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‘The Book of Sounds’

Conor Hanick opens the new Mariposa Series at the Music Academy with an enchanting, minimalist composition, page 16

Meeting of the Minds

The Women’s Health Collective meets for the first time to discuss women’s health care in the area and how it could be improved, page 13

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Village Beat – Updates on aesthetics and construction details for the Olive Mill Roundabout, Las Aves complex has a new owner, and Ready Set Confetti opens

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Montecito Miscellany – Carmina Burana, CAMA and the Birmingham Symphony, Saints in the Museum, plus more

Letters to the Editor – Why the U.N. and the local chapter is important, and an account of the Santa Claus Lane cannabis permit process

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Our Town – Art is for Good at Helena Mason and Patricia Houghton Clarke’s new Silo118 show

Local News – The First Meeting of SB Women’s Health Collective draws an audience and exposes gaps in local health care In Passing – The joyful life of Jacqueline Rubinstein is remembered by family and friends

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The Giving List – The VNA Loan Closet helps provide needed medical equipment and supplies over the short term

Your Westmont – Their largest fundraising campaign ever is announced at Westmont’s 85th Anniversary Gala and the new accelerated nursing program launches

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Nosh Town – Inflation may be on the rise, but the cost is down on these Happy Hour specials

Travel Buzz – A quick trip to the MOMA in San Francisco and travel writers speak their thoughts on sound

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Financial Market Review – A look at the market’s activity during the third quarter of 2022

Brilliant Thoughts – The ancient and modern sites of hunting and gathering, including the local supermarket

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Santa Barbara by the Glass – The Santa Barbara Vintners Festival returns and Gabe has some new and old favorites

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Reel Fun – The Watcher is worth watching, just make sure no one is watching you

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Montecito Reads – Hollis gets a moment to spend time with his family and head to Hermosa Beach

Real Estate – Lots are being built on and renovations are underway with the massive changeover of homes in the past few years

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The Optimist Daily – Renewable energy hits a new milestone in Greece

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

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On Entertainment – Conor Hanick kicks off the new Mariposa Series, Ruth Lin to host her first Westmont concert, and other events in town

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Calendar of Events – Vir Das and the Juilliard String Quartet at the Lobero this week, Day of the Dead for the whole family, and more

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Local Business Directory – Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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Village Beat Prepare for Construction Delays

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

The project team behind the 101 expansion and associated projects in Montecito are making the rounds this week and next, preparing the community for impending traffic delays. Representatives from Caltrans and SBCAG, along with spokesperson Kirsten Ayars, will be at the Coast Village Business Association this week, followed by a public meeting next Tuesday, October 25, at Montecito Inn. “The pur pose of this outreach is to show the commu nity how we are building this roundabout in the most efficient and timely way possi ble,” said Ayars, referring to the Olive Mill Roundabout, which begins construction in mid-November, the first of the 101 widen ing parallel projects to break ground.

The Olive Mill Roundabout, which has been in the works for years, will improve traffic flow at the intersection at Olive Mill Road, Coast Village Road, North Jameson Lane, the northbound Highway 101 off-ramp at Olive Mill Road, and the southbound Highway 101 on-ramp at Olive Mill Road. The new, single-lane roundabout is designed for 20 mph, and drivers will see signs for each roadway name at each leg of the roundabout. The center of the roundabout will be planted with olive trees and feature a sandstone retaining wall, and lighting will be improved around the roundabout. Pedestrians will have access with crosswalks around the mountain side of the roundabout, and bicyclists can either take the lane through the roundabout or walk bikes using pedestrian sidewalks and crosswalks on the mountain side. “It will be a beautiful and functional roundabout when it’s finished,” Ayars said.

While motorists will be able to drive through the intersection throughout the entire construction period – mid-Novem ber 2022 through summer 2023 – Ayars reports that the northbound off-ramp at Olive Mill Road will be closed through

out construction as the contractor is staging on the off-ramp. Drivers will be detoured to exit the freeway at San Ysidro Road. Also, the southbound on-ramp at Olive Mill will be closed from the begin ning of construction through the end of the year. Drivers traveling south will be detoured on North Jameson Lane to the new on-ramp at Sheffield Drive. “The Sheffield on-ramp is brand new, and up-to-date with today’s current standards for design and merging,” she said.

The axis between the NB off-ramp and SB on-ramp is where the center of the roundabout will be built, which will be the first section of the project to be com pleted. “By staging the construction this way, we can keep drivers coming through the intersection,” Ayars said, adding that flaggers will be on-site controlling traffic.

“Drivers should expect at least a 5-10 minute delay at the intersection, and on surrounding local roads, depending on time of day,” she added. The majority of the work will take place Monday through Friday, 7:30 am to 4:30 pm, with some nighttime construction as needed.

Once the roundabout itself is built, crews will work on the “corners” of the project, adding landscaping, improving drainage, and putting the finishing touches on the project. “The planter areas at the corners give drivers the navigation to go one lane in and one lane out,” Ayars said, emphasizing that the roundabout will function differ ently than the Hot Springs Roundabout, which has two lanes. The project will also be built in less time than that project, which was completed in 2009.

Ayars said that the first few months of the Olive Mill Roundabout construction will show a lot of progress, and a few months following the beginning of construction at Olive Mill, construction will begin on the San Ysidro Roundabout in Spring 2023.

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Drivers in Montecito should expect 5-10 minute delays at the intersection of Olive Mill Road, Coast Village Road, North Jameson, and the freeway ramps, as well as on local roads near the construction site, as work begins in November on a new roundabout at the clunky intersection

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Celebrating its 75th Anniversary this season the Juilliard String Quartet continues to inspire audiences around the world. Ronald Copes, former faculty member in UCSB’s Department of Music, has played with the Quartet since 1997. In May 2022, the Quartet named violist and Music Academy alumna Molly Carr to its ensemble.

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Members of the Juilliard String Quartet will offer a MASTER CLASS to string students in the Department of Music at UC Santa Barbara on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022, KARL GEIRINGER HALL, 2:00PM

the Olive Mill Roundabout will be able to be partially utilized and the southbound onramp to Highway 101 will be open, in order to lessen traffic impacts to the com munity. The San Ysidro Roundabout project includes replacing the current intersection at San Ysidro, North Jameson, and the Highway 101 northbound entrance and exit with an oblong-shaped roundabout, and adding a four-way stop on the other side of the freeway bridge, at San Ysidro and South Jameson Lane (near the Miramar Resort).

Next Tuesday, October 25, the Montecito Inn will host members of the community who are curious about the staging and schedule and want to learn more about what to expect. The meeting is from 4 pm to 5 pm.

For more information, visit sbroads.com.

L.A. Investors Set Sights on Las Aves Complex

Earlier this year the Las Aves business complex on the corner of E. Cabrillo Blvd, Channel Drive, and Los Patos Way, across from the Andree Clark Bird Refuge, sold to a Los Angeles-based investment group to the tune of over $19M. Now, rumors are swirling that the group, called the Runyon Group, have big plans to remodel the complex and bring in a fresh group of tenants to appeal to a younger demographic, according to a source close to the transaction.

The Runyon Group most recently com pleted a popular shopping, eating, and lifestyle destination in Culver City in Los Angeles, called Platform LA. The project recently welcomed Santa Ynez General as a holiday pop-up; the flagship Santa Ynez General shop is located in Santa Ynez, with a pop-up currently in Montecito’s Upper Village. The collection of shops also includes about a dozen other independent retail brands and a handful of eateries. A membership component offers free valet parking, event invites, early access to sales, and discounts at shops and restaurants.

No word yet on specific plans or timeline for Las Aves; it’s rumored the shopping and eating destination will be called The Post Montecito. With a new roundabout being built on the corner, and the location near the sensitive habitat that is the Bird Refuge, we surmise it could take many years to come to fruition. Current tenants at Las Aves com plex include Loul Dental Studio, Aesthetics Montecito, Points of Health, Beautiful You, and several other medical and office tenants.

The complex is located at 1805 East Cabrillo Blvd.

In Business: Ready Set Confetti

A new, locally-owned retail store has opened in Coast Village Walk, next to Blenders in the Grass. Montecito mom Emma Morton-Smith owns the new business, which offers an array of mod ern party décor and gifts from various on-trend brands.

himself.” — Leo Tolstoy

Located in the former location of PLNT PWRD MRKT, Montecito first “meat-less” market, which closed in June, Ready Set Confetti offers party supplies in every color of the rainbow, as well as themed party sets, balloon garlands, wrapping paper, ribbon by the yard, holiday-themed items, and much more, as well as, of course, confetti.

Morton-Smith, a former nurse, says the store is a passion project that she had been thinking about for months; she says she hopes the store will fill a much needed void in the community. Always a fan of hosting special events at home, she hopes to utilize the shop to offer public events as well, such as a succulent pumpkin work shop that was held last week; a second such event is scheduled for November 3.

Ready Set Confetti is located at 1046 Coast Village Road Suite G. Visit ready-set-confetti.com or follow @ready_ set_confetti for more information. The store is open Tuesday-Friday 9:30 am to 5 pm and Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm.

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Kelly Mahan Herrick, also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond.

Owner Emma Morton-Smith with her husband, Ben, and their daughter

Ready Set Confetti has opened in Montecito’s Lower Village, offering an array of party products, décor, and gifts

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Montecito Miscellany ‘Carmina Burana’ Packs the House and Stage

by Richard Mineards

Even the cavernous stage of the venerable Granada Theatre was filled to capacity when 170 per formers helped launch the Santa Barbara Symphony’s 70th season with Carl Orff’s magnificent Carmina Burana featuring Rodney Gustafson’s State Street Ballet, Santa Barbara Choral Society under Jo Anne Wasserman, the Quire of Voyces under director Nathan Kreitzer, and the Music Academy’s Sing! children’s chorus.

Maestro Nir Kabaretti launched the

hugely entertaining concert with Fauré’s “Pavane” and “Saint-Saens Bacchanale” from the opera Samson and Delilah before Orff’s 1936 masterpiece based on 24 poems drawn from 11th century man uscripts discovered in the 19th century, which I last heard when it opened the symphony’s 2015 season.

State Street’s co-artistic director William Soleau choreographed the talented danc ers while soprano Jana McIntyre, coun tertenor Randall Scotting, and baritone Valdis Jansons showed their extraordinary vocal range in the epic work.

Soleau also did double duty presenting

the world premiere for the program’s opening piece by Fauré.

It was an Orff-ully good show....

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A Picture Perfect Show

Santa Barbara Museum of Art is accen tuating the negative with its latest exhi bition, “A Time of Gifts: Six Years of Photographs Given to the Collection, 2016-2022.”

The show, which runs through January 15, features more than 80 superb photo graphs by Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Kwame Brathwaite , Nell Campbell , Awol Erizku, Janna Ireland, Aaron Siskind, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, among many important artists.

It is the first exhibition presented by the Department of Photography and New Media under curator Charles Wylie in the museum’s newly renovated McCormick and Wasserman and Family galleries.

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Santa Barbara Symphony packed the Granada stage for Carmina Burana (photo by Priscilla)

Caren Rager, Kathryn Martin, Janet Garufis, Nir Kabaretti, Jo Anne Wasserman, and William Soleau (photo by Priscilla)

Rodney Gustafson, Kathryn Martin, and Caren Rager welcome the audience (photo by Priscilla)

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Letters to the Editor Why We Support the United Nations

As members of the Santa Barbara and Tri-Counties Chapter of the United Nations AssociationUSA, we are frequently asked if the U.N. is still relevant and capable of carrying out its mission, and what does our organization do? Since United Nations Day is being celebrated on October 24th throughout the U.S. and the world, it is timely to address each of these questions.

Has the U.N. become irrelevant? Reports in the media have highlighted examples of fundamental principles, treaties, and international laws agreed to by U.N. member states that are fla grantly violated without consequences other than condemnation by the U.N. Secretary General and many, but not all, nations. Recent examples include Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and its subsequent commission of war crimes, the development of nuclear weapons by Iran and North Korea, and human rights violations committed by several countries.

President Biden ’s September 7th, 2022, speech to the U.N. General Assembly noted the organization’s gov ernance structure needs to be reformed, particularly allowing any member of the Security Council to veto actions approved by the majority of the 193 member states. However, this should not overshadow all the significant activ ities the U.N. performs in support of its mission. Examples that advance the fundamental purposes and principles of the U.N. include: tackling the global food crisis by raising funds to purchase and distribute food assistance through the World Food Program; brokering deals for food production and export of Ukrainian wheat and other agricultural products; meeting the urgent humani

tarian needs of the growing number of refugees; fighting preventable diseases through vaccination programs and other interventions administered by the World Health Organization; mitigating climate change; defending human rights in a number of countries; averting natural disasters, such as the salvage of a rust ing oil tanker off the coast of Yemen; improving relations between conflicting nations, such as arranging for a meeting between the heads of state for Israel and Turkey to develop collaborative efforts on energy issues; and mitigating conflicts across the world through negotiation of peace agreements and the deployment of U.N. Peacekeepers to help ensure adher ence to the agreements.

What Does the United Nations-USA Association (UNA-USA) Do?

The UNA-USA is an organization of Americans who believe that our inter ests and values can best be advanced by supporting the planet’s only truly uni versal institution: The United Nations. To that end, we: (1) advocate for U.S. funding for the U.N. and support of its priorities; (2) inform people in our community about the work the U.N. is undertaking to prevent and suppress threats to international peace and secu rity, encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and facilitating cooperation on a broad suite of economic, social, and humanitari an issues; and (3) where appropriate, implement U.N. priorities in our com munity that align with chapter mem bers’ interests and talents.

We also created the Santa Barbara Peace Prize, awarded by our local chap ter of the United Nations Association of Santa Barbara. We will be awarding this year’s Peace Prize to ShelterBox USA on

October 24th, which is international U.N. Day. Learn more about becoming involved in our nonprofit organization and our October 24th Peace Prize Award event us at unasb.org.

Sincerely, Jack Friedlander and Sharon Byrne Fish Heads on Santa Claus Lane

Ryba smrdí od hlavy: The fish stinks from the head. [Old Czech proverb]

I have been representing adjacent prop erty owners on Santa Claus Lane who oppose the County’s approval of a license and permits for a cannabis retail shop there, since early 2021.

