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AFTER SURVIVING FIRES, FLOODS, AND ROAD CLOSURES… THE DECADES-OLD, LONE SURVIVING CYPRESS TREE IS REMOVED TO MAKE WAY FOR THE HWY 101 WIDENING PROJECT (STORY STARTS ON PAGE 6)

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ditorial – The lasting connections that form when we Brilliant Thoughts – It can be a lot of work Voices – Ed Foster writes in about his 5 Ebreak 30 Vowneteran bread with others while listening to one another 18 coming up with some Brilliant Thoughts, but experiences and the help needed by the VVA illage Beat – An iconic cypress is removed for the 6 Vfreeway widening and notes from the Land Use meeting ontecito Miscellany – Ellen gifts some friends to 8 MLotusland, a CALM luncheon, Kristin Chenoweth at the Granada, the Military Ball and more

ommunity Voices – The Ring Nets are out and 10 CTPRC’s Pat McElroy and Brett Matthews have a message to the community Tide Guide

11 removal and thoughts about the 101 widening

Town – Jean-Michel Cousteau’s lifetime 12 Our achievement award and the landscape of art at the Atkinson Gallery

14 Encanto, and changes afoot at the Alcazar Theatre

in finding a new home for their Huey Project

Giving List – With the upcoming departure Mind-Body Matters – Take A Course in 20 TofheGeoff Green, the SBCC Foundation has some 34 Miracles and find the magic in the everyday big philanthropic shoes to fill

moments that move us Your Westmont – Small art arrives at the museum, student explores 4th-century Christians, and men’s basketball tips off at home

lizabeth’s Appraisals – It’s all things Bob 22 EDylan when a reader asks the value of an original pressing of the album from his collaboration with the Grateful Dead

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Letters to the Editor – Responses to the Ring Nets

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Way It Was – How the passionate paintings 26 TbyheEdwin Deakin of California’s missions

obert’s Big Questions – What do Leftist 35 Rphilosophers think about Woke-ness? And what is woke culture accomplishing?

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Classifieds – Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads 46 from MA – Pictures and a shout-out 29 on the horizon with Presqu’ile’s recent vineyard 16 Mtoessage Mini Meta Crossword Puzzles all of the volunteers that made Beautification 47 purchase in the Sta. Rita Hills Day such a success Local Business Directory Santa Barbara by the Glass – There’s new wine

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ore than a year ago, in “sleepy” Santa Barbara, long before Hamas ever slaughtered 1,400 innocents at a peace festival or Israel retaliated, a special group of Central Coast locals were incubating a project that could just very well help with this mess. Maybe a lot of messes.

Ironically, we may owe a debt of gratitude to Kanye West. A little more than a year ago, on October 7-9 of 2022, exactly one year to the day before Hamas’ attack, West started spouting antisemitic tropes, like that he was going to go “DEFCON 3 on the Jewish people.” West then doubled and tripled down on his hate speech. The media’s blasé reaction and mostly non-condemnation, “that’s just Kanye,” may have emboldened Elon Musk to proceed down a similar path.

Musk went on an unapologetic tirade all his own, blaming his loss of Twitter ads on the ADL and buddying up to a Parthenon of hate speech’ers. On October 27 of last year, Musk completed his purchase of Twitter and, just like that, the floodgates were opened – antisemitism and hate were beta tested and stepped further out of the closet in America.

It started to become scary for, among others, Jews. Not so much the amplification and normalization of age-old canards by people like West and Musk whose careers and reward have obviously never been hindered by Jews or anyone else. It wasn’t just the rantings of two people with loud and far-reaching megaphones. The scary thing about the Bat signal being sent out was that racist talk seemed a lot more tolerated than I ever would have expected.

Around that time, a friend of mine and I went to a screening at a Santa Barbara film festival of a documentary called Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life. The film told the story of how, in the aftermath of a heinous hate crime that resulted in the murder of Gwyn Lurie is CEO 11 innocent people, the Squirrel Hill and Executive Editor community in Pittsburgh (comprised of the Montecito of Muslims, Christians, Jews, and othJournal Media Group ers) came together to stand against hate. After the film, my friend and I

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Iconic Cypress Tree Comes Down

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arlier this week, an iconic cypress tree in the Highway 101 median just south of the San Ysidro Road exit was removed, in preparation for the expansion of the freeway in both directions. The removal has spurred many comments in online and social media forums, with commenters lamenting the loss of the tree, which many called the symbol of Montecito.

The project team from the Highway 101 project tells us the tree was removed An iconic cypress tree in the median of the freeway in as part of the clearing of the median, Montecito was removed on Monday in anticipation of along with other landscaping and a the project to widen the freeway to three lanes in each large sycamore tree, which is slated to be direction. The tree was the lone survivor of seven to 10 removed later this week. Back in 2014 trees that were originally planted decades ago. (photo when the median widening design was courtesy of Matt Mosby) studied as part of the Environmental Impact Review for the project, it was determined that expanding the freeway into the median was the best course of action, versus expanding on the sides of the current freeway, which would have entailed acquiring private property through the use of imminent domain. At the time, several landscape designers and an arborist were brought in to evaluate moving the trees – plural, as at the time there were several cypress trees still standing – but it was determined that the trees were not in optimal health and the chance of survival after replanting elsewhere was not good.

Two of the remaining three cypress trees were lost during heavy storms in early 2017, and more vegetation was lost during the debris flow in January 2018. But still the lone cypress remained, surviving fire, floods, and freeway closures.

“There are trade-offs, as there are in every decision,” said a rep for the project. “In the majority of the corridor we will have more landscaping concentrated on the outer edges of the freeway following the expansion. It will be a better environment for landscaping to thrive. There will be cypress, oaks, sycamore trees, as well as other trees, shrubs, and lower plantings.”

The widening project through Montecito will add a new peak-period High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane in each direction from the Romero Creek Bridge north to Olive Mill Road. There will also be new on- and off-ramps as well as northbound and southbound auxiliary lanes (lanes connecting on-ramps and off-ramps to improve merging) between San Ysidro and Olive Mill roads. New bridges will be built over Romero, San Ysidro, and Oak creeks. Construction is ongoing through 2026, with local parallel projects – the roundabouts at San Ysidro Road and Olive Mill – currently occurring.

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At this month’s Montecito Association Land Use Committee meeting, chair Bill Babbitt introduced Cindy Chvatal, who will be working with the committee regarding affordable housing requirements and initiatives in Montecito.

Babbitt explained there are three different ways the state of California is trying to add to affordable housing supply: the Housing Element and RHNA (Regional Housing Needs Allocation) Numbers, which is when the state mandates how many units each community needs to build; SB9 and SB10, which allow lot splits in residential zones; and ADU rules, which allow accessory dwelling units to be built with only ministerial review. Chvatal is a member of United Neighbors, a coalition of neighborhoods across the state working to protect multi-family and single-family neighborhoods while supporting affordable housing; she will be helping the MA tackle some of these issues.

Also at the meeting: First District Supervisor Das Williams’ rep Darcel Elliott reported that a community meeting is scheduled for November 29 at 5:30 pm at Cold Spring School to discuss a Flood Control Master Plan for Montecito. The County of

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Montecito Miscellany A Koi-ful Addition to Lotusland

Ellen DeGeneres checking out the 55 Koi she donated to Lotusland’s Japanese Garden (courtesy photo)

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ormer TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, who used to live near the Montecito botanical paradise Lotusland before selling the estate to Google honcho Eric Schmidt, has come to the 37-acre estate with 55 mature Koi for the Japanese Garden lake.

Rebecca Anderson, executive director, tells me Robert Riskin of Riskin Partners Estate Group contacted the former property of Polish opera singer Ganna Walska to ask if the lake would be a suitable home for the exotic fish.

DeGeneres, 65, known for her serial flipping of homes, recently acquired a local estate with dozens of the breed, too many for the modest-sized garden.

Robert immediately thought of Lotusland, as he and his family had been involved with the garden for many years.

The Japanese Garden holds a special place in his heart, especially because the Reflection Walk was dedicated to the memory of his late mother, Rebecca Riskin, during the garden’s renovation in 2019 following the devastating debris flow in which her life was so tragically lost.

“We gratefully accepted the decadesold Koi and our team transported them to their new water oasis here,” says Rebecca.

“They have settled in well and are quite content with their new surroundings.

“They started swimming closely and in a synchronized manner in the reflecting pond immediately upon their transfer.”

Schoolchildren and guests have been delighted by the new addition. Among Lotusland’s 20 themed gardens, the Japanese Garden is often cited as the favorite by children.

It is also a perfect environment for the new arrivals, who feed on the bugs, plant material, and algae.

Ellen has been to visit them in their new home and took time out to feed them while she was there.

Nothing to carp about, clearly.

A CALM-ing Lunch What a difference a year makes!

Last year, CALM at Heart’s lunch was only saved from deluging rain with the erection of a large tent preventing the gardens at Los Sueños, the Montecito home of international lawyer Robert Lieff, becoming a quagmire.

This year, as Lieff has just put the George Washington Smith estate on the market for $33 million, the popular charity decided to host its 11th annual sold-out event at the Montecito Club in blazing sunshine with 250 guests raising more than $375,000.

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Update from The Project for Resilient Communities

This past week, the nets were removed using a helicopter and other equipment

by Pat McElroy and Brett Matthews

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e have been getting several phone calls, emails, and questions regarding the decision to pull the six Ring Nets out of three canyons above Montecito. This week has been an extremely critical one for TPRC’s project.

We are proud to be a part of a community that rose to the occasion to keep our community safe. While it was our intention and wish to keep this part of our safety infrastructure in place for the long term, that decision ultimately was outside our control. If you have hiked our trails this past week, you have seen that the Debris Nets have been removed in advance of the quickly approaching 11/15 deadline mandated by the California Regional Water Quality Board and canyon restoration

work is being completed.

After the recent year of more focused conversations on transferring the Net System to the County, we could not get to a contract with the County to accept the responsibility to manage our six net system. That is a whole other story.

With rains coming and a forecast for a rainy winter, a mandate from the Water Quality Board that work could not be done in the impacted canyons after November 15 and no sign of a contract approved by the Supervisors was on the table for the County to take over the Nets and no confidence that we could get to a deal, TPRC faced being responsible for the nets by moving forward.

As you know, immediately after the 1/9 Debris Flow in 2018, many of our community members went missing, and tragically, 23 of our friends and family members lost their lives in this disaster.

In the immediate aftermath, the County was appropriately focused on search and rescue efforts, but historical data showed our community was and would continue to be at significant risk of another debris flow given the barren mountains behind our homes. It was also abundantly clear; our current infrastructure wasn’t a sufficient deterrent to loss of life. As concerned citizens, we founded TPRC because we simply didn’t want to lose anyone else.

We understand and believe that more discussion is warranted. The first question is: Should the County be responsible for all the Public Works Infrastructure, specifically the debris and flood infrastructure, that protects the life, safety, and property of our Santa Barbara community? Including proven, innovative approaches such as Debris Nets? Or should it fall to private citizens to provide the funding? We could not reach an agreement with the County on this approach.

You will be hearing more from TPRC very soon. Thank you for your support.

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Letters to the Editor Ring Nets Removal Response

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egarding the “Ring Nets” installed in the canyons above Montecito in response to the disastrous mudslide of January 9, 2018: As the Executive Director of an environmental organization in Santa Barbara, I joined the Board of The Project for Resilient Communities (TPRC) to watch the proceedings from an environmental point of view. The Ring Nets were installed as a response to a major disaster, and to stop a future one. Expert biologists were hired to ensure the wildlife could get under and around the nets. The TPRC raised millions to ensure science, geology, and environment were in place.

“They didn’t work,” is an idiotic phrase when there are photos and video documentation of a net in San Ysidro Canyon filled with the remnants of a debris flow in January – this year. For those who have forgotten the floods of January 2018, a look at this New York Times article may refresh the memory: www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/us/ montecito-mudslide-2018-californiastorms.html The failure of the County to ensure the maintenance of these nets is foolhardy. We on the Santa Barbara south coast have not experienced the El Niño to come, the floods to come, the forest fires to come, the future to come. Climate change IS happening, and we are seeing, as the old song says, “…the mountains crumbling to the sea.”

Good environmental work is to ensure our day-to-day activities are not harming the environment, and our work is to improve those processes the best we can. Disasters that kill people are another thing entirely. That the County didn’t pick up where a group of dedicated people raised millions to protect the community from future Climate Change disasters is unbelievable.

Hillary Hauser, Executive Director Heal the Ocean

The Road Ahead As I watch the stretch of highway between Carpinteria and Santa Barbara constantly being torn up to create new swaths of concrete, I wonder if anyone ever looked into the studies that have shown that “adding lanes only increases vehicle dependence while doing little to reduce congestion.” (See Uranga, Rachel.

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Caltrans executive was demoted after she complained about unnecessary freeway expansion and how Caltrans “bypasses and bends the [environmental analysis] rules when it suits them to build bigger and faster projects.” Steven Wheeler, a professor of urban planning and design at UC Davis stated, “Caltrans has a long history of plowing ahead and widening roads without regard to various better policy alternatives.” He stated one of the ways Caltrans accomplishes that is “by breaking projects up into smaller pieces, which makes it easier to get it approved and avoid public scrutiny.”

How many of our beautiful older trees have been ripped up (typically at night so there’s less public outcry) for additional lanes? One of the sections of the Montecito widening is tearing up over 160 of our beautiful oak trees in addition to all the vegetation in the median dividers. While other communities are adding trees to combat climate change, we’re watching Caltrans rip up our trees, some of whom are over one hundred years old.

Were the two roundabouts at Olive Mill and San Ysidro really necessary?

Beautiful oaks, sycamore, and other ancient trees were pulled out and discarded. Why? Was there some study that showed an increase in traffic or accidents at those intersections that necessitated the destruction of both intersections.

When Caltrans first proposed the Montecito widening project, the increased freeway sounds were to be mitigated by sound walls. Just before construction was started, Caltrans “just discovered that sound walls might cause flooding in the event of a ‘100year flood.’” Instead of sound walls, Montecito got chain link fences. C’mon, does anyone really believe this was a revelation to Caltrans or that they couldn’t build the sound walls in a way that would minimize potential flooding?

Large expanses of concrete, center dividers with no greenery, 100-year-old trees ripped up and replaced with chain link fences. Is this what the citizens of Santa Barbara and Montecito really wanted for their community?

It may be too late to do anything about this recent “concrete assault” on our community but perhaps the City Council might look a little deeper into the real effects of Caltrans’ future plans to “benefit” the city. What kind of destruction will occur when Caltrans builds the new Cabrillo 101 Freeway Southbound entrance, which was

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enowned ocean explorer and diver Jean-Michel Cousteau will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara on November 11 as part of a weekend of festivities that benefit Cousteau’s nonprofit organization Ocean Futures Society (OFS). The event, titled the 78 Years of Diving & Discovery Gala, starts Friday, November 10 and goes through Sunday, November 12. OFS was created in 1999 as a voice of the ocean, and has since provided educational programs and diplomatic support for causes worldwide.

