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It’s a Miramar Miracle (of sorts)!

The new name will be “Rosewood Miramar Beach Montecito”; Rick Caruso’s long-delayed project given final design go-ahead by Montecito Board of Architectural Review. Newly approved renderings feature detailed colors, materials, and signage, with appropriate nods to the past (story on page 13)

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 On The Water Front

Bob Hazard makes salient points about California droughts, addressing Governor Brown’s plan, Israeli’s model, a reality check, desalination costs, environmental impact, and the state’s priorities 6 Montecito Miscellany

Montecito teens and Wheel of Fortune; filmmaker Sam Tyler; attorney Stan Hatch; Ellen DeGeneres; Gigi Hadid’s appetite; Dick and Noelle Wolf; violinists at Granada; SB Dance Theater; Nectar ribbon-cutting; and Movies That Matter series 8 Letters to the Editor

Dale Francisco writes on water; Don Johnson questions sign language; Michael Clark of MWD; Art Thomas sees the light; and Rooster Cogburn on politics 10 This Week

Chaucer’s book signings; CALM antiques; Carp treasure hunt; LEGO; author at Tecolote; community workshop; puppet show; MA Land Use; poetry club; Walk & Roll; exhibit opens; Peresphone Rising lecture; prayer retreat; free music; zoo lecture; health seminar; tea dance; Adventuresome Aging; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; Story Time; Italian conversation; farmers and artisans markets; and Cars & Coffee 11 Tide Guide

Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 12 Village Beat

AMFPD board decides not to move forward with San Leandro property acquisition; Miramar granted final MBAR approval while negotiating water with MWD; Westmont’s President’s Breakfast tickets go on sale February 1

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Lynda Millner attends gala and lecture for West of the West; visits Alpha Thrift’s open house luncheon; and the SB Trust for Historic Preservation meeting 18 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz discusses The Little Prince with director Mark Osborne; PlayFest Santa Barbara moves downtown; See Rock City in Ventura; poets and scholars unite at Antioch University SB 23 Coup de Grace

Grace Rachow enjoys the upshot when raindrops keep fallin’ on her head, and chronicles her neighbor Dominic’s latest endeavors 32 Your Westmont

The college stages two dramatic operas; renowned art historian speaks February 1; high-five record at the track; and baseball has early home opener Legal Advertising 33 Cinema Scope

James Luksic reviews two films whose titles seem related – The Boy and Dirty Grandpa – but their genres and stories have nothing in common Movie Guide 34 Calendar of Events

David Gerrold at UCSB; swimmer-author Lynne Cox; Granada hosts Beach Boys; Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers; opera at MAW; Teen Dance Star; Drummers of Japan; and “Rice” at the Granada 37 Open House Guide 38 Classified Advertising

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ON THE WATER FRONT

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by Bob Hazard

Peace of

El Niño in Santa Barbara County

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osh Haggmark, Water Czar for the City of Santa Barbara, calls the likelihood of a drought-ending El Niño more of an expectation than a reality.

Rainfall year-to-date along the south central coast has been near normal, but below-average rainfalls in the back country have not yet recharged the three local reservoirs at Lake Cachuma, Gibraltar (Santa Barbara), and Jameson (Montecito). Thirteen-percent-above-average rain and snowpack in northern California has not been sufficient to impact four years of drought.

California’s preferred strategy for water management seems to be “Endure the Pain and Pray for Rain.” El Niño may bring massive rain in February and March, but keep in mind that since 1900, California has experienced nine major droughts: 1917-21, 1922-26, 1928-37, 1943-51, 1959-62, 1976-77, 1987-92, 2007-09 and 2012-15. Does anyone really believe drought won’t happen again?

Montecito and the rest of California needs a reliable insurance policy that will protect communities from the next drought, and the one after that, and the drought after that.

The Governor Brown Plan

So far, the governor has called for a 25-percent cut in urban water use with relatively mild penalties for water districts that fail to meet their targets. In addition, the state has encouraged its 76,400 farmers to fallow their fertile fields, putting migrants out of jobs and forcing the entire country to buy its food elsewhere, endangering California’s $54-billion agricultural industry, and at least $100 billion more in related economic activity.

Mr. Brown has promised $7 billion in state aid, mostly to fund last-century solutions, such as building more dams and reservoirs on increasingly distressed rivers and streams. Shamefully, we keep importing other people’s water from the Colorado River and northern California. Our elected officials debunk desalination as too expensive and environmentally unacceptable. While praying for more rain, the preferred strategy seems to be to dig more and deeper wells, hoping our own homes will be the last to drop into a groundwater sinkhole.

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The Israeli Model – A Water Surplus

The inventive and practical Israelis, who have more scientists and engineers (and fewer lawyers) per capita than anywhere else in the world, have used engineering and technology to transform a perennially parched desert into a lush, green paradise. Despite its climate, Israel has reached permanent water independence. Not surprisingly, Singapore, Hong Kong, and 1,400 other locations have embraced Israel’s twin strategies of: 1) desalination, which will provide half of Israel’s potable water by 2016, and 2) recycling 80 percent of its wastewater, the highest recycle rate in the world.

Six years ago, Israelis faced severe fines, taxes, and penalties for watering lawns, filling swimming pools, and taking showers longer than two minutes.

Washing cars was prohibited. Today, water is plentiful in Israel. The fear of drought is gone and Israelis have gone back to planting flowers and tending responsible gardens.

Last winter, Israel experienced its driest winter on record. There was no panic, no rationing, no conservation notices. Nobody cared that it didn’t rain. Israel’s Sorek seawater desalination plant, built at a cost of $500 million, located 10 miles south of Tel Aviv, had opened in 2013. Sorek is the largest and most efficient desalination plant in the world, with a production capacity of 160 million gallons a day. It joined other seawater desalination plants at Ashkelon, Ashdod, Hadera, and Palmachim. An additional new desalination facility in Aqaba is scheduled to produce water for both Israel and Jordan.

From Rose Bowl to Dust Bowl

Lack of water is changing California’s image from the flowered floats of the Pasadena Rose Bowl to fears of a 1930s style Dust Bowl. Already, communities fortunate enough to have ample groundwater are fighting to hoard their water from neighboring communities that have less. Sadly, Montecito residents have witnessed their beautiful community morphing from verdant green to a dry, dingy brown. Ironically, water officials suggest that residents replace their once beautiful plantings with plastic grass. What’s next? Pink flamingos?

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quartet of Montecito teens has been garnering attention on the popular syndicated TV game show Wheel of Fortune.

The fab foursome – Chloe Babcock, Ava and Grace Burford, and Kate Mascari – students at Santa Barbara High, are participating in Teen Best Friends Week, a resurrected segment that hasn’t been seen in five years.

“I signed up for the Wheel Watchers Club some years back and got updates on the show,” says financial executive Jerrad Burford, father of Ava, 14, and Grace, 16.

“In July, I got a mailing saying the show was looking for teens between 14 and 18, and I wrote in with a short video suggesting my two girls. I got a reply, but almost deleted it in error.

“Ava and her friend Chloe, and Grace and her pal, Kate, drove down with me and my wife, Jeannie, to the Doubletree hotel in Culver City, near the Sony Studios, where they taped with Pat Sajak and Vanna White, and tried out with 18 different teams from around the country on a mock wheel. It was all about the excitement factor and the ability to solve the word puzzles.”

Producers told the would-be contestants they’d hear by September 18 if they’d been successful, but didn’t get any response, so assumed they’d lost out.

But just before Thanksgiving, “We heard both girls and their friends had been selected to take part,” says Jerrad, “so everybody was terribly excited.”

The shows were taped last month, with all four girls recording their segments in one day, the first of which, featuring Grace and Kate, aired on

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Monday (25), netting the youngsters $2,000.

The segment with Ava, who was chosen as one of ten Teen Star finalist at the weekend, and Chloe is broadcast Thursday (28), with Jerrad sworn to secrecy by producers. But he allows they did “considerably better.”

This summer, the family is off to Italy for three weeks and the girls will be allowed to spend $1,000 from their show winnings on the trip, which will take in Florence, Siena, and Lucca.

They should have a wheely nice time.

West of All Montecito filmmaker Sam Tyler, whose last project was the well-received but controversial documentary Citizen McCaw on the so-called meltdown at the News-Press in 2008, is now ready to debut his latest project, West of the West: Tales From California’s Channel Islands.

The three-part mini series on the human history of the eight California islands, 12 miles off our shores, has seen Sam reuniting with producers Peter Seaman and Brent Sumner for the production presented by the Santa Cruz Island Foundation and the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum.

Many of the 14 tales in the film will premiere at the Arlington Theatre on March 5 and 6, and will air on PBS in due course.

“It was three years in the making and cost almost $450,000, raised from a Kickstarter campaign and grants from the Hutton Parker and the KirbyJones foundations and many others, involving 70 shoot days,” says Sam. “Last fall, we had four editors crafting

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Desalinate Now

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hen storms a couple weeks ago brought us roughly as much rain in a few days as our usual average for the entire month of January, several people pointedly recalled to me an old Santa Barbara saying: if you want rain, start building a desalination plant.

They were jokingly referring to our region’s last experience with serious drought in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Santa Barbara, in cooperation with other South Coast water agencies, built a seawater desalination plant that could have produced up to 10,000 acre feet of water per year – close to the entire amount of water that residents of Santa Barbara use in a year when in drought-conservation mode.

But the plant only operated for a few months in 1991 before unprecedented storms brought a deluge, ended the drought, and made desalinated water unbearably expensive compared to the “cheap” water suddenly flowing again from Lake Cachuma.

I devoutly hope that the remaining couple of months of our wet season bring us one storm after the next. It would be wonderful to have a series of El Niño rains like the ones of 1991’s “March Miracle” that ended the previous serious drought.

But we can’t count on it. That’s why the reactivation of Santa Barbara’s Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant is crucial to creating a reliable water supply on the South Coast.

The Central Coast is the region of California most heavily dependent on groundwater. On average, 80 percent of the water we use is groundwater. Santa Barbara and Montecito are anomalous in their relatively limited groundwater supply. From early in our history, we have been forced to find water elsewhere, first from the Santa Ynez River, and later from the State Water Project (SWP).

