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It's an acronym for Attitude, Harmony, and Achievement, and flying in to augment Jennifer Freed's now-twenty-year-old Montecito-based-and-inspired organization for girls are Jennifer Buffett, who heads up, along with Warren Buffett's son Peter, the NoVo Foundation, Cathedral of the Wild author Boyd Varty, and singer-songwriter Amber Rubarth for exclusive $250 per person event at private home in Montecito ("Village Beat" begins on p. 12)

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Tide Chart 9 On Entertainment Heisenberg at Rubicon Theatre Company; Better Together premieres at SBIFF 10 Letters to the Editor A collection of communications from local residents Lidia Zinchenko, Addison Thompson, David McCalmont, and Peter Clark 12 Village Beat Judy Ishkanian appointed new director of Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors; AHA! event to take place in Montecito; Glamour House’s Ann Picciuto Gehrke recognized in Paris; Friendship Center’s 20th Annual Festival of Hearts; Michael Cohen named vice president and brokerage manager of Sotheby’s 14 Seen Around Town UCSB Arts & Lectures’ “An Evening with Madeleine Albright” at Granada; SBMA Women’s Board annual member luncheon; 40th annual Art Scholarship competition 19 Brilliant Thoughts Ashleigh Brilliant pontificates on the many forbidden foods dictated by various religions 20 The Way it Was Hattie Beresford delves into the history of the De la Cuesta family and their impact on the 101 22 Spirituality Matters Hendricks Institute’s annual Winter Training series; Community Healing Sanctuaries at Sacred Space Studio; Stephen Jenkinson speaks at Oak Grove High School Student Center; “Tasting the Wild: Foraged Flavors of Local Plants and Mushrooms”; first Radiant Heart JourneyDance of new year 24 Our Town Sisyphean Justice at Arts Fund Gallery includes three artists that focus on the exhibit’s theme for mental and spiritual health, social justice, and identity 33 Legal Advertising 36 Calendar of Events Tracy K. Smith at UCSB; Phil Salazar at Cambridge Drive Community Church; Chumash Casino hosts Los Tucanes de Tijuana; State Street Ballet event; SBMA’s Parallel Stories; Guitarist Frank “Paris Slim” Goldwasser plays; Adrianne Lenker’s solo SOhO show; CAMA at Granada 38 Classified Advertising Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 39 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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The Great Straw War

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ast year, a three-year-old video went viral depicting a sea turtle with a plastic straw ensnared in its nose. The tortoise video recorded 30 million hits, setting off a moral panic as teachers all over the country paraded elementary schoolchildren in front of elected officials demanding a straw ban. Film footage of the fabled Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch added to the heart-wrenching turtle tale and supported the eco-rush to ban drinking straws.

Last July, in response, the Santa Barbara City Council voted 6-1 for a citywide ban on the sale or distribution of plastic drinking straws, effective January 1, 2019. The Council also voted 7-0 to ban polystyrene food containers, plastic utensils, and plastic stirrers for any person being served a beverage or prepared food for consumption on the premises or taken away.

Two months later on September 20, Governor Jerry Brown of California signed State Law AB1884, the nation’s first statewide ban on plastic straws.

Effective January 1, 2019, California required all full-service restaurants in the state to only give out plastic straws when requested by a customer. Fines are $25 per day, and up to $300 a day for repeated violations. Fast-food outlets, convenience stores, coffee shops and grocery stores are exempted for now. That law seems reasonable, but the intent is clear—reduce and eventually eliminate all single-use food and beverage plastic products.

Three weeks later, on October 9, the Santa Barbara City Council again approved by a vote of 6 to 1 its ban on plastic straws. In response to media ridicule, the City eliminated criminal penalties, including jail time, for selling or purchasing each straw. Unlike the State ban, the City ban denies the right for customers to request plastic straws except for people with medical disabilities.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 Campus Tour Laguna Blanca School welcomes local families to experience what current students and parents know and love about Laguna Blanca. Today, children and their parents are invited to take an interactive, inside look into life at Laguna Blanca’s Lower School campus.

Children and parents are encouraged to attend as an introduction to the Laguna community. Visit classrooms and explore art, science, music, technology, and cooking. This child-centric event offers an opportunity to tour the school, meet and ask questions of teachers, administrators, and current parents, and learn about the curriculum in each grade while children are engaged in learning activities.

Drop-ins welcomed, registration appreciated.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: 260 San Ysidro Road Register: www.lagunablanca.org/open

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito; on today’s agenda is an addition and garage on Hot Springs Road, accessory structures on Pomar Lane, new home and garage on Lilac Drive, and a new garage and addition on Tiburon Bay Lane, among other items.

When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 pm to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 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 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Knox School Free Pre-Testing Day If you’re curious whether your child qualifies to apply to The Knox School of Santa Barbara, join on Pre-Testing Day. Your child can take a pre-test evaluation conducted by experts

in giftedness for free. Testing takes approximately an hour. During the group testing, parents are asked to stay and fill out an observation form on their child. Depending on the results, parents can use the scores for application to The Knox School or the school will recommend further testing. Appointments for a pre-test are required.

Info & RSVP: (805) 222-0107 or info@KnoxSchoolSB.org SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Architectural Walking Tour On the Sunday Walking Tour, see the historic art and architecture of downtown Santa Barbara as it was reborn after the 1925 earthquake.

From the Public Library and its famous murals, stroll through La Arcada Court and up State Street, experiencing public art, hidden courtyards, histories of the Arlington and Granada theaters, and other architectural delights. This tour leaves from the Central Library courtyard entrance on Anapamu Street at 10 am and is an easy stroll lasting approximately two hours. Rain will cancel the tour, but weather permitting, it runs weekly all year.

When: 10 am Where: 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: $10 Info: www.afsb.org Book Signing at Chaucer’s Calling out to our dog-loving, cookiecrunching customers! Chaucer’s welcomes back mystery author Lida Sideris as she launches her first children’s picture book, entitled The Cookie Eating Fire Dog. Sideris is the author of the Southern California Mystery series. This is her first book for children.

When: 2 pm

Where: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State Street Info: www.LidaSideris.com TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Beginning Backyard Beekeeping The Beginning Backyard Beekeeping (B3) program was developed by Santa Barbara Beekeepers Association and is a radical and progressive departure from traditional, anthropocentric beekeeping courses and certifications that tend to focus on how honey bees can serve humans and not how we can help the bees in their time of struggle for survival.

This four-week program is designed for both beginner and established beekeepers. The program will thoroughly provide beginners with all the practical knowledge necessary to feel comfortable working with honeybees in their own backyard.

Established beekeepers will learn new ways of hosting and having honeybees that prioritizes the bees’ welfare above all us. In addition to receiving 10 hours of training from Paul Cronshaw, co-founder of SBBA and one of Santa Barbara’s most knowledgeable beekeepers, participants also receive a one-year SBBA membership and site visits to SBBA apiaries for additional hands-on training and support.

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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov

When: today and every Tuesday through February 26, 5:30 pm to 8 pm Where: La Cuesta High School, 710 Santa Barbara Street Cost: $125 Info: www.sbba.org WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Free Tech Class at Montecito Library iPads and iPhones are versatile devices capable of countless useful functions, but many of these remain a mystery to their owners. The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System will be offering free workshops demonstrating various tips and tricks to help users get more from their Apple mobile devices. Everyone is invited to bring along his or her iPad and iPhone along with any questions.

Users of all levels are welcome.

When: 1 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: (805) 969-5063 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 pm to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest.

New members welcome. This week’s poet: Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the “reputed” author of the classic Taoist treatise, the Tao Te Ching. Written with the use of analogies and paradoxes, these profound sayings can lead students to return to a harmonious state of existence.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 31 January – 7 February 2019

1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 1st Thursday After-Hours Screening Join the Museum for their latest exhibitions after-hours. On view, guests can enjoy Trusted Treasures: Favorite Works of our Trustee and The West-Dressed Woman: Highlights of the Costume Collection. Visitors can enjoy wine, music, and more while also enjoying the permanent galleries dedicated to western artist Edward Borein and the Story of Santa Barbara.

At 7 pm is a free screening of The Romance & Reaping of Riven Rock, a historical film about one of Montecito’s most fabled estates and heir Stanley McCormick.

When: 5 pm to 7 pm Where: Santa Barbara Historical Museum, 136 East De La Guerra Street FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 All Libraries Closed The Santa Barbara Public Library system will be closed today for staff development SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Sedgwick Reserve Hike The rugged Santa Ynez Valley is the setting for a series of monthly interpretive hikes and nature activities open to the public on the 6,000-acre UCSB Sedgwick Reserve. Three hikes with varying themes such as geology, landforms, Sedgwick panoramas, plants, and animals or birds will be conducted, with hiking levels of easy, moderate, or strenuous. These hikes are approximately two to three hours each and are followed by the opportunity to picnic with your own lunch at the reserve. In addition to the hikes, other activities such as a tour of the newly renovated old barn, the new observatory, the pond, and the new Tipton House, as well as a set-up for painters at the pond, and the use of a bocce ball court are all planned for those who don’t want to hike and would like to just enjoy the reserve attractions while the hikes are being conducted. Reservations required.

In inclement weather, the hikes will be cancelled.

When: 8:30 am Cost: suggested donation of $20 per hiker Info and RSVP: Sedgwick@lifesci.ucsb. edu Montecito Library Book Club Join us for a lively discussion of Marie Kondo’s bestselling books, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and Spark Joy, the topic for the month of February. There is also a new series on Netflix called Tidying 31 January – 7 February 2019

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When: 11 am to 12 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 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: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free ONGOING MONDAYS Meditation in Movement Nurture your heart, soul, body, and mind with yoga teacher Dawn O’Bar who teaches every Monday at Montecito Covenant Church; childcare provided When: 8:45 am to 9:45 am Where: 671 Cold Spring Road Cost: donations accepted Contact: anna@mcchurch.org Connections Brain Fitness Group Brain program for adults who wish to improve memory and cognitive skills. Fun and challenging games, puzzles, and memory-strengthening exercises are offered in a friendly and stimulating environment.

When: Mondays, 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50 (includes lunch) Info: 969-0859 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 TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

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RTC Presents Heisenberg

Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg makes its area debut at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura from January 30 to February 17

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No one utters the famed theoretical physicist’s name, much less in an ominous fashion, in Stephens’ play,

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wall is a symbol and embodiment of safety and stability, protection, and endurance.

A wall is a boundary, safeguarding an important stronghold. That’s why in Russia and many other cultures women say about their husbands: “It feels with him like I am behind a solid rock wall,” which clearly implies that a woman feels safe and secure as provided by her strong and reliable husband. Obviously that does not mean that her husband is intimidating to the neighbors or imply anything immoral, but it rather is a metaphoric symbol of a woman’s peace of mind and a stable foundation ensuring that she can happily raise her kids and feel calm and sheltered.

For a moment, let’s look deeper into the meaning, the symbolism, and the mythology of a wall. Walls played a big role in the cultural history of many countries. Every known mythology had some sort of mentioning of walls.

The most important of them were built between the world of the living and the world of the dead. In Egyptian mythology, the “Book of Dead” tells us about an underworld surrounded by two walls: one made of bronze and another made of copper.

Access to paradise in every ancient mythology was always protected by walls. For example in Chinese culture there was a beautiful capital city of

the famous “Yellow Emperor” who lived on top of the mountain Kunlun protected by a wall made of lapis.

The country of Buddha on a continent of Jambudvipa was protected by a shiny diamond wall, and a fairytale Iranian fortress Kangju that was built

by Siyavash somewhere in a far corner of Asia had as many as seven different walls surrounding it made of gold, silver, steel, bronze, iron, glass, and ceramic. In ancient Scandinavia, walls of mythological Midgard were made of eyelashes of a mythological giant named Ymir. The civilization of Maya described the world in the shape of a big house with four walls made of sacred reptiles.

Walls found their place in the heraldry of many cultures too. A variety of family crests and coats of arms displayed walls, symbolizing both power and security.

We exchange information with each other all the time and symbolism plays a very important role in communications, which can be both verbal and non-verbal with the use of symbols and signs. Signs substituting existing objects and symbols were eloquently classified in 1930 by researcher Edward Sapir who defined two types of symbols: condensational and referential.

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t a board meeting on Monday, January 28, the Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors appointed a new director: Judy Ishkanian. Ishkanian takes the seat vacated by John Venable, who served for 16 years on the Fire District Board before announcing his retirement in December. Ishkanian will be required to run for the seat in the general election in 2020.

Ishkanian has a long history of support for the Montecito Fire District, as well as service to Montecito’s special districts. She served on the Montecito Sanitary District Board of Directors for 12 years (and was board president several times) before last year’s midterm election.