In the last year and a half, my clients have provided expert and percipient wit ness evidence to County decision makers at all levels, proving that there is no community benefit to this location, and that placing a dispensary anywhere on Santa Claus Lane would conflict with key public access and recreation policies of the Coastal Act. The County knows that the visitor-serving/family-oriented businesses on Santa Claus Lane, as well as the surrounding residential commu nities – Sandyland, Casa Blanca, Padaro Lane, and Polo Condos – oppose the dispensary. At every stage, our unrebutted evidence has been ignored, and well-es tablished legal principles have been bur ied. Our proposal for resolution, which was narrowly tailored to restrict business hours and operations to avoid conflicts with public parking for beach access, and to avoid conflicts with the children’s Surf Camp right next door, as the law requires, has been summarily rejected –and ridiculed – by the applicant’s lobby ist, the County’s former “Cannabis Czar” Dennis Bozanich

Throughout the process, the County has failed every fairness test imaginable. They have scheduled public hearings when they knew we could not attend. They have withheld documents that should have been public long ago. The Planning Commission made its decision

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based on false statements made to at least two of the Commissioners in ex parte meetings which they failed to fully report, and which we were unable to rebut; the County Counsel failed to respond to Planning Commission questions to provide the clear legal basis for denial of the project; P&D failed to conduct any site specific environ mental review, and failed and refused to analyze the specific impacts on the

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public’s right to access the beach and the coastal trail, as required by the Coastal Act. The cannabis lobbyists have met with Supervisors, including our own Supervisor Williams, who now refuses to meet with us, and has taken to call ing my clients liars, in communications designed to discourage other project opponents. Even before the Planning Commission hearing in September, Bozanich was meeting with Supervisors to be sure to schedule a final hearing at the Board of Supervisors before Gregg Hart, our presumptive Assembly rep resentative, leaves for Sacramento. The Board hearing will occur on November 1 – a date chosen to serve the applicant. We will be there, and our evidence will show that the County made a serious error in designating Santa Claus Lane for a license, in 2020, which they have failed and refused to correct, and that the licensing decision has improper ly driven the coastal permit process, and that a coastal development permit for the dispensary cannot be lawfully approved. The community needs to know how we got to this place:

In 2020, Das Williams, the current First District Supervisor, repeatedly promised his constituents that he would not support a dispensary in the Toro/ Summerland Plan area unless there was a clear community benefit. But most

people don’t realize that back in 2019, he, with his Board colleagues, summar ily eliminated every other possible site in the First District, in Montecito, and in Summerland/Toro Canyon, some erroneously (a C-1 site in Montecito), some on questionable grounds (a pri marily on-line school in Summerland), and one in Cuyama, just because the people there didn’t want it. When the County finally engaged in “community outreach,” in 2020, it was not wide ly known that Williams’ then-Can nabis “Czar,” Dennis Bozanich, had already determined that the dispen sary would “effectively” be located on Santa Claus Lane. Then the CEO chose between two, side-by-side applicants. No surprise that one of them “won” the license. There was zero consider ation in the licensing process of the critical conflicts of both these sites with surrounding uses, public recreation, youth-oriented camps and businesses, and public access to the beach or of sites away from the beach.

Throughout 2020-2021, Williams continued to reassure his constitu ents that the Planning Commission retained full discretion to disapprove a coastal development permit for the site, even though a license was

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“Art for Good” is indeed the modus operandi for Helena Mason Art Gallery owner Natalie Olivas Sanchez, with her husband, realtor Jamie Sanchez Moving from strictly doing art exhibitions and selling art, she decided to turn the hip interior with an outdoor patio into an event space, one that brings the community together and benefits others on various levels, along with art on the walls.

Their Art for Good event on October 14 was clearly selling out during the first open ing hour and continued the vibe all evening. Friends of the artists and newbies to the “zone” celebrated, networked, and appreciated the visual content displayed by artists: Josh Soskin, Chris Gocong, Nicole Delesalle, Wallace Piatt, Gigi Crisa, Melissa Hopf, Deirdre Stietzel, David Aiazzi, Markus Klinko, Rod Lathim, and Lisa Trivell

The gallery is being internationally known with the acclaimed photography works by Klinko. Here we find his Beyonce and David Bowie Meditation, Eva Mendes and more, which of course guests were posing next to for Instagram feed photo-ops.

Soskin strictly uses real film in his Nikon and Leica cameras to create his outdoor-envi ronmental natural light images and portraits, some of which are now being used in a collab with Gocong, who is still on his portrait painting passion project. Delesalle’s full wall of abstracts in off-whites brought in quite a number of fans. Piatt continues to change meth ods and subjects with two new works donning the gallery entrance, comprised of twelve canvases he stitched together, paints, overlays with oil pen, disrupts, and sprays paints strategically for a textural touch. Hopf uses pastel-like acrylics and dark pen for her canvas works. Stietzel’s works are based in sacred geometry. Aiazzi, a Miami-based artist, sent up his Gorilla portrait and a few others, representing a child’s view of the world. Crisa and Lathim’s works from the gallery’s 2nd opening are still on view. Trivell says she is integrat ing art with healing. The upstairs gallery rooms continued with older works and a display table with smaller, unframed art on paper and other merch for sale.

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Seated, from left: Wallace Piatt, Natalie Olivas Sanchez, Josh Soskin, and Nicole Delesalle; Standing, from left: Jamie Sanchez, Deirdre Stietzel, Melissa Hopf, Lisa Trivell, and Chris Gocong (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

From left: Victoria Strong, Laura Sanchez, Natalie Olivas Sanchez, Yutopia Essex, and Natalia Alyse (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

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Women Rising: Huge Turnout for First Meeting of SB Women’s Health Collective

by Sharon Byrne

Katrina Mitchell penned an op-ed after the Supreme Court’s decision to over turn Roe vs. Wade, calling for prioritiz ing and coordinating a full spectrum of women’s health care needs, from puber ty to post-menopause. She struck a mas sive chord with women experiencing women’s health care in Santa Barbara, or lack thereof, and formed a Women’s Health Collective (WHC).

Alarm bells had been ringing over local women’s health care. On September 15, the Santa Barbara chapter of the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) hosted a panel discussion for women to communicate with providers directly who specialize in pregnancy and childbirth. This followed a decision by Cottage Hospital to reverse its ban on vaginal births after cesare an (VBAC), and trial of labor after cesarean (TOLOC). The inability to navigate past the ban, until recently, forced women who did not want another cesarean to leave the area to give birth. Cottage was not present at that forum.

Dr. Mitchell explained the intent of the WHC: “Our goal is to fact find and really evaluate what women are experiencing here so that we can identify what works and what gaps exist,” said Dr. Mitchell.

The WHC plans to present its com munity needs assessment findings to local health care leaders with hopes of garnering support and resources to make effective change.

Because health care can be very personal, the WHC will honor varying perspectives and emotions tied to every experience.

“We want this forum to be a place where we can share our experienc es, listen, and validate concerns,” Dr. Mitchell said. “We aim to facilitate productive and fact-based conversations and bring women of all professional and personal backgrounds together in the community. This will be critical to cre ating meaningful change in our region.”

Saturday, well over 100 women attend ed the WHC’s first gathering at an openair gym in Old Town Goleta. Attendees varied widely in ages and backgrounds: USCB students, new mothers, women with children with disabilities, those fac ing menopause, senior women, women’s healthcare providers, and mental health specialists. La Lieff wines were provided by Montecitan Gretchen Lieff.

Kathy Kelley, a development director at Montessori Center School, facilitated the meeting. She split us into 10 groups of roughly 15 women each. The discussions were jaw-dropping. Expectant mothers struggled to find appointments and faced

Over 100 women of all ages and walks of life met this past weekend to discuss women’s health care

pushback for choices like midwives or doulas. Significant childcare costs pushed some women into staying home, which led to terrible social isolation. Depression is an entirely normal reaction, but routes to mental health care were difficult to access. There is no women-centered care here for every phase of life. Diseases that mainly affect women, like thyroid, are treated with pharmaceuticals and surgery, but identifying root causes are not a prior ity. Most prescribed pharmaceutical doses are formulated for 180-pound males.

Piecemealing of care means a woman might see eight to 10 different specialists, but there’s no communication among them. Navigating insurance was also dif ficult, even for those with good insurance.

Highlights of the Group’s Findings

– Significant challenges accessing women’s health care exist in Santa Barbara due to lack of providers, limited availability, frag mented care, and poor insurance coverage.

– Reproductive choices are at risk.

– These challenges are 10X harder for vulnerable and underserved populations.

– Women need better representation in local health care leadership.

– We want women-centered care that is focused on our unique needs through out all phases of life.

Improving women’s care will improve the health of our community:

– Women are the foundational caregivers in society, driving care and decisions for chil dren, parents, partners, and countless others.

– Women assume the vast majority of work of raising the children of our com munity, and the care they receive impacts the health of the entire family.

The WHC plans to continue meet ing to tackle these issues. If you’re inter ested, please email SBWHC2022@ gmail.com.

Rubinstein

Jacqueline Hiske Rubinstein passed away September 6th at the young age of 64. Jacqueline was born July 25th, 1958, in Singapore to Hiske and Jack Forsyth. Jacqueline was a citizen of the world; speaking five languag es and growing up in areas including Suriname, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, New York, Montecito, and Los Angeles. She was a loving and dedicated partner to her husband, the love of her life, Jerry Rubinstein, for 40 years. And a proud mother of three children – Cara, Max, and Jake Rubinstein.

Jacqueline’s singular goal in life was to bring joy and happiness to her family and friends, and there is no question that she accomplished this goal in spades. Her warmhearted spirit and infectious laugh commanded a presence as soon as she entered a room. Everyone wanted to be around “Jacque” as she made you feel so incredibly loved and special. Her sense of humor was contagious. She had a way of bringing people together and was truly the glue to our family. All those who are fortu nate enough to have known Jacque will remember her as a selfless, beautiful woman who would give you the shirt off her back and put a smile on your face. Jacqueline will be missed dearly by her cherished friends and family.

Jacqueline is survived by her husband (Jerry Rubinstein), her three children (Cara, Max, and Jake Rubinstein), her mother (Hiske Strong), her sister (Christine Peters), her two stepchil dren (Mitchell and Wes Rubinstein), her two grandchildren (Hannah and Jenna Rubinstein), her three nieces (Caleigh Peters, Skye Peters, and Jamie Estes), her nephew (Michael Segal), her sister-inlaw (Joanne Segal), and her brother-in-law (Gil Segal).

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Jacqueline’s singular goal in life was to bring joy and happiness to her family and friends, and there is no question that she accomplished this goal in spades.

Sharon Byrne is the Executive Director of the Montecito Association

On Entertainment

A Mindful New Journey for Music Academy’s Mariposa

by Steven Libowitz

Music Academy (they lopped off “of the West” from the name this summer) doesn’t just have a new moniker, they’ve also created a brand-new series to continue the celebra tion of its milestone 75th year. Think of the new Mariposa Series as “homecom ing” recitals held on campus to showcase what Academy alumni and faculty are up to during the year, having them recon nect with the community and bridge the gap between summer festivals.

The honor of the inaugural event goes to pianist Conor Hanick, who began his nine-year tenure as an assistant to half-century veteran Jerome Lowenthal just a few years before the pedagogi cal-performance wonder retired. Hanick, who is now the chair of the department, will be bringing back one of his favorite pieces, The Book of Sounds by composer Hans Otte, reprising his performance that delighted the discerning audience at the Ojai Music Festival last June, just days before MA began its season.

Hanick started exploring The Book of Sounds a decade ago after a respected colleague described it as “the most beau tiful piece that’s ever been written for the piano,” Hanick recalled. “Some listen ers consider it very much not beautiful because of its seeming repetitiveness and complexity, but I was completely enam ored after hearing just 30 seconds.”

Hanick said he finds the minimalist work endlessly fascinating and contin uously captivating, particularly because of what it does with what he called “modest means.”

“There’s no musical embellishments,” he said. “It just focuses on the most important distilled elements and bur

rows down even deeper into them from movement to movement, which each has only a couple of ingredients. Over the course of the movement, the essence gets rediscovered in profound ways. The rep etition invites the listener and certainly the performer to consider and reconsid er, and then reconsider again, what the piece is trying to say, creating a hypnotic effect. It’s like when you say a word over and over again, the meaning melts away and you’re left with the raw contour of the sound. Otte is trying to unlock these vistas of our mind and imagina tion and memory by having us dwell on these objects until they start transforming before our very ears.”

Hanick said that performing The Book of Sounds is a mind-boggling journey, one that he happily takes up again and again among other great works of art.

“It makes you consider aspects of not only your own musicianship but your approach to music, and even things that don’t have anything to do with music –what you’re aiming to express and why it’s important.”

The piece also asks the audience to actively participate in unveiling its mean ing in real time, turning the experience of performance into a communal event.

“It’s very meditative,” he said. “As we’re all looking at, or listening to, the same object through all of its repetition and nuance and subtle shifts of character, we’re all getting closer to whatever real thing there is to feel about this piece.”

Hanick, who spends most of the year in New York City, said he’s looking for

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Conor Hanick opens the Music Academy’s new Mariposa Series

In his October 27th performance, Conor Hanick will focus on the methodical, hypnotic composi tion, The Book of Sounds, by Hans Otte

The Giving List No Skeletons, Just Angels in VNA Health’s Loan Closet

by Steven Libowitz

As five-year-old Sky finished a run down from the top of Mammoth Mountain on a recent December morning, an adult snowboarder unex pectedly crashed into him leaving the youngster unable to stand. An X-ray at the local Emergency Room indicated that he had a spiral fracture in his tibia and would need a cast to immobilize and support the leg.

As Sky would also need to limit weight-bearing activities on his injured leg, the doctor told Sky’s family he’d need to use a pediatric wheelchair or walker as well as crutches to get around, and asked if she knew how to get the equipment.

“Why yes,” replied Sky’s mom, Mara. “We have the Loan Closet at home in Santa Barbara.”

The Loan Closet, operated by VNA Health since the nonprofit’s founding, was able to provide Sky the equipment he needed to sustain his fearless indepen dence and heal properly so that less than two months later, the youngster was able to rock climb up the face of Fire Crags off of Painted Cave Road hundreds of feet above the ground.

The founders of VNA Health recog nized the need to support community members with basic medical supply chal lenges and from the beginning established the Loan Closet in 1908. Later in 1948, with the help of Thomas M. Storke, then editor and publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press, VNA Health expanded the Loan Closet to provide free short-term loans of durable medical equipment for community residents. More than a centu ry later, the Loan Closet continues to care for generations of families, aiding in their recovery, recuperation, and readjustment to injuries, illness, and more.

“Our founders built VNA Health and the Loan Closet for the good of the community,” shared Kieran Shah, VNA Health President & CEO. “Starting and sustaining the Loan Closet was not only out of compassion for those in need; it was foresight into ensuring the overall health and well-being of the whole com munity for generations.”

VNA Health Loan Closet is still the only community resource in Santa Barbara County offering free loans of basic medical equipment, such as wheelchairs, crutches, knee scoot ers, walkers, shower seats, and more. Getting helped by the facility’s warm and welcoming team comes as a great relief to those who otherwise might have had to navigate our healthcare sys tem that can be incredibly complex and

frustrating as well as expensive.

As a free community service, the Loan Closet is open for anyone residing in Santa Barbara County and regularly serves more than 4,000 clients each year. There is no fee for borrowing equipment, whether it’s for a few weeks or for an extended period of time. Those in need are advised to inquire about availability of equipment – whether a wheelchair, walker, crutches, shower bench, or other assistive device – by calling the Loan Closet at (805) 690-6235 or emailing loancloset@vna.health before completing the required Loan Closet Equipment Loan Form available online.

The invaluable resource is completely supported through private donations and contributions – often from peo ple who have benefited from the Loan Closet, although VNA Health also depends on support from its friends, family, and neighbors.

“Our communities have supported the Loan Closet for more than a century,” stated Lailan McGrath, Director of the VNA Health Foundation. “By making a donation today, you can help us continue the Loan Closet legacy to ensure it is available to support every generation of the next family in need.”

While monetary support is the easiest and most efficient way to support the Loan Closet, the VNA Health facility also accepts donated medical equipment that is no longer needed by its owner. Most small medical equipment is accept ed, as long as it is in good condition.

The Loan Closet is located at VNA Health’s corporate offices in Downtown Santa Barbara, and is open by appoint ment only from 8 am to 4 pm, Monday-

After a snowboarding injury, Sky used VNA’s Loan Closet to source the medical equipment needed

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Your Westmont Forward in Faithfulness

by Scott Craig, photography by Brad Elliott

On the heels of two consecutive record-breaking fundraising years, Westmont has launched its largest fundraising campaign ever, Forward in Faithfulness. Through generous gifts from alumni, parents, foundations, and friends of the college, including the two largest gifts in the history of the college, the campaign has raised more than $197.1 million of the $250 million goal.