For a variety of reasons, the SWP has never delivered as much water as originally projected. But a side benefit of the system is that it has

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connected us to other water agencies all over the state. In recent years, this has allowed us to purchase and then transport significant quantities of water from agricultural water districts that found it more profitable to sell us water than to grow crops.

There has been speculation that the last four centuries were an unusually wet period in California’s climatic history, and that we may be returning to a drier long-term norm. Treering studies suggest that during the Middle Ages, California experienced century-long droughts.

But even if rainfall continues to be on average what we’ve experienced in our lifetimes, there are other reasons to be deeply concerned about our long-term water supply. For instance, sometime in the next few months the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is expected to deliver its second “Biological Opinion” in 15 years. A Biological Opinion is a document under the Endangered Species Act that lays out how a water agency is to operate in such a way as to maximize the flourishing of an endangered species – in our case, the Southern California steelhead trout.

Though the final terms of a Biological Opinion are open to negotiation, recent experience with NMFS suggests that they may ask for substantial increases in the amount of Cachuma water devoted to fish.

Since Lake Cachuma opened in 1953, it has been the South Coast’s largest and least expensive source of water. But over the years, environmental regulation and new claims on the reservoir’s water – for instance, downstream agricultural users’ water rights finalized by a legal agreement in 2002 – have steadily reduced our share of Cachuma water.

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the large amounts of energy needed to produce it. But the energy used is little different from that needed to create recycled water (by roughly the same reverse osmosis process), or to treat sewage. Both of these uses are considered vital, so we pay the costs. If today we were to rebuild Bradbury Dam, the Tecolote Tunnel, and the South Coast Conduit that transports Cachuma water throughout the South Coast, the costs would likely be between $750 million and $1 billion – assuming we could even get the permits.

Over the past five years, I’ve represented Santa Barbara on three regional water boards. The single most important thing I’ve learned is that water supply in California is an extraordinarily complicated and contested field, and that each community has a unique mix of history, current needs, and possibilities that must be considered in crafting water policy.

Given that water is a fundamental determinant of our quality of life, including basic health and safety, we should consider every possible water source (obviously including conservation).

Desalinated water is one of the most readily available sources of supply for coastal cities worldwide. With our limited groundwater, the ocean is a source we can’t ignore.

Santa Barbara and Montecito aren’t the only Central Coast cities that could benefit from desalination. Last fall, at the invitation of 4th District County supervisor Peter Adam, Montecito Water District Board president Richard Shaikewitz and I visited PG&E’s desalination plant at Diablo Canyon. The plant was originally designed to supply a much larger power station, and so is substantially underutilized. Already

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A seven-mile pipeline could connect that desalination plant to existing water infrastructure in Avila Beach.

Rapid population growth in the Five Cities and a consequent increased use of groundwater has created a growing threat of seawater intrusion. This is when depletion of a coastal aquifer pulls in seawater and renders the aquifer unsuitable for drinking water supply. Desalinated seawater may be the cheapest and most quickly available source of water to counteract this problem.

For these reasons and others, desalinated seawater may be the most reliable and least environmentally costly new source of water for the Central Coast. When the reactivation of Santa Barbara’s desalination plant is completed this year, things will be very different than they were in 1991. I’m confident desalinated water will become a permanent part of our water supply portfolio. The ocean is one of the few water resources on the Central Coast that won’t go away.

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CALM Antique Show The CALM Auxiliary hosts another CALM Antiques, Decorative Arts, and Vintage Show/Sale. The success of this show is a direct benefit for the children of Santa Barbara County who are helped by CALM, a non-profit agency specializing in the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. More than 80 of the West Coast’s finest dealers of antiques and vintage arts will be showcasing and selling their treasures. Everything from period furniture, garden artifacts, decorative arts, paintings, estate jewelry, silver, textiles, linens, glassware, china, porcelain, antique rugs, and more will be for sale under one roof.

When: 11 am to 6 pm, plus Saturday and Sunday Where: Earl Warren Showground, 3400 Calle Real

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 Treasure Hunt in Carpinteria Seventy vendor stalls will overflow with treasures and merchandise at the Museum Marketplace on the grounds of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History.

This popular monthly fundraiser features antiques, collectibles, hand-crafted gifts, plants, and great bargains on gently used and vintage goods of every description, including jewelry, furniture, housewares, clothing, books, toys, and much more.

When: 8 am Where: 956 Maple Avenue in Carpinteria Info: 684-3112 LEGO at Laguna (Editor’s note: The calendar listing that was published in last week’s edition had some errors; this is the corrected information.)

The Free-Build Workshop is geared toward children ages 3-8 and is open to the Santa Barbara community. Join an exciting hour of tinkering, building, and bonding at Laguna’s interactive LEGO bash showcasing the school’s LEGO robotics curriculum for students in Grades EK-4.

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When: 9 am Where: 260 San Ysidro Road RSVP: 687-2461 x234 Book Signing at Tecolote Central Coast author Diana Anderson will read from her book Painted with Love, Romance Eludes Time and Death. The first in a trilogy of Anderson’s novels, Painted with Love is the story of contemporary photographer Dee Coulter, who travels to

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When: 4:30 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Community Workshop The Alliance for Living & Dying Well recommends using the Five Wishes process developed by Aging with Dignity to lead your conversation and help formulate the decisions you put into your Advanced Care Directive. To get this conversation started, The Alliance offers free workshops for members of our community to attend and gain knowledge on end-of-life care.

When: 3 pm Where: B’nai B’rith Congregation Registration and information: 845-5314

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Princess & Pirates Puppet Show A family-friendly puppet show at Montecito Library When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Montecito Association Land Use Committee The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today the Land Use Committee meets to discuss upcoming projects.

When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Book Signing at Chaucer’s Jack Canfield, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise and co-author of The Success Principles, signs his new book: The 30-Day Sobriety Solution.

When: 7 pm Where: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State Street Info: 682-6787

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consensus and interest. New members welcome. Today’s author is Pablo Neruda.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Walk & Roll Montecito Union School students, teachers, and parents walk or ride to school, rather than drive.

When: 8 am Where: Via Vai, Ennisbrook, and Casa Dorinda trailhead Info: 969-3249 Exhibit Opening The Arts Fund is pleased to announce the opening of South County Sampler, an exhibition curated by Nancy Gifford featuring eight accomplished artists working in Carpinteria. A public reception will be held in the gallery tonight during the Funk Zone Art Walk. The exhibition will be at The Arts Fund Gallery, located at 205-C Santa Barbara Street, and will be on view until March 26. Regular gallery hours are Wednesday-Sunday from 12-5 pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 205-C Santa Barbara Street Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within Through lecture, discussion, movement, and writing, participants will explore the archetypal characters in the myth of Demeter and Persephone and their application to the heroine’s journey today. Led by Carol S. Pearson, PhD, the former president of Pacifica Graduate Institute and author of The Hero Within; Awakening the Heroes Within, and Persephone Rising: Awakening in the Heroine Within.

When: today 7:30 pm through Sunday, February 7, at 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: resident $390, commuter $290 Info: www.lacasademaria.org

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Centering Prayer Practice Retreat A mini-retreat day for Centering Prayer

practice. There will be meditation walks, journaling, reflection, and prayer practice.

Let by Sr. Suzanne Dunn, Jeannette Love, and Annette Colbert.

Beginners welcome.

When: 9:30 am to 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031 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: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road Cost: free Lecture at the Zoo Aaron Pomerantz reveals “new discoveries in the amazon” at a lecture at the Santa Barbara Zoo. Pomerantz is the host of The Next Gen Scientist, and discovers new animals and plants for a living. He and his colleagues work at the Rio Tambopata Research Station in the Peruvian Amazon, where they frequently find new species.

Pomerantz shares brand-new footage recently published by National Geographic and discusses how wildlife photography can influence communication and tools for the next generation of scientists.

When: doors open at 6 pm; talk begins at 7 pm Where: Discovery Pavilion at the zoo, 500 Ninos Drive Cost: $6 per person; $5 for zoo members

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Tea Dance The City of Santa Barbara donates use of the ballroom and volunteers provide music and refreshments for this ongoing, free dance event.

Ballroom dance music including the Waltz,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Health Seminar at the Biltmore Dr. Glynis Ablon will speak on a holistic approach to skin care; facilitator and author Nancy O’Reilly will also sign copies of her new book, Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business and Life.

When: 4:30 pm Where: La Marina Room, 1260 Channel Drive Info/RSVP: jen@drnancyoreilly.net

Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Fox Trot, Quick Step, and rhythm dances such as the Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Mambo, and Bolero are played, among other dance music. Participants can hone their dancing skills or learn new dance techniques.

The Santa Barbara Ballroom Tea Dance is held on the first Sunday of every month at the Carrillo Rec Center. No partner necessary, but if you can find one bring him or her along!

When: 2 to 5 pm Where: 100 E. Carrillo Street Info: 897-2519 Cost: free

ONGOING MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS Live Entertainment Where: Cava, 1212 Coast Village Road When: 7 to 10 pm Info: 969-8500 MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memoryenhancement exercises in a friendly environment.

When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859

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TUESDAYS Adventuresome Aging Program Community outings, socialization, and lunch for dependent adults.

When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $75, includes lunch, plus one-time fee of $35 Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative, too.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Road Local Artisans Market When: 3 to 7 pm Where: La Cumbre Plaza, 121 South Hope Avenue Info: www.localartisansmarket.com SUNDAYS Cars & Coffee Motorists and car lovers from as far away as Los Angeles, and as close as East Valley Road, park in the upper village outside Montecito Village Grocery to show off and discuss their prized possessions, automotive trends, and other subjects.

Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Corvettes prevail, but there are plenty of other autos to admire.

When: 8 to 10 am Where: Every Sunday in the upper village, except the last Sunday of the month, when the show moves to its original home, close to 1187 Coast Village Road.

