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The lives of chiropodists Dr. Frances Ford and Dr. Helen Sexton are uncovered through a serendipitous falling of a photo, page 8

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Local News – Regulations hearing announced regarding fire risk reductions, where to have your campfires, and more on the sound walls

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Community Voices – The City’s financial contributions to public art; defining hate speech and an answer to it

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Montecito Miscellany – Naming the Music Academy of the West, CAMA brings the quintet, and Keaton gets caught up in the bathroom

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Calendar of Events – Grad students slam, the illustrious Folk Orchestra, and see the lost works of Huguette Clark

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Our Town – How a fallen photo revealed the incredible lives of chiropodists Dr. Frances Ford and Dr. Helen Sexton

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Dream Design – He’s designed some of the most iconic album covers and logos, now Larry Vigon has his very first solo show at Silo118

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Letters to the Editor – A bear comments on Ukraine, thoughts on pipelines and national security, and hot springs’ reservoir low Tide Guide

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In Passing – Derek Kenneth Hunter and Richard L. Kahler, M.D. are remembered

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Village Beat – Updates from the latest MA meeting, new deli owners, and Letter Perfect is still looking

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Your Westmont – Author Michael Lewis at the President’s Breakfast and the music department awards top scholarships

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Local People – Learn the lost art of embroidery with Sarah Gray, plus English teacher extraordinaire, James Claffey

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On Entertainment – More from SBIFF, the theaters are filling, and here come some Cadillac Angels

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Far Flung Travel – Watching the desert and its many residents converge at Joshua Tree National Park

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Real Estate – Mark Ashton Hunt celebrates his 10th anniversary and reveals impressive escrow closures in February

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Santa Barbara by the Glass – Listen to your wine. Gabe Saglie explores the art of wine and music pairing.

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Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco – The Fog of War: We can “Walk and Chew Gum” The Optimist Daily – Reducing plastics in our ocean and beer

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The Giving List – How Explore Ecology is expanding students’ passion for, and understanding of, both natural ecosystems and environment

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Classified Advertising – Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales

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alifornia Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announces new regulations to improve wildfire safety and drive down cost of insurance. Under the proposed regulations, which could be in effect by this summer, insurance companies would be required to factor consumers’ and businesses’ wildfire safety actions into their pricing of residential and commercial coverage. The new regulations also will provide consumers with transparency about their “wildfire risk score” that insurance companies assign to properties. These regulations address complaints Commissioner Lara heard from many consumers and businesses across the state that insurance companies are unwilling to account for steps taken to harden their properties and communities against wildfire, lowering their risk of loss and damage.

“By rewarding homeowners and businesses for the wildfire safety actions they take, these regulations will be a huge assist to our efforts to prevent the severe loss of life and property from wildfires like we saw in the devastating Thomas Fire and debris flow that followed,” said Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Taylor, who testified at the investigatory hearing the Department of Insurance held in October 2020.

“I am glad to see the state supporting local communities like ours with wildfire safety programs like this.”

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Under the proposed regulations, which could be in effect by this summer, insurance companies would be required to factor consumers’ and businesses’ wildfire safety actions into their pricing of residential and commercial coverage.

Leave the Campfires at Home Good news on the trail front! U.S. Forest Service has banned fires in the mountainous front country. We’ve been seeking relief from the overwhelm of visitors to the Hot Springs and Cold Spring trails who’ve not shown concern for the natural resources, the community, or fire dangers. This announcement could provide some welcome assistance.

Effective Feb 25, 2022 through Feb 24, 2024, the order bans cooking fires and campfires on National Forest System lands within the Fire Use Restriction Areas. That terrain is quite large, as you can see from the map below.

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ontecito’s Music Academy of the West, founded in 1947, is looking to re-brand, I can exclusively reveal. The Miraflores campus, just a tiara’s toss from the beachside home of Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner, has been conducting a brand evaluation for the past six months in order to collect information to help refresh the popular institution’s brand identity, with a new visual identity that expresses what the academy has to offer today and in the future.

According to a letter sent out to supporters by Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Ana Papakhian, “Brand strategy research revealed that the current name of the organization is not particularly hindering us. But it is not actively helping us either.”

“A small tweak in the name, if done correctly, would send out a signal that the organization has been making changes to strengthen its position as a leader in the classical music world, and is continuing on that journey… A new name does not suggest a whole new direction, rather an opportunity to better represent those exciting changes.”

Papakhian says that to help the 10-acre institution, formerly the site of the Santa Barbara Country Club – which boasts alumni such as Burt Bacharach, and Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer James Newton Howard, who also has nine Oscar nominations for Pretty Woman, The Fugitive, Peter Pan, and King Kong, among them – it wants to hear from “key stakeholders.”

“To that end, we are conducting around three online focus groups: Fellows and alumni, board and donors, and local community and ticket buyers,” says Papakhian.

A one-hour Zoom meeting was held last week to discuss the plans. Stay tuned...

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.” – Markus Zusak

Falling for Lillian David Cale’s Lillian, which just opened at the Ensemble Theatre Company’s New Vic, is a wonderful one-woman show about love, life, and loss. The 75-minute production about a bookish middle-aged British woman, who falls for a man half her age, taking her on a whirlwind adventure, stars Nancy Travis, who co-starred with Tim Allen in the hit TV comedy Last Man Standing for nine seasons, and also opposite Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin in the Netflix comedy The Kominsky Method.

The highly entertaining show, directed by Jonathan Fox, has Travis rising admirably to the challenge of a solo performance embodying several hilarious and touching characters. The show, the third of the season, runs through Sunday (March 13).

On the Market Perched above the Pacific, a Carpinteria estate Rancho Cariñoso with a private beach is on the market for $109 million. The Padaro Lane property, next door to Oscar winner Kevin Costner’s 10.25-acre estate which he listed for $60 million in 2017, sits on 4.21 acres with 2,500 square feet of living space with three bedrooms.

The seller of the 2014 property is polo player Arthur Cameron III, 40, grandson of Texas oil mogul Arthur Cameron and actress Kay Aldridge, known for her appearances in serial films in the 1940s.

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The original 1923 photograph of Dr. Frances Ford, Dr. Helen Sexton, and office nurse Joy Tenney (photographer unknown, digital restoration by Joanne A. Calitri)

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very picture tells a story. On February 11, while researching a Black History Month story to report on, I had a phone meeting with the new Montecito Journal (MJ) Managing Editor Zach Rosen. That same day, Dr. Joseph Pineda DPM dropped off a photograph he had on his office wall to the MJ. Rosen said, “Pineda, whose office is under ours, dropped off a photograph dated 1923, because he thought the newspaper would be interested in it for Black History Month.” Rosen texted me a quick photo and its identifying note read: Dr. Frances Ford, a Black/African doctor; Dr. Helen Sexton, a Caucasian doctor; Joy Tenney, office nurse; and two female patients at the San Marcos Building on State Street 1922-23. He asked if I was interested in researching it. Yes please – a story of these women making history on all fronts for Women’s History Month! What I uncovered was a multi-generational story of friends, feet, and a little serendipity.

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the eBay listing to the gallery. Sieghart said she had heard of Dr. Ford but had never seen a photograph. She immediately purchased the eBay original photo for the Melanin Gallery.

With everyone’s blessing, I went forth to research these women for a proper news report. Sources used, and a thanks to, include: Chris S. Ervin, CA Archivist Santa Barbara Historical Museum, SB County Genealogy Society Sahyun Librarians, the U.S. Census, the California Board of Medical Examiners, the SB Cemetery, the SB News-Press, the U.S. Social Security CA Death Index, FamilySearch.com, the SB Directory, the U.S. Military Roster of Troops 10th Cavalry, OfficialUSA.com, The Morning Press, WorthPoint.com, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, eBay, and Digital Collections & Web Services Librarian Kathleen Kosiec at the City of Santa Barbara Public Library. As of this news report date, here are the findings:

Depth of Field At the time of the photograph Ford was 34, Sexton 60, and Tenney 18 years old. There are the doctors’ licenses on the wall, and a large panoramic photograph of soldiers under a canopy structure. It appears to be a “posed candid” with the two doctors working on two female patients, while Tenney is posed and looking at the camera. The photographer’s point of view is from the office doorway on the left, likely using an 4x5 field (handheld) camera or SLR camera of the day, a normal lens, and available light from the office’s

I picked up the photo, and determined it is a late ‘80s black and white photocopy. Googling the doctors’ names I found a listing for the original photo on eBay by a seller in Pomona, California.

Given this, I called community historian Sojourner Kincaid Rolle to ask if she had heard of the women doctors.

She had not and invited me to the Melanin Gallery to meet Krystle Farmer Sieghart, co-founder of Healing Justice SB (HJSB). I brought Pineda’s photo and

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NEWS & VIEWS Rock, Peace, and the Nature of Bears Very low reservoir holding hot springs water

Main pipe vandalized right below holding tank near ruins

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arlos, The Bear, set his Fender Telecaster guitar on its stand, sat back in his bean bag chair, crossed his arms, and began humming a tune. His mind was remembering his early days. He was a smallish bear, noth-

ing like the one he saw on CNN earlier that day, Hank the Tank. No, Carlos was pretty much the little guy on campus. The big cubs used to pick on him, bully him, and make fun of him. They would pin him on the ground and beat him up. He hated that!

Then, one day, he got tired of the daily assaults and fought back. As he swung his arms, bit with fury, and got the upper paw, the other cubs watching cheered! His pride, his self-worth, and heart felt bigger than ever before. And, from then on, he swore he would never back down. This is what Ukraine is doing now, he thought, they are fighting a bully and they are not backing down!

“Good for Them! Go for it!! Don’t give up without a fight!!!”, he growled.

Then, he felt ashamed. After all he was a bear, and that is the Russian mascot, The Bear. But Carlos is an American bear, playing an American guitar, through an American amp. His thoughts tumbled back to the ‘60s as he watched young Russians take to the streets and call for peace, just like back

then. He isn’t a Russian Bully Bear, he wants Peace!

He began humming the song louder, with emphasis, feeling sad for the human cubs caught in this tragedy.

He began to remember the words, interspersing them with his humming, interjecting new lyrics as he went. He morphed another song to that one, for more effect. He plugged the Telecaster into his amplifier, turned the master volume to eleven and began to sing.

“Tin soldiers and Putin’s coming, we want to be left alone. This winter I hear the drumming, people dying in Ukraine, oh my NO! We’ve got to get down to it, we can’t let Russia’s soldiers keep cutting us down, we’ll find the cost of freedom as we hold our ground”.

Carlos added: Carry on, LOVE is coming, LOVE is coming to us all. For all humans, especially Ukraine’s. Then, after a few choruses of this, he sat in his bean bag chair and said: May Peace Prevail on Earth and flashed a peace sign with prejudice!

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but that’s the lowest level I’ve seen. The reservoir doesn’t have enough water in it to provide residents adequate protection against forest fires. It seems likely that estates using hot springs water for irrigation have backup systems connected to the Montecito Water District, but if some don’t, it would be a good idea to install such systems before fire season arrives.

Bryan Rosen

Thoughts in the Pipeline Back in the USSR! Putin wants to re-establish the Soviet Union drawing the world back to the ‘80s, soon to be

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Hot Springs Pipes Vandalized, Reservoir Low On March 7, 2022, my friend and I took a hike up Hot Springs Trail, and there sure was a lot of vandalism. The main pipe was completely disconnected from a holding tank near the ruins of the old resort, disrupting the flow of hot springs water to estates – instead the hot water was pouring all over the trail. Also,

by Barn Springs two pipes were disconnected – one of them was broken.

When we returned, some water – not much – was pouring into the reservoir on upper Hot Springs Road. As the water would get there faster than us, it looks like someone put the pieces of the main pipe together. Due to the small amount of water entering the reservoir, the water in it was only about three to four feet deep.

On March 8, the reservoir was even lower at about two feet deep. It may go dry soon unless more water enters into it. The reservoir is normally low,

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Pursuing Sound Walls

On February 3, we learned in a public meeting the Montecito segment of the 101 project would no longer have sound walls. The reason was hydraulic modeling that showed significant flood water rise in a major weather event. This was a major shock to the community. We’ve been looking at the project in our Land Use and Transportation committee meetings for three years. We’d seen sound wall design. How could they suddenly be out?

Was there no other way? Staggered sound walls? Grates at the bottom? The answer given by Caltrans is every scenario of sound wall construction led to the same outcome: significant water rise.

Santa Barbara County Flood Control has not seen the hydraulic modeling Caltrans performed. Supervisor Williams said he would formally request Caltrans’ data so the Flood Control team can review it, and we eagerly supported it. Two weeks later, we called Senator Limón to ask her to get Caltrans to turn their hydraulic models for sound walls over to the county.

While the current plan includes hurricane fencing with landscaping, the adjacent neighbors will be very affected by increased freeway noise. We’ve been assured Caltrans will pave with “quiet concrete” meant to achieve sound reduc-

tion. It seems strange that communities with creeks and significant flooding over the years got sound walls, but somehow Montecito won’t? This isn’t over yet… stay tuned.

Housing Legislation Update The ballot initiative to overturn Senate Bills 9 and 10, Our Neighborhood Voices, has been withdrawn and will be targeted for the 2024 ballot instead. Organizers gathered 150,000 of the needed 1 million signatures but did not have the funding required to hire signature-gatherers to get enough signatures in time for April 30, the deadline to qualify for the November 2022 ballot.

In the meantime, that means we have no ordinance protecting Montecito and the county from Senate Bills 9 and 10. County Planning and Development is asking the Supervisors whether to prioritize this for their

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We hope you’ll let our Supervisor Das Williams know how you feel by emailing him at DWilliams@ countyofsb.org Sharon Byrne is the Executive Director of the Montecito Association

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Montecito Deli owner Jeff Rypysc (seen here with his longtime employees) is in talks to sell the business to a well-known Montecito restaurateur

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t a quiet Montecito Association meeting earlier this week, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi reported on crime in Montecito over the last month.

There have been several residential burglaries including near the Polo Fields, on Romero Canyon, Tiburon Bay Lane, School House Lane, East Mountain Drive, and on Ortega Ridge. Lt. Arnoldi said several of those burglaries, some of which were thwarted before any valuables were stolen, had access gained through glass French doors. “There is a pattern here,” Lt. Arnoldi said. Other crimes included a DUI on San Ysidro Road, assault of a security guard at the Santa Barbara Cemetery, trespassing at the Cemetery on a different occasion, and parking violations by people living in their vehicles on Santa Claus Lane. There was also an incident this past weekend with an impaired driver side-swiping several cars double parked on the 1200-block of Coast Village Road.

During community reports, Montecito Union School Superintendent Anthony Ranii reported that a greenhouse will be installed at the school’s Nature Lab this week. The State’s mask mandate for students ends next week, and Ranii reported that students have mixed emotions about the change. “We see some students extremely excited, and some kids are very nervous for the changes,” he said, adding that state guidance is that masks will still be highly recommended, but optional. At Cold Spring School, superintendent Dr. Amy Alzina reported that she is advocating for more funding for basic aid schools like Cold Spring and MUS, as they are not

slated to receive additional funding despite a state mandate that has required expansion of the Transitional Kindergarten (TK) program, which will eventually include all four-year-olds, regardless of when their birthdays are. “We’ve essentially gained an entire grade, and we need funding for it,” Alzina said.

The Board received a presentation from Jenna Espinosa, an Energy Accounts Specialist for Central Coast Community Energy (CCCE). Central Coast Community Energy is a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program, which can purchase electricity on behalf of residents and businesses, in place of investor-owned utilities such as Southern California Edison. SCE is still responsible for delivering energy, maintaining utility lines, and billing customers. Automatic enrollment for this change began in October; customers were enrolled in the program automatically, and can disenroll if they choose.

According to CCCE, CCA programs allow greater consumer choice, local control, and accountability; it’s a tool to help communities reach their climate and economic goals, and transition to a cleaner, more efficient energy supply. Revenues are reinvested in the community, not distributed to shareholders. Customers will also be able to utilize energy incentive programs, such as solar and storage for energy resilience, low-income solar, EV vehicle and infrastructure incentives, feed-in-tariff, net energy metering (NEM), energy efficiency, demand response, and more.

Espinosa said that electricity rates have changed over the last couple of months due to SCE adjusting their rates; CCCE’s rates reflect those increases. She said there were also several thousand billing errors in which

customers did not get billed in December, and instead were double billed in January, which many customers misconstrued as a steep increase in electricity prices due to the changeover to CCCE. CCCE’s goal is to reach 60% clean and renewable energy by 2025 and 100% by 2030.

For more information, visit 3Cenergy.org. The next Montecito Association meeting is Tuesday, April 12.

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Local News Montecito Deli to Change Hands

Word on Coast Village Road is that the owner of Montecito Deli, Jeff Rypysc, is in talks with a well-known Montecito restaurateur to sell the business, located at 1150 Coast Village Road. If all goes as planned, the deal will close April 1.

The new concept for the deli, which has been in the same location on Coast Village Road over 20 years, is a New Yorkstyle deli with an “Italian, Jewish twist” according to a person close to the transaction. The new owner plans to enhance Rypysc’s popular menu as well the deli’s hours, opening later in the day and on the weekends. We’re told that the space will be updated but will not require significant remodeling, or long-term closures.