The campaign was announced at Westmont’s 85th Anniversary Gala on October 15. Leading priorities of the Forward in Faithfulness campaign are: Christian leadership programs; educa tional affordability and access; athletics and the college’s transition to NCAA Division II; new academic programs, centers and institutes; and global pro grams. Forward in Faithfulness coincides

with Westmont’s 85th Anniversary.

Founded by Ruth Kerr in 1937, Westmont moved to its Montecito cam pus in 1940. Kerr founded the college with the goal of preparing men and women to serve the purposes of God around the world.

On October 15, with a sold-out audi ence in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort, the Westmont community enjoyed an evening of thanksgiving for the 85-year history, particularly the faith and sacri fice on the part of the college founder and the ways God provided year after year to the present day.

The gala program celebrated 85 men and women who embody the mission of the college in an array of fields, and friends with the vision and generosity to extend Westmont’s mission around the world. The evening included din ner and a celebratory program fea turing the Westmont College Choir and Orchestra, the honoring of the

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85 award recipients, and reflections from Westmont from President Gayle D. Beebe titled, “The Architecture of Excellence: God’s Faithfulness, Human Longing, and the Enduring Impact of Westmont in the World.”

“We find Westmont has extraordi nary momentum in a number of key areas,” Beebe said. “Given the challeng es facing higher education, we don’t take this for granted. Our faith in Him

prompts us to not only fulfill our mis sion with excellence each and every day but, when God presents new oppor tunities, we are compelled to move forward in bold faith.”

Dedicated to Educating Nurses

Westmont dedicated its new accel erated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) program, naming it Westmont Downtown | Grotenhuis Nursing. David Grotenhuis , an alumnus of the college, and his wife, Anna , were inspired to give generously to the pro gram by Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree , who died earlier this month.

In its second semester, the 16-month nursing program has enrolled 28 stu dents. The program is housed in down town Santa Barbara (26 West Anapamu Street), just a few blocks from Cottage Hospital, which has partnered with the college in hopes of overcoming the region’s projected nursing shortfall.

Gayle D. Beebe, Westmont president, said he began considering the possibil

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Financial Market Review Third Quarter 2022: Bear Market Rally Fizzles as Interest Rates Rise

by Brian Schaffield

–U .S.stocks

ended the quarter off 4.7%, down 24.8% in 2022 and at a two-year low – Bonds also reached new lows, extending historic draw down, down 15% in 2022

– High inflation (latest CPI from August of 8.3%) driving a more aggressive Fed policy – base rate now seen rising to 4.6% peak in 2023 from 3% now

– Increased risk of recession – recently surveyed at 52% probability for the U.S. but key question is how deep it might get

Market Performance: Third Straight Down Quarter

Global equity markets continued to decline in Q3, reconfirming a bear market for the SP500 and entering a tenth month of drawdown with very little optimism in the financial press. World equities have now declined 25% total return in 2022; U.S. stocks similarly have produced a -24.8% return in 2022. For Q3, U.S. stocks returned -4.7% after a -9.3% September meltdown that erased the summer’s relief rally. It was a particularly painful quarter as hopes for a market bottom in June and a Fed reversal on aggressive rate increases were dashed by high inflation data and hawkish Fed commentary. The June-August relief rally saw equities cut their losses for the year in half with a stunning 17% surge in the SP500 before giving back all those gains later in the quarter. Elsewhere in the world, the Euro zone suffered particularly hard, between war and an energy crisis, down 33% in 2022. Bonds also surrendered gains in September to close 5% lower in Q3, extending losses to a staggering 15% in 2022, the worst performance since at least 1926. Despite high inflation, even commodities had a loss for the quarter, gold down 4.1% in the quar ter and down 9% overall in 2022.

Major Asset Category Index Price Returns for Q3 2022

Losses for diversified portfolios continued to mount in Q3 ‘22 with especially disconcerting levels for conservative investors. Despite high inflation, cash has been a better investment than stocks or bonds in 2022, even though bank money market rates are lagging well behind Fed funds. At the current projected rate for Fed funds, it is possible cash will be yielding over 4% interest by the end of the year.

Returns on Diversified Portfolio Indices as of September 30, 2022

Outlook: Darkest Before the Dawn?

Returns for 3-, 5-, 10- and 15-year periods are annualized

The last quarter was merciless to optimistic investors, extinguishing a rally and returning more losses. The Fed’s own interest rate forecast has risen to 4.6% peak from 3.8% peak forecast in June. High inflation and high probability of reces sion are coexisting now as semi-stagflation. U.S. real estate has shown signs of downturn as home sales volume decline and prices soften. It is almost a given the U.S. will experience a period of well below normal growth if not worse. The out look for corporate earnings is hazy: although official SP500 estimates still show growth in 2022 and 2023, downward revisions have been more steep than usual. The strong dollar is driving inflation abroad and impacting U.S. multinationals’ profits. Finally, geopolitics/the Ukraine war remains a wildcard with heightened nuclear rhetoric.

Nonetheless, the most probable outcome still appears to be a moderate tech nical recession that doesn’t dramatically affect earnings and that inflation will begin to decline soon. The Fed’s rate increases may end as soon as Q1 2023 and its long-term direction from there will be downwards if inflation declines adequately. Anecdotally, inflation does finally seem to be moving lower as illustrated in today’s manufacturing PMI contraction. If inflation does begin to decline, the Fed will almost certainly respond to recessionary conditions with some modification of monetary tightening that would be a positive for financial markets. So, from a certain perspective, the current bleak outlook contains the seeds of its eventual reversal.

Portfolio Implications: Tax Loss Harvest, Hold, Rebalance, Average Cost Buy

After a 25% drawdown in equities, market indices are probably within 10-15% of a worst-case bottom that might be expected in a cathartic selloff from a severe recession like 2008 or 2020. Lemons to lemonade, the drawdown does open up possibilities for tax loss harvesting in taxable accounts. In addition to the commonsense adage to not panic at these levels, portfolio rebalancing and average cost buying have been histori cally positive when the stock market is down heavily.

Price Development through Q3 2022

ETF proxies for asset classes:

Brian Schaffield is an investment advisor based in Santa Barbara and has been in the financial industry for 31 years. Nothing in this article serves as the receipt of, or as a substitute for, personalized investment advice.

Brilliant Thoughts

Hunters and Gatherers

by Ashleigh Brilliant

Despite my own attempts, through the jungles of information on Google, I’ve been unable to track down the originator of the term “hunt er-gatherer,” as used to describe a lifestyle. But it appears to have been an invention of that branch of modern science which studies human origins and may fall under the rubric of Paleo-Anthropology.

That being said – and I suppose I had to say it just to get this article started – what interests me more than the ways of our dis tant ancestors – and even of some of our contemporaries, such as certain Pygmy tribes, whose social organizations are still considered “primitive” – are the sometimes combined forms of hunting and gathering which our modern culture has developed.

The institution known as the “SuperMarket” is one of these with whose milieu I personally am most familiar.

Of course, there’ve always been mar kets, where people with things to sell got together with people looking to buy such things. And at one remove from that kind of trading place, we’ve had the develop ment of “stock markets,” in which what are traded are not goods themselves, but certificates representing the producers of those items.

But when and how did markets become “Super”? There seems to be no clear single answer. In 1903, George Bernard Shaw wrote a play called Man and Superman, which appears to be the first use of super-anything in English. (It was bor rowed from the German ‘Übermensch’ of Friedrich Nietzsche.)

Before the early 20th Century, even in America, shopping for groceries was usually a matter of dealing across a counter with someone who would bring you what you wanted from one of the shelves behind him or from a stock room. Then came the dramatic new idea of “self-service,” along with the concept of the “market-wagon.”

So in the 1930s – the same decade in which the comic-strip superhero “Superman” first appeared – the term “Supermarket” began to be used. Soon there were chains of such establish ments. And, although they’ve been oneupped by even more grandiose places for shopping, under such designations as “hyper-markets,” the plain old super market is still the standard, at least in my neck of the woods.

And those woods are still the preferred venue for regular hunting and gathering, with traditional rows of aisles lined with shelves, which we gatherers do our best to empty during the day, only to find they’ve been miraculously replenished overnight. But the hunting is itself a separate oper ation. The supermarket is not all aisles,

and there are different sections for fresh fruits and vegetables, for refrigerated, frozen, or newly baked items. To make it a little more challenging, your quarry is not guaranteed to still be where you last saw it. And in any case, the items you seek may be widely separated. That is where the gathering comes in – and that is why having a “basket on wheels” has become so integral to the shopping experience.

But there are, of course, other kinds of hunting and gathering, par ticularly the pursuit known as “col lecting” which in our culture is now so engrained that many items are characterized not for their aesthetic appeal, but for their “collectability.”

What makes a thing collectable is not its intrinsic value, but simply the fact that there are a substantial number of people – sometimes des ignated “hobbyists” – who, for their own amusement, collect that type of item. There are hundreds of such cat egories, some of the most common being stamps, coins, and autographs. With regard to products bearing my own name and my own original words, considering how many there are, and how widely distributed, I am surprised how few collectors they seem to have attracted. But it may be that such abundance is itself a deterrent to collectors, who want to feel that what they have gathered is in some sense special.

The one truly collectable type of item I have produced are my own originals, which, for some reason I am unwilling to part with, and keep them all – yes, all 10,000 – in a bank vault.

I am, however, willing to write my autograph on anything with my name already printed on it – and consider it of so little value that I never charge a fee. This distinguishes me from the British Royal Family, who have made it a policy never to give autographs at all – ever since a nephew of Queen Victoria received a refusal for asking her for money – and sold her letter for more than he had asked for.

County of Santa Barbara County Planning Commission

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: ash leigh@west.net. web: www.ash leighbril liant.com.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING HWY 101 Widening Segment 4D

Wednesday November 2, 2022

Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M.

On November 2, 2022, the County Planning Commission will consider a request from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) for a Development Plan, (Case No’s. 21DVP-00000-00022, 21CDP-00000-00076. The proposed project is for improvements to Highway 101 to add a part-time continuous access High Occupancy Vehicle lane in both the northbound and southbound directions within the highway corridor. The project is located along approximately 1.4 miles of Highway 101 between Post Mile (PM) 9.2 and PM 10.6, 0.2 miles north of the Sheffield Drive undercrossing to the Olive Mill Overcrossing in Santa Barbara County, First Supervisorial District.

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The extensive show celebrates the gen erosity of numerous museum donors whose gifts of photographs and funds have allowed SBMA to add more than 600 photographs to its collection in the last

six years, roughly the era of the museum’s recently completed renovation project. Among supporters turning out were Carey Appel , Robert Boghosian , George Konstantinow, Kandy Luria-

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“....Carty has and continues to be a strong and thoughtful leader on our County School Board... We endorse Marybeth Carty for SB County School Board and look forward to her continuing her hard work on behalf of the children and families in this county.”

Budgor , Ronnie Mellen , Nicholas and Rosemary Mutton, Kenneth and Shirley Waxman, and Mark Whitehurst and Kerry Methner

CAMA Kicks Off

Simon Rattle, who performed here with the London Symphony Orchestra in March. The concert was part of an eightcity tour that culminates later this month at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

On the 150th anniversary of his birth day, British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ enchanting “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” launched the thoroughly entertaining concert wrap ping with Debussy’s classic “La Mer.”

Elgar’s “Cello Concerto in E Minor,” played by Sheku Kanneh-Mason on a 1700 Matteo Goffriller instrument, who garnered global fame playing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, in 2018, was sandwiched with Weinberg’s “Jewish Rhapsody” from Festive Scenes.

I last saw Sheku play with his pianist sister Isata at a UCSB Arts & Lectures concert at Campbell Hall last year.

The Sussexi, who were back in our rarefied enclave after an unexpected stay in London following Queen Elizabeth’s death, missed a treat, although they were spotted at the Jack Johnson concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl.

CAMA – the Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara – kicked off its 104th concert season in grand style at the Granada Theatre with the City of Birmingham Symphony and its dynamic conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, who last appeared in our Eden by the Beach 34 years ago.

She succeeded British conductor Sir

Twilight Dreams in the Garden

Kenny and Elizabeth Slaught opened the doors of their Montecito aerie for the Dream Foundation’s second annual

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Mary Heebner, Nell Campbell, Nancy Lee, Beth Gates, and Robert Boghosian (photo by Priscilla)

Fabián Leyva Bárragán, Charlie Wylie, Nell Campbell, and Eik Kahng (photo by Priscilla)

Curator of Photography and New Media Charlie Wylie welcoming and addressing the art devotees to “A Time of Gifts” (photo by Priscilla)

Mitch Glanz, Gayle Abramson, Lisa LoCicero, and Nigel Lythgoe at the Dream Foundation gala (photo by Kiel Rucker of Head & Heart Photography)

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the City of Birmingham Symphony got the CAMA season off to a rolling start (photo by Benjamin Ealovega)

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AND THE SANTA BARBARA POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERIOD OF JULY 1, 2022 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2025

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on October 11, 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. 6086

STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) )

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. )

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on October 4, 2022 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on October 11, 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

NOES: None

ABSENT: None

ABSTENTIONS: None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my Hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on October 12, 2022.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on October 12, 2022.

/s/ Randy Rowse Mayor

Published October 19, 2022

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the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original state ment on file in my office.

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NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING ON A PROPOSED ORDINANCE ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE STATE BUILDING STANDARDS CODES WITH LOCAL AMENDMENTS

Notice is hereby given that a public hearing on the matter of the proposed ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Barbara amending Santa Barbara Municipal Code Chapters 22.04; and 8.04 adopting by reference the 2022 California Building Code, Volumes 1 and 2; 2022 California Residential Code; 2022 California Electrical Code; 2022 California Mechanical Code; 2022 California Plumbing Code; 2022 California Energy Code; 2022 California Historical Buildings Code; 2022 California Existing Buildings Code; 2022 California Green Building Standards Code; 2022 California Fire Code, 2022 California Referenced Standards Code; and the 2021 International Property Maintenance Code; adopting local revisions to those codes; and repealing Ordinance Number 5919 and 5779 will be held in Council Chambers, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California on November 8, 2022, at 2:00 p.m., at which time evidence will be taken and interested persons will be heard by the Santa Barbara City Council.

Notice is further given that copies of the 2022 California Building Code, Volumes 1 and 2; 2022 California Residential Code; 2022 California Electrical Code; 2022 California Mechanical Code; 2022 California Plumbing Code; 2022 California Energy Code; 2022 California Historical Buildings Code; 2022 California Existing Buildings Code; 2022 California Green Building Standards Code; 2022 California Fire Code, 2022 California Referenced Standards Code; and the 2021 International Property Maintenance Code, and the proposed local amendments to those codes being considered for adoption are on file with the Office of the City Clerk of the City of Santa Barbara, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California and are open for public inspection.

The proposed ordinance will adopt the aforementioned state building standards codes and will adopt local amendments to these state wide codes based on local geological, topographical, and climatic conditions and local administrative procedures for the implementation of said codes.

