Deborah fled the U.K. with her life and young daughter and met a successful songwriter, Jake Hooker, who co-wrote the famous anthem “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll.”

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Headed for Hollywood Courageous firefighters, who have been battling the recent California wildfires, were welcomed by Ellen DeGeneres on her popular TV show, including Adam Estabrook, Santa Barbara County battalion chief.

Ellen gave particular thanks to Eric Le Blanc from Riverside who helped keep her Montecito home safe from the Thomas Fire.

He revealed it added pep in his team’s step when they realized they were protecting her property.

Ellen then surprised them with a $250,000 donation to the California Fire Foundation, courtesy of Nature Valley.

Read all About It Santa Barbara High student Olivia Seltzer, 15, was getting unqualified publicity this week when a crew from NBC’s Today Show visited for an interview with the enterprising youngster.

Olivia writes The Cramm, a daily newsletter she founded and works on as editor-in-chief. She has also been featured on NPR and profiled in Teen Vogue.

The site breaks down daily national news and international happenings in a vernacular that appeals to Gen Z readers.

She says BBC News is her favorite source.

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Divine Dance Dance Theatre of Harlem, celebrating its half century, put on a most impressive display when the company performed at a sold-out show at the Granada.

The two hour show, part of UCSB Arts & Lectures program, consisted of four works, starting with a classical amber alert, Orange, featuring six dancers and music by Vivaldi, beautifully choreographed by Stanton Welch, and This Bitter Earth, a sublime pas de deux by Christopher Wheeldon, featuring a brief encounter between a man and woman featuring music by Max Richter and soulful vocals by Dinah Washington.

UCSB A&L Producers Circle members Winston Peters and Patricia Duncan with Dance Theatre of Harlem dancer Yinet Fernandez (photo by Grace Kathryn Photography)

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The second half was as energized as the first with Passage, choreographed

by Claudia Schreier, which reflects in abstract the fortitude of the human spirit and an enduring will to prevail, with award winner Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Balamouk wrapping the wonderful performance.

Afterwards a reception was held with the dancers in the McCune Founders Room.

Playground for All The elegantly dressed amazons were out in force at the Hidden Oaks Ranch when the charity Gwendolyn’s Playground, which is raising $4 million to build an all-inclusive play

area, including disabled children, in partnership with the City of Santa Barbara and Parks and Recreation, at the Dwight Murphy Field, a tiara’s toss from the Santa Barbara Zoo, held its first lunch, with all 220 tickets being snapped up in just eight hours.

The sun-soaked Duo-catered fête, co-chaired by Karie Ide and Kelly Almeroth, commemorated Gwendolyn, daughter of Bill and Victoria Strong – founders of the Gwendolyn Strong Foundation – who was born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, which made her profoundly physically disabled and medically fragile.

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Wayne’s World film director Penelope Spheeris on set with Mike Myers (photo by Suzanne Tenner)

inning a Living Legend Award at the annual FestForums Santa Barbara is film director Penelope Spheeris. A notto-miss three-day event is filled with a VIP Speaker Line-Up that includes Steve Baltin from Forbes Magazine, former World Surfing Champion Shaun Tomson, Skip Martin (Kool & the Gang, The Dazz Band), Jon Anderson (Yes), Grammy Songwriter Ray Parker Jr., Stephon Crumbley from BET Live!, and Robert Richards of Glastonbury Festival. Local sponsors of the event are Allora, Brander Vineyard, and the Lobero Theatre.

FestForums co-founder Laurie Kirby states, “Past winners of our Living Legends include Kenny Loggins, Dennis Quaid, and Harry Sheerer, to name a few. Steve Nemeth recommended Penelope to me and after reviewing her work, and more importantly, after speaking to her, I knew she embodied what FestForums stands for, which is bringing together a culture of forward-thinking people who are major influencers with a high degree of empathy. Penelope is brilliant, talented, kind, thoughtful, an icon in documenting music in film, an outlier, a woman ahead of her

time and way too humble to say it, but I will. And she’s as funny as they come.”

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I had the pleasure to interview Penelope this week: Q. How would you summarize the focus of your career from Rock’n’Reel in 1974 to the present?

A. A roller coaster ride I barely survived. At one point, I realized I had sacrificed my very identity to Hollywood. And that’s a dead-end street.

When you made The Decline of Western Civilization, Suburbia, The Boys Next Door and Dudes, what was your goal, the story or use of cinéma vérité?

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ing films like Suburbia and Decline.

Stark eye-openers on subjects that people were afraid to even learn about. However, as a woman, I had to take whatever gig I could get.

Thus, the genre variety. When I was asked to direct Hollywood Vice Squad I didn’t want to do it, but my agent asked, “Where else are you going to make $50,000?” He was sadly correct.

However, it did allow me to learn how to roll a car, blow up a blood squib, and toss a stunt man out a window. Also, I was lucky enough to cast Robin Wright in her first film and give non-bondable Carrie Fisher her first job after re-hab.

Looking back, what else was achieved beyond that initial direction?

Incredible life experiences. Lots of international travel. I even went on a tour bus an entire summer to document the Ozzfest, a movie called We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll.

Ten heavy metal bands in 30 cities. I worked on it for three years.

Unfortunately, it never got released because we didn’t have the music rights even though the producer had said we did. Lesson learned. I’m now a closet lawyer!

How did Wayne’s World come into the picture?

The clouds opened up, God pointed down and said: “You finally get a break, sucka!” It was my 7th movie.

I was 45 years old, borrowing money from my sister. I became a millionaire overnight. Frightening.

What is your largest contribution in Wayne’s World?

Good question! Having a keen ear. It was everyone’s big chance.

Mike, Dana, writers Bonnie and Terry Turner, Rob Lowe who was just coming off some really bad publicity, and me... we all were trying so hard to make it work. Everyone would throw in jokes, including the hilarious Dolly Grip whose suggestions I often took. Everyone was trying to one-up each other. I had to pick and choose.