Rypysc opened the deli on September 11, 2001, and has always attributed his success to two things: his loyal team, which includes longtime manager Rey Vazquez, and his loyal customer base, some of whom dine at the deli multiple times a week. The deli offers a variety of made-to-order breakfast and lunch items,

in addition to salads, sandwiches, deli items, soups, and cookies, all of which are scratch-made every day. The deli is most known for its famous Piadina, which the new owner says he’ll keep on the menu.

We’ll have more on the ownership change as the deal is finalized.

Harbor Restaurant Sells The Harbor Restaurant/Longboard’s Grill, one of Santa Barbara’s most recognizable waterfront dining destinations, sold last week, according to Hayes Commercial Group, which brokered both sides of the deal.

The iconic restaurants on Stearns Wharf have been operated by the Scott family along with longtime Santa Barbara restaurateur Dave Perry for more than four decades. The sellers will continue to own and operate their other popular eateries, Harry’s Plaza Café in Loreto Plaza and the Tee-Off restaurant on Upper State Street.

According to documents filed with the City’s Waterfront Department in November, new owners Eugenio Sanchez and Frank Ibanez plan to re-establish the eatery as a local institution. They plan on transforming the restaurant into a revitalized space, with multiple eatery concepts in different areas. The menus will be re-created and enhanced, featuring high-quality seafood, as well as local, fresh, and seasonal ingredients, new beverages, local craft beers, and cocktails. The food menu will be categorized as New American Cuisine, which the new owners say is designed to attract a wider demographic and provide unique and inspiring culinary options for a diverse range of guests. There will

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The plans include utilizing both the Harbor Restaurant (downstairs) and Longboard’s (upstairs) to offer distinctly different areas, which will include enhancement of the outdoor deck and the indoor restaurant and bar areas, as well as a to-go service window, a new lounge area, and a new coffee, pastry, and gelato shop.

The renovations of the 12,000-square-foot space will be phased over time, allowing for continuous operation of the restaurant, according to the report.

The new owners have ample experience in the restaurant space, with Ibanez owning and operating four restaurants in Southern California, and Sanchez involved in seafood production, importation/exportation, sales, and distribution for over 30 years.

The Harbor Restaurant was first opened in 1941, and over the years has become known as a destination for romantic dinners, weddings, party venues, and charity events.

The sale was brokered by Dan Moll of Hayes Commercial Group.

Letter Perfect Still Seeking Buyer Montecito’s Letter Perfect owner Leslie Person Ryan says she is still seeking a buyer for her 38-year-old stationery and gift store on Coast Village Road.

After two failed escrows, Person Ryan is hoping to find a buyer who will be as passionate as she is about stationery, letter writing, and gracious correspondence.

Letter Perfect, located next to Montecito Deli at 1150 Coast Village Road, has been a popular retail establishment on the road for 38 years, offering custom stationery orders, design services, classes, gifts and cards, custom logos, and much more.

Person Ryan says she has solidified a longterm lease agreement with the owner of Villa Fontana, and since announcing the sale earlier this year, she has received several inquiries from interested buyers, but none of them have panned out.

To inquire about the sale of Letter Perfect, Leslie Person Ryan can be contacted at letterperfectsb@gmail.com.

Business broker Matt Olufs, who recently sold Here’s the Scoop across the street, has been brought on to help facilitate the sale.

He can be reached at (805) 886-2919.

Casa del Herrero News

preeminent California artist, draftsman, painter, and muralist. Though Peake traveled throughout the American Southwest and Mexico, it was his time as an apprentice at Casa del Herrero (from 1933 – 1934) that provided a solid foundation for his artistic career. “Casa del Herrero afforded Channing the opportunity to go to Mexico for the first time, providing a connection to the country that lasted a lifetime,” said Channing Peake’s widow Cheri Peake.

According to Casa del Herrero reps, Peake’s artistic signature can be seen throughout the interior of the historic George Washington Smith house, including in the ceiling panels in the front and first-floor powder room, a stereo niche in the living room, the frieze in the book tower, and in owner George Steedman’s workshop office, as well as charming caricatures of Steedman family members in the south loggia, to name a few. Peake’s work at Casa del Herrero demonstrates the creative partnership with owners George and Carrie Steedman, as well as with their architect.

Peake traveled to Mexico throughout his life, visiting various regions and documenting daily life. To Mexico and Beyond follows Peake’s trajectory from Casa del Herrero to Mexico, the drawings he produced at this time, and the subsequent mural work he completed upon his return to Santa Barbara. Peake frequently returned over the years, often visiting with his friend and distinguished artist Rufino Tamayo. Peake had also worked with Diego Rivera and was recognized locally through the establishment of the Channing Peake Gallery on the first floor of the Santa Barbara County administration building. The drawings in this exhibition, several of which are on view for the first time, were produced throughout the 1930s and into the 1980s. With street scenes and images of daily life, the drawings document Peake’s travels while revealing his deep appreciation for the people and cultures of Mexico.

The exhibition can be viewed during docent-led house and garden tours on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10 am and 2 pm. Tours can be booked at casadel herrero.com/tours or by calling (805) 565-5653. Casa del Herrero members can view the exhibition during member-only

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For reservations, email robles@casadelherrero.com.

The majority of the exhibition pieces can be purchased with 50% of the proceeds given to support Casa del Herrero. To view and purchase artwork visit charityauction.bid/ToMexicoAndBeyond.

Casa del Herrero – Montecito’s National Historic Landmark – announced last week that an art exhibition at the property, Channing Peake – To Mexico and Beyond, has been extended to Saturday, April 30, 2022. This vibrant exhibition, in collaboration with the Channing Peake Estate, is comprised of several working drawings made by Peake during his many travels to Mexico throughout his life.

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estselling author Michael Lewis shared insight into his blockbuster books such as Moneyball, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk, at the 17th annual President’s Breakfast on March 4 at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort.

Exactly two years ago, Daniel Kahneman, the subject of Lewis’ book, The Undoing Project, spoke at the breakfast on the eve of the COVID-19 shutdown.

Lewis said until he wrote Moneyball, he wasn’t familiar with Kahneman’s influential work on behavioral economics and the psychology of judgment and decision-making.

“I spent a year trying to explain how a baseball team with no money was beating all the baseball teams with money,” Lewis said. “The Oakland A’s had found out that professional baseball didn’t understand the value of its employees. The employees have been doing what they’re doing pretty much the same way for 100 years. There were statistics attached to

every move they made when they’re on the job, but the A’s found out there were all sorts of things distorted about each of the players.”

After being in the clubhouse and seeing the players come out of the shower naked, Lewis realized they didn’t look like professional athletes. When he asked the team’s management about this, they said Lewis was beginning to figure out how the ball club operated. The A’s were finding valuable players whose value was misidentified because of their physical appearance. “It blinds the market to the person’s value,” Lewis said. “That was the first moment I was interested in writing my book because I thought this is not baseball, this is about people who are misperceived simply because of the way they look. We move through the world misperceiving value, and the A’s were exploiting the systematic errors the human mind makes when it was engaging its judgments.”

It was a review of Moneyball in The New Yorker that said Lewis had simply written about a case study of the work done by Amos Tversky and Kahneman.

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Not knowing anything about them, Lewis discovered that not only did he live just a mile away from Kahneman in Berkeley, but that he had taught the son of the now late Amos Tversky while at UC Berkeley. “So, I had a connection and I walked into this story about Danny and the partnership with Tversky that has changed the world.”

Kahneman and Tversky, the subjects in The Undoing Project, are two men, when together, form a magical relationship and create powerfully influential research.

“They had started with the observation that people, when they move through the world, aren’t statisticians,” he says.

“They aren’t calculating probabilities and their judgments are skewed in various ways. And they went about classifying all the ways the human mind has screwed up when it was making intuitive judgments. It’s a story of collaboration with people who are exploring what mistakes the human mind makes while moving through the world in really profound and resourceful ways. But what it really was, was a love story. And it was an absolute joy to get to the bottom of the love story.”

In researching for his book, The Fifth Risk, Lewis says he discovered that many government agencies had been left to ossify and decay for more than four generations.

“In the back of my mind, [I’m wondering] what risks are going to bubble up that we’re going to mismanage because nobody’s paying attention,” he says. “In the information technology sector, there are six times more people over the age of 60 than under the age of 30 working in the Federal Row. What are they doing? Updating Wang Computers? No wonder the IRS computer system crashes. This is terrible.”

Lewis has created a podcast, Against the Rules, and is working on another book that flirts with the subject of cryptocurrency about a young character set out to make as much money as possible just so he can give it away.

The Lead Sponsor of this year’s President’s Breakfast was Bank of the West. Gold Sponsor’s included Davies, Monica Eiler, David and Anna Grotenhuis, In Memory of Jim Haslem, HUB International Insurance Services Inc., La Arcada, Lindsay and Laurie Parton, Matt Construction, Warren and Mary Lynn Staley, Sunset and Magnolia Interior Design, and Union Bank with special thanks to Tim and Ashley Snider.

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Music Department Top Scholarships to Guild Winners The Westmont Music Department handed out tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships to musicians and singers as part of its annual guild competitions. Corrie Bascom, a violinist from Minnesota, won the 10th annual Instrumental Guild Competition February 26 and Hailey Somphone, a soprano from Fullerton, won the Vocal Guild Competition on March 5. Each will receive up to $10,000 in annual music scholarship funds (up to $40,000 for four years) to study at Westmont.

Bascom, a homeschool graduate who is currently taking a gap year, began studying violin at the age of five. She is a student of Minnesota Orchestra violinist Aaron Janse. and has played in the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies and Minnesota Youth Symphonies, where she works as the string orchestra assistant. She says her favorite part of being a violinist is seeing and experiencing the power that music has to bring people together.

Somphone, a senior at the Orange County School of the Arts, has studied piano for 14 years and voice for seven. Along with classical singing, she enjoys song writing and composing contemporary and musical theater music. Hailey also leads worship at her church youth group. The prestigious competitions are funded by the Guild

for Music at Westmont.

For information about becoming a guild member, please contact the Westmont music office at (805) 565-6040.

Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

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female filmmakers covering everything from directing, producing, and editing to costuming, casting, and production design come together to discuss their unique experiences in the industry in one of SBIFF’s signature panels on Saturday, March 12.

Also still to come: free Filmmaker Seminars Outdoors at Casa de la Guerra on Documentary Activism on March 10, and How to Make a Great Short on March 11, plus the annual 10-1010 Student Shorts free screening at the Belle Vie tells of this Parisian-style bistro’s attempts to stay open during the shutdowns Arlington on March 12.

Watch this space next week for a SBIFF wrap-up and my annual SBIFF-Oscar my copy of Peter’s fantastic second solo quotes segment. Meanwhile, we spoke album,” explained director Fred Parnes. with two documentarians – and one of “I realized I had lost the sense of his the subjects – behind two movies still career, hadn’t bought any of his later to play. albums, which are also fantastic. It was like a mystery story I wanted to follow.”

Not that Case himself cared about Peter Case: A Million Miles Away captures the unraveling that riddle or even delving singer-songwriter’s career and struggles into his past – “I’m 67 years old, and I There’s a beautiful symmetry about the made it this far without a movie,” he said

by Steven Libowitz world premiere of Peter Case: A Million in the joint Zoom meeting. “My vision is Miles Away taking place in Santa Barbara. in my songs and my songs are my films.

Pop promoter Peggy Jones named her I’m focused on the present and living in ust three days are left in Santa locally legendary Lobero singer-songwrit- the now. But it felt right and if it might Barbara International Film Festival er series, Sings Like Hell, after Case’s 1993 carry my music out to a bigger audience, (SBIFF) ‘22, but that’s still plenty album to represent the under-heard, or why not?” of time to partake of a plethora of mov- on-their-way-up, artists she booked into Still, charting the progression of his ies in virtually every genre as a signifi- the Lobero for 21 years through spring career and revisiting rock shows with cant percentage of the films are either 2018. The album was an artistic break- his former bands The Nerves and The premiering or having second screenings through record that heralded his break Plimsouls, his duo with fellow singMarch 10-12, while others might enjoy from a record company that didn’t know er-songwriter and ex-wife Victoria a third showing to fill up the TBA what to do with him. And the film A Williams, and his decades as an acoustic slots. The cavalcade of Academy Award Million Miles Away – named after the hit blues-based solo artist provided Case nominees continued with a final star single Case enjoyed in the ‘80s with his with some warm moments. tribute with SBIFF’s highest honor, the power pop band The Plimsouls – serves “When I see some of those things I Maltin Modern Master Award, going to address something similar. did that transcend time, I think, well, to Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman “We were searching for a musician that’s pretty good,” Case said. “That’s the on March 10. While Oscar-nominated to make a movie about when I found whole point of this art, even something temporal. When you sing something and it stays sung, that’s a special moment.

There’s a few of those in the movie that captured what I was trying to get at.”

What also comes clear in the film is how Case’s songs are both timeless but also of his time, as Parnes documents the singer-songwriter’s struggles, both LOCAL personal and universal, and his vitality on stage. Indeed, we witness the passion of his audiences at gigs in a wide variety YOU CAN TRUST of venues who find some level of solace in his music.

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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

“I’ve survived and lived as a performing songwriter my whole life,” he said. “I stayed on the road. I’ve been able to create my vision of the world and bring it to people, and anybody who can do that is a success story, man.” Case doesn’t regret shelving rock music for a solo sojourn at the height of the 1980s. But given America’s obsession with stardom, he did make one allowance. “Only reason I might wish I was more famous is because it would make my fans feel better,” he said. “People find that very validating.”

3Qs: A Beautiful Life for Foodie and Filmmaker The COVID crisis might be coming to a close, but not soon enough for Belle Vie, a Parisian-style bistro between two fast food joints in Los Angeles that charmed diners before shuttering for good due to pandemic problems. Fortunately, Belle Vie lives on through filmmaker Marcus Mizelle’s immersive documentary of owner Vincent Samarco’s attempts to adapt and survive. Mizelle answered a few questions via email in advance of the film’s world premiere on March 9 and 12.

Belle Vie also airs in an edited version on KCET on March 15 and will be released on VOD April 4.

Q. Lots of restaurants shuttered during the pandemic. What makes Belle Vie’s story unique?

Marcus Mizelle: It’s not just a pandemic story about a restaurant trying to survive – it’s also an immigrant story, and a love story (of Vincent and Ornella but also of Los Angeles). Also, the attitude Vincent brings to it as a reaction to the extreme hardships is a firm reminder that it’s not what you’re dealing with but how you choose to react that creates your path forward.

Did you know right away that Vincent would work as your protagonist?

Absolutely. He’s a colorful, likable human from the first day I walked into the restaurant, and every night after that as well. He has a natural, happy go-lucky attitude that just made him a no brainer for a character audiences could easily root for and get behind. Once the camera started rolling, the sound bites just flowed even more. He’s an absolute natural made to be in front of the camera. I always had the overall structure of a Hero’s Journey in mind and sensed his story would likely fit nicely into that mold. When we started filming, he was already preparing to adapt to the situation, and as we went along it was clear there would be plenty of conflict – a big element that always drives a story forward.

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from the restaurants and shops on Coast Village Road, on a no-traffic lane with guest parking and privacy. This listing has been reduced from the original asking price and is within the Montecito Union School District.

February Stats and My 10th Anniversary with the Montecito Journal

320 East Mountain Drive – $4,549,000

by Mark Ashton Hunt

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his spring marks my 10th anniversary writing about Real Estate for the Montecito Journal and I just want to say how appreciative I am, to the publication and to the local Real Estate agents, who have allowed me this forum to share my insights on the market and the Montecito area during this past decade.

From the lows of 2012 and 2013 to the up markets a few years ago, to the Thomas Fire and debris flow and the COVID-19 property sales surge, it’s been a ride for sure.

Growing up in Ventura and other Southern California areas, I would often visit my grandparents who lived in Santa Barbara, and even go to their open houses (yes, they were local realtors from the 1960s through the ‘80s). I had always dreamed of living here. Then, 20 years later and 20 years ago, along with my wife Sheela and our daughter Sareena, we made that move to Montecito. Here we have been able to be around family, make great friends, adventure out and about town day and night, and contribute the best we can to this incredible community we are so fortunate to live in.

This past month in Montecito, we saw 23 closed escrows in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). To compare that, 23 reported sales is a solid number for any month in a normal Montecito sales market (average 15-20 sales per month), but especially significant in a winter month where we usually see fewer closed escrows. Also, February boasted two MLS reported sales over $10 million (one at $18 million and another just under $21 million).

These big-ticket sales offer continuing proof that our highest end (over $10 million) market is still going strong. Statistics for February sales in the MLS included: – 2 sales over $10,000,000 – 5 sales in the $5’s – 4 in the $4’s – 6 in the $3’s – And just 6 sales under $3 million (smaller homes, fixers, condos) In years prior to 2020, it was common for the under $3 million market in Montecito to make up 50% of all sales. Since 2020 we are only seeing approximately 25% of all sales falling into this market. Translation? The entry level for a 2,500 to 4,000 square foot average home on an acre or so in Montecito has clicked up a couple of million since 2019 from say $2.5 – $4 million on average, to between $4 to $6 million now for those same homes, perhaps higher in some cases.