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t a public hearing on Monday, January 25, Montecito Fire Protection District’s Board of Directors unanimously voted to cancel escrow on 1510 San Leandro Lane, the .85-acre vacant site on the corner of San Ysidro Road that the District intended on purchasing for the purpose of eventually housing a new fire station. More than 70 neighbors from Montecito’s Hedgerow neighborhood attended the meeting, urging the board to reconsider the purchase of the property. “The board heard them loud and clear,” said Montecito Fire chief Chip Hickman.

The District was required to consider public comment as part of the acquisition’s Initial Study and Draft Negative Declaration, despite the fact that no specific plans for a fire station project had been developed. The purchase was part of the District’s longterm plan, which includes ultimately moving to a “triangle approach” for fire station placement. Ideally, the District would eventually like to move Station 1’s fire equipment

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closer to the coast, at a fourth, smaller station site on San Ysidro Road, and turn the future Station 3 – which is yet to be built – into a smaller, more residential station. A firefighting training component would then be located at Station 1, which is a less residential area. The result would be lower response times across the area that MFPD serves.

Once neighbors got wind of the site acquisition and possible project, a group of residents including Robin Lacks, Tom Deardorff, Richard Monk, Britt Beauvoix, and the Hedgerow’s neighborhood association president Ted Simmons distributed info packets to 100 nearby residents, asking them to attend Monday’s meeting.

“This is exactly what the public process is for,” Chief Hickman said, adding that the standing-room-only crowd showed a “tremendous amount of resistance” to a fire station on the site. “They felt frustrated and uninformed, and let us know that,” he added.

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“We are fortunate the board was sympathetic to our cries of outrage,” Ms Lacks told us, saying the people who put together the information packet for neighbors are her heroes.

“It proved to us all that we really are a community and brought our neighborhood closer. It was an incredible victory,” she said.

Chief Hickman tells us the board will continue to move forward with Fire Station 3 plans, as they await the certification of the redone EIR for the project. This, despite the fact that the owner of the proposed property on East Valley Road has made it clear he does not want to sell a portion of his property to accommodate a fire station. The property is currently on the market.

“Our priority has always been focusing on Fire Station 3, and we will continue to move forward on that.”

Also happening at MFPD: last week, District staff announced that the south coast has received sufficient rainfall, which has increased fuel moisture levels to a point where burn restrictions can be lifted. The Fire District began allowing burn permits to be issued starting last Wednesday.

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Seen Around Town

by Lynda Millner

Making West of the West

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vidently we’re not the only ones who love this area. The oldest ruins found in North America are on the Channel Islands 13,000 years ago. The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) presented a wine reception and lecture by Brent Sumner and Peter Seaman about the making of their film West of the West: Tales from California’s Islands.

We saw some clips of the film, the first time ever shown, but the movie will be premiered at the Arlington Theatre on March 5 at 7:30 pm and on PBS in April.

Peter has lived in Carpinteria for 25 years and has a view of the Islands every day. After graduating from Harvard, he has had a distinguished career in the motion picture field with writing credits such as How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Shrek the Third, and the Academy Award-winning Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Peter also mentors young filmmakers at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

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Bob Burtness with the head of the Santa Cruz Island Foundation Marla Daily at the recent Islands’ lecture

Islands inspired Brent to document all the facets of the Islands. He went to Brooks Institute of Photography and began his career editing in the reality and documentary realm. Early credits were ABC’s The Bachelor and a series that took him round the world interviewing Ben Kingsley, Janet Leigh, and Michael Caine. Sumner and Seaman both worked on a documentary, Citizen McCaw, about the upheaval at the Santa Barbara NewsPress.

Brent and Peter had a three-year journey in making West of the West.

As they told us, the Islands used to be next to San Diego, albeit 60 millions years ago. “They are North America’s version of the Galapagos.” It is some-

times said that the Islands brought “gold, God, and glory.” There were pictures of the chapel on Santa Cruz Island and mention of the last Indian woman who was left behind when all were evacuated. For those of us who have never even been to the Islands, this film should especially be a must.

Executive director Greg Gorga reminded us that since the founding of the SBMM in 2000, 81,000 students from 140 area schools have participated in their seafaring educational programs. He hopes to bring a new “old” ship, the San Salvador, here in the fall for more fun. It is being built in San Diego.

Kids, big and small, there’s a new interactive display at SBMM where you push a button and get a faux “tattoo.” There are only two of these machines in the U.S. As you would say, “It’s cool.”

Save the dates: a lecture “When China Ruled the Seas” on Thursday, February 11, and “Seaside Soiree Tidepools and Treasures,” a food and wine gala fundraiser March 19. Call (805) 962-8404 for information.

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Alpha Thrift threw open its doors for an Open House luncheon complete with guided tours of their facility. This is the adult day care Alpha Thrift on Cathedral Oaks Road. As director of

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On Entertainment

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

by Steven Libowitz

Bridging Worlds: Montecito Actor in Animated Prince

Director Mark Osborne’s The Little Prince plays at the SBIFF

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pening night at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) has often been a hit-or-miss affair – emphasis on the latter, especially in its earlier years. But the movie selected for next Wednesday’s big gala at the Arlington kicking off SBIFF 31 is a sure-fire winner. The animated version of The Little Prince has already been a success in Europe, where it has taken in more at the box office than its roughly $80-million production cost, and received warm reviews from critics and family audiences.

The movie has a personal meaning for the director, Mark Osborne of Kung Fu Panda and The Spongebob Squarepants Movie fame, who was wary of taking on the task of adapting the classic for the screen before he came up with a clever treatment of the much-beloved book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The concept employs a framing device not present in the novel, as a schoolgirl discovers the book – in unpublished pages – through a eccentric elderly neighbor who turns out to be The Aviator. The film uses computer animation for the little girl’s world and stop-motion animation for the world in the book, a place that draws the child as an escape from the regimented world crafted by her overbearing mother.

There’s a built-in local angle that ensures the film will find a happy home for its American premiere at SBIFF. The Little Prince stars Montecito movie star and Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges, as The Aviator, a central character in both worlds depicted in the film. Two Ojai artists are also involved: Alex Juhasz designed the puppet for the title character, while Jamie Caliri supervised the extended stop-motion animation sequences.

Osborne talked about making the movie over the phone late last week.

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Q. How did you come to direct The Little Prince? I know it’s been a project that had never gotten off the ground before.

A. When the producers first approached me about making a movie out of the book, I said no. It had been in my life for 25 years. My wife gave it to me back when we were dating in college, as a token of our relationship, because I was leaving New York, where we met, to go to study animation at Cal Arts. It was going to be a long-distance relationship, and I was very unhappy about that. But she’d quote lines from the book, like “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essentially invisible to the eye” and “We’ll always be together even when we’re not together.” I found some letters from that time and she really helped encouraged me to pursue my dreams, to make the scary leap to go into animation. We’re now married with two kids. So, the book was really a bond between us.

But it was also significant to me in other ways. As an emerging artist, it helped me stay connected to my childhood and my more artistic, innocent self. There were lots of things that were meaningful to me. I thought there was no way to make a movie out of this book because it’s so personal to me as it is to others, and everybody’s experience is different. It’s been translated into 250 languages all over the world.

But then I realized the only common thread is that a human being is looking at a book, and that book is making the human being look at their life and their connections to others and themselves. That’s when I started to think the movie shouldn’t just be (a straight adaptation because any attempt to do that would be a disappointment. But if you focused more about what it can do, the magic of the book, it was a way to have both an adaptation but also allow it to be small and poetic just as we know the book. That’s what I want-

ed to be the heart of the movie, the center, while the movie itself would be about one character’s experience of the book and how it changed their life.

Once I hit on that, I pitched the idea back to the producers. It had been stuck in development for many years.

I was the first one who thought outside the pages of the book to do something that was a tribute to the entirety of it.

Now here I am six years later coming to Santa Barbara for the American premiere, right in Jeff Bridges’s backyard.

Before we move on, I have to ask: Does your wife like the movie?

That’s funny, because the production was pretty tumultuous. So the fact that we’re still married after going through it means we’ll be together forever. It was a rough journey. We moved the whole family to Paris for two years.

There were so many times when it seemed like it all might come crashing down. It was difficult creatively – I was under a lot of pressure making sure I was being true to the book. The amazing thing that capped it off was that our son, Riley, got to walk down the carpet arm-in-arm with the big actors from the movie because he was the voice of The Little Prince. He was just doing it as a temp track to help me out, but it was perfect. We couldn’t find anyone else who was better. To us, it’s one of the most charming things about the movie. And the little girl character (I invented) was directly inspired by my own daughter. It’s a real family project. So, yeah, my wife loves it.

She’s incredibly happy and excited with how it turned out.

Would you elaborate on the framing device, how the little girl who lives next door to the Aviator, who is now old and retired, discovers the story of The Little Prince, and how that works with the book?

That was the way to preserve the book and keep it magical. Everybody is pulled into the story in a different way.

There’s no way to make a movie that shows the book as we see it, because there is no one way that all of us do.

But instead, we’re showing it through the imagination of this one character, making it her version of the book, not the version. That preserves the way it works in our own imagination. (While it’s made up), the larger story about her and the Aviator was inspired directly from the book, where there’s lots of ambiguity. It suggests a lot of things: What if the book never got published?

What if nobody saw it? What if the Aviator passed on, having never been

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able to tell the story? I just extrapolated from those questions, which felt very close to my interpretation of the big ideas in the book, themes about loss, the importance of staying connected to childhood, and what it means to be a grownup. What we did is almost like riffing on those themes and ideas to build out this larger story that could be shaped like a movie. I’m proud of the fact that everything in the larger story is inspired by some little piece, a line, or a bit of dialogue from the book.

We take some bold chances and big risks and choices, but that’s where they come from. At the end, the little girl imagines the story continuing, which is what the Aviator asks the reader to do. He says the most important thing is for you to ponder what happens.

And that’s what she does.

Like Frozen and Inside Out, your film features a strong female at its core.

Obviously, you started work before those came out.

Yes. When I say the character was inspired by my daughter, it was that we were always trying to find movies for my daughter to watch that had women as heroes. That was really lacking when I started making this. We saw Mulan a thousand times and every Miyazaki film over and over. Now the pendulum seems to be swinging the other way.