Ishkanian, who has lived in Montecito since 1961, also serves on the Board of Directors of the Santa Barbara County Chapter of the California Special Districts Association (CSDA). She was a leader in the Neighborhood Defense League for the duration of the non-profit organization (2004 to 2015). Ishkanian has her PhD from UCSB in history and taught history as an adjunct professor at both UCSB and SBCC until 1998.

“I am pleased to be appointed, and I look forward to serving another special district in Montecito,” said Ishkanian, who joins fellow directors Michael Lee, Sylvia Easton, Abe Powell, and Peter van Duinwyk.

For more info about MFPD, visit www.montecitofire.com.

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AHA! Benefit in Montecito

AHA!, a Santa Barbara-based non-profit that is celebrating its 20th year in operation, has announced a February 21 benefit event that will bring together three special speakers for an evening of connection and resilience. “It is incredible that this caliber of people are coming here, to help support AHA!” said AHA! co-founder and director Jennifer Freed.

The speakers include Jennifer Buffett, Boyd Varty, and Amber Rubarth, who are flying into town for the special, intimate event. The evening will take place in a living room setting at a Montecito estate and include catered appetizers and wine.

It will be recorded and available at a later date online so the wider public may benefit from hearing these world-renowned speakers.

Buffett lives in New York and co-chairs the global funding organization, the NoVo Foundation with her husband Peter, the youngest son of financier Warren Buffett. Jennifer has worked as a philanthropist serving the needs of communities and non-profits since 1997.

“Jennifer and Peter like to say they’re turning ‘money into love’ and feel that NoVo’s purpose is to seed and nourish a new world whose systems are based on respecting the ‘grassroots lived experience’ of communities; whether it be in Kingston, New York

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Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin with the 64th U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at the Founders Room dinner given

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An Evening with Albright

Madeleine Albright with Sara Miller McCune at Albright’s lecture at the Granada

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CSB Arts & Lectures presented “An Evening with Madeleine Albright” to a packed house at the Granada Theatre. In case you don’t remember, she was the first woman Secretary of State and the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government in 1997.

Currently she is chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, which is a global strategy firm, and chair of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets.

She has served in many capacities including a member of President

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with students. She claims she always learns from them. There was a dinner for sponsors and heavy hitters in the Granada Founders Room before Madeleine’s talk. As Miller McCune executive director Celesta Billeci said, “Arts & Lectures is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary. This dinner is a thank you for all you do for UCSB Arts & Lectures. We couldn’t do it without you.”

Madeleine spoke to the audience first and was then joined on stage by a new resident of Santa Barbara, Jeff Greenfield, as a moderator. Jeff comes with a page full of credits. He is a veteran political, media, and culture reporter and analyst, spending more than 30 years on network television.

He is a five-time Emmy winner. Jeff joked, “I love Santa Barbara where when a driver raises his hand to you, it’s with all five fingers. In the big city that wasn’t true.”

When he asked Madeleine if she was an optimist or a pessimist, she replied, “I’m an optimist who worries a lot.” When it comes to negotiating, “If we’re not at the table, we may be on the menu.” She claims the hardest thing to do in these times, is to explain

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SBMA Women’s Board new members Susan Bradley, Karen Tenzer, Amy Michelson, and Karen Sweeney at their luncheon

Glenn and Bettina Duval with Madeleine Albright

what the United States’ position is.

She never wants to speak badly about her country when she’s abroad. Right now the national mood is cranky. She commented that we should never put up a red line if we’re not going to hold to it. She says we are a nation of laws and we need a major immigration bill based on law. To explain how dictators get a hold of a country, she used this quote, “If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, no one will notice.”

Albright herself is a product of immigration having been born in Prague in the Czech Republic. “Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America in 1941 after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia—first by Hitler and then by Stalin.” Her folks became Roman Catholic and she was raised in the church, never knowing until she MontJournal_January30th'19:Layout 1 was sixty that she was Jewish.

Madeleine is a little tiny thing – small but mighty. As The New York Times says, “Albright’s contribution to the cultivation of democracy as a stateswoman and private citizen is unparalleled.”

The event sponsor is anonymous but the corporate sponsor is Mission Wealth. Additional support came from Bettina and Glenn Duval, Linda and Frederick Gluck, Judith Hopkinson, and Susan and Bruce Worster. If you’d like to contribute in any way call 805.893.3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.

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Women’s Board

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) Women’s Board held their annual member luncheon at the Santa Barbara Club to welcome new 1/25/19 12:10 PM Page 1 members – nine strong this year. Vice SBMA Women’s Board president Jeanne Fulkerson and vice president of membership Marjorie Robertson

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president of membership Marjorie Robertson introduced them. They are Susan Bradley, Tina Downs, Nancy Kirkpatrick, Irene Kovalik, Amy Michelson, Cat Smith, Karen Sweeney, Karen Tenzer and Linda Wortham.

Women’s board president Jeanne Fulkerson stated, “Ever since the founding of the women’s board 68 years ago, our dedication has been to raising funds for stimulating interest in and offering services to the SBMA.” Executive director Larry J. Feinberg echoed her thoughts by saying, “I do not know what I’d do without you.” Everyone says that but he really means it because the group provides funds for exhibitions even

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.” – Terry Pratchett

“when you think they are crazy and not sure they get it.” He called the group self-starters who get the job done without much help from the museum staff. As Larry said, “Keep cooking up new fundraiser ideas.”

One coming up April 27 is “Off The Wall” where paintings are obtained by a unique lottery. It will be held at the historic Carrillo Ballroom. If you’d like to be a sponsor, call (805) 963-4364.

Larry also told the group that the total renovation of the SBMA is due to be completed in June of 2020.

That opening will be followed by a much-anticipated exhibit of Vincent van Gogh, which is reaching national attention as we speak, and expected to be a big tourist attraction.

The Women’s Board began only ten years after the SBMA was founded.

The board is comprised of over 100 active and sustaining members. One of the members who has been there the longest is Barbara Wallace with 51 years of service. Sunni Thomas has been with the group for 29 years and Grace Yoon for 26 years. The group also supports various programs and hands-on activities for children so they will learn to appreciate art.

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 12) Awardwinning singer-songwriter Amber Rubarth will sing at the AHA! event

and alongside songwriting legends Emmylou Harris, Kenny Loggins, Richie Havens, and Jason Mraz.

Rubarth’s tenth album Wildflowers in the Graveyard is a Nashville analogue collection of songs drawing lessons from nature’s cycling through life, death, and rebirth. In addition to her solo music, Rubarth made her acting debut in 2018 co-starring in the feature film, American Folk. She has also composed for various other films including Sundance festival winner Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, and continues to turn her focus to more collaborative, visual ways of bringing music into the world. Rubarth will be singing at the AHA! event.

There are only 60 tickets for the event; tickets are $250 per person and all proceeds go to AHA!, which provides social-emotional education to

teens, educators, parents, youth care providers, and therapists through various in-school, after-school, and summer programs. AHA! stands for Attitude, Harmony, and Achievement.

Tickets to the event, which is from 6 to 8 pm on February 21, can be purchased by emailing AHA! associate director Roxana Petty at Roxana@ ahabs.org.

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Glamour House owner Ann Picciuto Gehrke is fresh back from a trip to Paris, France, where she was recognized as a North American Ambassador to Eurovet, a world-wide body fashion network and host to the

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Boyd Varty will speak about resiliency at the special event, which will take place at a private Montecito estate

Jennifer Buffett, the daughter-in-law of Warren Buffett, will speak in Montecito on February 21 to benefit AHA!

where they live, or in communities of color who are healing from historical, ancestral and systemic trauma,” Freed said. Jennifer’s passion –and what her talk will likely focus on – is to ensure the safety of girls and women worldwide and for fostering healthy education environments and practices for children so that all kids feel safe, seen, and celebrated.

Varty is a wildlife and literacy activist, and author of the memoir Cathedral of the Wild. Born to a family of conservationists, Varty grew up on Londolozi Game Reserve in the South

African wilderness. Founded more than 90 years ago as a hunting ground, Londolozi was transformed into a nature reserve beginning in 1973 by Varty’s father and uncle, visionaries of the restoration movement. The land became a sanctuary of recovery; when Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years of imprisonment, he came to the reserve to recover. Since childhood, Varty shared his home with lions, leopards, snakes, and elephants, and has spent his life entrenched in nature.

Varty’s discussion will focus on love and resiliency, Freed tells us.

Rubarth is an internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter who has toured extensively from villages in South Africa to theaters in Europe, clubs in Japan to Carnegie Hall, solo

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Forbidden Food

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am thinking of founding a religion in which everything is permitted. It would be the First Church of Anything Goes, and its followers would be known as Any’s. Wouldn’t it be great to have perfect freedom, sanctioned by the Almighty!

But I must admit that this idea, attractive as it may seem at first glance, does not seem to accord with human nature. In fact, the whole rationale for Religion (if that isn’t a contradiction in terms) seems to be that people need some ethical and moral structure – they need to be told how to behave. This of course can affect many different facets of one’s life. But in particular, many religions seem to have become fixated on food. Christianity is a happy exception here. Except for participating in the almost universal abhorrence of cannibalism, most Christians can eat almost anything without any sense of religious guilt.

It may be that this permissiveness derives from wishing to distinguish their own faith from that of the parent religion, Judaism. Having myself been brought up in the Jewish tradition, I am well aware of the multitudinous dietary restrictions imposed upon Orthodox Jews – many of these injunctions having been teased out of ancient scripture by centuries of Rabbinic interpretation. For example, the Bible instructs, “Do not cook a kid in its mother’s milk.” Upon this has been built a fantastically elaborate code, dictating the “Kosher” handling, preparing, and consuming of food. This involves the classification of all foods into two broad categories, of milk-related and non-milk-related.

And each class requires, for example, its own tableware, and even its own kitchen sink.

Very few Jews adhere strictly to all dietary laws, but those who do are generally respected by their more liberal co-religionists, as “keepers of the faith,” without whom Judaism would have perished long ago. In my own family, although we were far from strictly Orthodox, there was still some effort to separate milk from meat. And above all, we observed the prohibition against eating pig-meat in any form.

This particular law was again derived from abstruse biblical passages, forbidding consumption of animals with “cloven hooves.” I myself was soon emancipated from all these taboos, once I left home – with one curious exception. Although I can take ham or 31 January – 7 February 2019

bacon without a qualm, I still, in my mid-eighties, have a certain lingering repugnance to eating pork.

This anti-pig taboo is one of many characteristics shared by Judaism and Islam. And both religions tell the same story of Adam and Eve eating forbidden fruit, and thereby losing Paradise.

Then of course there are the Hindus, with their well-known intolerance for eating beef, predicated upon their reverence for the cow as a sacred animal.

But their eating of other meat, including pig, is much less emphatically condemned.

With other religions, such as Buddhism, dietary rules and practices tend to merge with attitudes towards the taking of animal life – bringing us to the realm of Vegetarianism, which is not necessarily religion-connected at all, but might be principally a matter of health and nutrition – speaking of which, let’s not overlook the fact that, for many or most people, especially those more in tune with their times, the most forbidden foods are self-forbidden, particularly in the interests of health.

In that connection, the foods most condemned are those supposedly leading to excessive weight, which in turn is blamed for a host of maladies. For many years I personally denied myself many of the foods which formerly had been among my staples, such as jam and peanut butter, ice cream and pastries, because I was medically advised that I was overweight. Ironically, I have now dieted persistently enough, and lived long enough, to find myself in a condition in which, according to the charts, I actually need to gain a few pounds. When I asked one doctor how I could best accomplish this, her laconic answer was a single word: “CALORIES.” At the same time, our whole society seems to have changed its mind about what constitutes good nutrition – particularly concerning the evils once supposedly inherent in another word: “FAT.” For an entire generation, an enormous number of foods were marketed under the appealing banner of “LOW FAT” or even “NON-FAT.” But more recent food fashions, no doubt based on the latest research, have determined that fat is no longer the villain in this drama of forbidden foods. What then should be forbidden? To find out, you may have to go back to your Imam or your Rabbi.

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The Way It Was

Alexander Harmer’s depiction of a fiesta at the De La Cuesta rancho reveals much about the hospitality and status of the family as well as life in Spanish California (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

by Hattie Beresford

The De la Cuesta Family and the Highway

The 1889 map shows the road north from Gaviota ending at Cuesta Crossing of the Santa Ynez River.