But still, many say that compared to L.A.’s top priced neighborhoods, Montecito is still looking like a good deal. A 5,000 square foot home on an acre with some views in prime Beverly Hills or Pacific Palisades may be $10 to $20,000,000, while here in Montecito it’s only $9 to $12 million. Still a huge number, but using this lens, one can more easily see how when jumping from one top market to another, price is seemingly less important. As long as the new place is less than what you are leaving, or if you get more house/land for the same money (which buyers often do get in Montecito), how can one go wrong?

The properties featured today have been on the market anywhere from a few weeks to a few months or more and thus may offer a buyer the chance to avoid the multiple offer scenario that is most often associated with brand new listings. There are only a small handful of homes available in any price range on the market at this point and here are a few that might still be available by the time you read this, but don’t wait if you see something you like. Until soon – Keep Montecito Friendly.

1274 Eleven Oaks Lane – $2,975,000

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Location, location, location! Just two short blocks to Butterfly Beach and a few more to the Rosewood Miramar. Situated on nearly a third of an acre at the end of a private lane, near the Lower Village, this beachy cottage includes four bedrooms, two bathrooms and sunny outdoor areas, perfect for indoor/outdoor living, complete with fire pit and an upper patio with ocean views.

Convenience is a plus with this listing, living just around the corner

This East Mountain Drive home was designed by NMA Architects and built in 2011 by DD Ford Construction. Enjoy the four bedrooms, three and a half baths with a detached studio and the privacy that often accompanies an East Mountain Drive address. The chef ’s kitchen is the heart of the household, with a center island, state-of-the-art kitchen appliances, and honed granite countertops.

The living room offers cathedral ceilings, wainscoting, a stone fireplace, and large picture windows. The primary bedroom suite, under a vaulted ceiling, features a fireplace, cozy window seat, walk-in closet, and ocean views. The covered stone patio with fireplace encourages year-round entertaining. This listing has been on the market just over a month and is within the Cold Spring School District.

796 Hot Springs Road – $9,995,000

Experience bold style in this refined, ocean view, single level, architectural property just below East Mountain Drive and surrounded by many other significant and historic Montecito estates. Located down a quiet lane and not visible from the street, the home rests on a very private, gated acre in the heart of Montecito’s “Golden Quadrangle.”

The residence has been extensively upgraded and features a nearly 4,200 square foot floor plan that unfolds around a dramatic living room, chef ’s kitchen, dining room, den, and two bedroom suites, all accentuated with high ceilings and expansive windows and doors creating a dramatic connection between the interiors and the exterior landscape and views. Designed with versatility in mind, two additional bedrooms function as an office and gym with views of oaks, lush gardens, verdant native grasses

“Even while they teach, men learn.” – Seneca

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IDEAS CORNER:

On Money, Politics and other Trivial Matters

Perspectives

The Fog of War We can “Walk and Chew Gum”

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

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ussia’s invasion of Ukraine has captivated, as well it should, our general news coverage, our hearts, our minds, and our ability to clearly see the greater peril which is momentarily being obscured by the war. That is understandable on many levels when we see our fellow human beings, average Ukrainian civilians, targeted as victims of ongoing war crimes; or, alternatively one of over 1.5 million refugees (as of last Sunday) literally fleeing for their lives. In the heat of the battle, it is common to overlook critical issues that are swallowed up in “the fog of war.”

That expression is a paraphrase of a sentence uttered by Prussian military genius Carl von Clausewitz who said, “‘War is the realm of uncertainty – three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based – are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.”

He was relaying the uncertainty that surrounds judgements made by commanders in the field during military engagements. He was highlighting the necessity for a transparent and complete as possible set of facts being a precondition for success in a battle. He was right.

Unfortunately, the most important issue facing human civilization at the moment is being lost to public action by the Fog of War. As a friend observed when he encouraged the writing of this piece, “The frenzied focus on the current war in Eastern Europe has drowned out perhaps the single most important story for our children and grandchildren.” He was thinking of climate change and the incredibly frightening story that was reported on February 28, 2022. You may have heard about it briefly before it disappeared from the headlines as yet another casualty of the Ukrainian war. That was the day the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group comprised of the top 2,000 climate scientists, released its most recent report.

You may have missed this urgent report from the IPCC. Most people did. If it made any impression at all, it was just for a few moments, as the Fog of War absorbed all the “oxygen” in the newsroom, and folks were left without a sense of the incredibly dire picture the report painted.

Many in the environmental community have been trying to keep this report in our awareness, but it is a challenge. One nonprofit organization American Rivers wrote, “The IPCC report released today is yet another urgent alarm bell, urging us to wake up to the real dangers of climate change that communities across the globe are already experiencing.”

Jennifer Hoffner, Vice President of River Conservation Strategies for the nonprofit, went on to add, “What is clear is that the climate crisis is a water crisis. Failing dams, flooded homes, and dried up rivers will be our future.”

For those of us in California, we know another corollary to water imbalance: the San Joaquin Valley has begun to literally collapse due to water table depletion. Hoffner could also have added forest fires to that litany, yet another effect of climate change. Many scientists around the world volunteered that this report was the “bleakest warning yet” for how we are making the biosphere unsustainable for humans!

The Guardian’s Fiona Harvey summarized it by concluding that the “Report says human actions are causing dangerous disruption, and the window to secure a livable future is closing.” She points out that our current trends in greenhouse gas emissions will certainly allow more than the 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature rise the Paris Accords set as a limit, and certain impacts will be irreversible: “These include the melting of ice caps and glaciers, and a cascading effect whereby wildfires, the die-off of trees, the drying of peatlands and the thawing of permafrost releasing additional carbon emissions, amplifying the warming further.”

Hans-Otto Pörtner, a co-chair of the IPCC working group that issued the report gave as his warning: “The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet…Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a livable future.” That’s strong stuff.

And just to round out the dismal assessments, UN Secretary General António Guterres offered this thought: “Today’s IPCC Report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.” He went on to conclude that everywhere and everyone is going to be increasingly affected by the tragedy of climate change and that “about half the global population, between 3.3 billion and 3.6 billion people, live in highly vulnerable areas.”

Millions of people are already suffering food and water shortages at current temperature

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UN and Molson Coors Address Plastic Waste UN plans to tackle plastic pollution

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ore than 200 nations have agreed to negotiations on what would be an international treaty to address the issue of plastics littering our seas. This could mean rules regulating the production, use, and cleanup and disposal of plastics worldwide.

UN member states agreed at the UN Environment Assembly Nairobi, Kenya to draw up the framework of this agreement. Members involved in drafting this agreement have until 2024 to have a treaty ready to be signed. Many are facing pressure from the people of their own countries, some of whom struggle with plastic pollution more than others. Environmentalist groups are also demanding incentives to adhere to binding and clear global standards of plastic disposal and penalties for harmful waste.

It is a widely held concern that plastic pollution is harming habitats, endangering wildlife, and damaging the food supply with more than five trillion pieces of plastic floating in the world’s oceans. Tackling this issue has been called one of the most ambitious environmental actions since the 1989 Montreal Protocol, which phased out substances that depleted our ozone layers. We can now finally begin to substantially fix so much of the damage done to our planet by plastic waste.

Beer giant phases out plastic rings for eco-friendly alternative We’ve all seen the dismal photos of distressed wildlife trapped in various single-use plastic, or worse, strangled by those infamous plastic rings that come with many six-packs of beer.

Well, major beverage company Molson Coors has decided to take action, announcing last week that the six-packs of its Coors Light brand will no longer use these dangerous plastic rings. Instead, they’ll be selling their beer in a recyclable, sustainable cardboard alternative. This move makes Coors the largest U.S. beer brand to shift away from the plastic rings. Phasing out the plastic rings is part of a bigger sustainability plan at Molson Coors, that includes a series of environmental goals to be reached by 2025.

“We believe that buying beer shouldn’t mean buying plastic,” declared Vice President of Marketing for the Coors family of brands, Marcelo Pascoa. “That’s why we’re taking a step toward making packaging even more sustainable, and with this achievement Coors Light will save 400,000 pounds of single-use plastic from

becoming waste every year.” levels. Soon that number will be in the hundreds of millions on its way to billions. This will be accompanied by mass species die-offs; coral die-offs; ocean acidification; trees dying off by the hundreds of millions; ice masses in the Himalayan high plateau that feed the five great rivers of Asia rapidly melting into insufficiency for all of Asia’s water supply. They are already headed this way. Worse still, the report paints an immediate future that will be “cataclysmic” for small islands as they literally disappear below the ocean’s waves. Whole nations will cease to exist. In fact, the first islands are already being drowned. Sorry to be the bearer of such terrible news.

Hopefully, you’re now really understanding the gravity of the situation we face.

Hopefully, you’re beginning to understand how the Fog of War has occluded our ability to see that a far bigger crisis is happening and we’re not even paying attention to it. Well, folks, we can walk and chew gum at the same time – and we must.

Without taking our eyes off the evolving Russian-created crisis in Europe, we must also urgently address the climate crisis that is underway. We have no choice. Literally, the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

Unlike the terrible Ukrainian war which could have many outcomes, some admittedly terrifying such as a European-wide conflagration or even a nuclear exchange, those are all only possibilities. Climate change on its current path is not a “maybe.” It is a certainty – climate change will end human civilization as we know it in the modern Western democracies and in rural developing pockets of geopolitical instability. We have no choice.

Let’s work together to force Russia out of Ukraine, and at the same time let’s reverse climate change, which only got worse today than yesterday. We must not lose sight that both

require immediate action to fix.

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” – Iris Murdoch

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Brilliant Thoughts

Ernie’s World

by Ashleigh Brilliants

by Ernie Witham

On the Side of the Angels

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ne of the religious ideas I find most attractive is that of divine intervention – particularly in the form of guardian angels. How wonderful to feel that, if things get really bad, there is a specially appointed agent of the deity who is assigned to protect you personally.

Many religions and cultures promulgate ideas of this kind. You might say it is the opposite of the superstition that the only dangerous bullet is the one that has your name on it. This, on the other holy hand, is the personally-addressed miracle, embodied in some kind of angelic being. Of course, it helps if you are a believer.

We all know that angels have wings and halos. But we don’t know much about their private lives. Maybe that’s one of the advantages, or disadvantages, of being an angel. Everything you do is public property, sung about in songs, even painted on the ceilings of chapels. And of course, angels appear in many holy scriptures.

In one very strange Biblical incident, we have Jacob, one of the Hebrew patriarchs, wrestling with an angel. What’s unclear is the exact reason for this tussle. But one result is that Jacob (and all his progeny, down to the current political entity) is given a new name: Israel, which means “God fights.”

But the Angel name appears more directly in many forms, including, of course, people’s names (Angela, Angelina, Angelica) and place names, of which the most outstanding (and perhaps least understood) is Los Angeles.

Everybody knows that this means, in Spanish, “The Angels” – but relatively few people are aware that these words are only a convenient abbreviation of the official name, as bestowed by the very early settlers, which was: “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula.”

In English: “The City of Our Lady Queen of The Angels of the River Porciúncula.”

And what was the River Porciúncula?

It’s what is now the Los Angeles River, and was named for a chapel in Italy associated with St. Francis of Assisi. The word actually means “Little Portion.”

So now you know perhaps more than you wanted to know about this particular angelic manifestation. But at least it’s all on the good side.

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whelming force of German invaders.

In the following days, stories began to circulate that angels had been seen in the sky (of course, by the defenders), determining the outcome of the battle.

Such legends as that of “The Angels of Mons” continued to crop up throughout the war.

World War II, to my knowledge, produced no such supernatural inspiration, possibly the closest being the semi-legendary account of a chaplain on board a U.S. navy ship who, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, assisted in the firing of one of the ship’s guns, shouting “Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition!”

There are also, however, permeating our culture, wicked angels. The most notorious of them is the one whom some might consider the hero of John Milton’s epic poem, “Paradise Lost.” His name is Satan (also known as Lucifer), and he is a “fallen” angel, i.e. fallen to Hell from his original residence in Heaven.

And of course we must not forget groups which call themselves Hell’s Angels, a term which came to be associated with motorcycle gangs in the years after World War II, but which goes back at least as far as a 1930 movie of that name, produced by Howard Hughes, about fighting airplanes in World War I. The much more positive idea of “Guardian Angels” as a voluntary force, to counter crime and protect citizens, began in New York City in 1979, and has since become worldwide.

But for most of my own lifetime, although I didn’t acknowledge, or perhaps even realize, it – I had my very own guardian angel. Her name was Dorothy (which means “gift of God”). We had many differences and difficulties. But we were together for 51 years.

Many other people aren’t even that lucky. Still, they try to make the best of the relationships in which fate has placed them. As a popular song once put it: “You may not be an angel, ‘Cause angels are so few – But, until the day that one comes along,

I’ll string along with you.”

Ashleigh Brilliant born England 1933, came to California in 1955, to Santa Barbara in 1973, to the Montecito Journal in 2016.

Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots,” now a series of 10,000. email: ashleigh@west. net. web: www.ash leighbrilliant.com.

Looking for the Best Pot

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onsai pot, that is.

I gave up the other kind of pot when my last lava lamp died. “Dude, Check it out. I think it’s just as groovy when it doesn’t do anything.” “Righteous.” I sold all my bongs at a yard sale. “Excuse me, did you use reverse osmosis water in this one or purified distilled?” “Ah, I used that French one — la tap.” “Cool. I’ll take it.” I stopped wearing sunglasses at night. “Wow! Unpolarized people are strange.” “Yeah. And way too bright.” And I quit buying Visine by the case. “CVS called again. Wants you to know your shipment is still in.”

Now, the plants I enjoy are miniature trees. Junipers, pines, maples, elms, olives. They are my multi-limbed children. I feed and water them on a regular basis. Give them haircuts when their foliage gets unruly. Help them grow and shape their lives. I talk to them every day and listen to their every desire. “I want to be a slant style tree.” But you are tall and straight.

“You’re the ‘artist’ (and I use the word loosely), so make it happen.” How about I just photograph you sideways and give you extra fish emulsion instead. “And guano?” Done.

Then, once a year or so, I help them move out of their current homes and into new digs. That’s where my search for the perfect pot comes in. And it’s not easy!

First, like people, you have to figure out if your tree is masculine or feminine (or non-binary, I suppose). You do not do this by looking under the trunk.

Instead you look at the tree as a whole.

A masculine tree has a large trunk, rough bark, stands fairly straight, and has larger foliage. In other words, hairy, rough around the edges, and domineering. Feminine trees, like feminine people, tend to be quieter (unless you leave your shoes under the coffee table again) and have graceful lines. They also have smaller leaves, like olives or oaks. I never tell my oaks that they look a bit feminine, though. Acorns hurt when they are hurled at you.

Pots come in many shapes and sizes.

Some trees require one that is deep: “Once someone’s hurt you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love.” Okay, okay, less root pruning, I get it. Other trees are more on the shallow side: “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.” All right, you get your own stand, jeez.

Some trees need pots that are square, some rectangular, some oval, and

some, like their shape, require round pots. “Who are you calling round, lardo?” Some trees like pots that are newly crafted, and some trees fit an older motif. “Back in my day we grew in poor soil and fought for sun and water and it was uphill both ways...”

Some trees need pots glazed and some need unglazed. Most conifers prefer unglazed pots. “That’s because we are beautiful all by ourselves. We don’t need enhancements.” There is no pot for “modesty.”

Some trees like pots that are newly crafted, and some trees fit an older motif. “Back in my day we grew in poor soil and fought for sun and water and it was uphill both ways...”

Pots come in a variety of colors, but the majority of bonsai look best in brown unglazed pots. These can be dark brown, medium brown, reddish brown, and light brown. Small trees, as in shohin style, which can be no taller than eight inches, can be placed in colored glazed pots, even if they are conifers. “Hey, I want to be a shohin in a colorful pot.” No problem I’ll just cut you in half. “Brute.”

There are also crescent-shaped pots, pots made from stones, free-form pots, which usually means the potter messed up, but it came out so weird, they can sell it for big bucks. Then there are slabs. These can be used for miniature mountainscapes and forest plantings.

“Hey. Over here on the south-facing shelf. We want to be in a forest.”

But you guys are all different species.

“Whoa, mister bonsai expert, a quote like that could get your pruners taken away.”

Sigh. Told you it was stressful.

Maybe on my way to the nursery for bonsai pots, I’ll stop off at the cannabis store. Just to look... Ohhmmm.

Ernie Witham has been writing humor for more than 25 years. He is the author of three humor books and is the humor workshop leader at the prestigious Santa Barbara Writers Conference.

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Banking Brothers

Santa Barbara Polo Club banking brothers Dan and Henry Walker are bucking the current trend! At a time when other financial institutions are closing branches in favor of the internet, the Farmers & Merchants Bank chief executives are planning to open three more branches. The dynamic duo, who have had a branch in Santa Barbara since 2018, currently have 13 outposts, with Orange County deposits surging 21 percent to $4.3 billion, ranking it number 11 on the Business Journal’s annual list of banks with operations around its Long Beach headquarters.