Written comments may be sent to the City Clerk of the City of Santa Barbara at the above address or clerk@santabarbaraca.gov

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ta Barbara, CA 93108. Jo seph W Cordero, 480 Toro Canyon Road, Santa Barba ra, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the Coun ty Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 30, 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 state ment on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220002437. Published October 12, 19, 26, November 2, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tierra Costa, 2030 Edison Street, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. TC Landscaping Services, LLC, 1883 West Royal Hunte Drive, Cedar City, UT, 84720. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Bar bara County on September 28, 2022. This statement ex pires 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 state ment on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220002408. Published October 12, 19, 26, November 2, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The fol lowing person(s) is/are doing business as: Solar-Link, 27 West Anapamu Street, #454, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Evolution Sustainable Indus tries, Incorporated, 27 West Anapamu Street, #454, San ta Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barba ra County on September 16, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the Coun ty 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. 2022-0002309. Published October 5, 12, 19, 26, 2022

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lowing person(s) is/are do ing business as: Solar-Link; Solar-Link Crowd Funding; Solar Farmers of America; Solar Scouts; Fan Funded, 27 West Anapamu Street, #454, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Evolution Sustainable Industries, Incorporated, 27 West Anapamu Street, #454, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Bar bara County on September 16, 2022. This statement ex pires 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 state ment on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, Coun ty Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0002309. Published October 5, 12, 19, 26, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The fol lowing person(s) is/are doing business as: IGEEKS SB, 522 West Canon Perdido, 44, San ta Barbara, CA 93101. Chris tian C Martinez, 522 West Canon Perdido, 44, Santa Bar bara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 23, 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. 20220002370. Published Septem ber 28, October 5, 12, 19, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The fol lowing person(s) is/are do ing business as: Thyne Talent Agency, 205 East Carrillo Street, Suite 100, Santa Bar bara, CA 93101. John J Thyne, 205 East Carrillo Street, Suite 100, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Septem ber 22, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Of fice of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The fol lowing person(s) is/are doing business as: Yankee Solutions, 803 Portesuello Ave, Santa Bar bara, CA 93101-3930. Robert Cuellar, 3950 Via Real #272, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Paul E. Cuellar, 803 Portesuello Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93101-3930. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Bar bara County on September 20, 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 origi nal statement on file in my of fice. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-

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CITATION FREEDOM FROM PARENTAL CUSTODY AND CONTROL (ABANDONMENT) (RE: ADOPTION): CASE No. 20CCAD00678. To Lisa Megan Sela and all persons claiming to be the father or mother of Maria Luisa Sela . By order of this Court you are hereby cited and may appear before the Judge Presiding in De partment 419 of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, located at Chil dren’s Court 201 Centre Pla za Drive, Monterey Park, CA 91754 on November 14, 2022 at 9 am of that day, then and there to show cause, if any you have, why said person should not be declared free from the control of his/her (their) pa rental rights according to the petition on file herein. You are hereby notified of the provi sions of Family Code 7860 which provide the judge shall advise the minor and the par ents, if present, of the right to have counsel present. The Court may appoint counsel to represent the minor wheth er or not the minor is able to afford counsel, and if they are unable to afford counsel, shall appoint counsel to represent the parents. The petition filed herein is for the purpose of freeing the subject child for placement for adoption. Filed September 22, 2022 by Sher ri R Carter, Executive Officer/ Clerk of Court by L. Melara, Deputy. Published September 28, October 5, 12, 19, 2022.

CITATION FREEDOM FROM PARENTAL CUSTODY AND CONTROL (ABANDONMENT) (RE: ADOPTION): CASE No. 20CCAD00679. To Lisa Megan Sela and all persons claiming to be the father or mother of Max Sela . By order of this Court you are hereby cited and may appear before the Judge Presiding in De partment 419 of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, located at Chil dren’s Court 201 Centre Pla za Drive, Monterey Park, CA 91754 on November 14, 2022 at 9 am of that day, then and there to show cause, if any you have, why said person should not be declared free from the control of his/her (their) pa rental rights according to the petition on file herein. You are hereby notified of the provi sions of Family Code 7860 which provide the judge shall advise the minor and the par ents, if present, of the right to have counsel present. The Court may appoint counsel to represent the minor whether or not the minor is able to af ford counsel, and if they are unable to afford counsel, shall appoint counsel to represent the parents. The petition filed herein is for the purpose of freeing the subject child for placement for adoption. Filed September 22, 2022 by Sher ri R Carter, Executive Officer/ Clerk of Court by L. Melara, Deputy. Published September 28, October 5, 12, 19, 2022.

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saying hello and catching up with friends.

With me in tow, Cricket was thrown off her game. She invited me to join her on the out and back swims. Too cold, I would say. She invited me to join her in the friendly catchups, but – who was I kidding – we both knew I was conversational deadweight. No thank you, I would say. After a few afternoons of my tagging along, I was beginning to wonder why my family let me; what a giant pain in the ass I was!

To make up for my faults, I brought a large shovel, enticing Trip and Isabel into elaborate sandcastle building. Sandcastles became dolphins, became whales, became sand igloos, became underground bunkers. By the end of the first week, muscles that I had not seen in years sprouted from my shoulders and back, and a healthy glow returned to my skin. Thanks to my continued gastrointestinal issues – diet related I was now convinced – I had lost fourteen pounds since signing on to ExOh. This was the wrong way to lose weight, but with my new shoulder muscles and slight tan, I looked as good as I was going to look. Almost passable as Cricket’s husband.

Montecito

by Michael Cox

Chapter 27

With Cyrus and family off to Fiji, I opened my eyes to Montecito for the first time in months. Thank God I did; it – at least temporarily – saved my sanity. The ratcheting tension with Cyrus had worn me to a nub; I was in desperate need of some mental R&R. Increasingly, I felt I could do no right in his eyes, especially when sitting in his library as he listed new demands and shook his head at my annoying questions. I had hoped that by the time the Wimbys returned from their three-week adventure, Cyrus would find me fresh faced and amenable; a return to the early days of our working together when he seemed to value my inputs and the demons of my skepticism were dormant. After all, it was summer in Montecito. If I could not rediscover a sense of joy and optimism now, it was hard to imagine where and when I might find it.

For a town always wearing its Paradise badge proudly, it was summer when Montecito’s claim seemed the most legitimate. Montecito sum mers were rainfall free – not even a sprinkle – from the end of May through the end of October. While the rest of the country dealt with thunderstorms, tornados, oppressive heat, and humidity, and – by the end of summer – hurricanes, the only real question in Montecito was, would there be morning fog and how long might it last.

Perhaps there was an argument that winter was Montecito’s golden season. Yes, it rained occasionally, but the grand total winter precipitation typically amounted to no more than fourteen inches. If the overnight low broke forty degrees, it would be the talk of the town with Montecito’s ladies breaking out their Moncler ski puffers. Most winter days, it would still be sunny, and in that sun, Montecitans would bask in their shared paradise, trying hard to remem ber what month it was. And certainly, winter was the time of year when New Yorkers and Chicagoans most gazed upon our hamlet with envy.

But for me, it was all about summer. Sunny summer afternoons brought Montecito to the beach, and perhaps the beach was where Montecito was at its most egalitarian. Aside from the Coral Casino, the beach was no one’s and everyone’s. Butterfly Beach – in front of the Four Seasons Biltmore – and Miramar Beach – in front of the brandnew, nineteen-years-in-the-making Rosewood hotel – were the main beaches with secretive Hammond’s tucked in between. At low tide, one could walk all three beaches, end-to-end. A visit to Miramar or Butterfly would find clumps of sunbathers, empty towels vacated by surfers in the water, and lots and lots of walkers often accompanied by four-legged friends who were unofficially welcomed to gallivant off leash.

Free of Cyrus, I front-loaded my workdays to join the rest of Montecito in these afternoon pilgrimages to the sand. There, Isabel would circle with a gaggle of girlfriends, Trip would boogie board and build drip sandcastles, and Cricket would swim out and back to the buoys staked two hundred yards offshore, then wander from pod to pod

When my digging was done and my family tired of me, I would just sit, staring offshore at the oil platforms. Ah, the oil platforms; a reminder that even Eden had its apples and serpents. Below the surface of the twen ty-five-mile-wide channel separating Montecito from Santa Cruz Island, lay one of the largest naturally seeping oil fields in the world. As early as the eighteenth century, mariners in the Santa Barbara Channel noted the sheen on the water and the tar balls occasionally accumulating on the sand. Offshore oil drilling began here in 1898 and thrived – despite perpetual objection from the locals – until a disastrous spill in 1969 coated thirty-five miles of Santa Barbara County beaches in oil and dead birds. Thus, the boom came to an ignominious end, and ushered in a new environmental consciousness beginning with the first Earth Day in 1970.

Nineteen offshore oil platforms remain in the Santa Barbara Channel: seven of them visible from Montecito’s beaches. During the Holiday sea son, the platforms were dressed as blinking red and green Christmas trees, attempting to soften their image as weapons of environmental destruction. The display was pretty but ineffective. It was an abusive father trying to win back his estranged children with birthday gifts.

To remind us that we cannot escape our nature, the tar balls still came and went at unpredictable intervals. Most locals dedicated a pair of flip flops as beach-only and kept a rag and baby oil handy as insurance. Curiously, the Montecito Chamber of Commerce did not note any of this in its brochures.

Uncharacteristic of me, I never brought my phone to the beach. BatSignal had been quiet since Cyrus left, and for that I was grateful. I knew that the entire business was not on vacation, and that – as the com pany’s CEO – I should demand to be kept in the loop, but I did not want to levy that demand. I wanted a break. I wanted to pretend that I was like much of the rest of Montecito: of working age, but hardly working. To do so, I latched onto Cyrus’s trip like a barnacle on a boat and made his threeweek va-cation my own ten-day stay-cation. It wasn’t part of my non-ex istent employment agreement, but that did not stop me from taking it.

And, for once, I let the inconsistency slide.

Chapter 28

As the final days of Cyrus’s vacation – and my stay-cation – wound down, our family packed up and headed south to Hermosa Beach in support of Cricket and her entry in the Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier. With Jenny, Paul, and their children in tow, we caravanned from Montecito at sunrise, stopping first at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach – for Isabel – and then at the Battleship USS Iowa – for Trip. By the time we sat down to a pre-race pasta feast at 7 pm in Hermosa, Cricket was ready to send us all back home so she could get to bed. But once everyone settled down into our room at the Beach House Hotel, she changed her tune and thanked us all for the support.

Cricket had been training for this brutal swimming challenge for months, with an eye on breaking her personal best record in this, her 40th year on planet Earth. It was not unusual for a forty-year-old to achieve new athletic feats, but it was quite another thing when the athletic feat in question was a mark set during a year in which said forty-year-old had been an All-American collegiate swimmer. To beat her best, she would have to swim the grueling two-mile, open-ocean course in under forty-three minutes. Considering that I would barely get wet in the chilly Pacific Ocean, and that I still had not mas tered a swimming pool flip turn – I lost all sense of direction the moment my feet went over my head, typically thrusting one useless leg toward the sky while the other slapped the pool deck – this feat was beyond my comprehension.

The morning of the race, us non-participants loaded up on pancakes and bagels – as if we needed more carbs – while Cricket sipped English Breakfast tea and ate four almonds and two tangerines. I could sense her excitement, but more, her nerves. Turning forty years old had morphed this athletic goal

“The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings; now for October eves!” – Humbert Wolfe

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into an act of defiance against the gods. She would not go gently into that good night. As I poured more syrup on my pancakes and opened a pat of aluminum wrapped butter – my stomach enjoying a rare reprieve – I was grateful that at least one of us would be around to hold our grandchildren.

With breakfast complete, we moved to the sand and said our goodbyes and good lucks to Cricket as she made her way through the pod of silicon-capped, goggled competitors. If she achieved her goal, she would likely finish in the top ten overall. For that reason, she needed to elbow her way to the front of the line, making sure she got a clean start on the sprint from sand to water.

If anyone was more nervous than Cricket, it was Isabel who idolized her mother in a way that every girl should, but few do. Cricket was lining up with the men, many of whom looked like Michael Phelps imitators, and she was about to whip most of their asses. This knowledge swelled our Isabel with pride. It was not just any woman; it was her mother.

Trip had long ago lost any semblance of male chauvinism. He loved and respected me, for sure, but he instinctively recognized his mother as our family’s superhero. On some level this should have made me jealous or resentful, but I felt none of it. Trip and Isabel were correct. Cricket inspired me daily. I was not sure why I had the good fortune to be her partner, but I counted that gift as the greatest of my life.

Paul, Jenny, and their children joined us in the crowd of onlookers, shout ing whoops and good luck wishes to all. Finally, with the crack of the starter’s pistol, Cricket’s open swimsuit division launched into a sprint, elbows flying and legs pumping. I was surprised by the brutality at the front of the pack, but Cricket was giving as good as she got, lowering her shoulders as the group approached the tide line. At only five-foot-seven, I saw a few sharp elbows whiff over her head, wondering if her position in the front lines might have been tactical brilliance. With the synchronicity of ballet dancers, she and her fellow front liners dove over an incoming wave, pierced the ocean, and took off in a sea of arms churning saltwater into foam.

The first leg of the swim was to the end of the Hermosa Beach Pier, then north to the Manhattan Beach Pier, finishing with a short run in the sand. Two miles in total. As I watched Cricket battle the men and make the turn north, I realized that my lower lip had been hanging like a limp flag and I was about to drool on my own t-shirt. A tugging on my pocket from Trip brought me back to the moment; already the rest of our crew was walking north, and I was at risk of being left behind.

As I brought up the rear – Isabel running on the sand, screaming encour agement that Cricket would never hear – my cell phone vibrated. I reached into my pocket and thumbed the ignore button. Five seconds later, it rung again. Again, I stilled the vibration. On the third call, I decided to check, assuming it was one of those annoying robo-callers that pretends to be dialing you from a number nearly identical to your own, hoping to trick you into answering out of curiosity.

It was not a robo-caller. It was Cyrus who had not spoken to me in sixteen days – since he left for his vacation home in Fiji – and had not BatSignaled me in more than a week.

“Hi, Cyrus. How is Fiji?” I said, walking the Strand, stores and restau rants to my right, sand and water to my left.

“Fiji is as it always is, Hollis: perfect,” he said in a tone that can be best described as curt. “I need you to go to my house,” he continued.

“What’s going on?” I said, expecting that he might need me to pick up his mail or check to make sure the lights were off; you know, typical CEOof-a-public-company tasks.

“I’ll explain when you get there,” he said.

“Well,” I said cautiously, “I’m not in Montecito at the moment. I’m in Hermosa. Cricket is–”

“This is urgent, Hollis. I’m sorry to interrupt your weekend plans, but I need you at my house ASAP.”

I was still walking north along the Strand, shaking my head, no. I was adding up the numbers, trying to figure the minimum amount of time it would take me to get home. Cricket would be swimming for another forty-plus minutes. There would be some sort of awards ceremony, right? Maybe an hour for that. Then we would all walk back to our hotel, from which we had thankfully already checked out. But the walk would take another half hour at a minimum. Then we needed to drive home. It was only one hundred miles but in Sunday traffic on the notorious parking lot known as the 405; conservatively, that would take two-and-a-half hours. Then I would need to drop everyone off and drive to Cyrus’s house. I added it up. “I can be at your place inside of five hours,” I said.

“I said ASAP, Hollis!” he hollered. “Is that phrase lost in translation? In what country is five hours considered soon?”

“I…,” I stammered, still walking north. Isabel had given up on her cheering and joined me on the Strand. Out of nowhere, she reached out to hold my hand and smiled at me in a way I had not seen in some time. “I’m sorry, Cyrus, I’m

with my family in Hermosa and I cannot get back to Montecito for five hours.”

I heard a fist hit something solid. “That’s just grand,” he seethed. “In five hours, I will have the business cards of your successor printed.”

“That is not fair, Cyrus. It’s a Sunday and…,” I didn’t want to go into a full explanation of where I was and what I was doing, “… and this is important.”

“So is your job, I presume,” he said. “It’s your call.”

The line went dead and the pancakes in my stomach lurched.

“Is everything ok, dad?” Isabel asked.

I swallowed, sandwiching her hand in mine. “Yes, sweetie. Everything is fine.”