The De la Cuesta rancho and adobe house lay at the end of this road. Today, this route is Highway 101, and the river is traversed by two bridges leading to Buellton. (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

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n 1912, Santa Barbara motorists heading toward North County had a major decision to make. Where were they going to cross the Santa Ynez River? There were only two bridges, one near Lompoc and the other, aptly called Mission Bridge, that crossed the river at today’s Solvang.

To get to either required negotiating dozens of ravines along the Gaviota Coast and heading over two small steel truss bridges to reach Las Cruces (the intersection of today’s Hwy 101 and Hwy 1) From there, the roads diverged to lead to the bridges.

Another option was to continue north along Nojoqui Creek and ford the Santa Ynez River at Cuesta Crossing. This ford took motorists onto the Buell ranch from which several roads headed for parts north.

Driving in Santa Barbara County in 1912 was clearly not for the faint of

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heart. It’s no wonder that many people still preferred the train.

In 1913, the State of California began building a section of the state highway system through Santa Barbara County. It was named Route 2 because it was the second highway system built by the State. Needless to say, heated controversies regarding its route had arisen before it was finally decided to build a bridge at Cuesta Crossing which would lead onto the Buell Ranch where an unofficial town Motorists who didn’t want to negotiate the 29 ravines of the Gaviota Coast route took San Marcos Pass and had to cross the river at a ford as seen here (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

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In 1892, the De la Cuesta family still enjoyed romantic parties underneath the oaks of their rancho (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

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Members of the De la Cuesta family pose underneath the grape arbor leading to their adobe home in 1892 (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

had sprung up to support the ranch’s business.

On the south side of the river, the new highway went through Rancho La Vega owned by the prominent De la Cuesta family who had acquired the ranch in 1851. Cuesta Crossing of the Santa Ynez River was named for them, and members of the family would become influential voices in the development of the Santa Ynez area and the State highway.

The De la Cuestas

Dr. Ramon de la Cuesta came to California from Spain during the gold rush days and ended up settling in Santa Ynez where he married Micaela Cota and purchased the 8,000-acre Rancho La Vega. In 1853, he built a 13-room adobe for his pending family of 13 people. (He and Micaela would beget 11 children.) He became one of the first doctors in the Santa Ynez Valley, giving his services and medicine for free. At a time when lawlessness was rampant, he and his family were safe from banditos because he gave his services to both saints and sinners.

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All the lumber used to construct the house was carried by oxen and mule pack over Gaviota Pass to the site near the Santa Ynez River. The Californios, Indians, and Chinese who built the adobe were then hired as ranch labor and lived on the ranch complex. A census in 1860 listed De la Cuesta’s livestock as 16 horses, 10 milch cows, 25 cattle, and 3,500 sheep. By 1880, Ramon’s employees consisted of three Mexican shepherds, two Chinese hog herders, one Chinese cook, three Californio and Chumash domestic servants, and one Irish tutor.

The De la Cuestas were known for their hospitality, which included offering a bed for the night to travelers since there was no hotel between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo in those early days. The artist Alexander Harmer immortalized their spirit of gracious hospitality and their status in the community through his painting La Fiesta de la Cuesta which shows a grand party at the ranch with Micaela Cota de la Cuesta dealing monte underneath the grape arbor.

The details in the painting create a

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Spirituality Matters

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

Recess from Struggles in Hendricks’ ‘Playground’

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he Hendricks Institute – the Ojaibased center founded by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks, the prolific authors (more than 35 books, including the best-seller Conscious Loving) and workshop leaders who are former Montecito residents – fires up its annual Winter Training series beginning this Friday, February 1, at the new Sane Center in downtown Ojai. “Evolutionary Playground: New Paths to Change for Uncertain Times,” which runs through Sunday, February 3, teaches how to use simple, powerful skills, backed by scientific research, that take you from “working on” your life to consciously creating it. The seminar’s processes increase and support the ability to find your presence and connection in the midst of uncertainty, stress, and the unexpected. The workshop also includes a complete second virtual seminar, Essentials Online, which contains a worksheet and more than 20 videos, which can be viewed in advance and are also useful post-seminar to review the practices and deepen confidence in using the material.

Evolutionary Playground grew out of the Hendricks’ earlier introductory seminar called “Essentials,” which focused on the skills to shift easily with body intelligence tools. The new seminar explores the possibility of living primarily in an evolutionary cycle of presencing, connecting, and playing through collaboration and harmony, free of blame and criticism, even inside your own head.

For those wanting a deeper dive, the Body Intelligence advanced training teaches the essential body-centered skills that distinguish the Hendricks’ work from conventional approach-

es to problem-solving and transformation. The workshop also includes the full range of Conscious Living skills from the institute’s Quantum Coaching System. A substantial discount is available for combining the two seminars. Call (805) 319-6802 or visit https://hendricks.com for more information or to register.

Also, the couple’s related Foundation for Conscious Living website is now live online, and offers video resources, stories of transformation, and current research on the power of practicing authenticity and gratitude, plus an online version of Gay Hendricks’ latest project, The Big Leap. Visit http:// foundationforconsciousliving.com.

Sanctuary in Ojai

Sacred Space Studio presents one of its monthly Community Healing Sanctuaries, hosted by Karina Duffy and Emily Violet, from 1-5 pm on Sunday, February 3. The Sanctuary is intended to create a safe and loving space for community members to receive healing, connecting people with their own energy and capacity for deeper well-being, and to introduce people to healers with whom they resonate to continue the work beyond the event. Types of sessions offered include intuitive reading, massage, and energy healing, a full range of services for body, mind, and spirit, provided by the collective, a group that ranges from hands-on healers to conscious humanitarians who want to make a difference in the world.

The practitioners this Saturday include Lois Dominguez, offering Orthopedic Massage; Emily Violet Elizabeth (Energy Healing &

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radically rethinking their concept of what it takes to be an elder and the risks of doing otherwise. It’s also partly a call to action, which will be the emphasis when Jenkinson speaks at Oak Grove High School Student Center (220 West Lomita Avenue, Ojai) at 7 pm on Sunday, February 3. A book signing follows the two-hour talk. Admission is $30 in advance, $40 at the door ($10 students). Visit www.brownpapertick ets.com/event/3919517 or www.face book.com/events/2034474409982615.

(Jenkinson will also appear in Los Angeles on Monday, February 4; info at https://diewellcollective.com/whowe-are.)

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Tasting the Wild

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Now a sought-after workshop leader, speaker, and consultant, Jenkinson is also the founder of the Orphan Wisdom School in Canada, which aims to address the current “orphan culture” which is disconnected from its roots, and confuses wisdom with information.

Jenkinson’s new work, Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble, published last summer, addresses that issue, making the case that we must birth a new generation of elders, one poised and willing to be true stewards of the planet and its species. The book explores the “great paradox” of elderhood in North America, where we are “awash in the aged” and yet somehow lacking in wisdom, and where “our unreconciled relationship with what it means to be an elder has yielded a culture nearly bereft of them.”

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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” – Niels Bohr

Lanny Kaufer’s Herb Walks series presents Jess Starwood, clinical herbalist and forager of wild medicine, in a workshop in Ojai titled “Tasting the Wild: Foraged Flavors of Local Plants and Mushrooms.” Starwood – who has studied holistic health and herbal medicine for more than a decade, and holds a Masters of Science degree in Herbal Medicine from the American College of Healthcare Sciences – is the owner of SunRaven Apothecary in Thousand Oaks, where she creates herbal elixirs, crafts, gourmet wild foods, and teaches classes and workshops on medicinal and edible plants and mushrooms. The handson workshop slated for Saturday, February 9, follows her well-received presentation, “Wild Epicure: Infusing Local Flavors and Healing Herbs into Gourmet and Everyday Cuisine for Vibrant Health” at the first Ojai Herbal Symposium held last November. The event includes an herb walk at the Ventura River Preserve and time at the Ojai kitchen and workshop space. Admission is $75. Visit www.HerbWalks.com, email register@ HerbWalks.com, or call (805) 646-6281.

JourneyDance

Back in Santa Barbara, Lisa Buell hosts the first Radiant Heart JourneyDance of the new year at 3:30 pm this Saturday, February 2, at Santa Barbara Dance Arts. The dynamic conscious dance form combines freestyle and structured movement to inspire participants to get out of their minds and into their bodies. The process moves dancers through deep, personal exploration into a loving, intimate relationship with body, mind, and energy.

The workshop explores the condition of our personal containers to create a nurturing home for our hearts to stretch and express to ourselves and others.

No previous experience is required.

Admission for the 90-minute session is $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Visit www.lisabuell.com/journeydance or www.meetup.com/Journey-DanceSanta-Barbara.

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Why a Ban on Plastic Straws?

Councilmember Randy Rowse, who owns a family restaurant in Santa Barbara, voted against the straw ban, but added, “Plastic waste doesn’t belong in a marine environment. Any child in our town knows that it is wrong for sea animals to eat our trash. Reducing plastic waste, if done right, is a worthy goal.”

Councilman Rowse is concerned that behavior-ban ordinances seldom solve real problems without collateral damage. His worst fears were realized when fellow City councilman Jason Dominguez inadvertently uttered his now infamous line, “Well you know, Randy, we have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives. Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. Right now, people are still driving SUVs instead of walking or riding their bikes. We’ll be working on that soon.”

Burned by the backlash, Dominguez apologized a week later for his inappropriate “We know what is best for you” remark, advising his supporters that he was misunderstood.

Some find it cynical that San Francisco legislators applaud themselves for handing out some five million plastic syringes and needles for free each year to drug addicts while criminalizing those who use plastic straws, especially as many of those needles and syringes end up littering public parks, city streets and beaches.

How the Straw Ban is Working Out

According to the checkout staff at the Chevron convenience store on Coast Village Road, the topic of conservation among customers in January has not been about mandatory evacuations or the threat of a debris flow. The biggest flap is over the new City and State Straw Wars.

Customers complain that the new paper straws taste like cardboard. They go soggy within a few minutes. Drinks with lids for straw insertion pinch paper straws in half at the lid level. In short, customers do not like the new paper straws. At nearby Blenders-in-the-Grass, customers tell servers that sucking Smoothies through paper straws creates a massive “yuk” factor.

Further north at Mesa Burger, long-time Manager Pixie Green, who also manages the nearby Lighthouse Coffee Shop, offers this assessment: “Even before passage of the California and Santa Barbara straw ordinances, we voluntarily removed our straw containers from the counter next to our soda/juice dispenser and put them behind the cash register, requiring customers to ask for a straw. In November, we went to paper straws which elicited a barrage of complaints.”

At her Lighthouse Coffee Shop, Green was surprised to learn that female walkers, bikers, and joggers drink hot coffee through straws to keep it from sloshing on clothes. A number of women told her they even drink beer with straws, so they don’t stain their teeth or mess up their lipstick. Soggy paper straws just don’t work for them.

After two months of trial by paper, Mesa Burger switched to an Eco-Products, 100% compostable, corn-based straw made from plants. The problem is Mesa Burger’s corn-based compostable straws have to be delivered to Ms Green’s parents in Utah, and then forwarded on to Mesa Burger to protect the manufacturer, Eco-Products, from fines. Customers can now request the corn-based straws, which are not specifically authorized under the Santa Barbara ordinance.

Last June, the CEO of McDonald’s, Steve Easterbrook, told investors, “There isn’t currently a viable alternative that’s non-plastic at the scale we need.”

McDonald’s serves 68 million customers each day and use an estimated 95 million McDonald’s straws, according to marine biologist Elaine Leung. Local McDonald’s stores still offer plastic straws for all drinks.

The 14 Habit Burger restaurants in our area still sport their traditional red plastic straws. When asked, an employee whispered that the owners had elected to stay with the current straws since there were no penalties or threats of imprisonment in the Santa Barbara ordinance.

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straws in all 28,000 stores by 2020. It plans to offer biodegradable straws for Frappuccinos, ban plastic stirrers, and redesign lids on drinks. However, the Starbucks on Coast Village Road continues to offer plastic straws despite the City and State straw bans.

At the Cottage Hospital cafeteria, cashiers continue to provide wrapped plastic straws at the cashier station rather than at the drinks’ dispenser. Fortunately for Cottage, hospitals are exempt from the new straw ban ordinance.

The Need for Balance

Elected officials need to re-examine their work to see how their ordinances operate in the real-world marketplace. Modifications may be appropriate. The reality is no one is obeying the ordinance and law enforcement has no appetite to back the ban.

The first recommendation is for the City to allow customers to request plastic or compostable straws, even if they are not disabled, as is permitted under the State ordinance.

Second: amend the Santa Barbara ordinance to specifically allow 100% compostable, corn-wheat-or hay-based straws made from plants. Compostable means that a product is BPI certified as disintegrating into natural elements in about 90 days in a landfill or compost environment. Biodegradable is not sufficient because that process can take hundreds of years.

