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Liquid Assets – MWD considers selling 40% of its State Water interests after desalination and groundwater storage reshape the local supply picture, P.10
Legacy Lessons – Going once, going twice, planning ahead. Bonhams experts talk art, inheritance, appraisals, and how a collection passes to the next generation, P.14
Still time to submit your pup pics for CVR’s Top Dog Days competition, page 39
Hope in Fashion – Shopping gets a little heart as Jenni Kayne hosts a stylish fundraiser supporting the Breast Cancer Resource Center and its free services, P.20
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Jim White has spent nearly half a century fixing Montecito’s cars. Now he brings his journey to a historic local garage, onetime foundry of area motorsports, page 6
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State Street Ballet gets into the Halloween spirit early as Victorian Vogue offers a bloody good preview of Dracula before its Granada debut, page 8
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The Way It Was – Santa Barbara’s fashion story Pup Culture – Strike a paws for Montecito’s Top INSIDE THIS ISSUE 16 stretches from Spanish-era mantones and 1920s 39 Dog contest, then meet Thor and other adoptable Cut from History – A rescued Chanel pattern 5 comes full circle as Santa Barbara’s Couture Pattern Museum prepares an international celebration of Chanel in Vogue
Doings – After 46 years in the service 6 Bbay,eingsJimandWhite was liberated by his arriviste
corporate masters. Seeking a fresh start, he found a deep motorsports legacy on East Valley Road. A place for new and old friends, and for family
Moments – Dracula takes over the ballet 8 Mgala,ontecito White Buffalo brings Jalama Ranch to the Miramar, and Elizabeth Poett gets rooted in hope
The Water Column – Montecito Water District 10 considers selling 40% of its State Water interests while retaining desalination, groundwater storage, and other reliable supplies Tide Guide
Vogue to Coral Casino runways and today’s Couture Pattern Museum
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n Entertainment – Lemon, avocado, O Chumash, and fiddling festivals fill the calendar alongside Vieux Farka Touré, Judy Collins, and Marty Stuart ontecito Health Coach – Jenni Kayne turns M shopping into support for the Breast Cancer Resource Center, the organization’s Pink Lounge Gala arriving October 9
Your Westmont – The college shines in the 22 latest national rankings, and the Central Coast’s first STUNT team takes flight
Far Flung Travel – A hidden gully on the 24 Carrizo Plain reveals lesser nighthawks, barn
owls, coyotes, badgers, rock wrens, and plenty of surprises
ur Town – Montecito Hot Springs Trail gets Spirituality Matters – Authentic Relating 12 a Ovolunteer 32 returns cleanup as more than 15 miles of with Damian Gallagher’s “Being Here,” storm-damaged Los Padres trails reopen
he Society Edit – Bonhams talks art and 14 Tinheritance at the Art Foundation of Santa
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Stories Matter – Christopher Lloyd and 36 Michael Douglas share their Hollywood stories, alongside new mysteries, thrillers, literary history, and a time-loop romance
“Collecting is the only socially commendable form of kleptomania.” – Harley Granville-Barker
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lizabeth’s Appraisals – A pair of elegantly 41 Edressed monkeys opens a fascinating exploration of singerie, the centuries-old artistic tradition of using primates to parody human behavior
Foraging Thyme – Fresh Finley Farms shallots 45 inspire a savory sauté of mushrooms, garlic, thyme, and Calabrian chili paste Ernie’s World – Bone scans, X-rays, dental imaging, and “normal” breathing turn routine medical technology into an increasingly complicated comedy of errors
News Bytes – Free family movies, wildlife 48 storytime, outdoor opera, and a Halloween Pooch
Parade offer plenty of reasons to mark the calendar Sheriff ’s Blotter
Calendar of Events – UCSB A&L’s musical 52 season opens, Arroyo Hondo turns 25, Bellosguardo gets modern, and other happenings
Classifieds – Our own “Craigslist” of classified 54 ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales
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Cut from History
The Couture Pattern Museum Preserves Fashion’s Blueprints by Zach Rosen
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here are worse fates for a Chanel than being wrapped around a teacup. Still, it is probably not the preferred one. Years ago, while hunting through vintage and antique shops for old sewing patterns, Cara Austine-Rademaker asked one shopkeeper whether she had any tucked away. She did. They were in the basement, where she had been using the tissue-thin paper to wrap china. Austine-Rademaker asked her to send everything. Among those rescued sheets was a Chanel pattern that Austine-Rademaker says she has never encountered anywhere else. What another person saw as packing material, she recognized as something closer to an architectural drawing, a surviving record of how one of fashion’s great houses actually built a garment. Soon, that rescued Chanel will find itself in rather different company. On October 24, Austine-Rademaker’s Couture Pattern Museum will host the exclusive West Coast premiere of Chanel in Vogue, bringing the authors of the new two-volume work to Santa Barbara for an afternoon of fashion history, archival photography, French pastries and a rare look inside the technical craft of Chanel. The museum’s own Chanel patterns and archival materials will be part of the occasion. It is a fitting moment for a museum built around the idea that the most revealing parts of fashion are sometimes the ones never meant to be seen. Founded by Austine-Rademaker in 2022, the museum preserves one of the world’s largest comprehensive collections of licensed couture patterns and related archival materials. There are names one would expect to see strutting a European catwalk: Chanel, Dior, Balenciaga, Schiaparelli, Lanvin, and scores of other designers. Yet the names are only part of the story. A finished couture dress tells you what someone made. A pattern tells you how they made it. “It’s the information behind the dress, the architecture, the intelligence behind the dress,” Austine-Rademaker says. That hidden knowledge only becomes more valuable with time. Historic garments are inherently fragile. Fabric deteriorates, light damages fibers, and museums understandably discourage visitors from dismantling priceless dresses to see what is happening inside. 24 September – 1 October 2026
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Patterns offer another way in. Many in the museum’s collection reproduce couture designs line by line and at full scale, preserving not merely a silhouette, but the technical information needed to reconstruct it. AustineRademaker compares them to sheet music. Where a score records a composition note by note, a couture pattern can preserve a garment stitch by stitch. The analogy is particularly useful because, like music, couture depends upon something being passed from one set of hands to another. Lose the instructions and you can admire what remains. Preserve them and, potentially, you can teach someone how to make it sing again.
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Beings and Doings
Jim White Smoothly Carburates Old Friends and New Spaces by Jeff Wing
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here is something avatar-like about an Automotive Service Technician as beloved as Jim White. In the swirling transactional storm of an auto repair shop, a guy like Jim is a calming still-point of trust and familiarity, a beckoning porch light in a blizzard. Until recently, these very qualities made Jim a sought-after fixture at Village Automotive, the long-time local garage hidden like a Himalayan monastery up the hill and behind Montecito Village Grocery. Jim was at “Village” for just a short while, but in that time he made a real impression – and a lot of friends – what the unenlightened call customers. They loved him. They love him still. But Jim’s fanbase of chatty automotive pals will seek him in vain at the newly christened Village Automotive / StressFree Auto Care®. After a brief stint there of 46 years, Jim has moved on, abruptly
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Jim White, beloved mechanic and bee hobbyist: “Once in a while I do get stung. Bee venom is good for your body.” (courtesy photo)
closing a personal chapter that began when the guy was just 16. “I started in 1979 working for Roy Jensen,” he says of his former workplace. Jim’s speaking voice combines the precise enunciation of an engineer and a
the time was an old mechanic named Ruben Martinez. He was very knowledgeable and he taught me.” What was Montecito like back then? Jim’s reply is hesitant and wistful. “Everybody knew everybody back then. And you’d sometimes see people riding horses down East Valley Road.” Nearly 50 years on, Jim and Village Automotive / Stress-Free Auto Care® have parted company, Jim’s reputation for deep automotive expertise and old school fairness intact. He’s happily landed at a grease-dappled atelier with its own storied past. The place is called Sixteen Ten Montecito Garage. A few of the area’s octane-faithful will grin ruefully on learning the property’s former name; J&S East Valley Garage.
vocal timbre that makes every utterance warm with enthusiasm. “Roy owned the gas station, which was a Chevron station then, and he owned the shop in the back. He opened it, I believe, in 1965 or ‘66,” Jim says ruminatively. “We got a card when he originally opened.” We’re on the phone and I hear Jim turn to retrieve something. “It says ‘November 1966,’” he pronounces carefully, clearly reading something. Yeah, Jim still has the actual mailer his family received in 1966 announcing Jensen’s new endeavor – a business that would become Jim’s second home for nearly half a century. It seems Village Automotive meant something to Jim. “I was always going up to the shop with my mom or my dad when they dropped off the car for repair. And growing up I always kinda loved to tinker on engines,” he says. One fateful California summer, Jim’s no-nonsense 1970s mother gently threw down the gauntlet. “My mom’s like, ‘Okay, you’re 16; time to go out and get a job.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh my god. It’s summertime! I don’t wanna get a job!” This seasonal mom/teen exchange has taken various forms through the ages and is approximately as old as summer itself. “So I talked to Roy. ‘Is there something I could do at the gas station or at the shop or something?’ And Roy says ‘I’ll get you into the shop.’ All the guys there were great. The manager there at
The Last Independent Garage in Montecito “Every time I passed J&S,” says Brian Milosavljevic, “I was like ‘there’s no chance!’ It’s just such a special place. Classic cars, that’s what I do. It’s vintage, it’s got this history, it’s Montecito. And so when the opportunity presented itself...” From 1962 to 2012, under the leadership of Jay and Betty Roach, J&S East Valley Garage became the galactic center of the area’s avid motorsports
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Montecito Moments
Dressed for Dracula’s debut, State Street Ballet pirouettes into the season (courtesy photo)
Dracula in Vogue by Lisa Duncan
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hat’s really the mark of a successful event – that everybody here believes in what we’re trying to do, believes in the vision,” said Dr. Nicole Callahan, board president of State Street Ballet and co-chair, with Alex Nourse, of its Victorian Vogue gala at the Music Academy of the West. The evening was deliciously Draculaforward, with a glimpse of their upcoming Dracula, a dark shadow, opening the season at the Granada Theatre in October, on Halloween weekend. Hauntingly visceral – viewer beware – so buckle up and get ready for a frightfully good show. “Everybody who’s here, even if you’re a guest of someone, you’re invested in this company. You want to support the company,” said Nicole, citing its “mission and outreach and great art.” A Santa Barbara native, former dancer, and Columbia University PhD who still takes class “standing in the back,” Callahan said connection mattered most. Dodging Dracula’s bite were Cheryl Goldberg, Mary Dorra, Jenna and
Victorian Vogue with Megan Phillip, Nicole Callahan, and Cecily MacDougall, (photo by Heidi Bergseteren)
Avi Reichental in gothic attire; Gary Simpson and Jill Nida in Victorian velvet, Colleen Graffy whose ghoulish neck bite was not for the faint of heart, and Brooks Firestone in a dashing blood red foxhunt coat – who this summer celebrated 68 years of marriage to
of miracles,” thanking supporters “from the bottom of my heart and the tips of my toes.” A $100,000 gift from Joan Davis and the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation was matched with another $100,000 for the new Santa Barbara Choreography Institute. The gala tipped its top hat to Roger Thompson for 15 years on the board, honoring his leadership and belief in “creating great art.” For one gloriously gothic night, Montecito went Victorian – and Dracula had plenty to sink his teeth into.
Kate and Brooks Firestone with Jean Rogers and her gothic glamour granddaughters (photo by Heidi Bergseteren)
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MWD Considers Sale of Partial State Water Contract Interests by Laura Camp
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t their monthly meeting on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, Montecito Water District’s Board of Directors will consider entering into a non-binding Letter of Intent concerning the future sale of a portion of the District’s State Water contract interests. The potential purchase by Solstra Communities California LLC (Solstra) would be for the planned Solomon Hills development of up to 4,000 homes in northern Santa Barbara County. If the Board approves the Letter of Intent on Tuesday, next steps would include preparing a purchase agreement, which is anticipated to take approximately six months. Even with an agreement in place, the sale would not be finalized until the development receives all final approvals, which could take several years. If successful, the transaction will divest the Montecito Water District (MWD) of approximately 40% of its interest in California’s State Water Project. As a participant in State Water since 1997, the MWD pays annually for an allocation of water and use of the conveyance infrastructure, irrespective of availability. Over the past decade, the costs of State Water have increased while reliability has decreased. This partial sale would provide the MWD with an upfront payment for the portion permanently transferred and would substantially reduce its future operational and capital infrastructure costs related to State Water. The MWD will retain more than half of its original State Water Project entitlement, and there are no projected impacts to the reliability of its water supplies.
