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Got $100 million to spare? That’s the price Tom Barrack has put on ex-Neverland Ranch, P. 6

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 9 • SEEN AROUND TOWN, P. 14 • EVENTS CALENDAR, P. 38

SHE SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE Jenny Sullivan (her dad, Barry Sullivan, was Sheriff Pat Garrett in the early ’60s TV series The Tall Man) didn’t actually shoot the unfortunate Mr. Valance, but she is directing the classic Western on stage at the Rubicon (story on p.29)

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Guest Editorial When it comes to leadership around Montecito, Bob Hazard is naming names and gets specific about MA’s significance, its community plan, and financial future 6 Mineards’s Miscellany Tom Barrack and Neverland; Brian Grazer’s wedding; The Hills; Lutah documentary; Janet Adderley recalls Grease Live; Silk Road Ensemble at Granada; Gene Sinser hosts UCSB musicians; vintner Fred Brander; horses exhibit; Alan Parsons; and Santa Barbara Strings at MAW 8 Letters to the Editor Penny Bianchi gets happy and spreads the word; Hiroko Benko, for the record; and Ralph Iannelli takes President Obama to task 9 This Week Knitting circle; poetry club; artist Claudia Lash; First Thursday; orchid show; Centering Prayer retreat; Family YMCA campaign; Jessika Cardinahl exhibit; free music; West of the West; MBAR meeting; Meditation Mondays; MA meeting; mountain exploration; The New Yorker; German conversation; Sedgwick hike; golf tourney; and money workshop

Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 11 On Entertainment Steven Libowitz gets to know soprano Angela Mannino prior to L’elisir d’amore at the Granada; director Jenny Sullivan; Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal at UCSB; and SB Fermentation Festival 12 Village Beat MAW and MBAR explore MAW Master Plan; Eli’s Place is tailor-made; MUS honored as Green Ribbon School; SB International Orchid Show; and Montecito YMCA 14 Seen Around Town Lynda Millner shuffles from the Hearts Festival luncheon to American Dance & Music to AHA!’s Go Red for Women gala 20 Your Westmont A family day celebrates French culture March 5; six teens compete for music scholarships March 5; a Choral Masterworks Concert honors St. Nicholas March 6; senior Christine Nathanson directs a play, “Tar and Feather,” March 4-5; and a talk examines Victorian images March 7

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21 Coup de Grace Grace Rachow’s neighborhood has ample animals, but not the beloved squirrels she adored while growing up in the Midwest 22 Girls Rock Tommie Vaughn, the eternal rocker, gets in tune with the Girls Rock Amplify Camp in Ojai, site of the Ladies Rock Sleepaway Weekend 23 The Way It Was Hattie Beresford, with part two of her chronicle of the Olivers and Rocky Nook, looks well into the 1900s and Rocky Nook Park’s history 32 Trail Talk Lynn Kirst looks back at Super Bowl 50 and is thunderstruck, namely by Thunder, the champion Denver Broncos’ beloved four-legged mascot 38 Calendar of Events Sullivan Goss and 1st Thursday; Serial presentation; The Mavericks at Chumash; Camerata Pacifica concert; SB International Orchid Show; Configuration on Center Stage; photographer Steve Winter; Taylor Mac at Campbell Hall; and Granada gets In The Mood 40 Legal Advertising 41 Cinema Scope James Luksic has a bird’s-eye view of Eddie The Eagle and Race, both of which are true tales about fabled athletes

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Guest Editorial

by Bob Hazard

Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

Leadership in Montecito

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he unspoken message from the president of the Montecito Association (MA), Dr. Aaron (Beno) Budgor, in last week’s issue was, “If you want a better community, you have to get out there and make it happen.” Currently, the association leadership consists not only of Dr. Budgor, but Cori Hayman, chair of Land Use Development; Monica Hope-Jones Babich, chair of the Water Committee; Tom Schleck, chair of Transportation Committee; Michele Saltoun, chair of Membership; and Cliff Ghersen, 1st VP and chair of Beautification.

All 17 directors are involved and active, but they are unable to shape the future of this community without your financial help and participation.

Montecito residents have had a stalwart record of community involvement.

Imagine the composite brainpower of Beno Budgor; the passion of Cindy Feinberg; the integrity of Ted Urschel; the commitment of Dave Kent; the leadership skills of Dick Nordlund; the sensitivity of Peter van Duinwyk; the people skills of Bill Palladini; the consensus building of Diane Pannkuk; the shrewdness of Bob Collector; and the wisdom and depth of J’Amy Brown. The present and past leadership of MA is why Montecito is where it is today.

Building

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Does the Montecito Association Matter?

Yes. MA is the only community forum we have in a village that has no mayor, no town council, and no truly elected officials. In the narrowest sense, the Montecito Association is merely a homeowners’ association, without the power to enforce either building or zoning codes. That responsibility rests with the Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) and the Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR).

In a larger sense though, MA is much more powerful than a simply homeowners’ association. It is the “Voice of Montecito.” It is our pipeline to the County Board of Supervisors, elected state and local officials, governor Jerry Brown and the hundreds of county, state, and federal bureaucracies that regulate and intrude on all our lives. It is our town hall that gives voice to community concerns and community solutions. First District County supervisor Salud Carbajal always makes the same point when meeting with representatives of MA: “Tell me specifically what the Montecito community wants, and, if you can show some measured unanimity, I will do everything in my power to help you get there.”

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In the early 1990s, this community actually came together under the leadership of the Montecito Association, along with Sally Kinsell, Joan Wells, Claire Gottsdanker, Dick Thielscher, and 11 other local residents, to craft the Montecito Community Plan, the blueprint for where we are today and how we hope to preserve what we have and to enhance our future.

What Makes Montecito Exceptional?

The Montecito Community Plan’s goals specify that we are a semi-rural residential community of 13 square miles, constantly threatened by incremental losses in quality of life. This area’s treasures include extensive greenery, clean beaches, local shopping opportunities, extensive view corridors, winding roads and lanes – built for beauty, not speed – low stone walls, hand-carved street signs, two highly rated public elementary schools, lack of traffic lights, concrete sidewalks and street lights, easy access to superb hiking and riding trails, and so much more.

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Many newcomers have arrived in the intervening quarter century since the drafting of the Montecito Community Plan, and it is up to those newcomers to help shape Montecito’s destiny. Twenty years from now, for example, will we still be gridlocked on a deteriorating, potholed, and often trash-laden Highway 101? Will we find a reliable and affordable supply of water to keep from turning our Mediterranean oasis back into a semi-arid desert? Who will protect this community’s $9.5-billion investment in residential real estate with its diversity of trees, plants, and gardens? How much more junk can we hang on our visually jarring telephone poles before they collapse of their own weight? Are we at the forefront of broadband connectivity? How will we respond to the retirement requirements of a baby-boom generation marching toward long-term care? Will we build stronger alliances with neighboring communities or will we descend into tribal warfare over water and development?

It is important for all residents to at least join the Montecito Association (1469 East Valley Road, Montecito, CA 93108) and stay informed. Attend one of the MA’s monthly meetings. Write a membership check today and become part of Montecito’s as yet unwritten future.

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Monte ito Miscellany

by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News.

He moved to Montecito nine years ago.

Lend a Hand to ex-Neverland

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ine months since putting the property on the market, investment tycoon and Santa Barbara Polo Club patron Tom Barrack is looking skyward to sell the 2,700-acre former Neverland Ranch for $100 million, I learn.

International realtors Sotheby’s have just released a five-minute drone video tour of the renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch, which features 22 buildings, including a 12,000-sq-ft, six-bedroomed main house, after it failed to sell since going back on the market in May. Montecito uber-realtor Suzanne Perkins, who is managing the sale for Sotheby’s, says the sprawling property was renamed because they did not want to capitalize on Jackson’s estate.

While there have been interested

buyers, none have completed in a sale.

In the most recent listing, completed with spectacular drone footage, there is no reference to the late singer or his colorful additions, including a fairground and zoo, that have been stripped from the property.

Neverland, which was named for J.M. Barrie’s tale Peter Pan, about a boy who refused to grow up, has stood empty since Jackson died in 2009 at age 50.

The estate is described as “the ultimate ranch retreat” designed by Robert Altevers for William Bone in a French Normandy- style and meticulously crafted in 1982.

Jackson bought the property in 1987 for $19.5 million, but handed the ranch over to Barrack’s investment

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LETTERS

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

Montecito’s Path to Happiness

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remember all the controversy about the federally funded “safe path” up San Ysidro Road to Montecito Union School.

I remember reading that “succulents are not Montecito.”

I also remember that “We should not accept federal funding.”

I love making positive comments, and I get really tired of complaints. So I want to give an enormous compliment to whoever was in charge of this path, and whoever helped. There were probably many. I didn’t know them. I want to congratulate them.

Bravo!

The federal government, left to its own devices (my guess would have been an asphalt or concrete walkway, straight up the west side of San Ysidro Road to get children to the Montecito Union School safely). This was a federally funded project, and some wanted to refuse the funds because they were federal, and we would have to have some ugly thing!

Some people (my guess: volunteers) decided an asphalt trail would be an eyesore in our beautiful, rural community and they took on the feds, and got the money and did it our way. That is what happened. It is as obvious as your eyes can see.

They (they know who they are; I wish I did) revised the path to a decomposed granite path from North Jameson Lane to Montecito Union.

They utilized federal funds, and planted the sides with succulents.

I think I remember some outraged Montecito resident saying “Succulents have no place in Montecito, how ugly!” or something like that.

Please, residents – as you drive up or down San Ysidro Road – look at the beautiful (really beautiful, in my opinion) planting along the decomposed meandering footpath from Jameson Lane to the school. Frankly gorgeous!

In the worst drought we have ever experienced in our 20 years here (I know we are complete newcomers), the plants along that path are thriving.

They are beautiful, and they serve to teach children who walk to school that “succulents are really great in Montecito.”

They have received (so far as I know) no supplemental water; they are thriving, and a lesson to us all.

(Can everyone learn?)

Let’s cooperate; let’s accept government help when we can do it “our way.”

I say everyone wins. It makes my

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heart proud to drive up San Ysidro and see that beautiful path.

Thank you to all those who helped make it happen. Without you, it would not have!

And everyone: please do rain dances every morning.

I love and depend on the Montecito Journal every week; what a gift it is to us!

Penny Bianchi Montecito (Editor’s note: Thank you for your kind words. Our institutional memory does not include who was actually at the forefront of the successful effort to build the safe route to school along San Ysidro Road. The Journal was among those that objected to the use of federal funds to make it happen, as the idea of asking taxpayers from other communities to pay for our walkway was an embarrassment. We still believe that and believe Montecito residents could have ponied up the money to construct its own “safe path to school.”

But, we must admit, it is a handsome walkway. – J.B.)

It was the Kinnears!

Thank you so much for the wonderful article and photos of our glorious whale-watching trip (“Whale of a Day” MJ #22/8). What a great day!

After reviewing the article, I noticed one of the captions below the photo of my dear friends Bobbie and John Kinnear was misidentified as Dennis and Kim Fuess. Is it possible to have this corrected in the next paper?