Third: join the state ban in giving fast food, convenience stores, and coffee shops more time to find a viable solution.

Fourth: be mindful of the “law of unintended overreach.” Last week, a new bill was introduced in Sacramento by Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), who was wearing a giant “paper receipt” costume. Ting intends to fine businesses $300 for giving customers unsolicited paper receipts. Ting argues deadly chemicals can be found on paper receipts. Ting led the state effort for a straw ban ordinance.

Be wary of those whose mission is life is to ban all consumer behavior that does not conform to their own preferences. Many in California favor getting rid of anything made from petroleum. That would mean, of course, banning all eyeglasses – lenses and rims, all computers, cell phones, and airplane parts, all prescription medicine bottles, cars and trucks, food wraps and most water bottles. Don’t forget to ban all trash bags and plastic liners, all shampoos and all plastic toys.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when we create a slippery slope to deceive.

•MJ

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Kevin Claiborne Curates Sisyphean Justice Exhibit at Arts Fund Curator and artist Kevin Claiborne at the opening of his group exhibit, Sisyphean Justice, at Arts Fund Gallery

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evin Claiborne curated his first exhibit at the Arts Fund Santa Barbara Gallery, titled Sisyphean Justice, on now through Friday, March 1. From the Washington, D.C. metro area, he has a BS in Math and Computer Science from North Carolina Central University and a Masters in Education from Syracuse University. He currently works at UCSB as a Student Leadership Programs Advisor.

Kevin brought in three top artists to fill the reach of the exhibit’s theme for mental and spiritual health, social justice, and identity: Matt (MBG) Brown, a full-time artist with 29k Instagram followers whose works reflect societies at large and the effect of media on mental health; Toni Scott, a UCSB MFA grad and citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation, with works in permanent collections at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (Harvard) and

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the J. Paul Getty Museum; and Elisa Ortega Montilla, a social worker and UCSB MFA student who uses art as a tool in working with drug addicts, victims of domestic violence, homeless LGBT youth, and adults with intellectual disabilities.

Kevin and I talked at the opening: Q. Do you like Greek mythology?

A. There are certain parts of mythology that I like, as this one by Sisyphean is of interest to me – someone doing something that takes an infinite amount of time and it potentially never ends. I wanted to combine that old myth with something dear to my heart – social justice and fighting for freedom and inequality. The Greek myth of Sisyphus references a cruel king punished with rolling a heavy stone up a hill only for it to fall once reaching the top, forcing him to begin again, repeating this cycle for eternity.

Sisyphean Justice exhibit curator Kevin Claiborne with exhibiting artists Matt (MBG) Brown, Elisa Ortega, and Toni Scott with Arts Fund Executive Director Torrie Cutbirth

In similar fashion, the fight for justice and freedom can be quite laborious, seemingly endless and possibly futile.

When fighting for justice, what are the effects on one’s mental sanity, social life, identity development, and spiritual health? Is justice even truly possible to obtain if the definition continuously evolves?

What do you want people to walk away with after viewing the exhibit?

I want people to walk away with questions, to feel that all the issues presented here connect to them, whether it’s having a personal responsibility to do something about it or how do I see myself affected by other people’s fight for justice and equality. Realize there is a common bond of humanity regardless of where you come from or where your background is, the intersectional components in our identities that affect us in different ways based on our circumstances and the themes can be expounded in different ways in different parts of the globe.

Talk about your four works in the exhibit.

The two untitled film photographs are my way of creating images of solidarity and hope for the future of Black America. The mixed media painting, “Pursuit of Happiness,” explores one of the unalienable rights referenced in the Declaration of Independence.

This piece speaks to anyone living in a society where their identity is disenfranchised, oppressed, or ignored. It draws from my personal experiences of double consciousness, dealing with the mental stresses of surviving in the shadows, feeling torn between two selves while chasing some illusive form of happiness. The mixed media piece with the flag and mirror on canvas [40” x 60”], “Three Fifths Compromise,” is an abstract piece that references the compromise reached during the 1787 Constitutional Convention determining how slaves would be counted in regards to a state’s population, which then determined how many seats each state would have in the House of

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” – Christopher Hitchens

Representatives. I am interested on how history affects the present day; I believe the past influences the present.

I included a mirror in the assemblage so people can see themselves in history, see their personal actions and what they are actually doing to change the future. People can interact with the mirror or cover it up with the flag and have nothing to do with it. I have clear messages for people in my art.

All were created within the last six months in preparation for this show.

Your work at UCSB and how you got into art?

Under the Housing Department, I advise student leaders on their programming, from idea to implementation. They also come to me to discuss their personal lives, mental health concerns, passionate pursuits, and professional goals/career plans.

I’ve been into art and photography in some way or another since college and I have always had an interest in storytelling and studying identity. Since the majority of my work in higher education concerns mental health, identity development, and sociology, those themes are often present in my work.

Next I interviewed MBG about his two 48” x 60” acrylic and spray painted canvases titled “Epidemic,” newly created for Sisphean Justice, and “Emergency,” from a recent exhibit.

Asked what the literally-in-one’s-face paintings are portraying, MBG replied, “As a society, we are tied to fantasy.

People are lost, they look for guidance and turn on the TV or social media.

Can we match expectations? Through which lens are we viewing life? Have our minds been shaped by a lack of free thought? We need to take time for ourselves in order to evade depression and anxiety.”

Toni has six pieces in the exhibit, three sculptures and three paintings from previous installations. There is a white washed 7’ high robust armless nude sculpture of a woman titled, “Mitochondrial Eve.” On each side of Eve is a black face sculpture-like mask, cast in stone and wrapped in 31 January – 7 February 2019

metal. Behind the sculptures are three abstract paintings in various hues of blue. My review: the white and grayish-black crackled Eve sculpture infers an external duality, and with the two black masked heads on each side of her, resembles the Norse mythological warrior Odin, flanked by two ravens.

Referencing Odin comes with the realms of wisdom, healing, death, royalty, knowledge, battle, sorcery, poetry, and frenzy – which are many themes in Carl Jung’s anima and animus – the unconscious feminine and masculine sides of a human. The blue paintings burst forth a Rorschach inkblot litmus – are you happy or disturbed? I could go on here... However, it’s clear Toni uses various mediums steeped in symbolism to field as many possible scenarios to as many as possible viewers, for what reads: here we have been, here we are, where can we be.

Elisa’s pieces: “My American Flag” is a site-specific installation wall sculpture made for the show based on her experience of becoming a U.S. citizen March 2018. It is comprised of handmade wood boxes with thin strips of stretched blue and red fabric, total wall to floor installation space 89” x 125”. She attached the strips of fabric in a wave formation around the inside perimeter of each box and out to the floor area as if they are marching toward the viewer. My review: here we feel the tension of the tightly pulled fabric as it makes its way around, evoking a reaching inward feeling as well as reaching out. Quite notably is the missing white fabric to complete the American flag. Her second work, “The Knot” (2018), a fabric sculpture made from secondhand clothes and wood is 100” length by 20” x 20”, hung from the ceiling and reaches the floor. The twists, knots, and variable thickness create constant and unpleasant tension.

Taking the entire exhibit as a whole statement, one meets with the allegories of race and social justice that have risen once again as a global issue, but where you ask are the artists’ solutions? If race is, as poised in anthropological terms, initiated in the 18th century by countless politico for power, can that be eliminated three centuries later and by whom?

Is race and its subject’s inequality solely to be the causes of mental and emotional health issues? MBG’s work adds a new layer to that, and one that’s gaining more power than race, a world-wide immediate gratification co-dependence to in-my-hand technology. Yet again, what serves us best for resolve of these issues and how can art be part of the solution?

Kudos to the curator for raising the bar and a few brows in local art, and once again, to the Arts Fund for its forward-thinking spirit to hold exhibitions that question us and the art world.

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wright invokes the quantum mechanics pioneer’s uncertainty principle to illustrate the vagaries of human interaction in his two-character work, which follows the apparently random relationship between a free-spirited forty-something American living in London and an Irish-born butcher in his 70s. Lives grow chaotic, expectations and habits are upended, bonds form and fluctuate as Heisenberg employs humor and dramatic turns to dig deep into layers of everyday relationships in an exploration of what it is that defines and inhabits a human connection.

The play received rave reviews in 2015, including one in The New York Times that called it “One of the most emotionally complex and fulfilling plays to grace a New York stage… a probing work that considers the multiplicity of alternatives that could shape our lives at every moment. It resonates in your mind long after it’s over.”

Portraying the oddball couple are RTC veterans Faline England and the Emmy Award-winning Joe Spano, with direction by Katharine Farmer, whose diverse turns at the RTC helm include December’s intimate South Pacific, Ovation-winner Gulf View Drive, and the West Coast premiere of Incognito.

Spano talked about Heisenberg and how it’s already impacted his life earlier this week.

Q. How you would describe what the play is about?

A. It changes as we go through the rehearsal process. It’s about relationships, the one between these two people, but in a larger sense human relationships. How do we connect given the kind of trauma that everybody is the world experiences?… We look at how these two people hit and miss and find out how to be themselves with each other. It’s about learning how we can understand that other people might not see things the same as we do. There’s a line in the play: “We hold very different perspectives on experiences we imagine we’re sharing.” It’s true. We think that other people are seeing and hearing what we are, but they’re not. The more we recognize that, the more we can connect with other people.

How is the uncertainty theory illustrated in the play?

All of those ways of speaking, the scientific language and mode of thought are reflected in the play. You can’t know; you can’t put your finger on it. Even science can’t, because if you look at something closely, you affect it and change its nature. You can either know where something is or what it is, but not both at the same time. All these variables lead to the

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conclusion that we can’t really know for sure what or who something is.

But we can know that we don’t know and proceed with that knowledge to try to make a connection. That’s the scientific language for what we can recognize in human connection, which is what we all crave in this life.

What are the transformations that take place? Are they ones of perspective, or of understanding, or something else?

There’s a level of understanding where the two people come to a kind of freedom, a letting go of an understanding. My character also says, “Personalities don’t exist. They’re just the sum of the individual constituent things that people do, and the past that connects between those. There’s no concrete you that exists forever and ever, no solid self. It’s always fluctuating.” But society wants us to be one thing or somebody that they can look at and say, “This is Joe.” But it’s not so.

And it’s difficult to accept that you’re not stable and concrete.

How has your experience so far affected you?

I was attracted to it because it was dealing with things that I already thinking about. Most concretely, it’s about a man in his 70s, as I am. How do you deal with age, how do you handle the idea of fading away? But I was also drawn to the idea of what is the reality of an identity. How can one move through life with all of these expectations and still recognize that one is fluid? There are so many reverberations in my own life. But that’s what great about real writing, that you find yourself applying it to your own situation.

Not to be too nosy, but can I get an example?

Maybe the most compelling thing is that my character holds onto things that are not beneficial for him. He covers himself up with protective ideas about himself and the world. He hides himself in music. I think that’s probably true in all of our lives, and mine certainly. I finding myself dealing with emotions and experiences that I have had as they surface in doing the play. That’s glorious because you are able to express things that you probably wouldn’t do in my daily life. Then it’s about picking and choosing to use the ones that are the most fruitful in showing this experience to an audience. Katharine is so good at getting the best of us out there on the stage.

More personally, every time something gets revealed in me – an emotion, a memory, some fear – it’s useful and because that’s what this play is about, I think I become more able to understand, or at least to see, my experience. That’s a big part of becoming secure in the world, to know your

own experience, and get that the only world you know is your own.

Since Heisenberg is about chaos and fluidity, I imagine the balancing act of being in the moment and following the script must be delicate.

That’s always the problem with art. How do you stop inventing and discovering? But it has to be within bounds, because, on the most mundane levels, you’ve got to be audible and (hit your marks) for the lights.

You explore within those strictures – the tone, how to be with what you’re feeling, letting the impact in. It can be new each time within that. It’s a juggling act. Faeline and I have talked about the idea that there’s really nothing that you can do wrong if you are present in the moment.

You seem to have a lot of chemistry, if the promo video on YouTube is any indication.

Yeah, we do. We met when we were both doing Speaking of Stories, and I was knocked out by her performance.

We wanted to do something together, and I thought of this play. It’s very intimate. That chemistry is what makes this production so much fun and important for me. I love the way she works, what she does. She’s very present and has an extremely flexible emotional range and an ability to go down deep and find things that are meaningful for her. It’s been great to work together and explore.

SBIFF Slice: Half a Century in, We’re Still ‘Better Together’

Last weekend, Santa Barbara marked the 50th anniversary of the famous oil spill that befouled local beaches and, through inspiring Earth Day and the creation the EPA, basically birthed the environmental movement. Earlier in the month, Montecito marked the one-year anniversary of the devastating debris flows that killed 23 people and caused millions in damages.