With a healthy $10 billion in assets, Farmers & Merchants is now the 105th largest bank in the U.S. and the 15th largest in California. “We have California’s strongest bank,” says former club president Dan, whose polo team won the Pacific Coast Open, the biggest tournament on the Left Coast, in 2017 and 2019, “Relationships are the maximum key to our success.”

A Moorish Move Montecito TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has splashed out $20.95 million on a 2.45-acre Moorish-style estate in the Hot Springs area. The postmodern 2014 property, Villa Tragara, has three bedrooms and four and half baths in 12,000 square feet. It is modeled on the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain.

It was designed and built by French director Kinka Usher, who made TV commercials for Nike, Pepsi, Nissan, Sony and HBO. The estate, just a jog away from the San Ysidro Ranch, includes pickle and bocce ball courts in an oasis-like garden, and also has a swimming pool that cost Usher $400,000 to install. The original

asking price was $35 million, but after nearly three years on the market the price was heavily reduced.

Your Enthusiasm. But in a tweet posted by the HBO Documentaries account, the network announced that David, 74, wanted another crack at the interview, doing it in front of a live audience.

A CAMA Quintet CAMA – Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara – hosted the first concert of its Masterseries at the Lobero with international Grammy winning string player Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations. For Spaniard Savall it was his fourth appearance in our Eden by the Beach having performed in 2008, 2010, and 2016.

Playing a 1697 Barak Norman English seven-string bass violin, Savall – who has made more than 230 records covering the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods – led the extraordinarily talented quintet, including violinist Manfredo Kraemer, flutist Charles Zebley, Philippe Pierlot on bass violin, Lucas Harris on theorbo and guitar, and Marco Vitale on harpsichord. The rapturous, 75-minute seven-piece baroque gem, Tous les Matins du Monde, featured 17th century works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marin Marais, and Francois Couperin. In a word, it was magnificent...

A Farewell to Homes Actor Michael Douglas was spotted at his late father Kirk Douglas’s Montecito home in what may have been a poignant last visit to the property. The estate, where I was at dinner a number of times with Kirk and his wife Anne, was sold for $6.8 million in January, nearly two years after the Hollywood legend’s death at 103.

Built in 1957, the four-bed, threebath, 3,487 square foot home on one acre, a tiara’s toss from Pierre Lafond in the Upper Village, was used as a weekend retreat from their Beverly Hills estate by the tony twosome. It features a Fiddler on the Roof figure on top of the shingled

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Family Fun Montecito actor Rob Lowe, 57, is certainly making his hit Fox TV series 9-1-1: Lone Star a family affair. His brother, Chad Lowe, 54, has been behind the camera directing episodes, while Rob’s son, John Owen, 27, has been writing scripts for the Austin-based series on first responders.

A Surreal Past Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations (photo by Toni Peñarroya)

roof. The Oscar winner, who used to have a home on Hot Springs Road with his wife Diandra, was spotted at Pierre’s coffee shop picking up a takeout dinner.

Meanwhile…

In the Courts

Former actress Meghan Markle is being sued for defamation by her half-sister, Samantha Markle, over the incendiary interview she and Prince Harry gave Oprah Winfrey nearly a year ago.

Samantha, 57, claims in court documents the Duchess of Sussex, 40, made “false and malicious statements” during the sitdown. She accused the former Suits star of falsely claiming to be “an only child” and claims Meghan lied about the time frame when they last saw each other, according to the New York Post.

“The defamatory implication is that plaintiff had no relationship with her sister Meghan, they were virtual strangers, and that plaintiff has created a lucrative career selling false stories to tabloids and television programs when she knows nothing about defendant’s childhood,” according to court papers.

Samantha accuses Meghan of bashing their father, Thomas Markle, in an attempt to sell the world a false “rags-to-royalty” narrative of her life.

She is asking for $75,000 in damages and the cost of court and attorney’s fees.

Meghan’s legal eagle, Michael Kump, thundered, “This baseless and absurd lawsuit is just a continuation of a pattern of disturbing behavior. We will give it the minimum attention necessary, which is all it deserves.” Stay tuned...

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Larry David’s HBO documentary has been pulled at the last minute. The network was expected to premiere The Larry David Story, about our rarefied enclave’s newest resident, in a sit-down interview with his friend and collaborator Larry Charles, who has directed several episodes of Curb

“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.” – Thomas Hobbes

My story on the magnificent Hôtel Lambert in Paris, situated just behind Notre-Dame Cathedral on the Ile St-Louis, being sold for $227 million, reminded me that its former owner Baron Guy de Rothschild, who died aged 98 in 2007, was a good friend of the late Montecito society doyenne Beverley Jackson and would regularly send her “care packages” of his family’s legendary Château Lafite wine.

Like his good friend Baron Alexis de Rede, whose opulent apartment was on the ground floor of the Hôtel Lambert, he and his wife Marie-Hélène, were known for their extraordinary entertaining, including the legendary Surrealist Ball they hosted in 1972 at their 7,413-acre, 80-bedroom country estate outside Paris, Château de Ferrières, which was donated to the University of Paris on his death.

Many costumes were designed by artist Salvador Dali, with actress Audrey Hepburn in a birdcage hat, and an interactive maze filled with butlers pretending to be cats. Invitations, which had been printed backwards, had to be read in a mirror – inspired by the artist René Magritte. Dinner plates were covered in fur, with tables decorated with taxidermy tortoises, and food served on mannequin corpses on beds of roses.

De Rede wore an astonishing quadruple-decker four masks in one with scarab beetles, an Egyptian twist of Titian’s Allegory of Prudence, designed

by Dali. Perfumer Hélène Rochas wore a gramophone on her head, and Baroness Rothschild donned a giant stag’s head studded with tears of real diamonds, which certainly impressed other guests like Marisa Berenson and Brigitte Bardot.

Those were the days...

In Loo of Keaton No wonder Montecito actor Michael Keaton was feeling flushed when he was presented with his SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV movie. He was relieving himself in the bathroom at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica! Keaton, 70, who won for his role as the opioid-addicted Dr. Samuel Finnix in the Hulu series Dopesick ran to

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Community Voices Santa Barbara: Where the Arts Have Not Mattered for 44 Years!

by Jeff Giordano

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ecently, I had some L.A. friends move to town (don’t be alarmed, they really are “nice”). Mistakenly, they thought that I knew a bit about our County and asked: “So where does ‘our’ money go?” Mind you, these are philanthropic folks who care about culture so I had to be honest: “I can tell you one thing, it doesn’t go to the arts.” Allow me to explain: In 1978, Santa Barbara County developed a plan — one that has yet to be updated — to support the arts, sort of.

You see, as it relates to “support” – the level is laughingly dated/anemic, and as it relates to the “arts” – the definition is painfully narrow. Anyway, what this plan (Ordinance 3068) provided was that 1% of County construction budgets (e.g. parking lots and buildings) be earmarked for the adornment of these public spaces. You see, for me, and this is in keeping with the broader stated purpose of 3068, the arts must also include music, dance, theater, and literature. You know, all those things that our individual largesse makes possible, and all those things that make Santa Barbara culturally wonderful.

As for the funding itself, guess how much our Office of Arts and Culture receives annually from our $1.35B County? Hold onto your hats: around $300K. Yes, just $300K to support the arts, a $198M industry sector that boasts

5,857 jobs and generates $19M in local and state revenue. Shameful!

Perhaps in 1978 this plan seemed sound. After all, back then we were actually building (rather than simply repairing), our crumbling Bauhaus edifice(s).

But times have changed and as it relates to capital improvements, we make very few. Indeed, according to the most recent budget, we have $471M in deferred maintenance – $471M! And, on the revenue side, although our revenues have soared by $160M, our funding for the arts has remained at pitifully low historic levels, i.e. $300K. You need to understand something about our County, and while this is not the place to dig deeply, I will let you in on a secret: The County always wants to talk “revenue” because it keeps us from talking about something much darker and more important, “expenses.”

Allow me to mention just a few County expenses to put the $300K for the arts in context: $700M for salaries (a $34M increase from last year); $17M to operate our newly minted, white elephant, jail (a $2M increase from last year); $325K for Employee Housing and Leadership Compensation studies (huh?); and about $800K for cannabis related hires re: licensing, planning, and tax enforcement (one out of three growers refuse to pay taxes). One quick word about cannabis — I really can’t help myself — our tax scheme is the laughingstock of the entire state. Last quarter each grower paid just $27K on average. Cannabis is not our

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savior, it is Santa Barbara’s version of the Emperor’s New Clothes, a fairytale repeated by our opinion-based (other than the MJ) media. Fact: The arts are more valuable than large-scale commercial cannabis can ever hope to be!

So, let all five of our supervisors know that we need to develop a new and forward-looking arts funding mechanism. Also, let our CEO Mona Miyasato know that a society is measured by what they fund and, perhaps,

the arts are a bit more important than a Compensation Study (i.e. Are we making enough?). Never forget, although we are blessed with sunshine, our County has a very dark underbelly. The arts need support and it can’t always come from the incredible generosity of a few (Towbes, McCune, etc.)

— let’s start understanding where our money goes and demand “more.” After all, 44 years is a very long time.

Jeff Giordano, SB County Resident

Hate Speech May Be Protected, but It Shouldn’t Be “Free”

by Dan Meisel

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n my role at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), I passionately defend free speech. ADL recognizes that the First Amendment protects even hateful or offensive speech, and we believe the best response to hate speech is not censorship, but more speech. Not all hate speech is protected, however, and even hate speech that is protected “free speech” should not be free from meaningful response.

Appropriate responses can range from counter speech to civil or criminal liability depending on the circumstances.

Let’s be clear first about what “hate speech” is and isn’t. Hate speech is an expression of antipathy towards others based on core characteristics that someone cannot and should not have to change, such as their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, national origin, gender, or sexual identity. It does not include others’ opinions merely because they might offend us, nor does it include offensive statements from ignorance alone. Hate speech stems from hostility to others.

The Supreme Court has been clear that even speech inflicting great pain is worth tolerating to preserve the public debate upon which democracies depend for legitimacy. The Court’s protection of hate speech extends only, however, to speech relating to

“matters of public concern,” which is determined not just by its content of the speech, but by its form and context as well. That standard leaves some hate speech open to criminal, civil, and other public and private consequences, as we can see from some recent local incidents.

In February, a small group of skeleton-masked individuals hung signs with white supremacist slogans from a bridge above the 101 Freeway in Newbury Park – and it was not an isolated incident. ADL counted 128 similarly offensive banner hangs last year around the country. While the Newbury Park banners themselves may have constituted protected speech, the “form and context” of attaching them to an overpass above a busy freeway may remove First Amendment protection, and there are state statutes that could arguably penalize such conduct. Some municipalities may impose fines as well.

At a minimum, communal statements countering the message without giving further publication to the hate speech and its perpetrators is important.

Identifying the perpetrators could also lead to more severe consequences. These haters tend to hide their identities not only to avoid prosecution, but to avoid repercussions of being publicly exposed for expressing such negativity. Many participants in the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville lost jobs and were reject-

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ed by friends and family as a result of their protected hate speech that day. While the echo chambers of their online “metaverse” only emboldened their hateful beliefs, they experienced in the “realverse” the corrective behavior that usually checks biased attitudes before they escalate to action.

A few months ago, a longtime local resident visiting a Santa Barbara County facility staffed by UCSB employees engaged in a mild political conversation with the facility’s manager. To the resident’s surprise, the manager reportedly erupted, calling him a “F[expletive] Jew,” a “F[expletive] immigrant,” and yelling at him to “go back to his country.” Understandably shocked, shaken, and furious, the resident reported the incident to police, as did a witness who came forward to express his shock at the manager’s conduct.

most important factor in whether the perpetrator incurs serious consequences for his action. We all have a role to play in standing up for targets of hate speech and loudly condemning it to deter others.

Tragically, there was another local incident that is imperative we address. Students at Santa Barbara Junior High School reportedly taunted another student with racial slurs, eventually kneeling on his neck and referencing George Floyd. This incident went well beyond hate speech and some consequences apparently ensued for students involved. It is critical that additional consequences follow in the form of education – not just for the students involved, and not just in response to this event.

When we see conduct like this on a school campus, we tend to see a substantial presence of hateful speech preceding it.

The Supreme Court has been clear that even speech inflicting great pain is worth tolerating to preserve the public debate upon which democracies depend for legitimacy. The Court’s protection of hate speech extends only, however, to speech relating to “matters of public concern,” which is determined not just by its content of the speech, but by its form and context as well.

The First Amendment doesn’t protect a narrow category of “fighting words.”

Consequences for fighting words appear in California Penal Code section 415(3), commonly known as “Disturbing the Peace,” which applies to the “use of offensive words in a public place which are inherently likely to provoke an immediate violent reaction.”

We are often inclined to say “it was just words” when obvious physical harm doesn’t ensue. But at ADL, we recognize that words matter and section 415(3) of the penal code recognizes that words can create a dangerous situation and inflict lasting harm. In addition to criminal liability, fighting words may give rise to civil liability or violation of an employee code of conduct warranting discipline or termination.

It is worth emphasizing the importance of the witness who came forward to support the target’s credibility despite the risk of himself antagonizing the perpetrator. That act of allyship may be the single

That presence can be substantiated with student surveys – youth are usually honest about what they see and hear. This hate is learned, and it can be unlearned with sustained quality programming that doesn’t punish everyone for the acts of a few, but which involves the entire campus and its stakeholders in fostering and maintaining a comprehensive vision of a respectful, inclusive campus community that can recognize animus in its earliest forms and come together to check it. That is one form of “cost” that, when done well, can feel supportive, life affirming, even inspiring.

To truly enjoy our nation’s wonderfully paramount value for free speech, we must make sure hate speech does not go unanswered, and that we invest in education to foster a community that responds

effectively to it at an early age.

Dan Meisel is the Regional Director of ADL Santa Barbara/Tri-Counties

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eyeing the Baltic states, Romania and Poland. As a dictator, he holds all the levers of power arresting or murdering those who oppose him in Russia and many outside its present borders. He has a hit-list already compiled for certain Ukrainians. Maybe the amnesia that has lulled European minds for the past 30 years will be burst by this shocking invasion of Ukraine. Europe has become too dependent on Russia’s vast energy resources thinking they would always be available from an, if not friendly – at least civil – Asian country. They foolishly turned from nuclear, or other but maybe more expensive, sources of natural gas and oil. America is now coming to the aid of the EU via LNG shipments of its prodigious natural gas resources. But we need improved port and pipeline expansions. The very fossil fuels that have been hampered by short-sighted government restrictions, pushed by the many environmentalists that sue and obstruct reasonable conveyance and production measures, under the guise of climate change, must cease.

This trend of injuring our and our allies’ national security by injuring our energy security must be rehabilitated.

The people who want to “build absolutely nothing absolutely nowhere” seem to act as if oil from dictatorships like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Russia is better for the climate than our safer and more controlled domestic produc-

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ers. And Santa Barbara’s environmental groups need to be awakened and transformed as well. Suddenly, virtually overnight, America’s top national interests are now turning to the realization that our energy resources are not only important, as we transition to cleaner energy sources, but are essential to our own and our friends’ security and safety in what is rapidly becoming a more dangerous world.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 12

by Steven Libowitz FRIDAY, MARCH 11 Lucidity at the Lounge – With the pandemic protocols officially on pause, the first Lucidity Festival in two years is ready to take over the Live Oak Campground once again next month. Which means it’s time to awake from your slumber and dream awake by congregating at EOS Lounge for a classic Santa Barbara Lucidity Festival Pre-Party. Even those not planning on attending the festival can get down to bass music in the main room, shake it to local house DJs in the side room, and partake of Lucidity-style performance artists and vendors throughout the club’s environs. The Oakland-based trumpeter-producer Balkan Bump headlines, with 9 Lives, S’akibaum and Kylie Nicole among the other artists appearing. Given the 24-month hiatus, the community vibes should emerge on an even higher plane than usual at Lucidity events, taking on the aura of feel-good, anticipatory reunions.

WHEN: 8 pm – 1:30 am WHERE: EOS Lounge, 500 Anacapa St. COST: $20 in advance, $25 at the door INFO: (805) 564-2410 or eoslounge.com Grad Slam – The annual campus-wide competition pitting graduate students against each other in a challenge of distilling years of research into an engaging three-minute talk returns to in-person presentations at Campbell Hall. The 10 finalists represent a wide scope of fields of study, including Psychological & Brain Sciences; Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology; Biomolecular Science & Engineering; Music; Computer Science; Physics; and two each from Chemistry & Biochemistry and Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology – spanning topics that might seem a bit of a task to cram into just 180 seconds. To make it even harder, Grad Slam presenters are allowed a maximum of three slides to illustrate their talks, with animation and transition effects prohibited, and even minimal props needing to be cleared in advance. Meaning the words are key in these TED Talks-on-speed style presentations. The stakes are high, with a $5,000 first prize, $2,500 for the runner-up, and a $1,500 People’s Choice prize awarded by audience vote. Live streaming (and voting) on YouTube and Facebook is available.