Sometimes I would have to shoot it

“Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man.” – Aleister Crowley

Mike’s way, then Dana’s way, then my way. However, I knew that I would be in the editing room alone and could put it together my way. Another contribution may have been my sense of continuity. The writers went through all the new page colors three times (there are eight of them). I had to track the logic as the film was of course, not shot in page order. Luckily, I have that kind of mind. I can visualize and remember little pieces of shots that are made to work together. Imagine shooting The Little Rascals. Some of the kids were four years old and would often stray out of frame after a butterfly or a snack, etc. The studio called me in and said it would never cut together, but I knew it would and I proved it.

The best medium to convey your message is...?

I don’t really have a message. I just like to present the work and let the audience react as they will. A message would come from someone who thinks he/she knows it all. And I certainly don’t.

Is the medium the message?

Funny you should ask that. Who knows? I’ve always wanted to make a film about Marshall McLuhan and explore that query. Will somebody please make that movie? He was such a genius.

A question you wish someone asked you?

Why have you made so many movies about misfits? Survey says: “Because I am one. I have no idea how I was able to survive the Studio System for as long as I did.”

What are you planning to share at FestForums Santa Barbara?

How Hollywood is so overrated.

How egos somehow become more important than the work. Why I like building houses now and having no studio execs looking over my shoulder.

411: www.festforums.com

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nects on a deeper level. That’s a theme that knocks around a lot in my plays.

I know it’s what I’ve been trying to learn through art since I was 12.

I know there are actor’s directors. Are you an actor’s writer?

Definitely. I love actors. I write distinctive interesting characters that are fun to play. Which is not always true in the theater because with some writers all the characters talk just like the writer. Or the play could be about a plot or a trick, a fun inventive idea or a topic.

But actors like plays that explore people and allow them to do what they do best, bring themselves to a role that’s distinctly different. That’s what I write.

(UCSB Launch Pad’s preview production of What Martha Did runs November 15-24 in UCSB’s Performing Arts Theater. Info at (805) 893-2064 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu.)

I’m the generating impulse, making it whatever I want it to be. It’s fun to be in charge!

What Martha Did goes a step further in that it’s about a writer. What was the impetus?

Actually, I started with the structure, thinking it would be fun to write a three-act play because of how they unfold. I also thought it would be fun to write a mystery play, which it really isn’t. Except thats it’s about the biggest mystery one can imagine – why would someone kill themselves, which is unanswerable.

What were you exploring by taking on that theme?

Martha is stuck in that youthful time in everyone’s mind the way people are

when they die young. So the theme is about being later in life and looking back trying to understand how you got where you are and who you are now, and trying to let go of the demons. As with all of my plays, it’s about the kinds of thoughts and ideas like those that fascinate me… a kind of spirituality that’s about an existential loneliness that we all feel and we’re all trying to break through. In this play, the characters share this collective grief that they’re still trying to transcend. Then it’s shaken up and it forces them to deal with it in a different way where hopefully they’ve moved forward in their quest to have a deeper connection with others and let go of the things that keep them separated.

So I’m imagining that’s what you also want the audience to take away.

It’s hard to encapsulate. There’s no over lesson or moral, but it’s about the kind of magic that comes from the theater when you recognize something in yourself, and see human moments between the playwright, the actors, and you that creates a sense of connection. That’s why I was drawn to the theater as a little girl and still love being an actor. At its very best, for one second you get to explore the world of someone else’s brain, you inhabit it, and then hopefully the audience con-

American Psycho’s Perverse Pleasures

Who knew when multi-generational Santa Barbara native Samantha Eve launched Out of the Box Theater Company a decade ago with the musical version of the anti-drug school film-turned cult classic Reefer Madness followed by a revival of the beloved ‘60s Broadway musical Hair that those two would be pretty much the most traditional works in the company’s oeuvre?

Since then, Eve et al have brought Assassins, a Stephen Sondheim musical about would-be and successful killers of presidents; Lizzie, the punk rock musical about Lizzie Borden, tried for murdering her parents with an ax; musical adaptations of the violent and/or gory movies Evil, Heathers, Bonnie & Clyde, and Carrie; and the psychologically edgy family dramas John & Jen, Next to Normal, and

Fun Home.

“People don’t expect these kinds of stories in musical theater, which has the traditional tract of fun and romance and living happily-ever-after,” Eve explained earlier this week.

“I like alternative stories told through musical theater because it really challenges what the genre can be.”

That certainly goes for OOB’s new show, American Psycho, a musical based on the satiric slasher novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published by the so-called Brat Pack writer in 1991, and promptly condemned by the literary establishment as overly violent and misogynistic. The musical tells the story of Patrick Bateman, a young and handsome Wall Street banker with impeccable taste and unquenchable desires. Patrick and his elite cadre of designer label-wearing Yuppies spend the early evening hours in chic restaurants and exclusive clubs. But at night, Patrick takes part in a darker homicidal indulgence, or perhaps it just exists in his mind.

In other words, perfect for Out of the Box. “It’s about a world that rewards sociopaths. But you don’t really know what is happening for real because Patrick is an unreliable narrator and we see the story through his eyes,”

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 33) Corinna Gordon, Gretchen Lieff, and author Elaine Weiss (photo by Priscilla)

Gwendolyn’s Playground event committee Sara Genaurdi, Cleo Martinez, Marina Delio, Jill Pirozzi, Jenny Deakyne, Kelly Almeroth, Victoria Strong, Kari Ide, Sarah Paskin, Ronda Fallon, Ivana Firestone, Christina Zellet, and Silvie Rich (photo by Kacie Jean Photography)

Asha DeMarco, Sheri Copus, Bess Scribner, and Katie Taylor at the Gwendolyn’s Playground luncheon (photo by Kacie Jean Photography)

Sandi Nicholson, Lisa Lloyd, and Bruce Heavin at the reception for Elaine Weiss (photo by Priscilla)

Victoria and Bill Strong (photo by Kacie Jean Photography)

Deborah Kalas captures wild horses at play

the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone, whose children, Brooks, 10, and Anja, 8, joined Estrella Munoz, 9, in singing “Where We Belong” – written by Erland Wanberg, executive director of Musicology Santa Barbara based at the Music Academy of the West – and “Come On and Dance.”

It is hoped in due course to raise another $4 million for baseball and soccer fields.

Horsing Around The bridle crowd were out in force at Tecolote when Santa Barbara author Deborah Kalas launched her first book The Wild Herd: A Vanishing American Treasure.