What those two events had in common beyond the physical destruction of beloved locales is the theme of Better Together, a documentary feature playing at SBIFF this weekend. The 48-minute film is mostly not about the events, but about the response.

So while there’s footage of oildrenched pelicans in 1969 and houses impaled by trees in 2018, the theme is more about people coming together to take matters into their own hands – whether it’s washing tar off wildlife and digging properties out from under the mud or forming organizations and urging legislation and other reforms.

Better Together – the title comes from the song Jack Johnson sang at the

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill; Isaac Hernandez features the community responses to this event and last year’s Montecito debris flows in his documentary Better Together, premiering at SBIFF on Thursday, January 31

bucket Brigade benefit concert at the Bowl last March, which is featured in the film – began life 10 years ago for the 40th anniversary of the oil spill, underwent some changes in narrative thrust and then took its final shape after the Thomas Fire and debris flows.

“We wanted to link the stories,” said writer-director Isaac Hernandez, whose wife and filmmaking partner Nancy Black produced. “The message that we come together as a community whatever comes our way is what unites it all.”

The film stands out for its numerous interviews with local environmental leaders and other representatives of nonprofits, more than 30 in all, including artist and GOO co-founder Bud Bottoms, the Montecito artist who died last year, plus narration by Montecito actor Christopher Lloyd.

Often times the conversations come one after another with no segues.

“I see the film as a dialog in that they’re speaking with each other even if they’re not in the same room,” Hernandez explained. “The story dictated what we used, and the images, using the ones that did the best job of illustrating the narrative.”

As a result, the connection between the oil spill and the debris flow is more of a suggestion, and a nod to the greater, international issue of climate change. “The metaphor is about saving our home – our larger home, which is our planet,” Hernandez said.

“But I want people to draw their own conclusions. Better to leave them with questions than give too many answers.”

Still, Better Together is meant to serve as a call to action, perhaps a subtle one, Black said. “What that is varies for everyone,” she said. “Maybe it’s just about connecting with people, reaching out to those you love. It’s a simple takeaway. But that’s the bottom line.”

(Better Together screens at 8:20 pm, Thursday, January 31, and 8:20 am Saturday, February 2, at the Metro Theatre.)

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SEEN (Continued from page 16)

Best of show winner Camille Lubach in the 2019 Scholarship Foundation competition

Qichao Xu by his winning work

was in the auditorium where each winner was introduced and said a few words. Director of Education Patsy Hicks told the students, “I hope to see you artists in our halls and on our walls eventually.” Director of programs and evaluation Tosha Lewis and president and CEO Victoria Juarez also spoke.

Victoria noted, “Much of their work reveals a remarkable maturity and sureness of technique. Their skill is a testament to the quality of art instrucSunny Graybill with his bird photograph

on the West Coast. It is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm and free Thursday evenings from 5 to 8 pm. Come and see!

Art Scholarships

The 40th annual Art Scholarship competition was just given by the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara. According to board chair Don Logan, more than 80 high school seniors applied. Seventy-nine were accepted and 24 named winners. They each received $2,500 and the best of show received an extra $1,000.

The winners were Katherine Benzian, Andrew Bresk, Alejandra Cardona Vega, Ivan Carrera, Trevor English, Gabriel Farhadian, Hanadai Flaih, Avalon Gagnon, Laura Gonzalez Urbano, Sunny Graybill, Alexa Hellman, Eva Kilpper, Skyler Kirschke, Camille Lubach (best of show), Emma MacArthur-Warner, Jazmin Martinez. Athena Masthoff, Kai McCarty, Jesus Navarro, Jenna Peterson, Viviana Torres-Torres, Grace Wenzel, Natalie Williams, and Qichao Xu. The three highly qualified judges were Anthony Askew, Patti Jacquemain, and Wayne McCall.

The exhibition and reception were held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art with all the students standing proudly by their work. The program 31 January – 7 February 2019

tion in local high schools.”

Each year the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara is forced to turn away talented applicants due to a lack of funds. You can establish an Art Scholarship Fund in the name of your family or other associates or make a gift of any size to the Fund and it will be combined with others.

Call Donor Relations Manager Nicole Jones at (805) 687-6065 if you are interested.

•MJ

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WAY IT WAS (Continued from page 26) In 1936, the federal Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), reached Santa Barbara and documented the De la Cuesta Adobe through architectural drawings and photographs. Seen here is the main entrance to the adobe. (Library of Congress)

He even sued Bishop Montgomery, the first American born bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles, for $5,000 he felt was due him as manager of the College Rancho. In another case, he took on the Southern Pacific Railroad for three steers the train had slaughtered, but lost that suit because his men were the ones who had left the gate open.

A strong advocate for improved roads and a new highway, La Cuesta ironically believed himself to be the object of highway robbery on a return trip from the Gaviota pier where he and his wife had retrieved their daughter Ynez who was returning from a tour of Europe in 1913. They had just passed the bridge at Gaviota Gorge when two armed men stepped from the roadside and demanded that they hold up their hands. They complied immediately, but their chauffeur had trouble controlling the car and raising his hands at the same time.

With the shotgun staring him in the face, he somehow managed to bring the car to a stop, and he and his passengers quickly exited the automobile, hands over their heads. Expecting to be searched, Eduardo de la Cuesta told the hold-up men his name. “Oh,” said one of the men, “you are De la Cuesta are you? Well, we don’t want you, you can go along.” Turns out the armed men were deputies lying in wait for a stolen automobile supposed to be headed north from Santa Barbara.

With his ranch bordering on the Santa Ynez River and his ability to cross that river depending on access to the ford at Cuesta Crossing, the conditions of the roads were of paramount importance to him. In August 1911, now former supervisor Eduardo de la Cuesta addressed the County Board of Supervisors, and, as the Morning Press reported, “...vigorously denounced the road administration in his locality.” He demanded that a grand jury be called to investigate and verbally attacked Supervisor A.W. Conover by saying, “He’s built a road [down to the crossing] so steep that I take a chance of killing myself and my family every time I try to drive it in a spring wagon.”

As De la Cuesta warmed to his subject, he opened fire on Conover’s

entire road force, even the mules.

“The road foreman spends more of his time sitting with his back to a tree, smoking a pipe,” he said, “and for days at a time the mules have done no harder work than chew hay and munch grain.” The matter of access to the Cuesta Crossing had been a topic of dispute for some time, and there seemed to be no permanent solution to the problem.

Eduardo’s problems were solved, however, when his lobbying for a more direct route for the State Highway (which meant going through his property) was successful. The State of California decided to build a bridge across the Santa Ynez River at Cuesta Crossing. Work on that bridge began in October 1916 and was to cost an estimated $125,000. The bridge was to be more than 1000 feet long and would include five steel Pratt trusses, approached on each side of the river by earthen berms. Concrete piers were set into the riverbed to carry the trusses.

In September 1919, the Morning Press reported, “The bridge over the Santa Ynez River has been built so strongly that it is believed the floods and high water carrying debris down the Santa Ynez River cannot possibly sweep out the piers.” Though the bridge outlived Eduardo, who died in 1937, it was replaced with a parallel bridge in 1948. At present, Hwy 101 bypasses even this bridge as it speeds its way north on four lanes.

Today, one can still walk the bermed portion of the original bridge where an arbor of pepper trees creates a lovely shaded canopy. Just beyond that, a piece of the span still exists, but the steel trusses are long gone and the rest of the concrete piers stand like lone sentinels leading toward Buellton.

The De la Cuesta adobe and barn, though much altered, still stand today at Mosby Winery at the base of Santa Rosa Creek Road. Once again grapevines grow at Rancho de la Cuesta and Harmer’s vision of Micaela Cota dealing monte under the grape arbor in a time long ago cannot help but come to mind.

•MJ

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie

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Begun in 1916 and completed in 1918, the bridge at Cuesta Crossing was the essential link in the completion of the route of the new State highway through Santa Barbara County (Courtesy John Fritsche)

A remnant of the 1918 bridge across the Santa Ynez River at Cuesta Crossing shows the bermed approach on the left and a span of the bridge itself (author photo)

vivid portrait of Mexican-era ranchero life.

After Ramon died in 1887, his oldest son, Eduardo de la Cuesta, took over running the ranch. Eduardo had married Elena Pollard, who was a descendent of the Carrillo family and a granddaughter of William Henry Dana whose 1835 visit to Santa Barbara was recorded in Two Years Before the Mast. Besides running the ranch, Eduardo worked as agent of the Santa Ynez Land Company for the sale of the 35,500 acres of College

Rancho. Also known as Rancho de los Pinos, the land had been subdivided for homesites by 1889.

Eduardo and the Roads

Eduardo became a political force in the Santa Ynez Valley and served as County Supervisor. In addition to running the ranch, he became a land agent as well. He was quite litigious, however, for the newspapers of the time have endless references to suits in which he was involved.

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The steel trusses are long gone but one can still walk through the arbor of pepper trees on the berm leading to the remaining span of the 1918 bridge across the Santa Ynez River.

The bridge in the distance on the left is the 1948 highway bridge. (author photo)

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(Sources: Contemporary news articles; Los Angeles Times, 7 February 1960; cityofbuellton.com; Ancestry.com resources)

Montreal Circus comes to The Granada

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“Motion and emotion lifted to hypnotic heights.” The Boston Globe

“These men and women drum with their whole body: They are athletes as well as aesthetes.” The Economist

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Program J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 Philip Glass: Symphony No. 3 Bartók: Divertimento Osvaldo Golijov: Tenebrae

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Salon International de la Lingerie, the premier event for companies doing business in the lingerie and swimwear sector.

Ann was in Paris for three days for the intimate apparel show, viewing the upcoming trends and sharing ideas. The ambassadors of the show represent boutiques recognized in the intimate apparel community as having established positive, dynamic, and successful businesses. Ann met with intimate apparel vendors from all over the world, seeking out new vendors producing fine quality nightwear. “Recently a local client returned from vacation in Italy and reported that she purchased a beautiful piece of lingerie from an Italian company that I was not familiar with,” Ann said.

“I was determined to track down the vendor and as it turns out, the vendor is headquartered in the Puglia region of Italy, where my family is originally from. It looks like a follow-up buying trip to Italy is inevitable!” she said.

Ann says she was also able to enjoy some sightseeing amid the first winter snowfall.

Picciuto Gehrke has owned the upper village lingerie and apparel store for 16 years; it has been in the upper village since 1965, making it one of the area’s oldest retail shops.

For more information, visit www. glamourhouse.net.

Festival of Hearts

Friendship Center is hosting its 20th Annual Festival of Hearts on Saturday, February 9 from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort. This festive pre-Valentine’s Day event features a sit-down lunch and local wines, with live music by Montecito Jazz Project.

Since the first Festival of Hearts, the centerpiece of the event has been the “heart art” created by local artists and celebrities, including Jeff Bridges and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and sold at silent auction. Provided with a blank papier-mâché heart, these “heartists” paint, sculpt, and decorate in any way imaginable to create these unique works of art.

This year’s theme is The Emerald City, and live auction items include a trip to Seattle, nicknamed “The Emerald City,” and verdant Vancouver, a Jade Oasis getaway with a dinner of fresh local lobster and white seabass in an extraordinary private home, lunch with First District Supervisor Das Williams, and a stay at the newly rebuilt Rosewood Miramar Resort. For the first time ever, there will be professional auctioneer, Steve Sandoval, who is a producer on the set of Will & Grace; he is also donating a VIP taping/ tour package to the auction. “We’re really excited about it!” said develop-

Last year’s event theme was the Queen of Hearts; here is the heart art made by Marie Arnold

ment coordinator Justine Sutton.

“Emerald is the traditional gem for a twentieth anniversary,” said Heidi Holly, Friendship Center’s executive director. “There will be some fun surprises, and we anticipate our guests will have a good time dressing up as Oz characters, or you could just wear something green!”

Major sponsors include Casa Dorinda, HUB International Insurance Services, MarBorg Industries, Union Bank Cal-Western & Pacific Tree, and Nancy Newquist-Nolan. A portion of proceeds from this event support Friendship Center’s HEART (Help Elders At Risk Today) Program, subsidizing the cost of adult day services for low-income aging and dependent adults and their families.

For tickets, which cost $135 each, visit www.friendshipcentersb.org or call 969-0859 to purchase by phone with a credit card. Friendship Center is located at 89 Eucalyptus Lane in Montecito.