Hiroko Benko Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Of course; here’s the photo once more, this time with the correct caption. By the way, Richard Mineards, who wrote the piece, was a bit under the weather during the whale-watching excitement and neglected to mention that we’d witnessed four humpbacks (some dozen in all) jumping completely out of the water (breaching) and then turning around and landing on their back. A pair of whales did that twice, as hundreds of exuberant dolphins joined an anchovy-eating extravaganza that included dozens of seals along with scores of sea lions, terns, cormorants, seagulls, pelicans, and other creatures, all feasting upon nature’s un-tinned harvest. It was a glorious and perhaps even once-in-alifetime event for many of us onboard the Condor Express. So, thank you for arranging the trip. Oh, and a big “thank you” shout out to Linda Hedgepeth for taking the wonderful photo of me with

John and Bobbie Kinnear were aboard the Condor Express during this year’s Valentine’s Day Cruise

Dennis and Joanie Franz, and Lesley Nicol and her husband, Dobbs; Linda and I also traded hats: I got her “Titanic Crew Member” yellow number, and she got a genuine teal-colored Montecito Journal cap. – J.B.)

Expected Better

Our president was recently heard to say, “They’re spending all their time talking down America. I don’t know when it became fashionable to do that.”

Mr. President, I will tell you when it became fashionable: it was when you took office on January 20, 2009.

That is when you started talking down America, first on your many worldwide “Blame America First” tours when you inappropriately apologized for the mistakes you think America made. You doubled down on that theme with your misdirect-

ed remarks at those many Americans who have led to the greatness of this country. The saddest part is that as you attacked those who contributed so much to this country, you did it to garner the support of those who are happy to take rather than give.

When you leave your current position, you will leave this country as a more divided nation then it has been since the 1850s. In an era of promises made and promises broken, you truly are at the top of your class. While we were never provided with your college transcripts to understand the type of student you were, we know one thing: you have failed as president.

Unfortunately, failing as president does not only affect the person that failed, it affects all those who expected better from our president.

Ralph T. Iannelli Montecito •MJ

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Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

Orchid Show Santa Barbara International Orchid Show returns to Earl Warren Showgrounds this weekend. Thousands of blooms in every imaginable shape, color, pattern, and texture, will be showcased at the show, one of the country’s largest and oldest celebrations of orchids.

When: today through Sunday, March 6, from 9 am to 5 pm daily Where: 3400 Calle Real Info: www.SBOrchidShow.com

Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. Today: Edna St. Vincent Millay.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Art Event Lady McClintock Studios Art Gallery presents an evening with local Santa Barbra artist Claudia Lash. There will be wine, hors d’oeuvres, live music, and art gazing.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 1221 State Street Suite 6 Info: 845-0030 First Thursday at Alchemy Some 34 years in the making, in this epic work, artist Monique Fay presents a photographic autobiography of a spiritual journey into life’s inner spaces, a journal derived from her own memories, dreams, and reflections.

Monique will be giving card readings along with live music by Chapin Matthews. The Alchemy Cafe will be serving kefir water samples, conscious cocktails, vegan pizza, and organic cuisine.

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

Love is in the Granada’s Air

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oprano Angela Mannino has only one problem with the rehearsal schedule for Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love), which Opera Santa Barbara presents at the Granada Theatre on Friday night and Sunday afternoon. Not that it’s too demanding or anything like that. And she sure doesn’t have any issues with tenor Marco Cammarota, who portrays her peasant suitor Nemorino opposite Mannino’s role as the alluring landowner Adina he falls in love with in Donizetti’s comic-romantic bel canto masterpiece. “He’s a great singer and wonderful colleague,” Mannino said the other day.

It’s about the timing.

Rehearsing Elixir prevented Mannino from seeing Renée Fleming performing in concert at Campbell Hall last Sunday afternoon and conducting a master class last Monday at the Lobero, just down the street. It was a missed opportunity for a reconnection, a reminder of what Mannino called the highlight of her professional career and a personal milestone.

Mannino isn’t just a fan of Fleming’s from afar. The opera star was the integral piece of a dream-come-true birthday gift for Mannino just last December.

“I’d been understudying a secondary character in Merry Widow at Lyric Opera in Chicago and on my birthday, I got a phone call that I would be going on in the afternoon. I got to perform opposite Renée Fleming, who I’d never even met but had been watching closely in rehearsal. She’d been so inspiring. You could see the reasons why she’s so beloved. And now, here I was about to be on stage with her!

“I will absolutely, positively never forget singing, dancing, and saying dialogue with her, and even holding her hand on stage. It was incredible!

Best birthday present ever. So I’m a little bummed I won’t get to see her in Santa Barbara.”

Other than that, though, Mannino’s Santa Barbara debut in Elixir – conducted by Leonardo Vordoni with stage direction by Alan E. Hicks – is

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shaping up as a marvelous next step in her career, part of what she called her blessed life and profession.

Q. You sang Giannetta (a supporting role in Elixir) before. How does it feel to now portray Adina?

A. Giannetta is a stepping stone, where young sopranos get started. I have sung it many times. So it’s like a coming of age to get to sing Adina.

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ast week, Music Academy of the West (MAW) reps were in front of the Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR), updating the board on some minor changes to the MAW’s Master Plan.

“The changes are required to be documented,” said planner Heidi Jones with Suzanne Elledge Planning & Permitting Services.

This current phase of the Master Plan, which is already approved and permitted, includes the renovation of the main house on the Miraflores campus, which is underway. The details seen by MBAR last week included the updating of the doors, windows, columns, a trellis, pavers, and lighting for the building. MBAR members asked for more details about the minor changes, specifically the lighting; the modifications will be back on the MBAR agenda next week for both preliminary and final approvals.

The Main House renovation, which also includes some basement-level practice studios, will be unveiled as part of the Academy’s Opening Night Gala, which is scheduled for June 4.

The building has been renamed the Marilyn Horne Main House, after the legendary opera singer and Music Academy Voice Program director Marilyn Horne. The gala includes a reception, a performance at Hahn Hall, an al fresco dinner in the Miraflores courtyard, and strolling dessert and champagne inside the house, offering the first public opportunity to view the $6-million renovation.

According to Jones, the next phase of the Master Plan is also in the works and includes a new teaching studio building to replace the present, deteriorating structure. The building will house two rehearsal spaces, six faculty teaching studios, a percussion studio with access to Hahn Hall, storage space, a central courtyard, and a breezeway connecting the practice rooms. Groundbreaking on the building is expected to take place in August of this year, with completion expected in May 2017, in time for next year’s summer festival.

To fund the improvements, a capital campaign to raise $17.5 million is underway, which will comprehensively cover project construction and planning, while also establishing an endowment for campus and building maintenance, in addition to creating an instrument fund.

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Marilyn Horne at the groundbreaking for the renovation of the Main House at Music Academy of the West. The newly-named Marilyn Horne Main House will be unveiled in June.

to August 6. For more information about the gala, the festival, and the Capital Campaign, visit www.musica cademy.org.

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Dalsgaard’s move to California from Ecuador was originally planned as a year-long sabbatical to visit relatives.

She quickly put down roots, working for the boutique Audrey Jones in the upper village (now Giuliana’s Haute Couture), where she built many of the customer relationships that she still enjoys today. When Audrey Lee changed hands, Eli did house calls and private consultations for a few years, and began making custom clothing for several of her private clients, using the knowledge she’d gleaned from attending sewing classes before her move to the U.S. She was inspired to open her own tailoring shop, which she did after finding the quaint space in Olive Mill Plaza. “I really enjoy the space and the work,” Eli said. “I spend my time working on the most beautiful clothes.

It really is a pleasure,” she added, divulging that over the years she’s tailored several gowns for local celebrities and helped many brides fit per-

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Board president Kathy Marden gave thanks saying, “My glamed up board is truly a working board.” Thirty-year executive director Heidi Holly (she’s way too young) welcomed the glamorous gals and guys. Then emcee/ auctioneer Gail Rappaport took over,

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years later. John and Jenny then opened the Ming Dynasty in 1987, and they are still there.

Jenny says, “In Chinese culture, the New Year signifies the coming together of family and friends and the wish to enjoy a year of love, happiness, prosperity and good, and a long life.

We have known Eric and Carrie for many years, so it is our pleasure to be a part of this 10th anniversary celebration of their company.” Eric and Carrie celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary at the restaurant.

Founder and president (artistic director) of AD&M is Carrie Diamond and founder and secretary (music director) is husband Eric Valinsky.

Hylla Fischer is treasurer, Laura Wyles vice president, and Nicki Smith 2nd vice president. Carrie welcomed all their friends, supporters, and students while saying, “The arts give a reason to live, and tonight we’ve having fun fundraising.”

Season events include outreach performances at senior centers and elementary schools in the spring and a nightclub/carnival-themed event with AD&M performance group at Center Stage Theatre on May 6. The season will culminate with the performance group at the New Victoria Theater on November 4 weekend.

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American Dance & Music (AD&M) kicked off its tenth anniversary with a special 10-course Chinese New Year dinner at the Ming Dynasty restaurant in Storke Plaza. Zaca Mesa provided the wines, each complementing one of the tastes. But first we began with manager Steve Nogavich’s specialty mai-tai cocktail. Then 40 folks kept the lazy Susan’s twirling as we tried all the Taiwanese courses, each brought to the table piping hot.

Ming Dynasty owner John Ho is a 7th-generation chef. In 1980, he and his wife, Jenny, immigrated to American with $200 and a suitcase of clothes. After working at his uncle’s restaurant, Golden China, he opened in partnership the China Castle two

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At the Altar The wedding of Oscar-winning super producer Brian Grazer to British comedian John Cleese’s ex-girlfriend, Veronica Smiley, 42, may have been in Santa Monica, but a large celebrity contingent from our rarefied enclave traveled down the 101 to the glittering nuptials.

The 300 guests at the mega bash, with the bride in a Vera Wang gown and female guests dressed in red, included former TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey and CBS morning show co-host, Gayle King, Star Wars magnate George Lucas, who has a beach house in Carpinteria, and Oscar nominee Michael Keaton.

They joined a host of A-list guests, including Robert Downey Jr., Lionel Richie, Chris Rock, Tobey Maguire, Terrance Howard, Paramount honcho Brad Grey, Disney CEO Bob Iger, and Grazer’s producing partner, Ron Howard, who delivered the toast at the reception, while Paul Anka sang “My Way” for the newlyweds, and Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga entertained.

This was Grazer’s fourth time tying the knot, with former brides including Theresa McKay, Corki Gorman, and Gigi Levangie Grazer, by whom he has two sons, Thomas and Patrick.

Smiley dated Cleese in 2008 while he was divorcing his third wife, Alyce Faye Eichelberger.

Loving Lutah Lutah, the fascinating documentary on Santa Barbara architect Lutah Maria Riggs, which premiered at the Lobero during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2014, goes from strength to strength.

Next month, the film Lutah: A Passion for Design will have been shown in 28 different fests and last month received an award for Best Nonfiction Film from the Tribute Film Festival in Abilene, Texas.

Later this week, Lutah will be shown at three other festivals, including the Nevada Women’s Film Fest in Las Vegas, the Green Bay Film Festival in Wisconsin, and at the UNA Film

Festival in Florence, Alabama.

Further showings are planned at the Green Mountain festival event in Montpelier, Vermont, the Women’s History Film Fest in Newark, New Jersey, the Milledgevillle Festival in Georgia, and the Architecture and Design Festival in Winnipeg, Canada, next month.

“It continues to blaze brightly through the film festival circuit more than two years after its debut in Santa Barbara,” says Robert Adams, festival coordinator for the project, which was launched by Montecito mover and shaker Gretchen Lieff.