In that realm of support by OFS, the Santa Barbara Channel has been named the ninth global Whale Heritage Area by the World Cetacean Alliance. The award Jean-Michel Cousteau with his life partner and OFS is based on: “…The region’s commitment to pro- co-founder Nan Marr (photo by Joanne A Calitri) moting responsible ecotourism, providing more ocean educational opportunities, supporting on-going research, conservation efforts, honoring the timeless cultural connection people have to whales, and raising awareness about the importance of whales, dolphins, and porpoises and their role in enhancing ocean productivity and their climate connection in sequestering carbon.”

The Ritz-Carlton Bacara’s OFS weekend events are all with Cousteau there to meet and greet with attendees. Friday, November 10, is a reception and a Celebration of Whales art exhibit. Saturday, November 11, includes an ecological hike and an evening dinner and dancing gala with a multimedia presentation of never previously released films. Sunday is an ocean discovery cruise on the Condor Express, the vessel I am informed has been donated to OFS by its owner Hiroko Benko, a longtime friend of Cousteau’s with her husband, Fred. There are sponsorship opportunities to support OFS in addition to attending the weekend events.

Cousteau has partnered with the Ritz-Carlton brand over the years with his Ambassadors of the Environment programs for families. Their Lifetime Achievement Award for him encompasses his work as an explorer, diplomat, environmentalist, educator, author, and film producer to protect our planet’s water ecosystems, and to support OFS. I met with Cousteau, whom I’ve known for 20 years through photography, even employing my student Carrie Vonderhaar while I was faculty at the Brooks Institute of Photography. We caught up on all this and more with his life partner Nan Marr.

His answers to all my interview questions came down to his lifelong ethical codes about our ocean environmental as vital to our health and survival and to that of our planet. In order to capture the highlights of our interview, I filmed his most important statements about his projects, OFS, Ambassadors of the Environment, and collab with the Ritz-Carlton brand. These live HD videos will be on the Montecito Journal website and YouTube Channel: www.montecitojournal.net 411: www.oceanfutures.org www.oceanfutures.org/news/press-releases/diving-discovery-gala

New Landscapes Part I Group Exhibit at the Atkinson Gallery I attended the opening of an exhibition at the Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) titled New Landscapes Part I, which is on view through December 8. The artists exhibiting are Whitney Bedford, Diedrick Brackens, Manuel López, Cruz Ortiz, Jonathan Ryan, and Jonas Wood. The exhibition was conceived and

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Society Invites

Linda Ross Beverly Hills at The El Encanto

by Joanne A Calitri

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fter 30 years in the skin-care industry, Linda Ross Beverly Hills continues to hold court for her in-person treatments and skin care line, available by referral only. Her client list matches the red carpet, and she has appeared in Glamour, Who What Wear, New Beauty, Women’s Health, InStyle, and Lucky Magazine and on the Style Network.

Of interest for local residents is her partnership with the Spa at the El Encanto a Belmond Hotel, Santa Barbara, which holds an exclusive license to sell her skin-care products and perform facials by spa aestheticians trained by her. During November, Ross is donat- Linda Ross at the El Encanto Belmond Hotel ing 5 percent of the product and treat- SB Spa with her skin-care line (photo by Joanne ment sales by El Encanto to the Santa A Calitri) Barbara Wildlife Care Network.

I met with Ross at the El Encanto Spa on Nov. 5, while she was preparing her treatment schedule for their wellness week event. She explained that she cares about people and nature, and choosing the SB Wildlife Care Network was an important decision.

Ross said, “They [SB Wildlife Care Network] rescued a baby hawk that fell from the nest in the eucalyptus tree on the hotel property, took care of it, and put it back in the nest with a crane!”

I had asked, if one missed the wellness week, would Ross be back? She replied, “When an El Encanto guest or local resident books the Illustrious Escape Beauty Journey in advance, I will come and do the service. I also have my signature microcurrent facial using products that have food-grade nutrients, that I do with microcurrent gloves, which no other spa is doing. I work very closely with the El Encanto’s spa staff, making sure they are educated with my products and comfortable with the protocols for their custom-designed treatments.”

Ross shared her enthusiasm for her dedication to creating the skin-care products in 2006, a basic four-part routine, her celebrity clients bet their career on. The products are made in small batches and from ingredients she has researched and tested for more than 14 years.

The products are a Cleanser, a MicroDerm Scrub, an Anti-Aging Cream, and the Propolis & Royal Jelly, which come with instructions and the ingredients list.

Q. How did you get into aesthetics?

A. I wanted to be my own boss, and I looked at the trends, which was that baby boomers were uncomfortable with aging. I noticed the woman I used to go to for facials who worked in the back of a hair salon was booked solid, and I thought, I can do this. It’s more about whether the customer is happy with what you do or not. It’s very simple from corporate work.

When I started, I decided to move and set up in Beverly Hills, where facials are purchased by clients by who they want to do it. The flip side of that is the clients are spa-savvy, and if you want to make it, you have to provide better and consistent results from wherever else they are going.

Success in the business is [due to] two things: one is the technique used – and I studied a lot of different techniques, massage, and extractions – and the other is the products.

You have to be strong in both areas. When I started my business, I was trying to find a skin-care line, and tried anything and everything. I found a line I liked and rep’ed it for 14 years. I started to study the ingredients and how they work, and created my own line. My philosophy is about the long-term effects, aging the best you can long term, not fast-tracking it, which may have negative side effects that are harder to fix.

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Message from MA

Another Successful Beautification Day!

by Houghton Hyatt

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e had more than 100 volunteers come out to beautify Montecito.

The Rosewood Miramar hosted a beautiful breakfast with coffee, teas, pastries, and breakfast burritos and had about 20 to 30 team members join us! Everyone got their safety vests, trash grabbers and trash bags and went out for a few hours to pick up trash all around Montecito, from the trailheads to the beach!

Everyone gathered back in the Upper Village, and Sharon Byrne was presented with the “Citizen of the Year” award. After joining as the executive director in early 2018, she guided this community through the aftermath of the 1/9 debris flow, bringing our community together and then also navigated us through the pandemic with the constant updates and communications to our community. A well-deserved award for her remarkable efforts.

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The Montecito Firefighters cooked up the hot dogs, donated by the Montecito Village Grocery – and they also made a big batch of their famous chili. The San Ysidro Ranch provided some tasty pasta salads, and Violette Bake Shop donated yummy cupcakes.

The theme of Beautification Day this year was “It Takes a Village” – and it truly does. Our community comes together every year for this event, and this year was no exception. From the Westmont student volunteers, the Montecito Water District, the Friends of the Montecito Library, the Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue, and many more, it was a fabulous event!

Mark your calendar for next year’s Beautification Day – it’s always the first

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Brilliant Thoughts On the Job

by Ashleigh Brilliant

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or most of human history, the people who did the hardest physical work were at the bottom of the social scale. These were jobs that went to people called peasants, villeins, or slaves, working in the fields alongside horses and oxen. Women and their traditional roles of housekeeping and child-rearing were always in a class inferior to men. At the top were the landowners, who formed the major part of a hereditary Aristocracy.

Of course, there were exceptions – but this arrangement constituted a very stable social pyramid, which lasted through the centuries, and in some ways, in many parts of the world, is still with us today. However, a great change began to come about, some 300 years ago, together with what we call the Industrial Revolution, when ownership and control of machines, rather than of land, became a new standard of power, and revised the traditional notions of a social hierarchy.

As a result, there emerged a new lower

class of mostly poor urban workers. These people had virtually no voice in their own government, until the social cataclysm, known as the French Revolution, for a time, at least in France, unseated the ruling Aristocrats in a violent upheaval, as embodied in Paris by the guillotine.

But, as you know, most things in life, and in History, have a tendency to swing back, after hitting an extreme, and this happened in the Century after the French debacle, with the downtrodden masses again feeling downtrodden, and thus giving rise to new voices of protest and rebellion. Of these, the most remarkable was that of a German Jew named Karl Marx, who, together with a collaborator named Friedrich Engels, became the intellectual leader of a new movement based on the idea of empowering the Working Class to overthrow the system which kept them “in chains,” and seize control of the means of production for which they labored.

In 1848, they published a document called the “Communist Manifesto,” calling for the unification of all workers everywhere – a breathtaking concept at the

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time. The very words “Communist” and “Communism” were startlingly new. In time, as we know, they fostered a broadly international movement which captured the minds of millions and threatened established ruling systems around the world.

The idea took hold, in many societies, that a great cultural change was coming, which was generally referred to as “the Revolution.”

“Comes the Revolution” was a stock phrase preceding speculation about what the Future would be like – but nobody was sure exactly when or where this momentous change would begin. There seemed to be wide agreement that it was most likely to happen in some part of the advanced Western world – perhaps in Germany or France, or even in the United States.

But, contrary to these expectations, when it did come, it was in one of the most politically and socially backward of all the “civilized” countries – the Empire of Russia. It was there, in the first two decades of the 20th Century, that the Communist Revolution, still flying the banner of Karl Marx, and using the symbol of the Hammer and Sickle, to represent workers both in Industry and in Agriculture, took hold, and an extreme left wing of the Movement, called the Bolsheviks, came to power. (Marx himself had been living quietly in England for many years before his death in 1883.)

In the process, the entire Russian ruling family was wiped out, to be replaced eventually by a man named Lenin. All this took place against a background of the First

World War, which engendered turmoil and tumultuous change all across Europe. The new Russian nation which emerged used the term “Soviet” which had been applied to a system of workers’ councils, to call itself the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) or more commonly the Soviet Union, a political entity which survived for some 70 years, before being more or less peacefully dissolved in 1991.

Meanwhile in other countries, particularly the U.S., the spread of Communism had been seen as a great threat, and at least twice – in the years after both World Wars – this fear had mounted to a panic, creating each time a “Red Scare,” that dominated national attention for many months, until it subsided in a wave of apathy. But Labor had become so accepted as a political force that in Britain it was now the name of one of the major Parties. The workers of the world had

indeed come a long way.

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The Giving List

Santa Barbara City College Foundation

by Steven Libowitz

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he SBCC Foundation has posted a job opening for the position of Chief Executive Officer of California’s top community college foundation, one with assets of $85 million and a full-time staff of 15. The announcement explains how the new CEO will “build on the SBCC Foundation’s longstanding success in ensuring that Santa Barbara City College remains accessible to all who seek to take advantage of its life-changing educational opportunities.”

At the top of the seven-page notice, there are specific attributes the foundation wants in its new leader: – A strategic, visionary thinker who is adept at creative problem-solving and values building partnerships and relationships to support mutual goals.

– Someone who values interacting with people and thrives in a collaborative working environment while also being able to set clear directions.

– A resourceful leader who will be

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intentional in seeking practical results that maximize the return on the SBCC Foundation’s fiscal and human resources as well as being resilient, versatile, and able to anticipate and solve problems and deliver results with a commitment for equity and inclusion, embracing the perspectives and experiences of others both inside the organization and in the external community.

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Foundation’s current CEO, who – in case you somehow haven’t heard the news – will be departing at the end of the year for a new position as CEO of the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofits).

For all we know, the board of directors simply distilled Green’s skill, leadership style, and accomplishments over the last nine years to come up with the description.

Which is no doubt a good place to start.

Under his stewardship, SBCC Foundation has thrived in any number of ways, experiencing significant growth in its asset base, expanding partnerships with other community-based organizations, come up with creative solutions to be long-standing challenges and emergency situations – all in the service of its mission to provide financial and other resources to improve access and success for students at the college.

By far the most directly impactful and widespread initiative under Green’s tenure was the creation of the SBCC Promise in 2016, a philanthropic program that echoes an earlier era in California by ensuring that all recent, local high school graduates have the opportunity to attend SBCC full-time for free. More than 7,000 students have participated in the plan since its inception seven years ago, which translates to 1,000 students receiving a free two-year education at absolutely no cost.

“People started to realize that we didn’t have to wait for public dollars to be channeled back into the public college system,” said Green, who modeled The Promise on similar but much more limited programs in a few communities across the nation. “There were some things you can do privately with philanthropy. What we did was make it universal for the whole community.”

The Promise has been accompanied by additional outside-the-box outreach during Green’s tenure, including the purchase of the former Paul Mitchell Building, which now houses the SBCC Cosmetology Academy downtown, just minutes from the core seaside campus.

The foundation purchased the building as a program-related investment, supported the refurbishing specific to the academy’s needs, and leased the space for the same amount they were already paying.

“I really wanted to show the value of a strong foundation,” Green explained.

“It’s not just raising money and writing a check. It’s things you can do with those kinds of assets that are more creative. The school moved from an older property out in Goleta to a much larger, more modern facility in downtown Santa Barbara, right in the core of the area where all of these newly minted stylists and others would be much more likely to be employed.”

Green also facilitated and shepherded the two sold-out SBCC Jazz concerts with local Hall of Fame member Michael McDonald at the Lobero Theatre in 2018 and 2019 – which he called “a clas-

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sic community college origin story.”

“We’ve long raised money here and there for our applied arts programs, but while there’s the ongoing SBCC’s Monday Night Madness at SOhO and they travel to jazz festivals, they’d never played at the Lobero,” Green said. “It seemed the perfect way to showcase the talent of the students and simultaneously raise money for the program.”

Green’s community connections also led to the foundation’s instantaneous response to the pandemic, creating the first $2-million student emergency grant program in the first weeks after Covid hit the country.

“I was chair of the Chamber of Commerce when Governor [Gavin] Newsom announced the economic shutdown and the stay-home order,” he recalled. “I heard from my colleagues who ran businesses that they’d have to lay off their workers, a lot of whom were our students, and that was their only source of income. So even before the Cares Act and other public support came online, we had the resources in hand and a reserve of unrestricted funds, so we immediately scrambled the whole team and turned half of the foundation staff into a fulltime emergency grant program.”

The disbursements enabled students to stay enrolled, so they could finish out that semester in spring of 2020.

“The idea is to constantly be thinking about using resources we have to support students and the college in creative and better ways. Fundraising is, of course, a primary role for us, but we’re also an entrepreneurial small business finding new ways to support students using philanthropic resources.”

While Green is moving on, supporting SBCC will always be near and dear to his heart, and he’s thrilled to be leaving the foundation in great shape while never actually departing from his belief in SBCC and its brethren as providing great bang for the buck.

“The most important aspect is always the value and impact of community college philanthropy,” Green said. “It’s still such an emerging field, and although SBCC is a statewide leader – and I would argue even nationally – it’s still got so far to go to catch up with four-year institutions.

And so, in many, many ways, however you want to cut it, the dollar goes much further with a community college foundation when it comes to philanthropy.”

Just as Green made possible with The Promise, philanthropists don’t have to wait for his successor to be named to

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Elizabeth’s Appraisals ‘Dylan & the Dead’

by Elizabeth Stewart

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hen an object or a collection is welcomed into a museum, values are raised for objects with similar provenance; a MJ reader’s Bob Dylan collectible vinyl album is a great example of this phenomena, albeit on a celebrity scale.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, there is now a museum dedicated to the life and works of Bob Dylan. A new book, Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine, shares photos and artifacts never seen publicly from seven decades of Dylan’s career. Some of the amazing photos from the Tulsa Museum Collection include a 1957 photo of Bobby Zimmerman Dylan & the Dead singing his first show at summer camp in Wisconsin, a 1964 Dylan meeting with Johnny Cash, a photo of Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac’s grave, a Rolling Thunder photo of 1975, a 1987 photo of Dylan and George Harrison, and Blood on the Tracks 1993 tour photo, and an intimate “card game” shot from the “Never Ending Tour,” which began in 1988 (Dylan continues to tour today).

