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Village BeatFifth-generation Santa Barbaran Cinda McGraw launches Ciao Bella in former

Lewis & Clark space, p. 12

The Sacred ValleyCalifornia Gringa puts feet in Bronco’s stirrups, joins Peruvian chalans on the

trail in Lima, p. 36

Your WestmontDvorak’s New World Symphony

inaugurates Westmont Orchestra’s 7th season at Hahn Hall, p. 34

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9 Letters to the Editor Steve McGlothen has questions about Montecito

Fire Department; Marge Gordon urges to vote yes on Measures A and B; Lou Segal surprises himself by running for school board

10 This Week in Montecito Here’s the Scoop fundraiser; electronic waste

collection; Special Olympics Golf Classic; treasures sale in Summerland; Greek music at UCSB; C.A.L.M. Antiques & Vintage Show

Tide Guide Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to

take that walk or run on the beach12 Village Beat Cinda McGraw debuts Ciao Bella on Coast Village;

Advanced Medical Hair Institute opens; Academic Performance Index released, showing Montecito schools’ high scores; MFPD’s Geri Ventura informs about emergency procedures

14 Seen Around Town CEC’s annual Green Gala; SB Rescue Mission’s

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20 Sheriff’s Blotter Two burglaries; two individuals suffer from heat

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31 Coming & Going Lobero hosts world premiere of An American Tango 32 n.o.t.e.s. from downtown Jim Alexander announces candidacy for President as

part of Baloney Party33 On Entertainment SB Symphony launches 60th season; classical

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34 Your Westmont Orchestra premieres concerto by Diemer; two

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36 Trail Talk Part one of Lynn Kirst’s adventures in Peru40 State Street Spin Francie Lufkin elected by SB Yacht Club to serve as

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here, as they are every week50 Calendar of Events53 93108 Open House Directory Homes and condos currently for sale and open for

inspection in and near Montecito54 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in

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

Why We Need to Vote Yes on Measure F

In less than three weeks, voters will decide whether the Board of the Montecito Fire Protection District (MFPD) should be expanded from three to five members. If Montecito votes in the affirmative, the four top vote getters

for the position will take a seat on the board. Our choices for the four seats available (current member John Venable is not

up for reelection this cycle) are Susan Keller, John “Abe” Powell, Gene Sinser and Martha Collins. They have the strongest financial and entrepreneurial skills to provide community leadership, independence and transparency to the Fire District’s governing process. They will ask the toughest questions about fire regulations, equipment replacement, the need for Station #3, reciprocal agreements, community preparedness, evacuation plans, compensation, ben-efits, pensions and other urgent issues confronting the District.

Why Increase the Fire Board Size from 3 to 5 Members? A five-member Board will allow the Board to act and avoid delay during an

emergency if one member is absent or ill. It allows for community oversight and independence. It allows for working subcommittees to tackle financial and community issues. An expanded Board will also provide greater openness and transparency.

Why New MFPD Leadership?The Board’s role is to deliver the best protection possible to a community

susceptible to dangerous wind-driven wildfires. We want a fire department that continues to provide outstanding fire prevention programs, superior medical emergency services and world-class response times. But Board members also have a fiduciary responsibility to see that taxpayer money is being spent wisely and that District operations are sustainable and remain in the black.

For almost 40 years, Roy Jensen, 87, a former firefighter, has dominated the decisions of the three-man Board of the Fire District. Director Jensen is a good and honorable man, but he will be 91 by the end of his 10th term, if re-elected. We are grateful for Director Jensen’s dedicated public service, but MFPD is now faced with tough long-range questions and needs a fresh approach to those problems.

Is MFPD’s Pay Competitive?Montecito’s current Fire Chief earns a base pay of $242,000 annually, roughly

comparable to the Fire Chief of Los Angeles and about $100,000 more than most California Fire Chiefs.

The Montecito Fire Chief dealt with 22 fires last year, less than two per month, counting all structure fires, car fires, vegetation fires and dumpster fires, and also serviced another 546 paramedic emergencies and 475 service calls and false alarms. The Los Angeles Fire Department, by contrast, responded to 826,924 calls last year, including 8,099 structure fires and 661,765 responses for emer-gency medical services.

To put the current Montecito Chief’s base salary in context, the Mayor of Los Angeles earns less ($232,425 annually) to manage a city of 4.1 million people with 56,200 city employees and a budget of $7.2 billion. Also making less are the Vice President of the United States ($230,700); the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court ($228,500); every U.S. Senator ($174,000); the Governor of California ($173,987); and Santa Barbara County Supervisors ($84,200).

Since 88% of MFPD’s budget is now spent on public pay and benefits, includ-ing pension payments, the Board has a vital oversight role in matching fairness with fiscal prudence.

Troubling Pension CommitmentsMontecito firefighters may retire at 55 years of age and receive an annual

defined benefit lifetime pension of 3% of their final year’s compensation mul-tiplied by each year of service. With 30 years of service, this means they receive 3% x 30 years, or up to 90% of their final year’s compensation during each year of their retirement. Retirees also receive annual cost-of-living increases and free lifetime medical benefits. When the former Fire Chief retired this year at the age of 54, his starting pension totaled a quarter of a million dollars a year, along with health care for life. Montecito is a wealthy community and most homeowners may be pleased to read how well its firefighters are paid. But, at some point such generous unfunded benefits will become problematic and/or unsustainable. It will be up to the Board of Directors of MFPD to negotiate in good faith to con-tinue to pay firefighters well and to ensure the department’s financial solvency.

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Santa Barbara chef Rebecca Brand is going global!

She had just returned from the MIPCOM trade show in Cannes, France, where her new series “Dinner Party Art Class,” which combines dat-ing and relationships with fine wine, fine food and fine art as vivacious sin-gles come together to find true love, created interest through her Canadian distributor, Canamedia.

“Nobody has signed on the dotted line yet, but four or five have made offers and there are another twenty around the table,” Brand told me from the Mediterranean metropolis better known for its celebrity gridlocked film festival each May.

“Needless to say I’m absolutely thrilled. It has been four days of deal-ing with really heavy hitters in the world of TV. I’m now multi platform-

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day. It has tripled in both hits per day and subscribers per day.”

The new show is based on “Dinner Party Art Class,” a concept that Rebecca, who taught art at Montecito Union School, launched in our Eden by the Beach a few years ago.

“I’ve done a test market run on KEYT, the ABC affiliate, and it was a hit, so that encouraged me to develop it further. I got a contract for thirteen half-hour episodes, ten of which have already aired.

“I hired Joseph Souza, a videog-rapher, and then editor Criz Cazor, and we sat together for hundreds of hours putting together a sizzle reel. It has really worked very well. It was the station’s general manager, Mike Granados, who suggested I take it further.”

Last year Rebecca, a single mother with three boys, also launched “Santa Barbara Men,” where 12 unmarried males have a gourmet dinner together and she leads a discussion on finding everlasting love, with women coming for dessert and wine, as I first revealed here.

“John Thyne of the realtors, Goodwin and Thyne, is coaching me on negotiating,” adds Rebecca. “His brother is a star in the Fox series Bones and he does many different types of entertainment contracts.

“I have worked so very hard on

all these projects. I can’t believe I am really breaking into television. It is a dream come true.”

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Cleese’s Confessions At the age of 72, comedian John

Cleese is about to reveal all in his autobiography.

John, who has lived in our rar-efied enclave for many years, recently made his permanent base in the jet set tax haven of Monaco with his fourth wife, English jewelry designer Jennifer Wade, 41, after tying the knot on the exclusive Caribbean island of Mustique in August, as I chronicled in this illustrious organ.

Now the New York publishing giant, Random House, has signed a mega-buck deal to acquire the world rights to his memoirs, which promise to be a fascinating read given his extraordi-nary life and the international acclaim he has achieved.

“It’s the inside story of a shy child from Weston-super-Mare in England, who dabbled briefly with teaching and law, who went on to become one of the most feted writers and perform-ers of the past fifty years,” says the PR blurb. “His autobiography, like the man himself, promises to be hilari-ously frank and frankly hilarious.”


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

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Time For A Change

I read with great interest Bob Hazard’s excellent and informative editorial (“Our Picks for Fire Safety,”

MJ # 18/40). It is indeed time for a new strategic vision, fiscal responsibility and community involvement in our most fundamental, and arguably most important community service.

Community is what I most cherish in this semi-rural beauty in which we live. It was community that saved my family from the flames, as our call came not from reverse 911, but from Abe Powell, another active communi-ty advocate who made dozens of calls throughout the community. My family got out as the flames were crossing the ridge to our house. Our house did not burn in the initial barrage of flames, partly due to preparation and a fire resistant house, but mostly due to luck. It did ignite after the passing of the main firestorm. Montecito Fire did not have the appropriate smaller equip-ment to save my slowly burning home, but County and City did respond.

Fours years later I watch with a

breaking heart as homeless homeown-ers in our community fight to rebuild their homes. To make matters worse, they are not just fighting with insurance companies and rising costs, but fight-ing with a fire department that doesn’t understand our semi-rural communi-ty’s special requirements. Montecito Fire Department has adopted rules that are appropriate for building new subdivisions, but not for rebuilding burned-out family homes. Why is there no flexibility to the rules when it comes to rebuilding from a disaster?

The Tea Fire taught us that the very elements we love – the charming nar-row lanes, the winding mountain roads and rural ambiance – have become our biggest liabilities after a fire.

The Tea and Jesusita fires will not be the last to threaten our community. If your home burns down, do you want a fire department that will require an “Eminent Domain,” a five-million-dol-lar special property tax assessment and a multi-million-dollar driveway before you can start to rebuild your old home?

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This is what happened in Montecito and will happen again under current management.

There are many questions to consider in charting the future of the fire depart-ment. Why do we have big boulevard cruisers as fire trucks? Why don’t we have equipment appropriate for this community? Is it true that this fire district spends two to three times the money per station that Santa Barbara City, County and Summerland spend per station? They have four-man crews. Why do we have only three? Is it true that the last retired fire chief is receiv-ing $365K a year in pension, part of a total of over a million a year in pension for the last four retired fire chiefs alone?

Please keep this in mind when you choose a new Fire Board. It’s time to elect some citizens on the board with passion, responsibility and who have experience on the recovery end of disaster.

Steve McGlothenMontecito(Editor’s note: Former Fire Chief

Wallace’s retirement package is indeed generous, but it does not reach the heights you suggest. We’ll have more about fire department pensions and perhaps some suggestions as to how to finance them in the future that won’t put the safety of Montecito’s homes at risk and at the same time ensures that Montecito retains the best fire department in the state. – J.B.)

Time To Pay BackMeasures A and B are on the

November ballot. It continues the parcel taxes for both Santa Barbara School Districts passed in 2008. If it passes it will continue music and art education for our elementary students and improved Math, Science and Technology education in our second-ary schools for four more years.

Our education has treated us very well. We are a lively, involved and a quite a long-lived older generation, mainly because we learned how to read, think, and appreciate what life has to offer us. Then our children came along and we had good schools for them and, for most of us, our children are even better educated then we were. But now it’s time to step up for our grandchildren. For those of us seniors who really can’t afford the parcel tax we can appeal to have the $48/$45 excused. I know that due to the finan-cial crisis in 2008, our incomes are still down, tempting us to forget what we owe but we, here, in this time and place, have to give back what we were given. Vote Yes on A and B.

Marge GordonGrandmother to 10(Editor’s note: While we reluctantly sup-

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Starr King Rummage SaleStarr King Parent-Child Workshop announces its 64th annual Starr King Rummage Sale. Find incredible bargains on unique antiques and treasures, clothing, housewares, books, furniture, sports equipment and much more. Visitors can also enjoy a delicious bake sale and gourmet lunch. When: Friday, October 19, 9:30 am to 5 pm; Saturday, October 20, 9:30 am to 1 pmWhere: Lower courtyard of Unitarian Society, 1525 Santa Barbara Street

SATURDAY OCTOBER 20

Biya and Pete & Greta Event at BonitaBonita welcomes Javier Siordia in store. See fall sweaters, colorful embroidered blouses, pants, accessories and more. Have a sneak peek at Spring 2013 with pre-season ordering. Treats served! When: 12 to 4 pmWhere: 2330 Lillie Avenue, SummerlandInfo: 565-3848 or www.bonitasummerland.com

FRIDAY OCTOBER 19

Electronic Waste CollectionElectronics are commonly disposed of items that are also hazardous to the environment. The City of Santa Barbara Environmental Services works to educate the public about proper disposal of electronics to keep them out of the landfill. They also host annual electronic waste collection events where area businesses and residents can recycle their old electronics free of charge. The City sponsors an e-waste event this Friday, October 19, and Saturday October 20. Any electronic or small appliance with an electrical cord or that takes batteries will be accepted. Please no batteries, toner cartridges, light bulbs, or large appliances.When: 8:30 am to 4 pmWhere: In the Sears parking lot at La Cumbre and Calle Real Info: 564-5631

Golf Classic 2012Be a player, sponsor, or fan at the Golf Classic 2012 to benefit Special Olympics Santa Barbara County Sports Programs and Golf TeamsWhen: 10:30 amWhere: 405 Glen Annie RoadInfo, Registration and Sponsorship: www.sosc.org/sbgolfclassic

Trinkets and Treasures SaleA sale of trinkets and treasures from

around the world, featuring Oriental rugs, period furniture and accessories or all kinds, plus a twenty-five year old collection of vintage and antique fabrics to choose from, all below wholesale cost.When: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 19, 20, 21; 8 am to 3 pmWhere: 2165 Ortega Hill Road, Summerland

Greek Music at UCSBAs part of a continuing interdisciplinary initiative to promote both ancient and modern Greek culture, the Department of Classics at UC Santa Barbara has teamed with the music department’s ethnomusicology program to present “Labyrinth: An Evening of Original Compositions and Traditional Music From Greece.”The program includes Ross Daly and Kelly Thoma, from Houdetsi on the island of Crete; Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble; and the duo Teslim, who perform Greek, Turkish, and Sephardic music.The concert is made possible through the Argyropoulos Endowment in Hellenic Studies, which was established in 2001 to support the study and dissemination of classical and modern Greek culture at UCSB.When: 8 pmWhere: UCSB’s MultiCultural CenterCost: free and open to the public

Antiques & Vintage Show and SaleThe C.A.L.M. Antiques & Vintage Show

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 20

Fall Twilight TourA Twilight Tour will take place at Ganna Walska Lotusland. The colors and light in the garden change dramatically as the evenings grow longer, and a twilight tour provides the perfect opportunity to explore Lotusland late in the day. Hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served on the geranium terrace, overlooking the main lawn, from 4:30 to 5:15 pm.

Guests may choose to reserve a docent-guided tour or explore the garden on their own. Lotusland, a 37-acre botanical garden in Montecito, offers this opportunity to enjoy the garden at twilight only a few times each year. When: 3:30 pm to 6 pm Cost: $55 for members, $65 for non-membersRegistration: 969-9990

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Fundraiser at Here’s the ScoopTwenty percent of treats purchased at Here’s the Scoop today will benefit Autism Speaks, a non-profit organization for autism awareness and advocacyWhen: noon to 9 pmWhere: 1187 Coast Village RoadInfo: 969-7020

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Opera Costume SaleOpera Santa Barbara is cleaning out its costume storage facility, just in time for Halloween. The sale will feature hundreds of costume pieces that have been collected over the past 18 years. It will also include some wigs, props (think Japanese umbrellas) and other items to create the perfect Halloween costume.When: 11 am to 5 pmWhere: 1330 State Street, in the parking lotInfo: (805) 898-3890

SB Music Club ConcertThe Santa Barbara Music Club presents the first program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful classical music at the Faulkner Gallery in the downtown Central Library. The program will include music by Arnold, Durufle and Prokofiev, performed by chamber musicians. Performers include flutist Mary Jo Hartle, pianist Betty Oberacker, and clarinetist Per Elmfors, among others. When: 3 pmWhere: 40 East Anapamu StreetCost: freeInfo: sbmusicclub.org or call (805) 969-7634

Dark and Stormy NightJust in time for Halloween, the USSB Theatre Group presents two spooky live radio plays, The Hitchhiker and Canterville Ghost. The plays include thrilling live sound effects (think rattling chains and moaning ghosts), audience participation and refreshments. Come in a creepy costume and learn the “Thriller” dance 15 minutes prior to the show!When: Saturday, October 20 at 7 pm and Sunday, October 21 at 3 pmWhere: Sanctuary at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, 1535 Santa Barbara StreetCost: $10 for adults and children over the age of 5, children under 5 freeInfo: 965-4583

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Last week, in the space formerly occupied by Lewis & Clark on Coast Village Road, jeweler

Cinda McGraw opened Ciao Bella, a jewelry and gift store. Along with her one-of-a-kind creations, McGraw offers unusual collectables and antiques at the shop, as well as jewelry from other local designers.

“I’ve always wanted a storefront, and I’m looking forward to seeing all of my regular customers,” McGraw

told us earlier this week. A 5th gen-eration Santa Barbaran, Cinda has been creating her jewelry pieces at her home studio since 1998. “Now I have a larger space to hold everything I love,” she said.

McGraw, whose parents own real estate in Montecito’s lower village, has three distinct lines of jewelry, and customers from around the world. The first line, called “Mermaid,” is beach-themed, with light, earthy gem-

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stones like peridot, blue topaz, mother of pearl, chalcedony and opals. Her “Flowers” line is a bit bolder, with emeralds, topaz, citrine, pink tourma-line, pink quartz, prehnite, and other rare gems, with gold leaf accents. “The Ancients” line features ancient glass and jewels, including jade, garnet, and chalcedony, Roman beads and Greek coins, some of which are 2,500 years old. These pieces are made with authentic and certified artifacts from Egyptian, Etruscan, Roman and Greek periods. Most of the jewelry is set in high carat gold, with a few pieces set in brass or sterling silver.

The renovated space is filled with collectables and antiques, as well as new items, with price points for everybody. McGraw, who is Buddhist, says she finds inspiration in Asian artifacts, so she has many on display and for sale. She carries porcelain and silver antiques, as well as crystal perfume spritzers, Lalique pieces, and other treasures from her travels. There are also new candles and lotions from the Caldrea line, greeting cards, and paintings from Jamee Aubrey for sale, and a line of vintage jewelry including Tiffany and Cartier. “There is some-thing for everyone,” Cinda says.