I began to walk faster, still clutching Isabel’s hand. Paul and Jenny were ahead of me, but I could see their heads bobbing. Would they help? Of course, they would help. They would understand, or at least Paul would. What choice did I have? Even without knowing that I had cashed in my retirement savings and was pretending to receive a paycheck, Paul would explain to everyone that when the boss yells jump, the only question is, how high. I was not the first to have a family weekend ruined by the demands of work, and I would not be the last. Right? Right?

As my stride increased from casual to speed walker, and Isabel lagged from beside to behind, I said these things to myself, justifying a decision that did not feel like a choice. I did not see how I could possibly walk away from ExOh at this moment. If the cost of this steadfastness disappointed my family today, I would make up for it when I sold my ExOh stock and the Crawfords stopped being Montecito’s reigning paupers.

“Paul. Jenny,” I said when I’d finally caught them.

“Isn’t this amazing?” Jenny said, smiling similarly to how Isabel had only a few moments earlier.

“Yeah, it’s fantastic,” I said distractedly. “Look, I need your help.”

Paul cocked his head but did not stop walking; he knew as well as the rest of us that Cricket would beat us to the finish line if we did not hustle.

“What’s up?”

“I …,” I stammered, slightly out of breath. “I need to go in to work.”

“Now?” Jenny said, stopping cold on the Strand, her eyes wide. I nodded yes, unable to get the word out.

“Now!” she repeated.

“Yes,” I finally said. “I’m sorry – believe me – but… but, yes.”

“Ok,” Paul said, placing a hand on my shoulder as if to keep me from falling. “Ok, what do you need us to do? Do you want us to bring everyone home? We can do that, can’t we honey?” He said, turning to Jenny.

“Uh,” she said, her eyes toward the sky like she was solving a complicated trigonometry problem. “Uh, yeah. We can put the third-row seats down and put a few bags in the footwells and – if we put all the girls in the back row – then yeah, I… I think we can.”

“You’re leaving, dad?” Isabel said, still holding my hand though I had forgotten she was there.

“I’m sorry, sweetie,” I said, crouching to her level, “but I have to.” She nodded, acknowledging my answer, but her eyes glistened, signaling that tears were in the offing.

“I can’t believe this,” Jenny said.

“I …,” I started to say then stopped. What words would have made this any better?

“Don’t worry,” Paul interjected, his hand still on my shoulder. “We’ll get everyone home, safe and sound. These things happen.”

I guessed that these things did indeed happen, but in that moment, I could not have felt more impotent. I could picture Cricket, three hun dred yards from where I stood, churning the sea in the hopes of breaking through a barrier of achievement, while I – ostensible family protector –abandoned them all. “Thank you, Paul,” I said. “Thank you, Jenny.” He nodded and patted my shoulder; she just stared at me.

“Get going,” Paul said. “I have a feeling you’ll be paying a price for this for a while to come; might as well make it count.”

I nodded, kissed Isabel on the cheek, ruffled Trip’s hair and took off at a sprint.

Tune in next week for more Montecito

Michael Cox is a 2005 graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Wall Street refugee. Including Montecito, Michael has written three novels, each in various stages of the path to publication. He can be reached at mcox@alumni.gsb. stanford.edu.

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dent Lynn Kirst, who has been Fiesta’s Saint Barbara for the last year, found out.

She has now ditched her white go-go boots and ornate gown, celebrating with a boffo bash for 75 guests at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, a prize she won at the Fiesta del Museo gala in July.

“This was my opportunity to thank the people who have been so helpful to me in my role as Saint Barbara over the past few months, while simultaneously thank ing the museum,” says Lynn, a longtime Montecito resident.

One of the guests Jack Harwood showed up with his flamenco partner Bella, which led to an impromptu dance lesson for 20 other attendees game enough to try.

Among the guests noshing on jalape nos and burritos were David Bolton and Gonzalo Sarmiento, Drew Wakefield, Fritz and Gretchen Olenberger , George and Laurie Leis, KEYT’s John Palminteri, James Garcia and wife Erin Graffy, Mary Collier, Dacia and Riley Harwood, Jon and Bonnie Henricks, and Marie Profant

Moving Around Town

Actor-producer Larry David , who sold his 1929-built French country cot tage in Montecito for $6.9 million, a $1.2 million profit in nine months, has lost no time in reinvesting in our rar efied enclave.

He has just paid $7.6 million for a 4,326-square-feet ranch home built in 1917 on a .46-acre lot close to Miramar Beach with five bedrooms and five bathrooms.

David, 75, and his wife, former

TV producer Ashley Underwood , still maintain a primary residence in Pacific Palisades and have a home on Martha’s Vineyard.

Commemorating Her Majesty

Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner, 78, has paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth with an iconic plush toy Elizabeth, which goes on sale at the end of this month.

The new cuddly toy is dressed in baby blue – Her Majesty’s favorite color – and bears a gold embroidered crown on its chest.

It is completed with a white and platinum colored ribbon, a nod to the 96-year-old monarch’s historic 70-year reign.

Ty has also made a $100,000 donation to Cruse Bereavement Support, a charity the sovereign supported for 38 years.

Unfortunately for Beanie Baby dev otees, the Queen Elizabeth edition is only available in the U.K., increasing its rarity value.

Stars Reunite in the Future

Montecito actors Christopher Lloyd , 83, and Michael J. Fox , 61, who starred in legendary roles in the film trilogy Back to the Future , reunited at the Comic Con Festival in Manhattan almost 40 years after the sci-fi movie was released.

The tony twosome spoke to thousands of fans at the cavernous Javits Center about the Robert Zemeckis films, saying

Michael Conner, Marie Profant, hostess Lynn Kirst, Roswell Cheves, and Dacia and Riley Harwood (photo by Priscilla)

World-class breast cancer care happens here.

ward to returning to the Music Academy and the opportunity to share the hourlong work at his summer home away from home in Santa Barbara where he got mar ried and started his family in years past.

“It’s really a very special place.”

After Hanick’s performance on October 27, the Mariposa Series con tinues December 4 with celebrated alumna soprano Michelle Bradley , a former winner of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition and Metropolitan Opera star, in a collaboration with former faculty pianist Brian Zeger , before the series closes on December 17 with the newly-formed Music Academy Alumni All-Star Cello Choir. Visit musicacademy.org.

A New Era for Westmont Begins with Beethoven

not only served as the department’s first chair but also created both the orches tra and the college’s perennially popular Christmas Festival.

But Lin, who earned her bach elor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees from Northwestern University, comes well-prepared for her new role, as she spent a dozen years at Gustavus Adolphus College, a similar church-related, resi dential liberal arts college in Minnesota, where she also led the orchestra.

The public’s first chance to see Lin and the latest version of the Westmont Orchestra comes this weekend with the college’s Fall Orchestra Concert on campus on October 21, and at Hahn Hall at the Music Academy two days later. The students will perform the Overture to Otto Nicolai’s opera The Merry Wives of Windsor before taking on the most famous classical symphon ic work of all, Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5.”

“Not knowing much about the orchestra, I picked a program that’s both manageable and appropriately challenging,” Lin said. “The Beethoven in particular is a great ensemble build ing exercise. It demands that they listen to each other and that they acquire a collective inner pulse in order to make it happen.”

The pieces complement each other in that they’re both very dramatic, which activates the students’ and audiences’ imagination, but while Merry Wives is also much more playful and comedic, Lin said.

In essence, the concert is almost like a mini version of the breadth that a well-rounded education at a liberal arts college affords, something that drew Lin to Montecito and Westmont to make her West Coast move.

just love to learn with such dedication and discipline.”

For information or tickets, visit call (805) 565-6040 or visit westmont.edu/ music/concerts.

Short Cuts

losing a beat, offers his monthly gig at SOhO on October 25… Saucerful of Secrets, which the Pink Floyd drummer and co-founder Nick Mason formed four years ago to play Floyd’s early (preDark Side of the Moon) music, arrives for its area debut at the Arlington on October 26.

Book ‘em

As Time Goes By , the new novel from SBCC English professor emeritus W. Royce Adams , follows his protagonist called Old, who is now near death and reflecting on key life moments dealing with love, lust, friendships, betrayal, and illness. Working on his memoir, Old asks himself “playful existential questions with no pertinent answers,” examining whether he has wasted time, merely taken up space and/or hurt oth ers, or lived a life of measurable worth.

As the saying goes, Ruth Lin has some big shoes to fill as she steps into the dual role of chair of the Westmont music department and conductor of its orchestra. Her predecessor, Michael Shasberger, who retired this summer,

“Students who choose this kind of education tend to be curious, and the ones who are doing music here mostly aren’t planning on having it as their chosen career,” she said. “They just love music for what it is and play it to the best of their abilities. It gives me hope in humanity to be with students who

On Saturday, October 22, the down town library’s Make SB Celebration brings three out-of-town rock bands – Pancho & the Wizards (San Luis Obispo), Jacklen Ro (Los Angeles), and Outwest (Ventura) – in a concert event that marks the closing of its specula tive-inspired art show “Through Many Windows: A World Reimagined”...

The Latin rock band Mezcal Martini plays their infectious rhythms all over town, but rarely in a place as beautiful and spacious as Elings Park’s ballfields, where the Fund for Santa Barbara presents its fabulous annual Bread & Roses fundraiser, also featuring DJ Suz, on October 23. That’s the same night that SOhO hosts SBAcoustic showcase of the renowned fingerstyle guitarist and singer-songwriter Christie Lenée , who has been described as a blend of Joni Mitchell , Dave Matthews , and Michael Hedges…

The great Santa Barbara-raised, Montecito-connected singer-songwriter Glen Phillips, who somehow manages to shuffle between solo shows, Toad the Wet Sprocket tours, and leading community song circles without, ahem,

“Don’t expect any fancy writing,” Old says. “No playing with altered punc tuation, or trying to be aesthetically clever, or poetic, or intellectual. Just me, squinting into some memorable windows in my life before they all fog.” Get a glimpse behind the character and its author when Adams talks about and signs copies of As Time Goes By , at Chaucer’s Books on October 25…

The following evening, Chaucer’s hosts local author Loretta Redd to talk about her just-published new title Front Row Rebel , employing her own Southern-raised background and expe rience as an executive coach, political writer, and owner of a doctorate in psychology in tracing the travels and travails of Walter Wilby. With colorful characters and plenty of real-life fig ures, the book offers a front-row view of how cinema and society shaped each other and grew into the billion-dollar industry we know today.

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Guitarist and singer-songwriter Christie Lenée plays SOhO on October 23

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MICHELLE BRADLEY

Music Academy teaching artist and Ojai Music Festival superstar pianist performs the majestic masterpiece The Book of Sounds by Hans Otte.

Hot off the stages of the Met Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and San Francisco Opera as Aida and Tosca, this celebrated alumna soprano is presented in an intimate recital.

ALUMNI ALL-STAR CELLO CHOIR

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Acting as a compass for exceptional talent, the Music Academy has assembled a roster of eight artists to create an Alumni All-Star Cello Choir. Katrina Agate, Chas Barnard, Shirley Kim, Jennifer Kloetzel, Noah Seng-Hui Koh, Marcie Kolacki, Maki Kubota, and Emma Lee will perform in a variety of ensembles with a sultry sound.

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MICHELLE BRADLEY METROPOLITAN OPERA STAR MUSIC ACADEMY ALUMNA

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Real Estate

Montecito’s Home Building Renaissance

by Mark Ashton Hunt

We are experiencing a home remodel and new building renaissance in Montecito that I have not seen in my 20 years living here, nor in the 20 years prior when I would visit family in the area. Very few blocks are without construction of some sort. One thousand (give or take) new homeowners have bought homes here in town since COVID hit and from what my research tells me, there are only about 4,000 residences in Montecito in total, so that’s a lot of new faces and Ferraris.

This new buyer craze, along with construction work still going on (a result of the 2018 debris flow), has created a lot of remodels and new construction. There were three lots on my block on the market for a long time before COVID hit and they all sold. Other Montecito lots that sat empty for a decade now have homes being built on them… and so on and so on and so on.

While this moment of construction and building might slow in a year or two, and things may settle down, we still have many years of freeway construction, round abouts, etc. to keep things lively and in a state of change that had been resisted or on hold for years. Our area has a history of resistance to change and development (certainly against over-development) and even modernization to some extent (and for various reasons), which has kept Montecito quaint and a place one can return to year over year and feel they know it well.

Friday. Enter the Loan Closet from the VNA Health parking lot located at 360 Olive Street between E. Montecito Street and E. Gutierrez Street.

The Loan Closet is just one of an array of services provided by VNA Health, California’s third oldest Visiting Nurse Association and one of the area’s leading nonprofit providers of comprehensive in-home healthcare with the goal of helping patients, and their families, live well at home, wherever they reside. VNA Health’s expert healthcare team works closely with its patients and their physi cians to coordinate services and develop a plan of care specific to the individual’s needs. From learning to manage a chron ic disease, transitioning from hospital to home, recovering from an injury or sur gery, or facing end of life, VNA Health can be a professional partner to ensure the patients receive the level of care nec essary to live safely at home.

VNA Health’s programs include: Home Health Care (Skilled Nursing,

Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Chronic Disease Management), Palliative Care (relief from pain, symptoms, and stress of a serious illness), Hospice Care (At-Home Hospice, In-patient Hospice at Serenity House and Respite Care), Bereavement Care (Coping with Loss, Anticipatory Grief, and Support Groups).

VNA Health is accredited and has received The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval in Home Health Care, Palliative Care, and Hospice Care. The physicians in Hospice and Palliative Care are board certified. VNA Health is proud to have 4 out of 5 Stars from CMS for its Quality Patient Care Rating and Patient Satisfaction Rating, and to be a We Honor Veterans 4-Star Level Partner.

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Lailan McGrath, Director of the VNA Health Foundation

On the commercial real estate front, while the storefronts of Montecito may change names, most of what is here, has been here. Coast Village Road (CVR) and the Upper Village have changed very little in the 20 years I’ve been living here and really, even the 20 years before that, other than a couple of gas stations turned into parks or condos and retail.

That said, more restaurants are opening, more services are being provided, and our sleepy little town is not feeling quite so sleepy anymore. As an example, the hot new dining and entertainment spot LOCAL on CVR is open until midnight now. There was never a midnight in Montecito before… well there was, but it was refer enced by locals as, “9 pm is Montecito Midnight.” Not anymore.

As for residential Real Estate, September into the start of October is certainly showing just an average number of home sales, but the prices are still whopping. Six sales in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) over $10M have changed hands in the past 45 days and another handful over $7M are welcoming new owners. A few top dollars were also paid for ocean area condos and view properties and a fixer or two selling recently as well. A good and balanced market still tilting heavily toward the higher end over $5M.

The homes may be getting bigger, and the empty lots you once rode bikes on as kids are now townhomes or estates, but it’s still Montecito… rural, welcoming, and just well, gorgeous.

Here are a few properties that, as of this writing, are still on the market.

67 Olive Mill Road – $2,875,000

Located in one of Montecito’s most coveted locations (the Butterfly Beach area), this Antigua Pines townhome is nestled within the three blocks that separate Butterfly Beach and the shopping, dining, and services along Coast Village Road. As one of only three listings in the MLS priced under $4M within the Montecito Union School District, this three-bedroom, three-bathroom townhome features spacious living areas, high ceilings, and outdoor patios and pathways that create a nice flow for indoor/outdoor living.

The patio and garden areas surround most of the property with colorful plantings and trees, creating privacy and providing multiple outdoor spaces to enjoy. The

MARK ASHTON HUNT

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If you would like me to make an appointment for you to view any home for sale in Montecito, or for a current market analysis of your home, please contact me directly.