Our reader’s object is the famous “Dylan and the Dead” LP, a first release album Feb. 6, 1989, a collaboration between the Grateful Dead and Dylan, a

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compilation of recordings from the 1987 stadium tour. Critics at the time said, “What? Folk rock meets psychedelic rock? Dylan won’t wear tie-dye.” There are seven songs by Dylan, accompanied by the Dead, and produced by Jerry Garcia and John Cutler. Side one: “Slow Train,” “I Want You,” “Gotta Serve Somebody,” “Queen Jane Approximately”; Side Two: “Joey,” “All Along the Watchtower,” and “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.”

The album, though originally panned in 1989, soon reached Gold Certification, Billboard’s No 37th in the U.S. and 38th in the United Kingdom. When an album reaches Gold status, many are in circulation, and usually a top seller will not be a rare album today. But the new museum influences value.

What is it worth? Our reader says it is in near-mint condition, pressed in 1989 at Columbia Records Pressing Plant in Carrollton, Georgia, the sleeve condition is near-mint, still in poly shrink but the seal is broken, played once (how can he tell?) with original inner-picture sleeve, and the hype sticker which reads: “The Legendary Meeting.” If this is all true, the album is worth $300; if one factor is not true, the album is valued between $20 and $50.

A client in Paradise, California, (before the fire) had a harmonica which was rumored to have been played by Bob Dylan at a certain venue, and for this valuation I consulted harmonica virtuosi Joe Powers; he said that just the apocryphal story increases the perceived value from $50 to $250.

The question of provenance – why it was purchased, and by whom, adds to value.

In a stunning example of Tulsa’s Dylan Museum influencing the value of an object, Art Net News reported that Dylan’s sprawling Scottish Highlands Mansion was on the market as of August 2023, an estate built in the Edwardian Era, Aultmore, in the village of Nethy Bridge in Cairngorm National Park, a remote area, with 18,357 square feet, 16 bedrooms, 11 baths (if you know Scotland, you know this is rare), on 25 acres of gardens with statues, gazebos, and three cottages.

Dylan and his brother David Zimmerman bought the estate in 2006; it was offered in 2023 for $3.9M. Why Scotland? Dylan apparently loved Scottish folk music and poetry.

Reviewing the Dylan and the Dead album, critics in 1989 believed that Dylan may have wandered away from his folk roots, but Dylan was never far from those roots. The website “Untold Dylan” reports that Dylan was a follower of Hamish Henderson, the founding father of Scotland’s 20th-century folk renaissance, and his poems and songs, for example, his “The 51st Highland Division’s Farewell to Sicily” has a line “the times are a-changing.” A 2008 Guardian article titled “Robert Burns is My Biggest Inspiration,” reported that the 18th-century Bard of Ayrshire wrote a famous poem that reverberated for Dylan: “My Love is Like a Red Red Rose/ that’s newly sprung in June/ O my love’s like the melodie that’s sweetly played in tune.”

The Center for Burns Study at the University of Glasgow reported to Elizabeth Stewart, PhD is the Glasgow Herald that “‘Rabbie’ a veteran appraiser of fine Burns (like Bob Dylan) was a hugeart, furniture, glass, and ly committed artist who dealt with other collectibles, and a everyday emotions: we are not surcert. member of the AAA prised (Burns) influenced Dylan” and an accr. member of and not surprised Dylan owned a the ASA. Please send any Scottish Mansion. objects to be appraised to The fact that this great artist has a Elizabethappraisals@ museum to his name has increased the

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What’s in a Name? Dozens of American Birds to be Renamed to Promote Inclusivity

“N

ames have power, and power can be for the good or it can be for the bad,” says Colleen Handel, president of the American Ornithological Society. This power is driving a radical movement to revise the English names of all bird species named after people, as well as to erase any names deemed offensive or exclusionary.

The initiative is part of a larger attempt to diversify birding and make it more accessible to individuals of all backgrounds. It is about breaking down barriers and making everyone feel welcome in the world of birds.

The effort, which is expected to begin next year, will initially focus on renaming 70 to 80 bird species found largely in the United States and Canada, accounting for approximately six to seven percent of all species in this region.

The American Ornithological Society holds authority not only over English names for North American birds, but also over Latin American bird names. While there are plans for Latin American name modifications, the society is devoted to collaborating with ornithologists and organizations in Latin America.

Groups such as Bird Names for Birds brought to light the fact that certain names have harmful or negative implications. Their efforts resulted in a fundamental shift in how bird names are regarded. This was exemplified in 2021 when the society formally renamed a bird historically linked with a Confederate General. The bird’s name was changed to “Thick-billed Longspur” when the society changed its naming standards to reflect social justice issues.

Renaming a few birds was one thing, but changing the names of a whole flock was a more difficult challenge. The choice to engage in this undertaking was not taken lightly, and a wide collection of experts was involved.

The final goal is to showcase the birds’ distinctive qualities in order to honor them. Instead of “Wilson’s Warbler,” names like “Yellow Warbler” or “Golden Winged Warbler” are more descriptive and informative.

The committee’s co-chair, Erica Nol, a biologist at Trent University in Canada, recognizes the significance of this move. She observes that names are important to people, particularly those who observe birds and those who desire inclusivity in the birding world.

“Names are important for humans,” says Kenn Kaufman. “And this is absolutely a human-driven exercise.” It’s a work in progress, but it holds the promise of a more

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Netting It Out Our local government has just thrown away six million dollars of our money, and it’s time to call them accountable. The Project for Resilient Communities (TPRC), ostensibly a “Public-Private Partnership” raised, entirely from “Private Sector” contributions, 100 percent of these funds to install six steel rings nets to be installed in the drainages above Montecito. This initiative was in direct response to the catastrophic devastation experienced following the fire and debris flow during the winter of 20172018, when we realized that our County Flood Control had neglected their responsibility to maintain the woefully inadequate debris basins under their supervision. I don’t need to remind you of the magnitude of loss in both human life as well as property and commerce, but while Nero fiddled, the citizens of our community took action.

On January 9th of this year, EXACTLY five years after the debris flow, we experienced another such event. Fortunately, one of the nets was able to capture much of the debris, and proved beyond reasonable doubt that these nets are effective to slow momentum and volume. True to their promise, TPRC embarked upon the task of quantifying the remediation to which they have been contractually obligated, and planning for the clean-out as soon as the environmental conditions allowed for the removal and re-distribution of the accumulated material, consistent with sound environmental practices. This work was completed in October, ahead of the rapidly approaching date set by

the governmental agencies for the five-year expiration of the initial net permit. These nets have a useful life of 50 years, and due to bureaucratic inaction, the County delayed their decision to extend the permits, and take over future responsibility for routine maintenance of the net system.

After five years of managing every aspect – from installation to ongoing management, and ultimately debris removal – TPRC always wanted to DONATE this six-million-dollar infrastructure system to County Flood Control’s system. That should have been responsible from the outset for these costs. Despite hundreds of letters from you in support of the nets to our elected First District Supervisor Das Williams, along with County Flood Control Chief Scott McGolpin, both of these officials FAILED TO ACT in a timely manner.

With the deadline for approving governmentally mandated permit extensions or removal rapidly approaching, and with professional crews already on-site for the remediation of debris, TPRC tried one last time to obtain their commitment.

Unfortunately, neither Das nor Scott would budge from their position that this was going to be the private citizens’ ongoing financial responsibility.

What an absolute failure by our government to say, “Thank you for your six million dollars, we’ve got it from here.”

Instead, they allowed our innovative nets system, as recognized by FEMA and experts worldwide, to be dismantled.

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The Way It Was

The book contains this photo of his painting of Mission San Francisco de Asis, better known as Mission Dolores, which he painted in 1870 (courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Edwin Deakin’s Missions

by Hattie Beresford

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n January 1904, the Santa Barbara Independent informed the public that a “very notable art exhibit” had opened at 1212 State St. in the building that recently housed the Chamber of Commerce. For 25 cents, visitors could see the much-lauded oil paintings of the 21 missions of California by Edwin Deakin. “Each of the 21 large pictures that comprise this exhibit is a work of supreme art, and the coloring is simply superb,” opined the Independent.

The paintings represented a life’s work and passion and was considered the only notable complete series of the missions extant. Deakin refused to sell them individually and wanted them to be kept together in perpetuity. A book entitled The Missions of California, consisting of

Deakin published a book of black-and-white photographs of his oil paintings in 1899. The book went through several printings and cost $1. (courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Edwin Deakin (1838-1923) was a noted landscape painter who made recording the images of the California missions in oil and watercolor his life’s goal (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

black and white photos of the paintings, was for sale for $1.

Deakin had carefully studied original photos and accounts of each of the missions to inform his painting, and he was determined to paint the ruins he saw without any modern attachments and alterations. Starting in 1870 with Mission San Francisco de Asis (aka Mission Dolores), he spent 29 years venturing out via wagon, horse, and foot to reach abandoned mission sites to sketch, draw, and paint.

“The paintings, therefore, represent the missions as they left the hands of the original builders,” reported the press,

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Deakin painted two sets of oil paintings and one set of watercolors. He intended that one set of oil paintings go to Rome to be purchased by the Franciscan order, which had established the California missions. From the watercolors, he intended to create a full color book and had created illustrated title pages to contain each image. By the time he died in 1923, however, he had not secured the funds to create his book. His paintings went into storage and were nearly forgotten.

The Missions By 1769, the days of the conquistadores were long over, and the enlightened despot, King Carlos III, was on the throne of Spain. He ordered the colonization of Alta California and put in place a plan to bring what in his eyes were the blessing of civilization and Christianity to the indigenous population. Franciscan missionaries were to establish missions to teach agricultural and other skills to the native peoples. Beyond the small plots of land given to the pueblos and presidios, all the lands of California were to be

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Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, the 13th California Mission as Deakin found it when he traveled through the Salinas Valley. It continued to degrade until 1959 when the Native Daughters of the Golden West had the chapel reconstructed. (courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum/Santa Barbara Mission)

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Travel Buzz

A Grand Weekend at the Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Resort & Spa in Dana Point

One of the comfy suites at the Waldorf Astoria Monarch (courtesy photo)

by Leslie A. Westbrook

W

hy travel? To celebrate a special occasion? Birthday, anniversary, retirement, new job, you name it. For a change of scenery? To alleviate boredom? To explore new regions, to be pampered or just sneak off and indulge?

Whatever your reason, I love flopping onto a freshly made bed in a hotel room – preferably with a view – walking to dinner onsite for a dynamite meal and luxuriating at a resort spa. But I also enjoy hole-in-the wall ethnic restaurants and colorful saloons. I’m equally happy exploring Mexican villages and ducking into local taco joints as I am swimming at a five-star resort. I love hitting the Big Apple to visit museums and theater, but

lately I’ve felt more like short, drive vacation breaks than long-haul flights. Even though I have zillions of air miles that allow me to fly anywhere for peanuts vs. gas prices (over $6 a gallon, really?), I’ve been in a road trip state of mind lately.

When a friend had a birthday this month, I asked if she wanted to celebrate by revisiting a Dana Point resort we’d been to and liked a lot – especially the Michael Mina restaurant Bourbon Steak Orange County – five years ago? She agreed immediately – which meant she liked it. Or at least liked the idea of a little getaway.

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I suggested we stop en route at a historic Dana Point waterfront saloon for a light shared lunch – Turk’s in the harbor – before checking in to the Waldorf Astoria. Show me a place where you can get the Tuesday night special – spaghetti & meatball with glass of wine for… are you sitting down?… $8.95 (other weekly specials are equally astounding!) and my curiosity is peeked.

Turk’s Dana Warf (yes, that’s how they spell it) has been a family-owned bar and restaurant in Dana Point Harbor since 1984. Turk was a body builder, surfer, movie star, fisherman but his biggest love was the restaurant and bar business, now run by his daughter. The fish and chips were highly recommended online, so I thought what the heck? The joint was noisy, local, like a tiny version of The Nugget on steroids with posters of James Dean, John Wayne, racetrack winners’ circles, loud music and a long full bar filled with patrons at noon. We shared the delicious fish and chips, followed by a walk around picturesque Dana Point Harbor.

It was a pretty drive along the harbor front and a turn up steep Cove Drive, a curving uphill road that ended with awesome clifftop views before we headed five minutes down Pacific Coast Highway to our posh resort. We were warmly welcomed by Jesus, the valet car parker who filled us in on changes since our last visit, a super-friendly and helpful front desk agent and delightful bellman Lyle, who not only shared his favorite dishes at the resort’s fine dining restaurant, where we’d be having dinner our first evening, but was astounded that we had discovered Turk’s for lunch.

Our two-queen bedded room, newly redecorated since our last visit, in calming, elegant beige décor featured charming small oil paintings of surfers and sea; the best being a coastal landscape hanging over the oval soaking tub. The groundfloor room opened to a patio with a firep-

Bourbon Steak OC provides a delectable addition to the experience (photo by Leslie A. Westbrook)

it – and a s’mores kit to concoct late night treats during our two-night stay where the motto is “laid back luxury.”

After the freeway drive, we were happy to just unwind and ponder our 48-hour visit before heading to the terrace for a spectacular sunset view followed by dinner at Bourbon Steak OC, the resort’s upscale restaurant. California is casual and despite menu prices that call for “dressing up,” we were surprised to see how casually dressed many diners were.

There’s a fantastic drinks list (“old school” vs. “new school” versions of classic cocktails), tableside preparations, and every showpiece dish on the seafood and meat centric menu was thoughtfully designed and served.

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“Of course, the best way to track this journey is through the wine,” Cronje continues, “and I am very excited to see how these soil profiles, elevation, and aspects come through in our wines. This project will add to the sense of intrigue and adventure.”

Because the remainder of the non-farmable tract features rolling terrain and ocean views, Presqu’ile is exploring avenues to protect it via a conservation easement that aligns with Santa Barbara County’s new Recreational Master Plan. It could include hiking trail systems through the area.

“We are doing our early due diligence and exploring conservation easements and other stewardship opportunities,” says co-founder Madison Murphy. “We are certainly encouraged by Santa Barbara County’s efforts with its Agriculture Ordinance and Recreational Master Plan, especially its incentives for landowners, and look forward to a continuing dialogue as we move forward.”

Presqu’ile – pronounced “press-keel” – is a French-Creole term meaning “almost an island.” The name pays homage to the Murphys’ former home in the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Find out more at presquile.com.

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resqu’ile’s just-announced land purchase will give it a footprint across two of Santa Barbara County’s most revered wine-growing sites.

The family-owned winery has already made a name for itself with the wines produced at its Santa Maria Valley location. Founded in 2007 by the Murphy family, the 123-acres estate just north of Highway 101 is home to a state-of-theart, gravity-flow winery and plantings of the much sought-after pinot noir and chardonnay (mainly) – the zone’s cool climes and lengthy growing season make it particularly well-suited to the Burgundian darlings. Visitors can access a variety of curated wine experiences at Presqu’ile, including guided tastings coupled with horseback riding or bocce ball.