Cinda, who also designs custom jewelry pieces, is often at the shop, along with three part-time employees who are equally enthusiastic about old and unique collectables.

Ciao Bella is located at 1286 Coast Village Road in Montecito. Call (805) 969-6110 for hours and information.

AMHI Opens in Montecito

Advanced Medical Hair Institute, owned and operated by Dr. Joseph Williams, MD, FACS, has opened on Coast Village Road in Montecito. Dr.

Williams, who is a hair restoration specialist, tells us he is one of 35 doctors in the world trained in cut-ting edge hair restoration techniques, which produce effective and natural results. “I’m thrilled to be part of this community,” says Dr. Williams.

Dr. Williams and Julie Richter, PA-C, gave us a tour of the new facility, which fronts Coast Village Circle. Our interview was scheduled during a break from one of Williams’ procedures; the patient, who was awake and resting, allowed us into the procedure room to see firsthand Dr. Williams’ technique.

Dr. Williams grafts hair follicles using tiny, custom cut blades. The patient we met showed us a section of follicles on the back of her head that had been removed earlier in the day. Two technicians were also in the procedure room, removing the hair follicles from the skin removed from the patient, under microscopes. Then, the follicles are transplanted back onto the hairline, with tiny incisions made by Dr. Williams. When we met her, the patient had already had 1,500 follicles implanted; Dr. Williams planned on doing a total of 4,000 by the end of the day. “I trust him completely, and I am very comfortable,” the patient told us.

While it is an all-day affair, the patient is awake and coherent; Dr. Williams has set up Wi-Fi and a televi-sion in the procedure room, to make his patients more comfortable. The doctor performs every consultation and 8-10 hour procedure himself, to ensure the best care, he said. “I like to think of it as hair artistry, not just a medical procedure,” he told us. In a brochure showing before and after pictures of hair restoration patients, Dr. Williams has his own hairline pic-tured, as he is a patient of the special-ized procedure.

A native of North Carolina, Dr. Williams attended undergraduate school at East Carolina University and medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, and has worked in Nevada since 1993. Past patients include men and women, celebrities, politicians, and even a sit-ting president from a country on the

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This year the Community Environmental Council’s (CEC) Green Gala attacked all of your

senses from the sound of rhythmic music to wildly airbrushed and costumed Green Greeters welcoming you into a stunning space filled with trees hung with moss and leaves, and walls covered in white chiffon and awash in dramatic light. The plain Santa Barbara Armory had disappeared into the décor. The dance floor was called the Rhythm Cave, a “room” created out of LED screens, which surrounded guests with images of nature, a forest, kelp beds, or a windswept mountaintop. The Cirque du Soleil artists were awesome as “live trees” on stilts walking around. As chair Elizabeth Wagner and honorary chair Cyndi Richman said, “Almost everything in the room is borrowed, repurposed or vintage including costumes, the greenery, the décor and the centerpieces.”

Merryl Brown Events and the Green Gala Committee (a team that donated hundreds of hours) collaborated on all the details – even selecting the din-nerware with thought as to how much water it would take to wash them.

The coup de grace was the dessert table laden with ice cream, brownies, truf-fles, cupcakes, chocolate chip cookies, tiny pies and much more. Kids in a candy store couldn’t have been hap-pier than the 350 guests enjoying the decadent delights. All the while LA DJ Derek Monteiro spun a fantastic mix of dance music.

CEO/executive director Dave Davis with board president Dennis Allen head up CEC, which has been around for over forty years as a local pio-neer for a national movement. Their goal is “Fossil Free by ’33” including solar programs, electric vehicle charg-ing stations, wind and solar farms, ditching plastic, saving energy and conserving water. CEC helped make

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Downfield on the Bayou

It’s always fun to go to Santa Barbara Rescue Mission’s (SBRM) annual fun-draiser held at Rancho Dos Pueblos estate, courtesy of owners Henry and Dundie Schulte. This year’s theme kicked off with Downfield on the Bayou signifying letter sweaters, pom poms and footballs. To get you in the mood, the Dos Pueblos band and cheerleaders were there to great

guests as they entered. The Women’s Auxiliary members who host this event were all dressed in their umpire shirts and no one was arguing with them!

The tantalizing tailgate tidbits by Lorraine Lim Catering were delicious – this year we had chicken and pork sliders. The Dixie Daddies played their toe tappin’ “half time” music while everyone decided what to bid on in the silent auction. An All American BBQ followed.

Gerd Jordano has been emcee for all eleven Bayous. Penny Jenkins intro-duced the honoree Bob Bryant for the Leni Fe Bland Award. Bob lost a son to drugs and founded the Daniel Bryant Youth and Family Treatment Center, which Penny runs. She too lost a child. Bob also serves on the Fighting Back Steering Committee. He, wife Patty and friends have climbed eight mountains to raise funds. A trek to Kilamanjaro raised $500,000.

Bob said he had an email from SBRM president Rolf Geyling advis-ing, “Brief thank you’s. This is not the Academy Awards. I’ve never heard anyone say they wished the speech was longer.” We all laughed as Bob did what he was told.

Rolf spoke to the guests saying, “I’m proud of our record. While only twenty-one percent of those complet-ing treatment programs nationally

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John’s international career was launched in 1969 when he joined Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam as a writer and performer in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which then morphed into films like Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Life of Brian.

With his then wife, Connie Booth, he created and starred in the classic TV comedy Fawlty Towers, as well as appearing in James Bond and Harry Potter films.

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Stadium Soirée They don’t do anything small in

Texas and the boffo bash that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones threw at his three-year-old $1.2 billion stadium last week was the perfect example.

The extravagant black tie family gala at the stadium’s Legends Club, which celebrated Jerry’s 50th wedding anniversary with his wife, Gene, as well as their 70th birthdays and the 90th birthday of his mother, Arminta, absolutely oozed nostalgia, given attendees boasted past and present players and coaches.

Invitees quaffing the free flow-ing Cristal champagne and nosh-ing the Beluga caviar canapés, also included Montecitans Harold and Annette Simmons, Barry and Jelinda DeVorzon, Bob and Marlene Veloz and Bill and Sandi Nicholson, who know the tony twosome from their frequent visits here while the top NFL team pitches its training camp in Oxnard during the summer.

“It was the most amazing extrava-ganza,” Annette, who sat next to quar-terback Tony Romo, tells me.

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Burglary, Crossbow Danger on Ashley RoadThursday, 11 October, 7:57 am – Deputy Baisa was dispatched to a botani-

cal garden on Ashley Road to investigate a commercial burglary. A kiosk located on the property to welcome visitors and take payments was broken into; the door to the kiosk was kicked in. It appears the burglar attempted and failed to gain access to a locked cash register, but the suspect was able to steal 10 two-way radios and one multi channel radio. It appears the suspect gained access to the property by jumping over a fence.

Upon speaking with the facilities manager and the garden’s executive direc-tor, another issue on the property was raised. Six months ago, the garden’s staff filed a police report regarding crossbow arrows that had been found on the property. The arrows were stuck in the ground and in trees; it was assumed the arrows were fired onto the property during the night when no one was on the property.

Earlier this month, two more arrows were fired onto the property, this time during the day; a maintenance worker observed one of the arrows land in his vicinity. The executive director told the deputy she was concerned for the safety of her employees, due to the fact that the crossbows have each penetrated significantly into trees and into the ground where they land. The deputy con-ducted a search of the area, and spoke with all neighbors regarding the issue. A report was filed.

Burglary on East Mountain Drive Monday, 15 October 9:29 am – Deputy Dickey was dispatched to East Mountain

Drive on report of a burglary. The owner of the property reported that his hired workers had notified him that someone had cut the padlock on the access gate to the property, and subsequently cut off two locks on two storage containers. Several tools were stolen, including a generator, chainsaws, and weedwackers. A report was taken.

Trail Rescues in MontecitoMonday, 15 October, 9:55 am and 1:16 pm – Montecito Fire Protection

District responded to two victims of heat illness on local trails. The first victim was reported at 9:55 am, approximately 1 mile up from the Romero Canyon Trailhead. Montecito Fire arrived to find a 51-year-old male who had been mountain bike riding. Montecito Fire made contact with the patient at 10:26 am, and transported him down the trail via a pick up truck. He was then taken to Cottage Hospital by AMR.

The second victim was reported at 1:16 pm approximately half a mile above the waterfall on San Ysidro Trail. The 65-year-old female had been hiking with her husband and began to feel what she reported to be heat stroke. The hikers had a cell phone with them, but there was no service where they were. A hiker who was passing by ran further down the trail and called 9-1-1 once they were able to receive a cell signal. The patient was located at 1:53 pm and transported to Cottage Hospital via Santa Barbara Helicopter 308.

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Montecito Association

Beautification Day Saturday, November 7, 2009, 9AM

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Plans are underway once again for Montecito Beautification Day. This annual event is held for neighbors to work together to clean up our community’s neighborhoods. The day will begin at 9:00 AM on the lawn across from the Upper Village Post Office. The Four Seasons Biltmore hosts a Continental Breakfast. When you return from your assigned clean-up project, our annual Beautification Award Winners are announced and our own Montecito Fire District hosts a hot dog and chili lunch. It is a great neighborhood day you and your family won’t want to miss!

We would like for you to join us again this year and be a T-shirt sponsor.

The T-shirt sponsorship program benefits on-going Beautification Committee projects in Montecito. For a minimum cost of $50.00, you and your family will have your name on this year’s T-shirt. Each sponsor receives two souvenir T-shirts. We hope you will sign up now and mark your calendars so you can join us on Saturday, November 7 for this fun family community event.

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Saturday, November 3, 2012, 9AM Honoring Montecito’s Bill Palladini

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Plans are underway once again for Montecito Beautifi cation Day. This annual event is held for neighbors to work together to clean up our

community’s neighborhoods. The day will begin at 9:00 AM on the lawn across from the Upper Village Post Offi ce. The Montecito Country Club hosts a Con-tinental Breakfast. When you return from your assigned clean-up project, our annual Beautifi cation Award Winners are announced and our own Montecito Fire District hosts a hot dog and chili lunch. It is a great neighborhood day you and your family won’t want to miss!

We would like for you to join us again this year and be a T-shirt sponsor.

The T-shirt sponsorship program benefi ts on-going Beautifi cation Committee projects in Montecito. For a minimum cost of $50.00, you and your family will have your name on this year’s T-shirt. Each sponsor receives two souvenir T-shirts. We hope you will sign up now and mark your calendars so you can join us on Saturday, November 3rd for this fun family community event.

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Also part of the practice is Physician’s Assistant Julie Richter, who specializes in aesthetic services including treatment of wrinkles, skin tone and texture, acne, and discolor-ation. She utilizes treatments includ-ing Botox, Juvederm, Radiesse, and other injectables, as well as laser skin treatment.

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Montecito Schools Score High

Last week, Academic Performance Index (API) scores were released in Santa Barbara. The index is a standard by which schools in California are held accountable for student perfor-mance; Cold Spring School scored the highest in Santa Barbara County, with Montecito Union School coming in third.

“What the scores tell us are that our students are achieving,” Cold Spring School superintendent Dr. Tricia Price told us earlier this week. A score of 1000 is a “perfect” score, with any-thing over 800 considered proficient. Schools scoring lower than 800 receive targeted funding from the state to help improve scores among strug-gling subgroups of students, Dr. Price explained. CSS scored 966, which is a 16-point increase from last year, while Montecito Union School scored 957. Mountain View, in Santa Barbara, came in second, scoring 960.

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Dr. Joseph Williams and Julie Richter, PA, at their new office on Coast Village Road

Cold Spring School teachers with Dr. Tricia Price. The school recently scored highest in Santa Barbara County on the statewide Academic Performance Index.

The main procedure room at the newly-opened Advanced Medical Hair Institute (photo courtesy AMHI)


LETTERS (Continued from page 8)parcel tax. No property owner is going to go hungry or broke having to pay out $50 a year; by offering “outs” to those that can claim – legitimately or otherwise – they can’t afford the $50, these measures simply encourage people who won’t be paying the tax to vote for it. If they can’t afford the $50, they shouldn’t be in a position to vote on this measure. Or, at the least, they should recuse themselves from the vote. – J.B.)

Why I am Running for School Board

I must admit that I surprised myself when on August 15 I wrote a check for an amount in excess of $5,000 and declared my candidacy for the Santa Barbara School Board. I had never con-templated running for public office, notwithstanding I deeply care about my community and country, I was just too busy with my life. So what is it that moved me to make this fateful decision a few months ago? Simply put, the state of public education in our country and locally in Santa Barbara is in crisis.

Am I being melodramatic when I say that our public schools are not only failing us but also have the potential to leave a generation of kids ill pre-pared for a high tech economy, increas-ingly dependent on higher-order criti-cal thinking skills? Let’s review the data to see if I am exaggerating the extent of the problem. The Program

for International Student Assessment has recently ranked U.S. 15-year-old students 35th in math literacy, 29th in science and 18th in reading among all industrialized countries. It also con-cluded that 70% of our eighth graders cannot read proficiently. Those who believe our local schools are perform-ing better than what we are seeing on the national level would be sadly mis-taken. Unfortunately, more than half of our students in many grades and classes are not proficient in English and/or math. Less than a third of our high school graduates completes two full years of postgraduate education and far fewer complete four-year col-leges. The most astounding statistic is that up to 90% of our high school graduates who attend our community colleges need remedial instruction in English and math.

I think most would agree this is not a pretty picture.

So what can we do to change the trajectory of the decline of public edu-cation? The good news is that most of the educational pundits who have studied the problems have determined it will require dramatic reforms. We need to reform our tenure and senior-ity rules, implement comprehensive teacher and principal evaluation sys-tems, reward teachers based on their performance rather than their length of service and, finally, change the cul-

ture in our schools to one where every child is expected to succeed and those responsible for the current problems cease making excuses for the dismal results we are achieving.

To help illustrate the dysfunction these counterproductive and archaic rules create in our schools, let’s review what has transpired locally. In the Santa Barbara District, there was only one teacher dismissed for poor performance in the last five years. Until last year, tenured teach-ers were only evaluated once every five years and 100% of all teachers received satisfactory grades, even though it is highly unlikely that all teachers are performing at the same level. High performing teachers are often paid less than their less effective colleagues due to seniority rules. A particularly egregious incident resulting from these misguided rules occurred in 2010 when the Santa Barbara County Teacher of the Year was dismissed because of lack of seniority.

So we know in order for the school district to work for all children, these rules need to change. What is the prob-lem? An entrenched bureaucracy and resistant teacher unions that fight tooth and nail any of these sensible reforms. Teacher unions have spent over $200 million in the last five years to preserve the status quo. Recently, they blocked enactment of SB 1530, a bill that would have made it easier to fire pedophile teachers (Das Williams voted with the union). The teachers union came very close to passing AB 5, a bill that would have essentially blocked the introduc-tion of effective teacher evaluation sys-tems in the schools.

We then have our local school board, which has voted in favor of every tax increase on the ballot. They have put Measures A & B on the ballot, an increase in property taxes for all prop-

erty owners in the district, and they have endorsed Propositions 30 and 38, despite the fact that per-pupil spend-ing in the Santa Barbara District has increased by $400 per pupil in the last four years. Interestingly, Proposition 38 is widely opposed by the voters as evi-denced by recent polls, because it will raise taxes for anyone with an income over $7,000. However, that did not stop our school board from endorsing it. Although our board has asked taxpay-ers in our district to pony up with more of their hard-earned dollars, not once have any of the members endorsed or even spoken out about any of the reforms mentioned in this article. Why is this the case? Is it because they have all sought the endorsement and the campaign contributions of the teachers unions and their political allies?

Recently, I asked my opponents to release their answers to the Santa Barbara Teachers Association question-naire to see what they promised the local teachers union in exchange for its endorsement, but so far none have agreed, even though if they are elected they will have to collectively bargain with the union regarding wages, ben-efits and an assortment of work rules. One has to wonder if they have com-promised their objectivity and inde-pendence in order to get elected.

I ask for your vote, so I can repre-sent the students, parents and residents tired of the excuses and unwilling to accept the poor performance of our schools. Together with your help and support, we can implement the long overdue reforms and make sure all children are receiving the education they deserve.

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18 – 25 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 25It’s so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked – Harold Pinter

ca/sba/vote/segal_lLou SegalSanta Barbara(This editor’s note was written by Mr.

Segal: “Twenty-four years ago, I moved to Santa Barbara from Boston with my wife. I founded a real estate finance consulting business in 1992 and have successfully run it since. My son has gone through the public schools and last May graduated from Claremont McKenna College. I frequent the many dog parks in Santa Barbara with my trusty golden retriever, Tracy. Since she gets all the attention, I am known as the guy who just happens to be accompanying her.”)

Eternally GratefulI would like to extend my heart-

felt thanks for the recent article about new shops opening at the Montecito Country Mart (“Filling Up The Spaces” MJ # 18/40).

As a new small-business owner in Montecito, one of my goals is to gener-ate a local following and become part of the community.

The mention in your paper was the ideal way to launch my new venture. I am eternally grateful.

Thank you, Cathy MogullSummerland Mercantile

MFPD Needs A Five-Man Board

Nearly ten years ago, when I first made it known I was interested in becoming a Montecito Fire Protection District Board member, I was excited to learn the District wanted me. I replaced Dan Eidelson who left the Board due to disagreements with Director Roy Jensen. Over the past years, I have asked if Dan would return, the answer has always been “No.”

With the thought that Director Jensen, the incumbent, may be re-elected for another term, coupled by the possible rejection of the five-man Board, I made the decision it was time for me to retire.

What Bob Hazard has outlined as reasons for expansion from three to five members on the Board are accurate.

There are two others that he has not mentioned.

For approximately one year, Director Jensen became extremely ill. Since he was unavailable due to his ailment last summer, the other Board member – John Venable – and I were notified not to make vacation plans due to the inability for the Department to conduct Official Business if there were only one Director available.

Furthermore, tough questions arise several times per month: compen-sation, benefits, insurance, land use issues, Station 3, litigation, replacement of vehicles, budgets, hiring, firing, and a large host of others.

Due to the Brown Act, there is no way to discuss by any means other than “on

Agenda” at official Board meetings due to the fact that two members constitute “a majority” and anything they discuss becomes “Official Business.”