Montecito Water District Projected Water Use by Source, Fiscal Year: July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027 (courtesy photo)
“We have been building this plan for years,” said Floyd Wicks, who is serving his tenth year on the board. “Because of our team’s collaboration with Santa Barbara, we now have a far more reliable water supply from the Pacific Ocean. As a result, we are able to divest a portion of our State Water Project assets to other communities that don’t have access to the ocean. Our board and staff planned very strategically and the MWD has led the way to a more drought-proof water supply for our Montecito and Summerland customers.” The proposed sale terms involve a permanent transfer of 1,400 acre-feet of State Water Contract interests inclusive of proportional conveyance and treatment. The MWD would retain interests including 1,900 acre-feet of its annual allocation, and the capacity to convey, store, and transfer water, while gaining
allocation. The study indicates that any potential future water shortages would be minimal and could be met with additional use of local sources and/or a minor reduction in customer water use. In addition to sound supply management, an essential component of a secure long-term water supply outlook is proactive study and management of customer demand. District-wide annual use has remained consistently reduced by about 45% since 2015. Supporting this important achievement is the MWD’s 2022 Water Efficiency Plan that details customer-facing initiatives to promote and support efficient water use behaviors. Projects implemented to date include Water Budgets, Rebates, and WaterSmart – a customer portal that provides access to the numerous benefits of smart meters such as real-time usage data and customizable leak notifications. Interested members of the public are encouraged to attend the upcoming meeting in-person or virtually. Schedules, agendas, and more information can be found on the web site: www. montecitowater.com.
financial resources for high-priority initiatives such as strengthening local water supply reliability and addressing aging infrastructure. Although 1,400 acre-feet is the contracted amount for the sale, the actual volume of water the MWD foregoes could be far less given State projections for future allocations. The MWD has not used State Water to meet customer demands since 2019. Numerous actions taken during the past decade to increase local, reliable supplies have strengthened and diversified the MWD’s water portfolio and reduced dependence on the increasingly variable State Water deliveries. Through its partnership in ocean desalination with the City of Santa Barbara, the District receives approximately 1,400 acre-feet of water annually to meet customer demand. Unlike State Water, delivery of this local water is unrelated to rainfall, not subject to annual allocations, and is 100% consistent. The possibility of eventually transferring District State Water Project assets was discussed regularly when adopting the 50-Year desalination agreement. In addition to participating in desalination since 2022, the MWD has stored more than 5,802 acre-feet of surplus State Water through its participation in a groundwater banking program since 2017. During rainy years surplus State Water Project deliveries are conveyed to a groundwater bank and saved until needed. Current storage would guarantee four years’ worth of 1,400 acre-feet deliveries in the event of future drought conditions. In early 2025, the MWD completed a periodic update of its Future Demand and Water Supply Option analysis, prepared by hydrogeologic consultant Dr. Steven Bachman. The study highlights the reduced need for importing State Water, even under severe drought conditions. Bachman examined various water supply strategies to further shore up long-term water supply reliability including the transfer or sale of approximately 40% of the District’s State Water Contract interests, comprising 1,400 acre-feet of its 3,300 acre-feet contract
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Montecito Hot Springs and Other Trail Updates
Local Trail work by LPNF and Montecito Trails Foundation volunteers in 100-degree weather, August 2026 (courtesy photo)
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call to clean the and restore the Montecito Hot Springs Canyon Trail with Los Padres National Forest Team is now open. Work starts on September 26, National Public Lands Day. This is a great project for both the seasoned trail veteran and the first timer interested in learning more about trail work. The Los Padres National Forest announced this week that several previously closed trails in the Santa Barbara Ranger District due to 2023 storm damage are now reopened: Old Romero Road, Franklin Trail, Arroyo Burro Trail, Matias Connector Trail, North Tunnel Trail. This is over 15 miles of reopened trails this week. Parts of Santa Cruz Trail, the Aliso Loop, the lower section of north Tunnel, and sections of other trails still unfortunately remain closed. The Old Romero Road Trail was worked on the entire month of August by the Los Padres National Forest Association (LPFA) Trail Crew with the Montecito Trails Foundation and the SB Ranger District to complete trail improvements so that the trail can be reopened. Improvements include brushing and clearing slides. The LPFA shares, “The work looks absolutely stunning, especially considering everything was done by hand! Cheers to the hard work completed by the Trail Crew ~ they are amazing!” LPFA supports motorized trails in the Los Padres. These trails are managed to provide strategic motorized public access to the forest while minimizing impacts to the natural environment, native species, and other forest users. Overturning the Travel Management Rule – instituted in 2005 – would affect future administrative decisions such that any future trail planning or system reviews would operate under the default condition that existing roads and trails are open to motorized use, requiring the forest service to actively step in and litigate a closure to keep motor vehicles out, opening up forest access at the arguable expense of the forest itself, and the public. Submit your vote and comments here: https://tinyurl.com/ LPFA-Travel-Trail-Public-26 Public comment on the SYV Trail Project planning and outreach phase of building nine miles of trail to connect communities in the Santa Ynez Valley. The proposed trail would connect Buellton, Solvang, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Reservation and surrounding unincorporated communities via new and existing trail segments and be open to walking, bicycling and horseback riding. Info on SBCAG page: https://tinyurl.com/SYVTrail-Public-Comment-26 Monterey County’s Timber Fire is only 59% contained as we go to print. This could push some additional hunters into the Central and Southern Los Padres. Be careful out there and remember current fire restrictions. The Plaskett Fire in southern Big Sur has been held at 29,993 acres with 97% containment. Deer Hunting Season in our regional Zone, D-13, starts October 10 and ends November 8.
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The Society Edit
Bonhams, Baccarat, Art and Your Estate by Joanne A Calitri
“There is a vast difference between a collection and accumulation.” – Roy Rose
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he Art Foundation of Santa Barbara (AFSB) held a special talk with top representatives from Bonhams Auction House, at the Santa Barbara Club on Thursday, September 10. Yes my Loves! That Bonhams, founded in London by famous print dealer Thomas Dodd in 1793. The representatives were Joe Baratta SVP, Head of Trusts & Estates, North America at Bonhams; and Kathy Wong, Bonhams director of Business Development and Fine Arts. Both are based in Los Angeles. Baratta works closely with an extensive network of
professional fiduciaries, trust officers, attorneys, and client advisors on estate collections ranging from fine art and jewelry to collectible cars. Wong’s role is to develop consignment opportunities for the Fine Arts departments on the West Coast and provide Fair Market and Replacement Value appraisals for estate tax, financial planning, and insurance purposes. #IYKYK Bonhams reputation goes beyond, “…its connoisseurship and heritage list of services on a global scale, to being the sole remaining international auction house privately owned in British hands.” Moreover, it was important to the Art Foundation SB that Bonhams with Butterfields, “...held the first-ever dedicated sale of early California paintings in June of 1980. For over 40 years, the department has consistently cultivated and led this market. With prices for these artworks rising exponentially year after year, Bonhams has promoted works by early California artists beyond a regional collecting category, and established its place within the larger context of American art history.”
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for taxes and insurance. He duly reminded attendees that inheritance items such as Limoges china, gold, silverware, etc., often account for 5% of the total inheritance worth. Complex legacy items can include those from pre-1910, pre-Columbian works, eagle feathers, ivory, and similar. Legacy planning is the determining factor for all estates. The discussion touched on the Intergenerational Wealth Transfer. I researched this for you, dear readers,
To have such representatives be in an approachable setting was indeed remarkable! Baratta’s quick wit on the most serious subject of inheritance and collections of objects for auction was appreciated. High points of his presentation included learning that Bonhams serves as the objective custodian for inheritance items, providing accurate valuations for legacy planning. Items are given two separate valuations: the Auction Estimate which is a range to sell at Fair Market Value, and the Appraisal value
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The Way It Was
Haute Couture in Santa Barbara by Hattie Beresford
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Designed by the founder of haute couture himself, Charles Frederick Worth’s 1890 black silk twopiece dress features sequined netting over white lining and cuffs lined with pink satin (Gift of Dorothy Wendeln, courtesy of SBHM)
ince the days of Spanish settlement in California in the late 1700s, a universal desire for unique, beautiful clothing and adornment was perceivable. Recently, a new museum has arisen in town that celebrates that artistic desire. Couture Pattern Museum, founded by Cara Austine-Rademaker and staffed by a group of fashion industry experts, has taken on the task of preserving haute couture patterns. They have established a comprehensive collection of these patterns along with costume pieces from legendary designers who shaped fashion history. Back in Spanish California, beautiful fabric and beautiful clothing had to be imported. This presented a problem. Due to the Spanish mercantile laws, Californios could only trade with Spain. As luck would have it, however, a former comandante of the Santa Barbara presidio, José Francisco Ortega, had established a family ranch at today’s Refugio Canyon. Foreign ships did a brisk trade smuggling goods, and they accepted “California
Sixth generation Californian and Spanish descendent, Rosario Curtletti, gave this embroidered Chinese shawl to the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. It is currently on display in the colorful and romantic “Mantones” exhibition. (courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
who had established themselves in early Santa Barbara became a surge. For those who came to look for gold or to farm, however, the concept of haute couture, which was established in Paris in the 1860s, remained very foreign, indeed. By the latter part of the 1880s, an influx of citizens and part-time residents from the more well-to-do families of the
dollars” (tanned cowhides) in exchange for the beautiful clothing and mantones brought from China. The señoras and señoritas especially liked these shawls trimmed in hand-knotted fringe and embroidered with roses and peacocks. After Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, foreign trade with Santa Barbara was legal but taxed. After 1848 and the results of the Mexican American War, the trickle of Americans
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On Entertainment Festival Fever by Steven Libowitz
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s early autumn eases in, so do a whole bunch of longstanding outdoor weekend festivals in our area. The Goleta Lemon Festival, now in its 33rd year, takes over Girsh Park on September 25-27, where it takes the concept of “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” to extremes in creating a massive two-day festival that celebrates all aspects of the fruit and much more. It’s also about paying tribute to the Good Land’s heritage as a once-thriving haven for lemon groves with a citric-centric weekend. One of the South Coast’s most happily and heavily attended fests draws over 40,000 residents and visitors, as well as representatives of nonprofits, community leaders, and others in Goleta’s largest community event of the year. More than 80 booths represent nonprofits, local arts organizations, craftspeople, and commercial enterprises, most of them offering swag as well as information. The extensive food court features a bevy of lemon-oriented food and drink (lemon ale, anyone?) as well as plenty of other choices for tart-haters. The Lemon Fest also boasts an impressive lineup of local bands delivering virtually nonstop tunes both days, spanning rock, country, blues, funk and more, including the traditional Saturday afternoon’s headliner in the ever-popular dance band Area 51, while Sunday’s final act is the homegrown Goodlanders. Meanwhile, a separate community stage now known as the Point Market Stage brings more local flavor with performances by local groups, clubs and schools, although that stage has also stepped up with more commercial bands. The Lemon Fest is also the site for the 19th Annual Goleta Fall Classic on Saturday only, when the showcase of a variety of classic cool cars including Corvettes, Camaros and trucks and, new this year, European and Japanese imports. Meanwhile, Safety Street is the name for the event’s annual interactive display of Fire, Police, and Emergency Services vehicles, the largest in the county, where visitors can meet the people who help keep us safe and get an up-close look at their state-of-the-art vehicles and technologies. Also on hand: the Sheriff ’s Mounted Enforcement Unit.
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Get your fill of the tart stuff at the Goleta Lemon Festival on September 25-27 (courtesy photo)
The Lemon Fest is also a truly family-friendly festival, with games and activities that range from mini-golf to inflatable bubbles to archery tag in the Kids Zone – not to mention a daily pie eating contest – with an optional all-inclusive activity wristband providing endless fun for the wee folk. Free admission. Visit https://lemonfestival.com
Head North or South for More Festival Fun The first weekend in October is the time slot for two additional longstanding festival-type events: the 40th annual California Avocado Festival in downtown Carpinteria, and the Chumash Intertribal Powwow, which turns 61 this year. Like Goleta’s salute to the lemon, Avofest celebrates a fruit of a different color, one with deep roots in the Carp fields. Unlike Lemon Fest, it’s a decidedly more urban event (albeit in a charming seaside community), a three-day extravaganza that is much bigger, louder, and longer in duration (October 2-4). More than 60 bands perform across four different stages all weekend long, including such popular area groups as Doublewide Kings, Salty Strings, Cornerstone, Jackson Gillies (as Jax Plays Dead),
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what better time to recognize this amazing group than right now as we head into Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Looking ahead, our community has another wonderful opportunity to turn compassion into lasting action. On Friday, October 9, 2026, at 5:30 pm, the organization will host its signature annual fundraising event: the 28th Annual Pink Lounge Gala. Held at the spectacular Rosewood Miramar Beach, this year’s gala invites guests to don their finest “Coastal Cocktail” attire in shades of white or pink. It promises to be an extraordinary evening filled with celebration, deep gratitude, and community philanthropy, ensuring these vital lifelines remain strong for everyone who needs them. Yesterday’s event at Jenni Kayne reminded us that when we combine local business with local heart, we create a powerful network of care. Whether you choose to purchase tickets for the upcoming gala, make a direct donation, or simply share their mission, your support matters. Let’s continue to show up, wrap our arms around this vital organization, and make sure that no one in Santa Barbara County has to face breast cancer alone.