The winery’s new second site is in another esteemed growing region, the Sta. Rita Hills, set adjacent to the Santa Ynez Valley, near Buellton. Mornings are foggy here, too, and sunny afternoons also give way to cool nights; the maritime influences and special soils make this a premium growing area for pinot and chard. Presqu’ile began sourcing fruit from famed Sanford & Benedict Vineyard here in 2020. The newly acquired 1,100-acre plot along Santa Rosa Road is located next door.

“It checks all the boxes with clay, loam, and some various stone layers among the soils,” says Presqu’ile’s Vineyard Manager, Andrew Heilbrun. “It’s a property of slopes, it’s breezy, and has large diurnal temperature shifts, and because it’s mostly cattle grazing land, its organic matter is some of the highest I’ve seen in the Central Coast.”

The unplanted property was formerly known as Donovan Ranch and was most recently home to Iron Angel Ranch, a now-defunct cannabis-growing operation.

Adds Heilbrun, “This is one of the last jewels yet to be discovered in the Sta. Rita Hills.”

Only 200 acres here are plantable. The first phase will include planting 45 acres of pinot noir, chardonnay and syrah in the spring of 2025. Fruit from the new site will be used in Presqu’ile’s portfolio and will also be available for sale to select wineries.

“The wines from that area express a wholly different terroir than our Presqu’ile Vineyard and are an exciting addition to our family of wines,” said Presqu’ile’s President, Matt Murphy. The new acquisition gives the brand “the freedom to develop and farm the property as we see fit.”

Winemaker Dieter Cronje, one of the region’s esteemed young talents, concurs.

“It is a very unique journey to be in the position to plant a vineyard where there has never been one, and to apply our own methods and philosophy – especially in such an esteemed AVA,” he

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Therefore, instead of being confronted by hostile civilians and old friends who did not serve in the military, my experience was a continuation of a positive relationship with brothers-in-arms being surrounded by other aviators, and soldiers, many of whom had served their time in Vietnam.

Upon being released from active duty, the family, me, my wife and two daughters, moved to Santa Barbara, a place where my father was born and raised. I became a citizen soldier, joining the California Army National Guard as a helicopter pilot. This opportunity allowed me to continue my relationship

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Jack Armstrong, who was a Santa Barbara City Firefighter. He led me through the arduous complicated process of City Government, and I was able to land a job, a career, in the fire service working for the Santa Barbara City Fire Department. (Jack is also a member of VVA 218).

Some years after my military retirement, I was invited to attend a meeting of VVA Chapter 218, in the hopes my aviation experience would help to provide avenues of maintenance and security to the aircraft. I became aware of the existence of a UH-1C model gunship that lives in Santa Barbara and assists in many local displays – a continual reminder of the great contribution this helicopter made to successful military operations while in Vietnam.

My unit of assignment was C Troop, 3rd Squadron, 17th Air Cav, Quang Tri. The mission was recon and patrol along South Vietnam’s DMZ and the border with Laos.

The unit designation was changed in 1971 to D troop, 3rd Squadron, 5th Cavalry, but the location and mission remained the same. Flying a Cobra gunship as part of a cavalry squadron reconnaissance team, I witnessed untold numbers of successful rescues in which either Cobras or Huey (slang for UH-1 designated utility helicopters) Gunships were used to protect friendly forces. The gunship firepower enabled scout aircraft to evade enemy contact, allowed the Lift Huey to insert combat forces to engage the enemy, to provide evacuation when the ground engagement became untenable; to conduct medivac rescues, and to provide ammunition and other supplies to locations distant from Depot locations. The use of the Huey Helicopter in every segment of military operations led to the reference of the War in Vietnam being called the “Helicopter War.” The obsolete Army UH-1 helicopter gunship made its way to the South Coast after being retired from active service. Local Chapter members had the aircraft mounted on a custom-made trailer, and for more than 28 years, proudly accompanied this iconic symbol of the Vietnam War at a great number of parades and at various displays in Santa Barbara County. Locals and visitors alike have had the opportunity to experience the bird close-up, see the cargo bay, the pilot’s and co-pilot’s seats, the aircraft controls, and just wonder about the

“It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” — Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.

aircraft fuselage and cabin. Opened doors have allowed hundreds, maybe thousands, of children and adults to tour this local prize. Chapter 218 members have been able to educate viewers about many facets of the Vietnam War and its impact on a generation of soldiers who served during the era from the 1960s through the 1970s with the Huey as the star.

Now, the days of moving the aircraft in a parade or transporting it for a display or allowing access at many local events in Santa Barbara are over. According to a recent letter received from the U.S. Army TACOM, “The aircraft must be on static display as a symbol of remembrance of those who served to preserve our Nation’s commitment to freedom throughout the world, portray a good image of the U.S. Military and must be maintained in such a way that honors and upholds the image of the United States, our military forces, and its veterans.”

Santa Barbara Chapter 218, the local chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America, is now faced with a challenging change to its previous procedures. In order to keep this iconic symbol and fantastic airship, we must find a suitable static display location in our county, a place that will be approved by (TACOM) the Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command.” Otherwise, the TACOM will locate some distant approved location and repossess the bird.

Our campaign is now in its infancy as we solicit your assistance. Please get in touch with me if you can assist us with keeping the Huey, like a member of our family here, that’s near and dear to the men and women who served in Vietnam.

You can reach me by e-mail at edfoster. sb@verizon.net or by phone at (805) 770-0979. Thank you for your interest. The VVA 218 is deeply grateful to Montecito Journal for printing this and for its support of the organization. To discover more about the Huey Project, go

to www.vvachapter218.org/huey.

Ed Foster is a longtime member of the Santa Barbara Chapter 218 of the Vietnam Veterans Association. He qualified as a Senior Army Aviator and retired from the military in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

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in late Medieval – Early Renaissance art that is exploring perspective and how it is titled. This piece is synching all that in a way that is really interesting to work with in the studio – from a video game reference to pulling out all my books on painting history. It becomes this interesting visual play.

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Next, I talked with López about his work titled I CE(E) all them crosses, but where in the hell is Hey-Zeus?!?!, 48x48” oil and acrylic on canvas.

Artist Jonathan Ryan with his work titled MYST, at the Atkinson Gallery (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

curated by Atkinson Gallery Director John Connelly.

Upon entering the gallery, one can view the six works in the open forum space equally. Connelly and I started on the far-left wall and circled around, while I asked for his inspiration to do the show. He shared, “My background is art history, and I like to curate with that reference, and to include it for the students studying art history at SBCC. People are still making landscapes, it is still an enduring topic, so exploring why is that and how did it start. The earliest painting was done in 2000 B.C.” A noted caveat was having seen Ryan’s work four years ago as another influence.

I mentioned to Connelly that after studying the six works, their unifying links include modernism’s take on what is defined as a landscape – compared to the pastoral paintings through Van Gogh one usually finds in museums – as well as varying use of a non-forced flat or floating perspective. Connelly agreed.

Ryan’s piece titled MYST is a 50x68 inch oil and sand on canvas, with mustard yellow guide rails in a maze formation over shaded greens raised with gravel in the paint for the landscape, which appears to float on a blue cloudy sky with a thin horizontal black starlit sky on top. The rails form an abstract maze whose perspectives tilt downward and stop abruptly at a brown wood square peg in the middle. These leading lines can be followed upward and around the piece, viewers take your pick. I talked briefly with Ryan who arrived from Los Angeles with Gerard O’Brien, owner of the Landing Gallery where he exhibits his works: Q: Any preferred viewing distance? Your choice of textural materials for experience with light and shadow in depth, movement, perspective, and the landscape? It floats in space!

Jonathan Ryan: All viewing approaches work. I move around the studio quite a bit, back and sides, material like gravel and rocks on the paint reflect light and depends on what type of light hits it and changes the experience. I’m grateful for the in-person viewing, as a lot of art today is seen digitally, and I think my work translates fairly well digitally, but it flattens it and makes it very graphical. Where the imagery is coming from is directly pulled from an old video game called Super Off Road that represented a lot of ideas in painting I am interested in, Japanese landscape prints like Hokusai, Hiroshige’s landscapes where the clouds intersect the image, and I’m always interested

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Q: Can you talk about your composition, use of flat lighting, non-forced perspective, scale, and viewing point of the scene?

Manuel López: I made this piece summer 2018 for my first solo show in Los Angeles for Eastern Projects Gallery, it is a series of three works all the same size and took me about a month to do. I don’t really use perspective in the usual sense. My works all start off from drawings, I am eyeballing it, I don’t measure it so we can relate to the way we see the world.

I grew up watching cartoons, reading comic books, and playing the original Nintendo, the graphics are so flat, so my work is a time snap of flatness, like [David] Hockney and [Alexis-Louis] Roche, and all these guys messing with that area. With a canvas, you know it’s a flat surface, so I am not trying to fool the eye. This is an area of Los Angeles, MacArthur Park overlooking the Korean Church, Central American Pentecostal Church and Catholic Church. It is interesting how different cultures are so close to each other and carry their own traditions, but everything is intertwined, for example you can go into a store with a Korean owner who speaks perfect Spanish, but not English.

From there I viewed Brackens’ Stealing Dark from the Sky. Incorporating cotton and acrylic yarn tapestry, with its use of pastels for the landscape area that is broken by two opaque black figures bending over opposite each other and united at the buttock and placed in the center. Ortiz’s Karankawa Red Moon – an oil and sand on canvas – speaks the lovely range of midnight blues to lighter blues in waves horizontally broken down the center by a non-complementary tertiary salmon-colored round moon with its salmon color reflected on the waves. The work homages the Indigenous people of southern Texas. Bedford, with works in collections from Paris to the Hammer, the Saatchi Gallery, London, and at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, is interested in historical paintings and horizon lines. Her work here titled Veduta (Bonnard Mediterranean Mid-Morning) is a triptych ink and oil on linen cut and pasted on panel (mosaic patterning noted), takes the historical painting of Bonnard with her own cutouts on top of it. It is part of her Veduta series of backgrounding pastoral landscapes and her modernist interpretation of key landscape “parts” like trees on top of it. Best to dive in close for an appreciation of the mosaic detail work and sit back to note the impact of the neon pink willow tree far left spawning into the middle panel and its barely leaved pale pink counterpart on the far right panel. Wood’s four 26”x22” prints titled as a group Four Landscapes, are works that were originally made from 12 to 20 Ukiyo-e Japanese-style woodcuts on Kizuki papers. Each print depicts a family photograph from his childhood, and subtitled individually by season – Fall, Summer, Spring, and Winter.

The Atkinson landscape exhibit is a great way to spend an afternoon with art, entertain your thoughts about what landscape art is to you, and perhaps inspire the viewer

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The Alcazar Theatre New Board President and VP Mike Lazaro is appointed the Board President of the Alcazar Theatre Carpinteria as of Oct. 28. We talked via phone Nov. 5, and he shared: “Right now, these are exciting days for the Alcazar Theatre. We are blessed with so many opportunities to show the diversity of what the theater can provide, from live performances, rehearsal stage, movies, private events and meetings. We can go from local school events to celebrity performances. It is hard to find a single venue that is capable of doing all of that at the level we do. Soon, we will be able to live-stream all of it as well.

“We support Carp-Strong and will do fundraising events to help a local community member or business. At this time, our board is fully focused on our intention, mission, and where we are going. Our Board of Directors is seven members, with a president, VP, secretary, and treasurer with three members at large. We have a brand-

new Executive Director, Deb Nomura, and she has definitely been an asset in stabilizing and creating systems within the nonprofit structure of the theater.

We are very blessed to have her.

“The future is very bright for us, and we’re putting a lot of effort into our infrastructure, so the theater is viable for years to come. I am really happy to be a part of it.

We’re marching into our 100th year anniversary in 2028. Take the march with us.”

No stranger to rolling up his sleeves and getting mega-projects done smoothly, Lazaro is a significant figure in directing and leading many of Carpinteria’s major events, including the Avocado Festival, Alcazar Theatre new Board President Michael Rods & Roses, the Independence Day Lazaro (photo by Joanne A Calitri) Parade, and the Holiday Parade, along with SB County events. His smile and can-do ethic brings performers and their audiences together on a professional level in a down-home fashion. Nomura moved to the United States from Australia five years ago, after she met her future husband, Wade Nomura, at a Rotary convention in Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, working with international corporations, in corporate strategy, and heading business training and mentoring programs frequently in partnership with state and federal government.

Michael Avery is appointed vice president. He was a former board president and theater technical department volunteer. Lorraine McIntire CPA is appointed as treasurer and Andy Patrick as member at large. McIntire is the former vice president of Tax for Camping World Holdings, and currently serves as president of the Rotary Club of Carpinteria Sunset, Member of Rotary’s District 5240 Finance Committee, treasurer of the Carpinteria Dog Owners Group, vice president of the Plumery, and chair of the Downtown T Business Advisory Board. Patrick, an entrepreneur, is the Founder & CEO of the new Flywheel Photo & Film Festival June 2024 Carpinteria, co-founder of the FiftyCrows Foundation and its International Fund for Documentary Photography, the National Geographic All Roads Photography & Film Awards for Indigenous storytellers, and the Roam Awards for adventure photography and filmmaking.

Alcazar Theatre marketing person Connie Brocato-Geston said during a phone interview: “The Alcazar Theatre has a busy month ahead with three concerts lined up in November by Will Breman with Brent Franklin and Todd O’Keefe; a Neil Young Birthday Celebration featuring Shakey Zimmerman and Claude Hopper; and singer-songwriters Omar Velasco with Elena Shelton. Due to popular demand, ‘Stop the Wave I Want to Get Off ’ will be screened again on November 25 after selling out in October. ‘Miracle On 34th Street’ is returning for its third annual holiday performance, currently in rehearsal and will run December 8-10 and December 15-17.

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Mind-Body Matters Transforming Perception and Experience Through Miracles

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Art Museum Goes Big with 675 Small Works The opening of the 5x5 exhibition in 2010

by Rebecca Capps

M

iracles transcend the boundaries of our ordinary understanding, going beyond mere magic tricks or supernatural occurrences. Instead, they offer profound shifts in perception and experience, unveiling a deeper reality that lies beneath appearances. A Course in Miracles by Helen Schucman reveals miracles as natural expressions of love and forgiveness emanating from our connection to a higher spiritual realm.

In our daily lives, we often find ourselves confined by limited perspectives driven by our ego. This narrow lens separates us, fostering conflicts, suffering, and a pervasive sense of lack.

However, miracles are potent reminders that a grander reality awaits beyond our limited perception. Miracles manifest when we align ourselves with the divine current of love and extend it to others.

They encompass a transformation in perception, enabling us to see beyond mere facades and recognize all beings’ inherent worth and interconnectedness.

By releasing judgment, grievances, and the need to control, we create space for miracles to enter our lives. It is through forgiveness and a willingness to let go of egoic attachments that we invite these extraordinary occurrences.

A Course in Miracles teaches that miracles need not be grand, dramatic events.

They can be as simple as a shift in attitude, a healing conversation, or a profound connection with another person. Miracles ground us in the present moment, where true peace and joy reside. They remind us that we possess the power to co-create with the divine rather than being victims of circumstance.