Director Jensen fought me for the past five years on the idea of expand-ing the Board. Luckily, John Venable voted for the proposal and Director Jensen “went along with it.”

I pray that our public sees the logic and necessity for the five “man” Board and passes it.

In one week, I will attend my last Fire Board Meeting. I would like to feel that I have made a difference at MFPD if by no other action than to push forth the change in Directorship from three to five.

Dana NewquistMontecito(Editor’s note: Dana has been a dedicated

and resourceful resident of Montecito for many years. The Board will miss his intel-ligence, passion, and that vaunted dedica-tion. We are sorry to see him go. – J.B.)

Not Fair and BalancedFrom time to time I sample the edi-

torial content of the Montecito Journal. I understand that you don’t claim to be fair and balanced, still I am disap-pointed that you allow the letters to the editor section to be such a right-wing echo chamber. The letters to the editor published in your October 11-18 edition are the latest example of your partisan preferences degrading the editorial integrity of your publica-tion. Of a total of eight letters pub-lished, six were about the Presidential election; five of these were critical of President Obama while one was in support of him.

The five critical letters offered plenty of partisan talking points but no factual criticism. You offered no significant edi-torial comment on them. The other let-ter, from Leoncio Martins in support of President Obama, gave specific details responding to the question: are we bet-ter off than four years ago? This is the one letter to which you wrote a lengthy editorial response. In your response you admit deleting from the letter the evidence that in recent decades Democratic Presidents have had more success leading the economy than Republicans. Apparently you have no counterpoint to that. You also make the specious claim that President Obama put federal spending in “hyper-drive,” you deny the effects of Republican intransigence on the economy, and you close with a feeble attempt to blame family income decline and medical insurance cost increases on Obama pol-icies. Surely you can represent conser-vative principles and policies without resorting to such tired partisan rhetoric and editorial malarkey.

I am looking forward to your reply. Regards,John D. Kelley

Santa Barbara(Editor’s note: Thank you for your

thoughtful letter. We actually do consider ourselves “fair,” but we certainly have no love for this current administration.

As for our reply, we’ll take this one issue at a time. The letters we printed “criti-cal” of President Obama are the letters we received over the prior week. We did not receive any – other than Mr. Martins’ – letters praising the president, so natu-rally we didn’t print any. Leoncio Martins is a well-known Obama supporter who sends his letters praising and defending the president’s policies to all media, regularly. Consequently, we rarely publish his letters, but when he deigns to reference something he read in the Journal, we are then obli-gated to print his missive. We are not, how-ever, obligated to allow misinformation to be passed along without comment. Which is, of course, why we responded with our Editor’s note.

We deleted the portion of Mr. Martins’ letter referencing Democrat presidents because his claim that they all, includ-ing Johnson and Carter, balanced their budgets and all Republican presidents during that same period had not, is simply specious. It is true that the last budget President Johnson approved (for fiscal 1969) was supposedly “balanced,” but the escalating costs of the Vietnam war and the implementation of the Great Society programs quickly put an end to all that. The budget was out of bal-

ance long before the fiscal year ended. The truth is that in the past fifty years only President Clinton presided over a government with a truly balanced bud-get – thanks to Newt Gingrich and the 1994 Republican “takeover” of the U.S. House of Representatives. We do give President Clinton credit for signing on to the Republican budget. So, rather than correct the record, we just omitted the fictional history of U.S. Presidents. We’ll agree that Republican and Democrat presidents have been equally profligate, but as of now, today, only Republicans seem willing to consider spending restraints, modest though they may be.

If you do not believe that adding nearly five trillion dollars to the national debt in three and a half years is “federal spending in ‘hyper-drive,’” then you and I are liv-ing on two different planes of reality. As for “Republican intransigence,” I don’t even know what that means. If you mean that Republicans in the House – who have passed three budgets over the past three years, while the Democrat-led Senate has passed none – are trying to stick to the principal of requiring budget cuts to bal-ance any new spending, well you can call that “intransigence,” or even “editorial malarkey.” I call it common sense.

Lastly, is there any question that the passage of the “Affordable Care Act” has caused insurance rates to skyrocket in anticipation of the act’s full implementa-tion? – J.B.) •MJ

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“It’s an honor and a recognition for a job well done,” Dr. Price said. She added that the single most important factor for the increase is the high level of teaching at CSS. “We also have a culture at this school, that ‘it’s cool to do school.’” An attitude of academ-ics is instilled first at home, and then reiterated by teachers and school staff. “It’s a team effort,” she said.

API testing takes place in grades 2-11 at all schools during a week-long testing process at the end of the school year.

Emergency Dissemination Information

With the fourth anniversary of Montecito’s Tea Fire around the cor-ner, it seems fitting to remind read-ers about emergency information sources used in Montecito. Montecito Fire Protection District’s Geri Ventura breaks down the various forms of communication used by MFPD, most notably, NIXLE, a subscription alert program that is free to the community.

“Since its inception, we have uti-lized NIXLE to notify the commu-nity of a variety of things such as preparedness information, MERRAG training, press releases relating to District activities and noteworthy calls, general non-emergent informa-tion during wildland fires, and when it is made available, traffic condi-tions that directly affect Montecito,” Ventura explains. These types of pub-lic information are classified as NIXLE Community messages. There are also NIXLE Advisories, which are used to send out non-emergent informa-tion that the community can use to prepare for anticipated events (such as weather advisories), and NIXLE Alerts, which are used for evacuation and life safety notifications.

“The subscriber has the option to select which notifications (Community, Advisory, Alert), they want to receive, and whether they want it via email and/or SMS text messaging,” says Ventura. “I will personally go over this information with anyone who inquires; I will also assist in setting up the sub-scription for those who need help.”

NIXLE was brought into play after the Tea Fire, when it was realized that Reverse 911 systems had many fail-ures due to power outages and burned phone lines. The District conducted tests of various alerting systems, and uses a combination of methods to dis-seminate emergency information.

In addition to NIXLE, MFPD offers HomeALERT, a tone radio which will transmit an up to 90 decibel tone and scrolling text with instructions on how to respond when activated. The system utilizes FM frequencies to distribute the

notifications via the HEARO Network through a partnership estab-lished with KDB Radio, FM 93.7. The radios can be purchased at Fire Station 1 on San Ysidro Road, or call 969-2537.

Reverse 911 is also in use, and is managed by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department. All home phone numbers are a part of their data collec-tion set, including unlisted numbers, and geocoded to the location in which they are registered. Additional phone numbers can be added by register-ing them at www.sbsheriff.org/rever se911a.html.

MFPD also utilizes social network-ing including Twitter and Facebook to release emergency information, and AM radio 1610. Ms Ventura has availed herself to assist with informa-tion relating to any of these notifica-tion methods. She can be contacted at [email protected] or 969-2537. •MJ

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Making Waves

Thoughts of Virginia Woolf’s fiction often trigger thoughts of her novels, To the Lighthouse,

or Mrs. Dalloway. Each of these, in its way, demonstrates a sure grasp of narrative technique, the vibrant range of dramatic process, and the human psyche. As a writer and observer, Woolf is to the present as Jane Austen was to her time, a vital force and a remarkable innovator.

She is at the peak of the pyramid of authors who have expanded the use and potential of interior monologue in telling story. Less known among her works is her 1931 novel, The Waves, short, poignant, and character driven, almost to the point of plot getting away from her like a helium balloon escaping a child’s grasp. Once you understand the concept, The Waves is not difficult to grasp. But it requires a second reading to make it as memorable an experience as Woolf’s better-known works.

The major characters are six friends, Bernard, Neville, Louis, Jinny, Susan, and Rhoda, appearing in segments named after them in much the same way William Faulkner named sections

after his characters in As I Lay Dying. We learn about these individuals almost entirely from their interaction rather than any authorial intervention.

The nine sections of The Waves cor-respond to a time of day, which in turn represents a time of life. After each section, there are long, almost poetic passages about a particular aspect of the ocean at various stages of the wax and wane of the tide or of some natural setting such as a garden. Woolf scholars enjoy arguing the symbolism of these segments. My own take is that they represent stages of consciousness.

Section one, morning, corresponds to childhood, where the characters first meet and we learn their person-ality through dialogue and interior monologue – what the characters are thinking at a given moment. Jinny, for

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example, emerges as predominately physical while Bernard, a favorite of many readers, is even at this early age the talker of the group, caught up in the elegance of language. Rhoda, by contrast, seems to inhabit a dreamy plane, dealing with abstractions (and making me wonder as the novel evolves if she is not a stand in for the author). Neville, in his preoccupations with order and beauty, is manifestly a control freak in the making, while Susan seems fascinated by Nature and Louis’s focus on ambition may be interpreted as insecurity.

The second segment has the six sent off to schools, which at the time were not co-ed, separated by gender. The boys meet a seventh character, Percival, whom each tries to impress, and who will have marked effects on the girls as well. The introduction of Percival functions as a telling and intriguing pivotal point for the bal-ance of the novel. Of all those who

appear, Percival alone is not given thoughtful soliloquy. We must make of him what we will from the impres-sions of him by the others.

By the third segment, Bernard and Neville are close friends, both of them admiring Percival, but Neville wishes more than mere friendship. As the narrative moves toward the final segments, the characters have aged, become involved in personal, pro-fessional, and artistic relationships, culminating with a farewell dinner for Percival and a middle years gathering suggesting a dramatic closure, but not necessarily the last meeting.

Woolf focuses on language and it’s meaning, literature in general, and such prevalent existential matters as life, death, and the self. At one point, dining with his friends, Bernard reflects: “Here at this table, what I call my life is not one life that I look back upon; I am not one person; I am many people; I do not know altogether who I am – Jinny, Susan, Neville, Rhonda, or Louis; or how to distinguish my life from theirs.”

When she wrote of The Waves, Woolf often equated it with poetry, all the more reason to savor it slowly. With The Waves, she flung open the door on the inner life of characters with grace and conviction. The door has remained open for those brave enough to follow her. •MJ

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vast wall of fresh gardenias and a huge screen showed videos of the family and past victories. Six women dressed in beautiful gowns were lowered from the sky playing chamber music and the Welsh singer Tom Jones was flown in to serenade Jerry and Gene.”

By coincidence, Rob Lowe and his wife, Sheryl, were in also town, the actor speaking at a Baylor Health Care System Foundation “Celebrity Women” lunch, while Sheryl was pro-moting her jewelry collection, which will now be featured at the tony department store Neiman Marcus, known amusingly by Dallas denizens as Needless Markup.

“They were invited to the Cowboys bash, but unfortunately had to be back

in Montecito on family business,” says Annette...

Larry’s Latest Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison,

who owns three homes in our tony town, is continuing his real estate buy-ing spree.

America’s third richest man, accord-ing to Forbes magazine, has just bought his ninth mansion on a half-mile long stretch of sand in Malibu.

The 68-year-old tycoon splashed out $36.9 million for a three-acre plot pre-viously owned by former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel and his wife, Jane.

The stunning property on Carbon Beach, just a tiara’s toss from fel-low billionaire, entertainment mogul David Geffen and business magnate Mike Milken, boasts three buildings, including a main home, a pavilion and a guest house that has been designed with a nautical theme to tie in with the spectacular location.

The guesthouse alone has nine bed-rooms and 13 bathrooms.

The latest purchase comes just three months after Ellison bought an entire Hawaiian island, Lanai, for a reported $500 million from billionaire David Murdock, making it one of the most expensive private purchases in his-tory.

The 88,000-acre property, the sixth largest of the Hawaiian Islands at

141 square miles, was formerly a pineapple plantation and consists of two resorts, two golf courses, and assorted commercial and residential buildings.

Ellison, who has an estimated for-tune of $41 billion, also owns exten-sive properties in San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Newport, Rhode Island, and Japan.

How he keeps track of all the door keys is another matter...

UCSB Fundraising Campaign Montecito philanthropist Leslie

Ridley-Tree has been throwing her weight behind a major campaign to raise $1 billion for UCSB.

Leslie became co-chair of the fun-draising earlier this year with Oracle chairman, Jeff Henley – a 1966 gradu-ate –, who donated $50 million to the university in May, the largest dona-tion in its history.

The campaign, which closes in four

years time, has already raised a stag-gering $770 million in the last eight years, which goes towards retaining and recruiting top notch faculty, sup-porting scholarships, updating facili-ties and building up endowment.

Earlier this month, Leslie flew to New York to participate in several campaign events which included foundation chair, Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas, a 1968 graduate, chancellor Henry Yang and founda-tion president, Bruce Wilcox, who hosted a lunch at the ritzy 94-year-old Racquet Club followed by a dinner at the exclusive Sony Club, with Good Morning America anchor Josh Elliott, who was in the class of ‘93, as the emcee.

“This is really all about survival, given all funding has been cut by the state,” says Leslie. “The university has to be put on a firm foundation and the support has been absolute-ly overwhelming. The campaign is

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scheduled to close in 2016, but, given the current level of donations, may close sooner.”

Hot SpotFilming in Santa Barbara goes from

strength to strength, according to film commissioner, Geoff Alexander.

“There has certainly been a signifi-cant increase despite the economy,” he told me at an industry mixer at Studio 240.

“This event is to bring the local media production community togeth-er. It’s the first time we’ve done it. Folks often don’t communicate because they are too wrapped up in

their work. This brings producers, filmmakers, location scouts and pro-duction services really into the mix.”

More than $11 million was spent filming here last year, with more expected this year, including two high profile reality shows – Eva Longoria’s Ready For Love for NBC and Ryan Seacrest’s Montecito Ballroom, which has just been given the green light, I can exclusively reveal.

An independent film, Mucho Dinero, with Starship Troopers actor Casper Van Dien, ex-husband of Carrie Mitchum, granddaughter of late Montecito resi-dent, actor Robert Mitchum, was also shot here.

“It is all very positive and is obvi-ously great promotion and public-ity for the city, “ adds Geoff, whose bash was attended by Mayor Helene Schneider and county supervisor Salud Carbajal...

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SUNDAY OCTOBER 21

Sharon Gardner and Karen Drucker will co-facilitate a women’s retreat at La Casa de Maria Retreat and Conference Center, October 21-25. This retreat will focus on taking time to replenish, restore and balance through meditation, music and movement. Participants will learn to: align with your true self (Highest Self/Spiritual Self) and to listen and trust your intuitive wisdom/guidance; balance the feminine and masculine within and “Be” in your doing; release limiting beliefs and negative self-talk, love and accept Your Self; and open to having more fun. Registration for this all-inclusive, 5-day retreat is limited.When: October 21-25Where: 800 El Bosque Road

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Independent School NightHave a teenager entering high school next year? Bring your student and attend this free, informative evening sponsored by Crane Country Day School and Hamilton & Associates.When: 7 to 8:30 pmWhere: Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort, 633 East Cabrillo BoulevardInfo: Debbie Williams, (805) 969-7732 ext. 105

Food Day Celebration The public is invited to attend a free Food Day celebration at Community Action Commission (CAC) of Santa Barbara County’s Back Door Deli. The event features local farmers and chefs, food demonstrations, free healthy samples, raffle prizes, garden tours, a composting demonstration, and activities that inspire people to eat whole foods. The local event, which is part of a national campaign launched by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), will bring together organizations working on hunger, food access, public health, sustainable agriculture, and environmental stewardship. Representatives from the Foodbank, Orfalea Preschool Food and Healthy Habits Initiative, Santa Barbara

Master Gardeners, Network for a Healthy California, Promotores de Salud, Sol Food Kitchen, Environmental Education for the Next Generation, Organic Soup Kitchen, Harvest Santa Barbara, Center for Infinite Health, and Birke on the Farm will be on hand to talk to visitors.When: 11 am to 1 pmWhere: 315 Camino Del RemedioInfo: 964-8857

Westmont Anniversary Lecture & ReceptionCelebrate Westmont’s 75th anniversary at Santa Barbara Historical Museum When: Wednesday, October 24, 5:30 to 7:30 pmWhere: 136 East De La GuerraInfo and RSVP: www.westmontlecture.eventbrite.com

THURSDAY OCTOBER 25

Fire District Board MeetingMontecito Fire District Board of Directors will host the community for a conversation and presentation of the District’s financesWhen: 8:30 amWhere: Fire Station 1, 595 San Ysidro RoadInfo: www.montecitofire.com

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

Special Debate EventHead to the Temple B’nai B’rith for a California State Senate Candidate Debate debate between Mike Stoker and Hannah-Beth Jackson. Open Q&A held afterward. Meal reservations needed by Monday, October 22. When: 6 pmWhere: 1000 San Antonio Creek RoadInfo and Reservations: Jesse Colman, 967-5114; Marshall Abrams, 967-6150

SATURDAY OCTOBER 27

Owl-O-WeenHalloween has gone to the birds! The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and Audubon Society are pleased to

announce an innovative family-oriented way to celebrate Halloween, Owl-O-Ween: A Family Nature Adventure. Activities include: painting pumpkins to take home; competing in a scarecrow-building contest; and meeting living Owl-Ambassadors from the Audubon Society, including Max, a Great Horned Owl.When: 10 am to 1 pmWhere: SB Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon RoadInfo: 682-4726 or www.sbbg.org

SUNDAY OCTOBER 28

Crane’s Annual Country FairThe 17th annual fair is farm-themed, and features music, BBQ, games, face painting, a bake-off and more. Everyone is welcome, admission is free! When: 10 am to 3 pmWhere: Crane Country Day School, 1795 San Leandro LaneInfo: 969-7732

SAVE THE DATE

Ghost Village Road Coast Village Road Business Association’s annual trick-or-treat eventWhen: Wednesday, October 31, 3:30 pm to 6:30 pmWhere: Coast Village Road

ONGOING MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS

Art ClassesBeginning and advanced, all ages and by appt, just callWhere: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village RoadInfo: 695-8850

TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS

Adventuresome Aging Where: 89 Eucalyptus LaneInfo: 969-0859; ask for Susan

WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS

Live Entertainment at CavaWhere: Cava, 1212 Coast Village RoadWhen: 7 pm to 10 pmInfo: 969-8500 •MJ

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 24

Montecito Planning Commission MeetingMPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies and that issues raised by interested parties are addressed Today the commission will see plans for Fire Station 3 in Montecito, as well as a lot line adjustment on Picacho Lane, a demo

and rebuild on Miramar Beach Drive, and an accessory structure on Channel Drive, among other agenda items. When: 9 am Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu

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Susan Keller for Montecito Fire Protection District Board

• Member – Montecito Board of Architectural Review

• Chair – Montecito Association Land Use Committee

• Officer – Montecito Association

• Chair – Manning Park Youth Center Renovation Project

• 2002 Vocational Citizen of the Year – Montecito Rotary Club

• Community Volunteer, Non-profit Founder & CEO, Attorney

• Wife, mother, 18 year Montecito Resident

• BA, Stanford University JD, UCLA Law School

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• Supporting our firefighters by being cost-conscious and prudent, creating a strong financial footing to continue attracting the most qualified personnel and maintaining the best resources and equipment for fire fighting and medical emergencies.