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The Rincons, Sgt. Pepper, Area 51, The Upbeat, Out of the Blue, Spencer the Gardener, and even Ventura’s still-kicking country-rock band Caught Red Handed. They provide the unmissable soundtrack for 50 arts & crafts and commercial vendors, 15 food purveyors (including the annual massive vat of guacamole that gets doled out with chips at the northernmost point of the fest), plus over a dozen nonprofits on site. The on-street carnival even includes a Ferris Wheel! All proceeds from the California Avocado Festival go to the Carpinteria Education Foundation and the Future Farmers of America.
The Chumash Powwow takes place October 3 and 4 (courtesy photo)
Visit www.avofest.org for details about the free festival.
Going the other direction on the 101 (or 154), the Chumash Powwow – first held in 1965 as a fundraiser to bring running water to the Santa Ynez Reservation – keeps its tradition going as a well-attended gathering of Native American tribes from throughout North America. These tribes come together in Santa Ynez to celebrate Indigenous heritage and culture in the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians’ largest cultural event of the year. The twoday gathering, October 3 and 4, features dancing, singing, drumming, arts, crafts and more. Santa Ynez Chumash Community Members will open the ceremony with traditional song and dance, followed by Gourd Singing and the Grand Entry parade in colorful regalia. Events during the day include intertribal and exhibition dancing, contests for various age groups from young children to 70+, in style categories spanning traditional, straight, fancy, grass, jingle dress, buckskin, cloth, and chicken. More than $167,000 in cash prizes are being offered this year. The event also features informational booths, Native American artisan booths and vendors selling traditional Native foods, regalia and arts and crafts. While the event is open to the general public at a nominal $5 cost (free for children), and provides the community with educational and cultural experiences, it’s still very much geared toward the participants and the Native American community, even more so for a fifth year since the Powwow moved from Live Oak Camp to sacred tribal grounds at the corner of Meadowvale Road and Highway 246 in Santa Ynez.
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Fiddle Sticks: Festival Returns The 54th Old Time Fiddlers’ Festival fills Rancho Patera and the Stow House grounds with the picking and strumming sounds of acoustic stringed instruments. Although the original name of Fiddler’s Convention has been dropped, the fest still takes its “old-time” status seriously, with some of the competitions even requiring songs played on the stage to be of a certain vintage, namely (and significantly) pre-20th century American music. The paid performers who alternate with the competitors on the main stage don’t have that requirement, but most honor the concept of respecting traditions, including Hogeyed Man, who draw primarily on the archaic tunes and pre-radio aesthetics of Southern Appalachian fiddling traditions, and Tricia Spencer and Howard Rains, an old-time folk music duo who were brought up in the music of their families, with Spencer learning knee-to-knee from her grandparents and other master musicians in the Midwest. These are a few of the reasons the one-day fest draws fiddlers, mandolinists, guitarists, double
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Way It Was (Continued from 16 16)) East, brought greater attention to fashion, and the newspapers reported on the attire of the women at various social functions. For the grand Mission Centennial Ball at Lobero’s Theatre in 1886, the newspaper devoted a full three columns to descriptions of the eloquent costumes of each lady. The reporter said, “Senorita Delfina de la Guerra was brilliant in crimson satin and white lace with yellow ribbons… Miss Elizabeth Eaton wore blue silk with black lace ruffles and drapery and a red rose in her hair.”
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Vogue recommended an all-gray coat of Juva cloth harmonized by gray squirrel fur (Morning Press 1924, courtesy of SBHM)
At the beginning of the 1900s, there were few clothing stores in Santa Barbara. In 1904, four shops advertised men’s furnishings, and five offered women’s furnishings. There were seven milliners, seven tailors, and twenty-three dressmakers. Things had changed somewhat by 1924. While there were still 23 dressmakers, the number of milliners had increased to 13, and there was almost twice the number of clothing stores. This revealed an increased awareness of haute couture advertisers appealed to “smart women” who valued style and elegance. Also, the Morning Press started publishing “Daily Fashion Hints from Vogue.”
“The Parisienne no longer holds her coat together, like a shawl, for many of the newest coats have two, four, or six buttons, and are double-breasted. For the tailleurs at the left, the collar is of civet fur. The other coat combines a great deal of Hudson seal (muskrat) in the black velours de laine, but the novelty is in the cut of the left side which has all the fullness and swing of the popular jabot.” (Morning Press 1924, courtesy of SBHM)
In the 1960s, the Town and Country Women’s Club of Santa Barbara hosted elaborate fashion show benefits for the Cancer Society at the Coral Casino. Scripted around a general theme, each of the five or six acts involved a cluster of fashion models wearing the latest from long-forgotten designers like 1962s Marusia, Helga, Harou, and Zolot and 1970s Jennifer, Woolies, Mimi de N, Evan Picone, Baron Peters, and Gino Paoli. Local dress, fur, and hat shops, like Lou Rose, Mr. Milton’s, and Peningers, helped produce the shows. The legendary Gil Rosas provided the music.
Ad for clothes for “smart” women from Bartlett & Godfrey at 933 State Street in 1924 (Morning Press 1924, courtesy of SBHM)
In 1970, the benefit was themed “Time for a Holiday.” Eva Gabor, Fess Parker, John Ireland, and Dame Judith Anderson were celebrity guests and participated in the performances. The descriptions of the modeled outfits provide a trip back to life 50 years ago.
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t’s been about two years since Damian Gallagher last offered his Authentic Relating Group (ARG) events at Yoga Soup, ending a more or less monthly tradition where participants could simply come to the yoga studio and find themselves painlessly easing into connection with others in the room. ARG offers a unique opportunity to connect deeply with others through facilitated activities that are called games, because they’re relatively short and often playful. All participants have to do is show up and be willing to be present in a supportive environment designed to make vulnerability easier and more accessible. The reason we’re writing about it now is that Gallagher is next up in the Embodied Arts Workshop series at CEC’s Environmental Hub downtown with an event titled “Being Here.” The series is part of the Community Environmental Council’s A Year of Active Hope, free events hosted by CEC to unite the community and create space for courage, connection, and change. But you don’t have to think about that on Friday evening, September 25, where the focus is on a space of warmth and openness rather than any sort of agenda. There’s always plenty of room to engage in whatever manner feels right for you. If you’re new to the games, it’s almost surprising how these activities – which gently encourage honesty, openness, and genuine interaction – can foster real connections, both with yourself and others. The processes are crafted to help you explore, share, and celebrate being real. It’s about making new friends and deepening relationships in a fun and meaningful way. In full disclosure: I’ve known and participated in workshops with Gallagher for more than eight years, and in my experience there aren’t very many individuals more attuned to himself and others as well as the moment, a human whose curiosity and self-awareness never come off as anything other than fully authentic. He often goes at a rather slow pace that feels comforting and encouraging at the same time. Gallagher spent more than six years teaching relational skills and online facilitation at The Connection Institute, an organization centered on Circling, before launching his own platform. Gallagher is a personal development coach, relational facilitator, and host of the Relational Literacy Lab, which is a weekly online gathering dedicated to the pursuit of becoming more skillful at being human together. Those events are also free, and in a way serve as the next step after getting into the groove with the games. Gallagher is also one of the founders of Santa Barbara Contact Improv, which also has a weekly class and jam every Monday evening at the Dance Hub downtown. The sessions serve as a consistent space to explore movement, presence, connection, and community through the practice of Contact Improvisation, which sometimes looks
Given these almost fully fractured times in our country and around the world, it may seem disingenuous for Pacifica Graduate Institute to be offering a workshop called “Laughing Matters: Jung, Comedy, and the Transformative Power of Humor.” After all, according to Pacifica’s program description, Plato and his friends considered humor not just unworthy of extended discussion, but an actual danger to be actively avoided. Dismissal of humor in Western philosophy and academic circles continued for more than a millennium, though of course humanity was enjoying a good laugh long before Aristotle tied his first toga. But the concept of the course is that when thinkers who champion the rational are confronted with humor, it makes them uncomfortable in ways they can’t explain, logically at least. Depth psychology with its characteristic embrace of the unseen, unknowable, unruly, and unexpected, provides an explanation that recenters humor as central to the psyche’s experience. The class explores Jungian concepts such as the tension of opposites, the transcendent function, archetypal energy, the shadow, the use of the imagination, the importance of play, and the somatic benefits of laughter to reveal that humor can be a powerful tool of expanded perception, an opportunity to explore and utilize unconscious energies, and an optimum strategy for survival in Steven Libowitz has covered an oft-tragic world. The four weekly a plethora of topics for the online sessions, slated for October Journal since 1997, and now 7-28, aim to delve into tricksters, leads our extensive arts and clowns, and humor as both weapon entertainment coverage and medicine. “Laughing Matters” is just one of eight online offerings from Pacifica that begin by early November.
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Cut From History (Continued from 5) The path that brought those Paris designs into American homes is also, in many ways, the path that eventually brought Austine-Rademaker to the museum. Her own began about as far from a Paris salon as one might imagine. She was born in South Korea during its military dictatorship and came to the United States through international adoption at four years old. She found herself growing up among the cornfields of Iowa, in a place where high fashion was largely something to be imagined rather than encountered. Sewing provided an entrance. “I went really deep into my imagination and found beauty through patterns,” she says. There were no Chanel or Saint Laurent boutiques nearby. There was, however, access to a sewing machine and the distinctly Midwestern conviction that if something did not exist,
Natalia Vodianova with Chanel’s head dressmaker Martine Houdet (in black) and Chanel colleagues, photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, Vogue, October 2008. (photo by Patrick Demarchelier, Vogue © Condé Nast)
one could probably figure out how to make it. Patterns offered the instructions. “I could, in my own Cinderella way, imagine dressing myself in the Paris couture and feeling beautiful in my own way,” Austine-Rademaker says. She began collecting and researching patterns, a fascination that continued through college and eventually drew her toward what is often called the golden age of couture. Hidden within those envelopes was also a larger economic and cultural story. Following World War II, many Paris couture houses were struggling. The number of women who could afford genuine couture was exceedingly small, and fashion houses needed other sources of revenue. One was licensing designs to pattern companies, opening a pathway from Paris couture to an increasingly prosperous American middle class. Suddenly, the home seamstress could participate. That history affected millions of women in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and elsewhere. Yet because sewing patterns were often treated as domestic ephemera, relatively few institutions thought to preserve them systematically. They stayed in sewing rooms, attics, and basements. When their owners died or downsized, many simply disappeared. Some, apparently, protected the good china. Austine-Rademaker kept collecting. Eventually, thousands of patterns presented her with a question. What happens to all of this when she is gone? “I just said, ‘Oh my gosh, you know, when you hit your midlife, you’re like, what am I gonna do with this? Are they just gonna go into the dumpster?’” The answer became the Couture Pattern Museum. Rather than treating the collection as vintage merchandise, AustineRademaker wanted the patterns
From Chanel in Vogue: Shalom Harlow, photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, April 1996. (photo by Irving Penn, Vogue © Condé Nast)
From Chanel in Vogue: Shalom Harlow, photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, April 1996. (photo by Irving Penn, Vogue © Condé Nast)
protected as historical records and educational materials. Today they are kept with archival backing and sleeves in controlled conditions, while the museum undertakes the considerably larger task of digitizing them. That does not mean snapping a photograph and calling it a day. The museum is creating full-size digital copies, preserving the patterns at their original scale. More than 100 designers have already been digitized, with the archive continuing to grow. The goal is not simply to save old paper. It is to preserve old knowledge. Couture techniques have changed over generations. Even skilled contemporary dressmakers may approach a garment differently than their predecessors did decades ago. Austine-Rademaker recalls discussing a historical dress with someone from the Paris couture world and asking how she would recreate a particular detail. The modern solution made sense. The pattern revealed that the original dressmaker had done something entirely different.
Those little technical surprises are precisely what can disappear when the pattern disappears. That is why Austine-Rademaker increasingly sees education as the museum’s future. She wants the digitized collection to become a teaching resource, bringing contemporary students together with people who actually work in Paris couture and allowing them to study historic methods without repeatedly handling delicate originals. The Couture Pattern Museum may have started small, but its reach is becoming decidedly international.