You used both stop-motion and computer generated animation to illustrate the different settings. It seems some of the original drawings are jumping off points for the telling of the story from the book, while the CGI is used for the little girl’s life in the modern world.

The little girl holds the pages in her hands that she’s received from the Aviator and reads the story, imagining beyond the drawings, which is exactly what the Aviator does in the book – he asks the reader to create their own reality beyond the illustrations.

Stop-motion was the perfect way to depict the middle ground between those ideas. It feels very childlike, like an arts and crafts project a child might do. It’s inspired by the paper the story is written on, which constantly reminds us that it’s a work of poetry, of art, handmade by somebody. Initially everything in the stop-motion world is paper texture, because we used papers for all of it, including the clay of the heads of the puppets. Everything was very papery. The CGI feels much more modern, so that made sense for her real world.

How did you come to cast Jeff Bridges?

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stop thinking about Jeff in the role. Of course, I never thought we could get him. But I brought the project to him, pitched it to him directly at his home in Montecito. I wanted him to understand the soul of what we were doing, that we were passionately taking care of the book. After we were done with that first meeting, he took me around to the side of the house and showed me his home recording studio. He said, “Maybe we could record here.”

I couldn’t believe it! It was such a positive experience. And that’s what we did. Every time we recorded him, we did it there, which was so amazing to experience on top of his generosity as an actor and his amazing ability to create the character, beyond what I could have hoped for. On breaks, we’d sit on the back porch and have lunch and take in the incredible view. It was a special treat that I will always hold very close. So it’s exciting to come back there, where we spent so much time working together, to premiere the film.

He’s such a kind, generous person.

Play-ing Around Downtown

For the first three years of its existence, PlayFest Santa Barbara might have been the best-kept secret in Santa Barbara theater. The annual January weekend featuring staged readings, partially produced plays and panels took place solely under the auspices of SBCC, and was confined to the school’s on campus venues.

But now, as founder and co-artistic director R. Michael Gros noted, the festival is ready to move from infancy into its toddler years. As such, the organization is not only fostering a collaborative effort with four local companies that have also supported the development of new works (DramaDogs, Dramatic Women, Prism Productions, and Speaking of Stories), the whole thing is moving downtown to Center Stage Theater in Paseo Nuevo mall and environs.

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That seems likely, as PlayFest received more than 50 applications from hopeful authors, whittling that down to just five different works (one is a two-parter) for this weekend’s festival. The expanded pool serves as proof positive that playwrights are looking for outlets and support in the challenging current art world.

“The environment is not entirely conducive to development with intention to having a production,” said Gros, who is also the co-chair of the theater department at SBCC. “Our work is to help them to get it actually out in front of the public and not just develop it to death. The playwrights make their final edits from this experience. We want to be the last stop before a play goes out into the world, to theater companies and artistic directors. Helping playwrights and artists who are committed to new work assures the future of theater.”

It’s an interchange that’s a win-winwin for everybody involved, Gros said.

“I didn’t coin the term, but we’re like venture culturalists. The people who come invest in the beginning of something, and the writers get confirmation that they have something to say as storytellers. We’re supporting playwrights whose work may go on to change and shape American theater, or TV or film, for years to come. ” Here’s the schedule for PlayFest 2016. (All events at Center Stage except where noted):

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6) The Citizen McCaw team back at it: Peter Seaman, Brent Sumner, and Sam Tyler on Santa Rosa Island after a film shoot

the footage into what we describe as 14 tales told from the point of view of people who have experienced the Channel Islands – lived on, wrecked on, dived under, filmed, raising children, bootlegged, fished, surfed, sailed, explored, and restored in a remarkable saga.”

The story goes back to the oldest-known skeletal remains in all of North America – dated to almost 14,000 years ago on Santa Rosa Island, which can be easily seen on a clear day.

“I planned to retire three years ago, but I ended up working full time on this for free. It’s been worth every penny.”

Director-writer Seaman who also used drones for filming, says: “We

shot the hell out of this film!”

But the driving force was Sumner, who was diving in the kelp forests off Santa Cruz Island when he had an accident that nearly killed him. While recovering in Cottage Hospital, he began reading all the books he could get his hands on about the location where he almost met his fate, suggesting to his colleagues that it should be their next project.

Fatally Fun For his 82nd birthday bash, Harvard legal eagle Stan Hatch decided he needed some drama.

The retired Montecito attorney, who has served on the boards of Direct Relief and Fielding University and three years ago, with his perky wife,

Enjoying the celebration of Hatch’s 82nd birthday on January 16, at their home with 16 longtime friends: row 1) Kate Godfrey, Rona Barrett, Pat Fulmer, Lalla and Rinaldo Brutoco; row 2) Carrie Tighe, David Rintels, Betty Hatch, Vicki Riskin, Diane and Mike Giles, and Daniel McNeet; row 3) Thomas Tighe, Robert Fulmer, Richard Godfrey, Stan Hatch, Inga and Jack Canfield (photo by Priscilla)

Betty and her birthday man, Stan Hatch (photo

by Priscilla)

Betty, received the first Father Virgil Remarkable Life Award, penned a 30-minute play Double Jeopardy with himself, David Rintels, and Vicki Riskin.

“The subject matter is death and dying, but, believe it or not, it was a comedy!” says Stan, who with Gerald Parent founded the largest legal firm in our Eden by the Beach, with 40 lawyers in offices throughout California in 1968.

“I actually started writing it two years ago and managed to finish it before this birthday.”

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LETTERS (Continued from page 9)

we wondered who’s changing names.

Now at the bottom of “Barker Pass”, there is a sign renaming it “Baker Pass”.

Is this a trend or poor proofreading?

Don Johnson Montecito (Editor’s note: It’s poor proofreading, Don. When a crashing vehicle took out the northbound 101 exit sign at Hermosillo, Caltrans replaced it with a new sign... and a new spelling: Hermosilla. They corrected it, but the conflict continues.

Hermosillo Drive is called Hermosillo Road. As for the Cold Spring-Cold Springs do-over, that was mostly an effort by the Montecito Trails Foundation to codify the conflicting names. Thank you for keeping a sharp eye out and for inserting yourself into a very local situation; what that tells us is you have become a true Montecito denizen, and we love when that happens. – J.B.)

Keep It Up

Montecito residents are, in large part, still doing a great job of water conservation, and yet we still need much more rainfall to begin filling our local reservoirs. So, onward we must go; read those meters and do leak checks each week to catch them before they become big losses.

I also couldn’t agree more with the recent revised pledge that John Burk wrote (“Changing Weather Pattern” MJ #22/2) that stresses the “measured transition from water hungry landscaping of the past to sustainable and drought resistant vegetation, which is more in keeping with the chaparral of the local foothills.” My only change would be at the end, saying, “in keep-

ing with our limited local water supplies.”

We are in times of shifting weather patterns, and even if we get the needed rain to once again fill our reservoirs, we must from now on be very judicious and careful with our usage as our reservoir capacities have been reduced over time, while the population has increased. Thus, the same supply years ago went further than it does today. I am seeing lots of good sustainable landscape changes being done in the community, and this will help tremendously in getting to that sustainable water use pattern that we need here.

Michael Clark Montecito Water District (Editor’s note: Mr. Clark joined the MWD staff in 2005 as the District’s water conservation specialist; before that, he had been working in Montecito doing private landscape work.)

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I was amazed in reading Tom Kress’s letter (“Channel Islands Power,” MJ #22/3) that high-voltage electricity could be transported by “fiber optic cable” from Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands to Montecito.

What a scientific breakthrough! I’m sure that scientists and electric companies all over the world will be amazed to learn that.

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America Shrugged

The political vibrations are unnerving, but before we discuss the domestic scene, have you noticed how the low price of oil is causing our foreign enemies to gasp for air? Look at what it is doing to Venezuela. Socialism, without easy money, collapses. Look at Saudi Arabia pulling the U.S. rug on Al Jazeera, their propaganda news service. Just not enough money for all the freebies. You will be able to observe even more trouble when Iran tries to peddle all its oil currently stored in multiple tankers. It is wonderful to watch. Take their income away and watch them squirm. It should be the new way to fight.

Now, the domestic scene. What is happening with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton? What is happening in the GOP multi-headed elephant? The pols are shocked, they say, shocked, about what they find. It is necessary to read all the small articles, listen to the mainstream, and listen to the radio wise ones, to fully understand the shrugging and shaking that’s going on.

The Democrat scene is downright frightening. The boldly admitted socialist-communist Bernie Sanders is gaining a full head of steam. Of course, it is white and his 74 years of age slumps his shoulders, but his boat is sliding past the Hillary yacht.

The fact that Ms. Clinton is losing steam is not what is frightening.

What should scare the hell out of you is that there are so many people who flock to socialism. What is stoking the fires on Sanders’s ship is not his appearance or his oratory. What is pouring on the coal is a desire for socialism. A dislike of Hillary helps, but the polling of both of them shows one huge bunch of voters wanting to throw out their freedoms and liberties. This means at least one-third or more of the voters, like sheep over a cliff, will embrace socialism, even though history clearly shows it always fails. This means a third or so only think about themselves and today. They do not think about you

and tomorrow. We can thank the 20 or so years of socialist teaching in the schools and lack of teaching of the need for a thinking voter, and a representative republic.

If Bernie wins, it will clearly pitch socialism against a Republic. If Hillary wins, it will also pitch socialism against our Republic, but just not so clearly. It makes little difference which one wins; their political message is frighteningly similar.

The GOP scene is startling.

Startling because it is kind of like a volcano about to erupt. The ground is shaking and the shrugs are noticeable. How much it will blow, or if at all, is the question. No matter how many millions are spent by the compromise candidates they do not move. Jeb Bush is clearly stuck and unable to move. Obviously, GOP voters are not interested in one who will compromise with socialism. The two top guys are Cruz and Trump, or Trump and Cruz, if you please.

Cruz has a track record of not compromising but fighting to the last vote. Trump says he will do better.