• Improving response time by using the most up-to-date technology to increase access to all properties and decrease response time to every area of Montecito.

• Establishing fiscal responsibility by making wise use of tax dollars as fixed obligations increase, carefully conserving resources to avoid future debt.

• Creating transparency by listening to our community and fully informing residents about available resources, Board policy and decision making.

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State Street Ballet’s American Tango

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A few weeks ago (Sunday, September 30), State Street Ballet performers honored

Margo Cohen-Feinberg with a gala entitled Tango on the Riviera in the Biltmore’s Loggia Ballroom. State Street Ballet founder and director Rodney Gustafson, along with Michael Roush, is set to follow that up with the world premiere of the original ballet, An American Tango, the story of early 20th-century ballroom dancing sensations Frank and Yolanda Veloz (known professionally as Veloz and Yolanda), conceived and written by the couple’s son, Guy Veloz, the youngest of their four children. The play will be choreographed and directed by William Soleau and performed on the Lobero stage by the full company of dancers on Saturday, October 27 and again on Sunday October 28.

Frank and Yolanda Veloz danced mostly during the 1930s, and ‘40s, and are considered one of the greatest ball-room dancing couples that ever lived. They were the first couple to grace

the cover of Life magazine (October 30, 1939).

“An American Tango,” explains Soleau during a short conversation on a Saturday afternoon at the Gail Towbes Dance Studio off Las Positas in Santa Barbara, “starts out at the turn of the twentieth century and takes you from the streets of Hell’s Kitchen to [high-end dance palaces] such as the Palmer House and the Embassy Club.

“They met each other at a high school dance,” Soleau continues. “She was from a poor immigrant family and he was essentially a hood. His father left him; he was in and out of orphanages. Their way out of the streets of Hell’s Kitchen was ballroom dancing.

“What’s wonderful about this bal-let is that when we’re telling you the story of their life,” Soleau says, “we have all that fantastic music of the Jazz Age. This piece literally goes through the ‘twenties, ‘thirties, and ‘forties. We have a Charleston section; we have a

(from left) State Street Ballet founder Rodney Gustafson, principal dancer Leila Drake, and Sergey Kheylik take a break during rehearsal of upcoming production of An American Tango at the Lobero


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Vote Baloney Mr. Alexander is a recovering politician whose experience has left him bereft of all traces of common sense; his six government-paid around-the-clock supermodel nurses, however, give him a small measure of comfort

Every four years I use the mighty weight and influence of the Montecito Journal to do what few people are sapheaded enough to do – run for president of the United States. I have not fared well in the past but I expect better results this time because run-ning for president was much harder before; people actually expected you to know stuff. If I’ve learned anything from the latest presidential campaign, it’s that you can pretty much make up your own facts nowadays, and it’s perfectly acceptable to stretch the truth, or, to put it more bluntly, lie like a vegetarian caught at Johnny’s Rib Shack. With that in mind, and as I sit in my 100% eco-friendly Montecito manor, flanked by my multicultural supermodel wife, surrounded by my nineteen physically disabled adopted children and six rescue dogs, I once again announce my candidacy for President of the United States.

You need a party affiliation to run for president. There’s already a Democrat and Republican, and a horde of Independents, so I figured I’d create my own party. Tattoos are popular so I considered the Tattoo Party but, just like getting the real thing, I chickened out. Fantasizing about long lines to check the box next to my name, I contemplated the iPhone Party but it didn’t ring true. I settled on the Baloney Party because I plan on blowing more smoke than my dad’s 1956 Oldsmobile.

It also helps to get elected if you can claim to be the first “fill-in-the-blank” president. For example, Kennedy was the first Catholic president, Barack Obama is the first African American president, and Mitt Romney is attempting to become the first Mormon president. Well, I hope to be the first modern-day obese president. Our last fat president was President Taft and nobody, not even Shelly Lowenkopf, can remember him. My fellow Americans, I say it’s about time we elected another tubby, as long as that tubby isn’t named “Chris” or “Christie.”

President Taft was so fat they had to widen the White House doors and make a custom fitted bathtub – which is where the phrase “tubby” comes from. The above statement is com-pletely fabricated, but it sounds good, and as a serious presidential candi-date I’m going to stick by it no matter how many fact checkers tell me I’m full of government cheese.

It’s been reported that 96% of African Americans will vote for President Obama, 99.9% of Mormons will vote for Romney, and 92% of Alzheimer’s

patients will vote for Eisenhower. If I can get 90% of my overweight com-rades to vote for me, I’m in like cow lips in a hot dog. Of course, some of the obese voters will be African American, and some will be Mormon, but I promise that if those conflicted pudgy souls stay home on election night I’ll have a large combination pizza and stuffed cheesy bread deliv-ered to their homes.

There are a few voters out there that still expect a candidate to stand for something and have some semblance of a platform. For those diehard tra-ditionalists, I’m willing to stick my neck out a bit and declare that I’m for legalizing medical marijuana. What’s not to like? The farmers can grow it, the small businessman can sell it, the government can tax it, and the 314 million Americans who will sub-sequently claim to suffer from glau-coma can smoke it. I’ll also expand the medical conditions that qualify for medical marijuana to include dan-druff, jock itch, formication (Google it), split ends, double-jointedness, col-lywobbles, ring around the collar, and case of Mondays.

The whole country is concerned about the economy, but unlike the other candidates I have an actual recovery plan. I boldly propose that we eliminate the last zero in every-thing. If a new car costs $36,000, the day after I’m elected it will cost $3,600. If a house costs $750,000, when I’m president you’ll be able to purchase it for $75,000. If gasoline is $4.50 a gallon on November 6th it’ll cost 45 cents on November 7th, and a Big Mac will go from $3.50 to 35 cents. And the best news of all, after I’m elected that same Big Mac will have only 70 calories instead of 700.

One small problem – under my plan if you made $100,000 a year you’ll only be making $10,000, but we’ll fix that in my second term. •MJ

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The Santa Barbara Symphony launches its 60th season this weekend with a reprise of

local composer Emma Lou Diemer’s Santa Barbara Overture, followed by Beethoven’s sturdy Symphony No. 5 and Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, with Andre Watts at the piano. It’s a weighty program, to be sure. But it’s only the first salvo in a season that sprinkles new wrinkles among the old favorites. We caught up with music director Nir Kabaretti via Skype from Italy late last week to preview the concert and the season as a whole.

Q. Let’s talk first about you renewing your contract for another three years. How would you describe the journey of the past half-dozen years, and has the ensemble grown in that period? What is your vision for the future?

A. It’s been wonderful. The sym-phony has improved in all senses, from financial to musicianship and ensemble playing. We’re getting to know each other better, auditioning new people and coming together. It’s a process. I think we’ve grown up beautifully together. Every time we play I feel it’s a bit better, and the working atmosphere is really excep-tionally good. Comparing it to other orchestras where I work as a guest, sometimes you come to rehearsals where the musicians aren’t so moti-vated. But here, when we are together to start a new program in a week there’s excitement and everybody is giving their best. A lot of our musi-cians come from far away so it must be important enough, because there are so many other opportunities. To play with me they have to decline another job. So I’m extremely happy with how it’s been.

In terms of the roster, we’ve had massive auditions over the last five

years and now we’re pretty settled. There are only a few vacant spots and those should be settled in the next two years. So the roster will be complete and we’ll be in the position where we are comfortable with this product. Now, I want to make us even more related to and collaborative with other organizations in town, and extend our reach out of town, whether we tour or attract them here. People in our city know who we are. But I would like it if the northern part of the coun-try or south of here got to witness our music. We want to extend our capacity. We’re doing well. So many orchestras are struggling financially, we’re very lucky not to reduce our subscription concerts – we’re one of the healthiest organizations here and in the symphonic world. So we’d like to play out of town.

It’s the sixtieth season. What would you say has been the key to the symphony’s

success? Just considering from what it started

– a group of amateurs, with no union musicians, basically people who got together and played for fun. We’ve had a very supportive community, with people who showed leadership on the board and at the music level, bringing it up to where we now have a tough, high bar to be selected for the symphony. More and more our musi-cians are winning other jobs – some-times full-time so they have to leave. That’s been very gratifying.

For this season, you’ve chosen to revisit classical standards along with some newer pieces as a theme for this year. Can you elaborate, and maybe particularly address the question of innovative programming versus old chestnuts?

I know of an orchestra that was awarded not long ago for being so innovative. Guess what? The audi-ence declined. It’s a fine line between doing pieces audiences want to hear, and bringing in new works. We real-ize I can’t educate 3,000 people who

are of the age our audience is, some-what elderly and set in their ways. If we had a chance to build an audience from younger ones who have less experience, maybe I could do more. In Munich, or New York you could be more adventurous. But this season is designed, programmed, and thought-fully put together for this orchestra, this community, this audience.

But at the same time we are intro-ducing new composers, and doing things that aren’t “normal” classical concert experiences – playing simul-taneously with the ballet or having a painter create art on stage live. We commissioned a new piece written for us for this season. We take our projects very seriously. You can argue we could do more of that, but I think the balance is the right one for this orchestra.

Please talk about this first concert. We tried on the entire season to

bring stuff that relates the orchestra to the community, whether it’s collabo-rating with other institutes or bring-ing artists from our history. [Andre Watts] was part of the family for a long time. I wanted him to be back and witness what we’ve done. I think he will be pleasantly surprised to see what we’re up to these days. And it’s

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The Westmont Orchestra, back from its tour of China in May, opens its seventh season,

performing the Fall Orchestra Concert on Friday, October 19 at 8 pm in the Music Academy’s Hahn Hall and Sunday, October 21 at 3 pm in First Presbyterian Church, 21 East Constance Avenue. General

admission is $10 and students are free. To purchase tickets or for more information, please contact Trinity Hokama at (805) 565-6040.

The orchestra will perform the profound and popular “New World Symphony” by Dvorak, Erich Korngold’s first popular film score overture, Captain Blood, and

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The repertoire includes a world pre-miere by renowned composer Emma Lou Diemer, who celebrates her 85th birthday this season. Her Concerto for Violin, which includes the three move-ments, “A Little Parlour Music (After Poulenc),” “Remembrance of Things Past” and “Santa Barbara Rag,” is dedicated to Westmont violin pro-fessor Philip Ficsor and the orches-tra. Coincidentally, the Santa Barbara Symphony opens its season honor-ing Diemer by performing her “Santa Barbara Overture” on Saturday, October 20 at 8 pm.

“I decided not to write a huge, com-plex, lengthy work but rather one that might be pleasurable to hear rather than disturbing,” Diemer says. “I am grateful for the fine talents of Professor Ficsor and Professor Shasberger and the Westmont Orchestra for present-ing this new work.”

Diemer’s works are widely pub-lished, and her second piano concerto received a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award in 1991. Diemer, who joined the faculty at UC Santa Barbara in 1971 and became professor emerita in 1991, has been commissioned for many chamber, orchestral and cho-ral compositions. She was composer in residence with the Santa Barbara Symphony in the early 1990s, and the orchestra performed five of her works. She was one of only two women com-position majors in her class at Yale’s School of Music, where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1949 and 1950.

The Westmont Music Department will continue its Adopt-A-Musician program again this year, pairing con-certgoers with an orchestra musician for the 2012-13 season. Supporters may adopt a musician for $100, which includes a card with a photo and basic information about the student musi-cian. All funds received through the program support the students’ per-formances and tour expenses. Please email [email protected] for more information about the program.

Reading to Feature Famed Palestinian Poets

Critically acclaimed Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan and transla-tor Fady Joudah will read selections and discuss their latest book, Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: And Other Poems, Wednesday, October 24 at 4 pm in Winter Hall’s Darling Foundation Lecture Hall (Room 210) at Westmont. The event, sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, Westmont Office of the Provost, Westmont’s English and history departments and UC Santa

Barbara’s Center for Middle East Studies, is free and open to the public.

Zaqtan, a leading poet of the Arab world, and Joudah, an award-winning poet and translator, have embarked on a month-long tour together, visiting 15 venues in the U.S., including Yale, New York, Columbia, Harvard and Boston Universities.

Zaqtan, the author of 10 collections of poetry, was born in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, and has lived in Jordan, Beirut, Damascus and Tunis. He returned to Palestine in 1994 and now lives in Ramallah. He is also a novel-ist, editor and filmmaker.

Joudah, a practicing physician of internal medicine, has translated two poetry collections by celebrated Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another and The Butterfly’s Burden. Joudah’s own book, The Earth in the Attic, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize in 2008, the first for an Arab-American. He lives in Houston.

Like a Straw Bird, published by Yale University Press, is a volume in the Margellos World Republic of Letters series, dedicated to making literary works from around the globe avail-able in English through translation.

“Zaqtan’s poems are uncompro-mising in their direct engagement with daily life, detailing the way in which the quotidian is, after all, the grand narrative of history,” says Cole Swensen of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Viewing the Blue Snowball

Westmont’s powerful Keck Telescope will focus on a planetary nebula known as the Blue Snowball (NGC 7662) during the monthly view-ing of the stars Friday, October 19. The free event is held every third Friday of the month in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit and begins after 6:30 pm and lasts sev-eral hours. The best viewing gener-ally occurs later in the evening. In case of inclement or overcast weath-er, please call the Telescope Viewing Hotline at (805) 565-6272 and check the Westmont website to see if the viewing has been canceled.

“The Blue Snowball, located in Andromeda about 1,800 light-years away, is a wonderful object that should appear as a blue haze with its white dwarf at its center,” says Thomas Whittemore, Westmont physics instructor.

The viewing may also feature the Double Cluster in Perseus, which is generally easily visible to the naked eye.

“This twosome is a beautiful sight in a telescope at low power,” Whittemore says. “They are both located in close proximity towards the Perseus arm

of our galaxy about 7,000 light-years away, which is very young for open star clusters. Their apparent size is about the diameter of the full moon, so they fill the field of an amateur telescope.”

Whittemore says he also hopes to show off the Blinking Planetary (NGC 6826) in Cygnus, the Swan. “This planetary nebula plays tricks on your eyes,” he says. “If you focus on its central white dwarf star, its haze van-ishes. However, if you pay attention to the haze, the star’s atmosphere shoot-ing out into space, you see the white dwarf. You be the judge. Is it really blinking?”

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A museum and travel professional, community volun-teer, and lifelong equestrienne, Lynn Kirst is a

fourth-generation Californian who grew up in Montecito; she can often be found riding or hiking the local trails

When they told me his name was “Bronco,” I thought surely I misunderstood

their Spanish. But no, the Peruvian Paso gelding that I was to spend the next three hours riding through Peru’s Sacred Valley was indeed named Bronco. I hoped the moniker didn’t portend a rodeo-style event would take place when I put my foot in the square Peruvian stirrup, and that Bronco didn’t have a bias against gringas from California. With my face shaded by a newly purchased sombrero chalán pulled squarely down over my ears, I trusted Bronco to sense that I was doing my best to fit in with local equestrian traditions.

When my husband and I decided to spend a month exploring Peru, I knew that along with the requisite

visit to Machu Picchu, a horseback ride on a Caballo Peruano de Paso had to be part of our itinerary. So I made arrangements to visit a famous hacienda outside of Lima late in our trip, but unfortunately those plans subsequently fell through. Which is why meeting Bronco was not only serendipitous, but as it turned out,

The sombrero chalán is the Peruvian version of the cowboy hat, finely woven with a wide, flat brim to protect from the sun. The rolled rawhide hatband is decorated with a silver Peruvian Paso horse worn toward the front.

The author, Lynn Kirst, getting acquainted with her Peruvian Paso mount named Bronco, before heading out on a three-hour trail ride through Peru’s Sacred Valley

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COMING & GOING (Continued from page 31)Lindy section, rumba, tango of course, a Castle Walk [created and introduced by Vernon Castle in 1912; Soleau has rearranged the original steps], so we’re kind of showing the history of ball-room, because the tango and such came out of the Castle Walk.”

According to Soleau, Frank poured all his money into creating beautiful gowns for Yolanda. Some of them weighed nearly eighteen pounds and all “were absolutely exquisite.” Veloz and Yolanda were by far the best dressed, best looking dance couple of their day. “They were so far ahead of all the other dance teams because they just looked better,” Soleau remarks. “He was handsome; she was beauti-ful; they’d walk onto the dance floor and they were mesmerizing. There was a real chemistry between them… They were the glitziest, and most well-known all through the 1930s. They made movies; they were pop stars. It’s a great story for ballet because you have so many of these songs from Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Gershwin, all that.

“Argentine tango didn’t exist in the 1920s” in the U.S., says Soleau. “The dance,” he explains, “originated in the brothels and barrios of Argentina and the footwork and all that stuff was very different from what tango was in America.” Tango became popular in the U.S. via Rudolph Valentino’s

famous tango scene in 1921’s The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. “All of a sudden that type of tango became all the rage,” Soleau notes, “but it didn’t look anything like an Argentine tango.”

Frank and Yolanda – like all the other ballroom dancers of the time – came out of vaudeville. They put together their own routines. “And, if you looked at it today,” Soleau observes, “well, that’s not technically the tango. They created their own style. Adele and Fred Astaire creat-ed their own style; Tony De Marco and his three partners, Nina, then Sally, and finally Renee, had their own style.”

Since 1998, William Soleau has done, he believes, fourteen ballets for Rodney Gustafson’s ballet troupe. William is a freelance choreographer and continues to be primarily based in New York City. His wife is a ballet master at New York City Ballet, “and we arrange our schedules to take care of our Golden Retriever,” he explains. When she’s traveling, he feeds and walks the dog and vice versa.

A Russian Super StarJoining leads Jack Stewart and

Leila Drake as Veloz and Yolanda is world-class dancer Sergey Kheylik. We had a chance to speak with him briefly, also mid-rehearsal.