The Hills Have Legs It has been almost six years since the final episode of The Hills aired, and Santa Barbara-based Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are still doing their best to be reality TV’s most controversial couple.

The twosome have been reflecting on being at the pinnacle of their careers and Pratt goes so far as to compare the show’s axing to the most devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

“The Hills getting cancelled was our 9/11,” says the 32-year-old tells Vice’s Broadly channel.

Pratt also stated once again that his villainous persona on the hit show – which resulted in the end of 29-yearold Montag’s friendship with Lauren Conrad – was all a ploy to become more famous.

“We are fame wh**res, getting literally a million plus a year in photos and being hated for it. It’s frustrating for me that people don’t recognize that this was genius. This was innovating!”

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The duo, known as “Speidi,” splashed $3,000 a day on having their hair and makeup done, spent $30,000 on clothes some days and once bought a $70,000 crystal.

The Hills premiered in 2006 and was cancelled after six seasons, ending in July 2010.

Following the finale, Spencer and Heidi travelled to Costa Rica with the intention of buying a house there, before they discovered how expensive properties can be.

They moved into a Ritz-Carlton hotel for almost six months and admit to ordering room service for every meal for themselves and their pet dogs, before cleaning out their bank accounts and moving back to our Eden by the Beach to live in Pratt’s father’s holiday home.

“Nobody wants to break into our home anymore,” moaned Spencer, revealing he installed an expensive security system. “They Google our new worth and see we are worth $10.”

Since The Hills ended, Spencer and Heidi have appeared in the U.K.’s I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, and Celebrity Big Brother, as well as Celebrity Wife Swap, and most recently Marriage Boot Camp last year.

Heidi, who famously underwent 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day in 2010, and her mother, Darlene, will soon be appearing on VH1’s The Mother/Daughter Experiment, in which they will take part in eight weeks of intensive therapy.

Grease is the Word Janet Adderley, energetic director of Santa Barbara’s Youth Ensemble Theater, relived a few memories when Grease Live aired recently on Fox. Marc Platt, producer of the hit Oscar-nominated Tom Hanks film Bridge of Spies, was producing, the show, including actress Tiana Okoye, who, by great coincidence, is working on the Adderley School production of the musical in August.

“Last year, Marc graciously hosted a fundraiser in support of us at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, which featured a question-and-answer session with him, and the stars of his show Wicked,” says Janet.

“It’s small world!”

Smooth as Silk The Silk Road Ensemble, with world famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma, came to the Granada for its third visit, part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures series.

Appropriately enough, the sold-out show on Sunday – one of two performances in 48 hours – went as smooth as silk, as the 15 international musicians debuted two world premieres, King Ashoka by Sandeep Das and Glenn Kotche’s Mille Etoiles, among 3 – 10 March 2016

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After the show, the talented musicians, who formed the troupe in 1998, repaired to the Miller McCune Founders Room for a reception with sponsor Leslie Ridley-Tree.

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Your Westmont

by Scott Craig Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

Family Day Celebrates French Culture

Covenant Church, 671 Cold Springs Road.

Entertainment will include the Montecito School of Ballet, Santa Barbara Festival Ballet, Destination Dance and Performing Arts, Jessica Fichot and her band, Accordion International Music Society, Derek the Mime, and a puppet theater.

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Jessica Fichot and her band perform at “Bonjour de France!” on March 5 (photo by Andy Sheng)

onjour de France!”, a family day celebrating French culture, includes fun activities, crafts, food, music, and performances Saturday, March 5, from 10 am to 4 pm in and around the Westmont

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Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. The festival, which is free and open to all ages, will have food and items in the French Flea Market for sale.

Parking on campus is free, with overflow parking available at Montecito

Notice to Inform you of a Public Hearing about Carpinteria Valley Water District’s Groundwater Basin Boundary Modification Notice is hereby given that Carpinteria Valley Water District will be applying for a Groundwater Basin Boundary modification of the DWR Bulletin 118 definition of the Carpinteria Groundwater Basin (CGB). The District is asking for community and agency input from anyone interested in this process. The District will be holding a public hearing at its regular Board meeting on March 9, 2016 at 5:30 p.m.

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Six high school seniors will compete for Westmont music scholarships at the fourth annual Music Guild Competition on Saturday, March 5, at 7 pm at Westmont’s Deane Chapel on lower campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The winner of the Guild Scholarship, who will be announced immediately following the event, will receive up to $10,000 in annual music scholarships funds (up to $40,000 over four years) to study at Westmont.

This year ’s finalists are flutist Marissa Condie of Santa Barbara, cellist William Ellzey of Culver City, cellist Marlena Gonzalez of Los Angeles, soprano Nyajima Tut of Minneapolis, pianist Christina Yang of Diamond Bar, and oboist Bethany Yew of San Marino.

Concert for St. Nick

The Choral Masterworks Concert, featuring an hour-long piece composed by Steve Butler, is Sunday, March 6, at 3 pm at First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Avenue. General admission is $10, students are free.

Butler ’s composition “St. Nicholas the Wonderworker” includes text from ancient hymns and prayers honoring Saint Nicholas.

“The Christian hymns are beautiful expressions of prayer and a means of entry into the timeless and eternal peace of Jesus Christ in the heavenly kingdom,” Butler says.

The piece requires a large orchestra, organ, full choir, children’s choir, and four soloists. The soloists are Nichole Dechaine (soprano), Danielle Marcelle Bond (mezzo soprano), Grey Brothers (tenor), and Emil Cristescu (baritone).

Tar and Feather Treatment

Senior Christine Nathanson, star of Westmont’s production of Euripides’ Electra in 2014, directs Tar and Feather in Porter Theatre on March 4 at 8 pm and March 5 at 2 pm and 8 pm.

The performances, which are free and open to the public, contain mature content.

“Tar and Feather asks why individually good and intellectual people turn into online trolls when stumbling upon politically insensitive content,” Nathanson says. “It asks why we allow their hyperbolic and insincere blurbs to tangibly and permanently ruin individual lives.”

The cast and crew is made up with about 20 students from different disciplines, including senior Brent Starrh, who is lighting designer. Kristin Idaszak, who earned a Master of Fine Art at UC San Diego and is a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow in Minnesota, is the playwright.

Talk Explores Victorian Images, Gender

Linda Hughes, Addie Levy professor of literature at Texas Christian University, examines representations of women and neo-Victorianism from illustrated poems in periodicals in a lecture, “Prefiguring Future Pasts: Imagined Histories in Victorian Poetic-Graphic Texts, 18601910,” on Monday, March 7, at 3:30 pm in Darling Foundation Lecture Hall, room 210. The Erasmus Society Lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Aaron Sizer at (805) 5656124.

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Coup De Grace

by Grace Rachow Ms. Rachow’s neighborhood has seen raccoons, skunks, rats, opossums, bobcats, coyotes, gophers, and even a weasel, but until recently, there have been no squirrels.

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hen I was a kid in the Midwest, I loved squirrels.

They were amazing acrobats with red hair and bushy tails. What’s not to love?

When I moved to Santa Barbara a few decades ago, I was disappointed there were no squirrels except for plain gray ones at higher elevations. It was rare to see any gray squirrels in town, and there were no red ones at all.

So I was quite surprised about three years ago to see a single bushy-tailed red squirrel running around in our backyard. What great fun to see it leap from branch to branch and tree to tree.

A few weeks later, that first red squirrel brought a lady friend. From the way the two carried on, it was clear we would soon have baby squirrels as well.

I loved watching the squirrel family play games in the trees. They were fearless and utterly undaunted by gravity. They flew through the air as if they had wings.

They brought quite a few macadamia nuts from the neighbors’ prolific tree and hid them around in our yard.

I was motivated to do garden chores, because finding the hidden nuts was like an Easter egg hunt.

A few months after the squirrels showed up, our backyard skunks moved out. Who knows what skunks might have against squirrels, but I didn’t miss the emergency dog baths in the middle of the night when our terriers got sprayed.

And then one day, I realized it had been months since I’d seen an arboreal rat. None of us likes to think about having vermin in our trees, but most backyards in our community do have tree rats.

It seemed that ours did not like sharing the trees with squirrels, and they moved away to a squirrel-free zone.

There were many good things about having these squirrels, but there was a downside. Squirrels love to eat new growth on trees. They nibble off a surprising number of twigs every day.

When one twig falls, they move on to another.

Our backyard was littered with the hundreds of tips they’d bitten off. I was philosophical about it, but I had to admit the trees were looking a little threadbare.

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were no apricots, apples, pears, or persimmons that made it to maturity.

The bushy red tails were still mighty cute, but I found myself fantasizing about a weapon that might eliminate the nibblers. AK-47? Howitzer?

A-bomb? Or maybe I could just sic my Russell terriers on the squirrels.

I didn’t really want to be an assassin, but I was definitely not happy about losing all that fruit.

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A few months after the squirrels showed up, our backyard skunks moved out For months, I’d been contemplating squirrel-cide to get rid of those pesky backyard acrobats, and now I was planning a memorial service and writing an eloquent eulogy for this dearly departed fur ball.

Did I hate squirrels, or did I love them?

I found my answer one morning last week while working in the garden.

My Russell terriers were enjoying the beautiful day with me.

A squirrel ran along the ground and hopped up to sit on the rim of an empty plastic pot that’d recently held a plant from the nursery. The pot wasn’t heavy enough to hold the squirrel. The pot toppled. The squirrel panicked and ran straight into the snout of one of my terriers.

What I expected to happen next was for my dog to do what Russell terriers do. That is, I expected to have another deceased squirrel to mourn.

Instead of snatching the foolish squirrel, my dog patiently waited for the squirrel to change directions and run the other way before giving it a fair chase.

If my terrier could let the squirrels live, I figured I could, too.

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The Way It Was

Old friends (from left) Edith Forbes Perkins, Frances Dabney Oliver, Henrietta Edwards, and Francisca de la Guerra Dibblee circa 1924 (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

by Hattie Beresford

The Olivers and Rocky Nook, Part 2

(A continuation of the article published Feb. 18)

In 1910, Fanny commissioned a fountain memorial for George. The horse trough and the basin for the drinking fountain today mark the corner of Mountain Drive and Mission Canyon. (author photo)

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rances Dabney Oliver (Fanny), who lived at Rocky Nook in Mission Canyon from 1882 to 1926, was quite a character. Hannah Moor, a long-time friend, remembered, “Mrs. Oliver was a picture in her own covered buggy, sitting up very straight, flourishing her reins often and with much energy, for her big fat horse needed constant prompting to make the three miles from the canyon to the beach.”

The rambling board and batten house was composed of tiny parlors where books were piled to the ceilings, walls were covered by paintings, and rare bits of old china, peacock feathers, and every sort of brica-brac crowded together on the flat surfaces of the rooms.

Sunday afternoons became famous for Oliver entertainments at home.

Friends brought guests and distinguished visitors brought cards of introduction. Indoors, Fanny always wore a bit of Faial lace on her head, and she entertained her guests with comic little stories. Summer teas were served under the oaks. Rugs were laid on the ground and chairs brought out. Screens were set out to protect her husband, George, who

Frances Dabney Oliver was born in the Azores and was known for wearing Faial lace (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

was in poor health, from the drafts.

In 1915, after lunch with the now 82-year-old Fanny, Edith Forbes Perkins, who wintered in Santa Barbara from 1907-1925, wrote, “Mrs. Oliver was as unusual and delightful as ever… To know her is indeed a blessing.”