The 146-page tome is packed with pictures of wild horses at play taken

by Deborah, who splits her time between our Eden by the Beach and East Hampton.

She studied photography at

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After spending five years compiling her new work, she is now working on another book about horses.

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The Great Fight Elaine Weiss, prize-winning journalist and author of the blockbuster book The Woman’s Hour, was fêted

Sara Rotman and Christopher Lloyd at Tydes (photo by Priscilla)

at a bustling reception at Tydes at the Coral Casino after speaking on The Great Fight to Win the Vote at Campbell Hall, part of the UCSB Arts & Lectures series.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is teaming up with mega director Steven Spielberg to bring the triumphant episode of American history to the small screen.

Among the guests at the bash, co-hosted by Gretchen Lieff and Christopher and Lisa Lloyd, were Bill

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and Sandi Nicholson, Bruce Heavin, Hollye Jacobs, Miles Hartfeld, Annette Caleel, Corinna Gordon, Janet Garufis, Monica Babich, Kimberly Phillips, Scott and Ella Brittingham, and Sara Miller McCune.

Spreading Out TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey is expanding, at least when it comes to real estate.

Oscar winner Jeff Bridges, who put his Montecito estate on the market in May for $8 million, has sold his fouracre home, a Spanish Revival built in 1919 with a 5,000 sq.ft. barn to Oprah for $6.85 million.

Her East Valley Road estate, Promised Land, now sprawls across 70 contiguous acres, having bought a 23-acre neighboring compound for $29 million in 2015.

The new compound comprises five separate structures, including a carriage house, pool house and a gated equestrian facility.

Oprah, 65, has several impressive properties through the U.S., including a 43-acre Orcas Island, Washington, compound she acquired last year for $8 million, a $14 million ski chalet in Telluride, Colorado, bought in 2015, and a 163-acre ranch in Maui, Hawaii.

R for Real Estate The late Montecito best selling alphabet detective series author Sue Grafton’s home has come on to the market for $6.999 million.

The nine-year-old five-bedroom, five-bathroom 6,181 sq.ft. house on two acres on Picacho Lane was designed by Grafton, who died in 2017 aged 77, and her husband Steve Humphrey.

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boasts a master suite with a balcony, fireplace and marble bathroom, detached three-car garage and a 800 sq.ft. guesthouse above.

The property’s being sold by Crysta Metzger of Coldwell Banker’s Montecito office.

Screen Siren Scare On a personal note, I remember French screen siren Catherine Deneuve, 76, who has just suffered a serious stroke in Paris.

Deneuve, best known for her raunchy role in Belle Du Jour in 1967, was a dinner companion at a 1996 gala in Punta del Este, Uruguay, when I was flown in from New York via São Paulo, to cover the extravagant event hosted by Brazilian billionaire Gilberto Scarpa when I hosted the Gossip Show on E! Entertainment TV. Although nicknamed the Ice Maiden for her exquisite beauty and aloof demeanor, she couldn’t have been more charming company.

I’m delighted to hear she’s expected to make a full recovery.

Sightings: Antonio Banderas noshing at Olio e Limone... Actor Willem Dafoe at the Riviera Theatre... Oprah Winfrey in New York for the opening of Tina Turner: The Musical Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@ verizon.net or send invitations and other correspondence to the Journal.

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that Medicare doesn’t cover everything and supplemental insurance, offered by the private insurance companies her plan will eliminate, is a necessity for out-of-hospital expenses.

Warren’s plans would cause doctors to leave the profession, medical facilities to downgrade or close entirely, and incredibly long waits for attention at any medical facility for any type of treatment. (Research the wait times for medical procedures in Canada, whose population is just 10% of the U.S.) Warren’s tax plan (yes, everybody would pay higher taxes) punishing successful businesses and people would find them moving elsewhere (Mexico, China) and cause tremendous U.S. unemployment.

Warren would abolish fracking on her first day in office. When it comes to natural gas and oil, the U.S. – for the first time in history – is exporting more than it is importing. Do we really want to return to the days when we were dependent on unstable countries in the Middle East for energy? Warren’s Green New Deal ideas represent total disaster for the U.S. Economy. I’m sure Russia, China, and other less-than-friendly countries would love to see us implement them.

Until around 1980, Venezuela, with is vast oil reserves and stable economy, was the richest country in South America. It is now a socialist catastrophe.

Sanderson M. Smith, Ed.D. Carpinteria

Nuclear Solution

I believe global warming is occurring! I believe billions of years of plant materials dying and falling into anaerobic conditions has led to much oil underground.

About 1895, burning of petroleum products became a method of powering things. Before that, whale oil was used. The combustion engine sparked the use of petroleum. This burning has increased to very high levels today. I estimate the planet’s ability to adapt to this massive excess of CO2 via new plant growth (if possible) is not adequate to keep up with these massive new supplies of carbon dioxide.

I have experienced climate change absolutely in my life. I grew up in La Cañada and there were two ski areas 45 minutes up Angeles Crest Highway. Mt. Waterman and Kratka Ridge. Ahhh, ski racing and being young... We always brought newspapers and dirty gloves for putting on chains on our car tires as that was sometimes required. The snowfall was such that at times the road was a slot with eight-foot tall walls of snow on the sides of the road.

It hardly even snows down there anymore.

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I strongly believe we need to move to nuclear power. It has a horrible reputation, but truly is the answer. New designs make this power source very safe. If we had one small power plant each 100 miles along the California coast, the whole state could move to electricity for everything. Cars, houses, everything. The waste is not what it once was, and can be managed.

We have a problem and a very viable solution.

Imagine not burning petrol for everything except airplanes.

Charles McClure Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Interesting idea, Mr. McClure, certainly better than shutting everything down; one thing though: 30,000 airplanes spewing contaminants into what looks like a thin layer of atmospheric protection every single day are probably more dangerous than any landbased pollution. Just saying... – J.B.)

No Nobel

I was a bit surprised to read in Mr. McLaughlin’s Letter to the Editor (“Montecito’s Nobel Winning Author,” MJ # 25/44) that the great German author Thomas Mann was “a previous Montecito resident.” I have no idea where that came from, but, having researched whether there was any Mann residency here when writing “Literary Santa Barbara” twenty years ago, I can report there was none.