Sergey was born in the town of Voronegh, Russia, “a seven-hour drive south from Moscow,” he recounts. “I didn’t want to [attend dance school]; my mom made me,” he says with a laugh, referring to his introduction to what would become his life’s avocation.

Explaining how his mother real-ized he had potential as a dancer, he says: “Well, I did like Michael Jackson when I was a kid. I was danc-ing in the house and stuff, and she probably thought, ‘Hmm. Maybe I’ll

give him to a ballet school or some-thing.’ I didn’t want to do it, but I went to ballet school for three years (beginning at the age of ten).”

His family moved to Moscow three years after and he attended ballet school there at the Bolshoi Ballet (for six months) and then received a scholarship from the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation to study in Vienna. “So I have lived without my parents since I was thirteen,” he says. He spent three years in Vienna and won a scholar-ship in Lausanne, Switzerland that

Choreographer William Soleau, although based in New York City, has choreographed at least 14 State Street Ballet productions over the past fifteen years; the image on his computer is of Frank and Yolanda Veloz, circa 1935


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allowed him to choose a ballet school he’d like to attend. He chose the one in Stuttgart, Germany because the teacher was former Bolshoi dance

instructor Pyotr “Peter” Pestov. Peter “The Great” “was one of the best teachers ever,” Sergey says. “He only taught men, all his life, and he taught

for over forty years. He passed away last year,” Sergey notes sadly, not long after a tribute that was given on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 2009. “He was this little genius,” he continues. “He was very short and [stout], and he only spoke Russian, so everyone had to understand a little bit of Russian. He was already old and grumpy [when I started with him], but he had a good sense of humor.”

Sergey says that people no longer teach some of the things he had to learn from Pestov, and has said that everything he’s done since Pestov seems like a vacation. “It was real-ly hard stamina-wise. Other teach-ers show a combination and then you do a combination, but Pestov would insist on, say, forty minutes on barre, non-stop, which is crazy. If you can last through his barre, you can last through anything, pretty much. Teaching was his calling. He could explain things with just a few words.”

Sergey has danced with Carolina Ballet, Cirque du Soleil, Los Angeles Ballet and has guest-danced with different companies in Hong Kong, South Africa, New Orleans and else-where. For the past two years Sergey performed with Rasta Thomas’ Bad Boys Of Dance in a show called Rock the Ballet.

Playing The Bad GuySergey Kheylik will not, however,

be lead dancer in An American Tango. That role has been reserved for Jack Stewart. “Jack looks like Frank Veloz,” explains Soleau, who adds that, “I only have twenty rehearsals to create the whole ballet and Jack is a pretty good ballroom dancer. Sergey plays the bad guy – Dutch Schultz. What that allows me to do,” Bill says, “is to use Sergey’s strengths. It’s a fun part, because he gets to do all the tricks and he’s good at that. He’s very musical and he’s very dramatic.”

Leila Drake is Yolanda. “I use Leila for everything” Soleau admits. “She has really come into her own at the peak of her maturity. And, she also has an uncanny resemblance to Yolanda.”

Kheylik will play the lead in State Street Ballet’s upcoming My Secret Garden when it unveils in New York City next month.

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For more information about State Street Ballet, you can call them at 805-563-3262. For tickets and information about upcoming performances, you are invited to call the Lobero box office at 805-963-0761 or online at www.lobero.com/contact/boxoffice. •MJ

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Montecito Woman Makes Yachting History

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It’s official: Francie Lufkin was just elected by the Santa Barbara Yacht Club to serve as the first female

commodore in its 140 year history. The yacht club, founded in 1872, is the second oldest on the Pacific.

Current commodore Dave Baxter just beamed as he announced the 2013 bridge (committee of officers), which will include the newest commodore, Lufkin, vice commodore Larry Leveille and rear commodore Joanne Gordon, who will take office in January.

Baxter wasn’t the only one smiling. Francie’s father Llew Goodfield was beaming as well. Goodfield was Santa Barbara Yacht Club commodore near-ly 20 years ago in 1996, so this election is also making west coast yachting news as the first father and daughter to both serve as commodores.

Interestingly, the yacht club is also one of the oldest organizations in Santa Barbara and it predates vir-tually everybody, including Cottage Hospital, the Chamber of Commerce

and even the Santa Barbara Police Department. (Yes, you read that right!)

Pool is for the BirdsIt’s time to talk turkey about the

duck problem. She-who-shall-not-be-named has a mangle of mallards in her backyard and is soliciting advice for their removal without harming them.

There are about 40 of these critters that have arrived for the winter again. There is a lap pool in the backyard, which is painted in a dark color rather than the traditional swimming pool chlorine-blue. So maybe the ducks are confused and think it is a pond?

Already tried: covering the pool with a tarp (they enjoy it as a landing pad); sending out the dogs (who come up to the pool, stop at the edge and bark encouragingly, which causes the ducks to just gather safely in the middle and swim around in a tight circle until the annoying canines give up and skulk away); filling the pool with beach balls (the ducks pushed them aside and par-tied on); placing large plastic alligator heads to scare them (after the ducks scrutinized these carefully, they deter-mined they make wonderful islands of fun to sit on and dive off from); and putting on a motion-detector rigged rifle-arm that shoots water (ducks flut-tered up excitedly when those were first put to use, now the feathered fellows are used to it and enjoy it as a delightful special effect).

I believe I heard that a remote control boat was used, but unless you have someone operating it 24/7, the boat eventually floats away and in general the ducks seem to get a real kick out of it.

Recent suggestions not yet tried which may not be feasible: Bringing in a falcon and draining the pool. Anybody ever dealt with this prob-lem before... successfully? Suggestions? Send them to [email protected], refer-ence Duck Problem.

Dining and Décor for Day of the Dead

Benjamin Franklin said, “Beware the hobby that eats.”

So if contemporary art is your passion, you can get your just des-serts Friday, November 2 at the Contemporary Arts Forum’s (CAF) second iteration of its special event “Crave” for a unique Día de los Muertos Dinner.

Artist Maria Rendón and Arlington Tavern chef/owner Ron True will be

collaborating on an innovative inter-pretation of the traditional Día de los Muertos. This is the Day of the Dead (All Souls Days) celebrated in Mexico. For our CAF extravaganza, artist Rendón will be creating a surreal, artistic envi-ronment starting with the ceiling of a bright orange marigold canopy, sym-bolizing rebirth, hanging above guests’ heads. The seated dinner event will also include artist orchestrated read-ings and music, and a gourmet meal inspired by the heavenly holiday. This earthy repast is a four-course gourmet meal that incorporates seasonally influ-enced farm-to-table cuisine and will include an apéritif and appetizers.

I know this is quite the advanced notice, but this Día de los Muertos Dinner seating is extremely limited, so consider yourself warned before it sells out.

Tickets for the dinner (which does not include alcohol) are $200 general admission, $190 for CAF members. To purchase tickets for Crave visit cravesb.eventbrite.com. For questions or infor-mation, email Karla Blancas at cura [email protected].

Superwoman in Santa Barbara

Last time I spoke with Patti Bryant, she was heading to Hawaii to compete in the Ironman (tri-athlete) competi-tion. Patti, with her husband, Bob Bryant (of Bryant and Son Jewelry), started the Summit for Danny climbs as fundraisers for CADA – Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.

The Spot for a Spot of Tea

Just a note on a secret find. If you are looking for a sweet afternoon spot of tea, the Simpson House Inn on Arrellaga has tea Monday thru Thursday from 12 to 3 pm. It is served with little goodies and costs $28. Just thought you oughta know.

Santa Barbarians are Buzzing About...

Dr. Gregory Chamitoff, one of the six astronauts on the latest Endeavor mission in space, was in town and gave a luncheon talk and film/video show at the Santa Barbara Club. Since he has been on several space missions – with the longest lasting six months – you can imagine how interesting it was for the crowd to hear and also speak with him.

Valerie Harrison, who used to work in the space-aeronautics industry, brought in Dr. Chamitoff to share some of his story and images of his accom-plishments and research of nearly 200 days in space, which included two spacewalks. How about that for some bragging rights! •MJ

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Theatre, it seemed most fitting that the company’s latest Mix and Mingle event should be held at Reds, a Funk Zone bar.

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Guests checked out a selection of vodka samplings, as well as Russian-inspired hors d’oeuvres.

The play, which has been receiving rave reviews, runs through Sunday...

Man and Woman of the YearThe Santa Barbara Foundation cele-

brated the 70th anniversary of its Man and Woman of the Year in grand style at the Coral Casino.

The event, which lauded entrepre-neur Ken Saxon and financial execu-tive Patricia MacFarlane for their ser-vices to the community in supporting nonprofit organizations, was emceed by foundation president Ron Gallo and KEYT-TV anchor, Paula Lopez.

The recipients were a closely guard-ed secret until the very last minute, giving the gala an Oscar quality.

“Voluntarism and philanthropy are the most enduring and honorable plat-forms for citizen engagement,” Ron told the 200 guests, including Mayor Helene Schneider and a host of pre-vious award recipients, among them Leslie Ridley-Tree, Leni Fe Bland, Barbara Tellefson, Palmer Jackson

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Taste of the Central CoastAfter nine successful years of pro-

ducing the Taste of the Central Coast food and wine festival in San Luis Obispo, the Family Care Network, a charity that provides support services for foster and high-need children and families, brought the signature event to the Bacara, the first ever at the luxury resort.

The 240 guests, enjoying tastings from 17 local eateries and 15 region-al wineries, helped raise around $150,000 for the organization which has helped the lives of more than 9,400 individuals over the past 25 years since being founded by current CEO, Jim Roberts.

Larry Crandell, “Mr. Santa Barbara,” emceed the event and conducted the live auction which included a $20,000 titanium and red gold Corum watch, while Meredith Scott was honored for her volunteer work with a number of organizations, including CALM, the Women’s Fund of SB, Casa Pacifica and the Junior League.

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“The turnout was quite unbeliev-able,” says Julie Wilson, a network executive. “Santa Barbara is known for its compassion and generosity, and that was shown abundantly at the event.”

Gala Goes GreenThe Community Environmental

Council’s fourth annual Green Gala at the Santa Barbara Armory turned into a much hotter event than expected.

Already a warm evening, with no air conditioning and lacking fans early on, the temperature rose considerably when someone accidentally turned on the heating as 330 guests packed the building, which had been festooned in white chiffon by Montecito event guru Merryl Brown and made to look like a colorful scene from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with stilt walkers creatively dressed as trees to match the real trees with hanging moss around the massive hall and the servers, decorated with peacock feath-ers and airbrushed green with inter-locking Gs – nothing to do with Gucci! – welcomed the perspiring guests.

The eco-chic bash, chaired by Elizabeth Wagner, also boasted a “rhythm cave” with giant LED screens, featuring scenes from nature, surrounding the disco dance floor.

Checking out the fun were Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Robert and Gretchen Lieff, Shaun and Carla Tomson, Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, actors Billy Baldwin and Christopher Lloyd, and Mayor Helene Schneider.

Only Oberon and Titania were absent!...

Hernandez HonoredSanta Barbara photographer Isaac

Hernandez is celebrating.The Madrid-born snapper has been

awarded the title of Best Photographer in California by a panel of wedding experts.

“It’s the first time they’ve had the contest, with people voting on a web-site,” says Isaac, 45. “It was an interna-tional competition with hundreds of photographers competing. They saw my wedding website, which I set up four years ago, and I heard I’d won last month.

“It’s not so much winning such an accolade, but getting the recognition. The accolades from the bridal couples I work for are far more important!”

Earlier this year Isaac, a former

photojournalist, also won the WIE Best Photographer prize and Wedding Wire’s Bride Choice award, which is given to the top five percent of wed-ding photographers in the U.S.

His work has also been published in hundreds of magazines worldwide, including National Geographic Traveler, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

“After years of international recog-nition, it is reinvigorating to be recog-nized locally,” Isaac adds...

Camerata ConcertPianist Warren Jones and cellist Ani

Aznavoorian were the stars of the show when Camerata Pacifica held its second concert of its 23rd season at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall.

Aznavoorian, who has appeared with the Boston Pops, the Tokyo Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony, among many others, excelled with George Crumb’s Sonata for Solo Cello, then joining Jones, who was recently honored with the group’s lifetime achievement award, for Chopin’s Sonata for Piano and Cello in G minor.

Jones, who has been a frequent performer at the White House, took over the second half playing Webern’s Drei kleine Stucke and Brahms’ Sechs Klavierstucke.

An evening to savor...

Sightings: MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow lunching at Olio e Limone... Don Johnson checking out the statio-nery at Letter Perfect... Christopher Lloyd noshing at the Alchemy Arts Café

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Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should e-mail him at richardmin [email protected] or send invita-tions or other correspondence to the Journal •MJ

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extremely fortuitous.Bronco and his stablemates live

at Hotel Sol y Luna, a spectacularly beautiful property located in the heart of Peru’s Sacred Valley. Located just an hour’s drive away but a few thou-sand feet lower than the airport at Cusco (which sits at 11,000 feet eleva-tion), El Valle Sagrado seemed a logical place to spend a few days acclimating to the Andean altitude after flying in from seaside Lima. Four nights there still wasn’t enough time to see the many fascinating Inca sites located in the Sacred Valley, but its central loca-tion in Urubamba made Hotel Sol y Luna an ideal base.

The Peruvian Paso is considered the national horse of Peru, and is descended from the mixed-breed stock brought to the New World by Spanish conquistadors. Paso means “step” in Spanish, and what makes the Peruvian Paso unique is its natu-

ral four-beat, lateral gait, which is inborn and requires no special train-ing. This trademark gait is guaranteed to appear in one hundred percent of purebred Peruvian Paso horses, and makes for a smooth ride since the horse always has two, and sometimes three, feet on the ground.

Peruvian horsemen are called chalánes, originally a title of respect earned by the best rider in a village. They traditionally wear white pants, shirts, ponchos and a finely woven straw hat – cool clothing to reflect the warm sun of northern Peru. Felix, the head chalán at Sol y Luna, took me on a fascinating ride through the nearby countryside and villages, while some-how never seeming to attract a speck of dust or dirt.

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great for the audience to witness this gigantic piece with such a magnifi-cent artist. And the same with Emma Lou Diemer. I have a recording from the London Philharmonic playing this piece. I think it’s important for our audience to know this is part of our history.

Beethoven 5 is one of those that’s played a lot. But I don’t remember the last time it was played in Santa Barbara. Certainly not in last ten years. People say it’s very familiar – you hear the themes on radio, and in films. But as a live performance, it’s not something that’s been done recently. I studied it when I was eigh-teen years old. Now after all these years, I’m still very humbled about touching this old testament of music. These are the columns that symphony was built on. The 5th is certainly one of the most challenging. The repetitive motifs, you have to keep it alive and to shape it. That’s the challenge, not so much to create the musical sound, but to build it from the first bar right up through the final movement, in terms of the interpretation you bring as a conductor. You can’t just lose con-trol and let it go up and down. I think about how to invest the energy the right ways to make it a flowing pro-cess. That might sound a bit strange, but the architecture of the symphony is quite incredible.

Classical CornerThe all-male Ensemble Basiani

of Georgia makes its Santa Barbara on Sunday, October 21 debut cour-tesy UCSB Arts & Lectures, bring-ing ancient Georgian choral music, replete with restless polyphonic har-monies with shifts in mood, to First United Methodist Church downtown. Their rapturous concert will range from hymns to the Virgin to beguiling love songs, compiled via painstak-

ing researched into ancient phonologi-cal and notated recordings.

CAMA’s Masterseries gets under-way at the Lobero on Wednesday with guitarist Manuel Barrueco, a 30-year veteran who has played in all the major concert halls as well as on TV including A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on PBS. He’ll perform sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, Spanish Dances from Enrique Granados, and works by Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados.

August: Osage CountySBCC Theatergroup’s production of

August: Osage County, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award later that year, marks the first non-musical to grace the stage at the school’s new renovated Garvin Theater. It also might be the most important play to get staged there until the next remodeling takes place.

The darkly comedic play by Tracy Letts delves into a dysfunctional Oklahoma family comprising three generations that serves as a meta-phor for modern American society. Achingly funny and unflinchingly penetrating, the play has been called a “corrosive black comedy that deserves a seat at the dinner table with the great American family plays,” by Time magazine, and lauded across the land wherever it’s been produced.

SBCC has attracted Susanne Marley, who understudied the pivotal role of Violet Weston on Broadway, to play the character in Santa Barbara along-side a few students and several well-known community actors, including David Holmes, the longtime drama teacher at San Marcos who hasn’t acted for nearly three decades.

August: Osage County plays Friday through November 3 at the Garvin. Holmes talked about his take on the piece – which is being turned into a movie featuring Meryl Streep and

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Ensemble Basiani of Georgia makes its Santa Barbara debut on Sunday, October 21 at the first United Methodist Church (photo by George Demetrashvili)

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I’m told this is one of your favorite works, which is pretty unusual for a very modern play. What makes it so special for you?

It’s an important play for America right now. It reminds me of O’Neill, who’d write incredibly profound plays that weren’t just about dysfunc-tional families, but also commentary about American society. “August” works in a dramatic way, but also on an intellectual level. He uses imag-ery and symbols that we struggle to understand. But he doesn’t tell us, so we have to interpret. What does this play mean? What is the playwright really trying to say? I’m still learning more about what it’s trying to tell our world, America today… You can enjoy it on face value, on a purely lit-eral level. We get swept away by how purely mean and violent these people are. It’s overwhelming. It’s only when

you step away from that and wonder why, the themes emerge.

Pretend I’m one of your students at San Marcos. What does Letts do to develop those themes that works so well? Obviously you wouldn’t answer that for them, but…

Well, we just finished an assignment where they completed the sentence: “In this play we must learn…”. I use that trick when I’m directing, too, to uncover the larger issues. Because I always assume the playwright wants us to learn something. I’ll pull out some papers and read you some ran-dom responses: ‘If we want change we need to take charge of that change. Don’t sit back and wait for someone else.’ ‘Blaming others doesn’t help the world and its problems, but we must accept what happens in life.’ Then you get some who are more literal: ‘We must learn how screwed up a family can be.’ ‘…Not to be like this dysfunctional family.’ And that’s true, too. On the literal level, it’s one of the most dysfunctional families you’ll ever meet. I ask my students, when you compare your home life, are you better off?