And Fanny was unusual. She had once taken Edith to visit the infa-

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mous Louise Hart, who lived in a bungalow on a ranch up Romero Canyon. Edith’s letter describing the experience was full of awe for Louise.

She said, “Louise lives all alone – because she wants to! She must be very brave.”

What Edith doesn’t mention, and perhaps didn’t know, is that Louise was wont to dance in diaphanous veils on the estates of Montecito in the moonlight, and, according to Ike Bonilla, whose family lived and worked on the ranch, had a Chinese lover and smoked opium!

Fanny’s sisters, Clara and Roxana Dabney, seemed to conform to the family mold. Residents were likely to find Clara walking backward all the way up to the Mission from the town so as not to miss the beautiful view and the sunset.

After Fanny had a frightening encounter with the Rowland Hazards’ Newfoundland/St. Bernard mix dog, who was earning himself a reputation for viciousness throughout the Mission Canyon area, the Hazards took the dog up the canyon and had him shot.

Fanny and George felt terrible about the consequences of the incident, but in the end Fanny wrote to Mary Rood Hazard, “We have felt really sad about it [but] I have gone over and over this morning’s scene, always ending with the feeling that there really was a good deal of danger. Had it occurred to a woman who was easily frightened or who had no experience with dogs, it would have assumed a different aspect.”

Afterwards, the two neighbors were especially solicitous of each other’s feelings. Fanny sent Mary Rood Hazard a beautiful Faial embroidered towel and came over with a rainfall table, which George had made for her. Mary brought Mrs. Oliver a little Japanese vase filled with violets.

When Mary revealed they wouldn’t get another dog, Fanny was alarmed.

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I met executive director Jen Baron two years ago, just after Girls Rock Santa Barbara (GRSB) was created, fell in love with the inspiring program and in awe of all that Jen does for her cause. Based after the original Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls out of Portland, Oregon, Jen was inspired to bring her love of music to the girls of SB, and in the past few years GRSB has exploded in its programs and popularity. With their motto to empower girls through music, promoting an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity, and teamwork, it’s a program that I can feel the electricity and positivity radiate from Jen’s heart, when she talks candidly about it.

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“We challenge gender stereotypes, encourage collaboration and tolerance among peers, and provide a comfortable space for girls of all backgrounds

to express themselves. Through music lessons, workshops, group activities, and performance, girls learn skills that help guide them throughout their lives.” Jen explains the program as a whole but goes on to say that the Amplify Sleep Away Camp is all that and more. “It’s life-changing… for the girls and our amazing group of teachers. This safe environment we created gave the girls so much more than learning an instrument; it was a blossoming of self-confidence that could be visibly seen in each girl at the end of the week, and the one comment that we got over and over as feedback last year was that it only lasted a week and they wanted more!

So this year instead of girls only being able to attend one week, they can sign up for all four weeks if they like.” Jen continued, “I realize that we have created something that no one has and it makes me so excited for this year’s camp to begin. I’ve been forever changed by this powerful experience.”

If Jen’s enthusiasm doesn’t get you, then one look at the girls’ faces will.

With a whole new spin this year, Jen has added a Photography and Journalism Sleep Away Camp that will coexist and overlap into the Amplify program, offering a firsthand view to all the future media masters of America, getting their arti-

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Last year, with the help of giving sponsors such as the Santa Barbara Bowl, Nashville’s C.M.A. and Lynda. com, the Girls Rock program was able to raise more than 14 financial aid scholarships for girls from all walks of life, creating lasting memories for those who typically could not afford to attend. “This was the game-changer. To watch some of the girls that came from foster care, be able to bond in a very safe environment, creating a family experience they may never had felt before. The girls form an undeniable bond when they form a band. It’s a full journey for them.”

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WAY IT WAS (Continued from page 23) Fields of boulders lie strewn about the park, giving rise to the name Rocky Nook (author photo)

Samuel Stanwood, Santa Barbara County supervisor, and his wife, Carolyn Case Stanwood, in front of The Orchards in Mission Canyon circa 1928 (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

“What will you do?” she asked. “Will you have my Smith and Wesson revolver?” Mary Hazard politely declined, later confessing to her husband that she would have been afraid of the pistol!

Fanny’s popularity continued unabated. Edith Forbes Perkins wrote, “Fanny Oliver is the person here… and by her sympathy and spirit holds the community, both young and old, at her feet.” Elizabeth Eaton Burton added, “Indeed, she attracted a small court about her, which paid homage to her brilliant mind.”

Probably the most telling incident of the esteem in which the community held Fanny occurred at the opening of the Lobero Theatre on August 4, 1924, an evening reserved for the people who had, as the Morning Press reported, “made the theater a brick and concrete possibility.” Edith Forbes Perkins wrote, “Last night was a great occasion – the opening of the new Lobero Theatre. Fanny Oliver asked me the day I got here if I would go with her. I wish you could have seen the reception given to her outside, before the doors were open.

Then they said she must be the first one to enter, and I saw to it that she was the first person to be seated. It was a wonderful occasion….”

Fanny Oliver died at age 92 at her Mission Canyon home on July 21, 1926. Her Morning Press obituary said, “Mrs. Oliver is mourned by a host of friends made during her long residence in Santa Barbara, where she took a leading part in many affairs for the benefit of the community. … The honorary pallbearers were

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The sign at the park’s entrance in Mission Canyon (author photo)

her neighbors and friends: Bernhard Hoffmann, Fernand Lungren, Herman H. Eddy, James D. Lowsley, Charles W. Robson, and J. Grafton Minot.”

Rocky Nook Park

In 1927, Carolyn Stanwood, wife of Santa Barbara County supervisor Sam Stanwood, purchased Rocky Nook from the Oliver Estate. Carolyn had lived in the canyon since 1910 when she was married to George Eames Potter, who had established a farm and estate called The Orchards. Several years after George’s death, Carolyn married Sam and they lived there until 1938.

Carolyn knew that Mrs. Oliver had wanted to give the estate to the county for a park, but with so many legatees, Fanny had realized that the estate needed to be sold. “A group of friends, close friends, of Mrs. Oliver,” wrote Carolyn, “knew about this wish and decided to try to raise the money to buy the main portion, so I held the property while they did just that.”

Carolyn sold them nine of the acres, which were deeded to the County for the purpose of a park. Many of the “kind friends” who contributed to the purchase of the park lived in the Canyon.

Forty years after the fact, Carolyn was not sure she remembered them all correctly, but named the following: Mary P. Hazard, Caroline Hazard, Mrs. MacVeagh, Florence Fernald, Mrs. Herman (Rosamond) Eddy, Mrs. Albert (Katherine) Bacon, Frances and Edward Payson Ripley, Mrs. Robert Cameron (Beatrice Fernald) Rogers, Miss Bertha Spaulding, and Miss Roxanna Dabney, Fanny’s sister,

Grill work on the “Spanish style” building that housed generations of park caretakers/rangers since about 1931. It has served as an office since 1984. (author photo)

who sold her portion of the estate to the group for $10. According to a 1948 News-Press article, these friends included Fernand Lungren, Joseph A. Andrews, F.W.M. Cutcheon, Elmer J. Bissel, Lora J. Knight, Margaret K. Andrews, Anna Williams Dreer, and Gwenthelyn Jones.

Sam Stanwood was county supervisor, and, according to Carolyn, “soon had the park put in shape for the people to enjoy. Under his direction they built a Spanish type house, as appropriate for the community and its traditions, a rest house, barbeque pits and tables, and removed the old Oliver house, cleared the roads, etc.”

The “Spanish style” cottage was occupied by Rocky Nook Park caretakers and their families for the next 50-plus years. The original caretaker/ranger for the park was Ricardo Ruiz, and members of his family succeeded him. In October 1962, David Rubio, another descendent of a historic Californio family, filled the position.

In 1984, the cottage was remodeled into offices and became the headquar-

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ters for the County Parks Department until recently, when the office was moved to the County Administration Building on Anapamu Street.

Over the years, Rocky Nook Park became a favorite picnic spot for the local citizenry, seemly an extension of the Olivers’ Sunday open air entertainments, for even in the 1880s and ‘90s, friends remember picnicking at Rocky Nook. In August 1933, a nature camp took over the park. Camper tents, administration tents, and classroom tents sprouted like mushrooms underneath the oaks. Students collected specimens, attended hands-on classes, visited gardens at various estates, and attended illustrated lectures. Mrs. John F. Manning, chairwoman of the Garden Club of America and Montecito, had conceived of the idea for a two-week nature study and had organized the project. It was wildly successful.

In 1948, a retrospective News-Press article stated that when the park first opened it was a horticultural gem, as it contained nearly all the species of shrubbery found in California and some specimens that were the only ones in the state. Mrs. Oliver was for years deeply interested in collecting rare plants, and the gardens were a monument to her ability as a collector.

The article continued: “The name Rocky Nook is descriptive of the park.

Its nine acres on the banks of Mission Creek are covered with big, well-worn boulders, shaded by oaks, sycamores, and other growth. Although most of the rare plantings which Mrs. Oliver collected have died out from age or lack of care, its native beauty is still largely undisturbed.”

Today, Rocky Nook Park is a little oasis of historical import that reflects and commemorates the history and influence of the Oliver family and the culture of Mission Canyon in the early days. More than that, the park and its nearly 90-year-old cottage/ office commemorates the history of the County parks and the efforts made to provide the people with beautiful, peaceful, and natural places for outings and retreats at the doorstep of the urban environment.

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(Sources: Too numerous to mention, but a citation-filled version of this article can be had for the asking.

Many thanks to Fran Galt for sharing her sources of information.)

(Sources: My Santa Barbara Scrap Book by Elizabeth Eaton Burton, edited by Hattie Beresford and Michael Redmon, 2011; Letters and Journal of Edith Forbes Perkins 1908-1925, edited by Edith Perkins Cunningham, 1929; (Massachusetts Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1963, 9 June 1949; Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, 8 December 1859; Ancestry.com posting by Roland H. Baker III, 23 December 2015, as well as numerous other web sources; Morning Press, 28 December 1904, obit; Santa Barbara Land of Dynamic Beauty, A Natural History, Edward Keller with assistance from Valery Rivera Keller, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, update 2011 as stated in Fran Galt’s official nomination of Rocky Nook Park for landmark status; Mission Santa Barbara 1782-1965, by Maynard Geiger, O.F.M., p 29; U.S. Census, 1880, Hope Precinct list; Personal Reminiscences of Robert Bennet Forbes, letter from his brother dated March 10, 1882, p 402; “The George S.J. Olivers” by Mrs. Hannah C. Moor, Noticias, Vol 31, no. 3, Fall 1985, p. 54; Family Letters and Reminiscences 1865-1907, Charles Eliott Perkins and Edith Forbes Perkins by Edith Perkins Cunningham, 1949, pp 184-185; Santa Barbara Daily Press, 3 July 1884; Galt; Santa Barbara County, HLAC document; A Precious Heritage by Caroline Hazard, page 122; 1910 and 1920 U.S. Census and City Directories; Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, February 1893; the Morning Press, 28 December 1904; “Oliver Fountain”

by Neal Graffy, October 25, 2009; Memoirs of Ike Bonilla at Gledhill Library, Santa Barbara Historical Museum; the Morning Press, 22, 23, 24 July 1926; (“Rocky Nook Park”

by Carolyn C. Stanwood, Oct 8, 1962 – Document Box 126 at the Gledhill Library of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum; George and Fanny’s wills filed January 5, 1905, and August 18, 1926, respectively; “Rocky Nook Park” by Carolyn C. Stanwood, Oct 8, 1962 -- Document Box 126 at the Gledhill Library of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum; Deeds dated 5 May 1928 and 7 May 1928; News-Press, 16 May 1948; (“History of Carolyn and Sam Stanwood,” by Viv Obern, Hope Ranch Park Homes Association, Winter 1990 and files of Reina del Mar Parlor #126; Back of 1880s photo of Oliver Cottage, Gledhill library; “Studying nature in Rocky Nook Park” by Stella Haverland Rouse, News-Press, 7 August 1983; and News•MJ Press, 16 May 1948.)