WHEN: 4:30 – 6 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: free INFO: ucsb.edu/gradslam

FRIDAY, MARCH 11 Sax-man Cometh – Saxophonist Derek Douget returns to Santa Barbara for another evening of swinging, highly energized New Orleans jazz. Douget, a member of the Ellis Marsalis Quartet and the Director of the Heritage School of Music, is both a performer whose credits include working with Dr. John, Terence Blanchard, Allen Toussaint, Branford Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, among many others, and an educator dedicated to enhancing and passing on the art form. As evidenced by the band once again spending a week prior to the show in residence in town providing masterclasses at schools throughout Santa Barbara. Saxist Douget will be joined by Ashlin Parker (trumpet), Victor Atkins (piano), Jason Stewart (bass), and Joe Dyson (drums).

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $31 & $91 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com

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Shepherd Tends to the Blues – Can you really call an accomplished ax-man like Kenny Wayne Shepherd a “young blues rock guitar sensation” anymore? After all, he’s 44, which would be nine years older than Stevie Ray Vaughan – the legend who influenced Shepherd at seven – was when he died in a helicopter crash. And Shepherd has sold millions of albums and sent seven singles into Billboard’s Top 10 mainstream rock chart. Meanwhile, just last month, Shepherd played a 25th anniversary concert for his debut, Trouble Is…, at the Strand Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana, where Shepherd was born and raised. On the other hand, mid-40s is just a starting point for bluesmen who can keep plugging away and reinventing themselves way past normal retirement age. Whatever the appellation, Shepherd survived the sudden success at age 16 and continued to create music for the blues-loving masses, as all but one of his albums have soared to No. 1 on Billboard’s blues album chart, including his most recent, 2019’s The Traveler.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $50-$106 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com

SUNDAY, MARCH 13 Through Their Eyes, too – The Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s ancillary events for its exhilarating exhibition Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources launch with a symposium featuring five scholars in a one-day seminar examining the themes of the show. The schedule includes independent curator Sjraar van Heugten’s “A Lifelong Fascination: Van Gogh, Nature, and the Lure of Rural Life”; La Trobe University’s Vincent Alessi’s “Sitting by the Hearth: Notions of Home, Vincent Van Gogh and Charles Dickens”; Yeshiva University Art History Chair Marnin Young’s “Van Gogh’s Realism”; UCLA Art History professor Debora Silverman’s “Working the Image of Work on the Canvas: the Perspective Frame, the Weaving Loom, and Van Gogh’s Craft Labor”; and “Vincent and I” from Devi Ormond, Associate Conservator of Paintings at the Getty Museum. Each 45-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute response by a pre-designated discussant. By the end of the day, attendees will likely have enough new perspective to see the show all over again.

WHEN: 9:30 am - 5 pm WHERE: Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State Street (entrance in the rear) COST: $15 general, $10 museum members, students free ($5 via Zoom) INFO: (805) 963-4364 or sbma.net Rising Dancers – Just a week after State Street Ballet premiered its new production of Swan Lake at the Granada, State Street Ballet Young Dancers, the apprentice company to the professional ensemble (and formerly known as Gustafson Dance), take the main stage at the Lobero to perform new and innovative works in addition to classical ballet and emerging choreography. Dance creators include SSB staff and members Rodney Gustafson, Autumn Eckman, Cecily MacDougall, Emily McKinney, Clara Morando, Sabrina Mulac, and Fenna Roukema, while the program also features emerging works by Madelyne Herbert and Tali McPeters with Rebecca Lennon.

WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $15 – $35 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com Songs as the Savior – Montecito singer-songwriter Glen Phillips has not only shown up at SOhO to share songs old and new every few months, he often uses those evenings to expose local audiences to fellow troubadours deserving of wider exposure, usually those on the quirkier side. Amber Rubarth certainly qualifies as the future musician first left home at 17 years old to become a chainsaw sculptor in Nevada before teaching herself guitar and starting to write songs. Over the years she’s performed in all sorts of venues, from opening for a flea circus at a Texas theme park to performing an original duet with Jason Mraz at Carnegie Hall to co-creating full orchestral arrangements of her songs with the

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Stringing Along – Is there no upper limit to the Santa Barbara Folk Orchestra’s local appeal? SBFO was founded just four years ago by singer/multi-instrumentalist/composer/arranger Adam Phillips, who conjured the 30-piece ensemble comprised of local musicians boasting everything from violins, violas, cellos, and double basses to guitars and mandolins to harp, Scottish small pipes, and other bagpipes and even the hurdy gurdy. Until this year, its concerts largely took place at the 160-seat Presidio Chapel, and soon hit capacity even for two shows. But now the acoustic orchestra has expanded to the 800-seat Marjorie Luke for their Sunday night performances – and with their overwhelming popularity, it’s only a matter of time before that show sells out as well. It certainly helps that the focus this time around is once again on Celtic music and boasts special guests Alasdair Fraser, Scotland’s premier fiddle ambassador and Californian cellist Natalie Haas, whose pairing puts emphasis on driving rhythms and improvising on the melody and the groove of Scottish tunes. But whoever thought that a Folk Orchestra would so quickly become one of Santa Barbara’s cherished traditions?

Kudos to the concept, and Phillips’ verve in executing the vision. Note: Fraser and Haas will also put on a two-hour workshop for local musicians at 9:30 am this morning at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, where Phillips also serves as Music Director ($25). WHEN: 4 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Junior High, 721 East Cota St. COST: $38 INFO: luketheatre.org/events or folkorchestrasb.com Ithaca Chamber Orchestra woven into classical works. With eight albums under her belt, she’s a perfect foil for the prolific Phillips.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $20 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or sohosb.com

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“His solo recitals recall an earlier generation of wizards of the piano.”

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PROGRAM: Franck: R. Schumann: Albéniz: Ravel:

Prelude, Chorale et Fugue FWV 21 Fantasie in C Major Op.17 Iberia, Book 1 Jeux d’eau & La valse

British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor (b.1992) has been described as “the best pianist to come out of England in the last 50 years.” His virtuosic command, distinctive sound and the remarkable depth of his music making are reminiscent of legendary pianists that are long gone such as Rachmaninoff, Schnabel, Rubinstein, and Serkin. The upcoming Masterseries recital marks his Santa Barbara debut!

Sponsors: Bitsy & Denny Bacon and The Becton Family Foundation Alison & Jan Bowlus Concert Partner: Raye Haskell Melville

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CAMA and Music Academy of the West co-present the London Symphony Orchestra in concert in celebration of the Music Academy’s 75th anniversary

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 Hanging Huguette – Paintings by Huguette Clark — the famed copper heiress who spent summers in the Bellosguardo estate above East Beach for 20 years but hadn’t visited since the early 1950s – are on public exhibit for the first time since 1931. Huguette Marcelle Clark: A Portrait of the Artist features a dozen works created by Clark plus a portrait of Clark painted by her mentor Tadeusz Styka, and never-before-seen photos from Clark’s personal photo albums and scrapbooks.

Clark owned the estate until her death in 2011 at age 104. She hadn’t visited for five decades as the heiress became a famous recluse who spent the last 20 years of her life in Doctors Hospital in New York. Although it’s been more than a decade since the estate was transferred to its beneficiary, the Bellosguardo Foundation, with the intent of making the mansion into a museum, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum exhibition represents the first public viewing of the art pieces that represent a tiny fraction of those maintained on the site. Today, Bill Dedman, who wrote the biography Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune with Clark’s cousin Paul Clark Newell Jr., will discuss details behind the paintings and the Clark family’s activities in Santa Barbara – including hosting Fiesta parties at Bellosguardo – as well as share photos of Clark and the Bellosguardo estate and audio clips of Clark’s voice.

WHEN: Lecture 5:30 pm today; exhibit continues through June 12 WHERE: Santa Barbara Historical Museum, 136 East De la Guerra Street COST: $20 for talk, museum admission free INFO: (805) 966-1601 or santabarbaramuseum.com 10 – 17 March 2022

Presenting the world’s finest classical artists since 1919

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2022, 7:30PM

LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Sir Simon Rattle, Music Director

Works by Berlioz, Sibelius, Bartók, Ravel and Hannah Kendall.

Join CAMA and the Music Academy of the West for this not-to-be-missed historic Santa Barbara classical music concert collaboration.

The London Symphony Orchestra’s 2022 North American Tour is made possible through an intercontinental partnership with the Music Academy of the West.

The lead sponsors of the Music Academy of the West and London Symphony Orchestra partnership are Linda & Michael Keston and Mary Lynn & Warren Staley.

Additional support has been provided in remembrance of Léni Fé Bland.

CAMA thanks our generous sponsor who has made this performance possible: Primary Sponsor: Bitsy & Denny Bacon and The Becton Family Foundation

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and rampant colors. 796 Hot Springs Road has been reduced from the original asking price and is within the Montecito Union School District.

2285 Bella Vista Drive – $12,950,000 This estate listing offers an inspiring view as the backdrop to your life in every direction. From ocean, island, mountain, and coastline views to the more intimate spaces and perspectives offered around the property, this home is very welcoming yet grand in scale. Resting proudly on 3.62 private, gently sloping acres, the home is located on the ccean side of Bella Vista, overlooking the Lilac Drive area and adjacent to many significant and even higher priced estates on Mariposa Lane, Lilac, and Knollwood Drive.

The four-bedroom, six-bathroom home is filled with natural light and surrounded by abundant fruit trees, vivacious gardens, and sprawling grounds. Enjoy a grand entry, romantic fountain, numerous French doors and views from every room. Mark and his wife, Sheela Additional features include an expansive Hunt, are real estate agents. great room plus billiard room with grand His family goes back nearly fireplaces and large office, a formal dining 100 years in Santa Barbara. room surrounded by walls of glass offering Mark’s grandparents – Bill big views, a 1,000 bottle wine vault and and Elsie Hunt – were more. This property has been reduced Santa Barbara real from the original asking price and is within estate brokers for the Montecito Union School District.

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LARRY VIGON'S SOLO EXHIBITION AT SILO118 March 5th - April 30th SERIOUS PLAY Reception: March 16, 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. at Silo 118 118 Gray Street, SB in the Funk Zone “The medium is unimportant to me; it is the message that matters.”

Larry Vigon This quote defines Larry Vigon’s decades-long career spanning design, illustration, graphics, and his own art in many forms.

His paintings are in private collections all over the world.

Over 200 album covers Inducted into the Album Cover Designer Hall of Fame.

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Nancy’s son Henry and Erin Walker, with polo club manager David Sigman

Royal Reflections

the stage where Selma Hayek was waiting patiently with his statuette. “Sorry, quick trip to the men’s room and it’s packed by the way,” quipped Keaton before launching into his acceptance speech.

It is difficult to believe it is nearly a year since Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s loyal consort for more than 70 years, left us for more heavenly pastures – just two months before his 100th birthday. I was woken in the early hours by a producer from CBS TV informing me of the news and asking me to be on an early morning broadcast by Zoom. I was then bombarded with requests for TV appearances and print interviews, and then finally contracted with Fox News, to cover the muted funeral ceremony at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, with Patrick Jephson, Princess Diana’s former private secretary.

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Cruising Through Goop Gwyneth Paltrow is all at sea! The Montecito-based Oscar winner has just partnered with Celebrity Cruises for her lifestyle brand Goop’s first at-sea venue. The new experience will take place on Celebrity Apex departing from Barcelona, Spain, on August 26 and sailing around the Mediterranean until September 6. The cruise is inspired by the company’s “In Goop Health” wellness summits. “We’ve had massive success with In Goop Health, our wellness summit that translates Goop content into a tangible, in-touch experience,” says Paltrow, 49. “This partnership allows us to bring Goop to a new audience and to meet readers where they are.”

Sightings Actor Jordan Peele noshing at Olio e Limone... Grammy winning singer Steve Tyrell at the Rosewood Miramar’s Manor Bar... Back to the Future’s Christopher Lloyd picking up his New York Times at Pierre Lafond.

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Banker Henry Walker and his wife, Erin, part of earthchange.org, partnered with the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club to plant trees at the tony facility. The first one – a redwood – will be planted next month in memory of Nancy Walker, Henry’s mother.

In 1976, Nancy’s contribution to the Carpinteria club was to plant and water most of the trees around the tennis facility, next to the polo fields. She spent four months watering them personally to make sure the roots took hold.

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Festival (Continued from 18 18)) You documented a lot of the behind-thescenes, hands-on work and then became personally involved yourself. I understand that the two of you are close friends now.

How did you maintain a filmmaker’s objectivity/distance?

From the beginning I was clear that I’m going to be a fly on the wall, albeit a fly with a big camera on his shoulder, and to try his best to just do whatever he’s going to do whether I was there or not. My goal is to capture candid moments as organically as possible. When he addresses the camera or I speak from behind it, those occasions work to push the audience more into the moment.

Buck Up for the Cadillac Angels With apologies to all of the other rock groups, solo travelers, and dedicated duos who might lay claim to being “The Hardest Working Band in Rock,” Tony Rock and the Cadillac Angels take a backseat to nobody. Rock – who recently changed his last name from Balbinot for personal reasons – no biggie, since the band itself swapped out its original moniker of Roadhouse Rockers way back in 1996 – has led the power trio for near-on 40 years now, playing nearly every club and bar in town, including a whole bunch that no longer exist, while also traversing the highways of the American West.

The trio has shared the stage with Los Lobos, Dick Dale, The Blasters, Dwight Yoakam, Dave Alvin, Link Wray, to name a few, and for a while there about 25 years ago they also served as the backing band for reemerging rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson. They’re back hitting the local bars in town again as the pandemic recedes, as the Angels have rocked out at Hook’d Bar and Grill, M. Special Brewing Co., and Island Brewing Co. just

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Tony Rock and the Cadillac Angels will be playing around town this week

in the last two weeks.

Now the Angels are set to do a pair of official CD release parties for Rockin’ The Heartland, which was – like many of its predecessors – recorded live with no overdubbing, at Painted Sky Studio in Cambria, just prior to the shutdown. The album showcases its hearty hybrid featuring elements of rockabilly, surf, instrumentals, rock, outlaw country, urban blues, and just about anything else under the harder Americana umbrella. Buck is still playing vintage instruments, too, this time guitars and amps made for Sears and Roebuck going back to 1959.

“I’ve survived and lived as a performing songwriter my whole life,” he said. “I stayed on the road.

I’ve been able to create my vision of the world and bring it to people, and anybody who can do that is a success story, man.”

– Peter Case

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Thankfully, the singer-songwriter-guitarist hasn’t lost his sense of humor either: “When I cut my first record and hit the road, gasoline was 89.9 cents a gallon down in El Paso,” he wrote in an email. “We could get a bad motel room for about $25 and a decent one for $40, and we averaged about $300 a night in the clubs and bars. When I hit the road this spring, gas will probably be 6 bucks a gallon, a bad motel will be at least 120 bucks a night – and the clubs will still be paying about $300 a night, if we are lucky… I think I actually saved money by staying at home during the lockdown!”

Celebrate the freedom of the open road (and the lifting of mask mandates) with new music from the Cadillac Angels at

The Blue Owl on March 11 and Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. in the Funk Zone on March 12.

Info at facebook.com/tonybuckcadillacangels.

Classical Corner: Music Academy’s Momentum

Hot on the heels of hosting the London Symphony Orchestra led by Sir Simon Rattle in a three-concert residency at the Granada Theatre March 24-27, the Music Academy of the West rolls right into April with another sumptuous three-concert set in its first-ever Competition Winners Recital Series.

Additions, changes, and pandemic-induced postponements have resulted in the scheduling of all three concerts featuring winners of recent summer festival fellows competitions in a mid-week marathon at Hahn Hall, April 5-7. Each performance will include world premiere works commissioned by MAW and written just for the winners by celebrated contemporary composers. Violist Keoni Bolding and pianist Melivia Raharjo, the champions of the 2021 Duo Competition, premiere Conrad Tao’s Churn as part of their April 5 recital; Solo Piano Competition winner Hsin-Hao Yang debuts a new work from Tyshawn Sorey in his program on April 6; and Marilyn Horne Song Competition champions tenor Shawn Roth and pianist Alexander Soloway premiere Carlos Simon’s Vocalise in their April 7 recital.

Individual tickets go on sale March 11 for $55, or you can subscribe to all three recitals for $105, less than the price of two. Look for interviews in this space in our March 31 edition.

the kibosh on live theater everywhere, and long after virtually every other venue in the area has returned to roughly regular schedules. The mounting of theater shows again at the converted church a few blocks from downtown Ventura is indeed a welcome addition to the arts scene as RTC has been instrumental in developing and premiering new works as well as presenting highly praised productions of existing musicals and dramas.

The new seven-show season launches March 16 – April 3 with RTC favorite and Emmy winner Joe Spano and Emmy and Academy Award nominee JoBeth Williams in the timeless two-hander The Gin Game, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama from D.L. Coburn, directed

by RTC’s frequent collaborator Jenny Sullivan. The season also boasts Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Anna Deavere Smith’s transformative study of the 1992 L.A. riots that were sparked by the non-guilty verdict in the Rodney King police brutality case in a Ventura County courtroom in Simi Valley, which opens on the 30th anniversary of the April 29, 1992 date.

Call (805) 667-2900 or visit rubicontheatre.org.

Moving north, Carpinteria’s Alcazar Theatre “Women Making Change” series celebrating Women’s History Month is presenting Four One-Act plays about Women, Worth, Wisdom & Will, March 10-13. Because She Was stars its actress author Robin Riker, a theater veteran whose credits on IMDB also include 100 different TV shows and movies. Colleen Neuman’s Bothered, Brandy Walker’s Isabelle, and Hello Waitress! (author unknown) round out the program.