You haven’t acted in thirty years. Why did this particular role draw you back? Can you tell me about the character?

The last time was before I started teaching. In my first year here, I realized that high school drama is a boatload of work. It would be unfair to my students if I were splitting my time between directing them in a show and acting in another one… It’s a hard job. Now, I’m at the end of my career, maybe just a couple of years before I hang it up. I’m ready for something new. So when auditions for “August” were announced, I said I have to be a part of this show… I literally would’ve

taken any role at all just to be a part of this play. But then I found myself in the shoes of my students. Because there’s a character I would have had great trouble playing as a high school teacher in a public school. He’s a pedophile. With the job I have I had to wonder about it. I found myself struggling with what would I do if I were offered that role. How would I do it? But then I had to remember it’s just a part, it’s not me. How could I say no if I tell my kids that their characters aren’t them? The character might be despicable but it’s not you. Still I was having a huge problem with it. I did decide I would play it, but I would have had to do something to cope. I would have been very awkward… Instead I’m cast as Charlie Aiken who in this family he’s pretty much the sanest one in the family. So I lucked out.

As a longtime theater teacher and direc-tor who is familiar with the play, did you have the same vision for “August” as the director Katie Laris? Are you contrib-uting or collaborating with her in any way? Is it difficult to take direction from someone else?

Actually I found it pretty easy to let go. Katie is outstanding. She trusts her actors to do their homework. She molds it and influences it. I wouldn’t direct it significantly differently. But it is a challenge because I’m a take-charge kind of guy, and that isn’t my role here. I have to keep my mouth shut and listen and understand what her vision is. There was only one occasion where I had a different view and I wanted to talk with her about it. I wasn’t even in the scene. But she brought information to the table that Anne Guynn, Susanne Marley and Jeff Mills in

SBCC Theatergroup’s production of August: Osage County (photo by Leslie Holtzman)


PUBLIC NOTICE

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310

E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

BID NO. 5192

DUE DATE & TIME: NOVEMBER 6, 2012 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Fire Department Vehicle Exhaust Evacuation Systems

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on October

24, 2012 at 8:00 a.m., at Fire Station 2, located at 819

Cacique Street, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the

specifications and field conditions. Bid Documents are

available at the Purchasing Office and at the pre-bid

meeting. There will be seven total fire stations visited for

the job-walk. Please allow a minimum 4 hours to visit all

stations.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-43 (Sheet Metal), C-20

(HVAC) or C-61 (Specialty) Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: Oct. 17, 2012 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Donut Factory, 6545 Trigo Road, Isla Vista, CA 93117. John Chang, 6545 Trigo Road, Isla Vista, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 8, 2012. 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) by Joshua Madison. Original FBN No. 2012-0002917. Published October 17, 24, 31, November 7, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pacific Rim Management; Pacific Rim Restaurants, 3999 Via Lucero Unit C5, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Gabriel K. Papa, 3999 Via Lucero Unit C5, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 8, 2012. 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) by Joshua Madison. Original FBN No. 2012-0002918. Published October 17, 24, 31, November 7, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Woodall Building and Design, Inc, 1675 Laurel Avenue, Solvang, CA 93463. Woodall Building and Design, Inc, 1675 Laurel Avenue, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 5, 2012. 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) by Joshua Madison. Original FBN No. 2012-0002906. Published October 17, 24, 31, November 7, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Diamond Lotus Reiki, 827 State Street, Suite 5, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Rochelle Zanini, 550 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 20, 2012. 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) by Gabriel Cabello. Original FBN No. 2012-0002732. Published October 17, 24, 31, November 7, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Liv-Anna, 6647 El Colegio Road #D301, Goleta, CA 93117. Liv-Anna Beltran, 6647 El Colegio Road #D301, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 4, 2012. 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) by Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-0002895. Published October 17, 24, 31, November 7, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Honeydew Montecito, 1050 Vallecito Rd., Carpinteria, CA 93013. Kathryn Ford, 1050 Vallecito Rd., Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 12, 2012. 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) by Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2012-0002990. Published October 17, 24, 31, November 7, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dairyman’s Daughter, 2811 Lewis Drive, Lompoc, CA 93436. Mary Anne Janecek, 2811 Lewis Drive, Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 20, 2012. 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) by Carol Kraus. Original FBN No. 2012-0002838. Published October 10, 17, 24, 31, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bookkeeping Experts, 215 W. Figueroa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Blueisle Bookkeeping, Inc., 215 W. Figueroa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 1, 2012. 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) by Melissa Mercer. Original FBN No. 2012-0002847. Published October 10, 17, 24, 31, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Roston & Rogers, 215 W. Figueroa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Blueisle Bookkeeping, Inc., 215 W. Figueroa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 1, 2012. 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) by Melissa Mercer. Original FBN No. 2012-0002846. Published October 10, 17, 24, 31, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Metro Marketing, 1086 Garcia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Christopher Zerbe, 1086 Garcia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 28, 2012. 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) by Catherine Daly. Original FBN No. 2012-0002831. Published October 10, 17, 24, 31, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STYLEPUKU, 814 E. Pedregosa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Sugna Ventures, LLC, 814 E. Pedregosa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 2, 2012. 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) by Miriam Leon. Original FBN No. 2012-0002865. Published October 10, 17, 24, 31, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: S.B.S. Creations, 102 W. Constance, Apt #10, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Sarah Strassburg, 102 W. Constance, Apt #10, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 25, 2012. 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) by Gabriel Cabello. Original FBN No. 2012-0002764. Published October 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Clay Education, 5480 Hales Lane, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Georgia Owen Clay, 5480 Hales Lane, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Nathan Aaron Clay, 5480 Hales Lane, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 19, 2012. 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) by Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-0002707. Published October 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Hair Lounge of Montecito, 1807-A E. Cabrillo, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Pamela Renee, LLC, 1807-A E. Cabrillo, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 26, 2012. 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) by Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2012-0002794. Published October 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cornerstone Data Group, 5308 Berkeley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Andrew Manalis, 5308 Berkeley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 27, 2012. 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) by Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-0002813. Published October 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mesa Salsa Company, 848 Calle Cortita, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Anne Altamirano, 848 Calle Cortita, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 17, 2012. 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) by Joshua Madison. Original FBN No. 2012-0002679.

Published September 26, October 3, 10, 17, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nick Gosnell Tree Service, 228 W. Victoria Street, Apt. 7, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Nicholas Alexander Gosnell, 228 W. Victoria Street, Apt. 7, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 19, 2012. 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) by Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-0002714. Published September

26, October 3, 10, 17, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Forever Beautiful Spa; Santa Barbara Eyelash Extensions, 6 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Stephanie Gombrelli, 6 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 14, 2012. 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) by Joshua Madison. Original FBN No. 2012-0002669. Published September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 2012.

18 – 25 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 47An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools – Ernest Hemingway

PUBLIC NOTICE


NOTICE TO BIDDERS



BID NO. 5181

DUE DATE & TIME: November 8, 2012 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Grit Chamber Baffle Wall Rehabilitation

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on October 31,

2012 at 1:00 p.m., (weather permitting) at the El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant located at 520 E. Yanonali Street, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions (chamber will be emptied for the perspective bidders to view baffle walls). If cancelled due to weather conditions,

the mandatory bid meeting will be scheduled the following

day: November 1, 2012 at 1:00 p.m.

Bid Documents are available at the Purchasing Office and at the pre-bid meeting. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess either an A-General Engineering, a B-General Building, or a C-60 Welding State of California Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: October 17, 2012 General Services Manager Montecito Journal


NOTICE TO BIDDERS



BID NO. 5189

DUE DATE & TIME: NOVEMBER 6, 2012 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Airline Terminal Gift Shop Storage Space Project

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on October

23, 2012 at 9:00 a.m., at the Airport Maintenance

Conference Room, located at 1699 Firestone Road, Goleta,

CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bid

Documents are available at the Purchasing Office and at

the pre-bid meeting.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California B Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashierʼs certified check, payable to the order of the City, amounting to ten percent (10%) of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: Oct. 17, 2012 General Services Manager Montecito Journal


NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

BID NO: 3659

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3659 for the CORPORATION YARD REPLACEMENT WELL will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until

3:00 p.m., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH 2012 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “CORPORATION YARD REPLACEMENT WELL PROJECT, Bid No. 3659". The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Drill and construct a potable municipal water supply well. The well site is located inside a city yard 50 feet from a well that failed and will be destroyed as part of this project. The project requires building a perimeter sound wall (approximately 500 feet long and 24 feet tall) to reduce noise for the residential faculty 50 feet to the north. The well will be 12 inch diameter stainless steel drilled to 700 feet below ground surface. The existing well has artesian pressure, which was measured in June 2012 and found to be approximately 10.5 feet above ground surface. The Engineerʼs estimate is $750,000. Each bidder must have a Class C-57 license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for

Tuesday October 30th at 2:00pm at 619 Garden Street

Third Floor Water Resources Conference Room.

The plans and specifications for this Project may be viewed online at CyberCopyʼs Website (www.cybercopyusa.com) under the City Of Santa Barbara Plan Room. To obtain a copy of the plans and specifications for this Project and become a registered plan holder, download a Bid Package Request Form from the City Of Santa Barbara Plan Room site above by clicking on the Project or by calling Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The Cityʼs contact for this project is Carson Wollert, Project Engineer, [email protected]. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the Cityʼs website at: http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/Business/Purchasing/Projects/. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Per California Civil Code Section 3247, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashierʼs check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal. A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work. The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder. GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ____________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED DATES Montecito Journal: October 17 and 24, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sturgeon Enterprises; Sturgeon Real Estate Investments; Sturgeon Rentals, 1207 Diana Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Judy E. Sturgeon, 1207 Diana Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 17, 2012. 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) by Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-0002672. Published September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 2012. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1413367. To all interested parties: Petitioner Basilisa Figueroa filed a petition with Superior Court

of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Gissel Figueroa to Gissel Figueroa Estrada. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the

objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed September 14, 2012 by Terry Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: November 29, 2012 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 9/26, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17


Bella Vista $$$1260 Channel Drive (565-8237)

Cafe Del Sol $$30 Los Patos Way (969-0448)

CAVA $$1212 Coast Village Road (969-8500)Regional Mexican and Spanish cooking combine to create Latin cuisine from tapas and margaritas, mojitos, seafood paella and sangria to lobster tamales, Churrasco ribeye steak and seared Ahi tuna. Sunflower-colored interior is accented by live Spanish guitarist playing next to cozy beehive fireplace nightly. Lively year-round outdoor people-wat ching front patio. Open Monday-Friday 11 am to 10 pm. Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 10 pm.

China Palace $$1070 Coast Village Road (565-9380)

Giovanni’s $1187 Coast Village Road (969-1277)

Los Arroyos $1280 Coast Village Road (969-9059)

Little Alex’s $1024 A-Coast Village Road (969-2297)

Lucky’s (brunch) $$ (dinner) $$$ 1279 Coast Village Road (565-7540)Comfortable, old-fashioned urban steak-house in the heart of America’s biggest little village. Steaks, chops, seafood, cocktails, and an enormous wine list are featured, with white tablecloths, fine crystal and vintage photos from the 20th century. The bar (separate from dining room) features large flat-screen TV and opens at 4 pm during the week. Open nightly from 5 pm to 10 pm; Saturday & Sunday brunch from 9 am to 3 pm. Valet Parking.

Montecito Café $$1295 Coast Village Road (969-3392)

Montecito Coffee Shop $1498 East Valley Road (969-6250)

Montecito Wine Bistro $$$516 San Ysidro Road 969-7520Head to Montecito’s upper village to indulge in some California bistro cuisine. Chef Nathan Heil creates seasonal menus that include fish and vegetarian dishes, and fresh flatbreads straight out of the wood-burning oven. The Bistro of-fers local wines, classic and specialty cocktails, single malt scotches and aged cognacs.

Pane é Vino $$$1482 East Valley Road (969-9274)

Plow & Angel $$$San Ysidro Ranch 900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700) Enjoy a comfortable atmosphere as you dine on traditional dishes such as mac ‘n cheese and ribs. The ambiance is enhanced with original artwork, including stained glass windows and an homage to its namesake, Saint Isadore, hanging above the fire-place. Dinner is served from 5 to 10 pm daily with bar service extending until 11 pm weekdays and until midnight on Friday and Saturday.

$ (average per person under $15)$$ (average per person $15 to $30)$$$ (average per person $30 to $45)$$$$ (average per person $45-plus)

M O N T E C I T O E AT E R I E S . . . A G u i d e Sakana Japanese Restaurant $$1046 Coast Village Road (565-2014)

Stella Mare’s $$/$$$50 Los Patos Way (969-6705)

Stonehouse $$$$San Ysidro Ranch900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700)Located in what is a 19th-century citrus packinghouse, Stonehouse restaurant features a lounge with full bar service and separate dining room with crackling fireplace and creekside views. Chef Matthew Johnson’s regional cuisine is prepared with a palate of herbs and vegetables harvested from the on-site chef’s garden. Recently voted 1 of the best 50 restaurants in America by OpenTable Diner’s Choice. 2010 Diners’ Choice Awards: 1 of 50 Most Romantic Restaurants in America, 1 of 50 Restaurants With Best Service in America. Open for dinner from 6 to 10 pm daily. Sunday Brunch 10 am to 2 pm.

Trattoria Mollie $$$1250 Coast Village Road (565-9381)

Tre Lune $$/$$$1151 Coast Village Road (969-2646)A real Italian boite, complete with small but fully licensed bar, big list of Italian wines, large comfortable tables and chairs, lots of mahogany and large b&w vintage photos of mostly fa-mous Italians. Menu features both comfort food like mama used to make and more adventurous Italian fare. Now open continuously from lunch to dinner. Also open from 7:30 am to 11:30 am daily for breakfast.

Via Vai Trattoria Pizzeria $$1483 East Valley Road (565-9393)

Delis, bakeries, juice bars

Blenders in the Grass1046 Coast Village Road (969-0611)

Here’s The Scoop1187 Coast Village Road (lower level) (969-7020)Gelato and Sorbet are made on the premises. Open Monday through Thursday 1 pm to 9 pm, 12 pm to 10 pm Friday and Saturday, and 12 pm to 9 pm on Sundays.

Jeannine’s1253 Coast Village Road (969-7878)

Montecito Deli1150 Coast Village Road (969-3717)Open six days a week from 7 am to 3 pm. (Closed Sunday) This eatery serves home-made soups, fresh salads, sandwiches, and its specialty, The Piadina, a homemade flat bread made daily.

Panino 1014 #C Coast Village Road (565-0137)

Pierre Lafond516 San Ysidro Road (565-1502)This market and deli is a center of activity in Montecito’s Upper Village, serving fresh baked pastries, regular and espresso coffee drinks, smoothies, burritos, homemade soups, deli salads, made-to-order sandwiches and wraps available, and boasting a fully stocked salad bar. Its sunny patio draws crowds of regulars daily. The shop also carries specialty drinks, gift items, grocery staples, and produce. Open everyday 5:30 am to 8 pm.

Village Cheese & Wine 1485 East Valley Road (969-3815)

In Summerland / Carpinteria

Cantwell’s Summerland Market $2580 Lillie Avenue (969-5893)

Garden Market $3811 Santa Claus Lane (745-5505)

Jack’s Bistro $5050 Carpinteria Avenue (566-1558)Serving light California Cuisine, Jack’s offers freshly baked bagels with whipped cream cheeses, omelettes, scrambles, breakfast bur-ritos, specialty sandwiches, wraps, burgers, sal-ads, pastas and more. Jacks offers an extensive espresso and coffee bar menu, along with wine and beer. They also offer full service catering, and can accommodate wedding receptions to corporate events. Open Monday through Fri-day 6:30 am to 3 pm, Saturday and Sunday 7 am to 3 pm.

Nugget $$2318 Lillie Avenue (969-6135)

Padaro Beach Grill $3765 Santa Claus Lane (566-9800)A beach house feel gives this seaside eatery its charm and makes it a perfect place to bring the whole family. Its new owners added a pond, waterfall, an elevated patio with fireplace and couches to boot. Enjoy grill options, along with salads and seafood plates. The Grill is open Monday through Sunday 11 am to 9 pm

Sly’s $$$686 Linden Avenue (684-6666)Sly’s features fresh fish, farmers’ market veg-gies, traditional pastas, prime steaks, Blue Plate Specials and vintage desserts. You’ll find a full bar, serving special martinis and an extensive wine list featuring California and French wines. Cocktails from 4 pm to close, dinner from 5 to 9 pm Sunday-Thursday and 5 to 10 pm Friday and Saturday. Lunch is M-F 11:30 to 2:30, and brunch is served on the weekends from 9 am to 3 pm.

Stacky’s Seaside $2315 Lillie Avenue (969-9908)

Summerland Beach Café $2294 Lillie Avenue (969-1019)

Tinkers $2275 C Ortega Hill Road (969-1970)

Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row

Bistro Eleven Eleven $$1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard (730-1111)Located adjacent to Hotel Mar Monte, the bistro serves breakfast and lunch featuring all-American favorites. Dinner is a mix of tradi-tional favorites and coastal cuisine. The lounge advancement to the restaurant features a big screen TV for daily sporting events and happy hour. Open Monday-Friday 6:30 am to 9 pm, Saturday and Sunday 6:30 am to 10 pm.

Cielito $$$1114 State Street (225-4488) Cielito Restaurant features true flavors of Mexi-co created by Chef Ramon Velazquez. Try an an-tojito (or “small craving”) like the Anticucho de Filete (Serrano-chimichurri marinated Kobe beef skewer, rocoto-tomato jam and herb mashed po-tatoes), the Raw Bar’s piquant ceviches and fresh shellfish, or taste the savory treats in handmade tortillas at the Taqueria. It is located in the heart of downtown, in the historic La Arcada.

Chuck’s Waterfront Grill $$113 Harbor Way (564-1200)Located next to the Maritime Museum, enjoy

some of the best views of both the mountains and the Santa Barbara pier sitting on the newly renovated, award-winning patio, while enjoy-ing fresh seafood straight off the boat. Dinner is served nightly from 5 pm, and brunch is offered on Sunday from 10 am until 1 pm. Reservations are recommended. Enterprise Fish Co. $$225 State Street (962-3313)Every Monday and Tuesday the Enterprise Fish Company offers two-pound Maine Lobsters served with clam chowder or salad, and rice or potatoes for only $29.95. Happy hour is every weekday from 4 pm to 7 pm. Open Sunday thru Thursday 11:30 am to 10 pm and Friday thru Saturday 11:30 am to 11 pm.