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SATURDAY, MARCH 12

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Following her early educational pursuits in graphic design at the Fachoberschule für Graphik und Gestaltung in Hamburg, Jessika continued her studies at the Parson School of Design and at the UCLA School of Fine Art. When: 3 to 5 pm Where: Porch, 3823 Santa Claus Lane, Carpinteria Info: www.porchsb.com

members of society. The R-Word Campaign declares the R-word hurtful and encourages people to think about the language they use before speaking. For more information on the R-Word Campaign, visit www.rword.org.

The public is invited to sign the pledge at the Montecito Family YMCA, watch the YMCA youth basketball team compete, and meet local Special Olympics Athletes and Global Messengers.

When: 10 am to 1 pm Where: Montecito Family YMCA, 591 Santa Rosa Lane Info: aaron.martinez@ciymca.org 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 West of the West Film Premiere West of the West tells the mostly unknown story of the California Coast’s crown jewels, the eight Channel Islands. The film is told from the viewpoint of those who experienced the Channel Islands: those who lived on, ranched, wrecked on, dived under, filmed, raised children on, bootlegged on, sailed to, explored, and restored these national treasures.

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When: 7:30 tonight; 7 tomorrow night Where: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State Street Cost: SBMM members $45, $55 for non-members Info: www.sbmm.org

MONDAY, MARCH 7 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito.

When: 2 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Meditation Mondays Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore hosts a meditation group the first Monday of the month, a complimentary event for locals. This month’s event is hosted by local resident Aiden Chase, known as “Hollywood’s Healer,” who will guide participants in a one-hour meditation.

When: meet by The Spa at 5:45 pm Where: 1260 Channel Drive

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Golf Tournament Alzheimer’s disease is a growing epidemic affecting more than five million Americans today and as many as 16 million by 2050. To raise awareness and funds, the Alzheimer’s Association California Central Chapter will host the Second Annual “A Swing to Remember” Golf Tournament at the Alisal Guest Ranch & Resort.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 Exploring the Santa Barbara & Ojai Mountains Ever changing, the Santa Barbara and Ojai backcountry is a place of surprising diversity and rich beauty. Within these natural lands, you’ll find waterfalls, quiet potreros, Chumash villages sites, old homesteads, and miles of trails to explore.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm

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Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

FRIDAY, MARCH 11 German Conversation The German Conversation Group meets on the second Friday of each month at Montecito Library.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road

SATURDAY, MARCH 12 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: $10 per hiker, or $15 per couple or family suggested donation Info and RSVP: Sedgwick@lifesci.ucsb.edu Money Workshop for Women Participants will learn the “Six Ms” of money: Minding, Making, Managing, Multiplying, Mending, and Mentoring.

When: today and tomorrow, Sunday, March 13 Where: Fess Parker Hotel, 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd Cost: $50 Info: www.celebratingwomenandwealth. com •MJ

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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 11) production of L’elisir d’amore?

I did enjoy a production we did at the Lyric Opera of Chicago six years ago when I sang Giannetta. We had several casts I got to work with, so I could observe some more seasoned artists who really understood the repertoire well. It was a chance to absorb all that experience from them. (As far as recordings), the very first with Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland is the one I’ve always returned to. I bought it 16 years ago. It’s so good. It’s always stuck with me as great interpreters of the roles.

Are there similarities between you and Adina?

I don’t have to stretch too much.

She’s empathetic and wanting to be in control and always laughing and smiling and being flirtatious. That’s not terribly far from who I am. But that’s true for most of the roles I sing in opera. For my voice, there aren’t too many older characters or ones who are dying. These are very real people, and the things they are going through, the ups and downs of falling in love with your soul mate – even someone right in front of your face you don’t realize – are things that all humans go through, usually at the age that we are.

What’s most challenging?

Honestly, every day is a challenge because I’m always discovering things, mostly about the language.

No matter how much I have studied, every day I learn more and more about singing in Italian. No matter how much I have mastered the vocal lines, every day presents a new challenge, albeit a good one.

Can you talk about the setting and approach of this production?

It’s very traditional, set in 1830 as originally written. We’re not taking the story and moving it into a 1980s high school cafeteria or anything like that. It’s universal and you could do that, but he is taking a very traditional approach. Keeping it that way helps us to use what the composer and librettist laid out for us and really go for it, not making up something that’s not actually there. The show presents itself because it’s well-written. There’s a reason why Elixir is among the 20-30 most popular operas in the U.S. It’s very accessible and enjoyable.

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adaptation of the classic novel about a free-spirited country girl who becomes the toast of Paris. Met principal conductor Fabio Luisi wields the baton for Sir Richard Eyre’s new production, set in the 1940s, which also stars Massimo Cavalletti as Manon’s cousin, Lescaut, and Brindley Sherratt as Geronte, her wealthy older lover.

Back on the live front, MAW also features the return of last summer’s winners of the annual Marilyn Horne Song Competition in recital on Monday night. Baritone Benjamin Dickerson and pianist Alden Gatt will perform music by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan Williams, and Poulenc at Hahn Hall, part of their bounty of prizes that also includes a similar recital in New York next Friday.

(That performance will also be live streamed beginning at 4 pm Pacific (wqxr.org and thegreenespace.org). At 22, Dickerson is one of the youngest Horne winners to date and is still an undergraduate at the Manhattan School of Music, where he performed the title role of Don Giovanni this season. Gatt, 27, is music director of New York Opera Exchange and vocal coach at New Jersey City University who appears on stage frequently as both a soloist and collaborator.

Elsewhere in classical music, the Santa Barbara Music Club’s free Saturday afternoon concert at the Public Library opens with Elgar’s Romance for Bassoon and Strings, Op. 62, and Krapp’s Endgame (2009), by the American composer Shinji Eshima, based on a play by Samuel Beckett. Beethoven’s Sonata, No. 9 in A major, Op. 47, (Kreutzer) closes out the 3 pm program.

Westmont’s Choral Masterworks Concert, anchored by an hour-long piece composed by Steve Butler, takes place Sunday at 3 at First Presbyterian Church. Butler’s “St. Nicholas the Wonderworker” includes text from ancient hymns and prayers honoring the saint and was created for a large orchestra, organ, full choir, children’s choir, and four soloists.

The Santa Barbara Youth Symphony – comprised of nearly 70 area students age 12-18 and conducted by Andy Radford, principal bassoonist with the Santa Barbara Symphony – presents a free community concert on the back plaza of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on Saturday afternoon, with both the 2 pm rehearsal and 3 pm performance open to the public. Arts activities and refreshments provided.

The Woman Who “Shot” Liberty Valance

Outside of the late John Ford himself, it might be hard to find a director more qualified than Jenny Sullivan

Jenny Sullivan directs The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance at the Rubicon in Ventura

to helm Rubicon Theater’s American premiere of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Sullivan, who as an RTC artistic associate has directed more than 20 plays at the theater (and also steered Ensemble’s most recent show, I Am My Own Wife, in Santa Barbara), grew up on Hollywood’s western sets in in the 1960s and ‘70s, spending time with her father, Barry Sullivan, who portrayed frontier sheriff Pat Garrett in more than 75 episodes of The Tall Man and later played John Chisum in Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. In fact, when Sullivan and the cast for the Ventura company’s production took a recent road trip out to Paramount Ranch to shoot some publicity photos, the surroundings felt quite familiar. “It was just like going home,” she said. “There’s something so sweet in being around the world of the Western. It feels very comfortable to me.”

What might be more squirm inducing is having to pack the wallop of a Western onto a single stage set for Liberty Valance, which plays March 4-20. The stage adaptation of the classic tale of love, honor, ambition, and revenge in the American West of 1890, adapted from the short story by Dorothy M. Johnson that also inspired Ford’s legendary 1962 film, is set solely in the saloon.

“It actually works! It’s pretty amazing,” Sullivan said. “When I think about Westerns, they’re all really very simple tales, simple stories. So, it works really well on stage. I have a hyper-real set, but it’s also in limbo, in a way, with lots of black.”

Another of Sullivan’s innovations may prove even more important: the addition of live music not just for set changes but as scene-setters during the action.

If the bishop’s chair had not been known as a “cathedra”, the building would not have been called a cathedral

“One of the ways we resonate with Westerns is by the sound, the music,” she said, just a few days before film composer Ennio Morricone, who famously scored The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, won his first Oscar for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.

“The story can be told through the underscoring. So I had this notion to have a live musician helping to paint the spirit of the event on the stage.”

Enter Trevor Wheetman, who worked on RTC’s world premiere of the Americana musical Lonesome Traveler a few years back, who wrote original music and plays fiddle, steel guitar, and guitar in Liberty Valance.

“The idea is that the music helps mirror the story, moving from acoustic to one electric part in a pivotal moment.

Having shootouts can be tricky on stage, but the music can help build the tension in those scenes, too.”

What hasn’t been too tricky is working with Jethro Compton, the young British playwright who penned Liberty Valance a few years back and enjoyed a successful run in London in 2014.

Compton proved more than amenable to some script changes to improve a section of the play that was giving Sullivan trouble.

“I thought I just wasn’t getting it right in the staging, but (RTC co-director) Karyl Lynn Burns thought it was a little overwritten. When she talked with him, he said there’d been a holdback in the reviews about that area.

So, he made some trims himself.”

Sullivan got a good chuckle when she heard that the playwright noted that he’d written the play when he was really young, and thus didn’t mind some suggestions.

“He’s 28 now,” she said. “So that

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Looking forward to the impressive instrumental music of The Silk Road and Yo-Yo Ma are guests Dan Calderon, Gretchen Lieff, Mabou and Rafi Javid (photo by Priscilla)

Composer/pianist Cristina Pato, who played the Gaita, the Galician bagpipes, meets with UCSB Arts and Lectures supporters Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin (photo by Priscilla)

Archie McLaren, Dilling Yang, philanthropist Sara Miller McCune, and Silk Road Sandeep Das, tabla virtuoso and composer enjoying the reception and The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma at the Granada (photo by Priscilla)

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Asche and You Shall Receive Gene Sinser and his wife, Patty DeDominic, opened the door of their Montecito manse for the UCSB music affiliates, one of three annual concerts performed annually led by professor Charles Asche.

Nearly 50 guests turned out for the show, which featured violinist Amber Daughtry, accompanied

by Asher Severini on piano, as well as soprano Juliet Powar and tenor Adam Bradley, who sang pieces from Puccini’s La Boheme.

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nist Mark Gutierrez, cellist Katrina Agate, and soprano Naomi Merer.

Flings with Strings Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West was socially gridlocked when the venerable oceanside institution hosted a benefit chamber music concert for Santa Barbara Strings, a nonprofit educating young string musicians through orchestra and chamber ensemble performance.