He lived in L.A. during some of the 1940s, building a home in Pacific Palisades. But we shouldn’t despair: Montecito is not bereft of literary Nobel laureates, in fact there have been two, though not actual residents, but rather visitors. The first was the English novelist John Galsworthy, best known for The Forsythe Saga. He and his wife spent the winter months of 1912 and 1920 at the San Ysidro Ranch. He was not a Nobel laureate at that time; the honor would not be bestowed until 1932. The other writer was Sinclair Lewis, who also spent time at the Ranch, he in the late 1930s.

He was a laureate at the time, having received the prize in 1930, a year before, who else...? Thomas Mann.

But who knows, maybe that German fellow checked into the Ranch under an assumed name.

Steven Gilbar Montecito (Editor’s note: Readers should know that Mr. Gilbar is a resident historian, but Mr. McLaughlin usually gets it right, so I look forward to his explanation or corroboration – J.B.)

an income. Since President Johnson thrust it upon the American public in 1965, your contribution is taken out of your salary along with your Social Security and payroll taxes. You have no choice. It is the law. It is no insurance until you have paid into it for 40 years and then, when you turn 65 – if you live that long – Medicare pays part of your medical expenses, if any, and you keep on paying for it until you die. There is nothing free about Medicare and no one gets anything until they are 65. In the meantime, while you work, you have to buy personal insurance. Medicare is the worst insurance ever invented by liberals; it’s even worse than ObamaCare. Are these liberals idiots or what?

Justin M. Ruhge Lompoc (Editor’s note: Mr. Ruhge classifies himself as a “senior on Medicare” – J.B.)

The Power of One-on-One

Medicine and teaching might seem like very different occupations, but I know from experience that they have more in common than you’d expect.

As a former chiropractor and a current high school teacher, I’ve learned that both patients and students are looking for a trusted advisor to help them on their path. Every patient and every student makes progress at their own pace, and each one has unique needs.

That’s why I’ve made it my mission to give my students at La Cuesta High School in Santa Barbara the same kind of one-on-one support and attention I gave my chiropractic patients. For the past two years, I’ve worked toward that mission with the help of Summit Learning, a research-based approach to teaching that’s designed to drive student engagement, meaningful learning, and strong student-teacher relationships. With Summit Learning, I’ve been able to get to know each of my students more deeply, diagnose where they need support and where they’re making good progress, and give them targeted guidance to

help them succeed. This is especially important for students like mine, who are credit deficient.

Before our school joined the Summit Learning Program in 2017, I did my best to find ways to tailor the learning experience to each one of my students. I tried to sit down with each one, guide them through assignments, and encourage them to let me know when they were ready to be graded— because I knew every student learns at their own pace.

Now, because I can monitor student progress in real-time through an online tool, I am able to individualize learning even better in my classroom. I have regular one-on-one meetings with my students to help them set goals and to mentor them on ways they can achieve them. My students have access to different types of materials—from videos to articles to hands-on experiences—that help them learn in the ways they choose.

They take assessments when they’re ready, and if they don’t pass, they return to the materials and then take the assessment again. This real, meaningful learning approach ensures that they learn the content, rather than just moving on without the knowledge they need.

With Summit Learning, students have the chance to learn through projects that reflect challenges they might face in the world around them. In my Biology classroom, I introduce the project by engaging students in a lesson on beekeeping and the demise of honey bees and Colony Collapse Disorder from the effects of the 4 P’s – Pesticides, Pests, Pathogens, and Poor Nutrition (drought). My students then learn more about ecosystems by becoming experts on a threatened ecosystem of their choice. The students gather and analyze information about their ecosystem to understand how it benefits humans, as well as the threats it faces. They develop and refine an action plan that they communicate to the public through a multimedia campaign. Through this experience, they develop skills like inquiry, anal-

Dr. Paul Cronshaw (right) and Summit student Dominic Lorenzi work with bees under the Summit Learning program at La Cuesta (photo: Lara May)

Medicare For All!

These nitwits that propose “Medicare for all” do not know what Medicare is.

All Americans are forced to contribute to Medicare when they start to earn “About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities.” – Kurt Vonnegut

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ysis, synthesis, and communication—skills they’ll use throughout their lives.

Just as targeted treatments helped my chiropractic patients heal, this personalized approach to teaching has helped my students grow and achieve more. In the past two years that we’ve used Summit Learning at La Cuesta, I’ve seen students become more focused and engaged than ever. They’ve taken ownership of their learning and developed habits and mindsets that will help them succeed beyond high school. They’ve grown not just as students, but as well-rounded people who are ready for the future.

I’m excited to continue to use Summit Learning with my students this school year. I’m confident this approach will continue to transform my teaching for the better. And I know that with the right attention and support, my students—like my patients—can make great progress.

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Notice Inviting Bids WASTEWATER MAIN REHABILITATION FY 2020 Bid No. 5735 1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its Wastewater Main Rehabilitation FY 2020 Project (“Project”), by or before Thursday, December 12, 2019, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Complete and on-time bids submitted electronically via PlanetBids will also be accepted. Telegraphic, telephonic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

2.

Project Information.

2.1

Location and Description. The Project includes rehabilitation or replacement of 14,554 linear feet of damaged sanitary sewer main at 60 locations throughout the City. An additional 2,060 linear feet of damaged sanitary sewer main is included within 12 additive locations that can be awarded at the City’s discretion. The damaged mains consist of 6-inch, 8-inch, 10inch, 15-inch, and 18-inch diameter sewer main and will be rehabilitated utilizing trenchless repair methods, cured-in-place pipe liner (CIPP) or spiral wound PVC methods, along with traditional open cut excavation methods (point repairs, removal and replacement, and new lateral construction). Additional work to be completed includes reinstatement of sewer laterals; pre-rehabilitation and pre-repair sewer main cleaning-flushing; pre- and post-rehabilitation and repair closed-circuit television (CCTV) inspections, replacement of existing sewer cleanouts with precast manholes; manhole rehabilitation and lining; manhole channel repair; installation of a wooden retaining wall; restoration of site conditions to pre-construction conditions, including pavement, landscaping, traffic control as necessary to protect public safety; sewer bypassing as necessary to construct repairs; implementation of erosion and sedimentation control measures to meet City requirements for protection of water quality; and all necessary permits and utility coordination as necessary to perform the work. Contractor shall be responsible for trimming or removing vegetation and other obstructions as necessary to properly access and perform Work within easements. Contractor shall restore any disturbed or damaged hardscape within easements to their original condition.