Los Agaves $600 N. Milpas Street (564-2626)Los Agaves offers eclectic Mexican cuisine, using only the freshest ingredients, in a casual and friendly atmosphere. Serving lunch and dinner, with breakfast on the weekends, Los Agaves fea-tures traditional dishes from central and south-ern Mexico such as shrimp & fish enchiladas, shrimp chile rellenos, and famous homemade mole poblano. Open Monday- Friday 11 am to 9 pm, Saturday & Sunday 9 am to 9 pm.

Miró $$$$8301 Hollister Avenue at Bacara Resort & Spa (968-0100)Miró is a refined refuge with stunning views, featuring two genuine Miro sculptures, a top-rated chef offering a sophisticated menu that accents fresh, organic, and native-grown ingredients, and a world-class wine cellar. Open Tuesday through Saturday from 6 pm to 10 pm.

Olio e Limone Ristorante $$$ Olio Pizzeria $ 17 West Victoria Street (899-2699) Elaine and Alberto Morello oversee this friendly, casually elegant, linen-tabletop eatery featuring Italian food of the highest order. Of-ferings include eggplant soufflé, pappardelle with quail, sausage and mushroom ragù, and fresh-imported Dover sole. Wine Spectator Award of Excellence-winning wine list. Private dining (up to 40 guests) and catering are also available. It is open for lunch Monday thru Saturday (11:30 am to 2 pm) and dinner seven nights a week (from 5 pm).Next door at Olio Pizzeria, the Morellos have added a simple pizza-salumi-wine-bar inspired by neighborhood “pizzerie” and “enoteche” in Italy. Private dining for up to 32 guests. The Pizzeria is open daily from 11:30 am to close.

Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro $516 State Street (962-1455)The Wine Bistro menu is seasonal California cuisine specializing in local products. Pair your meal with wine from the Santa Barbara Winery, Lafond Winery or one from the list of wines from around the world. Happy Hour Monday - Friday 4:30 to 6:30 pm. The 1st Wednesday of each month is Passport to the World of Wine. Grilled cheese night every Thursday. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner; catering available. www.pierrelafond.com

Rodney’s Steakhouse $$$633 East Cabrillo Boulevard (884-8554)Deep in the heart of well, deep in the heart of Fess Parker’s Doubletree Inn on East Beach in Santa Barbara. This handsome eatery sells and serves only Prime Grade beef, lamb, veal, hali-but, salmon, lobster and other high-end victuals. Full bar, plenty of California wines, elegant surroundings, across from the ocean. Open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday at 5:30 pm. Reservations suggested on weekends. •MJ

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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 45)I wasn’t even aware of. Even though she’s never seen a production, she’d done some research. It was very illu-minating. I had a vision in my head from when I’ve seen it. But once she explained it I was completely satisfied. So I’ve not offered a lot of interpreta-tion or analysis. We did talk about the productions I saw and the effect on the audience and she invited that from all of us in the cast. So I could relate how I felt when I first saw the play, and at each step of the way, and it’s shock-ing. I remember feeling almost disap-pointed that the play took a turn dif-ferent from what I thought, and it put me back at square one to re-evaluate what the play was really was about. My expectations weren’t the reality. I felt that over and over again.

Have rehearsals whet your appetite again, woken up the acting bug? Do you think you’ll continue on with local region-al theater after this production?

It certainly has. I hadn’t had to memorize a line in thirty years. Could I still do it? Would my acting be affected by having taught it so long? Would I overanalyze things and lose the spark that makes it feel real? I was concerned. But I think that it has come back. I’m not worried about it anymore; I’m staying focused in the moment. It’s all come back. And it’s largely due to the caliber of actors in the cast. Everyone is so profes-sional and prepared. When you’re surrounded by that, you can’t do less. It’s fast and furious test of fire. That sure helps to get my chops back. I’m feeling confident.

Can we talk about San Marcos: You’ve been there twenty-seven years, longer than any previous drama teacher. What keeps you going?

The students. These kids come in and it’s all brand new to them. Even the most tired old play, they have a fresh take on it… What doesn’t excite me is the state of the arts in California in general. The politics of education stinks. I won’t miss any of that. But I will miss the kids. If you can’t find joy in this kind of job, surrounded by bright, excited enthusiastic young people, you should do something else.

On Other StagesElsewhere in theater, Lit Moon

Theatre Company presents five local performances of a restaged, recast and reinvigorated production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest at the Center Stage Theater in advance of a tour to Macedonia and Albania next summer. Two actors remain from the company’s earlier produc-tion: Stan Hoffman reprises his Indy Award-wining role as Prospero, and Victorian Finlayson again performs both Antonio and Caliban. New are

Lit Moon co-founder Matt Tavianini, who returns to the company to play Alonso and Trinculo; writer/actor Michael Bernard, who is both Sebastian and Stephano; and recent Westmont grads Stephanie Farnum, Nolan Hamlin, and Sara Reynolds, who play Miranda, Ferdinand, and Ariel, respectively. The staging of The Tempest is entirely new, but director John Blondell has retained the late Milon Kalis’ scenography, consisting of a number of hanging bamboo poles, from the original production, last seen at the 2006 Lit Moon International Shakespeare Festival. Performances are 8pm October 18-19, 25 & 27, and 4pm October 28.

Also, Ensemble Theatre’s sea-son opening production of Crime and Punishment comes to close this weekend, and while you might not want to bring anyone feeling overly stressed or depressed, it’s both grand entertainment and decidedly provoca-tive food for thought for the rela-tively sane. Brian Patrick Monahan absolutely immerses himself into the always-on-stage role of Raskolnikov, the downtrodden villager who resorts to murder to escape both his finan-cial and emotional constraints. Kvana Martinez as his love interest Sonia and Peter Van Norden as the detective – both of whom also play a few other roles – are also marvelous in this taut and haunting 90-minute adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s classic novel.

More heaviness: Genesis West’s take on Beckett’s Endgame continues at McDermott-Crockett Mortuary through October 27. On the more upbeat end of the seesaw, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, from Ojai Youth Entertainers Studio, also ends its musical run in the mountain vil-lage this weekend, while Circle Bar B Dinner Theatre’s delightfully sweet and nostalgic Any Wednesday plays through November 4.

Pop Tarts Mid-October is always a very

crowded time of year for the arts, as fall seasons are in full swing and all area schools are back in session. So there’s something for just about every taste and genre-lover in the area this week.

On Thursday, our choice is Jethro Tull founder-flutist-singer-songwriter Ian Anderson, who begins winding up the final few weeks of his Thick as a Brick tour with a date at the Chumash Casino. It’s the first time the album – crafted as a send-up of concert albums and containing only a single, 45-min-ute track –has been played live in its entirety since it was released 40 years ago. “If the critics want a con-cept album we’ll give the mother of

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TAKEN 2 (PG-13)Fri-Sun - 1:45 4:30 7:15 9:40Mon-Thu - 2:45 5:20 7:50

LOOPER (R)Fri-Sun - 1:15 4:00 6:45 9:30

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FRANKENSTEIN andBRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Matthew Fox......Tyler Perry ALEX CROSS (PG-13)

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Kevin James (PG) HERE COMES THE BOOMFri-Sun - 1:45 4:25 7:00 9:25Mon-Thu - 2:00 4:30 7:00

A Tim Burton FilmFRANKENWEENIE (PG)

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Brittany SnowPITCH PERFECT (PG-13)Fri-Sun - 7:10 9:45Mon-Thu - 7:10

ATLAS SHRUGGED:PART I I (PG-13)

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SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MANFri & Mon-Thu - 7:30 (PG-13)Sat/Sun - 2:30 7:30

JUST 45 MINUTESFROM BROADWAY (R)Fri & Mon-Thu - No Show Sat/Sun - 4:50 only

PARANORMALACTIVITY 4 (R)

Fri-Sun - 2:15 4:40 7:00 9:20Mon-Thu - 2:30 5:00 7:30

ALEX CROSS (PG-13)Fri-Sun - 1:45 4:20 7:00 9:40Mon-Thu - 3:00 5:30 8:00


FRANKENWEENIE (PG)Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:10 7:10Mon-Thu - 2:50 5:20

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG)

Fri-Sun - 1:10 3:35 6:15 8:30Mon-Thu - 2:30 4:45 7:00

PITCH PERFECT (PG-13)Fri-Sun - 1:20 4:00 6:40 9:20Mon-Thu - 2:20 5:10 7:50

END OF WATCH (R)Fri-Sun - 9:30Mon/Tue & Thu - 7:40Wed - No Show!It’s closer than you think... (R)

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 41:00 3:20 5:40 8:00 10:15

Bryan Cranston....Alan Arkinin A Ben Affleck Film

ARGO (R)1:20 4:10 7:00 9:40

Joseph Gordon-LevittBruce Willis.....Emily Blunt

LOOPER (R)1:30 4:20 7:10 9:55

Liam NeesonTAKEN 2 (PG-13)

1:40 4:00 6:45 9:10

Ethan HawkeSINISTER (R)

2:15 5:00 7:40 10:10

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2:50 5:10 7:30 9:45Sat/Sun -

12:30 2:50 5:10 7:30 9:45

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ARGO (R) On 2 ScreensFri-Sun -

1:00 2:20 3:50 5:106:40 8:00 9:30

Mon-Thu -2:20 3:50 5:10 6:40 8:00

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R)Fri-Sun - 1:15 4:10 7:00 9:40Mon-Thu - 2:00 5:00 7:45

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (PG-13)

Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:20 6:50 9:20Mon-Thu - 2:10 4:50 7:30

DETROPIA (Not Rated) Metro 4

ALEX CROSS (PG-13) Fiesta 5 Fairview

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FAIRVIEWFeatures Stadium Seating

225 N. Fairview - Goleta

DETROPIA (Not Rated)Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:15 7:00 9:15Mon-Thu - 2:25 5:10 7:30

TAKEN 2 (PG-13)Fri-Sun - 1:45 4:30 7:15 9:40Mon-Thu - 2:45 5:20 7:50

LOOPER (R)Fri-Sun - 1:15 4:00 6:45 9:30

Mon/Tue & Thu -2:15 5:00 7:40

Wed - 2:15 5:00

SINISTER (R)Fri-Sun - 2:00 4:45 7:25 9:55

Mon/Tue & Thu -2:35 5:30 8:00

Wed - 2:35 8:00

Wednesday, October 24 - 7:00- Double Feature -

FRANKENSTEIN andBRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Matthew Fox......Tyler Perry ALEX CROSS (PG-13)

Fri-Sun - 1:20 3:50 6:40 9:15Mon-Thu - 2:20 4:50 7:30


A Tim Burton FilmFRANKENWEENIE (PG)

Daily - 2:10 5:00

Brittany SnowPITCH PERFECT (PG-13)Fri-Sun - 7:10 9:45Mon-Thu - 7:10

ATLAS SHRUGGED:PART I I (PG-13)

Fri & Mon-Thu - 7:45Sat/Sun - 2:15 5:10 7:45

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MANFri & Mon-Thu - 7:30 (PG-13)Sat/Sun - 2:30 7:30

JUST 45 MINUTESFROM BROADWAY (R)Fri & Mon-Thu - No Show Sat/Sun - 4:50 only

PARANORMALACTIVITY 4 (R)

Fri-Sun - 2:15 4:40 7:00 9:20Mon-Thu - 2:30 5:00 7:30

ALEX CROSS (PG-13)Fri-Sun - 1:45 4:20 7:00 9:40Mon-Thu - 3:00 5:30 8:00


FRANKENWEENIE (PG)Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:10 7:10Mon-Thu - 2:50 5:20

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG)

Fri-Sun - 1:10 3:35 6:15 8:30Mon-Thu - 2:30 4:45 7:00

PITCH PERFECT (PG-13)Fri-Sun - 1:20 4:00 6:40 9:20Mon-Thu - 2:20 5:10 7:50

END OF WATCH (R)Fri-Sun - 9:30Mon/Tue & Thu - 7:40Wed - No Show!It’s closer than you think... (R)

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 41:00 3:20 5:40 8:00 10:15

Bryan Cranston....Alan Arkinin A Ben Affleck Film

ARGO (R)1:20 4:10 7:00 9:40

Joseph Gordon-LevittBruce Willis.....Emily Blunt

LOOPER (R)1:30 4:20 7:10 9:55

Liam NeesonTAKEN 2 (PG-13)

1:40 4:00 6:45 9:10

Ethan HawkeSINISTER (R)

2:15 5:00 7:40 10:10

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG)Fri & Mon-Thu -

2:50 5:10 7:30 9:45Sat/Sun -

12:30 2:50 5:10 7:30 9:45

THE MASTER (R)Fri & Mon-Thu - 4:30 7:40Sat/Sun - 1:20 4:30 7:40

ARGO (R) On 2 ScreensFri-Sun -

1:00 2:20 3:50 5:106:40 8:00 9:30

Mon-Thu -2:20 3:50 5:10 6:40 8:00

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R)Fri-Sun - 1:15 4:10 7:00 9:40Mon-Thu - 2:00 5:00 7:45

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (PG-13)

Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:20 6:50 9:20Mon-Thu - 2:10 4:50 7:30

DETROPIA (Not Rated) Metro 4

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ENDS THIS WEEk

Jazz at the Plaza – The series of free jazz concerts on Thursdays at La Cumbre Plaza comes to a close this week with two final events that feature music, artwork from a chosen artist, optional wine tasting poured by area vintners, a focus on a Plaza retailer who offers special discounts that day, and earmarks a percentage of proceeds to a chosen charity. October 18, it’s music from the wonderful Goleta-based Brazilian singer-songwriter-guitarist Teka & New Bossa, with wine by The Winehound, art from jewelry-maker Marilyn Dannehower, Lane Bryant as the featured retailer and nonprofit Angels Bearing Gifts reaping the rewards. The final event on October 25 features music by Jazz Plus Quintet Dixieland, wine by The Winehound, art from Patrice Mercurio (Crystal House Jewelry), Papyrus as the featured retailer, and charity American Heart Association Moms with Heart. Limited seating is available on a first come-first served basis, so feel free to bring your own chairs. WHEN: 5-7pm every Thursday through October 25 WHERE: 121 South Hope Ave. COST: free INFO: 687-6458 or www.shoplacumbre.com/Events/jazz

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18

CAF’s ‘Sessions’ starts – Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum’s new series of intimate art conversations aims to raise the level of discussion about art in the gallery space that’s already off the ground. The informal “living room” discussions on cultural, political, and social topics affecting artists and the art

world are especially crafted for artists as well as creative and interested thinkers. A guest host guides each conversation as participants take part in a lively exchange of viewpoints. The series, which continues every third Thursday through July, launches with “Art Fairs,” with Michelle Pobar, director of Honor Fraser Gallery. Upcoming topics include art and politics, food in a museum context, public art, photography, biennials, time, post-post-modernism, stress management for artists, and collecting. WHEN: 5-7pm WHERE: upstairs in Paseo Nuevo mall (Chapala Street entrance), across from Center Stage Theater COST: free (reservations required, limited to 10 guests) INFO: (347) 249-5406 or www.sbcaf.org

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19

All the Lux – “I like to make the reader laugh – and then steal that laugh, right out of the throat,” Thomas Lux once told the Los Angeles Times. “Because I think life is like that, tragedy right alongside humor.” The Massachusetts-born poet – a three-time winner of grants from The National Endowment for the Arts – has long explored modern life through lingering irony, often confrontational humor and imaginative imagery. His contemporary poems center on more realistic subjects while maintaining an element of unique mystery and originality. The former Poet in Residence at Boston’s Emerson College and 20-year instructor at Sarah Lawrence, Lux currently holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. A romance-oriented poet might make more sense for the cozy environs of the Presidio Chapel, but that irony is unlikely to escape

C ALENDAR OF EVENTSNote to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to [email protected])

by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19

Reeves returns – Dianne Reeves’ impressive and lengthy career as pre-eminent jazz vocalist successor to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan hit another high with her appearance in Good Night, and Good Luck as an unidentified singer recording down the hall from Edward Murrow’s newsroom at CBS. But those in the know didn’t need to see

her astonishing performance in the George Clooney movie – which earned Reeves her fourth Grammy for the soundtrack album – to witness the breadth of her talent. Reeves has been recording since she was a teenager, and has 18 albums to her credit. Her powerful multi-octave voice, ability to create as well as follow rhythm with her voice, and a penchant for careening between musical styles all under the large umbrella of jazz have sustained her career if not quite made her the mega-star her talents deserve. It’s been more than four years since her last recording, but her story-filled live performances are ongoing, including a stint tonight as part of the Lobero’s Jazz Series, where she’ll be backed by Peter Martin (piano), Romero Lubambo (guitar), Reginald Veal (bass) and Terreon Gully (drums). WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Lobero Theater, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $40 & $50 (limited student tickets $10) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20

RTC’s multilingual foray – Rubicon Theatre launches its 15th season, dubbed “Our Town/Your Theatre,” with its first Spanish-language production, perhaps also the first by a major regional theater company in the area. La Razón Blindada (“The Armored Reason”), written and directed by Arístides

Vargas, is described as a powerful and poetic story about two political prisoners who transcend their oppressive environs through imaginative improvisation. The play, which premiered at 24th Street Theatre in Los Angeles, has been effusively praised in the Southland media, named by the L.A. Weekly 2011 “Production of the Year,” a “Critic’s Choice” in the L.A. Times and “Critic’s Pick” in Backstage West. The play infuses Miguel de Cervantes’ classic novel El Quijote with Franz Kafka’s “The Truth about Sancho Panza,” and testimonies by director Vargas’ brother Chicho Vargas and other political prisoners held in the 1970s at the Rawson Prison during Argentina’s dictatorship. Two prisoners, oppressed by physical and emotional abuse, find solace in meeting every Sunday at dusk to tell the story of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. The milestone production will be performed entirely in Spanish with English supertitles. WHEN: Opens 7pm Saturday; plays Wednesdays-Sundays through November 11 WHERE: 1006 E. Main Street, Ventura COST: $25-$54 (discount available for students, first timers and subscribers) INFO: 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org

Lux, who will read from his works on the eve of a sold out daylong intensive workshop nearby. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: 123 East Canon Perdido COST: $5 donation INFO: 965-0093