‘Chanel in Vogue’ Which brings us back to Chanel. On October 24, the museum will host the exclusive West Coast premiere of Chanel in Vogue, a two-volume work by fashion and photography historians Rebecca C. Tuite and Susanna Brown tracing the House of Chanel through more than a century of Vogue’s international editions.
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Entertainment (Continued from 26 26)) bassists, banjoists, and others from both local environs and parts farther flung. The gathering takes place on October 5 this year, but the impromptu jam sessions all over the grounds might be an even bigger attraction, as pros and amateurs gather round and trade songs, with folks joining in as they see fit. What could be more democratic and community-creating than that? Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the gate, $5 students and free under 12. Visit https://fiddlersfestival.org
Music from Mali: Mmm Mmm Mmm Vieux Farka Touré, acclaimed widely as the “Hendrix of the Sahara,” is the second son of the late great Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré, and has forged a remarkable career that honors his father’s legacy while establishing a powerful artistic identity of his own. Praised for his fiery guitar work, soulful vocals and boundary-crossing collaborations with artists such as Dave Matthews and John Scofield, Touré offers performances that seamlessly blend the hypnotic grooves of traditional Songhai music with elements of blues, rock and jazz, creating a sound that is both deeply rooted and unmistakably modern. Joining him for the gig at SOhO on Friday, September 25, is Gitkin, the psychedelic world music project of New Orleans-based guitarist Brian J that draws inspiration from Afro-Cuban rhythms, Tuareg guitar traditions, cumbia and vintage funk.
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Sold Out Shows of the Week It was just last November that Judy Collins last sang at the Lobero Theatre, supported by former Montecitan Tom
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Cut From History (Continued from 34 34)) Rush for that mini-tour of California. But the longtime folk-pop icon is headed our way for what is likely the last time, as Collins, now 87, is in the midst of her “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: Farewell Tour.” The title of course is a play on words of “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” the folk-rock classic one-time lover Stephen Stills wrote for and about her during the early days of Crosby, Stills & Nash. That time frame will be well-represented at the Sunday, September 27, concert back at the Lobero, where we’ll hear a wide-ranging program that spans all of her eras, including the hits that first brought her fame in the 1960s and ‘70s, i.e. Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now,” Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne,” Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns,” as well as other folk tunes, more modern pop songs and quite a bit of her own compositions. Six decades later, Collins still boasts the clear soprano that drew fans to her in the ‘60s, as well as her commitment to social and environmental justice and activism, which should make the concert something bittersweet to experience. If you’re going, get there on time, as the appealing twin sisters from Norway known as Oakland Rain open the show.
Fabulous Marty Stuart Marty Stuart, comparatively just a spring chicken who doesn’t turn 68 until the day after his September 29 Lobero show, began his career in the ‘60s touring with Lester Flatt and later Johnny Cash before becoming a solo artist in the early ‘80s, when he forged his blend of country rock, bluegrass and rockabilly into a winning formula that has placed 30 hits on Billboard’s country charts, and earned the singer-songwriter guitarist five Grammy Awards. But nowadays he’s known as much for his outlandish costumes and mashing up country tradition with cosmic California cool. Stuart will be collaborating with his longtime band The Fabulous Superlative, stretching the boundaries of the genre in all sorts of directions, with a solid dose of humor to boot.
Fashion, apparently, remains heavy work. For all the Chanel glamour, though, Austine-Rademaker is remarkably straightforward about how she sees herself within this world. Founder, curator and managing director are accurate titles. She prefers another. “I’m a seamstress,” she says. “That’s ultimately what I am and do.” She believes the museum could only have emerged through the eyes and hands of someone who works close enough to clothing to care about what happens before the finished dress appears. Not simply the designer name or the person who wore it, but the cutting, draping, stretching, gathering, stitching, and accumulated knowledge required to transform flat fabric into form. The Couture Pattern Museum is preserving that knowledge one fragile sheet at a time. Which makes that Chanel pattern rescued from an antique shop basement seem rather fortunate. Instead of protecting a teacup, it is helping preserve a piece of fashion history.
The event came to Santa Barbara following the museum’s previous Balenciaga programming, which drew international attention. This time, publisher Thames & Hudson approached the museum. Austine-Rademaker decided that simply hosting a book talk would not do. Instead, Chanel in Vogue will become a full cultural salon. Guests will begin with Frenchinspired afternoon tea and champagne, accompanied by pastries from Yannick Dumonceau, Rosewood’s pâtissier who previously worked at a three-Michelinstar restaurant in Paris. Among the offerings will be Gabrielle Chanel’s favorite dessert, Mont Blanc. Then comes the intellectual dessert. The program includes remarks of friendship from Adrien Frier, Consul General of France in Los Angeles, followed by a recorded teaching presentation from a former Chanel technical fashion designer and draper in Paris. She will discuss what happens after a Chanel runway show, including the technical process through which garments are prepared and patterns completed. Tuite and Brown will then present a lecture and Q&A similar to their recent sold-out appearance at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Brown is traveling from London for the event. Around them will be another layer of the Chanel story. A photography exhibition previously shown in New York will feature images connected to Chanel in Vogue, displayed alongside Chanel archival materials dating from the 1930s through the 1960s from the museum’s own collection. Guests also receive the rather substantial two-volume book, weighing in at roughly 10 pounds.
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Far Flung (Continued from 24 24)) the Panorama Hills straddle the Carrizo Plain to the west and the higher, elevated Elkhorn Plain to the east. Freshwater springs in the foothills of the Caliente Mountains offer a reprieve for wildlife surviving on the plain. On foot, there’s much to explore. There are few trails on the Carrizo Plain. Sometimes it’s just a feeling, as I point at a feature on the map and approach it, or a distinct geological landform catches my eye, begging to be sifted and hiked to on the spur of the moment. I’ll drive my van until I can’t, and then leave it behind, my binoculars and camera pack becoming an extension of me. So, when I flushed the lesser nighthawk from its concealed, low-lying perch, I got as low as it did and immersed myself in that gully. I’d never seen a lesser nighthawk before, because they are mostly nocturnal. It was simply by chance. The gully I chose was significant to the landscape. It connected the higher elevated Elkhorn Plain with the vaster Carrizo Plain below it. I hiked the entire length of that winding ravine. It was a popular place intertwining several ecosystems, and a natural path for wildlife to roam. I tiptoed past active coyote
dens; their fresh piles of scat marked their territories. I came across freshly dug out American badger setts, their burrows being a big part of their intricate subterranean lifestyle. I also wasn’t expecting to see a family of barn owls nesting in the sidewall of the crumbling gully that was about 15 to 20 feet tall throughout. However, it looked like the parents knew what they were doing. The female had found a sturdy enough alcove and built it out with branches. It was enough to rear two owlets that were still hanging around the nest site. Their piercing screeching sounds carried across the length of the gully, drowning out the melodious calls of western meadowlarks, loggerhead shrikes, and fluttery sage sparrows. Their screeches also spooked an already jittery blacktailed jackrabbit, its tall ears were perked upward and backlit in the warm, late afternoon sun, shafts of light breaking through puffy cumulous nimbus clouds.
Rocking the Wren Moments with wildlife out on the Carrizo Plain can be fleeting to say the least. Lots of times they utilize each
We’re in the gully now
song types with mixtures of keree, keree, keree, or deedle, deedle, deedle, then tur, tur, tur. They were way more pleasant to listen to than the bloodcurdling screeches spewing from the barn owls.
other’s dens and burrows. It could be a quick respite from the sun, or to duck a potential predator. So, I never know what creatures might reveal themselves. When I saw a family of rock wrens emerge from a burrow at the base of the gully, the frenetic birds had taken advantage of what was available to them. They were huddled together in the entry way. I spooked them, but they didn’t fly off, especially the three fledglings. They bounced around from saltbush to green ephedra to whatever branches protruded from the gully walls. Their calls are pretty and their songs are vast. The males can possess over 100
The Grasslands Beckon As I left the gully, this time I flushed two lesser nighthawks, a mating pair that really enjoyed the gully where it forked east and northeast. With their beaks agape, they chase insects through the night. It felt like that fork was advantageous for them; great cover and a food supply. I saw my van in the distance, and beyond it was the Carrizo Plain. It was amazing how that gully drained out to the grasslands, a small microcosm contributing to a vaster landscape. It resembled a vein running down a forearm, one of the many ecosystems that act as a lifeblood to one of the most unique and rugged habitats throughout California.
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ingerie, you say? Yes. DD owns a delightful group of color lithographs ‘after’ Jean-BaptisteSiméon Chardin’s celebrated Le Singe peintre and Le Singe antiquaire. One monkey is an artist, the other an antiquarian. Their dress is unmistakably upper-class, their surroundings refined, their actions entirely human – yet Chardin leaves no doubt that his subjects are monkeys. Monkeys imitate human behavior but therein lies the joke: we ourselves are primates, endlessly imitating one another. These images ask a larger question: What is the relationship between our five senses, shared with all primates, and the cultural forces that shape how we see, hear, think, taste, touch, and smell? Are we political animals? The term singerie – derived from the French singe (monkey) – refers to centuries of monkeys in art, politics, and literature as parody figures; allegorical simians lampooning one of their closest cousins: ourselves. The designer Christophe Huet (1700-1759) made the singerie a fashionable artistic genre, coveted by the upper class of France in the 18th century. DD’s lithographs are “after” Chardin, meaning, they are 19th century reproductions, and are worth $250 each. In Chardin’s prints we encounter a pair of post-Enlightenment monkeys. The Enlightenment celebrated the superiority of human reason, logic, and order over impulse, baseness, and immorality. Its message was simple: keep your vices in check through the power of reason. Yet long before the Enlightenment, monkeys had served as moral actors.
A lithograph of Le Singe antiquaire by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
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One of DD’s lithographs modeled after Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s seminal primate paintings
The Sanskrit Panchatantra (ca. 100– 500 CE), including The Tale of the Curious Monkey, featured animal characters whose stories echoed centuries later in Aesop’s Fables. These anthropomorphic tales traveled westward along the Silk Road, eventually appearing in French and Italian literature. Brunetto Latini’s The Book of Treasures (c. 1220–1294) likewise told moral tales conveyed through familiar and exotic animals. This impulse to moralize through animals inspired the richly illustrated medieval bestiaries, in which human folly was acted out by beasts. Jan Brueghel the Elder’s Monkeys Feasting (1620) depicts every imaginable excess of gluttony, drunkenness, vanity, and immoral revelry. Such allegorical tales abound: The Monkey and the Cat warns us to beware of flatterers who praise us for their own benefit, while The Fox and the Monkey reminds us that a ruler unable to govern himself is unfit to govern others. Medieval writers attributed changing moods to monkeys – joyful beneath a new moon, melancholy during the full and waning moon, a Freudian transference of human emotions to our ‘lesser,’ baser, cousins. Because animals became vehicles for satire and moral instruction, the Middle Ages witnessed the rise of royal menageries and private collections of both indigenous and exotic creatures. Naturally – and I use the word lightly – the nobility believed themselves separate from both common people and their animals. Civilization, refinement, and culture belonged to the upper classes; instinct and disorder belonged to the peasants and the animals.
The painter Edwin Landseer captured this irony in The Monkey Who Had Seen the World (1827), portraying a white-faced ape wearing a red silk coat trimmed with braid and medals, a powdered wig upon his head, elegantly smoking a long pipe while looking with disdain upon his unclothed fellow primates. Landseer reportedly remarked, “A monkey in silk is still no less a monkey.” Likewise, Antoine Watteau’s La Peinture (c.1700) presents the monkey as a serious and diligent painter working at his easel, reinforcing the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century maxim ars simia naturae – art is the ape of nature. Artists were expected to imitate nature faithfully, mastering realism through disciplined observation in the academic tradition. The celebrated linguist and explorer Sir Richard Burton (1821–1890), translator of both The Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, owned some forty monkeys while serving with the East India Company. He reportedly hosted elaborate banquets in which servants served his monkeys, claiming he was studying monkey language. Similarly, Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) narrowed the gulf between humans and other primates; any implication to human emotion was hotly contested. By the nineteenth century, museum dioramas featuring taxidermied animals placed within carefully painted environments spoke of the “control” of the animal kingdom by the “top” primate, which is, of course – us. Singerie is far from dead. Walton Ford’s monumental watercolor The Sensorium (2003) imagines Burton’s famous banquet with his monkeys, questioning imperialism, colonialism, and racism – the lingering inheritance of nineteenth-century institutions. George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) is a classic modern example of animals serving as mirrors of human political behavior. Monkeys in art are classic examples of anthropomorphism. Traditionally, the ape stands “below” humanity, embodying foolishness, trickery, greed, vanity, and moral weakness. Or does he?