Ultimately, miracles beckon us to shift our perception from fear to love, from separation to unity. They serve as poignant reminders that we are

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integral parts of a vast, interconnected web of consciousness. By embracing the principles of love, forgiveness, and compassion, we cultivate an awareness that allows miracles to unfold gracefully in our lives and the lives of those around us.

Miracles are not exclusive events reserved for a select few; they are accessible to anyone willing to open their hearts and embrace a higher, more loving way of being. So, let us invite miracles into our lives and nurture the profound mind-body wellness they bring. As Ralph Smart declares, “The greatest miracle is to be alive, to experience life fully, and

to express love unconditionally.”

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he Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art’s most popular exhibition and fundraiser returns to Montecito on Nov. 30 to Dec. 15, offering viewers an opportunity to see and bid on more than 675, small fiveinch-square works by regional, national, and international artists. The museum hosts a free, public opening reception on Thursday, Nov. 30, from 4 to 6 pm.

All of the artwork in 5x5: Westmont College Celebrating 85 Years is available for purchase through an online auction that ends at 5 pm Friday, Dec. 15.

Find auction details, artwork images, artist bios, and bidding instructions at westmont.edu/museum/5x5.

Well-known artists Chuck Arnoldi, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Tim Hawkinson, Billy Al Bengston, Lesley Dill, and Rae Dunn have submitted works. Local favorites John Nava, Wesley Anderegg, Bill Dewey, Dane Goodman, Marie Schoeff, Dug Uyesaka, Linda Ekstrom, Inga Guzyte, Mary Heebner, and Rafael Perea de la Cabada have also contributed. There are also works from Westmont faculty and alumni, including Tony Askew, Susan

Daniel K. Tennant’s A Summer Favorite, gouache on crescent board

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Ralph Corners’ Boat Boyz, mixed media on paper

Savage, Alyssa Beccue, John Carlander, Alexa Goglanian, Nathan Huff, Scott Anderson, and Madeline Lush.

Chris Rupp, curator and collections manager, started the 5x5 exhibition in 2011 as a friend-raiser and fundraiser held in conjunction with college or museum anniversaries every three to five years. Rupp says the exhibition has grown in popularity, and he receives inquiries about when the next one will be held from people throughout California. “It’s a great opportunity to see the creativity of hundreds of artists from across the

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Alexa Goglanian’s Gentle Obscure Tuesday Morning, watercolor and paint markers on paper

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The beach resort is 175 acres atop a 150-foot seaside bluff (photo by Leslie A. Westbrook)

broiled New Zealand tai snapper in a ginger-scallion fermented black bean sauce (enough for four people to share) was sublime and included bok choy and pork fried rice sides. The trio of flavored French fries fried in duck fat – furikake with seaweed was the favorite – also stood out. Basque cheesecake for dessert, highly recommended by two staff members, was worth the calories and reminded me of the cheesecake my grandmother used to make – conjuring happy memories of days past.

After a filling dinner, graciously served by a bevy of lovely wait staff and a charming sommelier, we waddled back to our room to find our beds neatly turned down for the night while Ernesto Halffter’s soothing “Sérénade A Dulcinée” emitted from the large screen television – with occasional questions popping up like “Did you know that Halffter’s mother taught him to play the piano?” I do now – but did not expect to learn this here. Classical music lessons on screen – what a concept!

A sound sleep and my anticipation of the CBD Massage I’d booked at the spa the next morning was well-founded. A great steam room, two saunas, and a waterfall spa preceded the relaxing treatment. The resort’s fantastic massage therapist, Yolanda, gave the first massage when the resort opened 22 years ago – she now works just two days a week. Her life story was as interesting as her hands were strong and healing: a former microbiologist-turned-chiropractor-turned-massage therapist.

A lovely cabana by the pool we’d booked for the afternoon included a large screen TV and outdoor dining table where we enjoyed a lobster roll and chicken taquitos for lunch from Sombra Cantina. Sadly, our pool time was cut short due to the cool temperature, followed by an afternoon rain forecast that had everyone scurrying for the great indoors.

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their pup, two gals from Chicago, a couple from Florida here for a wedding, and even a local woman just “in need of a day off.” At the complimentary and informative Friday night Don Julio tequila tasting, we enjoyed meeting a young couple visiting to attend her nephew’s high school football game at Dana Point High (his team won!).

Our “last supper” was at the private Monarch Bay Beach Club – open only to hotel and guests and members. The casual restaurant – certified ocean-friendly by the Surfrider Foundation – is perched directly above the beautiful crescent shaped Monarch Beach Bay and offers stunning sunset views. Delicious seafood entrees and a shared peach cobbler with ice cream was a perfect last day of summer dinner. A fun tram shuttles hotel guests from the resort’s porte cochère to and from the club.

We ended our leisurely stay the next morning with an early swim and spa soak (the sun had come out!), breakfast on the terrace at AVEO Table and Bar, topped off by one of the complimentary fitness/ wellness classes – a morning meditation and sound bath of singing bowls.

Whatever your reason to travel – collecting seashells… making memories… learning classical composer music trivia… enjoying a fabulous meal with a friend, family, or significant other, getting on track with your health and fitness program or seeking out fish and chips at a historic dive bar… go for it!

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Robert’s Big Questions Left is Not Woke?

by Robert Bernstein

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n ancient Greek tragedy, exile was considered a worse punishment than death.

In modern times, woke cancel culture applies exile with little regard to its devastating impact on the target and on society.

“Woke” originally meant a person was awake to actual racial and social injustice. Leftist Susan Neiman wrote a book Left is Not Woke challenging what woke became. She noted “woke” originated in the 1938 Lead Belly song “Scottsboro Boys” who were falsely accused of rape and spent years in prison. True injustice.

Neiman explained that the true political Left elevates universal values over tribalism. Justice over power. And the possibility of progress. “Woke” became a monster that defeats all of these.

Woke focuses on what separates us.

It elevates victimhood above heroism. It offers a view of history that is all about power and that offers no hope of progress.

Naomi Klein is a Leftist progressive thinker explaining how the Climate Crisis revealed the market failures of capitalism.

But more recently she has criticized the very idea of the Enlightenment.

The Enlightenment brought us modern science and a global, universal perspective.

The idea that laws should apply to everyone equally. That science and technology can bring progress to everyone.

Woke thinking has turned this on its head, claiming that the Enlightenment is nothing but a Eurocentric view that justifies colonialism. As if people in poor countries don’t deserve and desire democracy and safe drinking water, electricity, and modern communication.

One woke battle has been over Confederate monuments and symbols. I grew up well aware that the Confederate flag was a symbol of hate and fear, like the Nazi swastika. Some monuments and symbols belong in a museum, not in the town square. But then things went nuts. Lincoln statues had to come down because he said racist things. An entire life’s work is erased because of a perceived flaw. Canceling Lincoln is the reductio ad absurdum proof that woke is now insane.

Woke cancel culture became quite personal for me when a tenured UCSB professor friend got canceled. Someone with a grudge accused him of “stalking and bullying” a young student. The student wanted no part of this and denied she was a victim. In the twisted woke world, this was more evidence that she was a victim!

There was no due process. No trans-

parency. A friend and I wrote to the Chancellor on his behalf. No reply. Our friend was banned from campus. Exile.

This harmed a wide circle of grad students and fellow researchers as well as the innocent professor.

This is a recapitulation of the rightwing era of Joe McCarthy, who built his career on false accusations of Communists in our midst. No evidence needed. Just an accusation by someone with a grudge and a person’s life was destroyed.

Inevitably, it hit home with me more recently. I was canceled by an organization I have supported and worked tirelessly for since graduating college. Someone with a grudge used the modern McCarthy era system of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) to claim that I had violated their rules of “inclusivity.”

Unlike the case of my professor friend, not even a fake victim or specific policy violation was identified.

Just a vague claim of “creating a hostile environment.” And “This policy is […] intended to cover inappropriate behavior that may not rise to the level of a legal violation.” An invitation for abuse. Even if the worst claims were true, the exile was utterly disproportionate to the claim. Proportionality is the core of our justice system.

Our planet is on fire with the Climate Crisis. We need all hands on deck and can’t afford this paranoia that corrodes the ability of people to work together.

I pointed out this behavior makes people vote for Trump. The Right is all about identity politics and tribalism.

They claim that white Christian men are the victims and they have to fight back against woke cancel culture.

I have a better idea: Why don’t we return to the values of the Enlightenment and of the traditional Left? The values of Bernie Sanders. Bernie stays laser focused on the Climate Crisis, real justice, and progress,

not tribalism and victimhood.

Robert Bernstein holds degrees from Physics departments of MIT and UCSB. Passion to understand the Big Questions of life, the universe and to be a good citizen of the planet. Visit facebook.com/ questionbig

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Santa Ynez Mission was founded in 1804. Deakin compresses the distance between Mission and mountains to create a dramatic setting. (courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum/Mission Santa Barbara) The chapel of the restored mission today

held in trust for the Christianized, newly educated and loyal Spanish citizens.

The plan was naïve and impossible and never implemented. Carlos III died and Carlos IV reverted to despotic form, taking away the rights of the criollos (people of Spanish blood born in Nueva España versus the penisulares born in Spain). The criollos objected and fomented a revolution against Spain in 1810. After Mexico won its independence in 1821, the government began to secularize the missions, stripping them of their land holdings and giving large grants of land to prominent Mexican citizens.

Since the missions were not supported by the Mexican government, they

fell into disrepair. In Santa Barbara, the Den family purchased the Santa Barbara Mission and kept it from crumbling into a ruin, like so many of the missions in more isolated areas. When Edwin Deakin arrived in San Francisco in 1870, he established himself primarily as a landscape painter, but his first sight of Mission Dolores sent him on a 30-year historic and artistic quest, as well.

A writer in 1901 said that his devotion to an ideal that brought no pecuniary profit was so unusual in money-loving America that he was to be marveled over and admired. Deakin, said the writer, had devoted himself to one great work, “that of preserving on canvas the picturesque

Periodically, Deakin returned to Europe to paint landscapes and iconic landmarks like Notre Dame in 1893 (courtesy of Crocker Art Museum, Wikimedia)

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architecture and quaint beauty of the old California missions… since a negligent people was not preserving them in reality… [These efforts] became almost a religious conviction with Mr. Deakin.”

Edwin Deakin Born in England in 1835, Deakin was 20 years old when he joined his family in immigrating to Chicago, where his father opened a hardware store in 1856.

His initial experience with art had come at age 12 with his apprenticeship to a business that painted landscapes and floral designs on furniture. By age 18, he had become a noted landscape artist in England despite having had no known formal training.

In the United States, Deakin married English immigrant Isabel Fox in 1865, and in 1870 they moved to San Francisco, where he joined several artistic organizations and traveled throughout California

creating grand landscape paintings of its pristine and dramatic wilderness.

Throughout his career, Deakin spent a great deal of time in Europe, New York, and various cities of the American West as he sought evocative scenes to paint and venues to sell his art. He usually sold his paintings through auction houses, seeming to prefer to have others deal with the business aspect of his artistic endeavors.

In 1899, Deakin exhibited his completed set of 21 missions at his Berkeley Studio. His plan was to later exhibit in other cities in Southern California before sending one set of the oil paintings to Rome to be purchased by the Franciscan order. A reviewer said of these paintings, “They reveal a sympathetic touch, and the poetry that lies in these works of the Old Spanish friars is brought out by the artist’s treatment.” Another noted, “Aside from the historic value, the artistic will make the pictures one of the most note-

Deakin traveled the West to find subjects for his grand landscapes like this scene of Lake Tahoe near the Truckee River (courtesy of Wikimedia)

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Deakin preferred auction houses to handle the sale of his canvases

worthy productions of California artists.”

Writing in 1904, Laura Bride Powers said, “His paintings not only appeal to the eye as a thing of beauty, but they speak to the heart and intellect…. No artist of today possesses so thorough a knowledge of the missions, nor is in as deep sympathy with his subjects.”

Powers found his finest and most appealing painting to be that of Mission San Antonio de Padua. “For a background,” she writes, “a blue bathed mountain lifts its head – the beautiful Santa Lucia. The white-flecked sky and the oak studded valley give to the old ruin the setting that God gave to it, and thus it was that the artist saw in it.”

Preserving the Missions Over the years, various efforts to preserve the missions started and coughed

and sputtered and faded into silence.

In Santa Barbara, the “Queen of the Missions” fared better than missions in most places, thanks to the Den family and a dedicated local population who, no matter their religious denominations, loved the old adobe Doña. When she needed a new roof in 1886, the young people of town formed the Go-Ahead Club to celebrate her 100th birthday and raise funds for a new clay tile roof to replace the failing wooden shingles.

By the late 1890s, statewide organizations began calling for restoration efforts for the missions, and they looked to Edwin Deakin’s paintings for inspiration.

When the movement to establish El Camino Real arose in the early 1900s, Deakin’s paintings supplied support for the idea, and the Camino itself, it was hoped, would provide impetus to restore the disintegrating missions by making them accessible.

In 1904, Deakin served as an advisor to the California Landmark League which had undertaken to restore Mission San Antonio de Padua. In 1911, a writer said that Deakin’s earnestness “has inspired many clubs to take up the fight for the restoration and preservation of these historic buildings.”

In 1919, the San Francisco Examiner and the Los Angeles Examiner, under the direction of a statewide committee led by the American Legion, opened a campaign to raise funds to save the rapidly eroding missions. Images from Deakin’s book of mission paintings were published along with current photos of the increasing degradation.

Today, most of the missions are once again owned and maintained by the Catholic Church, and two are still dedicated to the Franciscan Order. Three missions are owned by the California Department of Parks and Recreation and are open to the public as state historic parks. All are California Historic

For several missions, Deakin relied on photographs by Carleton Watkins, who took this photo of Mission San Antonio de Padua in 1877. Deakin’s paintings of this mission inspired the California Historic Landmarks League to attempt restoration in 1903. (courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

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The newly formed Go-Ahead club planned a fundraising fiesta to celebrate the 100th birthday of Mission Santa Barbara and provide it with a new tiled roof (courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Landmarks, and Mission Santa Barbara, along with six other missions, is a National Historic Landmark. Deakin’s work continues to be a powerful and beautiful force in preserving California’s storied past.

How two sets of Deakin’s work, one in watercolor and the other in oil, came to reside in Santa Barbara is a story for another day. Nevertheless, bounteous thanks are due the Deakin descendants and the Howard Willoughby and Harry Packard families for making it possible and for honoring Deakin’s desire to keep the sets whole.

Due to a collaboration with the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s latest exhibit brings these two sets together for the first time in a stunning display of Deakin’s work. The exhibit runs through Fe. 18, 2024. The Museum is located just two blocks off State Street at 136 East De la Guerra St. and is open Wednesday,

Deakin’s work inspired and was used in various mission restoration plans over the next century, as this effort from 1919 shows

In 2017, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum fulfilled Deakin’s dream by publishing Deakin’s watercolors and the title pages he created for each one. They are paired with historic photographs of the missions from the museum’s collection. (courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

12-5 pm, Thursday 12-7 pm, and FridaySunday 12-5 pm. Admission is free; donations are welcome.