The entertaining evening featured the SB Strings artistic director, Mary Beth Woodruff, a violinist along with Jane Chung, violist Basil Vendryes, and cellist Andrew Smith.

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Just as calm in a parade as on the football field, Thunder is always popular with the hometown fans (courtesy of Denver Broncos Football Club)

On particularly cold game days, Thunder gets to wear a blanket and mask (courtesy of Denver Broncos Football Club)

have been a two-day journey into a four-day ordeal. Thunder arrived just in time to check into his digs at the Stanford Equestrian Center.

Thunder is actually Thunder III, the third horse to carry the title. None of the three Thunders have actually looked like a bronco, that being a term that brings to mind a rodeo bucking horse or wild Mustang. Instead, the Bronco mascots are always a gray Arabian with notable bloodlines. The characteristics of the Arabian breed – spirited carriage, arched neck, finely chiseled head, big eyes, powerful body, flying tail – make them showstoppers and thus ideal for public performances.

Sharon Magness-Blake has owned all three of the horses that have served as Thunder. The first Thunder was actually named JB Kosak and was a show horse before he made his first appearance as the team mascot in 1993. He was such a hit that by the time the Broncos uniforms were redesigned in 1997, a horse head profile was made part of the team logo. The next mascot, named Winter Solstyce, was Sharon’s personal riding horse until he stepped into the role as Thunder II. Thunder III, the current star, is known as Me N Myshadow when he is not racing around a football stadium. He is acknowledged to be the most relaxed of the trio, with the ability to snooze on his feet in between score-celebrating runs.

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regular rider, Ann Judge-Wegener.

She started riding Me N Myshadow when he was three, knowing that he would one day take on the role of Thunder III (thus his nickname – “Tres”). Now 16 years old, Thunder III had 10 years of training before making his first game appearance at age 13.

In addition to making numerous public appearances off the field, Thunder is front and center at every home game. Typically he does not travel, except for special occasions such as the Super Bowl. Ann and Thunder are quite a spectacle as they gallop out of the tunnel onto the field, with the team surging behind them. They also run from one end of the field to the other every time the Broncos score a field goal or touchdown. Magness-Blake and her husband, Ernie Blake, as well as Ann’s husband, Terry Wegener, and Ernie’s son David Blake, form Thunder’s four-person ground crew.

In addition to being pooper-scoopers, they help keep fans, horse, and rider safe in a variety of potentially dangerous situations.

Although Thunder II is essentially retired, he does step back into the mascot role when necessary. Which is what he did after Super Bowl 50, by leading the Broncos victory parade in Denver. Thunder III was still on the road, making the long drive home from California.

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Saturday, March 5 9 am to 3 pm Endurance Riding Introductory Clinic Flag is Up Farms 901 Highway 264 Solvang, CA 93463 $30 Fee American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC) sponsors this introductory clinic for riders new to the sport. John Parke, who with his Icelandic pony, Remington, has completed a 50-mile ride for 20 years in a row, will conduct the “classroom” session. They are AERC’s first Double Decade Team with more than 10,000 trail miles. On Sunday, March 6, an optional trail ride will be held at La Purísima Mission State Historic Park in Lompoc. Contact Dawn Perrine at 245-6727 or dawnperrine@gmail. com.

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Sylvana, graduated from Bishop Diego High and Santa Clara University. “We really do live the dream,” Eli said, adding that many of her return clients have turned into her friends.

Eli’s Place is open 9 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday, with afterhours house calls by appointment.

Call 969-5995 for more information.

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Eli Dalsgaard of Eli’s Place, a seamstress and tailoring shop in Olive Mill Plaza

fectly in their wedding dresses.

Through word of mouth and referrals from a few stores in town, Eli says she does a good business and has worked on anything from kids’ clothing and men’s suits, to women’s blouses and pants, to the most delicate gowns. “I do my best on every piece that is in front of me,” she said, adding that she enjoys the challenge of a complicated tailoring job. “My reward is when my clients are happy with my work.”

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Last September, we told you about Montecito Union School’s (MUS) recognition as a Green Ribbon School, an honor bestowed upon just 16 schools in the entire state of California. The program is nationally recognized through the U.S. Department of Education, and honors schools, school districts, and Institutes of Higher Education for excellence in resource efficiency, health and wellness, and environmental and sustainability education.

MUS applied for the honor based on dozens of green initiatives throughout the campus, including waste diversion via recycling and composting, removal of hazardous materials including pesticides and cleaning products, the removal of carpeting with noxious chemicals, daily UV index monitoring via the school’s Weather Station, less 2/22/16 9:19 AM paper usage due to an increase in dig-

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Back then, the school was celebrating the achievement of a bronze-level award, and this year the campus achieved a gold-level prize. “We are thrilled,” said superintendent Tammy Murphy, who also told us Santa Barbara High School has received a silver-level award.

MUS is one of 16 public California schools to receive the award, and this year five more nominees were added for the highest honor of “Green Achiever,” thanks to various initiatives including the use of solar energy, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, campus greening, recycling programs, ecological restoration, and more. The U.S. Department of Education will confirm the state nominees on Earth Day (April 22).

For more information, visit www. cde.ca.gov/ls/fa/sf/greenribbon prog.asp.

Orchid Show Returns

This weekend marks the return of the Santa Barbara International Orchid Show, from March 4-6 at Earl Warren Showgrounds. The show is one of the country’s largest and oldest celebration of orchids, with thousands of them blooming on display.

According to organizers, the orchid show has grown immensely, and each year the orchid show spotlights the novel and new, while remaining steeped in a rich history.

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Scores of orchids will be on display and for sale at the 71st annual Santa Barbara International Orchid Show

imens of the then-rare plants from distributors in England in the 1930s and 1940s. The Montecito Grange Hall hosted the first orchid show in 1945, before it was relocated to the Carrillo Recreation Center in downtown Santa Barbara, then to the State Armory on Santa Barbara’s Eastside before finding its longtime home at Earl Warren Showgrounds when the rotunda building opened in the early 1960s.

Local cymbidium grower Elliot Rogers managed the show in its youth. After World War II, Signal Oil magnate Samuel B. Mosher solidified the area’s place in orchid history by investing more than $1.5 million to create one of the world’s most extensive orchid breeding collections at his Rancho Dos Pueblos. Among a citrus farm, carnation nursery, acres of Birds of Paradise, Mosher dedicated eight acres to breeding and growing cymbidiums. In those early days of orchid propagation, stud plants sold for tens of thousands of dollars, and orchids were a luxury for the wealthy. Today, thanks to the advent of laboratory orchid cloning, scores of orchid varieties have become easily available and affordable. Now, Santa Barbara County produces more orchids than any region in the country.

Leigh-Anne Anderson, who helps promote the Orchid Show each year, tells us her top things to see during the show. They include the First Look (which includes the world’s most rare and exotic orchids), the fragrance throughout the show, the Grand Orchid Exhibits (featuring the largest orchids), the Vanilla Orchid (the scent and taste of which will be highlighted with offerings from local chocolatiers), the Show Market (featuring for-sale orchids), and the multitude of educational demonstrations and gardening classes, which show participants how to grow and maintain healthy orchids.

Santa Barbara International Orchid Show is open Friday, March 3 – 10 March 2016

4, through Sunday, March 6, from 9 am to 5 pm daily at Earl Warren Showgrounds. General admission is $14; seniors, students with ID, and advance group sales (minimum 25) are $12; children 12 and younger are free with an adult.

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YMCA Event

This Saturday, March 5, Montecito YMCA is hosting an event in conjunction with Special Olympics Santa Barbara. The event is aimed

at spreading awareness in support of the Special Olympics R-Word Campaign, a youth-led movement established by Special Olympics and Best Buddies International, which declares use of the words “retard” and “retarded” as hurtful, even if not directed at a person with intellectual disabilities.

The Spread the Word to End the Word day of awareness takes place from 10 am to 1 pm, and participants will be able to sign up to pledge their discontinued use of the word, they’ll watch YMCA youth basketball teams compete and meet representatives

from the Special Olympics.

According to event organizers, the word “retard(ed)” was originally introduced as a medical term, and is now widely used in today’s society as a synonym for “dumb” or “stupid,” reinforcing painful stereotypes of people with intellectual disabilities as being less-valued members of society.

The awareness event is being held as part of the YMCA’s Togetherhood movement, which provides YMCA members with opportunities to become involved in their local community through service projects.

“Social responsibility is a major area of focus for the YMCA,” said Montecito YMCA Youth Programs director Aaron Martinez. “This pledge rally is a great opportunity to create awareness about the importance of inclusive behaviors and language.” A group of junior high students from the Santa Barbara YMCA Pilots Program and a small group of Montecito YMCA volunteers will volunteer at the event to help facilitate the pledge drives.

For more information about the R-Word Campaign or to Pledge to End the R-Word online, visit www.r-word.org.

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Vintners Jenny Williamson Dore and Dick Dore of Foxen Winery with Patrick Will of Vintus Winery (photo by Priscilla)

Afterward, guests attended a reception in Stewart Hall with the artists.

Fortunately, they didn’t have to pull a few strings to gain entree.

Like a Fine Wine Santa Barbara wine maker Fred Brander was in decidedly celebratory mood when, after ten years of effort, the Los Olivos American Viticulture Area was officially designated.

“It is a very lengthy process, but well worth it,” says Fred. “We can now use the designation on our labels.

It has been a long time coming.”

One of the highlights of the bash was the chance to sip and savor 100 point wines, considered some of the world’s best.

Among those checking out the bouqets were Dennis Longaberger, Gabe Saglie, Archie McLaren, Warren

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Garrison and Kathleen Bielen enjoy the gallery works of Dalva Duarte and Kim Reierson (photo by Priscilla)

Archie McLaren, founder and chairman of Central Coast Wine Classic; and vintner Fred Brander celebrating the new Los Olivos Appellation/Viticultural area at Brander Vineyard (photo by Priscilla)

Adam Schultz and Raven Astan intrigued by “Le Sabine 11”, oil on canvas by Dalva Duarte (photo by Priscilla)

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THURSDAY, MARCH 3 1st Thursday – Sullivan Goss celebrates the opening of its landmark exhibition highlighting the grand tradition of figurative painting in American Art. The pieces on display in “American Figurative” takes note of the fact that in nearly every major period of Western art, from cave painting to Cubism, the human form has played a major role. The works date back to a pair of Midwestern portraits from shortly after the Civil War by Marion Blair and a Catholic icon from the 1880s by Leon Dabo, as well as four major American Impressionist masterworks by Edward Potthast, Abbott Fuller Graves, Lawton Parker, and F. Luis Mora. From the PostWar period, the exhibition includes work by New York’s Frank Taira (19132010) and Californian’s Jean Swiggett (1910-1990) and Joseph Knowles (1907-1980), while contemporary examples are represented by John Nava, Angela Perko, Frank Kirk, and Benjamin Anderson.... Elsewhere, members of the Santa Barbara Art Association are showing up in two exhibitions this month. Robert Stark serves as Artist of the Month at Gallery 113, exhibiting bright, bold, colorful impressions of iconic Santa Barbara locales from La Arcada to the Arlington Theatre, and landscapes and cityscapes ranging from San Francisco to Las Vegas. Wilbert Lick, Darlene Roker, Morbidia Schleppenphal, Sue Slater,

and Suemae Willhite are also featured.