This shall include but is not limited to fencing, walls, and decorative rocks/boulders. This Work includes and is not limited to mobilization, bonds, insurance, and traffic control.

2.2

Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is as follows: Base Bid: Additive #1: Additive #2: Additive #3: Additive #4: Additive #5: Additive #6: Additive #7: Additive #8: Additive #9: Additive #10: Additive #11: Additive #12:

200 calendar days 2 working days 2 working days 2 working days 2 working days 2 working days 2 working days 2 working days 2 working days 2 working days 2 working days 2 working days 2 working days

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $1,880,314 (Base Bid + Sum of all 12 Bid Additives).

3.

Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 1:00 p.m., at the following location: 619 Garden Street, Water Resources Conference Room for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference will be disqualified from bidding.

4.

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A. 3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

5.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959&BidID=67224 . A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

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Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

7.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

8.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

9.

Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.

10.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

By: ___________________________________ Date: ________________ William Hornung, C.P.M., General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) November 13, 2019

2) November 20, 2019 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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Eve said. “But even though it’s based on a psychological thriller, it’s also about the late 1980s in that era and desire for always needing more, the superficial morality outweighing ethics. That seemed like a relevant topic for today.”

The musical – which features songs by singer-songwriter Du – earned mixed reviews when it opened in May, 2016, and ran for just 54 regular performances, but received nominations and awards for its production.

Obviously OOB can’t reproduce the grand design in its more intimate space in the 130-seat Center Stage Theater, projects will accompany original choreography to give the show added oomph, said Eve, who is directing the Southern California premiere of American Psycho, the latest in a string of recent Broadway shows she’s landed for her tiny company.

The small space should also help us connect more with possible serial killer Patrick, who is the protagonist and anti-hero.

“He’s interesting because of his flaws, but he also has power over us because he is so charming and good looking and understands how the game is played, and he plays it very well,” Eve said. “But he also struggles with the mask he puts on. It’s the cracks that make him interesting.”

The musical version of American Psycho features a character not included in the book or the movie in Patrick’s mother, played by OOB veteran singer-actress Deborah Bertling, which should also provide an entryway into the twisted story for the audience.

“It humanizes him, shows where he comes from, and explains why he is the way he is,” Eve said. “In many ways, he’s a reflection of a society that rewards and misses the dangers of the superficial.”

(Out of the Box Theatre Company performs American Psycho, November 15-24 at Center Stage Theater, upstairs in Paseo Nuevo. Call (805) 963-0408 or visit www.centerstagetheater.org.)

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Why would one not actually actively involved in putting on some sort of a festival be interested in attending FestForums, the industry conference for festivals producers, promoters, and professionals that takes place annually in Santa Barbara? Well, besides the fact that you can learn just about everything that goes on behind the scenes – from booking artists, to security to tickets sales to using metrics and analytics – at just about any kind of festival you can imagine from

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film fests to rockapaloozas to cannabis conventions, it’s also a chance to rub elbows with such big names as Michael Lang, the legendary promoter/manager who co-created the original Woodstock, and John Cooper, the 20-year veteran director of the Sundance Film Festival. You can also see if you’ve got what it takes to enter the industry via the festival bootcamp seminar, or take part in the Build a New Festival: A Group Activity for Everyone at FestForums in which all interested FestForums attendees build a new festival from scratch and then pitch to judges and sponsors to see who has got the goods (and for prizes).

But if you just want to sit back and be entertained, there’s also discussions, talks, panels, and performances with legends of rock and roll (Jon Anderson, lead vocalist of progressive rock band Yes), Ray Parker Jr. (the recording artist responsible for the hit title song of Ghostbusters, plus “A Woman Needs Love,” “You Can’t Change That,” and more), and Skip Martin, the former lead vocalist for Kool & the Gang and Grammy-winners The Dazz Band.

Plus Penelope Spheeris, director of Wayne’s World and The Beverly Hillbillies and the writer-director of The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy, and Montecito-based former world champion surfer Shaun Tomson.

Tickets to the November 20-22 event at Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort normally cost more than $600, but are available to Santa Barbara locals for just $99. Visit www.festfo rums.com.

ones people tell us, and the ones we tell ourselves.

Thirteen talks! That’s more than ever.

What do you think will be most exciting for the audience this year?

We started the Santa Barbara spotlight this year to focus on social innovation in the community because we believe this is the birthplace of world change – Earth Day, and so many other things began here. The TEDx platform is the perfect launching place: our previous 87 talks have had 16.5 million views online. This year it’s Eric Talkin, the CEO of the FoodBank who has such a fascinating topic with “Why Giving People More Food Doesn’t End Hunger.” We also have an 11-year old who is very compelling asking why teachers aren’t making more money, and the musical director of the touring company of Hamilton talking about perfection with a story that will curl everyone’s hair. The senior VP of entertainment marketing at NBC Universal will share what he’s learned in doing these mega events. The top cross fit coach in the country is coming, and we are also bringing back two speakers from previous years to talk about how their ideas have spread. It’s all about making an impact. So you want to know which of my babies do I like the most? How am I supposed to choose?

TEDx Santa Barbara’s local, self-organized program of talks to spark deep discussion and connection steps up its annual event to a baker’s dozen speakers for this year’s program. Co-founder and executive director Mark Sylvester shared the story behind the show prior to the TEDx talks slated for 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, November 16.

As you mentioned, you can watch zillions of TED Talks streaming or via video, or on YouTube that many the speakers themselves might have made. What is it about gathering in the same room that makes it worthwhile?

Watching a single talk in isolation vs. being at the event is like comparing a movie in the theater vs. watching it on Netflix on your phone. There’s an emotional impact being in the room with 300 other people that you can’t recreate on video. And we know how to break the day up into shorter sections and curate them to alternate funny with serious, technology with something more humanistic. We don’t want to pop anybody’s brain. Plus, there’s the live music and the party afterward where you can interact with the speakers.