Cinematic art – Robert F. Adams has created a series of original works on paper portraying cinematic landscapes with freehand drawings. Using his memory of classic international films that feature indelible landscapes, the artist took as inspiration the great directors, cinematographers and production designers from the cinematic heritage of the United States, France, Italy and Sweden. “Dream Cycle: Landscape Drawings from Films” is a new exhibit from Adams, who is primarily a landscape architect, but also dabbles as a film and opera columnist with CASA Magazine. WHEN: Artist reception 5-7pm Friday, exhibit continues through November 20 WHERE: Architectural Foundation Gallery, 229 East Victoria Street COST: free INFO: 965-6307 or www.afsb.org


‘The Artful Recluse’ – This new exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art features nearly 60 Chinese paintings – many presented for the first time in the U.S. – that reveal the private world of the scholar-painters who lived during the end of Ming dynasty (c. 1600–1644) and the early years of the Qing dynasty (1644–c.1700). It was a tumultuous era of unrivaled historical drama and artistic achievement in China, and by adopting a novel, thematic approach centered

on the concept of yin, or reclusion, this presentation brings the viewer deeply into the world of the literati – the educated elite who were at the forefront of historical change and voiced their thoughts and ideals through art. The works have been compiled from the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, five other public institutions, and six private collections in the United States and Taiwan, as well as the museum’s own permanent collection, plus the previously unpublished works. They cover a variety of formats including hanging scrolls, hand scrolls, albums and fans, and span a range of subjects including landscape, figures, birds-and-flowers and fish. After Santa Barbara, the exhibition will be seen in only one additional venue: the Asia Society in New York next spring. WHEN: Saturday through January 20 WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: $9 general, $6 seniors/students, free under 6 and Thursday evenings INFO: 884-6454 or www.sbmuseart.org

Affinity III – ArtBark is the latest project from Misa Kelly, who previously ran the contemporary SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre. The ArtBark International Festival’s Affinity project, in conjunction with and benefitting NECTAR, combine choreographic play, film, song and dance with artists from near and far, with an eye toward deepening artistic relationships with performances. Saturday evening features artists from Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Salem (Oregon), and New York and includes everything from island song-inspired music by Valarie Mulberry to a new video from Robin Bisio and Ted Mills, to dances

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Get thee to Gupta – Not too many medical professionals would turn down a chance to serve as Surgeon General of the U.S., but Dr. Sanjay Gupta declined Pres. Obama’s nomination to continue pursuing his passion for practicing medicine and journalism, a career that has brought him widespread acclaim far beyond typical in the health field. As CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Gupta has covered some of the most historic and significant events of our era including the Sept. 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, tsunamis in Southeast Asia and Japan, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

In the operating room, Dr. Gupta regularly performs surgery at Emory University and Grady hospitals and performed life-saving brain surgery five times while an embedded reporter with the U.S. Navy’s medical unit in Iraq. He also served as a White House Fellow and special adviser to First Lady Hillary Clinton, garnered the prestigious Peabody and Dupont-Columbia awards for CNN, and was named one of People magazine’s “Sexiest Men Alive” and one of the Ten Most Influential Celebrities by Forbes. Dr. Gupta, who will deliver an in-depth examination of the media’s role in reporting on today’s medical headlines, serves to kick off UCSB Arts & Lectures’ new Speaking of Health series, which features leading medical experts and journalists discussing the hot-button health issues of our day. Note: the event has been moved from the Arlington Theatre downtown to Campbell Hall on campus. WHEN: 8pm COST: $20 & $35 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

variously titled “Fluff,” “Begotten,” “Visions and Vortices,” “Dance De Terroir,” and “power/less.” Get there early for the pre-show choreographic games designed to get the audience up and moving before the official performances begin. WHEN: 7:30pm (pre-show 7pm) WHERE: Yoga Soup, 28 Parker Way COST: $10 in advance, $15 at the door INFO: 965-8811/www.yogasoup.com or www.artbark.org/affinity-project

Naked Shakes’ ‘Merchant’ – Now in its seventh season, UCSB Department of Theater & Dance’s Naked Shakes aims to present “energetic, exciting, raw, vibrant Shakespeare using the power of the actors and the language,” meaning just as its name suggests, not a whole lot of attention on sets and costumes. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, and Measure for Measure have all undergone similar treatment. Now the Bard’s cunning and somewhat

controversial comedy The Merchant of Venice gets its own bare production downtown at Center Stage – a month after it premiered on campus – as part of the Lit Moon Festival. The work, criticized in modern times for its anti-Semitism, coined many words and phrases still in use today in the story of moneylender Shylock who gets his comeuppance after insisting in court that his debtor forfeit a pound of flesh for failing to repay a loan. Not to mention the many resonances with current events via concepts of debt, risk, recompense and other Wall Street issues. UCSB faculty member Irwin Appel directs the latest effort from the Santa Barbara Independent Award-winning troupe. There are only four performances, and a talkback follows the Sunday matinee. WHEN: 4 & 8pm Saturday, 2 & 7pm Sunday WHERE: Center Stage Theater, upstairs in Paseo Nuevo mall COST: $16.50 general, $11.50 students and seniors INFO: 963-0408 or www.centerstagetheater.org •MJ


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all concept albums and we’ll make it so bombastic and so over the top,” Anderson said back in the day. Funny, but somehow the music still holds up. At least Anderson thinks so: he recorded a follow-up called Thick as a Brick 2 earlier this year as a solo album at age 65, continuing the story of the putative narrator/ He’s been playing both albums front to back in his recent concerts. Hopefully, we’ll also hear other Tull favorites before the flut-ist fond of hopping around the stage ambles off for the final time.

Also on Thursday, UCSB A&L pres-ents the Santa Barbara debut of Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, an Austin-based band that plays what it calls funky “garage soul.” The group’s hip-shaking, soul-quaking blend of primal blues, soul, R&B and funk has been called “lovelorn blues-rock with a blazing horn section that’s as much James Brown as it is New York Dolls” by no less than NPR. The Campbell Hall show is part of the new The Blues Sessions series.

Either way, you can kick off the night with an early (6pm) show at SOhO with Kelly Joe Phelps, the root-sy slide-guitar singer-songwriter who shifts to the bottleneck rather than his customary lap slide on his new disc,

Brother Sinner & the Whale. With lyrics inspired by the poetry from the Book of Jonah and the vintage gospel blues of Mississippi John Hurt, representing another new sound for the always-experimental Phelps.

The Labyrinth Project, named for its Crete-base, musicians take listen-ers on a journey to unusual path-ways inspired by the diverse facets of traditional music of Greece and the Near East in a concert at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center on Friday, the same night Oregon-based soul-blues singer-songwriter ZZ Ward makes her area debut at SOhO, just two days after releasing her debut CD Til the Casket Drops. Also on Friday, a Halloween dance party at the Voodoo Lounge atop the Canary Hotel downtown. DJ Scott Topper spins the tunes for the dance extravaganza that also features a costume concert, cigar lounge, palm reader, photo booth, voodoo altar and more. Dancing Zombies welcome!

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the Santa Barbara debut of Austin’s Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears as part of The Blues Sessions series


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maintain their sobriety past five years, we have forty-seven percent of our graduates that do. Two-thirds of our staff are graduates.”

Board president Karl Willig told us, “We have our doors open 365 nights a year and last year served l64,615 meals and 65,480 nights of safe shelter. There were 222 people who participat-ed in our residential and outpatient treatment.” One past graduate, Sherry Sanders, told us of her struggle, serv-ing time in jail and losing custody of her four children. She is now a mom, grandma and a contributing person to society.

Co-chairs Susan Hughes and Suzi Ryan scored a touchdown. This event raises about $300,000 each year. If you’d like to help, call 966-1316.

Changing Lives Together

Collective philanthropy is the touchstone of the Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara (WFSB). Two hun-dred members recently toured three of eight local nonprofit agencies that

were the recipients of their largess last April, for a total of $520,000. The visit included the Santa Barbara Public Library, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics and Family Service Agency, while representatives of four spoke at a luncheon that same day. They were Easy Lift Transportation, Palabra, the Parent Project and St. Cecilia Society. The tour ended in the Mural Room of the Courthouse with a presentation by Court Appointed Special Advocates, the eighth winner. The stories they told about the children were truly heart warming.

I joined the group at noon at the library where the lower level future children’s library will be located, which had been transformed into a charming dining room by Linda Stevens. As library director Irene Macias remarked, “This space used to be a storeroom.” The Summer Solstice Parade group has donated to the library four giant muppet characters that the kids are going to love. The tables were cleverly covered in corru-gated cardboard for “cloths” and each place held a brown paper bag tied

with raffia. Inside was a salad from Fresco. The dessert was 650 cookies from the kitchen of Nikki Rickard. And to save even more dollars, Carole MacElhenny underwrote the lunch.

As they said, it isn’t easy transport-ing 200 WFSB women around, but it was done in three donated buses. Barbara Hauter Woodward chaired the whole visit. Others chairing vari-ous factions were Mary Garton, Dale Van Mill, Carla Whitacre, Sally Tannenbaum, Christy Kelson, found-er Carol Palladini, Tish Gainey and Sarah de Tagyos.

Steering committee chair Stina Hans told me, “We have given $3.6 million to 47 groups since we began seven years ago with 68 members. There are now 600. Our goal for this year is $500,000. We already have $320,000. Betty Elings Wells has helped us greatly by donating $250,000 in 2010 and again in 2012. Betty will match 3 to 1 anyone who joins with an individual membership of $2,500. Group mem-berships will be matched 2 to 1 after a threshold of $350,000 is met. Kathryn Calise will generously underwrite our grantee luncheon next April.”

A member may simply write a check or volunteer for the jobs. One of the biggest jobs is the research com-mittee co-chaired this year by Sallie Coughlin and Nancy Harter. They spent all year vetting over 30 groups.

Then a slate is put before the Women’s Fund to vote upon. Results will be announced in April 2013. If you’d like information call 963-1873.

First ThursdaySaks Fifth Avenue invited the pub-

lic to meet Patricia Crosby Hinds (Pat), an internationally acclaimed artist, whose work was displayed in the store for First Thursday. Friends gathered with a glass of wine in hand to chat, mingle and perhaps do a bit of shopping. Saks gave 10% of the income for Thursday, Friday and Saturday to the Profant Foundation,

Co-founder Marie Profant was there to explain how one could make a difference in struggling artists’ lives of all ages (one was nine and another 81) by funding a scholarship in art, music, dance, theater or literature. For more information, call 682-8184.

Pat, the featured artist, is a grad-uate of the University of Colorado where she met her husband of 50 years, Bruce. With a couple of mas-ter’s degrees, Pat was an art profes-sor at Antelope Valley College for 25 years. After visiting her daughter many times at UCSB she and her husband moved here. You can see her work all year long at Mertens Fine Art gallery at 1266 Coast Village Road in Montecito. •MJ

Rescue Mission event emcee Gerd Jordano with honoree Bob Bryant and wife, Patty at the annual fundraiser

WFSB event chair Barbara Hauter Woodward, steering committee chair Stina Hans, founding chair Carol Palladini, research co-chair Sallie Coughlin with Miss Piggy and friend at the library

Mimi Michaelis, Jacquie McMahan, artist Pat Hinds, April Thede and Judy Stanley at the Saks first Thursday art exhibit

Co-chairs Susan Hughes and Suzi Ryan on either side of the speaker Sherry Sanders for Rescue Mission at the Downfield on the Bayou event

Rescue Mission board chair Karl Willig and presi-

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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 51)Two female singer-songwrit-

ers duke it out on Saturday night, although with the timing you might be able to see both: Nellie McKay – the former stand-up comedian and Broadway actress who burst on the music scene with a double album back in 2002 -- at the Lobero as part of the Sings Like Hell series, and Beth Orton, the Brit “folktronica” artist who received attention via collabo-rations with William Orbit and the Chemical Brothers in the mid-1990s while simultaneously grabbing criti-cal acclaim with 1996’s Trailer Park and 1999’s Central Reservation. She’s been more of a traditional folkie since 2006, however, which is what we’ll get at this solo show at SOhO. On a larger stage, the Irish/Scottish indie and alt-rock band Snow Patrol headline at the Santa Barbara Bowl in the first of three consecutive concerts in three days before the amphitheater closes for the season. Jane’s Addiction – still around and still addictive – return to the Bowl on Sunday headlining over Airborne Toxic Event. And on Monday, Bob Dylan teams up with erstwhile Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler, whose latest recording Privateering is a double-album – the first of his career – full of Celtic, Anglo and Americana that hasn’t even been released state-side despite selling well overseas.

Laurie Anderson’s “Dirtday!” gets

it’s local debut Tuesday at Campbell Hall, marking the final piece in the genre-crossing performance artist’s series of solo story projects, a body of work that is both current and timeless. The new piece, partially a revisiting of the themes of Homeland and created around the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, finds Anderson

looking at politics, theories of evolu-tion, families, history and animals in her uniquely soulful assemblage of songs and stories. Anderson exam-ined “that fear from a few different points of view, almost from a point of view like, what is it when a whole nation gets hypnotized?”

Another inspiration was the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the cur-rent election season serves as a perfect backdrop for the work that is both penetratingly political and strikingly personal.

A far more mainstream view of the world from a female point of view can be heard over at SOhO, where Nicki Bluhm, a San Francisco-based coun-try-roots singer-songwriter, returns with the Gramblers, which includes her husband, Mother Hips frontman Tim Bluhm. Meanwhile, Wednesday brings another terrific double bill from Club Mercy and SOhO in Neil Halstead (of Slowdive and Mojave 3) with the serious-yet-ethereal sounds of New England’s alt-folk-rock Winterpills, whose fourth album, All My Lovely Goners, is their first in four years.

Festival Focus Two more entries in the food & drink

extravaganzas arrive this weekend, although one is decidedly light on the

edibles in favor of power imbibing, so much so that they’re even coordinating transportation to and from downtown via Bill’s Bus. The Santa Barbara Beer Festival, which takes place 12noon-4pm Saturday at Elings Park, boasts more than 30 brewers, from Anacapa to Wolf Creek, mostly locals at that, including C.A.R.P. Homebrewers and Telegraph Brewing Co. Kalyra and Oreana offer wine for those favor-ing the grape, but Judge’s Sausage and Cabot’s Cheese are the only food vendors on hand so you might want to be sure not to skip breakfast. Kat Devlin, The Mailmen and The Green Almighty provide the tunes for your sipping pleasure. Tickets and details at www.sbbeerfestival.com.

Sensational Seafood at the Ty Warner Sea Center is all about savoring sus-tainability in this tasting event that features seafood harvested around Santa Barbara. Chefs from such fine area eateries as Cava, Coast, Michael’s Catering, Seagrass and Sidecar pre-pare the catch and local wineries help create the pairings. Plus local fisher-man will be on hand to give you the lowdown on fare from the sea, and how we can create a sustainable future. Tickets for Thursday’s 5:30-7:30pm event are just $45 for students and museum members and $60 for the general public. Info at 682-4711 ext. 131 or www.sbseafood.org. •MJ

Kelly Joe Phelps plays SOhO on Thursday, October 18 (photo by James Rexroad)

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Montecito RentalLooking for single person to rent a beautiful one bedroom poolside furnished guest house on estate. $2400/mo.Please call (805)455-2925

Emerald Estates private villaVacation rental by private OwnerLuxury beach and golf communityPrivate pool/beach/tennis/spa3-bed, 2-bath, sleeps 8-10Gated beach and golf communityLocation: Mazatlan, MexicoDates: 16 Dec - 2 Jan, 2013Details, photos, booking at:http://www.vrbo.com/435564

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Paradise in Montecito $2,750,000Mermis/St. Clair 805.895.5650Gated 4 bed, 3.5 bath hm + 1 bed, 1 bath guest house. www.Paradise-In-Montecito.com

Birnam Wood Golf Club $2,650,000Daniel Encell 805.565.4896John Kelsey 3bd/4.5ba+library single-level contemp. w/fairway vws & pool. DanEncell.com

Beachfront At Miramar $3,450,000Kathleen Winter 805.451.4663Artistic remodeled 1 bedroom, 2 bath cottage on the sand. www.MiramarBeachHome.com

Great Location! $2,795,000Daniel Zia 805.637.7148Impeccably renovated 4bed/3.5bath Montecito vacation home by the beach & Coast Village Rd!

6 Ac View Estate Site $4,750,000Joe Stubbins 805.729.0778Gated 6 ac estate site with ocean, island & mtn views. All utilities at site & includes plans.

Montecito Contemporary $3,950,000Daniel Encell 805.565.4896Gated & private resort-like estate. 3 bed/3.5ba plus office on 1+ acre w/ pool. DanEncell.com

129 W Mountain Drive $3,795,000Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.62334Br/3.5Ba Spanish Villa w/ Ocean & Mtn Vws & Appx 6+ acs. www.MontecitoProperties129.com

Park Lane Estate $3,650,000Daniel Encell 805.565.4896Stately Montecito Mediterranean - 4bd/3ba/2half bath on private & gated 1 acre. DanEncell.com

Premier Montecito Estate $5,945,000Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233Gated, Private 5 bed/5.5 bath, Over 1.3 Flat Acs, Pool/Spa www.MontecitoProperties175.com

715 Ladera Lane $5,900,000Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233Ocean view, gated estate, 3bd + office/den on 4+ acres. www.MontecitoProperties715.com

Montecito Sea Meadow Home $6,850,000Kathleen Winter 805.451.4663Beautiful 4/4 estate in guarded & gated Sea Meadow. www.SeaMeadowEstate.com

Gracious Montecito Estate $5,950,000Daniel Encell 805.565.48961st time offered! 3bd/4full+2half ba. Nearly 2 acs w/ pool & ocean vw. DanEncell.com

Montecito Estate $1,999,995Jason Streatfeild 805.280.97974/3 Newly designed San Ysidro Ranch style estate impeccably “done” on 1.03 beautifully landscaped and usable acres in A+ Montecito Location. Gated entrance, oak studded grounds, fruit trees, emerald lawns. MUS.

580 Toro Canyon Road $10,000,000Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233Montecito. Refined & subtle elegance. Featuring a main house, separate office & state of the art barn with kitchen & bath. Ocean & Mountain views. 2 bedroom, 6 baths. www.MontecitoProperties580.com

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