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THE PEPPER TREES ON PEPPER LANE

ONCE A CELEBRATED AND UBIQUITOUS SIGHT LINING THE STREETS IN SANTA BARBARA, PEPPER TREES HAD THEIR FAIR SHARE OF CONTROVERSY. IN MONTECITO, PEPPER LANE WAS DEEMED ABANDONED BY THE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IN 1909, MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN OF MANY LOCAL RESIDENTS. NOW, PEPPER LANE IS PRIVATE AND DEVOID OF ANY NAMESAKE TREES, (STORY BEGINS ON P. 24)

Full-Court Press

Teams consisting of local First Responders take to the courts for Santa Barbara Basketball Court of Champion’s charity basketball game at Westmont, p. 28

Yuletide Extravaganza

Rosewood Miramar throws extravagant inaugural tree lighting celebration including American Idol’s Pia Toscano, singer Nate Ruess, real snow, and much more, p. 6

Holiday Pops

Santa Barbara Symphony’s family-friendly Holiday Pops concert includes special guests Andy Einhorn and Christiane Noll, plus UCSB Choirs, p. 23

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Editorial

Gwyn Lurie expounds on the unlikely pairing of her and Publisher Tim Buckley

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Montecito Miscellany

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Letters to the Editor

Rosewood Miramar tree lighting; Jeanine Kitchel’s new book; Montecito Bank & Trust Community Dividends Awards; Thanksgiving at Rescue Mission; West Coast Chamber orchestra concert; royal vacation; world’s most expensive chocolate bar; Michael Jackson musical; Prince Charles’ Aston Martin for sale; sightings A collection of communications from readers Diane Graham, Ted Tedesco, Greg Mills, LeeAnn Morgan, and Jay Peterson

10 This Week in Montecito

A list of local events happening in and around town

Tide Chart 12 Village Beat

Montecito Planning Commission meeting; Khao Kaeng closes; Montecito Water District updates; Santa Barbara Basketball Court of Champions game at Westmont

Eat. Sip. Shop. Be Merry!

14 Seen Around Town

MClub takes overnight tour of Mission San Luis Obispo

John Connelly named as new director of SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery

20 Our Town

22 On Entertainment

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Film screening and Q&A at Marjorie Luke; Ensemble Theatre Company’s December show; Lighting the Way; Personal Stories holiday show; Santa Barbara Symphony presents Holiday Pops; classical concerts around town

24 The Way It Was

Hattie Beresford delves into history of pepper trees in Santa Barbara and Montecito

30 Made in SB

Edward Anthony at the Rosewood Miramar Beach Resort

31 Spirituality Matters

Open Tending circles at Yoga Soup; Peter Sterios leads workshop; more yoga soup events; Ninaya Strandberg signs book; Dr. James Kwako workshop; Monthly Integration Circle gathering

37 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant is reminded how a minor misunderstanding can snowball into a major panic

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44 Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising

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Editorial

by Gwyn Lurie Gwyn Lurie is a local chair collector. She chaired the MUS School Board for five years, she co-chairs the Santa Barbara Human Rights Watch Committee, she is a founding member of The Partnership for Resilient Communities (TPRC) and was Chair of the Santa Barbara County Child Welfare Safety Net Task Force. Gwyn has spent enough time in her writing chair to pen The Music Never Stopped starring JK Simmons (Sundance Opening Selection, 2010), Nine Lives starring Kevin Spacey (2016), and screenplays for nearly every major movie studio. Gwyn worked in broadcast news for ABC/New York upon completion of her studies at UCLA and Oxford. Today Gwyn can be found in chairs across Montecito in her new role as CEO of the Montecito Journal Media Group and Editor-in-Chief of the Montecito Journal.

Email her at gwyn@montecitojournal.net

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istory and our culture are rife with seemingly odd pairings that, perhaps counterintuitively, turned out to be productive and beneficial.

Previously in these pages I’ve mentioned the counterbalance provided by founding fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. But there was also an odd friendship between George Wallace and Shirley Chisholm. House Speaker Tip O’Neill and President Ronald Reagan. RBG and Antonin ‘Nino’ Scalia. Not to mention RUN-DMC and Steven Tyler.

While I wouldn’t place myself anywhere near that incredible canon of luminaries, I’m here to tell you first-hand there can be great benefit to reaching out to one’s perceived political adversary.

Witness my surprisingly productive working relationship with the publisher and son of the founder of this newspaper, Tim Buckley.

In that the investor group I led purchased the Montecito Journal outright from its founder, it is not unreasonable to ask, why is Tim Buckley still here?

Almost two years ago, when I began talks to purchase this newspaper, it was made clear that the previous owners wouldn’t sell to just anyone willing to pay the asking price. The Montecito Journal was and is Jim Buckley’s life work and he didn’t want that effort to have been for naught. Shortly after I showed interest, Jim asked me to meet with his son. The idea, obvious but unspoken, was I needed to pass Tim’s sniff test.

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Unlike many of my closest friends, those in my personal echo chamber, Tim and I complement each other precisely because we challenge and expand each other’s world views.

And he needed to pass mine. We both suspected this would be our first and quite possibly only meeting.

It was February 2018 and my family had been evacuated from the debris flow and was staying at the recently opened Hotel Californian on lower State Street which became a second home to my family and three dogs and half of Montecito. I suggested that Tim and I meet for breakfast at a dark, under-travelled eatery on the pier.

Tim was impressed with my choice of meeting spot. He thought it was very “gangster.” I took the compliment though I knew it was undeserved. I had only chosen the venue because it was walking distance from my hotel and, more importantly, it was a dark restaurant where we were unlikely to run into, well… anyone.

Tim ordered potatoes and bacon for breakfast, which only reinforced my assumption that he and I could not be more different. I ordered an egg-white omelet and we began to talk. When our 9 am breakfast ended – at close to

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by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 12 years ago.

Rosewood Miramar’s Holiday Spectacular

Santa’s hostesses are Mereca Galicia, Tamara Razic, Sachiko Lamen, Mikayla Quinlyn, and Llyna Nguyen (photo by Priscilla)

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The billionaire mall magnate pulled out all the stops to turn his luxury property into a winter wonderland with his inaugural lighting of the ritzy hostelry’s 60-foot white fir tree on the Great Lawn, which had been trucked in from Mt. Shasta in Northern California, featuring 7,000 sparkling lights and an assortment of graceful boughs decked with 6,000 ornaments.

Only trees that are 80 years old and near the end of their life are cut down, with ten new firs planted in its place.

The event was an extraordinary Yuletide extravaganza hosted by Spectrum News 1 anchors Giselle

Fernandez, an ex-colleague from my days on the KTLA-TV morning news, Lisa McRee, another contact from when I was commentator on ABC’s World News Now, and Melvin Robert.

American Idol alum Pia Toscano sang the National Anthem followed by a duet with soul artist Brandon Wattz.

Headlining the night was singer-songwriter Nate Ruess, whose solo studio album Grand Romantic debuted at the top of the charts, with the dynamic gospel-inspired Jason McGee and The Choir, bedecked in glistening white robes, singing the 1980 Kool and The Gang hit Celebration.

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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 letters@montecitojournal.net

For Your Consideration

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ravo on taking the helm at our community’s news hub. I’m excited to see how you balance old and new, and already am encouraged by your first editorial in which you present just one change – no longer publishing anonymous letters.

This must be top priority for you to lead with it! It’s also a journalism standard. A few more for your consideration: 1) Letters with profanity will not be published, nor will rants; 2) Letters must be exclusive to the MJ – those sent to other publications or posted online will not be considered; 3) Letters written under pseudonym will not be published; 4) Individuals will be limited to how often their letters will be published – maybe no more than four in a calendar year.

There is a fifth standard that I hope you’ll entertain and that’s to decline unreasonably long letters. The MJ has a long-running tradition of accepting letters that run to multiple columns and sometimes occupy more than a

page. Most often, the letter-writer is a “regular” who expounds on his opinions far too frequently. Short letters show confidence in one’s position – 250 words should be enough.

A possible win-win solution to #4 and #5 is to consider a longer letter for an Opinion Feature or even a Guest Column – an OPED page, if you will.

The last thing I wanted to do in my letter was to exceed my not-so-selfimposed word limit, so here’s one more “Letter to the Editor” rule for just you to mull – another accepted standard: The writer should take as his/her starting point an article or other item that appeared previously in the MJ. All too often, our writers are sharing (dictating?) their unsolicited opinions on issues far away from Montecito, and don’t even attempt to link them to local interest and importance. These are Opinions, not Letters.

Newspapers are a prime forum for democracy – thank you in advance for promoting intelligent and informed

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An Introduction

Since you’ve asked, this is who I am and here are a couple of opinions...

I’m Ted Tedesco, a 21-year resident, having moved here from Dallas, TX. I am very pleased that you will no longer print anonymous letters, especially for all the reasons you have stated. Nuff said! Good beginning!

A caution I would offer is the practice of editorial commenting on letters written by readers. Letters had a pattern of arguing with anyone who wrote a more centralist or liberal inclination viewpoint. Many such readers, I know, just gave up trying to say something that wasn’t conservative/ libertarian enough.

One final suggestion is a bit harder maybe, but seems typical these days… a limit on the length of letters. Far too many letters seem like term papers!

Whew!

I’m looking forward to your editorship. Thanks for the opportunity to write you.

Ted Tedesco Montecito

Looking Forward

I am a reader of the Journal from out west and I admit to not knowing Montecito geography except what I learn from Hattie Beresford’s histories. I wanted to thank you for bringing out a family newspaper, with so many great writers, for all of us for so long.

And also to lament that the letters section, which is one of, if not the best parts of the paper, might be well nigh irreplaceable without your replies.

These are brief but not tedious, welcome when a moderately longer reply is called for, and homey, sensible,

grounded, a contribution that does not pretend to be something special, but is.

For example, I wonder if the Journal will take an editorial position on the upcoming elections, notably presidential. That’s when idealism works less well and hominess comes into its own.

Last time around, we got one person’s developing views, leading up to a superb editorial ahead of the election.

If you do continue with other writing, I assume it would turn out well, given the above qualities.

Best regards, Greg Mills Goleta

Missed the Mark

I normally like Dale Lowdermilk’s satire when he drops a new letter.

BUT...

This week, after reading his insane “cars kill more people than guns” argument, I just wanted to run him over with my car.

Can someone else please ring in on this false analogy, and kindly shoot a few holes in his reasoning?

At the risk of seeming impolite... on the issue of mass shootings, just shut the hell up, Lowdermilk.

Satirize something else that doesn’t involve death.

There’s so much else out there that is absurd, and needs your special brand of whatever it is you call “your writing.”

LeeAnn Morgan Santa Barbara

Beware of Hearsay

I just returned from an extended travel to read that the Journal has changed leadership.

To Jim Buckley, I say thanks for your contributions in making the Journal such a valuable community

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This Week in and around Montecito

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5 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: demo, new garage, and addition on Santo Tomas Lane; addition on Woodley Road; new pool and cabana on La Vereda; addition on Middle Road; addition, garage, and detached gym on Hill Road; demo and new home on Oak Road; demo and new home on Santa Isabel Lane, and several 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 pm to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. Tonight’s poet: Louise Gluck.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Christmas Market Arlington Plaza will kick off the holiday season with the 3rd Annual Christmas Market. Designed to emulate the festive, light-filled holiday markets throughout Europe, this third annual tradition encourages shopping local, and supports the wonderful small busi-

nesses that make up the fabric of the Santa Barbara community. Guests are invited to stroll from stall to stall, shop, eat, drink and be merry!

This year’s Christmas Market will showcase unique gifts, seasonal festivities, live music, and caroling. Stroll through the plaza and soak in the holiday cheer while visiting the unique collective of shops and restaurants, including DIANI Boutique, DIANI Shoes and DIANI Living, the Travel Store, Treat, Blossom Salon, Santa Barbara Fine Art, Carlitos Cafe y Cantina, or Renaud’s Patisserie and Bistro. In addition to the participating plaza shops and restaurants, the Christmas Market stalls will be filled with gifts and products from local makers and vendors.