Q. How did you choose “The Stories We Tell” as a theme? That seems rather generic to all TED Talks.

A. One would think that stories would be rife in the TED community but ironically they’re not. The talks can often be data rich, with lots of facts and figures and other information. We have a bias toward stories because we believe that a speaker telling a personal story that relates to why the speaker is on stage builds an immediate relationship with the audience, which is the best way to get an idea firmly implanted, and thereby potentially able to be spread… The theme covers the stories we tell, the

You started some ancillary programs earlier this year. What’s up with those?

TED events are by design meant to be very diverse. The Salons focus on a single topic. There’s no live speakers; we get together to watch several previous TED talks on a single subject curated by a local expert who forms a narrative. Then we talk about them. The audience interaction makes it a full community conversation. We tried them out last year to increase awareness and engagement be more than a one-trick pony. We exceeded our expectations and sold them all out. So we’re going to have one event every month in 2020.

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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 No Steinways Here – Music Academy of the West’s staff and others are leaving behind the plethora of expensive pianos and their offices in the historic Marilyn Horne main house at the Miraflores campus tonight to head down to hang out bar-side at the Red Piano for one of the organization’s periodic fundraisers at the downtown watering hole. MAW staff and others will be tending the bar, fun folks will be offering up the tunes and singalongs. Admission is free, and all drink purchases will directly support MAW’s year-round Community Initiatives, including Sing!, Alumni Enterprise Awards, and Community Access, which offers limited $10 tickets for adults and lets children 7-17 go free to all events. We’re expecting Broadway songs and pop hits, not arias, but maybe Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” can bridge the gap. WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: 519 State Street COST: free INFO: (805) 358-1439 / www. theredpiano.com or (805) 969-8787 / www.musicacademy.org FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Funk Zone Art Walk – The bi-monthly stroll through the gentrified neighborhood just steps from State Street at Stearns Wharf by the ocean still has enough funky locales among its galleries and exhibit spaces to make the name not a misnomer.

GONE Gallery hosts “THE TEN,” the 10-year anniversary show for Chadillac Green and its sometimes

erotic art while GraySpace Gallery, its neighbor with the same address (219 Gray Ave.), will be aglow in neon as presented by Rod Lathim, plus the expressive monoprints of Anthony Askew and the super-realism of Dorothy Churchill-Johnson… Join Kristin Fraser of the Grapeseed co. to celebrate the launch of a custom essential oil rollerball blend at the Scent Bar at the Seaside Makers Collective (209 Anacapa St.) where you can create and name your own bespoke blend to take home and also check out BlueJay aerial photography… SeaVees (24 East Mason St.) hosts a curated display of local artists DJ Javier, Will Adler, Jessica Brilli, and others while Mason Street Studios (121-A East Mason St.) features art by Emily Morrill and Alex Andriesse…

Back in the more standard locales, The Arts Fund (205-C Santa Barbara St.), which has been an anchor in the area since well before the rebuilding began, opens “Textural: An examination of the tactile and verse,” featuring text and powerful colored forms coming together to celebrate an alternative experiential sampling. Curated by John Hood, an artist and professor of art at Allan Hancock College, the show features works by North County artists Jean Pierre Hebert, Karl Kempton, William Loveless, and Juan Manuel Perez Salazar collectively presenting a diversity of styles, mediums, and techniques. Each artist has chosen to move away from traditional media and examine the concept of process and its role in achieving their vision that employs iconographic ideas

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Back to Beethoven – Camerata Pacifica’s next four monthly programs in the second year of its “Why Beethoven?” project offer a discerning overview of a composer’s music with an early work, a late work and an obscure work, paired with masterworks by Mozart, Brahms, Dvorak Bach and other composers. Tonight, Beethoven’s String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74 is set against the Mozart Duo for Violin & Viola in G Major, K. 423 and Piano Quintet in C Minor, Op. 42, by mid-century French organist and composer Louis Vierne. The concert, the third of the new season, also represents the first in the project in which the quartets aren’t being played by its 2018-19 season collaborators The Calder Quartet, instead relying on the ensemble’s principal players in violinists Kristin Lee and Jason Uyeyama, violist Richard O’Neill and cellist Ani Aznavoorian, along with pianist Warren Jones, who is now a rarer treat at Hahn Hall now that he’s departed from the Music Academy of the West faculty. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $58: INFO: (805) 884-8410 or www.cameratapacifica.org

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EVENTS

by Steven Libowitz

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Daddy’s Debut – Bassist Matt Bragg and drummer David E. Jackson have been playing music together for almost five decades, steeping their sound in the tradition of the myriad performers who have made Los Angeles a mecca of quality soul and blues music for over half a century. Now known as the L.A. Big Daddy’s, Bragg and Jackson – who select rotating musicians to serve in other more visible roles such as singer and guitarist – boast ties to the ‘60s scene in the Wellington Road in the mid-city section Lafayette Square and sport a resume together that include backing the late, great singer Sista Monica Parker. Their long past due Santa Barbara debut under the aegis of our venerable Blues Society features a rollicking seven-piece band, replete with a blazing horn section, and is also good for swing dancing with enough songs in the slower range to appeal to all types – a bonus for the sprung floor ballroom that serves as SBBS’ venue. Opening is Santa Barbara’s own acoustic guitar wizard Kenny Sultan – who just celebrated the 40th anniversary of his duo with Tom Ball with a big concert 20 yards away at the Lobero – paired with another of his longtime partners, singer Tina Dabby. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 E. Carrillo St. COST: $30 general, $40 VIP seating ($15 college students, $10 high school students; free for children under 12) INFO: (805) 722-8155 or www. sbblues.org

found globally in visual art and poetic practices. Composing with words or shaping with pigments, their meditations on abstract forms, reduced to their essentials, construct new patterns borne from their personal aesthetic.