Meanwhile, SBAA also presents a juried show open to all local artists in various media at the Faulkner Gallery in the Public Library, where today’s reception features refreshments and live music.... Santa Barbara Arts in La Arcada Court takes March’s theme of “Movement” to heart with kinetic art from Sarena Mann, a veteran sculptor known for her whimsical papier mâché mobiles and flying ladies; Joel Hotchkiss’s visually unique contemporary mobiles that produce a “dynamic art in air;” and Hans Hoffman, a Santa Barbara resident who is still creating mobiles at age 96.... Speaking of movement, Casa Magazine (now The Voice) HQ displays the 2016 Summer Solstice Celebration Poster and T-Shirt design contest entries geared toward the theme of “Legends”, while DJ Darla Bea and the La Bohéme Dancers will help you kick out the jams as the weekend rolls in....

Wallace Piatt’s Pop Art-style layered silk-screened imagery turning chaos into an orderly modern art form should keep your eyes in motion at Service Objects, while Steven Bryer’s live interactive mural project of the month, a seven-foot painting entitled “Grace”, might inspire you to pick up a brush of your own to the beat of Rent Party Blues Duo at the Public Market.... On the performance arts front, Opera Santa Barbara returns to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art for a pop-up performance in the galleries,

FRIDAY, MARCH 4 Fragrant Beauty – The Santa Barbara International Orchid Show, which spent its first 15 years at Montecito Grange Hall, carries for its 71st year the theme “Wild World of Orchids,” which pays homage to the family of flowering plants that boasts more than 25,000 species, each unique in its exquisite beauty. The main show, now at Exhibition Hall in the Earl Warren Showgrounds, features thousands of blooms in every imaginable shape, color, pattern, and texture, most arranged into vibrant displays and showcases from more than 50 local, national, and international award-winning orchid growers and societies. The show, one of the country’s largest and oldest celebrations of orchids, also includes the 41st annual Cymbidium Society of America Congress featuring a bevy of world-class experts and speakers; local chocolatiers Chocolats Du CaliBressan’s creation of a special Tahitian Vanilla chocolate to commemorate this year’s special focus on the mysterious Vanilla Orchid; the International Orchid Show Market where guests can purchase innumerable plant varieties and all the supplies to take care of them; classes with the Orchid Doctor, Potting Demonstrations, and Master Gardener tips; and the opportunity to visit local orchid nurseries in the Santa Barbara area which are hosting open houses throughout the weekend. WHEN: 9 am – 5 pm, today through Sunday WHERE: Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real COST: $14 general, $12 seniors (65+) and students; free for children 12 and under INFO: 403-1533 or www.SBOrchidShow.com

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SUNDAY, MARCH 6 Lion and Winter – Award-winning wildlife photographer and intrepid explorer Steve Winter specializes in photographing big cats. His illustrated National Geographic Live presentation, “On the Trail of Big Cats: Tigers, Cougars and Snow Leopards”, takes the audience around the world in search of these majestic, endangered creatures, from Asian jungles to the Himalaya to the rainforests of Latin America and even Hollywood, where, right in our own backyard, he pursues the American cougar. Winter – who has been stalked by jaguars in Brazil, attacked by rhinos in India, charged by a grizzly in Siberia (for real, Leonardo DiCaprio) and trapped in quicksand in Myanmar – is on a mission to share the beauty of big cats while working to preserve them, because, in his own words, “By saving the world’s top predators, we save huge forests, rivers, wildlife, and ultimately, our planet.” WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $25 general, $15 youth 18 & under INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edug

and The Stone Phoneys, who adapt Linda Ronstadt’s studio-produced pop songs into an acoustic setting (with mandolin, violin, bass, percussion and slide guitar) throw down on Marshall’s Patio. WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaradowntown. com/about/1st-thursday Binge-Worthy Journalism – Serial, the podcast launched by veteran radio journalists/producers Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder in the fall of 2014, quickly became the most popular podcast in the world using a formula antithetical to the journalism axiom of being first and fast. Serial became an overnight sensation by doing exactly the opposite, presenting a 12-part series centering on one legal case. By becoming the fastest podcast to reach five million downloads in iTunes history, the pair proved that slow-motion journalism can captivate and sustain an audience – the show has been downloaded more than 80 million times, the most listened-to podcast in the history of the form. The current season focuses on the story of Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured and held by the Taliban for nearly five years before a prisoner exchange got him sent back home, where he now faces a court martial.

In their live presentation this evening, Koenig, who started out as a newspaper reporter (The New York Times, Baltimore Sun) before becoming a producer and sometimes host of radio show This American Life, and Snyder, the senior producer of This American Life, will take the audience behind the scenes of this

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cultural phenomenon of Serial, sharing personal stories and providing insight into the ups and downs of creating a new form of modern journalism.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $45 ($125 VIP, includes priority seating and an artist meet-and-greet reception) INFO: 893-3535 or www.

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The band has enjoyed a run of 14 singles on the Billboard country charts, including “All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down”, “Dance the Night Away”, and the Grammy Award-winning “Here Comes the Rain”. The bar? Lots of cover bands and the occasional show of cutting-edge acoustic music when Tales From the Tavern decamps at the joint. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: call (sold-out at this writing) INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino. com FRIDAY, MARCH 4 Camerata’s Classics – After some ultra-modern pieces featuring large and diverse ensembles in recent concerts, Camerata Pacifica pares down to just three musicians to delve into two staples of the classical canon as anchors for the current program at Hahn Hall. Guest violinist Kristin Lee performs Beethoven’s mighty “Kreutzer” 3 – 10 March 2016

TUESDAY, MARCH 8 Mac’s 240-year Pop Act – Theater artist Taylor Mac – the New York City-based playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, director, and producer of whom The New York Times wrote “Fabulousness can come in many forms, and Taylor Mac seems intent on assuming every one of them” – has authored 17 full-length plays and performance pieces including Hir (2015 Top 10 lists of The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Time Out NY), The Lily’s Revenge (which won an Obie Award), and The Walk Across America for Mother Earth (named One of the Best Plays of 2011 by The New York Times). His work has been performed at Lincoln Center, The Public Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, American Repertory Theatre, Stockholm’s Sodra Teatern, the Spoleto Festival, and many more. Now the artist who has been lauded for pushing boundaries with his vibrant aesthetic, his outspoken social commentary, and his creative spectacle has undertaken his most ambitious work to date, a 24-Decade History of Popular Music that covers pop songs of the United States from the 1770s to the 2010s. One hour is dedicated to each decade with a corresponding costume designed by long-time collaborator Machine Dazzle. For his Santa Barbara debut, Mac is offering the 190616 and 1916-1926 segments, covering “Songs Popular in the WWI Trenches” and “Songs Popular in the Speakeasy”, delivered with a live band on stage at Campbell Hall. Eventually, all of the segments will culminate in a 24-hour extravaganza, featuring Taylor Mac, a 24-piece orchestra, dancing beauties, and other special guests. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $25 - $35 INFO: 8933535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47, followed by Camerata’s principal violist, Richard Yongjae O’Neill, offering the sweepingly romantic Rachmaninoff Opus 19 Sonata in G Minor (transcribed from the original for cello and piano). Both feature pianist Molly Morkoski, who will also accompany Lee’s violinistic fireworks on Sarasate’s Opus 25 Concert Fantasy on Carmen, which concludes the concert that opens with Lee performing Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 2 in A Minor for Solo Violin “Jacques Thibaud”. WHEN: 1 (no Beethoven) & 7:30 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $56 (1 pm $30) INFO: 884-8410 or www. cameratapacifica.org SATURDAY, MARCH 5 Configuration Takes Center Stage – Santa Barbara Dance Arts and the Arts Mentorship Program present their annual showcase, a set

full of high-energy hip hop, evocative contemporary dance, and sassy jazz numbers that might get you dancing in your seat. Unique to this production, student work shares the stage with professional choreographers, as the youths are nurtured by professional mentors. Featured this year are SBDA’s award-winning Competition Team; choreography by local favorite Brittany Sandoval; SBDA director Alana Tillim’s tribute to the childhood classic The Giving Tree; and Kyleigh Carlson’s nationally recognized What I Am Within, which addresses issues of insecurity and self-worth. WHEN: 7 pm today and March 11-12; 2 pm tomorrow and March 12 WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $22 general, $15 students (matinees only); $53 patron tickets feature priority seating INFO: 963-0408 or www.

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made us both feel really ancient.”

Working with the cast has also been smooth sailing for Sullivan.

Gregory Harrison (Dr. “Gonzo” Gates in TV’s Trapper John, M.D.)” who plays a mysterious cowboy “just comes off as a sympathetic gunslinger,” she said. “You just feel for him.

You fall in love with this guy and know he’s a force to be reckoned with.” Jeff Kober (Sons of Anarchy) as the venomous outlaw Liberty Valance “is one of those people who can walk in the room and scare the ---- out of you.”

Sylvie Davidson (Lonesome Traveler) plays a tough-talking saloon owner in a love triangle “feels like she should have been born in another time, back in those days,” Sullivan said. Jacques Roy, who plays the bookish New Yorker, “was just the right fit”, while RTC veteran Joseph Fuqua “who can do anything” portrays the cowardly local sheriff.

“It’s good to be home,” said Sullivan.

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Singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash and her songwriter/producer husband, John Leventhal, return to Santa Barbara for the first time since the pair’s The River and the Thread album FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tombio, 351 Paseo Nuevo, 2nd Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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proved the pinnacle of the daughter of Johnny Cash’s career, scoring three Grammys at the 2015 awards. The album reconnected the singer-songwriter to the American South, her family’s homeland for generations, via a set of songs that serve as a timeless survey of the South’s geographic, emotional, musical, and historic landscape.

She discussed the album and more in an interview via email prior to Wednesday’s concert at UCSB Campbell Hall.

Q. You famously left the South for New York two decades ago (and have even said you’ve always felt like a New Yorker).

How was it to return for the album and more and spend so much time re-immersing yourself? How have things changed internally for you that you were able to go back with a much more embracing point of view?

A. As I imagine things change for a lot of people in midlife – you become much more intrigued by your past, your ancestry, the very geography that is in your cells. I reconnected with people I knew and characters who were familiar, even if I didn’t know them. And going deep into my musical ancestry, far beyond just my

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father, was profound: the Delta Blues, soul, country pop like Bobbie Gentry, Appalachian music.

Have there been lasting effects of returning to region and a special place for your father, culling through 10 memories? How is that showing up in your life today?

A subtle integration of mind and music – that’s what I feel, more than anything. Embracing what was lost.

Understanding more of how deep the suffering was in the South and feeling humility for those great artists whose work was born out of suffering.

For the album, you also adopted an observational/historical third person songwriting approach that’s quite different from your usual more confessional or at least personal perspective. Assuming that was an intentional change, how difficult was it to accomplish? And how do you think that might show up in your work, your songwriting process, down the road?

It was different, and daunting at first, but also thrilling to get inside the heads of other characters. Instructive.

I loved it. I imagine that approach is here to stay, not as a sole object, but it’s on my palette now.

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husband to work together – is it music first then lyrics, the other way around, or a joint project? Do you guys have a clear delineation between work and home life?