Call/Text Mark @ 805-698-2174 Mark@Villagesite.com www.MontecitoBestBuys.com DRE#01460852

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two-story floorplan features a living room with fireplace, a thoughtfully designed kitchen area, dining room, generous amounts of storage throughout, an upstairs laundry area, a primary suite with fireplace, and two additional bedrooms. There is an attached two-car garage as well.

251 East Mountain Drive – $5,975,000

Located in the Cold Spring School District, this classic, Spanish courtyard hacienda showcases 360-degree views of the ocean, harbor, islands, and mountains. Situated on 3.69+/- acres, this unique property offers gorgeous interiors and classic details throughout and evokes the sense of a private retreat or compound. The light and spacious living room features high vaulted ceilings, an open floor plan with views of the pool, and a pool area.

The inviting chef’s kitchen opens to the living and dining areas and features Vetrazzo counters, acacia wood live edge countertops, and a butcher’s block peninsu la. Hand-built redwood cabinets and doors throughout. There are four bedrooms in the main residence plus an upstairs meditation room/yoga room with private balcony presenting ocean vistas. Additionally, there are multiple patios for dining al fresco, rose gardens, a tranquil sitting area, a detached artist’s studio, and a generous amount of property suitable for a potential guesthouse.

marble bathroom with walk-in closets. The property is private and gated, with tall hedges surrounding the lush grounds which include a pool, spa, expert-de signed landscaping, sprawling lawns, outdoor fireplace, vegetable beds, chicken coop, dog run, and guest parking. This is the only listing currently available on Picacho Lane, where homes have sold in recent years for the most part between $5M and $50M and up.

930 Lilac Drive – $16,995,000

502 Picacho Lane – $7,750,000

Currently leased through April 2023, this is a sizable home (over 4,200 square feet) on an acre lot with a pool, just blocks from the Upper Village in Montecito and one more block to Montecito Union School. Located in one of Montecito’s most coveted neighborhoods on prestigious Picacho Lane, this designer-renovat ed, chic oasis offers elevated interiors and indoor-outdoor living. Features include wide plank oak floors, numerous doors leading to the entertaining terraces, four bedrooms, an office, and four and a half bathrooms.

The spacious primary suite occupies the entire second floor and includes a

This romantic 1929 Montecito Estate was designed by noteworthy architects Edwards and Plunkett and built on three and a half picturesque ocean-view acres. The estate stands behind iron gates and welcomes guests with a large corner tower that serves as the entry, spinning a spell of old-world beauty. Once inside, the home opens to a light and airy formal living room overlooking vast rolling lawns, ancient majestic oak trees, and the tennis court beyond.

The space seamlessly transitions through a large arched entry to the stately din ing room which overlooks the pool and art studio/pool house. A guest cottage and nearby two-bedroom guest house complete this enviable estate, offering compound-level extended stays and enter taining possibilities. Located near other equally impressive properties, homes on Lilac Drive are within the Montecito Union School District and are off the busy streets, creating a rural feel yet just a few minutes from the Upper Village, shops, and schools in Montecito.

Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. His family goes back nearly 100 years in Santa Barbara.

Mark’s grandparents – Bill and Elsie Hunt – were Santa Barbara real estate brokers for 25 years.

Live performances were by poet Yutopia Essex and singer-songstress Natalia Alyse. Topa Topa Brewing Co. donated beer, winemaker Sean Best poured his “Revealed” reds, and out back was Mony’s food truck. The event’s proceeds are being donated to Santa Barbara Channel Keeper, represented at the event by Communication Director Laura Sanchez and Gwendolyn’s Playground for kids represented by Executive Director Victoria Strong.

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Photographs by Patricia Houghton Clarke at Silo Gallery

Patricia Houghton Clarke’s newest exhibit Primal Wild is on view at Silo 118 Gallery, now through October 29. There are 18 framed and matted photographs in the show, five color and seven black and white, square sized at 24x24” and rectan gles at 33x49”. The selection was curated and installed by Bonnie Rubenstein. In a curio case are Clarke’s books and six-foldout mini photos for sale to support her Facing Ourselves project. In the hour or so I was there, her photos were mostly sold.

Having known Clarke for over a decade, we talked about her move to show personal work:

Q. When did you start the project?

A. I started going into the redwood forests in 2014 for personal reasons and went to different redwood parks every year after that. This exhibit is my personal work, I did for me, never before shown.

How does it feel to now have it on view and for sale?

It was very emotional for me coming into the gallery today, feeling all these ancestors, [the forest and people who passed in my life], and they all came today [in my mind].

This is very primal. I think everyone who comes to view the work just goes, oh, I can breathe. So, I feel like it’s my offering.

What gear did you use?

All of the images are with a Holga camera and film. I used Kodachrome and Ilford Delta. The film is developed locally. I scan it and print it myself or may sometimes send it out to be printed. The paper is archival matte paper, as I wanted no texture on it.

Talk about your choice of images as squares and others as rectangles.

The rectangles are merged images with the Holga – you know how that goes, shoot it and you’re winding, so some rectangles have four merged images. The square images are always just a single shot, and I shot most of the work square.

How was the process for you, of walking the redwoods and photographing it?

I felt the need to be in the primal wild to process a personal event. I have been going into the redwoods all my life, I grew up in the Northwest U.S., but it just became this spot for me to keep going. The redwoods are like a womb and I was going there to be present, quiet, and by myself.

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

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“The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.” – J. L. Carr

Fine art pho tographer Patty Clarke with her new exhibit at Silo 118 Gallery in the Funk Zone (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Calendar of Events

by Steven Libowitz

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20

Das Right, He’s Funny – Indian American comedian/actor Vir Das began his career as a standup comedian before Das moved into Hindi cinema, appearing in Badmaa$h Company (2010), Delhi Belly (2011), and Go Goa Gone (2013) in supporting roles. Else where in the film and TV world, Das made his debut on American television in the ABC spy dramedy Whiskey Cavalier in 2019 and acted in the Randall Park Constance Wu sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, and the Netflix series Hasmukh, which he also created and executive produced. Just this year he appeared in the Judd Apatow film The Bubble on Netflix. But stand-up has also stayed in his blood, as Dar has delivered five Netflix specials since 2017’s Abroad Understanding, which represented the first Indian comedian with a comedy special on the platform, and includes For India, which was nominated for an Emmy Award. Dar has traversed the globe on his various stand-up tours that have visited six continents, and his success has included sold-out runs in Australia and at London’s prestigious Soho Theatre. Tonight, that tour extends to Santa Barbara as Vir Das makes his local debut at the Lobero.

WHEN: 8 pm

WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $53.75 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com

Brigham Young’s Boffo Ballroom Dance – BYU Ballroom Dance Company is based at the university’s Provo, Utah, campus, but the company’s reach and exposure travels much further than the state’s borders, regularly competing on both the national and in ternational levels. BYU has competed at the United States National Formation Champi onships and the World Championships as well as the British Formation Championships, with the company becoming the first Americans ever to win the highly esteemed latter event, which they’ve now done 10 times. The BYU company also travels to perform, with a new production called Come Alive that presents ballroom dance in a theatrical environment with a contemporary point of view. The show’s innovative choreogra phy has been called compelling, engaging, and just plain fun, with audiences riveted by couples dancing everything from the precise yet romantic waltz to the infectious rhythms of Latin American dances. The BYU Ballroom Dance Company makes their Santa Barbara debut at the city’s biggest venue for dance tonight.

WHEN: 7 pm

WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $25 general, $15 for children 17 and under INFO: (805) 899-2222 or granadasb.org

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21

Camerata’s Cunning Concert – Camera ta Pacifica’s October offering marks the first subscription appearances with the company of three esteemed musicians on a thoughtful and intimate program. The evening is anchored by Chopin’s turbulently beautiful “Cello Sonata, Op. 65,” featuring cellist Jonathan Swensen , whose recent awards include a 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant and Musical America’s Artist of the Month for Octo ber, and pianist Soyeon Kate Lee , a 2010 first prize winner of the Naum burg International Piano Competition and Juilliard alumna who joined the school’s faculty in July. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Principal Violist Yura Lee , a 2007 recipient of the Fisher Grant, will play her own tran scription of Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodály ’s “Cello Sonata, Op. 8,” then switch to violin to perform the Passacaglia for solo violin by Hein rich Ignaz Franz Biber

WHEN: 7:30 pm

WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road

COST: $68

INFO: (805) 884-8410 or cameratapacifica.org

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22

Music Club Makes Its Mark Again – The Santa Barbara Music Club opens its 2022-2023 season of free classical mu sic concerts this afternoon with a return visit from a church music superstar as the solo performer. Organist and composer Tom Mueller is an award-winning church musician and recording artist who is also Associate Professor of Church Music and University Organist at Concordia Univer sity in Irvine. Mueller, who has received numerous commissions for new choral and liturgical works, will perform a program that includes both beloved masterworks as well as newer pieces, including one of his own. The organist will play Bach’s “Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532,” David Conte’s “Pastorale,” Percy Whitlock’s “Scherzetto,” and César Franck’s “Chorale No. 1 in E major,” and visit his own compositional catalog via his 2020 work simply called “Sonata ” The free matinees covering multitudes of instruments and eras continue biweekly through the academic year.

WHEN: 3-5 pm

WHERE: First United Methodist Church, 305 East Anapamu (at Garden) COST: free INFO: sbmusicclub.org

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21

Hot Medium – The Chumash Casino’s Samala Showroom has been a frequent stop for Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo, and now the venue welcomes her fellow reality TV show star Tyler Henry, whose appearance on Keeping Up with the Kardashians while giving a reading led to a four-year run on his own series Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry. His gig on Netflix since last March is called Life After Death with Tyler Henry, where he appears as a clairvoyant medium able to communicate with the dead. Scientific skeptics say that mediumship is a con but that hasn’t stemmed Henry’s rise in popularity that has had him do readings for several celebrities and garner a waitlist for appearing on his TV series of more than 300,000 people. Henry will connect with his audience live in our midst via two nights of “An Evening of Hope and Healing.”

WHEN: 8 pm, tonight & tomorrow

WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Highway 246, Santa Ynez COST: $59-$89

INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or chumashcasino.com

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22

Dude! You’re Gonna Be on YouTube – The new streaming game show Dude! You’re Making a Scene! hosted by Ben Ferguson goes live with a taping of a pilot episode at the Alcazar Theatre. Audience members will be picked to be contes tants for an opportunity to win cash and prizes for their ability to write a scene and then direct as it’s filmed live, or compete in other games. For a sample of the action in advance of tonight’s 90-minute taping that also features special guests, visit youtube.com/watch?v=K5Z0KmjkJEk.

WHEN: 3 pm

WHERE: Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria COST: $15 general, $10 children 14 and under; $20 at the door INFO: (805) 684-6380 or thealcazar.org/calendar

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23

Juilliard Comes Back ‘Home’ – The venerable Juilliard String Quartet has been one of America’s most important quartets even since its founding just a year after World War II ended. Known for its unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor as well as a commitment to, and unceasing curiosity in, exploring the classics while embracing and championing new works, the JSQ forged a connection with Santa Barbara in

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“Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow.” – Dan Millman

Day of the Dead Down town – For the 33rd year, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art honors the Mexican tradition of remembering the dead with a display of altars created by students in the museum’s school and outreach programs – SB MA’s Partnership with A-OK After-School Program its ArtReach program, both at multiple schools – and by other local community groups, including San Marcos High School, Montecito Union School, and Quilt Project Gold Coast. Attendees will also be able to ex perience interactive altar displays, including one by Santa Barbara inaugural Youth Poet Laureate Madeline Miller that honors the Earth and remembers the lives that have been lost due to climate change, while teens working with Museum Teaching Artists Nicola Ghersen and Jason Summers during SBMA’s Teen Master Class have created an interactive altar inspired by depictions of bridges in the Museum’s collection. Día de los Muertos-inspired art activities for all ages will also be offered in multiple locations, including on the Front Terrace, where visitors can create skull charms and mini-altars.

WHEN: 11 am-4 pm WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: free INFO: (805) 963-4364 or sbma.net

1996 when Ronald Copes, then a revered faculty member at UCSB’s Department of Music, joined as second violinist. Copes became the quartet’s senior member in 2013; now, after Molly Carr took over as violist earlier this year, he’s also remarkably the only male, with first violinist Areta Zhulla and cellist Astrid Schween – the latter in 2016 became the quartet’s first-ever female member after 70 years – rounding out the foursome. Carr also doubled the Juilliard local connection, as the violist is a 2007 alumnus of the Music Academy, and a winner of its first-ever Alumni Enter prise Awards in 2018. In its latest CAMA Masterseries concert at the Lobero, the JSQ remains true to its programming commitment, performing Beethoven’s “Quartet No.16 in F Major, Op.135,” and Dvořák’s “Quartet No.14 in A-flat Major, Op.105, B.193,” sandwiched around Eleanor Alberga’s 1994 “String Quartet No. 2.”

WHEN: 7:30 pm

WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $45 & $55

INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com

UPCOMING: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27

UCSB: Carla Morrison - Latin Gram my Award winner, two-time Gram my nominee and international pop sensation Carla Morrison makes her Santa Barbara debut tonight. Lauded for her songs that serve as raw emotional retellings of person al heartbreaks and loss, Morrison has been called “One of the major lyricists of her generation” by NPR and earned praise from Pitchfork for making pop music “with a healthy sense of grandeur.” The Mexican indie-pop singer has grown her audience as she integrated R&B and pop into her mix, to the point where she sells out tours across the globe, including a concert last year at L.A.’s 5,900-seat Greek Theatre. Tonight, however, she’ll be in a much more intimate environment to focus on songs from her 2021 release El Renacimiento, described as her “most personal album yet,” as UCSB’s Campbell Hall seats a mere 800 people.

WHEN: 8 pm

WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus

COST: $35-$55

INFO: (805) 893-3535 or ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

Notice Inviting Bids

1. Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its Wastewater Main Rehabilitation FY 2023 Project (“Project”), by or before Thursday, November 17, 2022, at 4:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so please allow sufficient time to be received prior to the bid due date. The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal.

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

2. Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project includes rehabilitation of 13,671 linear feet of damaged sanitary sewer main at 54 locations throughout the City. The damaged mains consist of 6 inch, 8 inch, 10 inch, 14 inch, and 18 inch diameter sewer main and will be rehabilitated using sectional liners and cured in place pipe liner (CIPP). Additional work to be completed includes reinstatement of sewer laterals; pre rehabilitation and pre repair sewer main cleaning flushing; pre and post rehabilitation and repair closed circuit television (CCTV) inspections; manhole rehabilitation and lining; manhole channel repair; replacement of manhole frame and covers; removal of existing manhole ladder rungs; and sewer lateral corrective connection. Contractor shall be responsible for restoration of site conditions to pre construction conditions, including pavement, landscaping, and any disturbed or damaged hardscape within easements (including but not limited to fencing, walls, and decorative rocks/boulders); traffic control as necessary to protect public safety; sewer bypassing as necessary to construct repairs; implementation of erosion and sedimentation control measures to meet City requirements for protection of water quality; trimming or removing vegetation and other obstructions as necessary to properly access and perform Work within easements; and obtaining all necessary permits and utility coordination as necessary to perform the work.

2.2 Time for Final Completion. The Project must be fully completed within 165 working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about January 2023, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $1,800,000

3. License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A General Engineering.

3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4. Contract Documents. The specifications, exhibits, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: http://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959 A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884 6155.

5. Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after City issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.

6. Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. These prevailing rates are on file with the City and are available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4.

7. Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in the Contract Documents.

8. Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code § 22300.

9. Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, Cali fornia contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the base bid price) for each Subcontractor that will perform Work or service or fabricate or install Work for the prime contractor in excess of one half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

10. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids.

11. Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 1:30 p.m., at the following location: virtual conference (see PlanetBids for details) to acquaint all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference will be disqualified from bidding.

12. Requests for Information. Questions or requests for clarifications regarding the Project, the bid procedures, or any of the Contract Documents must be submitted through PlanetBids. Oral responses are not authorized and are not binding on the City. Bidders should submit any such written inquiries at least ten days before the scheduled bid opening. Questions received any later might not be addressed before the bid deadline. An interpretation or clarification by City in response to a written inquiry will be issued in an addendum.

Date:

Hornung, C.P.M., General Services Manager

Dates: 1) October 12, 2022 2) October 19, 2022

ORDINANCE NO. 6085

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING THE 2022 2025 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AND THE SANTA BARBARA CITY FIREFIGHTERS' ASSOCIATION

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on October 11, 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. 6085

STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) )

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. )

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on October 4, 2022 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on October 11, 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

NOES: None

ABSENT: None

ABSTENTIONS: None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on October 12, 2022.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on October 12, 2022.

/s/ Randy Rowse Mayor

October 19, 2022 Montecito Journal

“I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.” – Ann Drake

approved. He told me, and my client, in separate conversations he initiated, in June of 2021, that he was “98.5% certain” [ a creepy announcement, for an official who was supposed to be withholding judgment until the evi dence was in] that he would vote to deny the project, if it were appealed, but he refused to take steps to rescind the license erroneously approved by the CEO – which he and the Board had clear authority to do.

My client then had to take on the burden of disproving the applicant’s “entitlement” to a permit. Standards were flipped, but we proved that this site is the worst possible place in the County for cannabis retail. The Planning Commission Chair did his best to con duct a fair hearing, but he got no help from P&D staff or the lawyers, who simply sat mute, misled the Commission, or failed to answer his direct legal ques tions. In fact, in an unprecedented move, the applicant’s lobbyists actively worked behind the scenes to prevent the County Counsel from giving advice to their own client, claiming it would be a gift of public funds for them to answer the legal questions that we posed! [It’s in the emails, Das.] Staff maintained through out that the “site” had been selected, and that the coastal development permit represented just a change from one retail use to another. This ‘advice’ directly con tradicted the requirement of the Coastal Act that the County specifically evaluate the change in intensity of use of the site, regardless of the zoning. But the Planning Commissioners were effectively locked in.

In a last-ditch attempt to obtain trans parency, and a fair hearing on appeal, I have requested, in writing, that the Board of Supervisors remediate what happened at the Planning Commission. I asked for the following:

– That each member of the Board of Supervisors disclose, in advance, in writing and with specificity, each and every ex parte contact they have had with representatives of the applicant, (including their former Cannabis Czar) so we know and can rebut assertions of fact that they have made. This is the level of transparency required in the coastal zone. It is mindboggling that while he has met with Joe Armendariz , and Dennis Bozanich, our County Supervisor (and the two North County Supervisors) have failed to even give me the courtesy of a response to my request to meet/talk with them to present our view of the law and the facts.

– That the applicants and each of their representatives be required to testify under penalty of perjury. This may appear extraordinary, but the fact is that other Boards and Commissions, such as the APCD hearing Board require all testimony, including by staff and lawyers, to be under pen

alty of perjury. And the County Code already requires testimony under oath for termination of illegally expanded nonconforming uses. And, my clients have already submitted their testimo ny to the Planning Commission in Declarations under penalty of perjury precisely because Das Williams, in an email on August 25, 2022, and which he caused to be distributed as widely as possible, accused my clients of having been “untruthful,” and signaled his intent to deny our appeal because of this outrageously false assumption. It is past time for the cannabis lobbyists to be put under oath as well.

I have received no response to this request.

Meanwhile cannabis lobbyists’ ad hominem attacks on us continue, and they are unprecedented in their vicious ness, in my experience. Not content with their “victory” at the Planning Commission, the cannabis lobbyists continue to make outrageously false claims, including a recent posting on Facebook, which falsely implies that First District Planning Commissioner Mike Cooney supported the project. He did not. In fact, he was the only Commissioner who voted No, and he did so on the specific Coastal Act grounds that we have advocated. Why would the applicants need to misrepre sent Commissioner Cooney’s views? Is it possible that they are not assured of a final approval?

We will be submitting all of our evi dence for the November 1 hearing not later than October 28, and even though we still have not received documents to which we are clearly entitled under the Public Records Act, enough facts have leaked out that we see very clearly how the puzzle pieces fit.

The Carpinteria community is jus tifiably tired. We have asked – begged – Das Williams to lead the Board to act with integrity. We still hope that he will. But if the County’s violations of basic principles of due process and govern mental transparency are not addressed, the arrogance and the sense of invulner ability in the County building will only continue to grow. First District constit uents in Montecito, Mission Canyon, the City (and yes, even Cuyama) will inevitably be next to feel betrayed, if not on cannabis, then on the next big issue. This needs to stop, now.

Jana Zimmer has practiced coastal land use law in Santa Barbara County since 1986. She served as Chief Deputy County Counsel from 1986-1991, served on the Coastal Commission from 20112015, and is the author of Navigating the California Coastal Act (Solano Press 2017). Her new memoir, Chocolates from Tangier (Doppelhouse Press) is due out in January 2023. She is not accepting any new legal clients.

Miscellany (Continued from 36) they both had an “immediate chemis try.”

One that continues, obviously...

Life-Changing Experience

Orlando Bloom, British actor fiancé of Montecito singer Katy Perry, has opened up about a terrifying ordeal he had to go through which left him in a dark place mentally.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star, 45, referred to a horrific accident he suf fered as a teenager in honor of World Mental Health Day earlier this month.

“When I was 19, I fell three floors from a window and broke my back,” he recounted in a video for UNICEF on Instagram. “I was very fortunate to survive the fall because my spinal cord was just intact. I was told for the first four days that I may never be able to walk again.

“That was the beginning of what was a long and painful journey for me into recognizing and understanding some of the patterns that had been in my life that led to me having numerous acci dents. And the culmination was break ing my back, which was a near-death experience.”

Bloom, who also stars in Lord of the Rings, underwent spinal surgery before embarking on a complicated recovery journey when he had to wear a brace.

“I would say the moments after the fall were quite a dark time. As someone who’d sort of always been quite active in my life, it felt very restrictive all of a sudden and I was in a lot of pain.”

Home Refurbishments

King Charles III will have to wait for up to five years to move into Buckingham Palace, first lived in by Queen Victoria, as $370 million in extensive renovations will not be com pleted until 2027.

As the world-famous London land mark continues its ten-year refurbish ment, Charles and his queen con sort, Camilla, will continue to live in Clarence House, just a tiara’s toss down the Mall, where they’ve resided for 19 years after the death of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in 2002.

They will also split their time between historic Windsor Castle, 26 miles out side the U.K. capital, and weekend at Sandringham in Norfolk, the sprawling home on 20,000 acres built in 1870 for King Edward VII by his mother Victoria.

The tony twosome also have an idyllic Georgian countryside estate, Highgrove House, in the Cotswolds, near Tetbury, which the then Prince of Wales’ Duchy of Cornwall acquired in 1980 from Maurice Macmillan, son of British prime minister Harold Macmillan.

And Camilla also has her own charming estate, Ray Mill House, a short drive away in nearby Wiltshire, which she bought in 1994 when she

divorced her first husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, and uses as a retreat from royal duties.

A New Leg on Life

Former TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey, 68, has revealed she underwent back-to-back knee surgeries in late 2021.

The Montecito media mogul opened up about her surgeries in her Oprah Daily video and said the treatments led to her being more active and “fully in my body” after recovery.

“When I came home the first time, I literally could not lift my leg,” she said. “As I was rehabilitating, I start ed hiking. Every day I tried to hike more and do more. My appreciation for every organ and every limb has expanded exponentially.”

Angela Lansbury Remembered

On a personal note, I remember the talented and charming actress Angela Lansbury, who has died at the age of 96 at her Los Angeles home.

Famed for her iconic role in Murder, She Wrote and Beauty and the Beast, I used to see her in New York on occasion at many a glittering gala.

Lansbury, who was nominated for ten Golden Globe awards, winning four, as well as being nominated for 12 Emmys and five Tonys, also received an honor ary Oscar in 2013 in recognition of her 80-year acting career.

She also shot one of her most charming TV films The Shell Seekers , based on author Rosamunde Pilcher’s bestselling book, near my cottage in Cornwall, using the Land’s End Hotel owned by an old friend Charles Neave-Hill , who was a fellow student with King Charles at Gordonstoun, as the State House Hotel.

Fond memories....

Sightings

Oscar winner Jon Voight checking out the Ritz-Carlton Bacara... Actor Larry David noshing at Lucky’s... Actor Ed Begley Jr. at Congregation B’nai B’rith in Goleta.

Pip! Pip! Be safe, wear a mask when necessary, and get vaccinated.

From musings on the Royals to celebrity real estate deals, Richard Mineards is our man on the society scene and has been for more than a decade

Nosh Town

Local Eateries Add Chef-Driven Small Plates to the Happiest of Hours

served with grapefruit, avocado, honey, and mixed greens; and short rib sliders topped with coleslaw, crispy shallots, and secret sauce on a brioche bun is a top seller.

Other small plates include tempu ra cauliflower with garlic aioli, grilled lemon and rosemary salt; white tiger shrimp with spicy cocktail sauce; and crispy brussels sprouts salsa verde, and toasted almonds.

Coast & Olive is not alone. Bettina, Joe’s Cafe, Alcazar, Flor de Maiz, Shalhoob’s Funk Zone Patio, and Chuck’s Hawaiian are also offering a taste of their bestselling dishes at softer prices.

So, we’ve done a quick survey of notable eateries adapting menu items into their Happy Hour specials. Here are the best places to toast some tasty inflation fighters.

Bettina

by Claudia Schou

It’s almost always happy hour some where in Santa Barbara. I love the tradition of getting together with friends, work colleagues, and neigh bors to ponder a myriad of topics over food and drinks: “How’s the marijua na odor control in Carpinteria com ing along?” “Do you think Southern California Edison will move the utility lines underground in Santa Barbara’s high-risk fire neighborhoods (at no cost to residents) like PG&E is doing in Northern California?” “Do we need another pitcher of Sangria, or do we need two?”

There is nothing like conversing over food and drinks to knit a community together, but these tough economic times have been making it difficult to share a

table as often as we ought. Restaurant owners are faced with the same rising costs as the rest of us, but several of them are taking new approaches to infla tion-friendly dining.

At Coast & Olive, general manager and executive chef Chris Mottola creates small plates of the eatery’s best-selling dinner items for happy hour. While the entire menu is available throughout the restaurant this season, guests at the bar often pair small plates – from ahi tuna tartare to oysters bathed in blood orange mignonette – with draft beer for $4 and wines by the glass for $10 at happy hour.

Happy hour is offered at the bar only from 3 to 5 pm daily.

The small plates on Coast & Olive’s menu range in price from $10 to $12. Among them: tuna tartare with avo cado, miso-ginger aioli, and chives with a baked crostini; a vegan salad is

Happy Hour: 4-5 pm, Mon-Thurs

Ambiance: Cozy and modern neigh borhood pizzeria with seasonal and savory chef-driven plates and an intelligent beer, wine, and cocktail list

Standout item: The margherita pizza is made with 100% naturally leavened

sourdough and hand-pulled mozzarella made in house daily. The tomato sauce is made with Bianco diNapoli San Marzano tomatoes grown in California.

Good to know: Get one compli mentary margherita pizza (valued at $18) with the purchase of any bottle of wine from the list for dine-in service only. The bottle list starts at about $45. A full din ner menu will also be available. bettinapizzeria.com

Joe’s Cafe

Happy Hour: 2:30-5:30 pm, Mon-Fri

Ambiance: Classic upscale diner with an easy-going, jovial staff

Standout plates: Two white fish tacos ($7.50), smashed angus beef burger topped with grilled onions on a brioche bun ($6 or two for $10), and a spicy fried chicken sandwich for $7.95.

Good to know: $4 domestic bottled beer; $4.50 draft beer; $6 wine by the glass; and $7 well drinks “with very gen erous pours,” according to the bartender. You can pair any dish with a blue cheese olive martini or cosmopolitan ($9 each), featuring locally made Hendry’s Vodka.

Joescafesb.com

Alcazar Tapas Bar

Happy Hour: 5-7 pm, Tues-Sat

Ambiance: Cozy cafe with a European-feel in the Mesa neighbor hood offering a chef-driven menu made from scratch using natural, local ly-sourced ingredients

Standout Plates: Bacon-wrapped dates drizzled in wildflower honey and truffle crema chicken tacos with pasilla peppers, pickled onion, and habanero cream sauce, garnished with cilantro. Tapas are $10.

Good to Know: $9 for wines by the glass, classic sangrias, and classic margaritas alcazartapasbar.com

This dish of short rib sliders and other items from Coast & Olive’s Happy Hour menu are served daily

Margherita pizza at Bettina (photo by Jeremy Ball)

Nosh Town

Travel Buzz Fall Back; Travel Forward

by Leslie A. Westbrook

Irarely travel in the summer: too many tourists and, as the summer of 2022 proved, oodles of delayed flights, piles of lost luggage, and cases of COVID contracted. Plenty of friends can vouch for these annoyances, includ ing Rachel Kaganoff Stern and her sister Tessa Kaganoff, who were sep arated from their luggage in London for days during the great Heathrow luggage debacle and Lisa Blades, who contracted a mean case of COVID on a LAX-Dublin-Paris flight in August, thus ruining a long-anticipated summer hol iday with her Cal Berkeley daughter Isa Johanson and friends. I’m certain many of you reading this can share your own recent travel horror stories.

Then there is the soaring cost of travel. Airfares have skyrocketed, but those who travel on miles (which I often do) can still find good deals… if you don’t mind trav eling 30 hours to get to your destination. Many imperfect hotel rooms range from $600 to $2,500 a night… that can include noisy neighbors, weird design, sound pol lution, and more. Hotel prices are another indication of the high cost of being a travel nomad. Our very own Motel 6 in Santa Barbara was featured in the Wall Street Journal with weekend rates of $450 per night. Remember why it was founded and called Motel 6? The 52-room hotel first opened in Santa Barbara offering a “good night’s sleep” for the low, low price of just $6.00 in 1962. Today’s equivalent would be about $60. Good luck with that!

Still, there are deals to be found (see my next Travel Buzz column where I discov ered a great four-course chef’s menu for $25 in the heart of Healdsburg in Sonoma County wine country). I suppose this is why Airbnb and VRBO have become such huge successes. You can get a lot more bang for your buck, and while you won’t have room service or nightly turn down with a chocolate, you can cook for yourself or call Uber Eats or the likes.

Diego Rivera Mural at SFMOMA

When summer turned to fall just recently, I was more than ready to pack my suitcase for a sweet little jaunt to

San Francisco and Sonoma County. An easy-breezy 10:45 am Saturday morn ing United Airlines flight (that actually took off a little early and got in early) from Santa Barbara Airport to SFO. I was at the SF Museum of Modern Art in time for lunch – a terrific and filling chicken tortilla soup with posole created to accompany the terrific Diego Rivera exhibition I was super anxious to see. The exhibition features 150 of his paintings, frescoes, and drawings from the 1920s-1940s and is the most in-depth examination in twenty years. However, the highlight for me was the incredible 1940 “Pan American Unity” mural (full name The Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and of the South on This Continent), a 22-ton masterpiece on loan from City College of San Francisco and meeting Will Maynez, the Diego Rivera mural histo rian and keeper of the flame who stands guard and enlightens visitors to this free part of the exhibition with fascinating historic details. Maynez has served as a steward and historian of Rivera’s Pan American Unity mural at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) for more than 22 years. Trained as a painter, he man aged CCSF’s physics labs for 33 years.