Tonight’s opening reception features an informal artist talk at 6:30 pm with the curator. WHEN: 5-8 PM COST: free INFO: www.facebook.com/ events/474793379829572/ ‘Dream Weavers’ Debuts – Now that the Adobe web design software Dreamweaver is not nearly as ubiquitous as it once was, it’s safe to once again use the term for things a little more tactile in the real world. “Dream Weavers & Embroiderers of Truth,” Art From Scrap’s November fiber arts show highlights the work of gifted local artists and cohorts from elsewhere – including Georganne Alex, Ti (Theresa de L’Arbre d’Estaing), Laura Denny, Debbie Donley, Maria Dzreeva, Judith Geiger, Annie Guillamette, Maureen Kampen, Syd McCutcheon, Mary Price, Carol Rosen, Ute Vasina, and Dana Zyrzolo – many of whom were inspired by the materials in the AFS Creative Reuse Store. Tonight’s opening reception offers the chance to talk about the works with their creators as well as mingle and enjoy wine and refreshments. Art can be purchased off the walls of the gallery for holiday shopping during Art From Scrap’s Handcrafted Holiday Marketplace on Saturday, December 14. WHEN:

“I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.” – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Reception 6-8 pm, exhibit continues through December 14 WHERE: Art From Scrap Gallery, 302 E. Cota St. COST: free INFO: (805) 884-0459 or www.exploreecology.org/art-fromscrap Amalgam from Argentine – Los Pinguos’ story began in 1999 when Adrián Buono, Enzo Buono, José Agote, Juan Manzur, and Juan Manuel Leguizamón formed the band in Buenos Aires, Argentina, then arrived in the U.S. just two years later with a mixture of Latin rhythms, reggae, rumba flamenco, and rock. Playing on the street at the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica and in local bars led to an appearance on the then-new reality TV show The Next Big Star, hosted and produced by Ed McMahon of Star Search fame. Los Pinguos won the contest and has gone on to record seven full-length CDs, Magia (2001), Camino Bueno (2002), Serenata (2003), Live in Los Angeles (2005), Peripecias (2006), California (2008), and 11.11 (2011) as well as appear on three of the famous Putumayo World Music compilation albums.

They’ve played everywhere from India and Bali to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland as well as the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Canada, and throughout the United States.

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Just Kos: Mozart & Mahler – The Santa Barbara Symphony offers a multimedia mélange for its second pair of concerts of the new season, playing Mozart, Mahler, and more at the Granada. Croatian soprano Lana Kos, fresh off an appearance at the opera Mecca of Arena di Verona, sings the solos for Mahler’s magnificent Fourth Symphony and also serves as the vocalist for Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate.

The orchestra sans singer will also play contemporary female composer Julia Wolfe’s Fuel for Strings as the film by award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison that inspired the composition screens.

WHEN: 8 pm tonight, 3 pm tomorrow WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $29 & up ($20 for ages 20-29, $10 all students) INFO: (805) 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org

hosts quarterly music performances that elevate and celebrate the vibrancy of diverse communities. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: UCSB University Center Room 1504 COST: $15 general, $5 for UCSB students and youth under 12 INFO: (805) 893-2064 / www.mcc. sa.ucsb.edu SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Getting the Jump on the Season – With Halloween just barely in the rearview mirror, it might seem a little early for the Santa Barbara Jewish Federation to be hosting a one-stop holiday shopping event. ‘Tis true, of course, that Chanukah moves around the “regular” calendar every year, sometimes showing up as early as late November. On the other hand, the eight-day Festival of Lights actually runs late this year, December 22-30, so we’ll just chalk up the SBJF’s first-ever Holiday Bazaar and Craft Fair fundraiser to catching the early bird.

More than 30 local artisan vendors will be selling a variety of items including jewelry, ceramic and mosaic art, candles, photographic prints, gourmet foods, books, toys and even unique hand-assembled analog clocks that

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feature mathematical and scientific formulas in the place of the 12 numbers. Michael Holland will play live guitar music while shoppers also enjoy beer from Telegraph Brewing Company, wine from Santa Barbara Winery, doughnuts from Good Stuff Baked Treats, and snacks from Santa Barbara Popcorn Company. A silent auction will feature gift certificates for local restaurants, hotels, hair salons, winery tasting rooms, Yoga Soup, a three-night stay at 5-star Orient Hotel in Jerusalem, two Film Festival Cinema Passes, a Metropolitan Movie Theatres annual movie pass, Occhiali Fine Eyewear, UGG boots, and more. And don’t worry about spoiling the surprise for the kids – or dreading the inevitable whining when you take more than a moment to decide – as childcare will be available for $5 per hour while shoppers peruse the bazaar. Proceeds from the event will support local artisans and Jewish Federation community services and programs. WHEN: 11 am to 4 pm WHERE: Jewish Federation’s Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala St COST: free INFO: (805) 957-1115 or https://jewishsantabarbara.org/holi day-bazaar •MJ

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) A trainer with a dog on a treadmill for exercise and stamina

World of Children executive director Stefaan Poortman with the Four Seasons Biltmore general manager Karen Earp

World of Children founders Harry Leibowitz and Kay Isaacson-Leibowitz

Hosts John Paul Belltran with Lina and guest of honor Sarah Cronk, hosts Holly and Bob Murphy

SDF director of development Rhett Mauck and Maria McCall, director of MClub

treadmill. They get to run and chase a ball and are rewarded with kibbles but the big reward is a toy – a ball on a short rope. An extra special treat is a hot dog or a piece of cheese. While the dogs are being trained they think they’re playing. It takes about nine months to train a dog and then he’s put with his handler. Many are firemen and the dogs live with their handlers. They are at the training camp for two weeks, but there are always brush up training sessions after that.

The dogs can also follow hand and whistle signals, because they can’t always hear their handler.

Wilma got her inspiration from taking a rescue dog to the Oklahoma City bombing. She learned there were only 15 rescue dog teams in the United States. One hundred and sixty-eight died in Oklahoma City and Wilma’s goal became to get 168 search teams.

As of October 1, 2019 there have been 193 search team deployments to various places in the United States and around the world.

SDF director of development Rhett Mauck said, “My favorite thing is to see how wild some of the dogs are when they arrive and after training they are a different, well-behaved animal.” Contrary to usual training, the

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dogs are taught to bark when they find a live victim and they won’t stop until someone comes. Some of the breeds used are labs, German shepherds, and border collies. If a dog doesn’t make it for human rescue, they can be given a different career like a drug dog or a bed bug dog. Or trained to be a family pet.