Trump’s track record is in business give-and-take, and Cruz is the proven legislator. Both are attracting the attention of the thinking voter. At this point, one of them will probably win. Which one will best be able to obtain a majority to win in a General Election?

What we have shaping up is a major battle for our nation’s soul.

Will we become a full-blown socialist state, or will we return to the principles of a democratic republic? History has seen the collapse of democracy many times when the economic problems are upsidedown. Too many people will vote for their stomach and immediate good feelings. To take advantage of bad times, the socialist will lie and promise the moon. America’s political scene is turning sour. The world economy is upside-down. The situation is ripe for the loss of freedom and liberty.

Hang on, but do not just sit there.

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Coup De Grace

by Grace Rachow Ms. Rachow always forgets to buy lottery tickets, but if she ever hits the jackpot, she’ll invest in kids like her neighbor Dominic.

Melt Down

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inally, we’ve had a bit of rain here on the South Coast. My dogs are in utter shock that water is coming from the sky. Yes, they’ve seen rain before, but for their entire lives the rain time was so limited, they thought it was just me running the sprinklers.

I was in my front yard celebrating all the sprouting weeds popping up after the recent rain. It’s so amazing to see green and the miracle of what a little rain can do with a dormant seed.

Dominic, the boy who lives across the street, shouted, “Hey, want to see my smelting furnace?”

How could I refuse such an invitation? Dominic has bright-blue eyes that literally sparkle. This kid gets so excited about things that it’s hard not to be drawn in by his enthusiasm.

He’s junior high age, and every week he seems to discover a new world to explore. He has been this way for as long as I’ve know him, and I suspect his excitement and sense of adventure might be a permanent affliction with him.

Dominic has shared a number of his excellent adventures with me over the years. One time he was quite thrilled because a bat had flown into his parents’ bedroom, and it spent the night.

He wanted to know if I had any idea of how to get it out and returned to nature.

I am a big fan of bats, and I’m grateful that our neighborhood is full of them. We brainstormed on some possibilities of how to coax the bat outside.

That story ended happily with another bat showing up at sunset. There must have been some high-frequency bat communication going on, because when Dominic opened the bedroom window, the bat flew out and joined its mate.

Dominic is an expert on reptiles. I am not, but I’m fond of the little lizards that hang out in our neighborhood.

He’s a dog lover, so we have another thing in common, despite the many decades between our ages.

I’ve come to expect the unexpected with this kid, but I still was surprised he’d built a smelting furnace and melted down some aluminum cans and separated the pure aluminum from the slag.

Just the fact that he had “slag” in his working vocabulary was impressive. He’d built a crucible in a bucket, and he explained the whole process to me. Dominic is an excellent teacher. I understood the whole process from his explanation.

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with plaster of Paris mixed with sand.

The bottom of the bucket was stuffed with smoldering charcoal briquettes.

Air was blown into the furnace by a hairdryer via a tube that was fitted into an opening on the side of the bucket.

Metal cans were placed in the crucible for melting. A lid, also made from plaster of Paris and sand, topped the contraption.

The briquettes were coaxed into producing the melting point, and voilà, the metal was molten. The slag, impurities constituted of coloring, wax coat-

I’ve come to expect the unexpected with this kid, but I still was surprised he’d built a smelting furnace ing and sugary residue, rose to the top of the pool of molten aluminum.

Dominic handed me a silver disk that he’d smelted earlier. It felt surprisingly cool to the touch. I gave the thing a little toss from one hand to the other.

“What are you doing for an encore?”

“Brass and tin.”

“Excellent… and then?”

“In the ancient Olympics, the Greeks threw metal discuses,” he said. I want to try different metals and see which one flies the best.”

“Cool,” I said. “And then?”

“When I get enough pure metal, I’ll make a casting of this.” He held his hand up for me to inspect.

No one would guess this unscathed hand belonged to a budding foundry man.

“How did you learn to do all this?”

I’ve been on the planet for quite a few years, and I’d never known anyone of any age who’d built his own smelting furnace, much less a junior high student.

“I Googled it and watched a YouTube video,” he said.

Duh, of course. The Internet is the fount of all wisdom.

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about how kids have been ruined with computers and video games. And the news is full of stories about how public education isn’t that great.

But somehow, Dominic has risen above it all. When it comes to learning, he’s into the mother lode.

And when he extracts all that fine ore, he’ll already know how to smelt •MJ it.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 20) In playwright Stan Hatch’s Double Jeopardy, portraying St. Peter is David Rintels; Victoria Riskin, the emergency room nun; and the patient, Hatch (photo by Priscilla)

gossipeuse Rona Barrett, former Direct Relief directors Thomas Tighe and Richard Godfrey, with his wife, Kate, Mike and Diane Giles, Rinaldo and Lalla Brutoco, Jack and Inga Canfield, and Bob and Pat Fulmer.

Stan’s longtime friends Jack Canfield and Rinaldo Brutoco (photo by Priscilla)

Designing Woman Montecito TV talk-shot host Ellen DeGeneres is a workaholic.

As well as taping her 12-year-old, top-rated eponymous show regularly at the Warner Bros. lot in bustling Burbank, churning out coffee table tomes on interior decoration and designing a young girls clothing collection inspired by her own wardrobe for Gap, Ellen has just launched the second season of Ellen’s Design Challenge on HGTV.

The design competition showcases 10 candidates, four more than last year, who sketch, design, and build innovative furniture with the hope of outlasting their rivals to receive the $100,000 grand prize.

“It’s got the drama of their having to come up with ideas while trying to make a deadline,” says Ellen, who will make the occasional surprise appearance.

But as executive producer, she will be mostly watching with great interest from off-screen.

Hey, Good-looking, What Ya Got Cookin’?

Former Montecito Union School student turned supermodel Gigi Hadid is quite a cook.

The 20-year-old beauty just won the Celebrity Showdown episode of Fox TV’s MasterChef after admitting she ate a burger every week of a year when she first moved to New York.

“The first year I lived in Manhattan, I tried a different burger every week to find my favorite,” she told judges Gordon Ramsey and Christina Tosi.

Gigi’s beef patty with pickled jalapeños and a crispy onion nest with potato crisps on the side won her the $25,000 prize, which she is donating to a charity to find a cure for Lyme Disease, an ailment suffered by her mother, Yolanda Foster, who stars in

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the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and brother Anwar and sister Bella Bella.

“I’m the only one of my siblings that hasn’t been affected by the disease,” says the six-time Vogue cover girl.

Wolfs in Sheep Skin Prolific Law & Order producer Dick Wolf and his wife, Noelle, has just donated millions to the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara for a new education facility.

The tony twosome, who lived next door to actress Drew Barrymore before she moved back to Los Angeles, have given between $2 to $4 million toward

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There is an art gallery and studio downtown called Slingshot where some of the artwork takes place. It’s also for sale. At Cathedral Oaks, the participants choose between a variety of jobs – some were in the kitchen putting together lunches, others were in a band and practicing while we were there. They recently appeared at SOhO, which was very exciting for the group who call themselves Rockability.

Marisa calls it a strength-based facility. They tap into the strengths each person possesses. There was the snooze room, which is kept dark with various lights projected on the ceiling and walls and a glass ball to create more reflections. This psychedelic show is stimulating to watch. There is the spa room where manicures were being given during our visit.

Marisa explained, “Two-thirds of our clients go off campus every day where they are integrated into the community by volunteering for Meals on Wheels or Easy Lift.” There are also other programs for developmentally challenged children and teens. Alpha Thrift services 2,900 families in the area.

The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP) held its 53rd annual meeting in their Presidio Chapel. It seemed strange not to have Dr. Jarrell Jackman (Jerry) there after 28 years as executive director. He retired this year and the interim director is Sally Fouhse. There were 30 applications for the vacant position, so it will be awhile before a decision is made. Jarrell’s wife Michele was a stalwart volunteer for 35 years. They will be missed.

Board president Terease Chin opened the meeting by telling the audience some of their many accomplishments of 2015: six thousand people came to their cantina during Fiesta, the 4 x 4 x 4 fund raising campaign, Pozole Feast, Founding Day, descendants’ barbecue, Presidio Pastimes

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though the years for various projects.

Awards were given for outstanding work for SBTHP. David Bolton received the Sue Higman Volunteer of the Year award for many events,

but especially the candlelight dinner for 90 in the chapel. It was a stellar evening I’ll always remember. The late Sue Higman was one of the first people I met in Santa Barbara in 1976. She introduced me to Pearl Chase shortly before her death.

The other major award was the George and Vivian Obern Preservation Stewardship Award. It went to Katie and David Hay for saving the Juarez-Hosmer Adobe located beside Manning Park. The adobe now looks as though it were built in the 19th century. It even has the original windows along with old and new adobe bricks. The Oberns themselves restored an old home next to Hope Ranch.

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Festival Fringe production of PlayFest Santa Barbara’s featured playwright E.M. Lewis’s work covers the author’s own relationship with firearms from a farming community in rural Oregon to the big cities of Los Angeles and New York. An actor shares her unique perspective and true stories about America’s most dangerous pastime as if they were his own, with brutal honesty and poignant humor, in an effort to spark conversation about the controversial issue.

Saturday, January 30 10 am: Breakfast With Smartasses, 5 Sassy plays by 5 Sassy female writers – Ellen Anderson, Nara Dahlbacka, Tania Israel, Jenny Mercein, and Chelsea Sutton. Staged reading produced in partnership between Dramatic Women and Speaking of Stories. (Center Stage Theater) 2 & 7 pm: Magellanica. Lewis’s latest work takes place in the winter of 1985, when eight scientists travel to Antarctica to find out if there really is a hole in the sky. The fictional epic adventure of a real moment in history delves into our responsibilities to the planet we inhabit. Directed by Gros.

Parts 1-3 at 2 pm, Parts 4-5 at 7 pm.

(Staged readings) 9:30 pm: The Gun Show (see above) Sunday, January 31 10-11:30 am: Panel discussion “Science, Society, Politics and Culture: The Voice of Playwrights Today” featuring festival playwrights and others in the theater world. The audience will also have an opportunity to respond to the plays seen earlier in the festival.