Elizabeth Stewart, PhD is a veteran appraiser of fine art, furniture, glass, and other collectibles, and a cert. member of the AAA and an accr. member of the ASA. Please send any objects to be appraised to Elizabethappraisals@ gmail.com
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Way It Was (Continued from 30 30)) The most expensive ensemble shown was a pair of violet and lilac silk chiffon pajamas under matching satin coat by Georgia Bullock, $450. Not to be outdone, Gino Ricci was showing the “Wet Look” in a coat and blue vest and pants. (Quite trippy!)
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Zoë De Salle, Christian Dior, Gustave Beer, and Charles Frederick Worth, a British transplant to Paris who is considered the father of haute couture. The list of Santa Barbarans who donated their clothing to the collection is extensive. The Santa Barbara collection does not contain designs by the enigmatic and controversial Coco Chanel, but
was sponsored by Sharon Bradford, who, said Harwood, “donated her love, time, and resources to bring these delicate pieces of history before the public, together with tales of their owners.” The complete collection reaches back to the late 1800s and features the work of several well-known designers, including Arnold Scaasi, Reville and Rossiter,
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In 1924 a new high fashion store opened at State and Victoria streets (courtesy of SBHM)
The Santa Barbara Historical Museum has an extensive collection of haute couture and historic clothing, all carefully preserved and curated with images available online. For a 2019 exhibition of a portion of the collection, The West Dressed Woman, Executive Director Dacia Harwood explained the painstaking and expensive process of preserving fabric and the fragility of the antique clothing itself. That exhibition
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Pink silk chiffon dress by Gustave Beer in 1908 (Gift of Elizabeth J. Chapin, courtesy of SBHM)
Couture Pattern Museum will be hosting the launch of the much celebrated two-volume book Chanel in Vogue. The book details in word and image the history of Gabrielle Chanel’s creations as seen on the pages of Vogue magazine. Vogue had been reporting on the work of Chanel since the 1910s and continued when she returned from a long absence after WWII.
Coco Chanel’s life story has been interpreted on stage, screen, and in print. In 1969, Katherine Hepburn played her on Broadway in Coco. In 2009 Shirley MacLaine starred as Coco in a TV movie, and in 2022 PBS aired a special on her life. Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was born in Saumur, France, in 1883. At age 12 her mother died, and her father sent her to a Catholic orphanage/school where the nuns educated her and taught her to sew. Later she had a brief career as a singer, just long
Circa 1920, the House of Reville designed this evening gown of silver lamé and beads with a wing design on the bodice front and back. This dress belonged to Kathleen Burke, who married Frederick Forrest Peabody of Solana in Montecito. She was the most decorated woman of WWI and wrote a book called The White Road to Verdun. (Gift of the Kathleen Burke Hale Estate, courtesy of SBHM)
enough to obtain a “protector,” who offered to help her set up a millinery business and acquire the nickname Coco, which was a shortened version of cocotte. The French word translates as “kept woman.” She left him for a wealthier friend of his, but both men helped to open her first shop in 1910. She later expanded to Deauville and Biarritz, playgrounds for the ultra-wealthy. In 1925, the Chanel suit and Little Black Dress made their appearances using ideas that were revolutionary at the time. She borrowed elements of men’s clothing and sought to make clothing comfortable. With her little black dress, she took a color associated with mourning and transformed it into a symbol of sophistication that suited every occasion, including evening wear.
Christian Dior’s little blue dress is trimmed with soutache and small covered buttons (Gift of Lillian Fish. Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
Designed by Arnold Scaasi in the mid to late 20th century, this short strapless dress and jacket is of black velvet with gold bullion and sequins in a diamond patterned embroidery (Gift of Arnold Scaasi, courtesy of SBHM)
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Westmont (Continued from 22 22)) salary ($104,096) and No. 9 for average grant aid ($38,956) among small colleges in California. The exclusive Fiske Guide to Colleges has included Westmont for the ninth consecutive year in its 2027 edition, delivering an insider look at the country’s “best and most interesting” fouryear institutions. Earlier this month, Money Magazine named Westmont to its Best Colleges 2026 list, recognizing America’s top values based on graduation rates, cost of attendance, financial aid and career outcomes. Westmont soared in Niche’s 2027 Best Colleges Rankings, which evaluates four-year colleges from measurable data and student reviews. Westmont jumped up 40% in the overall Best Colleges in America rankings, putting it in the top third of all colleges and universities nationwide. It also soared 56% in the Best Christian Colleges in America ranking. Westmont remains in the top 10 Liberal Arts Colleges in California, jumping up to No. 7. College Raptor selected Westmont as a Best College in the United States for 2027 and named the college to its Top 25 Best D2 Colleges list. The platform highlights Westmont’s graduation rates, campus diversity, endowment per student, and selectivity.
“These collective recognitions reflect our unwavering commitment to providing a rigorous academic experience deeply rooted in our Christian mission,” says Westmont President Gayle D. Beebe. “We equip students to thrive academically, grow spiritually, and step into meaningful careers with a passion to serve the world.”
Athletic Director Rob Ruiz addresses the team
Inaugural STUNT Team Takes Flight Inside Montecito Covenant Church Gym, the energy is undeniable, even during just the third practice in program history. Thick mats cover the floor as student-athletes refine precision passes, practice jump sequences, and coordinate intricate tosses. For Westmont, this gathering is far more than a routine training session, it represents the unfolding of a historic new chapter in Warrior athletics. The addition of STUNT, one of the fastest-growing female sports in the nation, arrives at a pivotal time. The NCAA recently voted STUNT in, recognizing it as a national championship sport, and the PacWest Conference now officially sponsors it. For Athletic Director Robert Ruiz, bringing the sport to campus aligns perfectly with the growth of collegiate athletics and the college’s overarching mission.
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highly competitive sport. STUNT removes the crowd-leading element of traditional cheerleading, focusing purely on technical skill, athleticism and execution across four quarters: partner stunts, pyramids and tosses, jumps and tumbling, and a combined final routine. “This sport is thriving and blossoming for women in sports,” Johnson noted. “They take their cheer, dance and tumbling background and put it to an actual sport. They are seen as real athletes and taken seriously.” Spiritual development and mutual support sit at the heart of the team’s culture. Before hitting the mats, the team pauses for reflection and Scripture to emphasize encouragement and collective strength. The Warriors will compete in a full official season this spring, hosting games on campus inside Murchison Gym. With the closest neighboring programs located at Cal Poly to the north and various institutions across Los Angeles, Westmont stands as the premier destination for STUNT on the Central Coast. “Great programs take time,” Ruiz said. “We’re building something that’s unique and special at our institution. I’m hopeful that people will give it a chance, come out, watch games, fill up the gym, and support this team as they embark on this historic run.”
Head coach Ariana Johnson
“We’ve spent months envisioning what this could look like,” Ruiz told the team while addressing them at practice. “I can’t even begin to explain how much pride we have as a department and how excited we are for you just to be here, to be building something and doing something that no one’s ever done before. You’re Team One. No one else will ever be able to say that.” To lead the inaugural program, Westmont selected head coach Ariana Johnson. A former head coach at Santa Barbara High School, Johnson felt an immediate alignment with Westmont’s culture and values when discussing the vision for the team with Ruiz. Despite a rapid timeline to recruit, Johnson put together a roster of 18 student-athletes hailing from across California, Arizona, and beyond—including four first-generation college students. “I literally just went into a meeting, and when I sat with Rob and heard the vision of what he hoped for, I just knew in my heart,” Johnson said. “Every recruit was easy to bring in because I believe they were supposed to be here.” The roster represents a diverse background of cheer, dance and tumbling disciplines, now channeled into a distinct,
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“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.” – Charles Eames
24 September – 1 October 2026
Foraging Thyme
Ernie’s World
Shallots
Scan Me Scan Me Good by Ernie Witham
S The small allium that packs a wallop of flavor (photo by Crisco 1492 via Wikimedia Commons)
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inley Farms is overflowing with organic produce right now, but their beautiful shallots especially caught my eye. Shallots, members of the allium family, are thought to have originated in Central or Southwest Asia and grow in tight clusters like garlic. These small, nutrient-dense relatives of onions offer impressive health benefits. One helpful trick for both garlic and onions is to chop them about 10 minutes before cooking; this gives the enzyme alliinase time to react and helps maximize the formation of beneficial compounds. Shallots contain organosulfur compounds and antioxidants, including quercetin, which may support healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Their flavonoid antioxidants also help fight inflammation by reducing swelling and protecting cells from damage. Rich in vitamin C, vitamin B6, and naturally antibacterial properties, shallots can help support immunity during cold season. They also provide fiber, which supports gut health and helps prevent constipation, and their iron content may help improve circulation and support natural blood thinning. Let’s make something delicious with these nutritional powerhouses!
Shallot Garlic Sauteed Mushrooms Yield: 4 Servings 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 teaspoons vegan butter (or more olive oil) 1 pound shallots, peeled and sliced 20 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed and roughly chopped 2 thyme sprigs 1 cinnamon stick 1 pound baby bella mushrooms, wiped and halved 1 pound mixed mushrooms, royal trumpet, oyster, wiped and roughly chopped Sea salt and black pepper 1 teaspoon Calabrian chili paste 1 cup vegetable broth ½ cup flat leaf parsley, washed, dried and chopped Directions: 1. In a large skillet over medium heat, add the olive oil and vegan butter until hot and melted. 2. Add the shallots and garlic, thyme sprigs, and cinnamon stick. Cook for about 10 to 12 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until shallots begin to soften and are golden brown. 3. Raise the heat to medium high and add the mushrooms. Cook, tossing occasionally, for 5 to 7 minutes or until the mushrooms begin to soften and are caramelizing. 4. Season with salt and pepper, and Calabrian chili paste. 5. Add the broth and bring to a simmer over medium high heat for 10 minutes, or until the liquid has reduced. 6. Stir in the parsley and turn off the heat. 7. Enjoy! 24 September – 1 October 2026
omeone asked me in my humor workshop once, what attributes are needed to come up with columns on a regular basis. I told them it helps to be a klutz, because pain plus time plus distance equals humor. I also told them it really pays to have insurance. Another great thing about being uncoordinated, I told them, is you get to experience the miracles of modern medicine, plus they often reward you with drugs. “Are you allergic to anything?” “Psychedelic mushrooms, “I see.” And, of course, there are all the hightech contraptions to observe and scribe about. For instance, I recently had a bone density scan. No, not on my head, though I did have an MRI on my head years ago. Fortunately, they didn’t find anything. The bone density scan was pretty easy, I didn’t even have to put on one of those drafty, butt-displaying gowns, just empty my pockets... “Is that a good luck talisman?” “Yes, but it doesn’t always work.” “Right. Then, make sure you take it with you when you leave.” The hardest part was just before the actual scan when the tech said: “Just breathe normally.” Turns out when you think about breathing normally, you can’t. Did I do in already? Or was that out? How often do I normally do in? Every second? Half second? Yeah, that seems right. “Excuse me. Your imitation of a locomotive is fun, but it’s confusing the scanner.” During a recent set of x-rays, the tech put me into position, left the room, and from behind a barrier Superman couldn’t see through said: “Hold your breath... now breathe. Again... now breathe. Again... now breathe. Once more... now breathe. By the time it was over I was hyperventilating and seeing weird white flashes. Kinda like the mushrooms. Then I had a scan of my jaw in lieu of getting a dental implant. I had to stick my head into the machine and rest my chin on a shelf, while the dental assistant pressed clamps against the side of my head. Then she said: “don’t move.” “Breathing?” “Just breathe normally.” Here we go again. All of this makes me wonder what AI medicine will be like. Doctors are already using it to help take notes and transcribe text. And prescriptions are automatically sent during the exam so that by the time you get out of the office and into your car, CVS is giving you a third notice that
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you have drugs to pick up, and that you qualify for two bucks off hemorrhoidal cream and fungal spray. But what about artificial life? In the future will doctors have to examine robots? “Please have a seat... Ahh, okay, squat then, now... Oh, great. Perform a series of backflips if that will make you feel better. I’ll have my assistant clean the walls and check your lube level when we are done. So, what is your problem... other problem... today?” “I. Think. I. Swal-lowed. The. Cat.” “Hmm. I think we should do a PET scan. Who is your insurance provider? NASA? Perfect.” And will the technology industry have to create special equipment to examine robotic patients? “Wait! No metal in the MRI machine! Dang. Nurse, please call the fire department. And an army of automobile dismantlers.” Beyond that, when all the human doctors have quit to take government jobs analyzing humanoid vaccines to see whether they cause automation autism, will robotic doctors be examining robotic patients? “What. Seems. To. Be. The. Prob-lem. To-day?” “I. Think. I. Am. Fal-ling. In. Love. With. My. Hu-man. And. It. Is. Caus-ing. A. Short. Circuit. And. Night. Sweats.” “Any-thing. Else?” “I. Keep. Get-ing. Face-book. Ads. For. Ti-tan-i-um. Rings. And. Des-tinna-tion Wed-dings. On. Mars. “How. Does. Your. Hu-man. Feel. About. All. This?” “He. Gave. Me. A. Tes-la. And. Said. I. Will. Love. Mars.” Of course, the bad thing about all these AI advances is the fact that they will probably replace me. In a future humor workshop being led by B-25-XMen-tor ,when a student asks what it takes to come up with new humor columns on a regular basis the response will probably be a bunch of beeps, squeaks, and whirring sounds. If all the students laugh, then we are all doomed.