Sources: Contemporary news articles; Santa Barbara Historical Museum publication “California Missions in Watercolor”; Outlook, 2 January 1904; “The Missions of California” by Edwin Deakin, fourth edition 1901; “The Twenty-One Missions of California,” 1 January 2009, by Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library; Wikipedia and Wiki-Commons.

Hattie Beresford has been writing a local history column for the Montecito Journal for more than a decade and is the author of several books on Santa Barbara’s historic past

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Your Westmont (Continued from 34 34)) common inheritance of all humanity and should be handled accordingly.

“This leads these bishops to confront unjust land use and food distribution in their context, and to urge their congregations towards a theologically informed, just alternative which sought to meet the material needs of humanity while also respecting the land as the shared sustenance of all creatures,” says Knapp, who has served as a spiritual formation coordinator and as the sustainability intern at Westmont.

Ben Sprague, Analise Maggio, Sarah Cetrulo, Amanda Lee, and Shannon and Neil Young (photo by Isaac Hernandez and Nell Campbell)

Kerrilee Gore and Scott Vincent (photo by Isaac Hernandez and Nell Campbell)

home in Careyes, Mexico, which raised a hefty $15,000; and tickets to see rockers Depeche Mode, currently on their world tour, anywhere around the globe and attendance at a concert after-party, which garnered $13,000.

Among the supporters turning out were former mayor Helene Schneider, David Edelman, Truman Davis, Steve and Amber Ortiz, Ivana Firestone, Carrie Towbes and John Lewis, Marsha Kotlyar, Lily Hahn, Christie Glanville, Kerrilee Gore, Ben Sprague, Ginger Salazar, and Rich and CJ Yao.

One Charming (Not Alarming) Show Kristin Chenoweth had one of the hottest concerts of her career at the Granada when the theater’s fire alarms went off three times during her highly entertaining, 90-minute show!

Fortunately, they were all false alarms, allowing the 4’11” dynamo from Oklahoma – dressed in a silver pantsuit even more sparkling than her personality – to complete the For The Girls performance as scheduled with Andrew Fitzgerald, Alana Walczak, and Carolyn Fitzgerald (photo by Isaac Hernandez her six-piece backing band and two talented backup singers. and Nell Campbell) The show paid tribute to great Maggio, and Caroline Powers, fea- women singers who inspired classics, tured a welcome from board chair like Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Andrew Fitzgerald and a talk from Were,” Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Alana Walczak, president and CEO Love You,” Judy Garland’s “Over the of the nonprofit, which prevents child- Rainbow,” and Karen Carpenter’s hood trauma, heals children and fam- “We’ve Only Just Begun.” ilies, and builds resilient communities With her charming and conspiratorial throughout Santa Barbara County. style, Chenoweth cultivated a warm and Ubiquitous Geoff Green, who runs intimate atmosphere in the 1,500-seat the City College Foundation, was in theater, telling stories and joking with fine form, auctioning off a Montecito her band and back-up singers.

Staycation with two nights at the In one particularly poignant moment, Rosewood Miramar with dinner at both she read out the names of the 18 recent Caruso’s and AMA Sushi, snapped up victims in the Lewiston, Maine, shootfor $7,500; a Colorado mountain get- ing tragedy. away near Breckenridge which went to I last saw Chenoweth when she $4,000; a commissioned abstract artwork made her debut in our Eden by the

by Josephine Turner Ingram sold for Beach in 2019. Like good champagne, $6,000; a week’s stay in Oslo, Norway, Miscellany Page 424 424 bought for $7,500; a vacation at a private

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Don Zimmerman’s The Crossing, polymer etching on paper

country all in the gallery at once,” he says.

“It’s a visual feast for the eyes!”

Judy L. Larson, Askew professor of art history and museum director, thanked Rupp and Ella Jennings, outreach and education coordinator, for their assistance in mailing each artist a square of Rives BFK paper and then photographing and cataloging each piece that’s returned. “A huge ‘thank you’ to those artists who have so generously taken the time to support arts education at Westmont by donating their wonderful creations again this year,” Larson says.

The last day to see Straddling Circumference… The Art of Linda Ekstrom is Saturday, Nov. 11, from 11 am to 5 pm.

Exploring Creation Care and the Cappadocian Fathers Westmont senior Katie Knapp presented a paper about the thoughts and practices of the Cappadocian Fathers at the Great Lakes Theology Conference on Nov. 2-3 in Holland, Mich. The religious studies and environmental studies double major from Soquel, Calif., has been working on the major honors project about patristic creation care ethics with professors Helen Rhee, Marianne Robins, and Cynthia Toms.

“Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus insisted that the Christian life ought to have ramifications in every aspect of our existence, including how we as humans engage with each other and the rest of creation,” she says. “Times of crisis brought such considerations to the forefront and brought Cappadocian bishops to promote their understanding of a just, Christian ethic of engagement with the whole of creation.”

Since spiritual and material matters were inextricably linked for the Cappadocian Fathers, they held a holistic and inclusive ethic of creation care.

They agreed that creation is the common sustenance of all creatures, and the

“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” — Michel de Montaigne

Warriors Host Hoops Tourney

Student Katie Knapp

The Westmont men’s basketball team hosts the Conference Challenge Event, a tournament that includes Saint Martin’s (Wash.), Hawaii Hilo, and Montana Billings, on Nov. 10-11. The Warriors play Montana Billings on Friday, Nov. 10, at 5:30 pm and Saint Martin’s on Saturday, Nov. 11, at 3 pm.

Last year, Westmont competed in the 64-team NAIA National Tournament for the first time since 2019. This season, the Warriors will be competing in the NCAA DII PacWest Conference with familiar foes Biola, Azusa Pacific, and Point Loma.

The women’s team, which opens its season at a tournament in Western Oregon, tips off against Westcliff at Murchison Gym on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 3 pm.

Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

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Out of the Box and Down the Rabbit Hole

by Steven Libowitz

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ut of the Box Theatre (OOB) has specialized in selecting off-beat, often off-Broadway contemporary musicals to mount in town in the intimate space of Center Stage Theater ever since its founding by Samantha Eve. The latest example in the universe of alternative conversation-inspiring shows is OOB’s first production of the new season, Alice by Heart, which will have its Southern California premiere November Alice by Heart comes to Center Stage Theater from 10-19. Created by Steven Sater and November 10-19 (courtesy photo) Duncan Sheik, the Tony and Grammy award-winning team behind Spring Awakening (an earlier OOB hit), and co-written by Jessie Nelson (Waitress), the musical is set in an abandoned underground tube station during the London Blitz of World War II, where teenage Alice and her tuberculosis-stricken childhood friend Alfred have taken shelter.

The main character’s name is no accident: Alice by Heart is inspired by Alice in Wonderland, the famed Lewis Carroll book that has inspired countless adaptations over the decades.

“Alice wants her friend to dive down the rabbit hole with her into their favorite story that they used to read when they were kids as an escape, a safe space,” Eve said.

“But they’ve grown up and changed, and when they travel there, they realize that Wonderland has changed too. The characters are there – the Queen of Hearts, the Caterpillar, the mock turtle – but they’re different because they exist in the world that Alice has created. Splinters of reality start to fracture the fantasy.”

Eve said the musical shouldn’t be considered a straight adaptation of the famous book.

“It’s this Alice in her own wonderland. It borrows from the imagination of Lewis Carroll but it’s about a girl who is in a very stressful situation trying to cope with her life as she grows up in that challenging time. I think that’s something we all can relate to, the things from our childhood that have stayed with us and shaped us, that we use to find meaning and reason for the things that are happening when we get older.”

Eve, who is also directing, said that Alice by Heart fits snuggly in OOB’s oeuvre for two important aspects.

“The music is absolutely phenomenal,” she said, noting that’s what first got her attention when she caught the world premiere run in New York in 2019. “It’s this great kind of folk pop that’s really lovely and both fun and emotional. But it’s also that it doesn’t require a lot in terms of sets or props. A lot of the fantasy is really created by the actors, which I love. And we have a great cast!”

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Montecito’s McIntyre Returns to Celebrate Maria Callas’ Centennial The entire opera world and other cultural institutions are all taking note of Maria Callas again as the 100th birthday of the soprano who was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century approaches on December 2. That includes both Angelina Jolie, who will star in an upcoming biopic, and Opera Santa Barbara (OSB), who presents La Divina: The Art of Maria Callas, as a special tribute to the Greek singer at the Lobero Theatre on November 10.

The concert is part of a collaboration with Hellenic Studies at UCSB that also brought London-based opera scholar Helena Matheopoulos to talk about Callas at the theater earlier this week, but Friday’s gala concert is the performance centerpiece.

Callas, of course, was such a big star with a vast and varied repertoire that OSB is employing two of its favorite sopranos, Jana McIntyre and Eleni Calenos, to sing a dozen of the diva’s best-known arias and ensembles, including selections from Norma, The Barber of Seville, Lucia di Lammermoor, Otello, and more, accompanied by the OSB Orchestra conducted by Kostis Protopapas. Tenors Robert Stahley and Xavier Prado, mezzo soprano Max Potter, baritones Matthew Peterson and Omar Rodriguez, and bass Colin Ramsey will make guest appearances in ensembles from 9 – 16 November 2023

Tosca, Rigoletto, and Un Ballo in Maschera.

“Maria Callas is one of the most recognized voices in history, a true artist who was very dedicated to the score, the composer, and the music,” said McIntyre, who grew up in Montecito and first performed as a student at Crane School. “I’ve always deeply, deeply respected and take into consideration her performances of some of the things that I’ve sung in my career.”

While it’s exciting to sing some of Callas’ most famous works, McIntyre said it’s also a bit intimidating to perform in a concert tribute to a legend.

“I’m never going to sing like her or sound like her, of course, but I have interpolated a couple of the ornaments that she recorded, adding things, even if they’re my own embellishments that are related to how she might have done it,” she said. “But the human voice is so unique to everyone. It’s like a fingerprint. And there’s only one Maria Callas.”

Choral Music, Continued Elsewhere in classical singing, Santa Barbara Master Chorale performs its fall concerts featuring Gabriel Fauré’s “Requiem in D Minor,” which focuses on eternal rest and consolation, and John Rutter’s “Gloria,” which is based on a Gregorian chant text associated with the Ordinary of the Mass, with three movements – proclamatory, prayerful, and joyfully affirmative. The chorale’s artistic director, choral conducting doctoral candidate David Lozano Torres, who also leads UCSB Lumina Choir and the ensemble Vocal Infinity and serves as assistant conductor of the UCSB Chamber Choir, conducts the program on November 11 and 12 at the First United Methodist Church. For more information, call (805) 563-2360 or visit www.sbmasterchorale.org.

Kings and Strings Meditate on Morrison When the home-grown classic rock band Doublewide Kings plays the Granada Theatre on November 11, it will mark a lot of firsts for the group. It will be the debut at Santa Barbara’s grandest venue for the band founded by Montecito’s Palmer Jackson, Jr., who also happens to be the Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board at the Granada. It will be the first time the Kings, who have previously performed tributes to the Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Neil Young, and others, take on an evening-length tribute to Celtic rock icon Van Morrison. Most importantly, though, it will also represent the debut for the Kings to play with the live accompaniment of a symphony orchestra, as well as the Santa Barbara Symphony’s first-ever time playing with a full rock band.

As a side note, it will also be the first chance in a while to hear Morrison’s most famous songs in successions – “Brown Eyed Girl,” “Moondance,” “Domino,” “Wild Night,” and “Tupelo Honey,” and many more – as Van the Man performed a particularly obscure program in his appearance just last month at the Santa Barbara Bowl.

The Kings-Symphony collaboration came about through a conversation between Nir Kabaretti, artistic director of the Symphony, and Jackson, who also serves on the orchestra’s board.

“So many great rock bands used symphony orchestras on their biggest hits,” Kabaretti explained. “The Beatles recorded their albums using the best musicians from the London Philharmonic. I can’t hear ‘When I’m 64’ and not think about the trio of the clarinet, harp, and piccolo trumpet. So it seemed like a natural way for the music to evolve for us.”

It was Jackson who suggested Morrison’s music as the Kings wanted to return to a single-focus show again after concentrating on originals in 2022. “So many of his songs either have horns or strings on them,” he said. “We thought it would be a blast to play them with an orchestra.”

Having brand new orchestral arrangements created for the 40-member strong contingent of the Symphony gives the projects an even deeper original flair. San Francisco-based Brett Strader created charts for more than a dozen songs and will serve as musical director and pianist for the concert.

Most of the members of the Santa Barbara Symphony are seasoned veterans of studio work for Hollywood film scores, soundtracks and more, but for the five members of the Doublewide Kings, who play everywhere from Fiesta mercados to the Avocado Festival to the Lobero Theatre, fronting a symphony seems almost a surreal experience.

“We’re very excited and a little bit nervous,” Jackson said. “Even the rehearsal is going to be really wild to be up there playing with a symphony. I think it’s going to be amazing.”

The toughest part, Jackson said, will be having to conform to what’s written in the charts, a first for the Kings.

“We’re something of a jam band. Our songs have a rough structure with lots of

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room for us to play, take another solo or whatever before we go back to the chorus.

But this has to be locked down for the Symphony. On the other hand, the charts are amazing. When we got them a month ago, Nir was thrilled. We’re all really excited for the concert.”

Kabaretti concurred.

“I’m imagining that maybe 90 percent of the people who come to the concert may never have seen the Symphony before,” he said. “Maybe it will entice The Doublewide Kings is pairing up with the them to say, hey, they’re cool. Let’s check Santa Barbara Symphony for one unforgettable night (courtesy photos) out a regular concert.”

Classical Corner: More with the Symphony While the subset of the Santa Barbara Symphony performs Saturday night at the Granada with the Doublewide Kings, the organization’s youth ensembles also hit local stages a few blocks away at the Lobero for their quarterly concerts over the weekend.

The beginner and intermediate Camerata Ensemble and Philharmonia Orchestra share a bill playing orchestral favorites by Dvořák, Handel, and Tchaikovsky, plus spooky tunes, holiday classics, and fun arrangements of jazz and pop standards under the baton of Marisa McLeod on November 11 at First Presbyterian Church. The following afternoon, conductor Daniel Gee leads the more advanced Youth Symphony through a program featuring Bizet’s “L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2,” Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on Greensleeves,” the first movement of Mendelssohn’s “Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor” (with soloist Ellen Butler), Copland’s “Variations on a Shaker Melody,” and Arturo Márquez’s “Danzon No. 2” at the Lobero. Free admission. Info at https://thesymphony.org/education.

Focus on Film: Illuminate Festival Moving to Town Illuminate Film Festival (IFF) is celebrating its 10th anniversary by moving from Sedona, Arizona, to another somewhat spiritually-elevated community much closer to the sea. A leading festival for evolutionary/conscious cinema – focusing on films that uplift, elevate, and inspire lasting personal and social transformation – the IFF is hosting a benefit reception at the Music Academy on Tuesday, November 14. The event features a preview screening at Hahn Hall of The Monk and the Gun, a poignant drama written, directed and co-produced by Pawo Choyning Dorji, whose previous picture, A Yak in the Classroom, was a nominee for the Best International Feature Film Oscar in 2021. The film, which follows the adventures of monks, villagers, urbanites, and one hapless foreigner as Bhutan prepares to experience its first-ever election, was well-received at both Telluride and Toronto this year, and is Bhutan’s official submission for the 2024 Academy Awards. A Q&A with Dorji follows the debut California screening.