Visit thealcazar.org or call (805) 684-6380.

Back in town, Lights Up! Teen Theatre Company follows up its smashing success with the area premiere of Something Rotten at the Marjorie Luke last month with another relatively recent hit in Matilda, the Musical at the Luke, March 10-12. The five-time Tony Award-winning tale of a little girl who uses her power of telekinesis to empower herself, and those close to her, to transcend abusive relationships. The adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic features a huge cast of budding thespians from city college and high schools to middle and

even elementary schools.

Details at (805) 963-0761 or luketheatre.org/events or lightsupsb.com.

Steven Libowitz has covered a plethora of topics for the Journal since 1997, and now leads our extensive arts and entertainment coverage

Visit musicacademy.org/events for details and tickets.

Theater Talk: Crossing the Rubicon Later this month, Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre Company finally reopens, more than two years after the pandemic put

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Silkroad Ensemble Home Within Kinan Azmeh, composer, clarinet Kevork Mourad, live illustrations, visuals Thu, Mar 31 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $30 / FREE for UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option “Kevork Mourad’s live sketches combine with Kinan Azmeh’s clarinet to create a whirlwind of images to mirror the seven years of war that have made their country unrecognizable.” Reuters Major Sponsor: Jody & John Arnhold

Everything Rises: Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines Tue, Apr 12 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall $35 / FREE for UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option Justice for All Lead Sponsors: Marcy Carsey, Connie Frank & Evan Thompson, Zegar Family Foundation, and Anonymous Supporting Sponsor: Annette & Dr. Richard Caleel Made possible by gifts to the A&L Commission of New Work Endowment Fund

Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater Robert Battle, Artistic Director Matthew Rushing, Associate Artistic Director Wed, Apr 13 & Thu, Apr 14 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $45 / FREE for UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

Major Sponsor: Jody & John Arnhold Dance Series Sponsors: Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Bob Feinberg, Audrey & Timothy O. Fisher, Barbara Stupay, and Sheila Wald National Tour Sponsor: Bank of America

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The back of the original photo of Dr. Ford and Dr. Sexton listing who is in the photograph, date, and location (photo by Joanne A. Calitri)

At the Montecito Journal offices, from left: Dr. Joseph Pineda and MJ Managing Editor Zach Rosen holding Pineda’s copy, and Sojourner Kincaid Rolle and Krystle Farmer Sieghart holding the original 1923 photo of Dr. Ford and Dr. Sexton (photo by Joanne A. Calitri)

front windows. It is a standard black and white 1920-30s print sized 5 x 7 inches, intact save a tear at the top, some water marks, and age spots. It is glued to a black mount board with names and dates written in pen on the back.

Dr. Pineda’s photograph of Ford and Sexton came to him from Dr. Sidney Geiger DPM, when he purchased Geiger’s practice at 1734 State Street, in January 1986. Pineda explains, “When I took over the office, I found the framed photo of Dr. Ford and Dr. Sexton. Geiger told me that Tenney was a patient of his.

When Tenney passed, her daughter gave him the photo. He passed it on to me.

I have kept it on my office wall there and presently at my office in Montecito.

When it fell off the wall in my office the other week while I was cleaning, I thought the Montecito Journal would be interested in it for Black History Month. Both the California Podiatric Medical Association and the American Association for Women Podiatrists, Inc. would be happy to have a record of this photograph and any information on these women doctors.”

I reached out to Geiger’s daughter

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Carolyn Geiger who shared, “I have a copy of the photograph as well from my dad, with all the names written on the back, but it is not my parents’ handwriting. I don’t know how he got the photograph. The story I was told is when my parents moved here in February 1947, Dr. Ford was the only chiropodist in town. She and dad became friends.

Dad was born in New York, the son of immigrants. He graduated from NYU, then medical school in Chicago (which is where he met my mother). He went into the Army. Following discharge from the Army, he and my mother decided to move to Santa Barbara.”

Time Lapse This brings us to Dr. Frances Ford, aka Frances Alexander Ford, a most beloved Santa Barbara community member, who broke many glass ceilings in her day. She was born February 25, 1889 in Texas and died April 7, 1959 aged 70 in Los Angeles, buried at the Santa Barbara Cemetery. Her father’s surname is Alexander and mother’s surname is Owens.

Ford lived in San Antonio, Texas, and Arizona with her husband, John A. Ford. He was a Sergeant in the 10th Cavalry Regiment aka the Buffalo Soldiers of the United States Army, under General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing, and was with him during the raid against Francisco “Pancho” Villa in 1916-17. Ford was sent to Fort Huachuca, Arizona, during WW1, as African American units were not allowed to participate with the American Expeditionary Force during World War 1. He passed on March 3, 1920, with Frances and Pershing exchanging birthday and Christmas cards, even after John’s death.

Ford moved to San Francisco to attend the California College of Chiropody, now called the California

School of Podiatric Medicine, graduating June 7, 1921. She was licensed by the California Medical Board as a Chiropodist November 28, 1921.

Moving to Santa Barbara, Ford shared the chiropodist office of Dr. Helen C. Sexton, at #314 San Marcos Building, 1127 State Street, before the earthquake of 1925 demolished the building. Her next office was on Chapala Street, the site of the old Greyhound Bus Station, where she also lived with her mother. She later moved offices to the Balboa Building, 735 State Street, and lived at 721 Spring Street in a gray house. She did not remarry, nor had any children.

It is oral history (not yet confirmed) that her mother was Harriet E. Thomas, a dressmaker who resided on Micheltorena Street (1920) and at 1018 Chapala Street (1930). I reached out to the Santa Barbara Cemetery who was able to find Ford’s burial records. Upon Ford’s death, her and Thomas’ (d. October 1933) burial niches were purchased together by the same person – most likely an estate attorney – as no name that purchased them was listed. Ford’s and Thomas’ niches are placed together.

Sexton was born March 27, 1863, in Ipswich, England, and passed on December 7, 1933, in Santa Barbara.

She was a nurse in the UK, moved to the U.S. in 1888, and to Santa Barbara in 1901, living at 109 West Mission Street.

She became a licensed chiropodist in California on December 27, 1915. Sexton was very active in establishing the Santa Barbara Humane Society with a focus on child poverty. She authored a pocket-size book on foot care that was used by British and French armies during the war, for which she received an award from Great Britain. She wrote articles and placed ads for her practice in The Morning Press.

Sexton had a daughter Osyth R. Fryer and grandson Norman Llewellyn Fryer in the Santa Barbara area, with sisters in England – Rose Graham in Guildford-Surrey, and Jean Turner in Walberswick.

California; Ford was number 248 and Sexton number 109.

Joy Belle Tenney was born November 6, 1905 and passed May 1, 1995 in Claremont, California, and buried in the Santa Barbara Cemetery. She is a 7th generation Californian, and Native Daughter of the Golden West. Tenney graduated SB High School in 1924, ran track and was a long-distance swimmer. She worked as 15th District PTA President for two years, and 14 years at the SB Historical Society Research Library. Her hobbies were history and genealogy. She married Isaac “Ike” Antonio Bonilla. They published two books and contributed historic documents to the Bancroft Library and UC Berkeley. Their son Kenneth Bonilla MD and wife, Ilene, lived in Claremont, and it is most likely from his estate after he (2009) and his wife passed (June 2020) that the original photograph came to be listed for sale on eBay September 23, 2021. I reached out to the eBay seller for any information. He emailed that the photo came from an estate sale he was helping with and was not free to discuss his client’s information, nor did he know about Dr. Ford or Dr. Sexton.

The two female patients in the photograph are “Chair #1 Birtha Schelling” and “Chair #2 Mrs. Lela Kirsten, a former employee of the Gas Company.” At the time of this report, we have no information on them. Although, we feel lucky that we were able to uncover as much as we did about the other women gracing the photo. And I can’t help but wonder – how many other wonderful women’s stories sit there, waiting to be discovered

from a photo falling off the wall?

Joanne A. Calitri is a professional international photographer and journalist. Contact her at: artraks@yahoo.com

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Dream Design

A Lifetime of Dreams, Design, and Serious Play A collection of Vigon’s prints and personal works will be on display at Silo118

Family Portrait

Only a few of many album covers by Larry Vigon

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hase your dreams. It all too often is considered just the ideals of naive dreamers, but for Larry Vigon it has led to a lifelong career designing album covers, posters, and other artworks, including Carl Jung’s The Red Book. His commercial design has had a significant cultural impact but his personal artwork – drifting somewhere

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between Matisse and Modigliani with its own dreamy twist – and new book, Serious Play, will be on display for his first ever solo show at Santa Barbara’s Silo118.

For Vigon, art has been a lifelong dream and career. He was born in Chicago, with his family moving to L.A. when he was three years old. He remembers always drawing as a kid – his new book, Serious Play, even has a drawing from when he was six. But it was at seven years old that he decided he wanted to be an artist. Since then, he has never wavered in that dream, finding support all around him. Growing up, his parents gave him art lessons, and even his school wanted to encourage his art. Vigon adds, “In elementary school I used to get excused from class to do paintings for the hallway (which probably explains why my math skills aren’t what they should be).”

While math may not have been his strong point – clearly art was – he later attended the prestigious ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. The school hones students’ technique and skills, but also emphasized how to think conceptually about art. It was with this focus that he fell in love with graphic design and art direction. “Well I got into school because I could draw but had never really thought about graphic design,” says Vigon, “I hadn’t looked at, say – a bottle of wine – and analyzed it.

Thinking, oh someone actually designed that label.” He was in his early twenties at the time (which coincidentally, also happens to be the age most people begin to look at wine bottles through a new lens), and began to think about where he wanted to go with his art.

“I’ve always had a tremendous love of music. I thought the ideal job for me would be designing album covers because I could combine my passion for art, with my passion for music,” he describes. One of his ArtCenter instructors had worked for Herb Alpert’s A&M Records and told him: “When you start looking for a job in the music industry, tell them I sent you.” This certainly helped open some doors, as did a promo poster he designed and sent out to all of the different record labels and album design studios. One day he got a call from one of the studios that received his poster, asking if he could do some hand lettering for a Captain Beefheart album cover. Never having done lettering by hand, he naturally answered – “Of course I do.” This first gig led him to designing a Fleetwood Mac album, and eventually five more covers for the band. From there the rest is, as they say, history.

Over the decades he has done conceptual design, typesetting, and artwork for everyone from Eric Clapton, Chicago,

and Pat Benatar, to Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Carole King, and the Counting Crows. His background and passion for graphic design has also led to an extensive career in logo design and commercial branding where he has worked with the L.A. Opera, IBM, Epson, and LAX, to name only a few.

Vigon also explored art direction for the printed page, including The Art of the Empire Strikes Back for the historic Lucas film.

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ichard Lee Kahler, MD, FACC, beloved husband, cherished father and grandfather, and treasured family member and friend, died peacefully at home on February 21, 2022, at the age of 89. Dick was a longtime resident of La Jolla, Rancho Santa Fe, and Montecito, California, before moving to Colorado in his final decade. Professionally, Dr. Kahler was a distinguished cardiologist, practicing at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla nearly his entire career.

Born in Milltown, New Jersey, on January 2, 1933, Dick was the second son of Odette M. and Lewis R. Kahler. He attended Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was admitted to Yale School of Medicine after three years of study, leaving college before his degree was conferred. Much to his amusement, Dr. Kahler became a member of the Rutgers Class of 2021 when the university belatedly awarded him his BA Summa Cum Laude in biological sciences.

Dr. Kahler graduated Cum Laude from Yale School of Medicine in 1957, and was named to Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society. He married Diane Wallace Dunn in 1958 while an Assistant Resident in Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. After medical residencies at Hopkins and Yale, Dr. Kahler joined the National Institutes of Health as a commissioned officer of the U.S. Public Health Service. He next returned to Yale as Chief Resident in Medicine, before again serving the N.I.H. at the National Heart Institute.

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He rejoined Yale in 1965 as Associate Professor of Medicine.

Dr. Kahler was subsequently recruited to lead the Department of Cardiology at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, and in 1968 he, Diane, and their three children moved from Connecticut to California. After his first marriage ended in divorce, Dick was introduced to the great love of his life, Jan Ann Knight. They married in June, 1983, and joyfully became parents to two sons.

Richard is survived by his wife, Jan Ann; his daughter, Sally Kahler Phillips (Hunter); his three sons: Geoffrey Lee Kahler (Reini Winter), Christopher Knight Kahler, and James Hall Kahler (Luzon); and his six grandchildren.

Dr. Kahler retired from medical practice in 1995. For many years after retirement, he enjoyed ongoing professional education, particularly the annual Williamsburg, Virginia, Conference on Heart Disease. Dick maintained lifelong interests in science, music, technology, baseball, genealogy, and puzzles of all kinds. His family will be forever inspired by his rare intelligence, humility, sense of humor, exceptional commitment to his patients, and devotion to those he loved.

Dick was predeceased by his parents; his brother, Ronald Lewis Kahler; and his eldest son, David Marc Kahler, M.D. He is survived by his wife, Jan Ann; his daughter, Sally Kahler Phillips (Hunter); his three sons: Geoffrey Lee Kahler (Reini Winter), Christopher Knight Kahler, and James Hall Kahler (Luzon); and his six grandchildren. A private graveside service will be held in April, 2022.

The family kindly requests that those wishing to honor Dick’s life make a memorial gift to: The Richard L. Kahler, M.D., Endowment for Music at Colonial Williamsburg, or to the charity of their choice.

Derek Kenneth Hunter

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erek (“Derk”) Kenneth Hunter passed away peacefully February 19, 2022, at his home in Woodside, California, surrounded by his family. Born April 25, 1931, in San Marino, California, he was the son of Kenneth and Helen Hunter. He is predeceased by his wife, Fredricka (“Dricka”) Hunter, his daughter, Antonia (“Toni”) Hunter Breck, and his brothers, Tony and Kenneth Hunter and sister Diana Roth.

Derk attended Villanova Prep in Ojai, California, and graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Business Administration, where he was a member of the Sigma Alfa Epsilon Fraternity. It was at UofA that Derk met his wonderful wife of 59 years, Dricka Haswell from Dayton, Ohio.

Derk served in the Army during the Korean War and was stationed in the Presidio in San Francisco. Derk and Dricka fell in love with Northern California, ultimately settling on the mid-Peninsula, in Woodside, where they raised their four children, Toni, Helen, Deke, and David. Their Woodside home and garden was a big part of their family’s life where many wonderful memories were made.

Derk is survived by his daughter Helen and her husband Brad Miller, his son Deke and wife Lori Eschelman Hunter, his son David Hunter and his son-inlaw Peter Breck. Known as “Pops” to his 10 grandchildren: Hunter and Beau Breck; Jack, Teddy and Ginny Miller; Ellie, Grace, and Derek Hunter; and Francesca and David Hunter, Jr; and his six great grandchildren. He will be forever remembered by all for his engaging storytelling and infectious sense of humor. Derk was lucky enough, after Dricka’s passing, to find happiness a second time with his partner of several years, Kingsley Jack. Derk and Kingsley shared lots of laughter and created many great memories.

Woodside and Santa Barbara were Derk’s favorite places and he was fortunate to live in both. Derk loved golf

“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.” – Voltaire

and had many great rounds and lots of laughs with his friends at Menlo Country Club, The Valley Club of Montecito, and Cypress Point. He also got involved in his communities, giving to The Boys and Girls Club, The Santa Clara Humane Society, The Parkinson’s Institute, Eastside Prep, and Pathways.

Derk enjoyed fly fishing with friends and family, and pursued the sport with vigor and enthusiasm. He fished all over the world with his favorite adventures split equally between floating on the McKenzie River in Oregon and wading in the White River at Rio Blanco Ranch in Colorado. All his grandchildren have Pops to thank for learning the joys of fly fishing. Wherever Derk was he made friends, and he cherished them all.

In 1959 Derk started his real estate development career with his partner, Roy Demmon, specializing in commercial buildings for the burgeoning technology industry. The legacy of those beginnings is carried on by his son, Deke, and grandson, Derek, in the Silicon Valley offices of Hunter Properties. In 2021 Derk received the Pioneer Award, marking 60 years of excellence in real estate development, an honor he deeply appreciated.

Derk will be laid to rest next to his wife, Dricka Hunter, in Santa Barbara. A celebration of Derk’s life will be held by

the family at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations in Derk’s honor to The Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula: Via Check: Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula 401 Pierce Road Menlo Park, CA 94010 Attention: Gift in honor of Derk Hunter To make an online gift in honor of Derk, please visit www.bgcp.org/donate or call Kathryn Yee at 650763-6024 to pay with a credit card over the phone.

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula’s Tax ID number is 94-1552134.

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GAMING THE “ELITE” WAY FOR MORE WINS

BY JUSTIN SERRANO, VICE PRESIDENT, FIELD OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, COX COMMUNICATIONS

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ore than two-thirds of Americans play video games, and the pandemic was a forcing factor as we tried to have fun despite lockdowns and avoid in-person gatherings to stay healthy. From stress relief to education, video games can be an escape. But what happens when you’re in the middle of that winning moment and a wifi lag hits?