(Anyi Gallery, 216 State St.) 2 pm: The Family Blessing. Santa Barbara theater stalwart Miller James directs a staged reading of his own piece, a raw and hilarious look at your typical American family who just happen to live in a yurt and a goat shed.

(Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara Street) Festival passes include a the Play Pass ($78), which comprises admission to all the staged readings and the panel, Gold

helm the new production following her West End directing debut with Pig Farm by Greg Kotis. Previews continue January 28-29, with the official opening night on Saturday followed by a post-show party with cast. The regular run is February 3-14. Call 6672900 or visit www.rubicontheatre.org.

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Lily Nicksay (Boy Meets World) and Erik Odom (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2) reprise their roles as May and Raleigh in See Rock City – the sequel to the acclaimed production of Arlene Hutton’s Last Train to Nibroc. Katharine Farmer directs. (Photo by Zachary Andrews)

pass ($88) adds the artist/donor reception on Sunday night, and Platinum ($100) also includes a ticket to the Festival Fringe production of Gun Club. For tickets and information, call 963-0408 or visit www.

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Ventura Rock City

Elsewhere in theater, Ventura’s Rubicon presents See Rock City by Arlene Hutton, the sequel to the playwright’s Last Train to Nibroc, which was warmly received in its Rubicon Theatre debut last year. City is a poignant love story set in 1940’s Appalachia about young newlyweds grappling with change in the advent of a new, post-war America. May (played by Lily Nicksay of Boy Meets World and The Client) is a principal at the local school, and Raleigh (Erik Odom, Twilight: Breaking Dawn), is an aspiring writer. The couple has returned to their Kentucky home after plans to honeymoon in Rock City are derailed, and deal with issues arising from community and family, as well as unexpected consequences on the home front following the Allies’ victory overseas. The young English director Katharine Farmer, who received an Indy Award for Nibroc (on her 22nd birthday), returns to Ventura to

Following the successful afternoon with celeb-actors Carol Burnett and Brian Dennehy performing Love Letters at a fundraiser a couple of weekends ago, Antioch University Santa Barbara’s next public event is a bit less star-packed, but it has literary lure – and it’s free. Five local poets, writers, and scholars are coming together Friday night at the school’s Community Hall for an evening honoring the influence of writer, diarist, lecturer, and muse Anais Nin. The event inaugurates the Diana & Simon Raab Writers Series and event coordinators Diana Raab and Steven Reigns are being joined

by Judith Citrin, Perie Longo, and Tristine Rainer in a discussion about how Nin – who published journals spanning 60 years right up until her death in 1977, and also wrote novels, essays, critical studies, and erotica – inspired them, either as a friend or through her writings. The new Writers Series has been established in conjunction with AUSB’s upcoming MFA in Writing and Contemporary Media program, which will debut this December.

Current United States poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera may be new to the rest of the country, but here in California he’s a local hero. Herrera was the California poet laureate from 201214, and the state’s landscapes show up frequently in his work, as he draws from the small agricultural towns of the San Joaquin Valley he grew up as the son of migrant farm workers from Mexico, as well as San Diego’s Logan Heights and San Francisco’s Mission District. Herrera’s poems are infused by heritage and place, and now he holds the distinction of being the first Latino U.S. poet laureate. (No protest-laden emergency measures necessary. Take that, Academy Awards!).

Observers have noted that Herrera’s poems “take the shape nearer to mosaic than narrative,” and he has been

U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera visits UCSB on Monday

praised by The New York Times as one of the few poets to create “a new hybrid art, part oral, part written, part English, part something else: an art grounded in ethnic identity, fueled by collective pride, yet irreducibly individual too.”

Herrera will read from his works and sign books in a free event at UCSB’s Campbell Hall on Monday night.

Jack Canfield, the Santa Barbara home-based creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise and co-author of The Success Principles, and recovery expert Dave Andrews have joined forces in the book “The 30-Day Sobriety Solution”, a new program to help readers quit drinking entirely in the privacy of their own homes. The “solution” grew out of Canfield’s longstanding work in self-esteem and success training while Andrews developed the principles into a program that was tested by many whose stories are shared in the book. Canfield, who holds a record for simultaneously having seven books on The New York Times Bestseller list, drops

by Chaucer’s Books on Wednesday February 3 at 7 pm to sign copies and discuss the work.

Another Santa Barbara author signs at Chaucer’s the following evening.

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The architects also outlined the design of the entrance to the hotel, which will incorporate historic pillars once used on the former hotel site.

“The goal was to make the pillars and entry gate look as if they’d been there all this time,” Appleton explained.

The project entails 200,000 square feet of development on the now vacant site, including a main building with a ballroom and conference facilities, a screening room, children’s center, back-of-house areas, meeting rooms, and a spa, as well as a beach club, two pools, two restaurants, a beach bar, 168 guest rooms, and new landscaping, a sound wall, and four employee dwellings. The project also includes abandonment of the northsouth segment of Miramar Avenue and relocation of a private-access easement.

MBAR members discussed a required lighting plan by County Public Works, which calls for street lighting along South Jameson Avenue.

“Montecito has a Community Plan which clearly calls for no street lights,” said MBAR member Claire Gottsdanker. “I don’t understand why Public Works is going against our community plan.”

Planner Nicole Lieu told the board the streetlights are required for safety reasons, as there will be guest parking along Jameson Lane. “We are working with Public Works to have the lights as low-level and non-intrusive as possible,” Appleton explained.

Now that the design of the hotel has been approved, Caruso still plans on breaking ground on the project in the late spring, despite recent reports that the plans have been stalled due to issues with water meters. “The plans have absolutely not been stalled or delayed,” said Evan Krenzien, Caruso’s VP of development.

At issue is Montecito Water District’s (MWD) Ordinance 92,

which does not allow an upsizing of water meters during the drought.

Caruso’s team of engineers is asking for an increase in the size of several of the five water meters on the site, in order to have the most efficient and technologically advanced water system on the hotel property. “We are looking at switching to what’s called a ‘loop system,’ which requires that the current meters be replaced with larger ones,” Krenzien said. A larger service line is also required for the new system.

The loop system combines the daily water for hotel operations with water used for fire suppression in one system, so that water flow could be increased in case of a fire emergency.

“We are not asking for more water, or a larger allocation,” he said, adding that the existing meters can still adequately serve the property. “We want to design the hotel for operations for the next one hundred years, not just a few years. This system is the best and safest way to do so,” he said.

Krenzien and his team met with the MWD appeal committee on Tuesday; the two-member committee will

make a recommendation to the board of directors whether an exception should be made to Ordinance 92 at their next board hearing in February.

Ordinance 92 allows for an appeal process; Caruso is the first to appeal.

“This is the best long-term solution for the hotel, and it does not change our allocations or our water use projections,” Krenzien said. The Miramar is allocated 45 acre-feet of water per year. Caruso’s engineers, in a letter to MWD, say the new system will still comply with the intent of Ordinance 92 to address the shortterm water shortage emergency, and it will accommodate the long-term operational needs of a modern, fivestar resort hotel.

Grading on the site is expected to start in the second quarter of this year, with a 2018 opening.

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a $68-million training and education center with a capacity to hold all the doctors and staff.

Fellow Montecito resident Leslie Ridley-Tree last year gave a $8.2 million donation to the project, which is expected to be completed by next year.

“The Cancer Center team is making enormous strides in the treatment of cancer and improving the quality of life of patients and their families,” say the dynamic duo.

“Our focus has been on education and communication and the new training center dovetails perfectly with our long-range hopes and dreams.”

An Act of Violins

Perlman, who was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, by President Obama last year, playing Mozart’s Sonata in C Major, Faure’s Sonata in A Major, and Strauss’s Sonata in E-flat Major, with encores

by Dvorak, Schumann, and Kreisler.

All in all, a positive tidal wave of musical culture.

Dance the Night Away It seemed fitting that, as Santa Barbara Dance Theater at UCSB celebrates its 40th anniversary season, that premieres by the talented troupe’s directors from the last four decades were featured at the Hatlen Theater.

Jerry Pearson, who was artistic

lizing music by Chopin, while visiting Mexican choreographer Edgar Zendejas, now based in Canada, staged Impenetrable Winter from Common Ground, using the wonderful music from Max Richter’s version of The Four Seasons, based on the original composition from Vivaldi.

Wrapping up the show was Strange Attractor, using music of the same name from Ryan Beveridge, by the current artistic director, Christopher Pilafian, who first came to UCSB a guest artist in 1990 and took over as director in 2012.

It was a fitting end to the anniversary show, featuring the full cast – Daniel Burgueno, Carisa Carroll, Thomas Fant, Tracy Kofford, Natalia Perea, Nikki Pfeiffer, and Christina Sanchez – but one.

SB Dance Theater is the University of California system’s only resident professional dance company – and deservedly so.

Ribbons and Glows

To Nectar, the new East Cota Street eatery, which stands on the site of the iconic 20-year-old restaurant, Blue Agave, which owner Brad Sherman and his Indian wife, Aparna, bought two years ago.

To mark the occasion, Ken Oplinger, president of our tony town’s Chamber of Commerce, cut a ribbon and a special silver tower, brought from New Delhi and featuring incense petals, was lit.

Brad, who worked at the Sojourner Cafe for more than 20 years and also owns Aldo’s, an Italian eatery, features an eclectic menu of Indian cuisine and Mexican food, harking back to the Blue Agave menu.

Subject Matter The Granada launched the second year of its popular Movies That Matter cinema series, hosted by former mayor and film critic Hal Conklin, with the Michael Apted work Amazing Grace, telling the story of slavery abolitionist

Sponsors Robert and Christine Emmons, with grandson Jack Kudroshoff, at the post reception for Itzhak Perlman and Emanuel Ax (photo by Kimberly Citro)

Two of the world’s top violinists graced the stage of the Granada Theatre to sold-out audiences within 48 hours last week.