A pre-reception with local libations and tasty hors d’oeuvres, silent auction, Chumash blessing, and afterparty at Local restaurant are all part of the festivities.

The 2024 Illuminate Film Festival, the first in Santa Barbara and first under new Executive Director Téana David (formerly of the Shift Your World Film Festival), takes place April 5-7. The IFF is also launching the Illuminate Filmmaker Accelerator educational program for emerging visual storytellers who are called to create a better world through the power of cinema. Visit https://2024. illuminatefilmfestival.com.

Elsewhere in cinema this week, SBIFF’s Cinema Society screenings continue to accumulate as award-season approaches, with previews of foreign films Concrete Steven Libowitz has covered Utopia, South Korea’s Oscar submission, a plethora of topics for the on November 12 (Q&A with writerJournal since 1997, and now director Um Tae-hwa); Fallen Leaves, Aki leads our extensive arts and Kaurismäki’s 20th film and Finland’s entertainment coverage Oscar entry, on November 13 (Q&A with actress Alma Pöysti); and Tótem, Mexico’s Oscar submission, on November 16 (Q&A with writer-director Lila Avilés).

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A community meeting is scheduled for November 29 at 5:30 pm at Cold Spring School to discuss a Flood Control Master Plan for Montecito

Santa Barbara is beginning a multi-phase project to investigate flood mitigation options, starting with developing a plan for the community of Montecito. A Flood Mitigation Master Plan will be created to guide the planning, design, and construction of improvements to mitigate flooding and flood water impacts to the community. The plan will investigate potential solutions and improvements for flooding in Montecito, for the drainage areas associated with Montecito Creek, Oak Creek, San Ysidro Creek, Romero Creek, and their tributaries. The recent removal of the Debris Nets will likely be brought up at this meeting.

Kelly Mahan Herrick, At next week’s Montecito also a licensed realtor with Association Board of Directors meetBerkshire Hathaway Home ing, there will be a discussion with Services, has been editor at local officials about the winter storms large for the Journal since forecasted for our area. To learn more 2007, reporting on news in about Montecito Association, visit Montecito and beyond.

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Editorial (Continued from 5) turned to each other – me white, him Black – and we wondered together: what happened to the kindred spirit that once seemed to exist between Blacks and Jews?

I casually started talking with some Black friends and some Jewish friends about this; about how our communities had drifted so far apart, certainly since the zenith of Black and Jewish allyship when Blacks and Jews marched together during the civil rights movement. A few of us wondered if it made any sense to sit down over a meal and discuss things. We all agreed there were limits to how poorly a single working dinner could go. And so the dinner invites were sent.

There were 12 of us at our inaugural albeit poorly named “Blacks and Jews” dinner.

Community leaders, all strong people and straight talkers. The first such gathering took place seven months ago at my home. (A shout-out to Chef Mollie Ahlstrand for providing delicious food!) We didn’t really have an agenda other than to discuss and have sort of a general airing of grievances. The bar of expectation was low. And? Our dinner turned out to be incredible. Cathartic. Revelatory even.

By mid-way through the evening, we all felt safe enough to discuss our disappointment with the “other.” We each talked about our PTSD about racism each of us (and our children) had experienced, even right here in Santa Barbara and Montecito.

Including our bizarrely self-segregated public schools where Black and Jewish kids are called racial epithets.

Importantly, each group expressed feelings of abandonment by the other. We all did our best to clear up misconceptions. To acknowledge the others’ experiences. To say the conversation was lively and illuminating would be an understatement. The sign the evening had been a success, besides that it went on for four hours and no one was jumping up to leave, is we all decided we should do it again. We didn’t know what we just did, just that it felt good and vaguely epiphanous and maybe like we were somehow moving towards something although none of us knew quite yet what that something was or even could be.

The Second Dinner went deeper, and vaguely felt like couples counseling except the “couple” was Blacks and Jews, just without an expensive therapist. The Third Dinner went deeper still. By now a few others joined, not just Blacks and Jews. We were building trust. Transitioning from colleagues to friends. We saw there was a lot of hurt on both sides. But the group saw our rift as a problem we shared. Rather than pointing fingers at who started it – because it doesn’t matter who started it – we knew it would take both teams to end it.

Then the October 7 Hamas massacre happened. I have to admit I was stunned by how many people and groups immediately sided with terror against Israel. At first, many of us were in a state of stunned silence.

Not the Moment of Silence I Was Looking For For anyone who wonders what it was like to be the daughter of a Holocaust survivor during those first few days after October 7, 2023 – it sucked. As it did and continues to for so many.

There was the initial shock of the massacre. But frankly there was the just-as-bad shock over so much tacit support given to proud rapists and baby killers. I’m not a supporter of Netanyahu, and I believe both Jews and Palestinians deserve a homeland.

But how could anyone not pause for at least a moment to condemn such clear and grotesque acts of terrorism?

Meanwhile, opposite week continued as formerly vaunted fact-based institutions treated the Hamas “news service” like it was Reuters and dutifully reported that Israel had bombed a hospital in Gaza that in fact turned out to have been misfired upon by Palestinian Islamic Jihad – and in fact not bombed at all.

Even when the truth of Islamic Jihad’s inadvertent self-attack on Gaza was revealed via an incredible piece of reporting by the Wall Street Journal, lesser publications were still blaming Israel and slow to walk back their false accusations. Even in Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Independent on October 17 (in their October 19 Best Of issue) devoted an entire page to an opinion piece signed by a group of UCSB professors “Academics for Justice in Palestine.” Before even mentioning Hamas’ terror, the academics blamed Israel for a misguided missile that hit al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Central Gaza. This damning, unsubstantiated and combustible allegation, without attribution, was utterly devoid of actual evidence or credible sources. But nevertheless, gloriously highlighted by the Independent which has still failed to fully walk back their kneejerk, harmful reporting (as, for example, The New York Times has done).

I can only tell you that the result of all this bad news and in some circles this brand-new holocaust being instantaneously denied, and a mass student movement on college campuses around the country calling for the destruction of Israel, 9 – 16 November 2023

brought up in me very strong feelings of sorrow and isolation. I was in a Mobius strip of waiting… and doom scrolling… both repulsed and addicted to the news cycle. What was I waiting for?

I was waiting for the situation to change. But it seemed to only keep changing for the worse. And the silence from any empathetic or even sympathetic voice was deafening.

Until the Silence Was Finally Pierced The first voice to reach out to me from beyond my inner circle, “just checking in,” came in the form of an email from Jordan Killebrew, from our Dinner With Friends group. “With all that is happening in Israel and Gaza, I wanted to check in with my Jewish friends. I am thinking of you. Please reach out if you need anything,” he wrote.

I can’t tell you how much Jordan’s note meant. He didn’t make a reference to who was wrong or who was right, he simply reached out because he knew my husband and I were suffering. He also (intentionally) “replied all” on our Dinner With Friends email chain, the result of which was that every single person, one-by-one, also reached out to make sure that everyone else was okay.

It’s an overused phrase, but this was our teachable moment. We had only had three Dinner With Friends, but even within those three gatherings we had built strong enough bridges we could use and did use when a crisis arose.

Maybe our Dinner With Friends doesn’t sound like a massive disruptor event.

But it really was. We not only break bread but break the chain of suspicion and distrust by simply dining and talking to people we had never taken the time to really get to know previously. We’ve unpacked a lot at our dinners and learned a lot about each other, our baggage, and our unique burdens and strengths. And we’ve laughed a lot as well.

Our world has huge problems. Many of which stem from how easy it is to discount and villainize the “other.” Maybe it’s time we all got a little more intentional about getting to know “others.” So that in times of crisis, the trust has already been built.

I still believe we have more in common than divides us. And as the great Anthony Bourdain once famously understated: “You learn a lot about someone when you share

a meal together.”

“W

e all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can’t love only some of his children.”

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Miscellany (Continued from 38 38)) tooned Elks Lodge in Goleta with 240 guests, many in uniform, helping contribute to military charities.

Belgian philanthropist Pierre Claeyssens initiated the ball, now called the Veterans Day Gala, in 1996 as a way of paying tribute to the U.S. Armed Forces, past and present, in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.

Claeyssens respected the American military, and the Military Ball was his way of saying “thank you” to those who served regardless of their rank, length of service, and if they served in a war or not.

Former naval officer John Blankenship,

Singer Kristin Chenoweth celebrates female music stars (photo by David Bazemore)

Hazel Blankenship with Dana Newquist and emcee Lt. John Blankenship, (former) U.S. Navy (photo by Priscilla)

co-founding director, made opening remarks before the posting of the colors

by UC Santa Barbara’s ROTC Surfrider Battalion color guard and the singing of the National Anthem by retired police department sergeant David Gonzales and the Pledge of Allegiance by retired USAF Lt. Col. Patricia Rumpza.

USAF Chaplain Jerry Gray gave the invocation while Amgad Hawari, a fourth-year cadet in the ROTC Surfrider Battalion, performed the Missing Man Ceremony.

Montecito car collector Dana Newquist conducted a live auction with items including a helicopter trip to the Reagan Ranch, a two-day fishing trip in Cabo San Lucas, and a private tour of former Tonight Show host Jay Leno’s Big Dog garage in Burbank, before guest speaker Donald “Don” Nichols, a former NASA Apollo spacecraft designer.

Nichols defined the goals and configuration of the Space Shuttle program, as well as being technical director for the Space Shuttle program at Vandenberg Air Force Base, now a Space Force base.

After the Challenger disaster, his organizations supported the polar orbit launches of Titan, Atlas, and Delta rockets from Vandenberg, including launches of payloads for both the Air Force and

Off to See the Desert Stars Standing: Jim and Elsa Conley, David Moorman, Susan Van Abel and Eric Oltmann; sitting: Riley Wilson and Kevin Heneghan (photo by Priscilla)

USN (ret) Captain Benjamin Short, vocalist Mollie Weaver, and U.S. Coast Guard Aux Dawn Muller (photo by Priscilla)

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Former TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey has revealed her annual Favorite Things list ahead of Yuletide, including a $999 pizza oven, a $110 plate of cheese, a $120 makeup brush set, and $80 luxury salt.

There are 109 items on the list with ideas for fashionistas, beauty gurus, foodies, and workout fanatics.

The list contains a variety of BIPOC, women, and veteran founded companies.

While the list also has more affordable options like a $13 planner and a $22 eye mask, many of Oprah’s picks are on the expensive side, with the aforementioned Ooni Volt 12 Electric Pizza Oven the highest priced.

Other pricey items include a De Longhi True Brew drip coffee maker for $590, a VF headset for $399, and a Le Creuset bread oven for $300.

Michael J. Fox has reflected on his “tsunami of misfortune” after multiple medical issues within a short period of time.

Montecito-based Fox, 62, has previously told how 2018 was one of his worst years after he had spinal cord surgery to remove a benign tumor, and then broke his arm soon afterward.

The tumor, unrelated to his Parkinson’s disease, threatened to paralyze him, so he underwent the surgery, but during his four-month rehabilitation he fell over in the kitchen and broke his upper arm.

In an interview with the Hearst glossy Town & Country, Fox says the two injuries now seem like “nothing” – as he has since broken his other arm, shoulder, and hand.

Fox, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991 at the age of 29, also smashed his orbital bone and almost lost his hand after it became infected.

Matters can only improve...

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Having a Ball, Private Pomp, pageantry, and ceremonial reigned when the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation hosted its 26th annual military gala at the U.S. flag fes-

Some Favorite Things

Hopefully on the Mend

the 55-year-old chanteuse just improves with age.

I’m sure having her country music star husband, Josh Bryant, of just two months on stage with her helped immeasurably.

Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle joined Cameron Diaz and her husband, Benji Madden, and Avatar actress Zoe Saldana on a private plane from Santa Barbara to Las Vegas to watch one of local singer Katy Perry’s last concerts of her two-year residency at the Resorts World Theatre.

They were joined in the venue’s VIP section by singer Celine Dion, Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Bumble dating app founder Whitney Wolfe Herd.

Having attended Katy’s opening concert two years ago with my trusty shutterbug Priscilla, I’m sure they all had a glorious time!

the National Reconnaissance Office.

Among the guests turning out and dancing the night away to the L.A. band Starwood and accomplished lead singer Mollie Weaver were Peter and Deborah Bertling, Hazel Blankenship, Andrea Newquist, Judy Hill, Victoria Hines, Lynn Behrens, and Hillary Hauser.

A big salute to all who participated.

Barney Melekian with his wife Nancy, Linda Rosso, USAF (ret.) Lt. Col. Patricia Rumpza, Lynn Behrens, and Hillary Hauser (photo by Priscilla) “Courage... means a strong desire to live taking the form or a readiness to die.” — G.K. Chesterton

Montecito actress Julia LouisDreyfus has revealed her own personal agony and ecstasy.

The star was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer just 24 hours after

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Under his supervision, ETC acquired and renovated the theater on West Victoria Street in 2013.

“The time is ripe for a new chapter in my life,” says Jonathan, who spent the summer directing theatrical productions in Europe.

“I have left knowing the company has a beautiful venue and an endowment to support its work for years to come.”

Bravo!

But the Views Are Nice

Julia Louis-Dreyfus reveals her agony and ecstasy (photo by Neil Grabowsky via Wikimedia Commons)

winning her sixth consecutive Emmy Award.

She tells WSJ Magazine she likened the shock diagnosis to a “horrible black comedy.”

The Veep star added: “And then it morphed into crying hysterically.”

Julia, 62, was ultimately declared cancer-free in October 2018, after undergoing a double mastectomy and six rounds of chemotherapy.

“You simply don’t consider it for yourself, you know, that sort of arrogance of human beings. But, for course, at some point, we’re all going to bite it.”

A Final Binge on the Prairie The final episodes of Kevin Costner’s highly popular CBS show Yellowstone are set to air in November 2024, say producers Paramount.

This comes just months after the Carpinteria actor was reportedly going to exit the series in the first half of season five.

However, Paramount has now greenlit two new spinoff series.

One will be named 1944 and the other is a more contemporary version titled 2024.

Stay tuned...

Not surprisingly, Santa Barbara is one of the most expensive communities to live in in America.

With an overall score of 5.9 out of 10, our Eden by the Beach, encompassing 3,800 square miles with a population of 447,651, a median home price of $464,954 and a median monthly rent of $1,810, is near the top of the list, which includes San Diego as the most expensive city, followed by Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Miami, according to U.S. News and World Report.

The survey took into account crime rates, quality of education, well-being, air quality, and availability of healthcare.

Never Too Late to Love Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow has recounted how her second husband, TV producer Brad Falchuk, opened her heart to the possibility of falling in love again.

At the Besties event in Sydney, Australia, the Oscar winner, 51, explained how Falchuk, 52, helped her overcome her vulnerabilities.

When she was asked if she found starting a new relationship difficult, the Goop founder said she was “petrified.”

Honoring ETC’s Jonathan Fox An old friend, Jonathan Fox, who was artistic director of the Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC) for 17 years, has been honored for his sterling work at the New Vic. First District Supervisor Das Williams has proposed a resolution marking Jonathan’s many contributions to Santa Barbara’s art and culture.

