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will be the second wedding ceremony for the dashing Iranian and his bride, Gimena Loza. The peripatetic pair tied the knot at a more intimate ceremony at Jerusalem’s 187-foot-high Wailing Wall earlier this month, but decided to have a major blow-out at the five-star Alvear Palace Hotel in Argentina’s capital because of all Gimena’s Argentine relatives. The tony twosome will live at Ben’s sprawling estate in Beverly Hills, which was featured in Architectural Digest in 2012, and his team, RH, named after Restoration Hardware in which he is a partner, will be part of the impeccably groomed Carpinteria club’s 2017 roster.
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It seemed appropriate that on the night of the lecture that the supermoon was at its closest point to Earth since 1948, just 221,524 miles away. Among the lunar-tics turning out to fete the affable astronaut at a dinner in the McCune Founders Room before his lecture were Dan and Meg Burnham, Morrie and Irma Jurkowitz, Richard and Annette Caleel, Henry and Dilling Yang, Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman, Natalie Orfalea, and Celesta Billeci. Bowling for Dollars It was not a case of ladles for less but ladles for more when the 19th annual Empty Bowls fundraiser, attracting 800 supporters and raising around $150,000 for the Foodbank of Santa Meg and Dan Burnham with Scott Kelly (middle) (photo by Grace Kathryn)
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It seemed ironic when astronaut Scott Kelly spoke at a sold-out UCSB Arts & Lectures event at the Granada that there was no space to be had. The Houston, Texas-based, 52-yearold retired U.S. Navy captain is a veteran of four space flights – the first one in 1999 when he piloted the Space Shuttle Discovery – ending up commanding the International Space Station from November, 2010, to March, 2011, and then serving a yearlong posting between March, 2015, and February, 2016 totalling 340 consecutive days. In October, 2015, Kelly set the record for the total number of days looking down at Earth for a U.S. astronaut: 382 days.
Barbara County, was held at the Ben Page Youth Center, the venue for the past three years. While raising awareness about food insecurity in our community, for a mere $30 attendees got to choose a ceramic bowl from 1,200 made by Santa Barbara artists on display and have a delightful repast of soup and home-baked bread from a torrent of tony eateries, including Bouchon, Ca’ Dario, Downey’s, the Biltmore, San Ysidro Ranch, Opal, Sly’s, Olio e Limone, The Lark, Lucky’s, and Stella Mare’s, and then take the bowl home. “We are sold-out plus,” gushed Danyel Dean, a co-founder of the popular event. “In our first year, we raised $23,000 and its has spiraled
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28 MONTECITO JOURNAL
• The Voice of the Village •
24 November – 1 December 2016