Israeli-born Pinchas Zukerman, considered one of the world’s great living classical violinists, played and conducted with London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, currently celebrating its 70th birthday and the most frequent orchestra visitor to our tony town for CAMA events after the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The double Grammy Award winner and former Juilliard student was on top of his form with two Beethoven pieces, including the Egmont Overture and the Violin Concerto in D Major.

Zukerman also performed at the Granada two years ago with his cellist wife, Amanda Forsyth, playing Brahms Double Concerto.

The exhilarating concert wrapped with English composer Edward Elgar’s 1899 Enigma Variations, featuring 14 hauntingly beautiful pieces.

Just 48 hours later, another reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman, marking his 70th birthday, was on the same stage with accomplished Polish pianist, Emanuel Ax. This visit by the 16-time Grammy Award winner, part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures series, had

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At ribbon-cutting for the grand opening of Nectar are owners Brad and Aparna Sherman; Leslie Thomas, Ken Oplinger, and Cathy Murrillo (photo by Priscilla)

Santa Barbara Dance Theater commemorates its 40th season

director for 20 years, kicked off the entertaining highly energized show with, appropriately enough, Amuse Bouche, which gave a tantalizing taste of what choreographed gems were to come.

His founder predecessor, Alice Condodina, featured a more classical piece, Fragrance of Memories, uti-

Hayley Firestone Jessup, SBPAC VP of advancement; with guests Brenda Salome, Davies Kabogoza; Amazing Grace conversationalists Dr. Steve Fitch and Hal Conklin, Granada Theatre’s Movies that Matter host; Patty DeDominic, Gene Sinser, Lisa Reich, and Bob Johnson (photo by Priscilla)

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Attending Amazing Grace are Jeanette Abboud with her sister, Mara Abboud (photo by Priscilla)

Supporters of Movies that Matter include Charles “Chuck” and Diane “Missy” Sheldon at the reception (photo by Priscilla)

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The 2006 film also featured Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch, aka Sherlock Holmes on PBS, veteran actors Albert Finney and Michael Gambon of Harry Potter fame, and Rufus Sewell.

Turning out for the new series debut reception in the Miller McCune Founders Room were Craig and Kirsten Springer, Juliette Sponsel, Bob Johnson and Lisa Reich, Mara Abboud, Mary Dorra, Kristi Newton, and Gene Sinser and Patty DeDominic.

The program lasts through June and features Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters next month, as well as Lee David Ziotoff’s The Spitfire Grill, To End All Wars, and Simon Birch.

A delightful movie menu.

Sightings: Katy Perry at the San Ysidro Ranch... Christopher Lloyd at the Granada...Veteran cowboy actor Stuart Whitman grabbing his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column 28 January – 4 February 2016

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Blondell Stages Rare Classic Opera Duet

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estmont’s music and theater departments collaborate to stage two rarely seen classics in an ambitious, oneof-a-kind, dramatic operatic event January 28-30 and February 4-6 at Westmont’s Porter Theatre. Westmont will pair Dido and Aeneas (1688), composed by Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate, with Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage (published 1594).

Audiences have opportunities to see both shows individually or one after the other on two Saturdays.

Queen of Carthage is Thursday, January 28, at 8 pm, Saturday, January 30 at 9 pm, Thursday, February 4, at 8 pm, and Saturday, February 6, at 9 pm Aeneas is Friday, January 29, at 8 pm, Saturday, January 30, at 7 pm, Friday, February 5, at 8 pm, and Saturday, February 6, at 7 pm Tickets cost $12 for general admission, $7 for students, seniors and children, and may be purchased at www.westmont. edu/boxoffice. For more information, please call (805) 565-7140.

Dido and Aeneas, a baroque masterpiece, will feature beautiful singing, courtiers, witches, cupids, sailors, spirits and dancers. The string musicians will perform with authentic baroque bows, giving the orchestra a unique, beautiful sound.

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like Westmont can stage shows from the world operatic canon with such high levels of artistry,” director John Blondell says. “It displays a commitment to stage and to produce great music-theater, and to make it lively, engaging, and contemporary.”

Productions of The Old Maid and the Thief, La Serva Padrona in 2015, and The Pirates of Penzance from 2013 have inspired the artistic community. Pirates received three national awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C., including Distinguished Production of a Musical at the 2014 national festival.

“It’s wonderful to work with departments that desire to expand and grow beyond our comfort zones, to engage new material and make opera relevant to today’s students,” Blondell says.

“The great synergy and camaraderie between students and professors brings out the best in all of us,” says Celeste Tavera, adjunct vocal professor and National Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Competition in New York City.

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Blondell and the cast of The Dido Project offer a Gender Studies Lecture Demonstration on Tuesday, February 2, at 7 pm in Porter Theatre. The talk, “Laid in Earth/Consumed by Fire: Female and Male Bodies in Two Stories about Dido”, takes its title from the final moments of the two dramatic plays.

“The talk looks at female and male bodies in these vehicles – one an early Elizabethan play, the other a late-17th-century Baroque opera,” Blondell says. “Both present provocative images of young bodies, and place the implications of the physical as important and active subjects of these two stage vehicles.”

The talk will include an historical overview of how the body was conceived during the periods of the texts’ making, and consider ways of understanding the body in several key moments of the performances – all along supported by actors and singers who’ll play the scenes in question.

Art Talk to Reflect on Monet

Paul Tucker, professor emeritus of art history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, addresses Claude Monet’s influence on French 19th-century art in a lecture Monday, February 1, at 6 pm in Westmont’s Porter Theater. The talk, “Art from Art, Art from Life: Reflections on Monet’s Modernism,” is free and open to the public.

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Westmont offers the lecture in conjunction with an exhibition, “Barbizon, Realism, and Impressionism in France,” which is on display through March 19 at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. The exhibition features prominent artists associated with the famed Barbizon, realism and impressionism schools, including Eugène Boudin, Gustave Caillebotte, Jean-BaptisteCamille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Charles-François Daubigny, Narcisse Virgile Díaz de la Peña, Jules Dupré, Henri-Joseph Harpignies, CharlesEmile Jacque, Henri Matisse, JeanFrançois Millet, Théodore Rousseau, and Constant Troyon.

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CINEMA SCOPE

by James Luksic

James is managing editor of the Montecito Journal, and was recently editor and film critic of the Santa Barbara Sentinel. He has reviewed movies for 30 years and can be reached via Editor@montecitojournal.net.

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

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 Swimming to SB – Actually, the record-breaking deep-water swimmerauthor Lynne Cox will probably arrive in something other than a wet bathing suit when she returns to Santa Barbara to inaugurate the Literary Happy Hour: An Intimate Salon Conversation, the Women’s Literary Festival first of a series designed to let audiences meet and speak with an author in an up-close-and-personal setting. Back in 1971, Cox, then 15, and her teammates were the first group of teenagers to complete the crossing of the Catalina Island Channel, and just a year later she set a record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel. In 1975, Cox became the first woman to swim the chilly waters of the Cook Strait in New Zealand, and the following year she became the first person to swim the Straits of Magellan in Chile, and the first to swim around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Cox was also the first person to swim across the Bering Strait without a wetsuit. Cox has earned the Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year award, Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year honors, and a UCSB Award for Courage and has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Now, just a few months after Diana Nyad gave a lecture in a packed Campbell Hall, Cox – a prolific author who has given TEDTalks and been featured on CBS/ ESPN 60 Minutes – returns for the

intimate salon conversation that also features a light repast and is meant to preview and help support the Women’s Literary Festival’s main event on May 14. WHEN: 5:30-7:30 pm WHERE: email for location COST: $25 INFO: sharonrhoshida@gmail.com SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 Fun, Fun, Fun Downtown – There’s no Brian Wilson this time around; The Beach Boys auteur reunited with all the surviving original members for the special 50th anniversary tour in 2012, but has since parted company again for his own solo career. But we do get the version of the band that’s been touring sans Brian for decades, including founding member Mike Love (band leader, lead singer, and songwriter) and the vocalist-keyboardist Bruce Johnston, who joined the band way back in 1964, both of whom have been longtime residents of Santa Barbara. The Boys have no problem at all, only slipping in an occasional new song amid the hit parade, diving deep into their catalog – including 37 Top 40 hits – for such pop classics as “I Get Around”, “Surfin’ USA”, “Be True to Your School”, “Little Surfer Girl”, “Sloop John B”, “Surfin’ Safari”, “Little Deuce Coupe”, “In My Room”, “When I Grow Up To Be A Man”, “Don’t Worry Baby”, “409”, “Wendy”, “Barbara Ann”, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”, “God Only Knows”, “Caroline, No”, “Sail On Sailor”, and “Kokomo”.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 Trek to Pollock – David Gerrold was 22 when he watched the Star Trek premiere “The Man Trap” in 1966, and he immediately began writing a 60-page outline for a twopart episode for the fledgling series. While that idea was rejected, it was only a short while later that Gerrold came up with the concept that turned into “The Trouble With Tribbles”, one of the most memorable and beloved episodes in the show’s history. The Trouble with Tribbles was also the title of a book Gerrold later wrote about the genesis of the episode, which launched his sci-fi career that has included penning scripts for the Emmy Award-winning Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: New Voyages. He also wrote for other science-fiction series including Land of the Lost, Babylon 5, Sliders, and The Twilight Zone, and several novels, most prominently the The War Against the Chtorr and Star Wolf series. Gerrold will be interviewed by Word Farm director and UCSB film professor Joe Palladino about his career across many media platforms to uncover insights into the evolution and changing nature of the genre in an evening of conversation and clips. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Pollock Theater, UCSB campus COST: free (reservations recommended) INFO: 893-5903 or www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/ pollock (photo by Nianne)

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 Back on Screen – Franco Zeffirelli’s visually stunning 1987 production of Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, which is one of the most spectacular productions in Metropolitan Opera’s repertory, returns to the Live in HD series with Swedish dramatic soprano Nina Stemme singing her first Met performances of the demanding title role of Puccini’s Chinese ice princess. Anita Hartig also makes her company role debut as the angelic slave girl Liù, while Marco Berti sings Calàf, the suitor who risks his head for Turandot’s hand, and Alexander Tsymbalyuk sings Timur. Paolo Carignani conducts “a lithe and detailed reading of (the) sumptuous score,” praised The New York Times.