We don’t have much of a delineation, but it’s sort of great. Our 17-yearold son is also a songwriter, so after dinner he and John might go down to the studio to work on one of Jake’s songs, and we talk about music all the time. I was still having breakfast this morning and John said, “Send me those lyrics – I just thought of a melody for it.” So it all weaves together, but it works for us. We do have to build in a little time apart because we are together more than any couple I know. We’re pretty enmeshed, but we like it that way. I have a sewing circle with other women, which is a good break! He goes to have dinner or a scotch with his friends regularly. At least, I think that’s what he’s doing.

You had quite a year in 2015, between the Grammy awards for The River and The Thread, induction into the Nashville Hall of Fame, the residency at there. And 2016 has started off with your first headlining gig at Carnegie Hall. What comes up for you as you look back on these mile-

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this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed February 10, 2016 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: March 30, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 2/24, 3/2, 3/9, 3/16 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV02478.

To all interested parties: Petitioner Mary Louise Senzamici filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Marlise Senzamici. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed January 11, 2016 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: March 16, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/2 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00133. To all interested parties: Petitioner Celia Esther Ostos-

Onassis filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Celia Rodriguez Hernandez.

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed January 21, 2016 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: March 26, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/2 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00530. To all interested parties: Petitioner Jesus Antonio Aguirre filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Coen Hawthorne. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed February 24, 2016

by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: April 13, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 3/2, 3/9, 3/16, 3/23

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CINEMA SCOPE

by James Luksic

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

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pair of pictures that take us far afield – London Has Fallen and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – will get dissected in the next edition. For now, let’s glance at a handful of movies expected to be released for public consumption before the calendar turns to April: The title Knight of Cups is more intriguing than its purported plot about a screenwriter in Los Angeles; perhaps revered director Terrence Malick and his headliners (Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett) will breathe life into its story. Additional entries into the March canon include – because it’s a small world, after all – The Little Prince and Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday; Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest comedy caper The Brothers Grimsby; and 10 Cloverfield Lane, with its offbeat, captivating trailer spearheaded by John Goodman.

Coinciding with my March 25 birthday are My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 – not my idea of a gift – and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, whose bulky title seems almost as punishing as its 150-minute running time.

The ensuing summaries of current mainstream fare are two of a kind:

Bold Eagle

The makers of Eddie The Eagle, a true tale that follows the unforeseen path of Eddie Edwards – a dubious yet determined British ski-jumper – display less confidence than their hero: instead of entrusting the young man’s stirring story, director Dexter Fletcher and crew felt a need to amp-up the action with swelling music that wouldn’t be out of place in a discotheque. Even so, Taron Egerton proves persuasive as the 1988 Calgary Olympics’ most unlikely participant; chilly Hugh Jackman eventually thaws as the rogue mentor who doesn’t wear a jacket, but a flask of booze, for warmth.

Less convincing are the European opponents, most of them depicted as stiff and heartless.

Although it soars short of reaching the heights of another Winter Games movie – superior Miracle, bolstered by Kurt Russell as gold-medal hockey coach Herb Brooks – this Eagle serves its purpose as a fan-friendly, sugar-coated, crowd pleaser about perseverance.

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••• Speaking of race, a footnote about the recent Oscars ceremony: despite its “controversial” conditions, there were only a few surprises – namely underdog Mark Rylance’s victory; Mad Max: Fury Road seizing a half-dozen statuettes (best makeup and costumes?); pariah Stacey Dash’s ill-fated cameo; and those Girl Scout Cookies. It would be difficult to convince anyone the show’s low ratings weren’t warranted.

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Race and its double-meaning title chronicles the life of Ohio State’s track and field legend Jesse Owens, whose skin color was spotlighted as much as his blazing speed on campus – and in Adolf Hitler’s Germany, site of the 1936 Olympics. Among the familiar faces: Jason Sudeikis as the college coach and Jeremy Irons, spot-on as the U.S. Olympic committee’s voice of authority. (“The American people need champions.”)

Unlike its worthy and noble subject, this well-intentioned biopic is slow off the blocks and doesn’t always secure its footing amid a landmine of clichés. But patient viewers are rewarded with fleshed-out characterizations: Stephan Jones dutifully embodies our hero, while Carice van Houten – as the defiant documentarian – earns every moment of screen time.

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CADA committee members Jim and Susan Neuman; Earl Minnis, contributor; Marianna Burdon, board member; Catherine Remak, director of Corporate Communications and Development; and Bob Murphy, men’s committee (photo by Priscilla) Peter Hilf, men’s co-chair; Patty Bryant, CADA Women’s Committee; hosts and CADA board member Dr. Bob and Nissy Fuladi; Bob Bryant, co-chair; honorary chairs Lisa and Alan Parsons of Alan Parsons Live Project (photo by Priscilla)

Mike Lazaro, Maria Long, CADA executive development director; mayor Helene Schneider, and Ed Stonefelt, CEO (photo by Priscilla)

profit’s Amethyst Ball at the Bacara on April 30, which has a record 450 guests and is expected to rake in around $600,000.

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stones and accomplishments happening at this point in your career?

Gratitude and a little disbelief. I had stopped thinking of awards and lavish acknowledgment long ago, to tell you the truth. I was satisfied with quiet respect and the opportunity to create music I really loved. I think some of the recognition was for persistence and just showing up for work for 35 years.

I never give up. I’m so moved by what has happened in the last two years and, as I said, extremely grateful.

What can we expect here in the Santa Barbara show – a major focus on River & Thread, or a greatest hits/career retrospective? How do you tie them together in concert?

We do quite a few from River and the Thread, most of the songs. There’s still plenty of time for some of the older ones. John and I love doing this duo show. It’s very intimate.

••• Elsewhere in pop music, 11-time Grammy-nominated pianist/composer Peter Kater, a popular New Age and contemporary instrumental music artist who has scored more than 100 TV and film productions and several dramatic plays (he also collaborated with sacred chantress Snatam Kaur on Heart of the Universe), recently joined forces with cellist Tina Guo, who also traverses a wide range of genres, from playing on film, television and game scores (including the upcoming Batman vs. Superman soundtrack) to appearing as featured soloist with many of the world’s great orchestras, and Cirque Du Soleil’s “Michael Jackson – The Immortal” World Tour.

The album Inner Passion captured their first time playing together, an entirely improvised set that was also filmed. Now the duo heads out for a mini-California tour that stops at Unity of Santa Barbara at 7:30 Sunday evening. Tickets cost $25-$45.

Steve Gillette, a singer-songwriter whose compositions have been covered by Garth Brooks, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, and John Denver, and wife Cindy Mangsen, a songwriter who is also a master interpreter of traditional ballads, headline Friday’s Cambridge Drive Concert Series show, preceded by Penny Nichols, the veteran

Central Coast balladeer and songwriting teacher who recently won FARWest Folk Alliance’s Best of the West Lifetime Achievement award.

Fomenting Fermentation

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The five-year-old Santa Barbara Fermentation Festival is spreading its wings to a different season and a brand-new concept held indoors. The first annual Wild Brew Fest, which takes place Sunday March 6, will turn SOhO Restaurant & Music Club into a haven for traditionally brewed and wild fermented beer, cider, jun, mead, sake, wine, spirits, and more. Also featured are educational talks from traditional alcohol fermentation experts on wild yeast and bacteria, Japanese sake, DIY brews, and botanical spirits; the DIY Pickle Station featuring a unique collaboration between Pacific Pickle Works and Pure Order Brewing Company; and opportunities for attendees to engage and learn about traditional alcohol fermentation.

Casitas Valley Farm, Watkins Ranch, Harvest Santa Barbara, Whole Foods Market, Health-Ade Kombucha, Cultured & Saucy, Leaf Cuisine, Sama Sama Kitchen, The Pretzel Guild, Autostrada, Water with Life, and Bubbies are among the purveyors; check the website for the full list of participants and vendors.

SOhO and the other culinary collaborators will be serving a variety of small bites featuring locally sourced ingredients and ferments of all kinds.

Be on the lookout for a special concoction from the winner of the Wild Brew Fest Cocktail Competition, hosted by Cutler’s Artisan and SOhO earlier this month. And Valley Brewers pop-up shop will be selling all the supplies you need to jump-start your next home brew project.

The event takes place from 3 to 6 pm, and admission includes the festival tastings and all activities, plus a collectible drinking glass. Tickets cost $55 general, $75 VIP (includes early entry at 2 pm, and access to exclusive Wild Brew Fest and SOhO tastings) in advance, $10 more at the door ($25 for designated drivers). Info at 722-5324 or www.WildBrewFest.nighout.com. •MJ

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es. Scholarships are given on merit or needs basis. There is a Moving to Learn program, which reaches elementary school students through curricular and after-school dance instruction. They have reached about 1,700 kids, kindergarten through third grade, during their regular school day.

Carrie is certainly qualified to teach.

She danced professionally in New York City for more than 15 years and holds an M.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has taught for many groups. Eric’s credits are equally impressive. He danced with Storie-Crawford Dance Theatre in Los Angeles and with New York Theatre Ballet, and the list goes on.

May Eric and Carrie’s New Year be as successful as their celebration dinner. If you’d like to dance or simply support the arts, call 450-7535 or log on to adam-bsb.org.

Go Red for Women

February seems to be the month for red and hearts. Besides Valentine’s Day, there is the American Heart Association ‘s Go Red for Women luncheon at The Fess Parker. With

Executive director of AHA! central coast Lisa Dosch with event chair Dawn Sproul

the statistic that one in three women will die of heart disease and that heart death is the biggest killer of women in Santa Barbara, it wasn’t surprising to have 400 mostly women attend.

The event began in the morning, with a health expo and a myriad of organizations represented to educate about heart health and various preventive measures. You could have your blood pressure taken and a cholesterol reading, or learn CPR from a group of firemen. Many healthy food choices were displayed, as well as a tobacco Circle of Red member Dee Dee Barrett with emcee Meredith Garofalo

Sproul, Laurie Barene, Dee Dee Barrett, David Edelman, Jill Fonte, Janet Garufis, Justin Haagen, Mary Lynn Harms Romo, Jessica Hawley, George Leis, (2017 chair) Kira McDonald, Diana McNeill, Natasha Miller, Tiana Riskowski, Nick Weiser, Kelly Daugherty, and Jennifer Zacharias.

KEYT weather woman Meredith Garofalo was emcee and kept the program moving. Dr. Michael Shenoda stressed, “Advances in prevention, detection, and treatment continue to evolve due to

Circle of Red chair Diana MacFarlane with members Maryan Schall and Karen Chackel at the AHA! luncheon

prevention program. This was the 20th year of fighting heart disease locally and is under the umbrella of the nationally recognized “Go Red for Women Luncheon” sponsored nationally by Macy’s. They even gave each attendee a $10 credit card.

It is believed that on a national level, this movement has saved 650,000 women’s lives over the last 10 years. This year ’s executive team is chairwoman Dawn

donations by groups like this.”

Three generations of passion speakers told us their stories: 90-yearold Violet Evelyn Alberts, Denis Auclair, and Nancy Pinner.

The ladies always like the luncheon’s ending. All the cute firemen gave a red feather boa to each person who donated any amount to AHA!. Your heart beats an amazing 2.5 billion times during your life, so take care of it.

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WANTED! ATTENTION DOG LOVERS! I am looking for volunteers (adults and children) to help with the upcoming test for T.D.I. (Therapy Dogs International). I evaluate and then certify dog/handler teams for entering Cottage Hospital, nursing facilities, schools etc. The test is 3/20. For information moses243@cox.net.

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