When: Tonight, 4 pm to 9 pm and tomorrow, December 6, from noon to 9 pm Where: 1324 State Street Info: On all social channels, @arlingtonplazasb Debris Flow Risk Map Community Meeting A community meeting to see and discuss the newly revised Debris Flow Risk Map and discuss preparations for winter storms When: 5:30 pm Where: Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road Holiday Sip & Stroll Montecito Country Mart hosts shopping event with refreshments, sales, trunk shows, and more When: 5 pm to 8 pm Where: 1016 Coast Village Road Info: www.montecitocountrymart.com FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 Tech Help Sessions Reserve a 30-minute session with

Snow at the Zoo The Santa Barbara Zoo’s annual Snow Leopard Festival and Sledding at the Zoo event has been moved one week later than normal. All activities continue as in previous years, though the event will be without the Zoo’s two snow leopards who both passed away in 2019 due to ailments related to old age.

Activities include sledding (six runs, including bunny slopes) and snow play for children, visits with Santa Claus and two live reindeer, keeper talks about snow leopard conservation, crafts, face painting, climbing the 25-foot tall “Mount Everest” climbing wall, and the sale of snow leopard-related toys and books to benefit the Snow Leopard Trust’s conservation work in the wild.

Tickets are $5 for all-day access to the snow areas, sledding and an expanded bounce house area are sold only at the snow area and the zoo’s retail outlets; there are no advance sales. Regular Zoo admission is also required. Sledding is for children aged 4 to 12 only; no adult sledding.

Sleds are provided; no personal sleds. Snow play area is for children aged 12 and under.

When: From Sunday, December 8 to Sunday, December 15, 2019 from 10 am to 3:30 pm (9 am admission for Santa Barbara Zoo members only) Where: 500 Niños Drive Info: (805) 962-5339 or visit www.sbzoo.org library staff for help with basic computer skills (email or internet), downloadable library materials, and the Black Gold App When: 3 pm to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Appointments: (805) 969-5063

Photos with Santa Santa Claus will be at Montecito Country Mart three times this month; today is the first opportunity to have your photo taken with the big guy in red. Other dates are December 15 and December 22.

When: 1:15 pm to 3:15 pm Where: 1016 Coast Village Road

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7

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

Winter Deciduous Pruning & Garden Clinic The clinic is led by Dr. Jerry Sortomme and UCCE Master Gardeners. Advanced registration suggested to ensure participation; 30 participants maximum. Those not registered in advance may attend as space permits.

Join to learn how to prune common fruiting trees, followed by a small group hands-on pruning clinic, and winter vegetable growing tips.

When: 9:45 am to 1 pm Where: Old Mission Santa Barbara, 2201 Laguna Street Info & Registration: kefsb@aol.com

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Cold Spring School Board Meeting When: 6 pm Where: 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Info: 969-2678 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10 Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker

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When: 1 pm to 2:45 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Montecito Library Open House Pop by, have some nibbles and meet your librarians! The Montecito Association’s History Committee will be open that night, so you can visit with Trish Davis and look up interesting things about Montecito.

When: 5 pm to 7 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road

Tech Help Sessions Reserve a 30-minute session with library staff for help with basic computer skills (email or internet), downloadable library materials, and the Black Gold App When: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Appointments: (805) 969-5063 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12 Folksongs of the Winter Holidays Traveling Folksinger and Autoharpist Adam Miller is back at Montecito Library. Come enjoy well-known and not-so-well-known traditional folksongs and carols for New Year’s, Hanukkah, Christmas and the Winter Solstice. This show is for all ages and children, in particular, are encouraged to wiggle and move around to best enjoy the show.

When: 10:30 am to 11:15 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: (805) 969-5063 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 pm to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 Tech Help Sessions Reserve a 30-minute session with library 5 – 12 December 2019

HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14 Carpinteria Christmas Bird Count The Carpinteria Christmas Bird Count is in conjunction with the Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count. The data collected by observers over the past century allow Audubon researchers, conservation biologists, wildlife agencies and other interested individuals to study the long-term health and status of bird populations across the Carpinteria Coastal Plain and North America.

This fun event is free to participate, and participation is open to all ages and levels of birding experience.

When: 7 am Where: Carpinteria Library Multi-Purpose Room, 5141 Carpinteria Avenue RSVP & Info: www.carpwithoutcars. org/cbc/ Montecito Library Book Club Join for a lively discussion of this month’s title. New members always welcome. Current title: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land.

When: 11 am to 12 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Book Signing at Tecolote Mike McGrew, a 30-year veteran on the Santa Barbara Police Force, has experienced chaos and violence in his job. This did not prepare him for the suffering he would encounter in his personal life, including the death of a child and his own battle with cancer.

Please come and meet Mike and learn more about his journey. He will sign his new book, A Higher Call to Duty.

When: 2 pm to 4 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 East Valley Road Info: 969-4977

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15 Photos with Santa Santa Claus will be at Montecito Country Mart three times this month; today is the second opportunity to have your photo taken with the big guy in red. Last date is December 22.

When: 11 am to 1 pm Where: 1016 Coast Village Road

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Book Signing at Lily Award-winning author Diana Raab will sign copies of her most recent book, Writing for Bliss When: noon to 2 pm Where: 1131 Coast Village Road Info: (805) 695-0625 •MJ • The Voice of the Village •

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Village Beat

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.

Montecito Planning Commission Comes to Montecito

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or the first time in its nearly 17 year history, the Montecito Planning Commission will host a meeting in Montecito, next Thursday, December 12, at 5 pm, at Montecito Union School. “It’s an historic event, and we hope to engage the community to remind them of the overview of the Commission’s responsibilities and processes,” said MPC Chair Charles Newman, who is spearheading the meeting.

The meeting will not be a typical hearing, but instead it will include a presentation about Montecito’s rebuilding and resiliency efforts following the 1/9 debris flow, as we approach the second anniversary of the catastrophic event that damaged or destroyed 400 homes in Montecito and took the lives of 23 people. The Commission has spent much of the last two years receiv-

ing monthly rebuilding updates from various entities including the Planning & Development department, Montecito Fire Department, Flood Control, Public Works, Office of Emergency Management, and others.

First District Supervisor Das Williams and representatives from the Office of Emergency Management will also be in attendance at the meeting, outlining their role in the rebuilding process. County staff will talk about specifics related to rebuilding, including an important deadline that is coming up on January 9. “For homeowners whose legal, non-conforming structures were damaged or destroyed in the debris flow, they need to start construction or get an extension by the two year anniversary,” Newman said, adding that every homeowner whose property

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was damaged was assigned a liaison at the County. “We still have many property owners who have yet to reach out to their liaison to discuss rebuilding. My hope is that this meeting will be the impetus for people to know that we are a resource for them.”

The Montecito Planning Commission, which currently includes Commissioners Newman, Bob Kupiec, Donna Senauer, Ron Pulice, and Susan Keller, was formed in March 2003, after an attempt to annex Montecito as its own city. At that time, Montecito land use issues were heard by the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission, and many Montecito residents felt our community would be better served with a separate planning commission and architectural review board – MBAR was also formed at that time – solely for Montecito. Bob Meghreblian and other instrumental Montecito residents formed a group to look into the idea, and after consulting with then First District Supervisor Naomi Schwartz and her staff, the Board of Supervisors granted approval for a Montecito Planning Commission and Montecito Board of Architectural Review for a twoyear trial period. Since then MPC and MBAR have helped shape the “village feel” of Montecito, ensuring projects and builders adhere to the Montecito Community Plan, which was adopted in 1992. The establishment of MPC/MBAR ensures that Montecito projects are looked at by two groups of Montecito-minded people, who understand and implement the Community Plan.

Newman says he hopes the meeting will inform the community about the MPC’s role in keeping Montecito semi-rural, as well as provide logistical information on how residents can get involved and stay informed.

The meeting is Thursday, December 12, at 5 pm at Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road.

Coast Village Plaza Updates

Earlier this week, Khao Kaeng, the Thai food restaurant located in Coast Village Plaza, closed its doors after just a year in business. The eatery was the latest concept from the owners behind Empty Bowl Gourmet Noodle Bar at the Santa Barbara Public Market.

Co-owners Jerry Lee, Emre Balli, and Nui Pannak signed the lease on the downstairs space, formerly occupied by Here’s the Scoop, a few months before the Thomas Fire broke out at the end of 2017. Permitting and remodeling of the space took nearly a year, as the build-out required ADA improvements as well as modifications to accommodate the kitchen.

The improvements, which were also delayed due to the 1/9 debris flow, included a custom bar area as well as a large communal table, offering 35 seats inside and 40 seats outside on the heated patio. Khao Kaeng, which translates to mean “curry on rice,” offered elevated Thai cuisine, with a selection of specialty dishes not found on traditional Thai menus. The recipes were from Pannak’s home in Bangkok, Thailand, and everything was made from scratch, including the curry and chuchi pastes, stir-fry sauce, peanut sauce, and more. “It’s been very hard for me to close Khao Kaeng; we put everything we had into it,” said Lee. The award-winning Empty Bowls at the Public Market continues to operate as normal, offering authentic Thai and Taiwanese noodle bowls and small plates. “I want to thank everyone for their support, and hope they come visit us at Empty Bowl Gourmet Noodle Bar,” Lee added.

“We are sad to see such a great restaurant shut its doors,” said Francois DeJohn, a founding partner of Hayes Commercial Group, which oversaw the lease agreement. DeJohn continues to look for a restaurant owner

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Khao Kaeng, the latest eatery by the owners and chefs of Empty Bowls Gourmet Noodle Bar, has closed its doors in Coast Village Plaza

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Seen Around Town

by Lynda Millner

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The MClub (Montecito Bank & Trust travel club) was invited by executive director/CEO David Bolton of the California Missions Foundation (CMF) to join him on a special overnight tour to Mission San Antonio de Padua and tours of Mission San Miguel and Mission San Luis Obispo including wine tastings and a Four Nations Candlelight Dinner. Who’s ever gotten to sleep in a Mission?

We began the trip at the train station in Santa Barbara where we climbed aboard the business class car for a scenic ride to San Luis Obispo. The porter immediately passed out wine and we enjoyed views not seen by car of Vandenberg and Point Conception.

In San Luis there was a van waiting and we headed north to Mission San Antonio. David met us with champagne in hand before we took our luggage to our rooms. This Mission is one of the few of 21 with bedrooms.

We did call it “glamping” because there were no bathrooms en-suite but we did have a sink in our room and facilities just down the hall.

The sign announcing our arrival at Mission San Antonio de Padua

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Executive director of CMF David Bolton with CMF board member Carol Kenyon and Joan Steele, Mission administrator

The antique paintings of the 21 California Missions in the refurbished gallery

This Mission stands on what was once Hearst ranch property. William Randolf used to bring weekend guests to see it. It is also unique because there is no town built around it. It is a pristine setting as it was 250 years ago when it was built in 1771 by Padre Junipero Serra, the third in California.

It is near a U.S. military but not visible from the base and also in the Valley of the Oaks.

Board member and Mission expert Dr. Robert Hoover took us on a tour of Mission San Antonio. In 1771 Padres Junipero Serra, Miguel Pieras and Benaventura Sitjaar hung the

bells on the branches of an oak tree and named the mission San Antonio de Padua. In 1773 the site of the mission was moved to a place further up Los Robles Valley because of an unstable water source. There were by now about 163 converts and it was the year of the first marriage. There were adobe buildings and by 1781 tile roofs. In 1810 the third church structure was started and still stands today.

In 1834 the period of secularization began with San Antonio becoming Mexican government property. That was the beginning of the Mission falling into neglect. In 1862 the U.S.

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There’s also a museum. It’s so far out in the country, you wonder where all the people come from. Some could be from the military base.

Our evening began with wine and bites in the foyer of their brand new Mission Gallery. We were “cutting the ribbon” so to speak. On one of David’s visits he saw the room which had

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LETTERS (Continued from page 8)

asset. Having lived elsewhere, I know the difference. I appreciate your publishing my letters unaltered and in your kind comments, and wish you well in your next adventure.

To Gwyn Lurie, I wish you well in your new endeavor. Your editorial in Vol 25 Issue 47 was encouraging. The recent congressional “hearings” (the opening statements eliminated their being classifieds “depositions”) have illustrated the misleading, waste of time of hearsay, which has the same effect as anonymous sources in that neither presents admissible evidence in court.