The show runs through January 3, 2023, and since the mural will probably be in storage for some years until a new theater arts building is completed for its return to and re-installment at the com munity college campus, you might want to catch this free showing.

Icing on the cake? On the occasion of Diego Rivera’s birthday, the articulate Señor Maynez will be performing in his two-per son play Frida Interview: March 1941. The playwright takes on the role of the inter viewee of Frida Kahlo which will be per formed by Jean Franco (an hombre), who is flying in from Mexico for the December 8, 6 pm performance at SFMOMA. Visit sfmoma.org for more information.

Ubiquitous Sound Pollution

Is it just me or is anyone else annoyed by the sounds of unwanted music waft ing into their personal space? Why do so many hotels think that when I go to swim and lounge by a pool I want to listen to techno or rock? What ever happened to

the sweet sounds of birds and/or the wind rustling leaves in the air? I feel the same about spa music. New Age music doesn’t do it for me – I find it distracting and pre fer the sounds of silence or nature.

Then there are those sneaky little speakers in the garden, almost as bad as garden gnomes (at least they are silent, God forbid someone gets creative and makes a talking garden gnome to go next to the singing salmon). I recently found what I thought was a quiet hotel garden in Healdsburg for a Zoom board meeting call – low and behold, a silent spot was not to be found, despite a lovely foun tain’s soothing sounds, due to a multitude of hidden speakers in the foliage!

I suppose the idea of “music” in public began when Muzak or elevator music was introduced to society in 1934, as a means to uplift shoppers’ spirits. I believe that loud rock music in restau rants is more for the workers, chef, and kitchen staff, than for diners. Maybe it makes people eat faster so they turn more tables?

I asked a few travel writer colleagues and a hotelier friend their take on the matter.

Melissa Curtin McDavitt, who pens LaLa Scoop, rang in about a recent trip to Tulum in the Yucatan region of Mexico. “Some music at the hotel’s beach area really turns me off, especially if it’s too loud. It would make me not want to stay at a hotel. Thankfully, we were at two quiet hotel properties, NEST Tulum and Nômade, where they played really nice chill relaxing music to match the setting.” She noted that she’s so affected by sound that it could completely alter her experi ence, adding that “another hotel’s music down the beach made me want to run, run, run!”

Kristen Gill, a fellow freelance trav el writer based out of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico noted that noise is part of the culture. “I live in Mexico… where quiet is just not a thing. Speakers everywhere, from restaurants to pools

and even to secluded beaches. Whoever brings the loudest speaker wins!”

I also asked Montecito artist and good friend Cynthia James about Tulum, which has become a rave spot with electronic music that you can feel from way down the road. Cynthia and her husband Jorge Rosales built a sweet 12-room boutique hotel, Cabanas La Conchita, set directly on the beach there more than 20 years ago. I asked what they provided musically, since I know they have great (or at least similar to mine) taste in music.

“We used to play Latin music, Buena Vista Social Club, salsa, Astrid Hadad, and mellow tequila sipping music!” Cynthia said. But these days it’s quiet as Cabanas La Conchita is empty (or available to rent out completely) because they’ve just put it on the market. Asking price? $6.9 million. Visit tulumpremierproperties. com/property/182/cabanas-la-conchita for more information.

Tune in next time, for a dive into the new Montage Healdsburg.

Leslie A. Westbrook is a Lowell Thomas Awardwinning travel writer and journalist who loves exploring the globe. A 3rd generation Californian., Leslie also assists clients sell fine art, antiques, and collectibles via auction. lesliewestbrook.com

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Santa Barbara by the Glass

Tried and True – and Brand New: Vintners Festival Returns, Spotlights Santa Barbara’s Wide Range

by Gabe Saglie

The Santa Barbara Vintners Festival made its post-pandemic return this month. It was a lovely Saturday in Solvang, with bright blue skies and temps in the low 80s, as dozens of regional winemakers took over the grounds of the historic Mission Santa Inés and popped hundreds of corks for a lively crowd. Guests were also treated to tastes from various restaurants and bakeries, as well as live music.

This was the 38th iteration of the traditional fall fête, which has always offered consumers an intimate, one-onone forum to connect with winemakers and gain insider insight as they sip. The event is put on by Santa Barbara

Vintners, the dues-based nonprofit group that represents most – not all – of Santa Barbara County’s wine produc ers. Enough producers, though, that the Vintners Festival gives wine buffs a real sense of the breadth of the area’s potential – from a wide range of grape varieties to all levels of production –and an introduction to the personalities behind it.

From my visit – a chance to both reconnect with many of the longstanding gems of this area, as well as to meet brand new entries to the local wine scene – here are five standouts.

Two Tried and True Carhartt Family Wines

This well-known, fun-vibe brand is always worth a visit. “This is one of my favorites,” winemaker Brooke Carhartt tells me as she pours her 2019 Grenache ($43). “It’s so pret ty!” Indeed, one of my favorite wines of the afternoon, too: great fruit, soft on the tongue, and totally deli cious when poured nicely chilled. All-estate means all the grapes for this wine come from the Carhartt family’s own Rancho Santa Ynez. (Guided tours and tast ings are available year-round.) The 2019 Quello Grande ($46), a Super Tuscan blend of sangiovese, cabernet, merlot, and petit verdot, is fruity and dusty at once. And the 2021 Venture Albariño ($30) – this is the sister label launched in 2016 by Brooke and Mike Carhartt ’s son, Chase , as a nod to his own wine-inspired globetrotting – is textured and fresh. It was a neat treat to taste these wines at an event like this, as they are only available through the Carhartt wine club and their pop ular tasting cabin in downtown Los Olivos.

carharttfamilywines.com

Babcock Winery

Considered one of the real rock stars of the Santa Barbara wine region, Bryan Babcock ’s presence behind the bar, pouring his own stuff, always

draws a crowd. The man who helped put the Santa Rita Hills region on the map is a farmer at heart, and listening to him describe his wines, and where the grapes were grown, and what makes each vintage special, makes for insight ful sipping. The Babcock line-up was plentiful, but two wines ranked high among the tasters around me. The 2020 Picpoul ($45) is a refreshing yet fleshy wine that should go on anybody’s list of alternatives to chardonnay; the supple edges of this wine, along with vibrant citrus and tropical flavors, make this one super food friendly. My favorite find of the day may have been Babcock’s 2018 Fathom ($60). “This is me trying to wrap my head around petit verdot,” the winemaker tells me as he pours. This big, robust Bordeaux grape, after all, is “a brute, a beast, an enigma,” he adds. Deep, meaty and tannic, this tasty wine is simultaneous ly playful, aromatic, and lovely. This one belongs on the holiday table. babcockwinery.com

Three Brand New Tomi Cellars

Winemaker

Boyd Shermis , with a Hollywood resumé that includes visu al effects credits like Speed and Poseidon , lives in Woodland Hills but spends much of har vest in Buellton, where he makes his Tomi Cellars wines. Named for his wife, who was pouring the brand’s inaugural releases alongside the wine maker Saturday, the label’s focus is on sourcing from top-tier vineyards, like Tierra Alta in Ballard Canyon and La Rinconada in the Sta. Rita Hills. We tasted two distinct rosés side by side: the 2020 Rosé of Grenache Gris ($14) was splashy and fun while the 2021 Ros é of Pinot Noir ($29) was fun but more complex. The 2019 Syrah ($50) spent 30 months in barrel; it’s layered and tasted of dark berries. The winner was the 2020 Persistence of Vision Grenache ($35), a medium-bodied and bouncy wine that balanced notes of earth and red fruit nicely.

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Co’lluvial

Fernando Fernandez is Cuban and trained in finance. However, the New Jersey resident has been forging rela tionships in Santa Barbara wine coun try for more than 15 years, and the passion for wine that followed led to a sommelier certification and his own brand, which he launched in earnest just before the pandemic in 2019.

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Several wines are sub-labelled “Las Nenas,” Spanish for “the baby girls,” a tribute to the winemaker’s three daughters. Two pinots side by side, both from the lauded Sta.

Rita Hills AVA: the 2018 “MT” Pinot from the famed Sanford & Benedict Vineyard ($60) smacks of flowers and cherries, with elegant tan nins, while the 2019 Las Nenas Pinot from the La Rinconada Vineyard ($60) shows off more red fruit and roses. I like the 2019 Las Nenas Chardonnay from the Santa Maria Valley’s Tinaquaic Vineyard ($55) for its smooth texture and zingy mouth feel. On the sister label, Cluster Freak, which blends fruit from multiple vineyards, the 2019 Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir ($35) is fleshy and bouncy and tasty.

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Donnachadh

The Duncan fam ily (Donnachadh denotes the fami ly’s Scottish-Gaelic roots, pronounced “don-uh-kuh”) owns a sprawling estate in the Sta. Rita Hills. Forty acres are planted to four grape varieties, and all were on display Saturday. The 2021 Chardonnay ($40) is delightful, with brightness on the nose and complexity on the palate; the 2020 Gamay ($45), this wine’s inaugural bottling, is bright, clean, and full of red fruit; the 2021 Pinot Noir ($40) is lively, with a spicy streak; and the 2019 Syrah ($65) shows off plum flavors and refreshing minerality. The winemaker behind all of these wines is the talented Ernst Storm , which makes any of these wines a no-brainer buy. About 30% of the estate fruit goes toward the Donnachadh label, which launched during the pandemic, with the rest earmarked for many of the area’s top producers.

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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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Something New to Stream: Watcher Review

by Christopher Matteo Connor

This week we’re getting into the spirit of the season! Because there’s no doubt about it, 2022 has been huge for horror. From fran chise favorites Michael Myers and Pinhead making a return to the big (and small) screen, to a major outpouring of original works that have got horror fans drooling. Ti West’s X and Pearl, Jordan Peele ’s Nope , Olivia Wilde ’s Don’t Worry Darling, Alex Garland’s Men, The Barbarian, Smile, the list goes on Even if horror isn’t your cup of brains, it makes you wonder if the genre is one of the last pockets of the movie biz where original ideas are being decently funded and distributed.

Many of these movies are currently playing around town, (including a 4k res toration of John Carpenter’s Halloween at the Riviera during the holiday weekend), so I encourage you to get your scream on with an enthusiastic crowd. There’s nothing quite like it. But one recent flick that seemed to come and go with little fanfare featured Santa Barbara’s very own Scream Queen, Maika Monroe: Watcher by Chloe Okuno. So this is for all those folks that want a stay-at-home tense Saturday night thriller.

When living in an apartment, you often have to give yourself over to the fact that people can see what you’re up to. Cooking dinner shirtless is just a free show for your unsuspecting neighbors. But what if instead of just being seen, you were actually being watched. Big creepy difference!

Watcher builds on this simple, but effective idea. Because who hasn’t stared out of a pitch-black window and wondered, “Is someone staring back at me?” In Watcher , Monroe has trans ferred to Bucharest with her boyfriend for his big new job. She doesn’t speak the language and feels totally isolated and alone. Except for that nice man that’s watching her from the apartment across the street. Why hello, stranger! Oh, and did we mention there’s a serial killer on the loose?

It’s a slick atmospheric picture, and Okuno takes her sweet time building the tension. This is not an in-your-face fright fest. It’s less about the action, and more about what could happen. Letting our imaginations run wild is sometimes the scariest thing.

There’s solid craftsmanship all around and another great performance by an increasingly distraught Monroe. It’s a film that wears its references proudly on its sleeves. Rear Window and Rosemary’s Baby, anyone? Or Carpenter’s aptly titled, Someone’s Watching Me! Yes, someone surely is. But Watcher still manages to make itself its own movie. A movie where you’re constantly wondering, who’s really the watcher and who’s being watched? Paranoia abounds!

So cozy up, grab a bowl of popcorn, and give yourself the creeps with this flick available to stream from the comfort of your couch. Just make sure to close the curtains first.

Watcher is currently streaming on Shudder, AMC+, DirectTV, or available to rent on Amazon.

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Happy Hour: 2-5 pm, Mon-Thurs

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Standout plates: A handmade corn tortilla with pork ribs and amarillito mole sauce, shrimp ceviche with coconut and serrano pepper; and a chimichanga made with shredded chicken, black beans, green rice, cheese, and avocado.

Good to know: Happy hour is served in the bar only. Plates are $8; specialty cocktails are $9 and $10; house wines are $5; draft and bottled beers are $4. flordemaizsb.com

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Happy Hour: 5-6 pm, Sun-Thurs

Ambiance: Tiki-themed eatery with steaks, seafood, and tasty trop ical drinks

Standout plates: Sweet and tangy teri yaki ribeye bites and peppery angus steak bites are delicious and satisfying. The Thai-style chicken skewers are served on a bed of rice. Priced from $9.99 to $11.99, the menu items are slightly smaller portions of regular entrees.

Good to know: $6.75 well drinks, $8-9 wines by the glass, and $11 Mai Tais chucksofhawaii.com

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Happy Hour: 3-11 pm on TuesThurs; 3-5 pm on Fri; “Power Hour” late night happy hour from 9-10 pm on Fri and Sat

Ambiance: Santa Maria-style barbe cue served on an outdoor patio with a family-friendly/pet friendly atmosphere

Standout plates: The guajillo honey coated street wings with a squeeze of lime and “off the cob” grilled corn served in a heap of chipotle aioli, parmesan, and chili are lip-smackingly delicious. All snack items on the menu are half off. Prices range from $2.25 for fries to $6 for street wings.

Good to know: $4 house beer, $5 house wines and $10 cocktails shalhoob.com

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For the First Time Ever, Greece Meets Energy Demands with 100% Renewables

The other week, Greece celebrated an exciting milestone! All of the country’s electricity needs were met by renewable energy for the first time, as stated by the country’s independent power transmission operator, IPTO.

Renewables accounted for 100 percent of Greece’s power generation for at least five hours on Friday, October 7, reaching a record high of 3,106-megawatt hours.

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According to Greece-based environmental think-tank The Green Tank, solar, wind, and hydro accounted for 46 percent of the nation’s power mix in the eight months to August of this year, up from 42 percent in the same period in 2021.

Green Tank described it as a “record of optimism for the country’s transition to clean energy, weaning off fossil fuels, and ensuring our energy sufficiency.”

This remarkable milestone comes on the heels of the encouraging news that renew ables will fully meet the rise in global electricity demand in the first half of 2022.

While this is a triumphant moment for Greece, the country’s transition to clean energy has not been without challenges.

Following the war in Ukraine, Greece (like other European countries) reduced its reliance on Russian gas by increasing liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports to meet its needs. It has also increased coal mining, delaying its decarbonization plan.

Using IPTO data, The Green Tank discovers that renewables, excluding large hydro sources, have surpassed all other energy sources, with fossil gas falling to second place for the first time since 2018.

Greece expects to more than double its green energy capacity by 2030, with green energy accounting for at least 70 percent of its energy mix. To help meet that goal, the government is attempting to attract approximately €30 billion (approximately $29.2 billion) in European funds and private investments to upgrade its electricity grid.

It intends to increase installed renewable energy capacity to 25 gigatonnes from about 10 gigatonnes, but analysts believe Athens may achieve that goal sooner.

IPTO has been investing in the expansion of the country’s power grid in order to increase power capacity and facilitate the penetration of solar, wind, and hydro energy.

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