We had a salad box lunch and got to eat it in the classroom which is also part of the doggie gym. The trainer likened it to us being in a gym and having someone eating their lunch and looking at us. But I don’t think the dogs minded. They knew they would get a treat at the end.

The Thomas Fire did burn part of the SDF facility, but it has been rebuilt. During the Montecito mudslide we had 18 teams and some of them stayed in the facilities at SDF. A couple of the dogs fell through the mud into a swimming pool and had to be rescued. As handler of search dog Decker, Brent Brainard said during the Montecito debacle, “This is what we train for, this is what we are meant to do. Decker and I work together to be sure we give our all and leave no one behind. I couldn’t ask for a better partner… I’m pretty sure I needed him during this deployment more

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There’s always something new to write about. I got a call from Holly Murphy. She and her husband, Bob, were co-hosting a cocktail party at the Biltmore with John Paul and Lina Belltran to start a new chapter of World of Children in Santa Barbara.

The Murphys had been supporters in Los Angeles for five years.

The co-founders and co-chairs were there, Harry Leibowitz, PhD and Kay Isaacson-Leibowitz, who started World of Children 21 years ago. As executive director Stefaan Poortman told us, “There have been 35,000 nominees over the years and only 129 honorees.” What do they do? The 2018 honorees work and live in some of the most challenging places on the planet, often risking their own comfort and safety to provide a future for the children who need it most.

They combat intolerance and discrimination amongst high school students in the U.S. to providing public art programs in refugee camps to rescuing trafficked and abused children from the streets of Senegal. It’s all funded by donations and carefully vetted to be sure the money goes where it is supposed to. This year

“The planets are God’s punctuation marks pointing the sentences of human fate, written in the constellations.” – James Lendall Basford

(2018/2019) World of Children funded high-impact programs supporting vulnerable children from Papua, New Guinea to Palestinian Territories to South Africa and South America.

There were 60,749 children served; 1,460 children were able to attend school; more than 1,000 received preventative of life-saving medical care; cash grants were provided to organizations in 15 different countries; incest and sexual abuse prevention classes were provided to more than 50,000; and almost 700 abandoned or at-risk children were provided with food and a safe home.

There are seven categories of awards: Crisis award, education award, health award, hero award, humanitarian award, protection award, and youth award. Sarah Kronk was the speaker and a 2018 Hero award winner. That means that in the years following their initial recognition they have leveraged their original award far beyond what we could have anticipated.

Sarah founded the Sparkle Effect when she was just 15 after watching her older brother struggle to fit in because of his disability. Students with and without disabilities are brought together in school based cheer and dance teams. They learn and grow together.

As the groups says, “It’s easier to build strong children that to fix broken adults. If this group touches your heart, call 949.381.7670. There are many ways to become involved. •MJ 14 – 21 November 2019

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loves to bring her style –classic, timeless, chic, and elegantly understated – into every design project.

The grand opening celebration is on Thursday, November 14, from 5 pm to 8 pm. The studio and showroom is located at 525 San Ysidro Road in Montecito. Visit www.birgitklein.com and www.unamalan.com. .

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The space is filled with neutral, handmade furniture and textiles, in a classic, chic aesthetic

Una Malan and Birgit Klein have opened a showroom and interior design studio in Montecito’s San Ysidro Village

worked together on projects all over the world. Malan represents textile brands including Designs of the Time, Eric Kustor Textiles, French American Wallpaper, Knowles & Christou, Loro Piana, Rose Uniacke, and The

Cartorialist Wallpaper; the Montecito space will feature all these brands and more.

With over 13 years of design experience, Klein says she hopes to bring a different design perspective to the Montecito community; she is currently working on two large projects in the area. With an on-staff interior architect, Klein is available for full groundup home projects, as well as partial remodels and project management. “It all depends on what the client needs and wants help with,” she said. She

Local author Elayne Klasson will be at Tecolote Book Shop this Saturday, November 16, signing her first novel, which she published at the age of 72.

In her bold new fiction, Klasson dives into what it means to sacrifice everything you’ve ever known for a chance at happiness. Love is a Rebellious Bird follows Judith, a smart and strong woman, who is driven to pursue a man she has loved since childhood.

Klasson brings forth the challenging questions of who is it we love and why do we love these people from the perspective of a woman who has lived with these questions for six decades.

Klasson went to university and graduate school in the Midwest: Ohio State University and the University of Michigan with a Masters of Public Health and then a PhD in Psychology.

She has lived in Barbados, West Indies, first working as a health-care consultant with Project Hope and the

Author Elayne Klasson will sign her first book – published at age 72 – at Tecolote on Saturday

U.N. in the Caribbean; then, several decades later, as a writer and columnist for the Barbados Daily Nation. Her professional career has largely been in academia at San Jose State University, with her research and clinical area of expertise being the severely mentally ill. A recent transplant to the Santa Ynez Valley, she is a popular lifestyle newspaper columnist. Elayne has also appeared on San Francisco public television as a restaurant critic. She is married to David, a scientist. Between them, they have five children, all grown. For more information, visit https://www.elayneklasson.com/.

The book signing is from 3 pm to 4 pm on November 16, at Tecolote. •MJ

This Thanksgiving Celebrate At Mollie’s On State!

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ollie’s On State is serving (just as she did last year at this new location) her Traditional Thanksgiving meal (Italian style) and it will be served all day Thursday, November 28 from 11:30 am until... well, until people decide Thanksgiving is over.

This year’s repast will run $65 (price includes valet parking and Thanksgiving meal, though tax, tip, and drinks are not included).

Thanksgiving meal features Italian-inspired roasted organic freerange turkey with specially made stuffing, assorted vegetables, garlic, apple walnut, pancetta, sausage, and bread. Side dishes include creamy mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, and more. Dessert is freshly made apple pie (as only Mollie can do) and Mollie’s genuine homemade Italian gelato.

Oh, and Mollie’s regular menu will also be served all day long.

Another way to enjoy this special day is to order an entire turkey (15 pounds, I believe) cooked and prepared with all the trimmings and stuffing for $225. Just order and pick it up, hot and ready to eat.

1218 State Street | 805-770-8300 805-452-2692 | www.tmollie.com

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