Brent Zepke Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks for your note, Brent. I appreciate your being encouraged by my editorial. I do feel strongly about people taking responsibility for their words. Not sure I understand your parallel to the recent impeachment hearings in Congress. I’ve been watching quite closely and it seems to me that the number of primary witnesses to the actions and intentions of our President is staggering. Far from hearsay. Interesting how two intelligent people can have two such profoundly different take-aways. ~ GL)

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Too Little Too Late

While it is great the work on the bridge on East Valley Road by Mt Carmel has been completed, it is disturbing that everyone is patting themselves on the back for completing all the bridge work needed after the January 2018 debris flow.

It is disturbing for two reasons; 1. It took almost two years to get this done.

2. There is still bridge work that needs to be completed on the west end of 192 on the Toro West bridge.

The Toro West bridge is located between Ladera and Toro Canyon Road and is still in a state of disrepair and necked down with K rails to a single lane across it. According to Security Paving personnel that occasionally are on site there, the bridge

has been done since June/July but the lead ins to the bridge need to be widened, and they have been told to not work on it. This seems to be true as no one has been working on it for the last six months so those of us that live in the area are still subjected to a single lane bridge with poor visibility and no repair date identified according to Security Paving.

With the recent Cave Fire and the storms that are coming in we are again concerned about the fact that one of the only exit paths in the area is compromised and there seems to be very little interest on Caltrans/Security Paving/ SB County to finish the 192 repair work. This point was driven home by the large media event was held to celebrate the 192 bridge work being completed, while there is still at least one bridge that needs to be finished.

This celebration is especially irritating given the fact Das Williams office has been contacted numerous times about the Toro West bridge, but he participated in the completion celebration.

It is great that the other bridges have been mostly completed (they still need the bike rails), but contrary to what is being communicated, the bridge repair job is not done yet and there seems to be no completion date identified for the remaining work.

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Our Town

by Joanne A. Calitri

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Atkinson Gallery Names John Connelly as New Director

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he Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College has taken on a new director, John C. Connelly. An art aficionado since birth, Connelly hails from the metro NYC area where he received his MA in Art History at Hunter College and began his career as an art curator and director for the Andrea Rosen Gallery in the NYC Chelsea neighborhood for eight years and was a founding member of the New Art Dealers Association (NADA). After Rosen, he was the director of the Felix GonzalezTorres Foundation (Rosen represents the Gonzalez-Torres estate), and taught part-time at the NYC Fashion Institute of Technology through 2014, when he moved to our town. Here is our interview with the details: Q. Tell me a bit about your background in the art world, and your inspiration to represent it.

A. I took my first art history class my freshman year in college in New

John Connelly, the new director of the Atkinson Gallery, in his SBCC office

York City and fell in love with the subject. As a full-time undergraduate student, I was also fortunate enough to find a part-time job working at one of the bookstores inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On my short 15-minute breaks I would explore the institution bits at a time, which was the perfect way to discover and digest its encyclopedic holdings.

I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in art history from Purchase College in New York and began working in art galleries at the front-desk working

as a receptionist, archivist, administrative assistant, and then graduated to artist liaison and director. In 1995, I co-curated my first exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery where I also met and worked with then-emerging contemporary artists like John Currin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sean Landers, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Andrea Zittel. I started my own nomadic curatorial project under the name John Connelly Presents with the goal of introducing artists without New York representation to new audiences. The project evolved into a more traditional gallery model after I began to share a small permanent exhibition/studio space on the 10th floor of a building on 26th Street in West Chelsea in 2000.

The gallery expanded twice over the course of ten years and was located on the ground floor of 27th Street when I closed it in summer of 2010 and accepted a position as director of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation.

I worked at the Foundation for four years until relocating to Santa Barbara in 2014. Since then, I have worked as a private art consultant and independent curator.

What genre and period of art are you most attracted to?

I love many different genres of art but have always gravitated towards photography. After I discovered Modern and Contemporary Art in school I quickly became interested in finding and discovering new and emerging artists who are challenging previous conventions and forging new territories. Artists who can make reference to art historical precedents while saying something new are interesting to me.

How did the Atkinson Gallery catch your interest?

I saw my first exhibition at the Atkinson gallery in 2015. I was impressed with the beauty and proportions of the space and was really taken by its stunning outdoor terrace that overlooks downtown and the Santa Ynez mountains. I came back to cam-

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What are your main goals for the gallery?

I want the space to function as a resource that inspires both our students and our larger community. Increased attendance and more awareness of the space is a goal. I want the programming to contextualize the annual presentations of our student’s work with an examination of historical works by established artists, especially from early or seminal points in an artist’s career. I also want to prioritize new projects by emerging artists that are site specific like our current solo project by Jane Mulfinger or that strive to transform the space the way that Rafa Esparza’s project did.

How many and what type of exhibits are you planning?

A mixture of five to six solo and group exhibitions and projects each year by both established and emerging artists. Ongoing projects include: The Essentials, a new video program that features important art films and a new series of exhibitions inspired by the question, “What is America?”

The first exhibition in the America series will include the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres who is an artist I have a long and deep connection with.

Other shows will include artists who are relatively new to me like our upcoming winter group exhibition, Eleven Figures in Two Parts, that will include Santa Barbara based photographer Manjari Sharma and the Los Angeles painter Zoe Walsh. Eleven

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

Back to the Future: Santa Barbara Filmmaker Revisits Wounded Knee Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter’s Journey screens at the Marjorie Luke Theatre on Tuesday, December 10

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anta Barbara documentary filmmaker/journalist Kevin McKiernan was a rookie NPR reporter in 1973 when he was embedded at Wounded Knee during the famous armed American Indian Movement (AIM) occupation in South Dakota that left two dead and scores arrested. Embedded himself, actually, as McKiernan had to circumvent government roadblocks surrounding the village and resort to subterfuge and other evasive maneuvers to stay at the camp.

He wasn’t planning on revisiting the site or the subject almost four decades later, although his career – which includes a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize – has taken him to even more dangerous locations around the world and led him to tackle other challenging socio-political situations as the Kurds and ethnic cleansing in Burma both in print and on film. But then he met a Yurok Indian fisherman named Willard Carlson while looking for a camping site in Humboldt County – and trespassing in the process.

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“We were just searching for a spot away from the RVs,” McKiernan recalled earlier this week. “Willard and his cousin were scouting a ceremonial site. Wounded Knee came up, and we both said we’d been there, but neither one of us believed the other one.”

The reckoning came when the fisherman took the filmmaker to his cabin to show him proof: a group photo of him with some of the other Wounded Knee warriors – a picture shot by McKiernan. The two became friends, Carlson rekindling McKiernan’s interest in the uprising.

“All these years later, having worked for so many magazines, newspapers and TV stations, getting long in the tooth, he inspired me,” McKiernan said. “I was still wondering, ‘Why would a California Indian travel 1,600 miles to fight someone else’s battle?’

Tribes came from all over the US. different stories that were all the same – the loss and resurgence. He embodied all that for me. He became the micro example of the macro changes that took place as a result of that 71-day occupation.”

The inquiry sparked what is now a just-released feature documentary, From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter’s Journey, which will have its local debut this week at the Marjorie Luke Theatre. The film evolved along the way, with financ-

ing foibles, including a Kickstarter campaign and second mortgages, leading to segments on McKiernan’s growth as a reporter, the aftermath of Wounded Knee including a murder investigation, the importance of maintaining a culture, and connecting the past to the future via linking Wounded Knee and the 40th anniversary event to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock just three years ago.

“It’s one of the hardest things I’ve done, and it did change a lot, from originally being a Willard-centered story to an investigation to my own story and how much spirituality and internal deeper changes that were going on both at Wounded Knee and since,” McKiernan said. “That was very inspiring to see. And it was amazing to see Willard at Standing Rock as a non-violent protester vs. the gun-toting warrior he’d been in 1973, realizing, as many now do, that you have to use different tools to hang on to the land.”

The documentary also features the final footage shot by Haskell Wexler, the famed Oscar-winning cinematographer and longtime Montecito resident whom McKiernan befriended just a few months after Wounded Knee. Wexler died in 2015.

“He was a legend in Hollywood, but also an unofficial godfather to my children, filming all sorts of events in our lives,” McKiernan recalled. “No matter what he was shooting, he was a part of the moment that was happening, always caring more about meaning and reason than f-stops or anything technical. He’d push me on our road trips, asking ‘What are we doing here? What was it about this moment that would live on, why is it important?’”

McKiernan said that Wexler’s influence is not only in the pictures but the passion of the new film.

“Haskell said to take what’s in your heart and put it in the heart of the viewers. Touch someone else with what you’ve been touched with.

That’s what I was trying to do here.”

From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter’s Journey screens at 7 pm Tuesday, December 10, at the Marjorie Luke Theatre. A Q&A follows the film, with the filmmaker and special guests from the Yurok Tribe, including Willard Carlson, a protagonist in the film, and his son, Pergish, who will open and close the film with Yurok song and drum. Anthony Chase-in Winter, a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe and a UCSB graduate in film studies who interned with the director during post production of the film, will also take part in the Q&A. Representatives of the Chumash tribe will also be on hand, singing and playing instruments to welcome their Native American brethren to town.

Admission is $10.

“When December comes, can ‘The Nutcracker’ be far behind? No, it can’t – not in America, anyway.” – Robert Gottlieb

Ensemble Theatre puts Zuzu on the Radio

Three great traditions come together in Ensemble Theatre Company’s December show, a reworking of the classic holiday film It’s A Wonderful Life into a Radio Play. First, of course, is one of the great holiday stories in history, that of the idealistic George Bailey, a man who serially gives up his dreams to help others, and whose fateful life’s decisions on Christmas Eve bring about the intervention of his guardian angel. ETC’s offering adds the excitement of live theater, and also the conceit of producing the show as if it were a live radio broadcast that might have taken place during the film’s era. Between them the five actors perform dozens of characters along with live Foley sound effects created right before your eyes and ears while the story is set in Santa Barbara in 1947, and features mock radio commercials for local businesses from that time.

ETC’s new-ish Director of Education and Outreach Brian McDonald – who served for years in a similar role for Rubicon Theatre in Ventura and previously appeared in the national tours of Miss Saigon and Forever Plaid – directs a cast of four ETC veterans plus company newcomer Teri Bibb, whose credits in Broadway and regional theater, TV and film date back to the 1980s.

It’s A Wonderful Life runs December 7-22 at the New Vic Theatre, 33 West Victoria Street. Tickets cost $62-$77, with discounts for seniors, students and patrons 29 and under. Info at (805) 965-5400 or www.etcsb.org.

Dramadogs are Lighting the Way

Over the last five years, DramaDogs and the Public Library have partnered to present a series of theatrical projects including original pieces that align with the themes in book clubs or the Santa Barbara Reads program.

Lighting the Way, presented in collaboration with Climate Change Theatre Action, a worldwide performance series that explores humanity’s legacy in the natural world, consists of six short plays that invite viewers to participate in a global conversation about our environment and the importance of conservation. The current cycle coincides with the United Nations COP (Conference of the Parties) meetings. DramaDogs’ Artistic Director Ken Gilbert directs the company’s production of Lighting the Way, which features pieces by Caridad Svich, Madeline Sayet, Marcia Johnson, Nathan Yungerberg, Kamil Haque, and Katie Pearl, and stars Hannah Brudney, Logan Folz, Diva Johnson, Meredith McMinn, and Karly Kuntz.

Admission to the 3 pm performance at the Central Library on Sunday, December 8, is free.

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Getting Personal for the Holidays

Santa Barbara Speaking of Stories series earlier this year sadly sunk into the abyss. But its offshoot, the Mothinspired evenings of first-person original true tales told by their authors, known as Personal Stories, is continuing to involve locals as both performers and audience members. The Holiday Memories version of the format brings 20 more writer-actor-tellers to Center Stage with two programs running in repertory December 9-12.

Topics this time around range from toucans to turkey capers with angels, ghosts and somersaults also on the agenda. The eclectic evenings each end outside on Paseo Nuevo’s patio to toast the actors with – what else?

– cookies and milk. Visit www.center stagetheater.org.

4Qs: Einhorn Decks the Granada with Boughs of Holly Pops Maybe the Santa Barbara Symphony was taking a cue from the old commercials for Wrigley’s Doublemint chewing gum when they launched a second pops concert last December to go along with its longstanding New Year’s Eve show. As in, “Double your pleasure, double your fun.”