You glitch. You miss an attack. You might even lose.

At Cox Communications, we understand how frustrating that can be.

So, how can you lead your team to victory? Reduce the lag that stands in your way of winning. Cox’s Elite Gamer offers intelligent routing to automatically find a faster path for your PC game data, improve gameplay, and reduce the disconnections, ping spikes and jitter that cause you grief. It lowers latency by routing PC game traffic after it leaves Cox’s network via the most efficient internet path to gaming servers for greater stability and up to 32% less lag compared to standard Cox internet.

With more than 1.3 billion PC gamers in the world, enhanced performance is key to your success – and a competitive edge is possible with less latency and an optimized connection while playing. Consider the below tips to enhance your gaming experience.

1.OPTIMIZE YOUR PC FOR GAMING

An excellent network connection isn’t all that’s needed for a strong in-game experience. Your PC health is just as important. If you haven’t lately, check your hardware for system requirements; ensure your drive is up to date; close background applications and processes; and defrag your hard drive to optimize storage.

2. REVIEW PERFORMANCE METRICS

It’s important to have insights that sharpen your winning edge. Elite Gamer puts you in control with a dashboard that displays game connection improvements, real-time connection quality, previous game details and more to some of the most popular PC games.

3. USE A GAMING VPN

Consider also using Cox’s Gaming Private Network (GPN) – a gaming virtual private network (VPN) and gaming-exclusive network that can help improve your overall experience, increase connection speeds, bypass internet traffic jams for reduced interruptions, and optimize your connection between your PC and gaming server.

4. REVIEW THE FEATURES ON YOUR NEXT ROUTER

Your router itself can impact your gaming experience. To further help with optimizing network traffic to your PC and reduce lag, consider the following during your next purchase: It should have a high-bandwidth range and ethernet ports for faster speeds and wired capabilities, geo-filtering as an advanced feature to reduce your ping, and dual- or tri-band options to split up network traffic for faster speeds.

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5. MAXIMIZE YOUR ENTIRE HOME INTERNET EXPERIENCE

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Justin Serrano is vice president, field operations and maintenance for Cox Communications in California. In 1994, Serrano joined the company as a field service technician after serving four years in the United States Navy as an aircraft technician. During his 27 years with Cox, Serrano has been successful in various roles.

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ORDINANCE NO. 6058 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL

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AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 28 TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THIS INTENT The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on March 1, 2022.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

(Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 6058 STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on February 15, 2022 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on March 1, 2022, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Randy Rowse

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on March 2, 2022.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on March 2, 2022.

/s/ Randy Rowse Mayor Published March 9, 2022 Montecito Journal

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLUESTUDIO, INC, 1203 Diana Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. BLUESTUDIO, INC, 1203 Diana Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 28, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0000548.

Published March 9, 16, 23, 30, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 805 Estate Staffing Agency and Management LLC, 707 Cathedral Pointe Ln, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. 805 Estate Staffing Agency and Management LLC, 1482 East Valley Road STE #989, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 4, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0000587.

Published March 9, 16, 23, 30, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Real Property Management Santa Barbara, 742 Westwood Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Santa Barbara Property Management, 315 Meigs Rd Ste A-503, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 3, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0000571.

Published March 9, 16, 23, 30, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Smart Envios, 2917 De La Vina, A, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Anastasia Dudina, 2917 De La Vina, A, Santa Barbara, CA

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” – Marcus Aurelius

93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 10, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0000398.

Published March 2, 9, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UV MY AIR, 27 W Anapamu St Suite 226, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Outdoor Adventures INC., 27 W Anapamu St Suite 226, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 2, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0000313. Published February 23, March 2, 9, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: La Lieff Wines; La Lieff, 935 Arcady Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Lieff Wines LLC, 935 Arcady Road, Montecito, CA 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 16, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0000446. Published February 23, March 2, 9, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hlavaty Dental Arts, 737 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Hlavaty DDS, Inc., 737 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 3, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0000337. Published February 16, 23, March 2, 9, 2022

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Marcel Bunny Reflection

In his thirties he began to do a lot of dream analysis, recording every dream in a journal with an accompanying illustration, which lasted for 17 years. He eventually had the good fortune to meet J. Marvin Spiegelman, the last living analyst to study at Zurich’s Jung Institute while Carl Jung was still there. When friend, collaborator, and magician Ricky

Jay saw his extensive dream journal collection, he encouraged Vigon to reach out to his editor. Vigon did, and the editor enjoyed the visual dreamscapes, working with Vigon to publish a coffee table book of his works. This eventually led to Vigon working on Carl Jung’s The Red Book, in which he and his wife played an instrumental part getting the book published, in addition to being in charge of the art direction and design.

After an extensive career that has spanned 50 years, Vigon has a new book, Serious Play, coming out that encompasses his body of work. This two-volume set is split between his commercial art direction and design in one book, and his personal work in a second volume.

Vigon adds, “Most of my career I’ve tried to combine my personal artwork with my commercial artwork. So, when you get a chance to look at my book, a lot of my illustrations that you see, not only for album covers, but for advertising and whatnot, are my illustrations and things that I had done on my own – not for any particular assignment – just for my own amusement.” Or in other words – some serious play.

The book also lends itself to his upcoming exhibit, Serious Play, at Silo118 in the Funk Zone. This show marks his very first solo exhibit ever. “I’ve had a few things in group shows, here and there, some in L.A., some in London, also in Italy, but I’ve only ever had a couple of or a few pieces up, and so this is quite special to be having a show all to myself,” says Vigon. He met Silo118’s Bonnie Rubenstein through a mutual friend, and the two are just getting started – adding, “It’s actually what Bonnie has offered, it’s not just this show based on

the book and my backlog of work, she’s wants to have several shows within the next year or two.”

Vigon and his wife moved to Santa Barbara three years ago after spending over 12 years living in Europe. But not wanting to face another English winter, the couple decided to head towards the sunny skies and seas of Santa Barbara.

“I’ve always wanted to live in Santa Barbara since I was a kid – and now we’re finally here.” For Vigon, this is just the next scape in his lifelong blending of

dreams, art, and serious play.

Serious Play will run at Silo118 (118-B Gray Avenue) from March 5 to April 30 with an opening reception on Wednesday, March 16, from 6 – 8:30 pm. Visit silo118.com for more information.

Zach Rosen is the Managing Editor of the Montecito Journal. He also enjoys working with beer, art, and life.

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LOCAL PEOPLE Sarah Gray Stitch in Time

Examples from an alphabet book by embroidery expert Sarah Gray

Sarah Gray with hands at the ready to teach embroidery

by Rebecca Lee Moody

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hat’s an ancient, mindful practice people have engaged in all throughout time to help focus on the present, relax, and unwind when the threads of life get knotted?

Correct: Embroidery!

In past generations, the traditional sewing-art was a common, peaceful, and pleasant pastime most females knew how to do. The slow, meditative, and artistic stitching was often worked in social circles where, with tea, friends, and sympathy, ladies embroidered their way through the trials, situations, and circumstances of life.

During a conversation with Sarah Gray, a longtime local embroideress, I learned that the delicate, decorative technique is “as old as sewing.”

The sixty-something grandmother, who was born and raised in Santa Barbara, added that there are many forms of the craft and some version is found everywhere, in every country. “Chinese and Japanese silk embroideries are breathtaking. In the West, embroidery’s been a constant in decorating clothing and housewares since the early Middle Ages. Styles changed with the times. For instance, 18th-century clothing is often covered with beautiful designs. In the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th cen-

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tury, Medieval forms of embroidery were reintroduced. The Royal School of Needlework in England came out of this movement. Similarly, in the 1960s and ‘70s in America, a folk revival of sorts started a new craze for embroidery.”

In more modern times, like now, there are even prominent fashion designers who use it in their lines. Alexander McQueen, for example, often covered leather jackets with elaborate swirls of intricate embroidery.

So, how did gals pick up this skill, back in the day? They learned from the older women around them, which was exactly the case for Ms. Gray. “My mother and grandmother were both accomplished embroiderers,” she said.

“My grandmother enjoyed doing things like monograms on her family members’ linens and clothing. My mother, like me, worked with her own designs.

My grandmother gave me a sampler when I was little and I still have it. I embroidered a strand of my long hair into it, thinking (but not believing) I would get old someday.”

Continuing her remembrance of things past, Ms. Gray said, “There were many years when I didn’t embroider, but I picked it up again when my oldest daughter got married. I wanted to make the chuppah and designed a canopy with pomegranates in silk. That was the restart of things and after that I couldn’t stop. It was so much fun!”

Since that time, Ms. Gray, a mother of three, has made many needlework-embellished things for her home, family, and friends, all of which feature her original designs. There’ve been quilts for her grandchildren, towels and pillowcases edged with pink floral sprays amid entwining green vines, and a current project, a large scarf for her youngest daughter, which has a big red octopus stretching across the silk.

Embroidery is a very accessible textile-art, versatile, and easy to get into whatever one’s background with stitching, including those who’ve never needled a thing.

In addition to turning out gifts and household items, Ms. Gray also travels about town with her basket, hoops, fabrics, and threads to give classes, either in groups or private one-on-one tutoring in people’s homes. With a background in both instruction and embroidery, she has combined decades of professional experience with artistic accomplishment to create a unique service: an embroidery teacher who makes house-calls.

“I was a teacher in various academic subjects for many years and loved it,” she explained, “So, in teaching embroidery, it’s two of my favorite things put together. I’ve led small classes for chil-

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” – Bertrand Russell

dren in a variety of settings and then also go to those who prefer to learn in their homes. My favorite student is my seven-year-old granddaughter, who has learned to do French knots and does them everywhere!”

While many in the current, younger generation are well-schooled in social media, technology, and various other electronic-world pastimes, fewer know how to do this kind of handiwork, but Ms. Gray has found that interest in learning embroidery is on the rise. The day I interviewed her, she was wrapping up a workshop for ‘tweens during which the girls had assembled in the living room of a home on East Mountain Drive where they learned back stitches, satin stitches, a feathery kind, and daisy chains. Ms. Gray’s next-day student was an older lady, a resident of the Lower Village area who used to embroider but has forgotten much of it. For her, a custom-designed “refresher course” has been the ticket.

Embroidery is a very accessible textile-art, versatile, and easy to get into whatever one’s background with stitching, including those who’ve never needled a thing. “We can start with a very simple sampler,” Ms. Gray said. As for materials and tools, no worries. She comes to her classes with all the supplies required; it truly can be said this teach er’s got the whole nine yards.

Those who’d like to learn how to keep calm and embroider on can text or leave a voicemail for Ms. Gray at (805) 448-2320 Rebecca Lee Moody has been a correspondent and freelance journalist for 30 years. She grew up in Montecito and has enjoyed being a periodic contributor to the MJ since its beginnings.

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LOCAL PEOPLE James Claffey James Claffey, English teacher extraordinaire and instructor at SBHS’s Visual Arts and Design Academy

by Sigrid Toye

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he iconic multilevel campus of the historic Santa Barbara High School was my destination to meet James Claffey, English teacher extraordinaire. An instructor at the Visual Arts and Design Academy (VADA) division of the school he was highly recommended by a most reliable source: one of his students! In an attempt to make a timely appearance for our afterschool appointment I hadn’t realized how vast and complicated the campus actually is. After hiking up and down a few hills and steps a kindly 10th grader on his way home acted as my personal guide to the proper location.

As I entered the room, Mr. Claffey rose from his desk to greet me suggesting I sit where I felt most comfortable. The natural light of the sun illuminated the cozy corner classroom as I found one of the seats tucked carefully under the tables. Looking around it was obvious that the warm, welcoming atmosphere wasn’t limited to the sun’s rays: bookshelves ladened with a huge assortment of literary choices, potted plants (obviously cared for), artwork, and a selection of stickers randomly placed were framed by inspirational words along the perimeters of the room. The one that especially caught my eye was DREAM. Behind the desk sat a teacher in a hat with a lilt of an Irish brogue and a great big smile looking completely at home. “Where shall we start?” he asked.

The Visual Arts and Design Academy, I learned, is a small learning community at Santa Barbara High School with about 225 students in 9th through 12th grades, a school within a school. VADA integrates academic coursework with project-based, career-focused art and design instruction in a supportive environment. “VADA is at its heart a thematic program weaving academic subject areas into the visual and creative arts,” explained Claffey. The work created by his students has included draw10 – 17 March 2022

ing and painting, sculpture, multimedia work, some film and video, and computer graphics with the assistance of Adobe technology – all supported by lots of writing and reading. The core curriculum is reading and written expression and is assigned, as well as encouraged, in all forms. “By reading fiction, memoirs, and the newer genres of storytelling such as graphic novels, kids can discover who they are, develop a true sense of belonging and of self to go about the business of creating stories and graphic novels of their own.”

Claffey believes that a young person’s social and emotional well-being backed by a supportive community is as important as academics. The confusion and isolation of the Coronavirus pandemic are not yet understood and may take years to unpack.

“This school year the 9th and 10th grades are the frontrunners at Santa Barbara High in defining the importance of a sense of community with the intent to meet each student where they are academically, socially, and creatively,” stated Claffey with pride.

“Kids that are dealing with other than ideal circumstances and family obligations are supported, understood, and mentored by their teachers and fellow students. I understand, on a personal level, the importance of feeling included and understood in one’s community.”

James Claffey was born and grew up in Dublin, the capital and largest city in Ireland. Despite having come from less than prosperous circumstances his home was filled with books. “Lit and reading was important in our household. You might not have money for groceries, but you’ll buy a book,” he chuckled. “Households filled with books, well – we weren’t alone. Must be an Irish thing!” Education was important to the family, and something remembered – as Claffey was the first member of his family to graduate from college after coming to the United States. “I actually won my Green Card in a lottery, if you can imagine that,” Claffey recalled. “I sat on it for a while until finally deciding to cross the

ocean to try my luck. Leaving Ireland and my family was a huge step.”

As a brand-new graduate of UCSD’s Master’s in Education program, Claffey’s first job was in San Diego’s inner city teaching English. “Nothing I learned in college prepared me for the actual classroom experience,” he remembers, shaking his head.

“Beginning in a school that was so challenging was an eye-opening experience and book learnin’ went out the door. Instead, I found myself in a rich and vibrant community with a lot of heart!” During the four years he spent there he learned a lot, especially humility, and developed a real passion to work with marginalized students. “I understood prejudice from growing up during The Troubles in Ireland, so I had a strong reaction to my experience and wanted to show students that there are ways out of the most difficult of circumstances and how they can lead you to surprising places!”

During the course of his career, Claffey did go to surprising places; trips to faraway locations, positions at Goleta Valley Junior High and San Marcos High, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in New Orleans – a city close to his heart – and eventually returning to settle permanently in Santa Barbara with his wife, Maureen, and family. “Although UCSB’s Design &

Construction Services was my first job back after three years in Louisiana, eventually I got rehired by the district at Santa Barbara High when a teacher left and I temporarily filled her position. That was nine years ago!” Claffey doesn’t see his job as just teaching English. “My goal is to teach my students how to relate to the world and to take advantage of the opportunities they encounter. To be ready to accept believing in themselves, a feeling of community along with a sense of responsibility.”

My conversation with James Claffey provided an opportunity to appreciate his rich life experiences and his hands-on relationship with students. My internal GPS had been recalibrated as I headed for my car and the walk gave me time to understand why he was a beloved teacher and so highly recommended. Oh, by the way – did I mention that the enthusiastic student who recommend him was my granddaughter? Thank you for sharing your story, Mr. Claffey, and thank you,

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Far Flung Travel

A rare sighting of a desert tortoise

High Desert Realm, the Arid Splendor of Joshua Tree National Park

Joshua Tree National Park

by Chuck Graham

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t sounded like loud cannon blasts hidden away, echoing ahead in massive clusters of boulders somewhere in Joshua Tree National Park.

I scrambled up into the direction of those deafening booms, a natural cathedral of granite spires, cliffs, and rock concealing two desert bighorn sheep rams in predawn light. They were in the rut battling like gladiators over ewes and their high desert realm.

How a victor was determined, I will never know. Beyond the colossal butting of heads, thick, curled horns remained intact while each combatant sauntered off in opposite directions, melding into the vastness of the desert. There seemed to be an agreement reached, a natural moment in mystical, idyllic Joshua Tree.

Deserts Converge California is the most diversified state in America. Joshua Tree is a fine example of that biodiversity. It’s otherworldly where the Mojave and Colorado deserts converge, where the spindly Joshua Tree stands over the expanse of creosote bush, cholla cactus, yelping coyotes, and the chuckwalla.

The only place remotely comparable to Joshua Tree in appearance is the Alabama Hills in the Eastern Sierra. Those high plains lack any Joshua Trees, but the stacks of gritty granite slabs are a suitable distant cousin. The Joshua Tree National Park website describes enjoying the gangly trees’ “grotesque appearance.” I would describe them as utterly unique, one of a kind, a fine representative of the agave family.

Sunrises and sunsets are especially incredible, the Joshua Tree’s rangy limbs seemingly in the middle of a desert

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trance worshipping the myriad of abrasive monzogranite contours that bound for 800,000 acres across this high desert biome.

Yet, the Joshua Tree doesn’t stand alone.