(Note: a re-run of the Live in HD presentation of Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles from last fall will be screened on Sunday at 2 pm.) WHEN: 9:55 am WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $28 INFO: 9698787 or www.musicacademy.org (Note: also plays at the Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St.)

Armed with some younger members of the touring outfit – Jeffrey Foskett, the singer-guitarist who has been with the group since 1981, is now being “officially introduced” – the band might sound even better singing about girls, surfing, and cars than they did back in the ‘60s. The new year brings a new celebration, the 50th anniversary of the release of their first huge summer smash hit, “Fun Fun Fun”. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $83-$123 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org Take a Flyer – It’s understandable to still think of Rod Piazza as part of the new generation of blues greats, but it’s a little disingenuous. While he’s surely still at the forefront of maintaining the West Coast blues sound, by now Piazza has been recording longer than his mentor, George “Harmonica” Smith, or the other legendary blowers Sonny Boy Williamson and Big Walter Horton.

In fact, he has been making records for more years than Little Walter was alive. Over the years, Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers have been voted best blues band in America several times by the various organizations (W. C. Handy Awards, Blues Foundation), which is no surprise considering that leader Rod has been named the Blues Foundation’s harmonica player of the year while his wife, Honey, who also plays in the Flyers, won the same honors for piano. It’s not clear if touring with your spouse is a cure for the blues or the cause of them, but either way the ensemble has been together since 1980, so you can be

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sure the chops are honed and the rhythm section is tight, just what’s needed when the band returns to perform for the Santa Barbara Blues Society for the first time in six years.

The move to the Carrillo Recreation Center since then means lots more room for dancers to work their swingouts and Lindy steps, though it’s also just fine to watch the show from the rows of chairs or behind tables in the back. As always, come early for the barbecue snacks and an opening special acoustic set by Santa Barbara blues stalwart Rick Reeves. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 E. Carrillo St. COST: $30 general, $40 VIP seating ($15 college students, $10 high school students; free for children under 12) INFO: 7228155 or www.sbblues.org Teen Dance Star – The producers of the popular regional singing competition Teen Star have a new event for young movers and shakers. Teen Dance Star began with a months-long collaborative program that involved feedback and encouragement to nurture talent at every step. Tonight’s finals features 10 local dancers showcasing their talents spanning a diverse array of genres, including ballet, modern, hiphop, jazz, and tap, with a $1,000 scholarship to further their education in the balance. The showcase will also feature a high-energy group performance number choreographed

by Hannah Douglas, whose credits include Glee, American’s Got Talent, and Beyoncé’s World Tour. The finalists – who received personalized one-on-one coaching in working 28 January – 4 February 2016

SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 Heart of the Drum – Kids and adults have their choice of programs when the taiko outfit Yamato – The Drummers of Japan return to UCSB’s Campbell Hall today. Renowned for its tremendous athleticism and theatrical flair, the takio ensemble is offering two versions of its spectacular, high-energy new program. “Bakuon: Legend of the Heartbeat” was inspired by the sound of the heartbeat in the human body, which runs continuously from birth to death, pulsing both quiet and strong. Yamato weaves this beat into its story, with each strike of the taiko drums representing a life’s history of sweat and tears and the endless memories. The new show draws on ancient taiko traditions as Yamato already thinks of the sound of the drums – made of animal skin and ancient trees, some of which are more than 400 years old – as a pulse or heartbeat. The afternoon show is part of the Family Fun Series, and lasts one hour, while the evening show is the full performance. WHEN: 3 & 7 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $20 general, $12 children ages 12 & under (3 pm); $25-$40 (7 pm) INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

through their routines with a celebrity dance mentor – will compete tonight in front of a panel of celebrity judges from So You Think You Can Dance and elsewhere in the professional dance world. They are: Katie Cleek, 9th grade Carpinteria High School, Curtis Studio of Dance; Lily Connolly, 12th grade Santa Ynez HS, Los Olivos Dance Gallery; Frankie Harman, 8th grade Providence School, Santa Barbara Dance Arts; Lauren Morrison, 11th grade Santa Ynez, Los Olivos Dance Gallery; Riley Brewer, 11th grade Santa Ynez, Los Olivos Dance Gallery; Grace Quittner, 11th grade San Marcos, Gustafson Dance/State Street Ballet Young Dancers; Victoria Biancone,

12th grade Santa Barbara HS, Santa Barbara Dance Arts; Sarah Block, 10th grade San Marcos, Gustafson Dance; Sophia Vraciu, 10th grade Santa Barbara HS, State Street Ballet/ Gustafson Dance; and Kailani Cordero, 8th grade Santa Barbara HS, Santa Barbara Dance Arts. The proceeds will benefit a fund to provide underprivileged youth the opportunity to train at local dance studios through scholarships administered via the Arts Mentorship Program (AMP). WHEN: 7 pm (red carpet at 6) WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $25 & $35 ($105 patron tickets include priority seating and preconcert private reception) INFO: 9630761 or www.lobero.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Grains of Truth – As the Los Angeles Times wrote last weekend, a dance performance inspired by the life cycle of rice doesn’t sound like the kind of sensual show that would necessitate a warning to parents about “mature content” inappropriate for younger viewers.

But the caveat for Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan “Rice” isn’t about sex or violence in the traditional sense. “Rice” is a multimedia show that tells the story of the land while contemplating the devastation of Earth, and it’s the ecological as well as political turmoil that pushes the envelope. The piece is set to a backdrop of the living, breathing rice paddies that make up Taiwan’s expansive panorama.

Immersed in this landscape, Cloud Gate’s dancers enact a human drama parallel to rice’s life cycle, depicting flooding, sprouting, harvesting, and burning rice fields. Onsite recordings of rustling grain, soughing wind and pealing thunder meet folk songs in Hakka – the oldest among the existing Chinese dialects – and operatic arias from the West to make up the soundscape. A cinematographer spent two years on location documenting the cultivation of rice, capturing images of clouds reflected in the water, rice swaying in the wind, and ravaging fire to provide the production’s essential visual elements. At 68, founder Lin Hwai-min no longer dances with the 43-yearold company that started life when Taiwan was still under repressive martial law, but he’s still responsible for the soul-searching choreography that brings a piece of Asia to the Granada. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $35-$45 INFO: 899-2222/www.granadasb.org or 893-3535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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WATER (Continued from page 5)

California Dreaming

Water management is not rocket science. All it takes is the leadership to pull environmentalists, government agencies, residents, and suppliers together to develop sustainable plans. The best option, not yet embraced by the governor, the political class in Sacramento, or the powerful California environmental community, is for the state to enthusiastically endorse the Israeli water model of delivering affordable water security and water independence regardless of rainfall.

Is Desalination Too Expensive?

In Israel, desalinated water costs roughly $500 per acre-foot, or only $0.92 per HCF billing unit. Contrast this to the cost of water from the giant Carlsbad, California, desalination facility that just opened at the end of 2015 that will produce water for San Diego County water districts at a rough cost of $2,000 per acre foot – or $4.60 per HCF billing unit.

Both the Sorek and Carlsbad desalination facilities were designed and built by the same company – Israel Desalination Enterprises (IDE) Technologies.

Israel’s Sorek desalination plant produces three times as much water as the U.S.-based Carlsbad desalination facility (160 million gallons per day of water vs. 50 million gallons per day), yet cost only half as much to build ($500 million vs. $1 billion).

The high cost of desalination in California is significantly man-made, driven by bad public policy. Imagine how low desalination costs could go if governor Jerry Brown and Sacramento embraced seawater desalination as the preferred solution for all 15 California counties bordering the Pacific Ocean, and committed to lowering the costs of regulation, shortening the permitting process, and lowering energy costs to the same level as Israel. Water self-sufficiency from San Diego to San Francisco would allow a major shift of state water from urban coastal areas to inland agriculture at a lesser cost than building more dams or attempting to import non-existent water.

Environmental Concerns

Our Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the surface of Earth. It is an inexhaustible, drought-proof reservoir containing some 187 quintillion (that would be 187,189,915,062,000,000,000) gallons of water. Can’t we ask Mother Nature to

allow the withdrawal of a few drops of desalinated water from this huge reservoir without significant damage to the biodiversity of marine life?

Of the 14,000 existing desalination facilities in the world, nearly all use open-ocean intake systems without significant damage to marine life in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, or the Pacific Ocean. Mitigating measures include diluting brine with wastewater and reducing intake impingement with improved screening, and replacing fish eggs or larvae entrained by the system.

It can be argued that desalination is more eco-friendly than constructing more dams on already distressed rivers. Water, unlike oil, is a renewable resource.

When you use it, you don’t lose it. When not stored in humans, trees, animals and gardens, it runs downstream seeking the sea, only to return as new rain or snow, somewhere else.

Reassessing State Priorities

California has made no serious commitment to low-cost desalination projects. Instead, the governor supports spending $68 billion on his “Bullet Train to Nowhere,” with the costs projected to go much higher. In addition, the governor favors a $15-billion commitment to complete his father’s dream of “Twin Tunnels” under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which is intended to protect fish and water quality in the Delta.

With the same money, the state could fully fund eight desalination facilities the size of Carlsbad (San Diego), and still have $75 billion left over. California, the incubator of global technology solutions, needs to figure out how to reduce desal costs while protecting the environment. We need to explore less expensive intake and outfall systems, reductions in energy costs, and newer membranes requiring less maintenance.

Big is not always best. Could smaller communities order factory-built, pre-packaged desal plants loaded on truck beds or barges that could process a desalinated mixture of highly treated wastewater and brackish water from subsurface coastal trenches? Are small-scale solutions, proposed by companies such as GE Water Resources, viable and affordable for smaller communities?

Changing the California mindset from an illusionary reliance on rainfall coupled with a grossly inadequate surface storage system to a dependence upon affordable desalinated water, coupled with the massive reuse of recycled wastewater, is the best strategy to end water weariness and build the proper permanent pathway to water independence.

•MJ

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