Whatever the motivation, Year 2 for the Christmastime concert brings to town the estimable Andy Einhorn, whose credits include music supervisor/director for the Broadway productions of Carousel and the Tony Award-winning revival of Hello Dolly! and serving as music director and pianist for six-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald, performing with her at The New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, The Philadelphia Orchestra, among others.

Broadway singer Christiane Noll and the UCSB Choirs will also join in for the family-friendly holiday program slated for 8 pm Saturday, December 7, at the Granada, where the program includes an audience sing-along of popular favorites with songs like “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” and “Frosty the Snowman” and much more. Einhorn talked about the show over the phone from New York City earlier this week.

Q. You have quite the resumé with some big names, Broadway shows and touring company and major orchestras. How did we entice you to head out to our little berg?

A. I’m always up for any chance to come out to California, particularly in December. I secretly have a desire to move out there, or maybe it’s not so secret. I’ve done holiday pops shows around the country, which is how I got hooked up with Santa Barbara. These kinds of programs bring everybody 5 – 12 December 2019

Santa Barbara Symphony presents Holiday Pops with Broadway star Christiane Noll and Andy Einhorn on Saturday, December 7, at the Granada

together. But I was drawn because they said they don’t need it to feel like traditional, sacred, religious holiday concert because the audience there expects things slightly left of center.

So I’ve got Broadway shows with themes, songs from the movies, and interesting arrangements of songs from holidays with a twist.

With a twist?

We’ve got a version of The Nutcracker that’s not the normal one, but I don’t want to give away much. It’s very exciting, and fun for the musicians as well as the audience to hear something they know and love in a different context. Also, I like picking pieces that I feel a strong persona connection to rather something generic. So we’ve got the Marvin Hamlish song because both C and I know people who worked with him, and I know the guy who did the choral arrangement.

We’ll do “O Holy Night” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”, but also a Charlie Brown medley with all the Vince Guaraldi themes, which I love.

And I really fought to get the UCSB choir to sing with us because it not only brings in the community aspect but also gives college students a fun experience and makes it a merry festival for everyone. We even have Hannukah songs.

thank them for including me in theirs.

Part of the joy as a traveling musician working with so many others is that music is its own language… But I realize that it’s all about the partnership…

It’s important to cater to the orchestra.

You have a lot of Hollywood and studio players, so they know how to play this music a little jazzier. My goal is to be that prime collaborator who can support these people I’ve never met before to help them shine for their audience. And I learn something new every time that I take on to the next job.

Classical Corner

Camerata Pacifica closes out its 2019 concerts with two masterworks, pairing Bach’s A Musical Offering, BWV 1079, with Beethoven’s String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131, performed by ensemble musicians Demarre McGill, flute; Joseph Lin, Tricia Park, violins; Richard O’Neill, viola; Ani Aznavoorian, cello; Timothy Eckert, bass; and Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord. (Friday, December 6, at Hahn Hall)... Oboist Adelle Rodkey and pianist Eric Valinsky perform Poulenc’s Sonata for Oboe and Piano followed by pianist and Argentinian music scholar Kacey Link playing Piazzolla’s Three Preludes for Piano and Adiós Nonino tango rhapsody and Alberto Ginastera’s Milonga in

Pops has been growing in popularity in recent years due to the financial benefits for orchestras. Is that a good thing?

Pops is a great alternative because it brings in a slightly different audience that won’t come to hear Mahler or even Beethoven. Our job is to challenge and cross-pollinate as much as we can. But we have to push the boundaries of what pops is so that we don’t divide that audience completely, which is why orchestras are showing films while playing the score live.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter, as long as you are presenting works at a high musical level. Jerry Herman’s “We Need a Little Christmas” is no slouch for the orchestra to play, by the way.

the next free Santa Barbara Music Club concert at 3 pm on Saturday, December 7, at First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu Street…

UCSB associate professor and opera star Isabel Bayrakdarian has been directing students from UCSB’s Opera Outreach Program in performances of Evan Mack’s 2016 children’s opera Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena for elementary school students at Karl Geiringer Hall on campus over the past week. Now, the community gets a chance to see the 45-minute one-act opera based on the Mexican folk tale of the same name that tells the story of how the poinsettia became a meaningful symbol of the holiday season. The final free show of the charming holiday opera that conveys a universal message of courage, hope and transformation that transcends religious and cultural lines takes place 6 pm on Sunday, December 8 at Geiringer Hall…

Pianist Stephen Prutsman has stepped in for Peter Serkin for CAMA’s Masterseries’ recital on Wednesday, December 11, at the Lobero, teaming with violinist Pamela Frank – who has served as a soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras (all of whom have performed for CAMA at the Granada in recent years) – in a rare performance of all six of Bach’s sonatas for violin and keyboard. Visit www.lobero.org/events.

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The Way It Was

by Hattie Beresford

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nce upon a time pepper trees reigned supreme in California, and their unique and ubiquitous presence inspired Eastern visitors to succumb to paroxysms of poetic expression. One visitor to Santa Barbara in 1874 enthused about its umbrageous and graceful foliage.

Another commented on lanes of pepper trees whose wonderful feathery foliage and gorgeous scarlet berries flung a pungent spicy odor into the mist.

Sarah Augusta Winchester, who moved with her family from Maine in 1869, recalled her romantic arrival years later. “We arrived in Santa Barbara [on] a beautiful moonlit night, coming on the steamer and landing at the old wharf at the foot of Chapala street. We were driven up State street, which was lined with overhanging pepper trees that touched our shoulders as we drove under them.”

Local poets embraced pepper tree imagery. The graceful tree became an image in a cradle song written by Mary Bowman, who penned, “Rockaby, lullaby, the sun is descending, soft fleecy mist veils the mountain tops o’er/Rockaby, lullaby, pepper boughs bending, are swaying and swinging their bright scarlet store…”

Artists became entranced by its colorful fruit. In 1883, Edward Edmondson, an artist from Dayton, Ohio, who had opened a studio in Santa Barbara, showed a painting of the delicate fronds and pendulant berries of the pepper tree. Edmondson painted several versions of this image and sold them to wealthy Easterners.

Pepper tree boughs were favored for decorations for special occasions such as the 1876 welcome soirée for artist Henry Chapman Ford and wife.

The Morning Press reported that the rooms, “…were tastefully decorated

“Chill December brings the sleet, blazing fire, and Christmas treat.” Sara Coleridge

Ms Beresford is a local historian who has written two Noticias for the Santa Barbara Historical Museum as well as authored two books. One, The Way It Was: Santa Barbara Comes of Age, is a collection of articles written for the Montecito Journal. The other, Celebrating CAMA’s Centennial, is the fascinating story of Santa Barbara’s Community Arts Music Association.

Artist Edward Edmondson found artistic inspiration in the exotic pepper tree when he opened a studio in Santa Barbara in 1883 (Wiki-Commons)

with branches from the pepper tree, and hanging vines of ivy and woodbine, and brilliant bouquets, all smiling a voiceless but fragrant welcome.”

Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Eaton Burton, who would become a well-known Arts and Crafts artisan, sojourned in Los Angeles in 1887 on her way to Santa Barbara. In her memoir she wrote, “Dust and Pepper trees, this is all I remember at first on landing in the Pueblo de Nuestra

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Ida and Remijio Romero, descendants of Presidio soldiers, pose before a pepper tree at their Montecito home circa 1925 (Courtesy Montecito Association History Committee)

Mission San Luis Rey claims to have planted the first pepper tree in California in 1829 (UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives)

Señora, la Reina de Los Ángeles…

The pepper trees were magnificent, spreading and arching their graceful fronds over the meandering roads, but their large bulbous trunks and twisted roots had preempted what little semblance of sidewalks had been started, so that you were literally forced into the dusty street.” (Even through her awe of the tree, Elizabeth saw to the root of the eventual problem with pepper trees.)

Pepper Tree Controversy

Origins

By the 1870s, pepper trees were so common in California that newcomers thought it was a native, but

Spain in 1810, Spanish supply ships to the pueblos and missions became infrequent and by the end of the war, disappeared entirely. The Californios were on their own, and may have adopted the Peruvian tree as a substitute for Piper nigrum. It is, however, not a true pepper.

The tree was clearly not unknown to the Spanish colonists in other parts of the Empire, where the strong wood was used for saddles, wagon wheels, and posts, and its fruits for spice. The fruits also have antiseptic and antibacterial properties and were used in treating wounds and infections.

Given that fact, when the butchers of the California Market used sprays of pepper branches from which to hang their carcasses, it may not have been entirely ornamental.

Oil from its leaves was used by the Incas for mummification purposes and the fruit for brewing an alcoholic drink called chichi. In California, however, the tree’s greatest popularity was as an ornamental and shade tree, so much so that it has become associated with California’s romantic historic past and once had a loyal following throughout the state and in Santa Barbara. In fact, the aged pepper tree that stands on De la Guerra Plaza in front of City Hall has landmark status.

City Hall and De la Guerra Plaza circa 1924 shows the mature pepper tree that was saved during construction of the Hall (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

The pepper tree swags hanging above the artfully trimmed carcasses were not just for decoration, but had antiseptic and anti-bacterial properties (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

the California Pepper (Schinus molle) was an immigrant from the Peruvian Andes. Most historians seem to agree that the first pepper tree in California took root at Mission San Luis Rey, when Fr. Antonio Peyri planted some seeds brought by a visiting sea captain circa 1827. After El Grito de Dolores, which signaled the beginning of the War for Mexico’s independence from

In 1874, the State of California offered premiums for tree planting along roads and highways. By 1877, therefore, Santa Barbarans, who were already beautifying the fledgling town, had made lining the streets with shade trees a cause célèbre. An opinion in the Morning Press read, “There is nothing in SB that is more pleasantly attractive to strangers than the brilliant green of her pepper trees.

The brightness of their emerald hues is wonderful. If State street was only lined with them, from the beach to the Arlington, what a magnificent avenue

The landmarked pepper tree, seen here from the second story balcony, still graces and shades Santa Barbara City Hall (author photo)

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“Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.” – Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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The grading of streets led to the demise of many of Santa Barbara’s pepper trees. The photo shows the carcass of the pepper trees in front of the Hill/Carrillo Adobe. (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

it would be! There are some giants in the lower part of town, magnificent trees, big enough to shelter a whole community, and if there were more such, it would wonderfully enhance the beauty of our city by the sea.”

More and more streets became lined with the pepper. Nevertheless, the newspaper began reporting, as early as 1877, “The roots of some of the pepper trees on State street, near Montecito street, are forcing the planks of the sidewalk out of place.”

Their solution? “The planks should be cut to make room for the trees.”

In 1882, the newspaper exhorted the public to trim their pepper trees to benefit the trees and facilitate foot traffic. “Many complaints are made of the damage to clothing, hats in particular, caused by drooping boughs, which dangling low over sidewalks, besprinkle all with dust who pass.”

Criticism of the pepper tree began to mount.

City Council soon passed an ordinance requiring all homeowners to trim their pepper trees and not allow them to droop on the sidewalk, and the newspapers exhorted people not to leave the debris in the middle of the street.

The Demise of the Pepper

In 1893, Dr. Francesco Franceschi and Charles Frederick Eaton established the Southern California Acclimatizing Association on Eaton’s Montecito estate. Franceschi became the leading expert on horticultural matters in Santa Barbara. In his inventory of Santa Barbara shade trees he wrote, “People here must have soon begun to look for shade and the first tree introduced for this purpose appears to have been the pepper tree (Schinus molle)… What was left of perhaps the oldest plant in town, a gnarled stump constantly pollared and abused, has disappeared quite recently from State Street in front of 5 – 12 December 2019

the Commercial hotel. Very large peppers, some of them exceedingly picturesque, are scattered about town, and chiefly in the lower part towards the ocean.”

As time passed, Franceschi saw the unsuitability of the pepper as a street tree. By the end of the century, others did, too, and a huge controversy played out in the opinion pages of the Morning Press, regarding the fate of the pepper. One writer wrote, “Before I had read many lines of Dr. Franceschi’s article on ‘City Tree Planting’ I knew that the Cocos Plumosa would jump up somewhere as a sidewalk tree as that gentleman seems to be somewhat daft on that plant, for we can not very well call it a tree.”