Sotheby’s Names New Brokerage Manager

Sotheby’s International Realty has announced that Michael Cohen has been appointed vice president and brokerage manager for the company’s Santa Barbara, Montecito, and Santa Ynez Valley brokerages. In this role, Cohen will lead 115 independent sales

Michael Cohen has been hired as the vice president and brokerage manager for Sotheby’s in Santa Barbara, Montecito, and Santa Ynez Valley brokerages

associates based in these offices.

Cohen joins the company with a depth of experience both in the real estate industry and with the Sotheby’s International Realty brand. Since 2014, he has been vice president of sales for Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty, one of the largest affiliates in the Sotheby’s International Realty network located in the Bay Area, where he was instrumental in the growth and success of the business. “Michael Cohen’s long, multidisciplinary experience in real estate and the learnings he brings from Silicon Valley, one of the most tech-forward regions in the nation, make him a strong leader for our Santa Barbara region,” said Frank Symons, executive vice president of Western and Mountain Regions of Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. “Sotheby’s International Realty is a global leader in luxury real estate and I am excited to bring my experience and successes with the brand to the American Riviera,” said Cohen.

“I’m looking forward to leveraging the brand’s marketing exposure and unparalleled global referral opportunities to the advantage of our agents and clients.”

Cohen will relocate permanently to Santa Barbara, where he will be closer to his son who attends the University of California, Santa Barbara.

For more information, visit www. sothebyshomes.com.

•MJ

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At the OSB pre-reception are Kelly Newberry and Byron Mayes with Sarah and Roger Chrisman (photo by Priscilla)

tor Valery Ryvkin, after a champagne and ice cream reception on the terrace.

The 15-work, 90-minute program was sung by a heavenly host of performers, including Audrey Babcock and Nina Yoshida Nelsen, mezzo-sopranos; Isabel Bayrakdarian and Karin Wolverton, sopranos; Adam Diegel and Nathan Granner, tenors; Lee Poulis and Todd Thomas, baritones; Kevin Thompson, bass; and Chrisman Studio artists – soprano Jennifer Lindsay, mezzo soprano Ashley Kay Armstrong, tenor Michael Kollmorgen, and baritone Yazid Gray.

The highly entertaining concert, which honored Marilyn and was co-chaired by Susan Aberle and Carol Vernon, featured a glorious cavalcade of composers, including Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Donizetti, SaintSaens, Mozart, Verdi, Lehar, Dvorak, Gounod, and, of course, Giacomo Puccini.

The concert wrapped with a fine 31 January – 7 February 2019

rendition of Puccini’s rousing “Nessun dorma” from Turandot sung by Diegel before all 13 singers, flute champagne glasses in hand, came on stage for the stirring finale.

Afterward, 230 guests strolled the short distance to the El Paseo restaurant for dinner and dancing.

“Opera is truly life set to music,” says Joan Rutkowski, board chair.

“As this art form continues to spread throughout the world, we have the great opportunity to hear new voices and see different kinds of lives depicted in music... We perform beloved standards, but some of our most powerful productions have been in lesser-known works.”

Among the tony throng turning out for the celebration were Peter and Deborah Bertling, Dan and Meg Burnham, Roger and Sarah Chrisman, Mary Collier, Christopher Lancashire and Catherine Gee, Eve

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LETTERS (Continued from page 10)

eral definition. Great examples of such condensational symbols in the U.S. are, for example, the notions of the “American Dream” or “family values.”

Blood, Sweat, and Tears So why wouldn’t we add one more such condensational symbol; the Great American Wall? The wall would be the symbol and the protector of the paradise, built by the blood, sweat, and tears of generations of Americans: a paradise that must be legally earned and deserved. People of all walks of life understand such symbols; they appeal to the majority by their simplicity and absolute meaning of the notions entrenched in nearly everyone’s mind over the centuries.

The notion of a wall is among those eternal symbols. It means safety, it means protection and means peace of mind. Even if the practical utility of it is not perfect and it wouldn’t solve the border security problem in every way, the symbolism of it is worth all the billions requested by the President.

Another piece of mythology – the Legends of the Knights of the Round Table –beautifully describes the kingdom of fairies surrounded by an invisible but magical wall that was stronger than anything else, and would only become powerless when the brave and honest knight with an open heart and a beautiful soul decided to cross it.

So, let only the modern-day “knights with brave hearts” rather than illegal aliens cross our magical Southern border wall. And let’s protect our values not only in myths and endless debates but also in the reality of working together on making our country a better place for us, and our children.

Lidia Zinchenko Montecito (Editor’s note: We’ve been thinking a lot about Braveheart lately, but we’ll dive into the comparison between William Wallace and Donald Trump in next week’s issue. Thanks for reminding us with your reference to “knights with brave hearts.”

– J.B.)

Not a Real “Racketeer”

In last week’s MJ, Richard Mineards refers to my late friend Gene Sinser as “an avid racketeer.” Now Richard probably was trying to find a cute reference to tennis, but “racketeer” is defined in my dictionary as “a person who engages in dishonest and fraudulent business dealings.”

That definition absolutely does not describe Gene nor apply to him in any manner. Slip of the pen most likely…

Addison Thompson Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: A “quip of the pen” is even more likely – J.B.)

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EPA’s Strict Guidelines?

I appreciate the editor’s note that follows my letter (“Aera Energy’s Economic Errors,” MJ # 25/2).

However, I question the statement that it is better to allow the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to oversee oil production because of its “strict guidelines.”

The EPA has essentially been gutted, as Trump promised during his campaign. Its budget was cut by 31% and staff reduced by 3,200 jobs in 2018 (before the current shutdown). These cuts have made it almost impossible for the agency to investigate and impose penalties on environmental offenders: that is, to do its job.

In any case, California oil production falls under the jurisdiction of the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR). Their “strict guidelines” allow the dumping of wastewater from the recovery of oil into unlined, open pits, AKA “percolation ponds,” where toxic substances can seep through the earth into the groundwater. California and New Jersey are the only states that allow this; even Texas has banned the practice.

When oil from Aera’s Kern County oil field leaked into the groundwater of the Starrh Family Farm, destroying 6,000 acres of pistachios, cotton, almonds, and alfalfa, Starrh sued Aera and received a settlement. That water and ground are permanently contaminated, and no amount of money can fix it.

Aera is owned by ExxonMobil; type “ExxonMobil lawsuits” into Google to see many such disasters, and beware: the results will keep you up at night.

Scott Pruitt and Andrew Wheeler, former and current heads of the EPA, have both earned great wealth as a result of their work for the oil and coal industries.

Instead of trusting the fox to guard the henhouse, I suggest we use our American ingenuity, technology, and labor to develop an alternative energy infrastructure, so we can reach the 50% renewables benchmark by 2030 that our state legislature called for when passing SB 350 last year.

This strategy would increase local jobs eight-fold and ensure the safety of our drinking water, as well protecting agriculture and tourism, two important economic resources, well into the future.

Rachel Altman Montecito (Editor’s note: Thank you for your thoughtful letter, but if you believe oil producers in Russia, Nigeria, China, Venezuela, Mexico, Angola, et al, are better stewards of the land and its resources than producers in the U.S., or that we can “reach the 50% renewables benchmark” in a short eleven years from now, or that such a feat will “increase local jobs eightfold,” well... your first belief is as unten-

able as the second and third. Mankind (can we still use that term?), however, has survived other such faulty prognostications. See: “Global Cooling: The Coming Ice Age,” written by Lowell Pointe (1976), and various panicky “global cooling” editorials from both Newsweek and Time magazines in the 1970s). – J.B.)

Who Stole the Drinking Fountains?

It was just last Sunday – the day before we honor Martin Luther King Jr. – when I walked the streets of the American Riviera to look for unique businesses to support. I write a business column for two local papers, this being one, and I interview members of the community who take the risk of starting their own company, perhaps living out their dream. And for me, the smaller the business the better.

But my hebdomadal jaunt for the underdog turned into a different type of quest when I parked my old silver Camry on the corner of Anacapa and Gutierrez.

I like to walk, so I always have a bottle of water with me, but (for a reason not known), I didn’t have a drop of water in my thirty-year-old car. I looked under the seats and in the trunk and even in the glove box... but found nothing.

No matter, I’ll just find a drinking fountain; problem solved.

I headed down Gutierrez, but before I made a left on State Street I stopped to listen to a man play his electric piano on the patio of Casa Blanca… the music was serene... but the glass of water that sat on the table aside him was the new melody. So I tipped my hat to the gentleman and his Wurlitzer piano, and then looked for a drinking fountain so I could get a simple drink of water.

And since I’m for the underdog, I made a left onto State Street, avoiding the red-bricked path that paves the way for businesses I’ve seen in Orange County, Los Angeles, Arizona etc. I’m a Funk Zone kind of guy, but I didn’t walk under the bridge, I stayed up top, and then crossed the bridge over State Street and headed down the stairs where a couple argued about where to eat.

(I didn’t say hello or even smile – my lips, my gums, my mouth, had dried and crusted like an old orange peel. I thought of the potential glasses of untouched ice water left on their table and envied that simple luxury which I knew they’d receive once they came to an agreement on where to dine.)

I continued my jaunt to find my first business but I first needed a drink of water. No worries, I’ll just go to the train station where I asked the man behind the two-inch glass where the drinking fountains were. He looked at me with an unusual leer and told me

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” – Carl Sagan

I could buy some water in the soda machine for $2.50.

Really, sir, no drinking fountain?

No reply.

I didn’t have a dollar in my pocket, let alone $2.50 for a bottle of water. So I crossed back over State Street and the railroad tracks and found a nice big parking structure on the corner of Mason with smooth white stucco and a large field of grass where kids played tag and ran with the enthusiasm we envy. I looked all around the structure but only found three holes between the bathrooms in the shape of an upside-down triangle where the water fountain used to be.

I walked down Mason and made a right on Helena Avenue. I passed the bike shop, the skateboard shop called Lighthouse, Skyenna Wines. Then I cut through the outdoor mall where I was certain to find a drink. But I only found those three same holes, that same upside-down triangle where the water once was.

Fine, I’ll go to Stearns Wharf; I’ll hit the bathroom and finally get a drink of water. But would you believe me if I told you our beautiful shoreline was waterless, and that the drinking fountain(s) were nowhere in sight? Not by the bathroom? Nor near the man who played his guitar? It’s true. Maybe somewhere a fountain existed, but not at the foot of the pier, but it shouldn’t be that hard to find.

And to walk all the way down the wharf was not my agenda. I’d already walked far enough, and I wasn’t headed that way in the first place.

From Stearns Wharf, I crossed back over Cabrillo, passed the Fishhouse and staggered up Anacapa. I waved to Loveworn, knowing the artists, Wallace Piatt and Jill Johnson, would roll out the red carpet and give me the biggest glass of water I’ve ever drunk.

But, yes, now I was embarrassed, my mouth was its own arid cave of disgust.

Discomfort and Plausible Rejection I was parched beyond my own amazement. And now, in a city of known affluence, I was out to prove a point: I couldn’t find a free drink of water unless I walked into a business, all of them packed with people, to ask for a glass of water with possible rejection. Law or no law.

I’m proud to be a broke writer – a writer without another job, with faded letters on his cheap Chrome book – just white dots from pounding the keys so we think before we do, say, or support something uncouth, such as the lack of easily available water in our city by the sea. I’m a writer who praises the First Street brand at Smart & Final – meatless spaghetti and ice cream are the attributes of my so-called nutrition.

But the thing is, I don’t just think of myself.

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I think of the men and women I passed that day on my strange and somewhat disturbing excursion, who no matter what they look or smell like, want to be a part of our city as much as I do, and believe me, whether they knew it or not, needed a drink of water. But like me, they shouldn’t have to ask a crowded winery or a busy restaurant with the fear of plausible rejection, the definite discomfort, or upon the red paved road on State Street where certain businesses complain of their presence.

I kept on Anacapa, made a left on Yanonali Street, passed the Blue Door, Raoul, made a right on State Street, and this time walked under the bridge. I watched a man push his shopping cart up the hill on the other side of State. He pushed like a thirsty man and I wanted to help him but I didn’t. I watched him push from the other side and made sure he didn’t slip downhill until he got to the Hub, where no drinking fountain existed as well.

So after I walked for about two miles, at least, zigzagging through our community of affluence, I got into my car and drove down Gutierrez.

I passed E.G.G. and then made a right on Chapala and up to Carrillo.

I looked and I looked but there was not a drinking fountain in plain sight.

And as my gaslight laughed harder and harder, I hurried home and drank the tastiest glass of H2O I ever drank in my life.

My point is, in a city in which wine flows like water, I think we can do much better. Nobody’s mouth should ever feel like the drought is their fault.

Water is life, and life is hard enough.