Despite its seemingly barren, lifeless landscapes, diversity abounds throughout this national park. From its brittlebush and cacti-choked veldts to its six stark mountain ranges majestically surging throughout the ecosphere, there’s much to explore in Joshua Tree. In fact, much of the park’s landscape hovers above 4,000 feet, and occasionally receives snow. And even though Joshua Tree looms desolate and parched, it boasts nearly 800 species of desert flora. Documented are 145 species of lichen and 15 species of cacti that thrive in this “desertscape.” If it rains just enough and the temps remain mild, springtime wildflowers are just the right contrast against the gritty granite, a natural wonder of fleeting colors splashed across the desert for a few brief weeks.

Dwellers of the Desert Sphere Joshua Tree National Park is dominated by rock, but there’s a lot of life thriving in and around all those crags. Coveys, alcoves, cracks, and fissures are dwellings for 46 species of reptilians, and 25 of those are of the serpentine variety.

One of my favorites to see and photograph is the stocky,16-inch-long common chuckwalla. Part of the iguana family, they are slightly menacing in appearance with loose folds of skin covered in coarse granular scales. However, they are not a threat to humans. To get good looks at them requires moving slowly and gradually around their arid habitat. They don’t venture far from their craggy lairs and are easily spooked at any inkling of a threat as they scurry for cover.

When they feel threatened, they’ll squeeze back as far as they can go within their lairs with the ability to inflate their lungs to thoroughly wedge themselves in tight. They were a reliable food source for the Cahuilla people who once inhabited the region.

The desert wouldn’t be the desert without the desert tortoise. Seeing one is another matter though. That’s because they spend 95 percent of their lives in burrows where they dig out a shelter and keep cool when ground temps can reach as high as 140 degrees. Native to the Mojave and Sonoran deserts, they are found clambering over rocky habitat and sandy washes of Joshua Tree.

These desert herbivores require grasses in their diets, desert flora that is tough to come by in Joshua Tree.

However, it’s a food source they search for with the very limited time they spend above their burrows.

Lifeblood of the Barrens There are several year-round sanctuaries found throughout Joshua Tree that offer respite in the harsh desert environment. The California fan palm tree is the only native palm tree in the Western U.S., and there are 158 fan palm oases in North America, but five of those oases stand tall in Joshua Tree National Park.

Two of those oases are in plain view; one at the visitor’s center, and the other at Cottonwood Springs near the west entrance to the park off Highway 10.

Two others are found on two of the best trails in the national park.

The short, threee-mile, out-and-back Fortynine Palms Oasis Trail is highly concentrated in granite, barrel cactus, creosote bush, brittlebush, collared lizards, and finally a narrow canyon that feeds a fan palm oasis. Whether there are 49 palms at this tranquil oasis, I don’t know, but when you’re in the desert, an oasis beckons hikers to soak in the solitude a wellspring offers. There’s only 300 feet of elevation gain on this easy hike. The maintained route meanders through boulder-choked canyons filled with migrating birdsong, like the melodious, black-throated sparrow seen and heard throughout the hike.

The other hike is out to Lost Palms Oasis, a 7.4-mile, out-and-back route rambling over rolling, sandy hills, and washes. Eventually, hikers will look down into a boulder-choked canyon full of at least 100 verdant fan palms.

Many of these oases thrive out of fault lines in narrow canyons where they can suck up available groundwater. Ironically though, as much as an oasis breathes life into the desert, and offers wildlife a water source, a flash flood in the desert can wipe out a whole stand of fan palms.

Each healthy, mature fan palm can weigh three tons and produce approximately 350,000 seeds. Birds, insects, and mammals enjoy eating the palm fruit, and as they do, they spread the seeds around to germinate, promoting future fan palms to grow elsewhere in the desert.

One of the desert’s mainstays, the coyote is especially adept at spreading seeds around. They eat the fruit at one location and deposit their seeds elsewhere as they lope throughout Joshua Tree, a Southeastern California haven for flora

and fauna, and hikers too.

Chuck Graham is a freelance writer and photographer based in Carpinteria, where he also leads kayak tours and backpacking trips in Channel Islands National Park The Joshua Tree takes many different forms

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FOOD & WINE Santa Barbara by the Glass Sipping in Tune: The Merits of Pairing Wine with Music

The MJ’s wine columnist, Gabe Saglie, right, with his sister and organizer of Wine Music L.A., pianist Meriette Saglie, and classical guitarist Mak Grgić, at a recent event pairing music and wine

by Gabe Saglie

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wo of our favorite pastimes have plenty to offer on their own.

Drinking great wine enhances everything from consumption to conversation. Listening to music we love can lift our spirits and set the mood. Both also make us feel good.

But what about putting these two actions together? And I’m talking about beyond just turning up the volume as we quaff. What happens when we play a specific piece of music that we’ve carefully paired with a specific type of wine? How does performing these actions together, deliberately, enhance our enjoyment and appreciation of either, and both? And as we open ourselves up to the possibilities, do other senses awaken, too?

I recently stumbled onto a study out of Oxford University, published a few years ago, that studied music across various genres and its effects on the appreciation of wine. They cranked up everything from classical to punk, jazz to rock-and-roll.

And, in the end, their assessment: people can get 15% more pleasure from the wine they’re drinking if they’re simultaneously listening to the right type of music.

The idea? That humans naturally seek to match taste to outside influences, and if those outside sensations are pleasing, then taste is enhanced in a positive way. It’s why wine does, indeed, seem to taste better when it’s enjoyed in a beautiful setting or in the right company. This study, led by a researcher named Charles Spence, suggested that high-acidity Italian wines, for example, like Barbera, play well with music that has a fast tempo and high pitch; white wines heavy on oak and vanilla notes, like a California chardonnay, pair 10 – 17 March 2022

best with music with a slow tempo, even rhythm and soft timbre; and high-tannin wines, like merlot, taste even better with the raucous, if not distorted, sounds of rock-and-roll riffs on an electric guitar.

All quite subjective, to be sure – just as pleasure itself – and, at least, something worth exploring.

A few months ago, my sister and I decided to put this notion to the test.

Meriette Saglie is an accomplished classical pianist who teaches privately in L.A. but also records professionally and goes on international tours. She recently earned a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) degree in piano performance from USC’s Thornton School of Music. We pondered: what if we brought together world-class music and world-class wines – both, expressions of art in their own right – and presented them jointly in an intimate setting? Working through a nonprofit pro-music group, and on donations, the results from the first sessions of what’s been dubbed Wine Music L.A. (@ winemusic_la) have been fascinating.

The most recent meetup in late February, with an audience of only about 20 people, was titled “Sounds of Cinema” and featured Grammy-nominated classical guitarist Mak Grgić strumming movie themes – recognizable tunes from films like The Godfather, The Mission, and West Side Story. My role: to pair each selection with a specific wine, an exercise in coupling that, with a little bit of focus and a bigger bit of luck, would enhance the enjoyment of both. I tapped Epiphany Wine Company in Los Olivos, part of the Fess Parker portfolio, because of its breadth of white and red options and because the all-Rhône wines, made by Blair Fox, are consistently complex and delicious. Here are a few of the insights gleamed from

The menu for the latest Wine Music L.A. meetup features various themes from movies like West Side Story and The Mission paired with wines from Santa Barbara’s Epiphany Wine Co.

the interactive feedback shared after each wine-matched performance.

– The “Danza Española No. 5” by Spanish composer Enrique Granados is a well-known piece featured in the 1993 comedy, Kika. The piece is lyrical and nostalgic, with a melody both dreamy and sensual. The 2020 Epiphany Grenache Blanc ($25) is flinty and refreshing, a match for the lyricism in this piece, and the seductive aromas – orange blossom, Asian pear, green apple – melded well with the sensuality in the music.

– The famous whistle-worthy theme from 1966’s The Good, The Bad and The Ugly by Italian composer Ennio Morricone is dramatic, Western-inspired, and brimming with themes that connote heroism and adventure. Epiphany’s 2018 Inspiration Red ($29) is an awesome blend of four Rhône grapes – mourvedre, counoise, cinsault, and grenache – that was aged for 19 months in French oak.

The red fruit notes that pop in the glass matched the more ornamental moments

The 2017 Epiphany Grenache, made with grapes grown on the Fess Parker ranch in Los Olivos, was a match for Asturias by composer Isaac Albéniz, a sweeping Spanish-inspired piece for classical guitar

Epiphany’s 2018 Inspiration Red, a blend of four Rhône grapes, was paired with a performance of the famous theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

in the music nicely, but it’s the dustiness, earthiness, and layered notes of leather and oak – qualities that evolve as the wine sits in the glass – that paired especially well with this sweeping melody.

– “Asturias” by Isaac Albéniz is a staple of the classical guitar repertoire and a familiar standout in the soundtrack to Vicky Cristina Barcelona from 2008. I poured my favorite wine of the night, the Epiphany 2017 Grenache ($32), to match its intensity of flavor with the energy of the music and its splashy mouth feel, with the images of the rugged, sweeping Asturias region along the shores of northwestern Spain that Albeniz’s music so wonderfully connotes. Flavors of dark cherry, chocolate, and herbs tap the rustic romance of the music, too.

Agreement on my own assertions around these pairings varied – as expected. Again, it’s our own subjective, personal take on matches like these that drive our individual enjoyment of both the music and the wine. The trick, I’m finding, is simply to keep our mindsets receptive, to keep our senses on the alert and to keep ourselves open to the possibility that matching wine to other things in life we love can have beautiful, if not harmonious, effects.

Sparkling wine with the flourishes of jazz?

Sounds good! A chilled pinot noir with the Beach Boys on repeat? Rad! Bourbon with your favorite Led Zeppelin album? Rock

on! Cheers to the possibilities!

Gabe Saglie has been covering the Santa Barbara wine scene for more than 15 years through columns, TV, and radio. He’s a senior editor with Travelzoo and is a leading expert on travel deals, tips, and trends.

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10 – 17 March 2022

The Giving List Explore Ecology

A whale spotting during a Flows to the Ocean field trip

The School Gardens Program uses the garden as an outdoor classroom

by Steven Libowitz

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t’s a big honor for Explore Ecology to be receiving Santa Barbara Permaculture Network’s Local Food Hero Award at the 14th Annual Santa Barbara Community Seed Swap this weekend. It’s also a well-earned recognition of the nonprofit’s School Gardens Program and its Garden Educators, who teach garden-based lesson plans in upwards of 30 local schools – connecting children to the food they eat while creating healthy garden ecosystems.

Indeed, Explore Ecology has been “planting seeds” by empowering kids through environmental education since expanding from its founding more than 30 years ago as Art From Scrap, which still serves as an example of protecting the environment by reducing waste – via exploring the artistic potential of creative reuse with the added bonus of providing art opportunities for kids. The nonprofit has continued to germinate ideas and turn them into action plans ever since.

The School Gardens Program connects children to nature and teaches them how to grow their own organic food using the garden as an outdoor classroom. Each year, 14,000 students at 33 Santa Barbara schools learn about planting, cultivating, harvesting, composting, and nutrition.

By spending time in school gardens, sinking their hands into the soil to grow and nurture these plants, and eventually eating the produce they grow, children have a direct learning experience that environmental stewardship can also be a lot of fun (and even taste good!).

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Beach (aka Hendry’s). Everyone gathers at the Watershed Resource Center, secures buckets, plastic bags, and reusable or disposable gloves, and then heads out on self-guided sojourns around the sand, parking lot, and other open spaces in the area.

Explore Ecology also coordinates the annual Coastal Cleanup Day in September, which involves removing garbage and other refuse from the ocean, beaches and creeks across all of Santa Barbara County, and is the largest single-day volunteer effort in the entire state. And the Art From Scrap Creative ReUse Store continues to keep thousands of pounds of clean, reusable material from ending up in the Santa Barbara County landfill each year and provides low cost supplies for art, theatre, costumes, and other creative projects.

“The work that we do is extremely important for helping to excite children about our natural ecosystem, which can lead to them understanding the bigger issues that are facing our environment right now, here – and in our world,” Johnson said. “By always taking an approach of empowerment – by offering students ways that they can be included and involved – the students learn they can have an impact, even as children, on

solutions-oriented program,” said Jill Cloutier, Explore Ecology’s public relations director. “The kids have so much fun; a lot of them tell us it’s their favorite class of the day. Some of the boys love hanging out with the creatures in the worm composting bins. After sampling the salsa they made with vegetables from the garden, one little girl told her teacher, ‘I have to have this recipe.’ They look at the educators like rock stars. That’s so inspiring for us to hear.”

What sets Explore Ecology apart is its dedication to hands-on participation, explained Executive Director Lindsay Johnson. “Normally in school, kids see presentations, or they’re being talked to about the environment, and then maybe they go write in their journal,” she said.

“But with our programs, they’re actually going outside and picking up trash, or going to see a watershed in action, or checking on a plant that is growing from a seed they planted. That’s what gets the kids super excited and engaged.”

The School Gardens Program is but one aspect of the way the nonprofit is living its mission of empowering our community to protect and preserve the environment through environmental education and creative exploration. Many of its other programs have helped earn Explore Ecology its reputation as one of Santa Barbara’s most impactful environmental nonprofits – one that reaches almost 50,000 students annually.

The organization’s Flows to the Ocean program teaches upper elementary school children about watersheds, water quality, and how the actions they take can either contribute to – or prevent – ocean pollution. Its monthly Beach Cleanup takes place 10 am to noon on the second Students receive an educational lesson at the Sunday of every month at Arroyo Burro Watershed Resource Center

our local environment, and it can start them on a path of activism as adults.”

Or maybe even influence adults within their families. “We love it when we hear about them going home, and teaching their parents about the environment, and what they can do,” Johnson said.

“That’s another important, impactful piece: What we do doesn’t stop with the kids, because they’re so excited they want to get their families involved.”

Adults, of course, can also get involved by supporting Explore Ecology with donations via a variety of methods, much needed as the omicron variant obliterated the opportunity to bring back Sustainable Table, the organization’s signature springtime fundraising event, resulting in a third consecutive cancellation due to the COVID pandemic. Volunteer opportunities also abound in all areas of Explore Ecology programming, from working in the Art From Scrap store to coordinating coastal cleanup to aiding in the gardens.

You can help provide a measure of support on Sunday, March 20, by just showing up to see Explore Ecology receive its Local Food Hero Award. And while you’re there, support their mission a little more at the Santa Barbara Community Seed Swap, which will take place from 11 am to 4 pm at the Community Arts Workshop (CAW). That might be the easiest way of all to help Explore Ecology empower everyone through environmen tal education.

Explore Ecology 302 East Cota Street Lindsay Johnson, Executive Director www.exploreecology.org (805) 884-0459

Steven Libowitz has covered a plethora of topics for the Journal since 1997, and now leads our extensive arts and entertainment coverage

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Last Week’s Solution:

By Pete Muller & Andrew White For each of the first five mini crosswords, one of the entries also serves as part of a five-word meta clue. The answer to the meta is a word or phrase (five letters or longer) hidden within the sixth mini crossword. The hidden meta answer starts in one of the squares and snakes through the grid vertically and horizontally from there (no diagonals!) without revisiting any squares.

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Across 1 Word in some tennis scores 4 "Hey, Soul Sister" band 6 Party line?

7 Settles down, perhaps 8 Provide a definition for, in a way

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Down 1 Upcoming Disney princess role for Halle Bailey 2 Rancher's rope 3 Merry tunes 4 Orange drink mix 5 American gangbuster Eliot

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2692 SYCAMORE CANYON RD, MONTECITO 7BD/8½BA • $16,850,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

2285 BELLA VISTA DR, MONTECITO UPPER 4BD/6BA • $12,950,000 Team Scarborough, 805.331.1465 LIC# 01182792

2150 ORTEGA RANCH LN, MONTECITO 4BD/4½BA • $10,950,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

796 HOT SPRINGS RD, MONTECITO 4BD/3½BA • $9,995,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

500 MEADOW WOOD LN, MONTECITO UPPER 4BD/3BA + 2 offices • $6,650,000 Daniel Encell, 805.565.4896 LIC# 00976141

974 PARK LN, MONTECITO 4BD/4BA; ±2.23 acres • $6,200,000 Janet Caminite, 805.896.7767 LIC# 01273668

400 HOT SPRINGS RD, MONTECITO 4BD/6BA • $5,795,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

840 TORO CANYON RD, MONTECITO 4BD/3½BA; ±10.01 acres • $5,395,000 Cristal Clarke / J.J. Gobbell, 805.403.5785 LIC# 00968247 / 02063124

810 COYOTE RD, MONTECITO 3BD/3½BA + 1BD/1BA studio • $4,995,000 Marsha Kotlyar Estate Group, 805.565.4014 LIC# 01426886

1903 COYOTE CIR, SANTA BARBARA 3BD/3BA • $3,499,000 Jo Ann Mermis, 805.895.5650 LIC# 00891742

660 ORCHARD AVE, MONTECITO 3BD/3½BA; office; den; media room • $3,150,000 Patrice Serrani, 805.637.5112 LIC# 01764713

1705 GLEN OAKS DR, MONTECITO ±0.87 acres • $1,825,000 Marsha Kotlyar Estate Group, 805.565.4014 LIC# 01426886

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