The writer goes on to say that he wants shade trees on the street, not ornamentals. “We can all remember how beautiful and shady were Anacapa, Arrellaga, Victoria and upper De la Vina streets with their rows of peppers before our absurd system of grading ruined them… Garden street was well-named before it was graded, being lined with peppers and acacias, but if Cocos are planted, the name had better be changed to Arizona street.”

Franceschi responded that he was not against peppers but they need to be in the right place. It was also ridiculous to think of providing shade for pedestrians in a city where everybody rides, drives, wheels, or if not, takes the cars (trams). He thinks palms from Arlington to the Mission would create an appropriate and inviting approach.

The Controversy continued for years, but buckled sidewalks, prolific debris, and the scourge of black scale caused the graceful pepper to eventually lose out to the stately palm.

Pepper Lane in Montecito

In 1881, the dirt track that connected Sycamore Canyon with Hot Springs Road was just beginning to be plant-

The 1882 photo shows the junction of Sycamore Canyon Road and Pepper Lane (to the right) with nary a pepper tree in sight. To the left is John Murray Forbes’ estate of Mount Saint George, which was sold to Helen R. Oothout in 1894. (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

A photo of Pepper Lane circa 1900 (Courtesy Montecito Association History Committee)

ed with pepper trees. By 1898, when the time came to name the streets, the trees had grown into a shady allée. It was a surprise to many, then, when on October 4, 1909, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors decreed the road “vacated and abandoned.”

William Oothout and other residents had petitioned for the abandonment, and, there being no opposition, the Board complied.

On October 6, the Morning Press reported, “The innocent announcement in the morning paper that the supervisors had closed Pepper lane was the signal for more than one peppery conversation over the telephone by residents of El Montecito who had not been informed of the request and considered the action a land grab on the part of Oothout and his supporters.”

The petitioners for closure said the reason for the closure was that the road was little traveled and nearly impassable and required large sums

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of money to put into a safe condition. Louis F. Swift and Anne R. Faulkner, owners of property abutting on Pepper Lane, alleged that the closure would damage their property and asked the Supervisors for a writ of review.

This battle continued into 1912, when Helen R. Oothout deeded a 20-foot strip to the county to meet the requirement for sustainment of the road, and the supervisors declared it once more a public highway, supposedly, for “all time.” Nevertheless, its highway status was not to last. Pepper Lane, seemingly devoid of all namesake trees, is a private lane today.

(Sources: San Bernadino County Sentinel, posted 3 May 2016 by Venturi; “When Pepper Trees Shaded the ‘Sunny Southland’” by Nathan Masters; “Santa Barbara Exotic Flora”

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DeJohn reports that the space across from the new vacancy remains available; Coast Village Plaza owners Rich Rosen and Hank Hurst hope to find another restaurant to fill it. Rosen and Hurst purchased the building in 2014, and undertook a three-year long renovation that included a new elevator, parking lot, decking, dining patios, lighting, signage, driveway, and landscaping. Since then new tenant Renaud’s Patisserie & Bistro opened its doors last year, and Ca’ Dario, the latest outpost from restaurateur Dario Furlati, is expected to open early next year, in the space formerly occupied

by Giovanni’s.

Montecito Water District News

In late November, after numerous committee meetings, the Montecito Water District Board of Directors took its first look at draft rate scenarios, hearing a presentation from a consultant on how a rate increase could be rolled out. Designed to illustrate various scenarios created by adjusting the balance between fixed and variable costs, the presentation identified possible tiers, example rates, and a number of related policy matters that

the Board will consider before rates can be finalized.

After reviewing the presentation, the Board directed the Finance Committee and staff to work with the consultant to address questions raised during the presentation. Finalizing a draft proposal that the Board agrees is ready for public review is the next step. A sample timeline included in the presentation showed that new rates would not be implemented before May 2020, after ample time for public comment and review, and it was stated that the process may take longer.

Members of the public seated in the meeting suggested that the analysis be run with and without the cost for “desalination,” referring to the cost of a pending 50-year water supply agreement with the City of Santa Barbara. Board member Brian Goebel responded: “Without desal, we would have to figure out how to hedge against risk of massive downturn in supply as was the case during the past seven years of drought. It is hard to predict what the true cost of living without a reliable water supply would be in our community during the next severe drought, but it would almost certainly be higher than it was during the last one.” He went on to say, “Desalination has a set cost, and we would be taking delivery of all the

agreed upon water. It is a sure thing and something you can plan on. It increases our resiliency.”

Public entities typically set rates every 3-5 years, or whenever changes to operations impact the cost of service. Montecito Water District last raised rates in 2016.

As part of a review of a year’s worth of progress towards implementing recycled water, the Board adopted Resolution 2189 on November 19, affirming MWD’s vision and its intent to proceed with an NPR project (purple pipe/for irrigation only). “This Board is doing exactly what it said it was going to do a year ago: we set out a process and we are sticking to it. We are carefully evaluating the most efficient and economical way to implement a meaningful recycled water project for the community, and we are right on schedule,” said Director Goebel. The Resolution is available in its entirety at www.montecitowater. com.

Lastly, “Smart Meter” installation will begin throughout the district beginning early next year. MWD conducted a needs inventory, secured funding, and began purchasing equipment this year, and an installation contract for work to begin in January has been awarded to Concord Utility Services. Modernizing water meters will help MWD and its customers better manage water resources. When

fully implemented, the smart meters will provide more accurate flow monitoring and timely reporting of usage.

This translates into earlier detection of leaks and a reduction in unintended water loss, which is important for both individual customers and for the community at-large. District customers will receive additional communications on the process in the coming months.

Agendas, packets, and meeting minutes can be found on the District’s web site at www.montecitowater.com.

Meeting times are posted to the online district calendar, and questions can be directed to (805) 969-2271 or customerservice@montecitowater.com. All meetings are open to the public and participation is encouraged.

First Responders Battle in Basketball Court of Champions

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Mr. Anthony settled in Santa Barbara twenty years ago, with more than half of those years in Montecito, and brought not only his talent but great stories along with him. For example, he once styled Priscilla Presley and, upon her request to incorporate a necklace Elvis had given her into an updo, Priscilla sparked an idea that Edward turned into a special technique that he still uses today. His skill of weaving and braiding ribbons and jewelry into hairstyles even grabbed the attention of the 2012 Summer

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Why the change?

“It felt like there was a need in the community for men who didn’t have the knowledge or understanding of men’s work, and who didn’t want to commit to the training to enter a closed group, to be able to experience the work for themselves,” Tillman explained. “We wanted an open forum, street-level access so any man who was curious could come and find out what it means to tend the masculine fire, or even what it means to be masculine in this day and age.”

Indeed, while the #MeToo movement has shed light on toxic masculinity, it’s also resulted in men unsure of where they stand and how to be in the rapidly changing world.

“Toxic masculinity is the shadow,

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There are three such ongoing groups in town, plus several in Los Angeles, Northern California, and elsewhere, all personally established and trained

by Tillman, a Santa Barbara-based somatic psychotherapist, Hakomi trainer and meditation teacher with 25 years of experience.

Until recently, however, the only way to gain entry into the Tenders tribe was via invitation to a weekend intensive followed by a two-month weekly training. But earlier this fall, Tillman and several of the current members of the local FireTenders, including Jordan Santoni and

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Creating Christmas art are Cole, Ella, dad Brent Sharpton, Avery, mom Tracey, and Kevin (photo by Priscilla) Melvin Robert, Santa, Giselle Fernandez, Rick Caruso, Nate Ruess, Jon Hamm, and Brandon Wattz at the inaugural tree lighting celebration (photo by Priscilla)

Revelers at the Rosewood Miramar enjoying the tree lighting festivities (photo by Priscilla)

The “YuleTones” are Jesse Rhodus, Kara Brouillette, Angel Levine, and James McGrath (photo by Priscilla)

Montecitans captured among the hundreds of guests at the Miramar’s festive occasion (photo by Priscilla)

and red and white furred costumes sang around the boffo bash.

Earlier Rick, who was then jetting off for a vacation in Hawaii, hosted a champagne fueled VIP reception in The Study, next to the Manor Bar. “I always love this time of year,” he told me.

Among the 1,800 guests enjoying the big moment were Oscar winner Kevin Costner, actor Jon Hamm, Das Williams, Nina Terzian, Richard and Annette Caleel, Bill and Sandi Nicholson, Wayne and Sharol Siemens, Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Doug and Marni Margerum, Hal and Haley Conklin, and Jeff and Margo Barbakow.

A tree-mendous night.

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As real snow fell, youngsters had great fun with face painting and candy cane stalls, and a very realistic Santa Claus arrived in the hotel’s candy pink Fiat 600, with the license plate JOLLY01, to turn on the lights, while singers dressed in Dickensian “A bare tree stands with roots on both ends in December days.” – Kiran Bantawa

Cartel Caper Santa Barbara author Jeanine Kitchel, who used to live and own a bookstore business in Mexico in the 1990s, has written a very timely new book, Wheels Up – A Novel of Drugs, Cartels and Survival.

“Writing non-fiction was good for a travel memoir and my book on the Maya 2012 calendar phenomenon, but when writing about cartels and corruption, fiction made more sense,” says Jeanine.

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Larry Edwards (MB&T), Esther Jacobsen Bates (Elverhoj Museum), Chris Parker (Atterdag Village), Rona Barrett (Rona Barrett Foundation), Monica Trouve Sapp (MB&T), Linda Johansen (MB&T), Ken Verkler (SYV Hardware), Amy Hinkens (MB&T) (photo by Clint Weisman)

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Author Jeanine Kitchel’s latest book

“I believe the book has a current event angle because of Mexico’s recent spike in homicides. Though Santa Barbara doesn’t sit on Mexico’s border, escalating violence with our southern neighbor should be of deep concern to us all.

“Their president recently deployed 70,000 National Guard troops to Mexican cities to resist the uptick on crime. Cartel turf wars are to blame.”

In Wheels Up, Layla Navarro rises to the top of Mexico’s most powerful cartel when her drug lord uncle is recaptured, with chaos ensuing.

“The novel’s a thriller with roots in the real world,” adds Jeanine, a former journalist.

Bank’s-giving Montecito Bank & Trust celebrated the 17th anniversary of the Community Dividends Awards by handing out checks totaling $1 million to a colorful selection of nearly 200 non-profits in our tony town.

And, for the first time, an additional $100,000 – the Michael Towbes Community Impact Grant – went to

the 54-year-old Rescue Mission.

The new grant will be presented annually, either in total or as two or three checks, to particularly deserving organizations with constructive ideas and solutions, says bank CEO Janet Garufis.

“This is very humbling considering the competition out there,” President Rolf Geyling told the 188 guests at the Coral Casino.

The 44-year-old bank, which has 13 branches and more than $1.6 billion in assets, is always oversubscribed with applications for help, including

groups with missions that serve the arts, youth, education, social welfare, and medical and health sectors.

Among those checking out the luncheon largesse were Erik Talkin, George Leis, Rich Block, Steve Ortiz, Tom Reed, Geoff Green, Tom Parker, Helene Schneider, Roger Durling, Donna Reeves, Bob Craig, Sylvana Kelly, Kevin Marvin, Nati

It Takes Two It was all two grand for words when the West Coast Chamber orchestra under Westmont professor Michael Shasberger performed Mozart: The London Connection in a free concert at the First Congregational Church.

Accomplished keyboardists Frank Basile and Valeria Morgovskaya were in fine form playing the Austrian composer’s piano sonata K for fourhands followed by the Overture to the Marriage of Figaro, and his symphonies No. 1 and No. 3.

The entertaining concert wrapped, appropriately enough, with Haydn’s Symphony No. 104, The London Symphony.

Mozart spent a year in England’s capital city in 1764 at age seven when he played for King George III. Royal Treatment Fans of the hit Netflix series The Crown can get a taste of royal life this Yuletide.

To mark the release of the hotly anticipated third season, a Londonbased vacation rental company is offering the ultimate “monarch-worthy” staycation, but it’ll cost you a hefty $64,637 for seven days.

Interested parties can get a glimpse inside the palatial Grade One listed Georgian townhouse dubbed “The Earl of Fitzroy,” which was featured in the royal drama during series two.