Jon Vreeland Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: You make a compelling case for more drinking fountains in the fair city of Santa Barbara. What did happen to all the water fountains, what say you Santa Barbara City Council? – J.B.)

Bumpy Ride Ahead

It’s reasonable to say on the issue of “government shutdown” that the poll-gap between Trump’s “disapprovals” and “approvals” is clearly a product of, and a direct correlation with, the 92% mainstream media negative reporting of anything/everything Trump.

In spite, however, of two and a half years of NeverTrump 24/7 from the mainstream media, Trump’s approval stats stay solidly in the mid-40% range. What is perhaps puzzling and disconcerting is still the assessment of too many people right-of-center politically who do not appraise the cataclysmic tug-of-war going on between those who love America and those who despise America as being just that: a short-term all-out struggle for the soul of America with long-term 31 January – 7 February 2019

effects. Too many Republicans and conservative Independents don’t see the crisis nature of this siege going on throughout society and the culture.

They act as if this is just another episode of politics-as-usual between the two major parties.

If only both parties can come together and split the difference!

There’s no common ground between Trump and those who wish to preserve the best of what made America exceptional, and the enemies of America’s track record of greatness: a mantle of pedigree and superiority they say was unearned and the result of stealing from and oppressing those less powerful who came in our way. Neither side can gain anything through compromise on the great issues dividing the American people.

This is becoming a titanic struggle of nerves, raw power, and who wins the game of “chicken” as both cars race toward the cliff (as in Rebel Without a Cause, or the all-time great train-dodge in Stand By Me).

American culture over 230 years produced American exceptionalism.

Open Borders will submerge and drown the holders and bestowers of an American culture that nourished its will to be great, and pass on its heroic legacy to future generations. It’s really as simple and uncomplicated as that.

Dig the trenches, man the fences, pass the ammunition.

David S. McCalmont Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We don’t know about “man the fences” (can we still use that expression?). Perhaps the indefatigable Hannah-Beth Jackson can enlighten us as to what we can and cannot write any longer, but this confrontation ain’t over yet and may not be over until 2020. So, hold your fire, sheath your blade, steel your nerves, tighten your safety belt, gird your loins, don your helmet, bite the bullet, and hang on. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. – J.B.)

Remembering Norman

It begins back in 1963 in Sydney, Australia. That’s when I first heard “The Girl From Ipanema” and I immediately added it to my repertoire, as did most singers and musicians at that time. Who would know that those lyrics by Norman Gimbel and music

by Charles Fox would become the second most recorded song ever, with 1,100+ versions to date? An amazing accomplishment.

Over the years, many more of Norman’s lyrics found their way into my performances as I traveled around the world. My personal favorites include “How Insensitive,” “Watch What Happens,” “Summer Samba,” “I Got a Name,” and “Canadian Sunset,” to name just a few. One of his early hits I performed regularly in the late ‘50s was “Sway,” and there are so many more.

Peter Clark and his longtime friend, songwriter Norman Gimbel (right), circa mid 1990s; Norm was born November 16, 1927 and passed away December 19, 2018

What a songwriter!

Lightning struck in the early ‘70s, when Roberta Flack won the Grammy for “Record of the Year.” The song?

“Killing Me Softly With His Song.”

It also won the Grammy for “Best Song of the Year,” a double WhammyGrammy written by who else?

Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox. One of the greatest songs ever.

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Norman at events and parties in Santa Barbara and we became friends. We’d lunch around town and had wonderful conversations going all the way back to his early days at the “Brill Building” in New York, then the songwriting capital of the known music world. We swapped stories and gossip about people in the music industry, remembering crazy incidents, and laughing about over 50 to 60 years worth of great memories. In 2000 when he wrote a foreword for my album Messenger of Music, I was truly honored.

Two years ago, I started work on a Bossa Nova album that was completed last September. I dedicated it to my friend Norman, but sadly he never got to see or hear it.

But I know that he will hear it as the sound waves of his songs travel throughout the universe to wherever he is.

Thank you Norman. You and your beautiful words will be with me always.

Peter Clark Montecito •MJ

Barbara, CA 93110. Carole Duby, 616 Rolling Brook Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 31) Starr Siegele, Leanne Baker, and Mandana Mirabrishami at Davis & Taft (photo by Priscilla)

Joan Rutkowski looking on as Sue Anderson presents the OSB 25th Anniversary Commemorative Award to Marilyn Gilbert with conductor Kostis Protopapas giving praise (photo

by Priscilla)

Sandy Urquhart, David Reichert, Nancy Golden, and Diane Dodds (seated) (photo by Priscilla)

as well as museums in Philadelphia, Houston, and Seattle.

Among his many fans at the bash were Robyn Geddes, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Beverley Jackson, Ronnie Mellen, Trish Reynales, Nancy Gifford, David Lacy, Larry Feinberg and Starr Siegele, George Schoellkopf, Ceil Pulitzer, and Allan Glaser.

Joann Younger and Susan Aberle celebrate Opera Santa Barbara’s anniversary (photo by Priscilla)

Bernstein, Robert Weinman, Tim and Marisol Dougherty, former mayor Helene Schneider, Simon Williams, Ron Gallo, Jonathan Fox, Howard Smith and Patricia Dixon, Herb and Elaine Kendall, George and Helene Konstantinow, Sara Miller McCune, Robert Lieff, Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp, Geoffrey Rutkowski, Steven Sharpe, Marylove Thralls, Bob and Sandy Urquhart, Eric Small and Dody Waugh, Gene Tyburn, and David Reichert and Diane Dodds.

Artist Gerald Incandela with Allan Glaser and Beverley Jackson (photo by Priscilla)

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Leslie RidleyTree, Gerald Incandela, David Lacy, and Nancy Gifford on Incandela’s original grass bench (photo by Priscilla)

Incandela Exhibition Davis & Taft, the upper village antiques store, was socially gridlocked when Summerland artist Gerald Incandela staged his latest exhibition, including benches clad in astroturf and a number of his innovative works of art.

Tunisian Gerald, a good friend for many years, has works in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty in Los Angeles,

Surf’s Up Just in time for Santa Barbara’s International Film Festival, local documentary maker Wyatt Daily is debuting a project about our Eden by the Beach’s rich surfing heritage and its continued influence on the area at the Arlington Theatre on February 9.

Spoons: A Santa Barbara Story is a chronicle of craftsmanship, work ethic, renegades and tradition, says Wyatt of his $300,000 project.

“It is a film about surfing that goes beyond the time spent in the ocean to define how one spends a lifetime.”

Principal characters include Renny Yater, who opened our tony town’s first commercial surfboard shop in 1959 and continues to shape surfboards on a daily basis; George Greenough, who kicked off the “shortboard revolution” in 1968; Al Herrick, owner of Channel Islands Surfboards who started making surfboards for youngsters and helped mentor an entire generation of surfers; and Tom Curren, three-time world champion, as well as many others.

“In my opinion, we don’t devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.” – Bill Watterson

Wyatt Daily directs a surf classic

“It shows never before seen archival footage,” says Wyatt, who started looking at historic footage from the Rincon Classic while he was still a student at UCSB. “I kept working on the project in my free time and eventually people got wind of what I was doing and asked if I wanted to see some super 8 footage or old 16mm that was hidden in their closets for 30 years.

“Seven years and many interviews later, we have what I hope can be a real contribution to surfing’s history to inspire future generations. It’s full of gems from surfing’s Golden Age to the present. A story that’s never been told before.”

Much of the budget of the documentary has been the cost of licensing the archival footage for film and music broadcast rights.

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strapping the project with our own money, support from friends and family, and some private investors,” adds Wyatt, whose producer is Justin Misch.

He is currently also running a Kickstarter campaign to help, as he puts it, “get over the finish line.”

The site is http://kck.st/2D5uT0O.

the date of the Super Bowl.

I’m now told it’s a TV commercial for Belgian beer giant Stella Artois, with Jeff accompanied in the ad by actress Sarah Jessica Parker.

Quite a production.

Albright, Albright, Albright

La Súper Bowl David Bolton lands prime broadcasting gig

Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation recipients (photo by Isaac Hernandez)

David Bolton, Santa Barbara-based director of the California Missions Foundation, who recently received a Spanish knighthood, as I exclusively revealed here, also has a successful career as a sports broadcaster for the Spanish language version of the Fox network.

David’s company, Cultural Globe Media, has now been hired to produce and coordinate the nine-hour live coverage of Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta for Fox Sports Latin America with his efforts and cameras seen by millions of viewers from Mexico to Argentina.

“To be chosen for such a high-profile international event is amazing,” says David, a graduate of Montecito Union School and Santa Barbara High.

“The NFL has worked very hard over the last few years creating a strong international presence and that is what created this opportunity for us.”

David’s company will handle everything from the production truck to satellite, crews to financing, and from logistics to telecommunications.

“It is by far the biggest event I’ve ever coordinated,” says David, who for many years has been the leading packager and director of live soccer of the network’s soccer channel and Fox Deportes.

The Dude Advertises Montecito actor Jeff Bridges has debuted a mysterious video, where he reprises his role as The Dude from the 1998 cult classic, The Big Lebowski.

While some have wondered if it’s a first look at an unconfirmed sequel to the movie, fans are promised they’ll find out more on February 3, the date of Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta.

The 15-second video with the Oscar winner wearing his signature flannel pants and Pendleton sweater, gruffly laughing and walking away from smashed china and broken glassware, ends with tumbleweed rolling past a red carpet, revealing the date 2.3.19, 31 January – 7 February 2019

Madeleine Albright with UCSB A&L Council member Leslie Ridley-Tree (photo by Graham Kathryn)

It was Albright on the night when America’s first female U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright spoke to a sold-out Granada audience as part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures series.

Albright, 81, who became a U.S. citizen in 1957 after leaving her native Czechoslovakia, served in the White House from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton, and is currently chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group and professor of international relations at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. Seven years ago she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.

More than 600 students who were unable to get tickets to the Granada watched the lecture via simulcast at the Garvan Pavilion on the oceanside campus.

Among the many topics Albright addressed was immigration, a particularly hot subject of late, with her concluding: “We have a policy towards refugees that would make the Statue of Liberty weep!”

Before the talk, which was moderated by my former ABC Network News colleague Jeff Greenfield, a dinner for 60 VIP supporters was hosted in the McCune Founders Room, with guests including Leslie Ridley-Tree, Sara Miller McCune, Tim and Monica Babich, Dan and Meg Burnham, Richard and Annette Caleel, Fred and Linda Gluck, Richard and Lucille Janssen, Chuck and Merryl Zegar, John and Patricia MacFarlane, Paul and Jane Orfalea, Tom and Heather Sturgess, Seth Streeter, Peter and Ellen Johnson, Anne Towbes, Jonathan and Jennifer Blum, and Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman.

Art Kids More than 20 student artists were honored by the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara during a presentation and reception at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, with each of them receiving a $2,500 scholarship and their artwork exhibited in the museum’s Family Resource Center.

“Much of their work reveals a remarkable maturity and sureness of technique,” says Victoria Juarez, foundation president. “Their evident skill is testament to the quality of art instruction in local high schools.”

The works, done by 79 students, were judged by a panel of prominent local artists – Anthony Askew, Wayne McCall, and Patti Jacquemain – at the museum’s Ridley-Tree Education Center at McCormick House, with the best of show winner, San Marcos High’s Camille Lubach, receiving an additional $1,000 scholarship.

Among the guests were Joanne Holderman, Mercedes Millington, Caroline Rutledge, Garrett and Ginny Speirs, Nancy Ransohoff, Vicki Hazard, and Nancy Schlosser.

Charming Choir Music lovers got a special treat at Trinity Episcopal Church when the Reed Collegium Musicum from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, under conductor John Cox, staged a free concert of early and medieval music.

The 15-member choir from the university, founded in 1908 and boasting 32 Rhodes Scholars and more than 100 Fulbright Scholars, included our tony town during its current tour with its performance Vox Sibyla: Voice of the Prophetess with works by Hildegard von Bingen, Orlando de Lassus, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Rameau, and Charpentier.

A magical evening...

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Dudamel’s Distinction Los Angeles Philharmonic maestro Gustavo Dudamel, a frequent visitor to our Eden by the Beach, has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Known as the Dude by his many fans, the 37-year-old Venezuelan Grammy winner began conducting the Big Orange orchestra in 2009 after the departure of Finnish director Esa-Pekka Salonen, who is the new music director of the San Francisco Symphony.

Dudamel was accompanied by award-winning composer John Williams and Emmy-winning actress Helen Hunt.