Ernie Witham has been writing humor for more than 25 years. He is the author of three humor books and is the humor workshop leader at the prestigious Santa Barbara Writers Conference.
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Society Edit (Continued from 14 14))
After a brief Q&A, lunch was served. Noted guests of the over 65 who attended were Toni and Al Amorteguy, Stefan and Christine Riesenfeld, Susan Spieler, Ed and Mary Lu Edick, Helga Morris, James and Robyn Barbabella, Dale Van Mill, Mara Abboud, Doug Morse, Tom Craveiro, and Gae Ann and Mike McHale. There from the AFSB were Board President Jeremy Tessmer, Vice President John Doordan, Secretary Katherine Murray-Morse, Treasurer Maria McCall, and trustees Frank McGinity and Diane Pannkuk.
Maria McCall, Tom Craveiro, Al and Toni Amorteguy, and Katherine Murray-Morse (photo by Joanne A Calitri)
John Doordan, Maria McCall, Jeremy Tessmer, Diane Pannkuk, Katherine Murray-Morse, and Frank McGinity (photo by Joanne A Calitri)
the point of interest a focus on who is buying art. Statistics for 2025 show that the buyer is younger and mostly (of course!) female. In June 2026, according to Cerulli Associates, “The Intergenerational Wealth Transfer is projected at $84.4 trillion in U.S. household wealth transfer through 2045, with $72.6 trillion going to heirs and $11.9 trillion to charities. Newer estimates extend the window to 2048 and lift the headline figure to roughly $124 trillion, with about $106 trillion headed to Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z between them. Deloitte’s 2025 Art and Finance report estimates that ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) collectors now hold roughly 10.4% of total wealth in art and collectibles. The same report puts global art-andcollectible wealth at $2.56 trillion in 2024, up from $2.17 trillion in 2022, an 18% rise in two years. Projections published alongside the Deloitte work suggest art-and-collectible wealth could reach $3.5 trillion by 2030. Deloitte separately estimates that roughly $992 billion in art and collectibles will change hands through the transfer over the next decade, or about $100 billion a year flowing through the market via
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inheritance and reallocation.” (Visit https://tinyurl.com/MasterWorksWealthTransfer-26) Wong’s brief provided Bonhams’ top example of legacy planning with the “Roy Rose Legacy Plan.” Roy Rose (1935-2024) is a 4th generation Californian and the great-nephew of American Impressionist Guy Rose (1867-1925). Guy studied and painted in Paris and is known for the Giverny influence in his art, having known Monet. Roy executed legacy planning with both Guy’s artworks and other works he collected, preserved, and cataloged. Roy worked with both the Irvine Museum and the Catalina Museum for Art and History, where he both helped shape the catalog of Guy’s works, and offered instructions on which to retain and which to sell. Wong stressed that Roy’s plan is a key legacy example as he created the narrative about the art and bridged Guy’s art to another era of artwork. Also noted was the fact that exhibitions increase the value of artworks. She concluded with two quotes by Roy, “Never buy art as an investment, buy it because you love it” and “There is a vast difference between a collection and accumulation.”
and care create truly memorable guest experiences. Congratulations to every hotel honored in 2026, thank you to our Academy whose votes shape the list, and to everyone who continues to make this a moment the industry look forward to each year.” The 50 Best Hotels 2026 voting is collated from more than 800 anonymous experts. They are divided among 13 geographic regions, and each gets seven votes. There is no prescribed checklist of amenities a property needs to qualify, and hotels cannot pay, apply, or nominate themselves for inclusion. Instead, voters select the hotel experiences they consider the best from within the voting period. As noted by the SY Ranch PR, “For more than 130 years, San Ysidro Ranch has served as a secluded retreat in the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains, where winding paths, lush gardens and vine-covered cottages create an atmosphere of timeless romance and escape. Spread across 550 acres just 90 miles from Los Angeles, the Ranch is steeped in history and has long drawn celebrities, artists, and historical figures seeking privacy amid its tranquil surroundings. Today, 38 individually decorated cottages, 17 miles of hiking trails and views stretching toward the Pacific Ocean and Channel Islands invite guests to experience the property at an unhurried pace. The Ty Warner Wine Collective offers highly personalized tastings and access to rare vintages, while The Speakeasy, recently named one of the world’s best hotel bars by Forbes Travel Guide, provides an intimate, jazz-filled setting. Beneath the Michelin-recognized Stonehouse Restaurant, a Wine Spectator Grand Award-winning cellar houses 16,000 bottles and a Secret Cellar tasting room. Dining is included with every stay, with menus spanning caviar and seafood towers to beef Wellington sliced tableside. Other standout amenities include a majestic swimming pool set against the hillside with the Plunge Pool Bar, a full-service Salon & Spa housed in a storybook cottage and a mini golf course with Masters touches.”
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San Ysidro Ranch Named One of Top 50 Hotels Worldwide
As noted in Forbes this week, San Ysidro Ranch, a Ty Warner Property, is one of two hotels in the U.S. recognized with a global ranking in the Fourth Edition of The 50 Best Hotels 2026, the ceremony held at Les Salles du Carrousel, Paris, France. San Ysidro Ranch placed number 22, while fellow stateside honoree – Amangiri by Aman Resorts, a desert retreat in Utah – placed 45. Speaking for SYR, Ian Williams, general manager at San Ysidro Ranch, shares, “Being recognized by The 50 Best Hotels is a tremendous honor. To be included among such an iconic and exceptional collection of hotels is a meaningful recognition of the enduring character of San Ysidro Ranch. Our owner, Ty Warner, has always been deeply committed to protecting the Ranch’s legacy and sense of place. That commitment, along with the support of our remarkable staff, allows us to thoughtfully evolve the guest experience while remaining true to the timeless character, privacy, and charm that have defined San Ysidro Ranch for generations.” The SY Ranch posted on their Instagram, “We are thrilled to share the Ranch has been named The Best Hotel in the US and No. 22 in The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2026. Knowing the magic of the Ranch is felt by those who experience and celebrate the very best in hospitality makes this honor all the more special. We are deeply grateful to our remarkable team, whose care and dedication bring the Ranch to life each day, to our owner, Ty Warner, for his unwavering commitment to its legacy, and to our wonderful guests who continue to be part of its ongoing story.” Faye Huggett, director of community for The 50 Best Hotels, explains, “This year’s list recognises not only extraordinary places to stay, but the exceptional people whose vision, craft
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” – Winston Churchill
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Till next week loves! XxJAC
Joanne A Calitri is a professional international photographer and journalist. Contact her at: artraks@ yahoo.com
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS Bids open at 2:00 PM on Thursday, October 15, 2026 for: CAT CANYON CREEK BRIDGE NO. 51P-500 STORM DAMAGE REPAIRS COUNTY PROJECT NO. 25STM3-4N03 IN THE 4TH SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT COUNTY PROJECT No. 25STM3-4N03 General project work description: Rock Slope Protection, Overside Drains, 2-Rail Split Fencing The Plans, Specifications, and Bid Book are available at https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43874. The Contractor must have either a Class A license or any combination of the following Class C licenses which constitutes a majority of the work: C-12 The DBE Contract Goal is 0%. For the Federal Training Program, the number of trainees or apprentices is 0. Submit sealed bids to the web address below. Bids will be opened and available at the web address below immediately following the submittal deadline. PlanetBids https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43874 Complete the project work within 7 Workings Days. The estimated cost of the project is $ 167,000 A optional pre-bid virtual meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 11:00 AM. Attendance is encouraged but not mandatory. The meeting link and access instructions are available through PlanetBids. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of PCC Section 4104, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code (LAB) Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Business and Professions Code (BPC) Section 7029.1 or by PCC Section 10164 or 20103.5 provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to LAB Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded. Prevailing wages are required on this Contract. The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations determines the general prevailing wage rates. Obtain the wage rates at the DIR website https://www.dir.ca.gov/. The federal minimum wage rates for this Contract as determined by the United States Secretary of Labor are available at https://www.wdol.gov/. Copies are also available at the office of the Department of Public Works – Engineering Division, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. If the minimum wage rates as determined by the United States Secretary of Labor differs from the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and subcontractors must not pay less than the higher wage rate. The Department does not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the federal minimum wage determinations. This includes helper, or other classifications based on hours of experience, or any other classification not appearing in the federal wage determinations. Where federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage rate determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and subcontractors, the Contractor and subcontractors must not pay less than the federal minimum wage rate that most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question. Inquiries or questions based on alleged patent ambiguity of the plans, specifications, or estimate must be submitted as a bidder inquiry by 2:00 PM on 10/09/2026. Submittals after this date will not be addressed. Questions pertaining to this Project prior to Award of the Contract must be submitted via PlanetBids Q&A tab. Bidders (Plan Holders of Record) will be notified by electronic mail if addendums are issued. The addendums, if issued, will only be available on the County’s PlanetBids website, https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43874
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE ALLEN LAW FIRM, 649 VERDE MAR VISTA, UNIT C, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103. C.D. ALLEN WEALTH MANAGEMENT LLC, 649 VERDE MAR VISTA UNIT C, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 10, 2026. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the
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Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2026-0002281. Published September 17, 24, and Oct. 1, 8, 2026 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THUIS ORGANIC DESIGNS, 3908 Foothill RD, Carpinteria, CA 93013. MAXIMUM NURSERY,
INC, 3908 Foothill Road, Carpinteria, CA, 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 26, 2026. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2026-0002167. Published September 10, 17, 24, and Oct. 1, 2026
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ROSE CAFE SALSA OF SANTA BARBARA, 834 W Sola Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. MANUEL V BAJARAS & DEBORAH D BAJARAS, 315 Meigs Rd STE A263, Santa Barbara, CA, 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 30, 2026. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I
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hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2026-0001968. Published September 10, 17, 24, and Oct. 1, 2026 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EXTREME GROUT CLEAN; GROUT WIZARD SANTA BARBARA, 834 W Sola Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. MANUEL V BAJARAS &
DEBORAH D BAJARAS, 315 Meigs Rd STE A263, Santa Barbara, CA, 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 30, 2026. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2026-0001969. Published September 10, 17, 24, and Oct. 1, 2026
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SBC Virtual El Niño Community Meeting by MJ Staff
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he meeting will take place on October 1, from 5:30–7 pm and provide an overview of the upcoming weather outlook, county preparations for the storm season, and important information about flooding, debris flows, road conditions, and other storm-related emergencies. It’s a helpful opportunity for residents to learn how the county is preparing and what steps we can take now to be ready for the season ahead. Spanish interpretation and multilingual closed captioning will be available. 411: https://tinyurl.com/SBC-ElNino-Meeting-26
Friday Night Movies at Montecito Country Mart Free, and in the center courtyard, starting at 6 pm. Food and beverages to go. 9/25 – Luca 10/2 – Lilo & Stitch
10/9 – Ratatouille 10/16 – Finding Nemo
10/23 – Finding Dory 10/30 – Coco
Ecologist Dr. Rae at SBMNH Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant will read You Belong in the Wild at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s Storytime on October 3, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, in the
M SHERIFF’S BLOTTER Arrest / 1700 block S. Jameson Lane Friday, September 04, at 22:03 hours Subject was contacted and arrested for his outstanding local warrants. Theft / 280 block East Valley Road, Montecito Friday, September 04, at 08:02 hours The reporting party left his vehicle unlocked overnight, and a bag containing his clothes and shoes was stolen from his backseat. Neighbor Helping Neighbor / 700 block Picacho Lane Tuesday, September 8, at 11:45 hours Alarmed at seeing their neighbor driving from the residence, a Montecitan called in a welfare check The neighbor was found at the Village Gas Station and was unable to effectively communicate their last name and date of birth. Her husband and caretaker had been hospitalized, and she had been alone for the last two days. CARES was called but was unable to respond. She was taken to SB Cottage and admitted. Her vehicle was driven back to the residence, and her dogs were provided with water and placed inside the home. Neighbor Helping Neighbor / 700 block Picacho Lane Wednesday, September 9, at 09:57 hours It developed that the subject from the prior day’s call was released from Cottage and taken back home by the gardener. At this time she was by herself and unable to report on what had occurred, explain if she had any family, or conduct a conversation. Her husband was likely staying in the hospital for several more days. APS (Adult Protective Services) was contacted and responded later in the day. At that time, the wife of the gardener was there and was taking the subject to the hospital, where another friend was going to look after her. APS will conduct follow up. Suspect Following Women / 2200 block W. Finney Street Friday, September 11, at 10:19 hours A subject was reported for suspiciously approaching families at Lookout Park Beach. Multiple women reported that the subject made them feel like he was following them. The subject was advised to stay away from the victims.
museum’s backyard area. Her connection with the museum grew after she was photographed there for the cover of the Summer 2026 issue of Montecito Journal Magazine, helping spark a relationship that now brings her back for this special community event. The reading encourages children from all backgrounds to see themselves involved in nature and science. The first 50 participating families will receive a free copy of the book, provided by the Cheeryble Foundation in memory of Steve Hicks. Wynn-Grant is a wildlife ecologist specializing in research on how human activity influences carnivore behavior and ecology. She co-hosts Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom: Protecting the Wild on NBC and hosts the PBS-produced podcast Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant. 411: https://sbnature.org/
October’s Centennial Celebration at SBBG The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is celebrating its 100th anniversary with free admission every Sunday in October and a month of special programming highlighting nature, art, wellness, families and four-legged visitors. Free Centennial Community Days will take place October 4, 11, 18 and 25, with advance reservations required due to parking and capacity limits. Programming includes music from Cody Westheimer, a community paint party, sunset yoga, family storytimes, and an October 25 Halloween Pooch Parade featuring costumes and prizes. The Centennial celebration also heads into town with Garden to Glass, featuring botanical cocktails inspired by California native plants at participating Santa Barbara restaurants and bars throughout October. One dollar from each featured drink will support the Garden’s conservation, research, education and community programs. Founded in 1926, the Garden was the nation’s first botanic garden dedicated exclusively to native plants.