Located in London’s upmarket

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Fitzrovia district, it comes complete with corgis, etiquette coaching, a horse-drawn carriage excursion, a personal butler who has worked for the Royal Family, and a lavish banquet, thanks to Plum Guide.

The house accommodates up to 12 guests and will be available throughout December for a minimum stay of one week.

with higher price tags, To’ak claims their chocolate is the most expensive pure chocolate – with no expensive additives.

And just in time for Christmas, with it being available at Harrods, the top London department store, Wally’s in Beverly Hills, and The Market in San Francisco.

As for me, I think I’ll stick to M&M’s.

Cuckoo for Cocoa You will have to fork out a few beans if you fancy this chocolate, as it is said to be the world’s most expensive bar.

To’ak chocolate, which translates to “earth” and “tree” in ancient Ecuadorian dialects, costs a hefty $218 per bar.

Despite its whopping price tag, the handmade treat is surprisingly light.

In fact, it is so delicate that each bar weighs just 1.5 ounces.

Rare cacao seeds are first harvested from the coast of Ecuador, before they are fermented and turned into liquid chocolate.

Then it is hand-moulded and a single, hand-selected, hand-measured and shelled cacao bean is placed in the center – this must fit perfectly and measures just slightly more than a quarter of an inch.

Though there are other chocolates

Turkey Day Feast The Rescue Mission, which has just undergone a $10 million renovation, was unusually oversubscribed when more than 300 guests turned up for

The MJ’s Richard Mineards and Priscilla at the Rescue Mission (photo by Rebecca Webber)

Glove: An Unauthorized Musical Fable About the Life of Michael Jackson, as told by his Glove” by Julien Nitzberg, debuts in Los Angeles on January 25.

It’s described as a look into the strange forces that shaped Jackson and the scandals that bedeviled his reputation as narrated by a talking, singing glove.

Actors will star as life size puppets of the Jackson Five, Donny Osmond, Emmanuel Lewis, Corey Feldman, and Bubbles the Chimp.

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Volunteering families seating and serving guests at the Rescue Mission include Liam, Elizabeth Horton, Logan, Bruce Belfiore of Troop 26, Jovan, Jamie Rector, and Stella (photo by Priscilla)

the Thanksgiving Feast.

The non-profit’s intrepid new chef Freddie Rashad acquitted himself admirably cooking 90 turkeys, 120 pounds of potatoes, 75 pounds of carrots, and 120 pounds of green beans, for the occasion which saw yours truly and my intrepid shutterbug, Priscilla, volunteering for the 11th year, along with Congressman Salud Carbajal and travel writer Bonnie Carroll.

“It was a little bit overwhelming, but we got there,” said Freddie.

Rolf Geyling, mission president, says they plan to serve more than 10,000 meals between now and the end of the year.

A great deal to be thankful for...

Glove Story In an unusual “sequins” of events, actor Johnny Depp is producing an unauthorized musical about the late Michel Jackson told from the perspective of the King of Pop’s iconic glove.

The wild show – “For the Love of a

“The gardening season officially begins on January 1st, and ends on December 31.” – Marie Huston

Up for Auction A six-litre Aston Martin which was driven by Prince Charles for nearly 15 years can be yours at a very majestic price.

The 1994 Virage Volante convertible that can reach 175 mph, which the Prince of Wales drove until 2008, is being sold for $353,000 with only 34,000 miles on the clock.

It will go under the hammer at the London auctioneers Bonhams at the weekend.

Sightings: Rocker Jon Anderson of Yes at Olio e Limone... Actor Antonio Banderas at the Riviera Theatre...

Singer Beyoncé at Paseo Nuevo Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations and other correspondence to the Journal.

To reach Priscilla, email her at priscilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 805-969-3301.

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Figures focuses on artists who live and/or work in Southern California.

Our program’s breadth is regional, national, and international.

How do you keep up on the arts?

I visit galleries, museums, and artists’ studios regularly. I try to get down to L.A. and other major arts destinations as often as possible. I look online for much of my arts news and Hyperallergic.com is by far my favorite online arts magazine.

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Dance Theatre of Harlem Review

On their 50th Anniversary tour, Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) performed at the Granada Theatre in November as part of the UCSB Arts & Lectures Dance Series, with Montecito sponsors Irma and Morrie Jurkowitz, Margo Cohen-Feinberg and Bob Feinberg, Annette and Dr. Richard

Post-performance with the Dance Theatre of Harlem from left: Artistic director Virginia Johnson with dancers Stephanie Rae Williams, Alicia Mae Holloway, and Choong Hoon Lee, and moderator Monique Meunier

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In addition, together with the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, she co-edited and produced the memoir of local artist Elizabeth Eaton Burton entitled My Santa Barbara Scrap Book and wrote two Noticias, their historical journal. She is also a regular contributor to the Montecito Journal Magazine writing the column entitled “Moguls and Mansions.”

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The 15 dancers, under the direction of the company’s founding member and current Artistic Director Virginia Johnson, performed with grace, athleticism, unparalleled technique, timing and cueing, and top notes to their beyond human mid-air suspensions, fluidity, and synchronized formations.

Costuming and staging were minimalist and complementary in color.

The dancers at this performance were Derek Brockington, Kouadio Davis, Lindsey Donnell, Yinet Fernandez, Dustin James, Alicia Mae Holloway, Alexandra Hutchinson, Choong Hoon Lee, Daphne Lee, Stephanie Rae Williams, Dylan Santos, Anthony Santos, Crystal Serrano, Ingrid Silva, and Amanda Smith. The dances performed were “Orange” with choreo

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An intimate Q&A with Ms Johnson followed, herself a principal ballerina for 30 years, who later founded Pointe Magazine. With her on panel were: DTH dancers Stephanie Rae Williams, Alicia Mae Holloway and Choong Hoon Lee. Moderator was Monique Meunier, former principal dancer with NY Ballet and American Ballet Theater, now teaching at UCSB. Former Los Angeles ballerina Wendy Jackson, a friend of Johnson, shared that educating children of all backgrounds, cultures, and races on ballet was the mission of DTH’s co-founder Arthur Mitchell, whose childhood dream to be a ballet dancer evolved to principal dancer at ABT NYC, and later his own company-school.

The dancers shared stories of their work, the rigorous discipline of dancing under Johnson, and more deeply, what the “inner dialog” of a dancer is while performing: “plié, plié, check my form, smile, and to live and dance in the moment. The purpose of this art form is to make ballet inclusive to how you live your life.”

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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.

Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000.

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ne of the things I remember from my days as a summer-camp counselor was a skit in one of our campfire entertainments, in which someone runs onto the “stage” shouting “The Viper! The Viper is coming!” Then someone else comes screaming, “The Viper! Oh, No! It’s The Viper!” followed by a third, echoing “The Viper! The Viper is nearly here!” Then at last an ordinary workman appears, carrying a large cleaning-rag, and says, with a marked accent, “I’m the Viper. Vot do you vant me to vipe?”

To my mind, an episode of this kind is emblematic of the way fear builds on fear, and a minor misunderstanding can snowball into a major panic.

Modern psychologists have given this phenomenon the sobriquet of “mass hysteria.” Give people something to be afraid of, and they will, so to speak, jump at the opportunity. Movie makers are of course well aware of the possibilities here. Alfred Hitchcock probably caused millions of people, especially women, to be afraid of being knifed when taking a shower (Psycho) or even to feel uneasy when in the presence of such generally harmless creatures as birds (The Birds).

Times of war and crisis are particularly fertile fields for breeding false fears. At the beginning of World War II, one of the things people in England most feared was poison gas. (I well remember, at the age of five, being issued my own gas mask, months before the war actually began.) Far into the war, people habitually carried their gas masks with them. As it turned out, of all the horrors Hitler inflicted on his enemies during that terrible conflict – and of course not counting the millions murdered with gas in special “camps” – poison gas was not one he used. This may have been because of his own memories as a German soldier, of being gassed in battle during World War I. In the United States, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor provoked a whole wave of false fears of attack and invasion, especially on the West Coast, leading to the notorious internment of thousands of innocent residents of Japanese descent, many of them U.S. citizens. In point of fact, the number of actual attacks by Japan on the American mainland during the entire war was ludicrously small, and none could in any way be called successful – except perhaps in pro5 – 12 December 2019

voking further panic. One involved the shelling of an oil installation near Santa Barbara, from a Japanese submarine. Another – undoubtedly the most dramatic – made use of the “jet stream” winds to carry incendiary and explosive “balloon bombs” across the ocean. The only known human fatalities resulting from this enterprise were six members of an Oregon family who in May 1945 came upon one of these devices where it had fallen days earlier in some woods, and somehow triggered it.

Three decades earlier, the peacetime sinking of the “Titanic,” and all the resulting publicity emanating from a story of incomparable human interest – a gigantic ocean liner, on her maiden voyage, sunk by an iceberg, with heavy loss of life, partly due to insufficient lifeboats – generated fears which have persisted to this day. Despite the mass of “safety” legislation which resulted from this disaster, and especially with alternative air travel now available, there are, no doubt, many people who, with “Titanic” replays in various media still in mind, would never consider any form of ocean travel, even though nearly all passengers today are on “pleasure cruises” with no particular destination planned and the greatest danger on such vessels seems to be not from external threats, but from the spreading of disease aboard.

Modern psychologists, who have condensed every human failing into some neat formula, now characterize any manifestation of excessive fear as a “panic attack,” and they have batteries of techniques and medications for dealing with such troubles. But what about when a whole segment of society has a panic attack? The Stock Market is famous for losing its cool, and occasionally going crazy. Sports fans are similarly subject to extreme nervous tension, especially when national prestige is involved. Religious enthusiasm may transmute itself into armies of crusaders going off to rescue supposed “Holy Lands.” And all modern manifestations of “Rock and Roll” may be seen as some kind of cultural panic attack.

Rumors are the classic vehicle for the planting of panic. So let me caution you to keep a skeptical ear open when you next hear a warning that “The Viper is coming!”

•MJ

noon – I could not have been more surprised. I found Tim humble, smart, and surprisingly open-minded. When he talked about his children and his wife he had a twinkle in his eye and there was no question where his heart lay first and foremost. But there was a close second and that was Montecito, and the paper his family had started and nurtured for decades. He loves his town. The people who live here. The people who own businesses here and were struggling to survive amidst an unprecedented natural disaster. The people who have written for him and designed for him and sold ads for him, and delivered papers for him, for years. This young man, almost two decades my junior, who just that morning I had written off with my own prejudice, had an admirable work ethic, an obvious moral center, and a deep sense of loyalty to those who depend on him.

Over the next few weeks Tim and I spent a lot of time together talking about my plans for the paper. My thinking was that he could help with the transition... after all, he knew where the bodies were buried. But the more time we spent together, the more we discussed ideas, challenged each other’s ideas, and debated approaches to raising the level of discourse in our community, the more I began to believe that maybe we could – dare I say it – actually work together.

I wrote the cover story for the Spring 2019 Journal Glossy (the story about Billy Baldwin and Chynna Phillips) because as a writer I know there’s no better way to test out working with someone than to have them edit you. Tim could not have been more respectful, more supportive or more collaborative.

And most importantly, he made me better.

It became clear to me that this ideological “opponent” was simply another person who happens to have differing political views, but who cares as deeply for this community as I do. Unlike many of my closest friends, those in my personal echo chamber, Tim and I complement each other precisely because we challenge and expand each other’s world views.

I have come to believe that there is real danger in algorithmic or “infinity mirror” thinking. When I was a kid there was no practical way to play only the songs I already knew I liked, so I listened to them all – on both sides of the album. If Spotify had existed then, I would never have heard so much of the music that ended up moving me in surprising ways. I often think about that with my kids and worry about all the less obvious songs they’ll never know by never listening to the other side.

It has been said about the friendship of RBG and Justice Scalia that their oddly functional relationship made a larger statement about the robustness of the Supreme Court as an institution: that it was strengthened rather than weakened by respectful debate and could work regardless of the spectrum of extremes represented.

I am grateful for the opportunity to be working with someone who thinks differently than I do. And from that, I suspect, our readers will benefit greatly.

I made a lot of assumptions about Tim Buckley, just as I suspect readers will make assumptions about me. But the truth is, there’s more to any of us than just our political leanings. In the spirit of the holiday season, let me suggest you reach out to someone on the other side of the aisle. The distance may be less than you think. After all, it’s not a gulf. It’s just an aisle.