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Jonathan Fox, former artistic director of the ETC, honored (courtesy photo)

“I think I’m a person who is scared of intimacy anyway!” she confessed.

“So, some of the boyfriends that I’ve chosen in my life were not fully capable of intimacy and that way you can be like… I’m really into this and they’re not.”

“Generally, you are re-enacting the relationship you had with the most complicated parents,” Paltrow, who was also married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, added.

Remembering Mary Conrad On a personal note, I mark the move to more heavenly pastures of Mary Conrad, widow of the late writer and artist Barnaby Conrad, at the age of 88.

Born into a prominent family in Pasadena, she was an accomplished horsewoman and avid tennis player, enjoying the game for most of her long life.

After her first marriage, which produced two sons, William and Michael Slater, ended amicably in 1962, she married San Francisco author, nightclub owner, and bullfighter Barnaby Conrad, and in 1964 gave birth to their daughter, Kendall Conrad, a popular fashion designer.

At their Victorian home in tony Pacific Heights, the couple entertained friends and celebrities including Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball, Charlton Heston, and legendary San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, who I would drink with regularly at Wolfgang Puck’s eatery Postrio when I would fly out from New York every 10 days to appear on the ABC affiliate KGO’s show Good Morning Bay Area, staying rather splendidly at the Fairmont on Nob Hill.

Mary became a well-known interior decorator in partnership with the late Virginia Lynch and would lead tours through the giant redwoods in Muir Woods.

So, it was no surprise when she fell in love with Zorro, a Texas gray tree fox, which became friends with the duo’s pug Tomas and inspired Barnaby’s 1972 children’s book Zorro: A Fox in the City.

After building a beach house at Rincon Point, the couple left Baghdad by the Bay, as Caen dubbed it, in 1973 and that same year Mary helped Barnaby found the legendary Santa Barbara Writers Conference, a week-long gathering of famous writers and eager adult students, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary.

For decades, the Conrads hosted famous writers and celebrities to lecture and hobnob with several hundred avid students, including Ray Bradbury, Christopher Isherwood, Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz, comedian

Mary Conrad RIP (courtesy photo)

Jonathan Winters, James Michener, William Styron, Fannie Flagg, Gore Vidal, Danielle Steel, and Roots author Alex Haley.

After Barnaby died in 2013, Mary shared writer’s credit with Matthew J. Pallamary and Y. Armando Nieto when they published the 622-page history, The Santa Barbara Writers Conference Scrapbook in 2017, and she served as the executive producer of the documentary film of the same name.

An exceptional cook and hostess, Mary also volunteered for the annual Amethyst Ball charity held at the Coral Casino.

Quite the woman who I was honored and delighted to know. Barnaby dubbed me “Herb Caen south,” which I considered a great accolade.

Sightings Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and their children, Archie and Lilibet, in Montecito Oaks... Kevin Costner shopping up a storm at Wunderkind and Jenni Kayne in San Ysidro Village...

Paul Orfalea grabbing his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Calendar of Events

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10

by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Viva the Voice at Alcazar – Santa Barbara singer-songwriter Will Breman celebrates his 30th birthday with an evening of soulful Americana rock music backed by a fined full band in the Art Deco confines of Carpinteria’s Alcazar Theatre, just a few blocks and a month removed from his first-ever mainstage appearance at the Avocado Festival. Breman, who came into public prominence via his performances on NBC’s The Voice, has invited a couple of guests to share the stage, including Brent Franklin, the host of Figueroa Mountain Brewery’s Songwriters Night, and Todd O’Keefe, a fellow local who has played with such music legends as Ray Davies and Jeff Beck. KEYT news reporter John Palminteri emcees the concert, where you can expect to hear old favorites, tracks from Breman’s 2023 EP And the Shadows Will Fall Behind You, and a few new songs.

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria COST: $15 general INFO: (805) 684-6380 or www.thealcazar.org/calendar Cam Pac’s Core Trio – After going for Baroque last month, Camerata Pacifica continues its ambitious season with three of its principal musicians collaborating on three century-spanning works. The program includes Ginastera’s fiery “Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 49,” a work rooted in Argentine folk music he composed

Buellton Fall Festival – It’s three days of fun for the whole family, as the town between Santa Ynez and Lompoc, and Goleta and Santa Maria, holds its annual autumn celebration. The free admission event kicks off this evening with live music on two stages, carnival rides and games, merchant and food vendors, all lining Buellton’s main drag, The Avenue of Flags. Tonight’s entertainment – part of more than 20 acts over the weekend – include Flannel 101, The Vibe Setters, and headliners the Molly Ringwald Project. Tomorrow’s events feature a fest within the festival, “Ales on the Avenue,” a craft beer and wine event (noon to 3:30 pm) boasting 15-plus breweries and hard seltzers plus tastings from wineries, and a full day of music with Will Breman, The New Vibe, and Spencer the Gardener all playing before reggae legend Pato Banton hits the stage. The beats continue on Sunday with bands covering everything from Latin jazz to rock, mariachi music to country, and even authentic Norteña for additional south-of-the-border spice. There are more than a dozen carnival rides for the kids and the young at heart, including such classics as Kamikaze, Tilt-a-Whirl, and the Zipper. All the more reason to pull off the freeway for than just the cheapest gas around.

WHEN: 4-10 pm today, Noon-10 pm Saturday & Sunday WHERE: 501 Avenue of Flags, Buellton COST: free admission INFO: (805) 448-7070or https://buelltonfallfest.com/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 American Railroad Station Stop: Granada – The seemingly ubiquitous Rhiannon Giddens returns to town as artistic director of the genre-defying Silkroad Ensemble, which was founded 25 years ago by Yo-Yo Ma and now, under her guidance, has embarked on a multi-year initiative that amplifies the untold stories of indigenous and immigrant communities in the creation of the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad and connecting railways in North America. The fiddle and banjo basis of Black musical traditions that Giddens has explored throughout her career are mashed up with Chinese traditional music on the suona and pipa, Indigenous and Celtic counterparts as the cultural intersections reveal a thread of commonality despite their varied origins, and remind us of the intricately rich American story. This project serves to shine light on the untold stories to paint a richer, more accurate picture of the origins of the American Empire that profoundly reverberate today, and the formation of our multifaceted American identities.

American Railroad features new, original music written by Silkroad Ensemble members as well as outside composers. Grammy Award-winning vocalist and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant’s work is inspired by stories shared with and collected by Silkroad artists, while Oglála Lakhóta artist, composer, and academic Suzanne Kite has created a graphic score in the Lakhóta written language based on dreams from members of the Silkroad Ensemble.

Silkroad artist and pipa virtuoso Wu Man has also created a new work for the initiative, arranged by Chinese composer Haihui Zhang, while 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winner Giddens and Silkroad ensemble members Haruka Fujii and Maeve Gilchrist have re-envisioned arrangements of earlier works.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. COST: $35-$106 INFO: (805) 899-2222/www.granadasb.org or (805) 893-3535/https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

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for his gifted cellist wife and interpreted here by Ani Aznavoorian with Irina Zahharenkova, and Brahms’ touching “Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114,” inspired by the musical prowess of Richard Mühlfeld, and tonight featuring Jose Franch-Ballester. Aznavoorian and Franch-Ballester also team up for the Santa Barbara debut of Paul Dean’s clever “Suite for Clarinet and Cello,” which the Australian composer wrote in 2019 for his two favorite instruments and to pay tribute to Prokofiev, Holst, and the world of vaudeville.

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $75 INFO: (805) 884-8410 or www.cameratapacifica.org TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Baker on Baryton – Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s chamber music concerts almost exclusively feature string quartets, but tonight’s event trims the ensemble to just three for a special performance of rarely heard works. The Valencia Baryton Project, founded in Valencia, Spain, formed to perform the more than 125 works for baryton, viola, and violoncello written by Franz Joseph Haydn, as well as compositions by other composers, both modern and classical. Matthew Baker is one of only a handful baryton performers in the world, a maestro on the bowed string instrument that is similar to the viol, but distinguished by an extra set of sympathetic but also pluckable strings and once considered the pinnacle of aristocratic instruments of the classical era. Of special local note, Alex Friedhoff, a former fellow of Music Academy of the West (2004-05), is the cellist. The project’s SBMA debut boasts Haydn’s “Baryton Trios Numbers 67 in G major, 113 in D major, 87 in A minor, and 69 in D major,’ plus works written for the trio including Canadian composer Steve Zink’s “The River,” British composer John Pickup’s “Prelude 1” and a U.S. premiere called “Lament.”

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St. COST: $25 general INFO: (805) 963-4364 or https://tickets.sbma.net

“Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” — Winston Churchill

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Coward-ly Lines – The high-society hijinx, comic capers, and blithe spirit of Noël Coward, one of England’s most popular playwrights of the last century, fills UCSB’s Performing Arts Theater for a five-day.

Hay Fever finds flowers blooming, bees buzzing, fur flying, and games galore during a weekend at the Bliss country estate in the idyllic English countryside, where a recently retired grande dame of the theater, her pop-novelist husband and their two volatile children host a group of fawning guests. An intended clandestine and peaceful weekend spirals into a whirlwind of unmannered madness full of family catfights with bare cupboards and whiplash wonders. A century later, Hay Fever, Coward’s 1924 classic comedy of bad manners, remains nothing to sneeze at: a posh romp set amid a backdrop of motor cars, slinky gowns, pithy repartee, pots of tea, bobbed hair, and hiccups. Director Julie Fishell plans to celebrate the sparkling verbal gymnastics of Coward’s language and uplift the heightened theatricality to be sure to satisfy our own human, seemingly inexhaustible, social media-fueled curiosity about the lives of the rich and famous.

WHEN: 7:30 pm Nov. 14-18, 2 pm Nov. 18-19 WHERE: UCSB’s Performing Arts Theater, 522 University Road COST: $17 general, $13 students/seniors in advance, $2 additional day-of INFO: (805) 893-2064 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Classical Blue-gas – This genre-bending concert features banjo legend Béla Fleck, tabla master Zakir Hussain, and double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer – three musicians at the absolute pinnacle of their profession who first teamed for a classic classical album (The Melody of Rhythm, recorded with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin) back in 2009 – adding guest flutist Rakesh Chaurasia for a one-of-a-kind quartet wherein tabla and bansuri bounce off of banjo and acoustic bass. With a program drawn from their new album, As We Speak, the fearsome foursome combines the cerebral complexity of Indian ragas with the gut-level groove of a funky bass line, striking an exquisite balance between compositional rigor and conversational improvisation. The show is likely to be one of those events that will still stand out as a highlight of the year when 2023 comes to a close.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall COST: $35-$70

INFO: (805) 893-3535 or https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

NOW OPEN During the Age of Sail, Europe’s most influential science museums built their collections with specimens from around the world. In this captivating exhibit, view rare original illustrations from published reports of early expeditions.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 ZooLights Sparkle and Glow Again – ZooLights, perhaps Santa Barbara’s brightest idea for a new holiday tradition, returns for more after-hours fun at the animal atop the oceanside bluff. Visitors can experience the Santa Barbara Zoo in, ahem, a whole new light, as it transforms into a winter wonderland filled with largerthan-life-size animal and wildlife installations defined by thousands of LED bulbs, spread out over virtually the entire expanse of the zoo. Meant to illuminate both the zoo and the community’s spirit during the holiday season, the immersive holiday experience features thousands of handcrafted silk-covered lanterns aglow with more than 50,000 LED bulbs representing animals and nature scenes of wild places both local and around the world. Newcomers and those who took in the impressive and expansive exhibition alike are encouraged to attend, as the vast majority of the installations are new for 2023. Guests can also enjoy interactive areas, along with wintry snacks and drinks for purchase.

WHEN: Opens tonight, and from 4:30-8:30 pm selected dates November 15 – January 14 WHERE: 500 Ninos Drive COST: $20-$32 INFO: (805) 962-5339 or www.sbzoo.org/zoolights 9 – 16 November 2023

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Volunteers Do you have a special talent or skill? Do you need community service hours? The flock at SB Bird Sanctuary could always use some extra love and socialization. Call us and let’s talk about how you can help.

(805) 969-1944 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED K-9 PALS need volunteers to be foster parents for our dogs while they are waiting for their forever homes.

For more information info@k-9pals.org or 805-570-0415.

9 – 16 November 2023

Mini Meta

Last Week’s Solution:

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

PUZZLE #1 1

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F I L M L U C I A I M E A N B E I N G S T A Y

F A R H A R P O E W E L L L A R U E D Y E S

S E R F F E V E R O N E N O R O R E M R Y E

T H E O T H E R L O R N A D O O R S E N B Y

H O L Y M A R I E O S A K A WA T E R T E D

WH I R S N E N E H B I N G O A S I A N T E L E

BEING

HELD

EVERY

OTHER

YEAR

BIENNIAL

PUZZLE #3

PUZZLE #2 5

1

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6

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7

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9

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8

Across 1 Like eastern Istanbul, but not western Istanbul 6 "Dance of the Happy Shades" author Alice 7 In the work already quoted: Abbr.

8 Get more mileage out of, so to speak 9 Affirmed one's humanity?

Down 1 Liebe, across the Eastern Alps 2 Uber 3 Rack up, as debt 4 Crop up 5 "OK, I'll remember that"

Across 1 Try to avoid the gutter, in a way 5 Unlike Sphynx cats 6 Person whose focus may be on the line 7 Unisex fragrance whose name starts with a fashion designer's initials 8 Tool for lifting rocks?

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Across 1 Abbr. on a dumbbell 4 Chain between Europe and Asia 7 African cat whose coat has bars and spots 8 New Hampshire city that's home to Antioch University New England 9 See 6-Down

9

Down 1 2022 animated film featuring a woman plagued by misfortune 2 Not at all long-winded 3 Pack rat or lifeguard, perhaps 5 Fallon succeeded him 6 With 9-Across, have its origins in

Across 1 With 8-Across, certain beef entrée 6 Actress Bailey who starred in 2023's "The Little Mermaid" 7 Former U.N. chief Kofi 8 See 1-Across 9 Shoot an air ball, say

Down 1 Alabama birthplace of Mia Hamm 2 Fictional Texas town in which "King of the Hill" is set 3 Better than mediocre 4 "This can't be happening!"

5 Word after debate, design, or dream

META PUZZLE 5

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Across 1 Cause for a surgical lift 4 New Mexico county whose seat is Alamogordo 6 "Anybody in there?"

7 Got a handle on?

8 Country in which political parties are banned

PUZZLE #5

PUZZLE #4 1

Down 1 Sonny boy 2 Professional wrestler Randy with 14 world championship titles 3 Erroneous 4 Muses' music makers 5 It's never 3-Down

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8

Down 1 Something a curmudgeon lacks 2 Home to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum 3 Bones in birds' wings 4 It may have a clown 5 Hoechlin's role on The CW's "Superman & Lois"

Across 1 Some of its women have shot eagles, for short 5 Made fully visible 6 Regional flora and fauna 7 Cheap cigar 8 Airport up the coast from LAX

Down 1 "1%" or "2%" drinks, in Dijon 2 Suffix with rain, rat, run, or rust 3 Very beginning, informally 4 Every 24 hours 5 Ammo for a Red Ryder

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