Opera Under the Oaks Previews New Season Opera Santa Barbara returns to Godric Grove at Elings Park on Sunday, October 4, for Opera Under the Oaks, a family-friendly outdoor concert previewing the company’s 2026-27 season. Guests are encouraged to bring blankets, seat cushions, and a picnic for an afternoon of opera beneath the trees. The 90-minute program will feature selections from the three productions headed to the Lobero Theatre this season: Verdi’s Rigoletto, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, and the California premiere of Craig Bohmler and Steven Mark Kohn’s Riders of the Purple Sage, along with other opera favorites. Performers include Oriana Falla, Alexandra Bass, Arnold Geis, and Matthew Peterson, accompanied by pianist Catherine Miller. The concert runs 3-4:30 pm, with gates opening at 2:30 pm. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door, while admission is free for ages 18 and under. 411: Operasb.org
Prep House Opens in the Funk Zone Four Santa Barbara entrepreneurs have joined forces to launch Prep House, a new beauty and wellness collective in the Funk Zone designed as a one-stop destination for getting ready. Founded by Amanda Leone, Megan Brand, Meghan Webley, and Dana Martin, the concept brings four female-owned businesses together under one roof. Services include customized blowouts and makeup from Leone Blow Dry Bar, red light therapy and spray tans from The Afterglow, teeth whitening from Peak Whitening, and nail services from Klawed by Dana. The idea grew from Leone’s initial plans to expand her salon before evolving into a collaborative space offering complementary services. Prep House is located at 111 Santa Barbara Street.
411: www.prephousesb.com
Santa Barbara Literary Festival Returns Mark the calendar and expect the unexpected. The Santa Barbara Literary Festival returns May 1 and 2, 2027, for two days celebrating books, writers, readers, and the wonderfully unruly possibilities of imagination. Following its inaugural gathering, the festival will once again bring the literary world to Santa Barbara for a weekend devoted to storytelling, conversation, and creative discovery. The 2027 theme promises “a celebration of imagination that refuses to behave,” setting the stage for a festival willing to wander beyond the margins and see where the written word can lead.
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner
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Coco Chanel in Los Angeles in 1931 (via Wikimedia Commons)
During WWII she formed a liaison with a ranking Nazi officer who protected her and kept her in the style to which she was accustomed. After the war she was accused of being a Nazi collaborator, but there is also evidence that she worked for the Resistance. Regardless, after a few hours of questioning by a post war tribunal, she was released and fled Paris for Switzerland, not emerging until 1954 with a triumphant, if controversial, return to the world of fashion. Because Chanel left Paris, she was not part of the post war effort to reestablish haute couture and raise money for French Relief organizations. Shortage of materials prevented a full- scale fashion show put on by the reigning designers, but Nina Ricci’s son came up with the idea to use 30-inch high wire mannequins for “Le Théâtre de la Mode.” Designers created miniature versions of their dresses and accoutrements, an artist sculpted pottery heads, a set designer created the settings, and every detail from purse to shoes to necklaces to hats was produced in meticulous miniature. “Le Théâtre de la Mode” was a rousing success and travelled the world. Today it is part of the Maryhill Museum of Art collection in the state of Washington. On October 24, Couture Fashion Museum will be hosting the exclusive West Coast premiere of the book Chanel in Vogue from 2 to 4:30 pm at 1525 State Street. The event will feature the authors, a special photographic exhibition from
the book which was published by Thames and Hudson, a presentation by a former Chanel technical designer and draper, and a French inspired afternoon tea. Tickets, which include a copy of the book, are available from www.couturepatternmuseum. com/event-details/chanel-in-vogue
And, as a last note from the world of fashion, I offer this quote from Oscar Wilde. “One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art.” I wonder what Oscar would have to say about the art of just being or doing a piece of work. Sources: Contemporary news articles; Coco Chanel by Biography.com; Wikipedia; Morning Press articles from 1924; Maryhill Museum; Santa Barbara Historical Museum collection details; “Le Théâtre de la Mode” by Valerie Steele in ARTFORUM, accessed September 18, 2026; Santa Barbara Independent 2019; “The Coral Casino” by Hattie Beresford, Montecito Journal, date unknown.
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
Left: Black wool cocktail dress by Marcel Rochas. Ivory satin toque trimmed with black lace by Legroux. Black suede handbag and white kid gloves trimmed with black lace by Rochas. Right: Cocktail ensemble of stitched black ciré galloon tunic and black synthetic crêpe skirt by Blanche Issartel. Black artificial straw toque trimmed with bouquet of roses and black lace by Odette Colson. Black suede sandals trimmed with gold leather by Drettas. (author photo)
Shirley MacLaine played the role of Coco Chanel in a 2009 television movie (via Wikimedia Commons)
The Maryhill Museum is home to the 1945 “Le Théâtre de la Mode” (author photo)
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The designers of “Le Théâtre de la Mode” wanted to show the new fashion against images of the destruction of war as this setting shows (author photo)
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Moments (Continued from 8) Em Johnson, John Clark, CEC CEO Sigrid Wright, and Elizabeth Poett (courtesy photo)
Steve Finkel, Ryan Muzzy, Kiah Jordan, Anna Jordan, with Ana and Jesse Smith (courtesy photo)
A Poett’s Feast Sean Koffel, Ryan Muzzy, Pam Muzzy, Caroline Powers, Erika Klemperer, and James Muzzy (courtesy photo)
Montecito’s Impact Family Office, the inaugural Bounty Benefit Dinner at Rosewood Miramar came with history. Years before White Buffalo Land Trust acquired the 1,000-acre Jalama Canyon Ranch from Wayne Siemens and David Grotenhuis, Kiah was hired as a college kid ranch hand when he was a Westmont student. He helped plant its vineyard, find and buy 200 Boer goats to eat the weeds, and managed the property – making the “coastal ranch” evening something of a homecoming. “It’s better for the soil. It’s better for the people. It’s better for the animals,” said sponsor Katy Powers of Hope Ranch-based Soleado Stables, praising White Buffalo’s approach to
Ranch Style in Full Bloom: Chris Parrish, Ana Smith, Katy Powers, and Elizabeth Fowler (courtesy photo)
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regenerative ag. “It’s positive, scalable, and digestible, no pun intended,” Katy quipped. “He is a total visionary,” Ryan Muzzy said of White Buffalo founder Steve Finkel, recalling how hearing Finkel explain the mission drew him in. The evening’s ranch-meets-resort spirit followed suit: cowboy hats, boots, denim, and flowing florals beneath strings of lights on the Great Lawn. “We wanted to do something that was much more community-driven and community-focused,” said Miramar Director of Wine Rob Smits, who worked with Executive Chef Edgar Beas on a family-style menu using products from the ranch and Central Coast, with local rock crab, goat sausage, ranch-raised beef, herbs, botanicals and dairy. Montecito’s Jessica and Kevin Brine supported the ranch’s vision from its founding concept, and enjoyed tasting the fruition of the vision, along with Sean Koffel, board president of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff ’s Benevolent Posse. “When we talk about watersheds, we’re talking… from ‘crest to coast,’” said Jesse Smith, White Buffalo’s Director of Land Stewardship, describing oak woodlands, creeks, and beaches as one big connected system. After celebrating five years at Jalama Canyon Ranch, White Buffalo is looking beyond the fenceline and teaching about broader watersheds – including Montecito creeks. From Jalama Ranch to Miramar Beach, the mashup proved ranch roots and coastal polish make very good tablemates.
leaving the next morning to lead a culinary tour through Tuscany’s Maremma region – Italian cowboy country – with traditional mounted Butteri, natural wines, and local chefs. Back in Santa Barbara, the evening paired climate action with pleasure: a climate-smart dinner shaped by Elizabeth, and the new Green Gala Market, where makers, artisans and food-and-beverage partners made the silent auction more social. Green Gala co-chairs Jennifer Drucker and Jessica McLernon led the celebration, with committee members Clara Cadwell, Colette Carlsson, Brook Eiler, Natalie Greenside, Kerrilee Gore, Lily Hahn Shining, and Stephanie Theimer. The Patricia Bragg Foundation was a top sponsor, while The Little One Foundation matched the first $15,000 of the paddle raise dollar for dollar. Off to Tuscany, Elizabeth spent one last evening with her boots – dirt and all – planted in Santa Barbara, rooted in hope.
“I think that for me, being able to see this community come together, especially in such a historic place in Santa Barbara, it could not be more beautiful here,” said Elizabeth Poett at the Community Environmental Council’s Green Gala at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. “There is so much room for hope, and with this great community coming together, it’s a wonderful thing to see.” Elizabeth, host of Ranch to Table on Magnolia Network, author of The Ranch Table, and a seventh-generation cattle rancher at Rancho San Julian, perfectly fit the evening’s “Rooted in Hope” theme. CEC’s Sigrid Wright was thrilled she said yes. “She is very authentic, very approachable, very down to earth,” Sigrid said. “She’s so grounded to the land and to the food… She’s got dirt in her boots. She’s real. That’s what it’s all about.” Elizabeth pushed back her departure for Italy to attend and speak at the gala, Green Gala Committee members: Colette Carlsson, Clara Cadwell, Jen Drucker, Jessica McLernon, and Natalie Greenside (courtesy photo)
“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.” – Marie Antoinette
Bailey Roberts, Jim Owens, Carolyn Fitzgerald, Jennifer Zacharias, and Michael Luzich (courtesy photo)
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Brian Milosavljevic, Owner – 1610 Montecito Garage (courtesy photo)
community, Jay and his Top Fuel dragster pilot Arley Langlo taking internal combustion as far as they could, Arley and co. later setting speed records at places like El Mirage and the Bonneville Salt Flats. J&S was both a full-service repair shop and an autosport-grade machine shop, where local racers had cylinder heads resurfaced and engine blocks welded, automotive alchemist Jay Roach machining brute metal to do his bidding in the name of controlled explosive thrust. Now Brian Milosavljevic runs the place and has renamed it Sixteen Ten Montecito Garage. He’s still getting his head around the fact. About 7 feet tall, soft spoken, and radiating gratitude, Brian is showing me around the premises. He’d been looking for a place but never imagined this. “Power hone, parts washer, band saw, flywheel grinder...” Brian points every which way, naming stuff. The place is redolent with industry, cryptic machinery and tools arrayed and jostling for position. “It’s all totally functional,” Brian says to my stunned expression. “It’s been meticulously maintained
through the years. Paul Madsen worked here for 47 years and still comes by every day at eleven thirty. He’s a wealth of information. He basically installed a lot of this stuff with Jay.” In his time Madsen also got his hands on and optimized blocks, building one engine that drank nitro methane and set a few speed records. (Note: this newspaper featured Paul in a debris flow-related series beginning August 27, 2020.) Built in 1919 (!) the garage nestles into the verdant corner of E. Valley and Live Oaks Roads like an organic feature. The place has hosted both the horse & buggy set, and over-caffeinated Bonneville land speed aeronauts working in the dark by lamplight. From 1962 J&S became the premier Central Coast epicenter for custom machining, engine overhauls, and high-performance race builds. It was a world Jay was reluctant to leave, to say the very least – but the legendary local racing figure and beloved dad, husband, and grandpa got the checkered flag in 2012 Vanessa Guajardo is Jay and Betty’s granddaughter. “[The previous owner of J&S] took over the shop January first, 2012, and grandpa passed away January 17th.” Vanessa is Chief of Staff at U.S. Capital Global, a new mom, and an organizational tornado. She has produced a beautiful and madly annotated 40-page (and counting) document detailing the history of the parcel at 1610 E. Valley Rd. How thorough is it? Well, the title is 1610 E. Valley Road: A Documented History – from Chumash to the Present Day. Okay? For Vanessa, it’s personal. “My strongest memory of grandpa… my mom would drive me out to their house every single morning, Monday through Friday. And he would come out and kneel in the driveway and pick me up and carry me into the house –
Jay Roach blessing J&S Top Fuel car affectionately known to fans as the “Zip Code” (photo by Mike Eliason, Santa Barbara News Press)
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J&S East Valley Garage customers queuing in the day (photo courtesy Roach family)
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J&S Racing logo featuring dynamic duo Jay and driver Arley (photo courtesy of Roach family)
for years and years and years. He was just such a lovely man. We were just so lucky.” Now Brian Milosavljevic has embraced the rich narrative of the place, and of the family that made its name. “I understand the history,” Brian says with some feeling. “I’m from Cambridge, Massachusetts, but I lived in Los Angeles for a really long time. It’s been a transition into a small-town community, especially one as beautiful as Montecito. I’m leaning into this idea of serving rather than coming in hot, if you will.” Betty Roach walks in and Brian introduces us. Simultaneously wry and gracious, Betty has about her a mild aura of mischief. She feels good about the new proprietor. “I couldn’t ask for another person other than Brian here,” she says. “I mean, just everything about him. I’ll keep working on trying to find something bad about him.” I ask Brian about Jim White. “I knew that he worked at Village for 46 years. He had a solid customer base and (former J&S/current 1610 mechanic) Tommy spoke really highly of him. I invited Jim, Betty, Vanessa, and Vanessa’s husband over to my house for dinner, and that was where I saw who he was as a human being – how he cared for his late wife, how he truly helps customers. He’ll drive to San Ynez and bring food to somebody just out of surgery. He’s a selfless, truly kind man. All that coupled with the way he carried himself with that other business after 46 years. That was his home for 46 years! How hard is that to leave?”