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and this work addresses it,” Tillman said. “But we don’t hear much about what good masculinity is, even the divine masculine. I’m opening the door because men feel especially lost right now, confused about how and who they are supposed to be. This is an environment where they can explore, feel good about themselves as a man and to have those attributes and still be in respect of the feminine.”

The groups are open only to men because that increases the level of safety, he said. “Many men’s issues revolve around their relationships with the feminine. We work in the paradigm of what people might consider more feminine – sensitivity, deep listening, attunement – which men also have but don’t often get to explore or even reveal. Here we can share vulnerably and grow through the sense of brotherhood.”

Tillman said the Open Tending circles at Yoga Soup – which expanded from 90 minutes to two hours with the second series that runs through January 12 – differ from other men’s groups in town is that, as a somatic therapist, his emphasis is on presence and what we experience in our bodies.

“It’s not an intellectual approach, but one where men can study themselves in a safe container where they can be grounded and real. We’re not just sitting around talking about things, but being in the experiential field, using mindfulness and awareness to study the self so we can grow, see our blind spots and become better men in the world.”

For now, the Open Circles have been set up as a series but are absolutely available on a drop-in basis, as the content is more theme specific rather than a progressive layering, and always includes a basic overview so that newcomers feel welcome, Tillman said. Each meeting includes setting context, establish basic agreements, check-ins and various processes, including mediation and embodiment work to help shift from the cognitive space into one of presence.

“You can jump in at any time, try it out and see if it fits for you,” he said.

The circles have also been established to give men an introduction to the work prior to the next Tending the Masculine Fire weekend somatic therapy journey intensive slated for January 24-26 at a private hilltop retreat center above Mission Canyon.

It’s a much deeper dive into cultivating an ability and capacity to be present in one’s body to what’s happening on the inside and respond to what’s happening outside of oneself, an awareness-based process of being here and now, and building the capacity to be with what is, Tillman said.

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man knows the various tenets values, including integrity, sensitivity, inclusivity and awareness, the men will likely go off to form their own closed circle.

“The idea is to create self-sustaining groups,” Tillman explained. “The training is a very bonding process, and from that the men want to stay together as a group… Once the groups become ongoing, there are no leaders, because everyone is a leader. The men develop confidence to be their own leaders, and just as some of our existing FireTenders are leading at Yoga Soup, they can help the organization continue to grow. That’s what excites me.”

(Open Tending: FireTenders Men’s Group continues 3-5 pm on Sundays at Yoga Soup through January 12.

Admission is $10.)

Games with Gallagher et al

FireTenders co-leader Damian Gallagher, who also facilitates Breath Work, Meditation, Intersubjective Meditation and Sound Healing, this week also partners with Jenny Calcoen, a business coach who has more than 20 years of experience as an executive in the corporate world in event management, finance, IT and family office roles, for the next installment of Authentic Relating Games.

The bi-monthly gathering slated for 7 pm on Friday, December 13, has Relational Attunement as its theme, meaning the “games” – interactive experiences for self-discovery and group play that participants can dive into at the level of their choice – examine such questions as “What does it mean to tune into the relational field?” and “How am I creating harmony or dissonance with others and within myself?” Admission is $18 in advance, $25 day-of.

Sterios Centers on Subtle

Peter Sterios, the founder of MANDUKA® and creator of LEVITYoGA™ who has taught yoga at the White House and the Pentagon, saw his first DVD, “Gravity & Grace,” named by Yoga Journal as one of the Top 15 yoga videos of all time. The San Luis Obispo resident leads a workshop based on his new book, Sounds True – Gravity & Grace: How to Awaken Your Subtle Body and the Healing Power of Yoga. Sterios’ 2-4 pm workshop on Saturday, December 7, features a short lecture followed by dynamic yoga practice using the subtle-body elements of gravity, grace and levity, designed to help you create a yoga-inspired guide for living and healing, filled with insight from your own

experiences. Following the workshop, Sterios will lead a conversation about healing with yoga and share insights and stories from his book as well as answer questions. The fee of $45 in advance, $55 day-of includes a signed copy of Sounds True – Gravity & Grace.

Sessions at the Soup

Also at Yoga Soup this month: Creative Play with Lora Amber and Skyler Levenson of Wild Yes, a monthly gathering focused on the intriguing concept of “imperfect art making.” The afternoon of explorative play with the collective creative genius is a place for artists of any and all experience to come together with curiosity, to play with creative edges, and to delight in whatever is produced. (3-5 pm, Friday, December 6; $15)... The monthly First Fridays Ecstatic Dance is a barefoot, substance-free, live DJ get-down dance party that begins with a onehour contact improv warm up. (7-9:30 pm, Friday, December 6; $15)... Yoga Soup’s annual Holiday Celebration offers classes, an organic, homemade serve-yourself oatmeal bar, and special pricing on the studio’s unique gifts augmented by handcrafted creations from favorite of local vendors before the evening brings a potluck-style shared food dining experience and a musical celebration featuring Alice Bradley, a community sing-along with Glen Phillips, and dance tunes with in-house DJ (and studio owner) Eddie Ellner. (9 am-7 pm bazaar; 7-9:30 pm music; free admission)...

Hattie Bluestone, DPT, and Anahita Holden, PhD, team up to teach “Mindful Self-Compassion for the Holidays”, aimed at reducing stress during the December season. The workshop employs core principles and practices of MSC, and includes guided meditations, short talks, experiential exercises, sound meditation, aromatherapy, mindful tasting and group discussion, and offers take-home practices to integrate self-compassion into your holiday season and daily life. (2-4 pm Sunday, December 8; $30 general, $20 for students)... Chantal Peterson – a veteran yogi, certified massage therapist, and RYT Yoga Alliance certified Women’s Self-Care practitioner who founded the BodyLove project – introduces Connected Breathwork at the studio.

Participants will learn how CB works and how it differs from other breathwork techniques before experiencing a guided 45-minute breathwork practice anchored in a curated musical journey (7-9 pm, Sunday, December 8; $30 in advance, $35 day-of).

Misa & Martin & Ninaya

Ninaya Strandberg, a holistic health practitioner specializing in

“When dark December glooms the day, and takes our autumn joys away.” – Walter Scott

Warm Water Therapies that relieve stress, pain and toxicity and promote whole being wellness, has published a new book called It’s Elemental!

She offers an interactive demonstration of some of the book’s elemental exercises, guiding visitors on an Elemental Rhythm Journey through the five elements utilizing movement, sound, and breath. Creative and healing artist Lisa Trivell follows with a nature-inspired chakra balancing relaxation meditation as part of a holiday gathering at the new Misa & Martin art gallery on lower State Street. The 6-8:30 pm event on Sunday, December 8, also features delicious treats from the Organic Soup Kitchen, info on Strandberg’s wellness programs, insight behind Trivell’s elemental arts scrolls and cards, essential oils from Fleurs de Chantal and more, including a gift raffle. Free admission. Visit www.face book.com/events/761455954266130.

Angels Among Us

Santa Barbara family physician Dr. James Kwako, who offers mini-workshops every semester at SBCC’s Extended Learning program, presents “The Presence of Angels and How They Help Us” at Unity of Santa Barbara at 10 am on Saturday, December 7. Angels, as taught by Dr. Kwako, are agents of divine presence, power and protection with a mission to radiate the goodness and glory of life working in tandem with humans on earth. The qualities of life they reveal are gracefulness, graciousness, patience, and persistence.

Kwako will offer experiences from individuals who commune with angels often and talk about how to be more receptive to their loving guidance. Admission by love offering for Unity. Visit www.santabar baraunity.org.

Meetup Minis

The Monthly Integration Circle gathers again 7-9 pm on Monday, December 9, to create a safe space to talk about altered states of consciousness that are induced by psychedelics, plant medicines and/or spiritual emergence. Give and receive emotional support and guidance, share stories and resources, and discuss recent research on using psychedelic for treating ailments such as depression, addiction, PTSD and anxiety. Visit www.meetup.com/ SB-Psychedelic-Integration-Circle…

Natalie Maharjan leads a half-day retreat featuring sitting and moving meditation, chanting, and a dharma talk at the American Buddhist Meditation Temple beginning at 8 am on Sunday, December 8. Info at www.meetup.com/Santa-BarbaraBuddhist-Meditation.

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SEEN (Continued from page 16) The corridor where we had the candlelight dinner

The kitchen crew for our Mission breakfast: Colin and Monica Hayward, David Bolton, Gonzalo Sarmiento, and Ashlee and Gabriel Frausto

been the Franciscan’s library. When the Franciscans left the Mission they took all of their books and so the space had been through many uses, some just for storage. David was able to get $100,000 funding for a remodel from the Field Foundation – longtime Mission supporters. Even the floor tiles are special and come from Mexico especially crafted to match the Mission floors. There were electrical and lighting upgrades and painting on the walls in the Senefa style topped off with period style furnishing and artifacts they found throughout the Mission complex. It has been renamed the Field Gallery and has a CMF tile plaque on the foyer wall. It’s a lovely room for many events and has antique paintings of all 21 Missions on the wall.

We adjourned to the courtyard for a Four Nations Candlelight dinner, the signature menu created by Bolton. It was inspired by the four nations that have governed the lands of California: Native Californians, Spanish, Mexicans, and the U.S. Each course brought together the rich history of California and our state’s missions, peoples, and preservation. The first course was a salad with elderberry vinaigrette. Elderberries are native to California. The second course was a dish known to Cuba, ropa vieja (which literally means old dress). The

meal ended with the U.S. influence of cheesecake. This was all prepared by “Chef” David who wears a couple of hats. The harvest table set for 35 in the courtyard was stunning with 3-foot-high silver candelabras and olive bows down the center. And the guests sparkled in their evening attire as well. Toasts and applause were all around.

To end the perfect evening there was a musicale in the Mission church with Craig Russell, who is a noted early California baroque musician playing a period guitar.

The next day we gathered for breakfast in the Mission Courtyard dining room and were served a delicious sausage dish plus fresh squeezed orange juice and French pressed coffee. Yum! Don went to mass and I wandered about taking photos. After mass it was time to head out to Mission San Miguel.

San Miguel was named for Archangel Saint Michael and founded

by Franciscan Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen in 1797, the 16th mission. It was meant to close the gap between Mission San Antonio to the north and Mission San Luis Obispo to the south.

The Missions were supposed to be a one day walk apart. It is located in the town of San Miguel. The site was specifically chosen due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhab-

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ited the area and the priests wanted to evangelize the community. It is the only mission with the original unretouched wall paintings. There is a sulfur bath nearby that all enjoyed. Their river runs north so the locals call it the upside-down backwards river.

On to Mission San Luis Obispo for a box lunch in the Mission and a tour led by expert Dr. Daniel Krieger and some of their many docents.

The Mission was founded in 1772

by Father Serra and named San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. It was named after Saint Louis of Anjou, the bishop of Toulouse and is the namesake of the town San Luis Obispo. Our docent, Wendy, whose family has been living a long time in San Luis told us, “I’m to be married in the church next April.”

She loved telling Mission stories. My favorite was about the church doors which open at two different heights.

The tallest is so you could bring your horse inside. In Spain where we lived in the 1970s the horses would bow on the church steps for special festivals.

The lower door was people size.

Our overnight stay was the first in a series of CMF events to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the California Missions. Our journey into the past was nearly over as we boarded the Coast Starlight train back to Santa Barbara.

CMF was founded in 1998 with the objective of preserving and protecting the Missions. It is the only organization dedicated to the long-term preservation and restoration needs of all of the California Missions. Funds are raised from generous contributions from their corporate, foundation, and individual supporters. CMF works to fund projects in all of the Missions from stabilization of structures to conservation of paintings and artifacts and conducting archaeological

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Nothing defines California and our nation’s heritage as emotionally as do the 21 Missions that were founded along the coast from San Diego to Sonoma. Many have morphed into our cities like San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Jose, San Francisco, and Sonoma. They are California Historical Landmarks and many are National Historic Landmarks. Founding of the Missions began seven years before the American Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776 and ended 25 years before the gold rush in 1848.

We need to listen to the voices and the lessons of the past. To contribute or become a member of CMF visit their website Californiamissionsfoundation.org or call 805.963.1633. Their address is California Missions Foundation, P.O. Box 23035, Santa Barbara, CA 93121.