New Polo Board Member After 15 years playing polo, developer Justin Klentner, patron of the local Klentner Ranch team, and winner of the 107-year-old Silver Air Pacific Coast Open last year, is the Carpinteria polo club’s latest board member.

Justin, who lives just a tiara’s toss from the club, joins attorney Kevin Nimmons, who has been a member for ten years. He also sits on the club’s tennis, swim, and fitness advisory committees.

Sightings: John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston at the Dance Fever Studio in Carpinteria... Veteran actor Stuart Whitman lunching at the Biltmore... Writer T.C. Boyle walking his dog on Coast Village Road Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabrabaraseen.com or call 969-3301.

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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 31 Poetry to the People – Pedigree for poets don’t come more impressive than Tracy K. Smith’s who earned her BA from Harvard and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University before holding a fellowship at Stanford University. But it’s not her educational experience that sets Smith apart; it’s her poems. Her first three books of poetry, all earned critical acclaim and professional accolades: The Body’s Question (2003), won the Cave Canem prize for the best first book by an AfricanAmerican poet; Duende (2007), took the James Laughlin Award and the Essence Literary Award, and Life on Mars (2011), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In addition, her memoir, Ordinary Light, was a National Book Award finalist. In 2017, Smith was appointed the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate, and she has made it her mission to bring poetry to the masses, showing how the literary form can help people to see the world from other perspectives. “With directness and deftness, she contends with the heavens or plumbs our inner depths – all to better understand what makes us most human,” enthused the Librarian of Congress’ Carla Hayden.

Currently, Smith teaches creative writing at Princeton University and hosts American Public Media’s daily radio program and podcast The Slowdown, which is sponsored by

the Poetry Foundation. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $20 INFO: (805) 8933535 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 State Street in the Studio – State Street Ballet, Santa Barbara’s well-respected professional company, choreographs and dances plenty of major evening-length pieces of work covering the classics and many modern themes including frequent collaborations. Then there’s EVENINGS, a much more intimate affair in which SSB’s own talented dancers get the opportunity to create their own dance works in which they can explore and experiment with new movement, themes, music and styles and then present them in the company’s rehearsal space off Las Positas. But to be clear, these are anything but amateurish attempts and choreography. Several pieces that began at EVENINGS moved on to performances in larger venues in town and on the road. This year’s slate features eight short world premieres from SSB company members including new principal star Jimmy Folsom and education director/Library Dances founder Cecily Stewart, and will be followed by a Q&A session with the choreographers, providing much more than a mere glimpse into their creative processes. Wine and light snacks are part of the event, but

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 To be Kin-tinued – Phil Salazar, whose father conducted professional orchestras in Ventura and Southern California, was classically trained on the violin. But while he still keeps one foot, or maybe a toe, in the classical world via teaching students, he’s far better known and happier in the world of folk and bluegrass fiddling. A perennial at the Old Time Fiddler’s Convention and Festival in Goleta for decades, and a the fiddler of several seminal bands over the years, including The Acousticats and Acadiana, Salazar has also recorded with Bob Weir, Jonathan McEuen, Kenny Loggins, Kate Wolf, and served as a side man with many more. He’s also led his own bluegrass band called The Kinfolk on and off dating back to the mid-1980s, along the way blending the traditional music with a wealth of genres including folk, rock, Americana, cajun, Irish, jazz, country, and cowboy. The band – Rick Borelloon bass, Tom Corbett on mandolin and guitar, Bill Knopf on banjo, and Bill Flores on a whole bunch of instruments, including dobro and saxophone – are on a 33rd anniversary mini-tour that stops at one of its favorite local listening venues tonight. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Drive, Goleta COST: $15 with advance reservation and $22 at the door INFO: 964-0436 or www.cambridgedrivechurch.org

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Norteño up North – Los Tucanes de Tijuana, whose norteño song style known as corridos has sold more than five million records in the United States and Latin America and earned five Grammy nominations over the past 17 years, are set to make their first appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this April. But the group who transcended its humble beginnings playing at nightclubs to become one of the most successful and sought after norteño bands in Mexico, Latin America, and the United States and serve as global ambassadors of the music, reportedly can’t perform in its namesake city. That’s because they’ve been banned by the city of Tijuana for more than a decade after lead singer Mario Quintero gave a shout-out to two cartel bosses during a 2008 concert in Tijuana, according to an article earlier this month in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Meanwhile, their popularity continues to grow via captivating the hearts of their fans through their romantic lyrics and positive messages.

But you don’t have to wait until spring or schlep to the desert to see Los Tucanes de Tijuana, as the band will play tonight at the Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom tonight. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 3400 East Highway 246, Santa Ynez COST: $49-$79 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino.com

act fast as seating at the studio is severely limited. WHEN: 7:30 pm tonight & tomorrow (doors open at 7) WHERE: Gail Towbes Center for Dance, 2285 Las Positas Road COST: $25 INFO: (805) 845-1432 or www. statestreetballet.com/ www.facebook. com/events/396346617785925 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Slim Pickin’ – Guitarist Frank “Paris Slim” Goldwasser has been a part of the West Coast blues scene since arriving in Oakland from Paris, France, back in 1981 after he’d enjoyed his first professional gig at age 21 supporting visiting U.S. bluesman Sonny Rhodes. Up in the Bay Area, he was hired by Troyce Key (who gave him the stage name of Paris Slim) to play in the house band at Key’s legendary Eli’s Mile High Club.

Goldwasser immersed himself in the area’s then-vibrant blues scene, later racking up three years touring with Jimmy McCracklin, and appearing at most of the prominent local venues with a roster of blues talent including Lowell Fulson, Percy Mayfield, and Charlie Musselwhite. His 1988 CD debut, Blues for Esther, received a nomination from the prestigious W.C. Handy Awards, while its follow-up, Bleedin’ Heart, co-produced with Joe Louis Walker, who guested along with Sonny Rhodes. By 1998, he’d moved to Southern California, becoming a

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.” – Richard P. Feynman

fixture on the vibrant L.A. blues scene, including a spot as regularly featured guitarist in the rotating cast of The Mannish Boys both in the studio and on the road. Goldwasser, who now lives in Carpinteria, also recorded an album with Santa Barbara’s own electric blues guitar hero, Alastair Greene, who himself just a couple of years ago left a gig in Alan Parsons’ band to focus on his solo career. Goldwasser still gigs in the area, on and off, and tonight will serve as the special guest artist at one of State Street’s most thriving hot spots, The Red Piano. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 519 State Street COST: free INFO: (805) 358-1439 or www.theredpiano. com TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Go for Baroque – The English-born conductor Nicholas McGegan is no stranger to Santa Barbara, having spent a week or two almost every summer in recent years as conductor of the Music Academy of the West’s fellows-powered chamber orchestra and other student ensembles and settings. There have been far fewer opportunities to see him in his more natural habitat, as the impish and irrepressible music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra ever since 1985, as he helped establish it as the leading period performance ensemble in the United States. The Philharmonia is dedicated to capturing 31 January – 7 February 2019

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Full Nelson – Parallel lines never meet, but maybe they come around again pretty quickly. Or at least Parallel Stories do, as the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s literary and performing arts program pairing art and artists with award-winning authors and performers presents has tapped its second major writer in just a couple of weeks for its Reading and Conversation series. Maggie Nelson’s mode of nonfiction resists easy categorization as her books span poetry, criticism, autobiography and theory as well as “hybrid spaces” in between. Employing language both heady and visceral, she employs dynamic interplay between personal experience and critical theory, to offer compelling meditations on social and cultural questions. Her book The Argonauts won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, The Art of Cruelty was a 2011 Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, while Jane: A Murder was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. The New Yorker called The Argonauts a masterpiece of American autobiography, noting that it “tells the philosophical, sometimes comic tale of Nelson’s ever-developing consciousness, combining memoir, literary analysis, humor, and reporting with vivid instances of both the familiar and the strange.” Peruse the museum’s gallery perhaps through a new lens both before and after Nelson’s talk this afternoon. WHEN: 2:30 pm WHERE: Mary Craig Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street (entrance in the rear) COST: $10 general, $6 seniors, $5 museum members INFO: (805) 963-4364 or www.sbma.net

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the spirit and distinctive sound of music from the Baroque to the early Romantic periods using authentic instruments and stylistic conventions, with McGegan as its enthusiastic champion. Tonight’s CAMA sponsored concert features a special treat: American violinist Rachel Barton Pine, the youngest-ever gold medal winner of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, who will join the orchestra for the rarely performed Violin Concerto in D major of violinist Franz Clement, who was one of Beethoven’s closest friends for

whom he composed his own Violin Concerto in D major. Also on the program are the far more familiar Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K.492, by Mozart, and Schubert’s Symphony No.6 in C Major, D.589.

Andy Radford, the music director of the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony and a lecturer at UCSB, gives a preconcert talk at 7 pm, with seating is limited to the first 100 patrons to arrive. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $39-$119 INFO: (805) 8992222 or www.granadasb.org •MJ

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 ‘...Kiss’ is on their List – Adrianne Lenker recorded her first solo album, Hours Were the Birds, when she had just turned 21 and moved to New York City, where, by her own report, she was sleeping in a warehouse, working in a restaurant, and photographing pigeons. Five short years later, her life is an entirely different story. Lenker has since formed and fronted the highly acclaimed group Big Thief, whose sophomore album Capacity made many “Best of 2017” lists including those from NPR, Newsweek, and SPIN. But there have been songs, lots of them – including many that “pop out in soundcheck, late-night drives (between tour stops), green rooms, hotel stairwells, gardens, and kitchens around the world” – that didn’t exactly slip through the Big Thief cracks but weren’t quite right for the band. So Lenker spent a week in the studio with longtime friend Luke Temple at the console recording tracks in an intimate and immediate way that were chosen because they “felt the most alive in the room.” Some were years old, others as new as a few days. The resulting record, abysskiss, has garnered even stronger reviews than Big Thief’s latest, landing on many year-end lists.

“With a great imagination for melody, Lenker conjures a world of mingled trauma and love,” raved Pitchfork, while Paste noted “Lenker excels by tapping into the core of the human soul in the most tender, gentle and vivid way possible.” Her solo show at SOhO tonight features Temple, who is also the frontman of indie group Here We Go Magic, performing an opening set. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 in advance, $18 day of INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

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LUCKY’S . . . for lunch • Smaller Plates and Starter Salads •

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Iceberg Lettuce Wedge ....................................................................10 roquefort or thousand island dressing

Sliced Steak Salad, 6 oz................................................................... 27 arugula, radicchio, endive, sautéed onion

Arugula, Radicchio & Endive, reggiano, balsamic vinaigrette.... 12 Caesar Salad..................................................................................... 12 Farm Greens, balsamic vinaigrette................................................. 12 Jimmy the Greek Salad, french feta ............................................... 12 Giant Shrimp Cocktail (3 pcs)........................................................ 18 Grilled Artichoke, choice of sauce.................................................. 12 Burrata, tomatoes, arugula, evoo....................................................15 French Onion Soup Gratinée ......................................................... 12 Matzo Ball Soup or Today’s Soup ..................................................10 Lucky Chili, cheddar, onions, warm corn bread............................14 Fried Calamari, two sauces ............................................................. 12

Seafood Louie ....................................................................................32 two shrimp, 4 oz. crab, egg, romaine, tomato ,cucumber, avocado

Lucky Meatballs, tomato sauce, grilled ciabatta...........................15

Cobb Salad, roquefort dressing .......................................................20 Chopped Salad ...................................................................................18 arugula, radicchio, shrimp, prosciutto, beans, onions Charred Rare Tuna Nicoise Salad................................................... 27 Old School Chinese Chicken Salad ................................................20 Chilled Poached Salmon Salad of the day .....................................22 Lucky’s Salad .................................................................................... 19 romaine, shrimp, bacon, green beans, avocado and roquefort

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Sliced Filet Mignon Open Faced Sandwich, 6 oz. .......................27 mushroom sauce

Fried Chicken Breast, boneless & skinless, coleslaw and fries ...... 19 Chicken Parmesan, San Marzano tomato sauce ............................22 imported mozzarella, basil

Reuben Sandwich, corned beef, kraut & gruyère on rye ............. 20

Salmon, blackened, grilled or steamed ...........................................22 lemon-caper butter sauce, sautéed spinach

Chili Dog, onions, cheddar & kraut - all on the side ....................14 Maine Lobster Roll, warm buttered D’Angelo roll ..................... 29

Sautéed Tofu, Japanese vinaigrette, green onions, shiitakes ..........18 Sliced Prime NY Steak Frites, 7 oz. ...............................................29 red wine shallot or peppercorn cream sauce Smoked Scottish Salmon, Toasted Bialy or Bagel .........................20 cream cheese & condiments

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