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Jim’s early Village Automotive memories have an equine component. “On the back side of the old Village Automotive, which is now Montecito Water District, there was a ranch house and they had horses. At lunchtime I’d climb up on our wall, the horse would come over, I’d jump up on the horse’s back and we would just walk slowly around the little pasture.” Ah, the salad days of rural Montecito. When Jim wasn’t on horseback doing the slow-mo John Wayne thing, he was back in the service bay avidly mastering car repair, accruing both deep expertise and the love of a community. 46 years. Jim White has a new home now, a new in-house family to which he’s bringing the essence of those decades of joy and friendship and intake manifold gasket replacement. He misses his friends. If you knew Jim at Village, he’d love to see you at Montecito Garage. Articulating that is not so easy. “And it’s like, it’s … you know...” Jim White is never at an actual loss for words. He just has so many crowding the exit it can take a minute. Forty-six years at Village Automotive formed him and 1610 Montecito Garage is prepared to embrace Jim’s legacy. “Well,” Jim says of his time at Village, “where does somebody see a customer come in and hug their mechanic? That always made me feel good. I’m just happy that I’m still in Montecito.”
Jeff Wing is a journalist, raconteur, autodidact, and polysyllable enthusiast. He has been writing about Montecito and environs since before some people were born. He can be reached at jeff@ montecitojournal.net
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Calendar of Events
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
by Steven Libowitz THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Choice of Chats – How much stamina do you have for speakers sharing information and insights in town today? Here’s a sampling. Santa Barbara Symphony Maestro Nir Kabaretti returns to the Lobero for a season preview/celebration with a behind-the-scenes look at the concerts. (4:30 pm; free; www. thesymphony.org) … New York Times bestselling author, actress, and activist Annabelle Gurwitch drops in again at New Beginnings’ Collaborative Center for a benefit event where she’ll talk about her recent national bestseller The End of My Life is Killing Me: The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer Slacker to raise funds for her ongoing work in support of housing the underserved and providing mental health services for marginalized members of our community (5:30 pm; 501. E. Montecito St., Ste. 101; $50; https://sbnbcc.org/annabelle-gurwitch)... Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David has designated his daughter Cazzie to control (kinda) the conversation on stage at the Arlington Theatre, where there’s sure to be a whole lotta laughter. (7:30 pm; $35+; www. arlingtontheatresb.com/upcoming-events) SBBS Gathers Some Moss – Chicago blues singer-songwriter-guitarist Nick Moss plays a deeply rooted, timeless, blue-collar brand of blues, authentic to his heritage in the Windy City, home of so many of the blues greats going back decades. That’s ENDING THIS WEEK
Grand Gesture – The next guest in The Grand on State’s Visiting Artist Series heads our way from 3,000 miles away when the New York City-based Caelan Cardello Trio performs tonight. A Juilliard graduate who began performing professionally at 16, the pianist Cardello has appeared at a plethora of prestigious places from the Newport and Monterey Jazz festivals, to Lincoln Center, Birdland, and Tokyo’s Cotton Club. Still just 26, he’s shared stages with Christian McBride, Jimmy Cobb, Rufus Reid, Randy Brecker, and Bill Charlap, among others, with the latter heaping praise on the piano player: “Caelan Cardello’s got it, all of it – heart, brains, dimension, drama, imagination, taste, time, spirit, blues, nuance, virtuosity, variety and personality.” Caelan comes to the upscale storefront space next door to the Granada with his trio featuring fellow New Yorkers Eytan Schillinger-Hyman on bass and Isaiah Bravo on drums. WHEN: 7-9 pm WHERE: The Grand on State Street, 1218 State Street COST: $39-$89 INFO: (805) 708-7670 or www.thegrandonstate.com not terribly surprising, as Moss honed his chops in his early days playing with the likes of Jimmy “Fast Fingers” Dawkins, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, and Jimmy Rogers before forming his own group The Nick Moss Band featuring Dennis Gruenling. Winners of prestigious Blues Music Awards for Band of the Year – including a 2024 recognition largely due to their album Get Your Back Into It! – Moss and Gruenling, whose fat-toned harp work and raw-boned singing have won plenty of praise, head West for a Santa Barbara Blues Society appearance; Greunling’s local debut and the first spot here for Moss since a 2019 guest shot with Tommy Castro. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 E. Carrillo St. COST: $35 general, $45 VIP seating, $10 students INFO: (805) 668-6884 or www.sbblues.org
‘Room’ to Move (On) – The Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery’s first anniversary celebration has been followed up by its first photography-focused exhibition featuring works by Los Angeles-based photographer Michael EB Detto. Another Room captures Detto’s photographic practice, which explores architecture as a vessel for abstraction and psychological experience, transforming familiar urban environments into spaces of ambiguity and narrative possibility. Language is also central to his art, as he draws on a long-standing interest in text and image to incorporate short written fragments as poetic gestures that subtly shift perception and establish mood in the pieces. Detto has been on hand at the gallery several times in September and will be again for the closing celebration on Saturday, September 26 – the penultimate day of the exhibit – which will feature a special performance titled The Grotesque Room, inspired by a verse play he wrote 30 years ago. WHEN: Closes September 27 WHERE: Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery, 33 W. Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: (805) 610-1203 or www.seimandileprieur.com
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24-SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 ¡Hola Viva! – ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! – founded in 2006 by UCSB Arts & Lectures and community partners – grew out of a commitment to arts access for all. Despite a lot of attention in recent times as former A&L Executive Director Celesta Billeci closed out her tenure by securing an endowment for the program, Viva still remains largely out of the spotlight, occupying a separate section on the A&L website that you have to search for. But it’s well worth the effort. The series of performances brings people together to share the rich cultural heritage of Latin America, serving more than 15,000 students and community members each year throughout Santa Barbara County. The series is open to everyone and features some terrific acts that you’re not likely to see elsewhere in the area. Each concert weekend features performances at four different venues around the county, receptions with the artists following each show. Opening the 2026-27 series is Los Vega, a family ensemble that brings to life the vibrant sounds of son Jarocho, the traditional music of Veracruz, Mexico. Expect refined musicianship and a truly dynamic stage presence. The group boasts five albums and more than 20 years of performing around the world, offering a spirited celebration of one of Mexico’s
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Kordansky Gallery to bring in the first contemporary art exhibition since the place opened for viewing. For the next two-and-a-half months, Bellosguardo will replace the traditional house tours with the show featuring the works of Mario Ayala, Jared Buckhiester, Lucy Bull, Aaron Curry, Sayre Gomez, Guan Xiao, Chase Hall, Evan Holloway, Shara Hughes, Rashid Johnson, Deana Lawson, Tala Madani, Simphiwe Mbunyuza, Ivan Morley, Ruby Neri, Maia Cruz Palileo, Hilary Pecis, Mai-Thu Perret, Adam Pendleton, Chico da Silva, Ricky Swallow, Tom of Finland, Tristan Unrau, Mary Weatherford, Jonas Wood, and Betty Woodman. Guests will still be guided through the house by the team of docents, but the focus will be on the exhibition rather than Bellosguardo’s history, and people will have the flexibility to admire the individual works at their pace on the 90-minute tours. Reservations required. WHEN: Tours at 10 am, 12:30 & 3 pm Wednesday-Sunday, September 30-November 15 WHERE: Bellosguardo, 1407 E. Cabrillo Blvd. COST: $100 INFO: (805) 969-3220 or www.Bellosguardo.org
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richest musical traditions. It’s meant to be an authentic evening, but don’t worry if you don’t speak Spanish. Music is universal. WHEN: 7 pm tonight-Sunday WHERE: Carpinteria Arts Center, 865 Linden Ave. (Thursday); Isla Vista School, 6875 El Colegio Road (Friday); Guadalupe City Hall, 918 Obispo Street, Guadalupe (Saturday); Marjorie Luke Theatre at Santa Barbara Junior High, 721 East Cota St. (Sunday) COST: free INFO: https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/learn/viva-el-arte-de-santa-barbara
A&L Season Arrives – UCSB Arts & Lectures’ opening weekend has its first music (and on-campus) event tonight, starring José González on his Against the Dying of the Light tour. González opens A&L’s music season for 2026-2027 with his signature intricate acoustic guitar textures and quietly searching lyrics that, in his own words, serve as “a reflection on humanity.” The multilingual Sweden-based artist explores connection, uncertainty, and collective responsibility through songs that are both deeply personal and unmistakably contemporary, alongside what The Wall Street Journal called “gorgeously atmospheric, guitar-focused arrangements.” This intimate solo performance created for the Against the Dying of the Light tour should provide even more entry and insight into González’ music. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd., UCSB campus COST: $33–$63 INFO: (805) 893-3535 or https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Bellosguardo Modern-izes – Bellosguardo is the spectacular hilltop oceanfront former Clark estate that sat bereft of occupants for half a century before being bequeathed to the foundation by Huguette Clark. Yes, the place took longer than expected to open to the public. But for the last several years, folks have been able to tour the property and hear about the history of the estate and the people who lived there, as well as view much of the classic artwork collected over the decades and adorning the estate’s walls. Now for the first time, Bellosguardo is collaborating with the Los Angeles and New York-based David
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Arroyo Hondo at 25 – For a quarter-century, Arroyo Hondo Preserve has connected our community with one of Santa Barbara County’s most remarkable landscapes, a 900-acre space that includes oak woodlands and grasslands as well as Arroyo Hondo Creek – thriving wildlife habitat that also offers sweeping views of the Gaviota Coast. The preserve, owned and managed by the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, has long inspired generations of students, visitors, volunteers, and nature lovers, and is spending the month celebrating everything Arroyo Hondo has made possible while also looking forward to the next 25 years. Today’s birthday celebration is a free, all-ages event that features guided nature tours, stream exploration and education on its ecology, kids’ activities including arts and crafts, family photos and other opportunities, including plenty of time to enjoy the preserve. WHEN: 10 am-2 pm WHERE: CA-1, Goleta (approximately 4 miles past Refugio State Beach on the northbound Hwy. 101) COST: free INFO: www.sblandtrust.org/celebrate-25-years-arroyo-hondo-preserve
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NOTE TO READERS This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and entertainment events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next seven days or so. It is by no means comprehensive. Please also see my feature stories elsewhere in this issue for more events. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, please submit information – including hi-res photos – by 12 noon Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Email: slibowitz@yahoo.com. 24 September – 1 October 2026
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