Next year’s Mission San Antonio overnight tour is set for Saturday, October 10, 2020. It’s truly special! •MJ

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5 Thursday with Santa – To no one’s surprise, December’s 1st Thursday art walk features a whole lot of special holiday shows, topped off, as always, by the opening reception of the 11th annual “100 Grand” exhibition at Sullivan Goss (11 E. Anapamu St., 805-730-1460), where all 100 works of art sell for $1000 or less…

Things are even more affordable across the street at Faulkner Gallery (40 E. Anapamu St., in the SB Public Library), where the Santa Barbara Art Association’s Holiday Show, occupying both the main and side galleries, boasts diverse original artwork by some of its 535 members on sale for no more than $400. The reception includes refreshments and music by the Dixie Daddys… Special holiday prices are also being offered at Early California Antiques (1331 State St., 805837-8735), which the artworks include still life oil paintings in styles ranging from 18th century Spanish colonial to mid-century modern from Andres Aldrin, Ejnar Hansen, Eygene Montgomery, David Segal, Frederick Schafer, Mabel Sumerlin, Walt Peregoy, Clark Provins, Paulina Lincoln, and many others… ‘Round the corner, Santa Barbara Art Works (28 E. Victoria St.) has original paintings, ceramics and jewelry on display, and purchases will support the creativity and professional growth of the 20 exhibiting artists with disabilities. Live music by the Traveling

Hurtados, craft cocktails served by Goleta Red Distilling Co., and desserts by The Little Things Bakery make this stop a must… The Yes Store (101 Paseo Nuevo, 805-966-9777) seasonal pop-up of artists selling handmade one-of-a-kind gifts for holiday shoppers, is celebrating 52 years of coming together in different downtown locales, long before the pop-up phenomenon… Speaking of pop-ups, the San Marcos Courtyard (1129 State St.) hosts the Ganna Walska Lotusland & Colette Cosentino Art Mural Reception and sale, where visitors can view the murals by Cosentino that once graced the perimeter of Lotusland’s Japanese Garden during its renovation. Art sale proceeds benefit Lotusland during the event, which begins at 1 pm, and features fun from Core Power Yoga, Draughtsmen Aleworks, Armada Wine & Beer Merchant and Buena Onda Empanadas. WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: (805) 962-2098 or www. downtownsb.org/events/1st-thursday Festive 1st Performances – The regular 1st Thursday venues are alive with music and more while pop-up performances and holiday tunes also abound from locales that are more sporadic on the year-round calendar.

Indeed, Marshalls Patio (900 State St.) has so much good stuff they’ve had to split the difference, with the Santa Barbara Trombone Society – an alliance featuring music educators, students,

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5 Stepping out of Line – UCSB Dance Company’s annual fall concert carries the title “Out of Many,” a theme meant to spur the five BFA senior dance majors and faculty member Brandon Whited to investigate how the individual relates to and integrates with society and community, and how people can strive to be part of the world while remaining true to themselves. In director Christina McCarthy’s words, the choreographers have been examining their own places of uncertainty as they navigate new and exciting questions about inclusivity, self-definition, and communal responsibility. Wes Dameron’s Atlas Reflection, for example, explores the aesthetic juxtapositions in the perceived corporeal forms of statues, while Lexi Cipriano’s Hinder comes from her interest in how the individual faces obstacles and how our perceptions of what is happening leads to decision making that informs and creates the path of our lives. Morgan Geraghty’s Invite You to Surrender, Whitney Ross’ in: somnia, Gina Schemenauer’s The Reality of Degas and assistant professor Whited’s 95 North round out the program. WHEN: 8 pm tonight & tomorrow, 1 & 7 pm Saturday WHERE: Hatlen Theater COST: $17 general, $13 seniors, children and students in advance; $2 more day-of INFO: (805) 893-2064 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu (photo by Stephen Sherrill)

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 Driving Home Connection – The Cambridge Drive Concert Series is shaking things up for its annual December concert, Songs on a Midwinter’s Night, which normally puts the focus squarely on local performers who donate their talents, and admission is by donation to the Unity Shoppe, to underscore the connections we all have with one another, the responsibility of art and music to make the world a better place, and to build a sense of community. What’s new is trimming the showcase from a minimum to half a dozen acts to just three: Dennis Russell & Laura Hemenway, touring singer-songwriter and CDCS fave Jen Hajj, and local legend Cyrus Clarke, who will each offer a half-hour set. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Drive, Goleta INFO: (805) 964-0436 or www.cambridgedrivechurch.org

and community members of all ages – blowing their ‘bones from 5-6:30 pm, followed by Santa Barbara Revels’ preview of its annual Christmas Revels show, this year heralding A Venetian Celebration of the Winter Solstice set in Renaissance Italy and featuring beloved traditional melodies, lively dances, and commedia dell’arte (6:30- 8 pm)...

There’s also a split bill at Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State St., 805-963-4364), where Opera Santa Barbara performs at 5:30 pm, followed by the Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces at 6:30 pm, both among the artwork in the galleries… Paseo Nuevo’s Center Court, which typically sports holiday fair and snow nearly every night ‘til Christmas, is strangely quiet this evening. That’s because all the groovin’ and gyrating will be coming through headphones via a special Silent Night Silent Disco from 5:30-7:30 pm when the entire family can deck out in their ugliest sweaters and dance and singalong to DJs playing songs through provided headphones. Hit the top of the hours (6 & 7 pm) for dancing Santa and snowfall shows… Further down State Street, Hotel Santa Barbara (533 State St., 805-957-9300) gets into the spirit with “A Very Merry 1st Thursday,” marking the holiday season with performances by the Adelfos Ensemble choral group singing traditional Christmas carols and selections from their upcoming concert in the decorated lobby, where the over-21 set can also sample local wines by Sanford Winery and Mediterranean bites from Mezza Thyme….

Back uptown, the Granada Theatre (1214 State St.) hosts its annual “Tree at The G” in the lobby, where you can pose for photos with Santa in front of the beautifully decorated tree and enjoy holiday tunes with the Jazz Bellz trio…

A block further north, SBIFF’s Education Center (1330 State St.) won’t keep you long with this month’s short film, as Michael Love’s “Breakthrough: The Snowy Plover and the Oil Spill” – about

how biologist Cristina Sandoval educated the clean-up crew at the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill in how to protect the Western Snowy Plover – runs just eight minutes. WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: (805) 962-2098 or www. downtownsb.org/events/1st-thursday FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 98 Degrees in December – While it’s not entirely unimaginable that the thermometer could near triple digits in late fall give recent wild swings in the weather, it’s much more likely that the heat will be happening indoors when the pop and R&B group that rose to prominence in the late 1990s bring their tour to the Santa Ynez Valley.

The quartet of Ohio natives – brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, Justin Jeffre, and Jeff Timmons – enjoyed a five-year stretch of success that made them one of the top boy bands of their era. Between 1997-2002, 98 Degrees sold 10 million records, scored a chart-topping single, “Thank God I Found You,” and collaborated with their collective idol, Stevie Wonder, on “True to Your Heart,” for the 1998 animated Disney film Mulan. Their Top 5 hits include “Because of You,” “I Do,” and “The Hardest Thing” plus “Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche),” “My Everything,” and “The Way You Want Me To.” A decade-long hiatus ended when the boys put the band back together in 2012, and five years later released a full-length Christmas album, Let It Snow, that featured their signature R&B-tinged, four-part harmonies. The program tonight will include songs from Snow and their 1999 multi-platinum This Christmas, as well as many of the non-holiday hits. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom, 3400 Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $49-$79 INFO: (800) CHUMASH or www.chumashca sino.com 5 – 12 December 2019

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 Antlered Art Arrives – Brad Nack threatened he might be ready to bring the annual 100% Reindeer Art Show to a close last year, when the Santa Barbara legacy artist marked 20 years of creating, exhibiting, and selling several dozen original, framed oil paintings of reindeer to friends, family, and lovers of whimsical art every December. But here he is back again, still sporting a big batch of brightly-colored, multi-layered expressionist mini-masterpieces that spring from Nack’s imagination, with the close up of the antlered critters serving as commentary on contemporary times as well as his own mood. Now we’re told this year truly is the last. Going out with gusto, Nack has slated two local unveilings – tonight at the Good Bar in Goleta, and next Saturday, December 14, at his usual stomping grounds of Restaurant Roy, where his paintings get their own spot in the private dining room of the intimate eatery. Each show features its own slate of reindeer, so book time at both for the best selection. But then, we’re told, it’s really over, as Nack’s attention is elsewhere, including painting the massive mural on an outer wall at MichaelKate in the Funk Zone, as well as other endeavors such as booking bands at the Mercury Lounge in Goleta. So saddle up, bring your Apple Pay phone, and take home one of Santa’s mischievous little helpers to hang by your own hearth. WHEN: 6-9 pm tonight & December 14 WHERE: The Goodland Hotel. 5650 Calle Real, Goleta tonight; Roy, 7 W. Carrillo St. on December 14 COST: free admission INFO: www.bradnack.com

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 Irish Christmas – Riverdance principal Caterina Coyne, World Champion dancer Tyler Schwartz, and Connor Reider (principal dancer of Celtic Wings, St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland, The Chieftains) are joined by members of the Kerry Dance Troupe, The Kerry Voice Squad, and the Kerry Traditional Orchestra – helmed by percussionist Mark Alfred, Musical Director of Riverdance/Heartbeat of Home – for a journey through Christmas in Ireland full of dancing, singing and Irish traditional music. Celebrate the great tradition of butter-making, chase the wren on St. Stephen’s Day, draw down the half door for spectacular dance, and bask in the singing of Christmas carols including “Silent Night,” “Twelve Days of Christmas,” and “Carol of the Bells” in a show that’s meant to showcase Ireland at its seasonal best. WHEN: 2:30 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Can-

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 Think Pink – There’s really nothing quite like Pink Martini’s Holiday Show, as the internationally-acclaimed “little orchestra” both channels traditions and blows apart boundaries all in good fun and cheer as they deck the hall with festive holiday songs from around the globe. Expect to hear tracks from their holiday album, Joy to the World – with classics like “White Christmas” alongside Hebrew prayers, Chinese New Year tunes and a samba-inspired version of “Auld Lang Syne” – as well as crowd favorites from their non-holiday albums. It’s just like founder-leader Thomas Lauderdale suggests when he imagines Pink Martini as if they were the United Nations house band in 1962, with the glamorous full-pipe singer China Forbes serving as ringleader. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $40-$150 INFO: (805) 893-3535 / www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or (805) 963-4408 / www.axs.com/venues/2330

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The event features teams of police and sheriffs against firefighters and members of the Bucket Brigade in one game and medical units and media against local youth leaders in another.

The event will also honor this year’s Court of Champion Inductees: Sonny Allen, former NBA coach and head coach of the Santa Barbara Islanders; Sampson Brue, regional scout for the NBA’s referee operations; Keith Closs, former player of the Los Angeles Clippers, Harlem Globetrotters and Santa Barbara Breakers; Linda Dawson, former UC Santa Barbara player and Bishop Diego High School coach; Leslie Ford-Grieve, former player at Santa Barbara High School, Santa Barbara City College and UCSB; Herb Livsey, former Denver Nuggets scout and founder of Snow Valley Basketball Camps held at Westmont; and Joe Vaughan, Westmont alumnus who coached women’s state champion-

ships at Buena High School.

“We want to recognize the local people who have contributed far beyond the basketball floor,” says Curt Pickering, Court of Champions founder. “It’s a fraternity, a family of friends who are very worthy to be acknowledged. I am looking forward to also recognizing the amazing community leaders and heroes of Santa Barbara, including our first responders, media, and leaders of our youth organizations, such as the Boys and Girls Clubs, Girls Inc., YMCA, and Police Activities League.”

Canned goods, unwrapped new toys, or dollars for donation are suggested for admission to the event. “We want this to be an event to celebrate giving,” he says. “’Tis the spirit here in Santa Barbara, the community we all love.”

For more information, please visit sbcourtofchampions.com or call (805) 969-7542.

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$2,275,000 | 760 Hot Springs Rd, Montecito | 4BD/3BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

$1,295,000 | 102 Coronada Cir, Montecito | 2BD/2BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

MONTECITO | SANTA BARBARA | LOS OLIVOS

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